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Hour 3 - Devers Disaster · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Boom, shaka laka.
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Speaker 2: It's our number three, our number three ready to go. Well,
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Speaker 2: we're ready to go, But is Rafael Devers ready to go?
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Speaker 2: Is his terrible start to the twenty twenty five baseball
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Speaker 2: season a big problem, a little problem, or no problem
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Speaker 2: at all? Also helped me understand why Jerkson Profar would
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Speaker 2: risk his baseball reputation for some peds.
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Speaker 1: And where are you.
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Speaker 2: At on Major League Baseball's customer service for the fans
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Speaker 2: that got screwed on opening day?
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Speaker 1: That little snaff fu on opening Day. We'll talk about
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Speaker 1: all that and more right now here.
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Speaker 2: It is our number three, the mighty Raffi has struck
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Speaker 2: out again and again and again and again.
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Speaker 1: He did it again, well gone. In the beginning of.
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Speaker 2: is from baseball and another compelling story. Now, an earlier
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Speaker 2: hour we talked about the the Red Sox were in
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Speaker 2: and they ended up giving a guy that has yet
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Speaker 2: to win a game as a Red Sox nine career wins,
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Speaker 2: got one hundred and seventy million dollars, and a guy
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Speaker 2: that tapped out of pitching in the Pennant Race was
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Speaker 2: rewarded by the Red Sox. That's modern baseball, that's nerd ball.
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Speaker 2: That's nerd baseball. So with that being said, over the
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Speaker 2: weekend there was a lot of talk about the torpedo
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Speaker 2: bats and.
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Speaker 1: The Yankees, what's going on here?
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Speaker 2: And then we've learned a bunch of other players around
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Speaker 2: baseball are also using the torpedo bats and they're not
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Speaker 2: hitting a gazillion home runs. But the buzz out of
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Speaker 2: Boston is about someone who's not making any kind of
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Speaker 2: power statement. In fact, there's no statement to be made
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Speaker 2: at all. The Red Sox in Baltimore. The Orioles played
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Speaker 2: their home opener on on Monday, and one of the
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Speaker 2: biggest names, they're the biggest contract they ever handed out
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Speaker 2: in Boston for the baseball player was using not the
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Speaker 2: torpedo bat, but the invisible piece of lumber, absolutely invisible.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about Rafael Devers. If you have not been.
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Speaker 2: Following this story, it is a wild one. Perhaps you
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Speaker 2: have not gotten into the meat of it, the meat
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Speaker 2: and potatoes of the story. So I'll give you the
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Speaker 2: condensed thumbnail recap of what's been going on. Rafael Devers
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Speaker 2: wanted to play third base. He had been a third baseman,
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Speaker 2: a terrible third baseman. The Red Sox said, no, you're
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Speaker 2: not gonna play third base anymore. You're gonna be the
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Speaker 2: designated hitter, and he sulked in spring training. Well, Rafael
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Speaker 2: Devers struck out three more times on Monday. That means
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Speaker 2: he's had nineteen at bats so far this season. He
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Speaker 2: is ozer for nineteen on the young season with how
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Speaker 2: many strikeouts? How about fifteen strikeouts in nineteen at pass Now,
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Speaker 2: for a perspective, no batter in the history of Major
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Speaker 2: League baseball that goes back to the eighteen sixties has
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Speaker 2: struck out as much the first five games of a
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Speaker 2: season as Rafael Devers.
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Speaker 1: Holy Babe, Ruth Batman.
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Speaker 2: But here we are Raffy surpassing the record, which actually
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Speaker 2: is not that long ago.
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Speaker 1: Oh it's been a few years now.
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Speaker 2: Back in twenty eighteen, the Chicago Cubs had a player
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Speaker 2: named Ian Hap and he was half less. Ian Hap
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Speaker 2: fourteen strackouts the first five games. But Rafael Devers has
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Speaker 2: now fifteen punchouts the most over five games to start
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Speaker 2: the season. Now, opinions are mixed on this. There is
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Speaker 2: not a consensus. Some people say, it's just baseball. Who cares,
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Speaker 2: it's only been a few games. Give the guy a break.
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Speaker 2: And those people we call dullards, we call them dullards.
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Speaker 2: There nothing to worry about. Others disagree. We tend to
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Speaker 2: agree more with them. We tend to agree more with
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Speaker 2: that side. So let us discuss the question. Is Rafael
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Speaker 2: devers terrible start, horrifically bad hitting to begin the twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty five baseball season, a big problem, a little problem,
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Speaker 2: or no problem them at all for the Red Sox. So,
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Speaker 2: after a thorough minutes long deliberation, I will give you
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Speaker 2: my answer, I've got disobedience, Mark Wahlberg and trash men,
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Speaker 2: and we will combine all of these things together and
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Speaker 2: we are going to make an all you can eat buffet,
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Speaker 2: which my man, Rafael Devers has not missed that all
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Speaker 2: you can eat buffet. And he's going right up until
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Speaker 2: that two hour time limit, and they're kicking his ass
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Speaker 2: out of the buffet, and he's like, I want the doggyback.
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Speaker 2: You can't have the doggyback. I want the doggyback. You
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Speaker 2: can't have it. It's a bffet. You can't take a doggyback.
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Speaker 2: I want the doggyback, all right? Anyway, So my first
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Speaker 2: thought after that minutes long Mallard deliberation, we have determined
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Speaker 2: this is squarely in the big problem category.
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Speaker 1: In fact, it is.
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Speaker 2: A three hundred million dollar brainbuster, is what it is.
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Speaker 2: You see, Rafael Devers is in year number three of
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Speaker 2: a three hundred and thirteen million dollar contract he has
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Speaker 2: contractually to the Boston baseball team through twenty thirty three.
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Speaker 2: He has been billed as a omni present, dynamic offensive
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Speaker 2: force who is twenty eight years old. He's a left
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Speaker 2: handed slugger and the only thing he's doing is slugging
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Speaker 2: imaginary baseballs because the ones that are physically there he's
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Speaker 2: not making contact with. And as they say, results may vary,
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Speaker 2: results may vary. Now, Devers did not play much in
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Speaker 2: spring training. He did have a lot of whining. There
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Speaker 2: was a lot of wine time in spring training. He
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Speaker 2: was upset about being replaced. As we mentioned with Rafael Devers'
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Speaker 2: replacement there cheating as one thousand and two one thousand
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Speaker 2: hole Alex Bregman at third base. They brought that snot
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Speaker 2: nosed Bregman in there to play third base. Now it
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Speaker 2: appears that Raphael Devers is taking part in an unannounced
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Speaker 2: act of disobedience as the regular season begins here against
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Speaker 2: the Red Sox front office. Devers, like a ninja, is
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Speaker 2: in the lineup every day and he is showing up
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Speaker 2: to the ballpark while protesting. It is known as the
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Speaker 2: tool down strike, or in this case, the bat down strike,
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Speaker 2: and that means he's in the lineup for the Red Sox.
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Speaker 2: He's there, He goes up to the plate just refuses
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Speaker 2: to actually hit the baseball. And Rafael Devers has been
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Speaker 2: the word is flaccid. As he's in the batter's box,
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Speaker 2: he is just in the thirtieth percentile to begin the
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Speaker 2: season among Major League Baseball hitters in batspeed. The nerds
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Speaker 2: are very concerned about that. It's almost like he's not
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Speaker 2: fully focused on his craft because he's upset and he's
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Speaker 2: having a hissy fit, and.
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Speaker 1: So it is.
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Speaker 2: It's a big You got to think at some point here,
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Speaker 2: at some point, Rafael Devers is going to hit now.
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Speaker 2: I will never forget. I think it was I think
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Speaker 2: it was two thousand and nine. I got whacked from
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Speaker 2: this place and I was working at Wei in Boston.
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Speaker 2: I was doing some shows for them, and David Ortiz
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Speaker 2: was horrific. He was batting around. I was doing some
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Speaker 2: shows around the All Star break. It was during the summer,
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Speaker 2: and David Ortiz was hitting it was like under two
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Speaker 2: hundred and so I of course said, you got to
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Speaker 2: get rid of him.
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Speaker 1: He's done, he's cooked.
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Speaker 2: And then he lit the world on fire. Like I
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Speaker 2: don't know what he did. I'm sure there's nothing illegal.
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Speaker 2: David Ortis would never use performance enhancing drugs.
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Speaker 1: Or anything like that. That would be wrong.
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Speaker 2: But whatever he did, whatever magic beans David Ortis got,
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Speaker 2: it certainly worked out for him.
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Speaker 1: So you don't want to go over the top. But
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Speaker 1: we do the show.
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Speaker 2: Today and right now, Rafael Devers is a absolute hot
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Speaker 2: mess there for the Red Sox. Now, meanwhile, speaking of peds,
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Speaker 2: we go to Atlanta, well actually La where the Braves
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Speaker 2: traveling party, traveling circus in La La Land, and that
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Speaker 2: is where Atlanta Brave left fielder Jerkson Profar has taken
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Speaker 2: a body blow, body blow, body blow as he has
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Speaker 2: received an eighty game suspension. You see this eighty game
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Speaker 2: suspension for being a ped cheat, multiple performance and dancing drugs.
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Speaker 2: So help me understand. While a guy who's fully vested
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Speaker 2: in the MLB pension, meaning he's been in the major
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Speaker 2: leagues long enough to qualify, he's fully vested in the
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Speaker 2: pension play in Major League Baseball, why would Jerkson Profar
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Speaker 2: risk his baseball reputation with the pe days So he
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Speaker 2: is going Mark Wahlberg in that classic movie. It was
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Speaker 2: a remake of another classic movie, The Italian Job. One
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Speaker 2: Last Heist. Of course, there were a lot of them.
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Speaker 2: I could have picked any movie. There's a lot of
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Speaker 2: movies One Last Heist. You're going to retire and live
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Speaker 2: a clean life and all that stuff. But Profar put
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Speaker 2: together a late career renaissance in San Diego with the
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Speaker 2: Padres last year, and now we now know it's all phony.
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Speaker 1: It's all fake, it wasn't real.
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Speaker 2: And using some chemically enhanced skulduggery.
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Speaker 1: To get that one last big bag and.
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Speaker 2: He got it right now, it's by baseball standard, it's
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Speaker 2: not the biggest bag in the world. But Jerkson Profar
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Speaker 2: signed a three year contract for forty two million from
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Speaker 2: the Atlanta Braves this offseason to be the everyday left fielder,
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Speaker 2: to be the lead off hitter for the Atlanta Braves.
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Speaker 2: So is Jerkson Profar's signing going to torment the Atlanta Braves. Well,
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Speaker 2: the answer is absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Now. The Braves are off to a dismal start there,
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Speaker 1: zero to five.
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Speaker 2: They got pollaxed by the Dodgers on Monday night. There's
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Speaker 2: a lot of dark clouds over the Atlanta Brave locker
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Speaker 2: room right now. And Jerkson Profar is like Poltergeist. He's
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Speaker 2: going to haunt the Atlanta Braves. It is a forty
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Speaker 2: two million dollar mistake. There are no refunds. It's not
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Speaker 2: They should put the clause. The Union would never allow it,
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Speaker 2: but they should put a clause in there. If you
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Speaker 2: do pds, your contract is void. They don't do that.
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Speaker 2: Profar was supposed to be the rock. The big addition,
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Speaker 2: Atlanta didn't do all that much in the offseason, and
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Speaker 2: he was gonna be the leadoff hitter and this, that
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Speaker 2: and the other thing, and instead Profar is said to
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Speaker 2: miss the entire first half of the baseball season eighty games.
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Speaker 2: But wait, there's more. If Atlanta turns things around and
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Speaker 2: they catch lightning in a bottle and the Atlanta Braves
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Speaker 2: make the playoffs, guess who will not be eligible for
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Speaker 2: the playoffs?
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Speaker 1: Ding ding ding ding ding yet, Jerkson Profar because of
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Speaker 1: being a PD cheat.
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Speaker 2: He's got coodie and he's not allowed to be in
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Speaker 2: the postseason. So even if Atlanta gets going and Profar
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Speaker 2: is playing well, it doesn't matter. His season ends the
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Speaker 2: last day of the regular season. Profar not eligible for
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Speaker 2: postseason play. This also explains why Atlanta went out right
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Speaker 2: before opening day. He's signed former Red Sox Dodger, former
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Speaker 2: Yankee Alex Verdugo as at least temporary addition to plug
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Speaker 2: the whole. Now turning the page on that, several of
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Speaker 2: the pe ones you know who you are, reached out
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Speaker 2: to me actually over the weekend.
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Speaker 1: You were upset that I did not mention.
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Speaker 2: The debacle that took place on opening Day, although we
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Speaker 2: did mention it last week. But there's more to the story.
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Speaker 2: We can now advance the story if you missed it.
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Speaker 2: One of the great technical blunders by rob Manfraud and
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Speaker 2: the people that run professional baseball. Where are you at
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Speaker 2: on Major League Baseball's customer service department and how they
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Speaker 2: reacted to an opening day snaffu that saw a vast
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Speaker 2: majority of the people that subscribed to the TV package
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Speaker 2: not being able to watch the games on opening Day.
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Speaker 2: They had major glitches on opening Day. So Major League
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Speaker 2: Baseball gave their fans a salute, not a military salute,
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Speaker 2: but they say, we want our paying customers, the people
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Speaker 2: that support our business, to know how we think of them.
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Speaker 2: And they actually they dusted off a nineteen sixties classic
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Speaker 2: hit from the trash Men, Surfing Bird. The bird is
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Speaker 2: the word. The bird is the word. They gave their
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Speaker 2: fans the bird. Major League Baseball think so little of you.
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Speaker 2: They value dirt more than they do the people that
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Speaker 2: pay to watch the games on TV. And they think
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Speaker 2: if you bought the streams, you're moron and we don't
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Speaker 2: care about you.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: The reason I bring that up, major League Baseball is
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Speaker 2: treating the people that pay for these games like knuckle draggers.
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Speaker 1: Total rubs.
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Speaker 2: Got to get that dumb money, got to get that
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Speaker 2: dumb money. Major League Baseball acting like their Spirit Airlines
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Speaker 2: or Comcast Cable the way that they are treating their customers. Here,
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Speaker 2: if you didn't see it, this is a textbook example
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Speaker 2: of bad customer service. So you are providing a product,
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Speaker 2: people paid for the product. You didn't provide the product
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Speaker 2: because of your mistake. So instead of reimbursing part of
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Speaker 2: the expense of the people that paid for the product
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Speaker 2: that you didn't provide, what is Major League Baseball doing well?
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Speaker 2: Major League Baseball, they didn't issue an immediate public statement,
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Speaker 2: so that bothered me. Right, They went on social media,
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Speaker 2: but they also sent on an email which I got
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Speaker 2: a copy of by a couple of you guys, and
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Speaker 2: the email said, we are offering you a ten dollars
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Speaker 2: discount code to buy merchandise MLB merchandise. Now that sounds nice, right,
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Speaker 2: but you have to spend a minimum of twenty five dollars. Therefore,
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Speaker 2: they're making more money, so they're giving you a ten
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Speaker 2: dollars discount, you got to spend at least twenty five dollars,
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Speaker 2: which means they get an extra fifteen dollars. And everything's
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Speaker 2: overpriced the gouge you on the MLB merchandise. So really,
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Speaker 2: and people did the math on this, we are told
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Speaker 2: that when you factor in the shipping cost that often
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Speaker 2: exceeds the discount. That means that if you actually use
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Speaker 2: the discount code that Major League Baseball provided, you would
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Speaker 2: get a whopping one dollar and one cent one dollar
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Speaker 2: and one cent after you pay all.
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Speaker 1: The fees for the shipping and all that.
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Speaker 2: So they offered their fans a one dollar discount. I mean,
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Speaker 2: but you can't make this up. That is the ultimate.
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Speaker 2: We hate our customers that they're idiots. Will give you
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Speaker 2: a one dollar one cent discount. That is the compensation
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Speaker 2: for us being screw ups at Major League Baseball. And
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Speaker 2: another example, Rob Manford, he doesn't care about the fans,
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Speaker 2: he doesn't care about anything. The Astros were cheating under
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Speaker 2: his watch, and he just said the trophy is a
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Speaker 2: harkeu metal who cares just a piece of metal. Major
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Speaker 2: League Baseball has prioritized profit over reliability over the customer experience,
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Speaker 2: and they're getting away with it right. They're making their money,
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Speaker 2: and good for them, but it's just they treat people
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Speaker 2: like their their complete zeros, and they make They make
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Speaker 2: twelve point one billion in twenty twenty fourth, twelve point
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Speaker 2: one billion, and yet they still have this archaic blackout policy.
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Speaker 2: The ticket prices are insane in most places at face value.
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Speaker 1: Now a good thing about baseball.
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Speaker 2: not in LA for a Dodger game, but you go
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Speaker 2: to an Angel game, they'll.
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Speaker 1: Actually pay you to go to an Angel game. Angels
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Speaker 2: Halo's congratulations for a dog. Save that screenshot because you're
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Speaker 2: gonna need it when June comes around. They blame mister
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Speaker 2: t It's April Fools from Donkey Sausage. They blamed it
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Speaker 2: on ai Alf the Alien ol Piner Baseball Savant. They
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Speaker 2: blamed it on The Malord Show Full Moon from Mallar
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Speaker 2: prop guy. That's his answer Robin, Minnesota says they said someone.
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Speaker 1: I think he meant hacked their their email. I think so.
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Speaker 1: I think that's what he meant their interned. Well, he
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Speaker 1: wrote attacked someone attacked and took over their email. But
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Speaker 1: I think he meant hacked, right, I don't think attacked.
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Speaker 1: Good guess, good guess backed he wrote it.
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Speaker 2: Tex maacked lacked, don't touch up his work. Milkman Mike
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Speaker 2: in Colorado says it was their intern blind. Scott king
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Speaker 2: Rory from just adjacent to Green Bay says error code
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Speaker 2: four oh four. Jess End Junction says jose Can Seto's
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Speaker 2: karaoke booze cruise.
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Speaker 1: Is to blame. Uh yeah, Eke.
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Speaker 2: And Roseville, Minnesota said Gavin Newsom, what an idiot?
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Speaker 1: Who else?
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Speaker 2: Inca Terror said that bus driver Rocky Roberto and Inca
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Speaker 2: is in Dallas, Texas says about to take Spirit Airlines
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Speaker 2: back to Rochester. Wish me luck, yeah, godspeed God. Well,
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Speaker 2: you could be like Rob Parker's got a Spirit card.
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Speaker 1: He's got a Spirit card there and he's like a
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Speaker 1: platinum member. Yeah yeah, he flies all the time. He
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Speaker 1: gets like free hot food on the plane. I don't
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Speaker 1: think they have hot yeah, I was gonna say that
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Speaker 1: the spirit does not have that. He gets theeanuts. I
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Speaker 1: don't even know if they have peanuts. They do.
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Speaker 5: They have like cookies and stuff for sale, so he
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Speaker 5: might get that for free.
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Speaker 2: But I think I'm buying the ticket. You might want
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Speaker 2: to throw some cookies in. You know what I'm saying.
23:15
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just saying that. Mason and Honton Beach
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Speaker 2: says the answer is that Al campanis the chief.
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Speaker 1: Don't blame me.
23:21
Speaker 2: Camp Panis is the guy from Mason in Huntington Beach.
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Speaker 2: Steve the Misplaced san Diegan says they blamed the Oakland
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Speaker 2: invaders of the USFL. That's who they blamed. Uh, page
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Speaker 2: down can't read that. They blamed Elon Musk from JT
23:37
Speaker 2: the Wingman Mercury in retrograde from Kathy.
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Speaker 1: That's the answer. Do you have an answer, Lorraine? It's
23:45
Speaker 1: the Mallard riddle of A.
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Speaker 2: Fanatics recently sent an email out to A's fans and
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Speaker 2: they were trying to promote the season, and they had
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Speaker 2: models wearing Oakland jerseys. Fortunately the team doesn't play in
23:56
Speaker 2: Oakland anymore. They're in Sacramento. And they blamed fanatics blame
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Speaker 2: blank for the error.
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Speaker 5: Well, you know everyone wants to blame this lately, so
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with Crocs.
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Speaker 1: Ben Crocs, what a croc?
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Speaker 2: Is it?
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Speaker 1: Crocs?
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Speaker 2: They blamed technology, They set technology. Ain't my fault. Technologies
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Speaker 2: is gonna blame technology? Ain't my fault?
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Speaker 1: Technology.
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Speaker 2: Now some believe that they are using AI models. They're
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Speaker 2: not even hiring Fanatics is trying to save a couple bucks,
24:37
Speaker 2: so they're not even using real models. This is all
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Speaker 2: AI generated and likely outsourced to some nerds somewhere.
24:47
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Speaker 2: any meenie miney mo. Let's say it to Paul. Paul's
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Speaker 2: in Boston and Paul, I think you've struck out less
25:20
Speaker 2: than Rafael Devers this season.
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Speaker 4: Congratulations, Paul, mister mala, long time listen, my first time.
25:28
Speaker 1: Oh look at this night.
25:29
Speaker 2: Different you Pee. I liked that you picked April Fool's
25:32
Speaker 2: Day to call the show.
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Speaker 1: I'm honored.
25:35
Speaker 4: I just wanted to touch base on the whole Raphael
25:38
Speaker 4: Debis thing. I've been in Boston to my entire life,
25:42
Speaker 4: and one of my least favorite Red Sox of all
25:44
Speaker 4: time have to be Raphaiel Debits. Now you want to
25:47
Speaker 4: talk about overpaid, I completely agree. Now, I know how
25:51
Speaker 4: much you hate but Houston Astros.
25:55
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, But.
25:56
Speaker 4: When Alex Bregman came to the Red Sox, I thought
25:59
Speaker 4: it was a block singing disguise. And right now I
26:02
Speaker 4: can honestly say I got to play both sides of it.
26:05
Speaker 4: I think Rapie L. Devis is mentally broken, and as
26:07
Speaker 4: much as I don't like him, I really think he's
26:11
Speaker 4: gonna slump and he's gonna break out this year when
26:13
Speaker 4: all he has to do is focus on hitting. I
26:15
Speaker 4: gotta play both sides for the ball here.
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Speaker 2: That's a bad job by you. What are you a politician?
26:20
Speaker 2: What's wrong with you? You know you don't play both sides?
26:22
Speaker 1: Wow?
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Speaker 4: You know me already?
26:24
Speaker 1: Oh you are?
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Speaker 3: You are?
26:25
Speaker 1: I know it. That's what politicians do.
26:26
Speaker 2: No Devers, I still think he's sulking and yeah, he's
26:30
Speaker 2: not gonna if he doesn't get a hit all season,
26:33
Speaker 2: they'll they'll make some fake injury. They still might make
26:36
Speaker 2: a fake and this continues. I know they go home
26:39
Speaker 2: this weekend, but at some point they're gonna shut him
26:41
Speaker 2: down and say his shoulders probably, you know, they'll make
26:44
Speaker 2: something up to shut him down for ten days or something.
26:47
Speaker 4: So he trade him right now for Blad Guerrero Junior.
26:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, i'd make that trade too. Yeah, I would call
26:57
Speaker 2: Toronto see if they'll make the trade. That's that sounds good.
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Speaker 2: I'll do that if I was the Red Sox, I'd
27:02
Speaker 2: absolutely But you're still going to have the same You
27:04
Speaker 2: don't have the same issue though, Right where do you
27:06
Speaker 2: where you gonna move Guerrero around? And so then is
27:10
Speaker 2: he going to be a DH and he's you're gonna
27:12
Speaker 2: have to pay him?
27:13
Speaker 4: We have those issues. But with that, with the back on,
27:16
Speaker 4: I mean, bring Rome and Anthony up from the WUSS.
27:18
Speaker 4: He's been having quite the spring already. They sent him
27:20
Speaker 4: down the trip Awa. I mean you could even I
27:23
Speaker 4: know you don't want to take the glut glove out
27:25
Speaker 4: of Jaron Durram's hand, but that kid's a power hitter.
27:28
Speaker 4: I mean, there's a lot of moves you can make,
27:30
Speaker 4: but struggling this long with this much money of a player,
27:34
Speaker 4: you can't have it.
27:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree, but there it's it's fun, you know,
27:39
Speaker 2: the better stories in the losing locker room, and especially
27:41
Speaker 2: when you're zero for nineteen with fifteen strikers, that is
27:44
Speaker 2: hard to do any professional baseball. But he like maybe
27:47
Speaker 2: like the pitchers when pitchers used to hit and they
27:50
Speaker 2: were terrible, and you'd be like, ah, I kind of
27:51
Speaker 2: get that. But this guy, you know, I don't need
27:55
Speaker 2: to tell you.
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Speaker 1: I mean, come on, all right, call more off and
27:57
Speaker 1: thank you. Paul.
27:58
Speaker 2: All right, there's Paul, Paul the politics. There he goes,
28:01
Speaker 2: Paul the politician. Where he goes only he knows that's it.
28:07
Speaker 1: Now. There is an interesting angle that.
28:10
Speaker 2: I have not touched on involving the great performance enhancing
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Speaker 2: drug scandal of the day in baseball. Is it true
28:21
Speaker 2: that Jerkson Profar, Atlanta Brave left fielder Jerkson Profar, when
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Speaker 2: he signed the contract with the Atlanta Braves, the Atlanta
28:31
Speaker 2: Braves were fed a bill of goods by those close
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Speaker 2: to Jerkson Profar that the reason he was able to
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Speaker 2: turn around his career in San Diego was because of
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Speaker 2: a Padre teammate who may or may not have been
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Speaker 2: tainted say what yes behind a paywall at the Athletic
28:55
Speaker 2: has been reported The Atlanta Braves attributed Jerkson profars power
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Speaker 2: resurgence and his offensive uptick at his middle age of
29:06
Speaker 2: his baseball career two adjustments the Jerks and Profar made
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Speaker 2: with his lower body in his batting stance after working
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Speaker 2: out with Fernando Tatis Junior.
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Speaker 1: And his dad and his.
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Speaker 2: Dad the previous winter. Things that make you go hmm,
29:31
Speaker 2: Things that make you go hmm for those that are
29:36
Speaker 2: a little slow. Fernando to tease. A couple of years ago,
29:40
Speaker 2: he had a really bad case of ringworm, so bad
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Speaker 2: he was suspended for cheating, and his pops the apple
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Speaker 2: doesn't fall far from the tree. Played for the Saint
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Speaker 2: Louis Cardinals in a time where many believe eighty five
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Speaker 2: ninety percent of the roster were using performances and drugs.
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Speaker 2: I saw something that will never happen again in baseball history.
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Speaker 1: I was at the game.
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Speaker 2: Fernando Tatis's Junior's dad, playing for the Cardinals against the Dodgers,
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Speaker 2: hit two grand slams in one inning.
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Speaker 1: It was on a.
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Speaker 2: Chilly Friday night at Dodgers Stadium early in the season.
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Speaker 1: I was at that game.
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Speaker 2: But wait, wait, so do performance enhancing drugs cause ringworm?
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Speaker 3: Huh?
30:25
Speaker 1: Well, if you want to cover something up, they caused ringworm.
30:28
Speaker 3: If you.
30:30
Speaker 1: Claim that you're.
30:31
Speaker 2: Using something and it was a misunderstanding, and you might
30:35
Speaker 2: say that you had ringworm, and you might, you might
30:38
Speaker 2: do that. Right, Let's welcome in our contestants. We have
30:42
Speaker 2: the game ready to go. We've got who do we
30:44
Speaker 2: have or it's gonna be Mallard's amount of money. We've
30:47
Speaker 2: got Mike in Boston. Hello, Mike in Boston.
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Speaker 1: Welcome.
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Speaker 2: You're gonna be one of our contestants. Oh what's going on, Mike?
30:56
Speaker 2: Oh kind of.
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Speaker 4: I'll fix it up. I got my an buzzer and
31:03
Speaker 4: hold on.
31:03
Speaker 2: All right, take your time, don't mind the fact we're
31:06
Speaker 2: on live radio. Don't bother, don't don't be in a rusher.
31:09
Speaker 2: It's a little better yet very good. You're gonna play
31:11
Speaker 2: maos mount money. And who do you want to partner
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Speaker 2: up with? You got me or Coop or Lorena?
31:17
Speaker 1: I'll play with Justin all right, play with with the Coop.
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Speaker 1: All right, that's a bad job by you.
31:23
Speaker 2: And we have Jed who Fled in Parts Unknown the
31:28
Speaker 2: swamp lands of Florida.
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Speaker 1: Hello, Jed who Fled. Yeah, it's chilly Friday night.
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Speaker 4: When you saw those two Grand slams in one any huh?
31:36
Speaker 2: Did you have a besy crackers to go with it?
31:40
Speaker 4: Fend today, baby?
31:43
Speaker 1: I mean there's other people I can play. I don't
31:45
Speaker 1: have to use you as a contestant.
31:47
Speaker 4: Then you're playing them right now? About them?
31:50
Speaker 2: Go Jed, Jet, not Jet, You're not You're not gonna
31:53
Speaker 2: tank the game, Jed.
31:54
Speaker 1: I don't want any shenanigans here.
31:56
Speaker 2: I need somebody in the bullpen in case, Jed, I
31:59
Speaker 2: know sometimes you tank the game, so I need somebody.
32:02
Speaker 2: I need a backup. At it as a phone's ring
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Speaker 2: at eight seven seven ninety. All right, quickly cool?
32:07
Speaker 1: What are the categories? Quick? Right? All right?
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Speaker 5: This is the Angus Young edition of Mallards Mountain of Money.
32:13
Speaker 5: He turned seventy years old on Monday, happy birthday. The
32:16
Speaker 5: categories are It's a long Way to the Top, TNT
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Speaker 5: back in black, and thunderstruck. Uh it looks like we
32:25
Speaker 5: hung up on my teammates. Oh so Jed picked thunderstruck.
32:34
Speaker 1: You picked thunderstruck.
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Speaker 4: No, I mean he got thunderstruck.
32:37
Speaker 2: I have D and D well No, you picked you
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Speaker 2: picked thunder Yeah, all right, Mike is back. I understand
32:46
Speaker 2: through the magic of the phone system. And Mike, let
32:50
Speaker 2: me punch him up here. Mike, who which kedder do
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Speaker 2: you want?
32:52
Speaker 3: You have?
32:53
Speaker 1: It's a long way to the top. T N T
32:55
Speaker 1: or back in black? Back in black? All right, very good,
33:00
Speaker 1: All stay right there, don't hang up. All right, very nice.
33:04
Speaker 2: We are going to have innoc entirety Mallar's amount of money.
33:07
Speaker 2: We'll get to that and we will.
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Speaker 1: Do it next.
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Speaker 3: Now, Malor's Mountain of money? Do you have what it
33:53
Speaker 3: takes to get to the top? Probably not.
33:57
Speaker 1: Let's do it. Here we go. We have our contestants.
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Speaker 2: We've got Mike in Boston who is with Cooper Loop
34:03
Speaker 2: and Jed who fled. God only knows where Jed who
34:07
Speaker 2: fled is and what kind of the bauchery he's getting
34:09
Speaker 2: involved in. And that is the matchup. Mike is locked in,
34:13
Speaker 2: Jed is locked in. All right, Coop, you're going first,
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Speaker 2: right back in black. I believe it's the category.
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Speaker 1: That is right, Mike.
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Speaker 5: We need the first and last name of the athlete
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Speaker 5: in order to get points. Uh, we're gonna have forty
34:25
Speaker 5: five seconds of the clock.
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Speaker 1: Are you ready? Yes, these athletes all died young. Let's begin,
34:30
Speaker 1: all right.
34:31
Speaker 5: Number eight, the Black Mamba Kobe Bryant. Yes, this is
34:36
Speaker 5: a baseball player for the Yankees. There's a disease named
34:38
Speaker 5: after him. Yes, this was the intimidator NASCAR driver, Yes,
34:45
Speaker 5: tight end for the Patriots. He killed somebody and then
34:47
Speaker 5: killed himself. Yes, baseball player for the Pirates. He died
34:52
Speaker 5: in a plane crash. Yes, this guy was drafted by
34:57
Speaker 5: the Celtics. He died doing cocaine. Yes, such an easy
35:03
Speaker 5: This guy was from Croatia. He was like one of
35:05
Speaker 5: the best euro basketball players ever. Died at twenty eight
35:08
Speaker 5: in a car crash after joining the NBA.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say you played the nets.
35:15
Speaker 4: Oh oh, man, I like I like bulling with buffers,
35:19
Speaker 4: I like.
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Speaker 2: Petrovich riding a bike with training wheels on.
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Speaker 1: All right? Uh we picked thunderstruck. Are you ready here?
35:30
Speaker 1: Are you ready my man?
35:32
Speaker 4: Here?
35:32
Speaker 1: Yes? Yes, all right? Uh. These athletes were all heavy favorites.
35:38
Speaker 2: They got thunderstruck by the underdogs.
35:42
Speaker 1: Are you ready? All right? Here we go forty five
35:43
Speaker 1: seconds on the clock.
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Speaker 3: Go.
35:44
Speaker 2: A quarterback for the Green Bay Packers before Aaron Rodgers.
35:48
Speaker 1: Yes, the big german for the Mavericks. Yes.
35:53
Speaker 2: Uh. The greatest receiver in Viking history. He also played
35:56
Speaker 2: for the Patriots. Yes, known as the glove for the
35:59
Speaker 2: Seat SuperSonics. Yes, greatest receiver for the greatest show on turf,
36:05
Speaker 2: the Saint Louis ramsh No. No, yeah, that's correct. He's
36:11
Speaker 2: a former Dodgers with the Phillies. Now he's the shortstop. Really,
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Speaker 2: skinny guy, white guy for the Phillies. Signed a bit coy. No, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: he's with the Phillies. Used to play for the Nationals.
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Speaker 1: All right. Pitcher for the Seattle Mariners when they had
36:24
Speaker 1: the great team. Latin guy. No, not different, Latin. No,
36:29
Speaker 1: he's not loud. Oh, come on, it's a good white guy.
36:32
Speaker 4: You gotta keep talking.
36:34
Speaker 5: Trey Turner was who you missed there? Well you also
36:36
Speaker 5: missed Freddy Garton then yeah, Freddy Garcon. Yeah, so one sixties.
36:40
Speaker 5: So you guys are back up again, Jed, Do you
36:42
Speaker 5: want TNT or it's a long way to.
36:43
Speaker 4: The top, long way to the topic? You want Roger smoke?
36:49
Speaker 1: All right?
36:51
Speaker 2: All right, we'll put forty five seconds on the clock.
36:53
Speaker 2: These athletes didn't win a championship until late in their career.
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Speaker 1: Are you prepared answer this category?
37:02
Speaker 2: All right, we'll put forty five seconds on the clock,
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Speaker 2: and way we go. Quarterback for the Broncos Number seven
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Speaker 2: nineteen eighties. Yes, the bus goes round and round for
37:11
Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steel Yes, gap tooth New York Giant defense. Yes,
37:17
Speaker 2: the big unit for the Seattle Mariners. All right, he
37:21
Speaker 2: also played for the Mariners. He pitched till he was
37:23
Speaker 2: like forty seven years old. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Safety
37:27
Speaker 2: played mostly for the Chargers, was played with the Ravens.
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Speaker 1: Won a Super Bowl with the Rams at the end
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Speaker 1: of his career. White guy power. It's just a few
37:37
Speaker 1: years ago, all right.
37:38
Speaker 2: Basketball player out of Xavier won a championship with the
37:42
Speaker 2: Golden State Warriors, I believe at the end of his career.
37:46
Speaker 2: Not East, but not East.
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Speaker 1: But that was a good clue at the end there.
37:52
Speaker 5: Thank you, David West, West, who's talking about and then
37:55
Speaker 5: Eric Weddle.
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Speaker 1: Not East.
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Speaker 5: Okay, that's three and twenty points. All right, Mike, we've
38:04
Speaker 5: got tn T. These athletes all work or worked for TNT.
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Speaker 5: Mike you ready, shut shut up, keep talking for forty
38:13
Speaker 5: five seconds, Mike, you ready?
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Speaker 4: All right?
38:16
Speaker 5: Let's begin, all right.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 5: This guy was a quarterback for the Rams. He was
38:22
Speaker 5: also the athletic director for USC. Uh, no chance, all right,
38:29
Speaker 5: let's let's try a black quarterback for the Eagles most
38:32
Speaker 5: of his career later the Vikings. Yes, uh, this guy
38:38
Speaker 5: was the Oilers quarterback. He was a CFL legend. Yes, Uh,
38:43
Speaker 5: this guy was on the Fab five. His last name
38:45
Speaker 5: is a Flower.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
38:49
Speaker 5: Uh, this guy shoots lights out for the Pacers. He's
38:52
Speaker 5: an analyst on TNT. Now, all right, the Brown Mount
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Speaker 5: of Rebound. We're out of time.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, John, I don't think let's let's show elements
39:07
Speaker 1: Recount, let's recount the vote on that