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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: So are lead this out? We're gonna start with baseball?
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  Speaker 1: The why why are you starting with baseball?
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  Speaker 3: What on the NBA?
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  Speaker 1: Do you see the NBA? It blu all weekend trash.
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  Speaker 1: I just assume when the playoffs started we'd get some
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  Speaker 1: dramatic moment. No, not the first couple of days of
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. I tried, I watched, sucked. I'm just start
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  Speaker 1: with that. I don't get paid by the NBA. The
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  Speaker 1: most compelling story in sports right now is what's going
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  Speaker 1: it all with the New York Mets. Gigantic payroll, high expectations.
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  Speaker 1: They suck. Okay, and so we go to Chicago, where
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  Speaker 1: the Metropolitans dropped their eleventh consecutive game. Let me repeat
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  Speaker 1: that for those of you a little slow because I
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  Speaker 1: know it's the end of the weekend, the start of
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  Speaker 1: the new week, and for some of you, the weekend
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  Speaker 1: does not end. The New York Mets have lost eleven
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  Speaker 1: straight games and are now at the very bottom. They're
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  Speaker 1: tied for the worst record in all of baseball. And
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  Speaker 1: they did it with a flare as former Yankee Devin Williams,
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  Speaker 1: who rode the vomit comet in the ninth inning in
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  Speaker 1: a two to one loss to the Cubs. And there
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  Speaker 1: you go, so blowing the lead. He blew the lead
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  Speaker 1: in the ninth and then the Mets end up losing
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  Speaker 1: to the Cubbies in the tenth inning. So this seems
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  Speaker 1: like a big deal. You lose eleven games in a row.
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  Speaker 1: That seems like that's hard to do, considering every day
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  Speaker 1: as a new opportunity and all that. So the New
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  Speaker 1: York Mets now their longest losing streak in a generation.
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  Speaker 1: Think about that. A generation has entered the world and
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  Speaker 1: now they get to experience the Mets. You're gonna go
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  Speaker 1: back to, oh four, twenty two years ago, the last
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  Speaker 1: time the Mets played this bad. The reason I'm bringing
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  Speaker 1: this up, though, the main reason I find this compelling
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  Speaker 1: is the conversation with the different players now, mainly Francisco Lindor,
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  Speaker 1: who's got one of those forever contracts from the Mets.
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  Speaker 1: So Lindor was asked about the state of the New
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  Speaker 1: York Mets, and he decided to defend the manager. Defended
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  Speaker 1: Carlos Mendoza, who many fought deserved to be fired at
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  Speaker 1: the end of last year, the Mets figuring, well, this
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  Speaker 1: guy do anything. He just kind of just follows. He's
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  Speaker 1: a middle manager, so we'll bring him back. And so
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  Speaker 1: now people say, well, what are you doing. You should
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  Speaker 1: have fired the guy last year. So Lindor running to
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  Speaker 1: defend Carlos Mendoza. If you didn't see this or hear
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  Speaker 1: about it over the weekend, perhaps not. Lindor on paraphrase
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  Speaker 1: here he said, he's done a fantastic job talking about
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  Speaker 1: the Mets manager. This is not on him. He has
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  Speaker 1: made sure everybody here is prepared. Lindor, who's got one
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  Speaker 1: of those forever contracts, said, every coach here is prepared.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, that's good to know. So the coaches
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  Speaker 1: are prepared, the manager's prepared, the players are prepared, and
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  Speaker 1: they all collectively are garbage quote continues, we have the information,
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  Speaker 1: Lindor said, It comes down to us. Mendy. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: realize that was his nickname, Mendy. I've heard of Wemby.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know about Memby. The Mets manager named Memby
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  Speaker 1: or Mendy. Mendy's our guy, He's our leader. He's in control. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: in control. I'm not paraphrasing. That's exactly what he said, Lindor.
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  Speaker 1: He's in control. He's done a tremendous job. He'll be
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  Speaker 1: appearing at Chuckles Comedy Club tomorrow night. Yeah. What else
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  Speaker 1: we have we just haven't executed. No, really, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Captain Obvious. That's from Francisco Lindor. It would be unfair
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  Speaker 1: to put everything on him, he said, because at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, you know how I love that
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, he has gotten the ship
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  Speaker 1: in the right direction. We just have to the people
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  Speaker 1: are paddling. We've got to paddle and execute, all right.
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  Speaker 1: It's a nice paddling reference. So that is a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. Francisco Lindor says,
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  Speaker 1: the manager has the team in the right directions. A
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  Speaker 1: Carlos Mendoza or is he called the Mendy has the
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  Speaker 1: Mets in the right direction during the eleven game free fall?
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  Speaker 1: They're free falling. Does Lindor think the fans are idiots
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  Speaker 1: or super idiots? So I've got the cockpit, pa system,
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  Speaker 1: the citrus farm, and if that was not enough, we'll
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  Speaker 1: toss in the used car salesman, and we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together. And we you and I,
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  Speaker 1: together side by side here are going to take this
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  Speaker 1: thing and we are going to take a whirl. Is
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to do. All right? So now, first
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  Speaker 1: of all, a Francisco Lindor knows that even though in
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  Speaker 1: a town like New York was split Yankees and Mets
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff, the vast majority this has changed
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  Speaker 1: in my lifetime. It used to be if the Mets
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  Speaker 1: lost eleven games in a row, there would have to
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  Speaker 1: be pounds and pounds of flesh served up as a
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  Speaker 1: human sacrifice. The times are different now. Times are different
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  Speaker 1: in modern baseball, and the fans are different. The fans
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  Speaker 1: for a generation have been fed state run propaganda by
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  Speaker 1: the team websites and the fan boys in the media,
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  Speaker 1: so it's much different. When I was growing up. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you could not survive in a living game losing streak
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  Speaker 1: without losing your job. Now, is there a chance that
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  Speaker 1: Carlos Mendoza gets fire when the sun comes up on Monday? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's a shot. I wouldn't bet on it. The way
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  Speaker 1: baseball has gone in many, many years. Here Lindor he
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  Speaker 1: realizes that the vast Majory, because they've been programmed, indoctrinated,
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  Speaker 1: they're not going to get too hard on the mets.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, well it's all right. And so he's
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  Speaker 1: just banking on everyone having short memories and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what teams do, by the way, this
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  Speaker 1: is what teams do. When the plane's going down. The
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  Speaker 1: captain gets on the cockpit PA system and you can
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  Speaker 1: tell he's smiling. Just the tone of the voice tell
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  Speaker 1: the captain smiling. A little clap and just turbulence, just
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  Speaker 1: Turbulent's nothing to worry about. Just turbulence. Eleven straight losses,
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  Speaker 1: and Lindor's like, oh, things are going in the right
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  Speaker 1: direction here, and we were prepared. And it's like acting
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  Speaker 1: like this is a group project and it went great. Well, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's not going great. It's I didn't play in the
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  Speaker 1: Major League. So it's insult it's absolutely insulting if all
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  Speaker 1: they need to do is paddle. That was part of
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  Speaker 1: the quote here from Lindor. We just have to the
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  Speaker 1: people are paddling, We've got to paddle and execute. So
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  Speaker 1: if paddling is the problem here for the New York Mets,
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  Speaker 1: why are they capsizing every single afternoon and night the
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  Speaker 1: Mets are? They are capsizing. So Lindor hitting two thirty
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  Speaker 1: nine in this eleven game losing streak. Now the marching
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  Speaker 1: and shout of society for the Mets, who defend bad baseball,
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  Speaker 1: was like, well, it's because Juan Soto is not in
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  Speaker 1: the lineup, Okay, So if your best player, that's an excuse, right,
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  Speaker 1: So if your best player are not there, you're just
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  Speaker 1: allowed to lose every game, yes, like you can't rise up.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't normally the way it goes when a star players out,
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  Speaker 1: other people step up and you're able to steal tread
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  Speaker 1: water at least not the Mets. Not the Mets worst
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  Speaker 1: team in baseball right now. Lindor hitting two thirty nine,
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  Speaker 1: as mentioned there, in this eleven game skid one home run,
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  Speaker 1: one rbi. He drove himself. That was against the Doyers
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  Speaker 1: last week at Tavezvine. So not exactly the living up
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  Speaker 1: to the contract and stepping up. It's more like a
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  Speaker 1: salvage mission at this point for the Mets. And of
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  Speaker 1: course he's out there backing Carlos Mendoza Lindor and what
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  Speaker 1: do you expect you imagine became us. Oh, this guy
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  Speaker 1: could He could not manage a puppy dog, right, He
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  Speaker 1: couldn't take a puppy dog out to go potty. He
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  Speaker 1: couldn't do that. You don't light the manager on fire.
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  Speaker 1: We understand that you're not supposed to light the manager
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  Speaker 1: on fire, but you would like to think they'd be like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: he's not doing a great job. We're not doing a
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  Speaker 1: great job. No one's doing a great job. And this
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  Speaker 1: counts as a tepid vote of conference. Now we've not
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  Speaker 1: heard from the ownership and the front office on this,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a tepid vote of conference. Now. I translate
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  Speaker 1: this as the even though the fans have been pacified
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  Speaker 1: over the years with oh it's Joe, It's okay, really
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  Speaker 1: gonna be fine here, the clock, you would think is ticking,
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  Speaker 1: the doomsday clock, tic tic tick Mendoza is not really
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  Speaker 1: managing so much. The argument to keep Mendoza is he's
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  Speaker 1: not really the traditional manager like it used to be
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  Speaker 1: in baseball. He's just following the orders from the boys
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  Speaker 1: upstairs and the nerds, and they've got the puppet strings
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  Speaker 1: out and he just kind of walks around and does
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  Speaker 1: what they want him to do with the lineup and
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  Speaker 1: all that. Similar to Dave Roberts. Nobody thinks Dave Roberts
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  Speaker 1: is all that good, right, we saw what happened in
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  Speaker 1: the past, and it's just a byproduct. If you give
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  Speaker 1: anybody great talent, they're gonna figure it out. He's mostly
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  Speaker 1: the play grab ass with guys like Vassa, who are
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  Speaker 1: fanboys in the media of the Dodgers, and then Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Boom the Yankees, who's the East Coast version of Dave Roberts.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a classic Mets formula though right front office
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  Speaker 1: meddling around. Like all modern baseball, the front office medals around.
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  Speaker 1: They got all the answers, all the answers. The manager
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  Speaker 1: ends up getting fried in a deep and the ones
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  Speaker 1: who suffer the most are the people that actually invest
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  Speaker 1: the most important thing. They have their time watching this now,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of bad baseball, we go to Coursefield. They know
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  Speaker 1: a thing or two about bad baseball in Denver. But
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  Speaker 1: it was the Dodgers who played some bad baseball over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend, losing the last couple here Saturday and Sunday
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  Speaker 1: to the Rockies. Of bigger concern. The forever closer who's
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  Speaker 1: now opposer? Wow? Last two outings now Edwin Ds, who
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  Speaker 1: did not pitch against the Mets. Wonder why so? Edwin
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  Speaker 1: Ds has now allowed six runs on seven hits and
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  Speaker 1: two walks in one inning over his last two outings. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be too in your face. That sucks,
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  Speaker 1: all right. Now, the most recent appearance, which was really special.
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  Speaker 1: When I say special, I mean for the Rockies, Diz
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  Speaker 1: went out there and failed the recording out against the
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  Speaker 1: sad sack Colorado Rockies. In the eighth inning. He allowed
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  Speaker 1: three runs on three hits and a walk, and then euthanasia.
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  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts came out, took him out out of the game,
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  Speaker 1: and so there you go. Roberts afterwards had a lot
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  Speaker 1: to say. Dave Roberts, he said, today was a tough evaluation.
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  Speaker 1: I would think today would be an easy evaluation. Your
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  Speaker 1: guy stinks. That's the scouting report. What is there to
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  Speaker 1: evaluate the guy was bad? You're rested him for nine
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  Speaker 1: days or whatever it was. You came up with his
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  Speaker 1: fugazy story about all this, that and the other thing.
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  Speaker 1: Everything'll be fine. Bullpen session, my fan ass bullpen bullpench session.
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  Speaker 1: So Diez, who's fastball? The last with the Mets the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of years averaged ninety seven ninety seven point
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  Speaker 1: two to ninety nine point one on the FM dial
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  Speaker 1: and the radar gun. So the let's last four years
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  Speaker 1: four seam fastball, not between ninety seven and ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: point one. Now with the Dodgers this year, he's down
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  Speaker 1: to ninety five point seven on the radar gun, and
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  Speaker 1: in the game on Sunday the velocity went down to
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  Speaker 1: ninety two point eight. You're getting down your college radio
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  Speaker 1: level when you get down that low on the dial
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  Speaker 1: at Coors Field. And he's only thrown six slower fastballs
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  Speaker 1: Edwin Diaz in his career and Roberts Clinch, Oh, he's
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  Speaker 1: not hurt. The training We talked to the trainers. He's
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  Speaker 1: not hurt. Okay, So you always says he hurt? Is
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  Speaker 1: he tipping pictures? The velocity thing. You know, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: a velocity queen like a lot of baseball media people
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  Speaker 1: are like, oh, I need the velocity. You can get
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  Speaker 1: people out more ways than than one. There's multiple bays
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  Speaker 1: to get you out. The problem is guys like Edwin Diaz,
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  Speaker 1: who only can they use their tremendous skill set. They're
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  Speaker 1: not real pitchers. They just throw it by guys, and
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  Speaker 1: when they lose that, they have no ability to adjust.
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  Speaker 1: That's the problem. Like, if Dan was getting guys out,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if he throws sixty five miles an hour.
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  Speaker 1: If he's getting guys out, it doesn't matter. But when
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  Speaker 1: you're not getting guys out and you're throwing a lot
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  Speaker 1: slower than you had been, we got a problem. And
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  Speaker 1: so the question do the Dodgers having Edwin Diaz problem? Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: I'm nodding my head aggressively. Yes, the Dodgers are out there.
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  Speaker 1: They've been hoarding damaged closers now two years in a row.
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  Speaker 1: They treat these guys like rare collectibles, except none of
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  Speaker 1: them actually work. That's the problem, all right, Tanner Scott,
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  Speaker 1: that dog with fleas who they got last year, that
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  Speaker 1: guy still sucks. It's like a retroactive suck. They kept
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  Speaker 1: him on the roster, so you got Tanner, Scott now
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  Speaker 1: Edwin Diaz were almost a month into the baseball season,
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  Speaker 1: and it's less of a bullpen. It's like Pep Boys, Manny,
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  Speaker 1: Moe and Jack out there trying to fix these guys.
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  Speaker 1: The Dodgers did not just damble. They didn't just dab
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  Speaker 1: on the closer market. They did a full belly whopper
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  Speaker 1: in there. They went full hoarder mode. And they're stacking
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  Speaker 1: up damaged goods like they're building a museum to bad
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  Speaker 1: relief pitching. What used to be good that we overpaid for.
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  Speaker 1: What happened to the analytic nerds, What happened to the
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  Speaker 1: genius is the algorithm? What happened all that? All they
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  Speaker 1: got all figured out. So at some point here you
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  Speaker 1: got to admit you did not You did not buy
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  Speaker 1: what you thought you were buying. You bought a lemon.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, Edwin Diaz has been so bad. How bad
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  Speaker 1: is he? Bet? He's been so bad for the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: to begin the year that they bought the entire citrus
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  Speaker 1: farm with vermin and all kinds of other issues on
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  Speaker 1: the citrus farm, and they bought it, and they paid
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  Speaker 1: top dollar for it. They didn't get a discount. You
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  Speaker 1: paid Daz for triple digit heat, and it's not happening.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the warrant he expired the moment he got
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  Speaker 1: down to La Guardia or JFK or whatever and took
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  Speaker 1: off there. That's a downgrade situation. And I would imagine
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  Speaker 1: the next couple of days the Dodgers will find some
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  Speaker 1: thing that will claim is not right, and they'll put
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  Speaker 1: him on the injured list what used to be the
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  Speaker 1: disabled list to Edwin Diaz, and they'll shut him down
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  Speaker 1: and say, well, we got this thing, we gotta have
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  Speaker 1: an MRI and all that. But again, the Dodgers thought
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  Speaker 1: they were getting a flame thrower, and instead they ended
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  Speaker 1: up getting buying the NERF Super Soaker scatter blast, which
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately the blaster, I guess it takes batteries. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why it takes batteries, but the batteries are low apparently,
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  Speaker 1: and you need to be replaced. So you pay for
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  Speaker 1: timmy trumpet, and right now you're getting Hugh the kazoo
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  Speaker 1: is what you getting, which does not seem to work
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  Speaker 1: very well. All right, last, where we have some drama
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  Speaker 1: on another bad team. The Mets are tied with the
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  Speaker 1: Royals for the worst record baseball. And there's one thing
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  Speaker 1: I have loved talking about bad teams. Now, the Royals
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  Speaker 1: were supposed to be better this year. They weren't supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be great, but better, and they're not not. And
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend, the Royals catcher Salvador Perez did not
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  Speaker 1: agree with the Royal skipper Matt Quatrero his explanation for
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  Speaker 1: keeping him out of the lineup. And this was on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: and he turned out to be a blowout loss as
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  Speaker 1: the Royals got swept by the Yankees. Over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: the manager Quatero told reporters that he wanted to give
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  Speaker 1: Perez a mental breather, he said, and left them out
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  Speaker 1: of line. Now this is like mister Royal, Salvi Perez
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  Speaker 1: been there forever and so his eyes want to give
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  Speaker 1: him a mental breather. Well, the very rarely do you
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  Speaker 1: get this. We got it. Salvador Perez went on social
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  Speaker 1: media says, I don't need a mental breather. He's what
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  Speaker 1: he said. That's a direct quote. Okay, you know what
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  Speaker 1: that means. We have a he said, he said, situation
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  Speaker 1: so toss up question, who's lying here, the Royals manager,
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  Speaker 1: Matt Quatero or the franchise icon Salvador Press. So the
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  Speaker 1: answer to the toss up question, it's not really even
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  Speaker 1: a toss up question.
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  Speaker 3: It's not.
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  Speaker 1: The lie detector is pointing straight straight at Matt Quittero.
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  Speaker 1: That is where it's at. The skipper is spinning this
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  Speaker 1: like a used car salesman. This mental breather line is
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  Speaker 1: some cologne from the pr department there and yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: spray it around there. It's it's a used car like
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  Speaker 1: Weasley Weasley here. It's not a real benching unless it
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  Speaker 1: is right. If it walks like a benching, if it
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  Speaker 1: talks like a benching, it's not meditation time. It's not
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  Speaker 1: so grab some bench, Grab a little bench. Shit, your
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  Speaker 1: fat ass on the bench at Salvade Press has been
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  Speaker 1: terrible this year. Let's not pretend like that's not part
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  Speaker 1: of the problem. The arithmetic is not particularly good here.
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  Speaker 1: He looks like someone that should be retired. He's sitting
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  Speaker 1: i think under two hundred for the Royals. And now
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  Speaker 1: he played nice on Sunday he claimed that he had
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  Speaker 1: made a mistake and all that stuff. However, you always
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  Speaker 1: go with the initial line. You always go with the
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  Speaker 1: initial line. And this is not load management. This is
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  Speaker 1: live management, is what this is. And that's how you
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  Speaker 1: turn a routine day off into the clubhouse drama, o rama,
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  Speaker 1: the soap opera. And the Royals, they tried to dodge
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  Speaker 1: the drama. They attempted to and then they've created a
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: bigger snaff oo, which is good for talk radio. Though
• 18:39
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• 18:41
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• 18:44
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• 18:48
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• 18:52
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• 18:56
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  Speaker 1: Don't bear the lead, my man, all right, we won't,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: so I lead this hour from the Greater New York
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Metropolitan area. We had a trade. While we were away
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: from the watch tower of the Overnight, guarding the graveyard
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: and protecting it and all that, we had a transaction.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: How about that we learned the Giants are saying bye bye.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Here about this. They're saying bye bye to disgruntle defensive
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: tackled Dexter Lawrence. Yes, Dexter Lawrence is on the move.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: As he says bye bye, he's going off to the
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: beals and a deal that will include going back to
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: the New York tri state area. The number ten overall pick,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the number ten overall pick. So that is the transaction.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: The Giants now head into this Thursday's draft, they will
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: have two picks in the top ten, which is not
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: something you generally want to brag about, because that means
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: you've done something terribly wrong. And the Giants have been
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: an embarrassment of a franchise for many many years. They
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: don't get the level of vitriol the Jets get because
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: they're the Giants, and so the Jets take the cake
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: on that. But while the Pro Bowl, now, I don't
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: think the Pro Bowls that big deal. Many of you do.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: The Pro Bowl. Defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence will be heading
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: to maybe he'll be at the meet, and you think
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: he'll show up at the meet and greet. You think
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: there's I mean, we're going to be in the greater
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati area on Saturday. And he's now a member of
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: the Bengals. So if Dexter, you know what, I'm gonna
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: invite him. Dexter, if you want to come out and
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: hang out with the Malin militia, you are more than
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: welcome to hang out with us. Now. The Cincinnati part
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: of the trade was immediately panned by the critics. Oh,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: I can't believe the Bengals do it here, ripping apart
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: the Bengals for acquiring a player who is granted, established
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: but not like that, not the next level, super duperstar,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: that kind of guy, and giving up a top ten pick.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: The argument against this trade for the Bengals is it's
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: just supposedly a deep defensive draft. The Bengals could have
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: likely should have made a move to acquire a defensive
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: player of a similar skill set to Dexter Lawrence at
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: the number ten pick. They would not have had to
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: pay him as much money and that would have been that.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: And instead, at the time the trade was made, Lawrence
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: only had a couple of years and then he could
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: leave and go somewhere else. So the Bengals getting killed
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: for that, it's good jumping off point. Let us discuss
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the question for the esteem panel. How did you score?
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: How do you score? The Bengals trade for defensive tackle
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Dexter Lawrence from the Giants over the weekend. So I've
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: got worm, I've got nineteen eighties game show and fruit basket,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: we are going to go ABC one two three, And
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: that's that's how We're going to ABC one two three,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: just like that. But we always start out with number.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: That's right, number ones. Let's not overthink this, shall we?
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Okay we will not. The Bengals. I like what the
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Bengals did. They made an adult decision could by them,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: so on the Malor report card. The Bengals get the
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: rare and appropriate rare and appropriate a minus on the
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Malor report card. The Giants get a C. That's it.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: That's on. Now, the outrage crowd. It's not an equal trade.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: It's an advantage for the Giants. The outrage crowd all
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: up in arms about this. It's not right. Blah blah
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, shut up, all right,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: And they're upset because of sowary cap ramifications for the
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Bengals and all that. These are the people that think
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: that the salary cap is there's a direct line, direct
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: line between the salary cap and hanging up championships. There
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: is not. There is not a direct line. In fact,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: you want to be the team that doesn't have much
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: cap space. You want to be the team that spends
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of money. You not want to be a
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: team because that means you have good players. You don't
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: want to be the team that doesn't spend a lot
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: of money. That's bad job by you anyway. So generally,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: cap space does not win. Players actually win. So players
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: cost money and all that. Now, Dexter Lawrence is a
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: upper echelon defensive tackle. Is he the greatest defensive tackle? No,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: he's also not some thirty six or thirty seven year
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: old relic who's put together by duct tape. That's not
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: who he is either. So the Bengals decided, we're gonna
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: skip the mystery box. And everyone loves the mystery box.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: They get all horny for it. The giants are aid, oh,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: we got the mystery box. What's in the box. It's
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: a mystery. You don't know. Draft picks are lottery tickets
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: and sometimes you hit. Most of the time you don't.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: And if Cincinnati drafted a guy at number ten, if
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: they kept the pick and then he turned into Dexter Lawrence,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: they would throw a parade. They'd be like, oh, man,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: we got a good defensive tackle, solid pick, a guy
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: that we can depend on. And instead they fast forward
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: ahead in the broadcast and they they got a guy
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: they know can play. And so this is this is
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: about urgency, and it absolutely is about urgency. And here's why.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: And it's not a story that's talked about all that much. However,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow is starting to act like a worm. And
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: you know what a worm does, It's squirms. He's squirming
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: like a worm. Joe Burrow, he's becoming Hollywood now, he's
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: dating starlet's and influencers. That's not who Joe Burrow was
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: back in the day. And so there are there are
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: indications that Burrow another crap bag season in Cincinnati, and
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow's gonna be like, I want out of here.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Matthew Staffords got one year left, he's gonna retire, and
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: burl'snna be I go play for the Rams. I go
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: out and play for the Rams. That'll be that. And
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: so if you're the Cincinnati Bengals and Burrow's starting to
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: squirm like a worm and you're trying to avoid becoming
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: the next team who superstar quarterback forces this way out
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: of town, then you make the trade. But who can
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: you got treble bignial of tent pick. Wipe your ass
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: with a tent pick. You gotta go it can play now?
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Is he the greatest? Not the greatest? But you acquired
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: a guy. And and by the way, it's not just
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: two years. Initially people were ripping the Bengals said, wow,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: it's two years. And then he's gonna leave Dexter Lawrence. No,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: from what we understand he's agreed to take twenty eight
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: million dollars. Hopefully that's in double writing where it's confirmed
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: by multiple lawyers and all that stuff and it's ironclad.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: But twenty eight million dollars a new money on an
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: extension for Dexter Lawrence, So it's not just a couple
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: year rental and all that from what we understand. And
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Lawrence will be taking the oversized check and he's gonna
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: stay around a little bit longer in Cincinnati. And this
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: move screams of one thing that the Bengals are desperate
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: to try to salvage the relationship with Joe Burrow. That's
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: what this is about. And they're trying to realize they
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: don't have to be the greatest defensive team. They just
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: can't be a bottom five defensive team. They got to
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: be somewhere in the middle. Somewhere in the middle you
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: win playoff games. Somewhere in the middle. You don't have
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: to worry about sweating it out every year. Now, Joe
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Burrow's got to stay healthy, or at least somewhat healthy.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: That would help. He's had major injuries last couple of years.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: All right, now, Page two, The Giants side of the transaction.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: The Giants on the Mallord report card, they only get
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: a C. And here's why. They had someone who they
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: knew was pretty good, pretty good, and they decide they
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: couldn't work it out. They want to pay him, and
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: so they're like, oh, we're getting rid of that's it.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: And the Giants are like, we're competing. It's a new era. Now,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: this is not the same old Giants and all that,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: and things are going to look different with their new coach,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh. However, this looks and feels like a nineteen
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: eighties game show episode of Let's Make a Deal. And
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: they traded the car for whatever's behind door number two.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: You don't know what's behind door number two. Let's find
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: out what's behind door number two, possibly door number three.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: You want door number three, all right, we'll throw that in.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: So you give up the player and in this case,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: the car, and then you get behind door number two
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: and door number three, and congratulations, you just got a
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: goat and you got a chair that you can take
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: to the beach. So congratulations on that. This is the
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: annual ritual, get into the meat and potatoes of it,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: the annual ritual where you make draft night promises you
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: show some sizzle reels from YouTube, and it's a lot
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: of empty calories. A lot of everyone looks great until
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: they actually get to the NFL, and most of them
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: don't look all that great. And the Giant fans have
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: seen this movie. It usually ends up with the shoulder
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: shrug and why do we draft that guy? He's a
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: staff And they keep flipping somewhat proven players and they're like,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: all right, we'll give up this player who is close
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: to a blue chip asset, and we'll just see what
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: we can get for it. In the mystery blocks with
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the P word on it potential, which, of course, as
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: you know, means you haven't done anything yet, and so
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: it's it's startup behavior in many ways as well. But
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: this is a startup behavior. You're dumping your only profitable
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: division for what for venture capital dreams. That's the move here,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: and you're praying that the pitch deck hits and okay,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: why not. So the Bengals they took as close to certainty.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Nothing's guarantee, but they took as close to certainty as
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: you can get. They threw a little money in there,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: and the Giants are chasing hypotheticals. They're like, well, John Harbaugh,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: who's really the GM and all that. He's like, we
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: didn't draft this guy. He's not my guy. He didn't
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: want to be here, so we'll get rid of I
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: understand the argument to that, but the draft pick hit
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: rate is the issue that I have. This isn't strategy
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: per se. It's the latest chapter in the long running
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: novel the Giants have tossed out there, the cult of potential. Yes,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: you lose on potential, you win on actual good football players.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Now speaking of that, and this is not about good
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: football players, but we go to the Valley of the Sun,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: where they still have an NFL team. A lot of
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: people that live there don't know that because the team's
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: been so bad for so long. However, to the Valley
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: of the Sun we go where the Cardinals. Interesting story
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: over the weekend, we learned that quarterback Jacoby Brissett, yes,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: that guy, Jacoby Brisset, will not be attending Phase number
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: one of the Cardinals' off season program and is asking
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: for an extension and he would like to be paid
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: as a starting quarterback in the Grand Canyon State. So
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Brisset set to make nine million in twenty twenty six.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: He's upset that less than two million of that nine
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: million is guaranteed. He wants more money. The whispers say
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: that the Arizona Cardinals, who haven't made a good decision
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: in at least thirty years, the Cardinals are considering throwing
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: more money his way. So question, Jacoby Brissett, who goes
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: into the offseason is the QB number one for the
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Cardinals Kobe Present demanding starter money in Arizona?
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: How wrong.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Does this feel to you? So if you look at
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the spectrum of wrong and you look at what's right
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: and what's wrong and all that stuff, it feels like
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: the NFL in this case, the Cardinals just opened up
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: a GoFundMe for mediocrity that hey, this guy's pretty mediocre.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Let's do a little GoFundMe situation here. It's like tipping
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: thirty percent going to a restaurant having really bad service
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: and tipping thirty percent. Well, why would you do that.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: You're encouraging more bad service. You should reward someone who
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: does good service. You should not reward bad service. Bad
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: job by you. But this is a quarterback twelve games
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: as the starter went one and eleven. Now I didn't
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: play in the NFL, and I just hosted the Overnight
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Show here. Generally speaking, if you go one and eleven,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: you've done something wrong. Oh you're being too mean, Benny.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Why can't you be Benny Brightside? The guy went one
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: eleven last year. And it's like, if you have a
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: bad team and you need someone to go in there
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: and fill the spot at quarterback, who you're gonna call
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissett. You know, there's certain quarterbacks. If you want
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: to win, you gotta bring this quarterback in because you're
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: trying to win. If you want to suck and you
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: really want to get down into the weeds of Suckville,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: you are, You've got to call Jacoby Brissett. Gotta do it,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Gotta make it happen. He's your guy, and the Cardinals
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: are not trying to win? Should the Cardinals also throw
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: a fruit basket in the deal and a handwritten apology
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: for thinking a guy that went one on eleven deserves
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: a new contract. Come on, this is the Dictionary definition
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: of hutzpa. That's what that is. Brissett did not earn
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: the race. In fact, the fact that he's still on
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: the team is an active charity he earned a demotion.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: He should be playing for the Winnipeg Blue Bye or
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: the Ottawa Roughriders, so Paul and Ottawa can go out
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: and watch. That's it, all right, and Newslash he's not good.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: He's not good, and what are you negotiating? What's the
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: argument to give him more money? I see on the
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: NFL makes a lot of money. I get that, I understand.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: It just seems like if you're rewarding people that don't
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: earn the money, what's the point of that makes no sense.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: The Cardos should not be negotiating with Jacoby Brissett for
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: an extension. They should not. They should be trying to
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: find someone to replace him. I think they added Gardner Minshew.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: I believe so. If that's true, then there's your guy.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: He'll be starting by week five. He's also a guy
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: you call when you're trying to lose a lot of games,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: and he looks somewhat decent at times, and then that's enough.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: And what a dream team they put together in Arizona.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: You've got Mike LeFleur. Why do you get the job? Well,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: his brother's a coach. That's enough for him to be qualified.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Nepotism in the NFL. Not that Mike Leffleur learned. I
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: think it was fired by the Jets. He followed Sean
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: McVeagh around. That's enough to get a head coaching job. Okay, sure,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: why not? And then you've got Jacoby Brissett. That is
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: the saddest buddy comedy in the NFL. Can you think
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: of a more depressing buddy comedy than mag LeFleur whose
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: only qualification says his brother was a head coach or
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: is a head coach? And Jacoby Brissett, this is your
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: QB one quarterback commodation. Then there are three letters for
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals season d o A if you know what
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, d O A.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: Here we are, It's Mallard to the third degree. This
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: is one gets.
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: The Arizona Cardinals GM Monte Austen for it. Yes, made
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: it clear last week that the Cardinals don't have a starter.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: It's true. They don't have a backup either. Yeah, what
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: do you think? The Cardinals plan is a quarterback, but
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: their plan is to try to suck and get the
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: manning disciple who will be in the NFL draft next year.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I'm sure the Manning family would love to see their
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: next in the lineage go to Arizona. They don't have
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: a plan. Their plans to lose a bunch of games
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: and then figure it out next year, So you're just
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: gonna have a placeholder in there. There's not a great
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: draft for quarterbacks, so they're not going to get anybody
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: in this draft, and they'll wait till next year.
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: Next So over the weekend, Ravens GM eric Acosta said
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: that the NIL leads to older players being in the draft,
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: and he doesn't think that's a good thing.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Do you agree with him? Well, first of all, Coop,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: for years, it was people complaining the players are too young.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Then now they're complaining they're too old. The point is
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: they're never happy. The executives of professional sports are never happy.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Either they're too young or they're too old. It's like goldilocks.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: They're never just right and it's annoying. Okay, the players
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: are making your money. Good for them.
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: Next quickly, I know you're not going to talk about this, Ben,
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: but the Lakers are off to a one to no stories.
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: Everybody counted them out before this series even started. Are
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: you worried?
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Are you nervous? I'm not worried at all. If Kevin
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Durant didn't play, If Durant plays, the Rockets win that game.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: That's it. Everyone knows that Durant's out. That's the story.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: How did we know you fail?
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: I won the game?
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: What a?
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  Speaker 1: Here was you talking to? So here some intent?
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  Speaker 3: Advice?
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  Speaker 1: Hold that thought? No one's paid attention to me for
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  Speaker 1: ten whole seconds. And if you don't like it, all right,
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  Speaker 1: who needs our advice? Well, it's rather obviously. New York
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  Speaker 1: Mets have lost eleven consecutive games. They sucked. They're tied
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  Speaker 1: for the worst record in baseball with Kansas City. So
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  Speaker 1: any advice to the New York metropolitans. You're live on
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine on Fox Caller, you're on the air, Hello caller, welcome,
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  Speaker 1: Caller one's not there. We'll go to you. I call
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  Speaker 1: you're on the air. Advice to the New York Mets.
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  Speaker 3: Caller, Stop outs in the house.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, hal pal is in the house. Call you're on
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  Speaker 1: the air. Advice to the New York Mets caller. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: a bird posting pictures of yourself? All right, that was
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  Speaker 1: I think, Jed. I don't know what you're saying there.
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  Speaker 1: It was mumbling. A line four, you're on the air.
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  Speaker 1: We're giving advice to the New York Mets. Line four.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Ben. I love chicken fingers that I've had
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  Speaker 1: them with ranch dressing all my life.
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  Speaker 3: It's not easy.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well you're dead to me, but it's all
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  Speaker 1: over for you. Line number five, you're on the Airline five,
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  Speaker 1: advice to the Mets. Line five, The oldest picture of
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  Speaker 1: you is the youngest picture of you. Okay, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: appreciate that great wisdom. Yes. Line six, Hello, Line six,
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  Speaker 1: you're on the air. Don't worry about your Nike stock.
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  Speaker 1: Then they came out with the Brownie James shoe this year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know, thanks for listening. I talked about that last week.
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  Speaker 1: A Line one, Hello, you're on the Airline one.
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  Speaker 4: Baron Lodger's wife is a man's name.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thank you for that line too. You're on
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  Speaker 1: the air line too.
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  Speaker 3: Hello go.
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  Speaker 1: No morning time? Where's Rick and Maryland? Line three? Hello,
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  Speaker 1: line three, you're on the airline three.
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  Speaker 3: I think Prito smells better than lorena.
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  Speaker 6: All right, we'll do one more, only one more. Oh
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  Speaker 6: pick it lorena, go ahead please, Number two. Number two,
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  Speaker 6: you're on the air go ahead, line too. Hurry up, oh,
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  Speaker 6: line two, horrible man
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  Speaker 1: You picked You should have picked line three or four,
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  Speaker 1: not line too.