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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: In our lead from the World Baseball Classic. It was
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  Speaker 1: on FS one right there in Miami and the winner
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  Speaker 1: of the game on Monday night getting a date with
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  Speaker 1: USSE USA. No check this out, I just watch it.
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  Speaker 1: I was watching so Rodal Lacuna Junior Braves, Mike kel
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  Speaker 1: Garcia and Luisa r So. I think it's with the
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  Speaker 1: Giants now. They all had run scoring two out singles
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  Speaker 1: in a seven thinning rally to sparkle for the team
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  Speaker 1: for Venezuela. They went four to two in the game
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  Speaker 1: on Monday night. You come back and vault past the
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  Speaker 1: team representing Italy, even though all the players are from here.
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  Speaker 1: But they beat Italy, and now that sets up the
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  Speaker 1: matchup with the United States on Tuesday night and the
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  Speaker 1: dancing will end, and then it'll be on at Duardo
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  Speaker 1: Rodriguez going to start for the team representing Venezuela and
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  Speaker 1: the Americans going with the New York Mets. Alleged prodigy
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  Speaker 1: Nolan MacLean will get to start for the USA, and
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  Speaker 1: hopefully he doesn't right the vomit comet. In this game,
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  Speaker 1: we will find out to listen, there's not a lot
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  Speaker 1: of buy in. These guys are all delicate little flowers
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  Speaker 1: and they all must be protected. We must protect our
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  Speaker 1: pictures at all costs. And so this is what you get, right,
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  Speaker 1: You're upselling this as a world series. You're upselling this
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  Speaker 1: is a big deal and everyone's wrapped in bubble wrap.
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  Speaker 1: So do what you want with that. That's the reality now.
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  Speaker 1: In the lead up to this matchup, the Captain made
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  Speaker 1: some headlines and I wanted to talk about this because
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  Speaker 1: I thought this was interesting going into what is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a racous supposed environment in Miami, because they
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  Speaker 1: don't get racus there when the Marlins played, because why
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  Speaker 1: would you, But in this they're going crazy. So, Aaron Judge,
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  Speaker 1: these comments still have legs here this week, the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: Captain Aaron Judge on the environment of the World Baseball Classic,
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  Speaker 1: what it's like playing in these games. He laid it
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  Speaker 1: on extra thick. This not smooth peanut butter. This is
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  Speaker 1: extra crunchy peanut butter. And he laid it on thick
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  Speaker 1: talking about how he feels like a kid again playing
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  Speaker 1: in the World Baseball Classic, and it's a standard boiler
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  Speaker 1: plate cliche quote. Then he gave the money quote. Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Judge giving the money quote here talking about all this,
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  Speaker 1: he said he believes the World Baseball Classic feels bigger
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  Speaker 1: and better than the World Series because of the passion
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  Speaker 1: of the fans. The environment is better than the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss I've been lucky enough, I'm into a few World
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  Speaker 1: Series over the years, and attend to that. I've not
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  Speaker 1: been to the World Baseball Classic. I don't have any
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  Speaker 1: interest in going to the World Baseball Classic. But I
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  Speaker 1: have been to the World Series multiple times in different
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  Speaker 1: periods of my life, and I always found it to
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  Speaker 1: be really cool, always found it to be really cool.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge thinks this is better than the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: So as we jump off on that, let's discuss the
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  Speaker 1: question what did Aaron Judge accomplish. The Yankees Captain Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Judge accomlished by saying, the World Baseball Classic feels bigger
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  Speaker 1: and better than the World Series, talking about the environment
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  Speaker 1: of the World Baseball Classic. So my thoughts on this,
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  Speaker 1: I've got Applebee's, and I've got canoe and lumberyard, and
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to put the biscuit in the basket, is
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to do. All right. So a this
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  Speaker 1: smells to me like insecurity. That's what it smells like
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  Speaker 1: to me insecurity. This is the guy that batted to
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  Speaker 1: twenty two to twenty two in his only World Series
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  Speaker 1: appearance for the Yankees back in twenty twenty four. His
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  Speaker 1: Kodak moment, Aaron Judge in the World Series on the
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  Speaker 1: biggest stage of them all, was butchering a ball in
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  Speaker 1: the fifth inning that helped push the Dodgers to what
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  Speaker 1: would become the championship that day because of his incompetence,
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  Speaker 1: he and Garrett Cole's absolute and compnence. In competence. Volpi
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  Speaker 1: also gets winking a nod on that. So now now
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge is going Luke Skywalker trying to use a
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  Speaker 1: Jedi mind trick here on everyone, and he's like, listen,
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  Speaker 1: let's forget about that, because this is a bigger deal.
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  Speaker 1: This is a bigger deal. Yeah, he's rebranding, Aaron Judge,
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  Speaker 1: rebranding failure. Hey, don't look at my baseball reference page.
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  Speaker 1: Do not look at what I did in the World Series. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's March. I'm mister March. Now. The Yankees used to
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  Speaker 1: haven't really cared about winning. George steinbern he's dead. The
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  Speaker 1: kids don't really care that much. They make a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money. It's old family money. George Steinbrenner famously nicknamed
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  Speaker 1: Dave Winfield mister May because he would always get it
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  Speaker 1: done early in the year and then when the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: came around, not so much. And not that they made
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs all that often in those years there was
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  Speaker 1: no wild card teams. But he wouldn't get it done
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch. That was the point. So now you
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  Speaker 1: got Aaron Judge. If the Yankees don't win anytime soon,
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  Speaker 1: and where we're going right now, where we're looking here
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  Speaker 1: at the possibility of the USA team beating Venezuela, And
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  Speaker 1: so then you got Aaron Judge, will he become mister March?
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  Speaker 1: Does that become his nickname?
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  Speaker 2: Here?
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  Speaker 1: It's not like he's played all that. Well, he's in
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  Speaker 1: two sixty in the World Baseball Classic and all that.
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  Speaker 1: But in terms of the wide angle wins, Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 1: able to hit the daily double double, the daily double
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  Speaker 1: because he not only pissed off the Yankee fan but
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  Speaker 1: also the Dodger fans because he played World Series games
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  Speaker 1: at Dodger Stadium and Yankee Stadium in that twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: four World Series. So he got the two for one
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  Speaker 1: special congratulations on that. That's impressive. And Yankee Stadium it
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  Speaker 1: looked like it was rocking. The Yankees didn't give a
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  Speaker 1: lot for the fans to cheer about in that World Series.
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  Speaker 1: And here's thereon Judge like, oh no, this is better.
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  Speaker 1: There's a better deal. Yeah, all right, I'll read the room.
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  Speaker 1: The twenty twenty six World Baseball Classic. Has it been
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  Speaker 1: better than I thought? Yeah? I had very low expectations
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  Speaker 1: for the World Baseball Classic. It's been better than I thought. However,
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  Speaker 1: it's still called what it is here. It's an artificially crafted,
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  Speaker 1: made for TV extravaganza. Because baseball got kicked out of
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  Speaker 1: the Olympics. They weren't not cool enough for the Olympics,
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  Speaker 1: and so they got booted out. So they cooked this
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  Speaker 1: thing up and said all right, well screw you, we
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  Speaker 1: don't need the Olympics. We'll just do this. And it
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  Speaker 1: took about twenty years and now this thing's starting to
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  Speaker 1: click and okay, fine, good for them. That's where we are.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, well, we can sell some games to Netflix
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  Speaker 1: and all that, and they'll buy it, and why not.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, the World Baseball Classic. Think of it
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  Speaker 1: like an appetizer. You go to Applebee's. You get the sampler,
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  Speaker 1: you get the onion rings on there, you got the
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  Speaker 1: cheese sticks on there at Applebe's. And then but the
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  Speaker 1: World World Series, that's like steak and potatoes, right, that's
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  Speaker 1: the steak and potatoes and all that. And Judge sounds
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  Speaker 1: like a guy to me. It sounds like he's trying
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  Speaker 1: to convince himself. He's like, listen, this is where it's at.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna do it. And this is damage control. Loud, clumsy,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit desperate. That's what it sounds like to me.
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  Speaker 1: You better not f this up, though, You better not
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  Speaker 1: see it's you're damned if you do, and you're damned
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  Speaker 1: if you don't. Because if the USA team wins an
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge, I say it's a big home run or
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  Speaker 1: something like that, well that's great, but ultimately you get
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  Speaker 1: it with the Yankees. That's more important for Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 1: than this whatever this thing is. Even if you think
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  Speaker 1: it's a big deal that winning a championship with the Yanks,
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  Speaker 1: everyone wins other than Don Mattingly, everyone wins with the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: You got to go back one hundred years for someone
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  Speaker 1: to play as long as Aaron Judges played for the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees and not get it done. But that's where Judge is,
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  Speaker 1: all right. Meanwhile, continuing the theme from the World Baseball Classic,
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  Speaker 1: here the post mortem on Team USA, who will now
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  Speaker 1: play Venezuela, oh for the championship thing. Think of a jig.
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  Speaker 1: I guess they have a trophy? Do they have a trophy?
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  Speaker 1: Assume they have. Everyone's got a trophy, right, just go
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  Speaker 1: down and buy a trophy like a pawn shop future trophy.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, the USA beat the Dominican Republic, a rather futile,
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  Speaker 1: pathetic effort by the team from the Dominican Republic. But
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  Speaker 1: the good thing is the final call of the game
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  Speaker 1: was a ball that was outside the strike zone. So
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  Speaker 1: they can die on the mountain. Well, we would have
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  Speaker 1: gotten that call. We would have won. Just dismissed the
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  Speaker 1: fact they scored one effing run in the game. Just
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  Speaker 1: dismiss that because the umpire blew the call. That would
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  Speaker 1: have changed everything, my fat ass, that would have changed everything. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the mother quote and this was the mother of ball
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  Speaker 1: quotes from Juan Soto, baseball's highest paid play from the
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  Speaker 1: New York Metropolitans. Juan Soto gave the quote for the ages.
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  Speaker 1: After losing with the Dominican Republic. He gave a quote
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  Speaker 1: which still has legs. Here he said, quote, we showed
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  Speaker 1: the world. Juan Soto said, who's the best team in baseball?
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  Speaker 1: That's all I got to say. Close quote So good. God,
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  Speaker 1: I hope this guy plays forever. He's so stupid, it's wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: He soab toose. God loved Wan soda. What a more
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  Speaker 1: on anyway? Question, Juan Soto says, the Dominican Republic showed
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  Speaker 1: who's got the best team in baseball? How are you
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  Speaker 1: reading this? Well, it's wonderful. I love the Hubris. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a big fan as a talk show host of Juan Soto.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's great and it's just perfect. Think about
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  Speaker 1: my friends who are Mets fans. They thought they got
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  Speaker 1: the greatest owner of all time. I had the hedge,
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  Speaker 1: fun guy fanboy of the Mets, and he hasn't proven
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  Speaker 1: to be all that good. They got the biggest free
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  Speaker 1: agent signing, Juan Soto, and this is his mindset. Ah,
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  Speaker 1: so bad. Oh, it's great. So this is like getting
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  Speaker 1: knocked out in the first The analogy for me would
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  Speaker 1: be like getting knocked out in the first round back
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  Speaker 1: when boxing mattered. A heavyweight fight. You get knocked out
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, well, listen, i am actually the heavyweight chamber.
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  Speaker 1: But we know you lost in the first round. You
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  Speaker 1: got knocked out. You got But no, I'm the heavyweight champ.
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  Speaker 1: Why are you the heavyweight champion. Well, I'm the heavyweight
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  Speaker 1: champion because I looked on standing in my robe when
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  Speaker 1: I made my walk to the ring. My ring walk
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  Speaker 1: was great. My posse with me, I had good music,
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  Speaker 1: I was dancing, I was shaking my touche. It was wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the heavyweight champion, but you got knocked out. Doesn't matter?
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  Speaker 1: Does it matter? You look good? So one Soto apparently
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  Speaker 1: he's paddling his own canoe down the river of delusion.
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  Speaker 1: It's a nice river, it's a nice river. The final score,
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  Speaker 1: which I think they still use that as a measuring
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  Speaker 1: stick who won the game, And so it goes to
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  Speaker 1: the USA. There the whole story, and now it's possible.
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  Speaker 1: Wan Soto is a fan of this show, and he's
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  Speaker 1: using the term best. I mean as good as all
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  Speaker 1: the rest, which is the legal definition of the term best.
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  Speaker 1: It just means you're as good as everything else in
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  Speaker 1: that category. That is possible. The Dominican Republic, though, that
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  Speaker 1: big bad lineup with all those boppers. Only, as we
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  Speaker 1: said the other night, they turned into floppers in this game.
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  Speaker 1: Wan so to himself zero for four hit into a
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  Speaker 1: big double play in the middle dings of that game
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  Speaker 1: also butchered a ball in the outfield. And it does
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  Speaker 1: also sound very Canadian. I recall when the Olympic hockey
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  Speaker 1: team I went back to my notes after the Olympic
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  Speaker 1: hockey team from the USA beat the Canadians, it was
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  Speaker 1: Nathan McKinnon, I believe, who said were the better team
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  Speaker 1: or something like that, we're the better team even though
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  Speaker 1: they lost and all that. So well, that's usually not
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  Speaker 1: the way that it works. Usually the winner gets to
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  Speaker 1: say they're the better team. And so this whole thing
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  Speaker 1: it reminds me of like an AMC story, a preview
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  Speaker 1: of coming attractions for the Mets, the one Sodo quote,
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  Speaker 1: a preview of coming attractions. So buckle up, buckeroo, buckle up, buckeroo.
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  Speaker 1: Seven hundred and whatever it is, million almost eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: million for Juan Soto, and you got what motivational posters
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  Speaker 1: from Fantasy Island is what you got from Juan Soto here,
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  Speaker 1: as he's batting a thousand in the excuse game, thousand
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  Speaker 1: issues game, and so this appears to be how he's hardwired,
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  Speaker 1: and good luck. This is not going to end well
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  Speaker 1: for the Mets. It does not appear all right. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the last word here quite the story, a humdinger of
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  Speaker 1: a story. For about five good minutes, we had quite
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  Speaker 1: the story here. From Baseball the Athletic where you have
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  Speaker 1: to pay extra to get the athletics behind a paywall.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine charging extra on a paywall? Who's that? Well,
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  Speaker 1: somebody apparently is. I guess they're in business. They were
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  Speaker 1: purchased by the New York Times, And so the athletic
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  Speaker 1: reporter for the Athletic erroneously identified Dodgers infielder Miguel Rojas
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  Speaker 1: as a steroid cheat, claimed that he got suspended for
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  Speaker 1: eighty games. This thing went immediately all over the pinball machine,
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  Speaker 1: bouncing around the echo chamber and oh, did you hear
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  Speaker 1: what happened to Rojas, the guy that hit the home
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  Speaker 1: run in Game seven? Oh? My god, he tied it,
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  Speaker 1: that's all. I can't believe it. Yeah, Well, it turned
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  Speaker 1: out that there was a Rojas who was suspended by
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball for a banned substance. However, the reporter
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  Speaker 1: got it wrong. It was not Miguel Rojas the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: It was the Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Johan Rojas as he is.
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  Speaker 1: Oops yeah, oops of Daisy, Oops of Daisy. That's the
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  Speaker 1: correct player. So the question here the Dodgers World Series
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  Speaker 1: hero Miguel Rojas wrongly identified as a ped cheat. Your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on how that all played out? So? I think
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  Speaker 1: this is an interesting test of the not the emergency
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  Speaker 1: broadcast system, Just an interesting test of the reaction, and
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  Speaker 1: man did the digital piranhas have a feast. It was
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  Speaker 1: a hit and run situation for the ages with the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: Miguel Rojas here for five glorious minutes. For five glorious minutes,
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  Speaker 1: the internet mobs celebrated. It was orgasmic. It was unreal.
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  Speaker 1: This was it all the people that have long despised
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. And it was mistaken identity, the wrong Rojas,
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  Speaker 1: you got the wrong Rojas evandrel bad job by you
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  Speaker 1: who goofed. I've got to know. It was a feeding frenzy.
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  Speaker 1: To me, that's the most interesting part. It was a
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  Speaker 1: feeding frenzy. The bots came out the party. They came
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  Speaker 1: out like would work, Like the termites there and the younger,
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  Speaker 1: the termites attacking the wood in a lumber yard. It
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  Speaker 1: was just it was eating it up and it couldn't
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  Speaker 1: get enough of it, screaming void, the Ring, Void, d Ring,
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  Speaker 1: Toronto's your real champion. The Blue Jays are the chump
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  Speaker 1: Bins of the world and all that. It's like a
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  Speaker 1: coordinated digital mob. The Algol rhythm dogpile on Miguel Rojas
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  Speaker 1: and how much of that was real? Who's coordinating all this.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know was this the bot farm in Maldova
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  Speaker 1: that was activated? Who activates? Now? I do know that
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  Speaker 1: at least in the interworld interweb, world world wide Web,
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  Speaker 1: there the DDS is alive and well. Dodger dre rangement
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  Speaker 1: syndrome and it is antibiotic resistant. There is no cure.
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  Speaker 1: There is no cure. Michuel Rojas taking some major shrapnel.
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  Speaker 1: Major shrapnel here as the drive by error from the reporter,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a classic case of mistaken identity in the
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  Speaker 1: golden age of post it and don't double check it,
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  Speaker 1: don't think about it, just post it. That's it. The
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  Speaker 1: Blue Crew haters society. They didn't want the truth. You
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  Speaker 1: can't handle the truth. They wanted a scalp, so that's
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  Speaker 1: what they went for.
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  Speaker 1: All right? So then the news came out if you
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  Speaker 1: You can't see my fingers, but they're this close. The
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  Speaker 1: NBA to adding not one, but two teams later this
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  Speaker 1: month here in the month of March. The league, we've learned,
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  Speaker 1: will hold a secret ballot, which will not be that secret.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to hold a ballot to vote for in
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  Speaker 1: the next owners meetings. They changed that the NBA because
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  Speaker 1: so they used board of governors, which is so stupid.
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  Speaker 1: They're owners, they own the team. That's what they are.
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  Speaker 1: The owner meetings what will take place March twenty fourth
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  Speaker 1: through the fifteenth. So today is Saint Patti's Day. Happy
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  Speaker 1: Saint Patty's says, or a week away from this taking place. Now,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: regarding the addition of expansion teams, the noise is that
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: they're not having this open for random cities to say, hey,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: we'd like to host an NBA team. No, no, no,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: They've already handpicked Las Vegas, Lost Wages, Nevada, and Seattle
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: as the two franchises that would join the NBA. The
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: targeted debut would be in the twenty twenty eight twenty
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: nine season. Look at the calendar, you say, well, it's
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty ses. That's only a couple of years away
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: from adding not one, but two teams to the NBA.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: They would have to move and shuffle teams around. It'd
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: be a couple of teams currently in the West that
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: would go to the East. And the chatter includes possibilities
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: New Orleans, Memphis, the Minnesota Timberwolves as possibilities to go
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: to the Eastern Conference. You would think they would all
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: be lining up to go to the Eastern Conference because
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: that is the marshmallow Conference. Like if you're if you're
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: in one of those teams that's kind of in the
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: middle there of the country. It could go either way.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: You'd want to be in the East because that's where
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: the lightweights are, don't You want to beat up the
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: lightweights and then only have to play one really good
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: team in the finals to win a championship. But nonetheless,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: the NBA, according to sham Sharani, the things are progressing.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: The teams will be charged, the expansion teams will get
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: a seven to ten billion dollar charge. That's quite the
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: surch charge. That's an extra roughly twenty billion dollars that
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: will be sliced and diced among the thirty members of
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: the cartel of the NBA. So let us discuss the
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: question that's good jumping off point. Let us discuss the
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: question what message? What message is the NBA sending by
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: preparing to add the Seattle and Vegas franchises. And it
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: seems like this is a FATA complete. It's going to
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: happen in the next couple of weeks that this will
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: all be taking care of. The tease will be crossed,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: the eyes will be dotted unless something goes terribly wrong.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: So I've got airport strategy, seminar, kitchen table, and taco
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: bell and we will combine all of these things together
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: and we are going to make kettle corn, which is
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: next level from popcorn, is kettle corn. And once you
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: cross over and have the kettle corn, it's hard to
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: just go back to popcorn. It's amazing because it's covered
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: in sugar. So number number. So the message, let me
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: tell you, I'm a big message guy, Maler. The message.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: So the message here is from the classic sports movie
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: from years ago. It was a movie called Jerry McGuire.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: In fact, that one of the guys that was in
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: that movie worked here as a talk show host, Jay Moore,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: and it was not his character, but the character that
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: made it famous. Show me the money, Show me the money.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: This has been simmering for at least a decade. I
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: heard back when I used to go I don't go
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: to these NBA games anymore, but back in the day
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: when I did, there were people that came up and said, listen,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: this is the plan. They're gonna Seattle's definitely getting a team.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: They'd like to put a team in Vegas. That's the plan.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: We're talking a decade ago. We're talking over it. Probably
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: more like fifteen years ago. This was being talked about.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: This was going to be the plan, and so it's
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: been simmering on the back burner and they turned the
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: burner down. But it's on the back burner and now
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, here we are and it's still
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: moving at DMV level speed, like the line of the DMV.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: And it's a cash grab. That's what this is. There's
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: no other way to describe, which is fine. Just admitt it, Andy,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: this is a cash grab. This is easy money. We
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: got the TV contract square away. Who knows what's gonna
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: happen next time the TV contract comes up. So this
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: is easy money. We don't have to share this with
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: the players. It's all our money, and it's a winfall.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: It's a bonanza for the owners, So why not. It's
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: not about basketball, it's about the expansion revenue. That's just
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: found money. It's like adding a couple of seats to
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the broken roller coaster. Come on, you're part of the roller.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: It's not working that great, but you're part of it.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Think about that, a business where half the teams aren't
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: even trying to win, and you've brainwashed some of your customers.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: They're so stupid. They're like, well, that seems to make
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: sense that teams aren't trying to win. I support that. Like,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: think about how backwards that is on every level. That
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: is the NBA, that is the modern NBA. And they're
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: looking to add teams because they want cash. But if
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: you look at this from a pure basketball standpoint, you'd say,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: what are we doing. This is a roller coaster that
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: is not working right. It's a risk and the league again,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: half the teams are not even trying. You've got imagine
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: a building with the paint peeling on the building, there's
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: some broken windows, and these teams are tanking. It's like
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: they all went to the same airport strategy seminar. They
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: went to a seminar at the airport and they alls say, oh,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: here's what you do. You know how like fast food restaurants,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, chicken tenders or chicken sandwiches became
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the thing, and like everyone had to have a chicken
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: sandwich or fried chicken sandwich. And there's certain things these seminars.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: These guys go to these get togethers and they're like, okay,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: you got to sell this, and everyone's like, okay, we'll
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: be in lockstep. Well, these NBA teams, it's all ping
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: pong ding dong. They're all a bunch of ding dongs
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: playing for the ping pong balls is what they are.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: And originally it was kind of cute. Okay, Now everyone
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: who's not trying to win, which is half the teams,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: are playing the suck and draft strategy. The suck and
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: draft strategy. When you build a culture of losing, you
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: lose games, you get some lottery balls and that doesn't
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: work out, and then you rinse, wash and repeat, And
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: now you're inviting the Seattle and Vegas franchises to join
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: the group. Chat of dysfunction. Come on down. The price
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: is right, that's the culture. And doesn't it seem like
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Vegas would have been great ten years ago? Also not now.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I still enjoy going to Vegas. I don't like going
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: to the strip very much. And I got friends in
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Vegas who live there. I got family that lives in Vegas.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I go there quite a bit. But it's not a
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: great town right now. The parkings outrageous. They price godge
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: their customers. It's embarrassing. What that town has become. And
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: hopefully someone will get a clue and they'll change Vegas
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: around and make it Maybe the mob can come back
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: in and run Vegas and make it good again, because
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: it sucks right now. And I was told by somebody
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: in Vegas the reason they one of the reasons they
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: started charging for parking on the strip was because of
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the NHL that they put the NHL team. There's an
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: arena right behind New York, New York, in the middle
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: of the strip, and they're like, we can't have a
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: hockey team without parking revenue, and so okay, we'll start
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: charging for parking. And then we have to charge it
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: all the hotels because otherwise people just walk. They'll park
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: far away and they'll walk, and we won't get the revenue. Okay,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: So now everyone's charging and it's embarrassing. And then and
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: the NBA and plus the NBAB the last team in
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the last team because that year, I believe the A's
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: if they ever get that thing done, the athletics will
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: be in there. So the hockey team's been there, the
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Raiders have been there. You're gonna add a baseball team
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: and a basketball team. Okay, there you go. Now, as
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: far as the whole mindset that some have said, well,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the talent delution, this is a big problem. The dilution
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: of talent in the NBA is not enough good players
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: to go around. Well, the product again, it's already deluded. Uh,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: load management is king, that's Adam Silver's baby load management
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: and all that. I would argue, though, if teams actually
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: were committed to trying to win, the product would not
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: be as bad as it is. I believe that the
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: product the NBA has is a byproduct of the commitment
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: to sucking, and it just the whole thing is rotten.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: The whole thing is rotten. And if you actually put
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: a mindset in that even these crappy teams that mathematically
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: have no chance, if they actually tried, if they coached
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: up players, you'd be amazed at how much better the
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: product would be. Of Course, I'm I'm just a boomer,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I would have I know, all right. Meanwhile, keeping the
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: ball bouncing. So the found out with Seattle getting a team.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: They're going to be called the SuperSonics. The Thunder the
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: team that was purchased as the Sonics by an oil
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: baron and moved to Seattle. The Thunder would give up
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: all of the records, the supersonic records, which were kind
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: of theirs but not really, those would all go back
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: to the Pacific Northwest. And we've seen this before with
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the Charlotte Hornets and also with the New Orleans Pelicans,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: who were the old Charlotte Hornets. It's all very confusing,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: all very confusing, but they just got to keep the
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: records and that's how that went. So the question what
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: do you make of the plan for the Sonics, the branding,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: the green and gold to return to the NBA. What
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: do you make of this? So this is one thing
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: we've been very critical, get paid to be a critic,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: very critical of Adam Silver. We've taken our wetua's cheap
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: shots at Adam Silver in the NBA. This is something
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: in the NBA actually got right. And I'll be Benny
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Bright said on this one. They got it right. You
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: write it down, you know, man bites dog. NBA got
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: something right. They got it right. You know, alert the authorities.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: You might want to wake up the village elders. They
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: got it right. They did. Adam Silver, the guy that
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: we roast as a lizard person in a tailored suit
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: from somewhere outside the Milky Way galaxy is finally stumbled
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: onto something here where this is good, and he's done
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: it now a couple of times. But the basic common sense,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: basic common sense, the Sonic brand belongs in Seattle, period,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: full stop. It does. And when I become the almighty,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: all powerful death spot of sports, which will happen sooner
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: than you think, and I'm in charge, and I'm in
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: the catbird seat when I am in charge, mark my words.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Right now. You move a franchise, you relocate a franchise
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: in a money grab. You get that tax money, and
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: you leave the name, You leave the colors, you leave
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the history, all of that. Leave it right on the
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: kitchen table. The Chicago Bears, if they move to Indiana,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: they're no longer the Chicago Bears. But it's just across
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: it's a few miles away. I don't care. You lose
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: the name, do it? Would you still do it? Would
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: would you think the Chicago Bears would move across the
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: state line there in Indiana if they had to change
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: the name. And I would have had the Giants and
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Jets change their name. They play in New Jersey. I
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: don't care if it's across the way you move. That's it.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Those are the rules. I'm the boss, you're cooked. That's
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: the way that goes. And that'd be a cross board NFL,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: major League Baseball, NHL, all of it. And you know,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: don't drag the ghost of a sports team's past like
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: some kind of stolen some weirdo steals of family album.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I was like, well, that needs nothing to you. You're
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: not part of that family. You don't need those photos.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Get out of here with that, and so Seattle. By
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: the time this team comes back to the NBA in
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight, twenty twenty nine, it will have been
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: nearly twenty years I think almost exactly twenty years since
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: the Sonics were taken away and moved to Oklahoma City.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: There and like a proud old mansion, we'll live again,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: and they'll fix the windows, some paint and all that
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: and the whole thing. Bring all of it back, the
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: green and the gold. I want every Sonic legend, dead
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: or alive, to be celebrated, whether it's the X Man,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Xavier McDaniel, Tom Chambers, Gary Payton, Nate McMillan, Jack Sikma,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Ray Allen Dale, Ellis Downtown Freddie Brown. I don't care.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Bring them all back, dead or alive, and celebrate the
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: old old Sonics and that's it. And don't forget the masks. Now,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: the original maskcot. A lot of people to know this,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: because it's been a long time. You've forgotten. Maybe you
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: weren't alive when it happened. The original Sonics mascot was
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Wheedle on the needle, Wheedle on the needle. Now after
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: that that mascot was retired. Then they brought in Squatch
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: for Sasquatch, so they had that bring back the mascots.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: I'd have both of them. Who says no? And power
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: to the people.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Why not?
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: All right? Now? Final point to the gambling market of
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: the NFL. The gambling market of the NFL. The updated
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: updated odds, updated odds, and Sean mcvay's Rams are now
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: plus seven hundred.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: They are the betting favorite.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: The off season has adjusted the odds and the Rams
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: are the betting favorite to win Super Bowl sixty one.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Let me repeat that for those of you a little slow.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: The La Rams are now the betting favorite, LA grabbing
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the top spot on the updated odds after the free
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: agency in the first round of trades, keeping Matthew Stafford
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: and the core of the team intact, the team that
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: won that Fluke Super Bowl. The Seahawks are at plus
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: nine point fifty, followed by the Buffalo Bills, the Ravens,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: and for some reason, the Chargers. Can we just stop
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: with the Chargers? Can we justin Herbert sucks? Can we
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: just stop with the Chargers? Please? The guy's a regular
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: season player. He can't get it done in the playoffs.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: He's a fraud. And yet I got to hear about
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the Chargers being great and all that stuff. Anyway, and
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: then you got the Chiefs and the forty nine ers
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: after that plus sixteen hundred. Question, do the Rams the Lams?
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Do they deserve to be the team to beat? Based
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: on the gamble odds? They are? So, I one hundred
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: percent rubber stamp this. I notarize it. I send it
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: FedEx overnight. I'm right there. The Rams are walking in
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: and there's still moves to be made. Obviously they're the
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: draft and all that, But the Rams are walking into
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: next season right now like a Hollywood reboot with a
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: bigger budget and a better group of special effects, and
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: it's just gonna be awesome. It's just gonna be awesome.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: The weakest link the Rams had they had bad special teams,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: and their secondary was not very good. They've addressed all
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: of those things, and we haven't even gotten to the draft.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: The secondary. They went on the prow They raided Arrowhead Stadium,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: the stockpile the Chiefs had of defensive backs, and they
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: got them not on the cheap, they were expensive. Trent
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: McDuffie's the highest paid defensive back in the NFL. Now
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: they got him and his buddy. And so that is
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: how you treat a leaky boat, all right. They didn't
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: just have a dinghy come and take them away. They
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: fixed the boat. They got some of those infomercial ceiling
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: products and they fixed the boat. And that's it. You
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: got Matthew Stafford, the reigning MVP, coming back and he's
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: still slinging it like a blackjack dealer there, who's on
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: a on a healer, a heater. And you got Poula Nacua,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: who's been living the Hollywood life, going around having a
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: great time and all that. So that roster, with what
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: they kept and what they've added the Rams, it's like
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: a late night run to Taco Bell, right, it's chaotic,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: there's a long line. You gotta wait, and it just
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: hits the spot. And it might not look good later
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: because you might be on the toilet, but it looks
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: good in the moment. It feels pretty good. And let's
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: also address the elephant in the room here and the
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: elephant doing jumping jacks in the side of the room,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: and that'd be Seattle. The Seahawks did not just win,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: they won with help. That's why they're not the favorite anymore.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: And they've also been rated that phantom two point conversion.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Chances of that happening again are not particularly good. It
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: was right out of the twilight zone. I don't know.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Jj N Renton would agree with me on that, and
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: so would Nostradinas when it comes to that. But the
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: regression to the mean and Seattle overachieved last year got
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: some help. Those things won't happen likely this year here,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: so that tax bill will come do Rams at plus
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: seven hundred on the board. And that's not elementary school
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: cafeteria mystery meat that is dry aged and hand carved
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: table side steak is what that is. That's just delicious.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: And then the Rams are not just contenders here. They
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: are the team to beat at this point based on
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: the offseason adjustment to the gambling market. It's hard to
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: argue with that. Against that, Rather, it's hard to argue
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: against that. I don't know how you could argue for
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: anyone else. No one's had a more impressive run than
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: the Rams this offseason.
• 35:33
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• 35:35
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• 35:48
  Speaker 5: It was reported recently that through the first week of
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: free agency that the Saints have not received any inquiries
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: yes from teams regarding the potential trade of Derrek Carr's
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: contract rights. Ben, what are the chances car stays retired?
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: But it sounds like he wants to play. So if
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: you want to play, you're going to play. Like you'll
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: find a way to play. If you want to play,
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: He's not gonna go to a good team.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: He's gonna have to either you've got two options, go
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: to a bad team or just wait, wait until guys
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: start getting hurt and then like he passed on the
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Bengals and the Colts last year, what are you doing?
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: But they'll'll be.
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: Jobs if you want to play next some people around
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: the league think that the salary cap should take state
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  Speaker 5: incomes into account.
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  Speaker 3: Ben, do you think that's a good idea?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Well, would you so you'd pay them more if they're
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: in California or New York or something like that. Is
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: that that would work? Or yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Nah?
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  Speaker 1: I think the states that tax people that much should
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: be punished. So I think you should punish states that
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: tax that. It's insane, So I think you should continue
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: punishing them, and players should go to the states where
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: they keep more of their money. Next.
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: The New York Jets have targeted and obtained older players
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  Speaker 5: this offseason and an attempt to get the team's culture
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  Speaker 5: quote under control.
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  Speaker 3: Ben, do you think this is a sound strategy? Uh?
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Well, sure on a on a tablet coop, it sounds
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  Speaker 1: like a good strategy. Why not? The problem is an
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  Speaker 1: execution because the Jets are gonna suck again and then
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if they're older, young players. They're gonna
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: start having hissy fits. So it's not gonna work. How
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  Speaker 1: do we do? Koople loop you passed that as a win?
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Put it on the bad Chicken Dinna.
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  Speaker 1: Game time, game time, game time, game time, game time,
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  Speaker 1: game time.
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  Speaker 3: You know we need to sign Are we playing the
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  Speaker 3: imaging before or after forget.
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  Speaker 2: To the top.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Well, you already decided the rain and you just.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: Played it, so you made it seem like I needed
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: to play something.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: I don't care. It's fine, it's all right, it's all good.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: We've got and see here money mode. D block is
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: in Miami. Hello, oh d Block, Welcome, good morning, good
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  Speaker 1: morning on a rainy Miami day. Man, it's a typical
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: chamber of commerce Miami day, a little tropical rain for it.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: H R D buke. You're gonna play the game? Who
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: do you? Who do you want to partner on with
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: d block? With two? With two? Well, thank you? All right?
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: Hold on a second, mister popular.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: LORRAINA picked door number one or door number three?
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Well I like door number three today.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well you have picked j C, who's just down
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  Speaker 1: the street from us here in beautiful Sherman Oaks, California.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Hello j C.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's a big, big fan and just
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  Speaker 2: actually known the reason why I caught in You play
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  Speaker 2: that song by the Eagles, big big fan.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: And I was, I was motivated. That was actually the
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: MAM's in the papas.
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  Speaker 1: No, oh, okay, who cares?
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  Speaker 2: Alright, I want to win.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: I want to win, Benny.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: I want to win, Benny.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, you're in it. You're you're gonna play the game,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: jac and let's go. You want to partner up with
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Loraina or Coop?
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  Speaker 3: Coop? Okay? Wine?
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  Speaker 1: Good?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, good, good? Good call?
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Hurry where the categories here? Coop? Please?
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  Speaker 5: All right, gentlemen, this is good. This is Malard's Mountain
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  Speaker 5: of Money. Billy Corgan edition, lead singer of the Smashing Pumpkins. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: I lookxcited. He turns fifty nine years old today. The
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  Speaker 5: categories are chareup rock, nineteen seventy nine, bullet with Butterfly Wings.
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  Speaker 3: And zero and let's s let's see d block. You're
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: on the air. First, Which category would you like? Nineteen
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  Speaker 3: seventy nine?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: That one?
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  Speaker 3: Which category would you like? Jac Man?
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: I wanted nine? Well I know you can't.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Now which one do you want? All right?
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Rock?
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  Speaker 5: Rock?
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, very good? I feel like there's from
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: pregame Saint Patti's Day celebration going on with JC. I
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: feel like he's starting the party early. Everyone hold on
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: here with don't hang up. If you're on hold as
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: one of our backups, you stand by. If one of
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: these guys hang up, we'll go to the bullpen and
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: you'll get the chance to play. It's gonna be moments
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: from now, Malors Mountain of Money. We'll get to that
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: and we will do it next.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: All right, back to it. Here we go. Let's play
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: the game. We've got my guy d Block. You cut
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: him open. It's like deep dish Chicago pizza. But he's
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: in Miami.
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  Speaker 3: Jeez.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: He's enjoying the nice weather and JC in southern California
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: and he's also enjoying the nice weather. All right, here
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: we go, gentlemen, Let's play the game. Coop. Who's going first?
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: I believe I him going first? Is that it is correct?
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: All right? You picked nineteen seventy nine d Block? Are
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: you ready? Does not sound like d Block is right? Hello?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Third? All right, here we go. Here we go, d Block.
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  Speaker 1: Are you at work right now? All right? I do
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  Speaker 1: not want to get you in trouble. Are these athletes
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  Speaker 1: we're all born in nineteen seventy nine. Then we need
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  Speaker 1: first and last name and we're on our way.
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  Speaker 2: Go.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Greatest quarterback in New Orleans Saints history, he almost signed
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: with the Dolphins, all right. The greatest running back in
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: San Diego Chargers history also played with the Jets. Great
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: what hal Man? Oh boy, all right, we're doing very well.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: The Greek god of walks for the Boston Red Sox.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: I think you should go to somebody else, all right.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: A tight end for the Colts with Peyton Manning in
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: the early two thousands. The tight end then you you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, man, I'm breaking part different.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, man. Okay, NBA player changed his name.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, I think we still have time. You can have
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: someone could you could have gone to the bullpen at anytime?
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: All right? D Block? I love you, man, I'm going
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: I'm hanging up on you next time. All right, next time, Ray,
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: you're my bullpen guy. Ray, I'm coming to the I
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: need you out of the bullpen, all right.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: Hold all right, jac we have cherub Rock right by
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  Speaker 3: the Way.
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  Speaker 1: Drew Brees, Ladanian, Tomlinson. What else did a Kevin Yuclus
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: the Greek got to Walks Dallas Clark? Oh my god?
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: All right, jac these athletes were or are so clean
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: cut that they're almost angelic.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: U s in your opinion?
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  Speaker 1: Coop forty that's objective.
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: Forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin.
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: Longtime quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks went to the Broncos
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: and the Giants, and he sucks.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: Now Wilson, what's his full name?
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: His name is, Okay, of the best pitchers of all
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: time for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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  Speaker 3: He just retired. Uh, what's his first name?
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: I need the full name. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: How about the quarterback from Florida who who kneeled and
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: he was he was drafted by the Broncos, Heisman Trophy winner.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: His name is Oh did this really happen?
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  Speaker 3: There's no way this is happening right now? You ja
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: c Russell, Wilson, Clayton Kershaw.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: I got I got right? Well, you know you got
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: to say the full name. That's the bit. The bit
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: is the full name.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: And then Tim Tebow, Tim Tebow, bad clues by you Coop, I.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Think I won. I've got better than well if the
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: game's not over yet. So just for the record, the
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: listeners so far do not know who Drew Brees, Ladenian Thominson,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Kevin Euchlist, Dallas Clark, Russell Wilson, Clayton kershar Tim t Barr.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: And we're doing the sports talk radio sh Yes, how
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  Speaker 1: about all right for me? Yes, I'm going to I'm
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: going to my believer Ray from Milwaukee. Hello, Ray, Okay,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: we've we've got bullet with butterfly wings and zero?
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  Speaker 3: Which category?
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: All right? What do you say? He said? Zero? Okay?
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: These athletes all war or where number zero? Are you ready? Read?
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  Speaker 1: All right?
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: Here?
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: You're forty five seconds? Journeyman guard. He's for the Sacramento Kings.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Now he had he had a triple double. He averaged
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: the entire season for Oklahoma City. He's still playing. Yes,
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: start for the Boston Celtics. He's he was out most
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: of this year. He just came back helped the Celtics
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: win the championship. Forward for the Celtics, No, uh played?
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: How about this guy played for the Milwaukee Bucks. Number
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: zero was traded back to the Portland Trailblazers. Oh my god,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: all right, we're getting punked her. Cool. Yeah, there you go.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: All right. Agent zero for the Washington Wizards back in
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: the day. All right, wow, what are we doing?
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: You got forty points?
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: I need Andrea? Andrea is there's something going on with
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: the moon. Alright?
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: All right, JC, we got we got bullet with butterfly wings.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: You said that last time, he said that last time.
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: These athletes all struggled with fame. All right, these athletes,
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: all these athletes all struggled with fame. All right, forty
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: five seconds. Let's begin. Boxer who bit somebody's ear off, Yes,
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: let's go. All right, running back for the Dolphins back
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: in the day. He smoked a bunch of weed. His name,
• 46:03
  Speaker 5: all right, this guy was the worm on the bulls.
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: He had colored hair. He's yeah right away, knew that right,
• 46:09
  Speaker 5: all right? This guy was His nickname was Money. He
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: did the money sign. He played for Texas A and
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: m or He all right, Uh, this guy was the
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: power forward for the Cavaliers and the Timberwolves.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: His white guy.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go, let's go. Come on. I think that's it.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: We win, we win. Good job, Jay Sealings go listen.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: De Block.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know what happened. De Block took he took
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: the wrong medicine today. He took stupid pills today, d Block,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: you didn't do much better, by the way, Uh, jac.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: You gotta go to ticket jay Z.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: All right, all right, say all right, get back to
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: your party. You know what's going on. Everyone's they're doing
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: the Saint Patty's Day thing. I'm convinced now. Normally that
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: doesn't affect the show because we have drunks call the
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: show all the time. But I feel like there's something
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: going on with Saint Patty's Day. And I thought, normally
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: you wait till the sun comes up on Saint Patty's
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Day to celebrate the day. But these guys are These
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: guys are pregaming for Saint. They're drinking the green beer.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: They're having a grand old time here. They celebrate green bagel, yeah,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: eating the grain I mean, or smoking some green stuff.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: They got a lot going on here, man,