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Hour 2 - Ohtani, Oh no! · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Playball.
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Speaker 2: It's our num bird two, our number two. And with
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Speaker 2: the latest legal drama, is show hey Otani of the
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Speaker 2: Doyers clueless or ruthless?
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that.
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Speaker 2: Also, speaking of the Dodgers, shortstop Mookie Betts said his
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Speaker 2: disappointing season will be a blemish on his career which
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Speaker 2: may land him in the Hall of Fame one day.
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Speaker 2: How does that one hit you? And Peter Alonzo has
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Speaker 2: broken the Mets franchise home run record, passing Darryl Strawberry
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Speaker 2: with career home run number two fifty three. Has Alonzo,
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Speaker 2: though past Strawberry in the hearts and minds of the
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Speaker 2: Mets fan. We'll talk about all that. And you want
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Speaker 2: to make sure to listen to the B block as
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Speaker 2: may or may not have become unhinged on the current
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Speaker 2: state of the Doyers, who lost again last night to
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Speaker 2: the Angels.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to all that right now here. It is
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Speaker 2: our number two. Oh Tony, oh no. Welcome in the
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Speaker 2: is from baseball. We will address in the B block
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Speaker 2: the B for bad B for bad Dodgers on the field.
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Speaker 2: But another day, another scandal. Now, this story blew up.
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Speaker 2: We had mentioned this in a previous episode of the show,
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Speaker 2: and it took a life of its own in the
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Speaker 2: hours since we talked about it, and we just tossed
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Speaker 2: it out here. It is it's like a boomerang, it's
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Speaker 2: come back again. So if you don't know where I'm
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Speaker 2: going with this, Shohei Otani and his agent, Nez Batlello
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Speaker 2: probably butchering the name. But he has been sued. The
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Speaker 2: agent and Otani, they've both been sued. That's what you
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Speaker 2: need to know about this. And essentially the argument is
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Speaker 2: that they screwed over a big real estate company, couple
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Speaker 2: of big muckety MUCKs in the real estate world in Hawaii,
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Speaker 2: costing these people hundreds of millions of dollars. The lawsuit
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Speaker 2: filed in the Circuit Court of Hawaii where everyone wears
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Speaker 2: Hawaiian shirts. This happened actually last week, but the story
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Speaker 2: just came out in the last couple of days, and
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Speaker 2: as we've said, it's bounced all over the echo chamber here.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of a big deal.
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Speaker 2: In the actual legal documents, the plaintiffs claim that Otani
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Speaker 2: and his agent are saboteurs. They sabotaged a two hundred
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Speaker 2: and forty million dollar real estate venture and they had
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Speaker 2: all entered into this and ix nay on the DLA,
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Speaker 2: according to the lawsuit, and they're pointing the finger at
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Speaker 2: the Dodger star who was supposed to endorse and promote
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Speaker 2: this real estate project which was actually located on the
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Speaker 2: Big Island. That's the one that not many people go to,
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Speaker 2: the Big Island. The sinse deleted website, which at one
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Speaker 2: point was booming boom it for the project said that
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Speaker 2: Otani would buy a home in this part of Hawaii
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Speaker 2: and the Big Island and act as a quote celebrities
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Speaker 2: spokesperson and build a baseball workout facilities on the Big Island,
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Speaker 2: clearly trying to get some of that money from Japan
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Speaker 2: to invest in the Big Island of Hawaii. You don't
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Speaker 2: have to be a business mogul to know what this
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Speaker 2: is all about. So let us discuss the question. You
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Speaker 2: take a couple of steps back and you look at
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Speaker 2: what has happened with Otani the last couple of years
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Speaker 2: as he's joined the Dodgers, and you have to ask
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Speaker 2: the question with the latest legal issue, is show hal Tani.
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Speaker 1: Clueless or is he ruthless? All right, those are the
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Speaker 1: only options.
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Speaker 2: Clueless is over here and ruthless is over here, So
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Speaker 2: which one is it? So my observations, I've got teflon
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Speaker 2: construction site and Donkey Kong and we will combine all
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Speaker 2: of these things together and we are going to give
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Speaker 2: you billable hours, which Otani is spending a lot of
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Speaker 2: money on billable hours.
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Speaker 1: So number why that number? Why?
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Speaker 3: So?
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Speaker 2: Assuming the position it's either or one or the other,
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Speaker 2: the only two options are Otani is clueless or he's ruthless.
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Speaker 2: Those are the only options. This is like that old aloha.
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Speaker 1: Means hello and.
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Speaker 2: Goodbye thing, except this version of aloha means good bye
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Speaker 2: to your money. I buy aloha to your money. And imagine,
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Speaker 2: if you will, buying this group that had all this land,
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Speaker 2: this ocean front property in the Big Island there and
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Speaker 2: then finding out that there was a surprise lava flow.
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Speaker 2: Now this lava flow was not from an actual volcano
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Speaker 2: on the Big Island. It was from Shoeotani and all that.
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Speaker 2: So it kind of sounds like that's what's happening. But
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Speaker 2: the answer the question, the arrow on this one is
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Speaker 2: pointing towards Otani as ruthless. Right, There's a lot going on,
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Speaker 2: like we are not getting the full story here. There's
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Speaker 2: a lot of people that are writing the coattails of
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Speaker 2: sho Haotani.
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Speaker 1: We're not getting what's really going on.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of people that are toe lickers, as
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Speaker 2: I like to call them, that are the beneficiaries of
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Speaker 2: the star power of Otani. But I'm just on the sidelines.
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Speaker 2: I'm just observing what's been going on the last couple
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Speaker 2: of years. Just looking at what's been going on. This
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Speaker 2: is another star that's got a lot of stuff going on.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of issues here and it's always been
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Speaker 2: that way. Like Michael Jordan was addicted to gambling. There
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Speaker 2: were some legendary stories that came out after Jordan played
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Speaker 2: for the Chicago Bulls about some of his dalliances with
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Speaker 2: the ladies. Babe Ruth was a legendary womanizer with the Yankees.
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Speaker 2: Barry Bonds was a complete douche and also like the Peds,
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Speaker 2: he blew himself up. Looked like a parade in the
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Speaker 2: Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. There thanks Thanksgiving Parade with Macy's,
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Speaker 2: and they all played and they had their careers and
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Speaker 2: all that. But everyone's got some dirt on them. Andy's
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Speaker 2: got some dirt on them. And I also believe everyone's
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Speaker 2: got multiple personality. No one's Mother Teresa all the time,
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Speaker 2: and no one's the devil all the time. Right, you're
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Speaker 2: somewhere in the middle and the guy that you see
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Speaker 2: hitting bombs and he had another home run. Dodgers suck,
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Speaker 2: so they lost to the pathetic Angels again, embarrassing. These
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Speaker 2: guys don't even care. More on that in a minute,
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Speaker 2: But it was about Autoni. So he had a home
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Speaker 2: run late Dodge. Of course, Bullpen came in and vomited
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Speaker 2: all over the mound and gave the game to.
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Speaker 1: The Angels and extra innings.
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Speaker 2: So Otani hits home run and you think he's reading
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Speaker 2: the fine print. So the argument is gonna be, well,
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Speaker 2: Tani's a big star and his agent took care of this,
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Speaker 2: and you think he's reading real estate contracts on Hawaiian
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Speaker 2: real estate. Come on, you think he's sitting there reading
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Speaker 2: the zoning laws for the big island of Hawaii. Of
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Speaker 2: course not please, right, So then they'll they'll argue he's
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Speaker 2: just clueless. He's just a dumb dumb is what they're
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Speaker 2: going to say. But you combine everything together and you
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Speaker 2: see patternicity. You see the lawsuit that took place, and
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Speaker 2: you can sue anyone for anything. There's also a gambling
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Speaker 2: scandal that was taking place while he was with the Angels,
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Speaker 2: and there's a buddy of his that's in jail for
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Speaker 2: a few years there, who took the hit on that?
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Speaker 2: And so Otani is looking like the teflon don.
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Speaker 1: In all this.
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Speaker 2: And the bigger point, and the point I'm trying to
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Speaker 2: get at, is he is so massive in that industry.
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Speaker 2: He's too big to fail. That Otani is the single
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Speaker 2: most important player in Major League Baseball in at least
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Speaker 2: fifty years, likely a lot longer than that. And you're
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Speaker 2: not letting a real estate deal doing Otani. You're not
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Speaker 2: letting a gambling scandal. I don't care if he's betting
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Speaker 2: seventeen parlays in the dugout. They're not gonna have Otani
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Speaker 2: go down for that. And so this will end up,
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Speaker 2: as I look into my crystal ball, it will end
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Speaker 2: up as a misunderstanding is a misunderstanding. There'll be some
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Speaker 2: kind of charity donation, and you'll see some commercials on
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Speaker 2: Major League Baseball broadcast. They'll call him a show he
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Speaker 2: or a loja show a and that they'll do that
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Speaker 2: whole thing. I learned one of my professors years ago.
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Speaker 2: There was a professor named Chris Carter. He may or
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Speaker 2: may not have played for the Minnesota Vikings, and he
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Speaker 2: taught me, Chris Carter taught me, you gotta have a
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Speaker 2: fall guy, gotta have a fall guy.
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Speaker 1: So guess what. The fall guy.
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Speaker 2: Originally was Otani's personal assistant, but he's translator guy. But
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Speaker 2: he's in jail so she can't use him again. So
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Speaker 2: let's see who's the fall guy gonna be. Let's do
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Speaker 2: some inventory. We'll look around. Who's the fall guy, and
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Speaker 2: let's see reveal answers, reveal answers. The fall guy here
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Speaker 2: is going to be anyone other than Otani, anyone and
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Speaker 2: everyone other than Otani. So will anything come of this?
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Speaker 2: I think I've made my point. I don't need to
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Speaker 2: flog the dead horse here. Not a damn thing will
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Speaker 2: come out of this. Otani will just smile and nod
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Speaker 2: his head and then go out and.
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Speaker 1: Hit fifty home runs. He's got forty three.
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Speaker 2: Home runs now, so hit fifty and the lawsuit will
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Speaker 2: go abra cadabra and will vanish like a my tie
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Speaker 2: at a traditional Hawaiian luau. Just gone see you later,
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Speaker 2: all right now, staying with the Dodgers, and we're gonna
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Speaker 2: get to the play on the field a minute. I
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Speaker 2: saw some other comments here. That got my attention in
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Speaker 2: recent days, and I wanted to bring them up. The
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Speaker 2: Dodgers have a shortstop, not a good one. You want
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Speaker 2: a two forty shortstop that sucks. Mookie Bets is your guy.
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Speaker 2: So Moogie Bets, who's been an abject failure for the
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Speaker 2: Los Angeles Dodgers. But in the LA media they won't
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Speaker 2: call him out on that. Guys like David Vasse will
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Speaker 2: kiss his ass. So Mookie Bets very disappointing here in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, and he said of this season he
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Speaker 2: was concerned about the Hall of Fame. He said, once
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Speaker 2: again in the Hall of Fame one day and this
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Speaker 2: will be a blemish on his Hall of Fame resume.
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Speaker 2: That was one of the quotes that Mookie Bets had recently.
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Speaker 2: How does that one hit you? All?
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Speaker 1: Right? So, Moki spoiler alert. If you're talking.
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Speaker 2: About the Hall of Fame right now, you have another
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Speaker 2: gazillion years on your Dodger contract, right and it's like
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Speaker 2: you're already shopping for a retirement condo in Boca and
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Speaker 2: you still got a job to do. Like the Hall
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Speaker 2: of Fame is last I heard Lifetime Achievement Award, and
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Speaker 2: that's for when you're sipping lemonade in the rocking chair
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Speaker 2: and you're sixty five years old and you're telling your grandkids,
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Speaker 2: back in my day, I went six for six at
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Speaker 2: Coors Field one day.
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Speaker 1: That's what you do.
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Speaker 2: Right now, you are in the middle of the Big
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Speaker 2: Blue Marathon and you are one of these central reasons
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Speaker 2: your team sucks. Mookie bets congratulations, and you're worrying about
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Speaker 2: the ribbon. You're running the marathon and you're just beginning
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Speaker 2: the marathon and you're worried about the finish line ribbon.
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Speaker 1: I wonder what color it is. Spoiler alert.
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Speaker 2: You still have thirteen point one miles to go. You're
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Speaker 2: halfway home, and let's I check. Baseball's not social media.
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Speaker 2: Nobody really cares if you look good in the snapshot.
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Speaker 1: They don't.
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Speaker 2: And it's think of it like a construction site. You
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Speaker 2: build your legacy brick by brick, right, brick by brick,
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Speaker 2: day by day, inning by inning, and you can also
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Speaker 2: tear apart your legacy at the same time. So you're
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Speaker 2: out there, Mookie, you're stressing because you're on the construction site.
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Speaker 2: You're worried about the blueprints while the cement truck hasn't
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Speaker 2: even parked yet. Your priorities are a little off on this,
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Speaker 2: and you know, it's like you're acting like a pilot
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Speaker 2: flying around. And the concern is while the in flight
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Speaker 2: movie has not started playing, it's supposed to play, but
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Speaker 2: yet you're in the cockpit and the plane losing altitude.
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Speaker 2: That's what's going on. The Dodger plane is losing altitude
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Speaker 2: right now, and you're worried about what the in flight
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Speaker 2: movie is and when it's gonna be played during the flight,
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Speaker 2: and so betts By, any way, you slice.
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Speaker 1: It is terrible. Listen, well, is he gonna be terrible forever?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 1: Right, I'm doing a show right now. Today. He sucks.
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Speaker 2: He's horrible, right, the worst season of his career, going
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Speaker 2: back to his days in Boston and the lowest ops
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Speaker 2: of his career. He's a two forty hitting shortstop who
14:29
Speaker 2: will often make mistakes on routine plays, and one hundred
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Speaker 2: points lower than his previous career low. So that's not
14:37
Speaker 2: even just a little bit worse. That's like, that's like
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Speaker 2: falling into the Grand Canyon. Is how bad that is?
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Speaker 2: And you've got to grind through the bad years like that.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's gonna be'd be great, and you're judged on the
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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame by your whole career and you don't
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Speaker 2: worry about it. And Willie Mays had bad years and
14:54
Speaker 2: Ricky Henderson had some very mid years and they still
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Speaker 2: got their little play black and sleepy Cooperstown. They got
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Speaker 2: that going for them. And you're worried about like a smudge,
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Speaker 2: Mookie Batcher, You're like, why a little smudge in my
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Speaker 2: suit here? And you're not even at the banquet, Like
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Speaker 2: you're not even there yet, So who cares? All? Right?
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Speaker 1: Now?
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Speaker 2: Final point? We go to New York City, the Big Apple.
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Speaker 2: A lot of chattering baseball because Pete Alonso the Polar Bear,
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Speaker 2: ended up breaking the New York Metropolitans franchise home run record.
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Speaker 2: As he said see a later straw and zoom past
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Speaker 2: Darryl Strawberry with career home run number two fifty three.
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Speaker 2: So Pete Alonzo has passed Darryl Strawberry by in the
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Speaker 2: Mets record book. However, has Pete Alonzo also passed Darryl
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Speaker 2: Strawberry by in the hearts minds of the met Fan?
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Speaker 2: Answer this like I'm playing Wheel of Fortune. I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: answer this like I'm playing Wheel of Fortune, so I'd
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Speaker 2: like an N, and can I buy a vowel? I
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Speaker 2: would like to buy an oh?
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Speaker 1: So I want an N. I want to buy a vowel.
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Speaker 2: I'd like to have an O and spariler alert put
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Speaker 2: those together, slap those together.
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Speaker 1: And that's what was that? Spell No? That spells It
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Speaker 1: spells no. That's what it's about.
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Speaker 2: No is what it'sst So Peter Alonzo is the Mets masher,
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Speaker 2: the monster Mets masher right now, He's at the top
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Speaker 2: of the record book. And isn't that special? Isn't that cute?
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Speaker 2: That's adorable, Peter Alonzo, mister home run derby guy, Pete Alonzo. However, however,
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Speaker 2: you do a side by side comparsion, you're talking about
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Speaker 2: Darryl Strawberry. Darrel Strawberry was not a great postseason player.
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Speaker 2: He hit one of the big home runs for the Mets,
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Speaker 2: if you remember, if you're old enough or you went
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Speaker 2: back and watch the eighty six playoffs.
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Speaker 1: But this is not a moment where you're passing the torch.
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Speaker 2: This is not Auberry symbolically passing the mantle to Peter Alonzo.
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Speaker 1: It's just not.
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Speaker 2: And it's like saying, well, broccoli is going to replace
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Speaker 2: donuts as a food that sells at the county Fair.
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Speaker 2: We're going to sell more broccoli this year than donuts.
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Speaker 2: Broccoli will be more popular. Well, no, obviously not. They're
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Speaker 2: not even the same food group for people to go
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Speaker 2: to the fair. And Peter Alonzo's broccoli, obviously, and strawberry
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Speaker 2: is a nice donut. And Daryl was not just a
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Speaker 2: guy hitting those home runs back, you know, a million
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Speaker 2: years ago. Forty ye, I can't believe it. Forty years
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Speaker 2: almost has been. But he well just hitting the home run.
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Speaker 2: Think about strawberry, and I'm not he sucked it with
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers.
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Speaker 1: It was embarrassing. He was doing more coke than hitting
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Speaker 1: the baseball when he was with the Dodgers.
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Speaker 2: But he was the straw Darrow Strawberry that stirred the
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Speaker 2: big apple cocktail.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he was it.
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Speaker 2: And you know he did everything, hit home runs, he'd
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Speaker 2: throw guys out, He you know, snorted cocaine off of
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Speaker 2: Hooker's took us the whole thing, playing for those eighty
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Speaker 2: eighty nineteen eighties Mets.
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Speaker 1: And uh, smooth swing, I just smooth.
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Speaker 2: Elegant watching Strawberry swing the bat and brought the drama tablet.
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Speaker 2: Him and Dwight Gooden. We're always in the tableaus, back
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Speaker 2: before social media. So and it's just the eighty six Mets.
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Speaker 2: They were parabolic, the eighty six Mets. Here and you
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Speaker 2: think about wild Bill Hitcock with a bat in his hands,
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Speaker 2: a mythical character there and a poker chip in the
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Speaker 2: other hand. And you got Daryl Strawberry. He was like
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Speaker 2: Donkey Kong, launching barrels for the for the Mets, and
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Speaker 2: he got the lines. And listen, Pete Scott as many
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Speaker 2: home runs as Strawberry. You know, he's a home run
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Speaker 2: king for the Mets right now and all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: I just look at him, like a lot of empty calories.
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Speaker 1: Is that fair? I think that's fair. There's a lot
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Speaker 1: of empty calories. Pet Alonso hitting home runs and.
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Speaker 2: He's like eating a big supersized box of Twinkies, Like,
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Speaker 2: all right, you ate the twinkies. That's good, it tastes good.
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Speaker 2: You're feeling pretty good at the moment you're eating them.
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Speaker 2: And then when you take some time and they settle
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Speaker 2: into your stomach and you're sitting there and you're wondering, man,
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Speaker 2: what did I eat, What did I do?
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Speaker 1: Like?
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Speaker 2: What is that the Mets have not reached the peak
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Speaker 2: of the mountains since nineteen eighty six the last that
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Speaker 2: eighty sixteen, the last time they went. Pete Alonzo was
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Speaker 2: born in nineteen ninety four, eight years after they had
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Speaker 2: their last championship as the Mets. And is he a
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Speaker 2: talented guy? Yes, of course, pet A Lonzo is a
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Speaker 2: talented player. And it's cool that he did a lot
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Speaker 2: of the home run derby's and all that stuff, where
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Speaker 2: a lot of these other a lot of these other
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Speaker 2: dingle Berries would not do it because they're are bosses
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Speaker 2: and Alonso would be in it, and that's great.
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Speaker 1: And has he hit some home runs in the playoffs? Sure?
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Speaker 1: Does he light up the room in the playoffs? Does he?
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Speaker 2: Does he have the fear factor ped A lions on
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Speaker 2: the pluff? No, not really, It's more like a lava lamp,
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Speaker 2: which does light up. There's a little bit of glow there. Yeah, nothing,
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Speaker 2: nothing magical. And so Strawberry, the point of all this,
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Speaker 2: he's still the king and still the guy that is
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Speaker 2: in Mets, the mythological part of the Mets. You know,
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Speaker 2: he's the guy that rides in on the white Horse, Darol, Strawberry,
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Speaker 2: and Pete. Alonzo's kind of the guy that shows up
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Speaker 2: to the Mets barbecue, the franchise barbecue. You got strawberry
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Speaker 2: We began here with the latest on the show. Haltani
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Speaker 2: real estate scandal. The real estate scandal, not to be
23:34
Speaker 2: confused with the gambling scandal that was last year. It's
23:37
Speaker 2: so last year. This is the real estate scandal. We
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Speaker 1: Radio in La? I'd be like a gambling.
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Speaker 2: What's the next scandal? Otani's going to be involved in
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Speaker 2: what will be the next show? Heltan he's got real
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Speaker 2: estate lawsuit, he's got gambling.
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Speaker 1: Happy ending massage.
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Speaker 2: Oh that's a good one, right, Oltani caught at a
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Speaker 2: massage parlor somewhere like Robert Kraft, the Patriots owner.
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Speaker 1: Dog fights? Oh that's Michael Vick. I don't know, do
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Speaker 1: I assume not anyway. All right, well there you go.
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Speaker 2: Joe writes in from Minnesota, says major League Baseball for Texotani.
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Speaker 2: No matter what, I don't trust him. I haven't since
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Speaker 2: the interpreter scandal. She says, what else? Do we have
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Speaker 2: Ben Okay, Well, yeah, you could say about anything if
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Speaker 1: Dude, I mean, you know he's not a lava lamp.
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Speaker 1: It to be anything at all.
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Speaker 2: H Jay Scoop says, Ben, with all due respect, keep
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Speaker 2: potato salad's name out of your f and mouth. Now
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Speaker 2: I hate potato salad, and no part of potato salad
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Speaker 2: sounds good.
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Speaker 1: I don't want any part of it. No, no, no
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Speaker 2: Late nidrugtest, it says. Not sure anyone should buy real
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Speaker 2: estate in Hawaii. You could lose it to a tsunami
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Speaker 2: or a volcano. Not a safe property purchase.
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Speaker 1: He says.
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Speaker 2: Also, don't take advice from Tom Looney, I think is
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Speaker 2: what he's getting out here in La No. Hawaii is beautiful,
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Speaker 2: and the way I look at it, there could be
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Speaker 2: bad things that happen anywhere. Like you live in the South,
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Speaker 2: there's hurricanes. You live in the Midwest, there's tornadoes. You
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Speaker 2: live on the West Coast, there's earthquakes. You live in Hawaii. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: there might be a tsunami or something like that, or
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Speaker 2: big storia, big storm whatever. You live in the Northeast,
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Speaker 2: there was hurricanes come up to the Northeast every once
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Speaker 2: in a while.
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Speaker 1: So anywhere you live, there's.
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Speaker 2: Nowhere completely safe. But you can't live scared. You can't
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Speaker 2: with the q's right since it says eight plus on.
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Speaker 1: The Mala molologue. I remember when my.
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Speaker 2: Four year old nephew was given potato salad. He didn't
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Speaker 2: want to try it. His mom told him it's made
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Speaker 2: from potatoes, just like French fries are. He picked up
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Speaker 2: a spoonful and said, why would anyone.
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Speaker 1: Do this to a potato? Yeah, it is me. It
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Speaker 1: is mutilation of the.
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Speaker 2: Potato is what it is, the potato salad, and I
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Speaker 2: will not stand for it. Problem.
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Speaker 1: The difference is it's covered in mayonnaise. It's wet, you know,
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Speaker 1: like it's not as starchy.
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Speaker 2: Just not the I don't like the texture. I don't
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Speaker 2: I don't want anythin that's disgusting. So I would like
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Speaker 2: to now address the Komodo dragon in the room, the
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Speaker 2: Blue Man Group, the La Dodgers, the Doyers. Now one
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Speaker 2: of the things that bothers me. There's a lot of
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Speaker 2: things that bother me. I'm a talk shows, so a
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Speaker 2: lot of things bother me. But in terms of the
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Speaker 2: Dodgers universe, here there is this arrogance that the Dodgers have,
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Speaker 2: and I know they won't the World Series and all that,
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Speaker 2: but it just drives me bonkers how good this team
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Speaker 2: could be, how good this team should be, and how
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Speaker 2: much they're none of those things right, They're just a
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Speaker 2: bad baseball team. And I have gone by the mantra
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Speaker 2: that you are what your record says you're. I didn't
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Speaker 2: come up with that, and Bill Parcells came up with that.
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Speaker 2: But you are with your records. It doesn't matter what
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Speaker 2: people wrote about you on the internet before the baseball
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Speaker 2: season and everyone gave you a shoulder rub and a
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Speaker 2: bubble bath because you got all the good players in
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Speaker 2: the offseason.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, we you know in the World's Three. It's
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Speaker 1: not about that. Uh, it's about what you actually do.
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Speaker 2: And if you go back to July fourth, fireworks in
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Speaker 2: the air everywhere July fourth. The Los Angeles Dodgers have
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Speaker 2: played thirty two games since July fourth, and they have
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Speaker 2: only won twelve of them. They're twelve and twenty. Now
27:47
Speaker 2: that's bad. How bad? Is it so bad? That the
27:51
Speaker 2: Atlanta Braves, the Colorado Rockies, the Washington Nationals, and the
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Speaker 2: Tampa Bay Rays are the only teams that have a
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Speaker 2: worse record since July fourth.
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Speaker 1: Then the Dodgers. That's it.
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Speaker 2: That's the big board, not unless Sarian England, that's the
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Speaker 2: big board.
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Speaker 1: So why are the Dodgers here? They're here because.
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Speaker 2: Everything Andrew Friedman touched in the offseason ended up on
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Speaker 2: the injury list.
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Speaker 1: Or that we just call the DL or whatever it's
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Speaker 1: got even know it's called. Now he woke.
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Speaker 2: They changed everything. But they're all hurt. Everyone's hurt, everyone
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Speaker 2: is hurt. My god, absolutely pathetic. But then you go
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Speaker 2: down point by point the greatest depth in the history
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Speaker 2: of baseball. The Dodgers here. They went out and signed
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Speaker 2: that bro I ain't playing that I get mine brow
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Speaker 2: Blake Snell, all right, Blake Snell, he got paid two time.
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Speaker 1: Saw you on winner.
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Speaker 2: Blake Snell, who has been squirreled in the basement of
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Speaker 2: the injury room at Dodgers Stadium. Malfeasance, Tyler Glass. Now
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Speaker 2: has there ever been a more appropriate name starting pitcher
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Speaker 2: than Glass?
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Speaker 1: Now?
29:01
Speaker 2: The man is made out of glass. Even Yoshinobu Yamamoto
29:08
Speaker 2: has not been as good as he was advertised to be.
29:13
Speaker 2: And no team, no team in baseball, has mastered Tommy
29:18
Speaker 2: John surgery more than the Dodgers. All right, then you
29:22
Speaker 2: go through the lineup, you've got chronic underachieving. Freddie Freeman
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Speaker 2: has been spotty, Mookie Betts has been stealing money.
29:33
Speaker 1: And then you go down.
29:35
Speaker 2: Through the bullpen, which is just god awful. They suck
29:42
Speaker 2: any way you slice the bullpen. Tanner Scott, holy crap,
29:47
Speaker 2: is he you talk? Four year, seventy two million dollar contract.
29:51
Speaker 2: He leads baseball and blown saves the Dodgers. They they
29:55
Speaker 2: had another blown save in the game against the Angels
29:59
Speaker 2: a few hours ago. Go the Dodgers have one of
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Speaker 2: the I don't think it's the highest, but it's like
30:04
Speaker 2: right near the top, and blown saves right near the top,
30:07
Speaker 2: and blown saves and the bullpen is in the bottom
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Speaker 2: half of baseball. They are a fundamentally stupid baseball team.
30:16
Speaker 2: That's Dave Roberts. They're terrible defensively. If you really want
30:20
Speaker 2: to get on base against the Dodgers, you hit the
30:22
Speaker 2: ball to the left side.
30:23
Speaker 1: If you watch the.
30:23
Speaker 2: Dodgers, Max Munsey is the worst defensive third baseman, has
30:28
Speaker 2: the lowest fueling percentage among all qualified third basemen since
30:32
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 1: It's been three years.
30:35
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts not only does he not hit, he makes
30:39
Speaker 2: up for that by being a shoddy defensive player, though
30:42
Speaker 2: the numbers don't say he's shot.
30:44
Speaker 1: He watched the games. Watch the games.
30:46
Speaker 2: And then here's another Andrew Friedman pick up, Michael Conforto,
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Speaker 2: who must have photos. Conforto must have photos of Andrew
30:55
Speaker 2: Friedman and Dave Roberts in a compromising position. Conforto is
31:02
Speaker 2: Italian for can't hit the baseball? My god, is he horrible?
31:06
Speaker 2: And why is he always in every time I turn
31:08
Speaker 2: on Gain, Oh, there's duo, Michael Conforto.
31:12
Speaker 1: Why he only signed a one year contract.
31:16
Speaker 2: I don't care that he hit a bunch of home
31:17
Speaker 2: runs for the New York Mets in twenty eighteen. It's
31:21
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five right now, and Conforto is horrifically bad.
31:26
Speaker 2: He's hitting under two hundred. Well, you're a boomer. Betting
31:29
Speaker 2: average doesn't matter. Okay, how about the fact that he's
31:33
Speaker 2: played in over one hundred games, he's got nine home
31:35
Speaker 2: runs and he's a power guy.
31:38
Speaker 1: Conforto sucks terrible. You go down.
31:43
Speaker 2: I mean, I can keep going here. And you don't
31:45
Speaker 2: want to hear me rant about this. I mean, this
31:48
Speaker 2: is a brutal. They're fundamentally poor defensively, they have a
31:52
Speaker 2: bad bullpen. They're a bad situational hitting team. What is
31:56
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts doing? What? Seriously, they just so good. They
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Speaker 2: just show up by we'll play ball there, and they
32:02
Speaker 2: don't care. That's the other thing, like they just they've
32:04
Speaker 2: got that I use the word I used the other day, Hubris,
32:08
Speaker 2: they've got that Dodger arrogance. You know that lo de
32:12
Speaker 2: da auted. Oh, we'll be fine, we'll be fine. And
32:17
Speaker 2: even if they are fine, I don't care. I don't
32:19
Speaker 2: want to hear it. I don't like the smarmy arrogance.
32:22
Speaker 2: I can't stand it. I can't uh and I mean
32:27
Speaker 2: you go just all the way down the roster. They
32:32
Speaker 2: didn't do anything to improve the team at the trade deadline.
32:35
Speaker 2: They fell on one of the oldest crutches, the Dodgers. Well,
32:38
Speaker 2: we are going to be fine because we've got guys
32:40
Speaker 2: coming back from the injured list.
32:42
Speaker 1: That is what teams that are not trying to win
32:44
Speaker 1: that aren't all in. The Dodgers.
32:46
Speaker 2: I'm not saying they're not all in. They spent a
32:48
Speaker 2: ton of money in the off season. Most of us
32:49
Speaker 2: deferred but that was a vote of no conference. Despite
32:54
Speaker 2: what the front office of the Dodgers has said that hey,
32:57
Speaker 2: we're we're gonna be fine, the fact that they didn't
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Speaker 2: go out and fortify the big league roster in any
33:02
Speaker 2: meaningful way tells you they know internally this is not
33:06
Speaker 2: a championship team.
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Speaker 1: And it's not. It's not a championship team.
33:11
Speaker 2: The expectations were insane, with all the star power and
33:14
Speaker 2: all that. A team that went for it, the Podres,
33:18
Speaker 2: the San Diego Padres, who tore down half the roster
33:24
Speaker 2: and the middle of season and now they've caught you
33:28
Speaker 2: in the standings. And another thing, the organizational philosophy. I
33:34
Speaker 2: could do two hours on this three I could do
33:35
Speaker 2: a whole show. The other thing about that drives me
33:38
Speaker 2: nuts about the Dodgers is their philosophy is not go
33:42
Speaker 2: above and beyond the call of duty.
33:43
Speaker 1: Do the bare minimum, do the bear ef in minimum.
33:47
Speaker 1: That's the Dodgers.
33:49
Speaker 2: The Soreta's rolling over in his grid, that's the Dodgers,
33:51
Speaker 2: the modern Dodgers. Look at the starting pitching the Dodgers.
33:57
Speaker 2: I don't know if the numbers still ackerate. I look
33:59
Speaker 2: the other day because I was I was screaming at
34:02
Speaker 2: my phone when I was watching the Dodger game and
34:04
Speaker 2: I was looking at some of the numbers the Dodgers
34:07
Speaker 2: starters as of a few days ago. Were you know
34:11
Speaker 2: where they ranked in innings per start?
34:15
Speaker 1: Dead last? Do you know why not? Because they not?
34:20
Speaker 2: Because they can't pitch longer in games, because the philosophy
34:23
Speaker 2: of the organization is due to the baremenhim And every
34:25
Speaker 2: year the Dodgers say, well, we're gonna solve this injury problem.
34:29
Speaker 1: We are gonna solve this thing.
34:31
Speaker 2: And they lead baseball in trips to the injury list
34:34
Speaker 2: every f and year.
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Speaker 1: That's the Dodgers. So there you go. I hope you
34:40
Speaker 1: enjoyed that.
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Speaker 2: as the only play to hit into a triple play. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: Willie Davis and Blank is the only players to hit
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Speaker 2: into a triple play and also hit a go ahead
36:54
Speaker 2: home run in the ninth inning or later of the
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Speaker 2: same game in the expansion era. That's since nineteen sixty one.
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Speaker 2: That is the question. What is the answer? Let's see
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Speaker 2: does anyone know the answer? Let's see page down e
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Speaker 2: t Yes by Alf the Alien o'piner.
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Speaker 1: That's his answer.
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Speaker 2: the Bopper. Mike Mussina from Shane in Des Moines. Al
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Speaker 2: Klon guests by William Elloy from Compton going with Bill
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Speaker 2: Miller's childhood hero.
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Speaker 1: Jumbo Brown as the answer.
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Speaker 2: If you want to feel old, late late night drug
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Speaker 2: that Atlanta Brave hero of the Championship days back in
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Speaker 2: the nineties, Mark Lemke is sixty years old today, So
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Speaker 2: happy birthday to Mark Lemkey. Jay Scoop or Jay Potato
38:02
Speaker 2: Salad says Andre's dog. Willie McGee is the answer, Rob
38:08
Speaker 2: says Robbie, the Minnesota Vikings male cheerleader. That's from the
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Speaker 2: goat Man. Walt Disney guests by Milkman Mike.
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Speaker 1: Who else?
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Speaker 2: I see Manuel from Guardina going with Darryl Thomas as
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Speaker 2: his answer.
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Speaker 1: Trucker Joe says, you gotta have a fall guy.
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Speaker 2: It's Dick Tracy Brook Jacoby Indians legend from basity, Tony,
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Speaker 2: what say.
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Speaker 1: You the right? I'm going with Shakespeare.
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Speaker 2: Shakespeare he was Shakespeare had a couple of good years
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Speaker 2: played for the Reds back in the in the sixties. No,
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Speaker 2: that's incorrect. Correct answer is.
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Speaker 1: Oh, Henry Henry Rodriguez, a.
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Speaker 2: Hero for the Montreal Exos back in two thousand, So
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Speaker 2: it's Otani Henry Rodriguez.
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Speaker 1: Willie Davis only Willie Davis's team one. Here we go,
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Speaker 1: Here we go the game?
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Speaker 4: My pet grilled?
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Speaker 1: All right, cooboloo.
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Speaker 5: The Athletic has released their latest quarterback rankings, compiled from
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Speaker 5: a panel of GMS coaches and other executives. They have
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Speaker 5: Brock Purty at number fourteen. Now, some are looking at
39:09
Speaker 5: that as a snub. Do you think that's about right
39:11
Speaker 5: for Perdy?
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Speaker 1: I would say it's too high for Brock party.
39:16
Speaker 2: He does not have pinpoint accuracy, he does not have
39:19
Speaker 2: great mobility. Those things are put together based on your
39:23
Speaker 2: skill set, and he doesn't elevate his teammates.
39:27
Speaker 1: It's the other way around.
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Speaker 2: So I think that's very generous to have him a
39:31
Speaker 2: system quarterback that high.
39:34
Speaker 1: I think that's a little much. Actually, it's too high.
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Speaker 5: Next, for the first time in the school's history, Texas
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Speaker 5: is the AP preseason number one. Do you think they
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Speaker 5: are deserving of the ranking or is this just arch
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Speaker 5: manning hype? Well, it's the whole preseason ranking thing is dumb.
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Speaker 5: It's all about I know they do it for TV,
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Speaker 5: the razzle dazzle. Nobody knows anything, and Texas has had
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Speaker 5: a lot of hype and arch Manning is very important
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Speaker 5: to the business of college football, so that's why they
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Speaker 5: did it. Next, Warber continues to light it up for
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Speaker 5: the Phillies, and now twenty games over five hundred, they're
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Speaker 5: ahead of the Mats in the NLY is a comfortable lead, Ben,
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Speaker 5: Do you think Scharburn has any chance of challenging Otani
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Speaker 5: for the MVP?
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Speaker 2: No, he's He's a better offensive player this year than Otani.
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Speaker 2: He's second in home runs in RBIs, But no Otan.
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Speaker 2: He's because of the pitching stuff.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna win. How do we do? What do we do?
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Speaker 1: What do we do?
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Speaker 2: How do we do?
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Speaker 1: That's a pass I won. Of course I won.