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Hour 2 - It's Raining Yen · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Boom, Shaka laka. It's our number to our number two,
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Speaker 1: the original Recipe Podcast, and a happy happy Thursday to you,
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Speaker 1: a sizzling hot hour number two. What is your takeaway
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Speaker 1: from the Dodgers and the Cubs with record television viewers
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Speaker 1: in the Tokyo series. Also that other team in Southern California,
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Speaker 1: the Angels have instituted a controversial new rule this season
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Speaker 1: with players not being allowed to be on their cell
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Speaker 1: phones at lockers. What's the core of that story? We'll
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Speaker 1: talk about that. And a famous cheater, Jose Altuvey, who
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Speaker 1: has been terrible in the outfield. However, the cheating Astros
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Speaker 1: say that he's going to be their primary left fielder
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. Do you feel bad for Altuve
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Speaker 1: that he he's just a shell of back in his
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Speaker 1: salad cheating days, his buzzer and whistle days and trash
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Speaker 1: can days. We'll talk about all that and more right
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Speaker 1: now here. It is our number two, making it rain down, yen?
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Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from baseball. We are
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Speaker 1: allowed to talk baseball. The season is underway, two games
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Speaker 1: in and now they'll take a week off before they
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Speaker 1: play more real baseball. But our lead this hour is
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Speaker 1: from Japan, the two games soft launch of Baseball twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five as the export export Baseball to Japan.
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Speaker 5: So I know you saw any this. It was perfect
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Speaker 5: for us.
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Speaker 1: We did the show and then I get to listen
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Speaker 1: to it on the way home and then watched it
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Speaker 1: a little bit and that was good. I enjoyed that.
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Speaker 1: Very convenient for my schedule. So Showotani hit a fan
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Speaker 1: assistant homer. It didn't look like home run to me,
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Speaker 1: but they call it a home run, and you can't
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Speaker 1: take a home run away from Otani in Japan and
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Speaker 1: it'd be an uprising. So Tani hit home run, Dodgers,
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Speaker 1: Tommy Edmund hit one key k Hernandez, Dodgers beat the Cubs,
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Speaker 1: and so they win again.
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Speaker 5: Dodgers two and oh, Cubs oh and two.
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Speaker 1: Cubs on pace to go owen 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 1: But it's all part of a more wider angle photo
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Speaker 1: here the story within the story, but you look at
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Speaker 1: the wide angle on this. So let's discuss the question
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Speaker 1: what is your team now's over? What is your takeaway
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Speaker 1: from the Dodgers and Cubs and the Tokyo series which
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Speaker 1: has been completed. So I've got Warner Brothers, Dinner Table,
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Speaker 1: and Santa's and we will combine all of these things
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Speaker 1: together and we're going to make some Neon orange nacho cheese.
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Speaker 1: Is what we're gonna make the list Neon orange nacho cheese. Now,
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Speaker 1: I like nachos at the ballpark. The problem you gotta
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Speaker 1: eat them pretty fast. You gotta be speed racer, because
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Speaker 1: if you don't even fast, they get all soggy and disgusting.
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Speaker 1: And it's a dance with a devil, is what it
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Speaker 1: is when you're trying to eat those soggy nachos. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: n burr, no, no, no, see it's number it's no
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Speaker 1: no nice number one, number one. There we go, all right,
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Speaker 1: mission accomplished. Mission a comp that My first thought, which
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Speaker 1: is number one, is mission accomplished? There it is again
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. They went there for one reason, and
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Speaker 1: one reason only, to grow the brand. That's why they
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Speaker 1: gave Opening Day away. And in return, they ended up
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Speaker 1: laughing all the way to the bank. Major League Baseball
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Speaker 1: barn storming for bucks is what I call it. They
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Speaker 1: were milking the cow, the cash cow, the Shoho Tani
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Speaker 1: cash cow, and watching these two games and listening to them,
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Speaker 1: but watching them as well from from Tokyo. It was
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Speaker 1: like a Warner Brothers movie. It was a remake of
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Speaker 1: Ocean's eleven. It was like a casino heist for Major
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Speaker 1: League Baseball. Every game in Tokyo was sold out, tickets
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Speaker 1: going for thousands of dollars and the highest ticket price
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Speaker 1: was like twenty thousand dollars. I don't know what kind
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Speaker 1: of loser it would tay twenty thousand dollars for that,
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Speaker 1: But anyway, merchandise sales. There were people lined up around
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Speaker 1: the building. It was long, 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 in the Dodgers and Cubs over there to
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Speaker 1: give them good baseball and what about that.
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Speaker 5: It was about what's fine, Just to call it like.
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Speaker 1: It is, the marketing weasels at Major League Baseball. These
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Speaker 1: were two Cub games home games.
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Speaker 5: They were not. It wasn't one one. I thought it
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Speaker 5: was one to one.
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Speaker 1: Dodgers gave up a home game, Cubs gave up a
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Speaker 1: home game. No, the Cubs gave up two home games.
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Speaker 1: Dodgers gave up no home games. So the Dodgers were
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Speaker 1: the road team in both games. But yet if you
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Speaker 1: saw a game two, the Dodgers wore their home Dodgers
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Speaker 1: Stadium white uniforms and the Cubs wore their road grace
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Speaker 1: even though they were the home team.
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Speaker 5: Do you know why they did that?
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Speaker 1: You know, you know, you do know one? Okay, you do, well,
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Speaker 1: maybe you don't. The players were display case mannequins. Major
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Speaker 1: League Baseball's marketing arm, as I understand, it mandated that
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers had to wear their home uniforms in one
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Speaker 1: of the games because they wanted to sell to the
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Speaker 1: good people of Japan those two hundred and fifty dollars
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Speaker 1: Dodger jerseys, the white Otani jersey. They showed off the
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Speaker 1: gray one, but they wanted to sell the white one
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Speaker 1: as well.
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Speaker 5: And this is all of this work.
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Speaker 1: The Tokyo series shattered the viewership record. The numbers on
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Speaker 1: this are insane to the membrane. In fact, the number
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Speaker 1: that's been bragged about by Baseball. This is just for
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Speaker 1: Game one. Twenty five million men, women and children watch
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Speaker 1: in Japan, the Tokyo game Game one. I wonder how
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Speaker 1: many people watched in America. I bet it wasn't many.
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Speaker 1: I bet it wasn't many. I was watching, but I'm
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Speaker 1: pretty sure not a lot of people on the East
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Speaker 1: Coast at six in the morning, or in Chicago at
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Speaker 1: five in the morning. Certainly in the West Coast in
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Speaker 1: La at three in the morning, are going to change
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Speaker 1: their whole body clock around to watch a regular season
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Speaker 1: baseball game.
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Speaker 5: I'd love to. I don't have that number in front
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Speaker 5: of me.
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Speaker 1: I have to look that up. The number, the rating
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Speaker 1: in America. You know it wasn't good. We know it
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Speaker 1: wasn't good because Major League Baseball was bragging about how
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Speaker 1: many people were watching in Japan. They weren't bragging about
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Speaker 1: how many people were watching in America. They said it
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Speaker 1: was the largest audience for any American baseball game in
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Speaker 1: Japan since Game seven of the World Series, the team
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Speaker 1: cheated from Houston in twenty twenty seventeen. So to rephrase
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Speaker 1: how big a number that twenty five million is. That
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Speaker 1: is roughly twenty percent of the entire population of Japan
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Speaker 1: was watching the Dodgers and the Cubs. Okay, twenty percent
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Speaker 1: of the country was watching. That is why Major League
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Speaker 1: Baseball went there. Now they can't go there next year
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Speaker 1: because they've got that Fugazi World Baseball Classic, But they'll
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Speaker 1: be back. I mean, I would not be shocked if
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers, pretty much every other year, open up in Japan,
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Speaker 1: or pick your country somewhere far far away, in that
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Speaker 1: part of the world.
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Speaker 5: Now page two, So we flip the script a.
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Speaker 1: Little bit and we go to Anaheim, a very depressing
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Speaker 1: place not far from Fullerton, which is not depressing, but Fullerton,
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Speaker 1: Siberia with ferg Dog and Alf the ALIENI Pinter's Nemesis,
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Speaker 1: and all the characters that live there.
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Speaker 5: So now they explain why.
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Speaker 1: I'm going Anaheim. I'm not going to Anaheim talking about
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Speaker 1: good baseball. No, because that's bad baseball. The Angels. That's
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Speaker 1: a baseball team, not a good one. The Angels, they
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Speaker 1: did something that got our attention. The Angels, we are told,
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Speaker 1: have mandated a new set of rules for the clubhouse,
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Speaker 1: and it's a new year, new rules.
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Speaker 5: But there's one rule.
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Speaker 1: That stands out more than all the others.
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Speaker 5: The players in twenty twenty.
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Speaker 1: Five are not allowed to be on their cell phones
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Speaker 1: at their lockers. No bueno, no go. So Mike Trout
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Speaker 1: he came out and said that he thinks it's worked
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Speaker 1: really well so far. They haven't even played a regular
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Speaker 1: season game yet. So the Angels, let me sum this
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Speaker 1: up for you this way. The Angels have instituted a
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Speaker 1: new rule this season with the players in the clubhouse.
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Speaker 1: They are not allowed to be on their cell phones
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Speaker 1: at their locker. So what is the core of this
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Speaker 1: score story? What is the core of this story? The
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Speaker 1: Angels banning the smartphone usage at the locker. So, for me,
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Speaker 1: the core of the story is Ron Washington. Yes, Ron Washington,
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Speaker 1: longtime baseball man, is the manager, and he is from
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Speaker 1: the Old Country. He's about to turn seventy three years old.
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Speaker 1: He made his Major League baseball debut for the Dodgers
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Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy seven. It's been a minute so for him,
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Speaker 1: he'd much rather read the Yellow Pages than wikipedie. And
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Speaker 1: he's old school, right, He's in the Old Country. He
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Speaker 1: wants face to face, not TikTok. He wants face to
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Speaker 1: face talk, not TikTok. So Ron Washington, the manager in Anaheim,
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Speaker 1: is looking to artificially cultivate team camaraderie. Washington's a smart
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Speaker 1: enough man to know the team blows. It's a bad
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Speaker 1: baseball team. They got crap bag players, stiffs like well,
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Speaker 1: Anthony Rendaut's not even playing this year, but he's he's
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Speaker 1: kind of on that and not team upset, is he?
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Speaker 1: I mean, all he does is sit as a locker.
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Speaker 1: He's not supposed to be on his phone. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: he knows that you're not going to win based on
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Speaker 1: talent with the Angels, so you might as well try
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Speaker 1: to make up some ground there and be a tight
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Speaker 1: knit unit, but.
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Speaker 5: Protecting the sanctity of the clubhouse.
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Speaker 1: Kind of like the dinner table, you got to limit
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Speaker 1: the brain rot and a lot of families have rules
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Speaker 1: no smartphone at the dinner table.
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Speaker 5: You band the cell phone, and you're supposed to improve.
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Speaker 1: Those connections at bond, right, you reclaim time and this
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Speaker 1: digital agent. So Ron Washington and his figure, Hey, and
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Speaker 1: we're not gonna win games because on talent, because we're
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Speaker 1: not very good the Angels, So you know why not?
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Speaker 1: We might as well just be friendly with each other
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Speaker 1: and interact with each other and there'll be some kind
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Speaker 1: of weird bond. Now. I am skeptical. I am skeptical
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Speaker 1: that this is going to work. And here's why. I
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Speaker 1: would estimate that most people consume dinner anywhere from thirty
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Speaker 1: to sixty minutes. That's a normal time to have a meal,
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Speaker 1: and I would say it's closer to thirty than sixty,
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Speaker 1: I would hope, depending on how much you just keep talking.
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Speaker 1: But most of the time. It's a thirty to sixty
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Speaker 1: minute experience when you have dinner, Am I correct on that?
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Speaker 1: When you have dinners it thirty probably is right. You're
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Speaker 1: with other people, with your friends and your family whatever,
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Speaker 1: thirty sixty minutes. Major League Baseball players are in the
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Speaker 1: clubhouse now. Normally the home team gets there around two
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Speaker 1: o'clock in the afternoon for a night game, and they're
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Speaker 1: there all the way up off and on off and
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Speaker 1: on games about two and a half hours. Now. There's
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Speaker 1: some batting practice, but they're in their locker area for
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Speaker 1: about half the time. I would say so from two
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Speaker 1: o'clock till ten o'clock half the time they're there. So
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Speaker 1: here's what I want to do. I want I want
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Speaker 1: to take out a little yellow, yellow posted note. All right,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna make Ron Washington happy. Otherwise i'd tell you
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Speaker 1: to just put a note on your phone. But because
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Speaker 1: Ron's antiphone, the Angels manager. So take out a yellow
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Speaker 1: posted note. Let's file this one away. Let's check back
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Speaker 1: on the posted note on June first, when the Angels
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Speaker 1: are ten to fourteen games back in the American League West,
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Speaker 1: which is gonna be hard to do. It's gonna be
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Speaker 1: hard to be that far back in the American League
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Speaker 1: West because the cheating a holes who we're gonna get
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Speaker 1: to in a minute, they're not as good. Seattle always
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Speaker 1: finds a way to f things up. And then you've
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Speaker 1: got the Sacramento As that have Sacramento dysmorphia. They're so
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Speaker 1: embarrassed by being in Sacramento they don't want to admit
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Speaker 1: they're in Sacramento, even though there is a halfway house
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Speaker 1: before they get to Vegas. So it's a it's a
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Speaker 1: fugazy situation there, all right. So it's hard. It's hard
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Speaker 1: for that to really fall that far behind because the
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Speaker 1: division sucks so much. But methinks it will backfire, all right.
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Speaker 1: Final point, Well we just mentioned it. Let's go to Houston,
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Speaker 1: the den of iniquity, where their manager Joe ah Spada
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Speaker 1: confirmed that longtime infielder and convicted cheater Jose al boovey
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Speaker 1: Jose Alboo. So this dope is going to open the
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Speaker 1: season as the cheating as one one thousand and two,
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Speaker 1: one thousand and three, one thousand holes primary left fielder.
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Speaker 1: Now this comes as al Tuve back to back spring
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Speaker 1: training games dropped routine little league style flyballs, little league
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Speaker 1: style flyballs. Dropskis back to back days in spring training,
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Speaker 1: he dropped fly balls, routine flyballs with runner on third
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Speaker 1: base less than two outs, and Altub was anticipating the
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Speaker 1: play that he had to catch the ball, had to
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Speaker 1: secure the catch and throw the ball to home plate,
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Speaker 1: and he failed to secure the catch.
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Speaker 5: Now Altuve convicted.
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Speaker 1: With blood on his hands, blood on his hands, and
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Speaker 1: a buzzer under his uniform. Allegedly he has made all
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Speaker 1: all of his defensive start seventeen and forty nine across
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Speaker 1: fourteen dirty major League Baseball seasons at second base.
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Speaker 5: But not anymore, not anymore.
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Speaker 1: Altub was last season the second worst defensive second baseman
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Speaker 1: in baseball last year, and so Jose Altub. He has
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Speaker 1: been absolutely terrible this spring in the outfield. However, the
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Speaker 1: Ast say they are going to use Altuve Albouve as
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Speaker 1: their primary left fielder this season. Do you feel bad
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Speaker 1: for al Tube? So absolutely not. Did you expect me
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Speaker 1: to say yes, You must be new to the show.
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Speaker 1: You've got to be new to these parts. If you
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Speaker 1: expected me to say yes, Altub is forever on Santa's
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Speaker 1: naughty List, and I am enjoying shotenfreude. I am enjoying
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Speaker 1: shotenfreude since Major League Baseball didn't have the balls to
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Speaker 1: punish Altuve, in fact, they protected him. I love the
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Speaker 1: fact that this cheating fraud Altuve is embarrassing himself on
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Speaker 1: his way out of baseball, that he's been demoted. He
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Speaker 1: has been demoted. Don't let a falling star fall on you.
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Speaker 1: It is the little league walker shame. It is the
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Speaker 1: little league walker shame. You put your crappiest player out
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Speaker 1: left field. Get out there in left field. Altuve is
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Speaker 1: covered with the cooties. He's got the cooties. You hate
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Speaker 1: to see it unless you love to see it, and
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Speaker 1: then you're not that upset about it. Right, I need
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Speaker 1: a sizzle reel of Altuve dropping balls in the outfield.
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Speaker 1: That's what I need, and I'm gonna get it.
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna get it.
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Speaker 1: But the scouting report when you play the cheating Astros
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Speaker 1: will be to hit the ball in the left field.
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Speaker 1: Make al Boubay make a play, Make al boub make
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Speaker 1: Nonsense we go, Well, that's true, and we began with
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Speaker 1: a spicy hot baseball monologue as the Dodgers and Cubs
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Speaker 1: beginning the baseball season in Tokyo and a couple of
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Speaker 1: games and twenty five million people watching that, and also
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Speaker 1: the Angels Ron Washington banning the smartphone from the locker room.
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Speaker 1: And yes, that's why the Angels have the longest playoff
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Speaker 1: drought in baseball because they haven't been able to use
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Speaker 1: the smartphone. But now that that's because they have used
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Speaker 1: the smartphone. Now they won't be able to use the smartphone,
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Speaker 1: so they're in good shape. Late Night Drug Tester writes
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Speaker 1: in he says, if League Baseball is happy with all
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Speaker 1: the Dodger merch that sold in Japan, wait until October
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Speaker 1: when the run on Royal's jerseys explodes when they win
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Speaker 1: the American League pennant. We'll be waiting. Ferg Dog writes
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Speaker 1: and says banning cell phones is a brilliant move by
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Speaker 1: Ron Washington. Players should pay more attention to the game
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Speaker 1: and then flappy Bird on their phones. Don't be surprised
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Speaker 1: if the Angels make some noise in April. What kind
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Speaker 1: of noise are they gonna make? Coopion? What is it?
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Speaker 5: The noise the sound of like a lobster dying?
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Speaker 1: Is it gonna be? I mean, my god, that's it there.
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Speaker 1: You gotta be proud. Are you now you still boycotting
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Speaker 1: the Angels? Coop or you done? You are? Okay?
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Speaker 5: So no no interest at all, nothing.
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Speaker 2: Very little interesting.
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Speaker 3: I mean just because yeah, uh, you know, out of boredom,
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Speaker 3: I may turn on a game on the TV.
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Speaker 1: Well maybe you need to go to sleep or something
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Speaker 1: like that, right right right exactly like nap time.
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Speaker 3: Sure, but I'm not going to be going to any games,
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Speaker 3: not an Angel Stadium anyway. Maybe if I'm traveling and
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Speaker 3: they happen to be there, so you might.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Maybe if you're in you know, pick a state
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Speaker 1: and the Angels happened to be playing like the Cleveland
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Speaker 1: Guardians or the Old Indians, you might you might show
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Speaker 1: up there, got you, but no merch and no trips
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Speaker 1: to Angel Stadium none. Okay, how many Angel everyday players.
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Speaker 1: Can you name right now? How many could you?
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Speaker 2: That's a good question.
21:40
Speaker 1: You want to play the game real quick, don't Yeah?
21:42
Speaker 2: Sure?
21:43
Speaker 1: All right? There are of the projected opening day lineup.
21:47
Speaker 1: We'll do this versus right handed pitching right, because I
21:49
Speaker 1: mean you can do left at right hand, but this
21:51
Speaker 1: is against right handed pitching. So there are nine position
21:55
Speaker 1: players and there is one obviously designated hitter project to
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Speaker 1: be in the starting lineup. Now, Marry, you want to
22:02
Speaker 1: guess how many Coop used to be an Angel fan? Marry,
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Speaker 1: you want to guess how many of these names Coop
22:08
Speaker 1: can get? Right? There are ten possible answers, ten possible answers.
22:12
Speaker 1: So how many do you think Coop will know as
22:13
Speaker 1: a fledgling Angel fan.
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Speaker 2: Mmm, I'm not gonna lie. I want to get like
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Speaker 2: four four?
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Speaker 1: Okay, that would be about half. That'd be about half. Well,
22:23
Speaker 1: there's there's the way I look at it. There's two
22:27
Speaker 1: or three that you should get. That's it. The other
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Speaker 1: ones I mean I'd be impressed with. There's one that's
22:32
Speaker 1: an obvious one that you're gonna get right away, and
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Speaker 1: then other than that, I know a couple that could
22:37
Speaker 1: go either.
22:37
Speaker 2: Way, like I'm like blanking right out.
22:41
Speaker 5: God, let's let's go.
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Speaker 1: So the Why don't we start with the obvious one?
22:45
Speaker 1: All right?
22:45
Speaker 2: Mike Trout?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Mike Trout. And he what position is
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Speaker 1: he gonna play this year?
22:49
Speaker 2: Coop is gonna play right field?
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Speaker 5: That is correct?
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Speaker 1: All right?
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Speaker 5: You're one for one. You want to stop now?
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Speaker 2: I know I know at least one more.
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Speaker 1: Okay, what other play do.
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Speaker 2: You logan o'hoppy?
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Speaker 5: That is correct? What position does he play?
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Speaker 2: He's the catcher, that is correct?
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Speaker 1: Oh? Happy? You two for two? You know you love
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Speaker 1: the Angels, mister angel base me like an angel in
23:11
Speaker 1: the outfield. Two for two?
23:11
Speaker 5: All right, starting left fielder for.
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Speaker 1: The Angel I think you should get this one. I
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Speaker 1: think I think you should get this one. Really, starting
23:19
Speaker 1: left fielder for the Angels projected. I think he's gonna
23:24
Speaker 1: batt lead off I think yeah, I think he's a
23:26
Speaker 1: leadoff inter this year. Alight? Nothing, Okay, Taylor Ward I.
23:34
Speaker 2: Should have got that right.
23:38
Speaker 3: The last fantasy baseball team I had was was named
23:41
Speaker 3: Our Warden Savior.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so you're two for three. Oh you knew that
23:45
Speaker 1: was the name of your team. You get him?
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Speaker 5: Okay, Starting center fielder.
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Speaker 1: For the Angels center fielder, no idea.
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Speaker 2: Okay, you see you're gonna say these names and I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna know.
23:55
Speaker 1: Them, but I'm just Joe Adele.
23:58
Speaker 2: Oh really starting off the season.
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Speaker 1: Projected to be the starting centerfielder. So you're two, you're
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Speaker 1: fifty percent right now, you're two for four. Let's see here.
24:07
Speaker 1: Now it's gonna get well. This one. This was their
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Speaker 1: their big pickup this offseason. He's a designated hitter. He's
24:17
Speaker 1: gonna back clean up for the Angels that you were playing?
24:19
Speaker 1: How many how many Angels can coop name game in
24:22
Speaker 1: honor of Opening Day next week? Yeah, big signing.
24:25
Speaker 5: I remember hour hitter.
24:27
Speaker 1: This guy was one of my favorite players in baseball.
24:29
Speaker 1: One year had a big home run in the World Series.
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Speaker 2: If I remember correctly, he's one of your favorite players.
24:35
Speaker 5: Well for one one year, because he Yeah, for one
24:38
Speaker 5: year he was.
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure. Is he a big guy? Here's a big,
24:41
Speaker 1: bigger guy, designated hitter. He's been around for a while.
24:44
Speaker 5: Nothing is it Miguelson? O?
24:47
Speaker 1: No, that was last year, right, that was He's he's gone. No,
24:52
Speaker 1: it's a Jorge Cilaire didn't need a big home run
24:54
Speaker 1: for the Braves against the cheating Astros.
24:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was. He had something big for
25:00
Speaker 2: the Cubs too.
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Speaker 1: Right, maybe I remember the Braves hitting a big, world
25:05
Speaker 1: serious home run.
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Speaker 5: So your two for five, Coop.
25:08
Speaker 2: I'm so screwed.
25:10
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, no, you're not screwed, Coop. No, no, no,
25:12
Speaker 1: We're gonna keep playing the game. This is a fun game,
25:14
Speaker 1: all right, Starting first baseman for the Angels. Now, the
25:17
Speaker 1: Angels have had some great first basement over the years. Fence,
25:20
Speaker 1: how far you go back? Wally Joiner, they signed Mo Vaughn,
25:24
Speaker 1: they had him, Eddie Murray played in Anaheim for a while,
25:27
Speaker 1: Rod Carew there been some legendary first basement for the
25:30
Speaker 1: Angels franchise and Cooper Loop Can you name the starting
25:34
Speaker 1: first baseman for the Angels in twenty twenty five? And then.
25:44
Speaker 2: Mark Trumbo?
25:46
Speaker 5: Right Trump.
25:48
Speaker 1: You wish? Uh? No, that would be uh. I don't
25:53
Speaker 1: even know this guy. Nolan Seanuell, seany Wells Nuell.
26:00
Speaker 2: Something like that.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, yeah, I know the name. All right,
26:04
Speaker 1: your two for six, Coop.
26:05
Speaker 5: We will keep going.
26:06
Speaker 1: There are four more possibilities here, if my math is correct.
26:10
Speaker 1: You uh, let's see starting third basement for the Angels.
26:13
Speaker 1: What do you got starting third basement for the Ange?
26:17
Speaker 1: This guy's been around. He was a can't miss suspect
26:21
Speaker 1: for the Red Sox and then he didn't make it.
26:24
Speaker 1: So he's on the Angels now. Yeah, and I think
26:29
Speaker 1: you're two for seven? Actually right?
26:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is bad.
26:33
Speaker 1: Uh, that's kind of fun for me. I'm enjoying it.
26:37
Speaker 1: Scot that's a good name. No, Johann Mancata.
26:43
Speaker 2: Johann had no idea he's.
26:48
Speaker 1: Projected to be the starting third basement. He was the
26:50
Speaker 1: guy the Red Sox traded to the White Sox for
26:53
Speaker 1: Chris Sale years ago, and and people were like, oh,
26:56
Speaker 1: this guy is going to be an All Star every year,
26:58
Speaker 1: and the guy blows and all right, last one. I
27:01
Speaker 1: don't even know this guy, so I can't imagine. Yeah,
27:04
Speaker 1: the shortstop for the Angels. There's no chance you're two
27:06
Speaker 1: for eight right now? Coop? Uh? Go ahead? Eric Ibar,
27:10
Speaker 1: Eric Ibar, good name? Uh? No, Dick Schofield, No, the
27:15
Speaker 1: correct answer is Newman Newman, Kevin Newman. I have no
27:21
Speaker 1: idea who that is, but Kevin Newman. That's apparently the
27:25
Speaker 1: shortstop for the end. Well, Coop, you got too right,
27:28
Speaker 1: and so congratulations.
27:29
Speaker 5: Out of night, shout out to me.
27:31
Speaker 1: I won Angels baseball? Right there, Mary Matt, how many
27:35
Speaker 1: can you name the opening day picture coop for the Angels? Uh?
27:43
Speaker 5: It's you see the guy that.
27:48
Speaker 2: The Mariners, or he used to be on the Mariners.
27:50
Speaker 1: Anyway, he was on the Astros and the Blue Jays
27:54
Speaker 1: last year. He's bounced around. So yeah, there you go.
27:57
Speaker 1: That's so you know you're going well when you have
27:59
Speaker 1: a thirty three year old journeyman pitcher in your opening days.
28:02
Speaker 2: That's so embarrassing.
28:04
Speaker 1: And Kyle Hendrix, who's been done for like two years,
28:07
Speaker 1: is in the rotation for the angel and he was
28:10
Speaker 1: Witney on the Cubs in the World Series. He's still
28:13
Speaker 1: a right, he's in his mid thirties. He can't pitch anymore.
28:15
Speaker 5: I mean, you can't pitch.
28:16
Speaker 1: You go to Anaheim. That's what you do. You go
28:18
Speaker 1: out there to the Big A and you get a paycheck.
28:20
Speaker 1: It's like a golden parachute and you just knock yourself
28:23
Speaker 1: out and have a fine time. Well, that was a
28:25
Speaker 1: fun game. I didn't plan on playing that game. That
28:27
Speaker 1: was just kind of a spur of the moment thing.
28:28
Speaker 1: But it's a fun game. Nonetheless, let's go to the
28:30
Speaker 1: phones and we'll say hello to Andrea. She's the astrology
28:35
Speaker 1: lady Virgo in service on X and she is in Berkeley.
28:40
Speaker 5: She's in her compound right now. Hello Andrea, Welcome.
28:42
Speaker 4: Hello Ben, how are you?
28:45
Speaker 1: If I was any better, I'd be a Rogers, But
28:49
Speaker 1: not Aaron Rodgers. I probably would be. He's probably some
28:52
Speaker 1: exotic location right now, on vacation somewhere.
28:54
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I just love to travel. He's a sagittarius,
28:58
Speaker 4: he's a free spirit. And it's the spring equinox, so
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Speaker 4: day and light or of equal length. So happy spring equinox.
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Speaker 1: All right, how were we supposed to celebrate that? What
29:09
Speaker 1: do we do?
29:09
Speaker 4: Yes? Well, you know we how much we like the
29:11
Speaker 4: Farmer's Almanac. So it's a spring equinox, so it's perfect timing.
29:17
Speaker 4: It's actually at two oh one am, will be up.
29:20
Speaker 4: So take time to nurture yourself, be in nature when
29:25
Speaker 4: you get a chance. And it's just nice to have
29:28
Speaker 4: that balance and equilibrium back of day and night, you know,
29:33
Speaker 4: yin yang, and just a nice energy portal, and you know,
29:39
Speaker 4: new beginnings. I love how it coincides with baseball season
29:42
Speaker 4: and the green grass, and the only thing is mercury
29:47
Speaker 4: is retrograde, so do take time and double check all
29:50
Speaker 4: travel plans and allow extra time. And that's March fourteen
29:55
Speaker 4: to April seventh. So we had mercury retrograde the same day,
30:00
Speaker 4: right around the Spring equinox, and venus is retrograde as well.
30:06
Speaker 4: This is quite unusual. The planets that rules relationships, love money,
30:10
Speaker 4: and that's going on a little bit longer for about
30:14
Speaker 4: another month. So just take some deep breaths and just
30:19
Speaker 4: bring yourself into life with greater balance and be more centered,
30:24
Speaker 4: connect with your higher self. So it's just really nice
30:28
Speaker 4: to have that balance. And the days are getting longer.
30:30
Speaker 4: We got baseball. I'm a night out. I watched some
30:33
Speaker 4: of the Dodgers came. So if anyone would like a
30:37
Speaker 4: free Spring Equinox newsletter, please let the astrology lady know.
30:41
Speaker 4: It has all the mercury retrograde dates, the full moons,
30:44
Speaker 4: the eclipses, you know, all that timely stuff that it
30:49
Speaker 4: behooves people to be in touch with.
30:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, we know when the full moon's happened
30:55
Speaker 1: because we find out from the people that call the show.
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Speaker 2: And I always connect with my higher self.
31:03
Speaker 1: You do you should maybe connect with the angels box
31:07
Speaker 1: score once in a while, connected with that kid, because
31:11
Speaker 1: I can.
31:12
Speaker 4: But that's nice. It's a time to have faith, pray, meditate,
31:15
Speaker 4: follow your heart and intuition, and I know what you
31:17
Speaker 4: mean about your higher self. That could work too, yeah,
31:22
Speaker 4: humor through all of.
31:23
Speaker 1: It as well. We definitely connected with that for many,
31:26
Speaker 1: many years. He's an expert in that area for sure. Yes,
31:29
Speaker 1: all right, well, very good, Andrea. So people want to
31:30
Speaker 1: reach out to you. You can find you on ex Virgo
31:33
Speaker 1: in Service and you have a little chart of the
31:37
Speaker 1: what you need to know this time of the year,
31:38
Speaker 1: right this time of the year.
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Speaker 4: Yes, body, mind, heart and soul what you need to know?
31:43
Speaker 1: All right, well, thank you, thank you, all right, you too.
31:47
Speaker 1: There she goes our friend Andrea in Berkeley, and she's
31:53
Speaker 1: the astrology lady on this show all the star Charts,
31:56
Speaker 1: all that stuff. She's gonna go take a bath right now,
31:58
Speaker 1: and she's gonna wait for you to send her a
32:00
Speaker 1: message and then she'll reach out to you if you're
32:02
Speaker 1: interested in that, and send you some some pamphlet thing
32:06
Speaker 1: or something like that. If it's online. It's online, all right, anyway.
32:08
Speaker 1: It is the ban Ma. It is a shrine. It
32:12
Speaker 1: is a shrine in Japan and Tokyo. They showed during
32:17
Speaker 1: the Dodger cub game a literal shrine to show Hao Tani,
32:22
Speaker 1: who's still very much alive. In that museum shrine, they
32:28
Speaker 1: had a golden replica of Sho Hao Tani's hand, so
32:34
Speaker 1: you could go shake Otani's hand. It's like shaking God's hand.
32:38
Speaker 1: You could go shake Otani's That's a little creepy, just
32:41
Speaker 1: a little bit. The thing that it reminded me of,
32:43
Speaker 1: and I alway saw a little clip of it, so
32:45
Speaker 1: maybe I'm exaggerating, but the clip that I saw reminded
32:48
Speaker 1: me of some photos of Stefan Marbury in China has
32:54
Speaker 1: a museum. There's a Stefan Marbury museum in China because
32:58
Speaker 1: he went over in the NBA and he went over
33:01
Speaker 1: there and the he was like a huge deal in
33:04
Speaker 1: Chinese basketball, and so they gave him his own museum,
33:08
Speaker 1: which is very bizarre. And Otani the one some big
33:13
Speaker 1: company in Japan bought the fiftieth stolen based baseball. I
33:17
Speaker 1: think it was the stolen based baseball that wild game
33:20
Speaker 1: he had in Miami where he became the fifty to
33:22
Speaker 1: fifty guy, and they bought the ball, and it's displayed,
33:25
Speaker 1: of course, at the I think it's at the stadium.
33:27
Speaker 1: Is like a museum thing in the stadium. And I'm
33:29
Speaker 1: not sure whether this was a pop up or this
33:31
Speaker 1: is always there. I'm not sure about that, but it
33:35
Speaker 1: was there for the at least the last week or
33:38
Speaker 1: so as the Dodgers and Cubs got together in Tokyo.
33:41
Speaker 1: It is the Ben Malo Show. Now, today is a
33:44
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33:48
Speaker 1: the start of college basket ball. Right, Oh, that's a
33:52
Speaker 1: big deal. And let me watching all day, not the
33:56
Speaker 1: early games because I'll be sleeping, But once I wake up,
33:58
Speaker 1: I'll be actually doing double duty today. I'm doing a
34:01
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34:04
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Speaker 1: He had a glove. He was sitting down the third
34:26
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34:30
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34:32
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34:36
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34:38
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Speaker 1: a blabbermouth. Bill. It's a bad job by you. We
36:36
Speaker 1: have Mallard of the third degree. But here's the insta trivia.
36:41
Speaker 1: Blank has the lowest plus minus rating in NBA history, meaning,
36:47
Speaker 1: based on that statistic, this is the worst player in
36:49
Speaker 1: NBA history, meaning his team has been outscored by the
36:52
Speaker 1: most points all time of any one player in NBA history.
36:57
Speaker 1: So that is the question. What is the answer. Let's
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Speaker 1: see does anyone know the answer? We go to the
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Speaker 1: great Unwashed and give a few answers here, then we'll
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Speaker 1: pay it off. Let's see here Page down inca terror
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Speaker 1: guess by Malard prop Guy alf the alien o Pinter
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Speaker 1: says Megan Fox and Courtney Kardashian. Interesting, interesting work by them.
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Speaker 1: Manny Fresh who is fifty six today by Late Night
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Speaker 1: Drug tester Cherokee Parks from Eke in Rosevio, Minnesota. Robbie
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Speaker 1: the Mariner fan guess by Big Greg in Iowa. George
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Speaker 1: Knox from Scrooge the Big Show from King Rory. Let's
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Speaker 1: see here, Leemu the Emu from JT the Wingman, Joe
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Speaker 1: and Okanawa. Guess by Shane in Des Moines, Montrez Harrold
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Speaker 1: from Robin, Minnesota. The former Mariner pitcher Dick Pole from
37:51
Speaker 1: Mark in Santa Monica. All right, Mary, what do you
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Speaker 1: say quickly?
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Speaker 5: Mary Miles Bridges? All right, No, the court answer is
37:58
Speaker 5: Sharif abduor right he.
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Speaker 6: Player.
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Speaker 1: He's the worst plus minus in every history. Here we go,
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Speaker 1: here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
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Speaker 1: we go, Here we go. Here we maller?
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Speaker 5: How about that?
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Speaker 6: To the third degree, This is one big event.
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Speaker 1: Gets grilled googolo.
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Speaker 3: George Pickens took to Instagram on Tuesday to share a
38:19
Speaker 3: picture of himself standing on the field with Tom Brady,
38:22
Speaker 3: and it's got people speculating that Pickens is hinting at
38:24
Speaker 3: wanting to play for the Raiders. Ben, is this picture
38:27
Speaker 3: a big deal, a little deal or no deal?
38:29
Speaker 1: So it's it's a little deal. It just tells you
38:31
Speaker 1: that George Pickens needed attention. He's an attention whore and
38:35
Speaker 1: he wanted people to talk about George Pixen Pickens, so
38:38
Speaker 1: he set out a vague photo.
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Speaker 5: So we all took debit.
38:42
Speaker 1: No, I mean, he can't leave until next year, so
38:45
Speaker 1: he's just trying to get attention.
38:46
Speaker 3: Next Draymond Green has now joined a growing contingent of
38:49
Speaker 3: NBA fans and writers that think that Nikolay Jokic and
38:52
Speaker 3: Shay gilgets Alexander should be co MVPs. Ben, do you
38:56
Speaker 3: see any chance of that actually happening?
38:58
Speaker 1: Well, that's disrespect to Shay Yogas Alexander Kyogas. Alexander's your MVP.
39:03
Speaker 1: The former Clippers going to win the award, and there's
39:07
Speaker 1: voter fatigue for Jokic and all that. S GA is
39:11
Speaker 1: your MVP, so stop with the Jokic stuff. Nice performance
39:14
Speaker 1: by Jokic against your Lakers, by the way, in that
39:17
Speaker 1: game last night.
39:17
Speaker 3: Next on Monday, the Timberwolves play by play announcer got
39:21
Speaker 3: sent held during the broadcast when he said Jamie Bickerstaff
39:24
Speaker 3: had been fined one hundred thousand dollars by the NBA.
39:26
Speaker 3: But have you ever been fooled into talking about a
39:28
Speaker 3: fake report in the air?
39:30
Speaker 1: I have come close, but I have never actually done it.
39:32
Speaker 1: The one thing that I have done no one's perfect.
39:35
Speaker 1: I did talk about his story as a news story
39:37
Speaker 1: that was like ten years old, but I didn't check
39:39
Speaker 1: the date on it. Somebody sent it to me and
39:41
Speaker 1: I didn't check the date, which was embarrassing. But I've
39:43
Speaker 1: never done that. How did we do?
39:44
Speaker 2: He passed.
39:45
Speaker 1: Yeah. I have worked with people that have been senteled,
39:48
Speaker 1: though embarrassing