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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 1: Some Canadian bacon, the marritor is apparently not enjoying that
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  Speaker 1: Canadian bacon. Welcome in the beginning of another night of
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  Speaker 1: ticket as we punch our ticket, well the Blue Jays
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  Speaker 1: alumni member and Toronto resident Canadian Mike who out of
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  Speaker 1: the blue he used to work here. It's actually one
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  Speaker 1: of the few people I like to work here. Canadian Mike,
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  Speaker 1: and he lives in Toronto, and he sent me a
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  Speaker 1: random text message.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, Wow, that's kind of cool. I like that guy.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder what happened to him because he's Canada dry
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  Speaker 1: now hanging out there in Toronto, but he messages me.
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  Speaker 1: And of course our sympathy to Robbie the Mariner fan
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  Speaker 1: crying Craig who's crying right now? You could hear that
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  Speaker 1: sound at the end of the baseball game JJ in Renton,
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  Speaker 1: who assumed the Mariners We're gonna lose. No stre Denis.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember everyone in Seattle. We got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of guys that love the show in Seattle. I
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  Speaker 1: should be. So our lead this hour is from obviously Toronto.
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  Speaker 1: It was the eye in the bullseye of Major League Baseball,
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  Speaker 1: the Final Chapter, Game number seven of the American League
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  Speaker 1: Championship Series the Mariners and the Blue Jays, twenty seven outs,
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  Speaker 1: nine innings, one game winner gets the Dodgers in the
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  Speaker 1: Fall Classic.
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  Speaker 3: It was on Fox.
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  Speaker 1: You had Joe Davis and John Momentum Smaltz on the call.
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  Speaker 1: Although I have noticed these last couple of games. Ever
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  Speaker 1: since I did my Mallor monologue mocking the momentum that
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  Speaker 1: was mentioned every ten minutes on the on the game,
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  Speaker 1: he hasn't mentioned it as much. Although I did hear
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  Speaker 1: it in every broadcast I watched. There were two Monday
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  Speaker 1: night games and I heard it halftime the Buccaneers had
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  Speaker 1: all the momentum because they scored a field goal before halftime.
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  Speaker 1: I heard that. I judge me anyway, So Joe Davis
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  Speaker 1: and John Smoltz had the call. It was on Fox
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  Speaker 1: Sports One. I don't know if you're watching it or not.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps not, but don't worry. I actually I loved I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's game seven.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean. Some of these things I watch, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not gonna lie to you. I hate them.
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  Speaker 1: I get paid to do that. But some of these games,
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  Speaker 1: I watch them like, this sucks, but I kind of
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  Speaker 1: have to watch it. This I enjoyed watching until the end.
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  Speaker 1: When cheating one thousand and two, one thousand, oh, George
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  Speaker 1: Springer hit a go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: And Dinger Springer the dinger.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if there was a bang, bang or a
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  Speaker 1: whistle whistle for the cheating a hole the go ahead
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  Speaker 1: three run home run in the seventh inning to turn
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  Speaker 1: the game around and Toronto advances to the World Series
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  Speaker 1: for the first time since nineteen ninety three. Holy, Holy Canoley,
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  Speaker 1: get the poutine ready, baby, so they rallied to beat
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  Speaker 1: Seattle four to three in the final in Game seven
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  Speaker 1: of the American League Championship Series on Monday night. Vladimir
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  Speaker 1: Guerrero and the Blue Jays will host they have home
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  Speaker 1: field advantage host Shohel Tani and the Dodgers Game one
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  Speaker 1: on Friday night. It's on like Donkey Kong in Toronto
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  Speaker 1: as the Blue Jays representing the World Series in Canada
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  Speaker 1: for the third time. As they they would say, we
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  Speaker 1: would have won a third time in a row, but
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  Speaker 1: there was a baseball work stoppage and all that. But
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  Speaker 1: the early nineties, blue Jays were legit. And that's a
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  Speaker 1: long time ago, and you got to be old to
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  Speaker 1: have remembered the Blue Jays when they were good. And
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  Speaker 1: now they're good again in the World Series. And so
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  Speaker 1: we have plenty of time to discuss as they take
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  Speaker 1: on the Dodgers, who swept the Brewers in the NLCS.
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  Speaker 3: We have all week to talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: The better story, though, is in the losing locker room,
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  Speaker 1: and so that is where we will begin. And the
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  Speaker 1: Mariners gagged away a three to one lead in the
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  Speaker 1: seventh and eighth They fell eight outs away, eight out
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  Speaker 1: short of their first World Series of parents. They did
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  Speaker 1: get home runs from Jay Rod and Calrally. Cal Raley
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  Speaker 1: went yard there.
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  Speaker 3: But the Manors lose. They lose.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Dan Wilson, who is he gonna shave that mustache?
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  Speaker 3: God, I'll shave it for him anyway.
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  Speaker 1: He's the manager of the Mariners, Dan Wilson, And he
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  Speaker 1: was asked, you've just lost the American League pennant in
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  Speaker 1: Game seven. You've choked away a series, losing five five
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  Speaker 1: of the final six games, or four of the final
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  Speaker 1: six games. Good job by you, good math by me.
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  Speaker 1: When the first to lose four of the final five
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  Speaker 1: to lose the series. Anyway, here's Dan Wilson on his
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  Speaker 1: Mariner message, just to.
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  Speaker 4: Hold up their heads and and and you know, to
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  Speaker 4: understand what kind of a season they had. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I know this things and there's no question that it's
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  Speaker 4: going to sting. But the kind of season they had,
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  Speaker 4: you know, doing things that no team in this organization
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  Speaker 4: has ever done. And and you know, knocking on the
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  Speaker 4: door of a world series all that, you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: it's it's due to how hard they've worked, how hard
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  Speaker 4: they've played all season long, all the times they've come back,
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  Speaker 4: all the times they've bounced back.
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  Speaker 3: It's a special team in there.
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  Speaker 4: And it's a shame we had to come out on
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  Speaker 4: the on the wrong side of this one.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a bad quote. Your professional athlete, Your job
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  Speaker 1: is to play hard. I don't give you any credit
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  Speaker 1: for that. I give you no credit. Meanwhile, the money
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  Speaker 1: quote is from the big dumper, cal Raley. Mister dinger.
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  Speaker 1: This was his career year. He'll never play this well
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  Speaker 1: again for a full season. This is it. This is
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  Speaker 1: the high water mark for cal Raley. And they didn't
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  Speaker 1: win the pennant. They lose to Toronto in Game seven,
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  Speaker 1: and cal Raley dropped a truth bomb post game.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I hate to use the word failure, but
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  Speaker 3: it's a failure.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what we expected just to get to a
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  Speaker 2: World series win world series, and that's you know, what
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  Speaker 2: the bar is and the standard is, and you know
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  Speaker 2: that's what we want to hold ourselves accountable to.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's uh, it hurts, all right. So that's
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  Speaker 3: a great jumping off point right there. I like that.
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  Speaker 3: That's the money quote.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question thumbs up or thumbs
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  Speaker 1: down on cal Raley saying the Mariner season was a failure.
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  Speaker 3: So I've got Rodent blue.
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  Speaker 1: Chew and Alfred Hitchcock and we will come find all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together, and we are gonna make a delicious,
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  Speaker 1: wonderful trip to Cancun with all all expenses paid.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be wonderful because that's where the Manners are going.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the Blue Jays are getting made for the World
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  Speaker 1: Series on Friday, the Mariners can go on a nice
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  Speaker 1: tropical vacation. So ay, I love this. I love the
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  Speaker 1: cow Rally quote. I really do thumbs up. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna go not just thumbs up. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna go thumbs all the way up to the mountain
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  Speaker 1: to the moon. All right, big dumper gets it. Good
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  Speaker 1: job by you. I was expecting the standard chow when
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  Speaker 1: a team loses in this type of environment. There was
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  Speaker 1: no puffy sticker being handed out to the to the
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  Speaker 1: Seattle manners.
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  Speaker 3: No awe shucks. They blew it. That's where it is.
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  Speaker 3: We're all grown ups here. They blew it.
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  Speaker 1: If it looks like a rodent, and it smells like
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  Speaker 1: a rodent, it's a rodent.
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  Speaker 3: And that's it.
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  Speaker 1: They were up to two in the American League Championship Series.
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  Speaker 1: They had won both games, both games in Toronto. They
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  Speaker 1: had three games at home. Boom boom, boom.
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  Speaker 3: And theyft it up.
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  Speaker 1: They screwed it up, and they had one hand already
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  Speaker 1: on the World Series ticket and they dropped it. They
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  Speaker 1: dropped it, and they screwed it up. And that's the gag.
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  Speaker 1: They choked. It's called what it is. The Seattle Mariners
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  Speaker 1: choked in the American League Championship Series. From Game three
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  Speaker 1: through the rest of the series, the Seattle baseball team
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  Speaker 1: was outscored thirty three to seventeen they were almost doubled
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  Speaker 1: up by Toronto, the pratt fall for the ages for
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  Speaker 1: the Seattle marin they didn't just lose by a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Once they stopped playing, that was it. They're not the
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  Speaker 1: last the party over, losing their gusto and losing with
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  Speaker 1: some rasmatas when you think about it. And then they
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  Speaker 1: still had eight outs to go in game seven, eight out,
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  Speaker 1: so right, eight out, so you win the pennant, you
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  Speaker 1: get the champagne, and the blue Jays zapped their lumber.
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  Speaker 1: And the person who's not a household name, so it's
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  Speaker 1: likely a name that only a few of us will remember.
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  Speaker 1: But the one that has to wear this for effing
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  Speaker 1: it up as Edward Bizardo, Eduardo Bizardo, who was just bad,
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  Speaker 1: who apparently was good. I don't I didn't watch him
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  Speaker 1: pitch much of a leaf pitcher for the Mariners, but
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  Speaker 1: on this night he earns those novelty you know, the
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  Speaker 1: plastic aircraft wings when you fly the vomit comet, and
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  Speaker 1: he gets those. So congratulations to Bizardo, who screwed things up.
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  Speaker 1: He gave up the home run to the cheater. He
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  Speaker 1: sucked at a time you cannot suck and cal Rawley
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  Speaker 1: is right again.
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  Speaker 3: This is just put the ball on this. It is
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  Speaker 3: a failure.
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  Speaker 1: And we appreciate that he did not immediately run to
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  Speaker 1: the gram and write some proud of you boy, some
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  Speaker 1: kind of that bull crap post a bunch of crying
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  Speaker 1: emojis or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe he did. I didn't see it.
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  Speaker 1: So he stood up and he said it. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't change the fact the Manners choked. But at
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  Speaker 1: least you had the guts to say put what really
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  Speaker 1: happened out there and not try to spin it. It
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  Speaker 1: was a failure. Boom done, and that's accountability. Good job
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  Speaker 1: by you, cal Raley. It had an amazing year and
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  Speaker 1: you lived up to the big contract you got.
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  Speaker 3: Good job by you.
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  Speaker 1: The bar is not the American League Championship Series participation banner.
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  Speaker 1: It's the World Series, and the Mariners continue to be
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  Speaker 1: the only team that has not made the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: Every other member of the cartel has made the World Series. Now,
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  Speaker 1: in the next five to ten years, probably the next
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  Speaker 1: five years, they're going to add an expansion team or two,
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  Speaker 1: so it'll be two other teams that haven't made the
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  Speaker 1: World Series, and then those two teams will make the
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  Speaker 1: World Series, and the Mariner still will not have made
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  Speaker 1: the World Series, and it'll be even more embarrassing. But that's
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  Speaker 1: the way we are. So the weight continues as they
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  Speaker 1: are penantless in Seattle. Meanwhile in the winners locker room,
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  Speaker 1: not as good, not as good as story. The question,
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  Speaker 1: what is the lesson from Vladimir Guerrero winning American League
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  Speaker 1: Championship Series ENVP honors for Toronto?
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  Speaker 3: What's the lesson here?
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  Speaker 1: So this is classic baseball in October playoff baseball. We
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  Speaker 1: were talking about this series in real time and after
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  Speaker 1: two games of the ass what was the talking point. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Vladimir Guerrero has had seven at bats, he's zero for seven.
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  Speaker 1: We had the stats against the Yankees. He hit the
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  Speaker 1: crap out of the ball against everyone else in after
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  Speaker 1: two games he was batting one hundred or something like that,
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  Speaker 1: one o three against everyone else in the playoffs other
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  Speaker 1: than the Yankees. Vlattie was a battie and not a
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  Speaker 1: good way, not a good way. And then you know
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  Speaker 1: the hot take machine, which I'm part of the industrial
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  Speaker 1: complex of the hot take in a small part of it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't work day shift. If I day shift, i'd
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  Speaker 1: be a big part of it. I work overnights, so
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  Speaker 1: this is where the real hot takes are developed.
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  Speaker 3: In the kitchen. We cook him up hot and we
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  Speaker 3: piping hot right out of them.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, so revving up the hot take machine, it was spicy,
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  Speaker 1: so everyone was ready to stick the fraud label on
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  Speaker 1: the back of Vladimir Guerrero and then boom goes to
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  Speaker 1: dynamite or in this case wrecket Ralph or Reckitt Vlattie
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  Speaker 1: as he went turbo time, which is a reminder. Now
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  Speaker 1: we have a daily talk show to do a nightly
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  Speaker 1: talk show, so it is a reminder though it's not
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  Speaker 1: how you start, it is how you finish. And this
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  Speaker 1: was a turbotastic ending for Vladimir Guerrero. The blue Chee
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  Speaker 1: or the blue jay chew fixed whatever issue he may
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  Speaker 1: or may not out of had here doing the mal
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  Speaker 1: or math. Vladimir Guerrero Junior batted the final five games
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  Speaker 1: of the ALCS.
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  Speaker 3: Batted five.
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  Speaker 1: That's Beer league softball for Vladimir Guerrero with three home runs,
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  Speaker 1: scored six runs, had three runs batted in. And that's
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  Speaker 1: why you pay stars. You pay them to perform like that.
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  Speaker 1: Not all of them do, many of them do not
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  Speaker 1: perform at that level. And Guerrero did not need to
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  Speaker 1: be perfect. He was not perfect at the beginning, obviously sucked.
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  Speaker 1: He just needed to be there when it mattered. And
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  Speaker 1: that's the other lesson from all this. And I've known
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  Speaker 1: this for many, many years, but it's it's amnesia. It's
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  Speaker 1: October amnesia that happens every year. It's like, I'll give
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  Speaker 1: you a shoel. Tani was trash in the playoffs with
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. Everyone right now is licking every crevice of
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  Speaker 1: his body because of the game he had in the
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  Speaker 1: closeout game against the Brewers. But he was terrible for
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  Speaker 1: the postseason up until that game. But that's what people
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  Speaker 1: are gonna remember. They're gonna remember all Toddy was sucked
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  Speaker 1: before that. They're gonna remember, Oh my god, did you.
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  Speaker 3: See the game? He had the greatest game of all time.
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  Speaker 1: He got my pants down that they're so excited about,
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  Speaker 1: so they'll forget the other stuff. And Guerrero's a great example.
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  Speaker 1: He was terrible for the first two games, but October
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  Speaker 1: amnesia kicks in and he was there at the end.
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  Speaker 1: He delivered for games three, four, five, six, and seven.
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  Speaker 1: Onthough it was one for four in this game in
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  Speaker 1: game seven, but he didn't melt under the bright lights
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  Speaker 1: of October there, and so I guess he just needed
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  Speaker 1: a couple of games to heat up the old engine.
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  Speaker 1: Now the last word, big picture. All right, big picture.
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  Speaker 1: We now have the match up, the matchup a set.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a team representing an entire entire country because
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  Speaker 1: baseball let the Expos leave Montreal, so we've got Toronto
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  Speaker 1: and La.
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  Speaker 3: What letter grade?
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  Speaker 1: What letter grade do you put on the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five World Series matchup? First glance Dodgers and Blue Jays,
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  Speaker 1: So first glance on the Malard report card, I give
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  Speaker 1: it a B.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna give it a B. It's not an A.
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  Speaker 3: I can't give it an A. It's a B.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a B minus. World Series. It's a bee.
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  Speaker 1: It is a matchup that has some juice. And I
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  Speaker 1: was thinking about it as I was making the long
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  Speaker 1: trip in here to the hallowed hallways of Fox Sports Radio,
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  Speaker 1: where legends have worked.
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  Speaker 3: Here in the old Steve Harvey studio.
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  Speaker 1: We're in now where he did his show and then
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  Speaker 1: crossed the way there. The other studio we're in is
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  Speaker 1: the where Limbad did his show when he was in
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  Speaker 1: La like Legends of Radio. So I come in here
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  Speaker 1: and the storylines are bubbling up for the Fall Classic.
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  Speaker 3: They are what are they?
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  Speaker 1: You've got some stars, You've got a villain, you've got history,
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  Speaker 1: all of that stuff mixed together. You've got Otani, the
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  Speaker 1: biggest global star in baseball, who's representing Japan, right, biggest
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  Speaker 1: thing in the world there for Japanese baseball fans. And
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  Speaker 1: you got him playing in his second World Series. And oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, even though the Dodgers one last year,
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  Speaker 1: O Tani, you're not supposed to say this part wasn't
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  Speaker 1: very good.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I said it. Oh my god, I said it.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I'm on Overnight. I said it.
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  Speaker 1: I said it the daytime. Guys would lick his toes.
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  Speaker 1: He sucked in the World Series last year. There, I
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  Speaker 1: said it. Okay, anyway, so he's got a chance at redemption,
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  Speaker 1: all right. And we also have that other story, the
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  Speaker 1: catfish story. We all got catfished when Otani was a
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  Speaker 1: free agent.
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  Speaker 3: You remember this.
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking about this when I was coming in here.
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  Speaker 1: I was like Otani when he was a free agent
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  Speaker 1: and nobody knew.
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  Speaker 3: Where it was. Gonna go.
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  Speaker 1: And there was that infamous private jet story. Do you
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  Speaker 1: remember this Otani to Toronto John Morosi MLB insider tracking
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  Speaker 1: the tail number essentially of Otani's private plane leaving the
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  Speaker 1: airport in southern California like it was Air Force one
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: heading to Toronto and everyone, We're all excited and turned out. No,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: that was almost as good as Arson Judge going to
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: the Giants. That was a John Hayman f up by him.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: So now it comes full circle. Now it is full circle.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: We know obviously with Tany's with the Dodgers and all
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: that he didn't go to Toronto, and now he is
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: standing between Toronto and a World Series trophy, and that
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: is an interesting wrinkle to this World Series. Then you've
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: got Vladdy Guerrero Junior, who has turned into the Oracle
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: of October as Vladdie is your daddy, hitting four forty
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: even those two zero for seven, the two games, oh,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: hitting four to forty, He's leading baseball.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: In every key number.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Is the daddy. Yeah, he is carying Toronto. This is
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: like David Ortiz type stuff when he was with the
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Red Sox back in the day. I guess Vlatty's gonna
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: end up on Fox eventually doing baseball coverage on TV.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: So uh, there's no such thing as momentum. But he's
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: on a heater, that's what the kids say. He's a cartoon.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Crooked numbers there for Vladimir Guerrero Junior, number twenty seven
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: in your program, but number one in your heart for
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the Blue Jays. And let's not forget the real thing
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: about this world series that stands out like a sore thumb,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: the villain. Now, they might think the Dodgers are the
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: villains because they spend all the money, they've got all
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: the good players. No, that would be wrong. The villain
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: a cheating, a strout. Oh yeah, George EFN Springer forever
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: an a hole, forever, a cheater. He's been branded a
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: dirty dog. He's a dirty dog, George Springer, And every
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Dodger fan in Chavez Ravine when the series gets to
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: La will serenade him. Right they still remember I was
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: getting text from people that were sending me messages from
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: the twenty seventeen period of time. There that wretched world series.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Bine bining a whistle whistle? How about how about this?
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Check him for the buzzer? How do we know he wasn't.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Wearing a buzzer.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Every time Springer walks up to the plate, he's going
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: to get the Alfred Hitchcock treatment.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: You know what that is.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: That's going to be the birds, the boo birds is
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: what he's going to get there. And a reminder for
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: those of you that are a little slow and dumb.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: George Springer, Jose al Boove, and Alex Bregman, the three
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: headless horsemen of the Apocalypse of baseball, the greatest single
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: scandal in the history of North American sport.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: They got away with it.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: The whole dirt bag crew, all of them, and Rob Manford,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: who should have dropped the hammer on them instead he
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: did nothing because he's locking balls. He doesn't have any balls.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Otherwise he would have punished him. But they all should
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: have been banned for life. George Springer should have been
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: banned for baseball for life. That home run that happened
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: in Game seven of the alc has should not have
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: been allowed to happen because he would have had no
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: even selling insurance or doing something to get a real job.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: But because the commissioner's got no spot. George Springer, altub pregnant,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: all those other cheats are allowed in baseball, and it
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: makes me want to vomit.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: I want a puke. And so now some justice.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: As he goes into Dodger Stadium would be saring and
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: anything gonna lose the World Series, the Dodgers of winning
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: the World Series, and so that's great, and they'll boom
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: and they'll serenade him. It's delicious. He's the bad guy,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: so that's good. And but so it gets a B
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: because I mean it's Toronto. I can't go higher than
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: a bee with Toronto.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: I can't do that. But it's got star power.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: It's got that's we mentioned got the villain, You've got
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the redemption arc with Otani after sucking in the World
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Series last year. So there's a full plate of drama.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: And O'tian's obviously the biggest star. But Vladi's gone nuclear
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: here of late for the Blue Jays year. And you
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: got the rich kid Dodgers. See this is tough. Like
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: if you hate the Dodgers, but you're like love America,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: are you gonna like pull for Toronto? This is there,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: that's Canadas team.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: What do you do?
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: It's Holly Wood versus Hockey Town. Boo Springer, You've got
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: will Vladdie Rag versus that Dodger starting pitching your tany
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: mania all that stuff.
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• 24:27
  Speaker 1: and I know some of you guys are on holds
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  Speaker 1: to want to talk about the Blue Jays and the
• 24:30
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• 24:33
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. One of those two teams will be
• 24:35
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• 24:39
  Speaker 1: the NFL. We'll start with the late Monday night football game.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: And it was late late start. The second half of
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: the Monday Night Football was like a coke current.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: It was.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: It wasn't a standalone doubleheader because they the games did
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: go side by side late in the early game where
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: the Buccaneers and Lions played Detroit, winning that game. So
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: the second half you had the scuffling CJ.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Stroud. C J.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Stroud and the Texans their stage coach rolled into Seattle,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest. They're a playdate with Sam Darnold and
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks. This is the B side game. Now,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: you know this is the less important Monday night game.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Now what is the tell that the Seattle Seahawks Houston
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Texan game was less valuable to the NFL? You know
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: this When you see Dan Orlofsky in the broadcast booth,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: that is a dead giveaway. He's doing the crap game.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: The good game is where Joe Buck and Aikman go.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: The bad game. They send to Orlofsky, So mister Owen
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: sixteen from the Lions was out there broadcasting the game
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: with two other jabebronis Now.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you watched it or not. We
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: had it on here into the late night hours.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Ended actually not that long before we cracked the microphones
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: here at Fox Sports Radio and Jackson Smith and Jigba
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: getting it done yet again, having the breakout domination situation.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: He was good last year, he's better this year.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: So far, NFL leading fifth one hundred plus yard receiving game,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: giving every fantasy football owner a bit of a chubby,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: very excited about that, as the Seahawks beat the Texans
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: twenty seven to nineteen in a game that was not
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: that close on Monday night football in total now, Smith
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: and Jigba, he caught eight passes in this game for
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: ae undred twenty three yards. But the better story is
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: in the losing locker room and oh my god, what
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: has happened to mister Irrigation's Houston Texans and their offense
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: or lack thereof? And the story here is always about
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: the quarterback, because y'all told me a couple of years
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: ago that you'd found your forever quarterback. You told me that,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, they got so lucky. How did they
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: find this guy? Well, my god, how you feeling right now?
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Everything good? No? Okay, so that is a good jumping
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question how are things
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: looking for the Texans quarterback?
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: See Jay Stroud at this point.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: So I've got fishtail, bubble, and schnazola, and we will
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are gonna
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: make the baba gnoosh. We're gonna make the baba ganoosh.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: All right, So, first of all, I don't want to
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: hear the he's young. I don't want to hear that.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: So if you're planning on sending me a message on
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: social media's young, give him a break, or calling up
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: and telling me.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Well, they had the offensive line, they got some.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Issues on that, or the injuries, or the seattles is
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: so good with their defense.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: I don't want to hear it. Okay, I want to
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: hear it now.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: I did a monologue before the NFL season started, and
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I got a lot of crap for it because people
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: in Houston are mostly whims and they got very offended
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: that I dared point out that this was a player
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: that was not going the right his career was not
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: going the right direction. They had bad year last year,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Cjstraft and I mentioned something along the lines I'm paraphrasing
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: here that it was a crossroad situation for CJS draft,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: and when you're in the industrial complex of the hot take,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: you've got to take the fire, right. I mean, there's
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: a lot of low information fans, a lot of morons
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: that are fun boys, and they don't understand reality, right.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: It's one of the cool advantages you have when you
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: don't approach things that way, and so dumb people are like,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: oh my god, what are you talking about CJ.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Stroud, He's so great? Oh my god. Yeah, I'm not
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: getting as many of those messages right now. I wonder why.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: I wonder why.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Right boooooo. He had drafted the guy to be the dude,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: to be the mayor. That's where you drafted him. And
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: he looked good early on in his NFL career. They
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: thought they had found their unicorn. Right now, they found
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: a donkey with a fake horn on its nose. That's
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: it right there, boom, all right, and supposed to be
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: the guy who lifts the tide, lifts all boats.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: The great quarterback lifts all players.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Around him, and he was gonna lift this franchise out
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: of mediocrity, the Texans, and not the guy that is
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: like the aux in the ditch, right stuck in the mud. Now,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: if this was a fishtail, let's just assume CJ. Stroud's
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: career was a fishtail. If CJ was a fish, he
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: would be a flounder, a flounder, just flat lifeless down
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: there at the bottom. C J. Stroud in this game,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: twenty three of forty nine, two hundred and twenty nine yards,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: he averaged a puke in your mouth four point seven
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: yards per pass attempt. He had an interception, He had
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: a touchdown, but the touchdown came in garbage time with
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: a couple of minutes to go in the game. He
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: was sacked three times, constantly running around, had no idea
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: how to deal with a pass rush. You'd think he'd
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: learned that by the time he got to the NFL
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: and was just generally the word is blah. He was blam.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: That's the word. That is not the stuff of a
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: franchise quarterback. And this is a major issue. And if
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: this doesn't get better, the Texans are going to have
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: to go to the market and get a quarterback. He's
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: been that bad this year if you look at his
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: full body work, where the texts gonna be like, listen,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: this is back to back bad years and this is
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: no third year jump or anything like that.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: This is who this guy is at this point, and
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: so what are we gonna do?
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: What are we gonna do so something don't look like
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: your franchise quarterback, looks like just your standard garden variety
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: game manager. Just blah, that's his stuff. And the first
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: five drive you talk about going on the road, trying
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: to set a tone, set an example, first five drives, punt, punt, punt, punt, punt,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Houston had fifteen third down places. There were two of
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: fifteen on third down. Houston also got a defensive touchdown.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: And CJ's draft was pressured from the Seattle pass rush
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: throughout the entire night. He was unable to adjust. The
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: soft underbelly was exposed. Yet again, this is not new.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: It's just a reminder. This is who the ballplayer is,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: right And so Seattle, you got a good defense. It's
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: not an all time great defense. They have a good
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: defense to the Seahawks. And I know that no. Studinis
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: was shaking his head yes, And so they were able
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: to put some pressure on CJ. Stroud and he never adjusted,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: which I think is the job description, that you have
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: to adjust, that you're not gonna have everything's gonna go
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: great for you. They're not going to keep giving you
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: clean pockets and training wheels and just short passes, and
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: at some point you're gonna have to open things up.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: That's life in the NFL. And as for the Nico
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Collins injury and all the other various excuses, c J.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Stroud sucked before Nico Collins left the game, and that's
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: life in the league, Cupcake, that's how it goes. And
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: so you make it work, you find a way. The
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: elite guys they rise above it. And he looks like
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: a guy. He really looked like this for a while.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: That's just kind of along for the rice. He's not
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: a bus driver, he's a bus rider. He's like in
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: the back of Roberto's bus. He's just kind of in
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: the back there. And so it was a gloomy night.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: The Texans are two and four. You are what your
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: record says you are, and they are not good. Now.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: Meanwhile, in the winning locker.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Room the Seattle Seahawks who win this game twenty seven
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: to nineteen.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Again the late touchdown by c. J. Stroud, But it's
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: one of these things.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Where the Texans, the way they played and as good
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: as Seattle's defense played, should have been a bigger final
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: margin than it was. And so while they were in
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: control a lot. But how about Sam Darnell. Let's address
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Sam Donald here and his performance. And he played by
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: most accounts, he played okay, you know, he didn't one
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: touchdown pass, he had an interception. He also totally eft
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: it up and fumbled and gave Houston a touchdown. I
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: don't know what the hell that was what he was
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: trying to do on that, but it was a disaster.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: So he have that up and the Texans scored a
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: touchdown when Donald was sacked and it was in the
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: end zone that was covered by Will Anderson in the
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: end zone that was in the third quarter for one
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: of the Houston touchdowns, the offense getting that one late touchdown.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: But as far as Sam Donald's overall body work, he
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: was seventeen and thirty one. He completed less than fifty
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: five percent of his passes and averaged a little less
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: than seven yards per pass attempt in Seattle does win
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: the football game. So they've got that. But do you
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: trust Sam Donald as a Seahawk that he's among the
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: better quarterbacks in the NFL if you go by just
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: the raw stats. So if you go by the stats,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: you'd say, yes, you trust Sam Darnald. I don't just
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: go by the numbers. I go by the eyeball test.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: And it's also a full body of work. And I
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: look at this like bubbles, and he's the bubble boy,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: and he's not in the bubble of trust. I don't
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: have Sam Donald in there. I don't trust him. The
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Seahawks are five and two now, they've got a really
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: good record, and they're trending towards a playoff idea or
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: a playoff season. Rather they playoff season here for Seattle,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: so they're looking like a playoff team. And just like
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: in Minnesota, you know, he's better in Minnesota than he
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: wasn't Seattle.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: But just like that, I do not believe.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: I do not believe that we get to a late
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: season game or a wild card game for Seattle because
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: the Rams will win that division. That you're gonna trust
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Sam Donald to get her done in a big spot.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: His reputation precedes him. Final thought, we move away from
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: the Monday night game. We go now to Philadelphia where
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: the Eagles are having problems.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: And how do I know that they won? They beat Minnesota?
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: How do I know they're having problems because defensive end
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Brandon Graham. Yes, that brand, He's been around forever, but
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: he went around this year, has decided to come out
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: of retirement and is finalizing a deal. Of reports that
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: the deal is about done here and announcement will come
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: down sometime later here on Tuesday, as we're doing this
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: in real time in the overnight, and Graham will join
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: rejoin the Philadelphia football team. So the longest tenured player
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: in Eagles history is going to come back for his
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: sixteenth season. Question, bringing Brandon Graham, defensive end back Brandon
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Graham out of retirement, is this a smart move or
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: a desperation move for the Eagles. So this is a
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: phone of friend move, is what I wrote down on
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: my scorecard, A phone of friend move for the Eagles,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: because if you check your schnazola, it certainly smells like desperation.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Like this is some carefully late out a roster plan
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  Speaker 1: unless it isn't. This is obviously on the panic side,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: the arrows pointing at panic. Now, if you know the
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: story of the Backstore, in this Zadarius Smith decided he
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: wanted to quit the NFL during the season. He walked away.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: He said, I can't handle this anymore. I'm done, and
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: he quit, pulled the Andrew luck and left the NFL
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  Speaker 1: mid season to retirement, and took with him a player that,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: even though he didn't have great stats compared to the
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: other stiffs that the Eagles have on that position, was productive.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: And so Brandon Graham was supposed to be sitting on
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: the beach somewhere and sipping a nice pink lemonade, maybe
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: a hard pink lemonade, not lining up for third and
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: eight before Halloween.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: But here we are, and Brandon Graham is back, and
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: this is a deadyboy.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Things are not going well in Philadelphia. Despite the win
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: over the Minnesota Vikings, things are not going well in
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia and the Birds this is you know what this is.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: They broke up with their new girlfriend and they then
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: sent a late night text to their ex.
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  Speaker 3: And this is like when the X you know, it doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: Really move out, but kind of moves out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like they leave some stuff behind,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: like there's a you know, some shirts and some other
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: like toothbrush and some other crap they leave by, so
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: just kind of marking their territory.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: So Brandon Graham like marked his territory.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: And the Eagles are like, at let's call this guy, Hey,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: who are you gonna call you?
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: Would you like to play for the Eagles? You already
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: played for the Eagles?
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: And sure enough, boom, they started making calls, Hey, we
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: need some help, you want to play? And he was
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: on their call list and he answered the phone, he
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: answered the text, he wrote back, and now they're they're
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: back on the couch three weeks later saying hey, hey,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: I missed you.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: Hey, come on back, we missed you.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: You know. At this point, Graham is like an emotional
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: support animal for the Philadelphi Eagles, and some people are
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: upset because this ruins the fairy tale. The fairy tale
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: is athlete plays a long career athlete wins Super Bowl.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Fade to black well, Brandon Graham, who has been part
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: of the glory days of the Philadelphia Eagles. They've never
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: had a period of sustained success like they've had the
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: last ten years or so in Philadelphia, going back to
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: the Nick Foles playoff run and all that. So Brandon
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Graham was part of all that. He won another super Bowl,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: he walked away, and now because of a injury, he
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: is back.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: And there you go.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: He's the connective tissue to the past decade, the glory
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: days of the Philadelphia Eagles. There and not the guy
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: who's going to get your double digit sacks. That's not happening.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: He's just a warm blanket and you need a blankey.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: He's a nostalgia blanket, Brandon Graham, and so good luck
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: on that. And Philly's playing like they're playing it up
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: some of the stories I've seen. That's like a storybook reunion.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: They never intended for this to happen. They never did.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: It's not one last midnight rodeo in Green, All Green,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Kelly Green. It's not that at all. You can cue
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: the orchestra and the nice sappy music if you want,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: but in reality, this is a thirty seven year old
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: defensive end who had decided he didn't want to play football.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: He didn't have it in him. His body couldn't hold
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: up and all that stuff. And now despite the bald tires,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: the dense, the cracks, the rust, all that stuff, he's
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: back for the Philadelphia. So again, there's a theme to
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: this NFL season where the teams that were supposed to
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: be good the teams that were supposed to be really
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: really good at this point, Eh, Okay, the Chiefs are
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: coming around, but are they really coming around? You can't
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: get too excited about the win over the the Raiders.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Now, the Lions win was good. That was at home.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: They played well in that game.
• 39:50
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• 39:53
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• 39:56
  Speaker 1: There we go, There we got, there we go.
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  Speaker 3: That's grill google.
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: The Bears have won four games in a row, and
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: yet they still open as six and a half point
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: underdogs against the one in five Ravens in Week eight.
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: Ben in Chicago being disrespected by the odds makers.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: Well, no, they're not being disrespecting.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: It's not guaranteed Lamar Jackson's going to play, and if
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: he plays, like, how.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: Is he going to do?
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: And all I mean, they're really the gambling line is
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: just based on what public perception is but yeah, if
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: you look at that, it does look like that is
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: a gigantic screw up by the odds makers, which tells
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: you the Ravens will likely win by two touchdowns next.
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: There are a lot of bad teams in the NFL
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: this season, many of which we talked about during yesterday show. Yeah, Ben,
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: which teams fan base should feel the most hopeless?
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go the Jets like the Browns.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: It's easy to say the Browns the Jets like because
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: the Browns fans kind of accept it. They suck like
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: the Jets fans every year think, Oh, this new coach
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: is gonna be great. This quarterback like, that's just like
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: a New Yorker thing. They just like every year, the
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: same crap. It's amazing. Sami, go the Jets because they
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: thought Aaron Glenn was a good coach. They thought Justin
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Fields would figure things out. They both suck. Next, so
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: the Eagles got back into the win. Call him on Sunday,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Ye did it with an aerial attack? Do you think
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Philly fans can breathe a sigh of relief?
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: No?
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: No, because it was that game was decided mostly because
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: of the incompetence of Carson Wentz. They the Vikings got
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: to the red zone six times, and they screwed it
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: up a bunch of those times, So I'm not comfortable yet.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: It was it was a needed win, but I'm not
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: quite there yet for the how did we do you pass?
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: That is a win? Put it on the ball.
• 41:41
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• 41:59
  Speaker 2: what it takes to get to the top? Probably? Not?
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: All right, here we go.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Time now four of the game. I've been told by
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Coop no small talk. So we'll have Mike in Boston. Hello, Mike, Welcome,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Hello Ben, No small talk? Who do you want to
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: partner with?
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: Mike? I'll take cool all right, and no, boy Pa,
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: I'm backfired. Poppy in San Diego. Hello Poppy.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Hey, I'm gonna have to go with my master that matter.
• 42:33
  Speaker 6: We're gonna win, Okay, go ahead, all right, gentlemen, this
• 42:37
  Speaker 6: is malards amount of money. Kim Kardashian. Addition, she turns
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: forty five years old today. The category is our home video,
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: keeping Up, Black Book, and under the knife.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Mike, you were on first. Which category would you like?
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: Keeping up?
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: Keeping up? All right, Poppy? How about you under the knife? Okay,
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: all right, Mike, You and I are up. The category
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: is keeping up. We need the first and last name
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: of the athletes.
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: These athletes all come from big sports families. Are you ready, Mike?
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: All right, forty five seconds. Let's begin the star on
• 43:11
  Speaker 6: the Golden State Warriors right now. Yes, a star tight
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: end for the New England Patriots. He's retired now. Yes,
• 43:20
  Speaker 6: he is currently the quarterback at Texas. He's gonna be
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: a high draft pick.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 43:26
  Speaker 6: This guy was the center slash power forward for the
• 43:29
  Speaker 6: Lakers with Kobe Bryanty from Spain. Yes, this guy was
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: the father of Roberto Roberto. Uh, he just passed.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: Away a few days ago. Yes, good job. This guy
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: is the father of Aaron, the manager for the Yankees.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: Bob Boone, jeez, Brett Boone. No, all right, this guy
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: was an offensive lineman. It was Bob Boone. Okay, how
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: many points? Was oh boy? Alrightny? All right, Poppy? You
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: ready to go here?
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: Poppy?
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: All right? Forty five seconds. These athletes have all had
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: cosmic work.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Cosmetic cosmetic work done.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Are you ready, Poppy? Yes, all right, run away and go.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: Basketball player. He went to high school in Alaska. He
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: played at Duke. He was with the Lakers and the
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Bulls and the Cavaliers. All right, boxer named the real deal.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Mike Tyson bit his ear off. Yes, white linebacker for
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears in the early two thousands. Yes, star
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: for the Heat, not Lebron, not Chris Bosh. Yes, primetime
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: defensive back coach at Colorado. Right, yes, let's see what
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: else did we have?
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: Guard? What was this guy?
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: We went to Yukon, I believe, played with the Hornets,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: the Celtics.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, you got it rightes?
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: Wow? Wrong? Wow? What was that? What are we at now?
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: The lead?
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: Yes? All right, Mike, no, Mike, do you want home
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: video or black book?
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Home video?
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: All right? These athletes are all known to have a
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: sex tape.
• 45:18
  Speaker 6: Forty five seconds on the clock.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: Love sex tapes? Go col begin all right. This guy
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: is a famous wrestler. He just died.
• 45:31
  Speaker 6: No, no, he just died like most famous wrestler of
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: all time. Okay, yes, thank you. One of the best
• 45:38
  Speaker 6: tight ends of all time. He's on f S one
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: and ESPN. He was for the Broncos, the Ravens. No, okay,
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: this guy's second fiddle on the Nuggets, second fiddle on
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: the Nuggets.
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: He's the second guy on the Nuggets. The shooting guard, Cooop.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: We're out of time, Coop, you do not get enough points.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: We win the game. Poppy, you won the game. We
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: won the game. We won the game. Cheater, No, you
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: had you went