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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Mahler Show on
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  Speaker 3: It's not just your normal run of the mill home
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  Speaker 3: run derby. No no on on the We gotta crank
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  Speaker 3: it off a couple of notches for the Big Dumper.
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  Speaker 1: I leave this hour from suburban Atlanta Truest Park in Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: and I've not been to Truest Park in Atlanta. I've
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  Speaker 1: talked to people that have been there. They said it's great.
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  Speaker 1: I remember when the Braves were leaving Turner Field going
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  Speaker 1: out to the Burbs and people were like, oh, it's
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  Speaker 1: By all accounts, I've not heard one bad thing about
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  Speaker 1: that experience that people that have been there love it.
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  Speaker 1: Tommy in Atlanta, who's not allowed to call it show
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  Speaker 1: anymore because he's evil for Conyan Boss does not allow
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  Speaker 1: him to call while he drives his truck around Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: at night, and he's a fan of the show. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure he loves it. Everyone loves it. But they was
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  Speaker 1: all Star Monday Night. All Star Monday Night, which means,
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  Speaker 1: for our purposes, the twenty twenty five home run derby
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  Speaker 1: and good bye, mister baseball, see you later.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you watched this or not. It
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  Speaker 1: usually does pretty well in the television ratings, but everything's
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  Speaker 1: watered down. Everything's watered down these days, so maybe not.
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  Speaker 1: But we watched so you would not have to. And
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  Speaker 1: the reason we watched there was nothing else on. If
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  Speaker 1: there had been something else on, we probably would have
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  Speaker 1: watched it, but there really wasn't, so I assume you
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  Speaker 1: know by now that great night for the Seattle Mariners.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations the Mariners. Now I don't get to the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: They've never been, but this is their event back in
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  Speaker 1: the day. I remember, I'm old enough, I remember Ken
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  Speaker 1: Griffy Jr. Dominating the derby with his hat on backwards.
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  Speaker 1: And now another Mariner legend, the big Dumper, cal Raley
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  Speaker 1: getting it done. It was a family affairy and his
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  Speaker 1: daddy had out there. Cal Raley the first catcher ever
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  Speaker 1: to win the All Star Home Run Derby. Holy Mike
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  Speaker 1: Piazza and Pud Rodriguez and all other catchers have gone
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  Speaker 1: years gone by, as cal Raley outlasted the player that
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  Speaker 1: many thought was going to win this from Tampa Bay,
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  Speaker 1: Junior cam and Aro. Good name, and he's got big
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  Speaker 1: things ahead once he leaves Tampa Bay and goes to
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  Speaker 1: a different team. But the final round of the home
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  Speaker 1: Run Derby as cal Ray hit not one, not two,
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  Speaker 1: not three, not four, not five, nine, six, eighteen dingers
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  Speaker 1: for cal Raley and cam and Aro had fifteen, and
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  Speaker 1: so he'll have to center for a smaller check for
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. More on that in a minute, but
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  Speaker 1: cal Rawley does join King Griffy Junior, the Hall of Famer,
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  Speaker 1: the only two Mariners to win that particular event. And
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  Speaker 1: the thing that I love about this as a talk
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  Speaker 1: show host is that this was a rigg deal. There
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  Speaker 1: was controversy, how do you rig the home run derby?
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  Speaker 1: How does one do that? Well, I don't have rigged
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  Speaker 1: is the right word. But cal Raley was almost eliminated,
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  Speaker 1: should have, could have, would have been eliminated in the
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  Speaker 1: very first round of the derby. He would have been
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  Speaker 1: eliminated by the Athletics Brent Rooker. Now let me explain
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  Speaker 1: if you did not watch and you have not been
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  Speaker 1: paying attention here. So at the end of round one,
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  Speaker 1: cal Raley and Brent Rooker from West Sacramento's A's, not
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  Speaker 1: just Sacramento's West Sacramento, so they the same amount of
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  Speaker 1: home runs. They were tied with seventeen home runs. However,
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball said, well the tiebreaker, the tiebreaker goes
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  Speaker 1: to cal Raley by the slimmest of slim margins, by
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  Speaker 1: the hair on my chinny chin chin, and I'm not kitting.
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball claimed that the longest home run by
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  Speaker 1: cal Dolly traveled four hundred and seventy point six y
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  Speaker 1: one feet. They said that Brent Rooker of the A's
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  Speaker 1: his longest home rent went four hundred and seventy feet
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  Speaker 1: point five to three. I'm not making any of this up.
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  Speaker 1: I am not I'm not making this up. So let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question do you buy the conspiracy theories
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  Speaker 1: that have popped up on the interweb that Major League
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  Speaker 1: Baseball took care of cal Raleigh to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: he was not eliminated in the first round of the
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  Speaker 1: home run derby? Did the deep state of Major League
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  Speaker 1: Baseball pull some shenanigans to help push cal Raleigh along?
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  Speaker 1: So on this one, I've got quantum physics, slum Dog Millionaire,
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  Speaker 1: and sasquatch, and we will combine all of these things together,
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  Speaker 1: and we are going to make a hot pastami samiche
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  Speaker 1: and now now cold pastrami sandwich, a hot pastrami same wwich.
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  Speaker 1: I'm on a Hogi roll. That is what we're gonna make.
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  Speaker 1: So a to answer the question do you buy into
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  Speaker 1: the conspiracy? Now, I would assume that you listen occasionally
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  Speaker 1: show and you know that I am selective. I do
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  Speaker 1: not totally dismiss conspiracy. I don't I have a collection
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  Speaker 1: as alf the alien opinter can prove of tinfoil hats.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I have been immortalized on the Internet for
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  Speaker 1: my tinfoil hat love on this one. I'm in. I
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  Speaker 1: am absolutely in in, in, in in all right, So
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  Speaker 1: let me let me go through this. I'm nodding my head. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you can't see me because it's trading. If you can,
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  Speaker 1: you're a stalker. I'm calling the cops. So guilty as charged,
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  Speaker 1: Guilty as charged of this. In a same world, the
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  Speaker 1: world that I like to think that I'm part of,
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  Speaker 1: you would think, if there's a tie, what do you do?
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  Speaker 1: What do you do? You go to a swing off?
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  Speaker 1: That's what you do. Two hitters tied swing off And
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  Speaker 1: that was originally See this is the thing that buys
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  Speaker 1: into the conspiracy. If you were watching the broadcast originally,
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  Speaker 1: who's the guy with the hair piece? Karl Ravage, Karl Raviitch.
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  Speaker 1: He was on TV there Sanna. He thought there was
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a swing off on the TV broadcast. They
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  Speaker 1: were talking about a swing off. Then the plot thickened.
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  Speaker 5: Do do do Do Do doo? They changed their story.
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  Speaker 5: Big brother got involved. Yep, they changed their story. Baseball
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  Speaker 5: decided they were gonna get cute kutzy. They got Kiltie.
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  Speaker 5: They pulled out the stat.
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  Speaker 1: Cast ruler cal Raley advances because of the nerds makes
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  Speaker 1: you wonder. Right now, I'm not saying for sure that
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball rigged the home run derby because I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to get sued. However, the evidence is there.
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  Speaker 1: You can decide for yourself whether or not the home
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  Speaker 1: run derby was rigged like a slot in Vegas back
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  Speaker 1: when the mob ran Vegas and they didn't have resort
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  Speaker 1: fees and charged for parking, and it was a great
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  Speaker 1: down back in the day. However, here's the thing. When
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  Speaker 1: you're telling me, you're telling me that cal Raleigh squeaked
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  Speaker 1: past Brent rooker by, let me check the math on this.
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  Speaker 1: Zero point zero eight feet less than an inch. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I know that every inch matters, I've heard that before.
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  Speaker 1: But less than an inch let me repeat that for
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  Speaker 1: those in the back of the room that are a
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  Speaker 1: little intoxicated. Less than an inch does that not raise
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  Speaker 1: an eyebrow? It does for me. It does for me,
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  Speaker 1: it it does. We're talking about baseball. This is not
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be quantum physics. I know the nerds at
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  Speaker 1: Baseball got a chubby that they got to decide this
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  Speaker 1: based on the stat cast allegedly, So we're measuring moonshots
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  Speaker 1: right to the moon. We're measuring this and it comes
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  Speaker 1: down to the width of the width of a NAT's
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  Speaker 1: eyelash decides who advances in Round one of the Home
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  Speaker 1: Run Derby and the conspiracy part of it when you
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  Speaker 1: toss in. Originally on the television broadcast, they assumed there
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  Speaker 1: would be a swing off, they said on the broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: And so here we are with the bigger name player.
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  Speaker 1: We can all agree on that, every man, woman and
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  Speaker 1: SHOWI can agree the bigger name player in this between
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  Speaker 1: Brent Rooker and cal Rawley is cal Raley. Cal Rawley's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna win the MVP, but he's having an MVP season,
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  Speaker 1: switch hitting catcher, great nickname, the big Dumper. What's not
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  Speaker 1: to like? Right? He's in the MVP ways with Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Judge and he advances to the second round. Originally, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was what do you advance? He advances, He ends
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  Speaker 1: up going on and winning the Home Run Derby crown
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  Speaker 1: by a razor thin march. We are talking again. Less
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  Speaker 1: than a ninch, Okay, less than ninch like a paper
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  Speaker 1: cut is what we're talking about here, and that ended
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  Speaker 1: up being the thing that descended it. And so all
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  Speaker 1: things being equal, if we agree this is a television show. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it's a TV show, And the story is cal Raley
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  Speaker 1: that this is his magical career year. He's put it
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  Speaker 1: all together. He'll never play as good as this for Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: and this is his career here. You don't have two
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  Speaker 1: career years, you have one career year. So that that's
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  Speaker 1: the case. And then you look at Brent Rooker, who's
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  Speaker 1: also a good player, and he's had solid numbers. He's
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  Speaker 1: got a nice contract, making a lot of money. But
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  Speaker 1: the baseball mantra is anybody advances not wearing an Athletics jersey.
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  Speaker 1: Do you understand the Athletics are the shame of the
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  Speaker 1: family of Major League Baseball. They're an embarrassment. Okay, they
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  Speaker 1: play in a minor league ballpark in a town that
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  Speaker 1: baseball is so embarrassed about. They won't even say the name.
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  Speaker 1: That's how little major League Baseball thinks of Sacramento. They're
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  Speaker 1: so shamed by Sacramento. It is such a wart on
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  Speaker 1: their ass that they will not say Sacramento Athletics. You're
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  Speaker 1: not allowed to say it. They're just the Athletics. But
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  Speaker 1: where do they play? They're just athletics. It's so shameful,
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  Speaker 1: And so is it beyond the realm of possibility that
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball said, I know nobody will question it.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody ever questions the stat cast numbers. Ever, so you've
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  Speaker 1: got the ugly redheaded step children in the athletics. Brent
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  Speaker 1: Rooker plays for them, who are baseball orphans until eventually
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  Speaker 1: they get to get to Vegas. And so I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna hear it say Seattle is a mecca of baseball.
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  Speaker 1: We like to use the line that came from Cowboy
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  Speaker 1: coach Jimmy Johnson back in the day where he famously
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  Speaker 1: said of Seattle, it's southern Alaska when he had to
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  Speaker 1: go up there for an NFC championship game. However, side
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  Speaker 1: by sidne if you put Cal Raleigh and Brent Rooker
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  Speaker 1: side by side, right, you put them side by side,
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  Speaker 1: Cal Rawley's like Taylor Swift. Okay, It's just that's the
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  Speaker 1: that's the case there. So that's where we are now.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing, and this has been going on for
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, but we were reminded of what we
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  Speaker 1: forget about it once the derby comes and goes. But
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  Speaker 1: where are you at on Major League Baseball handing Cal Raley,
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  Speaker 1: the winner of the home run derby a one million
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  Speaker 1: dollar cartoon side chick, and they went the winner of
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  Speaker 1: the home run derby won one million dollars in this
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  Speaker 1: case cal Raleigh, So where are you at on that?
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  Speaker 1: They also add the championship belt and the chain which
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  Speaker 1: yet to tell you, cal Raley didn't look that cool
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  Speaker 1: with the with the chain, of they were hoping for cool,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't. Cal Raley didn't look that cool anyway. So
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  Speaker 1: this is the million dollar prize from Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: This is the people over there in New York who
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  Speaker 1: run Major League Baseball, who think they are marketing geniuses.
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  Speaker 1: Yet again, Hey, you know what, at NBA they give
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  Speaker 1: out more money for the dunk contest. Why don't we
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  Speaker 1: take a page out of their playbook? And then you
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  Speaker 1: got the wrestling people seem to like that a lot.
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  Speaker 1: They have the belt and people like bling bling. So
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  Speaker 1: let's put a chain. We'll have a big thing there,
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  Speaker 1: and that'll be the way we do it. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna make that derby cool again. We're gonna make
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  Speaker 1: the home run derby cool again. So get the bags
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  Speaker 1: of dog, get the jewelry out, and it's on put
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  Speaker 1: some fireworks in there for the home run Derby, give
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  Speaker 1: out some oversized gloves to fans, and we're in. So
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  Speaker 1: we're at the point now in the story where you
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  Speaker 1: now need to bribe players to get them to take
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  Speaker 1: part in the All Star Games stivities. So again, it's
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  Speaker 1: just baseball trying to be like basketball. They're trying to
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  Speaker 1: be cool. They're not cool. Baseball is never cool. I
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  Speaker 1: like baseball, but they're never cool. It can be really
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  Speaker 1: cool as a baseball player and trying to be a
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  Speaker 1: little flashy with the jewelry, trying to get that in there.
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  Speaker 1: And but the thing about this is, and maybe I'm
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  Speaker 1: wrong on this, you can correct me if i am,
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  Speaker 1: I'll give it the number a little bit. But it's
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  Speaker 1: like Major League Baseball selling the Home Run Derby as
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  Speaker 1: slum dog millionaire, like giving the illusion this is it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a rags to riches story. Like in their head,
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  Speaker 1: the marketing people at Major the Baseball are like, yeah, listen,
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  Speaker 1: somebody who's like on a rookie contract is gonna win
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  Speaker 1: the derby and they're gonna make more money for winning
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  Speaker 1: the derby than they make playing for whatever team they
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  Speaker 1: play for. Now, spoiler alert. It did not work. It
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  Speaker 1: did not work, and it wouldn't have worked anyway. Like
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  Speaker 1: if somebody they thought was going to win, one of
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  Speaker 1: these guys on the rookie contract would have won, it
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  Speaker 1: still would not have worked. Right. The rags to riches
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  Speaker 1: think that doesn't work. Now, I'm old enough. When I
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  Speaker 1: was a kid, there were still baseball players that got
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  Speaker 1: jobs in the offseason selling cars or I don't think
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  Speaker 1: they cleaned toilets, but they had jobs in the offseason,
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  Speaker 1: some of them did. But now everyone's loaded. Everyone's rich
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  Speaker 1: that plays baseball. There's no poor people that play Major
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball doesn't exist, right, do you know the minimum
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  Speaker 1: salary in Major League Baseball this season is seven hundred
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  Speaker 1: and sixty thousand dollars. If I knew somebody that made
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars, I'd say, holy crap,
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  Speaker 1: what's it like to be rich? My god? And so
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  Speaker 1: baseball's so out of touch. They're so obtuse to people
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  Speaker 1: at marketing in Major League Baseball, Like did they really
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  Speaker 1: think that Joe Schmoe sitting on their ass eating eating
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  Speaker 1: bond bonds, watching the home run derby on their sofa
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  Speaker 1: was gonna think, well, I really feel good. This rags
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  Speaker 1: rich's story. Here is a poor, helpless baseball player only
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  Speaker 1: making seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars, and now they
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  Speaker 1: got a million dollars. And of course it backfired. It
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  Speaker 1: was ruled because cal ralegh let me check my notes here,
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  Speaker 1: seventeen and a half million dollar salary, one hundred million
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  Speaker 1: dollar contract, and he won the home run derby. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so if I just gave the check to his younger
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  Speaker 1: brothers said here go buy some stock, buy some stock
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  Speaker 1: with dividends, knock yourself out, all right, now, last word,
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  Speaker 1: all right, last word, So cal Raley, big win there,
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  Speaker 1: big win. Now this has created I already got a
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  Speaker 1: couple of emails from our friends that listen to the
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  Speaker 1: Great Pacific Northwest here, because there's nothing quite like a
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  Speaker 1: Mariner fan. Now, you might not know Marin fans because
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  Speaker 1: you might live far away from Seattle with the Marina
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  Speaker 1: fan is already pacing around their apartment, biting their nails,
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  Speaker 1: wondering whether or not yes, cal Raley is going to
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  Speaker 1: now start sucking and ride the vomit comment. You know, Robbie,
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  Speaker 1: The Mariner fans freaking out Oh my god, he swung
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  Speaker 1: for the fences. He's gonna fit the Jinks. What about
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  Speaker 1: the Jenks, the so called Derby Jinks? Right, that that's
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  Speaker 1: a thing people now spoke Mariner fans. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: we can't have nice things. Cal Rawley's gonna blow because
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  Speaker 1: of the Derby Jinks. So thumbs up, thumbs down. Should
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  Speaker 1: Mariner fans be paranoid about cal Raley going into slump
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  Speaker 1: City because of the home run Derby jinks? So I'm
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  Speaker 1: going thumbs down on this. I'm gonna go thumbs down
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  Speaker 1: on this. Now. This is an old wisetail that has
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  Speaker 1: been passed down from previous generations about the Home Run Derby,
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  Speaker 1: And the theory is that the players that participate in
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  Speaker 1: the Home Run Derby the All Star slugfest, right, the
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  Speaker 1: people that are out there, they come back cursed that
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  Speaker 1: they have home run PTSD, and it just messes with
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  Speaker 1: their mind. The swings are in share and their timing
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  Speaker 1: is off, and their stans go down, down, down, down down.
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  Speaker 1: That's how it goes. But let me help my brothers
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  Speaker 1: and sisters in the great Pacific Northwest. Here I will
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  Speaker 1: put on my shrink cap. I will be Benny the
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• 20:03
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• 20:21
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• 20:41
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• 20:44
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• 20:49
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• 20:51
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• 20:54
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• 20:57
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• 21:01
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• 21:06
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• 21:17
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• 21:19
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• 23:51
  Speaker 1: this hour. And college football, what are you talking about?
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: You told me July. Why you're talking about dollege, footbalu loser.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: It's the rare, inappropriate, rare and appropriate mal monologue on
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: college football. We have a humdinger of a developing story.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Not that unpredictablely developing story, but a hum dinger nonetheless.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: So former Crimson Tide quarterback by the name of Greg McElroy,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: can you say game manager? I knew you could. So
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Greg McElroy has started a bit of a wildfire in
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the Southeastern Conferences Southern Fried football. If you have not
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: heard yet, you're about to hear the rest of the story.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: So Greg McElroy said that he has heard, always loved
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: when somebody says I heard through the grapevine. So he
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: has heard from a quote person very much in the know, person,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: very much in the know, that his former coach, Nick Saban,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: is not done yet.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: Do do do Do Do Do do.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Do do do yep. Now Nick Saban, now he famously
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: quit Alabama couldn't handle the changing landscape and college football,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: so he said no Moss Nick Saban and ran off
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: to the boob tube to put makeup on and act
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: like a fool. So Nick Saban, who quit last year,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: he was on college game Day and he was the guy.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: When he started talking, you took a nap, and he
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: was not not at the SEC network, the propaganda arm
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: of the Southeastern Conference panel of analysts at the Southeastern
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Conference Media Day event this year which has been taking place,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: so he wasn't there. Now. Greg McElroy, his former quarterback,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: pointed out that it was notable. It was notable. The
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: person that gave him this information was notable. So who's notable?
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: What makes someone notable? And said they Saban is not
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: necessarily done coaching. In fact, said the person was adamant,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: adamant that Nick Saban would return to the sideline. So
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: let us discuss the question for the esteem panel, which
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: you're part of. The question is what are the chances
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: what are the chances that the old Alabama football coach
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Nick Saban returns to the sidelines. So I've got Wall Street, Wikipedia,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: and original Cup of Noodles, and we will combine all
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to make
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: some chicken soup for the soul. Not just chicken soup,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: but chicken soup for the soul. So number, I said number.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna set the Malor Sportsbook odds on this
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: at plus one fifty. I'm sending the odds at plus
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: one fifty. So if you're not good with math, that
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: implies a forty percent chance that we activate Saban. Watch
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Saban watch activad. That's right. I know this big, big news,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: big news. So we think that's actually pretty good forty
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: percent if you look at all the different variables involving
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Nick Saban, and he's gonna turn seventy four on Halloween. Swoocky. Now,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: as a rule of thumb, the R word retirement, which
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: again this is kind of a flimsy retirement college football
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and just sports in general. I learned it at an
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: early age. I used to be a big boxing fan
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: and I as see, I'm retired. That's it. In really
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: any form of entertainment, whether it's like how many bands
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: have retired and said this is the last tour because
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: they got to sell tickets, and then they take a
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: year off or two, and then they come back and
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: they go on tour again and they say, now this
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: is really the last tour. This is it. The same
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: thing happens in sports, right, It's a coach who's been good,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: who steps aside and says I ain't coming back. That's it.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: It's about as final as a person dying in a
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: soap opera. You know those soap opera desks, Well, all
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: of a sudden they show up, you know, a couple
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: of episodes later, well, and one minute the villain has
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: exited stage left, see you later, And the next the
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: villain returns right sipping gatorade in this case, and they're
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: calling blitzes on the sidelines with a scowl on their face.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: And Nick Saban, I know he won some kind of award,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: but if you watch them on television, pretty bad at television, right, No,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: no entertainment value by Nick Saban, just a hard oh
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: on television. I don't know anyone that thought Saban was
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: good at TV other than those that are sucking the
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: toes of Nick Saban. Some of those people liked him,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: but for people that are just looking to get entertained,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Nick Saban not very entertaining. So he was bad at television.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: But he got the job because he had the resume.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: And that's how that works. You get those jobs because
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: of your resume, and it's who you know and all
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: that stuff, and people get all excited because your resume
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: and you know, speaking riddles and coach speak and all
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: that gibberish and all that nonsense. Now ask yourself, ask
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: yourself this question, what does a football lifer coaching football?
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Since he was a young lad. What does he do
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: when the spotlight dims? Like, what do you do? You
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: go out and garden the home and garden action in there.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: You play a little church bingo on a Friday night,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: try to win big money, big money, big money. Yeah, golf,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: What are you fink? Fish? Is that what you did?
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: You go fishing in a lake somewhere? Yeah. Nick Saban
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: about his version of fishing is really in some five
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: star recruit and pantsing a rival. That's his move. Now
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: this story is bouncing around, bounce bounce, bounce, bounce by
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: and it's it's going all over the echo chamber, kind
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: of like a pinball machine. The echo chambers gets in
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: there and starts bouncing all over the place, and there's
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: some he hits some buzzer. You win like a couple
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: extra points on that. And so I imagine that the whispers,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: which do have some credibility because it's one of Saban's
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: former players. It was one of his former quarterbacks that's
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: tossing that out into the to the ether. Who's saying that?
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: But you imagine just that alone, just the mere speculation
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: behind closed doors, not on the record, but off the record.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: You have athletic directors and big time boosters at down
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: in the luck football programs or even those that think
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: they're not down on the luck. You know, from East
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Lansling to College station and everywhere in between. Son, Wait
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: a minute, you're saying there's a chance. You're saying there's
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: a chance there. Nick Saban's not dead. He's just bored.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: He's just bored. And if you want to get technical,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Nick Saban did not take retirement. They retire. He took
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: a TV job. He went on hiatus, is what he did.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: And in many ways he escaped. And so that's the
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: part of the story where you're like, well, Nick Saban
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: innerly retire. He just was tired of the bull crap.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: You get to a certain age, whatever your job is.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I've learned this from my older relatives when I was younger.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: You just get to a point in life where you
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: just tired of the bull crap. You're tired of people
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: not doing their job. You're tired of people you know,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: not doing the things they're supposed to do, and you're
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: tire the rules to get put in there, and you
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: just like shut it down. And so Nick Saban slipped
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: through the back door of college football he just went
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: to television, and I didn't want to be part of it.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: He did not want to be part of what was
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: going on the nil. No, Nick Saban liked when he
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: was the guy that was given out money, and he
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: was he was the one handing out envelopes with cash.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: That's what he liked. He didn't like when everyone's doing it.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: And the transfer portal, what is wrong with you? The
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: transfer portal? Have you lost your bloody mind? My god?
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Transfer port and revenue sharing? What is that? Nonsense? Nonsense?
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Nick Saban said. So Saban saw what was happening, this
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: metamorphosis as college turning into some kind of Wall Street
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: like internship thing mixed in with some other crap. And
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: so they' say, hey, I'm a Septutioninearian, I'm out, I'm out.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: As we turned the page to page through here, where
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: are there some of the college landing spots? Let me
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: kind of hold your hand walk you through this. So
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: where are some of the college landing spots for Nick Saban?
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: If Nick Saban were to come back in the multiverse,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: so Saban he can have any job that he wants.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Can we agree on that? To any job that Saban
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: wants outside of like maybe three, there's maybe three jobs
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Saban can't have. But outside of that, any job he wants,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: he's got the Q score, he's got the awards. On
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: his Wikipedia page, there's a lot of chess candy, a
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: lot of chess candy there. And so now I don't
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: buy that he's necessarily going back to college football. That's
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: not the play here. That's not the play. However, for
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: the purposes of this malad monologue, to engage in this
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: hyper hypothetical conversation, and we will embrace the reality that
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: in the multiverse, there is a dement where Nick Saban
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: does return to college football that he decides I had
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: my little temper tantrum, I had my conniption fit, I
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: had my hissy fit, and I want back in. So
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: if Saban did return, there's only two conferences he can
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: go back to. You've got the varsity and the junior varsity,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: the varsity of the Big Ten and the Southeastern Conference.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: The junior varsity is everyone else. It's everyone else. So
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: you've got either Southeastern Conference or the Big Ten. And
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: do not discount Nick Saban walking right back into Tuscaloosa
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: and saying, hey, I want my old gigback, or going
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: up to Batol Rouge, Louisiana and saying, hey, I used
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: to be here. I wouldn't mind coming back. I know
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: you hired Brian Kelly, but I want back. Or let's
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: go back to Michigan and I want to make East
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Lancing great again and go back to East Lansing and
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: all that good. You can always sell if you're Nick
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Saban on unfinished business at any of those schools, he
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: can say, listen, I won at Alabama, I had some success.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: I did win at LSU, but I didn't win enough.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: And I had Michigan State. I did not get to
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: the peak of my superpowers that came later, So you
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: can sell that. And it's obviously not about the money
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: because he's loaded. Have you seen the photos of Nick
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Saban's home, and he's got multiple homes. But the guy's
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: absolutely stacked. He's got enough dough to live the life
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: of Riley and for multiple reincarnations of Nick Saban for
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: the rest of his days and then days after that.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Now the NFL is much more likely. No, it's not,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: he's too old. I'll tell you why. I believe the
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: NFL is more likely for Nick Saban, because Saban sucked
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: at a time you cannot suck with the Dolphins. And
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: we were on these microphones at Fox Sports Radio when
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: that was going on, and it was a major blot
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: and remains a major blot on the resume of Nick Saban.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Not to mention the fact when the rumors were he
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: was going to go coach at Alabama, and Saban lied
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: to the media in Miami about taking the job at
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Alabama while the private plane was warming up at the
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: airport to take him to Alabama to sign the paperwork
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: to become the coach of the Crimson Tide. So the
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: NFL chewed up Nick Saban, there's no other way to say.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: It couldn't handle it, made bad decisions with personnel, and
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: of course he spent all of his years at Alabama.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Whenever the NFL comes up, he always blames the training
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: staff in Miami. He never takes accountability that he was
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: a failed NFL coach. Doesn't do it. He always well,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: I wanted Drew Brees and I couldn't get Drew Brees,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: and so that's why I had to settle for Dante Culpepper,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: and he sucked. And it's not my coaching and anything.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: And I didn't pick the wrong players. It's the training
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: staff there in Miami. That's the reason I wasn't good.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: But he ran out of Miami. He ran out of
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Miami like the building was on fire. You cannot wait
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: to get out of there. And that relationship with the
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Dolphins back in the early part of the two thousands, right,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: he left there and it was like quicker than somebody
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: finishing a Netflix night of binge watching. I mean, he's gone,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: I'm out see you later. And two seasons, two seasons,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: I believe Nick Saban lasted if I remember correctly, with
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: the Dolphins, and then he went back to college and
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: never looked back. He only talked about it every once
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: in a while. Somebody would bring it up and he'd
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: he'd come up with his normal excuses and said, well,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: it was not my fault. Ain't my fault. That guy's
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: the problem, right, And so going back to the NFL would,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: as the intellectuals like to say, close the circle. So
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: final point, which NFL job makes the most sense for
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Nick Saban? If my hypothesis is correct, that the NFL
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: would be the place to go for Nick Saban, because
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: that is the one flaw that is the turd in
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: the punch bowl for Nick Saban. So which NFL job?
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: So you look at Saban here the shopping list. What's
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: on Nick Saban's shopping list? He wants to buy the groceries.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: He wants the right chessboard. He wants that chessboard to
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: be perfectly set off, the right piece is in place, right,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: everything lined up in a row, pre assemble. He does
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: not want to go to Ikea and have to build
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: the thing by himself. Does not want that. Nobody wants
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: that right, Nobody wants that. So think of it like
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: one of those NFL jobs. That's like the original cup
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: of noodles. You just add water. That's it. Just add water,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: warming up a little bit. You're in good shape. An
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: established quarterback is a must. An established quarterback is a must.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Gotta have it. So by the process of elimination for
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Nick Saban, there's one job that is obvious for Nick
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Saban in the NFL. You ready for it? You figured
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: it out. Here we go, Buffalo, Here we go Buffalo.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Who says no, the Buffalo Bills have just entered the chat.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Let me make my elevator pitch. Why if Nick Saban
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  Speaker 1: does come back. The Buffalo bills make the most sense.
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  Speaker 1: Here's why. All right, now, I know for some of
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  Speaker 1: you it sounds like bananas. Well, that's why the guy's
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  Speaker 1: doing the overnight show. Let me explain. It would be
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  Speaker 1: like if you were to go into a bar in
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  Speaker 1: Rochester and see George Clooney working as a bartender. That
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  Speaker 1: makes those of why would he go to Rochester? Why
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  Speaker 1: would Nick Saban go to Buffalo? Let me make my case.
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  Speaker 1: Saban has never been a guy that needs La or
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  Speaker 1: New York. He does not need that. He's from the
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  Speaker 1: old he doesn't need that crap. That's not what he is, right,
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  Speaker 1: and he mostly coached in relatively small college towns Tuscaloosa
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  Speaker 1: where the biggest man in Tuscaloos is Van the one
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  Speaker 1: legged bamamn So Tuscaloosa and East Lansing, Michigan, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the places. So you've got that. Then you
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  Speaker 1: look at the bills and whether you think Nick Saban's
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  Speaker 1: in line for that job or not, we can all
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  Speaker 1: come to the conclusion that Sean McDermott is not lot
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  Speaker 1: long for the bills. He's on the endangered species list
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  Speaker 1: for coaches. The Bills have been hovering close to being
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  Speaker 1: a really good team, and they always find a new
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  Speaker 1: way to screw it up. And a lot of it
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  Speaker 1: is the decision making by Sean McDermott and his decisions
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  Speaker 1: on the sidelines. Not all, but a lot. So Sean
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  Speaker 1: mcdermot's on the hot seat. Buffalo has an NFL MVP quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen. They check that box. What's in the box?
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  Speaker 1: They checked the box, so they've got that and they've
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: been just inches away like Brent Rooker was in the
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  Speaker 1: home run derby with Cal Rawley, just an inch one,
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  Speaker 1: just an inch away from the from greatness and the
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  Speaker 1: downside obviously, listen, the Lake Effect blizzards are no joke,
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  Speaker 1: right the the amount of snow that they get at
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  Speaker 1: that stadium is insane. It makes Siberia look like a
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  Speaker 1: day at the riviera right when you're when you're watching
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  Speaker 1: these games and there's a it's like a snow globe
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  Speaker 1: when they're playing these games. So you know, one or
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  Speaker 1: two a year it's it's like a Blizzard snow globe
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  Speaker 1: game and all that stuff, and so, but that actually
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  Speaker 1: works is an advance. You don't have the distractions you
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  Speaker 1: had in Miami, or you'd have in La or New
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  Speaker 1: York where or Vegas where people actually want to go
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  Speaker 1: out and live their life and party it up. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to worry about that, right, So Buffalo makes
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  Speaker 1: a lot of sense. Now. The only other possibility, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure this we talked about, even though it's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna happened the Dallas Cowboys, because Jerry Jones will find
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  Speaker 1: a way to grab headlines by saying, well, what about
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys. They don't have a coach, that Schottenheimer guy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's the worst coach in the NFL. What
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  Speaker 1: a joke that higher was total placeholder, higher total seat filler,
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  Speaker 1: And Jerry Jones might wake up on this. I need
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  Speaker 1: some headlines. Let me get the Cowboys in the news
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  Speaker 1: here and uh yeah, I'll start selling next Saban. I'll
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  Speaker 1: leak that to some of my useful idiots in the
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboy media.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go, here we go smaller? How about that
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  Speaker 1: to the third degree?
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: This is one big fent gets grilled.
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  Speaker 4: Cool TMZ caught up with Randy Moss over the weekend,
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: and Mass said that he thinks Justin Jefferson is on
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: pace to be arguably the greatest ever. Ben, do you
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  Speaker 4: think goat status isn't reach for Jefferson?
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  Speaker 1: Well, that shows you. Randy Moss, first of all, is
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  Speaker 1: grown up. Right. The old Randy Moss was, are you
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  Speaker 1: know bleeping kidding me? I'm Randy eff and Moss. I'm
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  Speaker 1: the greatest of all time. But now Randy's older. R
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  Speaker 1: He had some health problems, so now he's like, no,
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  Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson has a chance. He is weasel turn now
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  Speaker 1: in terms of Viking history. All Justin Jefferson has to
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  Speaker 1: do is be the top wide receiver on a Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl winning Viking team and he zooms past Randy Moss.
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  Speaker 1: Does he have a chance, Sure, but he's got to
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  Speaker 1: stay healthy, gotta have longevity, that whole thing. That's the problem.
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: Next, suddenly, the Red Sox are on fire heading into
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  Speaker 4: the All Star break. They're on a ten game win
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  Speaker 4: streak and just three games behind the division leading Blue Jays.
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  Speaker 1: They're on a burner. Do you think they will be
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  Speaker 1: buyers at the deadline? The Red Sox should always be
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: buyers at the deadline. You play in Boston. Hello, you
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: play in Boston. And ever since they traded Rafael Devers,
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  Speaker 1: it's almost like he was a tumor for that team.
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  Speaker 1: They got rid of the tumor and the Red Sox
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  Speaker 1: have taken off. It also helps if they played the
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: Rockies and the White Sox in this stretch of ten
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  Speaker 1: wins and all that, But they look like a real team.
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  Speaker 1: He's young players. Some of these young guys are actually
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: doing well and we're heading into the dog days. And
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: if you're in contention and you're a team like the
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  Speaker 1: Boston Red Sox, you go out, you go to market
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  Speaker 1: and you add players they need. I would think another
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  Speaker 1: starting pitching would be the most pressing need for the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox, just looking from afar at their roster.
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  Speaker 4: Next, Terry Francona just became the thirteenth manager ever to
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  Speaker 4: reach two thousand career wins. Bruce Bochi is the only
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  Speaker 4: active manager with more ben How high up the list
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  Speaker 4: do you think Francona can climb before calling it a career?
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  Speaker 1: Right So, Francona right now is thirteenth in wins all time.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to pass Leo de Rocher before the end
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  Speaker 1: of the year and as a shot to pass Walter
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  Speaker 1: Alston like he's definitely he's eight behind Leo de Rocher,
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  Speaker 1: forty behind Walter Allston, but realistically tenth where Joe McCarthy
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  Speaker 1: is or Bucky Harris at number nine. He can finish
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  Speaker 1: We have Dave in Cincinnati. What's going on? Dave? Welcome?
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  Speaker 1: What man? Dave? You tell me?
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  Speaker 3: Dave?
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  Speaker 1: Just get ready for work?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 1: To win this game? All right? Who do you want
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• 45:37
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  Speaker 4: Ben?
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  Speaker 1: All right, We're in it to win to day we're
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: in it to win it, and we have Kelly in
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  Speaker 1: the moin Hello, Kelly, Hi, Ben, how's everything going Donut
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  Speaker 1: formerly known as Donut Kelly? Yes, all right, and Kelly, well,
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  Speaker 1: I will be with you. You will be with you,
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  Speaker 1: going for you? I could use a little more work. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: What are the categories here? Coop? All right?
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  Speaker 4: This is the Harrison Ford edition. He turned eighty three
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  Speaker 4: years old on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: The Categoriana Jones is in his eighties. That's right.
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  Speaker 4: The categories are Star Wars, The Last Crusade, Water to Wine,
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  Speaker 4: and forty two? Dave, which kategory?
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  Speaker 1: Would your like? The Crusade? That's to say? All right, man, Kelly,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: how about you? I'm sorry?
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  Speaker 4: Wellard again, Star Wars, Water to Wine, and forty two.
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  Speaker 1: Water to wine? All right, all right, let's say your category, Coop?
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  Speaker 1: Very nice? All right, Dave? You picked last Crusade. Yes,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: these athletes came out of retirement for one last hurrah,
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  Speaker 1: one last moment in the sun. Are you ready, Dave?
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  Speaker 1: All we need the first and last name put forty
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  Speaker 1: five seconds on the clock and we're on our way. Go.
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  Speaker 1: Larry Bird's rival in the NBA in the nineteen eighties.
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  Speaker 1: Greatest boxer of all time. He changed his name in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the Yes, a favorite tight end of
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady in the glory days of the Patriots. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: start tight end with the Cowboys. He quit to go
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  Speaker 1: on Monday Night football and everyone almost Yes. Yes, the
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  Speaker 1: minister of defense for the Philadelphia Eagles. He went to
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay because God. Yes, all star second basement for
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago Cubs of the nineteen eighties. Was a Rule
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  Speaker 1: five pick from the Phillies. White guy hit a lot
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  Speaker 1: of home runs at Wrigley Field, all right. Pitcher for
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: the Negro League. Pitcher went to Major League. His first
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: name was a was. The first name was a bag.
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  Speaker 1: Would you've gotten that, Dave? His first name was a bag.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: First name was a bag. Bag. Yes, Satchel Pagetchel Page.
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  Speaker 1: I was proud of myself.
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  Speaker 4: That was a good hint, all right. And Ryan Sandberg
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: was the other one that you missed there.
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  Speaker 1: He did all right there pretty well?
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  Speaker 4: All right, Kelly, we have water to wine was our school. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: These athletes were all part of miracle plays. Okay, all right,
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  Speaker 4: forty five seconds on the clock. Kelly at to begin
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  Speaker 4: Giants quarterback brother of Peyton.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, uh.
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  Speaker 4: This guy was the rival of Magic Johnson in the eighties. Yes,
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: this guy was the quarterback for the Steelers in the seventies.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: Terry Bright. Yes uh, this guy he had the miracle catch.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: His nickname was to say, hey kid. He died recently.
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  Speaker 2: Willie.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, uh.
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  Speaker 4: This guy was the quarterback that threw the touchdown pass
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  Speaker 4: to Stefan Diggs during the Minneapolis Miracle.
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  Speaker 1: Oh the other one, I answered, answering, No, okay, we're.
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: Gonna get that. This guy was the Minneapolis miracle. You
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: had the touch down. He was also stopped one yard
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  Speaker 4: short of the Super Bowl man Case Case Keenum was
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  Speaker 4: the quarterback and Kevin Dyson was the one who was
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  Speaker 4: stop short.
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  Speaker 1: What is it? Seventy points? Is that it? Really? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I thought that was more than that. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's find so oh yeah, I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: what is it? I apologize? I didn't think you guys
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  Speaker 1: it was one hundred Yeah it was one hundred point. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you were very old, We were very loud, very Okay, Kelly,
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  Speaker 1: do you want Star Wars or forty two Star Wars? Okay? Uh.
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: These athletes have all won an All Star Game or
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: Pro Bowl MVP for forty five segments. Begin star on
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  Speaker 4: the Golden State Warriors right now. Yes, he is the
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  Speaker 4: quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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  Speaker 1: Right now. He was.
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  Speaker 4: He was a quarterback for the Browns before he's on
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  Speaker 4: the commercials.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Most famous Japanese player before O Tawny.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, this guy was Barry's dad, the home run King,
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  Speaker 1: his dad.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, this guy was part of the two Towers in Houston,
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  Speaker 4: but not not.
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  Speaker 1: Him, the other one.
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  Speaker 4: No, all right, this guy was the quarterback after Kurt
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  Speaker 4: Warner on the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: How many is that? Good job? Good job? Yeah it was.
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  Speaker 4: It was eighty points eight.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty. All right, here we go, Dave. These athletes all
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  Speaker 1: were number forty two. Are you ready, Dave? All right?
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: Brooklyn Dodgers number forty two, retired by everybody. Yes, the
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: closer for the Yankees, the sand Man in the nineties. Yes,
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: you said it, he did it. Say it. Marion Man,
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  Speaker 1: the safety for the forty nine ers in the eighties.
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  Speaker 1: He cut off his finger for the forty nine ers. No,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, he run single. Yeah, it's Ronnie Lot.
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  Speaker 1: We Ronnie Cats. Ronnie Lock got a goal to tack,
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  Speaker 1: and we got a goal in the tack. We won
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  Speaker 1: the game. We got a golden take it all right,