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Hour 3 - Bridge Boys · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: As the fairy godmother sang, bibbidi-boppidi-boo, it's our number three.
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  Speaker 1: Our three. We start out this hour of the Ben
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  Speaker 1: Maller Show. American League postseason, the final two in the AL.
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  Speaker 1: Who screwed up for Tampa Bay blowing the lead in
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  Speaker 1: game number one? Had an early 2-0 lead. They were
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  Speaker 1: cruising along. In the ALCS, Cleveland came back and bit
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  Speaker 1: them in the tuchus. We'll talk about that. Also, did
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  Speaker 1: Arizona give up on Marvin Harrison Jr., the wide receiver,
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  Speaker 1: too soon? Or was trading him an overdue admission of failure,
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  Speaker 1: the top five pick, who just couldn't play? At least
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  Speaker 1: not for the Cardinals. And what are the odds Marvin
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  Speaker 1: Harrison Jr. has a career renaissance in Houston? We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about that. We also have the always popular Mallard's Mountain
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  Speaker 1: of Money. That and more right now. Here it is.
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  Speaker 2: Our.
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  Speaker 1: Number three. Unable to stop a bridge, a team named
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  Speaker 1: after a bridge. Welcome in the beginning of another hour
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  Speaker 1: Helmet Man all agree with Nostradamus that this show needs
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  Speaker 1: to let you know about Fox and the baseball playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Continue on. There's no time like October. Even Nostradamus agrees.
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  Speaker 1: And Eileen in San Francisco. The NLCS is here, baby.
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  Speaker 1: Streaming live on Fox One. The back-to-back, belly-to-belly World Series
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  Speaker 1: champion Dodgers take on the top-seeded Brewers. Milwaukee up two
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  Speaker 1: games to none so far. Game three shifts back to L.A.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be tomorrow. It's an NLCS rematch. One series. From
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  Speaker 1: the World Series, stream the MLB postseason live on Fox 1.
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  Speaker 1: So the Brewers won their game in the NLCS, the
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  Speaker 1: Monday night game. I see some of you guys on
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  Speaker 1: hold want to yap about that. The Buffalo Bills gave
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  Speaker 1: the games to the Rams. The Rams says, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want the game. The Rams said, I don't need the game.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to take the game. You take the game.
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  Speaker 1: Rams missed a very makeable field goal in overtime. I
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  Speaker 1: say it was blocked, but it was shanked so much,
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  Speaker 1: the kick by the thicker kicker, who can be yours,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, because he'll be fired by the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: He better be out of work by the time I
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  Speaker 1: wake up, or heads are going to roll at the
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  Speaker 1: Ram facility. The thicker kicker. as the Rams now have
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  Speaker 1: a losing record. Buffalo, not very impressive. That's a bad
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  Speaker 1: coach team. A lot of mistakes, mental errors, not a
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  Speaker 1: well-coached football team. The Bills aren't going anywhere. But they
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  Speaker 1: did get the win in that game over the Rams,
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  Speaker 1: so they can feel good for a few hours there.
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  Speaker 1: Our lead this hour from the Sunshine State. We waited
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  Speaker 1: as long as we could until hour three. Game number
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  Speaker 1: one of the ALCS.
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  Speaker 3: Number one.
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  Speaker 1: Better known as the ALCS. Some call it the American
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  Speaker 1: League Championship Series. And if I had told you a
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  Speaker 1: couple years back that Tampa Bay would be playing Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: in the ALCS, you would have said, oh, really? Is
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  Speaker 1: that streaming on TikTok or something like that?
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: It's on Turner. I'm sure the people at Turner are
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  Speaker 1: very excited. Jose Ramirez in the Guardians. You wokesers got
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  Speaker 1: rid of the Cleveland Indians name. That was too offensive,
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  Speaker 1: so you named it. team after a bridge. What about
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  Speaker 1: all the people that have jumped off bridges? You're not
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  Speaker 1: offended by that? Apparently not. Anyway, the Guardian Bridges taking
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  Speaker 1: on the Tampa Bay Rays. They used to be called
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  Speaker 1: the Devil Rays. They had to get rid of the devil.
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  Speaker 1: Two teams that have had different names. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you've watched this or not. Perhaps not. Nathaniel Lowe
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  Speaker 1: snapping an eighth inning tie, stepping up For the Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: baseball team, a two-run ribby single there. Somebody named Chase DeLotter.
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  Speaker 1: And somebody else named Patrick Bailey homered off the great
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  Speaker 1: Drew Rasmussen. And the Guardians came all the way back
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  Speaker 1: and stormed past Tampa Bay. The Rays played very well
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  Speaker 1: early in this game. Unfortunately, they had to play the
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  Speaker 1: whole game, which was problematic. And so Cleveland wins 7-3.
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  Speaker 1: They get the jump. in the American League Championship Series
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  Speaker 1: after losing the first two games at home to the
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  Speaker 1: White Sox in the ALDS, all of a sudden Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: now has risen from the ashes. Looked like the same
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  Speaker 1: old pathetic Cleveland baseball team in the playoffs. They couldn't hit.
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  Speaker 1: And all of a sudden now they've won four straight
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  Speaker 1: playoff games.
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  Speaker 5: Playoffs!
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  Speaker 1: First time since winning their first six games way back
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  Speaker 1: in 2016. Barely remember that. And we know how that ended.
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  Speaker 1: Game 7 of the World Series against the Chicago Cubs.
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  Speaker 1: And Tree and Yefimi and FaZe are all smiling there
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago, reminiscing the 2016 playoffs and how bad it went.
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  Speaker 1: for the then Cleveland Indians. So there's a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss. We're going to focus in
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  Speaker 1: on game number one of the ALCS. The question, who
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  Speaker 1: screwed up? We love the losing locker room, the better
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  Speaker 1: stories in the losing locker room. So who screwed this
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  Speaker 1: up for Tampa Bay? They had the lead. They were
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  Speaker 1: playing very well early in this game, and it all
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  Speaker 1: went sideways there late in the game. So who screwed
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  Speaker 1: up game one of the ALCS? I've got Golden Corral, Plummer, and...
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  Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant, three things that have never been tossed together.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to put them all together and go
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  Speaker 1: kerflooey is what we're going to do. So to lead
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  Speaker 1: off here, the person we're going to point the finger
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  Speaker 1: of blame at is straight cash homie, As in Kevin Cash,
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  Speaker 1: the manager now. So the Rays, they spent approximately six
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  Speaker 1: innings building this beautiful, majestic sandcastle. And then for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Cash said, wait a minute, I got this bulldozer.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see if this bulldozer can take down
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  Speaker 1: your little sandcastle. And here we go. So Drew Rasmussen,
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  Speaker 1: who's the horse, of course, of course, one of the
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  Speaker 1: top pitchers for Tampa Bay this year, and he gave
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  Speaker 1: them not one, not two, not three, not four, not five,
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  Speaker 1: but six clean innings of baseball, had I think it
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  Speaker 1: was like 90 pitches or something along those lines, and
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  Speaker 1: was protecting a narrow lead. The game was not over
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  Speaker 1: by any means. However, Kevin Cash, the manager, said, wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute. He gave me these nice six innings. And
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  Speaker 1: in the seventh inning there, he was like a tourist
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  Speaker 1: at a Golden Corral near Disney World. He was at
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  Speaker 1: the all-you-can-eat buffet. And he said, wait a minute. I've
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  Speaker 1: already got six plates here. I just can't resist. I
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  Speaker 1: got to go back for one more plate and one
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  Speaker 1: more plate and that's it. Now, it's not my job.
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  Speaker 1: It's the manager's job and not your job. It's the
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  Speaker 1: manager's job to have a good feel for the game,
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  Speaker 1: to know when to take a pitcher out, when to
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  Speaker 1: leave a pitcher in, to know the makeup of the pitcher,
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  Speaker 1: the pitcher that can handle it, the pitcher that can't
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  Speaker 1: handle it, all of those things. So he asked, apparently,
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  Speaker 1: Drew Rasmussen, the Rays manager asked Drew Rasmussen, he said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: You feel okay to pitch? You feel good to pitch?
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  Speaker 1: And Rasmussen said, yeah, I feel great. Which is kind
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  Speaker 1: of like when the bar is closing, asking the drunk
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  Speaker 1: guy at the bar, hey, it's closing time. You good
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  Speaker 1: to drive home? Ah, sure, why not? No, you're not, dummy.
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  Speaker 1: Get an Uber. Shame on you. Get a Lyft. So
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  Speaker 1: Cash had a bunch of fresh arms, and baseball teams
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  Speaker 1: love to run through relief pitchers. They can't get enough
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  Speaker 1: of it. And so he had all these arms in
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  Speaker 1: the bullpen. Instead, he went back to the well, and
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  Speaker 1: the bucket came up with bupkis empty for the Tampa
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  Speaker 1: Bay baseball team. Now, meanwhile, to be fair, Tampa's offense,
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, went into the witness protection program
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  Speaker 1: after some early success. For the Tampa Bay Rays there,
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  Speaker 1: they were playing with the lead. They got a couple
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  Speaker 1: runs in the first inning. They're feeling good about themselves.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, all right, here we go. Junior Caminero getting
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  Speaker 1: it done early there. And a Ribby single to center
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  Speaker 1: field to give them a 1-0 lead. And I think
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  Speaker 1: it was Johnny DeLuca also early on, single. So a
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  Speaker 1: couple base hits. Ribby hits there. Gave Tampa the early lead.
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  Speaker 1: And not too much going on after that. And so
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Cash, that's the guy. That's the guy. He lost
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  Speaker 1: his sense of timing. Now, Drew Rasmussen should have been better, too.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to know when to take him out. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't know that in October. That's always been the difference here.
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  Speaker 1: We see this with Dave Roberts all the time, the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: when they don't win, and Aaron Boone with the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that difficult, unless it is. The difference between
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  Speaker 1: celebrating and being the genius and needing Pepto-Bismol is to
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  Speaker 1: know when to take them out and when to leave
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  Speaker 1: them in. That's that. All right, furthermore, we go now
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  Speaker 1: to Houston. Houston, do we have a problem? The Texans
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  Speaker 1: acquired wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. from Arizona. Big trade
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  Speaker 1: that happened in the last couple of days here, trying
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  Speaker 1: to revive the career of Marvin Harrison Jr. And an
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  Speaker 1: offense that has underperformed. Of course, they did get a
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  Speaker 1: nice win over the weekend playing a tomato can. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: the Texans are also a tomato can. So Houston ended
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  Speaker 1: up giving up a second-round pick in 2027. And there's
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  Speaker 1: also a bunch of picks swapped. A six-round pick goes
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  Speaker 1: to Arizona. A second-round pick goes to Arizona. Harrison and
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  Speaker 1: a seventh-round pick. go back to Texas. Now, Harrison managed
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  Speaker 1: five more receptions than you had. Five more receptions than
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  Speaker 1: you had for 85 yards and one touchdown. And that's
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  Speaker 1: through the first four games. Didn't play this past weekend
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  Speaker 1: because he was in the process of being traded. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the question, did Arizona give up on Marvin Harrison too
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  Speaker 1: soon or was trading him an overdue admission of capital
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  Speaker 1: F So it absolutely was overdue. We had talked about
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  Speaker 1: it multiple times, and we really don't like talking about
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals. Because the Cardinals suck. They're bad radio. They
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  Speaker 1: have this guy, Jeremiah Love, who looks amazing, and they
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  Speaker 1: won't give him a ball. Because that's the Cardinals. That's
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinal way. Anyway, we're not talking about that. So
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  Speaker 1: as far as Marvin Harrison Jr., NFL front offices treat
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  Speaker 1: the draft, and the Cardinals are like this. They treat
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  Speaker 1: the draft like a beauty pageant, and he was the
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  Speaker 1: hottest girl at the beauty pageant. He just was. Marvin
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  Speaker 1: Harrison Jr. won Miss Congeniality. He got his crown, congratulations,
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  Speaker 1: and promptly forgot that he actually had to play football.
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  Speaker 1: And so I look at Harrison Jr. until proven otherwise.
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  Speaker 1: And I look at Marvin Harrison Jr. and I say,
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  Speaker 1: this is a guy who plays football because that's the
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  Speaker 1: family business. If Marvin Harrison Sr. had been a plumber,
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  Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison Jr. would have become a plumber. Just the
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  Speaker 1: way it is. If dad was a plumber, he would
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  Speaker 1: have been a plumber. If dad was a football player,
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  Speaker 1: so he's like, all right, I'll be a football player.
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  Speaker 1: And he would have been a plumber, not because he
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  Speaker 1: enjoys fixing clogged toilets. It's just that's the way it is.
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  Speaker 1: And that's it. If Marvin Harrison Sr. had been a gardener,
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  Speaker 1: then that's it. Harrison Jr. would have had a blower
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  Speaker 1: and would have been blowing leaves around somewhere. But having
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  Speaker 1: a famous last name, unfortunately, does not make you a star.
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  Speaker 1: You're not a star. Otherwise, Michael Jordan's kids would have
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  Speaker 1: statues outside NBA arenas and Magic Johnson and all the
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  Speaker 1: legends of... sports pass that's not the case uh so
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  Speaker 1: it's not a charity situation now you are drafted based
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  Speaker 1: on hey you got the name and all that stuff
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  Speaker 1: and that's a big part of it but yet you
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  Speaker 1: have to produce or that's it and the cardinals are
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  Speaker 1: not a great franchise and it's easy to blame the
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  Speaker 1: cardinals and say they're incompetent but i will guarantee you
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  Speaker 1: that every change they made was to facilitate Marvin Harrison Jr.
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  Speaker 1: becoming a good player, and all the different coaches and
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  Speaker 1: all the teammates and everything else, and it didn't work.
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  Speaker 1: It did not work. And so, despite all of the measurables,
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  Speaker 1: all of that stuff, as they say in the French Riviera,
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  Speaker 1: Harrison lacking the je ne sais quoi to be a
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  Speaker 1: big-time receiver with the Cardinals here. And the viral clips,
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  Speaker 1: you can't unwatch the viral clips of Marvin Harrison Jr.
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  Speaker 1: floating and coasting along on plays where he gave up
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  Speaker 1: on the play. The Cardinals, of course, defended him because
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  Speaker 1: it's a crime to point out the obvious on these athletes.
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  Speaker 1: They're so soft today, they can't be criticized by their coaches.
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  Speaker 1: But there's video after video of Marvin Harrison Jr. just lollygagging. Like,
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  Speaker 1: if he wasn't getting the ball, he wasn't going to
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  Speaker 1: do anything. That was that. Now, it was time. It
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  Speaker 1: was time to hit the reset button. Now, moving on.
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  Speaker 1: So last thing here, keeping the focus on the trade
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  Speaker 1: between the Texans and the Cardinals. Last thing. So the question,
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  Speaker 1: what are the odds, the Maller odds, that Marvin Harrison Jr.
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  Speaker 1: has a career renaissance? A career renaissance in Houston. What
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  Speaker 1: are the odds? So the Maller sportsbook odds are at
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  Speaker 1: plus 250. That is about a 30% chance, a little
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  Speaker 1: less than 30% chance. The implied probability is about a
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  Speaker 1: 250 hitter. give or take, like a. 250 hitter in baseball.
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  Speaker 1: So good luck on that. Now Houston is banking on
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  Speaker 1: this Ohio State synergy, that C.J. Stroud, who sucks for
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  Speaker 1: the most part as an NFL quarterback, will team up
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  Speaker 1: with his wide receiver from the Buckeyes, who also sucked,
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  Speaker 1: and they'll be able to dot the I, that they'll
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  Speaker 1: be reunited and it feels so good here. Unfortunately, I
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  Speaker 1: did look at the Texans' schedule earlier, That's my act
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  Speaker 1: of kindness. And I did not see Arkansas State or
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  Speaker 1: Toledo on the Houston Texans schedule, which is unfortunate because
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  Speaker 1: those are some of the teams that C.J. Stroud and
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  Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison Jr. beat up on at the Ohio State University.
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  Speaker 1: And so, again, the Cardinals, I'm going to go back.
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  Speaker 1: They changed coaches. The roster has had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: turnover on it. I think they changed the wallpaper in
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  Speaker 1: the team facility. They brought in some new urinal cakes
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  Speaker 1: in the locker room. The air freshener, different. All of
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. All of that stuff, different. Nothing worked. The
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  Speaker 1: common denominator... Common denominator... Marvin Harrison Jr. So you can
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  Speaker 1: swap out the uniform, the zip code, the playbook, all
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  Speaker 1: of that stuff. You can do all of it, but
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  Speaker 1: you cannot coach passion. You cannot coach passion. Cannot do it.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck holding an intervention. Good luck holding an intervention
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  Speaker 1: for that. We do not think it's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: We're pretty sure it's not going to happen. Now, Kobe
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  Speaker 1: Bryant famously liked to talk about he had the mamba mentality.
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  Speaker 1: The mamba mentality, right? Well, Marvin Harrison Jr., he's got
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  Speaker 1: a different kind of mentality. He's got the koala mentality.
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  Speaker 1: He's got that koala mentality, and he wants to hang
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  Speaker 1: upside down, Marvin Harrison Jr., in a giant eucalyptus tree.
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  Speaker 1: He would like to sleep 18 hours a day. and
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  Speaker 1: occasionally wake up and possibly get a seven-yard slant and
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  Speaker 1: then go back to sleep. And that's pretty much what
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  Speaker 1: he did in Arizona. That's pretty much how that went.
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  Speaker 1: in a little bit. So if you want to play
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Maller's Mountain of Money, call right now. We'll pay off
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: the riddle of the day as well. But Maller's Mountain
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: of Money operators are standing by at 877-99 on Fox.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: If you want to answer the riddle of the day
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: on X, you can do that by saying hello to
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: And at Ben Maller, riddle of the day. Lorena is here,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: FSR Tech Queen. And you can also say hello to
• 19:28
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• 19:32
  Speaker 1: be used against you in the Court of Sports Radio.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: So please, please act accordingly.
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  Speaker 5: The place is evil.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: We did have a fight, a Donnybrook postgame. We'll pay
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: off the riddle here in a second. I just want
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: to mention this. One of the Rams linemen who's not
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: very good got into a dust-up. Is it Alec or
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Alaric Jackson punched Bill's linebacker Bradley Chubb. It was caught
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: on camera. They were on the field fraternizing. You know
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: when everyone plays grab-ass after the game and I was
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: at the Charger game the other day, and there was somebody,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I will not name them, who was irate at one
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: of the practice squad players from the Chargers who was
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: like the last player off the field playing grab ass
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: with the Bronco guys. And he said if Jim Harbaugh
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: saw that, he should release the guy. Was that upset? Anyway,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb got into it with this guy Jackson. They
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: got an altercation. Very emotional. Now, Chubb played it cool.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: He says, they always caught the second guy, so I
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: let him swing, and my teammates held me back, and
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I just kind of chilled and all that. He was
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: asked who he was arguing with, and Chubb responded, it's
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the whole team. He said, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: He refused to identify the attacker, even though it was
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: on video. I'm guessing the NFL will suspend Mr. Jackson
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: for the punch. Time now, though, for the riddle of
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: the day. And here is the Maller riddle of the day.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: You can answer this on X at Ben Maller. So
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: a tortoise became a viral TikTok sensation with over 10,000
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  Speaker 1: followers after blanking around San Francisco.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Let's see. Does anyone know the answer? And go to
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: a page down here. Parallel parking from Donkey Sausage. opened
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: a daycare center. I'd make a lot of money doing
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: that in California. That's King Rory. That's his answer. Influencing
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: from Alf the Alien O'Piner. What else do we have?
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Pooping on the sidewalk next to piles of human poo
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: from Stevie Meatballs in Florida. Moonwalking from JT the Wingman.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Picking up syringes from Eek in Roseville, Minnesota. Boy, really
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: going for it. What else do we have? Eileen, who
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: lives in San Francisco, says shopping.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look at that.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: You can get plants, jewelry, sex, and ice cream. Well,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: that's very nice. What else do we have? Page down.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Wearing tie-dyed socks and a tutu from The Juice. That's
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: his answer. Kev Atomic says selling real estate. He's in Alaska.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Not blind Austin in Bakersfield says scooping up poop from
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: the sidewalk. Skateboard riding from Johnny Q. That's his answer.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Eating a Five Guys cheeseburger from Filler Up Phil. That's
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: his answer. All right, Lorena, do you have an answer?
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: A tortoise has become viral on TikTok, a sensation. Thousands
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: of followers after blanking around San Francisco. Riding a pogo
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: stick around San Francisco. All right, is that right? Riding
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: a pogo stick around San Francisco. That'd be so cool
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: to see, though. Unfortunately not the correct answer. I'm sorry.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: You did not win the correct answer. A tortoise has
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: gone viral for riding public transit around San Francisco. There
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: you go. How about that? Put that in your pipe
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: and smoke it.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Smart.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: An 11-year-old 55-pound tortoise. And has become a social media star.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Sherman the Tortoise has thousands of TikTok followers, which must
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: upset Blair in Maine. 8,000 Instagram followers following the adventures.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Tortoise was seen spotted wandering around there, repeatedly escaped through
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: an open backyard gate. Sherman the tortoise wandering halfway down
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: the street before the neighbors spotted him. And there's even
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: video of the tortoise going on public transit. Bay Area
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Rapid Transit. Bart. And there have been crowds and real reaction.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: People love to take photos with Sherman the tortoise, a
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: celebrity for riding Bart around the Bay Area.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: The tortoise is definitely faster than the hare now.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Hey-oh, hey-oh. Let's say hello to Jason. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: What's going on, Jason?
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Welcome.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: You're on the Ben Maller Show. Thanks for being patient.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: What's up, Jason?
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Holy whole time. My God.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: This is where you complain here. This is the complain part.
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: What a Monday night game, though.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: How about that? Can we crown Josh Allen as Superman?
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Is that possible? Yes.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: I thought it was great. The 12 passes he completed.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Very impressive.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: This man is Superman.
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: Yes, he is. Okay.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Yes, no question.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, this team is going far. Where are they going?
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Are they going to, like, Australia or something like that
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: on a trip?
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Okay, I mean, they're four and one. 450 yards, no turnovers,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: and according to that, they're 35-1. There's only one loss now,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: and that's this game. 35-1 when you get 450 yards,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: no turnovers.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: This is Jason from the Bills PR department here.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Why do you always give the Bills a hard time?
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I just call like I see it. I'm not impressed
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: with the Bills. I don't think they're going anywhere. I
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: think this is a fraudulent team. They're not a well-coached team.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: They had 13 penalties for 112 yards, and the only
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: reason they won the game is because the Rams kicker missed.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: You gave the game away. You're running back, fumbled the ball,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: coughed it up, gave the Rams the game, and then
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: the Rams kicker missed it. That's it. I wouldn't be
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: excited about this. I'd be very concerned if I'm a
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Bills fan. That's three straight crap bag games for the
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. They didn't play well against the Chargers. They
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: lost to the Patriots. And now this game. So I
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: would be very concerned. This team's going the wrong direction.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, Josh Allen put the cape on. That's what happened.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: That's fine. Okay, but he didn't put the cape on.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: He didn't. No, the Rams kicker shanked the kick. They said, blah,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I got blocked. He would have missed it whether it
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: got blocked or not. That's the only reason he won
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: the game. Listen, Josh Allen's fine. He completed 12 passes.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: What do you want me to do, put my pants down?
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: This was the best Monday night game. 37-34 in overtime.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Because you're a Bills fan. Of course you loved it.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: You loved it. You're a Bills fan.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: You can't get enough of it.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: I love this game.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I know you do. You're very excited about this. But
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: you would admit the Bills are not playing well right now.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Three straight games that are substandard. You'd agree with me
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: on that.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Okay, their defense, the defense is bad.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: But all the fumbles against the Chargers.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: It was outscore people.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: All the fumbles against the Chargers. Three fumbles, two interceptions
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: by Superman, Josh Allen against the Chargers. Got beat by
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the Patriots last week, and now the Rams should have
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: lost this game. So that's three bad games in a row.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: We outscore people. Our defense is bad.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Does that work in the playoffs?
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: We're going to find out.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: We already know the answer to that. Bills are frauds.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: They're frauds. I love you, though. I love your optimism.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I'm just raining on your parade. That's all. I'm raining
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: on your parade.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Thank you for taking my call.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Thank you. All right. Go away. Let's say hello to Darren,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: who's in San Antonio. The Bills Mafia is out loud
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: and loaded. Hello. What's going on? Darren, by the way,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I need another contestant. Otherwise, we won't play the game.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: We don't even have to play Mallard's Mountain of Money.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: But if you guys want to play, I need a contestant.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: Otherwise.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: We'll just take all these calls. What's going on, Darren?
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: What's going on?
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Welcome.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: By the way, 877-99 on Fox. Hello, Darren.
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: Hello, Ben. I've been listening.
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: to you off and on since the 90s.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. That's a long time. We're getting old.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: What happened? Why did we get old?
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm 58 years old.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: I can't believe it.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm old either. When did we become old?
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: At what point did we become old? When did that happen?
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Quickly.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: Hey, I think the reason you hate the bill so
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: much is because you're a Dolphins fan or a Jets fan.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: No, no, that's– you're the wrong guy. No, no, that's–
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: we used to work here. It was a– well, Arnie's
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: a Dolphins fan, Arnie Spanier. And then we used to
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: have a guy named Bruce. Well, Bruce Jacobs is like
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: a Jets fan, I think. Was he a Jets fan?
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: This guy's been listening intently over the last 30-something years.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: All these gas bags sound the same, Coop. All these
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: gas bags, they sound the same.
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: I always get a kick out of listening to your show.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: I like you.
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: You're like in the top three of my sports.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, do we want to hear the other people that
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: are in the top three here?
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: No, I don't want to.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: No, just you. Okay, just me. Let me guess, none
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: of the other people work here.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: Oh, they do. Oh, they do?
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: You know, they're on during the daytime.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, daytime people.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Those are different people. Daytime people are different people.
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: You don't think the Bills are going to do very
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: well this year?
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, win a bunch of games in the regular season.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: I just don't think it's sustainable in the playoffs. It
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: depends on Josh Allen and the defense isn't very good.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: They make a lot of mistakes. It's not a well-coached team.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I.
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: I kind of get it, but I think I got
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: a lot of faith in the Bills, and I think
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: maybe this year we do it.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Do you say that every year, though? You're old enough
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: to remember the 90s Bills.
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Marv Levy.
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: Wide right. Never forget that day.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: You know, Marv Levy worked here. Marv Levy, the old
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Bills coach, worked here and is still alive. He's 101.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: 101, yeah.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: I worked with Marv Levy in the early 2000s, and
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: he looked amazingly old at that point, and God bless him,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: he's still going. That's wild. It's been 25 years or so,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: and he's still doing it.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: I hear you. It's great. Where would you rather be, right?
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear you. All right, well, we'll check in here.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Call me in like 10 years or something like that,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I guess.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes. Take care of yourself.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: All right, thank you. You too.
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: There he goes.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Darren, big fans. It's the 90s back when Seinfeld was on,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: back before the interweb. We had Netscape Navigator and all that. Oh,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Dominican Mike. Is that our Dominican Mike or is this
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: a different Dominican Mike? In Ottawa. Hello, Dominican Mike.
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: Welcome.
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: Oh, my God.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: Look at that.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: International man. Wow, that's very interesting. Are you there for
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: business or pleasure?
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: Uh, kind of, uh, both this time, but, uh, I'm
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: here calling from Ottawa, dude. You know, I had to
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: call you up and say hi, of course, and, uh,
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: trying to drive my back to the airport right now,
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: so I'm kind of confused. Anyway, but, uh, hey, Ben, um, um, uh,
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: baseball's going to find itself in a conundrum now when
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: it comes to the, like, who wins the World Series.
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: You know, like, both sides are going to have an argument,
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: regardless of what happens now, of course. Because if the
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: Dodgers come back and win or they lose, it's just
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: going to be each side's going to have.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: An argument, if you know what I mean. Don't you
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: think the players would love to have, like, whoever wins
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: the American League, Tampa Bay or Cleveland, they don't spend money.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: So one of those teams and then the Brewers. And
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: then they can say, what do you want? Why do
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: we need a salary cap? You just had the Brewers
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: and whoever in the World Series. Who cares? They don't
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: spend any money.
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: Exactly. But if the Dodgers win now, the owners can
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: be like, oh, well, you know?
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Well, but the players will say, the players will say, well,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: three of the final four teams were cheap teams. They
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: were tightwad teams.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: So... Yeah, but at the end of the day, it
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: doesn't matter. It's going to be who wins it all.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: But it's such a conundrum. It's going to be... And
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: that's why I might be back here in Ottawa watching
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: the Frontier League games next year. Because Halloween is going
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: to be a feast until July.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Hey, how about this? I think I'm right on this.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: And I haven't heard anything else to talk about. I
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: know that players, when there's a work stoppage, are allowed
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: to play in Japan and Mexico, from what I read.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: So why not, if you ran... the team there, the
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Savannah Bananas. Why not just set up... No, I know
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: it's bad. I don't like it either. But if you
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: were involved in that, why not just have a barnstorming
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: team of Major League All-Stars play the Savannah Bananas?
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: You know, then crybabies would never go for that, of course.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, the players make too much money to do it.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: But I'm saying you could, in a different time, you
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: could do it, right? When the money wasn't outrageous, the
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: guys would want to do it. I bet you there's
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: some guys that would do it anyway just for fun.
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some guys do for fun. But anyway,
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: it's just, it's just, it's just, it's such a conundrum.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: Like I said, it's just, it's real bad. And, you know,
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: I'm a baseball guy, of course. And I'm telling you, like,
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: next year I'm going to be watching the Dunedin Blue Jays. And,
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: you know, they're, they're. Titans from Ottawa playing games because
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: everybody's going to cry about it.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Alright, be well. Safe travels.
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: I'm going to call you from another place far, far away.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Alright.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Well, call me.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Be safe.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: The great Dominican Mike, friend of the show. Met him
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: at the Charleston meet and greet we did in South
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Carolina a few years back. Very nice man. He came
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: via Florida. He lives part of the year in Arizona,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: part in Florida. He flew up to hang out with us.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Welcome in our contestants. What do we got here for
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Mallard's Mountain of Money? We have Slug in Vegas, going
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: to be one of our contestants. Hello, Slug. What's up,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: the king of mashed potatoes? Hello, Slug.
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: What's up? You got the master recipe, right? I do.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: I thank you for that. I have not made it yet,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: but I do have the recipe, so I need to
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: get on that because I did harass you.
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: You know who else just had it the other night?
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Who's that?
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: Kirk Cousins. Oh, really?
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: He came by?
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: That's cool.
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: Unfortunately, no Cabroni that I worked with even recognized him.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Well, he does look like a regular. He looks like
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: a tourist, probably.
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: But you think that the VIP chit that said cousins
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: would give it away, but apparently it didn't.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Not sports people? No. Not a lot of people. All right, well,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: who would you like to partner with? Slug, you got me, Coop,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: or Lorena?
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: I've got to go with the master.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: All right, we're in it. Very good. Lorena, pick one, two,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: or three, Lorena. Number one. All right, you have picked
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Brian in Minneapolis. Hello, Brian. Welcome.
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: Hi, how are you guys doing?
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: What's going on, Brian? Welcome to the show. Good to
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: have you here. What do you do in the Twin Cities,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: real quick?
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: I'm a demolition. I'm the demo guy.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, the demo man. I got you. All right, well,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: who do you want to partner up with?
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: Coop.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Bad choice. Good choice. I love that again.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: That's the winning recipe right there.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: No, it's not.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: That's a loser's recipe.
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  Speaker 4: I've won like the last five weeks in a row.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Slug makes the greatest match.
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: Mallard's Mountain of Money, the Paul Simon edition. He turns
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: 85 years old today.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Happy birthday.
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  Speaker 4: Categories are The Sound of Silence, Bridge Over Troubled Water,
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: The Boxer, and Homeward Bound. Slug, which category would you like?
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: The first one.
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  Speaker 4: The Sound of Silence.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that one.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: Brian, you got the Bridge Over Troubled Water, The Boxer,
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: or Homeward Bound?
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  Speaker 5: The Boxer. All right.
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  Speaker 1: All right, everyone, hold on. We'll have Mallard's Mountain of
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Money in its entirety. We'll get to that, and we
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: will do it next.
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallard
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: Pacific.
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  Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio. As we
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: continue on here, and we have Maller's Mountain of Money
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: coming up in a minute, you can support the Ben
• 35:24
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• 35:26
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• 35:28
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• 35:31
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• 35:33
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• 35:37
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• 35:40
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• 35:46
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• 35:49
  Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. Now, Maller's Mountain of Money.
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  Speaker 4: Lord, that's a lot of money.
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: Probably not.
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  Speaker 1: All right, right to it. Slug, are you ready? This
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: is the Paul Simon edition. You picked the Sound of Silence,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: I believe, yes?
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: I'm with Slug. Coop is with Brian, the demo guy
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: from Minnesota. These athletes let their play do the talking
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: for them. 45 seconds on the clock. We need the
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: first and last name Slug from Vegas. We're on our
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: way and go. Japanese star for the Dodgers who's not
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: playing well now.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead, Tony. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: The star of the Denver Nuggets. He loves horses and
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: won a bunch of MVPs.
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: They called it Jokic.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Yes. All right.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Star, the claw. He was with the Clippers. He got
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: in trouble with the salary.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: Why loser Leonard? Yes.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Greatest wide receiver in Arizona Cardinals history.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Larry Pitcher. Yes.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Fear the Fro with the Pistons back in the early 2000s.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Center for the Detroit Pistons.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: And Wallace.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Yes. Greatest defensive shortstop for the Cleveland Indians. Played with
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: the Seattle Mariners from Venezuela.
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  Speaker 6: Carlos Pizarro.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, geez. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Washington Nationals legend, played with the Angels, second baseman, won
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  Speaker 1: the World Series.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: 160.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: It was Howie Kendrick and Omar Vizquel. Omar Vizquel.
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  Speaker 5: I should have got Vizquel. I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Brian. We've got the boxer. These athletes never
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: hesitate to throw hands.
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: Are you ready? I'm ready.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: 45 seconds. Let's begin.
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: Long time a warrior. He kicks people in the balls.
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: uh uh raymond green yes all right uh this guy's
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: a wide receiver for the giants he just got let
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: go uh he had the one-handed catch odell backham jr
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: yes uh this guy's nickname was the worm he was
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: like the enforcer on the bulls dennis rodman yes uh
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: this guy is on the san diego padres he started
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: his career with the baltimore orioles uh third baseman.
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: I pass.
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: This guy was a wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers,
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: their best wide receiver of all time.
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  Speaker 3: Steve Smith.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: This guy was a cornerback for the Patriots and the Broncos.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: He snatched the chain off Michael Crabtree.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: What was that?
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  Speaker 5: 120.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: 120.
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: You're up again.
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  Speaker 5: All right. Go ahead, Coop.
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  Speaker 1: What do you want?
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: All right, Brian. Do you want bridge over troubled water
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: or homeward bound?
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Homeward Bones.
• 38:22
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: These athletes all return home to play for their hometown team.
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: 45 seconds. Let's begin. The King from Cleveland.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: LeBron James. Yes.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: Beast Mode running back for the Seattle Seahawks.
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: Marshawn Lynch.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: The all-time hit king for the Cincinnati Reds. Pete Rollins.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: The Rocket, pitcher for the Yankees and the Astros. Roger Clemens.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: This guy was the Glide. He played for the Trail
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: Blazers and the Houston Rockets.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Clyde Drexler.
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: This guy was a slugger for the Cleveland Indians. He
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: played for the White Sox also. Big white guy.
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: Jim Comey.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: This guy was a Laker. He has like a female's name.
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: Long hair in the 70s?
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: No chance.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: No. Gail Goodrich, but good job.
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: All right. 360.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go, Slug. Bridge over troubled waters.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: These athletes are all considered great teammates. Are you ready, Slug?
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go, 45 seconds. Greatest quarterback in
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Saints history.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Yes, Big P.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Poppy for the Red Sox. Somebody turn down the radio.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: What else do we have? The star for the San
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs after David Robinson, the center. Big fundamental, Tim Duncan.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: White guy for the Phillies, hits all the home runs.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: He played for the Red Sox and the Cubs, came
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: up with the Cubs.
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: Go next.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Longest tenured Royal of all time, Dominican catcher. No chance.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Guard from UCLA, played for the Celtics, won a championship
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: with the Bucs, I believe as well. In the NBA
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: right now, defensive star guard, no? Oh, that's too bad. Oh, Slug,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: you didn't get Salvador Perez, Drew Holiday, Kyle Schwarber. How
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: do you not get Kyle Schwarber? Kyle Schwarber! Kyle Schwarber!