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  Speaker 4: Showb So our lead this hour is from a polarizing
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  Speaker 4: figure in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: It's still NFL shopping season.
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  Speaker 1: We're a little over a month away from the draft
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  Speaker 1: and some movement on the flea market of football that
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  Speaker 1: I thought was interesting and I have editorial control.
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  Speaker 3: So maybe he saw it or heard about it, maybe not.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But we've learned now that the controversial wide receiver by
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  Speaker 1: the name of Stefon Diggs, who authored up the Minneapolis
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  Speaker 1: Miracle and it's been downhill ever since then, back in
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  Speaker 1: his Viking days. But Stefan Diggs, who was not retained
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  Speaker 1: by the Houston football team. They didn't make any effort
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  Speaker 1: to keep him. He's free to roam around the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: And we are told that at this hour Stefan Diggs
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  Speaker 1: has boots on the ground in Foxboro, Massachusetts, the Commonwealth.
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  Speaker 1: He is visiting with the new England football team that
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  Speaker 1: used to win Super Bowls, but now they're known as
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  Speaker 1: the Patsies if you will here and walby Patriots and Digs.
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  Speaker 3: They haven't agreed to a contract.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna have a little meet and greet there, maybe
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  Speaker 1: some eggs, possibly some I don't know what else they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be eating, but it is supposedly headed that direction.
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  Speaker 1: Now keep in mind there was a story the other
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  Speaker 1: day that Stefan Diggs was talking to the Raiders and
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  Speaker 1: hadn't been too much too much noise about Stefan Diggs.
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  Speaker 1: But part of the reason for that, and part of
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  Speaker 1: the reason that Stefan Diggs is available and can be
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  Speaker 1: yours if the price is not right. But the reason
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  Speaker 1: he's in the New England area is because he's getting
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  Speaker 1: poked and prodded medical exams. Because Stefon Diggs a knee
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  Speaker 1: went shredded, shredded ligaments, acl boom goes to the dynamite
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  Speaker 1: and so that he's out, and he's been out for
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  Speaker 1: four months post operation and will be out much longer.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question free agent wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: Stefawn Diggs in Foxborough at this late hour to meet
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  Speaker 1: with the Patriots. How do you assess this one? So
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  Speaker 1: I've got cookbook, garage, opener, and kindergarten and we will
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are going to.
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  Speaker 3: Make a bowl of cherries is what we're going to
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  Speaker 3: make now.
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  Speaker 1: Very rarely adding Stefan Diggs to your team is a
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  Speaker 1: bowl of cherries, unless you happen to do a talk
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  Speaker 1: radio show, and then Stefan Diggs is really good for business,
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  Speaker 1: really really good for business. So my first thought on
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  Speaker 1: this is that the plot thickens with New England being
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  Speaker 1: involved here, and I would factor this part of the
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  Speaker 1: story as a mixed messages story because if you remember,
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  Speaker 1: let's go back in the hot up time machine, the
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  Speaker 1: EBB and flow of the stories of the NFL off season, the.
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  Speaker 3: Human drama of gas baggery and blowhards.
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  Speaker 1: So the story the other day was that the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: could have had Dk Metcalf, could have traded with Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly we're interested. If they wanted DeVante Adams, they could
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  Speaker 1: have gotten him. They chose not to sign those guys
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  Speaker 1: because they're alpha wide receivers. They're alpha wide receivers, they're abrasive.
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  Speaker 1: They would not mix well with Drake May, the neophyte
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  Speaker 1: quarterback of the Patriots. So those guys are a glass
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  Speaker 1: if you look at Dk Metcalf and DeVante Adams to
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  Speaker 1: was side by side with Stefan Dicks, They're a glass
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  Speaker 1: of fat free milk compared to a venomous cocktail for
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  Speaker 1: the player that's visiting town and Sefon Diggs, the level
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  Speaker 1: of toxicity is insane.
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  Speaker 3: I still get a kick.
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  Speaker 1: I flashed back to some of those those calls from
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  Speaker 1: Andy the comic book guy, that Bill's Mafia guy, who
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  Speaker 1: was trying to explain to me, oh no, there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: Bill's love Stefan Dicks. They could not wait to get
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  Speaker 1: rid of his ass. They should have gotten rid of me,
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  Speaker 1: you're earlier. But Bill's Mafia or some of those guys
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  Speaker 1: were completely hornswaggled by Stefan Diggs. But if you look
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  Speaker 1: at his track record from Minnesota where he flamed out
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  Speaker 1: there to Buffalo and then on to Houston, the one
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  Speaker 1: common denominator in all of those locations is Stefan Diggs. Now,
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  Speaker 1: in two of those locations, the team actually was better
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  Speaker 1: off when Diggs left town, Minnesota better off, and also
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo better off when Digs exitedge stage left. But and
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  Speaker 1: for all the individual success, there's a former All pro
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  Speaker 1: is at a bunch of thousand yard seasons. When you
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  Speaker 1: look a little bit closer, a little bit close, you
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  Speaker 1: ask the question, why does the player keep bouncing around?
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  Speaker 1: Why does he bounce from side to side to side
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  Speaker 1: to side. And then you look at the cookbook and
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  Speaker 1: you're like, oh, why is there a cookbook here? But
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  Speaker 1: you look at the cookbook and you see the ingredients
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  Speaker 1: in the recipe and it's it's equal parts temperamental. You've
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  Speaker 1: got a little mild content over there. You've got classic
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  Speaker 1: mood swings, look at me, diva, activity in fighting, and
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  Speaker 1: then dissension, all of those things and you put them
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  Speaker 1: all on the pot and what you get is a
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  Speaker 1: hot mess.
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  Speaker 3: You get a hot mess. And he was also a
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  Speaker 3: terrible playoff performer in Buffalo, I mean he was bad.
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  Speaker 1: So you put this all together and pretty much everywhere
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  Speaker 1: he's been it's wash, rinse, and repeat. You're like going
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  Speaker 1: at the laundromat there and you're doing the laundry now,
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  Speaker 1: turning the page, but.
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  Speaker 3: Not turning the page four. So why, since this is the.
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  Speaker 1: Flavor of the day, why would the Patriots want a
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  Speaker 1: bad actor like Stefan Diggs on their team? Knowing the
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  Speaker 1: track record that Diggs is a volcano and you know
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  Speaker 1: it's going to erupt.
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  Speaker 3: You're not sure exactly when.
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  Speaker 1: It might be in week four, it might be in
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  Speaker 1: week eight, maybe it's twelve, maybe it's sixteen, maybe to
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. But at some point there'll be molten lava. Kaboom,
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  Speaker 1: the volcano go. So there's an actual sound of the volcano.
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  Speaker 1: But Robert Craft is shopping.
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  Speaker 3: That's the owner.
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  Speaker 1: He likes the orchids of Asia Day spat there in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: But Robert Craft is shopping at the discount rack.
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  Speaker 3: Forer Go. The player is priced to sell.
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  Speaker 1: And I actually got an email from one of our
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  Speaker 1: p ones there in the Boston area.
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  Speaker 5: Actually's out of the sticks. But he sent me said, Ben,
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  Speaker 5: I know you're going to talk about Stefan Diggs of
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  Speaker 5: the show. Make sure you mentioned the only reason they
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  Speaker 5: want him is because he's gonna work cheap. And that's
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  Speaker 5: definitely part of the stow. Stefan Diggs is at a
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  Speaker 5: fork in the road, the old crossroads here.
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  Speaker 1: He's thirty two. Next season, he suffered the season ending
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  Speaker 1: ACL injury. Played eight games with the Texans, and prior
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  Speaker 1: to that injury in Week eight, Stefon Diggs forty seven catches.
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  Speaker 1: He had about five hundred yards receiving in three touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't amazing. It was okay, it wasn't amazing, But
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  Speaker 1: there was also some underlying ten between the player and
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback CJ.
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  Speaker 3: Stroud. It was going down.
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  Speaker 1: A similar path to the issues that Josh Allen had
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  Speaker 1: in Buffalo. So when you think diplomacy, you do not
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  Speaker 1: think you do not think Stefon Diggs.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Nevertheless, the Patriots can give Stefon Diggs something that few
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  Speaker 1: other NFL teams can give him, and that is the
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  Speaker 1: garage opener that opens up the back room, which is
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  Speaker 1: the wide receiver room.
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  Speaker 3: So you just clicked the little clicker, They're in the.
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  Speaker 1: Garage door opener, and he would immediately be at the
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  Speaker 1: very top of the totem poll for wide receivers in Foxborough.
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  Speaker 3: That is one of the more depressing things.
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  Speaker 1: You can look at the depth chart at wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: for the Patriots who used to be good. I'm old
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  Speaker 1: enough to remember when the Patriots used to be the
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  Speaker 1: class of the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: They suck. They're back to being the Patriots when I
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  Speaker 3: was a kid. The Patsy's Kayshawn Booty, Kendrick Bourne.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like a James Bond character. De Mario Douglas doesn't
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  Speaker 1: that sound like an old school taxi driver. Those are
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  Speaker 1: the top wide receivers on the depth chart. So needless
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  Speaker 1: to say, Stefan Diggs could walk in there or hop
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  Speaker 1: in there on one leg.
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  Speaker 3: And he'd be the.
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  Speaker 1: Number one wide receiver in that wide receiver room for
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  Speaker 1: the New England papers A right now, last word here,
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  Speaker 1: So we quickly, we quickly go to Stefan diggs old
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  Speaker 1: team in Houston, and the Texans made a roster move. Now,
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  Speaker 1: normally we try to avoid talking about offensive linemen at
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  Speaker 1: all costs. It's a futile act. But I thought this
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  Speaker 1: was interesting. The coverage it got was rather bizarre to me.
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  Speaker 1: So the Texan signed a left tackle by the name
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  Speaker 1: of Cam Robinson who played in Jacksonville and Minnesota. He
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  Speaker 1: finished up last year with Minnesota. Sounded a one year contract,
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  Speaker 1: so it's a one year contract. And the coverage on
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  Speaker 1: this was rather bizarre. I used the b word bizarre
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  Speaker 1: he saw any of it or consumed any of it,
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  Speaker 1: but really glowing stories about what a savvy move this
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  Speaker 1: was for the Houston football team. So, free agent tackle
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  Speaker 1: Cam Robinson landing with the Texans. Do you find that significant?
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  Speaker 1: Is this significant that Cam Robinson is going to the Texans.
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  Speaker 1: So it is significant in that it is a warm body.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, it's a warm body.
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  Speaker 1: In an effort to plug a glaring hole that they
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  Speaker 1: got Rial Laramy Tunzel. They thought he was getting too
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  Speaker 1: old or was going to be too old soon. They
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be proactive, not reactive, so they got Rial
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  Speaker 1: Laramy Tunzel and he didn't have a great year last year,
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  Speaker 1: so they traded him to the Commanders for a haul
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  Speaker 1: of draft picks and Cam Robinson, his addition, is like
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  Speaker 1: a kindergarten project. It's a scissors and pace job for
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line. Because when I saw these shorts, the
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  Speaker 1: reason I bring this up is because I thought maybe
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  Speaker 1: my memory was going you know, I'm doing overnight radio
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  Speaker 1: here and not sleeping that well, maybe my memory is
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  Speaker 1: going away, because I very clearly remember Robinson playing in
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota and being a turnstile.
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  Speaker 3: He was a matador oay ole olay ole.
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  Speaker 1: As he was trying to block defensive players, and so
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  Speaker 1: it's like, what are we doing? And I went back
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  Speaker 1: and I went through some of the numbers that are
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  Speaker 1: that are out there, and Cam Robinson allowed the highest
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  Speaker 1: one on one pressure rate among all offensive tackles in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL last year once he got to the Twin Cities.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, from the time he put on the Viking
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  Speaker 1: uniform to the end of the year, he allowed seventeen percent.
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  Speaker 1: One he got beat seventeen percent of the time. Said, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's not that much. The league average nine point eight percent,
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  Speaker 1: So he was eight point two percent.
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  Speaker 3: Higher if my math is correct.
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  Speaker 1: According to the Nerd stats there that is a chicken product.
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  Speaker 1: That is chicken fertilizer. That is chicken fertilizer is what
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  Speaker 1: that is. So congratulations, you did sign a warm body
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  Speaker 1: Houston Texans. You signed Cam Robinson. And occasionally maybe he'll
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  Speaker 1: block someone. It's possible he'll block someone.
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  Speaker 3: But even with.
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  Speaker 1: That, I still maintain my position that most sacks, most
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  Speaker 1: not all, but most sacks are on the quarterback, not
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line, although you can't have bad offensive linemen,
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  Speaker 1: and that's certainly part of the equation.
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  Speaker 3: To our lead.
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  Speaker 1: This hour is from baseball. We are allowed to talk baseball.
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  Speaker 1: The season is underway two games in and now they'll take.
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  Speaker 3: A week off before they play more real baseball.
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  Speaker 1: But our lead this hour is from Japan, the two
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  Speaker 1: games soft launch of Baseball twenty twenty five as they
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  Speaker 1: export export baseball to Japan. So I know of you
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  Speaker 1: saw any this, it was perfect for us. We did
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  Speaker 1: the show and then I get to listen to it
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  Speaker 1: on the way home and then watched it a little
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  Speaker 1: bit and that was good.
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  Speaker 3: I enjoyed that, very convenient for my schedule.
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  Speaker 1: So show Heotani hit a fan assistant home run. Didn't
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  Speaker 1: look like a home run to me, but they called
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  Speaker 1: it a home run. And you can't take a home
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  Speaker 1: run away from Otani and Japan, there'd be an uprising.
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  Speaker 1: So Tani hit home run, Dodgers Tommy Edmund hit one
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  Speaker 1: Key k Hernandez, Dodgers beat the Cubs, and so they
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  Speaker 1: win again, Dodgers two and OHO Cubs zho and two
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  Speaker 1: Cubs on pace to go owing one hundred and sixty two.
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers on pace to be the greatest team of all time.
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  Speaker 3: But it's all part of a more wider angle.
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  Speaker 1: ODO here the story within the story, but you look
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  Speaker 1: at the wide angle on this so let's discuss the question.
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  Speaker 3: What is your tab now's over?
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  Speaker 1: What is your takeaway from the Dodgers and Cubs and
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  Speaker 1: the Tokyo series which has been completed.
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  Speaker 3: So I've got.
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  Speaker 1: Warner Brothers, Dinner Table and Santa's and we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together and we're going to make
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  Speaker 1: some neon orange nacho cheese. Is what We're gonna make,
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  Speaker 1: delicious neon orange nacho cheese.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I like.
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  Speaker 1: Nachos at the ballpark. The problem you gotta eat them
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  Speaker 1: pretty fast. You gotta be speed racer, because if you
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  Speaker 1: don't even fast, they get all soggy and disgusting. And
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  Speaker 1: it's a dance with a devil, is what it is
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  Speaker 1: when you're trying to eat those soggy nachos. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: num burr, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: No, see it's number it's no no, it's number one.
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  Speaker 3: Number one.
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  Speaker 1: There we go, all right, mission accomplished, Mission to comp that.
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  Speaker 1: My first thought, which is number one, is mission accompany.
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  Speaker 1: There it is again Major League Baseball. They went there
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  Speaker 1: for one reason, and one reason only, to grow the brand.
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  Speaker 1: That's why they gave opening day away, and in return,
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  Speaker 1: they ended up laughing all the way to the Bank
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. Barn storming for bucks is what I
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  Speaker 1: call it. They were milking the cow, the cash cow,
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  Speaker 1: the Shoho Tani cash cow, and watching these two games
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  Speaker 1: and listening to them, but watching them as well from
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  Speaker 1: from Tokyo. It was like a Warner Brothers movie. It
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  Speaker 1: was a remake of Ocean's eleven. It was like a
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  Speaker 1: casino heist for Major League Baseball. Every game in Tokyo
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  Speaker 1: was sold out, tickets going for thousands of dollars and
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  Speaker 1: the highest ticket press was like twenty thousand dollars. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what kind of loser would take twenty thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars for that, but anyway, merchandise sales. There were people
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  Speaker 1: lined up around the building it there were people lined up.
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  Speaker 1: It reminded me the photos in the video I saw online.
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  Speaker 1: It was like back during the pandemic when people were
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  Speaker 1: lined up to buy toilet paper and water, very similar,
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  Speaker 1: in an effort to move more product. Just to show
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  Speaker 1: you that this was only about the marketing. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: about getting the Dodgers and Cubs over there to give
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  Speaker 1: them good baseball and what about that? It was about
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  Speaker 1: which fine, just to call it like it is. The
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  Speaker 1: marketing weasels at Major League Baseball. These were two Cub
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  Speaker 1: games home games. They were not doing. It wasn't one one.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was one to one. Dodgers gave up
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  Speaker 1: a home game, Cubs gave up a home game. No,
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs gave up two home games. Dodgers gave up
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  Speaker 1: no home games. So the Dodgers were the road team
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  Speaker 1: in both games. But yet if you saw a game two,
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers wore their home Dodgers Stadium white uniforms and
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs or their road grace even.
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  Speaker 3: Though they were the home team. Do you know why
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  Speaker 3: they did that? You know, you do know what? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: you do?
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  Speaker 1: Well, maybe you don't. The players were display case mannequins.
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball's marketing arm as I understand, it mandated
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  Speaker 1: that the Dodgers had to wear their home uniforms in
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  Speaker 1: one of the games because they wanted to sell to
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  Speaker 1: the good people of Japan those two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: dollars Dodger jerseys, the white Otani jersey. They showed off
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  Speaker 1: the gray one, but they wanted to sell the white
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  Speaker 1: one as well. And all of this work the Tokyo
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  Speaker 1: series shattered the viewership record.
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  Speaker 3: The numbers on this are insane to the membrane.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, the number that's been bragged about by Baseball
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  Speaker 1: this is just for Game one. Twenty five million men,
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  Speaker 1: women and children watch in Japan, the Tokyo game, Game one.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder how many people watch in America. I bet
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't many. I bet it wasn't many. I was watching,
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  Speaker 1: But I'm pretty sure not a lot of people on
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  Speaker 1: the East Coast at six.
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  Speaker 3: In the morning, or in Chicago at five in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: Certainly in the.
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  Speaker 1: West Coast in LA at three in the morning are
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  Speaker 1: going to change their whole body clock around to watch
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: a regular season baseball game. I'd love to I don't
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: have that number in front of me. I have to
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: look that up, the number, the rating in America.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: You know it wasn't good.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: You know it wasn't good because Major League Baseball was
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: bragging about how many people were watching in Japan. They
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: weren't bragging about how many people were watching in America.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: They said it was.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: The largest audience for any American baseball game in Japan
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: since Game seven of the World Series, the team cheated
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: from Houston in twenty twenty seventeen. So to rephrase how
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: big a number that twenty five million is. That is
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: roughly twenty percent of the entire population of Japan was
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: watching the Dodgers and the Cubs. Okay, twenty percent of
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: the country was watching. That is why Major League Baseball
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: went there. Now, they can't go there next year because
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: they've got that fugazy World Baseball Classic.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: But they'll be back. I mean, I would not be
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: shocked if the Dodgers pretty much.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Every other year open up in Japan or pick your
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: country somewhere far far away in that part of the world.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Now, page two, so we flip the script.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: A little bit and we go to Anaheim, a very
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: depressing place not far from Fullerton, which is not depressing,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: but Fullerton, Siberia with ferg Dog and Alf, the alien
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: of Pinter's Nemesis, and all the characters that live there.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: So now let me explain why I'm going Anaheim.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to Anaheim talking about good baseball, No,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: because that's bad baseball. The Angels, that's a baseball team.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: The Angels. They did something that got our attention. The Angels,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: we are told, have mandated a new set of rules
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: for the clubhouse, and it's a new year, new rules.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: But there's one rule.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: That stands out more than all the others. The players
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five are not allowed to be on
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: their cell phones at their lockers.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: No bueno, no go.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: So Mike Trout, he came out and said that he
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: thinks it's worked really well so far. They haven't even
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: played a regular season game yet. So the Angels, let
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: me sum this up for you this way. The Angels
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: have instituted a new rule this season with the players
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: in the clubhouse. They are not allowed to be on
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: their cell phones at their locker. So what is the
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: core of this score story? What is the core of
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: this story? The Angels banning he's smartphone usage at the locker. So,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: for me, the core of the story is Ron Washington. Yes,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Ron Washington, longtime baseball man, is the manager, and he
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: is from the Old Country. He's about to turn seventy
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: three years old. He made his Major League baseball debut
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: for the Dodgers in nineteen seventy seven. It's been a
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: minute so for him, he'd much rather read the Yellow
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Pages than wikipedie. And he's old school, right, He's in
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the Old Country. He wants face to face, not TikTok.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: He wants face to face talk, not TikTok. So Ron Washington,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the manager in Anaheim, is looking to artificially cultivate team camaraderie.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Washington's a smart enough man to know the team blows.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: It's a bad baseball team. They got crap bag players,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: stiffs like well, Anthony Renault's not even playing this year,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: but he's he's kind of on that and that team
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: olupset is he? I mean, all he does is sit
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: is a lot. You're not supposed to be on his phone.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: So anyway, he knows that you're not going to.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Win based on talent with the Angels, so you might
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: as well try to make up some ground there and
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: be a tight knit unit. But protecting the sanctity of
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: the clubhouse kind of like the dinner table. You got
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: to limit the brain rot and a lot of families
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: have rules no smartphone at the dinner table.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: You band the cell phone, and.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: You're supposed to improve those connections at bond right, you
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: reclaim time and this digital agent. So Ron Washington is figuring, hey,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: and we're not gonna win games because on talent, because
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: we're not very good the angels, So you know, why not,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: we might as well just be friendly with each other
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: and interact with each other and there'll be some kind
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: of weird bond. Now I am skeptical. I am skeptical
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: that this is going to work.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: And here's why.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I would estimate that most people consume dinner anywhere from
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: thirty to sixty minutes.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: That's the normal time to have a meal.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: And I would say it's closer to thirty than sixty,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I would hope, depending on how much you just keep talking.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: But most of the time it's a thirty to sixty
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: minute experience when you have dinner.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Am I correct on that when you have dinners it
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: thirty probably is right.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: You're with other people, with your friends and your family whatever,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: thirty sixty minutes. Major League Baseball players are in the
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: clubhouse now. Normally the home team gets there around two
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: o'clock in the afternoon for a night game, and they're
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: there all the way up off and on off and
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: on games about two and a half hours.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Now. There's some batting practice.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: But they're in their locker area for about half the time.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I would say, so from two o'clock till ten o'clock
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: half the time they're there.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: So here's what I want to do.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I want to take out a little yell at yellow
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: posted note.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: All right, I'm going to make Ron Washington happy. Otherwise
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: i'd tell you to.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Just put a note on your phone because Ron's antiphone,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: the Angels manager.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: So take out a yellow posted note. Let's file this
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: one away.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Let's check back on the posted note on June first,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: when the Angels are ten to fourteen games back in
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the American League West, which is gonna be hard to do.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be hard to be that far back.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: In the American League West because the cheating a holes
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: who we're gonna get to in a minute, they're not
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: as good. Seattle always finds a way to f things up.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: And then you've got the Sacramento as that have Sacramento dysmorphia.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: They're so embarrassed by being in Sacramento they don't want
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: to admit they're in Sacramento, even though there is a
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: halfway house.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Before they get to Vegas. So it's a fugazy situation there,
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: all right. So it's hard, it's.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Hard for that to really fall that far behind because
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the division sucks so much, but methinks it will backfire.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: All right, final point, Well we just mentioned it.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Let's go to Houston, the den of iniquity, where their.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Manager Joah Spata confirming that longtime infielder and convicted cheater
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Jose al boovey Jose Alboo. So this dope is going
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: to open the season as the cheating as one one
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: thousand and two, one thousand and three, one thousand.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Holes primary left fielder. Now this comes.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: As Altuve back to back spring training games dropped routine
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: little league style flyballs, little league style flyballs, drop skis
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: back to back days in spring training he dropped fly balls,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: routine flyballs with runner on third base less than two
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: outs and al tuove was anticipating the play that he
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: had to catch the ball, had to secure the catch
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: and throw the ball to home plate, and he failed
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: to secure the catch. Now Altuve convicted with blood on
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: his hands, blood on his hands, and a buzz are
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: under his uniform. Allegedly he has made all all of
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: his defensive starts seventeen and forty nine across fourteen dirty
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: major league baseball seasons at second base.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: But not anymore, not anymore.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Altube was last season, the second worst defensive second baseman
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: in baseball last year, and so Jose Altube. He has
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: been absolutely terrible this spring in the outfield. However, the
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Astros say they are going to use Altuve Albouve as
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: their primary left.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Fielder this season. Do you feel bad for al Tube?
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: So absolutely not. Did you expect me to say yes,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: You must be new to the show. You've got to
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: be new to these parts. If you expected me to
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: say yes, Altube is forever on Santa's naughty list, and
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: I am enjoying shotenfreude. I'm enjoying shotenfreude since Major League
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Baseball didn't have the balls to punish Altuve.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: In fact, they protected him. I love the fact that this.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Cheating fraud Altuve is embarrassing himself on his way out
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: of baseball, that he's been demoted. He has been demoted.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Don't let a falling star fall on you. It is
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the little league walker shame. It is the little league
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: walker shame. You put your crappiest player out in left field.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Get out there in left field. Altuve is covered.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: With the cooties. He's got the cooties.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: You hate to see it unless you love to see it,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: and then you're not that upset about it. All Right,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: I need a sizzle reel of Altuve dropping balls in
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: the outfield.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: That's what I need, and I'm gonna get it. I'm
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: gonna get it.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: But the scouting report when you play the cheating Astros
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: will be to hit the ball in the left field,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: make Albouve, make a play, make out booby, makeup plate.
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• 29:10
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• 29:15
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• 29:18
  Speaker 6: George Pickens took to Instagram on Tuesday to share a
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: picture of himself standing on the field with Tom Brady,
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: and it's got people speculating that Pickens is hinting at
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: wanting to play for the Raiders. Ben, is this picture
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: a big deal, a little deal or no deal?
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: So's it's a little deal. It just tells you that
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: George Pickens needed attention. He's an attention whore and he
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: wanted people to talk about George Pixon. Pickens so he
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: set out a vague photo, so we all took debate. No,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, he can't leave until next year.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: So he's just trying to get attention.
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: Next, Draymond Green has now joined a growing contingent of
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: NBA fans in writers that think that Nikolay Jokic and
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: Shay Gilgets Alexander should be co MVPs. Ben, do you
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: see any chance of that actually happening?
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Well, that's disrespect to Shade Yogis Alexander Yogas.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Alexander's your MVP. The former Clippers going to win.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: The award, and there's voter fatigue for Jokic and all that.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Sga is your MVP, So stop with the Jokic stuff.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Nice performance by Yokic against your Lakers, by the way,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: in that game last night.
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: Next on Monday, the Timberwolves play by play announcer got
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: sent held during the broadcast when he said Jami Bickerstaff
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: had been fined one hundred thousand dollars by the NBA.
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: But have you ever been fooled into talking about a
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: fake report in the air?
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: I have come close, but I have never actually done it.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: The one thing that I have done, no one's perfect
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: I did talk about his story as a news story
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: that was like ten years old, but I didn't check
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the date on it. Somebody sent it to me and
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: I didn't check the date, which was embarrassing.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: But I've never done that. How did we do?
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: He passed?
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have worked with people that have been senteled,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: though embarrassing.
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  Speaker 6: Cool All right?
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Uh?
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: Ferg Dog would like to know, Hi, Fergie, have you
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: ever called a sex hotline?
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: No, I'm much too cheap for that. No, I have not.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: I assume Mary you want to answer that. May have
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: you made a phone call married to any hotlines?
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: M h Actually, oh oh, I feel like I did
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: when I was a little.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: Really oh man, that's not good because I think I
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: just saw it on TV.
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: And I never like, I didn't know what it was,
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: what it was.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: You just wanted someone to talk to. I understand.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, I was like like eight, yeah, I hear you.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: I hear you, all right, Cooper back in the day.
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: Uh No, by the time, like I would have had,
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: you know, any like it just it was available, you know,
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: on the internet.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Big stud Yeah. No.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: But you know what I used to do though, I
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: used to call those those guys that did those sleazy
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: infomercials on the weekend sports radio shows.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Free Pick of the Day, right, yeah, And you had
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: to listen.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: You had to listen to like a ten minute commercial
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: and at the very end they're like, oh take you
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: NL lay the points and then it was always wrong
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: the pick, and then they call you.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: They keep calling. It was so I hated it.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: So the one time I did call this hotline was
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: when I was in the early days of me working here.
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: Somebody called up and said, hey, did you know if
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: you dial just this number instead of that number, that
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: it goes to a sex hotline?
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah yeah, And I was like, what I remember that? Yeah,
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: the Fox Sports radio number. If you're if you're one
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: number off, you'll be very surprised what you hear.
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: Right Next, All right, this question is from Rob in
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: the three two one.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Hi.
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: Rob wants to know Ben. Have you ever solved the
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: Rubik's Cube? Uh?
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean not faster. We used to futs
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: around with that when we were kids, and I did.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I don't think I could do it again. And it
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: took me probably about three weeks to get it solved,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: So it doesn't really count every night I fights around
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: with it.
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: Next, Gunner would like to know where everybody went to college.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Saddleback College, the Harvard of the West Coast, a wonderful
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: school produced Mark Grace to the Chicago Cobbs and Anthony
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Carter the Miami Heat back in the day.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: And how about you Mary Mack.
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: I went to Los Angeles Film.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: Ooh, yees too, Hollywood? All righty for Hollywood?
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: How about you Cooperloo, cal State Northridge, The Matador's all right,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: what's next. Let's ask Ben. Your questions are answers for
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: the rest of the hour.
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: Donkey Sausage wants to know. Do you sing in the shower?
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: No? I do not. I try to get out of
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: there as quickly as I can, marry. Do you sing
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: in the shower? Yes? All right, Coop, Yes, okay. Next.
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: Alf alien is soup a meal.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Only if it's like Manza ball or French onion or lentil.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: But like, if it's just broth, it's not a meal,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Mary Mac quick, guy, Coop.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: It can be, it can't be.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: It's got to be a thick soup though, Like Dad,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: what's that Italian soup?
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: That meatball soup? That's pretty good