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Hour 2 - Box Office Bomb · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: The Benny Man can. The Benny Man can. It's hour
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  Speaker 1: number two. Hour two of the Ben Maller Show. And
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  Speaker 1: here in hour number two, talking some baseball as the
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay baseball team has said bye-bye to the big,
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  Speaker 1: bad Bronx Bombers. Does the absence of Aaron Judge explain
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees' offensive collapse, or is that just an excuse
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  Speaker 1: for a poorly constructed lineup we'll talk about the futile
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  Speaker 1: Yankee hitters and is Aaron Boone officially out of excuses
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  Speaker 1: after nine seasons without a championship as the skipper of
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees and how do you size up the Kevin
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  Speaker 1: Cash raise as they head into the final four the
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  Speaker 1: ALCS where they'll play either the Guardians or the White
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  Speaker 1: Sox we will discuss that as well we also have
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  Speaker 1: Benny versus the penny we'll tell you who should win
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  Speaker 1: Here it is, hour number two.
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  Speaker 1: They're known as the Bronx Bombers, but this was just
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  Speaker 1: a box.
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  Speaker 2: Office bomb in the postseason.
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  Speaker 1: That's exciting. Try to stay calm. So our lead this
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  Speaker 1: hour from baseball. Talking baseball. We go to the Bronx.
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  Speaker 1: As you know, I have a family. Family in New York.
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  Speaker 1: My older brother moved there many, many years ago. I've
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  Speaker 1: got cousins in the tri-state area there. So family pretty
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  Speaker 1: much spread out all over the place. But a lot
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  Speaker 1: of my family, there's a mix of Mets and Yankees fans.
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  Speaker 1: The Mets fans don't say much at this point. There's
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  Speaker 1: nothing to say.
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  Speaker 2: The Yankee fans, they were feeling their oats.
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  Speaker 1: They were pretty excited. Pretty excited. Now, you understand, people
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  Speaker 1: in my family are not hardcore sports fans.
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  Speaker 2: They're not. They're just kind of casual. But they were
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  Speaker 2: all Joneses. Oh, they kicked the Red Sox. Took us.
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  Speaker 1: And they kicked the snot out of the Red Sox
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  Speaker 1: in those two games. Man, life is great for the Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: They're back.
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  Speaker 1: Even without Aaron Judge. They didn't need Aaron Judge. Well,
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  Speaker 1: then they had to play more games. So game three
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  Speaker 1: of the ALDS at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees trying to
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  Speaker 1: avoid the embarrassment of a sweep. The Rays looking to
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  Speaker 1: close the door and turn out the lights. The party's
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  Speaker 1: over for the Pinstripers. So I'm not sure if you're
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  Speaker 1: watching this or not. Maybe you missed it.
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  Speaker 2: It's possible. Somebody named Victor Mesa Jr.
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  Speaker 1: Hit a tie-breaking two-run ding-dong off Max Freed in the
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  Speaker 1: sixth inning and the Tampa Bay baseball team. A team
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  Speaker 1: formerly known as the Devil Rays beat the Yankees 4-3
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  Speaker 1: on a sleepy Wednesday night in the Bronx. They also
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  Speaker 1: got some help from fan interference as the Yankee fans
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  Speaker 1: never put their hands over the fence to try to
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  Speaker 1: grab the ball. That never happens unless it did. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Mayer somewhere smiling. This time, though, with replay, the Yankees,
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  Speaker 1: instead of getting an Anthony Volpe two-run home run, it
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  Speaker 1: was a double and a run scored. And in the end,
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  Speaker 1: the Rays get her done. Three-game sweep-a-roo in the AL
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  Speaker 1: Divisional Series. Someone named Ryan Vallade. Also homered for the Rays,
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  Speaker 1: who reached the ALCS for the first time since way
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  Speaker 1: back in 2020. That won the hardest postseason of all time,
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic year. That's when the Dodgers won the greatest
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  Speaker 1: championship of all time. These other championships are Small potatoes
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  Speaker 1: compared to that championship. And so Tampa will host the
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  Speaker 1: winner of the White Sox Guardian Series.
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  Speaker 2: And that won't begin until Monday. And the better story,
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  Speaker 2: you know where it is. That's right. Look at you.
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  Speaker 2: You're such a good student. I'm proud of you. The
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  Speaker 2: losing locker room.
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  Speaker 1: So with the sweep, our friend Jill in Minnesota and
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  Speaker 1: supermarket Steve's New York Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: Embarrassing.
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  Speaker 1: They extend their championship drought to 17 years. 17 years
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  Speaker 1: with either the top payroll or the top two or
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  Speaker 1: three payrolls in all of baseball every one of those years.
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  Speaker 1: And the Yankees now with nothing to show for that
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  Speaker 1: over 17 seasons. Now, after sweeping Boston in the wildcard round.
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  Speaker 1: It turns out that New York, how many leads do
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  Speaker 1: they have against Tampa? You think they had five leads
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  Speaker 1: in the three games? You think they had two leads?
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  Speaker 1: How about no leads? The New York baseball team from
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  Speaker 1: the American League never led against the Tampa Bay baseball team.
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  Speaker 2: And they go down.
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  Speaker 1: And so the Yankees have not advanced past a higher-seeded
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  Speaker 1: team in the postseason since 2020. So if the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: play anyone deemed better than them, they don't show up. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge.
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  Speaker 2: Don't judge me, bro. He wasn't out there.
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  Speaker 1: Now, some bleeding-heart baseball provocateurs are saying, well, listen, it's
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  Speaker 1: not fair to be too hard on the Yankees because
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge wasn't there. And so it's almost like these
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  Speaker 1: people want to give the Yankees a pass because Judge
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  Speaker 1: was unable to play. So that is a good jumping-off point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. Does the absence of Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Judge explain– The Yankees' offensive collapse, or is that just
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  Speaker 1: an excuse for a poorly constructed lineup? My observations, I've
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  Speaker 1: got Snow White, Bronx College, and Elon Musk. And we'll
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together, and we are going
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  Speaker 1: to follow doctor's orders is what we're going to do.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to follow doctor's orders.
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  Speaker 1: We always start, the doctor always says, the good doctor says,
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  Speaker 1: always start at the beginning, Ben.
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  Speaker 2: I say, well, what's the beginning, doctor? And they say, well,
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  Speaker 2: the beginning, Ben, is number one.
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  Speaker 3: Number one.
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  Speaker 2: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 2: We love number one. What number do we love? What number?
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  Speaker 1: Number one. So you're telling me that one calf... I
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  Speaker 1: just want to make sure I'm straight on this. So
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  Speaker 1: you're telling me that one calf injury makes the entire
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  Speaker 1: Yankee lineup forget how to hit the baseball? Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: the ticket, right? So you're the New York Yankees. This
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  Speaker 1: just in to Fox Sports Radio. You are not the
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge traveling all-stars.
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  Speaker 2: You're not.
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  Speaker 1: And while Ben Rice was oh so nice... And he's
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  Speaker 1: the only one that did anything for the Yankees consistently
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  Speaker 1: in that brief series with Tampa Bay. However, this film,
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  Speaker 1: for the playoffs, for the Yankees against Tampa Bay, it
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  Speaker 1: was a B-movie. B-movie version. Some would say a Z-movie
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  Speaker 1: version of Snow White. You had Uncle Ben and the
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  Speaker 1: Seven Dwarfs. Sleepy, dopey, clueless, helpless, hitless, hopeless.
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  Speaker 2: And Cashman. All of them right there. Lined up in
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  Speaker 2: a row. You had poor lighting.
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  Speaker 1: Bad editing, terrible script writing, and embarrassingly bad acting. That's
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees. So we went down. We helped out the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: We went down to the haberdashery in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 2: We got a.
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  Speaker 1: Bunch of dunce caps, and we got one for Trent. Grisham,
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  Speaker 1: who had as many hits in this series as you did,
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  Speaker 1: 0 for 11. How about former MVP Cody Bellinger? Some
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  Speaker 1: of my buddies who are Dodger backers are like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I wish we had Bellinger back.
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  Speaker 2: He was 1 of 12. Jazz Chisholm.
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  Speaker 1: Remember, this is the guy that's going to get a
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  Speaker 1: 10-year contract and $ 300 million. Jazz Chisholm had a snowman.
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  Speaker 1: He was 0 for 8. Luis Garcia Jr., the big
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  Speaker 1: pickup from the Giants at the trade deadline. I believe
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  Speaker 1: he came from the Giants. 1 of 10. Spencer Jones,
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  Speaker 1: keeping up with the Joneses.
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  Speaker 2: Not that hard to do. He was 1 of 9.
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  Speaker 2: And all of them sucked at a time you cannot suck.
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  Speaker 2: They decided.
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  Speaker 1: That they would pile into the Vomit Comet. And that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what they did. Traveling down U.S. Route 60, that
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  Speaker 1: group of players, Trent Grisham, Cody Bellinger, Jazz Chisholm, Luis
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  Speaker 1: Garcia Jr., and Spencer Jones collectively batted 0-60.
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  Speaker 2: 0-60.
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  Speaker 1: The Yankees qualified, though. They did qualify for the wholesale
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  Speaker 1: discount at the haberdashery. So we got a deal on that.
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  Speaker 2: That's good.
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  Speaker 1: They might as well have watched the games of those
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  Speaker 1: guys from the Legend Suite at Yankee Stadium. They could
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  Speaker 1: have enjoyed some nice food, and it's not like they helped.
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  Speaker 2: The team out anyway.
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  Speaker 1: As Aaron Judge, his injury explains why the Yankees were
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  Speaker 1: a weaker team, but it does not explain why they
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  Speaker 1: were a helpless team. And that's unbecoming of the Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: Now, page two. So Aaron Boone, Aaron Boone completed.
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  Speaker 1: His ninth season, I believe now, as manager of the
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  Speaker 1: New York Yankees without a championship. Aaron effing Boone. Now
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  Speaker 1: what a great ending we had here. Disgruntled fans chanting,
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  Speaker 1: fire Boone, fire Boone.
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  Speaker 2: Rhythmic chanting.
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  Speaker 1: I am a total sucker for the rhythmic chant. As
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  Speaker 1: they were leaving Yankee Stadium, they had pitchforks in one hand,
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  Speaker 1: they had the The pitchforks, the flames, the torches and
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  Speaker 1: the other, and they were chanting. It was a therapeutic, fire, Boone, fire, Boone.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so the question, is it finally happening? Is
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Boone officially out of excuses after nine years without
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  Speaker 1: a championship as the skipper of the New York Yankees?
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  Speaker 1: So after a minutes-long Mallard deliberation of the available information,
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  Speaker 1: We've determined that Aaron Boone was already out of excuses
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  Speaker 1: many years ago. However, getting swept by a fundamentally sound
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay baseball team without leading a single inning has
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  Speaker 1: just added to the stockpile of stupidity.
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  Speaker 2: In the Bronx. And the signature moment for me, and
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  Speaker 2: you can pick your own. There are many to pick from.
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  Speaker 1: My favorite was Austin Wells running through the stop sign,
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  Speaker 1: which reminded everyone that this Yankee team had more traffic
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  Speaker 1: violations than they have on the Cross Bronx Expressway.
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  Speaker 2: My God, what are you doing? It's a one-run game.
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  Speaker 2: You hadn't scored. What are you doing? Dum-da-dum-dum-dum.
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  Speaker 1: We had the four-error masterpiece, the Yankee way of playing baseball.
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  Speaker 1: So you're either coaching it or you're allowing it to happen.
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  Speaker 1: That's our mantra on this stuff. The Yankees under Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Boone have had two settings. Now, what are the two settings?
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  Speaker 1: It's a two-gear operation.
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  Speaker 2: Two gears.
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  Speaker 1: So the regular season, it's chest thumping and boppity-boppity-boppity. And
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  Speaker 1: then in the postseason, it's change the bedding. Who wet
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  Speaker 1: the bed? Who wet the bed? It's bed wetting 101.
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  Speaker 1: So Aaron Boone has really stopped being a manager. At
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  Speaker 1: this point, he's become a tenured professor at the Bronx
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  Speaker 1: College of Failure. So congratulations. Now, I don't believe he'll
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  Speaker 1: be fired. How many monologues have I done over the
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  Speaker 1: years about Dave Roberts and Aaron Boone?
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  Speaker 2: It's one and the same. They're interchangeable. They're interchangeable. That's
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  Speaker 2: just the way it is. And Aaron Boone's not going anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: We expect a very patriotic, that's the word I would use,
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  Speaker 1: a very patriotic response from Brian Cashman, as in standing pat.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they're going to do. Brian Cashman, the general manager,
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  Speaker 1: has built a country club where accountability goes to die.
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  Speaker 1: And the Yankees are fundamentally bankrupt, just like the Red Sox. Now, listen,
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  Speaker 1: they've sold their soul. Now, the Dodgers also sold their soul,
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  Speaker 1: except they're winning, so everyone's okay with it. But Cashman
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  Speaker 1: and Boone, are the baseball version at this point of
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  Speaker 1: a buddy comedy. Unfortunately, the joke is on you, the
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  Speaker 1: Yankee fan. And they're going to bring back Aaron Boone.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to bring him back for another ride on
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  Speaker 1: the merry-go-round, round and round and round and round, merry-go-round
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  Speaker 1: of mediocrity. That's Yankee baseball. All right, final point to
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  Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay side of things. The Rays will get
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  Speaker 1: home field advantage against the White Sox or Guardians starting
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  Speaker 1: on Monday in a very underwhelming.
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  Speaker 2: American League Championship series.
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  Speaker 1: I did want to address, I had a friend from Fargo,
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  Speaker 1: Fargo Pete, who wrote in and was talking about how,
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  Speaker 1: oh man, Tampa Bay, they got some stars.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man. So let's address that. So the question, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to frame it this way.
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  Speaker 1: How do you size up the Kevin Cash Rays, that's
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  Speaker 1: their manager, As they head into the ALCS. How do
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  Speaker 1: you size them up? So Tampa Bay is living proof.
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  Speaker 1: You can build a winning baseball team in 2026 without
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  Speaker 1: building a team that has a single celebrity. Congratulations, you've
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  Speaker 1: done it. This team is assembled entirely of hand-me-downs, factory seconds, cast-offs,
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  Speaker 1: items found in the clearance aisle at big lots, all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. And honestly, the Rays should be sponsored by
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk's boring company because somehow they're boring and digging
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  Speaker 1: a tunnel straight to the fall classic. Yeah, they're doing it.
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  Speaker 1: The Rays have been good year after year. There have
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  Speaker 1: been a couple of duds in there, but for the
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  Speaker 1: most part, they're competitive. Nobody ever pays attention to them.
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  Speaker 1: They don't get any clicks online because they don't have stars.
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  Speaker 1: They have lifetime membership in the Dolezalmore Society is what
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  Speaker 1: they have.
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  Speaker 2: They're very dull.
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  Speaker 1: They are baseball's generic prescription medication.
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  Speaker 2: Same results. Cheaper packaging, absolutely no brand recognition.
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  Speaker 1: And while many will agree that Junior Caminero is a
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  Speaker 1: star and a terrific talent, he's not a superstar.
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  Speaker 2: He's not a household name.
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  Speaker 1: And outside of the baseball hard-o bubble, he just doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make it work.
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  Speaker 2: You could put this.
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  Speaker 1: Entire Tampa Bay Rays team on a subway car in
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  Speaker 1: Manhattan and nobody... would ask.
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  Speaker 2: For a single autograph. They'd be like, oh, it's just
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  Speaker 2: some random dudes taking the train downtown. Or are they
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  Speaker 2: going uptown? It doesn't matter. The whole team.
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  Speaker 1: Are they fundamentally sound? Tampa Bay, sure. Are they well
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  Speaker 1: managed in terms of the fact that they are fundamentally
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  Speaker 1: sound and they seem to be working the pieces fit
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  Speaker 1: well together, the jigsaw puzzle pieces fit? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And about as exciting... About as exciting, Tampa.
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  Speaker 1: Bay Rays baseball as a mandatory workplace seminar on printer maintenance.
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  Speaker 2: You really have to maintain your printer or else it's
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  Speaker 2: not going to work. Well, I don't need a seminar
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  Speaker 2: on that. What are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: So Tampa Bay, the baseball equivalent of a critically acclaimed
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  Speaker 1: documentary about municipal water waste treatment. Now, some would say
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  Speaker 1: that's important work. You need to watch that documentary. And
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  Speaker 1: perhaps that's true.
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  Speaker 2: Entertaining?
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  Speaker 1: No. Not unless you're related to somebody who happens to
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  Speaker 1: be on the team, and then you can say, boy,
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  Speaker 1: that's great, we're excited, outstanding.
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  Speaker 2: It is the Ben Maller Show.
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  Speaker 1: If you would like to comment on that or anything
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  Speaker 1: else that we've talked about earlier, the Dodgers into the
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  Speaker 1: NLCS against the Brewers, the Padres.
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  Speaker 2: Have been eliminated, the Braves have been eliminated.
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  Speaker 1: We're down to the final two in the National League.
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  Speaker 1: We're down to the final two in the American League
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  Speaker 1: soon enough. 877-99-ON-FOX, the call-in number, on X, at Ben Maller.
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  Speaker 1: That's at Ben Maller. If you'd like to be part
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  Speaker 1: of the live radio program. And coming up next hour,
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  Speaker 1: we have the always popular Ask Ben.
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  Speaker 2: Hashtag Ask Ben. That'll be next hour. Later this hour,
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  Speaker 2: we have Benny versus the Penny, the Island Game. The
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  Speaker 2: Island Game. Yes, absolutely. I know. Very, very exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Well, did Jazz Chisholm play his final.
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  Speaker 2: Game for the New York Yankees?
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  Speaker 1: And what exactly did he have to say for himself
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• 19:29
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• 20:44
  Speaker 1: his soul. Boston hater would call up every time a
• 20:46
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• 20:51
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• 20:54
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• 21:06
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• 21:25
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• 21:29
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• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Accordingly.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Fargo Pete writes in, he says, no one in New
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: York would ask a Dodger for his autograph on the
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: subway either. And by the way, the Dodgers' whole front
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: office was bribed away from the Rays like six years ago.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: So in all reality, this Dodger team is a product
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: of the Rays' system. Very odd that Fargo Pete likes
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Rays. I thought you were from, like,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: San Diego or something, Fargo Pete. Weren't you, like, a
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Padre fan or something like that? Are you trying to
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: project because the Padres are dead yet again that.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: You know, I'll be a Rays fan now?
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I would argue that if the Dodgers got on a subway,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: that Ohtani, if he was on there, people would say, hey,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, that tall guy, that guy looks like he,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: is that, wait a minute, I believe that's Shohei Ohtani.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Mookie Betts, another player that would stand out. There's a
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: couple guys.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Now, most of the Dodgers, nobody knows who they are.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: That is true.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Elon Dogg, formerly known as Ferg Dogg, says the Yankees
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: are a mess. Maybe I should buy them. Lord knows
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I have the capital. I may even start paying you,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: he says, to put out the rundown on time to
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: shut up Wayne from Duluth.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Late night drug. I'm sorry, Ben. Who's that other player
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: that plays on the Dodgers team?
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: The other player that plays on the Dodgers?
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: That's right. Oh, that's a new drop. We love our
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: new drops. That's great. You know who's upset? We've upset
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Anthony in Louisiana. What do you want us to talk about, Anthony?
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: I like football.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Okay, we're not talking football right now, but I thank
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: you for that.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Late Night Drug Tester says, talking about the Tampa Bay
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Rays could hurt the podcast downloads this hour. Better throw
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: in a Winnipeg Jet take to help the numbers.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Well, back in the old days, we used to have
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: this guy named Eddie Garcia that worked on the show.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: We loved Eddie. The company, I guess, didn't.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: But Eddie doesn't work on the show anymore. But when
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: things would go bad and I had to step away,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Eddie would step up to the mic. And the joke
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: was always, well, Eddie, when you don't know what to do,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: just talk about the Winnipeg Jets.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Or the Columbus Blue Jackets. I'll put my stick right
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: in your mouth. Or the Ottawa Senators. Just knock it out.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Come on now. I'm all ready to go whenever you
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: want to do it.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: All right. Shane in Des Moines writes in. He says,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: which is more likely, Ben, Andrew in Bakersfield winning a
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Benny Award or getting a salary cap in baseball?
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Well, you know the answer, Shane.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: It's much more likely that Andrew in Bakersfield is going
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: to win an award on this show than there will be.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: A salary cap.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: However, speaking of that, did you know what we are
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: now 54 days away from? 54 days away from a
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: big event on the sports calendar.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Let me see here. Let me go to the phones.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Let's say
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: hi to– let's go to Chris in Florida. Chris, what's
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: going on, Chris? You're on the Ben Maller Show. It's
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: kind of a big state, Florida.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Welcome.
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: Hi, how you doing? I just want to go ahead
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: and celebrate the Tampa Bay race, the lowest payroll team again.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: Looking at the banners and the rafters here, it's pretty funny.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: You've been watching it for years, how they compete every
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: year with hardly any money. In fact, I think one
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: of our guys works part-time as a bartender.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, no, no, no. That guy works at Walmart, actually. Oh,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: at Walmart.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: But anyway, just being in an overhyped division with the
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: Red Sox and the Yankees, it's pretty funny to watch.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: We all sit back here and laugh. We really do,
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: to watch. You don't have to pay these guys a
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: lot of money to perform. And that's our opinion. But anyway,
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: your show's great. Enjoy yourself out west. But Tampa Bay
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: will keep on going. Don't forget to start with Andrew
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: Friedman out there. His protege, Eric Neander, here. So we've
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: got a pretty good franchise. And it looks like it's
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: going to be the Rays and the Brewers. So good
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: luck and be safe.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Rays and Brewers. All right. I see what you did.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: A little shot there at the end. Thank you.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: By the way, you didn't answer the question. 54 days.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Something's going to happen 54 days from now in sports.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Let's see if Greg in Sarasota knows.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Greg, what's going on? You're on the Ben Maller Show
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: on Fox. Hello, Greg. Welcome.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: I have no idea what's going on in 54 days.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, I'll tell you. In 54 days from today.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: It is December 1st, and that is when the baseball
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: work stoppage will begin. We're 54 days away, and the
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: owners leaked out Major League Baseball.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: They leaked it out. They wanted the media to have it.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: A 34-page memo from Major League Baseball, the team owners, executives,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: on how the work stoppage is going to play.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: The battle plans have been laid out.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Teams are going to be prohibited from conducting business involving
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: players on the 40-man roster. Essentially, there will be no
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: transactions involving players on the 40-man roster. MLB team officials
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: have to avoid any interaction with players to the, quote,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: greatest extent possible. They can exchange pleasantries in public. However,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: cannot discuss baseball business, even at weddings. And bar mitzvahs
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: and birthday parties and all that. No Christmas cards. You're
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: banned from sending out Christmas cards. Baseball is going to remove,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: like Joseph Stalin in Russia removed people from society. Major
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: League Baseball will remove all player images and videos from
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: the state-funded MLB media. The websites and all that stuff,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: that's what they did during the lockout back in 2021-22. However,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: they will continue to sell overpriced merchandise. So they're still
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: going to price gouge you for the merchandise with players'
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: names on it.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: But wait, there's more!
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Players are going to be allowed to compete professionally in
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Japan or other leagues. Because there is no agreement, so
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: they'll be allowed to perform elsewhere.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: However... essentially.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Everything's going to be completely stopped and that's it, and
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: baseball laying all this out, trying to scare the players.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: That's why they did this, trying to scare the players.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: But you didn't call about that, right?
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: You have some Tampa Bay Ray propaganda you'd like to share.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Is that correct?
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Wait, wait, but I do want to know, since it's
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: on December 1st, is it in correlation to the advent
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: calendar then, or is it something like that?
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Yes, you're counting down to Christmas, yes. No, it's just
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: an arbitrary.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: No, I'm just, you know, Ben, I thought you were
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: the man of the people. I've been listening to you
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: for years.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: When I'm up that late. I appreciate that.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: But today I don't. Because all you want to do
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: is talk about big markets. big market baseball teams. You
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: might as well just have your own little league, Ben,
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: with the Phillies, the Dodgers, the Yankees, the Mets, the Cubs,
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: maybe the Braves, San Francisco.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: You might as well just.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Have that league and not even have any small market
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: teams in it if you're going to call my Tampa
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Bay Rays dull.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: They're dull. They're winning, but they're dull. It's okay. Why
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: is that offensive? That's not offensive. That's fine. They're dull.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: They're not exciting. They're dull. They don't have stars. It's okay.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: They don't have stars that you don't have, but all
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: the American League East.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Listen, Junior Caminero is a good player.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: He's going to get a bunch of MVP votes.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: In the American League.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Yandy Diaz has been an officer for years.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: I understand, but you know what I'm doing here. Let
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: me explain, Greg.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: This is called broadcasting, not narrowcasting.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: See, I'm broadcasting.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I have to reach a broad audience. So I talk
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: about the stars. I like stars because I'm broadcasting.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Narrowcasting.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Listen, if it was up to me, I don't mind
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: talking about some of these things.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to get people to listen. Do you understand, Greg?
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Do you understand what I'm doing here?
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: No, I think you're just a company man, and you
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: just want Fox to have a good World Series with
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: the Dodgers and probably the White Sox.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: It doesn't affect me. I do the show either way.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: And trust me, I am not a company man. I
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: am definitely not.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: A company man. I'm not.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Although I do give the company. You know what I
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: do do for the company, Greg? And I think Lorena
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: and Coop can agree. We all give them a hometown discount.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Right, Lorena? Come on. We give them a good discount.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Is that what that is?
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's how I get through it, Greg,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: when my contract comes up.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: I say, you know, that's a hometown discount. You know,
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: that's what it is. In many ways, I'm like the
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay Rays. I give a discount. So, yes. Well,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: you know what?
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: I think we should come up with a Ben Maller
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: advent calendar for the workshop.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: That's a great idea, Greg. I think we should do that.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: We should sell that, and Wayne and Duluth will buy
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: it and then complain and the whole thing.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Call me anytime.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: I'll buy it.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: All right, you'll buy it. Look at you, Greg, you
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: big stud. Call me anytime you want. I like you, Greg.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: You need to call me more often, please, okay? All right,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: I will do that.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: All right, buddy, thank you. There's Greg in Sarasota. We've
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: now talked to two Tampa Bay Rays fans. There's no
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: one left who likes the Tampa Bay Rays. We've talked
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: to their entire fan base right here. In this segment
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: of Talk Radio, the entire fan base of the Tampa
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Bay Rays has called in. Let's say hello to Mark
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: the Walker, who's in Rochester. He's out and about wandering around.
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: Hello.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: He's part of Bill's Mafia. Hello, Mark the Walker. By
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: the way, December 1st is a Tuesday. It's a Tuesday.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: That is when baseball's work stoppage will begin.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: All right. Well, yeah, okay, baseball. We're talking football, right, Ben?
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Well, no, I've actually been talking baseball. That's pretty much
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: all I've talked about so far is baseball. Yeah, I know.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: I've been on hold for like a mile and a half.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: That's how I measure time.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Really? You've been on hold that whole time in a
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: mile and a half?
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, 44 minutes. I've been posted like a madman. Okay,
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: all right.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: There you go. Anything else you want to complain about?
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: No, I'm good for now.
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Let me know. Anytime you want to complain, just call
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: up and complain. Joe Brady.
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: That's who I want to talk to.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Joe Brady.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: How's that going?
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Anyway, I just thought I would. I feel like you
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: should go back to walking. I feel like you should
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: go back to walking. Maybe you should go back to walking.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: No? Am I that dull?
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: This is not a great start. We're not off to
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: a great start. How about we do it over? Let's
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: do it over. Let's go to the phones. Let's reset.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Let's go to the phones. Mark the Walker is in Rochester. Hello,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Mark the Walker.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Welcome. Hey, how you doing? See, that's a bad start.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: I'm glad to be on your show.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Nobody wants pleasantries like that.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: They just want to hear the take. Nobody wants the pleasantries.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: It's a bad job by you. Shame on you. I was.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: I was told I was funny at one point by
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: a number of your listeners.
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: Really?
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: You know those people are called liars. They're called liars. Liars.
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: Liars.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: No. We have to have a bet on the Rams-Bills
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: game coming up.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Okay. If you want to pay me, because Rams will win,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: but that's fine. You can do that if you want.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Monday night.
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: We have plenty of time to figure it out.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: All right. I'm going to move on. Thank you.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: There we go. Mark the Walker. Amazing man. What a
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: caller that guy is. Mark the Walker. No, he's good
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: on X. He's really good on X. No, I'm not. No,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: I like him. He's a nice man. I don't know.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Fargo Pete says, Tampa Bay Rays talk on the Ben
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Maller show. Yes, I lived in Sarasota for 18 years
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: and had Devil Ray tickets for 10.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: My apologies to you. My apologies to you. Let's see.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: What else do we have? Can't read that. Oh, we
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: have Benny versus the Penny. So that means, well, we
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: must move on in the broadcast because we do have
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Here's the insta-trivia. And good news, Anthony. You know what
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: we're going to talk about here, Anthony. Guess what you– yeah,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: that's right. The dentist? Boy, you don't sound like Anthony. No.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: That's right, football. Here's the insta-trivia.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Blank is 5-13 in primetime.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: That's 6 p.m.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Or later over the last five seasons, failing to cover
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: the spread by three points per game. That is the
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: worst record of 23 head coaches with at least 10
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: such games in that span. Again, Blank has a 5-13
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: record against the spread in primetime games, 6 p.m.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Or later. over the last five years, failing to cover
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: by a field goal.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: That is the worst mark of 23 head coaches with
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: at least 10 such games in that span. That's the
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Insta Trivia. The answer in Benny versus the Penny. We'll
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: get to that and we will do it.
• 35:02
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• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Ben Maller Show, Fox Sports Radio.
• 35:16
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• 35:20
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• 35:22
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• 36:03
  Speaker 4: Time to roll. Welcome in, Militia.
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: Speaking of winners.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: Can you handle more Malheur mayhem?
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen.
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: It's time now for Benny vs.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: The Penny.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll get to that in a minute, but first
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: we have to pay off the Insta trivia, and here
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: it is. So Blank is 5-13 against the spread in primetime.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: That's 6 p.m. Eastern or later. That's over the last.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Five seasons, failing to cover by three points per game.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: That is the worst mark of 23 head coaches with
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: at least 10 such games in that span. That is
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: the question, and what is the answer? Let's see, does anyone... No,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: the answer, we'll just do a few of these and
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: then move on to Benny versus the Penny.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: We've got Elon Dogg from Not a Burner. Page down.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Can't read that. Let's see, what else do we have?
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: We've got the always popular Rally Monkey from Ferg Dogg.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Chris Nowitzki, former pro wrestler from Alf the Alien. Oh, Piner.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: And that's enough. Do you have an answer, please, Lorena?
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Grumpy Cat. No, the correct answer would be none other
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: than Buccaneers.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Coach Todd Bowles. Todd Bowles, 5-13 in primetime. 1-6 against
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: the spread last three seasons.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Here we go, here we go, here we go, here
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: we go, here we go.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: All right, Benny versus the Penny. And just one island
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: game to talk about as Week 5 kicks off. Tampa
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Bay 0-4 and Dallas off to the middling start themselves.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: They had a comeback win last week against Houston. And
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Dallas is an 8.5 point favorite on DraftKings. This game
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: on Amazon Prime with Al Michaels and Herbie and his
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: dog Peter. Be 80 degrees and clear at Jerry's World,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: but it's a dome, so it doesn't really matter. And
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: the pick is in. I'm going to take the Buccaneers
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: in this game. The Buccaneers are 3-14 against the spread
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: on Thursday since 1980. That is the worst mark on
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Thursday night of any team in the NFL over the
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: last almost 50 years.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Doesn't matter.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: That's what has happened, not what's going to happen. And
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: here's why I'm making this pick. This is a play
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: against the Cowboys defense. They are the 30th ranked defense
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. And as bad as Tampa Bay is...
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Most of these losses have been one-score losses. I know
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: they're playing their backup quarterback, but the key here for
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: the Buccaneers is to run, run, run, run, run. Dallas
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: is allowing 150 rushing yards per game. Second most in
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Bucky Irving. This is a Bucky Irving game.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: And also, Jalen Daniels, the backup, seems to be a
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: mobile quarterback. He ran for 55 yards against Green Bay.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: So the game plan, if I'm Todd Bowles, is to.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Just run, run, run, run, run.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Quarterback keepers and... design runs for the quarterback, zone read, bootlegs,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: all that crap, all that football hard-o stuff you all love.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Dallas is allowing 28 points per game. And has only
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: four sacks and no interceptions through the first four games
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: of the season. That's why they traded for Joey Porter Jr.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: And remember, Tampa Bay is 0-4. However, the four losses
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: are by a total of 20 combined points. Bad teams
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: lose close games. So the Cowboys can win this game
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: by a touchdown. And I still end up winning the bet.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: And the Buccaneers have.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Played 10 games.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Consecutive one-score games dating back to last season, which likely
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: means they're due to get blown out. But I don't
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: care about that. I, again, am going to take the
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: creamsicles in this game, plus all those points.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: I love my points. I'll take the eight and a
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: half points, and.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: I'm going to take the Tampa Bay Buccaneers here To
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: give Jerry Jones a little bit of a scare. And
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: now Koopa Loop is representing the Penny and the Penny picks.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: The Penny and Lorena are going with the Dallas Cowboys.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, we got disagreement, baby. We got disagreement. Now, remember,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: you like Benny versus the Penny. Tomorrow we'll do the
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: eight most important games in week five. The eight most
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: important games and all the picks against the spread.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: It's Benny versus the Penny.