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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Mahler Show on
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  Speaker 1: But if you do not like baseball, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a tough night for you to listen to this show.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a tough night. Call me an ahole,
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  Speaker 1: call me a schmuck, call me every name in the book.
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  Speaker 1: I don't give a crap. I love trades. I can't
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  Speaker 1: get enough of traits. We've got traits, trades up to wazu.
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  Speaker 1: Now are they all sexy? Hell no, most of them blow.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. They're trades. They're fun to think about
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  Speaker 1: what could be after the trade deadline has come and gone.
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  Speaker 1: Now it ended at six pm Eastern Time on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: and we are left in the autopsy room to do
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  Speaker 1: the post mortem on the twenty twenty six MLB trade deadline,
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  Speaker 1: there will be no more transactions, no more transactions. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: that's right, it's all over, all over. So our lead
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  Speaker 1: this out. Where do you think I'm gonna go with this?
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  Speaker 1: You kind of gave it away already. We're gonna start
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  Speaker 1: out in Detroit, that's right, Motown, that is where after.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that the number was forty eight trades in
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  Speaker 1: the last twenty eight hours before the deadline. Forty eight trades.
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  Speaker 1: That seems like a lot. It's high volume, high volume
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  Speaker 1: trade deadline. And yet despite all of that activity, the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees made to move the Phillies, the Coubs, the Padres,
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  Speaker 1: Angels unloaded a couple of spare parts. Dodgers got a
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  Speaker 1: couple of catchers that suck because they needed more guys
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  Speaker 1: that suck behind the plate, so they said we get
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  Speaker 1: two that suck. And the Giants made some giveaway trades.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a bunch of activity. And yet the thing
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  Speaker 1: that everyone is still yapping about, because we do broadcasting,
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  Speaker 1: not narrow casting, is the trade that happened involving the
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  Speaker 1: ace in Detroit. If you've not heard the latest on this,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps not the Tigers president of Baseball ops. We used
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  Speaker 1: to call it GM. But then the general managers complained.
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  Speaker 1: They said, well that's a week title. We want a
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  Speaker 1: big corporate title. Okay, we'll give you a big corporate
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  Speaker 1: title President of Baseball Ops, which is just GM with
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  Speaker 1: a better title. So Scott Harris, that's the bozo in
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  Speaker 1: charge of the Detroit baseball team. He has spent the
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  Speaker 1: last twenty four hours defending his strategy in saying bye
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  Speaker 1: bye to the ace Trek Scouble, sending him outbound, decommissioning
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  Speaker 1: Schooble from the MotorCity Kies. Now Harris swore, seemingly on
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Bible that Trek Schouble the trade market had
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  Speaker 1: a genuine bidding war. There was a bidding war for
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  Speaker 1: the pitcher Schooble, multiple teams, multiple teams, increasing their offers
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  Speaker 1: right up until the last moment there until they reached
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  Speaker 1: what they described an almost audible pain. Oh the drama.
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  Speaker 1: Detroit ultimately, as we know, decided that they wanted a
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  Speaker 1: tax break, so they donated Terrek Scuble to the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: in a tax deductible donation. Saved some money on their
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  Speaker 1: taxes there for a couple of minor leaguers. Harris is
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  Speaker 1: getting absolutely cooked at this particular point for this, and
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  Speaker 1: he rejected the widespread, nearly universal criticism that the Tigers
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  Speaker 1: should have waited until you know, the actual deadline and
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  Speaker 1: not trade him on Saturday night when they could have
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  Speaker 1: traded him, I don't know on Monday at five fifty
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  Speaker 1: nine Eastern time. He wanted to know part of that
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  Speaker 1: the again universal opinion that Tigers should have waited, could
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  Speaker 1: have waited, would have been better off waiting until the deadline,
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  Speaker 1: calling the idea they could have extracted significantly more value
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  Speaker 1: quote garbage. He used the word garbage, the executive of
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  Speaker 1: the Tigers, saying the best offers had already been made.
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  Speaker 1: The full quote is respectively, respectfully, rather respectfully. The notion
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  Speaker 1: that we should have waited twenty four to forty eight
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  Speaker 1: hours later to and extracted more value, Harris said, that's garbage.
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  Speaker 1: That's not how these negotiations work. Close quote all right,
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  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question for the esteem panel. What do you
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  Speaker 1: make of the big kahuna there? The Tigers executive Scott
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  Speaker 1: Harris defending the wisdom of not waiting to the deadline
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  Speaker 1: and unloading Terrek Scooble a couple of days before the
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  Speaker 1: deadline on Saturday night, the deadline on Monday, sending him
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  Speaker 1: to the Dodgers in a tax deductible donation. So I've
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  Speaker 1: got nineteen nineties sports illustrated, San Juan Capistrano and eucalyptus,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we will put the biscuit in the basket. Is what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to do. The biscuit in the basket. Now
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  Speaker 1: A this Tiger's executive. All these guys are, They're all
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  Speaker 1: the same. I was watching the Cubs Dodgers game. I
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  Speaker 1: don't like the Dodger broadcaster, so I was watching the
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  Speaker 1: Cubs feed and Jed Hoyer, the general manager of the Cubs,
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  Speaker 1: was in there. Weasel. They're all weasels. Pop goes to weasel.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, Scott Harris defending the Trek Scooble trade is
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of like the mayor announcing listen. I know
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of potholes, but let me tell you something. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: these potholes, they're part of the charm of our city. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they destroy your car and it costs you thousands of
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  Speaker 1: dollars in repairs. But it's part of the charm. They build, character,
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  Speaker 1: the potholes they do, they build. It's like saying, you
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  Speaker 1: learn more from a loss. Okay, then lose every The
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland Brash would be the smartest team in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: He lose every freaking game. The Jets apparently doesn't work
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  Speaker 1: that way. Apparently hasn't worked that way. I know we're
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  Speaker 1: talking in baseball. I cross sports. Bad job by me,
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  Speaker 1: I cross sports, shame on me. So the whole premise
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  Speaker 1: of the Tigers said, well, no, that's not how these
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  Speaker 1: things work. You know, like again, we're smarter than you.
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  Speaker 1: You just gave away a reigning Cy Young picture for
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  Speaker 1: a bag of beans. So good you'll be farting congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you got for your sighing picture. But this
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  Speaker 1: response by the Tigers executive, it's hotels dot com pitchman,
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  Speaker 1: like back in the day, Captain obvious. Right, what else
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  Speaker 1: is he going to say? Can you imagine if the
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  Speaker 1: Tiger's executive announced, listen, I panicked, we all panicked. I blinked.
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  Speaker 1: I handed LA another cheat code. Bad job by me.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's what he could have said, and maybe he
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  Speaker 1: should have said. If he wanted to lose his job, right,
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  Speaker 1: come on, admitting regret in that business is career suicide.
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  Speaker 1: It just is. You can't do that. And so he's
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  Speaker 1: currently handing out complimentary earplugs to Detroit fans wearing the
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  Speaker 1: old English d while the natives are banging on pots
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  Speaker 1: and pans making all kinds of a ruckus. It's classic
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  Speaker 1: GM one oh one is what it is. You make
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  Speaker 1: the deal, you smile to the cameras, you nod to
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  Speaker 1: the scribes, and you claim that you won this intense
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  Speaker 1: bidding war and all that stuff. He was never ever
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  Speaker 1: Scott Harris, the Tiger executive, never ever going to hold
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  Speaker 1: court at a news conference and admit, yeah, the Detroit
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  Speaker 1: Tigers just got fleeced like a nineteen nineties Sports Illustrated giveaway.
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  Speaker 1: They're not gonna say that. This is just the sports
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  Speaker 1: equivalent of It's like when politicians investigate themselves and find
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  Speaker 1: no wrongdoing. How is it? I can't believe it. They
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  Speaker 1: found nothing wrong. It's amazing. The real verdict will not
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  Speaker 1: come from any polished spin or spin cycle from a executive.
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  Speaker 1: That's not how that works. It'll come in time and
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  Speaker 1: we will see if those Dodger minor leaguers either turn
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  Speaker 1: out to be good players or star players or just footnotes,
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  Speaker 1: and the odds say that we won't remember any of
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  Speaker 1: their names. That's it, and schoolball. Will he actually help
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers win that third straight World Series and then
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  Speaker 1: we can go back and judge. Remember, the trades often
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  Speaker 1: look great at the time with these minor leaguers because
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  Speaker 1: everyone projects them to be amazing. You go back and
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  Speaker 1: look at some of these trades that have happened, like
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  Speaker 1: the Mookie Bets trade. We talked about that in a
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  Speaker 1: previous episode of the show. One of the guys is
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  Speaker 1: out of baseball, another one of the guys is in
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  Speaker 1: the Japanese League, and the third player that the Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox got is their backup catcher. That's what they got
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  Speaker 1: for Hall of Famer Mookie Betts. Doesn't seem like that's
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  Speaker 1: a fair return, but at the time, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: it's amazing. Meanwhile, speaking of that, to San Diego, we
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  Speaker 1: Go and the Podras made two upgrades to their starting
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  Speaker 1: staff at the deadline. They acquired Robbie Ray and Casey Mize.
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  Speaker 1: Those two transactions taking place one from the Giants. Robbie
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  Speaker 1: Ray so a divisional trade. And then the Detroit Tigers
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  Speaker 1: as Casey mis former top draft pick few years ago,
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  Speaker 1: goes to the San Diego baseball team. They did not
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  Speaker 1: make a blockbuster trade. They didn't sell, they added, they
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  Speaker 1: bought players at the deadline. Here and yet again, another
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  Speaker 1: aggressive time for the Padres, which led to the general
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  Speaker 1: manager Aj Preller in San Diego getting absolutely bludgeoned by
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  Speaker 1: the Dorks. Dark to dark dark dark. Yeah, the Dorks
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  Speaker 1: are really upset that yet again, the San Diego Baseball
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  Speaker 1: team traded away premium prospects. Oh my god, now you losers.
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  Speaker 1: So Preller defending the move, obviously's gonna defend the move, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to win. Now, that's offensive. That is offensive
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  Speaker 1: rhetoric to the wolksters, the baseball wolksters. They're offended. You're
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  Speaker 1: trying to win. Oh my god, you should not be
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  Speaker 1: trying to Wait, what about the longtime? So upset? What
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  Speaker 1: about the long term? Anyway? So they said, hey, we're
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  Speaker 1: trying to maximize the Potteris mantra is, We're trying to
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  Speaker 1: maximize this. They've got these forever contracts with that steroid
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  Speaker 1: cheat Fernando Tatis Junior and the malcontent Manny Machado. So
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to actually win a championship for those guys
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  Speaker 1: are not a thousand years old anyway. So Preller continues
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  Speaker 1: his longstanding willingness to some say recklessly get rid of talent,
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  Speaker 1: minor league talent to improve the major league team, which
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  Speaker 1: is not good for those that are obsessed with prospects.
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  Speaker 1: So the question do the Podres deserve to be bashed?
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  Speaker 1: There's general manager, in the front office and all that
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  Speaker 1: for recklessly trading away prospects. So on this one, I'm
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  Speaker 1: giving it side eye is what I'm giving it. Here.
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  Speaker 1: This story has now popped up with three four years
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  Speaker 1: in a row. Three four years in a row. It's
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  Speaker 1: like the Swallows returning to San Juan Capistrano. The performative
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  Speaker 1: outrage of social media over the Podres trading away prospects
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  Speaker 1: has become Baseball's most predictable annual ritual. At the trade
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  Speaker 1: deadline every July or in this case, August, the Prospect Society,
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  Speaker 1: that's what we call it, the Prospect Protection Society, acts
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  Speaker 1: as if these minor leaguers are priceless museum pieces instead
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  Speaker 1: of what they really are, which is currency. They are
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  Speaker 1: a tool and if you don't believe that you're a
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  Speaker 1: tool bag, they're a tool to improve the major league team.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they are, right And this spoiler alerts spoiler
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  Speaker 1: lart the objective. I know it's going to shock you.
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  Speaker 1: And this is really It surprised me when I had
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  Speaker 1: the Age of reason, the age of reason when I
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  Speaker 1: learned and I was old when I learned this, because
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  Speaker 1: I used to love prospects, so I was dumb. I
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  Speaker 1: was a dumb person. I believed every minor leagueer was
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  Speaker 1: going to live up to the hype. And then I
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  Speaker 1: had the Age of reason and I realized that the
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  Speaker 1: objective is not to win Baseball America's minor league rankings.
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  Speaker 1: It is not. It is not to collect the most
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  Speaker 1: top one hundred prospects in the minor league system. It's
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  Speaker 1: to win the game. As HERM Edwards hold NFL coaching,
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  Speaker 1: you play to win the game. That's it. Prospects are
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  Speaker 1: suspects until proven otherwise, every man, woman, and child, you
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  Speaker 1: know that by now. And while Robbie Ray and Casey
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  Speaker 1: Mize are actual big league pitchers, granted average to slightly
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  Speaker 1: above average or in the case of mice below average
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  Speaker 1: pictures who they can't help you in theory, they can
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  Speaker 1: help you. They can help you in the big league level.
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  Speaker 1: There and if your window is open and they believe
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  Speaker 1: it is. In San Diego, you don't admire the bricks
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  Speaker 1: in the garage. You know, well, those are some good
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  Speaker 1: looking bricks, really good. You use them, you finish the house.
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  Speaker 1: You finish the house, and you get that done. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: And so here I am defending aj Preller. I like it.
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  Speaker 1: I want my teams to do that. Whatever team I like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want a whole case. Are the prospects shut
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  Speaker 1: them up your I can't say tuck us. I can
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  Speaker 1: say that, right, tuck us. Fun word tuck us. I
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  Speaker 1: can say tuckus, tuckas, tuckis Tuckers, Tuckas. I just said
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  Speaker 1: it a bunch of times. So the critics who obsess
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  Speaker 1: and be let's be fun to bash the Podrace. I
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  Speaker 1: like the Dodgers. It's fun to bash the Potters, But
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  Speaker 1: on this one, I can't do it. Those that obsess
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  Speaker 1: over the fact that San Diego might lose five years
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  Speaker 1: from now because they traded player X to try to
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  Speaker 1: win right now, you're missing the entire point of what
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  Speaker 1: this is in professional sports, the future exists. To improve
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  Speaker 1: the present or go. The minor leaguers are to improve
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  Speaker 1: the present. You don't just sit there and hold on
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  Speaker 1: to them and collecting dust. That's not what you do,
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  Speaker 1: all right now, last word to Anaheim. The Angels. Did
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  Speaker 1: they trade Mike Trout? Hell no, but they made a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of trades. The Angels conducted what is being described
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  Speaker 1: as a fire sale by some, a sell off at
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six MLB trade deadline, a a dramatic change,
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  Speaker 1: some are saying from years past with Ardi Marino the
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  Speaker 1: interim GM, the interim GM was allowed to reset the
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  Speaker 1: roster in many ways, and John Mosaic, the former Cardinals
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  Speaker 1: general managers of the interim GIM and Anaheim among those
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  Speaker 1: excommunicated from the heavenly body of Angels Baseball. Joe Adell
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  Speaker 1: bye bye, he going. Catcher Logan o'hapi was traded last
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  Speaker 1: week as starter. Jose Soriato went to Canada oh CODAA
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  Speaker 1: with the Blue Jays, and a gaggle of relief pitchers
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  Speaker 1: were also relocated. The Halos traded away seven major league
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  Speaker 1: players in the days around the deadline. So we did
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  Speaker 1: some malor math on that they dumped almost thirty percent
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  Speaker 1: of their major league roster. They got rid of almost
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  Speaker 1: thirty percent of their major league roster, sending them to
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  Speaker 1: tim buck to and beyond. And they of course dispatch
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  Speaker 1: mostly roster spam, mostly roster spam, and some packing peanuts.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they got rid of there. The surprising part
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  Speaker 1: is that Ardi Marino allowed the interim general manager John
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  Speaker 1: Mosaic to wheel and deal like this. That to me
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  Speaker 1: is the interesting part here. Now, the only name that
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  Speaker 1: raised any kind of eyebrows is outfielder Joe Adell going
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  Speaker 1: to Cleveland, a team named after a bridge. They used
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  Speaker 1: to be named after the Indian you know, Cleveland Indians,
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  Speaker 1: but then the Wolkesters got involved. No, no, no, no, you're
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  Speaker 1: the Bridges. You're not bridges, and so okay we be
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  Speaker 1: called the Guardian Bridge. Sure, why not? Nothing is better
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  Speaker 1: than a bridge bridge to nowhere, which is Cleveland Baseball anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So get to the point, please, So the Cleveland baseball
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  Speaker 1: team got their guy. Big picture, the Angels did not
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  Speaker 1: trade Mike Trout. They did not trade reed Detmeers, although
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  Speaker 1: he was supposed to go to the Cubs, and then
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  Speaker 1: that fell apart. That fell apart, and Zach was not
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  Speaker 1: traded either. So those three guys were all rumored to
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  Speaker 1: be traded, they were not traded at the deadline, so
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  Speaker 1: it was not a full demo job. The big one
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  Speaker 1: is the outfielder. So let's let's use that the question
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  Speaker 1: what is the lesson? Give me the lesson from the
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  Speaker 1: Joe Adele experience at the Big A in Anaheim. So
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  Speaker 1: Joe Adell is exactly what I'm talking about. And I
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  Speaker 1: have taken a strong anti prospect position for years and
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  Speaker 1: Joe Adele, I feel like, is the perfect example to
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  Speaker 1: give to the judge in the court to decide this case.
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  Speaker 1: So Joe Deell was the tenth overall pick in the
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen baseball Draft. By all accounts, all of the
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  Speaker 1: baseball nerds said, this guy is blue chip, blue chippy,
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  Speaker 1: chip chip, can't miss. They treated him like a picasso
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  Speaker 1: of minor league talent. Could do everything, could do everything,
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  Speaker 1: Joe doubt well. It turned out, now that he's been
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  Speaker 1: in the major leagues for a number of years, he's
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  Speaker 1: more of a paint by numbers set that you picked
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  Speaker 1: up at a garage sale that's missing several colors, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: and he was, I guess another way to look at it.
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  Speaker 1: He was like a startup that needed venture capital, promising
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  Speaker 1: that they were going to become Amazon, the next Amazon,
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  Speaker 1: and the only thing they did was sell eucalyptus scented
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  Speaker 1: candles on Etsy. Even though they had venture capital to
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  Speaker 1: become the next Amazon, the only thing they actually sold
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  Speaker 1: was eucalyptus scented Campbell's candles there on Etsy. So sure,
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  Speaker 1: Joey Dell did tease you lumberjack power at thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: home runs last year on a bad team, Spider Man
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  Speaker 1: like catches three home run robberies in one game earlier
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  Speaker 1: this season against the Mariners. But too many fatal flaws,
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  Speaker 1: too many fatal flaws. And so instead of trading you
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  Speaker 1: realize what the Angels could have gotten for Joe Adell
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  Speaker 1: when everyone was hyping up as God's gift to the
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  Speaker 1: future face of baseball type guy. The Angels at his
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  Speaker 1: peak could have gotten a number two starting pitcher that
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  Speaker 1: in theory and I believe in the multiverse, if the
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  Speaker 1: Angels had just traded Joe Adell, let's say, in like
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two to get a front line starting pitcher.
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  Speaker 1: Then in that dimension, Otani stays with the Angels with Trout,
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  Speaker 1: they make the playoffs, maybe win around in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: win the wild card round, and instead Ardi Marino in
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  Speaker 1: the Angels brass and all this Joe Adell's too good,
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  Speaker 1: he's a prospect. We're gonna keep him. Oh, this guy's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be great. So they wanted to protect the future,
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  Speaker 1: and now this is the great The reality is, if
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  Speaker 1: they'd done it, then they would have got like a
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  Speaker 1: number two starting pitcher for Jo Adell. Now they traded
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  Speaker 1: him for what is a guy projected to be a
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  Speaker 1: backup catcher in the major league exact Jacob Cozart is
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: this guy's name, and so he's projected to be a
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: backup catcher in the major leagues. So smart franchises, the
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: ones that know what they do, what they're doing here,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: they trade the idea of a savior before that savior
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: turns out to be a pumpkin. Okay, And the Angels
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: didn't do that, And so Jodell is the poster child
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: at this particular point for the dumbest religion in sport,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: trusting prospects, believing the hype on prospects. It's a three
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: card Monty game, is what it is. So Joydell again,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, twenty twenty two, could have
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: got a number two starting pitcher for Joydell as the
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: key player in the trade. The Angels waited. They just
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: traded a mid season here a few years later for
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: a guy projected to be a backup catcher. You can't
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: pick this up so bad, It's so freaking bad.
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  Speaker 1: So our leave this hour continuing our in depth all
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: nineteen coverage of the trade deadline we go to Atlanta
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: where the Braves, the Bravos tried to add a front
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: line starting pitcher to make a run and the Big
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Bad Dodgers and the Brew Crew in the National League.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: The Braves tried to make that splash move. Keyword there
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: is tried. They attempted to acquire Jacob de Gram. Jacob
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: de Gram Atlanta reached out to the Rangers. A told
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the Rangers, listen, we would like to get the two
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: time former met Cy Young winner before the trade deadline.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Did see this at all? You didn't see this? Okay,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: maybe you missed it. So Texas was willing to trade
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: to Gram. They were more than happy to get rid
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: of him. And from what we have heard, the Rangers
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: told Jacob de Gram and his agent that they had
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: a deal in place. All he had to do was
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: sign the DOCU sign and agree to waive his no
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: trade clause and he would be off to Atlanta, down
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the yellow brick road to Atlanta and they would complete
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the trade. At all the framework lined up for the
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: deal and that's all that needed to happen. Okay, fine,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: De Gram said, it's nay on the trade. A. I
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: ain't going to Georgia apparently has a problem with Peaches.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to go there, so he rejected it,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: and he said, I ain't doing that. He told Texas
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: this is my favorite part of the story. The level
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: of bull crap is next level. He said that he
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: told the Rangers he wanted to stay with them because
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: he believes in the organization and wants to continue trying
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: to win there. Pointed out, I signed a contract. I
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: want to win here. I want to win here, all right,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: discuss the question for the panel, and you're part of
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: the panel. As our trade deadline post mortem coverage continues
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: all night. Jacob de Gram invoking his no trade clause
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: to veto a trade to the Atlanta Braves in order
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: to stay with the sad sack Texas Rangers. How does
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: that hit you? All right? So I've got Sumo, vending machine,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: and deliverance, and we will combine all of these things
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: together and we'll give you the A, B. C's is
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: what we're going to give you, the ab SS. Now,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: we'll also give you the numbers. And what number do
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: we love more than any other? Number? Jumped and done?
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Number one one one one. What fun So Jacob de
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Gram invoking his no trade clause to stay in Texas.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: This is what we call quantum physics. Why are you
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: talking about quantum physics. It's overnight radio, moron. Let me
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: explain quantum physics or go. That means that there are
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: two realities existing at once, two realities right now. On
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: one hand, de Gram absolutely has a full no trade clause.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: That is a gift by the Texas Rangers. They didn't
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: have to give him that. They gave him the full
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: no trade clause. And so it's his right to say
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I don't want to play here, there and anywhere. That's fine. However,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: remember quantum physics, two realities at once, that is his right.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: It also looks horrendous, It looks terrible. The guide chose
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: comfort over competition, and that goes against the ethos of sports.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: And that's Jacob de Grom. That's it. De Grom claims
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: that he stayed in Texas because he thought he could
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: win there, which is really good. Really, that's tremendous stand
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: up comedy. He'll sell out the improv with that kind
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: of stand up comedy, which is just great. The funny
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: thing about that comment, the funniest thing is the Texas
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Rangers don't believe they can win. De Gram believes in
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers. The Texas Rangers don't believe in the
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Texas Rangers. They threw in the sponge they did. They're
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: below five hundred. They've collapsed since the All Star break,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: and they already packed de Gram's locker and said, let's
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: get rid of this guy. Meanwhile, the heavyweight, the Atlanta Braves,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: offered a first class ticket to October. In fact, I'm
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: told Tommy in Atlanta would have picked up de Gram
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: and given him VIP travel to join the Atlanta Braves.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: And he said, you know, I don't want that. The
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: idea of pitching in October. What if I don't pitch well,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: I could get criticized. Oh no. And so de Gram
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: rejected that, and he turned down the upgrade the first
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: class ticket. He said, I would rather stay in coach.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I would rather sit here and coach. I have a
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: middle seat. I've got sumo wrestlers on each side. The
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: sumo wrestler on the right smells like armpit odor, and
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the sumo wrestler on the left smells like three day
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: old tuna fish that's been sitting out in the sun,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: and that's it. And then the person in front of
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: me smells like fermented fish, which is even worse. So
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: it's not good, not good at all.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Now worse than all of that is the clearly public
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: leak of this part of the story. That is what's
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: called dirty pool. Dirty pool a co'm on a joint
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: smear campaign against Jacob rom the Rangers and Braves. In
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: my head, in my head, they teamed up. They got
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: together and like a classic professional wrestling tag team duo,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: one of them, we're not sure which we think it
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: might be the Rangers, they held de Gram down and
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: then the Atlanta Braves are the ones that threw the chair,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: the folding chair at his head. That's how that went
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: down there. So Texas was embarrassed. I would assume that
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: he said no. They did all the legwork to get
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: the trade finalized, and then they thought de Gram would
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: want to try to win a championship, and he doesn't.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: He's satisfied getting that early vacation, not having to work extra,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: and not being worried about the postseason. So you got that,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and they're annoyed. The Texas Rangers Atlanta has hurt feelings.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: He didn't say yes because he doesn't want to join
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: the Bravos, and so they got to get and what
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: happened is they tag team him in shame, shame, shame.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: And so instead of the Atlanta Braves having a one
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: to two punch a combo of Chris Sale and Jacob
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: de Grim, which seems pretty tough. That seems pretty tough
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: in a short series against the Dodgers of the Brewers
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: if you're trotting out to Gram and Chris Saal some
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: combination of those two guys. Granted they'll only pitch four
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: or five innings, but still. And so Atlanta instead had
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: to pivot and they went out and got Tyler Malley.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: That's right, the great journeyman pitcher, Tyler Malley. He's been
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: with the Giants, former Twin, former Cincinnati read and that
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: is who they got. They also picked up I understand
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: the Giants. It was really I didn't have to do this.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: The Giants tossed in a prayer candle and some rosary
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: beads and that's what they got as well. So a
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: nice add on item by the Giants. They didn't really
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: have to do that. Now, Secondly, tough Philadelphia, we go
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Delaware Valley, where the Phillies completed a major deadline makeover,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Dave Dombrowski using his magic wand yet again acquiring three
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: time batting champion Luis Arise from the aforementioned Giants. The
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Higantes unloading the hit king of the National League. Also,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: reliever Brooks Raley came over from the Mets. Who cares
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: about that? So in theory, the bullpen and the lineup
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: were improved to land Arise. Philadelphia traded away one of
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: their top preaching prospects whoopee damn do and a reliever
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: as well was sent off to the Giants. So that
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: is what the trade was. Now yet again another example
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: of a trade where people are upset with Dave Dombrowski
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: trading away the future. You gave up the futures. I
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: know I'm being repetitive here, but I'm fascinated by this.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: So the question how would you label? How would you label?
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: The Phillies deal with the Giants to get Luis a
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Rise at the deadline. So Dave Dombrowski is doing this
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: can blow you? Ay, he's doing Dave Dombrowski things. If
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: you hired Dave Dombrowski and expect him to be conservative
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: with your minor league players. You are a Dumbo, is
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: what you are. Do you understand that? I think you
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: do right. The Phillies are, for better or worse, trying
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: to win a championship. Unlike Jacob de Grom, they are
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: not trying to win a Beauty pageant for their minor
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: league system. They are not worried about that. So Mahlor
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: report card on this for the Philadelphia Phillies they get
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: an A minus. As Dave Dombrowski knows that prospects are
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: mostly just hype machines, and he's had forty plus years.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Forty plus years Dave Dombrowski has had, and in those
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: forty years, he has traded almost every blue chip minor
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: league player he's had a chance to trade with, going
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: back to his days with the Expos, the March part
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: of the White Sox for that, the Tigers, the Red Sox,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: the Phillies. This guy travels around like he's one step
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: ahead of the law and trades these players away, these
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: minor league players for proven big league talent. He's always
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: done that and he will always do it. Enter Luisa
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: rise A batting average, vending machine. This guy will get
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: you a base hit and a double and a base
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: hit and all that. He's a human mosquito, human mosquito.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: He's the type of person that ruins pitchers evenings on
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the mound there when they go against him, and it's
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: like he's like an HOA notice, just annoying? Right, does
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: anyone like ha? I don't know anyone like to the
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Homeowner's Association, I don't know anybody. So sliding into Philadelphia,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: the Phillies just added the National League batting leader, the
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: ultimate table setter in modern baseball, a fire breathing machine
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the Phillies office now and it sets up. They have
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: the monsters there. Bryce Harper is not as good as
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: he was, but he's still decent. You got Bryce Harper
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: and Schwarbs, a schwarb bomb with Kyle Schwarber. You're throwing
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: this guy, Brooks Raley, who supposedly deepens the bullpen. We'll
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: see if that's the case they or not. And it's
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: clear the Philadelphia Phillies are not playing the long game.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: They're not in a long game. They're playing me right now.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Game is what they're playing. So the window will not
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: stay open forever. Schwarber and Harper, last I checked. It's
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: not a Benjamin Button situation. They're not getting younger. It's
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: not going well there. So in terms of the Asian Game,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: so it's over the river and through the woods and
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: straight past the Braves, Dodgers, and Brewers to try to
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: win the National League pennant and get to the Fall Classic.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: So they hope. You gotta have hope. You gotta have hope. Meanwhile,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: the final point to the fallout, fallout, fallout from the
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Luisa Rise trade, we learned the Philadelphia Phillias they're moving
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Bryce Harper back out into the outfield. Bryce Harper going
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: to right field and he'll play the outfield first time
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: since twenty twenty two. That Bryce Harper's heading to the
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: outfield after the Luisa Rise trade with the Higantes and
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: they're moving a bunch of people around Harper embracing the change.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: How about that? Bryce Harper says, I'm in it. I'm
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: in it to win it. Uh And he's cool with it.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: At least that's what he said publicly, you know, giving
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: these standard cliche from sportscliche dot com that while he
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: enjoyed playing first base, he just wants to play wherever
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: he can to help the Philadelphia Phillies win. Okay, the
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: move apparently been in the works for a while. The
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Phillies went to Harper and these other guys and said, listen,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: we trade for this guy. We're gonna move you. And
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: they were all saying, okay, we're good with that, that's kosher.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: We'll do it, will make it happen. And so the
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: defensive alignment, the shift is on in Philadelphia. Rise, who
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: said he will not play anywhere other than the second base,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: very stubborn about that. So Louisa Rise takes over at
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: second base, Alex bam the bomb Bombiti Bombiti Bombity, He
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: moves to first and Bryson Stott slides over to third base.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: And I believe I'm right on that. So that is
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: the new look Philadelphia Phillies infield once Luisa arrives. Arrives,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: So the question, are you surprised that Bryce Harper is
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: willing to give up first base, a much easier position
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: to play then, you know, go back to the outfield now.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: So I am, I'm not totally surprised. I'm slightly surprised,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: slightly surprised that Bryce Harper is willing to do this.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Most modern superstars would rather eat a dish of glass
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: than change positions mid season. Just don't want to do it.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: If you don't believe me, ask Rafael Devers about that.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Ask Rafael Devers about that. He had a hissy fit.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: That's why his ass was traded from the Red Sox. Also,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: he's not that good to the Higantes, and the Giants
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: desperately tried to trade Rafael Devers, and let's see, nobody
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: wanted him. Shocking, nobody wanted Raffael Devers. So back to
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Bryce Harper. So Bryce Harper could have easily played the
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Prima Donna card from the bottom of the deck and
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: gone full deliverance while rowing the douche canoe. Bryce Harper
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: could have done right and raised a big hullabaou Oh,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: I'm not going I am a first basement, I'm not
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: going to the outfield. That's an emotion. I am not
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: going to be embarrassed. However, he said, wait a minute,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna do this because that's the team wants
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: to do. It will be better and it's all good.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: So it is a smart baseball move. You would assume
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: moving him out to the outfield Bryce Harper, and then
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: having Luisa Rise at second and Bomb at first, as
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: we said, and then Bryce and Stott at third base.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: So you have the full maximum lineup. Because the Phillies
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: are not going to beat anyone because of their defense.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: They suck on defense. They're going to have to win
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: by outscoring people. That's how it's going to have to
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: go in Philadelphia. And granted, Bryce Harper is also at
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: loggerheads with Dave Dombrowski. Still they don't like each other.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Whoop damn do. And Harper does have that three hundred
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: and thirty million dollar contract, it's fair to say, based
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: on that and the age that he will outlast Dave
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Dombrowski in Philadelphia. He's assigned, i believe, through the twenty
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: thirty one season, which seems like that's a far time
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: from now. It's actually going to be here before you know,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: being twenty thirty one. And at this point, Bryce Harper's
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: kind of like the Liberty Bell. He's not going anywhere
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: anytime soon. So the catch a modern baseball players here's
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: the concern for the Phillies. Modern baseball players have the
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: same level of toughness as a staypuff, marshmallow, you know
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So, and you play the outfield. Even
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: though he might play an entire game, no one hits
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: a ball out in the outfield. The outfield demands you
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: have to sprint, you have to occasionally dive, you might
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: have to run into a wall, you have to throw
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: long distances. And so that does put Bryce Harper in
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: a danger zone in terms of injury possibilities. And there
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: are sure going to be some hiccups of him in
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: the outfield. We'll see how that goes.
• 37:04
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• 37:06
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• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go. How
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: about that? To the third degree?
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: This is one big Ben gets grilled.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Coo ah loop.
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: DeAndre Hopkins has taken a coaching job at Georgia Tech,
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: but that doesn't mean he's retired. In a social media
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: post over the weekend, Hopkins said, I haven't retired from
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: the NFL. But if you're a wide receiver and you
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: want to be great, come to Georgia Tech football. Ben,
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: do you think we see Hopkins again in the NFL.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: The NFL has sent him a text message and the
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: message is you're on the no fly list, so I'm
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: gonna go. No, he's been slowing down the last couple
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: of years. The fact that he took the job at
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Georgia Tech tells you what you need to know. Now.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Is it possible if seventeen wide receivers get hurt and
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: there's no decent receiver on the market, that somebody will
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: call him in week fifteen and say, DeAndre, we need you. Yeah,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: it's possible, but by that point the college football season
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: will be in full effect. Are you gonna walk away
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: from Georgia tex It's one thing, Like, was it Dante
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Who is it Dante Culper? No, not Dante Culper, the
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: guy Teddy Bridgewater, Teddy Bridgewater who left a high school
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: job to go to the NFL with the Lions. Like,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: that's one thing, But dig it Georgia Tech. That's a
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: tough one. So I say the odds less than less
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: than five percent. We see DeAndre Hopkins again next.
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: Lions wide receiver Jamison Williams said that Jamiir Gibbs deserves
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: to be the highest paid running back in the NFL
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  Speaker 5: because he's the best in the league. Yeah, it's his teammate.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously he's gonna say that. But then do you agree
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  Speaker 5: with him?
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  Speaker 1: Everyone should be paid. You should be paid more, Loraina,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: I should be paid more. Everyone should be paid. Listen
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  Speaker 1: when a player advocates for a teammate, and you know,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: he said the word best cool, which means as good
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: as all the rest, and so he said was the
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: best that means as good as all the rest in
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: that category. Let's put it this way. Gibbs is going
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: to get a whole lot of gold. So he's going
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: to get his money. Whether he's the highest paid or
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: the third highest paid, that will be determined at another time.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: I'm not worried about him. He's not going to have
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: to take a payday loan out to pay his bills next.
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  Speaker 5: Cowboys execus Stephen Jones said over the weekend that they
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: wouldn't rule out selling a piece of the team.
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  Speaker 1: Ben, do you think Jerry would ever do that? Uh No,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: And he'll talk about it. You know, it's a free source.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: And when I've heard Mark Cuban's name has been mentioned,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: I don't buy it. I'll tell you what happens though,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: when Jerry crosses the pearly gates and goes to the
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: other side. At that point, I think Stephen Jones will
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: sell not the whole thing, but he'll sell like forty
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  Speaker 1: nine percent of the Dallas Cowboys. I predict d will happen,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: just get free money and all that. So I don't believe. Well,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones is alive. He's that's his baby, that's his
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: pride and enjoy. He doesn't want to give anyone access
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: to the Cowboys. Right there is malth the third degree?
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: How did we doe you pass? This edition? Chicken?
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  Speaker 2: listen live. Now Mailer's Mountain of Money? Hell, do you
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: have what it takes to get to the top? Probably not.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: And right to the game we go. We say Viva
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Mexico and we say hello to Mike who is in Mexico. Hello, Mike, welcome,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: thanks for having me. Well, it's good to know your
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: phone sounds like you're in Mexico, so that's solid. It
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: wasn't like that before. Do you go on speakerphone, take
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: it off? Speaker speak all right, all right, And what
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: part of Mexico are you in, Mike, Mexico. Move on, Mexico. Monterey,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Mexico are beautiful. And Mike, what do you do you're
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: working there? What are you doing there? Uh? No, I
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: work in the UF I'm uh I guess well, I
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: live in Mexico. I'm off work right now though. Oh cool?
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: All right, well Verry, thanks for calling in. Let's have
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: you play the game. You want to play with me,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Ben Cooper, if you really want a good time, Lorena, Uh,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: I'll go with you. Ben. I need a little more excitement, Mike,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: I need wow.
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't say Loraina.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: But I don't know if that's a good idea. It's not.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: It's the worst idea. We don't have I do a bit.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have time to do the bit, so we'll
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: just move on. Okay, hold on a second, Mike, you
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  Speaker 1: are going to play, and don't hang up. Don't hang up,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: don't hang up. In Monterey, Mexico, and we have Tyler
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: in Boston. Who's gonna play? Hello Tyler, Tyler's a regular. Hello, Tyler,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Welcome Mona. Benny sound excited? Did you just wake up?
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: I'm on my wadwork.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: So you just woke up. Okay, I got you. It's okay.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Who would you like to partner up with?
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: There?
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Tyler?
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: I think going to take you down again?
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: That's right. Of course, we are not going to happen
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: at all. Also, we'll lock you in and we've got
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Mike and Monterey, Mexico. All right, coolboard of the cap.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: All right, gentlemen.
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: This is the Barack Obama edition of Malerd's Mount of Money.
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: He turns sixty five years old today, Yes weekend, No
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: you can't, you're sixty five. The categories are Aloha, the
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: Windy City, Yes we can, and forty fourth President.
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  Speaker 1: Mike, which category would you like?
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: Wendy City?
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Wendy City? All right? And Tyler, how about you? Forty
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: fourth president? All right? Fourth? Alright? Mike and Ben, you
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: guys are up first? Okay, which will we picked? Wendy City?
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: That's correct? All right? These athletes, here we go, Mike
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: and Moderate. These athletes made a name for themselves in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready? Mike?
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: I'm ready?
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  Speaker 1: All right, Here we go. First and last name are required.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Forty five seconds on the scoreboard, please, and here we go.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: His airness for the Bulls. Michael Jordan's all right. It
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: was neck and neck with Mark McGuire in the Great
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: Home Run. Yes, his last name is like a Flower
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: for the Chicago Bulls. He won an MVP Award in
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Chicago and then got hurt guard. Yes, that is correct.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: A linebacker, white guy from New Mexico. Look at you.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: His nickname was Sweetness for the Bears in the seventies
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: and the eighties.
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  Speaker 4: Run.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, greatest second basement in Cub's history. Died at a
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: young age. Looking. Uh, what's his first name? Come on,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: say it? A hockey player. His other his kid was
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: named Brett. Damn it?
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: Technically just one six then right?
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Ryan Sandberg, Ryan Sandberg A no, no, I think
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: we should get great. We should get.
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: And sixty parts. All right, Tyler, here's where we dominate.
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: Our category is forty fourth. President.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: You're not getting the eighty point one.
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: He's getting the These athletes all wore number forty four.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Are you ready, Tyler? Hey, don't choke Tyler, all right,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: don't choke choke Tyler? All right.
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: He was the home run leader before Barry Bonds. Hey, Eric, Yes,
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: this guy is the logo of the NBA.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Jerry West. Yes, mister October red Jack. Yes.
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: This guy was named the diesel full back for the
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: Washington Redskins.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: Can't say that, all right.
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: This guy's nickname was Iceman on the Spurs. Yes, this
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: guy was a running back for the Denver Broncos.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: He's in the Hall of Fame.
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: No chance, Nope, another one before him.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll skip it.
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: This guy was a slugger for the reds His nickname
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: was Big Donkey.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, good one. All right, this will go back to
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: the Okay, you won't. All right, No one knows who
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: Floyd Little is. Unfortunately John Riggins was the other one, though.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: You should have gotten Riggins.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah. What was that? What they get to twenty? Okay,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: that means we get to go again. Mike in Monterey, Mexico.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: We've got what we have, yes, sweet Cane, and Aloha.
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: Aloha?
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: All right, Aloha means goodbye. These athletes were all born
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: in Hawaii. E are you ready, Mike in Monterey? Me
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: all right, here we go, first and last name, forty
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: five seconds on the scoreboard, and here we go quarterback
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: with the Dolphins. He's now on the Atlanta Falcon. Yes,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: that is correct. It was the second pick in the
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: draft out of Oregon, was a Heisman guy for the
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Oregon Docks. He's bounced around as a backup in the NFL.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: I think he's on Washington lately. Oh Man, All right,
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: line Yes, linebacker with the fake dead girlfriend for Notre Dame.
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: A pitcher for the Mets in the nineteen eighties. He's
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: a broadcaster now. His last name is like something you'd
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: say to a hot girl. No, all right, UFC fighter,
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: nickname blessed. Kind of, he says, blessed. M m A
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: won some chat? All right, club with Lake. Shut up.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Nobody knows who Max Holloway is. He just beat color McGregor.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Let's go, Mike, do you watch UFC? All right? Uh, Tyler,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: let's go. Guess we don't choke. He's a big underdogs
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: that overcame the odds.
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: Yes, forty five seconds, let's begin, all right, he's the
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: younger brothers Peyton.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: Don't choke, don't choke. Yes, my wife, it's alive. Not
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: his name, his name is Elijah. His that is not
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: his name. That is Eliz. That is not his legal name.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: It is Elijah. That is his name. That is a disqualification.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: We Wain, Mike and moderay we win.