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Hour 2 - Worthy of Ad Time? · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Bada bing bata boom. It's our dumbber two of the
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Speaker 1: Ben Mahlor Show on this Wednesday hump Day. How do
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Speaker 1: you categorize Rob Manford campaigning for a Major League Baseball
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Speaker 1: salary cap at the All Star Game? And where does Manford,
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Speaker 1: admitting that he failed with the luxury tax land with you?
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Speaker 1: We'll discuss that, and also what is the proper bucket
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Speaker 1: for the union calling MLB's commercials for a salary cap perverse.
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Speaker 1: We'll go to all of those places and more right
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Speaker 1: now here, it is our number two worthy of ad time. Well,
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Speaker 1: maybe not welcome. In the beginning of another hour of
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Speaker 1: afternoon on Fox one, so check that out. Our lead
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Speaker 1: this hour. Though, now I was planning best laid plans
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Speaker 1: of mice men and gas bag, so I was like, well,
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Speaker 1: the All Star game will probably be great. There'll be
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Speaker 1: a lot to talk about in the All Star Game.
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Speaker 1: So we'll get a couple of mallord monologues out of
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Speaker 1: the All Star Game. No game sucked, It was not
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Speaker 1: very exciting. The highlight was Kyle Schwarber having his earpiece
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Speaker 1: fallout of his ear three times and Dylan Ceees looking
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Speaker 1: genuinely annoyed on the mound while he was expected to
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Speaker 1: do an interview while facing Juan Soto in the All
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Speaker 1: Star Game. So our lead this hour is from the boardroom,
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Speaker 1: and that is where MLB Commissioner Rob Manford held court and.
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Speaker 2: Renewed his push for the cap, the cap, the cap,
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Speaker 2: the cap, the cap, the salary cap, arguing that the
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Speaker 2: payroll gap has become impossible to ignore as the CBA
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Speaker 2: Negotia Schaans continues.
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Speaker 1: So if you didn't see this in the lead up
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Speaker 1: to the All Star Game, perhaps you missed it. Manford
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Speaker 1: highlighted what he claimed was a four hundred and forty
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Speaker 1: one million dollar payroll gap between the high spending, high
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Speaker 1: falutant Dodgers and the lowest spender, the Miami Martins. Now,
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Speaker 1: technically the Mets have the highest payroll in baseball. The
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Speaker 1: Dodgers have the highest payroll if you include all the
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Speaker 1: deferred money which they will be paying for years and
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Speaker 1: years and years and years and years and years and
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Speaker 1: years and years and years and years. Manford said it
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Speaker 1: defies human experience to ask a fan to think that
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Speaker 1: the bottom end of that gap has the same opportunity
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Speaker 1: to win as the top end. Close quote. How he
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Speaker 1: also said Major League Baseball owners are unusually unified on
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Speaker 1: the issue. Declaring quote, Manford said, I have an ownership
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Speaker 1: group that is more united than any group in my
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Speaker 1: entire time in baseball. So that is a good jumping
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Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question, how do you
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Speaker 1: categorize Rob Manford campaigning for an MLB salarycap as the commission.
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Speaker 1: I've got Farmers Market, theater district, and billiards and we
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Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and remind you
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Speaker 1: this is not going to pass the smell test. It's not.
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Speaker 1: My first thought is the the quote by Manford is
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Speaker 1: a double whammy, double whammy for baseball for the owners,
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Speaker 1: because Manford is telling fans of teams in small markets
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Speaker 1: that they really He's implying you shouldn't support the team
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Speaker 1: because it defies human possibility that a team that's at
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Speaker 1: the bottom end can possibly end up winning. So why
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Speaker 1: would you support a losing team. The other thing that
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Speaker 1: he's doing is he is it's a shot at his
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Speaker 1: own business, which he has run for all these years
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Speaker 1: that he has not been able to get these tightwad
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Speaker 1: teams to spend more money. The problem is not the Dodgers.
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Speaker 1: The problems the Marlins and the Athletics and the Rays
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Speaker 1: and teams like that. That's the problem, and he doesn't
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Speaker 1: want to address that. And it's not about saving baseball,
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Speaker 1: all right. It's not about saving baseball, as we say,
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Speaker 1: it's about saving billionaire owners from themselves. And of course
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Speaker 1: Rob Manford, who is hired as a conduit from the
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Speaker 1: ownership group, is going to say that they're completely united.
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Speaker 1: Did you expect anything else? Are you that biggest simpleton?
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Speaker 1: Do you expect Manford to come out?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we got like half the owners. They don't give
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Speaker 1: a crap. They don't they don't want to sell a gap. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: come on, voting to pay less in payroll. Just think
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Speaker 1: about this logically, And it's possible you've never owned a
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Speaker 1: business and you've always worked for someone, and you've never
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Speaker 1: done anything on your own. You've always had a boss.
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Speaker 1: But just think of this logically, If you're the owners,
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Speaker 1: and you put a rule in to cap how much
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Speaker 1: you've got to pay the players. Therefore, don't you guarantee
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Speaker 1: more profits? Isn't that the easiest vote to cast? And
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Speaker 1: Manford's talking about like four hundred he said, four hundred
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Speaker 1: forty one million in payroll gap, and that doesn't prove
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Speaker 1: the system is broken. It just proves that there are
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Speaker 1: many more cheap teams that treat baseball like a coupon
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Speaker 1: clipping hobby, extreme coupon clipping. And that's the issue, that's
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Speaker 1: the disease. Right, Teams who refuse to spend are the
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Speaker 1: ones who have failed baseball, and the commissioner doesn't have
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Speaker 1: the balls to call them out. In the Marlins A's Pirates,
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Speaker 1: the usual suspects, they could spend much more money than
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Speaker 1: they're spending. They can't spend as much as the Dodgers.
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Speaker 1: They don't have to, right, you just have to close
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Speaker 1: the gap a little bit. They simply choose not to.
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Speaker 1: They simply choose not to. And they've been that way
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Speaker 1: for years and years and years now. Manford conveniently leaves out, meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: a couple of things, and this is where he's working
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Speaker 1: at a local farmers market. Rob Manford working at the
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Speaker 1: farmers market cherry picking, and he is so good at
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Speaker 1: cherry picking. Rob Manford, Delmonte should hire him as an advisor.
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Speaker 1: He's that good. I notice that Manford never said franchises
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Speaker 1: are bleeding cash, that they're losing money, they're in the red.
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Speaker 1: Said that he can't say it because it's not true, right,
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Speaker 1: And if he does say it, then the players will
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Speaker 1: be Okay, show us. Let's have a third party and
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Speaker 1: let's do some accounting and we'll we'll audit the books
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Speaker 1: and we'll see if that's the case. He's not saying that,
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Speaker 1: you know, no, no, no, no, he's just claiming that
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Speaker 1: fans can't believe in the actual little guys. So give
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Speaker 1: me a bloody blake, give me a break. Even Ossiewash notes,
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Speaker 1: that's nonsense, right, that's not a real financial argument. That
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Speaker 1: is more like a fairy tale told at bedtime. Now
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Speaker 1: page two. So Rob Manford also acknowledged that baseball has
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Speaker 1: repeatedly tried to address competitive balance through the what they
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Speaker 1: call it the luxury tax. But you know what that means,
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Speaker 1: he admitted, quote, sometimes you got to admit you fail.
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Speaker 1: Manford said, all right, question, where does Rob Manford and
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Speaker 1: his admission that he failed with the luxury tax, where
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Speaker 1: does that land with you? All Right? So I took
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Speaker 1: out my GPS and the maps app on my phone.
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Speaker 1: On the GPS, which is never wrong. It pinned this
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Speaker 1: in the theater district, making this pure I'm talking completely
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Speaker 1: authentic kabuki theater. Manford's failure is actually a success story,
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Speaker 1: and it's a success story for something called the long con,
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Speaker 1: which Major League Baseball has been efforting since the nineties workstoppage.
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Speaker 1: The long con is used to justify a hard cap,
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Speaker 1: and this is all part of the master plan. When
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Speaker 1: he says Manford, we failed, it's a commissioner's dog whistle.
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Speaker 1: It's a dog whistle, and it signals to owners that
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Speaker 1: it's finally time to unleash the doomsday device, the union
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Speaker 1: bunker Buster from Major League Baseball's ownership group. Manford does
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Speaker 1: not mean the sport failed. He does not mean that
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Speaker 1: that's a misnomer. Rob Manford means, and the way I
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Speaker 1: interpreted this, that the luxury tax failed to prove we
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Speaker 1: can live without a cap. Right funny? How will eagerly
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Speaker 1: admit to that or he'll meet admit. I'm not admitting it.
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Speaker 1: He'll admit to that yet, Manford, I'm still waiting for
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Speaker 1: him to admit that he completely fed up, and he
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Speaker 1: let the twenty seventeen cheating as one thousand two, one
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Speaker 1: thousand holes them in Houston skate bang bang, whis the
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Speaker 1: whistle whistle all that during the World Series and let
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Speaker 1: them get away with that, let them skate like it
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Speaker 1: was a event at the Winter Olympics. And he'll also
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Speaker 1: never concede that those ghost runners are a stain on
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Speaker 1: the game. He won't admit that, choosing instead to treat
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Speaker 1: a Little League fever dream like some kind of sacred
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Speaker 1: baseball tradition. It's all backwards. It's all backwards now. Final point.
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Speaker 1: So the commissioner's comments helping to escalate the tensions, the
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Speaker 1: rhetoric going back and forth. Everyone's playing in the court
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Speaker 1: of public opinion. And the expiration date, the doomsday clock
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Speaker 1: tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick December first,
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Speaker 1: just after the World Series, December first, that's it. Turnout
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Speaker 1: the last the parties over. Yeah, that's the end date
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Speaker 1: on the labor deal. And so the Baseball Players Association
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Speaker 1: continuing to have their own rhetoric. They are passionately rejecting
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Speaker 1: the salarycap. Their argument is the sport is financially healthy,
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Speaker 1: and that competitive imbalance is caused by some owners choosing
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Speaker 1: not to spend money ding Ning Ning, Ning Ning, not
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Speaker 1: by flaws in the system and Meajor League Baseball here's
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Speaker 1: the key part of this. So they've been running commercials
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Speaker 1: online and also on old media promoting a salary cap
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Speaker 1: as part of their Level the Playing Field campaign. Major
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Speaker 1: League Baseball itself as aired ads pushing for a salary
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Speaker 1: cap and floor in the next collective bargaining agreement. Now,
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Speaker 1: union officials were asked about that, and they do you
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Speaker 1: think they A said, boy, that's great, it's wonderful. They're
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Speaker 1: running commercials promoting baseball and a salarycap. Be no comment
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Speaker 1: or see what the f is wrong with you losers?
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Speaker 1: Ding if you if you pick see, that's the right answer.
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Speaker 1: If you pick see, that's the right answer. Yeah, Baseball's
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Speaker 1: union said the commercials are perverse. Perverse is the word
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Speaker 1: used by the union boss. So the question what is
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Speaker 1: the proper bucket for the baseball union calling MLB's commercials
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Speaker 1: for a salary cap perverse? So the Baseball owners here
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Speaker 1: are running these I'm gonna call them with there sleazy
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Speaker 1: Super Bowls style commercials for a salary cap, and they're
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Speaker 1: doing it to brainwash the low information fan, the dullard
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Speaker 1: that's what they're doing. And they know there's enough dumb
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Speaker 1: dumbs out there that are mesmerized by a TV commercial
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Speaker 1: where they're like, oh, oh that makes sense, okay, and
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Speaker 1: they can convince people it doesn't seem great for the
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Speaker 1: business that you're telling people we must have a salary cap,
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Speaker 1: essentially because baseball is dying and the only thing that
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Speaker 1: can save it. The only silver bullet that we have
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Speaker 1: is this hard salary cap. That's it. So the proper
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Speaker 1: bucket for this would be the billiard's bucket. And you
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Speaker 1: talk about playing some dirty pool here, it is like
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Speaker 1: they hired Johnny Archer, the Scorpion great pool player, to
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Speaker 1: run the table playing some dirty pool. And the owners
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Speaker 1: want the fans to think they're behind the eight ball,
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Speaker 1: and the Union is entirely right to call this perverse.
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Speaker 1: They are. Owners are pushing this doom and gloom more,
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Speaker 1: this doom and gloom propaganda about competitive balance and suffering
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Speaker 1: small markets to scare everyone. But you know, what that means.
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Speaker 1: They really just want to crush the players and make
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Speaker 1: sure that the owners get more profit. And it is
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Speaker 1: one of the only things in life where a number
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Speaker 1: of people root for the oligarchs. You don't get this
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Speaker 1: in other spots. No one is out there campaigning saying
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Speaker 1: the people that own Walmart need to make more money.
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Speaker 1: No one's saying right, No one's saying, well, I really
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Speaker 1: wish Apple would raise the price of the iPhone so
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Speaker 1: we can make more money. No, as it was pointed out,
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Speaker 1: if they actually cared about the fans, they would not
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Speaker 1: be spending millions of dollars Baseball on this manipulative marketing campaign.
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Speaker 1: And Bruce Meyer, the guy that's the union boss, he
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Speaker 1: pointed out that the ownership group likes to talk about
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Speaker 1: the fans, the fans, the fans, the fans boss, the fans.
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Speaker 1: They all want this, they want this salary cap, right,
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Speaker 1: And as he pointed out, if they owners really did
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Speaker 1: pay attention to what the fans wanted, the Pittsburgh Pirates,
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Speaker 1: the Athletics and several of the teams would have new
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Speaker 1: owners sell the team, sell the team, sell the team. Well,
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Speaker 1: how often does that work? The only time it's really
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Speaker 1: worked is with the Dodgers and Frank McCourt and that
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Speaker 1: has turned into the Blue Dynasty of Major League Baseball.
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Speaker 1: The corporate Dodgers have dominated. However, here's the these owners
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Speaker 1: are wearing when when fans chant, you know, sell the team,
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Speaker 1: sell the team, the owners wear these special skull candy
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Speaker 1: that out, and a bunch of other fun things. We
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Speaker 1: started this hour with the labor negotiation, Rob Manford giving
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Speaker 1: an update at the All Star Game and oh what
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Speaker 1: fun that was? The Union responding back, Jay Scoop says
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Speaker 1: minimum payroll? So my opinion on a salary cap floor
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Speaker 1: is it is being overestimated the value because, as I
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Speaker 1: understand it, the baseball owners have put language in the
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Speaker 1: early negotiations saying, well, we'll have this, but it doesn't
22:18
Speaker 1: have to just be payroll on the field. That will
22:21
Speaker 1: include other expenses. And what's going to happen is you're,
22:27
Speaker 1: much like they have in other sports that have a
22:29
Speaker 1: payroll floor. You're gonna get the cheap teams, the tight
22:32
Speaker 1: wad owners that are gonna be like, all right, well,
22:35
Speaker 1: we're gonna be the very bottom of the payroll. El
22:37
Speaker 1: Cheapo on a shoestring budget, and they will become a
22:41
Speaker 1: dumping ground for bad contracts. And you're gonna see this
22:46
Speaker 1: at the winter meetings. You'll see this in spring training,
22:49
Speaker 1: where teams like the Dodgers and the Yankees and the
22:53
Speaker 1: Mets and the teams that spend more money will be like, well,
22:56
Speaker 1: we got to get rid of a bad contract. Let's
22:59
Speaker 1: the need to get up to the floor. So that's
23:03
Speaker 1: dump a bad contract on a team that shops on
23:07
Speaker 1: the dollar menu at McDonald's when they used to have
23:10
Speaker 1: that right with the McChicken and the sausage burrito and
23:14
Speaker 1: all that stuff. And so there you go. It's it
23:18
Speaker 1: sounds good in theory. In practice, I do not believe
23:23
Speaker 1: it is going to go very well at all if
23:26
Speaker 1: they actually get to that, which I don't believe they will.
23:28
Speaker 1: I don't think we can get to that. Let's go
23:29
Speaker 1: to the phones, cashing a golden ticket. His last full
23:35
Speaker 1: day as the reigning champion, will he return to defend
23:39
Speaker 1: his title? The winner of the Malor Palooza twenty twenty five,
23:45
Speaker 1: Rob in the three two one, Hello Rob, Good evening, Ben,
23:51
Speaker 1: how are you? If I was any better? I would
23:56
Speaker 1: be sleeping, but I'm not. I'm here. Are you going
23:58
Speaker 1: to be back in this thing?
23:59
Speaker 3: Rob?
23:59
Speaker 1: Are you gonna be part of the Mallet Blues again?
24:01
Speaker 1: Are you just gonna sit this one out? You've already
24:03
Speaker 1: won your championship? Is that good for you? Well?
24:06
Speaker 5: You know they say if you catch lighting in a
24:09
Speaker 5: bottle one time, you probably should only do it one
24:11
Speaker 5: time to get your my kids earned a second time,
24:14
Speaker 5: and I don't you know they always say you don't
24:16
Speaker 5: ever correct the host, but I have to correct.
24:18
Speaker 1: You on this one.
24:19
Speaker 5: I won in twenty twenty four, so I think it
24:21
Speaker 5: was Jay Scoop who won last year.
24:23
Speaker 1: But it definitely all I say. Cool? But am I
24:26
Speaker 1: getting the years mixed up? You you confirmed that, Coop?
24:28
Speaker 1: Didn't you confirm that was last year? Thought it felt
24:31
Speaker 1: like last year?
24:32
Speaker 2: That was?
24:33
Speaker 1: That was two years ago? Yeah? Yeah, really, geez, we've
24:37
Speaker 1: been giving erroneous information. We'd like to apologize on behalf
24:40
Speaker 1: of Fox More Radio for this erroneous I mean I
24:42
Speaker 1: checked with my fact checker Coop a little. He backed
24:45
Speaker 1: me up on that, so it seemed like it was
24:46
Speaker 1: last year? Is two years ago?
24:48
Speaker 4: Yeah?
24:49
Speaker 1: Twenty four?
24:50
Speaker 5: I was I was a dark Yeah, I was a
24:51
Speaker 5: dark Horse candidate. I did the SpongeBob square Pants best
24:56
Speaker 5: day ever.
24:56
Speaker 1: Ben maulltains, Yeah, felt like that was last year. No, No,
25:01
Speaker 1: we all agree it was last year. You you're the
25:04
Speaker 1: one was wrong. You're doing You're messing with us, You're
25:09
Speaker 1: gas lighting us. How dare you?
25:12
Speaker 3: No?
25:13
Speaker 1: I swear to gosh it was twenty Lorraina, do you
25:16
Speaker 1: think it was last archives? Lorrainda? Do you think it
25:19
Speaker 1: was last I swear it was last year.
25:21
Speaker 5: Coop do you know Jay Scoop one? Jayscoop one, He
25:26
Speaker 5: won his sixth strap, he won his six golden microphone.
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Speaker 2: It was not me.
25:31
Speaker 5: I wanted twenty twenty more?
25:32
Speaker 1: All right? How could we? Is this what do they
25:36
Speaker 1: call it? That Mandela effect?
25:37
Speaker 6: Is that what?
25:37
Speaker 1: I guess?
25:39
Speaker 3: This is the.
25:39
Speaker 1: Magazine I can I can actually search the old part
25:42
Speaker 1: should be inside of Cornucopia. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
25:45
Speaker 1: we all share the same false memory, I think.
25:49
Speaker 5: Okay, obviously everybody knows that SpongeBob SquarePants was the Rookie
25:54
Speaker 5: caller of the Year in twenty twenty five. That's where
25:57
Speaker 5: I think you were getting things confused. I know the
26:00
Speaker 5: SpongeBob square Pants caller because obviously you know who it is.
26:04
Speaker 1: But even though you are denying that you won the
26:07
Speaker 1: Beny Award last year, we are. We don't care. We're
26:09
Speaker 1: saying you won or I'm not the Benny word, We're
26:11
Speaker 1: saying that you won the malord Palusa to just just
26:15
Speaker 1: agree with us, because that's what we're sure.
26:17
Speaker 5: That makes me a back to back winner. But no,
26:20
Speaker 5: I gotta work that. I have to work the dreaded
26:22
Speaker 5: days shift so I will.
26:24
Speaker 1: Not be boom boom.
26:31
Speaker 5: What did you say?
26:32
Speaker 4: I you second that?
26:34
Speaker 5: Oh, come on, give me some love here. How can
26:37
Speaker 5: I make it up to you for next year? I'll
26:39
Speaker 5: have to come back with something bigger and better.
26:42
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, if you can do something next year, it
26:43
Speaker 1: would be great. We always plan ahead a year in advance,
26:46
Speaker 1: and so if you want to start working on something,
26:48
Speaker 1: you're very good at impersonations. So let's see what you got.
26:53
Speaker 1: Surprise me, see what you got? All right, come up
26:55
Speaker 1: with something? All right?
26:56
Speaker 5: Well, I still am trying to work on a Malardine
26:59
Speaker 5: greet for twenty two twenty seven in Orlando, so I'm
27:02
Speaker 5: thinking of that.
27:02
Speaker 1: Would be That would be great. We'd love to come
27:04
Speaker 1: to Orlando and hang out and Lorene is addicted to
27:07
Speaker 1: all Disney's. I actually want to go so bad right now,
27:09
Speaker 1: and I want to go to Universal Studios and I
27:11
Speaker 1: want to Yeah, Okay, calm down, that's the perfect time
27:15
Speaker 1: to go.
27:15
Speaker 5: Plus I'm getting ready for a trip. I'm going to
27:17
Speaker 5: the line next week, so getting ready. Hey Darko, if
27:21
Speaker 5: you're out there, where can I find you so I
27:23
Speaker 5: can come and see your perform and give you a
27:26
Speaker 5: give you an honest opinion.
27:28
Speaker 1: Okay?
27:28
Speaker 6: All right?
27:29
Speaker 1: With reach Out, I can get you guys in contact
27:31
Speaker 1: with each other because Dorko does send me messages. All right, Well,
27:35
Speaker 1: thank you.
27:36
Speaker 5: I have a good evening, gentlemen and ladies.
27:38
Speaker 1: Rob Rob in the three two one, There you go,
27:42
Speaker 1: all right? Uh, very nice. So we've been hornswaggled by
27:46
Speaker 1: the Mandela effect, which is unfortunate. It appears that is
27:51
Speaker 1: the case. Let's say wild we all have that wrong. Yeah,
27:54
Speaker 1: we all have the same memory. There's no way we
27:56
Speaker 1: all agreed. I checked with Coop. Coop said yes, he
27:59
Speaker 1: robing the three to them, and then you agreed with everyone,
28:01
Speaker 1: and so we just went with it. Jay Scoop somewhere
28:04
Speaker 1: is like, what the F I mean? How could you
28:06
Speaker 1: not wait? What are you doing. Let's say hello to Andrea.
28:10
Speaker 1: She's in Berkeley. She's the astrology insider and a fan
28:14
Speaker 1: favorite of Anthony in Louisiana. Hello Andrea, Hello man, how
28:20
Speaker 1: are you? If I was any better, i'd be a
28:24
Speaker 1: full moon or a new moon, Yes, exactly. Weird weird
28:29
Speaker 1: things going on, and i'd fish washing up ashore.
28:32
Speaker 6: Yes, we've got mercury retrograde. That last oh, mercury retrograde
28:39
Speaker 6: and the ear piece falling out of ears that was
28:43
Speaker 6: very mercury retrograde at Wills. Communication and confusion and some misunderstandings.
28:50
Speaker 6: So just a reminder from the mal or militia. Mercury
28:55
Speaker 6: is retrograde June twenty nine to twenty third. So again,
29:04
Speaker 6: you know, in terms of.
29:06
Speaker 1: Communications, I know in California here the I believe it's
29:10
Speaker 1: called the Grunion, right, the Grunion come ashore here based
29:14
Speaker 1: on the the moon. And how do the sing know
29:18
Speaker 1: where the moon is? Right? Yeah, that happens I think
29:21
Speaker 1: every every so often. I know it's it's going on
29:24
Speaker 1: right now in southern California where they annually and I
29:27
Speaker 1: think all the way up to the Bay Area where
29:29
Speaker 1: the beaches are covered with the Grunion.
29:32
Speaker 6: Oh, I'll have to look into that. The grunion.
29:35
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to go based on this, based on
29:37
Speaker 1: the lunar cycle. Yeah, migration and the spawning of the grunty. Oh,
29:43
Speaker 1: the tih high tides and all that.
29:47
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, oh no, thanks for jarringt No. You know,
29:51
Speaker 6: the natural world is very tuned in to the cycles
29:54
Speaker 6: of the moon, and we happen to have a new
29:56
Speaker 6: moon in cancer and that rules food, family ceilings, and
30:00
Speaker 6: that was actually a good timing the All Star Game,
30:03
Speaker 6: all the families and the emotions and you know, virtue
30:09
Speaker 6: retrograde in the background with some of the snaffoos I
30:12
Speaker 6: that might.
30:13
Speaker 1: Be going on. I think that's going on right now,
30:15
Speaker 1: Like the grunion go on the beach to make whoopee,
30:19
Speaker 1: and when there's a new move and then they have
30:24
Speaker 1: their mating and then they go back back in the water.
30:26
Speaker 1: But it's crazy, like the images of this, I've not
30:29
Speaker 1: seen it in person, but there's like thousands of fish
30:33
Speaker 1: that just line up on the shore. It's pretty crazy.
30:36
Speaker 6: Oh well, well, I'm here to learn and grow. I'm
30:38
Speaker 6: going to educate myself more on that and shout out
30:42
Speaker 6: to Dylan Cees. He pitched her gem Capricorn December twenty eighth,
30:48
Speaker 6: nineteen ninety five, having a sad return twenty eight to thirty.
30:53
Speaker 6: And that's the cycle of career accomplishment. And that was great.
30:57
Speaker 4: That was like three.
30:57
Speaker 6: Innings pitched and no kids, and it was just really
31:02
Speaker 6: a powerful way to get the All Star Game started,
31:05
Speaker 6: at least to the American League.
31:07
Speaker 1: It was so that was it was much the whole
31:10
Speaker 1: That was pretty much the whole show.
31:12
Speaker 6: It was, wasn't it.
31:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much that was it. And well there'd be
31:16
Speaker 1: a lot of offense, it doesn't matter. There's a lot
31:18
Speaker 1: of baseball to be played, and uh not so much,
31:22
Speaker 1: not so much.
31:24
Speaker 6: Yeah, but you know, the Mercury retigrade. That's what really
31:26
Speaker 6: got me. With the airpieces and the interviews, I think
31:29
Speaker 6: that really was confusing for the fans.
31:33
Speaker 1: There was a lot, there was a lot going on.
31:34
Speaker 1: There was a lot, yeah. There the baseball was kind
31:38
Speaker 1: of in the background. You had at one point they
31:41
Speaker 1: played every patriotic song, which is fine, great, wonderful. They
31:45
Speaker 1: had guys holding sparklers. They did a sandlot thing of
31:48
Speaker 1: a jig with kids on bicycles that rode out and
31:51
Speaker 1: it was like there was a lot of stuff going on,
31:53
Speaker 1: like Geez and the Sandlot. How old is that movie? Now?
31:57
Speaker 1: They had Ray Charles, who's they played the Charles his
32:00
Speaker 1: famous song he gets thirty three Sandlot's thirty three years?
32:06
Speaker 4: I think, so double check that.
32:07
Speaker 3: Coop.
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Speaker 1: All right, yeah, look at me. Roun ninety three came
32:15
Speaker 1: out and they're doing a Sandlot thing that's relevant. And
32:18
Speaker 1: Ray Charles, God bless him. He's been dead for twenty
32:20
Speaker 1: years at least, right, So.
32:23
Speaker 6: To remember Ray Charles, I do.
32:26
Speaker 1: I'm old too, I know who Ray Charles is. A
32:28
Speaker 1: two thousand and four, So yeah, twenty two years. Holy crap. Well, hey,
32:34
Speaker 1: there you go. Very relevant. Well thank you, Andrea, appreciate that.
32:39
Speaker 1: There you go the great Andrea and Virgo in service
32:42
Speaker 1: on X if you'd like to say hello to her.
32:45
Speaker 1: I also like to point out that our guy Scrooge
32:48
Speaker 1: getting older, he's losing his memory. He also fell for
32:50
Speaker 1: the Mandela effect. I think, so I double checked. It
32:57
Speaker 1: was Jay Scoop last year false memories. Yeah, if you
33:01
Speaker 1: apologize to Jay Scoop and all that, I got, fer
33:07
Speaker 1: Dog says A nine two one zero had an entire
33:09
Speaker 1: episode about Brandon wanting to see the grunion. It's a banger.
33:14
Speaker 1: There's another relevant reference. Very happy about that. Mister Irrigation
33:18
Speaker 1: says it was Jay Scoop that won last year. He
33:21
Speaker 1: got the ring. Have you seen the two hundred and
33:24
Speaker 1: fifty year dime yet?
33:26
Speaker 2: No?
33:26
Speaker 1: I have not. I have not seen the dime. I'm
33:28
Speaker 1: still bitter about the penny being canceled. A bad job
33:32
Speaker 1: by everyone involved. Do you have a penny collection? Ben? Now,
33:37
Speaker 1: my dad did. We got rid of it. You know,
33:38
Speaker 1: it passed away years ago. We got rid of it,
33:40
Speaker 1: but I still have a bunch of pennies around. Does
33:42
Speaker 1: that mean that you need to change the name of
33:44
Speaker 1: penny versus the penny because the penny will no longer
33:47
Speaker 1: exist now? The penny's a classic item. It's part of Americana,
33:51
Speaker 1: it's part of history. The term has been grandfathered in
33:55
Speaker 1: the penny. But people will start to forget what a
33:57
Speaker 1: penny is. You'll ask a kid in twenty years, what's
33:59
Speaker 1: a penny? You'll be like a what Oh ask a
34:01
Speaker 1: kid right now? They don't even want to pay what's vhs?
34:04
Speaker 1: You don't have to wait, you don't have to wait
34:05
Speaker 1: twenty years. So we'll push back the beat blooper, the
34:10
Speaker 1: beat blooper. We'll push that back. We have Mallard of
34:13
Speaker 1: the third degree. That is molments away time now though,
34:16
Speaker 1: for the in stock trivia, and we'll go to the
34:19
Speaker 1: NFL for this. Blank led the NFL with fifteen fifteen
34:25
Speaker 1: explosive plays, that's plays of fifteen or more yards on
34:28
Speaker 1: third and fourth down during the twenty twenty five season.
34:32
Speaker 1: I have all the playmakers in the NFL. Blank led
34:37
Speaker 1: the league with fifteen explosive plays fifteen plus yards or
34:42
Speaker 1: more fifteen yards or more on third and fourth down
34:46
Speaker 1: during the twenty twenty five season. That is the in
34:50
Speaker 1: stock trivia. The answer. We'll get to it and we
34:53
Speaker 1: will do it next.
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36:01
Speaker 1: the Insta Insta trivia. Blank led the NFL with fifteen
36:09
Speaker 1: explosive plays of fifteen or more yards on third and
36:12
Speaker 1: fourth down during the twenty twenty five season. That is
36:17
Speaker 1: the Insta Trivia. What is the answer? Let's see, does
36:20
Speaker 1: anyone know? We have Mallard the third degree moments away
36:25
Speaker 1: alf the Alien opiner going with Nelson Mandela who was
36:31
Speaker 1: part of the twenty thirteen Mallarpalooza. Justin Jefferson from FEMI
36:36
Speaker 1: Mallard prop Guy says hollering James known for leaving the
36:40
Speaker 1: competitors in the dust with his explosive acceleration. Shamir Gibbs
36:45
Speaker 1: from EKE in Roseville, Minnesota. Stefon Diggs guessed by Michael
36:49
Speaker 1: in Tulsa, Harry Dean Stanton from our buddy Natron in Stockton,
36:56
Speaker 1: who's always at the Malla meet and greet we do
36:58
Speaker 1: in Vegas? To Von Austin, there's a funny name from Ryan.
37:02
Speaker 1: That's our buddy Ryan in Mexico. I believe what else
37:05
Speaker 1: do we have to see? Page Dan? Can't we Rolando Blackman?
37:09
Speaker 1: Guessed by Shane in Des Moines? Christian ponder? Why would
37:12
Speaker 1: you even ponder? Passing Rioy and Compton? What's your answer, Loray? Now,
37:16
Speaker 1: Matthew McConaughey, Is it Matthew McConaughey. No, it is Cooper
37:22
Speaker 1: Loop's favorite wide receiver, Courtland Sutton, the Denver Broncos who
37:27
Speaker 1: let the NFL and yards on third and fourth down.
37:30
Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go. Mallard,
37:32
Speaker 1: how about that?
37:33
Speaker 4: To the third degree, this is one big event gets grilled.
37:39
Speaker 3: Coop ah Loop, an anonymous NFL personnel evaluator, predict this
37:45
Speaker 3: week that I.
37:45
Speaker 1: Love those Coop yeah, and why I just can't get
37:48
Speaker 1: the great sources.
37:50
Speaker 3: They predicted this week that Lamar Jackson will have a
37:53
Speaker 3: big year, saying this is like a contract year for
37:55
Speaker 3: him coming up like a contract here, Ben, do you
37:59
Speaker 3: think Lamar will have a bounce back season this year?
38:03
Speaker 1: The issue with Lamar's health and he's getting older. He
38:06
Speaker 1: does not appear to be taking care of himself. My
38:08
Speaker 1: boots on the ground tell me he's enjoying himself, which
38:11
Speaker 1: is great. But as you get to a certain point
38:13
Speaker 1: in your athletic career, if you do not take care
38:16
Speaker 1: of yourself, it eventually catches up with you. And that
38:19
Speaker 1: if he plays, he'll be fine, but he's gonna have
38:22
Speaker 1: the auchies and he's gonna have the injuries, and so
38:27
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. He's gonna get peet either way, whether
38:29
Speaker 1: the Ravens pay him or he's got enough MVP awards
38:32
Speaker 1: and enough on his resume that someone's gonna pay him.
38:35
Speaker 1: So he'll get the money whether he has a big
38:37
Speaker 1: year or not.
38:37
Speaker 3: Next the NFL is revealing their annual top one hundred
38:40
Speaker 3: player rankings, and Micah Parsons isn't happy about where his
38:43
Speaker 3: quarterback landed. Seventy one players in the NFL aren't better
38:46
Speaker 3: than Jordan Love, Parsons road, Ben, is Love properly ranked.
38:52
Speaker 1: Well? Michah Parsons, you know, to quote Tony Bruno. It's
38:56
Speaker 1: an outrage. You know, it's not the top quarterback. Obviously,
39:00
Speaker 1: if you just go by quarterbacks, Jordan Love would be
39:03
Speaker 1: higher than seventy one. I think that's about right. There's
39:06
Speaker 1: a lot of players in the NFL's eleven positions on
39:08
Speaker 1: offense eleven positions on defense. That seems about right to me.
39:13
Speaker 1: Jordan Love is inconsistent. There are moments he's the top
39:17
Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL. There's a lot of moments where
39:19
Speaker 1: he's average, a lot of moments where he's not that great.
39:22
Speaker 1: So I don't think it's about where he should be next.
39:24
Speaker 3: The Dodgers are the best record in baseball and are
39:26
Speaker 3: predictably a top most power rankings. Then which team do
39:29
Speaker 3: you think puts up the greatest challenge to a three peat?
39:32
Speaker 1: Well, if everyone's clicking, obviously, the Yankees are in the
39:37
Speaker 1: World Series down the line, the Philadelphia Phillies. I don't
39:41
Speaker 1: really think the Atlanta Braves that much, or the Milwaukee Brews.
39:44
Speaker 1: How do we do cool? You pass this mission that's
39:46
Speaker 1: over and putting on the board