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Hour 1 - A Buss To Nowhere · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: It's a small world. After all, it's a.
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Speaker 2: Small small world. And it's our number one of the
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Speaker 2: Ben Malor Show. Happy Tuesday. It is the eighteenth day
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Speaker 2: of August.
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Speaker 1: But you already knew that.
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Speaker 2: And here in our number one, what stands out to
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Speaker 2: you on Genie Buss being excommunicated as even a bit
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Speaker 2: owner of the Lakers. We'll discuss that. And is Genie
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Speaker 2: Buss fighting for the Lakers with a legal bazooka or
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Speaker 2: a water pistol as she's attempting to stop the oncoming
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Speaker 2: bull rush to take the team away from her by
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Speaker 2: her siblings. And where do you fall on the chatter
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Speaker 2: in baseball that Trek Scouble wants a Dodger extension done
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Speaker 2: before the off season. We'll talk about all that as
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Speaker 2: you get a second bite of the apple right now here.
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Speaker 2: It is our number one. We'll call it a bus
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Speaker 2: to nowhere.
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Speaker 2: Perrito and filler Up Phil all agree more hot takes,
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Speaker 2: and they got that from Alphi, Alien Opineter, Fergdog and
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Speaker 2: Malaprop Guy who demand the hot takes. So I got
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Speaker 2: several text messages during the day from some of my
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Speaker 2: radio bros. I got radio bros around around the country,
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Speaker 2: my buddies that I've picked up over the years doing this,
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Speaker 2: and they're like, oh my god, this is crazy.
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Speaker 3: It's like the.
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Speaker 2: Greatest day ever for ownership craziness in professional sports in America.
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Speaker 1: And it's hard to argue with that. Didn't really know
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Speaker 1: where to.
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Speaker 2: Begin because everything's really good, And I was in a
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Speaker 2: text chain with a couple of these people and I
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Speaker 2: was like, listen, can we spread this out a little bit,
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Speaker 2: can we have some of this on you Thursday and
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Speaker 2: like next next Tuesday? Can we can know it just
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Speaker 2: happens when it rains at poors. So our lead this
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Speaker 2: hour is from the owner's box, and we spun the
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Speaker 2: wheel and we decided to stop right here. The Bus family,
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Speaker 2: that's right, the Bus family. And I'm old enough to
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Speaker 2: remember when I started in radio following Jerry Buss and
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Speaker 2: a parade of teenagers young ladies who were following Jerry
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Speaker 2: around at the Forum Club back in the day before
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Speaker 2: social media. Quite the family, Quite the family anyway, Jerry
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Speaker 2: Buss long gone, the Bus family not long gone. And
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Speaker 2: the Bus family is apparently selling, depending on who you believe,
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Speaker 2: seventeen point eight percent of what was left of their
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Speaker 2: ownership stake in the Lakers to the new majority ownership
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Speaker 2: group led by Josh Kushner and the Disney guy Bob Iger. So,
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Speaker 2: hone of you saw this or not, it's it's perhaps
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Speaker 2: you missed it. It's pretty wild. It's pretty crazy. And
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Speaker 2: if this actually happens, if it actually happens the way
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Speaker 2: it's being reported, that would mean that Genie Bus is
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Speaker 2: persona non grata.
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Speaker 1: Bye bye, she's out.
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Speaker 2: She will no longer serve as the Lakers owner. Yes,
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Speaker 2: I'm a rebel, I said owner. I said owner, not governor,
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Speaker 2: not governor.
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Speaker 1: Owner. I know I'm a bad boy. I'm a bad boy,
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Speaker 1: I said owner.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, Genie Boss, who's been running the show there since
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Speaker 2: the old man croaked years ago, and so she's been
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Speaker 2: in control there. That would end the Bus family dynasty,
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Speaker 2: and that would end control the franchise, which goes back many,
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Speaker 2: many generations. So the Bus family trust always fun. When
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Speaker 2: you have a family trust, that means you have a
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Speaker 2: lot of money. Do you know any poor people that
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Speaker 2: have a family trust?
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Speaker 1: I don't.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, the Bus family trust consists of not one, not two,
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Speaker 2: not three, not four, not five? How about six siblings.
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Speaker 2: You've got Genie. We know about her, Jim, Johnny dealt
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Speaker 2: with him in the past, someone named Jeanie. I have
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Speaker 2: no idea that is Joey seen him a little bit,
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Speaker 2: and Jesse Buss. So keep track. There will be a
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Speaker 2: quiz on this later. So there's six of them selling
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Speaker 2: the remaining stake. Required four of the six Bus siblings
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Speaker 2: to sign off on the agreement, and they exercised the
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Speaker 2: tag along provision. Isn't that a girl Scout cookie the
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Speaker 2: tag alongs I think that is.
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Speaker 1: I think that is ye.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, it's all connected to the regional sale to
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Speaker 2: Mark Walter, which is now a couple of owners ago.
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Speaker 1: Now, so that is a good jumping off point.
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Speaker 2: Let us discuss the question for the esteem panel what
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Speaker 2: stands out to you? What stands out to you on
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Speaker 2: Jeanie Buss being apparently excommunicated as even a bit owner
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Speaker 2: of the Lakers. So I've got Game of Thrones, shopping
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Speaker 2: and Nascar, and we will combine all of these things
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Speaker 2: together and we are going to have a big bucket
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Speaker 2: of tears Cuz I gotta tell you some emotion people,
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Speaker 2: very emotional Genie boss Out, I'm guessing she's crying a
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Speaker 2: lot at this point too. What a story on just
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Speaker 2: about every level, as I understand. So Genie boss essentially
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Speaker 2: the way it comes across, she had the tablecloth yanked
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Speaker 2: out from underneath her at the Aristocrats ball. She was
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Speaker 2: at the risk Gress ball. She was having a nice
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Speaker 2: meal and then all of a sudden somebody ripped the
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Speaker 2: tablecloth just like that, and all the champagne glasses and
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Speaker 2: the silverware, it all went flying.
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Speaker 1: The family China in the air everywhere. What a mess.
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Speaker 2: It's like HBO brought back Secession And this is the
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Speaker 2: NBA spinoff of that show House of Bus.
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Speaker 1: I'd watched that.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely what the dark underbelly, the dark underbelly of the
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Speaker 2: family business finally crawling out into the daylight. Oh my,
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Speaker 2: you got old man Jerry Boss who built this massive empire.
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Speaker 2: The heirs spent years and years fighting over the throne.
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Speaker 1: The kids turned it into Game of Thrones.
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Speaker 2: That's what's going on right now with courtside seats of course,
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Speaker 2: because you got to have those. And the Genie finally
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Speaker 2: lost the iron throne hoodwinked by her own bloodline.
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Speaker 1: How great is that? How great is that? Now?
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Speaker 2: Jim, Johnny, Joey, and Jesse Buss all had voted to
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Speaker 2: cash in on the record amount of money they can
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Speaker 2: make from the Lakers sale as part of the bargain,
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Speaker 2: effectively firing their own sister, who had been the face
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Speaker 2: of that ownership group. So they did it. And apparently
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Speaker 2: Genie Buss not the nicest woman in the world. According
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Speaker 2: to these stories, everyone's just trashing or the Bus family.
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Speaker 2: Yeah not big fans. How does that taste? How does
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Speaker 2: that taste. So again, spare me the sappy violin music.
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Speaker 1: I don't need that.
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Speaker 2: If the reporting is accurate, Genie Buss either fired or
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Speaker 2: sued every single one of her brothers since she took
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Speaker 2: control of the team. Does that sound nice?
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Speaker 1: I don't know that, not to me.
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Speaker 2: I have two brothers. None of them have sued me yet.
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Speaker 2: I'll let you know when my brothers sued me. They
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Speaker 2: have not sued me. So she sued all of her
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Speaker 2: brothers grabbing control. Imagine the Thanksgiving dinner at the Bus family.
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Speaker 2: Not exactly Norman Rockwell, if anybody knows who that is anymore,
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Speaker 2: not quite Norman Rockwell. The only thing the siblings can
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Speaker 2: universally lock in on is Genie bad.
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Speaker 1: That's it. Genie Bad. That's all, and that's.
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Speaker 2: All she wrote, see you later, Get out of here,
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Speaker 2: bye bye, and payback is a dish best served with
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Speaker 2: a ejection from the ownership box. Get out of here,
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Speaker 2: get out here. The Force sale. What a great win
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Speaker 2: for the other siblings in the Bus family, and the
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Speaker 2: family feud finally appears to have ended, and it ends
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Speaker 2: the way all great Hollywood stories do.
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Speaker 1: When you think.
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Speaker 2: About the history of Tinseltown, it ends with a giant
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Speaker 2: cartoon sized check, a backstab, and somebody getting written out
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Speaker 2: of the sequel, in this case, Genie Bus not quite
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Speaker 2: part of the sequel.
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Speaker 1: Sorry, you're not part of it all right?
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Speaker 2: Now the question and we turned the page two here,
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Speaker 2: So the Lakers are completely divested if this happens of
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Speaker 2: the Bus family, or are they? As Lee Corso would say,
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Speaker 2: not so fast, my friend, Not so fast, my friend,
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Speaker 2: cause nothing is that simple. Nothing is that simple. Not
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Speaker 2: even things that are simply awful are that simple.
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Speaker 1: That's just the way it is.
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Speaker 2: So what looked like and still does the end of
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Speaker 2: the Bus family forty six year run, forty six year
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Speaker 2: run as the Laker ownership family, the first family of
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Speaker 2: the Lakers, And now it's becoming this it's not a
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Speaker 2: Cold war, it's something else. It's a Bus family control war.
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Speaker 2: We'll call it a conflict. We might have to bring
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Speaker 2: in NATO here to work out some kind of peace
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Speaker 2: treaty on this. Because Genie Buss's attorney, Adams stris In,
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Speaker 2: that name rings a bell, right, that is I believe
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Speaker 2: a second cousin to Barb. Yeah, Barbara streis In. I'm
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Speaker 2: at Yeah, that's such a typical Laker thing. Let me
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Speaker 2: hire somebody related to Barbristreissan is my attorney, Okay. So anyway,
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Speaker 2: Adams Streisan sent a letter to lawyers representing her siblings.
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Speaker 1: We just gave you all the names Jim, Johnny, Janey.
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Speaker 2: Joey, and Jesse, stating that Genie quote has not not
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Speaker 2: agreed to sell and that any family vote claiming otherwise
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Speaker 2: would be would be void Nolan void. Now the argument
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Speaker 2: is a twenty seventeen court order established Genie as the
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Speaker 2: Lakers controlling shareholder. There will be another quiz on this,
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Speaker 2: so please pay close attention. So in twenty seventeen there
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Speaker 2: was some legal wrangling and they had a court order said, hey,
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Speaker 2: Genie is the controlling shareholder of all business with the Lakers,
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Speaker 2: meaning a sale of the family steake cannot occur without
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Speaker 2: her consent. Remember this is from the attorney hired by
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Speaker 2: Genie buss Geenie is asserting that her siblings are not allowed,
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Speaker 2: not allowed here, cannot cash out around her, and so
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Speaker 2: this complicates and most likely will end up delaying the
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Speaker 2: ownership sale. Little Lakers, putting the Lakers in limbo.
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Speaker 1: Do the limbo. You gotta do the limbo.
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Speaker 2: All right, So question is Genie Buss fighting for the
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Speaker 2: Lakers with Does she have a legal bazooka or is
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Speaker 2: this a water pistol? Again, for those of you in
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Speaker 2: the back room, is Genie Buss fighting for the Lakers
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Speaker 2: with a legal bazooka or is this just a water pistol. So,
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Speaker 2: after a minutes long review and deliberation of the available information,
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Speaker 2: we have determined this is it's a water pistol. It's
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Speaker 2: a super soaker, which is a water pistol. And she's
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Speaker 2: also armed with paperwork and a prayer. So good luck
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Speaker 2: on that. Good luck on that. Now Genie is clutching
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Speaker 2: that twenty seventeen court order like it's holy Grail, and
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Speaker 2: Indiana Jones is coming in with a whip to try
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Speaker 2: to steal it away. I mean, come on, and there's one.
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Speaker 1: It seem bit sealed. The problem.
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Speaker 2: There's a little bit of a problem here. The calendar
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Speaker 2: has continued to move. You see, that's a problem. And the
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Speaker 2: reason that is a problem the calendar continuing to move
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Speaker 2: is at this point she needs to go Genie Buss
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Speaker 2: doctor shopping, and I recommend hiring doctor Strange to manipulate
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Speaker 2: time because that's the problem. That's the problem. Now I'm
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Speaker 2: not a lawyer, I can play one on the radio.
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Speaker 2: So as I understand it, from years of deciding legal
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Speaker 2: cases behind the bully pulpit here at Fox Sports Radio,
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Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, that legal deal, the court order in twenty
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Speaker 2: seventeen should be in a museum behind glass. Okay, it's
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Speaker 2: a museum piece. In twenty fifteen, last I checked, that
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Speaker 2: would be a year ago. The entire Bus family all
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Speaker 2: got around the campfire, they roasted marshmallows and saying kumbay yah.
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Speaker 1: They sang kombay yah.
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Speaker 2: The entire Bus family, including Genie Buss, signed a new
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Speaker 2: rule book.
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Speaker 1: You might have heard about it.
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Speaker 2: They sold control of Laker franchise to Mark Walter. They
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Speaker 2: put a five year timer on her reign of terror
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Speaker 2: as the owner. And so yet it turns out again
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Speaker 2: based on the reporting that and this is from her
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Speaker 2: own lawyer who kept bringing up the twenty seventeen thing.
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Speaker 2: As I understand it, they're ignoring twenty twenty five. They're
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Speaker 2: reaching in the way back machine and they're going eight
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Speaker 2: years ago and they're using that and saying, well, this
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Speaker 2: is it. They're going into the attic, and they're saying, well,
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Speaker 2: let me dust that off. This twenty seventeen thing is
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Speaker 2: the way to go. And unless you have some kind
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Speaker 2: of mystical powers that we I don't know about, she's
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Speaker 2: already signed away what she had in twenty seventeen.
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Speaker 1: Dumb, du dum, dumb dumb.
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Speaker 2: Did she not realize that? Did no one say, hey, listen,
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Speaker 2: if the unthinking, I guarantee you. She thought there's no
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Speaker 2: way Mark Walter is gonna buy the Lakers and sell
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Speaker 2: it in one year. She assumed he'd own the team
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Speaker 2: for ten years. She did not factor in that the
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Speaker 2: Feds would be bird dogging the Dodger owner Mark Walter
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Speaker 2: to try to get their money back because they government.
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Speaker 2: I don't even know about it. If you don't pay
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Speaker 2: your taxes, they come after you anyway. So she signed
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Speaker 2: away her power. So what is the argument here, Like, seriously,
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Speaker 2: I mean, if you know more about this than I
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Speaker 2: to explain to me, because I don't understand the way
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Speaker 2: I read it. She haded he own twenty seventeen. She
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Speaker 2: voided the deal in twenty twenty five, agreeing to sell
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Speaker 2: the team. So, unless there's something that we're missing here,
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Speaker 2: this is just a very expensive stall tactic and it's
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Speaker 2: grasping at the last branch while the family tree gets
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Speaker 2: chopped down, like seriously, all right, Meanwhile, to baseball, let's
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Speaker 2: go to the crystal ball.
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Speaker 1: In baseball, Blue Heaven reports.
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Speaker 2: Trickling in a lot of noise here that Trek Scoobel,
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Speaker 2: a current Dodger former Detroit Tiger, Trek Scoobel, not only
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Speaker 2: is he a smitten kitten with the Dodgers, he wants
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Speaker 2: to sign the DOCU sign right now.
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Speaker 1: Did you see this? No?
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Speaker 2: Okay, So Scooba who's been not terrible, not good, as
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Speaker 2: kind of average as a Dodger. So he wants a
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Speaker 2: new multi year contract to stay with the Dodgers, and
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Speaker 2: he'd like it asap. You know, players always say I
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Speaker 2: want to focus on the season. I don't want to
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Speaker 2: I don't want to think about my contract till after
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Speaker 2: the season. Not this guy, No, no, no, scoobl wants
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Speaker 2: a deal done before the current CBA expires. That's the
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Speaker 2: Collective Bargaining Agreement. By the way, that is December first,
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Speaker 2: that is the deadline to get it done. So question
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Speaker 2: on this where do you fall? Here's the question, where
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Speaker 2: do you fall on the chatter that Trek Schouble wants
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Speaker 2: a Dodger extension done before the off season gets going.
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Speaker 2: So any way you measure this, any way you measure this.
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Speaker 2: Scott Boris is the agent here, and it's pretty easy
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Speaker 2: to see the landscape. Scott Boris sees storm clouds, an
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Speaker 2: ominous dark storm and right over baseball, and he sees
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Speaker 2: what you see and what I see. And Boris is
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Speaker 2: the most powerful man in baseball. Rob Manford is like
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Speaker 2: an intern for Scott Boris. You really understand that. So
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Speaker 2: Scott Boris sees the storm clouds over baseball and he's
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Speaker 2: not waiting around to buy an umbrella. You know those
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Speaker 2: guys pop up anytime it rains. There's like a bunch
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Speaker 2: of guys with buckets of umbrella. Umbrella's umbrella ten bucks,
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Speaker 2: twenty bucks, umbrella umbrella.
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Speaker 1: You know where do those guys hide all the time?
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Speaker 1: And it's not raining.
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Speaker 2: I don't know anyway Boris, it would appear based on
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Speaker 2: reading the tea leaves here wants Schooble to get one
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Speaker 2: of those biggie sized piggybanks dropped into his backyard and
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Speaker 2: or Dodger Stadium, like just do it right now. Now,
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Speaker 2: the CBA expires December first. That means there will be
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Speaker 2: a cold war that takes place in baseball following that.
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Speaker 2: And while a hard cap is not going to happen,
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Speaker 2: it is a very long shot. Good luck if your
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Speaker 2: team cap, because the cap is crap, it's not going
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Speaker 2: to happen. However, there will be a compromise, so the
18:37
Speaker 2: players are not going to agree to a salary cap,
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Speaker 2: so that's not going to happen. However, what's the common ground, Well,
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Speaker 2: the common ground, it would appear from what I've heard
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Speaker 2: from people in baseball would be thinking of it like
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Speaker 2: NASCAR restrictor plate rules, where they don't put a cap
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Speaker 2: on overall team spending. They just cap contract length and
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Speaker 2: they'll try to cut back on some deferred money. They'll
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Speaker 2: put guardrails up on how fast you can go, meaning
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Speaker 2: how many years and how much money total contract value,
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Speaker 2: and really just guardrails to stop the Dodgers' financial trapeze
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Speaker 2: act is what they're going to try to do. Buggety, buggety, buggety.
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Speaker 2: So why gamble if you're Scott Boris? Why gamble? Scoople's
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Speaker 2: already getting the free sample. The Kirkland brand sample from
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers, and Boris knows all about it. He lives
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Speaker 2: in Newport Beaches compound there in Newport, he goes to
19:30
Speaker 2: Dodger games all the time, and so he's familiar with
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Speaker 2: the organization. He knows that in this case, unlike almost
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Speaker 2: every one of his other clients, it's better off just
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Speaker 2: to take a deal right now. And this is essentially
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Speaker 2: Scott Boris covering his badunka dunk okay cash in under
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Speaker 2: today's rules, the rules you know today before tomorrow's shrink
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Speaker 2: the size of the buffet. You know how that shrink
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Speaker 2: flameation cuts down on how much food you get. The
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Speaker 2: price of the food's the same, you get less food, though,
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Speaker 2: That's it. So stuff those deferred payments from the Dodgers
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Speaker 2: into every mattress you can possibly find in LA and
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Speaker 2: wherever Schooble lives in the off season, and then let
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Speaker 2: rob manfraud and the people that Major League Baseball in
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Speaker 2: the Union bicker the Bickersons and they can have a
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Speaker 2: field day. And so yeah, for Scott Bors, I understand
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Speaker 2: the agent for Terry Scooble. December first, it's not a deadline,
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Speaker 2: Dave Roberts unload on the underachieving turd Kyle Tucker. Did
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Speaker 2: he finally just just destroy Kyle Tucker.
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Speaker 1: We'll give you that.
21:46
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Speaker 2: Okay, Late Night Drug Tester says, great rundown on the bus, drama,
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Speaker 2: From More Sports, one of the great afternoon shows in
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Speaker 2: the history of Fox Sports Radio. There have been many
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Speaker 1: I've seen that. Yeah, I guess he didn't want the
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Speaker 1: Coop had ones.
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Speaker 2: There was that Mark the full name guy rights in
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Speaker 2: from the Oregon Trail and he says, meanwhile, Steve Palmer's
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Speaker 2: mysteriously no longer in any trouble. Nothing to see here,
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Speaker 2: no problem o. I do not look for integrity and
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Speaker 2: pro sports. The lawyers handle all the small details. It
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Speaker 2: is the end of the innocence decades ago. Yeah, Mark
25:39
Speaker 2: is very upset. Mark sent several manifestos Marked the full
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Speaker 2: name Guy celebrating shot in Freuder the downfall of the Clippers,
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Speaker 2: And at this point it's not looking like that's going
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Speaker 2: to be the downfall of the Clippers. We'll get to that.
25:52
Speaker 2: That's on my big board. We'll get to that later on.
25:55
Speaker 2: We have a lot of talk radio to get to,
25:57
Speaker 2: so we will get to that. But this is the
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Speaker 2: hour of Genie Boss and I'm shocked at we don't
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Speaker 2: have a parade of Laker historians calling up to defend
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Speaker 2: the Lakers and Jeanie Buss.
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Speaker 1: I'm shocked. I don't know what that's all about.
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Speaker 2: The Baltimore media freeloaders account right since this great story
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Speaker 2: about the busted family of the buses. Those nepotism family
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Speaker 2: reunions are going to be fabulous. Can you rate your
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Speaker 2: favorite bus from best to worst? Since the family is
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Speaker 2: out of the way now, And most importantly, what kind
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Speaker 2: of food spread did Jerry put out back in the day.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so all those bus kids are.
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Speaker 2: The same, you know, the ones I dealt with, as
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Speaker 2: I recall back in my years around the Lakers when
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Speaker 2: I was out there, dealt with Jim Johnny and Jesse Buss.
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Speaker 2: Those are the ones that were kind of around some
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Speaker 2: more than others. I never met Jeanie Buss.
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Speaker 1: I don't know her. I saw Genie Buss a little bit,
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Speaker 1: so Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And as far as the spread at the Fabulous Forum
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Speaker 2: back in the day, the food the number one go
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Speaker 2: to food dish. Well, they had too. They had spaghetti
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Speaker 2: and meatballs and beef stroganoff one.
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I just had beef strogan off yesterday,
27:17
Speaker 1: you did. I love beef strogan off. There's a restaurant
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Speaker 1: that I get that makes it it is so good.
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Speaker 2: Well, not when you eat it twice a week for
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Speaker 2: six months. It's not quite that good.
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Speaker 1: It's not.
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Speaker 2: And the other thing I remember about those years, which
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Speaker 2: I still have fond memories of is in the little
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Speaker 2: crappy media room at the Forum, in the bowels of
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Speaker 2: the Forum. I used to hang out down there because
27:39
Speaker 2: that was where the food was and they had free water,
27:41
Speaker 2: and I loved the free water and the free food.
27:43
Speaker 2: And at halftime, there was this very famous actor who
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Speaker 2: chose not to go to the Forum Club and would
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Speaker 2: sneak over and.
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Speaker 1: Get a cup of coffee in the media room.
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Speaker 2: And it was very odd because he was one at
27:57
Speaker 2: the time, this was like the biggest star in Hollywood,
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Speaker 2: and for some reason he would sneak over because I
28:02
Speaker 2: think we determined he didn't want to be bothered by
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Speaker 2: the other celebrity people at the Forum Club, and also
28:09
Speaker 2: the people that were trying to that weren't famous, but
28:13
Speaker 2: we're trying to become famous by being friends with him.
28:15
Speaker 2: And you might know him by his first name Jack.
28:19
Speaker 2: He used to love to go in there and get coffee,
28:21
Speaker 2: and my buddy Elliott, who was the kind of the
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Speaker 2: guy running the media room, became kind of friends with him.
28:29
Speaker 2: And there's some other people that would come in here.
28:30
Speaker 2: But those are my memories. Let's go to Let's go
28:32
Speaker 2: to Mark. Mark is in the Arizona and Mark is
28:37
Speaker 2: up right now on the Ben Maler Show.
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Speaker 1: Hello Mark, Welcome, Hello Ben Maller.
28:43
Speaker 6: How are you, guys and everybody?
28:45
Speaker 2: If I was any better, If I was any better,
28:49
Speaker 2: I would be a bus But not.
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Speaker 1: Genie bus because you know she's not doing goods. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I just thought.
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Speaker 6: I just thought Genie stepped aside when she fell sitting
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Speaker 6: next to sil Jackson made Ason Square Darden a couple
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Speaker 6: of years ago.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it. That's a long time ago.
29:05
Speaker 2: The Phil is still sleeping and somewhere in a shack
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Speaker 2: in Montana, fills out there snoozing away.
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Speaker 6: Yeah. I appreciate you guys taking me on the show
29:16
Speaker 6: for the first time, and otherwise I thought maybe ge
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Speaker 6: would have walked away when she had their first son
29:20
Speaker 6: with Stil Jackson.
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Speaker 1: But okay, all right, all right, but you know you
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Speaker 1: need to workshop this.
29:25
Speaker 2: I recommend going to like a comedy club, the improv
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Speaker 2: or something like that, kind of working out the kinks
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Speaker 2: on the act and seeing how that goes.
29:33
Speaker 1: Yeah.
29:33
Speaker 2: So just not a great beginning. Best fine, and we'll
29:37
Speaker 2: forget about that. Next time you call, it'll be much better.
29:39
Speaker 2: Next time you call, it'll be much better. Overnight, Joe
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Speaker 2: writes and says yes, Ben overnight Joe keeping the TV
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Speaker 2: station on there in New York, And he says, yes, Ben,
29:48
Speaker 2: Lorena should look it up. That way she can get
29:52
Speaker 2: tips to get Arnie's dog. Yeah, Arnie's so bored. He
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Speaker 2: must be so fricking bored. Right, my buddy Arnie Spaniard
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Speaker 2: just posting photo after photo of his dog, Like I
30:06
Speaker 2: have a cute dog.
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Speaker 1: But I don't think he said that he's a house
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Speaker 1: husband right, Well, yeah, because his wife's the she makes
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Speaker 1: all the money.
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Speaker 5: Is that home all week?
30:14
Speaker 1: I guess she's on she's on a business trip or something.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. It's focus on is that dog? So like,
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Speaker 1: model the dog, feed the do fuck the dog. Let
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Speaker 1: me tell you something, Arnie dog dog dog.
30:24
Speaker 2: I know Arnie doesn't live where he used to live
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Speaker 2: in Vermont anymore, But when I visited Arnie in Burlington, Vermont,
30:30
Speaker 2: he knew every piece of gossip, everything going on in Burlington, Vermont.
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Speaker 2: This guy had inside. We did the whole Arnie Spaniard tour,
30:39
Speaker 2: which I'm so happy I did because he doesn't live
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Speaker 2: there anymore in Burlington, Like, and there's only like four
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Speaker 2: things to do in Burlington.
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Speaker 1: That's it. You know co factory?
30:49
Speaker 2: Well, yes, you go to where they make Ben and
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Speaker 2: Jerry's check. There's a farmer's market and they have a
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Speaker 2: you know what Vermont's food.
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Speaker 1: Vermont's famous for lorain? What is oh, lobster roll? No? Uh,
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Speaker 1: chicken strips?
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Speaker 2: Come on, really, you don't know what Vermont's famous for.
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Speaker 2: Come on, you gotta be.
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Speaker 4: You haven't got you haven't got a little Christmas baggy
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Speaker 4: from Arty?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Ohyrup, there you go. Oh you put glitter in
31:23
Speaker 1: it too. It's so pretty. And anyway, he won't be
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Speaker 1: doing that anymore because hesdn't live there.
31:26
Speaker 2: But they have a there's a big like compound in Burlington,
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Speaker 2: as I remember, like a farmer's market thing that's like
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Speaker 2: the main hub where they have maple syrup. They have
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Speaker 2: maple doughnuts and they also have as I remember, every
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Speaker 2: type of Vermont maple type souvenir that you could anything
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Speaker 2: with maple syrup on it, like a shirt or a
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Speaker 2: hat or a you know, cooozy.
31:50
Speaker 1: That's how I felt in Canada. Yeah, they have a
31:52
Speaker 1: lot of that in Vancouver too. Yeah, so so there's that.
31:55
Speaker 2: Anyway, what else do we have that see ferg Dog says,
31:58
Speaker 2: So the Dodgers beat the Rockies in a blow but
32:01
Speaker 2: you know who still sucks the two big offseason sinees
32:05
Speaker 2: Tucker went over five and ed los Diaz still can't
32:11
Speaker 2: get anybody out.
32:11
Speaker 1: Send them both down to double A where they.
32:15
Speaker 2: Belong, Yes, West, speaking of that, Speaking of that interesting
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Speaker 2: story here as a ferg Dog referenced Kyle Tucker and
32:27
Speaker 2: I gotta be careful how to say that, because sometimes
32:29
Speaker 2: I talk fast and it sounds like a different word
32:32
Speaker 2: Tucker with a T. Yeah, that is another bad day
32:37
Speaker 2: mentioned over five since July one. Kyle Tucker, who is
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Speaker 2: the highest paid, highest paid on average annual value average
32:47
Speaker 2: annual value in baseball player, Kyle Tucker is batting two
32:52
Speaker 2: to eight.
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Speaker 1: Now I don't think that's good. Oh, you're so mean,
32:57
Speaker 1: mallor I know. I'm a douche.
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Speaker 2: I'm a douche for putting that out and into the
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Speaker 2: ethos that Kyle Tucker is not good. So, not only
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Speaker 2: did Kyle Tucker go oh for five, he dropped a
33:09
Speaker 2: little league pop up in the game was a blowout
33:14
Speaker 2: and it was late in the game. However, he dropped
33:17
Speaker 2: a routine play for a Major League Baseball outfielder that
33:22
Speaker 2: is now back to back games, back to back and
33:25
Speaker 2: belly to belly where Kyle Tucker has done that. The
33:28
Speaker 2: nightmare continues a routine flyball who the defensive saying, I
33:34
Speaker 2: didn't cost the Dodgers because they already had a giant
33:37
Speaker 2: lead in that game. So another defensive blunder and Kyle
33:42
Speaker 2: Tucker after going oh for five against the Colorato Rockies,
33:46
Speaker 2: one of the worst teams in baseball, he has now
33:48
Speaker 2: extended his hitless streak to twenty five consecutive at bats.
33:53
Speaker 2: His last hit came back on August ninth. I was
33:56
Speaker 2: about ten years old back then, and so did Dave
33:59
Speaker 2: Roberts unload? Did Roberts unload on Kyle Tucker and say
34:04
Speaker 2: enough is enough? Put up or shut up? No, he
34:10
Speaker 2: gave him a belly rub. He tickled his tummy. Dave
34:14
Speaker 2: Roberts tickled his tummy, is what he did. He said,
34:17
Speaker 2: Quote He's frustrated, Roberts said of Tucker, and talked about
34:23
Speaker 2: the fly ball. Roberts defended Kyle Tucker's commitment, stressing the
34:29
Speaker 2: struggles are quote not from a lack of effort or care. Yeah, well,
34:35
Speaker 2: I'd like to rebut Dave Roberts, this is not little league.
34:38
Speaker 2: We're not talking high school. This is the big leagues.
34:41
Speaker 2: And if you play like that, it doesn't matter effort.
34:44
Speaker 2: You do not get credit for effort and caring if
34:48
Speaker 2: the results are not there. And I'd love for somebody
34:52
Speaker 2: over there to have some balls in Dodger Land and
34:55
Speaker 2: just say enough is enough. The guy's a fraud. He's
34:58
Speaker 2: a fake, a phony and a that's Kyle Tucker is
35:01
Speaker 2: terrible and he should not be on the playoff roster.
35:05
Speaker 2: You should take him off the playoff roster. I don't
35:08
Speaker 2: even think about putting him on there.
35:09
Speaker 1: He is.
35:10
Speaker 2: It's every time he's out there, the Dodgers are playing shorthanded.
35:15
Speaker 2: So somebody grows some hair on their chest over there
35:17
Speaker 2: and say enough is enough. I was like, seriously, what
35:22
Speaker 2: are we doing enough? And Diaz blows also, he shouldn't
35:25
Speaker 2: be on any kind of playoff roster. They're not good enough.
35:29
Speaker 2: Now let him go back and count their money on
35:31
Speaker 2: a beach somewhere in Florida and not on the playoff roster.
35:35
Speaker 2: All right, is the Ben Mahler Show. If you'd like
35:39
Speaker 2: to be part.
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Speaker 1: You know the number. I'm not gonna give it out
35:42
Speaker 1: here time Navo for the who am I? Game? And
35:45
Speaker 1: here we go, Here's the who am I? Game?
35:48
Speaker 2: So the Rockies dumped pitcher Michael Lorenzen, who I believe.
35:52
Speaker 2: I think Anthony and Anaheim used to talk him up
35:55
Speaker 2: when they were like the high school together or something
35:57
Speaker 2: like that. Anyway, Michael Lorenzen was dumped by They's designated
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Speaker 2: for assignment.
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Speaker 1: He allowed one hundred and sixty eight hits this season.
36:05
Speaker 2: That is tied for the second most in a season
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Speaker 2: featuring fewer than one hundred and twenty innings pitched, and
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Speaker 2: the most hits allowed in a season in that category.
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Speaker 2: Since me, who am I? That is the question the answer,
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Speaker 2: We'll get to it and we.
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Speaker 1: Will do it next.
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Speaker 4: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
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Speaker 1: Right now? The who am I?
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Speaker 4: Game?
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Speaker 2: This is where we pretend to be somebody else's. We
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Speaker 2: call it the who am I?
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Speaker 1: Game?
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Speaker 2: So the Colorado Rockies that is a baseball team, not
37:53
Speaker 2: a good one. They designated for assignment, otherwise known as dumping.
37:57
Speaker 2: This picture named Michael Lorenzo. Now he's not only been
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Speaker 2: a pitcher, he's been terrible a lot one hundred and
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Speaker 2: sixty eight hits this season. That is tied for the
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Speaker 2: second most in a season featuring fewer than one hundred
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Speaker 2: and twenty innings pitch and the most the most allowed
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Speaker 2: since me?
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Speaker 1: Who am I?
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Speaker 2: That is the question? What is the answer? Unless he
38:20
Speaker 2: does anyone know the answer? Ferg Dog says, Barbara Streisand's
38:24
Speaker 2: house is the answer right to the Streisand effect. And
38:29
Speaker 2: did you look up the Streisand effect?
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Speaker 6: Yet?
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Speaker 1: I did, but I don't see it having to do
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Speaker 1: with her house. It does.
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Speaker 4: It's the situation we're going an attempt to hide, censor,
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Speaker 4: remove information backfive.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, she was, she said, people loking photos of her
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Speaker 2: house in Malibu, and she raised the stink and now
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Speaker 2: more people wanted to see.
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Speaker 1: What it was all about.
38:48
Speaker 2: Scrooge is going. He's in the younger demo. Now he's
38:50
Speaker 2: in the older demo. He's going with Timmy Turner as
38:52
Speaker 2: his answer. Nick from Parts Unknown says the Big Unit
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Speaker 2: killing a bird. Sal McGill from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota,
39:00
Speaker 2: Dustin Ackley from Robbie the Mariner fan, who.
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Speaker 6: Do we have?
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Speaker 1: The Doctor of Style?
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Speaker 2: Slick from alf the Alien Opiner, A legend, absolute legend.
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Speaker 2: Malaprop guy says Ferk Dog's brother from another mother Snoop
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Speaker 2: Dog the all time leader.
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Speaker 1: It hits Yeah. Who else do we have?
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Speaker 2: Maya Mitchell, who's thirty three today in Australian from the
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Speaker 2: Late Night Drug Tester Australia. Matthew in the Worcester area says,
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Speaker 2: a trophy husband, Arnie Spaniard. When you think if you're
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Speaker 2: a woman, trophy husband Arnie Spaniard right near the top
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Speaker 2: of the list. Many ladies hope to someday grow up
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Speaker 2: and meet Arnie Spain.
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Speaker 1: I'm asking him for lessons.
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Speaker 2: Ken Lee Jansen from Robin, Minnesota. Giermo Mota. Good name
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Speaker 2: by James Lizzo from Charlie. He's back in Wisconsin. Good
39:51
Speaker 2: to see Charlie. It's been a while, Michael and Tulsa
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Speaker 2: says he Bucky's T shirt.
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Speaker 1: Do you have an answer? Rain not. I'm going with
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Speaker 1: Joe Blanton.
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Speaker 6: No.
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Speaker 2: Mike Moroth of the O seven baseball season. Mike Morath
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Speaker 2: Mike Morath twenty years ago. Mike Morath