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Hour 1 - Not Ready Yet · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Oh, what is going on? Welcome in. Happy late night
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  Speaker 1: hours to you as we are fired up to be
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  Speaker 1: here on a Thursday slash Friday. We got all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of stuff going on tonight. Lots of ball. I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you right now. Lots of ball on the menu, which
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  Speaker 1: I'm very excited about. Also have Lorena and Coop in.
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  Speaker 1: I always say tonight. You know, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: that screws anybody up on the East Coast. It's early
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  Speaker 1: morning Friday. I haven't gone to sleep. Actually, I have.
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  Speaker 1: I took a mini nap before the show, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: ready to go here. But not a full night of rest.
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  Speaker 5: I think it would count as late night.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's late night.
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  Speaker 5: By 3 a.m., though, it'll be early morning.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, 2 a.m. We're 2 a.m. on the
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  Speaker 1: East Coast. It's still, you know, it's late night. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think anyone's like, No, it's actually Friday morning, Lorena.
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  Speaker 1: But Lorena and Coop here with us this evening as
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  Speaker 1: they get ready for a Vegas voyage. if you will,
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  Speaker 1: you know, another meet and greet. So they're excited for that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have some fun before they skip town in L.A.,
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  Speaker 1: head over to Vegas, have a good time. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: start in Vegas, right? Doesn't that make sense? Ben Maller
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  Speaker 1: meet and greets going to be in Vegas. We'll start
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  Speaker 1: the show with a Vegas storyline. How about Fernando Mendoza?
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  Speaker 1: So Mendoza was in preseason action again. And struggled again.
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  Speaker 1: He was only 7 for 14, had an interception. And
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  Speaker 1: in my mind, it's further proof that it's the right
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  Speaker 1: move not to start him. To start off the season
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  Speaker 1: and him be behind center in week one. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's a smart approach by the Raiders to go with
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  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. That's been their plan all along. All Mendoza
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  Speaker 1: has done the last two games has shown that it's
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  Speaker 1: the right decision. And I think that the long game
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  Speaker 1: is the right way to approach this whole thing. If
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  Speaker 1: you look at Mendoza, his first preseason start, he looked
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  Speaker 1: really good. Against the Arizona Cardinals, he played on time.
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  Speaker 1: He played behind center. This is the thing. He hasn't
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  Speaker 1: played under center most of his college career. He only
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  Speaker 1: took 3% of his snaps under center in college. Last year,
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks averaged about 35% under center. So this is a
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  Speaker 1: whole different thing. For Mendoza, he's learning on the job.
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  Speaker 1: And so to have him start week one, I just
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  Speaker 1: don't think it's the right approach at all. There are
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  Speaker 1: many that say, oh, if he's ready, start him. I
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  Speaker 1: don't look at it that way. There are many reasons
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  Speaker 1: I would not start him week one. If you look
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  Speaker 1: at some of the bullet point reasons not to start
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  Speaker 1: the guy, for one, I just think if you start
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  Speaker 1: week one as a rookie... Most rookies are just treading water.
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  Speaker 1: Most rookies are just trying to keep their head from
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  Speaker 1: going under. And you're just trying to stay afloat. The
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  Speaker 1: speed of the game is so fast. These plays are
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  Speaker 1: a mile long. You're swimming in information. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of swimming references in this whole point here. But it's true.
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  Speaker 1: And so to start week one, when the optimism is
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  Speaker 1: at its peak, all these– glowing comments throughout the preseason
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  Speaker 1: from every team in the NFL. Every team starts off
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  Speaker 1: zero and zero and they're like, man, this year, everything's
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  Speaker 1: looking good. The offense is looking good. Defense is showing
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  Speaker 1: some positive signs. And then all of a sudden the
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  Speaker 1: teams that stink start to lose games right away. And
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  Speaker 1: the hope is dead, right? All hope is gone. And
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  Speaker 1: for Fernando Mendoza, he's supposed to symbolize hope for the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders going forward. The last thing you want to do
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  Speaker 1: is have that balloon popped immediately. If you look at
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  Speaker 1: the first seven games for the Raiders, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: tough teams in there. This is not like a soft
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  Speaker 1: launch to the schedule. You've got in the mix at
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers, at the Saints. Chiefs at the Patriots, Bills, Rams,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of L's in those first seven games. I
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  Speaker 1: think the right approach is starting Kirk Cousins and you
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  Speaker 1: pivot to Fernando Mendoza. I think the worst case scenario
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  Speaker 1: for the Raiders, and this goes for any team with
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback that they took very high in the draft.
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  Speaker 1: I think the worst case scenario outside of like a
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  Speaker 1: significant injury or something like Just putting that to the side,
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  Speaker 1: the worst case scenario would be you start off with
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  Speaker 1: your quarterback in week one, and then you got to
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  Speaker 1: bench him. He stinks. The team's losing games. They're not
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  Speaker 1: even functioning at a legitimate NFL level, and you have
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  Speaker 1: to bench your number one overall pick. You got to
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  Speaker 1: bench your top quarterback prospect. That's just not a position
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  Speaker 1: that the Raiders... want to be in I look at
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  Speaker 1: it like this man if you look at the Raiders
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  Speaker 1: I I draw a parallel with the Saints last season
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  Speaker 1: if you look at Tyler Shuck he didn't start right
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  Speaker 1: away now granted he wasn't the number one overall pick
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  Speaker 1: he was a second rounder but just walk down this
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  Speaker 1: path with me because there are a lot more similarities
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  Speaker 1: than differences between Shuck and Mendoza if you look at
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  Speaker 1: Shuck He didn't start the first eight games. The Saints
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  Speaker 1: were 1-7. Spencer Rattler was in there. They lost a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of games. And then the Saints pivoted to Tyler Schoch.
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  Speaker 1: He was the starter the final nine games. And all
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  Speaker 1: things considered, he played pretty well. He won five games.
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  Speaker 1: His record was 5-4. They actually had a four-game winning
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  Speaker 1: streak at the end of the season. And now this offseason,
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  Speaker 1: it's nothing but positive things about Tyler Shuck. I've heard
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  Speaker 1: conversations about him maybe being an outside MVP candidate. The bettors, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I always listen to the bettors, shows, podcasts, all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And some bettors are like, oh yeah, I got bets
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  Speaker 1: on Tyler Shuck to win MVP. If you look at
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Shuck's rookie season, he threw 10 touchdown passes, 6 interceptions.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't anything outstanding, but compared to Rattler... in all
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  Speaker 1: the games that the Saints were losing, Tyler Shuck's performance
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  Speaker 1: looks even better. That's what you want if you're the Raiders,
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  Speaker 1: that you want the exact same thing with Fernando Mendoza.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think that puts them in a better
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  Speaker 1: position to achieve that. I don't think this season, I
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  Speaker 1: know this season, isn't about wins and losses, making a
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  Speaker 1: playoff push, making a Super Bowl push. That's not where
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders are. They're not ready for that. They need
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  Speaker 1: to see positive signs that Fernando Mendoza is their franchise quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like the Saints last season. The Saints weren't
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  Speaker 1: vying for a playoff spot and a deep playoff run.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't like, hey, man, if things go right, we
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  Speaker 1: could win it all. That's not where the Saints were.
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  Speaker 1: But it was a very successful season for the Saints
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  Speaker 1: because Tyler Schuch showed signs that he might be their
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  Speaker 1: quarterback of the future. So it turned out to be
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  Speaker 1: a very successful season for them last year. That's where
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders are. So for Fernando Mendoza to have great
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  Speaker 1: confidence going into year two, I don't think it's starting
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  Speaker 1: him week one. I think it's starting him midway through
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  Speaker 1: the season. You let Kirk Cousins take the bullets for
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  Speaker 1: the first half of the season, however many games that is.
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe the first seven games, you look at
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  Speaker 1: November 1st, week eight, or somewhere thereabouts, to start Mendoza
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  Speaker 1: and he's your guy going forward. I think that puts
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  Speaker 1: Mendoza in a much better position to have success, to
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  Speaker 1: gain confidence, for things to grow in the positive direction
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  Speaker 1: instead of the negative. We looked at what Tyler Shuck
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  Speaker 1: did well last year instead of what he didn't do well.
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  Speaker 1: You think it was all perfect? It wasn't. It was
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  Speaker 1: just better than Spencer Rattler. And there were more wins
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  Speaker 1: than the first half of the season. And I think
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  Speaker 1: the Saints benefited from that greatly. I think that's what
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders want. I mean, I know that's what they want,
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  Speaker 1: but I think they believe their best path toward that
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  Speaker 1: is to not start Mendoza week one. And I agree
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  Speaker 1: with that. I think that Mendoza is like baby number one.
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  Speaker 1: For anybody who has kids, you probably relate to this.
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  Speaker 1: The first baby, it was just... oh, we got to
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  Speaker 1: have everything set. We got to have the crib. I
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  Speaker 1: heard that this formula, like the better, the more advanced formula,
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  Speaker 1: there's all kinds of benefits to this. We want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure there's nothing, childproof everything, right? Make sure everything's childproof.
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  Speaker 1: The Rattler can't, the little baby toy can't hurt him.
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  Speaker 1: That's how the Raiders, I believe, need to be with
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  Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza. It's not starting week one. There's a lot expected,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of pressure. There's a downside with that. Let's
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  Speaker 1: not do that. Let's make sure everything is as childproof
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  Speaker 1: as possible. It's a risk-reward thing. The risk of Mendoza
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  Speaker 1: being in over his head in week one and the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the season where the pressure is at the greatest.
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 1: That's a baby toy that could hurt him, right? I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that the reward of having him starting week
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  Speaker 1: one outweighs the risk of this could go really wrong.
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  Speaker 1: So let's just hold off a little bit. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's a much, much better approach. But Mendoza, he struggled
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  Speaker 1: again in the preseason and I wouldn't bank everything on
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  Speaker 1: the preseason, but again, it's another sign. Last week against
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  Speaker 1: the Texans, there was a throw late across the middle,
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  Speaker 1: pick six. You know, those growing pains are going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: I get it. But I would rather those growing pains
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  Speaker 1: happen in week eight compared to week one. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure there are some people listening like, where's Ben? I
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  Speaker 1: think Ben would have had a better monologue. There are
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  Speaker 1: some people out there that will think that. And there
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  Speaker 1: are some people that will think, what's the difference between
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  Speaker 1: week eight and week one? What's... Are you kidding me? Like,
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  Speaker 1: that's the thing, man, is when you are trying to
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  Speaker 1: hit the ground running as a rookie, that's very, very
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  Speaker 1: difficult to do one. And it's. It's going to mess
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  Speaker 1: with your confidence way more if you are screwing up
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  Speaker 1: right away. The season is brand new. We're hopeful that
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  Speaker 1: this could be at least a good season or a
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  Speaker 1: much better one than the previous year if you were
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  Speaker 1: a sucky team. All of a sudden, you're throwing interceptions
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  Speaker 1: in week one, week two. You're losing games out of
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  Speaker 1: the gate. That's a much different deal than you know,
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  Speaker 1: than the middle of the season. I would liken it
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  Speaker 1: a little bit to, you know, playing in prime time.
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  Speaker 1: It's one thing if you're playing a 1 p.m. Eastern
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  Speaker 1: time zone game, you're one of nine at that time
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  Speaker 1: and you throw an interception. A lot of times that's
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  Speaker 1: going to get lost in the shuffle. You compare that
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  Speaker 1: to playing on Sunday night football and they have the
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  Speaker 1: fancy intros where you're introducing yourself. You throw an interception
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  Speaker 1: that it's just a different deal. That's how I look
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  Speaker 1: at the season. Throwing an interception week one in a
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  Speaker 1: painful loss is a lot different than doing that in
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  Speaker 1: week eight. That's why I would wait. I would wait
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  Speaker 1: with Fernando Mendoza. I think it makes sense to just
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  Speaker 1: bide your time just a little bit because I do
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  Speaker 1: think it's much different and lands differently. It landed differently
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  Speaker 1: with Tyler Shuck. His screw-ups, not front and center, right?
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  Speaker 1: His achievements, his good plays, all of a sudden we're
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  Speaker 1: looking at that a lot closer. I think that's where
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders are with Mendoza. But four preseason games were
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  Speaker 1: played on Thursday night. And not anything too crazy. Justin
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  Speaker 1: Herbert got in there for the Chargers just a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Just a little bit. Not a ton of playing time.
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  Speaker 1: But it's kind of interesting when you look at that
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  Speaker 1: where Herbert got in there for a few plays here
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  Speaker 1: and there, but no Mahomes. No Patrick Mahomes in this
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  Speaker 1: entire preseason. Herbert completed two passes for 74 yards. Pretty
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  Speaker 1: decent stat line, including a touchdown in there. But no Mahomes.
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  Speaker 1: I think it shows a bit. Mahomes is not going
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  Speaker 1: to play in the Chiefs' preseason game tomorrow. They play
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks on Friday night. And Mahomes is not going
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  Speaker 1: to be out there. Hasn't been out there for the
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  Speaker 1: preseason at all. Which is different because Andy Reid always
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  Speaker 1: has gotten Mahomes out there. But now coming off the
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  Speaker 1: ACL toward two knee ligaments, he's not going to be
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  Speaker 1: out there for any preseason action. And to me, if
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  Speaker 1: you ask yourself, is this a small thing, big thing,
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  Speaker 1: no thing at all? I think it's at least a
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  Speaker 1: small thing, right? I don't think this is nothing. I
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  Speaker 1: think it shows... that Andy Reid is going to err
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  Speaker 1: on the side of caution and that Andy Reid doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have full, complete confidence in something goofy not happening. Andy
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  Speaker 1: Reid has always had confidence to put Mahomes out there
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  Speaker 1: in the preseason. Mahomes has played way more in the
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  Speaker 1: preseason than any NFL quarterback in this day and age.
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  Speaker 1: He gets out there a lot. For a superstar like
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes is, superstars just don't get the playing time that
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes routinely does. in the preseason but absolutely zippo this
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  Speaker 1: preseason coming off the two torn knee ligaments kind of
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  Speaker 1: interesting I think Mahomes is gonna I know he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: play week one that was the funniest thing from this
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  Speaker 1: offseason is like do we know if Mahomes is even
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  Speaker 1: gonna play week one no we know yeah we know
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  Speaker 1: we we know that guy's gonna rehab his genitals off
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  Speaker 1: and he'll be ready to go week one He absolutely will.
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  Speaker 1: It's just no preseason action. It's different. I know there
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  Speaker 1: are people that will think, oh, this is a non,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is no big deal whatsoever. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying it's a big deal. I'm just saying that the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs have deviated from what they've always done. They've always
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  Speaker 1: gotten Mahomes numerous reps in the preseason. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: think this shows that, you know, Mahomes is going to
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  Speaker 1: be super choppy and very rusty when he hits the
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  Speaker 1: ground running in the regular season. I'm not saying anything
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  Speaker 1: like that. I'm just saying it shows that Andy Reid
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have full confidence in the knee, in goofy things
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  Speaker 1: not happening. He's like, you know, it would really suck
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  Speaker 1: to lose Mahomes for extended time in the regular season
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  Speaker 1: if something weird happened in the preseason. So let's not.
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  Speaker 1: And some of this is tied to he didn't have
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  Speaker 1: all five of his starting offensive linemen healthy and playing.
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  Speaker 1: And so that ties into Mahomes not playing either. But
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  Speaker 1: it does show. It shows that there's not that same, no,
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  Speaker 1: I feel good. I don't think anything weird is going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. Put him out there. Get him a whole half.
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  Speaker 1: Get him a whole first quarter of action. Andy Reid
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  Speaker 1: hasn't felt like that in the preseason. So it's just
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  Speaker 1: something that's been different than what we've always seen from Mahomes,
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs, Andy Reid's preseason approach. Completely different this year.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens come week one against Koops Broncos.
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  Speaker 1: I know Coop is ready. He's ready for Nick Bonito
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  Speaker 1: and Zach Allen and company to just tear into Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: come week one.
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  Speaker 3: Superstars.
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  Speaker 1: Superstar Zach Allen, that's right. Superstar Nick Bonito. Patrick Sertan
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  Speaker 1: is a legitimate superstar. What other superstars do you have
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  Speaker 1: on defense over there, Coop? Anybody else come to mind?
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  Speaker 1: Let's see here. Let's check it out.
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  Speaker 3: Jonathan Cooper.
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Cooper, superstar, absolutely. What else do we got? Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: Let me look at the Broncos.
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  Speaker 3: Riley Moss.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly the white guy cornerback Riley Moss tearing it up
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  Speaker 1: right there superstar let's see can we say Alex Singleton
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  Speaker 1: superstar is that oh yeah okay yeah I thought uh
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  Speaker 1: Talanawa Hufanga yeah oh absolutely absolutely a superstar right that
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  Speaker 1: one that one might be legitimate might be How about
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  Speaker 1: Malcolm Roach, superstar on that D-line, former Saint? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think that's legit as well. Superstars all over. Former Dolphin,
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Jones, right? Free safety. Most former Dolphins are automatically superstars,
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  Speaker 1: if we're being honest with ourselves over here. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that Broncos defense, that's going to be a fun week
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  Speaker 1: one matchup, man. I joke about the Broncos defense quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit because of Coop's. Coop thinks that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Zach Allen's a superstar, which, you know, another former Dolphin
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  Speaker 1: right there. That's crazy. It's crazy talk right there, but,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they have a lot of talent. And week
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  Speaker 1: one against Mahomes, recovering from an injury, that's going to
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  Speaker 1: be fun. That is a great matchup. Monday night football
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  Speaker 1: at Kansas City. I cannot wait for it. Can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so we've got Coop. We've got Lorena here.
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  Speaker 1: These late night festivities. We're going to stretch our feet
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  Speaker 1: out and And talk to them here right around the corner.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited about that. Also, we have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: ball on the menu. Lots of ball. I want this.
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  Speaker 1: This is actually not just a football question because. Your
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  Speaker 1: guy was in attendance on Thursday evening for one of
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  Speaker 1: the biggest games that we saw on Thursday. I was there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here in Atlanta right now. I'm doing this baseball tour.
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  Speaker 1: I'm driving around like a freaking crazy person seeing all
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  Speaker 1: these baseball stadiums I haven't seen before. And so I
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  Speaker 1: was at the Braves game on Thursday night. Chris Sale
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  Speaker 1: was unbelievable. A CG shut piece, right? Shut out. Complete game.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't give up any runs. Only gave up, I think,
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  Speaker 1: four hits, 11 strikeouts. He was sensational. He was outstanding.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: It was a great game to be at. Old school
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: pitcher's duel. Yamamoto, the hard luck loser. He pitched great.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Chris Sale just pitched better. I was there for that.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: But it got me thinking a little bit. The X
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: machine would be good for this at the no show
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: if you want to chime in. What was your best
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I was there moment?
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: What game have you been to where you, oh, I
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: was there. Whatever it was, the Minneapolis miracle comes to mind.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: I got screwed on that. I had the Saints live
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: to win the game, and they should have. And then
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: the Minneapolis miracle happened where Stephon Diggs caught the pass
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: on the sideline, went in for a touchdown, Saints safety
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: with the ole. I go, oh, shoot, I could have
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: just tackled you or hit you out of bounds, pushed
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: you out of bounds, and the game's over. But nope, nope,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: that's just not– Or tackled them inbounds, I should say.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: It would have been a different scenario. But yeah, if
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: you're at that game, that's a good I was there moment.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Especially if you're a Vikings fan. Maybe a couple of
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: our Minnesota people were there.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: But uh that'd be a great i was there moment
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: i'm curious what your greatest i was there moment was
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: i've got one was that sale was that a wall
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: nation right there was what was that in the background
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: oh yeah okay it was the skull thing you know
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: what fun fact that is uh scott shapiro's text tone
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Our boss here at Fox, whenever he texts me, he's
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: a big Vikings guy. All things Minnesota.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: You and your text tones.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I take my text tone seriously. I don't have a
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: boring iPhone. I can do fun things like that with
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: a Droid. There's personality involved over here, not just white
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: and blue screens, and that's it. That's all you get.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: That's all you get.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Enjoy it, iPhone users. No, I have a little personality
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: with my phone, so I take my text tones seriously.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: I've got sweet pea for Coop. He's always used that
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: for his intro, right? Like when we introduce him on
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: the late night hours. Lorena's cookie monster, the om-nom-nom. That's
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: what her.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: It's a great ringtone.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: It's a great, great text tone right there. But Scott's
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: is skull. It's, I'm sorry, it's doom-doom, skull. And they
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: do the skull thing. That's him. So when that comes through,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, we got to fill an opportunity over here, Scott?
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Is that what's going on over here? It's what happened
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: a couple of days ago.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: And hence, I'm here.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I'm excited to be here. I'll tell you, as we
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: go into the late night hours, my I was there
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: moment was probably one of the worst I could come
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: up with. If I'm like, all right, of all the
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: games I've watched to be there in person, I'm like,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: I wish it was a better I was there moment
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: than this. Right. So I'll tell you, it just didn't
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: go my way. That's basically it didn't go my way.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: But I'll share that with you right around the corner.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: And we will get to Coop and Lorena coming up next.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: We'll see what's going on in their lives. Get the
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: latest and greatest as they set sail for Vegas. A
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: little three-hour trip. That's around the block here, Lorena, on
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: this baseball tour. Holy cow, man. I'll look at some
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: of these trips like, all right, what is it from
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Miami to Atlanta? 10 hours? That's nothing. 10 hours, no
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: problem at all. It's been crazy. I've been racking up
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the miles. My car might die over here.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: It might.
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: It might.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: It's been a road warrior. There's no doubt about that.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll hear from Coop and Lorena coming up next.
• 22:05
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• 22:07
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• 22:10
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• 22:55
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Coming in hot. I like this. Lorena with her metal
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: head self tonight. It's very good.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: You know me.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Metal's my favorite genre.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: You love it. You live for it. I was, you
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: know what? I never circled back with Brie, a.k.a. Brioche,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: you know, Brianna Muro. Who was going to the metal show. Right.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: And I never found out if she liked it, if
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: it was good, if it was. So I think about
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: your pit story there, Lorena, where.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: My poor toenail.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Toenail ripped off in the pit. You should see the
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: other guy, though, right? See what you did.
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: You got to learn life lessons. Do not wear sandals
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: into the pit.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's one that. Yeah, you definitely have to
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: learn that one the hard way. A lot of people
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: have done that before. Have you ever crowd surfed, Lorena? No,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I have not. You would be a great crowd surfer.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: You weigh two pounds.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: I think that would be scary.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, you would love it.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: Why don't they throw you up in the air?
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Nah, the only thing, though, and I hate to say this, is,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: you know, because you're a pretty girl and Your goodies
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: would be, you know, it's like, oh, I was trying
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: to pay.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: Oh, sorry.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: My hand, you know, that sort of thing.
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's the downside to that, you know, but you know,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: it's dark in there, you know, so you, you know, there,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: you just seem like another body to most of them. Um,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: so it might not be as bad, might not be
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: as bad as I originally thought, but it's something that
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: you would have to, you'd have to look out for. And,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: you know, unfortunately there would be some jerks that would
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: greatly take advantage of that situation.
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: Very sad, but, I was at, um, it was kind
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: of like a rave type concert and I was in
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: an outfit and my, my booty cheeks were out, but
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: I was up on this guy's shoulders and another guy
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: behind me, like, like went up and grabbed my butt completely.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: Like, wow.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Okay. So you were, you were on the shoulders of
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: someone else and someone just, uh, it was a good
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: butt cheek situation for that.
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: And I totally understand.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Did you high five him? Like, Hey, I get it.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: You know, like, It was there. It was there for
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: the taking. Right.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: I'm like, if I have it out like that.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: No, I'm kidding. Don't touch my butt.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, man. That's funny. That's good.
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Very nice. So what's new in your life, Lorena? Anything
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: we need to know?
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: About what?
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Anything in your life that we should be aware of.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: I know you're going to Vegas.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: I haven't had a day off in almost three weeks.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah?
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Okay. Are you withered? Are you withered right here? A
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: little withered.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Exhausted.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: A little exhausted. And so road trip to Vegas, huh?
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: exhausted tired you know and uh let's let's get in
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: the car for four plus hours and and head over
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: to vegas right yeah hey do you have driver assist
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: in that that fancy ride.
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: Oh my gosh yes i'm so thankful for it do
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: you really yes it has saved my life multiple times.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Now like i feel like there are much different versions
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: of driver assist you know this isn't like lane correction
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: thing you could literally just take a nap and let
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: it drive you no it's.
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: Not that advanced i don't have a tesla okay i
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: have like um it's like advanced lane assist so it'll
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: keep you in the lane if you start to swerve
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: and then if i put it in cruise control it'll
• 26:14
  Speaker 8: keep that speed but if i come up on a
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: car it'll also slow down for me and then it'll
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: re like it'll readjust without me having to do anything
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: hmm how do you.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Like the lane correction lane assist i hate it i
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: do too can you turn that.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: Off Yeah, but at the same time when I'm doing
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: cruise control, I want it on.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, because whenever I rent a car, some of
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the newer cars, they have that. And I'm like, dude,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: let me drive. What are you doing? I've never liked it.
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: Sometimes I don't want to use my blinker and it
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: pulls you back really sharp.
• 26:47
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does. Yeah. Yeah.
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 26:50
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: You just start to switch lanes.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: You should be using your blinker.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Sometimes there's no cars around me.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: I don't need to use my blinker.
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:57
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: It's not necessary. Yeah, I totally agree.
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: But look, you should get in the habit because then
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: eventually one day you're just going to stop using it
• 27:06
  Speaker 9: and then....
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I can't believe this is your take, Coop.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: I didn't even know you were Blinker Patrol.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're the ultimate, like, yeah, whatever, you know, it's fine.
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: One of my pet peeves is when people change lanes
• 27:19
  Speaker 9: in front of me without using their signal.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: But that's when, yeah, that's when it's called.
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: For, right?
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Yes, I know, but the people who just, like.
• 27:28
  Speaker 9: don't do it as a habit are the same people
• 27:32
  Speaker 9: that don't do it in front of cars. It's just
• 27:35
  Speaker 9: you get used to not doing it.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: It's the gateway drug, Coop. Yes, exactly.
• 27:39
  Speaker 9: If you do it every time you change lanes, you're
• 27:42
  Speaker 9: not going to be that person. Uh, yeah.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Hey, man, I get it.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: I'd change lanes sometimes without using my signal.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: See?
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: There it is. There it is.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: But you shouldn't. You shouldn't.
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: I'm just saying that if I want to do it,
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: my car should not jerk me back.
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: I feel like that's actually a hazard.
• 28:00
  Speaker 9: I'm pretty sure you can turn it off. Because my
• 28:02
  Speaker 9: car used to do that, and it doesn't anymore. So
• 28:04
  Speaker 9: I must have turned it off at some point. But
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: I use the lane assist all the time.
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: Like.
• 28:13
  Speaker 9: Pretty much 99% of the time I'm in the car,
• 28:15
  Speaker 9: I've got the lane assist on.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: No kidding, yeah.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: How come?
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: Why?
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: You know, just because I.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: You're on your phone. You can say it, Coop. I'm
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: checking box scores. I'm firing off bets. Like, what else
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: are you doing.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: On your phone? I'm not going to lie. That is
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: a big part of it.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Well, hey, man, that's... Yeah. I didn't think of it
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: like that. But yeah, if you will, if you peek,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: if you're sending a text, whatever. Yeah, that's it's helpful.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: It's helpful to have lane assist. You're not as big
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: of a, you know, a hazard on the road if
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: you have that. But if you just hop in a
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: rental car like me and you're not used to that
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: whatsoever and it's just like. completely jerking your car back
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: to another lane, you're like, what is happening right now, man?
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I don't care for that at all. You've got to
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: get used to it.
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: There is something that my car does that annoys the
• 29:07
  Speaker 9: crap out of me. It'll automatically apply the brakes if
• 29:11
  Speaker 9: it thinks you're about to hit something. Yeah, it does
• 29:14
  Speaker 9: that too. And it beeps at you really scary too.
• 29:16
  Speaker 9: And I've been backing out of the space here at work...
• 29:19
  Speaker 9: And there's nothing behind me. And it thinks there is.
• 29:22
  Speaker 9: And all of a sudden it just like seizes up.
• 29:25
  Speaker 9: And I'm like, what is happening? And then you can't
• 29:28
  Speaker 9: like then you're like pushing on the gas and it's
• 29:30
  Speaker 9: not going anywhere.
• 29:30
  Speaker 8: How do you recommend your car to like stop doing that?
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: It doesn't hear you.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah. But the features are I'd rather have them than
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: not have.
• 29:40
  Speaker 9: Them.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: It's making me a lazy driver.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, for sure. I am lazier than I was.
• 29:47
  Speaker 9: I get in my wife's car and I'm like, God,
• 29:50
  Speaker 9: there's no 360 camera. I can't see all around the car.
• 29:56
  Speaker 9: Where's the parking assist?
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Such first-world problems over here, you know? Yeah, but when
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: it slams on the brakes like that, sometimes it is.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: It's bad. It's not helpful whatsoever. It's actually like a
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: complete hazard some of the times right there. But we
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: got Coop on the show this evening as well. Coop,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: everything good? Everything fine with you and your world?
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, going great.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: There you go. You ready for the Broncos, huh? Ready
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: for week one? How many wins for the Broncos this.
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: Year, Coop? 14.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: 14?
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: How many wins do you think?
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: I'm going to go with nine.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: Nine. No, that's ridiculous.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: That's a legitimate. That's a legitimate opinion right there, Lorena.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: And it would keep them under their season win total
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: right there. I could see that happening.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: That's not happening.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Could absolutely see that happening.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: I'm a good guesser.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: They're better than they were last year.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Well, the record's not going to be better than it
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: was last year. That's not happening.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: It's a harder schedule for sure.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: They're not going to be 15-2 this season. The stat
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: that blows my mind, Coop, about your Broncos, and it
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean they're doomed this year, but it's something to
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: keep in mind. They trailed in 15 games last season.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: They were losing in 15 games, and they won 14 games.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: That's insane. To me, what's the old, is it Nat
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: King Cole? Those are unforgettable.
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: Remember that?
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: It's different for the Broncos. That is unsustainable. We need
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Lorena with her beautiful voice to sing it. If I
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: call on you, Lorena, like if we're doing an NFL
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: thing and we're talking about teams that played great last
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: season and their formula is just unsustainable, I want to
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: like WWE style, like I'm tagging you in. We're tag
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: team partners. And then I want you to sing unsustainable.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Does that sound good, Lorena?
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: I don't even know it.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: All you have to do is unsustainable. That's all you
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: have to do.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: Unsustainable.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: See how much more in pitch that was than me?
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I'm not a singer at all. I can't sing. I
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: can't carry a tune at all. I can play. I
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: can play a guitar. I cannot sing anything. But I
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: think that's unsustainable, Coop. I think the good.
• 32:05
  Speaker 9: Thing is that the toughest part of their schedule is
• 32:08
  Speaker 9: the beginning of the season, in my opinion. The first
• 32:11
  Speaker 9: five games, and then it eases up a bit.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is not a soft launch to the season
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: here with the Broncos, man. It is rough, as Coop
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: is talking about right there. These games, man, it's like, what?
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: That's tough. They don't have an easy beginning to this
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: schedule at all. Let me see. Well, I got depth
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: charts and everything going. Oh, goodness. I've got preseason depth charts.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: I'm a maniac, right? I had a preseason depth chart
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: of the Bears hosting the Browns in week one. I
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: am out of my mind right here. But yeah, group
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: your Broncos at the Chiefs, Jags, Rams, at the Niners,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: at the Chargers, Seahawks. Those first six games at Seahawks
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: at home on a short week, but Man, you got
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: three primetime games, the Monday night game in week one,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: week three, Sunday night football, you're hosting the Rams. I'll
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: tell you what, the schedule makers this year, week one
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: is fantastic. There's hardly any dud games in week one.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: And you look at some of these primetime games at
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the beginning of the season, it's fantastic, man. I can't wait.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Can't wait to get this going on here. By the way, Coop,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: I was at the Atlanta Braves game on Thursday night.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: And based on principle, I went to Coop's Championship Chicken.
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: Nice.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: It's a true story.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I went there, and I had little chicken bites and fries.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Got me a little mini Braves helmet with ice cream
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  Speaker 1: in it. It was actually pretty good. They did a
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: good job. I've never heard of that, Coop's Championship Chicken.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a thing in the South
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: or what. I'm not sure. Maybe it is. But I
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: went there on principle because of you, my friend. I
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: checked out. I'm like, you know what? Coop's my guy.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: I'm going to try Coop's championship chicken. That was good.
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: Not bad.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Not too bad. We've got a couple of I was
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: there calls over here because I was at the Braves game.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Pitchers duel. Chris Sale out dueling Yamamoto. Braves win 1-0.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: So I was just curious what are some of the
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: better I was there moments. Our guy Chandler is in Minnesota,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: has a comment for us. What's going on, Chandler? You're
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio. What's going on?
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: Oh, hey there. Yeah, I just want to go ahead
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: and share. By the way, I love the show. I've
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: been listening for a while. But I'm over here in Bloomington, Minnesota.
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: And honestly, I was downtown over at Hubert's across the
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: street from the Metronome at that time in 91. And
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: I'm sitting there with friends and family, hot date, just
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: feeling pretty good about myself, ready to roll, right? Just
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: going to get into Hubert's. But, man, I'm like 15th
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: in line. Nobody's coming out of there, and it's 20
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: minutes before first pitch. And this guy comes by saying,
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: Game 7, World Series tickets, $ 10, $ 10. And I am
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: not kidding. I was fumbling the money. I got it
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: to him and I'm two seats away from the jumbotron
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: and left field, but I got to watch Jack Morris
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: pitch all 10 innings in a one, nothing shutout in
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: game seven.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Is that true though? Chandler, 10 bucks. Who was selling
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: tickets for 10 bucks to game seven?
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: Apparently he just didn't want to eat them. You know,
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: I just, man, believable.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: That's good for you, man. That's awesome. Yeah. You talk
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: about one of the all-time pitching performances in World Series history.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: That's great you got there to see that. That's cool.
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: If Jack Morris could have just held on past eighth inning,
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: you know, but then you got to remember Chuck Knobloch
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: had a phantom double play that he turned with Greg
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: Ganey as well when Lonnie Smith just, you know, slid
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: into the second base thinking that that, It was going
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: to be a double play, but it was in center field.
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: And if it wasn't for that, he would have been
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: on third base in the next pitch. He would have
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: scored that run, possibly.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: It's funny, man. The things that you remember, it's funny.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: I used to look at fans where they would go
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: to games, and they're just like, I'll be like the
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: simplest thing, who was playing in that game? You know what?
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: I You can't remember any details whatsoever sometimes. I always
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: look at those people like they're maniacs. And I'm starting
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: to become that. I was at that game five years ago.
• 36:35
  Speaker 9: Oh, really?
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: What happened in that game? I really don't remember much
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: of anything from that game. It has started to happen
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: to me. But I love that you're not only remembering
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: the bold things, you're remembering the nitty-gritty little tiny pieces.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. Very good stuff right there. Yeah, I'll get
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: to my I'm not trying to delay it here like
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: it's some grand reveal or it's going to blow your
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: mind or anything. But my my most famous I was
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: there game did not go my way. Didn't go my
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: way at all. But we'll get to that around the corner.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: We want to get to the who am I game, though, first.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: So here you go.
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: Who?
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: You've got Kyle Lowry of the NBA. What's that?
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: The Lowry seasoning.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: What's the Lowry seasoning? What?
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Like, yeah. Are you kidding?
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: I'm probably aware, but what do we got going on? Lowry's.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: It's a seasoning.
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: It's like the main seasoning.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Besides old man. What do you mean seasoning? Like
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: a food.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Seasoned salt. Yeah, like food seasoning.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: I know what you're talking about.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Sorry. Yeah, like I always use that for, you know,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: if you're cooking a steak or whatever, you season it.
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: I bet his family owns Lowry's.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: They're spelled differently.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: No. Well, Kyle Lowry, not the seasoning salt or any
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: of that. Kyle Lowry of the NBA. He's retiring. He's
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: going to have his number seven retired by the Toronto Raptors.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: So he's only going to be the second Toronto Raptor
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: to have his number retired. And, you know, the other guys,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: probably someone you could guess if you didn't know, but
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: it's Vince Carter. Vince Carter was the first Toronto Raptors
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: player To have his number retired. So we go in
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: a different Toronto direction over here. I was the first
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Toronto Blue Jay in history to have my number retired.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Who am I? So again, starts off NBA. And just
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: when you think it's NBA, left turn MLB. Kyle Lowry
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: going to have his number seven Raptors jersey retired. Vince
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Carter was the first. Toronto Raptor to have his number retired.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: I was the first Toronto Blue Jay to have my
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: number retired. Who am I? Your guest is more than
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: welcome on the X Machine at the No Show is
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: where you can find me. We'll get to the funniest,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: the goofiest, the zaniest right around the corner. I'm Brian
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Noe in for Big Ben Maller. Hang with us right
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: here on Fox Sports Radio.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: It is Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian Noe in for
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Big Ben Maller. The meet and greet Vegas style goes
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: down this weekend. You're cordially invited. Unlike me. I was
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: not invited whatsoever from my supposed friends.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: You're always invited.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Coop and Lorraine. Yeah.
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Now that I'm in Atlanta. Now I'm going to Tampa
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: tomorrow for a game. I'll just swoop over to Vegas.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Let me just hop a jet. Actually, I could.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: I actually could do that. But, yeah, meet and greet
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: going down this weekend. Very excited for it.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Steakout Bar and Grill.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Steakout. Do they spell it like, you know, steak that
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: you eat?
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: No.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Or an actual steak? Yeah, like, yeah.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: S-T-A-K-E.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: There you go. All right, cool. Steakout Bar and Grill.
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: You went last year, don't you remember?
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: I do remember. It was fun. It was a lot
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: of fun. I heard you guys were expecting, like, 200 people?
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: That's a huge turnout.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: I was exaggerating.
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: That would be a lot.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: But I do think it's going to be the biggest
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: meet and greet yet.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Okay. All right. We got to get to the who
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: am I game here real fast. Quickly. Yeah. We've got
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Kyle Lowry going to have his number retired by the
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Toronto Raptors. He will be the second Toronto Raptor to
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: have his number retired. The first one. is Vince Carter. Now,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: the Who Am I game, I am the first Toronto
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Blue Jay to have my number retired. Who am I?
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Eek checked in with Joe Carter. Not a burner. Went
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: with Coop's favorite band's testing cup, Stool. That was actually
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: kind of funny right there instead of Tool. Good play
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: on words right there. I'm late, so I'll just give
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: you the answer. That is Roberto Alomar. How about that?
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: First Blue Jay to have his number retired. Good stuff.
• 41:10
  Speaker 9: Thank you.