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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 1: Our lead is from tampa the tampa area there now
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  Speaker 1: there is no city called tampa bay uh it's tampa
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  Speaker 1: and saint pete uh they form that area so the
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  Speaker 1: buccaneers have a play date with the browns and you're
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  Speaker 1: probably saying well that's not that big a game that's
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  Speaker 1: you know come on a couple of teams that Got
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  Speaker 1: off the shaky starts this year. But the game's got
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  Speaker 1: some juice, if you haven't been paying attention. So this
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  Speaker 1: is a classic revenge opportunity for Baker Mayfield as he
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  Speaker 1: gets to play his old mates from Cleveland, although this
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  Speaker 1: game is in Florida.
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  Speaker 3: And Baker was asked about this matchup. This is big.
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  Speaker 1: Baker always complains about everything. He just bitches nonstop. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he had a lot to say about this.
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  Speaker 1: Did you hear what he had to say?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: You did not. All right. Well, did he tear up
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  Speaker 3: the dance floor? Not really. Not really.
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  Speaker 1: Bucs quarterback Baker Mayfield was very diplomatic publicly about playing
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  Speaker 1: the Browns. He said, quote, ultimately, you remember the good
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  Speaker 1: more than the bad. While noting the Browns organization is
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  Speaker 1: now a very different building, he said, that's a quote.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so that's it.
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  Speaker 1: He said, ultimately, you remember the good more than the
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  Speaker 1: bad in a very different building. So that is a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. You
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  Speaker 1: got Tampa quarterback Baker Mayfield saying that he remembers the
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  Speaker 1: good more than the bad from his time with the Browns.
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  Speaker 1: And how does that one hit you? How does that
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  Speaker 1: one hit you? So it's reminiscent of... Like a car accident, right?
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  Speaker 1: Because in a car accident, you kind of block out
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  Speaker 1: the bad stuff. I've got meatloaf, potluck, and squatter's rights.
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  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together, and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to draw a line in the sand
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  Speaker 1: is what we're going to do.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so.
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  Speaker 1: A, as I mentioned, kind of like a car accident
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  Speaker 1: or something bad happens in your life.
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  Speaker 3: It's a part of the DNA.
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  Speaker 1: We all have it, no matter where you're from or
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  Speaker 1: how much money you have or how poor you are, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: When something traumatic happens, you block it out. Because, boy,
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  Speaker 1: that would suck if you remembered it every single day.
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  Speaker 3: That would be bad. So when he plays, like this weekend,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Cool.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not worried about the Browns. I don't buy it.
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  Speaker 1: Baker being diplomatic about Cleveland. It's akin to a divorce
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  Speaker 1: guy complimenting his ex-wife's meatloaf.
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  Speaker 3: Boy, that meatloaf's really good. No, it sucks. The meatloaf sucked.
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  Speaker 1: OK, this is just Baker Mayfield regurgitating the talking points
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  Speaker 1: memo of what you're supposed to say. And he's when
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  Speaker 1: he called it a very different building, his old. Stomping
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  Speaker 1: grounds there in Cleveland. That is just Baker speak. What
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  Speaker 1: does that mean? It means I recognize the address, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't recognize the crime scene. And unless something has
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  Speaker 1: dramatically changed, this is just how he is hardwired.
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  Speaker 3: He's hardwired.
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  Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield without a chip on his shoulder. It's like
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  Speaker 1: going to an Applebee's without a laminated menu. It's not
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  Speaker 1: Applebee's unless they have the laminated menu. And so are
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  Speaker 1: the restaurants. Baker Mayfield doesn't just carry grudges. He has
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  Speaker 1: them delivered by the pallet.
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  Speaker 3: Do you understand?
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  Speaker 1: Like a big box store, like Target or Walmart or Costco.
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  Speaker 1: He's got pallets, pallets of these, these grudges that are delivered.
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  Speaker 1: And if he doesn't have a boogeyman, he'll invent a boogeyman.
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  Speaker 1: That's how it works. That's how it always works.
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  Speaker 3: Now, page two.
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  Speaker 1: So the Buccaneers senior offensive NEPO assistant Ken Zampezi, his
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  Speaker 1: dad was an NFL assistant, and so it runs in
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  Speaker 1: the family, and it's a family business there. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of nepotism in the NFL. So, this guy Ken Zampezi
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  Speaker 1: says the Cleveland football team made a major mistake moving
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  Speaker 1: on from Baker Mayfield. He said they messed that up. Now, Zampezi,
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  Speaker 1: as I said, he's with the Buccaneers now. He believes
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  Speaker 1: the Browns failed to properly develop and support Baker Mayfield
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  Speaker 1: after drafting him number one overall years ago. Number The question,
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  Speaker 1: Ken Zampezi of the Buccaneer coaching staff says that the
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  Speaker 1: Browns messed up by letting Baker Mayfield leave.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't support him. Is that fact-based? Is that fact-based?
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  Speaker 3: So this whole.
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland made a tragic mistake with Baker Mayfield narrative that's
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  Speaker 1: bouncing around the echo chamber is a steaming bowl of
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  Speaker 1: revisionist history.
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  Speaker 3: Gumbo is what it is.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So unfortunately, I've been doing this job a long time.
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  Speaker 1: So I recall what the story was at the time
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  Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield was with the Browns.
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  Speaker 3: And it wasn't pretty.
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  Speaker 1: Now, apparently everyone else has amnesia and forgot, but we
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  Speaker 1: did not.
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  Speaker 3: It's a classic.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's a classic results-based storytelling where Baker's had some
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  Speaker 1: level of success in Tampa. So Cleveland must have been wrong.
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  Speaker 1: They must have been wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Please.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the Browns made a poor choice on who they
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  Speaker 1: replaced Baker Mayfield with, that schmuck Deshaun Watson. However, the
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  Speaker 1: move to get rid of Baker, let's keep it clear,
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  Speaker 1: the Browns did not dump Tom Brady 2.0 or Baby Mahomes.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't get rid of that guy. They ended a
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  Speaker 1: toxic marriage where both sides were only speaking through lawyers.
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  Speaker 1: And that's how it appeared. Baker's personality in Cleveland. the team,
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  Speaker 1: based on what we knew at the time, he had
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  Speaker 1: turned into a 80-grit piece of sandpaper. His resume featured
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  Speaker 1: enough peaks and then valleys, up and down, peaks and
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  Speaker 1: valleys there, to qualify as a new attraction at Six Flags,
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  Speaker 1: coming soon.
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  Speaker 3: And every Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Every Sunday was an unpredictable potluck, all right? Unpredictable potluck.
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  Speaker 1: One week with Baker Mayfield, you'd get a nice big
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  Speaker 1: piece of Texas brisket.
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  Speaker 3: Yum, yum to my tum-tum.
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  Speaker 1: And then the next week, somebody would drop off Aunt
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  Speaker 1: Vida's radioactive Jell-O salad. Well, I don't want Aunt Vida's
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  Speaker 1: radioactive Jell-O salad.
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  Speaker 3: Don't give me that. Why would you give me that, Baker? Well,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I just have no control over it.
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  Speaker 3: And then he left the Browns. Remember, he went to Carolina. People, oh,
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  Speaker 3: he's going to be great in Carolina. He sucked.
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  Speaker 1: Rams picked him up for a cup of coffee and
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  Speaker 1: they didn't fight to keep him. And then he goes
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  Speaker 1: off to Florida. That's not a franchise altering quarterback. That's
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  Speaker 1: check luggage. That's a lot of tags on your luggage.
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  Speaker 1: And so Tampa rehabilitating. Baker to a point. He is
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  Speaker 1: now what I would say is a mid-level starting quarterback
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. That does not retroactively, though, does not
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  Speaker 1: retroactively turn the Cleveland Baker into Bernie Kosar. Our friend
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  Speaker 1: Dick from Dayton loves him some Bernie Kosar. So in
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  Speaker 1: addition to that, for a former Browns assistant coach, which, oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, now for the rest of the story.
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  Speaker 1: So this guy, Ken Zampezi, the Nepo guy, family business,
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  Speaker 1: that's what they do in the NFL. They just hire
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  Speaker 1: relatives of people.
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  Speaker 3: That have worked in the league.
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  Speaker 1: And so this guy, Zampezi, is a former Browns assistant
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  Speaker 1: coach who was.
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  Speaker 3: There when Baker Mayfield was with the Browns.
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  Speaker 1: And he's now blaming Cleveland and their development program is
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  Speaker 1: what he's doing, which is fascinating. Considering his name is
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  Speaker 1: in the credits, like, dude, what are you doing? Your
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  Speaker 1: name is right there. You cannot stand inside the factory
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  Speaker 1: and complain about the defective manufacturing when you were one
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  Speaker 1: of the people that was running the equipment.
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  Speaker 3: Hello? Like, what are you doing? Excuse me. All right. Now,
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  Speaker 3: final point. We stay in Ohio. We go to Canton, Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: The hallowed grounds of the Pro Football.
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  Speaker 3: Hall of Fame, where legends are immortalized.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the Pro Football Hall of Fame is dealing with
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  Speaker 1: some shrinkage. We have a pill for that. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: I guess this is a different kind of shrinkage. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the selection committee, which
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  Speaker 1: has always been similar to how they name a pope,
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  Speaker 1: where they get together at the Vatican and then they
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  Speaker 1: release the smoke. It's pretty similar to how they decide
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  Speaker 1: who gets in the Hall of Fame and who doesn't
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  Speaker 1: get in the Hall of Fame. So the selection committee
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  Speaker 1: is downsizing from 50 members to 28 members under the
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  Speaker 1: new bylaws. You probably don't care about that. It is
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  Speaker 1: interesting to note, though, from what we're hearing, this is
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  Speaker 1: retribution for Bill Belichick not making in the first round
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  Speaker 1: of voting even though he's one of the great coaches
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  Speaker 1: in nfl history one of the top two or three
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  Speaker 1: coaches of all time And he did not make it
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  Speaker 1: his first year of eligibility. And that upset a number
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  Speaker 1: of people who said, what are we doing? What's the point.
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  Speaker 3: Of having this? It's hard to argue with that.
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  Speaker 1: So from Canton, Ohio to Secaucus, New Jersey, voters have
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  Speaker 1: been voted off the island getting the notification. Now, among
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  Speaker 1: the high-profile names that are no longer part of the
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  Speaker 1: process to elect members to the Hall of Fame, we've
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  Speaker 1: got Tony Dungy, who's in the Hall of Fame, not
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  Speaker 1: for broadcasting, and the sideline reporter Lisa Salters. Yes, Lisa
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  Speaker 1: Salters had a vote for the Hall of Fame. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: they have lost their vote. They each had their vote
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  Speaker 1: for six years and no more. No more for you.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: So the question, do you feel bad? Do you feel bad.
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  Speaker 1: For Tony Dungy and this Lisa Salters being stripped of
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  Speaker 1: their Hall of Fame votes?
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  Speaker 3: Feel bad. Please. They lost a Hall of Fame ballot.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they still have their health insurance, so
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  Speaker 1: they're okay. Lisa Salter's got six years in Canton's VIP voting.
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  Speaker 3: Lounge and is one of my good friends, likes to.
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  Speaker 1: Remind me that that's a pretty good run when her
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  Speaker 1: main job is asking the star player or the coach
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  Speaker 1: after the game, how does this win make you feel?
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  Speaker 1: Laughter Oh, the sideline questions.
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  Speaker 3: Dum-da-dum-dum-dum. Anyone could do it. Literally anyone.
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  Speaker 1: You could have a raffle. Anyone could ask that question. Anyways,
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  Speaker 1: that got you because you're on TV. That got you
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  Speaker 1: a vote for the Hall of Fame, but no more.
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  Speaker 3: No war. And some of the other names.
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  Speaker 1: That are just these fat old sports writers, these guys,
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  Speaker 1: they had votes for.
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  Speaker 3: Like 30 years. Over 30 years they had votes.
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  Speaker 1: And so I asked the question, when did the Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame selection process become a Supreme Court process? appointment
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  Speaker 1: when did that happen i support term limits on.
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  Speaker 5: This nobody nobody should have squatters rights on a hall
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  Speaker 5: of fame ballot and you gotta change it up a
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  Speaker 5: little bit like what are you doing my god.
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  Speaker 1: And the the ballot is a responsibility and it's not
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  Speaker 1: beachfront property that you hand down to your grandkids and
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  Speaker 1: all that and so get some new voices in there
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  Speaker 1: some fresh eyes and And we're not exactly at a
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  Speaker 1: constitutional crisis here. It is fascinating, though, because 50 of
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  Speaker 1: these voters sat in a room and somehow these numb
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  Speaker 1: nuts couldn't figure out that Bill Belichick should be in
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  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. If Belichick isn't a first ballot
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, your voting machine needs to be in unplugged.
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  Speaker 1: Just rip the plug out immediately there. Smack it twice.
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  Speaker 1: Kick it once and reboot it.
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  Speaker 3: Done.
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  Speaker 1: Like, that snub was the football equivalent of, like, leaving
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  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan off the Dream Team because somebody didn't like
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  Speaker 1: his table manners. Now, I should point out, the Dream
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  Speaker 1: Team did leave Isaiah Thomas off it because they didn't
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  Speaker 1: like his table manners, but not Michael Jordan.
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  Speaker 3: Jordan was fine. So... Blow it up. Blow it up, up, up, up, up, up, up.
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  Speaker 3: Blow it up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: this hour, our lead from Queens. That's right. Right there.
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  Speaker 1: The borough of Queens, not far from. Our colleague Rob
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  Speaker 1: Parker's old stomping grounds there. So Pete Alonzo, good old
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  Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo, hit another dinger for the Baltimore baseball team,
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  Speaker 1: helping the Orioles get another.
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  Speaker 3: Win against the Mets. Now, the Orioles are technically in
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  Speaker 3: the race.
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  Speaker 1: They're a faux contender because there's bad teams that are
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  Speaker 1: going to make the playoffs in the American League.
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  Speaker 3: The Orioles are a bad team. The Mets are a
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  Speaker 3: bad team, but... They're not going to make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 6: They've been eliminated.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to have a losing record and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: The story, though, is about Pete Alonzo, who's really ruffling
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  Speaker 1: feathers over there. A storybook return, payback against his old team.
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  Speaker 1: So if you haven't fallen, Alonzo hit the home run
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday night. The night prior, Alonzo hit his 300th
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  Speaker 1: career home run. And that created quite the hullabaloo at
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  Speaker 1: Citi Field. They were celebrating like the Mets had won
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  Speaker 1: a playoff series. And there was just a tremendous amount
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  Speaker 1: of joy.
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  Speaker 3: Pete Alonzo, he was happy too.
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  Speaker 1: And he had a celebrate good times kind of mindset there,
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  Speaker 1: a theatrical bat spike towards the Orioles dugout. You had
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  Speaker 1: rhythmic chanting from the Metropolitan fans, chanting Alonzo's name until
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  Speaker 1: he emerged from the visiting dugout for the very rare,
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  Speaker 1: very rare road team curtain call. which is obviously a
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  Speaker 1: very emasculating situation for the home team when you guys
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  Speaker 1: suck so much the player on the other team gets
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  Speaker 1: a curtain call. Well, you got another ovation in the
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  Speaker 1: game on Wednesday. Now, the original celebration sparked.
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  Speaker 6: Anger.
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  Speaker 3: And not just by the fans.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the fans were angry because they turned from chanting
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  Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo's name to Fire Stearns!
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  Speaker 3: Fire Stearns!
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  Speaker 1: They were aiming it at what they used to call
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  Speaker 1: the GM, but it was demeaning, so the executives wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be called President of Baseball Ops and all this bullcrap.
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  Speaker 3: So David Stearns.
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  Speaker 1: Another one of these Ivy League geniuses who used to
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  Speaker 1: work for the Milwaukee Brewers. And he's the evil meddling
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  Speaker 1: executive that built this crap bag Mets team.
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  Speaker 3: And they were chanting his name.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the reason I bring all this up is because
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  Speaker 1: a member of the Mets, not a good one, pitcher
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  Speaker 1: Sean Mania, he called out the Mets fans.
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  Speaker 3: You can't call out the Mets fans. Yeah, Sean Mania.
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  Speaker 1: Sean Mania here was upset with the curtain call for
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  Speaker 1: an opposing player in his ballpark. Now, just to prove
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  Speaker 1: I'm not lying, we have the audio tape. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to the audio tape. This is a picture for the
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  Speaker 1: New York Mets. Sean Mania talking about the fans giving
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  Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo, the other team, a big ovation.
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  Speaker 4: The guys in here work their ass off every single day. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, to have that kind of reaction to an
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  Speaker 4: opposing player, you know, could be anybody. Um, it's crazy
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  Speaker 4: to me. Um, you know, I've, again, I've got nothing
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  Speaker 4: but respect for Pete, but, um, yeah, I've just never
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  Speaker 4: seen anything like that before. Um, and yeah, I know
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  Speaker 4: the guys in here, we are grinding our butts off
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  Speaker 4: and stuff like that happens, but, um, yeah, it's just,
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  Speaker 4: I've never seen anything like that before. It's kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so there you go.
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  Speaker 1: And again, crazy, and then he added later, Pete's not
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  Speaker 1: here anymore. All right, so that is a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question. Was it, quote, crazy,
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  Speaker 1: as Sean Mania said, that the Met fans gave Oreo
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  Speaker 1: slugger Pete Alonzo a curtain call on the road? So
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  Speaker 1: I've got democracy, Guadalajara musicians, and designer luggage. Three things
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  Speaker 1: that have never been tossed together. And here on this show,
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  Speaker 1: as dingbats, we're going to do it. And we're going
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  Speaker 1: to make magic. It's going to be amazing. And we're
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  Speaker 1: going to toss it all into the handcart is what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to do. We always start, though, with number one.
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  Speaker 3: Number one. One, one, one, one, one, one, one, one.
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  Speaker 1: Number one.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Who wants to let Sean and I know that... You're
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  Speaker 1: not playing Little League. Doesn't he sound like a child?
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  Speaker 1: Sean Mania sounds like a kid playing Little League. But
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  Speaker 1: we played really hard. We should get credit for playing hard. Hey, dum-dum,
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  Speaker 1: you're in the major leagues. In a town like New York,
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  Speaker 1: you're not in some soft city where they cheer you
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  Speaker 1: no matter what. New York's gotten softer than it used
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  Speaker 1: to be. But still, what are you expecting? What kind
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  Speaker 1: of numb nuts would say something so stupid? These guys
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  Speaker 1: work hard.
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  Speaker 3: It's not about that. Who cares how hard you work?
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  Speaker 3: You get paid millions and millions of dollars to do
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  Speaker 3: the work. You're being compensated for the work. You don't
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  Speaker 3: get credit for the work. You're supposed to do the work.
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  Speaker 3: So stupid.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: And Shamanai, in the grand scheme of things, he's been
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: a Met for like five minutes. He's been there a
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: couple years.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: He's like an Army brat. The guy's a baseball nomad.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: He's been all over the dusty Winnemucca Road. And so
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: the Met fandom, and I'm certainly.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Not a Met fan. Everywhere I've worked in media, there's
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: always a Met fan.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Whether it's behind the microphone or in front of the microphone,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: everywhere I work, there's Mets fans.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Everywhere I go, there's Mets fans. And I got family.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: My family Mets fans. Some are Yankee fans. Thank God
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: for them.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: But Mets fandom has roots way deeper in Then Sean
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Mania's baseball reference transaction.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Page as he's bounced around the big league circuit.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: These people watched Pete Alonzo hit 264 home runs with Mr.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Met shaking his tushy there in Queens and then end
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: up being emotionally waterboarded. by the franchise for decades. Now,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the greatest punk move for the Met fan was y'all
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: had orgasms. Y'all had orgasms when the new owner took over,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Met fan boy, right? Oh, man, this is great. We
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: got a real Met fan as the owner there. And
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: how's that working out?
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Don't ask. Don't ask. Yeah, I know.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I know. Well. The fans in Queens apparently really loved
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Pete Alonso, and they wanted him to stay. And the
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Met fans did not divorce Pete.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: They didn't get rid of Pete.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: That would be Boy Wonder GM David Stearns, the smartest
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: man in the room, who said, let's play HGTV. Why
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: don't we play Love It or List It? And, yeah,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: we'll do that. And then, well, there's no love. No
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: love for Pete as he was shepherded out of town,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: the polar bear, leaving the Queens Zoo, and that's it.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: He's the one that filed the paperwork. So Pete got
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: a couple of curtain calls.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Really, the main one was the 300th home run, and
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Stearns got a well-deserved Bronx cheer over in Queens. And
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: what this is is democracy at work. Baseball edition of Democracy.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: So before policing the paying customer, Sean Mania, I would
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: like you to learn the immortal words of the great
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: LeVar Ball, who taught me years ago when I was a.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Young man, stay in your lane!
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: And maybe solve, maybe solve the mystery, Sean Mania, of
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: that earned run average, which is hovering around 5, 4.7 something.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: And you're giving.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: The Mets, that kind of production for $ 25.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Million a season.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: And this guy, he's lucky he's not brought up on
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: grand larceny charges for that type of performance for $ 25
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: million on average a year for Sean Mania.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: And to sit there as a professional, a grown athlete, Well,
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: we work hard, too. Oh, my God. Did they not
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: realize how ridiculous that sounds? Seriously.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: And you don't get credit for doing the things you're
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: supposed to do. That's what being a grown-up is.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: You do it. You don't do it because you want
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: to get credit for it. All right, page two. Now,
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: this ties together.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I happen to have– I was flipping around watching some
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: random baseball games.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: I did see Blake.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Snell– I ain't playing unless I get mine, bro. I'm
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: risking my life, bro. I guess my guy Vasay is
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: going to have to take care of him. He's got
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: a pulled groin, I guess, or something like that.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Blake Snell. My God.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: So he takes the first half of the season off,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: makes a few starts, and now he's hurt again. And
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: you idiots keep supporting this guy. My fellow Dodger backers
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: support this guy.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Why do you do that? Are you just a moron?
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Is that why you support Blake Snoke? Oh, because he's
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: wearing the right laundry? I don't care what laundry he's wearing.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: The guy's a schmuck, okay? The guy's a schmuck. Anyway,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: let's go to this. I was watching the Mets-Orioles game.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I was flipping around, and I happened to see this.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: And then I saw it, and I said, well, that's embarrassing.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: And then I saw it over and over. You guys
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: were sending me this. So there was a play in
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: the middle of the Orioles-Mets game where Mets stars Francisco Lindor,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Juan Soto, and Bo Bichette were all converging in the outfield,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: and this became a point of emphasis for a very
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: ugly situation. There was a defensive malfunction, and it happened
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: against Baltimore. An Orioles player popped up. You don't know
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: who any one of the Orioles is anyway.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Who cares?
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: So an Orioles player popped the ball up. The ball
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: dropped harmlessly between the three.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: There they are.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: The faces of the New York Mets all standing there like,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It should have been a routine out,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and it became a double. None of the three took
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: control or called off the others as they converged in shallow,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the shallow part of the outfield out there in left field.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: None of them said, hey, it's my ball, I got it.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: And as you can imagine, it was embarrassing, and now
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: it's really embarrassing because the bots and the algorithms have
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: picked up on this.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: The social media reaction has.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: They're calling it the billion-dollar blunder. And the reaction, absolutely brutal, brutal.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: All right, so the question, give me your reaction to
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: the Mets stars, Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, and Bo Bichette,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: standing side-by-side, failing to catch a routine pop-up. In September,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: the season's almost over. There's like less than two weeks
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: to go in the baseball season, and this is what
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: we got.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: So, my God.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: My reaction, this play is, the word I will use
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: is symbolic. It is symbolic of the fundamentally broken New
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: York Met franchise. Your three superstars standing around waiting for
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: somebody else to do the job.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: That's the Mets.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: They all wait for someone else to do it. And
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the Mets went out there. Steve Cohen went out and
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: paid for the Avengers. He paid for the Avengers, and
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: so far he's gotten the three stooges. Vaudeville comedy. Vaudeville comedy.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: That's what that was. You'd see that on a Saturday
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: morning at your local park Little League game with seven-year-olds.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: You'd see that.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: And the Mets, Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, and Bo Bichette,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: the bonus babies.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: 1.2 million. Billion in combined salary. That's not a mistake.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Combined salary of those three professional baseball players, $ 1. 2 billion.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Three guys, $ 1. 2 billion, one baseball, and apparently nobody has
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: it in the contract.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: There's no fine print saying to say, I got it.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: My ball, I got it. Got it! No, none of that.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: It's crazy. The money's guaranteed.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Catching the ball, optional. They all got paid, and the
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Mets have gotten played. And to think about that spot
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: the Mets are in. The Metropolitans could have gone out
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: and signed free agents from the Tijuana Bulls. the Agua
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Caliente Railroadmen and the Guadalajara musicians of the Mexican League,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: and they would have saved some money and they'd still
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: miss the playoffs, and I'll bet you the guy from
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: the Railroadmen and the musician.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: From Guadalajara would have made the catch. How about that?
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: And imagine if we could take a time machine back to.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Like, 1955 and say, yes.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: They make a billion dollars in 2026. And no, no,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: none of them caught that ball. And right there, that
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: is your New York Mets in six seconds. Modern Met
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: baseball right there. Billion dollars in the outfield standing around
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: and they're holding their jockstraps.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Don't know what to do.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Now, last word.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: To San Francisco, where our friend Eileen has been shadow
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: banned from social media.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: But I know she's listening. We have a.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Status update on the big bopper by the bay. The
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: big bopper by the bay, slugger Rafael Devers. The latest
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: reports this week say he is expected to remain, remain
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: with the Gigantes despite... Despite a lot of trade speculation
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: this year, state-funded MLB Network, the propaganda arm of Major
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: League Baseball, says the chances of San Francisco putting Rafael
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Devers on the trade block are, quote, slim and none,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: claiming that Devers has, quote, proven that his future is
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Although not for the final couple weeks
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: of the season.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: His season is over.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: They're calling it a core muscle injury, which I think
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: means he has a nice vacation somewhere tropical. He didn't
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: want to have that interfere with the baseball season. So Devers,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: 29 years old. He had 37 home runs, 98 runs
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: batted in and OPS for you. OPS lovers of 865,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: which I'm told is good. The question as we dance
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: around here and do the boogie. The question, do you
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: believe that San Francisco slugger Rafael Devers has been removed
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: from off-season flea market conversation?
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: So on this one, I am agnostic on this.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Here's the problem with the Rafael Devers love fest, which
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: is going on right now by many baseball media dopes.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: The numbers.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: which are very solid better than that i would say
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: and better than solid that doesn't make him a dependable
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: player and the general manager buster posey from what i
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: understand is He really wanted to trade Rafael Devers at
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the deadline, and nobody really wanted him.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: They're like, well, we'll take him. He's got a bad contract.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: He's not worth the contract, so we'll take him.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: But you've got to give us a little bit of this,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: a little bit of that. That was an indictment of
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Rafael Devers. That was a referendum on Rafael Devers. And
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: so he went out, and to his credit, he is
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: monster mashed with some of the most hollow stats we've
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: ever seen. You talk about having little to no impact
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: on wins and losses and yet putting up numbers that
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: the nerds have their pants around their ankles for. That's
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: essentially what Rafael Devers has done. And he hasn't been
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: able to change his attitude issues.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: You know what this reminds me of?
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: It's like an NBA player playing in Sacramento, like DeMar
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: DeRozan playing in Sacramento, averaging 25 points a game.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Well, whoop-dee-damn-do. Whoop-dee-damn-do. You know, wee! You got a lot
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: of points. Did it help your team win?
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: No.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Buster Posey is trying to put something together. You talk
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: about that giant culture and all that. When they were
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: winning with Bruce Bochy as the manager back in the day,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: they had a bunch of annoying, pesky players that were
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: not necessarily the greatest players. They had a couple guys
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: that were good, but in most part, they just had
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: players that played with grit, and Buster Posey wants that
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: type of team with accountability. I guess the word is dirtbags,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: not Long Beach State dirtbags, but they want dirtbags, guys
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: who will treat every ground ball like somebody's insulted their
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: mother or kicked their puppy right in the face. And
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: San Francisco, they need more players like that. And from
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Rafael Devers, it's like they need more of a lunch
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: pail thing. He's more of a designer luggage guy. He's
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: designer luggage guy. And Devers already had that messy divorce
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: in Boston over positional flexibility and not being a team player.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: He didn't want to embrace a different role. So does
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: that prove that he's a locker room tumor? What happened
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: in Boston and the fact that Giants were trying to
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: trade him up until the deadline? No, but it sure
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: makes your mind wander. The only thing that will save
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Rafael Devers from being tossed out into the trade market
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: is if there is no trade market, which there likely
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: will not be. Because of a work stoppage coming to
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. So there will be no trades. So
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. You get all schmaltzy about this, that
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: and the other thing with Rafael Devers. But the reality
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: is there will likely be no trades because everything will
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: be shut down because there'll be no agreement between the
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: players and the owners because the owners want a salary cap,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: which baseball doesn't need. And the players know that. And
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: so they're not going to take a deal and they'll
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: have to work something else out.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 32:35
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• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Here we go. Here we go.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Time to roll.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: Welcome in, militia.
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: Speaking of winners.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Can you handle more Maller mayhem?
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen. It's time now for.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: Step back. Benny versus the Penny.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: That it is, and we're heading into week two of
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the NFL season, a little Thursday night football. Lions and Bills,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: a couple of teams that won opening weekend. The Bills
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: opened a three-and-a-half point favorite. That line is up to
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: four-and-a-half on DraftKings right now on Amazon TV there, Amazon
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Prime with Al Michaels and Herbie. They will have the
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: call from Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: New York.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: And the storyline here is rather simple. First regular season
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: game in Buffalo's new stadium. You got a couple of
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: teams that have been pretty good, pretty good in recent years.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Both teams off to the good start. Buffalo and Detroit
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: tied with 36 victories apiece over their last 50 regular
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: season games. So they've had similar runs in the regular season.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: The gambling market on DraftKings, the Bills, a four-and-a-half point favorite.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: As we said, most of the tickets and the handle.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: In favor of the Buffalo Bills and the pick. I'm
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: going to take the Buffalo Bills here. I'm going to
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: take the Buffalo Bills. And by the way, those lines
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: courtesy of DraftKings Sportsbook. And I'm going to take the
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: team from Buffalo. I usually take underdogs, but I'm going
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: to take the Bills as a favorite.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Here's why.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: The Lions secondary sucks. Josh Allen against a secondary that
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: gave up 410 passing yards to Tyler Shuck.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: And then the Detroit offensive line is compromised. They have
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: three offensive linemen. They're starting centers out. Their right tackle
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: and their left guard are out.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: It's a short week.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: They also played overtime against the Saints. Historically, since 2000,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: teams playing Thursday night football immediately after an overtime game
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: are 6-25.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Against the spread. So there's a lot of reasons to
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: like Buffalo.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: The formula, Josh Allen gets the bad Detroit secondary, a
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: battered offensive line, short week.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: I will be taking. the bills mafia. And I'll lay
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: the four and a half points. Koopa loop. Who does
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: the penny like in this matchup?
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: Speaker 0 7, Ben, the penny reads the injury report
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: as well.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Oh, come on. Come on.
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: Picking the bills.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: Come on. Hey, the bull crap.
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: I swear. But the other picks that we did off
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: the air, those were a.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Little bit different. Yes, and I did beat the penny,
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: I believe, by like one game. I have the math.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: I don't have time to get the math up.
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: Wow, good job.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Neither one of us did great, but I did better.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: And that's really, as you know, that's all that matters.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: I want to win. I want to win all the games,
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: but I just want to beat the penny. That's the bit. See,
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: that's the bit.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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• 35:46
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• 35:51
  Speaker 2: now time for.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Time for... Hurry, hurry, I can hardly wait. Ask Ben.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Twitter.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: Send us your questions on Twitter now. And away we go.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: It's Ask Ben. Your questions, our answers. Ben and friends
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: as we go hog wild here on the show. And
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: over for the reading of the questions to the Koopa Loop.
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: All right, we're going to start off with a question
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: from JTTheWingMan.com.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, I met him.
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: Yes, me as well. Now, he wants to know, and
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: there's an image that accompanies this, but I'm going to
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: try to explain it as best I can. Stick with me.
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: There's lots of choices. What is your favorite type of pretzel? Now,
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: soft pretzel isn't on here. We've got the mini twist,
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: just regular mini crunchy pretzels, sticks, sourdough nibblers, peanut butter filled,
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: butter snaps, those are the ones that kind of look
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: like a checkered board, honey wheat twists, honey mustard pieces,
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: and balls.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: All right, so JT, first of all, you're not including
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: the soft pretzel, the street pretzel that you get in
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: New York or Philadelphia.
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: Because that would obviously win. I feel that's why it's on.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Exactly. Okay, all right.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: So I have in the past at times enjoyed a handful,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: or I've gotten at Costco those big peanut butter-filled peanuts.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: And I enjoy them. That's my answer. Lorena?
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: I like those, oh, they come in that big red
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: and black bag, and they have the really, they're super buttery.
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: The butter snaps? No, but they're twisted and they're seasoned
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: really nicely. They're not even on that list. Maybe down there.
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: The twists.
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: What are those called? It says honey wheat twists, but
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: it can be different flavors. I know what you're saying.
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: So you like the twists. I like the twists.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: What about you?
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: The only correct answer is the peanut butter filled. That's
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: the only one.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: That's the only way I've eaten of those regularly. So
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: that's really the one I would go with.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Next.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: What's next here? It's Ask Ben. Your questions, our answers.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Hashtag Ask Ben. You can seal the deal.
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: Here we go. Gunner wants to know.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Oh, Gunner, how's Carolina doing, pal? That was very impressive defensively, Gunner.
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: What is your favorite horror movie?
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: Well, when I was a kid, it was always like
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Friday the 13th. That was very popular. I'm old, so
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: that was popular.
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: I'm really not a big horror guy, so I generally
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: don't go out of my way to watch them.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: What about you, Lorena? We actually just watched it the
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: other day, Insidious.
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: I love that horror movie. I think it's great.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: It's your jam?
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Very good. Coop, what's any eye-popping, exhilarating, electrifying... Horror movies.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: I don't know if everybody considers this a horror movie,
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: but Silence of the Lambs is my favorite.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess it would be.
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: If you want to go with one of the classics,
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: then I got to go Halloween.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: Halloween. Oh, that's not bad. All right. What's next? It's
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Ask Ben.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: I'm surprised Gunner hasn't called to defend his team.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Bad job by you. He's eating a tuna fish sandwich
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: right now in the break room at Walmart. What's next?
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: What do we got?
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: The King Rory would like to know, have you ever
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: had to pass a kidney stone?
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: No, I have not. I have had hemorrhoids. I've had,
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: what else have I had? The gallbladder. That was the worst.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: The gallbladder is the worst. What about you, Lorena?
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: No, but I had an anatomy professor who brought in
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: his to show us what it looked like.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Those things are scary. Yeah, I did not have that.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: I've had friends that have had it, though, and it's
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: not an idea. What about you, Coop?
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: I have not, thank God. That sounds horrible. It did
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: get to the point where I was drinking way too
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: much soda, and it was like you're in danger of
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: of forming kidney stones. And I changed my diet and said,
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: we're okay now, I think.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: You're smart.
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: I hope.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: You're out of the danger zone. You've taken care of it.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: You've done the copious amounts of treatment there. Just drink
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: a lot of water.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: That's the key.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: I mostly drink water. What's next? It's Ask Ben. Your
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: questions are answers, whether you're in the big city or
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: out in the boondocks. It doesn't matter.
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry. I'm going to go back-to-back, belly-to-belly with King
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: Rory questions because I want to ask this one.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: You're just upsetting people.
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: I know. Do you prefer puffy or crunchy Cheetos?
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a crunchy guy. I am.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Occasionally I'll go puff, and I'll go puff, and I'm
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: always going back to crunchy.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: What about you, Lorena?
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, more of a crunchy girl. The cheesy poofs, they
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: smell weird sometimes.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: I just saw a video on how they make those.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: It's pretty wild. It's like the amount of corn they
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: use to make the Cheetos. What about you, Coop?
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: I like the cheesy puffs. I like them. I don't know.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: So you like the puffy ones, not the crunchy ones?
• 40:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I like those ones better.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: Well, no one's perfect.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: What's next here? It's Ask Ben. Your questions, our answers.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: The whole operation.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: Here we go.
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: Well, we've been asked this many times before, but not
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: by Georgia Boy. He wants to know, have you ever
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: broken a bone?
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, but not like a leg or an arm,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: like fingers and toes and things like that.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: What about you, Lorraine?
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: No, I am safe.
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: Never have I ever.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: You just jinxed yourself. Koopaloop.
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: Nope, never.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: You got to go out. Even a finger? Come on.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: Get out there. Touch some grass. Come on now.