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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this out playing the hits. Mo Man.
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  Speaker 1: We have a late night, well not really late night,
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  Speaker 1: but it was late for us. Normally pretty quiet in
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  Speaker 1: these parts Sunday night into Monday, not a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: going on. You get the either baseball game or football game,
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  Speaker 1: this case baseball, and what a riveting game it was
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  Speaker 1: between the Mariners and the cheating a hole so a man,
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  Speaker 1: so happy to have that game on in the background.
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  Speaker 1: But there's usually not too much in the transaction wire,
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  Speaker 1: and today there was some stuff. So our lead this
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  Speaker 1: hour from Jerry's World where Von Miller. Remember Von Miller
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  Speaker 1: when he used to be good back in the day. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he used to be really good Von Miller with the
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  Speaker 1: Broncos and a few moments with the Rams and even
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  Speaker 1: less with the Buffalo Bills, and now after a year
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  Speaker 1: in the witness protection program with the Washington Commanders, von
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  Speaker 1: Miller has decided to rejoin the NFL. So welcome back
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  Speaker 1: von Miller. He gets a one year deal to join
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Von Miller going to the Cowboys, the team
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  Speaker 1: announcing the agreement on Sunday night, So if you didn't
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  Speaker 1: see it, the Prodigy returns home the Texas homecoming. Von
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  Speaker 1: Miller went to high school there at DeSoto High, Texas
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  Speaker 1: A and M and Aggie and drafted at the number
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  Speaker 1: two spot overall way back in the twenty eleven draft,
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  Speaker 1: and he celebrated on social media by posting, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard that phrase before. Here we go, So that
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  Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point. Here we go. Let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question. Does von Miller count as a
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  Speaker 1: splash addition for the Cowboys in the year twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six because the way this thing is being tossed around,
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, oh man, what a pickup. Holy crap. The
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys got von Miller, all right. So I've got my
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on this. I have Anthrax FI Master and a
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  Speaker 1: Silk Burgundy smoking jacket, and we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together, and we're gonna have some Texas red chili,
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  Speaker 1: some brisket tacos, and then we'll have some tortilla soup.
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  Speaker 1: I do love tortilla soup. I don't eat it all
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  Speaker 1: the time. When I do, I enjoy the tortilla soup solid.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So a listen answer the question. Von Miller
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  Speaker 1: as a splash addition for the Dallas Boys here, the
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  Speaker 1: name sure has a lot of razzle dazzle. There's definitely
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  Speaker 1: some razzle dazzle to the name von Miller. We von Miller. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's a top ten SEC guy all time in NFL history,
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  Speaker 1: which is true. He's I think number nine last I checked,
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  Speaker 1: and a future Hall of Famer check check in Broncos
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl hero check check check with a winking or
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  Speaker 1: not to the real MVP of that Super Bowl cam
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  Speaker 1: Newton chump on the ball cam. Chump on the ball cam. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I can't do that, Okay, loser. Now, Unfortunately for von
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  Speaker 1: Miller and the Cowboys, we live in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: We do not live in twenty fifteen or twenty fourteen
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. We live in twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: and so the actual player von Miller, Eh, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think so, all right, And if you're perfectly honest, it's
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  Speaker 1: not a splash. It's more like some flem. It's just
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  Speaker 1: a little flem at this particular point. And it's the
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  Speaker 1: NFL's version of booking tickets, getting tickets to see a
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  Speaker 1: legendary band like Anthrax right and back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: very popular in the old days, and you buy the tickets,
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  Speaker 1: you go out there and you're like, well, there's only
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  Speaker 1: one guy left, this guy scott Ian from the group
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  Speaker 1: that's still touring. Well, that's kind of what this is.
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  Speaker 1: It's like just the shell of von Miller, the shell
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  Speaker 1: of Von Miller, Like the band Antracks, there's one person
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  Speaker 1: left from the original band that's still on tour with
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  Speaker 1: the group. So Miller is thirty seven at this point,
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  Speaker 1: which is not old in the real world. However, in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, when you're in year fifteen, entering year fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: not ideal. At this particular stage of von Miller's career,
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  Speaker 1: he is going to be a part time player, a
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  Speaker 1: situational pass rusher. They're going to tell him to go
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  Speaker 1: in there and just attack the quarterback, and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do anything else, just do that one thing. So
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  Speaker 1: you're buying the vintage label, right, the Chateau Margo. You're
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  Speaker 1: getting that. However, it's not actually vintage wine. It's just
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  Speaker 1: lukewarm water in the bottle. It looks the label says
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  Speaker 1: Chateau Margo, and you get oh. Man, if you're a
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  Speaker 1: wine person and a snob, you're like, oh, that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: And then you're like, well, no, it's actually just lukewarm water.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's it. So that's all you've got. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want that. That's it. So now, normally, if you look
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  Speaker 1: at how these things work, normally, the golden rule has
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  Speaker 1: always been in the NFL and in really any of
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  Speaker 1: these sports. But if you're an NFL executive, it's don't
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  Speaker 1: pay superstar money for a museum exhibit. And in this case,
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  Speaker 1: to be fair to the Cowboys, they're not doing that.
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  Speaker 1: They're not paying from where your stands, a one year contract.
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  Speaker 1: Like Vaughan was just torny to play for the Cowboys,
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  Speaker 1: and so the Cowboys like, all right, well you want
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  Speaker 1: to play for the Cowboys, We'll give you a one deal.
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  Speaker 1: Your deal and don't know exactly how much the different reports.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows what's actually true? And now it's all made
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  Speaker 1: up bull crap anyway when you look at the real money,
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  Speaker 1: guaranteed money and fake money and all that stuff. But
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  Speaker 1: either way, for Jerry Jones, it's like, all right, let
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  Speaker 1: me go into the let me go to the second
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  Speaker 1: bedroom on my mega yacht, and I'll tip that sofa
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  Speaker 1: over and I'll have enough money to pay von Miller.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. Now. The only thing that I really take
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  Speaker 1: issue with is, I guess fine, it's a one year deal.
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  Speaker 1: Who cares, it's spare me the hype. The ticker tape
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  Speaker 1: parade for a thirty seven year defensive player is a
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  Speaker 1: part time player. At this point, the Cowboys did not
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  Speaker 1: acquire peak von Miller. Unless somehow you can get a
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  Speaker 1: Dolorean to go eighty eight miles an hour and go
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  Speaker 1: back in time, maybe we've got something there. You're not
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  Speaker 1: getting Unstoppable von Miller. You acquired a commemorative edition of
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  Speaker 1: von Miller at this particular point, that's what you've got.
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  Speaker 1: And so he'll give the Cowboys if they get ten
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  Speaker 1: snaps a game ten snaps a game where he actually
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  Speaker 1: does something, then oh, my God, like occasionally scares the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback Mazeltov. If he can pull that off, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think he can. So just don't confuse name recognition with rejuvenation.
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  Speaker 1: This is not some kind of rejuvenation clinic.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, to Indianapolis we go. And if you thought the
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  Speaker 1: Colts had traded Anthony Richardson, well guess what. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: they still have it. No, no, no, no, no. The Colts
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  Speaker 1: have not been able to find anyone, anyone who wants
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  Speaker 1: to get anywhere close to Anthony Richardson, the failed draft pick,
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  Speaker 1: the last fever dream of the late jim Irsay before
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  Speaker 1: he checked out of this mortal coil, when he determined, well,
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  Speaker 1: no one else did jim Irsay determine that this guy's
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  Speaker 1: worth a top five pick in the draft when he
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  Speaker 1: should have been a developmental six round pick. But that's
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  Speaker 1: what they did. So Anthony Richardson is still part of
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  Speaker 1: the Indianapolis football team. And now they're saying in Indy,
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  Speaker 1: they're like, well, we're gonna probably keep him. We're thinking
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  Speaker 1: about keeping Anthony Richardson. Yeah, right, So somebody named Ed
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  Speaker 1: Dobbs were told that is the assistant to the assistant
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  Speaker 1: to the assistant to the assistant GM Ed Dobbs, and
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  Speaker 1: he recently suggested that the way things are looking right now,
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  Speaker 1: it is more likely than not that the team will
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  Speaker 1: keep Richardson and they will have three quarterbacks on their roster,
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  Speaker 1: three of them, not one, not two, but three quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: capable of playing. He said, take care of your own
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  Speaker 1: team first. That was the quote from this guy, Ed Dobbs.
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  Speaker 1: He pointed out that last season it was quarterback anarchy
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  Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. As you might remember, Daniel Jones went snap
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  Speaker 1: crackle pop and Torre's Achilles Richardson was unavailable, and the
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  Speaker 1: Colts added Philip Rivers from the swamp land of Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: How would you like to play quarterback? I know you're
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  Speaker 1: almost fifty. How would you like to play quarterback for
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  Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts? All right, so the question on this one.
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  Speaker 1: The Colts are now claiming that they're likely to keep
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  Speaker 1: quarterback Anthony Richardson as the third wheel. As the third wheel?
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  Speaker 1: Here are you? Are you into this? How are you
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  Speaker 1: reading it? I guess that's the question. How are you
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  Speaker 1: reading this? So? I would advise you to not fall
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  Speaker 1: for the head fake. Do not fall for the head fake.
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  Speaker 1: Richardson at this point is covered in cooties. And you
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  Speaker 1: know when you were in the playground back in the
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  Speaker 1: day in elementary school, you did not want to be
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  Speaker 1: the person covered in cooties. You did not want the cooties.
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  Speaker 1: And he asked for a trade. So let's get this here.
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  Speaker 1: So Anthony richards has said, I really don't want to
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  Speaker 1: be here. I would like a trade. Okay, check that
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  Speaker 1: box done. So he wanted a trade, and Indianapolis shopped
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  Speaker 1: him for the last several months around the NFL. Check
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  Speaker 1: check right. So they went around. Then nobody wanted them,
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  Speaker 1: so they said, okay, you know what we're gonna do. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna put Richardson in the clearance rack. Okay, good, So
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  Speaker 1: you put him on the clearance track. Check check check right.
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  Speaker 1: So he's in the clears track. It's like being at
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  Speaker 1: the garage sale and they've got all this stuff out there,
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  Speaker 1: and then there's the clearance rack at the garage sale
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  Speaker 1: and nobody's body, not even for like a seventh round
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  Speaker 1: draft pick and a half eaten burrito. You can't even
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  Speaker 1: get that, not even pocket lint, you can't get in
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  Speaker 1: return for Anthony Richardson at this particular point. No one
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  Speaker 1: wants to take a flyer on him. It's like the
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  Speaker 1: garage sale they had the Richardson's like a nineteen nineties
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  Speaker 1: Suzanne Summer's thigh Master laying around so well, that was
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  Speaker 1: popular back in the nineties, that infomercial, but not anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, now, what are you doing? And so to
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  Speaker 1: tell you exactly how horrific this is in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the lack of value, there are some real stiffs that
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  Speaker 1: get moved around the NFL every year. The league wide
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  Speaker 1: valuation of Anthony Richardson, it says, DNT do not touch
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  Speaker 1: on there. They are practicing social distancing and masking up
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  Speaker 1: when they're in the room with Anthony Richardson at this
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  Speaker 1: particular point. And yet the assistant to the assistant to
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  Speaker 1: the assistant general manager of the Colts is now selling
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  Speaker 1: this sweetheart idea. They're like, well, we are possibly going
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  Speaker 1: to carry three quarterbacks. It's just smart business. It's just
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  Speaker 1: smart business. Now, there's one bit se little problem. There's
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  Speaker 1: one little problem. Richardson is not that guy, pal, He's
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  Speaker 1: not that guy. He's just not And that's the issue here.
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  Speaker 1: You can't trust him, whether it's his health. He's had injuries,
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  Speaker 1: an eye situation, or his accuracy, which is biblically bad,
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  Speaker 1: most importantly, his heart. It's like the Wizard of Oz
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  Speaker 1: going down the yellow brick road. Down the yellow brick
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  Speaker 1: road we go. And this is the this is the
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  Speaker 1: situation the Colts find themselves in. So his signature moment
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson in the NFL is what It was a
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  Speaker 1: game against the Texans when he tapped out. He said, no, Moss,
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  Speaker 1: I'm out, bye bye, and he took himself out because
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  Speaker 1: he was tired. Now, how would the NFL work if
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  Speaker 1: every player who was a little tired took themselves out
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  Speaker 1: of the game. Would there be any NFL? No. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that have changed over there.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of things have evolved in the NFL. That
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  Speaker 1: is one that is a no fly zone. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: take yourself out of the game because you're tired. You
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  Speaker 1: cannot do it. Can't do it, don't do it. He
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  Speaker 1: did it, And so I don't buy the hole we
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  Speaker 1: might keep him. I'll believe it when I see it here.
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  Speaker 1: And this new found love for Anthony Richardson by the Colts,
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  Speaker 1: I have written down on my scorecard, I wrote down
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  Speaker 1: Okie Doke that this is in the old Oakie doke
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  Speaker 1: mixed with a little skullduggery. And so you keep the
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  Speaker 1: dead weight around Anthony Richardson, keep him around there, and
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the NFL will not hold the joint practice.
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  Speaker 1: They will hold the joint laugh. They will go full
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  Speaker 1: Nelson from the Simpsons and point at you and go
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  Speaker 1: ha ha, just like that.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, to Detroit we go where Dan Campbell is an
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  Speaker 1: ideas guy. So Dan Campbell, that's the head coach there.
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  Speaker 1: He wants the NFL to add portable monitors on the sidelines. Sea, yes,
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  Speaker 1: he wants those tablets to have. I guess he wants
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  Speaker 1: monitors in addition to the tablets. And so the argument
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  Speaker 1: is that he wants to be able to see the replays.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to see the TV broadcast, He wants to
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  Speaker 1: see all the different replay angles, arguing that the fans
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  Speaker 1: and the media they have better views of what's going
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  Speaker 1: on on the field often than the coaches do, and
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  Speaker 1: so he would like to change that. Dan Campbell, he
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  Speaker 1: raised the issue the line played last week their first
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  Speaker 1: exhibition game, and there was a play that was of question,
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  Speaker 1: and this is when that came up in conversation. Asked
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  Speaker 1: particularly play evolving an injured player, and Campbell said he
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  Speaker 1: hadn't seen the play clearly because there was really no
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  Speaker 1: way to see the play on the sidelines. He told
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  Speaker 1: the reporter, you get a better view than I do.
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  Speaker 1: He said, coaches currently don't have access to the same
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  Speaker 1: instant TV replays that viewers see at home. All right,
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  Speaker 1: So the question on this one, where do you come down?
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  Speaker 1: Where do you come down on the Lions head coach
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  Speaker 1: Dan Campbell, who is advocating he wants portable replay monitors
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  Speaker 1: on NFL sidelines for the head coaches. So now Dan
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  Speaker 1: Campble does actually have a point here. He does have
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  Speaker 1: a point, And I think we should workshop this and
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  Speaker 1: take this all the way. I think we should take
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  Speaker 1: what Dan Campbell's idea is and then just work shop
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  Speaker 1: it out. The NFL is all about branding, they're all
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  Speaker 1: about making money. Why not, And so we activated the
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  Speaker 1: Malard think tank on this, and I think this is
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  Speaker 1: a good idea. I know can't close the deal. Neil's
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  Speaker 1: going to give a thumbs up on this, and Corbyn
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  Speaker 1: his kid. So here's the idea. So the Malard think
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  Speaker 1: Tank proposing that you get a partnership, a brand partnership
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  Speaker 1: with Ikea, and you have a sideline man cave right
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  Speaker 1: there on the sideline, you build a little man cave.
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  Speaker 1: It can have wheels on it, you can move it around.
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  Speaker 1: And so you build a little man cave there with
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  Speaker 1: giant monitors, giant TV monitors. You can have snacks like
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  Speaker 1: kettle corn, because who doesn't love kettle corn? And you've
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  Speaker 1: got some truffle chocolates there because those those are pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: And then right over there you've got a hot tub. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you don't need a hot tub on the sidelines. Why
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  Speaker 1: would you have aut to? Well, just because you can
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  Speaker 1: get a hot tub sponsorship. You know. It's like when
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  Speaker 1: you go to the State Fair and they're always trying
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  Speaker 1: to sell you on hot tubs, and it's like, well no,
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  Speaker 1: because people love hot and then the maintenance and all
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  Speaker 1: that's spin in the ass. So anyway, so that's where
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  Speaker 1: I am. And Dan Campbell, the head coach of the Lions.
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  Speaker 1: There he can throw on his silk burgundy jacket, grab
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  Speaker 1: a pipe, grab a pipe and just sit back and
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  Speaker 1: put your sailor's hat on and study the all twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: like you're at the Playboy mansion. Why not? It's goofy
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  Speaker 1: and we were all for it, and what the hell?
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  Speaker 1: It is kind of odd though the coaches do not
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  Speaker 1: have the same visual information that my uncle Mel has.
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  Speaker 1: It's very odd while he's sitting on his couch watching football.
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  Speaker 1: It's strange, but you know what that means. But yes,
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  Speaker 1: so there's another solution. It's more unorthodox, I guess you
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  Speaker 1: could say, so just stop using replay as a security
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  Speaker 1: blanket and emotional support animal and all that. Just stop.
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  Speaker 1: When replay started, it was just to correct the most
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  Speaker 1: egregious plays, the most obviously blown calls. Now it is
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  Speaker 1: morphed into something much different here. It was originally meant
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  Speaker 1: for the obvious blunder that you gotta correct the obvious blunder,
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  Speaker 1: not to babysit micro managers. Okay, so there's a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a difference there, and it's turned into something much
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  Speaker 1: different here. It's like a emotional support animal. And as
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  Speaker 1: we said, you know, security blanket, that kind of thing here.
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  Speaker 1: And so if you're relying on replay, if that's the
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  Speaker 1: end all be all, the replay machine there as you're
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  Speaker 1: a guardian angel to help you make decisions. You're kind
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  Speaker 1: of missing the whole point. Control the controllables. I really
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  Speaker 1: see less replay, not more. I'd like to see less,
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  Speaker 1: not more so. But otherwise, just put a man cave
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  Speaker 1: there and that's it. Get brand sponsorship, knock yourself out,
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  Speaker 1: and eventually some of these coaches just put down the
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  Speaker 1: remote control, coach the game and live with the human element,
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  Speaker 1: except for those most egregious calls.
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  Speaker 4: if I'm saying that, they must really be bad. I
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: have no idea why Fox Sports Radio picked this up,
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: but I know where to put it down in the
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: trash can. So please don't listen to the Paulie and
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: Tony Fusco show.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: No way, no how. We go to Los Angeles, Major
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: League Baseball. The crew did it. I'm shocked. We've i
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: had one call from Milwaukee or Madison or Appleton or
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: anywhere in between. Nobody has called into a victory lap
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: from the state of Wisconsin. But there they were, the
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: brew crew led by somebody named Logan Henderson who dazzle
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: allowed one run in seven innings of work. Somebody named
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Jake Bowers. We don't know who that is. That he
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: had four hits and a couple of runs batted in,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: and the Brewers beat up the Dodgers, the once proud
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Dodgers six to two in a game played a matinee
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: there Sunday afternoon matchup. So that means now, my computer,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: like brand, tells me the baseball team from Wisconsin played
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: four games in LA and they won three of the
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: four games in Los Angeles. And now they have they
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: really they've controlled, they've locked in to the top record
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball, and they've delivered a body blow,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: body blow, body blow to the Dodgers in the race
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: for the National League stop record and also all of
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. So at this point, the road to
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: the World Series goes through Milwaukee. Now, the better story, though,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room. We had a moment
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: in time, a moment in time in this game that
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: everyone's yapping about. It was a turning point in the game.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: It happened late in the game. I think it was
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: the eighth inning. So Kyle Tucker with a T Tucker
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: All right, Kyle Tucker was greeted by boom boo, boo
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: boo Berts, Boo Berts at Dodger Stadium. Why did the
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: hometown bleeding heart Dodger fans boo boo Kyle Tucker. Well,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: it turns out that Kyle was attempting to catch a
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: very catchable fly ball out near the bullpen and the
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: wall out there in right field, and it was on
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: the warning track that it was right there in position
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: to make the catch. And whoop, whoops hee. Yeah, he
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: failed to catch. The ball, went off, his glove failed
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: to make the play, and the Brewers ended up taking
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: advantage of that, and so the fans were all over
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: all over Kyle Tucker. Now most of the people already
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: left because the Dodgers are pathetic at this point, so
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: they were taking off so out of you saw or not,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: maybe you didn't see it, didn't hear about it? Who
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: knows Kyle Tucker boo the Booze camp coming one day
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: after Dave Roberts, who always likes him in that spot,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Good old Dave Roberts, the great cheerleader, who benched Tucker.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't say Dave Roberts did it. Somebody from management said, oh,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: give him a day, give him a day. Not Dave
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Roberts call He's just a middle manager. So somebody benched
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker. And whether that's Andrew Freeman unlikely or somebody
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: who knows. But we sat down and the frustration is
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: mounting in Dodgerland for the poor performance, especially especially a
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Dodger stadium for Kyle Tucker, who has been horrific. So
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: And here's the question. Is Kyle Tucker officially a Dodger's
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: liability or are we still pretending you and I that
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: this is just a rough patch. It's just a rough patch,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: that's all it is. So I've got Hawaiian Punch, Campbell's
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Cream of Mushroom soup, and open book. I exam, and
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together, and we're
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: gonna give away the shop. We're gonna give this. If
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: you want some hand sanitizer, there's a big thing a
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: handsaand I'll show you here what there's hand sanitizer. These
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: giant containers. That really the only bonus we get here,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: these hand sanitizing things. It's uh, which, so we need
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: another pandemic? Can we have another pandemic so we can
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: use the hand sanitizer? That would be absolutely great? Why not?
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: So number one stop, So to answer the question, is
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: Kyle Tucker at this point officially a Dodgers liability or
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: are we still pretending this is just a rough patch
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: for Kyle Tucker.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Uh listen, I don't even know how this is still
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: a conversation. I don't get it. He is a capital
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: L liability. Okay, he's He's an albatross, is what Kyle
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Tucker is. Say it loud, say it, proud albatross Kyle Tucker.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: And just that's it. Full stop. Now I'm told for
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: the monologue I have to continue, So I will have
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: some other thoughts here on Kyle Tucker. The Dodgers thought,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: for some reason they were getting a superstar. We got
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: a superstar. Oh my god, we got a superstar. They
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: were so excepted. They would have been better off going
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: to Carls Junior. They would have gotten a superstar if
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: they had gone to that fast food restaurant instead. They
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: chose the baseball player and then gave him a four
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: year contract for two hundred and forty million dollars. And
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: that is a that is sixty million dollars a year.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: They have a ghost for sixty million dollars a year. Now,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: the casual fans, you know, they are so the casual fans,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: they still think that Kyle Tucker is still he's still
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: got it. He's still He's just gonna work through it.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Everything will be okay, yeah, okay, fine. Now, if you
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: actually watch him play or listen to the games on
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the radio or anything like that, it's all tumbleweeds. It's
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: all tumbleweeds, an invasive species from Russia. Tumbleweeds. That's what
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: it is. Kyle Tucker is, again, for those of you,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: the little slow a liability he is. And that's just
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: the way it is at this particular point, and it's
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: not a rough patch. Got if you think it's a
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: rough patch, go down to Walmart and buy a clue.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Go buy a clue. Okay, he's not hitting, he's not fielding,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: he's not hustling. What else is there? Seriously, if you
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: don't hit, you don't field, you don't hustle, and you
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: look like you'd rather be anywhere else, what exactly is left? Seriously?
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: I don't get it. He's writing the chaos Carousel. It's
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: a chaos carousel. Round and round we go, round and
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: round we go, and somehow every time the chaos carousel
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: goes around, it gets worse, it gets worse. He has
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: been a season long passenger on Kyle Tucker. The vomit comet.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: He's on the vomit comet. He is. He's a vomit
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: comet guy. Now keep in mind, it's not like the
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Dodgers weren't warned about this, because they were. You know
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: who warned him, the Chicago Hub Tree in Chicago, and
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Youaphoeme's team, the Cubs there in Chicago. The Cubs last
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: year benched Kyle Tucker. They traded like seven thousand suspects
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: minor league players to get Kyle Tucker from the cheating
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: a holes, so then they ended up benching him. He
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: was horrific the entire second half of the season, and
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers saw that, and in true Dodger hubris, they're like, oh, no,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: we know better than the Cubs. We know how to
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: fix this guy. He'll be fine with us. We're gonna
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: unlock a higher level of Kyle Tucker. Yeah, how's that
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: working out? Exactly? How is that working out? Yeah, it's
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: like mixing together a giant bowl of Hawaiian punch, delicious
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Hawaiian punch, only to find a turd floating in the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: middle of the punch bowl. And guess who dropped the
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: turd in the punch bowl? Ding ding ning ning Ning. Yes,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: it is more likely than not it was Kyle Tucker,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: who I believe just went over nineteen Is that correct?
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: On the Homestand how's that working out?
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: For nineteen? Yeah, and gives off the vibe he would
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: rather be having a colonoscopy or having his teeth pulled
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: without any kind of pain medication, that that's what he's
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: in for. And so it's pretty simple here now we'll
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: see if the Dodgers actually have the balls to do it.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: At this point, Kyle Tucker is going to be with
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: the Dodger he gets some opt out clauses, he's not
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: going anywhere because the way he's playing, no one's going
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: to bring him in and give him anywhere near the
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: money he's getting out. So he's going to be with
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers for the length of the contract. But at
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: this particular point, if you're the Dodgers, you have to say, hey, listen,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: shape up or ship out. Shape up or ship out.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: That's it because you cannot put Kyle Tucker the way
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: he's playing on your playoff roster. You can't do it.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: He's unplayable. You cannot put him out there. It's just
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the way it is. And that's it. So period stop
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: all right. Meanwhile to the Bronx we go in New York,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: where a report over the weekend indicated that the New
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: York Yankees have decided they're not even going to give
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: a qualifying offer to Jazz Chisholm, their second baseman, their
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: former all star second basement Jazz Chism that this winter
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: he will not be getting even the qualifying offer, which
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: means he will be changing laundry. He will not be
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: back with the Yankees. Now, part of the reason behind
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: this is not only the performance of Jazz Chism, it
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: is also the fact there's a certain outfielder for the
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Yankees they gave a qualifying offer to and yeah, well
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: it didn't work out so well, and he took it.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: It's one of those like token things you give the
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: qualifying offer because nobody almost never, almost never do these
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: players take the qualifying offer. And the Yankees got burned,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: and so they're like, I don't know about that. I
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: don't want to go down that road. So the question, though,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: what is your first impression, first impression of the reports
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: that the Yankees have already decided they will not even
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: make a qualifying offer the second baseman, Jazz Chisholm Junior.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: So if this is true, if the Yankees decide to
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: pass on a qualifying offer for Jazz Chislm, if that's
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: the reality of the situation, it's not wrong. It would
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: be the baseball equivalent of leaving his luggage on the
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: curb and putting a white piece of paper with black
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: writing on it saying f r ee free, fr ee free,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: and then just tape that on there and just go
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: away and somebody will pick it up. And then you
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: put an add online if you want to offer up
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: or one of those things, and then sybody'll come pick
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: it up and that's it. This is a guy, Jazz Chisholm,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: who did bring the razzle dazzle. He did bring the
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: razzle dazzle in spring training. He was the guy that
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: talked about fifty to fifty, He's going to hit fifty
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: home run steal fifty bases for the Yankees. But when
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: it was I'm to put up or shut up. Unfortunately
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: for Jazz Chisholm. Yeah, he tossed his bats off the
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: George Washington Bridge there and waved goodbye, bye bye. Yeah,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: no need to bring the bat up there. You don't
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: know how to use it, so why bring it up there?
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: And you can You cannot stink at a time where
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: the money is on the table, you cannot do it.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: And Jazz not only did he lose the spoon, he
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: is now being forced to show up with a fork
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: at supper and he's trying to eat the Campbell's Cream
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: of Mushroom soup with a fork. It's not really working.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: It's not so, and the Yankees are going to pay
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: a premium price if you're good. However, if you are
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: just mister personality sunglass social media guy with unauthenticated vibes,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: it sounds like the Yankees are not going down that road.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: So we'll keep an eye on that. And outside of Jazz,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: this one scenario where this doesn't happen, and that would
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: be Jazz Chisholm going into a phone booth and stepping
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: out of that phone booth and all of a sudden,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: he's mister October two point zero in the postseason and
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: is just absolutely hitting bombs kaboom kaboom, ka boom, ka
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: boom kaboom. If he's doing that all the time, Okay,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: we got something. At this point, we do the show today.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: At this point that is highly unlikely the Jazz Chism
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: will do that. His expiration date is rapidly approaching, and
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: you look at it. He was supposed to be on
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: this twenty twenty six season for Jazz Chism, a magical
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Mystery tour, and it has been a mystery. Why does
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: he suck so much? Why does he suck so much?
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: It is a real mystery, And right now he is
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: officially on the slow bus and the bus is heading
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: towards Baseball side Berry. The bus route or route is
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: to Baseball Siberia. So good luck on that and the
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: last month and a half of actually less than that
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: now of the Jazz Chisholm as a New York Yankee
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: for the time being. Now, meanwhile, speaking of the Yankees,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: and we also talked about the Dodgers here, we must
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: combine these forces together, as we learned over the weekend,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: And we knew this was coming because the man himself
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: announced this was coming. He announced his own demise, the
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: passing of Tommy John. Now, if you're younger than like
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: forty five, you have no idea who Tommy John is.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: You might think it's a clothing brand. You might think
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: it's a clothing brand. It's not. It's not. Well, I
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: mean it is, but it's not, you know what I mean.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: It's like the original Tommy John was not a clothing brand.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: But Tommy John passing away from bladder cancer over the
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: weekend at the age of eighty three. A pretty full
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: life from Tommy John. Then he made his own announcement,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: what a way to go out. He was in hospice
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: in Florida, and he knew that's it. You know, games
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: over soon, and he had the Yankees send out a
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: release during Old Timers Weekend in the Bronx to thank
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: everyone what a cool thing he is. Thanked everybody you know,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: said his goodbyes, and that was that from Tommy Johnny
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: pitched twenty six seasons in the major leagues. That is
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: an entire generation and then some for Tommy John started
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: with the Cleveland Indians in nineteen sixty three and pitched
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: for a gaggle of other teams all the way to
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine, pitch for six different teams, most known
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: for his days with the Dodgers and the Yankees, although
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: he pitched, as we said, all over the map and
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: you name it, and he of course is known as
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: the guy. Nineteen seventy four, fifty two years ago, Tommy
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: John had elbow ligament replacement surgery. It had never been
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: done before ever, and he went out there and pitched
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: fourteen more seasons. After having elbow ligament replacement surgery, they
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: took a What they do is they either take cadaver
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: or they take a ligament from your ankle or another
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: part of your body and they put that in your elbow,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: that's what they do. So that move revolutionized sports medicine
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: for pictures worldwide, and that leads us to the question.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: The question is this, how are you going to remember
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: the life of former Yankees and Dodgers pitcher Tommy John.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: So I didn't want to spend a couple of minutes
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: to reminisce about this guy, because I will remember Tommy
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: John as the greatest sports guinea pig that the modern
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: world has ever seen. The original patient zero, that is
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: what Tommy John was, a human crash test dummy, which
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: generations of pictures have benefit fitted from what Tommy John did.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: He turned an experimental Frankenstein elbow surgery, and that's really
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: what it is. When you're taking ligaments out of another
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: part of the body or a cadaver and putting them
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: in your body, that's wild, right, And so he had
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: this Frankenstein elbow surgery. And it is now fifty plus
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: years later, the industry standard. Now they have adjusted it
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: a little bit, it's still though the basis of that
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: the bedrock of what happens when these pictures have Tommy
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: John surgery. There was a guy for the Reds over
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: the Weekend Hunter Green Guy was throwing one hundred miles
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: an hour. He is gonna have Tommy John. Surgery's out
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: for the year and next season as well. That's not
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: possible without the original Tommy John. The OG Now, I
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: was lucky enough a few years back to have Tommy
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: John on the Fifth Hour. Podcast was in twenty twenty one.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: I want to thank alf the Alien Opiner for finding
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: the date. I do so many of these podcasts and
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: radio shows. I have no idea when anything is. I
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: think everything was like a couple days ago. I really don't.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: I think everyone's around my age and everything was a
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: couple days ago. I have no idea what's going on.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to stay on the horse. I'm trying
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: to shay on the mechanical bowl. That's all I'm trying
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: to do. So it was twenty twenty one and I
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: was approached by somebody I used to work with in radio,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: no longer in radio. She was a friend of mine
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: and I hadn't heard from this woman in like twenty years.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: She reaches out to me. She says, hey, we're starting
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: a campaign. We want to get Tommy John in the
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. We're trying to do some media, can
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: you put him on? I said, yeah, I put Tommy
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: John on my podcast. Absolutely. I love that mane So
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: she gave me his number. I get him a buzz.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: He was living in Palm Springs at the time. Could
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: not have been nicer. This cool guy, wonderful, you know,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: a small sample size obviously, and who knows. Maybe he
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: was mean to other people, but he was very nice
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: to me and we had a great conversation. Some of
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: it was broadcast, a lot of it before we hit
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: the record button on the microphones. With Tommy John, we
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: talked about I knew Lasorda a little bit. He obviously
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: knew much better than me, played for him, but I
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: was telling some of the stories I had. He was
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: telling me some of the stories about that, about the
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: different teams he played for, what baseball was like in
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties as opposed to the two thousands. We
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: spent a lot of time and I don't know how
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: much of this got on the actual podcast and how
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: much of this didn't, but on pitching and why pitchers
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: need to throw more, and Tommy John's one of those
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: old timers that would say, hey, the problem with baseball
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: today is the pitchers don't throw enough. They baby the pitchers.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Guys like Dave Roberts and Aaron Boone baby the pitchers.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: He didn't say their names. I said their names. He
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: didn't say their names. But it was just great. And
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: to think that Tommy John's name, Tommy John's name is
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: right next to Louke Garrick's name. There's only a couple
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  Speaker 1: of people in sports that have become part of the
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  Speaker 1: medical vocabulary in American sport. And lou Garrick met his
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  Speaker 1: demise because of his illness. Tommy John lived a full life. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: it pitched another fourteen years, as we said, in the
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  Speaker 1: major leagues. And somehow, and I do agree with the point.
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  Speaker 1: And we mentioned I was contacted by some people trying
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  Speaker 1: to get Tommy John in the Hall of Fame. How
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: is he not in the Hall of Fame. I don't
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: understand it. I seriously don't get it. The baseball writers
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: completely flunked what was in many ways an open book
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  Speaker 1: eye exam. They screwed this up. These idiots have elected
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: cheating as one one thousand and two one thousand hole.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Carlos Beltron multiple suspected steroid cheats are in the Baseball
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. And yet you put your foot down
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: when it comes to a man that had two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty eight wins in the major leagues back when
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: wins mattered, pitched almost five thousand innings, four seven hundred
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  Speaker 1: innings and at a sixty plus war for all the nerds.
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  Speaker 1: You love your war. And if you look at the contemporaries,
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  Speaker 1: the people that he pitched against her around that time,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: players like Fergie Jenkins and Jim Cott and Bert be
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Home Bli Levin all in the Hall of Fame, all
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  Speaker 1: of them in the Hall of Fame. But no, no,
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  Speaker 1: we can't put Tommy John in the Hall of Fame.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: We can't do that. I'd forbid, Like, how do you
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  Speaker 1: literally revolutionize, revolutionize the entire sport of baseball, provide as
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  Speaker 1: a guinea pig, provide this miracle thing. And doctor Frank
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: job who was the doctor team the Dodgers team doctor,
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  Speaker 1: he's the guy that did the operation. But without Tommy John,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: there is no procedure. It was experimental, and you still
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  Speaker 1: can't get in the Hall of Fame. He get ghosted
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  Speaker 1: from the Hall of Fame. It's ridiculous and he deserved
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: a plaque while he was living, just like Pete Rose
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: deserved a plaque while he was living. And it's it's embarrassing.
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  Speaker 1: And someday we'd like to see the Hall of Fame
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: grow some balls and take the vote away from the
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: baseball writers. They don't deserve it. You can't put Tommy
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: John in there. And you put Carlos Beltrot on Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame. Our puke in my mouth, cheating a hole
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame, come on, eliminated, eliminated. So
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  Speaker 1: instead the baseball scribes, of course, gave him the ultimate blown.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Save Tommy John, the ultimate blown saved from the baseball writers.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: And of course the reality is he didn't need the
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame in many ways because his name is
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: immortality and he's winning. Anytime a pitcher has this operation,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: it's every news story on the Internet, social media. Tommy
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: John surgery, that's Tommy John. Rest in peace, Tommy John.
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• 40:35
  Speaker 3: Ben Odell Beckham Junior made his return to the Giants,
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: got a nice ovation from the crowd at MetLife, caught
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: a couple of passes, was open on another one downfield
• 40:45
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• 40:47
  Speaker 3: he said after the game he liked being out there.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: He said, if you look at Taper at practice, I'm
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: getting open. Do you think he's gonna make the roster bend?
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: It's two be determined, like Harbaugh. I saw some postgame
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: comments from Harbaugh. It didn't seem like he was completely
• 41:01
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• 41:06
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• 41:09
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• 41:11
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• 41:12
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• 41:14
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• 41:18
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• 41:21
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• 41:29
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• 41:32
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• 41:34
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• 42:31
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• 42:39
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• 42:41
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• 42:46
  Speaker 1: dollars a year, man who just signed a big free
• 42:49
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• 42:52
  Speaker 1: than Kyle Tucker of the d O d G E
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  Speaker 1: R S Suck. Suck, Suck the Dodger They suck. Right
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  Speaker 1: now now, I saw the stat over the weekend. Since
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: the pitching man was lowered in nineteen sixty nine, the
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: only MLB hitter to have an eighty five game home
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: span with a batting average below one eighty two and
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: on base percentage below two eighty eight and a slugging
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: percentage below two sixty six would be none other than
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker in over three hundred and thirty eight at bats.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: The guy blows despite making sixty million dollars year. So
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: any advice help Kyle Tucker out? The Dodger outfielder, Kyle Tucker,
• 43:33
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  Speaker 1: start out with you on line one, Line one. You're
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: on the air. Advice to Kyle Tucker with a T Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: morning time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: Make sure you stay relevant because I forgot all about
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: von Miller played for the Our Commanders.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Fine, well, he didn't really play. He was just kind
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: of like stand up. Nobody watched him when he played.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Oh that's Rick and Maryland of course. Line two, you're
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: on the air line too. Rapid fire advice to Kyle
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Tucker of the Dodgers, the worst home player in baseball history.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: Move over, I'm up from McGraw. There's a new example
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: of a neptitude in the basketball Hall of Fame with
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Doc Glenn Rivers. Oh that's right, Doc Rivers made the
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. Oh my god, embarrassing. I feel bad
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: for everyone lives in that area Springfield, Worcester. It's a shame.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: All right, you're on the air line three. You're on
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: the air advice to Kyle Tucker. Line three, everybody seeing
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Packer fans want my dingerling a league. All right, thank
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: you for that. Never disappoints Lucky Tony the bank. Line four,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: you're on the air advice to Kyle Tucker. Line four.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: I hate Mike new Hampshire, but I love Susta. It's
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: very confusing. Yes. Line five, you're on the airline five.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: We're giving advice to Dodgers outfielder Kyle Tucker sixty million
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: dollars a year. Guy, he's betting one eighty two at
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: home over the last eighty five games.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: You ought to put on a better jock, having a
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: better uniform, and learn how to play banner.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Well, that's great, true, tremendous advice. Yes, that's like Dick
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: and Dayton saying, how do we asked him one time?
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: How did the old Cleveland Indians turn things around? They
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: got to pitch better, they got to hit you know,
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: the bullpend the only defense. Line six. You're on the
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  Speaker 1: airline six. It's the instant advice line for Kyle Tucker
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  Speaker 1: with a t of the Dodgers.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: I recommend a generous amount of Roberto's black pepper.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: Yes, the black pepper very important. There. I was. I
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: thought you were going to say something else, but fortunately
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: he did not A Line one. You're on the airline one.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: We're giving advice to Kyle Tucker. Line one, I hope
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: you end up a paraplegic. You all right, thank you
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: for that line too. You're on the airline too. Jeez,
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: hey share him.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: There's only some money and then I'm won't pay him back.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: Didn't you start playing better. That's right, he'll be upset.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's good advice from Sean the hood guy. Oh,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: Line three's not there, we'll hang up online. Line three stuck.
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  Speaker 1: Line four, you're on the Airline four, Hello in morning,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: get look at it.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: I need a loan.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: Take me out to the boat. Yes, stike me out
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  Speaker 1: the air. It's the instant and vice line at eight seven,
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  Speaker 1: line one, you're on the Airline one. We know Edwin
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: Dieerz is rooting for his slump to continue. Oh yeah,
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: that's it. Boy, What a free agent hole the Dodgers
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: had this offseason. They both the guys they picked up
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  Speaker 1: both stick. Oh my god. Line two, you're on the
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  Speaker 1: Airline two. It's the incident advice line for Kyle Tucker
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  Speaker 1: of the Dodgers. He's hitting one eighty two over the
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: last eighty five plus home games. Worst man in baseball history.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: He needs some kosher salt and black per Yes, we
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  Speaker 1: are one more coop O. No, no, we're out of time.
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  Speaker 1: And there it is the instant advice line for Kyle
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  Speaker 1: Tucker of that Dodger