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Hour 2 - Big Dumper Delight · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: The big dumper. Does it again?
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  Speaker 2: Well, come in the beginning of our number two and
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  Speaker 2: another multi home run game for cal Raley, who has
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  Speaker 2: passed Salvador Perez by. He's now the king of dingers
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  Speaker 2: for catchers. So has cal Raley also passed Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 2: of the Yankees by in the American League MVP race.
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  Speaker 2: We'll discuss that in a benching heard round the baseball world.
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  Speaker 2: In the Bronx, the Yankees putting Anthony Volpi, their shortstop,
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  Speaker 2: on the bench for the Sunday night game. A win,
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  Speaker 2: a rare win over the Boston baseball team. Is this
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of the end for Anthony Volpi in the Bronx.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: And the Dodgers avoided a sweep at the hands of
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  Speaker 2: the Padres. What's the word for Dodger Stars show? Heil
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  Speaker 2: Tani high fiving a Padre Heckler. He did it after
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  Speaker 2: hitting a home run late.
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  Speaker 1: In that game.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about that and more right now here. It
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  Speaker 2: is our number two, A big dumper. Delight, Welcome in
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  Speaker 2: Baseball and we'll go to Seattle with the story everyone's
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  Speaker 2: been yapping about.
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  Speaker 1: Here cal Raleigh doing it again.
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  Speaker 2: The Mariners star cal Raley homer and his first two
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  Speaker 2: at bats against Jacob Lopez of the Athletics. Not the
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  Speaker 2: Sacramento Athletics, not the Oakland Athletics, not the Kansas City Athletics,
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  Speaker 2: not the Philadelphia Athletics.
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  Speaker 1: They're just the Athletics.
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  Speaker 2: But that home run bonanza by cal Raleigh, he broke
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  Speaker 2: the MLB record for home runs by a catcher in
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  Speaker 2: a single season minimum seventy five percent of games played
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  Speaker 2: as a catcher. So I assume you heard about that.
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  Speaker 2: If you've been listening, you know about it. We've talked
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  Speaker 2: about it and maybe not. But Salvador Perez of the
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  Speaker 2: Royals had the previous record with forty eight home runs.
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  Speaker 2: That was back in twenty twenty one. Man, it was
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  Speaker 2: so long ago, like four or five years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Now Raleigh has forty home runs this season while playing
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  Speaker 2: behind home play, so forty home runs as a catcher.
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  Speaker 2: So he's still technically not one but two home runs
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  Speaker 2: away from that record. Just home runs by a catcher.
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  Speaker 2: That was Hobby Lopez of the Atlanta Braves back in
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  Speaker 2: the day forty two. The most ever, take that, Mike
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  Speaker 2: Piazza and all those other catchers, they had a lot
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  Speaker 2: of home runs back in the day. All right, so
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  Speaker 2: let us discuss the question based on the latest developments.
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  Speaker 2: Has cal Raley passed Aaron Judge by in the American
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  Speaker 2: League MVP race. So I've got Google Maps, Airbnb, and
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  Speaker 2: modern art, and we will combine all of these things
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  Speaker 2: together and we will ring the bell.
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  Speaker 1: Again and again and again and again.
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  Speaker 2: So number one, I said, number one. Yeah, So they're
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  Speaker 2: in a dead heat at this point, right dead heat.
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  Speaker 2: If you look at the American League MVP race down
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  Speaker 2: the stretch we go. Here we are, it's late August,
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  Speaker 2: the baseball season heating up. Boy, it's toasty hot most places,
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  Speaker 2: and we're setting up for a photo.
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  Speaker 1: Finish like at the Kentucky Derby the very end there.
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  Speaker 2: And if you look at where we're at, cal Raley's
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  Speaker 2: got this record, the record as opposed to the Royals catcher.
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  Speaker 1: He's got that.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna have the all time record. He's gonna hit
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  Speaker 2: at least three more home runs this year unless he
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  Speaker 2: gets hurt, so he's gonna have the all time record.
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  Speaker 2: And we know that catching is more difficult than playing outfield,
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  Speaker 2: like Aaron Judges for the Yankees or Dhing which he's
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  Speaker 2: been doing somewhat lately because of some injury stuff. So
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  Speaker 2: the issue though, and this is the problem, and I
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  Speaker 2: want that dope from Seattle to call up hate Kyl Roll.
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  Speaker 1: We do the show today. We're worried about today's show.
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  Speaker 2: So today, as we talk today, cal Raley is dead
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  Speaker 2: even and even has a slight edge, a hair of
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  Speaker 2: an edge over Aaron Judge.
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  Speaker 1: The issue is Google Maps.
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  Speaker 2: If you look at the geography, cal Raley plays, as
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  Speaker 2: the old NFL coach Jimmy Johnson said back in the day,
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  Speaker 2: he plays in southern Alaska. There's no workaround to that.
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  Speaker 2: There is what about the Internet, There's no work around
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  Speaker 2: you have. You have to overcome the geography and Aaron Judge,
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  Speaker 2: all things being equal, Aaron Judge East Coast bias and
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff. And also even in the age of
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  Speaker 2: social media, Aaron Judge playing in New York and he's
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  Speaker 2: got that superhero costume, the pinstripes. You know, good luck, right,
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  Speaker 2: the tie will go to Judge. If it's even, the
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  Speaker 2: tie goes to Aaron Judge. So Raleigh needs to be
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  Speaker 2: a full head and shoulders ahead of Aaron Judge to
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  Speaker 2: take home the American League MVP Award this year, and
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  Speaker 2: the Yankees have a one game lead over the Mariners
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  Speaker 2: if you look at the overall standings in a lost column,
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  Speaker 2: a one game lead for the wild and now they're
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  Speaker 2: both wildcard teams. But the Mariners are one game behind
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  Speaker 2: the Yankees in the head to head standings.
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  Speaker 1: Judge is on pace. He's on pace.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't play well, particularly on that Sunday night game I
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  Speaker 2: was watching. The Yankees did actually beat the Red Sox,
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  Speaker 2: which I didn't think they could do anymore, but they did.
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  Speaker 2: I was watching that game a little bit. The Yankees
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  Speaker 2: have a one game lead, as I mentioned, Judge on
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  Speaker 2: pace head to head with the Mariners. Judge on pace
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  Speaker 2: for thirty two doubles, fifty home runs and one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifteen RBIs now cal Raley is tracking for twenty
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  Speaker 2: three doubles and he's also on pace to hit sixty.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it's sixty one.
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  Speaker 2: Home runs at this point and one hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 2: one RBIs so so big time numbers there now.
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  Speaker 1: Page two, we stay in the.
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  Speaker 2: Bronx and we we've talked about Aaron Judge, and we're
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  Speaker 2: not gonna talk about Aaron Judge right now, because the
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  Speaker 2: Yankees made a roster decision prior to that game with
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  Speaker 2: the Red Sox on Sunday Night that raised some eyebrows here.
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  Speaker 2: The Yankees have benched shortstop Anthony Volpi Sunday Night baseball.
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  Speaker 1: He was out of the starting lineup.
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  Speaker 2: He did get in the game as a defensive replacement late,
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  Speaker 2: but he was no longer the starting shortstop for the
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  Speaker 2: New York Yankees in their win against the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 2: So the question is this the beginning of the end
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  Speaker 2: for Anthony Volpi in the Bronx?
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  Speaker 1: Is this it?
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  Speaker 2: The Yankee shortstop Anthony Volpi there benched in that game
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  Speaker 2: last night. So I'm gonna nod my head yes on
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  Speaker 2: this one in terms of this being the end. We
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  Speaker 2: did a rant about Anthony Volpi a couple weeks back,
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  Speaker 2: and it's.
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  Speaker 1: Only gotten worse.
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  Speaker 2: It's only gotten worse at this particular point, and the
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  Speaker 2: Vulpy thing just isn't working. The message has been sent here.
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  Speaker 2: The Yankees are trying to sell Vulpi. They've been trying
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  Speaker 2: to sell them, and this is gonna all work out.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's got the hold, the roots, he's got
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  Speaker 2: the backstory. Everyone loves the backstory and all that he's
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  Speaker 2: the next Derek Jeter and all that, and what they've
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  Speaker 2: got is they've got the equivalent of a version of
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  Speaker 2: Windows Vista that is promised as this next big innovation
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  Speaker 2: and all that stuff, but it's actually just filled with
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  Speaker 2: a virus. And that's what they got. The numbers don't like.
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  Speaker 2: Vulpi is hitting too eight. Well, building average doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter to some people.
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  Speaker 1: Too eight.
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  Speaker 2: He's a career two twenty two hitter, so he's barely
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  Speaker 2: above the Mendoza line, which is terrible. And his ops
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  Speaker 2: is in the six hundreds, which I'm told is not
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  Speaker 2: particularly good. That is not Yankee shortstop material. It should
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  Speaker 2: not be whether you have Derek Jeter or not. That
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  Speaker 2: should not be the case there. That is where you're
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  Speaker 2: playing in Central Park, playing softball, and that's where you
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  Speaker 2: are with that kind of stat line. And he's got
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  Speaker 2: more errors at this point then our friend Big Balls
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  Speaker 2: Bob trying to get on the internet.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of errors there.
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  Speaker 2: And the Yankees fans have been living this mirage.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, oh yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Ever since Jeter retired, it's like, oh, we're gonna be
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna find the next year it's flotsam and jets
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  Speaker 2: them that they've had at shortstop.
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  Speaker 1: They tried d D Gregorios. Howd that work out? Not good?
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  Speaker 2: Glaber Torres. That was a bus. Now they have Volpi
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  Speaker 2: who throws balls into the stands. He wants to give
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  Speaker 2: everyone a souvenir. Does that a lot? Ball bounces in
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  Speaker 2: the dart bounces in the crowd, the whole thing there,
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  Speaker 2: And it's like the Yankees are running an airbn B.
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  Speaker 2: It's an Airbnb for shortstops at this particular point. There's
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  Speaker 2: a different guy every couple of years, every couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: None of them seem to live up to the brochure.
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  Speaker 2: And you know the photos and thero You sign up
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  Speaker 2: for the Airbnb and you're like, all right, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: stay there. And you show up and instead of the
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  Speaker 2: presidential suite in the nice king sized bed, you're giving
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  Speaker 2: a sleeping bag under an overpass. And that is you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's indoor outdoor living, is what it is. Indoor outdoor living,
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  Speaker 2: and that's it, and that's just not the way it's
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  Speaker 2: supposed to go. It's like, you know, you're not in
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  Speaker 2: Rancho Cucamonga. You're You're the New York Yankees and all that.
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  Speaker 2: And if you stink for multiple seasons, which Volpi is there,
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  Speaker 2: he costs them.
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  Speaker 1: He helped cost them the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I loved it when he was a stumblebom against
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  Speaker 2: the Dodgers in the fifth inning of Game five of
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  Speaker 2: the World Series. Everyone focuses on Aaron Judge muffing the
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  Speaker 2: ball in the outfield and Garrett Cole not making the play,
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  Speaker 2: not covering first baseball.
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  Speaker 1: How about Vulpi? He booted a ball.
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  Speaker 2: In that World Series also, So the guy's a bust
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  Speaker 2: with a capital B at this point, and you go
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  Speaker 2: out and replace him. Now they can't do anything now.
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  Speaker 2: The trade deadline's pass, so they're stuck with what they have.
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  Speaker 2: The Yankees, good luck on that all right now. Final
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  Speaker 2: point to San Diego we go where the pot did
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  Speaker 2: not did not sweep the Dodgers, but the Dodger offense
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  Speaker 2: very limp over the weekend there in San Diego. The
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  Speaker 2: Dodgers did rally back to beat the Podres in the
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  Speaker 2: game that was played on Sunday to avoid the old sweep.
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  Speaker 2: The old sweepero at the hands of the Fish tacos.
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  Speaker 2: There was something that happened the game within the game.
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  Speaker 2: Here they caught my attention and got a lot of buzz,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of attention. So I don't know I saw
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  Speaker 2: the highlight or heard about the highlight or not. The
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  Speaker 2: Dodgers were getting smoked early.
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  Speaker 1: In the game. Not smoke, but they were down.
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  Speaker 2: They had a futile offense all week, and they came
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  Speaker 2: back and they got a little bit of insurance late
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  Speaker 2: when shohy Otani connect. And the story is about that
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  Speaker 2: home run. So there was a Padre fan who was
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  Speaker 2: sitting right next to the Dodger dugout in San Diego,
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  Speaker 2: and this guy was busting the balls of show a time,
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  Speaker 2: busting his chops all series, and Otani was horrific. He
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  Speaker 2: had ten at bats, He was zero for ten for
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  Speaker 2: the Dodgers against the Padres in this Showdown NL West
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  Speaker 2: matchup prior to that home run.
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  Speaker 1: So he was doing.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely bupkus for the Dodgers up until then. And then
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  Speaker 2: finally what happens. He goes Deepits a home run. There
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  Speaker 2: you go. And what did Otani do after the home run?
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  Speaker 2: He gave the guy a high five. He gave the
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  Speaker 2: guy a high five. So what is the word? Here's
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  Speaker 2: the question, what is the word for Dodger star shohe
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  Speaker 2: O'tani high fiving a heckler wearing podre merch? All right,
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  Speaker 2: so my word is refreshing with a capital R. Refreshing
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  Speaker 2: with the capitol R. Here's why. I'll tell you why,
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  Speaker 2: because how many stories have we done over the last
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  Speaker 2: couple of years about athlete X losing their mind, losing
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  Speaker 2: their mind because somebody was heckling.
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  Speaker 1: Them and they crossed still line. This is not right
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  Speaker 1: and all it.
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  Speaker 2: So I found it refreshing that rather than have the
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  Speaker 2: fan escorted out of the stadium, which Otani could have done,
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  Speaker 2: all Otani had to do was tap on the shoulder
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  Speaker 2: of the security guy and that would have been it
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  Speaker 2: for the heckler. So it was refreshing that Otani did
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  Speaker 2: not do that. Most of these guys today seem to
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  Speaker 2: be very thin skinned, and they're very touchy and hyper
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  Speaker 2: sensitive to all the noise and all this stuff, and
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  Speaker 2: anybody boos them boom. We used to have a guy
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  Speaker 2: called boom Man that called the show back of the boom.
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  Speaker 2: And normally what happens is if you boost certain of
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  Speaker 2: the players these guys will immediately contact stadium security like
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  Speaker 2: a mall cop and get that person out of there.
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  Speaker 1: You're done, and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And so to me, heckling it is modern art when
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  Speaker 2: done properly. It should be hung in an museum when
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  Speaker 2: you're able to heckle properly and get a player off
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  Speaker 2: his game a little bit. And I said, well, this
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  Speaker 2: is this backfire? Well did it backfire? Otni had one
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  Speaker 2: home run. The entire series was zero for ten prior
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  Speaker 2: to that at bad but this is a masterpiece. It's
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  Speaker 2: like Picasso or Warhol, one of the great painters there.
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  Speaker 2: And you get in the player's head, you rasm right,
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  Speaker 2: give him a hard time, and then that's what he
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  Speaker 2: players pretend like, I don't hear it. I got my
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  Speaker 2: earmuffs on, I'm not hearing what's going on there. And
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  Speaker 2: then you end up hitting a home run like Otani,
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  Speaker 2: and Otani, you'd think he'd be relieved because that really
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  Speaker 2: cemented the game for the Dodgers, and they were about
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  Speaker 2: to get swept by the Padres if they had not
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  Speaker 2: come back in that game. But he wasn't seemingly overjoyed
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  Speaker 2: because he hit the home run that helped guarantee the
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  Speaker 2: Dodgers got to win. He was happy because you got
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  Speaker 2: to put a cork in the heckler's mouth. That's what
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  Speaker 2: he was happy about. That's great, Like, thank god, I
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  Speaker 2: finally got one. That's the way to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Now. The pottery fan basically pushed him into the hole. Run.
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  Speaker 2: It was all over Otani. It was great and finally
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  Speaker 2: he connected on one, and that's that's how it ended.
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  Speaker 2: But this is not This is not the way it
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  Speaker 2: normally goes done. So many of these stories where it's
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  Speaker 2: like this guy's gotta get kicked out, that guy's gotta
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  Speaker 2: get kicked out, it's like, what are.
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  Speaker 1: We doing here?
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  Speaker 2: In fact, there was a time for players it was emasculating.
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  Speaker 2: If you had a fan kicked out, it was like
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  Speaker 2: a badge of honor, the heckling that would be going
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  Speaker 2: on back in the day. And then so it's it's different.
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  Speaker 2: But the the boo birds are chirping, that is a
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  Speaker 2: sign of honor. That is not a something to be
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  Speaker 2: upset about. You should be honor Eddy. As the old
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  Speaker 2: line goes, they don't boot nobody's right. You're gonna be
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  Speaker 2: good to get booed and so there's Oltani the face
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  Speaker 2: of major League baseball, not even close the face.
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  Speaker 1: Of major League baseball.
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  Speaker 2: You got Otani out there working his magic, hitting a
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  Speaker 2: home run, and then that fans, you know, some guy
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  Speaker 2: making normal, normal dough.
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  Speaker 1: And he ends up getting you know, Tani's head.
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  Speaker 2: So that is a w for the heckler and also
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  Speaker 2: inspiration for other hecklers around major League baseball.
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  Speaker 1: When the playoffs get going here in a month and the.
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  Speaker 2: Dodgers, whether they win the division or the wild card team,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to be in the playoffs somewhere, and then
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  Speaker 2: Otani will have an opportunity to be heckled by random
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  Speaker 2: people all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: up from the Windy City all the way here.
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  Speaker 1: Get right on that microphone, hold on, sack here, there
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  Speaker 1: we go. Let's walkome in the tree is here?
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Look at this. We got that these words cup gear.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: He's ready to go. He was out here for that
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: cub series with the Angels. A domination situation right tree.
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  Speaker 6: Sweet baby, sleep baby, that's what that's what we're trying
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: to do. Man.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Was it regally feel? Was it regally feel the West?
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: Was it? Absolutely? Yeah?
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: I was just in that telling the reign of a story, like, uh,
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: I think he was in that too. My wife was
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: looking around, like, uh so this is the cup section.
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: A lot of blue, man, lout of blue. We did that.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: That's cool.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Any any Disney stuff or anything, or just the baseball,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: just the baseball, just.
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: The baseball, baseball. Take the keys around. We took them
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: to Disneyland before. Okay, she kind of saw. She was
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: like that going to Disneyland.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: So the next time you hear the cheat code is
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: what downtown Disney right? That gives you.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: That gives you a little taste of Disneyland without actually
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: having to spend your entire paycheck going in there. And
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: they have a great downtown area with like a kid's
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: run around stuff, which would be perfect for your little ones.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: Man, that's so good to know.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, next time you're next time you're, uh yeah.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Do you enjoyed the traffic? It took me forever to
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: get here, by the way to I don't know what's
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: going on, you mean a long time to get here.
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: Not too bad. Once you got here. My kids out,
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: they pretty smooth. They loved the pool.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I went to the pool. That's all you need, man,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: got some food.
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: They loved the game.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: It's not depressing that it was a father like you
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: could probably take your kids to like the local cheesy
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: hotel in Chicago. So if it's got a pool, he'd
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: be happy. You know, you have to fly him to
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: California and all that stuff.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Right, they just want to pool.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: They just want to pool, just have some space to
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: run around. Get loud. So I did a good time.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: That's nice, man, very cool. So you you you called
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the show a few times.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Show you worked for UPS, right, you said that you
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: worked the overnight shift in Chicago.
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: Twenty years so right when I start up, that's where
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: you going. There you go clock there, eleven o'clock. Here
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: for you guys. Perfect, y'all get the night going. For me, man,
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: I appreciate.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Have you met Eugene in Chicago or you Feeme or
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: g Man or any other guys. Actually, I was at
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: a cup gate I met uh not I forget.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I always forget the guy's name. Who's the guy I met? Coop?
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: The guy at the Cubs game. He was there's a
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: White Sox cub game a couple of years back. Remember anyway,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: one of the guys that's uh he will be Phase.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Yes, Fase, I met Fase. You don't even know who
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: that is either, because I would you. He's a stranger.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: But faith, I was at a cub game and I
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: was like saying, hey, is anybody here who listens to
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: the show.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: And Fase happened to beat the game, so I met
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: him and stuff.
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: So did you look inside your your your gift back
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: had not yet? Tree gave us like UPS hats.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Oh you did. Oh that's awesome. Thank you. You don't
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: have one of those yet? No, I don't.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: That's a great hat. No, seriously, UPS is a great
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: company've been. They're taking care of you, right. Yeah, Hey
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: I made it here.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: You made it here on the on the dime of UPS.
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: Yes, it's not good company, man, I love it.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: There you go. Well, I want to thank you for listening. Tree.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: It's awesome that you've tuned in at night. Man, driving
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: around Chicago and all that, no matter what, right, whether socks,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: you're still driving around.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: Man. We got to get the people they stuff.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Man, People need their packages, they need stuff.
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: People happy to see this, man, They pay to see this,
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: so they yeah, we got to bring the good.
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: So always they.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Get your own.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: You weren't a cup jersey, but you got you know,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: you have to wear your UPS uniform right when you're
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: on the show.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: But we want the World Series. They let me get
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: they did.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Oh that's good. Yeah, so that was a good been
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: a few years now, though.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: Think about the people before me.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: They had to wait, I know, they didn't. They live
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: their lives, died, and they didn't win the.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: World Series right the way thirty four? Yeah, yeah, unbelievable.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: Anyway, I'm sorry, guys.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: That's all right, you're comfortable. See, we're we're just having
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: a conversation. What do you think of our stuiods?
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: This is better. We used to be across the hall
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the This is not bad. We haven't given you were
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: the worst host. Yeah.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Sorry, we can show you the vending machine. We can
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: share where the cockroaches. Yeah yeah, there's did the did
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: the guak chips ever come down?
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: I'm not sure we haven't. We haven't been over there.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: I did ten minutes on my podcast about the guak chips.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I'm serious. I did like ten minutes.
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: About Yeah, why is it always my snacks that get
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: stuck in the vent?
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I thought that was Coops. I thought Coop wanted to
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: go chip.
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: She asked me to try and, uh dislodge the chips.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Oh that makes sense that yeah, why would coopy quak chips?
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: That didn't make a lot of sense to at the time,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: I thought you wanted them Coop because we were You
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: should have seen it. We were both over there like
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: we're trying to press on the vending machine.
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: I should have recorded it.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I didn't know it was tag team. It was on camera.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: There's a camera over there.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: There's security cameras in the building, so it was recorded
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: by the security.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Can could you to teamwork for much? Were we were
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: trying to get the chips and it did not work?
• 24:26
  Speaker 9: Uh?
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Ferg Dog rights and he says it was not Wrigley Field.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: West angel fans were there loud and proud. Nobody takes
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: over the big.
• 24:37
  Speaker 9: Tree.
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: Would you like to respond to Ferg Dog? Come on, man,
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: you saw it. You saw the score. It was twelve
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: to one on Saturday. It was it was a beat.
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: Down man, even he doesn't believe.
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, gave us fireworks.
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: My daughters loved the fireworks, man, So you know, thank
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: you even in the beat down.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, still here entertainment. Did they did they hit you
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: up for any souvenirs. Do They didn't eat anything from
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: the gift shop or no.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Oh good, okay.
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: I think they were just thinking, you know, happy that
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: someone was there to watch it.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: That's right. It was a good time for we moved
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the Actually not for Doug. Who is it?
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Just Josh Rights And he said, straight up, Mariner porn
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: been to open this hour hour number two. Is Robbie
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: the Mariner fan blackmailing you or something? I'm asking for
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: a friend? No, I said, at this point, it's a
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: dead heat for the MVP in the American League and
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: that's it. That's not marin or porn. By the way,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Salsa who did not attend. Salsa was not in attendance
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: in the Mountain. He said, I missed the flight by
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: one seat. And there you go. Yeah, Big Lou was there,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: but he drove. And Big Lou didn't show up to
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: the UNLV game. Even though he said he was going
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: to go to the UNOV game with some other people.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: He didn't actually show up to that.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: So it fit the other people show up. Uh No,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know. I don't know the whole
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: details on that. I have no idea. You want to
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: take a cal Tree.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: You want to pick somebody out here on the phones,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: we can talk to somebody here.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: We've got Ben at the Comedian. I guess some other
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: names up there.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Anybody stand out or if not, if you think they
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: all suck, we don't have to take a call.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: So shere's looking at the board. He's examining all the
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: names on the board.
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: Let go Chris.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: You want to go with Chris? All right, we'll go.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Chris seems the safest, right. Chris is in southern California.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: What's going on?
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Chris?
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: You're on Fox Sports Radio. It's me Ben and our
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: buddy Tree. He's from Chicago. He's not hanging out with
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: us here.
• 26:24
  Speaker 9: Hey, that's great. Hey, we're glad you enjoyed California Tree
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: the Hey NL West.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: You know the.
• 26:29
  Speaker 9: Division is going to get decided in the next three games,
• 26:32
  Speaker 9: and you know, some a lot of this may be
• 26:33
  Speaker 9: about strength to schedule, but you know, when the Mariners
• 26:36
  Speaker 9: played the Padres already this here because they're supposedly quote rivals,
• 26:40
  Speaker 9: they swept San Diego in Petco and you know, Padre's
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: got to go up now to a crazy hot Mariners
• 26:47
  Speaker 9: team and the Dodgers are going to be hosting the
• 26:50
  Speaker 9: Reds the rest of the way through. After these next
• 26:53
  Speaker 9: three games, the Dodgers have only six games against teams
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: that give a crap. Everybody else is already basically eliminated.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Chris hold On, didn't the Dodgers just lose a couple
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: of games in Colorado this week?
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: This past week? Have you lose a Rocks?
• 27:07
  Speaker 9: All right, that's fine, they split Colorado, But we took
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: four out of six from the Padres, bang, bang, bang,
• 27:11
  Speaker 9: right back to back.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: You think that was it?
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Wait?
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Wait, Chris, you think that was a good weekend? That
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers looked good this weekend?
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: I think that the first two games, I think they
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: look like crap. But they won four out of six
• 27:22
  Speaker 9: week week.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, listen, you you're you're very optimistic. I mean,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: you are very You're very optimistic. You're more optimistic than
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: I am. I look at this Dodger team. I mean,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: that's not a championship team. That does not look like
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: a championship team to me. It doesn't well, you know,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 27:37
  Speaker 9: We'll see what happens in the postseason. But just in
• 27:40
  Speaker 9: terms of the Padres catching up, we beat them nine
• 27:43
  Speaker 9: to thirteen. We got the tie break. You know, if
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: if the Mariners take two out of three and the
• 27:48
  Speaker 9: Dodgers take two out of three, well, now they're not
• 27:51
  Speaker 9: going to be able to catch back up. There's just
• 27:53
  Speaker 9: no way. You look at who who's going to be,
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: you know what each team's got to do the rest
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: of the way through. I mean, if you think the
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: Dodgers are going to collapse playing against the White Sox
• 28:02
  Speaker 9: and the Rockies again and all that, yeah, I don't.
• 28:04
  Speaker 9: I don't see that happening.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but the lineup there putting out there, even with
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: ough Tany and Freeman and Betts, there's a lot of
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: that backside of that lineup is terrible. So horrific lineup.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: But anyway, I thank you. That was a hard old
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: baseball call. Tree is what that was hard? Now?
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Are you are you optimistic about the Cubs? Tree proud?
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Are Are you gonna be diplomatic or are you going
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: to be a fan guy? Where are you at on
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: the cups?
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Here?
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: I'll go out what I see. I think we peeking
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: at the right time.
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah, our best I should be best player at Tucker
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: is getting hot.
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: You know you got hot this weekend, So, oh.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Did you play? He played well this week after they
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: benched him. After they benched him last week.
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: He had two home runs. Doing the series, he went
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: four for five.
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: It's against Angels. Pitching doesn't really mean anything.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: It's like it says.
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: I was close to five hundred so you know, I
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: was being competitive. But I'll say that.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: But we got to enjoy that because he's gonna leave, right,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: he's gonna want It was about five hundred million. I
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: want five hundred million to the tree. You probably tell
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: you ps when you're you know, I want I want
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: five hundred million. They don't give you that money though.
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, the Yankees probably gonna come and get them, man,
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: But no, I got us going to the World Series.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got the Cubs versus the Tigers. Cubs and Tigers.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: That's an all Midwestern affair. Is that your Midwestern bias?
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: There?
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: No, no is legit that school of dude. He like
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: you the truth.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's legit.
• 29:20
  Speaker 8: I don't know that create problems in the household, that world.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: That's right. Your wife is from destroy Hoop.
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: I'm four too. I can't wait, can you believe? But
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: she's like me she'll rub it in my face.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's good. That's what you're supposed to do.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: That's the right. That's a great thing about sports. You
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: can throw at each other's face, the whole thing. It's wonderful. Yeah, man, absolutely,
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: So you're heading back.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: To Chicago today, is that right?
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: Hand bag? Man?
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: Flight at twelve? So, man, it's been a good time.
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: I can't thank you guys. And oh can I say
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: one thing?
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Oh and one that never goes well? The one thing
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know what going to?
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: Okay, I still want you permission, perst go nohead, blind Scott, Yeah,
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: Blad Scott, you need a hug.
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: We all love you.
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: I don't know what you call the station if it's scripted,
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: I don't know if Ben got something going on? What
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: you're gonna say?
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: No, no, there's nothing going on. No, no, no, got it.
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: No blast guy, there's some love out there.
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: You just got a fan of man. Every day cannot
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: be as bad. Yeah, if ideots man, give me a call. Man,
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: you're a good guy and I love you.
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: Man.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Look at that tree.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Positivity to blind Scotts, who's I'm sure listen will send
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: him seven. I'll show you if you want, hold on
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: to let me see here. Let me see if I
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: get this out, not yet, hold on me click this here,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna show you my show email. Uh, this is
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: you can see this, see that? Hold on, I see
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: the Scott here. This is all blind Scott. Don't say
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: his last name on here, but that's all his email.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: You see that, You see that all this is all
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: of his email. It's it's page after There's a few
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: other ones in there, but it's page after page this.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, look at look at this. This is almost all him.
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  Speaker 1: There's there's a surfer. Todd the comedian got in there somehow.
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  Speaker 1: But it's it's not suck, it's a it's the entire show.
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  Speaker 6: I love you guys too.
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  Speaker 2: But Jesus, that's we don't harass us with the email though,
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: that's that's different, right.
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  Speaker 6: I felt like I was harassing Coop, just letting them
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  Speaker 6: know I was here.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, I was worried.
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  Speaker 2: I when I actually I told somebody because you had
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: said you wanted to come here and you didn't email me, so,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: oh you didn't email me, you're.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Not showing up. And then Coop had mentioned me, he
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: mentioned me that you had contacted him.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, yeah, I try to bother people. Man, No,
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it. This was I appreciate man. Well, thanks
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: for coming in.
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  Speaker 1: Keep listening. Don't forget about us when you get back
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  Speaker 1: to Chicago.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: All right, you got to keep listening now, and tell
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: you tell your friends and all that, and we'll come.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: I'll be and she I got family that I told
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: you about, So I'll come there at some point. We'll
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: have a meet and greet and we'll come by and
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: hang out.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Tell some old war stories and all that. So safe
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: travels back to Chicago.
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  Speaker 6: Tree. I really appreciate it. Man, Thank you, guys, thanks, thanks.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: All right, the great tree hanging out here with us
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  Speaker 2: from Chicago as we press on.
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  Speaker 8: You brought some great socks.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: He brought socks, good socks. They have my name on them.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Oh did he?
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: I have not looked at my back. I feel weird,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: like opening gifts when people around. I don't know why
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: that is. It's very odd. Hey, it's my thing. It's
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: one of my weird things. Anyway, we will have Mallard
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: the third degree. We'll get to that coming up here momentarily.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Time now for the Insta trivia and here it is
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Blank now has five explosive receptions that's sixteen plus yards
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: in the last three games, leading all NFL receivers during
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: the preseason. Again, Blank now has five explosive receptions sixteen
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: plus yards in the last three games, leading all NFL
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: receivers during the preseason.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Which is now over. That is the instant trivia the answer.
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  Speaker 2: Blank now has five five explosive receptions sixteen or more
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  Speaker 2: yards in the last three games, leading all NFL receivers
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  Speaker 2: during the preseason, which is now over. So that is
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: the instant trivia. What is the answer? And let's see
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: does anyone know Scrooge is going with Deacon Jones as
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  Speaker 2: his answer. Ferg Dog says, it's Tree, who didn't almost
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  Speaker 2: get you fired? Unlike the Leprechaun. Great job by Tree.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Who else do we have? Page Dan can't read that?
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  Speaker 2: On the air Cde Lamb guest by Andy and Lionel
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  Speaker 2: Lakes Minnesota, Bert Cobain from Donkey Sausage. I see what
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  Speaker 1: Page down?
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  Speaker 2: Attilo says the head chef at the Madonna Inn, he
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: loves the Gabba Ghoul. He loves the Gabba Ghoul. They
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: have really good cake there at the Madonnian.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Right, you've been? Have you been there? In the mid
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: course you've not? Why have you not? In San Luis
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Obispo you've not gone to the Madonna in? No? Why not?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Bad job by you? Is that like South?
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  Speaker 2: Is that by San Diego?
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  Speaker 6: No?
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Sant Luis Obispo is in central California on the way
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  Speaker 2: to San Francisco off.
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  Speaker 1: Highway one, Highway one on one.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a bad job, bad geographical knowledge by you?
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  Speaker 1: Wow?
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  Speaker 6: All right?
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  Speaker 8: What else?
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  Speaker 6: Do we have?
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: A page down? And Miguel on Fire love Tree And
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: here's a great job by Tree.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: What can Brown do for you? All right? Enough of
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: that turn your mic back on. Here we go.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: It's time now for the insta trivia payoff. A blank
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: now has five explosive receptions sixteen or more yards in
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: the last three games all NFL receivers during the exhibition games,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: which are now done.
• 36:05
  Speaker 8: It's gotta be Serena Williams.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Serena Williams are really explosive receptions for Serena. No, that
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: is a correct someone named Brennan Presley, I ams, you
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  Speaker 2: can ram at all day and you can all night.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Here we are, Miller. How about that?
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  Speaker 3: To the third degree, this is one big gets grilled.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Here we all and to the coop a loop for
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: the questions the quiz that we call mallard of.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: The third degree.
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: The Phillies announced on Saturday the starting pitcher Zach Wheeler
• 36:38
  Speaker 8: will miss the remainder of the season.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Yes, he could have died. People die from blood Clott's coop.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: They die from blood clots.
• 36:45
  Speaker 8: Yes, Ben, How big of a blow is this for
• 36:48
  Speaker 8: the Phillies World Series hopes?
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Well, it sucks.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: However, the Phillies I am convinced if they're gonna do
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: anything here, it's going to be based on their offense.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: I don't think that's an outrageous take. Oh, you're really
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: a shock jock with that take. No, they remember a
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: couple years ago they got the World Series and then
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: they stopped hitting. But you've got a lineup that is
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: absolutely stacked with Trey Turner, Kyle Schwarber, Bryce Harper, jt
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Riamuto at the top. Those top four hitters are among
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: the top hitters in all of the National League, all
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: the baseball So they score runs. They've got enough pitching.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Oh you're you're crazy. No, Sanchez has been wonderful this year.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: He's their number one now with Wheeler out, Lozardo is
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: not terrible, and Rangel Suarez has had some moments. So,
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's some other guys in there, Taiwan Walker
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: and whatnot. But I don't think this eliminates the Phillies
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  Speaker 2: by any means.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: It makes it a little more difficult.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: It makes it a better story for the Phillies to
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: get to the World Series. I look at the National
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: League as wide open. The Dodgers are beatable. Not only
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: the Podres are invincible by any means. Here you look around,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: the Brewers look good, but can they do it in
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: the playoffs? Trees, Cubs So, to answer your question, Coop,
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: it hurts, but it's not. It's not a kill shot
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: for the Phillies.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Next.
• 38:02
  Speaker 8: Over the weekend, the Vikings traded backup quarterback Sam Howell
• 38:05
  Speaker 8: and signed Carson Wentz.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: The great former Ram Carson Wentz.
• 38:09
  Speaker 8: Right, well, yeah, a lot of people are calling this
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: an upgrade at backup, isn't it?
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: No, it is a lateral move.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: It is not an up good I'm actually a ran
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: More about this later. Carson Wentz has been washed up
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: for five years, six years, and he still gets jobs
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: in the NFL. Wouldn't that be great if you're you
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: proving you're not good at your job and he gets
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: bounced around.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: He's played for the Eagles.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Colts, Commanders, Rams, Chiefs, and now the Vikings since twenty twenty.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Either way, the Vikings are putting all their chips in
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: the JJ McCarthy basket.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: We all know that, right.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: If McCarthy sucks, they're cooked. They're absolutely cooked. It's not
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: like they're in better shape if Carson Wentz gets it
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: there in place. It's not like all of a sudden,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: oh we're in good shit, we got Carson Wentz.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: We're ready to go. Come on, all right.
• 38:56
  Speaker 8: Next, Paul Skin's just the way gem in this fiftieth
• 38:59
  Speaker 8: start the Majors and now has the second lowest ere
• 39:02
  Speaker 8: of any pitcher in the Live ball era through fifty starts.
• 39:05
  Speaker 8: But do you think the Pirates are going to waste
• 39:07
  Speaker 8: a generational talent much like the angel did with Mike Trout?
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Well, waste you mean, but Trout's still there.
• 39:14
  Speaker 8: They're just not winning. I Otani would be the better
• 39:18
  Speaker 8: comp right, because the Trout's already wasted. He's a thirty
• 39:21
  Speaker 8: four now.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: But Otani.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: They got nothing for Otani. They just let Otani leave
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: in free agency. They could have traded Otani like Paul Skans.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: The Pirates are going to end up trading him in
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: the next couple of years, right, So they're not gonna
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: get nothing for him. Are they gonna win the Pirates? No,
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: that's another team. There's a lot of teams in baseball coupe.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Good ballpark, bad team. The Pirates are on that good ballpark.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: The Giants, now, we had that our buddy, the Giant
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: fans showed up to that meet and greet the ugly
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: orange Giant hat on. I said, good good ballpark, bad team.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: The Pirates are on that list. But no, they're not
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: gonna win. They'll win when Paul Skans pitches, and then
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: when he doesn't pitch. You know it's and then every
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: once in a while you get a team that because
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: they have so many terrible seasons, they get all these
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: collection of young players at the same time. But no,
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: I'm they're gonna They're not gonna win anything in Pittsburgh
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: with Paul Skeins while he's there, and he'll go pitch
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: for the Yankees or the Dodgers of the Red Sox
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: or someone like that, or mystery team, and then he'll
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: go on and find glory somewhere else. All right there,
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: it is Mallard of the third degree. How did we do.
• 40:26
  Speaker 8: You pass this edition?
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: That is a pass?
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So so we had we had Tree, and I
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: gave Tree the ten centaur of the Fox Sports Radio studios.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: I pointed out, I said, that's where the cockroaches die.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: I said, that's the room where wrong button Bob turned
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: the entire network off. Right over there, there's a button.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: We don't know which button he pressed, but there's a button.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: I said, here's the vending machine, which used to be cheap.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: And then one of the one of the board ops
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: complained and they raised the prices. He's not here anymore,
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: so I don't know his name. I forget his name.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know who that is. But that's a bad
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: job by him, bad job by him.