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  Speaker 1: Well you remember when the Washington Commanders were in the
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  Speaker 1: NFC Championship Game, Mother Bat, those are the Dan Snyder Commanders.
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  Speaker 1: and we had the baby woke up. The baby was
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  Speaker 1: put to bed, the baby woke up. So the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: are still playing. We have live baseball, which is great
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  Speaker 1: because all these people are bitching and complaining.
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  Speaker 4: I don't understand these games are going so long. I
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  Speaker 4: don't get my God shut up. Welcome to my world,
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  Speaker 4: you losers, Welcome to my world. So the Dodgers and
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  Speaker 4: Blue Jays are tied at five. They've gone Now that
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  Speaker 4: I know is that cheating.
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  Speaker 1: They pulled out the the sliced watermelon and pineapple. It
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  Speaker 1: looked like to me pineapple. They're the Dodgers eating snacks
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  Speaker 1: in the dugout and they are now going to the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the sixteenth inning at Travesarino. I want this
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  Speaker 1: game to end. Either in the bottom of the sixteenth
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  Speaker 1: or the seventeenth, because I was at the game that
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  Speaker 1: win eighteen innings, so I don't want to see this game,
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  Speaker 1: this World Series game, go more than eighteen because that
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  Speaker 1: would then cheapen the game that I was at Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox and Doyers in the World Series years ago, when
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  Speaker 1: Max Muntsey hit the home run the game and ended
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  Speaker 1: one in the morning, Right around one in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: it was after midnight. I remember that it was after midnight.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, that is what's going on right now. So
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  Speaker 1: we will we will watch that, but we will be
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  Speaker 1: talking about something other than that right now, because there
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  Speaker 1: is more to discuss and more to break down, and
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  Speaker 1: so our lead story this hour from Arrowhead Stadium in
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  Speaker 1: Cannes City. It was KC and the Sunshine Band, and
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  Speaker 1: that is the lead the stage for the final game
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  Speaker 1: of Week number eight. Week number eight of the NFL
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  Speaker 1: eight one of the absolute worst. By the way, the
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  Speaker 1: product could not have been less enjoyable if you want
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  Speaker 1: competitive games. In fact, going back to nineteen seventy, this was,
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  Speaker 1: if not the largest marching, it was in the top
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  Speaker 1: two or three all time in the history of the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: I know going into the Monday night game. It was
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  Speaker 1: in the discussion. It depends on how you spin the
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  Speaker 1: stats how badness was. But a weekend of blowouts wrapped
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  Speaker 1: up with backup quarterback as Marcus Mariota leading the hobbled
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  Speaker 1: Commanders into Kansas City that played eight there with Patrick
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes and the Chiefs. You had Joe Buck and Troy
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  Speaker 1: Aikman on the call. There were you watching? Did you watch?
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  Speaker 1: Were you engaged in this? And you were not? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: So Patrick Mahomes, by his standards, struggled early in the game.
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  Speaker 1: The first half was a bit of a dud all
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  Speaker 1: the way around, a lot of turnovers, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: bad sloppy football. And then by the time the game ended,
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes we love round numbers. He was one yard away
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  Speaker 1: from a nice, sexy three hundred yards passing at two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and ninety nine yards, ended up with three touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt found Peydrt hit the end zone twice, and
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs defense in the second half it looked like
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to get out of there. They being Washington
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  Speaker 1: as Kansas City hog tied the Commanders in the final
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  Speaker 1: thirty minutes of that football game. So Kansas City pulls
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  Speaker 1: away and they win by three touchdowns twenty eight to seven.
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  Speaker 1: I am told that's good. I didn't play in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm told that's good on a nice cold October night,
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  Speaker 1: just days away from Halloween. Now, the better story is
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  Speaker 1: in the losing locker room. The better story is in
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  Speaker 1: the losing locker room. And the Commander fans very upset,
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  Speaker 1: very upset with dan Quinn. A lot of range, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of anger with the way the Commanders played in
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  Speaker 1: the second half of that game. And a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the conversation is not even so much about how bad
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  Speaker 1: the Commanders looked in the second half. It's the apathetic
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  Speaker 1: appearance of the players on the Washington football team, who
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  Speaker 1: were so happy after they got their face smashed in
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  Speaker 1: by the Chiefs and people up in arms over that,
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  Speaker 1: that they were smiling and having a grand old time
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  Speaker 1: playing grab ass at the end of the game there
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  Speaker 1: on the sidelines. The postgame handshake was like a college party.
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  Speaker 1: My god, were they having a good time? People upset
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  Speaker 1: with that, And so that's a good jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question does dan Quinn deserve the
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  Speaker 1: heat that he's getting in the cyber Warfare department for
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  Speaker 1: the commander's performance. Does he deserve some heat for that?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: My observations on this, I've got Brad pitt Child's play
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  Speaker 1: and Circus Circus, and we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to get an end
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  Speaker 1: to Game three of the World Series. That's going to have.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna end Game three of the World Series. But
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  Speaker 1: number one, to answer the question, does dan Quinn deserve
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  Speaker 1: the crap that he's getting. I'm nodding my head, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm nodding my head yes on that. Now, dan Quinn's commanders,
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  Speaker 1: I'm old enough to remember that they were in the
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  Speaker 1: final four of the National Football League at the end
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  Speaker 1: of last season, and here they are out there, smiling
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  Speaker 1: like they were to charity golf outing somewhere in Maryland,
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  Speaker 1: just having a grand old time. They were out playing
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  Speaker 1: golf with some politicians and just let me have some lemonade?
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  Speaker 1: Is that spiked lemonade? They didn't act like they just
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  Speaker 1: got pants in the second half by Kansas City, which
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  Speaker 1: is what happened on National TV, by the way, in
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  Speaker 1: an island game, although not a full island game because
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  Speaker 1: I was flipping back and my right hand was getting
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  Speaker 1: a workout. If I had only known the Dodgers and
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jays would play all night, I wouldn't even bother
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  Speaker 1: to watch the first part of the game. I just
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  Speaker 1: would have focused on the football game. But I was
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  Speaker 1: going back and forth and all that. So the Commanders
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  Speaker 1: end up on the wrong side. And then all the
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  Speaker 1: shenanigans after the game there as Washington did catch lightning
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  Speaker 1: in a bottle and I caught lightning in a bottle
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  Speaker 1: last year. That was supposed to be the foundation. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I was told. The smart people said, this is
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  Speaker 1: the foundation. This is it. The NFL's final four NFC
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  Speaker 1: Championship game in Philadelphia, win away from getting the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: and right there one win. Now, let's do some inventory
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  Speaker 1: on where the Commanders are. We're at a checkpoint week eight.
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  Speaker 1: Now I realized they play seventeen games, so it's not
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  Speaker 1: quite the halfway point, but nonetheless, for talk radio purposes,
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  Speaker 1: we will examine this as the middling point of the
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  Speaker 1: NFL season. So where is Washington one year after they
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  Speaker 1: were right on the cusp of the top of the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: So they have been come tumbling down down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down,
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  Speaker 1: down down down. That's where they are right now. And
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  Speaker 1: so they have gone from punching above their weight, which
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  Speaker 1: is what they did last year. Now they have gone
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  Speaker 1: down to the corner bakery and they've ordered a pie,
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  Speaker 1: not an apple, not a pumpkin, not the banana cream pie.
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  Speaker 1: They've gone to the corner bakery and the Commanders have
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  Speaker 1: ordered a big humble pie. And they're cutting up the
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  Speaker 1: humble pie right now. Although they don't seem to be
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  Speaker 1: that worried based on their postgame celebration. You want to
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  Speaker 1: give at least the deception that you actually care. So Defensively,
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  Speaker 1: the Commanders currently are ranked twenty seventh in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: I'm told that's not good. The offense. How about the offense?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: The Commander's offense here? Okay, this group, I know Jadon
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  Speaker 1: Daniels has been hurt. Middle of the pack. There's sixteenth
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. Now, I recall, and maybe I'm wrong
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  Speaker 1: on this. You can touch up my work if you want.
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  Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury was the second coming of the Messiah as
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  Speaker 1: the offensive genius for the Washington Commanders. It is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: How'd that go?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 1: Don't ask this year. Now, here's the thing about the
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  Speaker 1: Commanders watching this team plan. I saw him in person
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  Speaker 1: a few weeks back against the Chargers, and they actually
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  Speaker 1: played well in that game. But the thing I look
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  Speaker 1: at Washington is they're not bad enough the Commanders to
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  Speaker 1: be a lovable train wreck. So they're not at that point,
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  Speaker 1: and they're not good enough to really matter. They're just
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuck in the Bermuda triangle of the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: They're stuck in football purgatory at this point. And as
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  Speaker 1: far as the I guess we'll call it, what is
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  Speaker 1: the heel? A monster in the room here? Postgame? It
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  Speaker 1: was like a country club. But is it always like
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  Speaker 1: I don't like understand the rage. It's always like that
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  Speaker 1: at NFL games. They love other NFL players and they
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  Speaker 1: cannot wait to hug it out. It's warm and fuzzy
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  Speaker 1: at the end of every NFL game, with few exceptions.
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  Speaker 1: With few exceptions. Now there are exceptions, but you you'd
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  Speaker 1: think that the Washington football team was hosting a nice
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  Speaker 1: brunch with sliced meats and sliced cheeses and they hadn't
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  Speaker 1: just gotten their teeth kicked in in the second half
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  Speaker 1: by the team from Kansas City. But if you're dan Quinn, okay,
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  Speaker 1: if you're dan Quinn, to me, that's on you. He's
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be a happy, go lucky coach and all that.
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  Speaker 1: That's fine, but at least give the illusion that you
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  Speaker 1: were slightly bobbed. And this is always the issue. Right
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  Speaker 1: we who invest our time as fans, we get emotionally attached.
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  Speaker 1: The players don't get emotionally attached. It's their gig, it's
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  Speaker 1: their job. They don't understand why you're so into it.
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  Speaker 1: Just chill out, man, It's just a game. And so
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  Speaker 1: we want to go on there and make out at
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  Speaker 1: the fifty yard line after we just got are ass kicked.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to do that. We are going to do
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  Speaker 1: that is what we're going to do. Yes, So, how
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  Speaker 1: bad was it for the Washington Commanders? Was so bad
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  Speaker 1: that dan Quinn should hire Brad Pitt. Bring Brad Pitty
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  Speaker 1: And remember that famous scene from Moneyball where he was
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  Speaker 1: portraying Billy Bean and they were in the locker room
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  Speaker 1: and he said, hey, you think losing is fun? You
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  Speaker 1: think losing is fun? And then the player on the
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  Speaker 1: Athletics said, well, no, okay, well, if the answers no,
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  Speaker 1: it's not fun, then what the hell are you smiling for?
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  Speaker 1: By the way, they played thirty minutes of football, they
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  Speaker 1: were tied at halftime. The Washington football team, I believe
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  Speaker 1: at that point they started warming up the diesel engines
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  Speaker 1: on the buses and they wanted to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: the water in the shower was warm as well. They
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  Speaker 1: had just sixty six yards of offense in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: and if my math is correct, I jotted this chicken
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  Speaker 1: scratch down four first downs in the second half, which
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  Speaker 1: I'm told is not good. And they were big underdogs,
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  Speaker 1: double digit dogs. They being Washington going into this game,
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  Speaker 1: they were expected to lose, they were expected to be
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  Speaker 1: blown out. They actually had the game in position at
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  Speaker 1: halftime to scratch and claw and make it a fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter game, to put the pressure on Kansas City. And
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  Speaker 1: instead of doing that, well, they did the opposite. They
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  Speaker 1: just got in the fetal position, started sucking their thumb
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  Speaker 1: and that was it. Mahomes got going, the defense started
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  Speaker 1: crushing people, and that was it. Game over. Absolute weak sauce,
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  Speaker 1: Absolute week sauce. Now on the other side, page two,
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  Speaker 1: So we go now to the Kansas city side of things,
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  Speaker 1: where things are buzzing. You can almost hear it. There's
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  Speaker 1: a buzz in the air. It's almost everywhere. Yes, So question,
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  Speaker 1: are you gonna go thumbs up or are you gonna
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  Speaker 1: go thumbs down? Thumbs upper, thumbs down on Andy Reid's
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs being back in the catbird seat metaphorically in the AFC.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that is the question. So thumb to the moon,
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  Speaker 1: way up. I'm going to the moon. Thumb way up
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  Speaker 1: to the moon. Now, this game, you don't get any
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  Speaker 1: style points. It was a blowout win. It was close
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  Speaker 1: at halftime. This was what I would call a workman
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  Speaker 1: like effort for the Kansas City Chiefs. Here punched the
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  Speaker 1: clock the old I can't really say lunch pail because
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  Speaker 1: all these guys are millionaires, but you get the point.
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  Speaker 1: Back in the old days, we'd say lunch pail type game.
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  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, All of a sudden, Patrick
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes looks like the vintage Patrick Mahomes. Yet again he does.
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  Speaker 1: He's got his toys back at wide receiver, He's got
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  Speaker 1: his playmakers back. I know Keg drinking. Steve's excited about that.
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  Speaker 1: And so Mahomes is cooking with a flamethrower at this point.
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  Speaker 1: So it turns out the reports of Mahomes and the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs demise, well, they were cute while they lasted greatly exaggerated.
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes looked in the second half like he was taking
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  Speaker 1: batting practice at five thirty and hitting those batting practice
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  Speaker 1: fastballs out of the park. Washington had nothing in the
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  Speaker 1: second half. Now, some of that was Mahomes. Some of
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  Speaker 1: that was Mahomes and what he was doing with Kansas City.
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  Speaker 1: They got off to the er and to two start. They
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  Speaker 1: are now five and one, and the one loss in
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  Speaker 1: there was the play that they quit against Jacksonville. Remember
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  Speaker 1: the defense quit. They were caught on camera lollygagging, allowing
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  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence to fall down twice and get up and
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  Speaker 1: score a touchdown. So that's on them. So you could
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  Speaker 1: make the argument there's a dimension in the multiverse where
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  Speaker 1: they are six and zero and they're lurking in the
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  Speaker 1: playoff picture like Michael Myers behind the curtain.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 1: Now nobody think about this, Nobody in the AFC. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: in the AFC. You can say, well Indianapolis a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but nobody in the AFC West has been able to
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  Speaker 1: capitalize on that early faceplant. The Chargers won all these
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  Speaker 1: divisional games earlier. Oh, right, there you go, this is
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers year. Everything's great. They're set up. Boom boom boom.
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  Speaker 1: Division win, division win, division win, They're ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: And now we look like we look at it right
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  Speaker 1: now and yeah, faceplan. So the division led by the
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  Speaker 1: Chargers early and they had a shot to bury Kansas City.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't do it. We all know that nobody in
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  Speaker 1: the AFC West took advantage of it. As we said,
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  Speaker 1: so the division is still up for grabs at this
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  Speaker 1: point and now Kansas City. As of right now, the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs are back in the playoff picture. They are the
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  Speaker 1: last team in the wild card around. They're the last
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  Speaker 1: team in the playoffs at this point and still have
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  Speaker 1: a shot to be the number one seed in the Also,
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  Speaker 1: the schedule sets up nicely Kansas City. There is no momentum,
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  Speaker 1: so we know that. However, they are playing with some
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  Speaker 1: confidence now they have up ahead. If you look, you've
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  Speaker 1: got the Bills, Broncos and Colts upcoming. Is also buy
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  Speaker 1: mixed in and so those are massive swing games both
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  Speaker 1: in the division and then just the overall hierarchy in
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  Speaker 1: the AFC down the line. So Kansas City, I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to say, if you like horror movies, Kansas City this
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  Speaker 1: season it's like that class Child's Play. Remember that movie.
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  Speaker 1: It's old movie. Now all my references are old, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: but Child's Play. And that was where Chucky was at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of the movie. There he was burned, shot
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  Speaker 1: and dismembered, and somehow, because it's Hollywood, managed to come back.
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  Speaker 1: Why not Kansas City to begin the year was burn
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  Speaker 1: shot and dismembered, and they have come back now and
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  Speaker 1: they're right in the middle of it in the AFC
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  Speaker 1: and Mahomes is breathing like a dragon with fire. Andy
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  Speaker 1: Reids is suddenly smart again, and we're on our way.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the conspiracy theorist will so well yeah but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, but yeah about the NFL wants someone to win.
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  Speaker 1: Be goes with Taylor swip. Yeah but yeah but yeah
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  Speaker 1: it yeah it yeah it yea it yeah it yea
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  Speaker 1: it Rabbit They yab it rabbit all right. Now, final
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  Speaker 1: point to Dallas, we go. Bad football makes for good
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  Speaker 1: talk radio. We love talking about the bad. We love it,
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  Speaker 1: we love it. We love it, We love it. So
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  Speaker 1: humiliation situation in Dallas question coach Brian Schottenheimer, the sock
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  Speaker 1: pupp coach of Jerry Jones football team, is promising change, change,
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  Speaker 1: change this after the Denver Broncos rubbed the Cowboys face
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  Speaker 1: in their own poo poo in the game on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: dominating win. As Schottenheimer says there's going to be changed.
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  Speaker 1: He also said it is not acceptable the way the
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  Speaker 1: Dallas football team played. So question what changes can Shotty?
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  Speaker 1: What changes can Shoty make for the Cowboys? That is
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  Speaker 1: the question. So Schottenheimer banging the podium right, this is
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  Speaker 1: the classic. I'm going to bang the podium is what
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to do, and say, changes coming, changes coming. Now.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen this movie before at Spider Light Spider Alert. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we know how it ends. We know it ends two
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  Speaker 1: weeks from now or three weeks from now. But Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: will give up a fifty point game to somebody. But change, change, change.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Do I have the change? But this is pure window dressing.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: It's pure window dressing. It's paint on a cracked foundation,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: trying to sell the house before the person buying the
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: house realizes the foundation is cracked on the house. So
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: what's gonna change. You can't change the roster. I know
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: the trade deadline is coming up. You're not gonna trade
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: half the roster, which is seemingly what you're going to
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: have to do. Right, So the defense is wobbly. In Dallas,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: they're three four and one. They have a losing record.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott is putting up video game numbers where the
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: fantasy football players have their pants down. They're so excited
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: about that. And it doesn't mean a damn thing. It
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: does not mean a damn thing. It does not, And
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: so it's kind of like putting lipstick on a quarterback draw.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: And that's essentially what they're doing. This is the most fun,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: most fun, fun bad NFL team. And now fun bad
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: is important to me. That's important. You just want to
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: be bad. You want to be fun bad. Fun bad's
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: a good kind of bad. You can't just be bad bad,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: fun bad. That's the way to go. Dallas is like
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the Circus Circus Midway in Vegas. And when you go
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: to the Circus Circus Midway in Vegas, it's a much
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: different experience when you're nine years old as opposed to
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: when you're fifty years old. It's much different experience. Right,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: you go to the Circus Circus Midway in Vegas. They've
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: got flashing lights, there's a lot of noise, there's a
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: lot of activity, there's carnival games, there's chaos. Everyone seems
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: to be having a great time, but deep down in
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: your soul, you know it's kind of a dump. That's
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys, right. Everyone looks like they're having a
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: good time, they're having fun. There's a lot of flashing lights,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of chaos and all that, but deep down,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: you know, they blow. They absolutely blow. They score a
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: lot of points, they give up a lot of points,
• 20:54
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• 20:56
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• 20:59
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• 21:04
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• 21:07
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• 21:11
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• 21:51
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  Speaker 1: story from Chavez Ravine that the scene Downtown LA. Overlooking
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Downtown La. That the stage for Game three of the
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: World Series. You had Vladimir Guerrero Junior Flatty leading the
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays as they flew into LA for a matchup
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: with sho Hey O'tani and the Dodgers. Not to start
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: of the game seven some hours ago, you had Mac
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Schurzer versus Tyler Glass. Now that was the matchup start.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Joe Davis and John Smoltz had the call, and the
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: game ended about ten minutes ago. We're doing this in
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: real time. The game ended in about ten minutes ago.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: And why did it end ten minutes ago? Because Freddie
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Freeman to the moon. If you didn't see it, Freddie
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Freeman hits a game ender, eighteen inning walk off home
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: run for Freddie Freeman as the Dodgers and Blue Jays
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: played free baseball, A solo home run by Freddie Freeman
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: the bottom of the eighteenth and the Blue Crew get
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: a six to five win in a game that took
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: six hours and thirty nine minutes, six hours and thirty
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: nine minutes, a game that had several points where the
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays could have, should have and would have won,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: but they did not win. So let us discuss that's
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Freddie Freeman your October hero.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: And so the question on this one, the question is
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: what stands out What is your knee jerk reaction to
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Game three of the World Series, which just ended a
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: couple of minutes ago. So I've got on this one.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I've got Kryptonite. We've also got Rancho koukamonga, and if
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: that was not enough, we will throw in for added effect,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: we will throw in the cry babies, and we'll mix
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: all of these things together, and we are going to
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: make the baba Ganoosh. We're gonna make the Babaganoosh. So
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the first thing that stands out is the amount of
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: baseball that was played. I mean, this is really is
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: eighteen innings of baseball between the Dodgers and Blue Jays.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: And you look at similar numbers here, which are historic.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers, for example, left eighteen runners on base in
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: this game, eighteen runners on base. The Toronto Blue Jays
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: they ended up with nineteen runners left on base. The
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays were two of twelve in runners in scoring positions,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: so they were not very good in that department. The Dodgers,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: on the other side, and obviously not good either. They
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: were two for fourteen. It was the show, Oh hey
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Otani game. More on that in a minute. Otani, who
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: was absolutely cooking. He was four for four and then
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: the Blue Jays eventually decided, well, we're not going to
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: let him beat us, and so they started walking him.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: He was walked five times, four of those intentional and
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Otani tying a Major League Baseball record for most times
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: reaching base, as he ended up on base nine times
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: in Game three of the World Series. So he's had
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: two massive playoff games, the one against the Brew crew
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: with all the home runs and the pitching, and now
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: this game where the Blue Jays just completely could not
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: get him out. They gave up. So it's that. And
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: then obviously Freddie Freeman, there'll be seventeen thousand promotions next year.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman, bobblehead, Freddie Freeman, Replica Jersey, Freddie Freeman, this,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: That.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: But the walk off home run right over the three
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: to ninety five signed in center field at Dodger Stadium,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: and the Dodgers have won it. And Freddy that post
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: that he knew he was going to be in the
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: like the bobblehead next year, so he had the number
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: one finger in the air. He said, number one right there,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: every everywhere. So the now here's a fun factoid. Are
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: you ready for a fun factoid mixed in fun fact
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: All right, so we are told it is now official.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: There have only been two eighteen inning games in world
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: serious history. And Brad Paisley sang the national anthem at
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: both of them. He was. He was there for Game
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: three in twenty eighteen, and now here in this game, uh,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the game at Dodger Stadium. Here that went eighteen innings.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: So it's his birthday. Yeah. The thing also that stands
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: out about this, though, is not all losses are the same, right.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I mean said, well, this hurts because it's an eighteen
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: inning loss for the Toronto Blue Jays. But I would argue,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: and I don't think I'm wrong on this. You can
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: disagree if you want. This is worse than that because
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: the spot of the Dodgers, every man, woman and child
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: knows is the bullpen. It is a parade of horribles,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: the Dodger bullpen. And it wasn't pretty. There were a
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: lot of runners on base, there was a lot of traction.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: But in the end, the Dodgers' bullpen was marvelous. It
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: was a chef's kiss. Will Klein, who normally you would
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: say decline immediately a Dodger legend as the pitcher, the
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: nondescript pitcher coming out of the bullpen. There Will cleinb
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: and pitching a lot of goosegs, a lot of gooseggs
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: out of that Dodger bullpen four innings. He threw seventy
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: two pitches out of the bullpen and only allowed one hit.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: He walked a couple of guys, but four innings of
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: shutout relief when he was the last man standing for
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. Now turning the page on that. As for
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: the approach, the approach of both teams, So the question
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: is is there a word? Is there a word?
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers kryptonite is their bullpen. The Blue Jays blew it.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: They didn't take advantage of that, but just in general,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: both teams were rather flaccid as the game went on.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: So what is the word watching the Blue Jays and
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Dodgers flail away for what seemed like three hours like
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: the game the regular game for three hours. The extra
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: innings were like three hours, three hours plus. So what
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: is the word for the Dodgers and Blue Jays offensive
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: approach for the majority of extra inning baseball there in
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: the World Series? So two words, not one word? Two
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: words hero ball, hero ball. Everyone in Dodger blue and
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Toronto Blue Jay uniforms, everyone decided that they were going
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: to go out there and they were going to be
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: the protagonist in the in the movie. They were making
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: a movie. In so many sports movies, and they wanted
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: to be the protagonist in this, and forget team baseball.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: There wasn't very much of Once you got to extra innings,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: you've got home run derby. Everyone's trying to hit home runs.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: You get a home run, you get a home run.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: It was Halloween this week, and so it's Halloween home
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: run derby. Cosplay is what it was here for the
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Dodgers in Blue Jayson, Game three of the World Series.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: It was often reckless. It was often irresponsible baseball, that's
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: what it was, and almost no situational hitting when the
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Dodgers did try it, and it backfired as they bunted
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the runner across the way and they just needed a
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: sack fly and then of course a pop up to
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: shortstop screwed that up. So there was almost no situational hitting.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: And then when the Dodgers did try it, it backfired.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: There it was mostly a conga line of guys trying
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: to hit the ball outside of the stadium over the pavilion.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: A lot of uppercut swings there from players on both teams,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: and that is human nature, right, It's just like in
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: basketball certain guys want to take the shot at the
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: end of the game. Now there's other guys that turtle
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: up and don't want to take the shot. But in baseball,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: very rarely do you find anyone that doesn't want to
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: be the hero and get the postgame interview, get the
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: gatorade bath, the whole thing. Hit the game winning home run,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: and everyone wants to be on the poster. Everyone wants
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: to be on the meme. Now, Freddie Freeman, back to
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: back years. Freddie Freeman is on that moment. And while
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Tani hit a home run and was on base nine times,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Freeman's got to be the lead. Freddie Freeman's got to
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: be leading this game. And that iconic photo of him
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: with his finger raised up in the air, the one
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: finger as he was circling first base. But so you
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: can be a bunch of as we said, Freddie Freeman
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: giveaways next year for the Dodgers. The problem is when
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: everyone's swinging like they're trying to hit the ball to
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Rancho Kuckamonga, Okay, the offense looks like a bad Beer
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: League softball situation. It's not very very pretty. And so
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman did get it, as we said, he it's
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: the game winning home run. Dodgers went it six to
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: five in X ratings. That was nine innings times two
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: in the World Series, and history says that the winner
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: of Game three has won seventy percent. I believe it's
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: seventy percent of the time. However, as the great Dick
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Stockton inform me, that tells you what has happened, not
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: what's going to happen here. And so the final nine innings,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: while John Smoltz and Joe Davis on the Fox broadcast
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: were waxing liquacious about how amazing it was and how
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: magical it was and all that. They were going on
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: on and on and on, everyone trying to be the
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Knight in Shining Armor, and occasionally, sometimes the Knight in
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Shining Armor is just an idiot wrapped in tinfoil that
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: occasionally happens. That occasionally happens, And so there was there
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: was some of that. Now, the other thing I've learned
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: from years and years of doing talk radio is a
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: lot of that game was rather disgusting. It was puke
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: in your mouth bad baseball, fundamentally bad baseball. There were
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: pitchers on the Dodgers who fundamentally blow and the Blue
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Jays turned them into rock stars because of bad at bats,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: and they got themselves out a lot of the time.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: I got themselves out a lot of the time. So
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: you've got that. But the thing that I know, all
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: of this will be forgotten. It's like men in black
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: and they're gonna zap you. They're gonna zap you with
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: the neuralies or whatever it's called there. And the only
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: thing over time that we are going to remember is
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: going to be and this is across the board. When
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: you watch a big event like this in sports, you're
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: gonna remember two things. You're gonna remember the emotional peak
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: and you're gonna remember the end of the game. Now,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: in this case, it's they're both the same. The emotional
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: peak was the Freddie Freeman home run. Right now, maybe
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: you'll remember Otani got on base nine times. I was
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: at the Dodger Red Sox game when eighteen innings in
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen World Series, and I remember two things
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: about that game without looking. I remember the Max Munsey
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: home run, and I also remember for the Red Sox,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Nathan Evaldi pitching ridiculous bullpen, came in, pitched a bunch
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: of innings. I forget how many, but he saved the
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Red Sox pitching staff coming in and throwing a ton
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: of innings in that game. So those are the things
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: I remember, and I was at that in that World
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Series back in the day. Now the last word here,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: let's address what everyone will be yapping about outside the
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: outcome of the game, and that would be the show. Hey,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Otani getting on base nine times? Game? How did you
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: get on base nine times? Well, a lot of that
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: was because of the generosity of the Toronto Blue Jays.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: It was intentionally walked, not once, not twice, not three times,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: but four times. So the question on this one, with
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: the Blue Jay pitchers and the management deciding we're not
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: going to allow Otani to beat us, with Otani being
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: pitched around and walked, he's walked five times with four
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: intentional walks, does Major League Baseball need to revisit the
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: intentional walk rule. So a lot of chatter, a lot
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: of Internet chatter. People upset, many of them worked to
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: day shift, many of them are on the East Coast.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Many of them are belly aching and complaining there is
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: a right or cry babies right, So let's address the
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: cry babies in the room and we'll tackle the question
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: with Otani intentionally walked four times in this game? Does
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: baseball need to revisit the intentional walk rule? So I
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: am shaking my head. No, all right, I'm shaking my head.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: No on this. You cannot legislate out of respect. You
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: cannot do it. And if a guy is so terrifying,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: so intimidating that a team in the World Series would
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: rather hand that player first base, just go down to first.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: You've got us by the balls, that's not a problem.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: That is a act of respect for Sho hail Tani,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: that he's such a monster that Toronto is there a
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: bunch of cowards. They're afraid of Otani. They're like these
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: other guys. It's also a vote of no confidence for
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: the rest of the Dodger lineup. But I totally get it.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: The Blue Jays didn't just pitch around him. They tapped
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: out in this game. They said no moss, they tossed
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: in the sponge, all of that. John Schneider, the Blue
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Jays manager, essentially raised the white flag and said, please
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: don't hurt us, show hey, leave us alone. Four intentional
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: walks are your bloody kidding me? That is the baseball
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: version of pulling the fire alarm. Now, I'm not gonna
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: sit here and pretend like it's not great for the sport.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: It's terrible for the sport. We get it. I understand.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: I like baseball. I don't like everything about baseball. I
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: like to complain. I get paid to complain. So clearly,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: it's not ideal, it's not. It's just isn't the sport
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: neutering its biggest stars, cutting the balls off its biggest
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: stars on the biggest stage around is not what you're
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: hoping for. It's not. It's just bad. Tell it's bad entertainment.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: And so that is an issue that you have to
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: factor in here. It would be like telling Patrick Mahomes, listen, dude,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: you're so good. The defense has asked you to not
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: throw a pass in the Super Bowl, and so we're
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: not going to allow you to throw a pass in
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl because you're so good. Or whoever your
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: favorite NBA player is right now. Back in the old days,
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  Speaker 1: you'd say Lebron, but whoever it was, you don't let
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  Speaker 1: them shoot the ball in Game seven of the NBA Finals,
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  Speaker 1: all right now, the yabbit crowd yabit, Yeah, but yeah, yeah,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: but yeah, but yabbit rabbit. The yabbit rabbit says, you know, listen,
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  Speaker 1: change the rule. It's it's bad for the sport. You
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  Speaker 1: got to advance the baseball has been around since the
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  Speaker 1: eighteen eighties or whatever. You get to advance, advance the sport.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, I'm on the counter of that. My argument
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  Speaker 1: is you cannot change the rule every time somebody is
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  Speaker 1: so good it's emasculating. In basketball, they got rid of
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  Speaker 1: the slam dunk because well, guys, with certain guys, we're
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  Speaker 1: too good. Will Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, players of that.
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  Speaker 1: Kareem created the skyhook, which was unstoppable known as leu
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  Speaker 1: ale cinder back in those days. But in the context
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  Speaker 1: of baseball, it's part of the sport of baseball. You
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  Speaker 1: earn that treatment. They're not walking nobody's four times intentionally,
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  Speaker 1: so just to play devil's advocate here and again, my
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  Speaker 1: position is firmly that baseball does not need to dramatically
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  Speaker 1: change this rule, that this is more of an outlier situation.
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  Speaker 1: Now that being said, I did activate the Malar think tank.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: The Malar think tank has been activated here and the
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  Speaker 1: idea we were tossing this around casually or in an
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  Speaker 1: earlier hour of the show. It does make a lot
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  Speaker 1: of sense that you increase the stakes for players that
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: are so good you're going to multi multiple times intentionally
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  Speaker 1: walk a player. So I would be open to it.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't love it, but I would be open to
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: the idea intentional walk. If you walk Otani the first time,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: he gets first base. If you walk him later in
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: the game, he gets second base. If you walk him
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  Speaker 1: a third time, he goes to third base. And if
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: you walk him a fourth time, he just gives give
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  Speaker 1: him a run. If you're such a coward and your
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: pitching staff blows so much, I'd be open. It is gimmicky,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: and I generally try to avoid that kind of stuff.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: And here's the thing, though, if you think that would
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: be too radical, oh you're just being a shock chock mallard.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you're on Overnight. They're never gonna consider that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh really, oh really, In my lifetime, In my lifetime,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, ghost Runners, spookkey, Rob Manford gave you
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: ghost runners. That's literal league, that's bare league, soup up
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: the ghost rutters. Rob Manford gave you ghost rutters. So
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: he said out race just to think. If you want
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  Speaker 1: intentionally walk a guy four times, he'll just end the game.
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  Speaker 1: That's it and give you a run pitch clock. That
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  Speaker 1: was blasphemy back in the Baseball's got a pitchclock bigger
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  Speaker 1: basis the size of pizza boxes? Who asked for that?
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Baseball's got it? Banned the shift because the players can't adjust.
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  Speaker 1: Baseball did it? So Rob Manford has already turned the
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: game into a bit of a funhouse. That bit of
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: a fun house here with everything here, all the gimmicks,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: and you know, out of an effort to make the
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: game of baseball more entertaining. So either way, four intentional walks,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: which is what O'tani got here the ultimate badge of
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: riespect for Oltani. That is it. Toronto did not pitch
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: to show hail Toni the meal ticket for the Dodgers
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: the entire second half. I guess there was one at
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: back there they had to as there was nobody on.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: But other than that, for the majority of the World
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Series game when we went to extra innings, because they
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: knew what Tani was going to torch him and so
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: you can wrap that in we want I'll put a
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  Speaker 1: ball on it this way, major League Baseball. Just to
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  Speaker 1: clarify my position, because I know you only listen to
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: half the things I say. If I'm lucky, major League
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  Speaker 1: Baseball does not need a rule change. However, you want
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: to tinker a little bit, I'd be okay with it.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: He would add a degree of difficulty, so I'd be
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: okay with that. I don't love it. That would be
• 41:30
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• 41:44
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• 41:46
  Speaker 1: they can wrap it up in a couple of games
• 41:48
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• 41:51
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers have a tremendous pitching advantage, at least in
• 41:54
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  Speaker 3: During yesterday's show, you said Drake May was not yet
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: a legit MVP contender. Whoever, Colts quarterback Daniel Jones believes
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: that his running back Jonathan Taylor is ben What do
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: you think?
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: No, you downgrade Taylor's been great. He's a running back
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: and by default, running backs don't win the MVP. Maholmes
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: is now your favorite to win the MVP. It's going
• 42:31
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• 42:33
  Speaker 1: He'll get some token votes Jonathan Taylor, but not enough
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: to win next. MVP is an award that's getting a
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: lot of discussion. But who do you think the front runner?
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: The front runner is for Coach of the Year, Well,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: you talked about the Colts KOOPLEPI. The formula is rather simple.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: When you have a team that was supposed to be
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: mediocre or suck and they overachieved, Shane Steichen, the coach
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: of the Colts, has to be the favorite for Coach
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: of the Year honors at this point because Daniel Jones
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: I thought was going to be horrific. He's not. He's
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: a top ten quarterback. So Shane Styke is going to
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: get the credit.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: Next, Kellen Moore decided to bench quarterback Spencer Ratler late
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: in the game on Sunday and go with rookie. I
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: don't even know how to pronounce his name. Tyler shu
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: shuck is pronounced. That's so weird. Check with the hopes
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: of Louisville. Yeah, the hopes of providing a spark.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: It didn't.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: But Ben, at this point, is there any reason to
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: go back to Ratler?
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: So it's like deciding whether you want the firing squad
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: of the electric chair. Either way, the outcome is going
• 43:25
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it. Welcome to architssays we've got any meaning
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  Speaker 1: mighty most. Sam is in Iowa. Hello Sam, Welcome than
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  Speaker 1: Sam's full of energy, he's excited to be here, and
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: he's a man of many words. Welcome Sam, You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: play the game? Who do you want to partner up
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: with Sam? Okay, he's gonna play with Ben Lorena.
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  Speaker 3: I'm shocked he didn't pick me up.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, I can't believe that. Hold on a sex, Sam
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  Speaker 1: and we have keg drinking Steve and ken'saw city. Hello
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  Speaker 1: se Man, what.
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  Speaker 2: A record breaking night? Did you see?
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  Speaker 3: Mary? We don't have time steam geez.
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  Speaker 1: The other guy hung up? So you gotta play, you
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: gotta play. I'll play with Lorena man, Mary hart Is okay,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: all right, you're an idiot? What he or what he is?
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: All right, let's play the game.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: You're not playing with Lorena, Steve, play the game?
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: All right? All right? Stop?
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: What is the is the was it the woking En
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: Phoenix edition? Yes, he's fifty one years old?
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: To happy birth? Ah the joker? Okay, all right.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: The categories are eight millimeter, Gladiator, the Immigrant, and Napoleon?
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: Samwhich category would you like? Gladiator? Alright, Steve? How about you?
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  Speaker 5: The immigrant?
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  Speaker 3: The immigrant?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Right, very good? I love immigrants. Okay, thank you, congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: All right, here we go. Let's play the game right now.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: You picked Sam and Iowa a man of few words.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: You picked Gladiator. These athletes were all part of notable fights.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready, Sam? Yeah, all right, we need the
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: first and last name and we're on our way. Go
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: Star defensive player for the Cleveland Browns right now, all right,
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: the worm for the Chicago Bulls in the nineteen eighties,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: the picce. Yeah, all right, thank you. I'll take credit
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: for it. He changed his name. He played for the
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers. He started the malice at the Palace at
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: basketball play player. That is correct. Picture for the Red Sox,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: not Kurt Schilling, but the number one picture for that
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: Red Sox team that won the World Series from the
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: Dominican Republic, that is correct. Got into a fight with Robbin,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: got into a fight with Nolan Ryan, got a fight
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: with Nolan Ryan got his.
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: You said the name that does not Yes? You did, Yes,
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: you said, Rob said Rob. I said that does not
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: count you that ninety I said Rob. All right, I
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: did say Ro. I said Rob Rob. We said we
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: are we have Rob Parker.
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: The immigrant. These athletes were Rob Parker. These athletes were
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: all born in another country.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: You're getting all.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: Right, Steve, forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin.
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: Japanese slugger for the Dodgers.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: Full name.
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  Speaker 2: Joey o'danni.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, okay, thank you.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: This guy's the star player on the Lakers. He's from
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: like Slovenia. Uh, Luca, Yes, this guy was a Canadian
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: on the Philadelphia on the Phoenix Suns. He won like
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: a couple mvds.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: Uh. Alright.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: This guy was a slugger from the Dominican Republic for
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: the Angels. People are considering him to be a manager.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Albert.
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: Yes, this guy was nicknamed the Nigerian Nightmare. This guy
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: was a Polish kicker for the Raiders.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Kicker. V.
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: You went for the joke, so we have we have
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: seventy seventy al Right, Steve, we're back up. Do you
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: want eight millimeter or Napoleon?
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: Napole?
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  Speaker 3: It's Steve, It's Steve.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: You're gonna gets all right?
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: All right, Steve, we've got Napoleon. These athletes were all
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: considered short in their sport.
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: Ah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, forty five seconds. Let's begin.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: He's the short quarterback for the Cardinals right now. Uh,
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: the guy that doesn't play video games?
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: Kyler Murray.
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, this guy was on the Seahawks and the Broncos.
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: Now he's a backup on the giants. Uh, well, man,
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: mister unlimited. Okay, uh, yes, this guy was a cheating astro.
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: He's like five to five. He's what a cheating astro?
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: He's like five to five?
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I know, little guy.
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: Okay, how about this guy's got the same name as
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: the famous point guard from the Detroit Pistons. No, no,
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: but he's on there. Who's the shortest player of all time?
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: You didn't get it?
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: He said the name, he said the name.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: That a hundred. Let's go, let's go Steve here. But
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: all right, yeah, these these all War number eight, They
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: all War number eight. Are you ready saying? Yeah? All right? Uh,
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: Star of the Star of the nineteen seventies Pittsburgh Pirates.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: We are family hit tail a record break African American
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: guy hit tons of home runs for the Pirate. Yeah,
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: all right, there you go, shut up, not yours greatest
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: punter of all time for the Raiders. And he's not
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: a man, he's a rod. We win Jimmy's name. Let's
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: go long win Muggy Bus Muggsy, folks did not count.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: Muggsy did not count.