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Best of The Ben Maller Show · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 1: Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight
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  Speaker 1: from 2 to 6 Eastern, 11 p.m. to 3 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: So baseball, baseball, baseball, as it's on. As we begin
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  Speaker 1: the postseason. Not yet in October. It will soon be October.
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  Speaker 1: It is not yet October. So the playoffs starting here
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  Speaker 1: in September. And our lead, we're going to start out
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  Speaker 1: in the Bronx. In New York City there. The made-for-TV matchup.
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  Speaker 1: You never see the Yankees and Red Sox on TV.
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  Speaker 1: National TV, they just don't get that much attention. But
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  Speaker 1: here we are, the Red Sox and Yankees squaring up
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  Speaker 1: in the wild card round as the curtain went up
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  Speaker 1: on the MLB playoffs here, the Fugazi wild card round
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  Speaker 1: where it's best of three. And they're all played in
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  Speaker 1: the same city. They're all played in the same city.
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  Speaker 1: It's the only time in the playoffs you'll have conceivably
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  Speaker 1: three games in a row. Although more times than not,
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  Speaker 1: these games, these series don't even get to the third game.
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  Speaker 1: But if you were not watching, perhaps you did not
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  Speaker 1: know the games were on NBC. You haven't been paying
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  Speaker 1: attention this year. The New York Yankees mollywhopped the Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox 9-0. Who goofed? I've got to know. Game one
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  Speaker 1: of the AL Wild Card Series there at Yankee Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: And so the New Yorkers take the 1-0 series lead.
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  Speaker 1: Best of three matchup as the new ace of the Yankees,
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  Speaker 1: Cam Schittler, Schlittler. Ah, see, I knew I was going
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  Speaker 1: to do it. There you go. Oops. Well, I was close.
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  Speaker 1: I had it right. That's a good way to start
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  Speaker 1: the show.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: No? That's all right. The effort was made. Schlittler. Did
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  Speaker 1: I need to dump that? Schlittler. Nah, leave it in.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we technically don't. We don't, because it
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  Speaker 1: was a mispronunciation. The intention was to say the name properly.
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  Speaker 1: The intention was to say Schlittler, because the effort to
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  Speaker 1: say the name properly, we said the thing you can't say.
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  Speaker 1: We said the thing you shouldn't say, but we said,
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  Speaker 1: we technically, the effort was made to not say what
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  Speaker 1: we said. So we said what we didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: say by trying to say what we didn't want to say.
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  Speaker 1: You see?
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, uh, Cam, Cam getting it done. Cam, uh, See,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say it again. I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to be careful. Dominating for the Yankees over the Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox there. Six and a third scoreless innings allowed. Two hits,
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  Speaker 1: one walk, struck out 10 for the Yankees as Schlittler
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  Speaker 1: throwing a career-high 117 pitches. And people freaking out, we
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  Speaker 1: are in the creamy soft portion of the sporting world
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  Speaker 1: where our beloved athletes are put on a pedestal, and
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  Speaker 1: they must be protected at all costs. So good old
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  Speaker 1: Cam there, 117 pitches, most by Yankee pitchers since 2012. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, his arm's going to have to be amputated
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  Speaker 1: through 117 pitches. Oh, my God. Yeah. Ben Rice was
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  Speaker 1: oh so nice. He had four hits and five at-bats,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of dongs, and six runs batted in. I
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  Speaker 1: am told that is good, accounting for two-thirds of the Yankees' offense.
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  Speaker 1: And Rice delivering the knockout blow. Down go the Sox.
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  Speaker 1: Down go the Sox. He had a grand salami, Ben Rice,
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  Speaker 1: during a five-run eighth inning. And the Yankees were already
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  Speaker 1: in complete and total control of this game, but that
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  Speaker 1: was just the final blow. In the route or route,
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  Speaker 1: depending on how you look at it, New York now
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  Speaker 1: one victory away of advancing to the American League Divisional Series.
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  Speaker 1: They'll have Max Fried. He is scheduled to start Game 2.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be coming up on Wednesday night. Boston must win
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  Speaker 1: or else it's turn at the last. The party's over.
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  Speaker 1: And that is a good jumping off point. The better
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  Speaker 1: story is in the losing locker room. So let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question. What stands out to you about manager
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  Speaker 1: Chad Tracy's Red Sox performance in this particular game? So
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  Speaker 1: I've got hook and ladder. Burger King and Prius. And
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  Speaker 1: we'll put them all together. We're going to try to
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  Speaker 1: spice things up. I think we've already spiced things up.
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  Speaker 1: That was my tribute to Lucky Tony earlier here. So,
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  Speaker 1: as you know, Lucky Tony calls up.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, the word that stood out to me was overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 1: That's the word I would use to describe the Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox offense in this game. The game plan for the
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  Speaker 1: Boston baseball team at the plate, What was the game plan?
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. It was guess wrong and then swing late
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  Speaker 1: and return to the dugout. Rinse, wash, repeat. Okay, sounds good.
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  Speaker 1: Why not? So Chad Tracy, the manager who got the
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  Speaker 1: full-time job, we're happy for him. We wouldn't have given
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  Speaker 1: him the full-time job, but we're happy that he got
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  Speaker 1: the job. The spawn of Jim Tracy, former Dodger manager.
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  Speaker 1: So Chad Tracy... His guys were thirsty, but not the
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  Speaker 1: kind of thirsty where you're chasing after girls and all that.
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  Speaker 1: So they were thirsty. So they stood by the hook
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  Speaker 1: and ladder truck and they tried to drink out of
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  Speaker 1: the fire hose. And that did not go very well.
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  Speaker 1: That was a don't ask. So the Mallard diagnosis here
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  Speaker 1: for the Red Sox is they have to win two
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  Speaker 1: games now. Otherwise, that's it. They're done the next two games.
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  Speaker 1: So go down to Walgreens and pick up your prescription
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  Speaker 1: and take two pills a day. And we hope that
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  Speaker 1: will cure tight sphincter syndrome.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Also known as tight tuchus syndrome there. And then you
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  Speaker 1: might want to call your hitting coach in the morning
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  Speaker 1: and see how everything's going there. Give him a bus.
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  Speaker 1: Or the other option for the Red Sox hitters is
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  Speaker 1: just to remove the blindfold that you've apparently gone to
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  Speaker 1: home plate with and generally easier to hit that way
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  Speaker 1: when you don't have the blindfold on. My God, that
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  Speaker 1: was terrible. Terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible. So
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sox, who did not play well to finish
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  Speaker 1: the regular season, we are told they ranked dead last
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  Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball in pretty much every major September
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  Speaker 1: offensive category. And the Red Sox verifying and validating that
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  Speaker 1: that was legit. They went out there and managed three
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  Speaker 1: pathetic hits. That's it. And they were gripping those bats
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  Speaker 1: extra tight. They were gripping the bats so tight. We
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  Speaker 1: think the people over at Louisville Slugger are going to say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we need to charge you for repairs because you screwed up.
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  Speaker 1: That's a bad job by you. And you look at
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sox lineup, guys like Wilson, Contreras and Zidane,
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  Speaker 1: Raffaele and Roman Anthony and Caleb Durbin combined to go
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  Speaker 1: 0 for 12. And I didn't play in the major leagues,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm told that's not good. I don't think that's good.
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  Speaker 1: And they just went limp. So when they're down at
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  Speaker 1: the Walgreens, when they're down at the pharmacy there to
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  Speaker 1: get their prescription on how to cure tight sphincter syndrome,
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  Speaker 1: they might want to pick up some chew, maybe that
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  Speaker 1: blue chew stuff, and then they'll get stronger at bats.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be the way to go. But to make matters worse,
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  Speaker 1: Roman Anthony, who's fragile. Remember when Roman Anthony showed up
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  Speaker 1: and it was like, oh, my God, our hero is here.
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  Speaker 1: Roman Anthony saved the day. Sister got all that attention
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  Speaker 1: because she was attractive, and a bunch of horndogs were
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  Speaker 1: all excited about her. Now you look at it, Roman Anthony,
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  Speaker 1: who was hurt most of this year when he played, nah,
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  Speaker 1: not all that good. This is the new thing in baseball.
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  Speaker 1: These young players that are dubbed the next great thing
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  Speaker 1: show up and are given this hero's welcome. But Roman
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  Speaker 1: Anthony knocked out with injuries, so we'll see what happens
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  Speaker 1: with that. Now, page two. On the Yankees' side of things,
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  Speaker 1: you've got Cam... Schlittler, who was Dr. Nasty on the mound,
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  Speaker 1: and Ben Rice, who we said was so nice at
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  Speaker 1: the plate and all that stuff for the Yankees. So
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  Speaker 1: the question, let's play the word game for the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: Give me the word that sums up the Yankees' performance,
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees' performance in Game 1 of the wildcard round.
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  Speaker 1: So the Yankees, the word that stands out here is surgical.
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  Speaker 1: This was a surgical situation, as in surgical demolition. By
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  Speaker 1: the New York Yankees in this game. And no, Boston
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  Speaker 1: did not have anesthesia. They did not have anesthesia. With
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge lounging in the dugout on the injured list
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  Speaker 1: or disabled or whatever they're calling it. Whatever's not offensive
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  Speaker 1: to you people that are sensitive about everything. Ben Rice
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  Speaker 1: brought the lumber and the thunder for the Yankees there,
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  Speaker 1: turning Yankee Stadium into his personal driving range. And the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox were very happy to provide him the tea.
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  Speaker 1: And meanwhile, Cam Schlittler on the mound brought the chloroform
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  Speaker 1: for the Yankees in this game. So it was a
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  Speaker 1: Yankees-Red Sox. It was a six-hour or so documentary. And
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  Speaker 1: it was all about how great the Yankees are and
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  Speaker 1: how exceptional the Yankees are. And it was condensed down
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  Speaker 1: into nine innings of baseball. And we often take pot
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  Speaker 1: shots at the Yankees, and I'm sure at some point
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  Speaker 1: we'll be able to do that again. But on this
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  Speaker 1: particular night, Aaron Boone, who is the middle manager, and
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  Speaker 1: Brian Cashman and his army of nerds served up a
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  Speaker 1: total Burger King performance. It was a combo meal from
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  Speaker 1: Burger King. It was a Whopper with an extra large fry.
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  Speaker 1: As they fried, the Reds Sox in this game, it
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  Speaker 1: was picture perfect, annoyingly perfect for the Yankees to win
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  Speaker 1: this game. Now, why was it annoyingly perfect? Because it's
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  Speaker 1: the kind of game where the Yankee fan, who's already annoying,
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  Speaker 1: and you all agree on that, the Yankee fan's annoying,
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  Speaker 1: So the Yankee fan, now they pay the playoff prices.
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  Speaker 1: They see this dominating performance, 9-0 over the Red Sox
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  Speaker 1: in a playoff game. They actually receive playoff-quality performances for once,
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  Speaker 1: something that doesn't normally seem to happen there in recent years.
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  Speaker 1: And immediately you know that the Yankee fans mapping out
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  Speaker 1: the parade route or route, and they're saying, where can
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  Speaker 1: I buy the merch, the World Series merch? We haven't
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  Speaker 1: made the World Series yet. You haven't won the World Series. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to make it. You're the Yankees and all
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  Speaker 1: that effing stuff. All right, now, the last word, staying
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  Speaker 1: with the pinstripes, if you looked at the Yankee lineup,
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  Speaker 1: and who doesn't like doing lineup radio, but if you
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  Speaker 1: looked at the Yankee lineup, there was a story in there,
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  Speaker 1: and it wasn't Aaron Judge who was not, was not,
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  Speaker 1: The story here is All-Star second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr.,
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  Speaker 1: who was demoted to bench jockey. Jazz Chisholm, game one
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  Speaker 1: of the wildcard round. I remember this happening, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: last year. Jazz Chisholm wildcard round against Boston and lefty
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  Speaker 1: Peyton Tolley. And he was unable to pay the toly
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  Speaker 1: as Anthony Volpe, of all people. Anthony Volpe got the
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  Speaker 1: start at second base for the Yankees. So that means
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  Speaker 1: Jazz Chisholm, who made headlines back in spring training in
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  Speaker 1: the Grapefruit League when he famously said that he was
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  Speaker 1: going to go 50 for 50. 50 home runs, 50
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  Speaker 1: stolen bases, and he was eyeing a contract that would
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  Speaker 1: average $ 35 million a year over seven or eight years,
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  Speaker 1: possibly 10 years. Instead, Jazz Chisholm went out and posted
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  Speaker 1: career lows in things like batting average, slugging percentage, and OPS,
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  Speaker 1: which I don't think is going to help you. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that's a net positive if you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: get a new contract and you do all that. And
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  Speaker 1: he finished. How close did he come to 50 home runs? Well,
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  Speaker 1: he had 19. 19 home runs. That's not 50. It's
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  Speaker 1: not close to 50. It's not even 20. It's close
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  Speaker 1: to 20, but it's not. Anyway, then you had the
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  Speaker 1: he did have 41 stolen bases.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Question. You've got Yankee all-star Jazz Chisholm benched to start
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  Speaker 1: the wild card round. How does that strike you? So
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees did not technically puncture Jazz Chisholm's ego, because
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  Speaker 1: I think it's almost impossible to do that. The man's
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  Speaker 1: very proud of himself. There's no one he likes more
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  Speaker 1: than himself. What the Yankees did is they simply ran
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  Speaker 1: over Jazz Chisholm's ego and with the analytic department's Prius.
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  Speaker 1: They backed over him with the Prius is what they did.
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  Speaker 1: And all spring, this guy was writing checks with his
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  Speaker 1: mouth and talked about a $ 350 million contract and His
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  Speaker 1: bat then spent roughly six months, Jazz, yelling insufficient funds,
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  Speaker 1: insufficient funds for the Yankees. And that 50-50 prediction by
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  Speaker 1: Jazz Chisholm, while it was great and it's fun and
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  Speaker 1: I encourage more people to do it, we should point
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  Speaker 1: out that the 50-50 shot called by Jazz Chisholm belongs
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  Speaker 1: in the same museum with The athlete showed up in
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  Speaker 1: the best shape of his life. I love when you go,
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the best shape of my life. Okay, that's great.
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  Speaker 1: That is just effing wonderful. Congratulations. Way to go. Turns
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  Speaker 1: out that hitting 218 against left-handed pitching does not play
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  Speaker 1: the trumpet very loudly, and that is what got Jazz
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  Speaker 1: Chisholm Jr. benched against a left-hander. The nerds ran the
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  Speaker 1: sabermetric numbers into the super gobbledygook. And it spit out.
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  Speaker 1: They said, let's put it in the sabermetric washing machine.
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  Speaker 1: And it popped out platoon player. Yes, that's if you're
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  Speaker 1: not starting because you can't hit left handed pitching. Is
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  Speaker 1: that not a platoon player? Oh, you're being mean, Maller.
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  Speaker 1: I know I'm a schmuck. Nothing humbles a future thirty
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  Speaker 1: five million dollar a year man. Quite like watching Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Volpe play. who, by the way, was there. And you
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  Speaker 1: were in Worcester. A few of you did attend the
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  Speaker 1: Woosox game on that Sunday many months ago where I
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  Speaker 1: threw out the first pitch. And Anthony Volpe, at that point,
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  Speaker 1: was playing AAA baseball for the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre Rail Riders. And
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  Speaker 1: he went from the Rail Riders to the starting lineup
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  Speaker 1: for the Yankees and replaced in a playoff game.
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  Speaker 3: Playoffs!
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  Speaker 1: And replaced... Jazz Chisholm. So imagine having somebody take your
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  Speaker 1: playoff at bats who spent a good chunk of the
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  Speaker 1: summer playing for the Rail Riders while you sit in
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  Speaker 1: the dugout underneath in a hoodie ordering off the dollar menu.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty much what happened there in a nutshell for Jazz.
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  Speaker 4: and the Bear. We do it two times a week,
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  Speaker 4: every Monday, every single Friday throughout the college football season.
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  Speaker 1: You can expect a little bit of this. Will Stein,
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  Speaker 1: the head coach at Kentucky, joins us. Open bar at
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  Speaker 1: a wedding, ordering a Shirley Temple. Will or will not?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Will not. Ketchup on steak.
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  Speaker 3: Will or will not?
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  Speaker 1: Will or will not?
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  Speaker 3: Will not.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit of this.
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  Speaker 4: Rhys Davis, host of College Game Day, is with us now.
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  Speaker 2: And then I'm going home to the BBC, and they're
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  Speaker 2: saying Jockovich instead of Jokovich.
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  Speaker 1: Right, because you can't say Jockovich.
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  Speaker 4: If you do, you know the blowback you're going to
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  Speaker 4: get from the American audience.
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  Speaker 1: Right. And a whole lot of this.
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  Speaker 1: From Georgia, we go to the south, below the Mason-Dixon line. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we were going to start this hour. The plan, if
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  Speaker 1: you look at the big board, not a list, big board.
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  Speaker 1: If you look at the big board, the plan in
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  Speaker 1: our afternoon production meeting was to start with the Padre-Cub game.
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  Speaker 1: That game was such a dud. How big a dud
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  Speaker 1: was it? It was such a dud, we decided to pivot.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to start with a game that was
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  Speaker 1: the better game ever. And that's not the game in
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  Speaker 1: San Diego, Cubs and Padres. So we'll go later to
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  Speaker 1: the late game. We'll start with the early game on
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  Speaker 1: the National League side of the card. And dum-da-dum-dum-dum! But
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  Speaker 1: the better story is in that Atlanta-Philadelphia game. So wild
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  Speaker 1: card round, game number one. And after a season in
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  Speaker 1: the dungeon, Austin Riley, who was not only a baseball player,
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  Speaker 1: he had been terrible... for the Atlanta Braves this year. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he woke from his coma and hit the Earl Weaver special.
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  Speaker 1: That's an outdated reference, but there used to be this
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  Speaker 1: little guy, little short guy who managed the Baltimore Orioles
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  Speaker 1: named Earl Weaver, and he loved the three-run homer. And
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  Speaker 1: he would have absolutely loved the fact that Austin Riley
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  Speaker 1: hit a three-run bopper. Off the Philadelphia Phillies closer, Jawan
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  Speaker 1: Duran in the eighth inning. And that lifted Atlanta to
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  Speaker 1: a 5-3 win over Philadelphia in game number one of
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  Speaker 1: the National League Series there. The Phillies had taken a
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  Speaker 1: 3-2 lead in the seventh inning. You saw the game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it was an afternoon game. But JT Riamuto,
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  Speaker 1: the catcher. Hit a two-run triple, and that led the
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  Speaker 1: Phillies to take the lead briefly. And then the interim manager,
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  Speaker 1: Donnie Baseball, Don Mattingly, made what many are saying is
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  Speaker 1: an unconventional move for modern baseball. What did Don Mattingly do? Well,
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  Speaker 1: he decided to bring in Duran, his closer, in the
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  Speaker 1: seventh inning. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Yep. Can
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  Speaker 1: you believe that? What, is he trying to kill him?
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  Speaker 1: He's trying to kill him. Brought in his closer in
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  Speaker 1: the seventh inning. And he hadn't pitched in the seventh
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: inning all year because, of course, none of these guys
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: go above and beyond the call of duty. It's the
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: bare minimum, the bare necessities. That's how baseball's operated for years.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: They don't go above and beyond. There's no pride in performance.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Do the bare minimum. Save it for the playoffs. OK, fine.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: So Mattingly getting ripped because it didn't work. Donnie Baseball
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: had the strategy all mapped out, said it was all
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: planned out. Now, Mattingly did defend the move afterwards. Donnie
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Baseball saying we had our best guy out there. You know,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: the best means as good as all the rest. You
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: live with this one. Close quote from Don Mattingly. Nonetheless,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: he's still getting charbroiled, Don Mattingly, for this. It's a
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. Let us discuss. So the question here,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Phillies manager Don Mattingly. and his decision to use
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: closer Joanne Duran in the seventh inning. Use him early.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: That's much earlier than you normally would bring in a closer.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Thumbs up or thumbs down? Thumbs up, thumbs down based
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: on the decision of Not the result. Based on the decision,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: not the result. So I've got BMX bike, pot belly,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: and Mayo Clinic. And we'll combine all of these things
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: together and we'll see which way the ball bounces on
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: this one. So in terms of the question, Don Mattingly
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: getting killed here for this decision to bring in his
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: closer early. You go thumbs up or thumbs down. Again,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: just based on the decision, not the outcome. We know
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: the outcome. If you just base it on the outcome, well,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: that's a terrible decision. But I'm going to go thumbs up.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I like the move, so I'm going to go thumbs up.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Don Mattingly committed the unforgivable baseball sin. He used his
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: top pitcher when the game actually mattered instead of saving
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: the top guy for some hypothetical situation that may or
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: may not happen down the line. And it's old school.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: And when I say old school, it's like what I
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: was raised on. I guess I'm old. But it was
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: old school, and Mattingly made the right call. He did.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: You can't coach scared. In fact, we have. I guess
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: we have the audio. I just saw this. But we
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: have the audio. Here's Don Mattingly. Let's hear what he
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: had to say. Yeah, we show up and play. And
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: these guys have been here before. But even the other day,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: it felt like a must win. I mean, we didn't
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: know what was going to happen in the other game,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: playing at the same time.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: So, I mean, that was a must-win for us there.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: We're back there tomorrow. All right, back there tomorrow. It's
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: kind of generic. But he did stand, trust me, he
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: stood by the move. Baseball spent roughly 100 years, roughly
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: 100 years, telling us that managers should trust their gut.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: And it's only the last 20 years or so that
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: they've gotten away from that, really the last 15 years,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: give or take. So you're not supposed to trust your gut.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: You're supposed to trust the algorithm. You're supposed to trust
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: the sabermetrics, the super nerds, the Ivy League people that
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: use big words so they sound smarter. Those people. And
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: it was now, after all that, 100 years of baseball
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: where you trust your gut, now people are angry because
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Don Mattingly trusted his gut. What's wrong with you, Donnie Baseball?
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: So Durand, the closer, is by all accounts the top
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: pitcher the Phillies have in their bullpen. And they were
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: going against the meat of the Atlanta Braves lineup, and
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: you want to lose with your top guy. Now, you
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: want to win with your top guy, but if you're
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: going to lose, you're like, okay, I've got a top
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: guy out there, and that's that. And the plan did
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: not fail. The execution failed. The plan was effing brilliant.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: By the fight and fills. The plan was effing brilliant.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: The execution fills. So Durant, the closer, he breezed through
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: the seven. You saw the game. He pitched very well
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: in the seven. I think it was like 11 pitches
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: or something like that. But with two outs in the
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: eighth inning, the old bugaboo popped up. This unraveled. Now,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: why did it unravel? Durant blew it because he gave
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: up the home run to Austin Riley. If you're looking
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: at the Philadelphia Phillies, however, There was a play by
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: the Phillies that opened things up and rattled Durant in
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the closer. And that play was made or not made
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: by shortstop Trey Turner, who has been Edward Scissorhands defensively.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: He's been terrible. And he failed to make a play
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: that would have changed the game dramatically. And it was
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: a play that you have to make. It was the
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: infield single. It was a difficult play, but not an
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: impossible play. A big league shortstop should make that play.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: You've got to make that play in the playoffs. He
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: crossed over second base to field the ball and then
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: did not get the runner out at that particular point.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: So nobody gets in the playoffs. You don't get the
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: perfect scenario. It's not a country club. You're asked to
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: go above and beyond the call of duty, which is
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: what supposedly makes it fun. And you don't get your
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: nap time like you're supposed to get and your preferred inning.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: You don't get all those things. You don't save the parachute.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: There's an old line. You don't save the parachute because
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: you're worried you might need it closer to the ground. No, no, no.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: When you fall out of the plane, you know, you
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: wait a couple of seconds or so and then you
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: pull the parachute. You don't wait and say, well, maybe
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: I should get a little closer to the ground to
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: pull the parachute.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: No, no.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: So I don't have a problem with what Mattingly did.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: It obviously backfired and blew up and the Braves won
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: the game and all that. But I like it. I'm
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: fine with it. And so we'll see what happens here
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: as the Phillies now face elimination. Atlanta one win away.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: from a date in La La Land with the Doyers. Now,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: to the late game on the National League card in
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: San Diego. To San Diego we go. NL Wildcard, Cubbies
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: and Padres, America's finest city. It's on the police cards.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: It used to be on the police cards. I don't
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: know if it is anymore. It used to be on
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: the police cards when I was down there. Anyway, the Padres. Boy,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: you talk about a waylay situation. They waylaid the Cubs 8-0. 8-0,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: they served up stakes of bear. You get a stake
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: of bear, you get a stake of bear, you get
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: the cubby bear. 8-0 in game number one of the
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: NL wildcard series. So that means the Padres now, going
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: back to the regular season, are 18-3 over their last
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: 21 games. I'm told that's good. I'm told that's good.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: PED cheat forever, Fernando Tatis. Currently got the good stuff there.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: He had the party starter. He had the party favors
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: there to begin the night as Fernando Tatis Jr. blasting
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the very first pitch he saw. 405 feet. A leadoff
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: ding-dong for Fernando Tatis Jr. Manny Machado, who was stealing
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: money much of this year for the Padres. Machado homered
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: in the first inning as well. San Diego's starting pitcher,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Michael King, The former Yankee flirting with a no-hitter. He
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: allowed one hit over seven scoreless innings with eight strikeouts.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: The no-hit bid was broken up by Nico Horner of
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the Cubbies there. Broke it up in the seventh. Now,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: the story, the better story is on the Chicago side
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: in the losing locker room. The Cubs starting pitcher, Matthew Boyd,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: rode the vomit comet as he got absolutely smashed to smithereens.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: So the question is, What the hell happened to the
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Chicago Cubs? What happened to the Cubbies in the opener
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: of the MLB playoffs? So apparently nobody told the Cubs
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: that the playoffs actually started on Tuesday. They did not
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: get the text message that they needed to be. They
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: thought that was a workout. Oh, we'll show up. Let's
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: kind of go through the motions. OK, that's good. Why not?
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: So they showed up to the ballpark. There they were
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: at Petco Park in downtown San Diego with all the
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: crackheads around the ballpark and the fentanyl addicts right there
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: in downtown San Diego. Go visit San Diego. It's beautiful downtown.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Way to go. So they're down there at Petco like tourists.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: And they accidentally wandered for some reason into a private event.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: And that was the game. They spent nine innings playing possum.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: And unfortunately, nobody explained to Craig Council's baseball team the
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: part where they have to stop playing possum. They didn't
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: stop playing possum. And we got to go back to
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Matthew Boyd, the starting pitcher for the Cubs, who got
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: the ball from Craig Council there, starting a playoff game,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: not his first playoff appearance or anything like that. And
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: it looked, while he was on the mound, like he
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: was working the lunch rush at Potbelly Sandwich Shop. He's
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: serving up sandwiches. You get a meatball sub. You get
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: a meatball sub. You get a meatball sub. Everybody gets
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: a meatball sub. Now, meanwhile, Pete Crow Armstrong. The golden boy, Mr. Chicago,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: was Mr. Whiff-A-Go in this particular game. Three strikeouts. He
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: did have a walk. Whee! Three strikeouts, though, for Mr. MVP.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: You've all given him the MVP there, Pete Crow Armstrong.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: The Cubbies ended up getting not only hoodwinked, they were
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: bamboozled and hornswoggled, and they got all three. And Michael King,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: who was on the mound, he did not pitch against
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: the Cubs. He conducted a nine-inning faith-healing convention. Petco Park
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: was like a baseball tent revival there. They were wild
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: and crazy. Man, it was like the World Series there
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: for the Padre fan. The Padre fans, it was such
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: a crazy scene there. It was like a faith healing
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: convention type thing where you're like, whoa! I think some
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: of the people had... left the ballpark, they were speaking tongue,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: in tongues, by the middle part of that game there.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: They got it done, and Tatis starting things off with
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: a home run, and the 35,000 people got baptized there
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: in San Diego from that home run. And Chicago's offense
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: produced just three hits in a playoff game. They must
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: have used the same hitting strategy the Red Sox used
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: in their game, just three hits there. presumably because San
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Diego eventually got bored late in the game, and so
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: the Cubs got a few garbage time hits and the
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Cubbies cranking up the old ACDC for this game they
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: were thunderstruck absolutely thunderstruck all right final point let's go
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: back I want to go back to the Yankees and
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Red Sox game because there was something said on the
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: broadcast which was so ridiculous I thought I might have
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: not heard it. I thought maybe my mind was playing
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: tricks with me and this conversation did not happen. So
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you were watching the game. It
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: was on NBC. I don't know if you saw the
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: game or not. Maybe you didn't. Maybe you have no
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: idea what I'm talking about. But I'm going to relay
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: what I heard and then I want to talk about it.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: So during the Red Sox-Yankee game, the broadcast had Lou
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Merloni who was there, and Anthony Rizzo, and they had
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Joe Girardi. But this is Lou Merloni, who's a Red
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Sox homer, and then Anthony Rizzo, who played for the
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Yankees a couple years ago and all that. So they
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: were there doing their thing, and it seemed like Rizzo
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: made an excuse for the Red Sox, and then Lou
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Merloni backed up the excuse. So let me explain. So
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: both agreed that the Red Sox were winning too much.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Remember the Red Sox won 27 of 30 games? Remember that?
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: A crazy month of baseball, 27-3 over a 30-game stretch.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: And that led Lou Merloni and Anthony Rizzo, seemingly with
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: a straight face, I don't think I was getting punked,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: they claimed that that much success put a strain on
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: the team mentally and physically. All right, now I'm paraphrasing.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: That's what they said. So here's the question. You've got
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Lou Merloni and Anthony Rizzo claiming the Red Sox. They
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: won too much. They won too much during their 27-3
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: stretch of baseball, and it took a toll on the
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: team mentally and physically. So how are you processing this conversation,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: if at all? All right, so this take, and I'm
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: in the hot take business. This take is so egregious,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: this hot take, that it deserves a whole page of
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: puffy stickers and a whole crate of juice boxes. That
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: is how egregious this is. In the pantheon of meathead
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: former jocks who benefit from the jockocracy to get these
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: great broadcasting jobs... And there have been plenty of them
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: that have done this. This is head and shoulders and
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: a protein shake above the competition. Like, what are we doing?
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Does someone need to call the Mayo Clinic? Boston came
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: down with a severe case of weaning too much. Oh, no!
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: The Red Sox won 27 of 30!
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God!
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Only modern professional sports could diagnose winning as a medical condition.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Way to go, Lou Merloni and Anthony Rizzo. Dum-da-dum-dum-dum! My God.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Imagine being paid. Imagine being paid to say that winning
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: became such a burden. They needed a cleanse, a losing cleanse.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: It's so dumb. It's so dumb. It really is. It's crazy.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: The Red Sox were victims of their own success. And
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: somebody cue the tiny violin there and get the duck
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: boats and all that stuff. My God. Now, that's not analytics.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: That is not analytics. That is something you hear, that
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: kind of conversation from somebody calling an overnight talk radio
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: show at 3.30 in the morning. Kind of like when
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I'm on. That's what you hear. Right? Somebody that spent
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: all night at the bar and got completely sloshed and
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: then says, let me call into Maller and give a
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: terrible take. Okay.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: These guys were actual former athletes. Y'all tell me how
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: important that is to be a former athlete, to give
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: takes like that. Well, that's very important. Way to go. Now,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: back in my day, back in my day, teams handled
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: the burden of winning by trying to continue to win. Oh,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: you're such a boomer.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I know. Yes, the Red Sox need, they didn't need
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: just one loss. They needed like a, not a vacation.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: They needed a slumpcation is what they needed. They needed
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: a slumpcation. Talk about first world problems.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maler
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Pacific. Here we go, here we go, here we go,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: here we go, here we go. To the third degree.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: This is when Big Ben gets grilled.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Koopa Loop. What do we got?
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Not long after the Dolphins fell to 0-3 on the season,
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: it was announced that star running back Devon Achain tore
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: his ACL and will miss the remainder of the season. Ben,
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: what are the chances that you give Miami to go
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: winless on the season?
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so they're trying. The front office is trying to
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: lose every game. At some point, late in the year,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: they play the Chargers, who are already eliminated. They've got
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: the two games with the Jets. So they should win
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: one of those games. I'm going to say the odds
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: of the Dolphins going winless are about 25 percent, which
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: are pretty high. But I still think they'll accidentally win
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: a game.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Next. A report published on Monday listed three NFL head
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: coaches who may be on the hot seat heading into
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: week four. It listed Jim Harbaugh, Matt LaFleur and Todd Bowles.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Could you see any of those guys getting fired midseason?
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I don't think Harbaugh, the charges are too
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: cheap to fire him during the season. I think Todd
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Bowles is the one that will likely get whacked first. Next!
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Drew Aller was asked about his former head coach James
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Franklin's hot start as the new head coach for Virginia Tech.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Aller said he's not surprised because Franklin has a good
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: track record of turning programs around. Ben, are you surprised
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: by Virginia Tech's 4-0 start?
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah! Yes, they haven't been good in years. I was
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: a little young guy the last time they were good,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: the Hokies.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: How do we do?
• 35:35
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• 35:37
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• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Exciting and new.
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  Speaker 5: Queen of hearts She wants to talk to.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: You Lorraine Soon she'll be making your hearts be one.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: Lorraine Almost anyone emphasis on the almost anyone. Welcome to
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: the love show on the Ben Maller show.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Hi, Ben. What do we got? No opening statement. I
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: was thinking about.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: An opening statement because I had some thoughts today.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: You know, congratulations. Thank you.
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: The Super Bowl falls on Valentine's Day. And I just
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: am so excited for all those men who love those
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: like those teams that aren't going to make it.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: So you're going to have all.
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: That time to give your love to your significant other.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: It's so beautiful. And I think it's a great. A
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: testimonial to you women that you're willing to sacrifice Valentine's
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Day for your man to enjoy a nice football game.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: If your guy makes it to the Super Bowl like
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: his team, you better go all in.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Show them you really care. The Super Bowl is a
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: cultural event. It is a holiday in America. It's a phenomena.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Here we go. These are actual questions by actual listeners.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: RPS commentator. says does every girl really uh well this
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: is he mentions hawk tour here lorena i don't know
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  Speaker 1: what that means uh on that thing i love the
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: drop and then he wants to know he wants you
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  Speaker 1: to represent all women lorena to see.
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: I do want to say no not all women hawk tour.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Actually enjoy the hawk tour a lot of women.
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: Don't like it at all they take that job part
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  Speaker 5: of it very seriously like they just not into.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: It I got you. I'm sorry to disappoint you. FergDog
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: writes in and says, who do you think has better game,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Hollering James or Anthony Louisiana? I need to know which
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: one I should copy. That's really hard.
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  Speaker 5: I got to commend Anthony.
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  Speaker 1: He's he's very stubborn.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Where Holler and James, he.
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: Seems more volatile. You know what I'm saying? Like he's
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: going to lose it if you don't call him back. Anthony,
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: he's going to be calm and persistent and just let
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: you know how he feels no matter what.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Hey, cuz. What else do we have here? Where'd you
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: get your good humor from? That's right. How's your daughter doing?
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: RPS also says my girlfriend started a new job out
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: of her comfort zone.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: And thinks she's not doing well while I say that
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: it's nonsense. How could I help?
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: You are already being so supportive. We're so hard on ourselves.
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: So anything that you can do, you know, maybe get
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: her one of those like fake plaques. Like you're the best,
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: you know, you're the best at your job or something.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: I think anytime you start a new job, there's like
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: imposter syndrome. Like you think you don't really belong here.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: I think most people have that, don't they? It's a
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: normal reaction for human beings. I think that was great.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: I remember when I started here, I had imposter syndrome,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: and I still do. Truck Stop Fungus writes and says,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: October 1st is our 40-year anniversary. Which gift would you
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: recommend for the old battle axe? A gift certificate for
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: a backs waxing or a new lawnmower.
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: You know, both do the trimming job, which is quite nice. Oh,
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: that's so great.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: 40 years.
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: You really don't hear that very often. So congratulations.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Good run. Yeah, that's awesome. Must have gotten married young,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: I would think. Peter writes in. This is Peter Parker,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: the Spider-Man. Oh, that's right.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. He's just happier here, Lorraine. Just happier here.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: I'm happy to be here, too. All right. There you go.
• 39:49
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• 40:02
  Speaker 1: All right, let's do it quickly. We've got Daniel in
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Fort Wayne. Hello, Daniel. Welcome. Good morning, Ben. Who do
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: you want to partner up with, Daniel?
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: You.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: All right, we're in it. And Nate is in SoCal.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: And Nate, I believe you're in SoCal. Who do you
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: want to partner up with, Nate? Welcome to Password.
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  Speaker 5: I'm in Glendale in Lorena.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: All right, beautiful Glendale. What up, bro? All right, here
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: we go. No, Glendale, Arizona. Okay, sorry, that's the wrong Glendale. Glendale, California.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: I used to go to the gym in Glendale, California.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: What up, bro?
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: All right, let's play the game Valley of the Sun.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: That's the spring training home of the Dodgers, Lorena, and
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: the White Sox. Right there.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Wow, what a fun match.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: My White Sox, yep. Your White Sox. All right, here
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: we go. List of words, one to ten. Daniel, please
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: pick a number, sir.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: Three.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Number three. All right. Let's go with Stumble. Ball. Good
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: job by you. I can't believe you got that. Ten
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: points there. We're on the board. And you go, sir. Nate,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: pick a number, please.
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  Speaker 3: Four.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: All right. Lorraine, number four.
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: Oh, I like this.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Congratulations. Congratulations. Um, is that your clue? Um. I don't
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: think you like this, Lorena.
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: Chop, chop. This is actually harder than I thought.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, Lord, what have I done?
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: I'm never going to win this. I say the same
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: thing every day, sir. Mountain? That's a horrible guess. I'm
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: so sorry. That was really bad. Nothing? All right, how about... No.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Nate's got nothing. He's upset with you. Daniel, let's go with...
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: I'm going to use the Mallard Maneuver, all right? Here
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: we go. Mallard Maneuver. Bad....
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Bat. Bat?
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: Bat?
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Hiking, sorry. What? Hiking, sorry. What'd you say? Hiking. No,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: go ahead.
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: Okay, let me try my animal into that word.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: I don't remember Batman doing it at all. Are you ready, Nate?
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: Bear?
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Bear?
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: Down.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: I'm a Bears fan and a U of A fan.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: All right. How about... This one's hard. Cavern. How about Cavern?
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: Frill.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: What? Frill. No. We were... I was trying to get
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Bat Cave. Cave. Oh, sorry. You won anyway, Daniel. Short game,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: but you won. There you go. All right. Thank you, Nate.