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Hour 2 - Roger the Dodger · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Playball. It's our dumber two. No magic asterisk needed here.
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Speaker 1: In our number two is the owner of the New
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Speaker 1: York Metropolitans had a lot to say about the Boys
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Speaker 1: in Blue? Can you unravel what Steve Cohen means when
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Speaker 1: he says he isn't scared of the Dodgers formidable spending
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Speaker 1: and bragged about how much heganspent? Also, do you agree
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Speaker 1: or disagree with these? Aforementioned owner Steve Cohen stonewalling a
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Speaker 1: captaincy in the Mets clubhouse set. As long as he
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Speaker 1: owns the Mets, no one will be a captain of
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Speaker 1: the Metropolitans. We'll put that under the Malard microscope. And
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Speaker 1: what do you make of former Dodger World series hero
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Speaker 1: Walker Bueller's chances of a career revival in Suan Diego.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that and more as we plug along
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Speaker 1: in this our number two, Roger the Dodger, Welcome in
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Speaker 1: slash disclosures our lead This hour talking bays Mallah talking
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Speaker 1: to Baseball. We love when rich people get upset. We
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Speaker 1: like when rich people get upset. It makes for good
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Speaker 1: talk radio. We have an example of that. And I
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Speaker 1: realized that we are in the very early stages, very
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Speaker 1: early stages of the the Cactus League and the Grapefruit League. However,
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Speaker 1: it is never too early to fet and to parse
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Speaker 1: the words of the robber barons of baseball, the latest
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Speaker 1: in the Grapefruit League and beautiful Port Saint Lucie, Florida.
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Speaker 1: The New York Mets owner Steve Cone, the man who
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Speaker 1: I was told by all my friends who are Mets fans,
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Speaker 1: this is the great Messiah of met baseball. The glory
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Speaker 1: days are here again. The glory days are here again
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Speaker 1: for Steve Cohn. So he addressed the big blue boogeyman
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Speaker 1: in the room, the big blue boogeyman in the room.
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Speaker 1: So if you didn't hear about this, or perhaps not,
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Speaker 1: Coin he broke down the fact that he was supposed
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Speaker 1: to put the Mets in the position that Dodgers are
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Speaker 1: currently in, but they're not. And the conversation they went
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Speaker 1: back and forth, A lot of it was because of
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Speaker 1: Edwin Diaz, who left the Mets to join the Dodgers,
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Speaker 1: and that upset a lot of Mets people. And so
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Speaker 1: we have a little bit of a Q and A. Here,
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Speaker 1: let's get your little taste.
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Speaker 2: Here.
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Speaker 1: Here's Steve Con, the Mets owner, who's yapping about the Dodgers.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen, the Dodgers had another big offseason. You
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Speaker 1: feel they kind of widened the gap on everybody?
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Speaker 3: Or how do you look at that dynamic? Well, I mean, listen,
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Speaker 3: they're formidable, right, I mean they have the ability to spend,
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Speaker 3: so do I, by the way, And you know, they
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Speaker 3: built a great team. But I think we've built a
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Speaker 3: great team and I think we're going to be really
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Speaker 3: competitive this year and the goal is to meet him
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Speaker 3: somewhere along the way in the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so the beginning of that was the money part
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Speaker 1: where all the writers say, you just laugh their ass off.
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Speaker 1: Just Leade loved it. So he said they're formidable. They
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Speaker 1: have the ability to spend, so do I by the way?
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Speaker 1: All right, good jumping off with that was Steve Con,
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Speaker 1: the Mets owner. So let us discuss the question can
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Speaker 1: you unravel what the Metropolitans owner Steve Con means when
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Speaker 1: he says he isn't he went on and isn't scared
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Speaker 1: of the Dodgers, And you know they're formidable spending and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff. So my observations, I've got Walmart, Quaker, Oats,
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Speaker 1: and Frogger and we will combine all of these things
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Speaker 1: together and we are going to play Connect three. That's right,
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Speaker 1: Connect three, and not one, not two, but three. So
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Speaker 1: we always start with number number W.
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Speaker 4: A right.
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Speaker 1: So to unravel the words of Steve Cohen, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with delusional capital D delusional. It's pure
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Speaker 1: unadulterated extra strength cope from the Mets owner. It was
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Speaker 1: not supposed to be like this. It was never supposed
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Speaker 1: to be like this. He's screwed things up. He has
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Speaker 1: not been as advertised. And since he's a Mets fan,
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Speaker 1: the vast majority of Mets fans are giving Steve con
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Speaker 1: a pass. But he's not done the job. He's not
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Speaker 1: as the owner right. He's entering now his sixth year,
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Speaker 1: we are told, and he talked all this talk about
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Speaker 1: the Mets being the East Coast Dodgers and all that.
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Speaker 1: What has he done? What is yet? He spent a
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Speaker 1: lot of money, but the Mets, do you know what
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Speaker 1: their record is since Steve Cohen took over in all
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Speaker 1: of Major League Baseball? I looked it up. So the Mets,
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Speaker 1: where do you think they are? You think there?
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Speaker 5: Now?
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Speaker 1: They're obviously not the top team in baseball since he
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Speaker 1: took over five years ago. Heading into year six, what
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Speaker 1: do you think the Mets? Do you think the Mets are?
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Speaker 6: Like?
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Speaker 1: I don't know, number five in the top They gotta
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Speaker 1: be in the top five, right, No? Six, maybe seven? Well,
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Speaker 1: it turns out the New York Mets since Steve Cohen
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Speaker 1: became the owner, the Mets are eleventh in baseball. They're
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Speaker 1: not even in the top ten. They're eleventh in baseball
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Speaker 1: overall record since Cohan bought the team, and even more embarrassing,
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Speaker 1: a team named after a bridge, the Cleveland Guardians, who
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Speaker 1: spend about twelve dollars and a pack of gum on
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Speaker 1: the roster and had a couple of pitchers accused of
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Speaker 1: fixing pitches, have a better record than the New York Mets. Hello. Now,
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Speaker 1: Cohen assumed the position that he bought the team in
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Speaker 1: a big, big Wall Street guy and he could stroll
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Speaker 1: into any Walmart anywhere in the United States, grab a
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Speaker 1: box of tuna helper and then sprinkle, just you sprinkle
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Speaker 1: the tuna helper on there and some twenty four carre
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Speaker 1: at Goldflakes and presto, you've got a World Series. Now,
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Speaker 1: unfortunately it does not work that way. You cannot buy
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Speaker 1: a soul for a franchise. The Mets, I mentioned they
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Speaker 1: were eleventh in baseball. You know how many games back
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Speaker 1: they are in the regular season from where the Dodgers
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Speaker 1: are in the last five years, the Mets are eighty
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Speaker 1: three games worse than the Dodgers eighty three eighty three
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Speaker 1: and wow wow. Now, as far as the poor billionaire bit,
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Speaker 1: which I always get a kick out of, Steve Con
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Speaker 1: is wealthy. He's very, very wealthy. He's done a lot
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Speaker 1: of good things by screwing over businesses, and that's how
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Speaker 1: you make a lot of money on Wall Street. Cohen
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Speaker 1: is at twenty three billion. Last I looked the Dodgers.
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Speaker 1: It's a little different because they're conglomerate, the Dodgers ownership group,
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Speaker 1: the Guggenheim Group, which operates the Dodgers. Their value. Now,
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Speaker 1: not all of this goes towards the baseball team. But
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Speaker 1: mentioned Steve Con twenty three billion, the Dodgers are at
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Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty billion. It is institutional capital that
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers have here. So that's a middleweight getting in
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Speaker 1: the ring against Godzilla or King Kong or whatever Cyclops
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Speaker 1: or the hunchback of Notre Dame, whatever monster thing you
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Speaker 1: want to put out there. The Mets lineup. If you
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Speaker 1: look at the Mets lineup, they've got a couple of
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Speaker 1: big names there. They don't scare anybody though the pitching
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Speaker 1: is eh eh. And you know, Steve con say, I'm
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Speaker 1: not scared. You know, he shouldn't be scared. He should
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Speaker 1: be embarrassed, should be embarrassed, and he's realizing that it
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Speaker 1: is a zero some game here, that he's the one
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Speaker 1: holding the empty bag of gold plated noodles. What happened?
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Speaker 1: Where did they go?
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Speaker 2: All?
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Speaker 1: Right? Now? Page two to the leadership ranks, we continue
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Speaker 1: with the theme of the hour. The Mets owner also
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Speaker 1: announced that they will not be naming anyone as the
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Speaker 1: captain of the Metropolitans, and that is by design. Steve
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Speaker 1: Cone said, as long as I'm owning the team, there
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Speaker 1: will never be a team captain. Cohen told the reporters,
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Speaker 1: who probably laughed when he said that, laughing at everything
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Speaker 1: he says. This is his annual spring training news conference.
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Speaker 1: He says that was my decision. The Mets owner said,
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Speaker 1: my view as the locker room is unique, and let
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Speaker 1: the locker room sort it out year in and year out.
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Speaker 1: So the question do you agree or disagree with owner
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Speaker 1: Steve Cohen stonewalling a captain for the Mets in that clubhouse.
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Speaker 1: So I actually support this. I do support it. Your professionals,
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Speaker 1: it's your job. Just do your job. You don't need
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Speaker 1: a gold star on your report card or a letter
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Speaker 1: sewn into your chest to lead. You don't. And the
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Speaker 1: whole captain thing in baseball is pretty corny, isn't it.
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Speaker 1: It's like being the line leader in second grade. Well, okay,
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Speaker 1: that's great when you're in second grade, but it's supposed
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Speaker 1: to be in the big leagues. And it's also a
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Speaker 1: total admission. So I support not naming a captain. In fact,
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Speaker 1: most teams in baseball don't have a captain. It's also
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Speaker 1: Steve Cohen admitting that he spent a billion dollars on
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Speaker 1: two guys that aren't of the pedigree to be a leader.
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Speaker 1: In terms of a captain, he's like, he says, he
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Speaker 1: I gave one Soto seven hundred and sixty five million.
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Speaker 1: Of course, after taxes, that's about seventy dollars. In New York.
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Speaker 1: He gave soda seventy seven un sixty five million dollars
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Speaker 1: whatever it was, and the guy could not lead a
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Speaker 1: horse to water. And same with Francisco Lindor, who's getting
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Speaker 1: over three hundred million dollars. So you've got over a
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Speaker 1: billion dollars between those two guys, and the New York
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Speaker 1: Mets owner Steve Cohen is looking around the room going, well,
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Speaker 1: where's the leader here? I mean, that is an indictment
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Speaker 1: of those guys. Again, I agree with the premise. However,
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Speaker 1: you would you would think that that comes with the
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Speaker 1: default settings when you sign a ballplayer for seven hundred
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Speaker 1: and sixty five million, that he's just going to be
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Speaker 1: your leader and your captain and all that stuff. And
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Speaker 1: if you have to tell people you're the captain, you
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Speaker 1: have to tell people you're the leader. You aren't the leader.
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Speaker 1: Right now, that Mets clubhouse, they have a leadership vacuum.
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Speaker 1: They need to go out and contact the people at
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Speaker 1: Quaker Oats and put boxes of Captain Crunch in there,
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Speaker 1: because that's the real captain. Captain Crunch gets you started
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Speaker 1: the right way there, and at least he does provide crunch,
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Speaker 1: and sometimes you get that Barry crunch. Also, you get that,
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Speaker 1: and these guys, I don't know if they even provide
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Speaker 1: a shrug. Heck, you could go Captain Kangaroo. There's another
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Speaker 1: famous captain, Captain Kirk, nemesis of this show, Captain Kirk.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of captains out there now. As I
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Speaker 1: understand it, the only teams in baseball that have a
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Speaker 1: captain are the Yankees with Aaron Judge. And you know
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Speaker 1: who the other team is? No, Okay, Kansas City the
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Speaker 1: Kansas City Roads last year, those are the only two
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Speaker 1: teams that had a captain. Yeah, the Royals Salvador Perez
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Speaker 1: are a longtime catcher. So it's a relic, is what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. So again, it's a shot at in many
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Speaker 1: ways lind'or, Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto. It's also smart
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Speaker 1: pr by Steve Cohen, the Mets owner. You're avoiding the
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Speaker 1: drama by picking one overpaid star and then hurting the
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Speaker 1: other one's feelings. And so God forbid that happens. And
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Speaker 1: so he's just gonna let the locker room sort it out.
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Speaker 1: And if you want to lead that's great. If not
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Speaker 1: just cash the check, try to hit the cutoff man.
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Speaker 1: That would help. Try to hit the cutoff man. That
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Speaker 1: would be pretty pretty cool for the Mets. All right, now,
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Speaker 1: final point, we go to the High Speed Sports Wire.
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Speaker 1: The High Speed Sports Wire a transaction. The World Series
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Speaker 1: Hero of years gone by, World Series Hero go Years
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Speaker 1: gone by on the move. Former Dodger star Pitcher in
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Speaker 1: the Fall Classic has a new home, Walker Buehler. Buehler, Buehler.
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Speaker 1: You see this, He is taking his talents to the
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Speaker 1: home of the Fish Taco Sunday Ago. He'll be in
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Speaker 1: the Padre camp. And he does not even get a
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Speaker 1: major league contract. He gets a minor league deal. Now,
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Speaker 1: I remember, years ago, years ago, I was educated by
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Speaker 1: a former major league pittuer about this, so I'll explain.
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Speaker 1: But the question, what do you make of one time
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Speaker 1: World Series star Walker Bueller and his chances of a
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Speaker 1: career revival and Sunday Ago? All right, So just keeping
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Speaker 1: it real, just keeping it real. It was Rob Dibble, who,
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Speaker 1: if you're old enough to remember, he played for the
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Reds back in the day and was part of
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Speaker 1: the bullpen called the Nasty Boys. And Rob was a
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Speaker 1: talk show host here at Fox Sports Radio, part of
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Speaker 1: the Alumni Association. Now the great Rob Dibble. I think
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Speaker 1: he's doing radio in Connecticut last time. But anyway, Rob
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Speaker 1: worked here and good, good dude, good dude, But a
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Speaker 1: lot of booze into work. He was partners with some
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Speaker 1: alcohol company. But anyway, that's aside the point. That's aside
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Speaker 1: the point. So he explained to me, He's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: he gave me the whole education on the minor league
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Speaker 1: deals and how all that stuff is often predetermined even
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Speaker 1: though they give you a minor league deal. It's just
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Speaker 1: it's semantics, like do they know who's gonna be on
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Speaker 1: the roster. Now, you can pitch yourself off the roster
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Speaker 1: or play yourself off the roster, but they know going
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Speaker 1: in and then your performance changes that. But if you
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Speaker 1: just do decently, you're gonna be on the team. So,
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Speaker 1: in terms of what do I make of Walker Buler's chances,
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Speaker 1: the Padres at this point are throwing mud against the
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Speaker 1: wall and seeing if anything sticks. That's where we are.
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Speaker 1: So I give Walker Bueler a less than ten percent
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Speaker 1: chance of any kind of legitimate long term career renaissance
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Speaker 1: in San Diego since he missed the entire twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: three season with Tommy John surgery, Walker Bueler has been
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Speaker 1: running on fumes, which makes what he did in the
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Speaker 1: postseason all the morbidunculous, all the morbid. Walker Buehler has
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Speaker 1: an ERA of over five since that Tommy John operation
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Speaker 1: between the Dodgers the Red Sox. He actually pisched okay
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Speaker 1: for the Phillies, but didn't pitch that much since Tommy
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Speaker 1: John has got an ERA of over five. And yet
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Speaker 1: he had that cosmic planet lineup postseason where he didn't
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Speaker 1: actually do much in the first round, but in the
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Speaker 1: NLCS I believe that was against the Mets and then
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Speaker 1: the Yankees in the World Series. He was lights out
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Speaker 1: in that twenty four postseason run for the Dodgers, and
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Speaker 1: so people were like, oh, he's back. And then he
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Speaker 1: went to the Red Sox and sucked. And outside of
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Speaker 1: that stretch that couple weeks in October of twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 1: it has been squad douche. As a Tillow in Florida
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Speaker 1: would say, it's been squad doush, total garbage. In San Diego.
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Speaker 1: You've got three pitchers. Michael King, Nick Pivetta and Joe Muskrove,
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Speaker 1: former cheating astro. Those are the top three, and then
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Speaker 1: after that the Padres are playing a game of Frogger.
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Speaker 1: They're playing Frogger, they're kissing frogs. You've got Buehler who's
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Speaker 1: thirty one and his arm is shredded, just another body
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Speaker 1: in the pile, with somebody named Griffin Canning who's bounced around,
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Speaker 1: and Hermon Marquez who I think pitched for the Rockies,
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Speaker 1: and Marco Gonzalez. Just a bunch of guys, and a
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Speaker 1: couple of those guys will be in the Podrey's rotation.
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Speaker 1: They're all fighting for a seat and they want to
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Speaker 1: be on the bridge when it sinks on the sinking ship.
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Speaker 1: There the Padres with a rather middling roster and they
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Speaker 1: are in danger of a full demo job in mid season.
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Speaker 1: And what happens when you leave a fish taco outside
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Speaker 1: in the sun. It starts smelling and turning colors and
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Speaker 1: all that. So it's like a rotten fish taco there
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Speaker 1: the Padre roster, So keep an eye on that. It
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Speaker 1: the big top. That's true. You know, you have no idea.
21:13
Speaker 1: This is every night, it's the circus here absolutely Bill,
21:17
Speaker 1: who's your bill rights? And he says the Mets couldn't
21:20
Speaker 1: sell out a game in Nova Scotia Anaheim Mets, he says,
21:27
Speaker 1: RPS the latest to join the parade. He says, Hey, Ben,
21:30
Speaker 1: how did the podcast not have the callers voices volume?
21:34
Speaker 1: I don't know. I have no idea. I have nothing
21:36
Speaker 1: to do with the production of the podcast. I have
21:37
Speaker 1: no idea how that happened. I don't know. I didn't
21:39
Speaker 1: even know it was possible, but apparently it is. So
21:42
Speaker 1: we learned. We learned something. So I don't know what
21:44
Speaker 1: you want me to tell you, but I do appreciate
21:46
Speaker 1: that you're listening and that you're complaining. It does mean,
21:50
Speaker 1: It does mean a lot, And seriously, it's good because
21:54
Speaker 1: the worst thing that can happen, the worst thing that
21:57
Speaker 1: can happen is you do the podcast asked and you
22:02
Speaker 1: f it up. And then it's like the famous JaMarcus
22:04
Speaker 1: Russell story where they gave him some tape to watch
22:07
Speaker 1: when he played for the Raiders, and and he had
22:10
Speaker 1: not watched it, and he was because it was blank.
22:12
Speaker 1: He couldn't have watched it. And that's where now I
22:14
Speaker 1: just realized, this is a this is weed man segment here.
22:17
Speaker 1: I did not promote weed man segment. I feel bad. Now,
22:20
Speaker 1: is there any chance we can get a bunch of questions?
22:22
Speaker 1: Let me put weed Man on? Are you that weed
22:24
Speaker 1: man hippie? Hollywood, Florida weed man hippie? I did not
22:27
Speaker 1: accurately promote your segment. So I'm gonna I'm calling the arms,
22:31
Speaker 1: the members of the Malad Militia, and the phones. At
22:33
Speaker 1: eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, It's ask a
22:36
Speaker 1: weed Man. His name is Billy. He goes by a
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Speaker 1: weed man hippie. He's in Florida. Hello, weed man hippie.
22:43
Speaker 1: Bad job by me? Who goofed? I've got to know,
22:49
Speaker 1: I don't hear there he is? There's weed No weed
22:53
Speaker 1: man hippie. Yeah, yeah, there he am. All right, So
22:57
Speaker 1: we need is here.
22:59
Speaker 4: We have to change the world.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna change it where we've got twenty five minute
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Speaker 1: delay here weed man, twenty five minutes delay. So once
23:07
Speaker 1: that kicks in, we'll get all the commercials. That's hashtag
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Speaker 1: ask a weed man or just send it and tag
23:12
Speaker 1: me in it and we'll get those questions. But we'll
23:15
Speaker 1: start with this. Now, you're in South Florida. If Tyreek
23:18
Speaker 1: Hill needs a place to stay, would you allow him
23:22
Speaker 1: to stay? Great, you'd be roommates with Tyreek Hill.
23:25
Speaker 4: You'd be willing to absolutely, Yeah, that'd be great. I
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Speaker 4: love that.
23:29
Speaker 1: Yeah all right. Uh, Shane into Mones says, Hey, Ben,
23:33
Speaker 1: can you ask weed man hippie for me who his
23:36
Speaker 1: favorite lame joke writers are. Now I'm gonna guess you
23:39
Speaker 1: have no idea who any of that? Oh you do like,
23:43
Speaker 1: oh my god, you do like surfer tie. I didn't
23:45
Speaker 1: think you would be able to remember any of them.
23:47
Speaker 1: But Surfer Todd, now he reminds me of you. I've
23:51
Speaker 1: never actually met you in person. I've met Surfer Todd
23:53
Speaker 1: a couple of times. He lives He's from LA but
23:56
Speaker 1: he lives in Vegas a little bit too. He can
23:58
Speaker 1: kind of messing around with love. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm
24:03
Speaker 1: guessing if I ever meet you, weed Man, you'll remind
24:05
Speaker 1: me of Surfer Todd, the comedian. He's got crazy outfits,
24:10
Speaker 1: got a really fun wife.
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Speaker 4: There.
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Speaker 1: They're they're they're quite the couple, quite the couple. So
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Speaker 1: you would you would like that? Like, yeah, yeah, all right? Uh,
24:22
Speaker 1: ferd Dog says, Hey, weed Man, did you notice that
24:26
Speaker 1: you couldn't hear the callers on yesterday's podcast? You have
24:36
Speaker 1: not actually ever listened to a podcast, have you? You're
24:39
Speaker 1: you're out of the age. I'm going to go out
24:41
Speaker 1: and lim that you have not actually listened to any podcast.
24:43
Speaker 1: Is that accurate?
24:51
Speaker 4: Pretty much? I used to podcasts. I used to listen
24:56
Speaker 4: to Love You.
24:57
Speaker 1: I don't believe you. I don't think you because you don't.
25:01
Speaker 1: You don't even it took you like six months to
25:03
Speaker 1: get an email address, right, yeah it did?
25:09
Speaker 2: All right?
25:09
Speaker 1: Well, all right, Mike writes, and we mentioned this on
25:14
Speaker 1: my podcast on the mail I think this was on
25:16
Speaker 1: the mail Bag on Sunday. We mentioned this. But some
25:18
Speaker 1: researchers have now studied the flatulence weed Man and Mike
25:24
Speaker 1: here wants you to know your thoughts, they claim. Now
25:27
Speaker 1: researchers they this is so great. University of Maryland they
25:33
Speaker 1: designed special undies to put a device right near the
25:38
Speaker 1: tukas and they determined through their sensors. They used electro
25:42
Speaker 1: mechanical sensors to measure flatulence and they determined on average
25:49
Speaker 1: human beings two thirty two times a day weed Man
25:53
Speaker 1: thirty two.
25:54
Speaker 4: No, that's definitely not sure. That's definitely no.
25:58
Speaker 1: No, I'm telling you it's science. They is a healthy
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Speaker 1: adults pass gas on average of thirty two times a day,
26:05
Speaker 1: although it does very so Mike. Mike wants to know.
26:08
Speaker 1: Mike wants to know. Did you let gas more or
26:11
Speaker 1: less than thirty two times a day?
26:13
Speaker 4: We've been much less. You know that.
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Speaker 1: Dan, Come on, I don't know. I don't know that.
26:19
Speaker 1: And by the way, we Man, they say that most
26:20
Speaker 1: of the time that people are letting go of the
26:24
Speaker 1: old too, that they don't even realize it it's the
26:28
Speaker 1: Silent once, the Silent Assassins movement, not.
26:31
Speaker 4: Thirty times just gay.
26:32
Speaker 1: Everybody knows it's thirty two times a day. They say
26:36
Speaker 1: thirty two times a day. You do not agree with.
26:40
Speaker 1: Aren't you supposed to trust the science? And we told
26:42
Speaker 1: that when they were shoving stuff down our throats a
26:44
Speaker 1: few years ago. Let's see here, Uh you feem in
26:48
Speaker 1: the Chicago, says weed Man. Maybe what is your favorite movie? Yeah,
26:52
Speaker 1: I wants to know your favorite movie?
26:54
Speaker 4: Rockies?
26:55
Speaker 1: I love Rockies, the Rocky franchise or big Fan, Yes, yeah,
27:00
Speaker 1: all about the What about the Godfather? If you like
27:02
Speaker 1: the Godfather movie?
27:03
Speaker 4: I love the golf Father. Yeah, I love the Godfather,
27:06
Speaker 4: especially the second one, the seconds.
27:08
Speaker 1: Everyone says that. Everyone says that says you got.
27:11
Speaker 4: Probably the best movie ever. That's true, That's really true.
27:13
Speaker 1: Yeah. My favorite mob movie was Goodfellas. Do you ever
27:16
Speaker 1: see good Fellaws?
27:19
Speaker 7: Good Fellows was great, dude, And and uh, weed Man,
27:25
Speaker 7: the movie that that was portrayed about the person Henry
27:29
Speaker 7: Hill actually was.
27:31
Speaker 1: He was in the f BI FBI Witness Protection Program
27:34
Speaker 1: and lived in Sherman Oaks where our studios are. And
27:37
Speaker 1: I actually had a run in with Henry Hill who
27:40
Speaker 1: was drunk and tried to get into the radio station
27:43
Speaker 1: out the back door there. I tried to get him,
27:46
Speaker 1: and it's one of my favorite stories working at Fox
27:50
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. So I show well, no, because he smelled
27:56
Speaker 1: like ass and was drunk and sloring his words, and
27:59
Speaker 1: he kept saying, I'm Henry effing Hill, I want to go,
28:01
Speaker 1: I'm on the radio. Put me on the radio. So
28:04
Speaker 1: I my my, my producer Bergie. At the time, we thought, well,
28:10
Speaker 1: that's bull craft. He saw he saw the guy, and
28:13
Speaker 1: and then we at that time the internet there wasn't
28:16
Speaker 1: really a lot of social media. We googled Henry Hill.
28:18
Speaker 1: What he looks like is he'd been on the Howard
28:20
Speaker 1: schurchio and it was Henry Hill, the mob guy. It
28:22
Speaker 1: was him wild Wild I got killed dudes and stuff
28:27
Speaker 1: like that. It was it was crazy. All right, Let's
28:29
Speaker 1: see what do we have here? More questions? A lot
28:32
Speaker 1: of questions. Now, weed Man got a lot of questions
28:34
Speaker 1: for you. Nature boy has a great question. He says,
28:37
Speaker 1: weed Man, would you ever get a tramp stamp?
28:41
Speaker 4: No, I don't have any tattoos, Everybody, I do.
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Speaker 1: Not have any tattoos. I don't know I only Coop does.
28:53
Speaker 1: I don't know about Loreno, she might. I don't know. Seven.
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Speaker 4: There you go, Shedman Tartur.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he just says lucky number.
29:02
Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Bird Dog writes, and he says, do homeless people eat
29:09
Speaker 1: the crust on the pizza?
29:12
Speaker 4: Sure? Why not?
29:14
Speaker 1: Why not?
29:14
Speaker 4: Why?
29:16
Speaker 1: What I would do, weed Man is I would save
29:18
Speaker 1: the crust as my dessert. I'd eat that at the end.
29:23
Speaker 1: That would be my treat. King Roy says, did weed
29:27
Speaker 1: Man Hippy watch the eight hundredth episode of the Simpsons?
29:31
Speaker 4: No?
29:32
Speaker 2: I did not.
29:33
Speaker 4: I've never watched the Simpsons never.
29:36
Speaker 1: How is it possible they've been on since.
29:38
Speaker 4: That Dodge cartoons?
29:42
Speaker 1: Okay, all right?
29:43
Speaker 5: Uh?
29:44
Speaker 1: The Baltimore Freeloaders account rights, and he says, ask weed
29:48
Speaker 1: Man where he can find the best free food in Miami?
29:51
Speaker 1: Is there a is it on Lincoln Road? Where is
29:53
Speaker 1: the spot? If you really need some food that you
29:56
Speaker 1: can get food?
29:56
Speaker 4: Weed Man, I have no idea, You.
30:00
Speaker 1: Have no idea. What do you know what?
30:02
Speaker 4: There's a church that brings foods like once a month
30:07
Speaker 4: or something. I have to call them.
30:09
Speaker 1: So as long as you as long as you only
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Speaker 1: eat once a month, you're in good shape. You just
30:13
Speaker 1: go down to that church and you're in a good chase.
30:17
Speaker 4: Then bringing in be very food as tuna and stuff
30:24
Speaker 4: like that.
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Speaker 1: I got you Doug in Mississippi to ask a weed
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Speaker 1: man our friend Billy. He's in South Florida and it's
30:31
Speaker 1: his weekly segment. We failed to promote it, but you
30:33
Speaker 1: guys have been great. Got way too many questions now,
30:36
Speaker 1: milkman Mike in Colorado says, what did weed Man get
30:40
Speaker 1: Lisa for Valentine's Day? That's a great question.
30:44
Speaker 4: I sent the flowers you did.
30:46
Speaker 1: Look at you? What a romantic I don't believe. Unbelievable,
30:50
Speaker 1: what a romance?
30:50
Speaker 4: Absolutely right?
30:52
Speaker 1: Is she online? Right now? Is Lisa there?
30:54
Speaker 4: No? No, no, no, she's not all.
30:56
Speaker 1: Right, she's not there unfortunately. Uh, mister irrigation says, ask
31:01
Speaker 1: weed Man to return my text? Does he know how
31:04
Speaker 1: to return to text message? That's from mister irrigation. That's
31:07
Speaker 1: the guy, mister, mister, mister Irrigation's the ring. He's the
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Speaker 1: ring guy. He's the guy that he's the sugar daddy
31:12
Speaker 1: with the ring. Okay, well, right, why don't you write
31:17
Speaker 1: back to mister irrigation He.
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Speaker 4: Said he sent you to you never got a text Are.
31:22
Speaker 1: You sure about that? Are you sure about that? I
31:25
Speaker 1: don't know, you don't know. See you probably did, you
31:29
Speaker 1: probably did, he didn't know.
31:31
Speaker 4: Send me a text anytime now.
31:33
Speaker 1: But you're more of a phone like you answer the
31:35
Speaker 1: phone more than you text.
31:36
Speaker 4: Right, you'd rather talk? Yeah, okay, send me a text
31:40
Speaker 4: anytime now with tomorrow and.
31:42
Speaker 2: I'll be all right.
31:43
Speaker 1: Mister irrigation. He wants you to send him a text
31:45
Speaker 1: right now. Douglas is in Mississippi. Doug says, why did
31:50
Speaker 1: you move to Florida, weed Man and leave Lisa in
31:53
Speaker 1: New York? Interesting?
31:56
Speaker 4: Oh, I just wanted to be warm. She wanted to
32:02
Speaker 4: stay with parents, and they like that for a few
32:07
Speaker 4: years now, I will.
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Speaker 1: More more than a few years. We've been You've been
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Speaker 1: calling me for many many years. I mean, this is
32:13
Speaker 1: this goes, I mean this. Apparently her parents are going
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Speaker 1: to live to be two hundred and fifty years old.
32:17
Speaker 1: This is amazing. Uh, what a great what great genes
32:21
Speaker 1: they have, they live forever.
32:22
Speaker 4: Those people.
32:25
Speaker 1: We have some calls apparently I don't know who the
32:27
Speaker 1: other see. We have some calices, I know, right, great Jeanette,
32:32
Speaker 1: Robert de Niro live not Robert Who was that Robert
32:35
Speaker 1: You wall right passed away ninety five by Steven Man.
32:39
Speaker 1: He made it to ninety five. Stephen Manhattan has a
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Speaker 1: question for you, Steve to sailo to weed Man, hippie
32:44
Speaker 1: Steven Manhattan, all.
32:46
Speaker 4: Right, weed Man, how are you all right? Listen? I'm
32:51
Speaker 4: doing great listening to.
32:52
Speaker 1: You, my man.
32:53
Speaker 2: I got some real heavyweight questions.
32:54
Speaker 4: Did first of all?
32:56
Speaker 1: Ahead, first, please don't beat pressure.
32:59
Speaker 4: Rye by Downtime's Day.
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Speaker 1: Down Time's Day is just another boot leg holiday.
33:03
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, here's the two questions.
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Speaker 1: You grew up in New York City?
33:10
Speaker 4: What name was?
33:11
Speaker 1: And what when was the first time you heard the
33:14
Speaker 1: term loose joints?
33:17
Speaker 4: Come on, Come on, dude, years and years years ago?
33:23
Speaker 4: Rotchs ago?
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Speaker 1: What part, but what part of New York? Were you
33:28
Speaker 1: a Long Island guy? We Man? Where do you?
33:30
Speaker 4: Queene?
33:31
Speaker 1: Queens?
33:31
Speaker 4: I grew up in Howard d Queens? All right about
33:36
Speaker 4: all I grew up. I grew up a couple of
33:39
Speaker 4: blocks wads from John Gotti? How Bill? How old are you?
33:46
Speaker 4: Sixty six?
33:47
Speaker 1: There you go, But for the purpose of the show,
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Speaker 1: he's thirty six, right were for the advertisers. He's actually
33:54
Speaker 1: thirty six for our advertising.
33:58
Speaker 2: We mad, let's sick up. You don't walk around? How
34:02
Speaker 2: would be smoking a joint out on the street? You
34:04
Speaker 2: know that?
34:04
Speaker 4: Right? Oh sure, why not? Why not.
34:08
Speaker 2: Walking out smoking pot out in the street? You know?
34:13
Speaker 5: Do you know?
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Speaker 4: We do?
34:14
Speaker 5: You know?
34:14
Speaker 2: What?
34:17
Speaker 4: Do you go to a score and buy weed?
34:19
Speaker 1: Here? All right? I know? I thank you? All right,
34:23
Speaker 1: I'm done with that hollering James Coup. You were already on, James.
34:27
Speaker 1: Why did you call back? You were already on, hollering.
34:30
Speaker 4: James, because I was praying and hoping you would do
34:32
Speaker 4: us saying, oh weed man, hippy, hey we pay hollering James,
34:36
Speaker 4: how are you? I heard you? What I was I was,
34:39
Speaker 4: I was on the radio. I heard you. I like you.
34:42
Speaker 4: Thanks for calling back.
34:43
Speaker 2: What's up?
34:46
Speaker 4: Yeah? Do us smoke chong with me? With me? I'll
34:53
Speaker 4: be che wearing charm. Yeah, i'd been Tommy hung and
34:59
Speaker 4: you know what? Man?
35:05
Speaker 6: All right?
35:06
Speaker 1: So I think we just actually made a new movie.
35:08
Speaker 1: Yeah the back of the old days we met, Remember
35:12
Speaker 1: we had straight to the video. Now it's straight to YouTube.
35:14
Speaker 1: That's what that movie would be, straight to the YouTube
35:16
Speaker 1: right there. What an amazing thing that is? Uh more
35:21
Speaker 1: questions here, some of these are a little risque. Weed Man.
35:25
Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't care.
35:27
Speaker 1: I know you don't care, but I got and look
35:31
Speaker 1: at this. Actually at the time I think we're done here,
35:33
Speaker 1: we man, But thank you so much, weed Man. Great
35:35
Speaker 1: job by you, good job by the listener stepping up,
35:37
Speaker 1: a bad job by me not promoting. All right, thank you.
35:41
Speaker 1: We will talk you on Friday. There he goes, our
35:43
Speaker 1: buddy Billy weed Man, hippie there, thanks to everyone's been
35:45
Speaker 1: hooking him up with the air fryer and some of
35:48
Speaker 1: the other stuff that you guys have taken care of.
35:51
Speaker 1: Our buddy weed Man, who's been down on his luck
35:53
Speaker 1: the entire time he's called the show, but he's always
35:55
Speaker 1: the happiest guy in the world. We have Mallardly third degree.
35:58
Speaker 1: Here's the Insta tribute. Yet, for the eleventh time, Duke's
36:01
Speaker 1: Cameron Boozer has led both teams and points and total
36:05
Speaker 1: rebounds outright in a game. The only d One true
36:08
Speaker 1: freshman the last thirty years to do so in more
36:12
Speaker 1: games are Kevin Durant when he was back in the
36:15
Speaker 1: day at Texas and Blank. That's the Insta trivia. The answer. Next.
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Speaker 1: to it, Malard of the third degree. Here's the insta trivia,
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Speaker 1: this stuff for March Madness, but for the eleventh time,
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Speaker 1: Duke's Cameron Boozer has led both teams in points and
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Speaker 1: total rebounds outright in a game. The only d one
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Speaker 1: true freshman the last thirty years to do so in
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Speaker 1: Michael Beasley, Michael Beasley nineteen years ago. It's Mallard.
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Speaker 4: How about that?
38:17
Speaker 2: To the third degree, this is one big event.
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Speaker 1: Gets grilled cool board.
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Speaker 5: Last offseason was filled with constant rumors of a TJ.
38:28
Speaker 5: Watt trade, and then the Steelers signed him to a
38:30
Speaker 5: new three year deal. However, one Steelers insider suggested during
38:33
Speaker 5: a recent radio appearance that Steelers GM Omar Khan hasn't
38:36
Speaker 5: completely shut the door on a trade of TJ.
38:38
Speaker 1: Watt.
38:39
Speaker 5: Ben How realistic is it that the Steelers would trade.
38:41
Speaker 1: Him so they definitely have to shop TJ. Watt. He
38:44
Speaker 1: has not been as productive the last couple of years.
38:46
Speaker 1: His performance has declined the last couple of seasons. He
38:50
Speaker 1: said a lot of the injury thing. He's thirty one,
38:53
Speaker 1: I believe, so I'd say there's a twenty percent chance
38:58
Speaker 1: that he's traded. I would trade did him if I
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Speaker 1: was the Steelers next.
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Speaker 5: We learned last week that Panthers legend Luke Keigley was
39:04
Speaker 5: elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame for the
39:05
Speaker 5: class of twenty twenty six. Now, Keithley is campaigning for
39:08
Speaker 5: his former teammate Cam Newton to also make it into
39:10
Speaker 5: the Hall. Wonderful Ben Newton does have an MVP and
39:14
Speaker 5: a first team All Pro.
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Speaker 1: Any chance that he makes it, well, I would put
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Speaker 1: Cam Newton in before Eli Manning because Cam Newton, at
39:21
Speaker 1: least for one season, was truly one of the top
39:23
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the NFL, while Eli Manning was not. However,
39:27
Speaker 1: I would only put him in the Haberdashery Hall of
39:30
Speaker 1: Fame coup for all the hats that he wears. He's
39:32
Speaker 1: not No, he was a nice player. Cam Newton not
39:35
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame player. Did not reach the threshold
39:37
Speaker 1: for the Hall of It next.
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Speaker 5: Donovan Mitchell revealed this weekend that he will not be
39:41
Speaker 5: recruiting Lebron James to the Cavs, saying he is focused
39:43
Speaker 5: on earning a ring this season. Ben, let's play the
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Speaker 5: what if game and say that they do win a
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Speaker 5: ring this season, the Cavs, that is, does that make
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Speaker 5: it more or less likely that Lebron joins next year?
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Speaker 1: I think this is already written in stone. It's been telegraphed.
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Speaker 1: I heard years ago Lebron His plan was always go
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Speaker 1: back to Cleveland, play his final year there and then
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Speaker 1: kind of put the career wrapped the career up that way.
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Speaker 1: So I don't think it matters. I think he wants
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Speaker 1: to play for the Calves. They want him because they'll
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Speaker 1: sell tickets and all that. So I think he's going
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Speaker 1: back to the Calves. How did we go there? It
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Speaker 1: is quitting on the board. What a kick him in
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