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Hour 3 - Benny's Baseball Bonanza · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Playball, and we'll welcome it's our number three, our number three,
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Speaker 1: with no radio silence because it's a podcast. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: a podcast. So here at our number three, by request,
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Speaker 1: It's Benny's Baseball Bonanza. As we look ahead to the
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five MLB season, which begins today, yes opening Day.
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Speaker 1: So as the curtain goes up, what is the central
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Speaker 1: theme of the twenty twenty five baseball season as it begins? Also,
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Speaker 1: what's on your cheat sheet of twenty twenty five MLB
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Speaker 1: juicy storylines going into the regular season. In addition, how
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Speaker 1: will Raffi Devers handle being pigeonholed as a designated hitter
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Speaker 1: a three hundred million dollar designated hitter for the Red Sox.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to all of that, and who knows what
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Speaker 1: else we'll bring it to for right now in our
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Speaker 1: number three, it is a hardball jamboree, is what it is.
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Speaker 1: returning to Capistrano in a opening day look ahead to
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Speaker 1: the baseball season. So I leave this hour is from baseball.
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Speaker 1: You smell what the rock is cooking, and maybe your
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Speaker 1: nose is clogged up a little bit a tissue. Later
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Speaker 1: today bens where you are. If you're on the East
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Speaker 1: coast this afternoon. If you're on the West coast early
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Speaker 1: in the morning, the umpire will come out and say
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Speaker 1: play ball and that's it, mom apple Pie, and baseball
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Speaker 1: opening Day. There's just a little bit extra about opening Day.
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Speaker 1: They got the bunting, the red, white, and blue bunting
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Speaker 1: at the ballpark, and there's usually a pack crowd. And
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Speaker 1: the next time there's a pack crowd at these baseball
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Speaker 1: stadiums will be when they give away a bobblehead or
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Speaker 1: when the weather gets better and it's warm every day
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Speaker 1: but opening Day, and in theory, there's hope in the
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Speaker 1: air everywhere. Every single team starts with a perfect record.
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Speaker 1: Of course that's not really true. Every team's supposed to
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Speaker 1: be zero and zero. But this opening day is different
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Speaker 1: because outside of the teams that haven't played, the Dodgers
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Speaker 1: and Cubs already played two games. Cubs are oz and
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Speaker 1: two Dodgers are two. Know, but every team other than
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Speaker 1: the White Sox can dream of finding glory glory Road
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Speaker 1: in October. Now by popular demand, we're questioned by Eugenie
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Speaker 1: and Chicago and several other members senior ranking. Bring it
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Speaker 1: to your generals that have been sworn in, that have
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Speaker 1: taken the oath, the Skeeter in Montana Oath. It is
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Speaker 1: Benny's Baseball Bonanza. Benny's Baseball Bonanza, your one stop shop
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Speaker 1: to be prepared for the right of passage. And here
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Speaker 1: we are on opening day. So let us discuss question
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Speaker 1: as the curtain goes up, up, up and away on
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Speaker 1: this opening day, what is the central theme of the
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five MLB season. Those marketing people say, we've
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Speaker 1: got to have a theme. We've got to have a theme.
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Speaker 1: So I've got Tiger Woods soundtrack and Family God, and
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Speaker 1: we'll put all these together and we are going to
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Speaker 1: make some soggy ballpark nachos and a delicious soft pretzel
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Speaker 1: and it's gonna be just one ballpark with peanuts, bag
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Speaker 1: of peanuts, way to go, garlic fries if you're in
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Speaker 1: the Bay Area. Whatever it is, all right. So, first
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Speaker 1: of all, the theme, the central theme of the twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five MLB season. It is a throwback to the
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Speaker 1: early two thousands. Now, let's go, if you will go
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Speaker 1: with me here, we're going to Hill Valley. Now. I
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Speaker 1: got to visit Hill Valley when I was working on
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Speaker 1: Benny Versus the Penny. It was very cool. I get
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Speaker 1: to walk right through the courtyard there in Hill Valley,
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Speaker 1: and I didn't see Doc Brown but we need to
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Speaker 1: get Doc Brown and we need to take a spin
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Speaker 1: in the DeLorean because we're going back to the future. Baby,
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Speaker 1: You and I are going back to the future. And
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Speaker 1: we're gonna wait, there's that lightning strike. It's gonna hit
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Speaker 1: at ten oh four pm, not ten oh three, not
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Speaker 1: ten oh five, zen o four pm. And remember now,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna hit that dashboard. We're gonna punch
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Speaker 1: you in the year twenty oh two into the dashboards.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna go back and the vehicle has to get
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Speaker 1: to eighty eight miles per hour, not eighty nine or
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Speaker 1: ninety and not eighty seven or eighty six. Eighty eight
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Speaker 1: miles per hour the DeLorean and that sufficient power and
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Speaker 1: we're good to go. So why are we setting the
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Speaker 1: year to twenty oh two? Well, I mentioned it's a
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Speaker 1: throwback season here, and if my math is right, that
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Speaker 1: was peak tiger time in twenty oh two. Most popular
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Speaker 1: wager and one of the great talking points in sports
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Speaker 1: talk radio Tiger Woods versus the Field, the Spectacle, the Masters, Augusta, Georgia.
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Speaker 1: Would you rather take Tiger Woods or would you rather
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Speaker 1: take the field? Interesting? Now twenty twenty five, what is it.
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Speaker 1: It's not obviously Tiger Woods, he's not a baseball player.
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Speaker 1: It's Show Hayes Dodgers versus the field. If I gave
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Speaker 1: you a couple thousand dollars of funny money and I said,
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Speaker 1: you can either bet on the Dodgers or you bet
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Speaker 1: on the field, who are you going to bet on?
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Speaker 1: Who are you going to bet on? Now? The value
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Speaker 1: is actually taking the field. The value is not the Dodgers.
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Speaker 1: The difference though, at the Masters back in the day,
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Speaker 1: there were anywhere between twenty to thirty golfers that could
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Speaker 1: reasonably win the Masters in Georgia. I would argue, based
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Speaker 1: on a minutes long review, there are only seven seven
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Speaker 1: teams in Major League Baseball that can win the World Series.
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Speaker 1: It would be a tremendous upset, and for some of
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Speaker 1: these other teams, a massive earth shattering upset if somebody
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Speaker 1: else went so. The seven teams, obviously the Dodgers, they're
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Speaker 1: at the very top. The Atlanta Braves, the Philadelphia Phillies.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to include the Mets and the Yankees. Both
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Speaker 1: of them are flawed teams. We'll get to that in
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Speaker 1: a minute. I'm going to include the Red Sox because
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Speaker 1: they have the money to spend and to get that
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Speaker 1: last picture, much like the Mets doing the Yankees those
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Speaker 1: mid season editions. And I'm also gonna throw the Texas
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Speaker 1: Rangers in there, they won a couple of years ago.
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Speaker 1: And the wild card is obviously Jacob deGrom, who's probably
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Speaker 1: already feeling pain in his elbow right now because he
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Speaker 1: always feels pain in his elbow. And those teams, even
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Speaker 1: the ones that are flowed like the Mets, they're a mess.
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Speaker 1: The Yankees have issues and they need upgrades and all that.
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Speaker 1: But the Dodgers have literally started two games ahead of
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Speaker 1: every other team in baseball, every other team in baseball,
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Speaker 1: thanks to that Tokyo two step they did a week ago. Now, second,
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Speaker 1: what is on your chief? Let me help you out.
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Speaker 1: What is on your cheat sheet for the twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: five in terms of juicy storylines going into the new year?
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Speaker 1: What stands out? What are we gonna yapping about here?
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Speaker 1: So I got a ten spot. I'm not going lean
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Speaker 1: and mean, I am going bold and beautiful. I got
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Speaker 1: a ten spot. So number one, number one, the obvious one. Now,
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Speaker 1: Eugenie in Chicago said, don't bring this up, you shouldn't
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Speaker 1: bring this up, eh, No, the story and I mentioned
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Speaker 1: it already. The Dodgers. The Dodgers are full arch villains,
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Speaker 1: they have arch villain status. They're a batman low level
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Speaker 1: batman villain. The soundtrack for the Dodgers twenty twenty five season,
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Speaker 1: when they Go on the Road, is a score composed
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Speaker 1: by the Great John Williams. It's the Star Wars Imperial March,
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Speaker 1: the Darth Vader theme as it's known. So what does
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Speaker 1: Sho Hao Tani have for an encore? He went fifty
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Speaker 1: to fifty last year. He's supposed to pitch once every
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Speaker 1: six days or so. He'll be pitching, So what does
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Speaker 1: he do now? Another thought, going in another juicy storyline,
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Speaker 1: did the Atlanta Braves return to four? Ronald Lacuna Junior?
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Speaker 1: Snap crackle pop. Spencer Stryder Snap crackle pop. They've got
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Speaker 1: two of the leading candidates for comeback Player of the Year.
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Speaker 1: Are the Atlanta Braves back? Are they in position now
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Speaker 1: to be a legitimate threat to bird dog the Dodgers
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Speaker 1: in the Nation League? Where else? How about Bobby wit
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Speaker 1: number three? Bobby Witt Junior, Does he take the next
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Speaker 1: step moving up the ladder and does he usurp Aaron Judge?
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Speaker 1: Is Bobby witt Junor going to be the top player?
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Speaker 1: Some people thought he was the top player last year?
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Speaker 1: Does he pass Aaron Judge by in the American League?
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Speaker 1: And then you look at the Yankees? Can the Yankees
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Speaker 1: make the playoffs without Garrett Cole He's out all year
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Speaker 1: with his arm falling off. And Juan Soto who's across
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Speaker 1: with the Mets. Now, speaking of the Mets, do the
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Speaker 1: one sodo Mets? They gave him seven hundred and sixty
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Speaker 1: five million. Methinks they don't have enough pitching now, I
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Speaker 1: know they got a couple guys on the what I
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Speaker 1: used to call the disabled list the Mets. Clay Holmes,
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Speaker 1: What up Holmes? Clay Holmes is your opening day pitcher
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Speaker 1: for the Metropolitans. Clay Holmes is the opening day pitcher.
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Speaker 1: Signs things are not going well. Even if play Holmes
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Speaker 1: goes out and pitches a great game, that is not
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Speaker 1: the ideal situation. Is this finally the death the death
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Speaker 1: of the cheating astros? Is this the year that the
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Speaker 1: floor opens up, A trapdoor opens up, and the cheating
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Speaker 1: a holes finally are exterminated and do not make the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: Can we pray, we pray to the baseball guys. Can
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Speaker 1: manager Terry Francona bring that midas touch with him? He
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Speaker 1: had it in Boston, he had it in Cleveland, and
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Speaker 1: he's now the Reds manager. So how's that go? And
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Speaker 1: then will cheating asstro Alex Bregman and the very delicate
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Speaker 1: Garrett Crochet be enough. He's a pitcher. You probably don't
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Speaker 1: know who that is because he's pecial for the White Sox
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Speaker 1: and they're not a major league team. But he's the
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Speaker 1: big pickup in the pitching staff, Alex Bregman, the big pickup,
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Speaker 1: the cheater at third base? Is that enough to have
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Speaker 1: the Red Sox have a metamorphosis and go from pretender
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Speaker 1: to contender? It should be? It should be? Should be enough?
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Speaker 1: And then I always look ahead mid season trade deadline
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Speaker 1: July thirty. First, the swap meet. Who's gonna get Toronto's
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Speaker 1: Laddie Guerrero Junior? Assuming he doesn't sign a contract today.
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Speaker 1: Usually the opening day they make some last minute announced,
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Speaker 1: Hey we signed somebody before me. But assuming that doesn't happen,
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Speaker 1: Vladi Guerrero June, you're likely to be traded. And then
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Speaker 1: all season the Miami Marlins. That's like a Ponzi scheme
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Speaker 1: there in Miami, and they're going to send out every
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Speaker 1: fifth day till he gets hurt. Sandy all Kantar, that's
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Speaker 1: the big one. That's the guy that the Mets and
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Speaker 1: the Yankees and the Red Sox will be looking after.
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Speaker 1: They're trying to poach him from Miami. Who you know,
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Speaker 1: see how good he is coming off the surgery. But
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Speaker 1: he was amazing. And then my other storyline to follow
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Speaker 1: Major League the movie. There were a bunch of Major
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Speaker 1: League movies. Most people only saw the first one or
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Speaker 1: maybe the second one, but they made a third one,
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Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, it was Major League Back to
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Speaker 1: the Miners, And that's one of the storylines. As we
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Speaker 1: play ball, you have the Athletics who are so embarrassed
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Speaker 1: to be in Sacramento. They've got so much shame that
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Speaker 1: every time they take the field, they're doing the Walk
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Speaker 1: of Shame and they don't even want to include Sea Come.
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Speaker 1: They're playing in a minor league ballpark in Sacramento. This season.
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Speaker 1: The Tampa Bay Rays, because of an act of God
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Speaker 1: blowing off the roof of their ballpark, they are playing
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Speaker 1: at the Yankee spring training facility. And there's some photos
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Speaker 1: which are hilarious of the Rays spring training ballpark, which
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Speaker 1: will be their regular season ballpark. It's the Yankee spring
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Speaker 1: training ballpark, and you see the Yankee logo all over
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Speaker 1: the ballpark. They haven't covered up all the Yankee logos.
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Speaker 1: And so we got two of the teams in baseball
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Speaker 1: playing in minor league venues.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: All right, Now, final thought, I want to get away
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Speaker 1: from Benny's baseball bonanza and we go down to Boston
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Speaker 1: because there is some legitimate drama. A guy that was
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Speaker 1: supposed to be the grand poobah of Red Sox baseball
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Speaker 1: for years to come currently finds himself in the doghouse.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about Raffie L. Devers. Now you might remember
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Speaker 1: the story. It was one of the better stories of
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Speaker 1: spring training when Rafael Devers showed up and said, Hey,
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Speaker 1: I'm a third baseman and I ain't I ain't going
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Speaker 1: anywhere else. So Devers, it turns out, will not be
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Speaker 1: a third baseman. He will be the primary designated hitter
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Speaker 1: for your twenty twenty five Red Sox this season, and
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Speaker 1: he's he's not going to be playing third base. That
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Speaker 1: means that cheating Astro Alex Bregman, that little weasel Alex Bregman,
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Speaker 1: will be playing third base for the Astros, for the
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Speaker 1: for the Red Sex the X Astro all right, So
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Speaker 1: how will Raffie Devers the better stories in the losing
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Speaker 1: locker room? So how will Raffie Devers handle being pigeonholed
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Speaker 1: as a designated hitter for the Red Sox. So I
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Speaker 1: can see the future. I'm a distant relative of Noster Damas,
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Speaker 1: I'm a friend of Noster Denas he lives in Sea.
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Speaker 1: So it is my belief that Raffi Devers is going
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Speaker 1: to go full family guy as in Stewie Griffin. He's
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Speaker 1: going to be stewing in April and May and the
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Speaker 1: rest of March. Here there's only a few days left
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Speaker 1: here in the month of March. But at the start
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Speaker 1: of spring training, Rafael Devers made it very clear that
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Speaker 1: he had a little bit more than a strong preference.
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Speaker 1: He said that third base was his possession, it was
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Speaker 1: his position. He owned it. So this is going to
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Speaker 1: be like a wildfire. They talk to people that are
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Speaker 1: out there in the front lines fighting wildfires and they
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Speaker 1: say that, well, they get the fire down, but those
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Speaker 1: those hotspots and they flare up. So right now, Alex Korra,
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Speaker 1: the manager of the of the Socks, he has been
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Speaker 1: able to calm down the wildfire, but there's some hotspots
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Speaker 1: and there's going to be some flare ups. And Cora
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Speaker 1: said that moving Rafael Devers from third base to DH
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Speaker 1: shows that the Boston baseball team is quote in the
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Speaker 1: winning business. Now that sounds to me. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if I want to run this value. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you agree with me. Isn't that an indictment of
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Speaker 1: Rafael Devers? That Rafael Devers is a three hundred million
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Speaker 1: dollar liability. You don't pay someone three hundred million dollars
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Speaker 1: to just be a glorified pinch hitter as a designated hitter.
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Speaker 1: So the Red Sox are saying they got hoodwin that Devers,
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Speaker 1: who was supposed to be the third baseman until twenty
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Speaker 1: thirty three, is such a screw up they have been
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Speaker 1: unable to cast a spell on him that he's been
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Speaker 1: demoted down a rank. Devers is on a ten year
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Speaker 1: contract for three hundred and thirteen million. Three hundred and thirteen million.
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Speaker 1: He got that back in twenty twenty four and it
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Speaker 1: goes till twenty thirty three, and now he's the Merchant
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Speaker 1: of Doom for the Red Sox. It is the Ben
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Speaker 1: Mahlor Show. If you would like to be part you
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Speaker 1: can join us right now at eight seven seven ninety
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Speaker 1: nine on Fox. Your thoughts on opening day if we
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Speaker 1: did not mention the team that you love, the team
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Speaker 1: that you worship, that you think is all high and mighty,
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Speaker 1: feel free some hot talk. Absolutely, yes, overnight we can
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Speaker 1: get away with that. You know, we can do hot
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Speaker 1: blue jay talk. If you're listening to Toronto or if
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Speaker 1: you're a die hard Chicago White Sox fan, we can
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Speaker 1: part of the show. And we'll get to all of
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Speaker 1: that time now though. For the Malor Riddle of the Day,
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Speaker 1: that's right, the Mallor Riddle of the Day, and we'll
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Speaker 1: go to the Animal Kingdom. For the malor Riddle of
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Speaker 1: the day, We'll go to the tar Hill State. A
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Speaker 1: North Carolina man wore a blank to scare a black
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Speaker 1: bear out of his yard. Again some random Schmendrick in
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Speaker 1: North Carolinas. Dude in North Carolina wore a blank to
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Speaker 1: scare a black bear out of his yard. That is
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Speaker 1: the Mallard riddle of the day. The answer, We'll get
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Speaker 1: to it, and we will do it next.
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Speaker 1: and with me Ben, time to pay off the Malor
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Speaker 1: riddle of the day. A random Schmendrick, a man from
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Speaker 1: North Carolina. Sounds like the start of a crime thriller.
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Speaker 1: Man from North Carolina, So a man from North Carolina
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Speaker 1: wore a blank to scare a black bear out of
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Speaker 1: his yard. Late night drug tester says a nurse outfit.
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Speaker 1: He wore a nurse outfit. Who else do we have?
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Speaker 1: An angryvill mask from Scrooge? How did you get that
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Speaker 1: Scrooge that looks just like Angryville? That's what he wore
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Speaker 1: as a little kid to Halloween. Who else? The lady
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Speaker 1: sideburn says plot twist. The guy was buck naked and
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Speaker 1: that scared the bear away. Clam says an angry Bill fattheit.
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Speaker 1: All these guys giving love to angry Bill. Who else
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Speaker 1: do we have? Page down? A lebron crying shirt from Freddy?
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Speaker 1: That was his answer. Andy in Line Old Lakes, Minnesota
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Speaker 1: says the North Carolina man wore a Viking jersey to
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Speaker 1: scare the bear out of the yard. Yeah, scare the bear.
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Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Page down? Milkman Mike in
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Speaker 1: Colorado says that the gentleman wore a blind Scott cosplay costume.
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Speaker 1: That's the answer. Eddie Garcia mask guessed by fer Dog,
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Speaker 1: that's his answer. Alf the Alien Opina says he put
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Speaker 1: on a T shirt and nothing else and is that
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Speaker 1: from your closet. Alf is that? Probably not? Donkey Sausage
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Speaker 1: says he wore weed man hippie's teeth. That that is
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Speaker 1: the answer. Jess n Junction going with a rosie O'Donnell mask?
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Speaker 4: Did she?
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Speaker 1: Is she the one that one of those rosies left
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Speaker 1: the country? All those rosies are the same. Who else
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Speaker 1: we have? Fudgie? Says a Blair in Maine. Halloween mask
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Speaker 1: is the answer. Trucker Joe from the highways and byeways,
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Speaker 1: one of our many truck drivers, says he wore a
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Speaker 1: fat suit. But that's the answer. J T the Wingman
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Speaker 1: says A moonshiner still is the answer. A picture of Lizzo,
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Speaker 1: guessed by Johnny Q. Gutter says he wore a Carolina
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Speaker 1: Panthers jersey and that scared scared the bear away. Either
23:08
Speaker 1: that or he showed him the Minnesota Timberwolves playoff record.
23:14
Speaker 1: Either one of those would have worked. All right, let's see, Loraina,
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Speaker 1: do you have an answer, Lorada? Please? I need an answer.
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Speaker 5: I think he wore a bikini.
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Speaker 1: A bikini? All right? Is bikini? Is bikini? The answer?
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Speaker 2: Raw?
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Speaker 1: No? All right? So a North Carolina man wore a
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Speaker 1: black bear costume to scare a black bear out of
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Speaker 1: his yard. He wore a bear costume.
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Speaker 5: That's a good idea.
23:42
Speaker 1: It seems like a terrible idea. What if the bear
23:44
Speaker 1: was horny, right, I mean, I mean, how are you
23:48
Speaker 1: gonna stop the bear if the bear wanted to, you know,
23:50
Speaker 1: make whoopee with the other? Well, don't they advise you
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Speaker 1: to stay whoever they are the big park rangers, to
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Speaker 1: stay away, like twenty five yards away from all the animals,
24:00
Speaker 1: right and all that.
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Speaker 5: And I've seen a lot of videos lately of bears
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Speaker 5: like coming on people's decks and stuff, like when they're
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Speaker 5: having barbecues. I saw a video today of a bear
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Speaker 5: that came up and got in someone's hot tub, Like
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Speaker 5: he took the top off and then got in the
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Speaker 5: hot tub. And I feel like I heard him sigh
24:17
Speaker 5: like oh yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'll let you know that. Through marriage, I have
24:22
Speaker 1: inside information on it. So my wife she deals with it.
24:26
Speaker 1: She works in a community. She's a nine to one
24:28
Speaker 1: one operator, but she's in a community that has a
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Speaker 1: lot of bears. Right, they come down from the hills.
24:33
Speaker 1: And what happens is the TV news people anytime there's
24:38
Speaker 1: a bear, they try to get the helicopter there as
24:41
Speaker 1: quickly as it can, because there's nothing that does better
24:44
Speaker 1: television than animal stories. People love stories about a bear
24:50
Speaker 1: eating out of a dumpster and walking through the neighborhood
24:54
Speaker 1: like a drunk bear that ran into a case of
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Speaker 1: beer and drinking and they can't get it up of it.
24:58
Speaker 1: So those stories do very well on TV, people, and
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Speaker 1: they go viral on the internet now obviously too, and
25:03
Speaker 1: and so it's all about that. But this was in Asheville,
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Speaker 1: North Carolina, and the guy he bought the costume says,
25:11
Speaker 1: a bear costume like that costs anywhere from one hundred
25:13
Speaker 1: and thirty to three or four hundred dollars and he
25:17
Speaker 1: just put it on and the clip has gone gone viral.
25:23
Speaker 1: So hey, just like a real bear. And the bear
25:27
Speaker 1: here saw him and said, man, did he get out
25:30
Speaker 1: of here? But what would the bear possibly have attacked me?
25:34
Speaker 1: I don't know the origins of the bear, like the
25:36
Speaker 1: bear's territory. Maybe the bear would have thought, Hey, that's
25:38
Speaker 1: my territory, and you know I'm gonna I'm gonna fight
25:42
Speaker 1: you for the territory. It's pretty funny though, because he's
25:45
Speaker 1: he's not on all fours like a bear. He's standing
25:48
Speaker 1: up and moving his arms side by side. It looks
25:52
Speaker 1: like a skit from some kind of movie or TV
25:54
Speaker 1: show or something like that. It's pretty it's pretty funny.
25:57
Speaker 1: And the guy took off his bere hat. If you've
25:59
Speaker 1: seen the it's things gone viral. He took off the
26:02
Speaker 1: bare hat and he had He's like this bald dude
26:07
Speaker 1: with a with a big beer, looks like a burly dude,
26:09
Speaker 1: like a manly man. And he went out there with that. Yeah, anyway,
26:13
Speaker 1: that's the answer. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. As
26:18
Speaker 1: we are working our way through the overnight hours, and
26:23
Speaker 1: we'll go to the phones and who do we have
26:25
Speaker 1: any meany miney mole's Hello to weed Man hippie who's
26:27
Speaker 1: in Miami. Hello, weed Man Hippie. Hey then I love you,
26:33
Speaker 1: Love you too, weed Man, lot of love. Hey, So
26:36
Speaker 1: this guy's not here fortunately, all right? All right? What
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Speaker 1: are you doing to celebrate the guy's not there? What
26:42
Speaker 1: are you doing? Yeah?
26:43
Speaker 3: You know, he dreams a lot.
26:45
Speaker 1: So hopefully he got arrested and he's in jail.
26:48
Speaker 2: Hopefully.
26:50
Speaker 1: That's a wonderful thought. Nothing negative about that at all.
26:55
Speaker 1: He's great. Where are all these girls coming from? Where
27:00
Speaker 1: are these what? Yes, well, they live where people build houses.
27:07
Speaker 1: They're just living their life. They live in the you know,
27:09
Speaker 1: the trees and the forest and all that.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, really they come down to people's houses.
27:15
Speaker 1: Yeah all the time. Yeah. Well, in California they live
27:18
Speaker 1: in the mountains and they come down in the foothills.
27:20
Speaker 1: But in North Carolina there's a lot of trees and forests,
27:23
Speaker 1: and so they live in the forest and they looking
27:26
Speaker 1: for food, trying to find food. They're kind of like
27:29
Speaker 1: the bears are kind of like you. They're trying to
27:31
Speaker 1: find food. They're looking around for food, and they just
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Speaker 1: come down and they yeah, very similar. Have I well
27:39
Speaker 1: at the zoo, I've never No, I've never seen it.
27:41
Speaker 1: I don't live in an area where the bears come down,
27:45
Speaker 1: so I have not. Have you you live in Miami,
27:47
Speaker 1: there's no bears. Have you seen Have you seen a gator? No?
27:54
Speaker 1: Are they not? Are they not alligators in Miami? Is
27:56
Speaker 1: that too? There are there are? But not where you live.
28:00
Speaker 1: You live in like the city, and there's probably no
28:01
Speaker 1: gators around there. Yeah. I have seen them where where
28:04
Speaker 1: I used to do in Southeast I used to see
28:06
Speaker 1: them well, yeah, if you're further north through I mean
28:10
Speaker 1: the video remember the video a couple years ago somebody
28:12
Speaker 1: went through the sewer system was like, was it Orlando
28:15
Speaker 1: or Jacksonville? And there's like tons of gators just living
28:18
Speaker 1: in the in the sewer system in one of those cities.
28:21
Speaker 1: I forget which. Yeah, they're just living their greatest life. Man,
28:25
Speaker 1: They're like, forget teenage mutant ninja turtles. You got teenage
28:28
Speaker 1: mutant ninja gators down there. They're they're doing it. Man. Yeah, right,
28:35
Speaker 1: are you excited for okkay? We man? You're fired up
28:37
Speaker 1: for Oka Day? Yeah?
28:40
Speaker 2: So who are the Anses playing?
28:44
Speaker 1: We met? I thought you were a Yankee fan. Aren't
28:46
Speaker 1: you supposed to know who the Yankees are playing?
28:48
Speaker 2: I don't know who are they playing?
28:51
Speaker 1: We are you gonna? You didn't watch any baseball this spring?
28:54
Speaker 1: We met? Really? No, what do you ben? I don't
28:58
Speaker 1: want to know what you do. Let me get your watch.
29:00
Speaker 1: Are you watching movies on an illegal stream? You know?
29:05
Speaker 1: I see, I know, I know we are right because
29:09
Speaker 1: you watch me on the YouTube channel. I will give
29:12
Speaker 1: you a pass. The Yankees open up at noon today.
29:18
Speaker 1: They play the Milwaukee Brewers at Key Stadium. Weather permitting
29:23
Speaker 1: at Yankee Stadium. It should be it should be. All right,
29:25
Speaker 1: it's like fifty degrees I think first pitch, and I
29:27
Speaker 1: don't think there's any rain today, So they should get
29:29
Speaker 1: that game.
29:30
Speaker 2: Oh no, that's great, I'll listen to it.
29:33
Speaker 1: There you go, all right, enjoy the game. So, yeah,
29:38
Speaker 1: what I see you on YouTube?
29:41
Speaker 2: But it's only your monologues.
29:42
Speaker 1: You don't get all the callers. Yeah, yeah, they don't.
29:46
Speaker 1: They don't put all that. I don't know if they
29:48
Speaker 1: can only put certain parts of it on. I don't know.
29:50
Speaker 1: They should put the whole thing on there, but they don't.
29:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, they should, they really should.
29:53
Speaker 1: It's only yours. You realize that we don't have cameras
29:57
Speaker 1: on the callers. You realize that, like, there's no camera
29:59
Speaker 1: on the the people that call up. We're just we're
30:01
Speaker 1: just there and they're not. There's no came we're not
30:03
Speaker 1: stocking them, we're not putting cameras in their face and
30:06
Speaker 1: all that. You wouldn't see them anywhere, the cameras on
30:09
Speaker 1: your faces. And I'd be willing to do that if
30:12
Speaker 1: they pay me accordingly, I'd be more than well, you
30:14
Speaker 1: know that costs a little more money. I can't just
30:17
Speaker 1: do that without being compensated. My pretty looks and all that. Anyway,
30:23
Speaker 1: enjoy opening day now that you learned. I love weed Man.
30:26
Speaker 1: Who are the Yankees playing? Who the Mets playing today?
30:29
Speaker 1: Do we know the Mets are playing the cheating Ehstros?
30:34
Speaker 1: It is the Ben Malors Show. As we are continuing on,
30:37
Speaker 1: let's say hello to Scott who's in Des Moines? Hello Scott, welcome?
30:43
Speaker 2: Hey, Hey, how are you guys doing today?
30:45
Speaker 1: If I was any better, I would be a sock,
30:49
Speaker 1: But not a White Sox because they're terrible.
30:52
Speaker 2: Definitely not though. Being a huge Dodger fan here in Iowa,
30:59
Speaker 2: everybody here's the Cubs fan, and I'm so tired of
31:03
Speaker 2: hearing how the Dodgers are ruining baseball. So maybe you
31:09
Speaker 2: can help me understand this. So all these teams that
31:12
Speaker 2: are paying the luxury tax, all that money gets thrown
31:16
Speaker 2: into a pool and it gets distributed to all the
31:19
Speaker 2: other teams. Is that right? Uh?
31:22
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah? In fact, teams like the Athletics and the
31:25
Speaker 1: Marlins and the Pirates they don't even spend. But I
31:28
Speaker 1: think the Marlins are the ones that are the worst.
31:30
Speaker 1: They don't spend even the bare minimum and yeah, they
31:33
Speaker 1: get a fun They make money from the Dodgers and
31:35
Speaker 1: the Red Sox and the teams that I spent a
31:39
Speaker 1: lot of money. But here's like the argument is, the
31:41
Speaker 1: Cubs could be doing the same thing. The guy that
31:44
Speaker 1: owns the Cubs is worth a gazillion dollars. He could
31:47
Speaker 1: do the same thing. He just chooses not to do it.
31:49
Speaker 2: So the so, for what I read, each team's getting
31:52
Speaker 2: like two hundred and forty million dollars from this tax
31:56
Speaker 2: the other teams are paying. But then you got the pirates,
31:59
Speaker 2: who's whose teams only worked like sixty million. So why
32:04
Speaker 2: are the people mad at the Dodgers when you should
32:06
Speaker 2: be going to your teams and saying you're getting two
32:09
Speaker 2: hundred and forty million dollars from the Yankees, You're getting
32:11
Speaker 2: it from the match, you're getting from the Dodgers. Why
32:13
Speaker 2: are you not putting this into players going on?
32:16
Speaker 1: Because I'm not you, Scott, but a lot of other
32:18
Speaker 1: people not me. Of course, a lot of other people
32:20
Speaker 1: are idiots. That's why they're jealous. It's jealousy, and that's
32:24
Speaker 1: why they're complaining about the Dodgers and making a big
32:27
Speaker 1: deal about that. But we got to leave it there, Scott,
32:29
Speaker 1: Just enjoy where your Dodger capital annoy you, You're cub fan, friends,
32:33
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers. This is the greatest time to be
32:35
Speaker 1: a Dodger, for they've had some good runs over the
32:38
Speaker 1: years of the Dodgers. This is there's nothing quite like
32:41
Speaker 1: what's going on right now. This is absolutely saying and
32:43
Speaker 1: it's not gonna last. At some point the money will
32:47
Speaker 1: have to be paid, the deferred money, and either the
32:50
Speaker 1: people owning the Dodgers now will sell the team and
32:52
Speaker 1: they'll suck for twenty years down the line, but not
32:55
Speaker 1: right now. So in the moment, all we have is
32:59
Speaker 1: right now. Enjoy if you like the Dodgers. If not,
33:02
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33:04
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34:40
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Speaker 7: Go ahead, cool, all right, Ben, We're gonna start off
34:49
Speaker 7: with a question from ferg Dog.
34:51
Speaker 1: Hi, Fergie, he wants to know.
34:53
Speaker 7: It's question for everybody. When's the last time you've been
34:56
Speaker 7: on a boat.
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Speaker 1: Oh, let me try to think. I like to go
35:02
Speaker 1: on boats when I go places. I'm trying to think that.
35:05
Speaker 1: I think the last time I was on a boat
35:08
Speaker 1: was God, it's been a while. Oh you know. No,
35:11
Speaker 1: it was in Charleston. I went on one in Charleston.
35:13
Speaker 1: We went a little boat tour around Charleston. And then
35:17
Speaker 1: before that was in Minnesota. We went to Lake Superior
35:19
Speaker 1: and took a boat right around the brown water of
35:22
Speaker 1: Lake Superior. It's beautiful, very cold, but it was beautiful.
35:25
Speaker 6: What about you, Lorraina, Oh goodness, it was just a
35:29
Speaker 6: couple of weeks months ago.
35:31
Speaker 5: I was on the Queen Mary for brunch.
35:34
Speaker 4: That's a ship.
35:35
Speaker 1: That's not a moraina that it's not really it's a hotel.
35:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a ship.
35:39
Speaker 1: It's not and it doesn't it doesn't know, it doesn't
35:42
Speaker 1: go anywhere. That doesn't count. It is landlocked the sense
35:47
Speaker 1: I know it's in the water, but it doesn't go
35:48
Speaker 1: out to see it doesn't know.
35:51
Speaker 4: Well, that's my answer. That doesn't Yeah, that doesn't count.
35:55
Speaker 1: No, it's nothing.
35:56
Speaker 4: The last time you were on a boat, like a boat.
35:58
Speaker 1: That actually had had went out in the ocean.
36:02
Speaker 7: It was like a year ago.
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Speaker 4: Okay, well, I mean that's also a ship.
36:08
Speaker 1: But okay, where did you go on the cruise?
36:11
Speaker 5: We did the Port of Mexico stuff.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, cool, God, terrible answer.
36:17
Speaker 4: You're a terrible answer. The last time I was at
36:19
Speaker 4: least at least you know, places for the Seahawks.
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Speaker 7: The last time I was on a boat was last
36:28
Speaker 7: July in Chicago. I went on the architectural like river boat.
36:35
Speaker 1: Oh I've done that. That's cool. Yeah, it was really cool,
36:38
Speaker 1: really neat.
36:39
Speaker 5: It was on that one boat in Louisiana.
36:41
Speaker 1: In New Orleans, I did the boat with the crocodile house.
36:46
Speaker 1: Alloted time to the honorable Larina. We moved on to
36:48
Speaker 1: your time as ad the air boat.
36:51
Speaker 7: Yes, that counts as a boat. Anyway, Moving on, j
36:57
Speaker 7: Z the Wingman would like to know, since it opening
37:00
Speaker 7: day in Major League Baseball, what is your favorite ballpark food?
37:06
Speaker 1: So? I love the the pretzel, the soft pretzel, but
37:10
Speaker 1: it can't be one of those. I don't want to
37:13
Speaker 1: name him because they might be a sponsor at some
37:14
Speaker 1: point here, but there's a national pretzel chain which doesn't
37:18
Speaker 1: make very good ballpark pretzels. But if you're in a
37:20
Speaker 1: town that has good pretzels, like Philadelphia or New York
37:23
Speaker 1: or somewhere like that. I love a ballpark soft pretzel,
37:27
Speaker 1: nachos and a bag of peanuts. I'm good. And in
37:31
Speaker 1: San Francisco garlic fries. But that's about it. What about
37:34
Speaker 1: you lorraina hot dog all day?
37:39
Speaker 4: Yes, most of.
37:40
Speaker 1: The ballpark hot dogs, only a few of them have
37:42
Speaker 1: been good. Cleveland's got good hot dogs, Boston's got good
37:44
Speaker 1: hot doggs. What about you Google.
37:45
Speaker 7: Loop nachos, but not not just like the regular like
37:50
Speaker 7: nacho cheese and you know the round chip nachos. I
37:54
Speaker 7: mean like with meat and sour cream, and you want
37:58
Speaker 7: to mean guacamole.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: My only problem with nachos is the same problem I
38:03
Speaker 1: have with cereal. You've got to eat it fast, and
38:06
Speaker 1: every second that goes by without out eating the nachos
38:09
Speaker 1: or the cereal, it becomes a lesser meal. Like cereal,
38:12
Speaker 1: I used to like it when I was a kid,
38:13
Speaker 1: but I had to eat it so fast because it
38:15
Speaker 1: becomes soggy. And the same thing with nachos. You have
38:17
Speaker 1: to eat it very fast. It's soggy. It's not that
38:19
Speaker 1: good anyway. What is next? What do we have? All right?
38:22
Speaker 7: Now, this one seems like it was gonna be a
38:24
Speaker 7: good question, but I think it ends up not being
38:26
Speaker 7: a good question because I think it's obvious.
38:28
Speaker 1: Make it a good question?
38:29
Speaker 7: Well, well, Chicago bears twenty four. He wants to know
38:35
Speaker 7: he's in Nebraska. Would you rather taste everything your hands
38:38
Speaker 7: touch or everything your feet touch?
38:42
Speaker 4: That's an obvious one, right, Yeah.
38:43
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, unless you're you're just walking on I
38:47
Speaker 1: don't know what you would be walking on and you want.
38:49
Speaker 7: To yeah, I hands yeah, Yeah, all right, let's get
38:53
Speaker 7: skip ahead of this.
38:54
Speaker 1: That's gotta be the dombest question we've ever been asked.
38:58
Speaker 7: I mean it was getting creative, which is good. I
39:00
Speaker 7: like that, but then it was just too easy.
39:02
Speaker 1: I just gave up at the end.
39:03
Speaker 4: Yeah.
39:04
Speaker 7: Out wants to know what was your go to beverage
39:07
Speaker 7: growing up, excluding soda.
39:11
Speaker 1: I'll give you one. It's tang. I meant, when I
39:14
Speaker 1: was a kid, my mom's oh, this is the stuff
39:17
Speaker 1: astronauts were drinking in space, and it was just like
39:21
Speaker 1: like sugar tang. What about you learned a quick like
39:24
Speaker 1: tampico tampico cool?
39:27
Speaker 4: I liked.
39:30
Speaker 1: I remember when Snapple took off. There was a period
39:33
Speaker 1: where Snapple. Everyone was drinking three bottles a day. Oh man,
39:36
Speaker 1: it was so popular. Remember that that when you took
39:39
Speaker 1: the lid off, that that snap sound. That's the name