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Hour 1 - Booted From Boston · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Here we go. Welcome, it's our numb burwah.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Monday to you as we are back at it
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  Speaker 2: on this sixteenth day of June, and the Red Sox
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  Speaker 2: making a big trade. They said bye bye to Rafael Devers,
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  Speaker 2: sending him to the Giants. How do you grade the
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  Speaker 2: Red Sox trade as Devers joined San Francisco for a
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  Speaker 2: gaggle of mostly pitchers. Also does Rafael Devers push the
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  Speaker 2: Giants into the upper crust of the Nash League? And
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  Speaker 2: how will Rafael Devers handle the West Coast.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about all that and more right now in
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  Speaker 2: Buying show beat. So there was no NBA Finals game,
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  Speaker 2: and initially I was I was slightly concerned. I said,
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  Speaker 2: oh my, we don't really we don't talk much golf
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  Speaker 2: around these parts, and I know the US Open outside
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  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh was played, and not really much of a talker,
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  Speaker 2: so I was like, oh man, there's no NBA game.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, yes, we'll talk some baseball. And then
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  Speaker 2: I was like, well I was at a baseball game.
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  Speaker 2: More on that in a minute. And then like all
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  Speaker 2: these big trades happened, I said, wow, that's great. So
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  Speaker 2: roughly thirty minutes prior to the Doyers and the Giants game,
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  Speaker 2: a game that I was at, I started getting all
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  Speaker 2: these text messages from random, random people.
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  Speaker 1: I said, well, who's bothering me?
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a Sunday, Sunday night, you know, shows not
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  Speaker 2: till later, like you know what's going on. And so
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  Speaker 2: I was. I was in a social situation. I was
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  Speaker 2: trying to be polite. I mean, I learned my manners
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  Speaker 2: back in the day. I was supposed to be on
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  Speaker 2: your phone the whole time when you're you're at a meal.
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  Speaker 2: So I was like, all right, I'm not gonna look
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  Speaker 2: at my phone and anykay. I kept getting these buzzes
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  Speaker 2: like that, huh man, something big must have happen.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Last time I got something like this was like the
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  Speaker 2: Luca like if somebody died or somebody got traded. Last
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  Speaker 2: time I got a lot of messages like this, it
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  Speaker 2: was the Luca trade. So I was like, oh man.
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  Speaker 2: So I was annoyed at first, and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: who's bothering me? And I'm trying to be polite and
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  Speaker 2: all this stuff and okay, rare and appropriate night of
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  Speaker 2: the ballpark, and then all of a sudden.
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  Speaker 1: I opened the phone up.
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  Speaker 2: I was said, whoa, wow, oh man, wowie, because howie
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  Speaker 2: I can't But I was like, whoa. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: get excited, and uh yeah, I as as much as
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  Speaker 2: you can possibly get excited as a middle aged person
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  Speaker 2: about a trade. But I was, I was intrigued by this.
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  Speaker 2: This This got some juice. It's got some juice. So
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  Speaker 2: if you have not heard by now, I assume you have.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's already yapping about this, but maybe you were actually
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  Speaker 2: enjoying the weekend, did some Father's Day stuff, whatever that
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  Speaker 2: might be, and then and you were kind of unplugged.
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  Speaker 2: So the trade, we learned that the Boston Red Sox
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  Speaker 2: have traded the face of the franchise. They have said
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  Speaker 2: bye bye to Rafael Dever's fat ass and they have
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  Speaker 2: sent him to San Francisco in a mega, mega mega trade. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: the Giants sent back inbound to Boston. They sent right
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  Speaker 2: handed pitcher Jordan Hicks, left hander Kyle Harrison.
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  Speaker 1: You're getting a little excited. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Also outfield prospect James Tibbs the third sounds like a
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  Speaker 2: caller we used to have that called the show. And
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  Speaker 2: a minor league right hander who we've never heard of,
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  Speaker 2: and in return, the Giants pick up a twenty eight
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  Speaker 2: year old malcontent designated hitter, and the Giants are now
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  Speaker 2: two games back of the Dowyers in the NLS standings.
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  Speaker 2: The lost five to four at Chavez Ravine on a
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  Speaker 2: toasty warm Sunday there and Devers having a pretty good
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  Speaker 2: season offensively, you just look at the numbers and not
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  Speaker 2: look at the context of those numbers, never hitting two
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  Speaker 2: seventy two, fifteen home runs fifty eight runs batted in
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  Speaker 2: in seventy three games.
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  Speaker 1: He also hit a solo dinger and.
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  Speaker 2: The Red Sox swept the Yankees at Fitway and then
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  Speaker 2: the ultimate f you to Devs.
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  Speaker 1: We just swept the Yankees with you.
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  Speaker 2: We think you suck, though, so we're trading you, is
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  Speaker 2: what they did, and they traded.
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  Speaker 1: The trade was.
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  Speaker 2: Announced long enough after the game where they didn't have
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  Speaker 2: to answer any questions about it. The trade was leaked
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  Speaker 2: to the usual baseball scribes that are on the inner circle.
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  Speaker 1: That trade was leaked late in the day. Therefore, there
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  Speaker 1: was no way, no way to get any immediate reaction.
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  Speaker 2: So let us discuss the question, how do you grate
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  Speaker 2: the mega trade?
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  Speaker 1: In baseball?
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  Speaker 2: The Red Sox sending rafi El Devers to the Giants
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  Speaker 2: for a gaggle of mostly pitchers, nondescript pitchers, and one
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  Speaker 2: position player.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got my thoughts on this.
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  Speaker 2: I've got van slike airlines and nineteen sixties pop and
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  Speaker 2: we will combine all of these things together and we
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  Speaker 2: are going to make garlic fries. My advice to my
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  Speaker 2: friends in the Bay Area is keep Rafael Devers away
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  Speaker 2: from the garlic fries. Okay, he's going to enjoy them.
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  Speaker 2: They're delicious and they're very bad for you. So eveything moderation,
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  Speaker 2: so be careful.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Ay, there are no real winners in this. There are,
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  Speaker 2: or losers for that matter. The Malad report card on
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  Speaker 2: this after a minutes long analysis and deliberation of the trade,
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  Speaker 2: the Red Sox get the D. They get the D
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  Speaker 2: on the Malle report card. The Giants, I'm not getting
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  Speaker 2: giving them an.
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  Speaker 1: A for this.
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  Speaker 2: They got the player that we know is good somewhat,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm giving them a bee. So I'm gonna start
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  Speaker 2: with Boston, the better story in the losing locker rooms.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna start with Boston. And the argument is, well,
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  Speaker 2: they're allergic to keeping homegrown players. Here's a homegrown player
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  Speaker 2: and he's the latest to go, just like Mookie Betts.
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  Speaker 2: They traded him. Xander Bogarts went to the Padres so
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  Speaker 2: like all these guys end up in the Nation League West,
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  Speaker 2: like all the old Red Sox are now in the
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  Speaker 2: Nation League West.
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  Speaker 1: And it's to me the interesting part is the confession.
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  Speaker 2: We had thought this was a possibility when Devers refused
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  Speaker 2: to change positions and the owner of the team, the
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  Speaker 2: Aristocrat owner John Henry, had to fly out to Kansas City,
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  Speaker 2: where the Red Sox were playing the Royals, to have
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  Speaker 2: a pow wow with the player.
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  Speaker 1: That was a dad giveaway. Things were not going well.
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  Speaker 2: That is not normal protocol for the owner of the
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  Speaker 2: team to travel who have a meeting with the star player,
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  Speaker 2: because the star players, you know, is not following the
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  Speaker 2: play there. And so you had that. But it's a confession.
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  Speaker 2: They bet on the wrong horse. The Red Sox thought
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  Speaker 2: that Devers would be different, apparently, and he was supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be the cornerstone player and middle of the order bat,
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  Speaker 2: homegrown guy, all those things, right, the guy they chose
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  Speaker 2: to build around. They didn't want to keep Mookie Bats.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't want to keep Xander Balguards. This was the
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  Speaker 2: guy they wanted to Boston and now they have kicked
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  Speaker 2: him out. Send him over to the Logan Airport. Get
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  Speaker 2: the hell out of here. You're done, goodbye.
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  Speaker 1: And they thought, well we could build around mat. I
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  Speaker 1: can't build around him. And that is your lefty bat
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  Speaker 1: with pop.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 1: The guy that you know is now I.
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  Speaker 2: Guess shipped off like you're returning something from you bought
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  Speaker 2: on Amazon. You send it there and it ends up
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  Speaker 2: in a bin somewhere and then that's it. But the
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  Speaker 2: refusal to be flexible and the lack of hustle, that's
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  Speaker 2: the double whammie. It's like, well, I'm not willing to
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  Speaker 2: work with you and I'm not going to hustle.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Not a team guy, a selfish toolbag would be Rafael Devers.
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  Speaker 2: He did write his ticket out of finn right now.
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  Speaker 1: The issue is the.
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  Speaker 2: Red Sox because of his value being so low, because
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  Speaker 2: he's got a big contract.
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  Speaker 1: He's not a team guy. He doesn't hustle.
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  Speaker 2: That's the Red Sox couldn't get much for him, Like
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  Speaker 2: they got a couple of arms and it's really just
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  Speaker 2: some mystery boxes. What's in the box. It's a mystery box.
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  Speaker 2: Like this guy, Jordan Hicks has been an enigma. Remember
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  Speaker 2: when he came up I believe it was the Cardinals
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  Speaker 2: and he was throwing like one hundred miles an hour.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone got all horny, Oh man, this guy's great, and
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  Speaker 2: if only we can get.
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  Speaker 1: That under control and teach him another pitch. And here
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  Speaker 1: we are.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably been five, six, seven years something like that,
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  Speaker 2: and Jordan Hicks is still bouncing around major League Baseball
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  Speaker 2: and he still throws hard, and he's got an ERA
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  Speaker 2: of six and a half.
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  Speaker 1: He sucks. Okay, so you got him. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: been nothing but a tease.
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  Speaker 2: Kyle Harrison is at this point, until proven OTHERWI is
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  Speaker 2: just a generic. He's a young guy. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: early twenties, but he's not established, and he's not projected
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  Speaker 2: to be any more than a middle of the rotation
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  Speaker 2: starting pitcher. And he's got numbers that aren't all that
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  Speaker 2: impressive pitching in a pitcher's ballpark in San Francisco. And
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  Speaker 2: then they got an outfielder who's patting two forty five
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  Speaker 2: for Eugene, which I am told is a ball that's
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  Speaker 2: pretty far away from the major leagues. And then they
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  Speaker 2: got a pitcher who this rookie rookie ball pitcher. They
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  Speaker 2: got a picture and rookie ball, which is at least
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  Speaker 2: thirteenth grade, I believe. Okay, so, but the only reason
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  Speaker 2: the Red Sox don't get an F on this, they
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  Speaker 2: get a D, not F because that's not very good
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  Speaker 2: return on investment, is because your addition by subtraction a
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  Speaker 2: Deavor's bad attitude.
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  Speaker 1: And they got all these the next wave of young players.
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  Speaker 1: They're worried that dev is gonna.
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  Speaker 2: His bad habits are going to rub off on these
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  Speaker 2: other guys that are the next wave there. And you
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  Speaker 2: hear things right, Yeah, there's people that chirp around baseball
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  Speaker 2: by the whispers that you know, Devers is not a
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  Speaker 2: good leader. He's immature, He obviously doesn't take his conditioning
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  Speaker 2: very seriously, all that stuff, and then not willing to
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  Speaker 2: change positions and just coming across as a complete diva.
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  Speaker 1: Who wants that? Does anyone want that? Does it? Know?
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  Speaker 2: He shows up to spring training looking like he's he's
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  Speaker 2: really run up the Uber Eats account.
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  Speaker 1: When he gets to you know, the.
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  Speaker 2: The off season there and three hundred million dollars inflexible,
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  Speaker 2: inflexible and refusing to help the team out. And it
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  Speaker 2: reminds me of one of the great quotes of all
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  Speaker 2: time in my life from a player you probably don't
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  Speaker 2: remember unless you're old. There was a guy that played
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  Speaker 2: for the Pitts Pirates and the Cardinals named Andy vansle Like.
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  Speaker 1: His kid also played in the Major League.
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  Speaker 2: But Andy Vanslike had one of the great quotes when
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  Speaker 2: he was in Pittsburgh and he was talking about Barry Bonds,
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  Speaker 2: and Bonds went out to the Giants, of course in
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  Speaker 2: that era, and Van Slyke said, I'd rather lose without
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  Speaker 2: him meeting Bonds than win with him. And that appears
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  Speaker 2: to be the mindset of the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 1: Like.
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  Speaker 2: They just got some slop, they got some Ramen noodles,
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  Speaker 2: they got the Marcel diet, Marcel from Brooklyn diet for
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  Speaker 2: Rafael Devers. But you have to believe that they were
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  Speaker 2: shopping devs to every team in baseball and this is
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  Speaker 2: what they got in return. Now, Paige Triot, does Rafael
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  Speaker 2: Devers go out and push the Giants into the upper crust?
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  Speaker 2: Are they now a legitimate threat in the National League
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  Speaker 2: to the Dodgers and the Mets and those type of teams.
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  Speaker 2: You gys have a good record. I have to have
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  Speaker 2: a good record. And so now they've added a player
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  Speaker 2: that we've heard of. So the way I approach this,
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  Speaker 2: it helps close the gap, but only by a few millimeters.
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  Speaker 2: The gap is closed by a few millimeters here on
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  Speaker 2: this And this is a major shot in the arm
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  Speaker 2: though for that team, because it is a team that
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  Speaker 2: is a lot of flotsam and jetsam, and it is
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  Speaker 2: also a reminder that one man's junk is another man's treasure,
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  Speaker 2: Like the Red Sox just gave Devers away pretty much,
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  Speaker 2: and the Giants are all.
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  Speaker 1: Excited and all that, and the Giants have it. Sara
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  Speaker 1: Zos has got a good team.
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  Speaker 2: And I like the fact that Buster Posey the mindset
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  Speaker 2: seems to be in the right place. Maybe that's just
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  Speaker 2: my interpretation of it. And I certainly don't like the Giants.
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  Speaker 2: I like the Dodgers, but that's a motley crew. They
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  Speaker 2: have a motley crew of a roster. And I was
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  Speaker 2: at the game sitting with a couple of pop and
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  Speaker 2: these guys are two of the guys I was with
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  Speaker 2: from New York and.
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  Speaker 1: They're I don't know any one of the Giants. And
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  Speaker 1: then we're going through the line. I don't know that guy,
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  Speaker 1: that guy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're a nameless team. They are a faceless,
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  Speaker 2: nameless team. And now they have the center of the
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  Speaker 2: wagon wheel. You got to have that middle of the
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  Speaker 2: wagon wheel.
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  Speaker 1: So now they have.
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  Speaker 2: That, and Devs in theory is going to be that guy.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, so it's a good morale booster and
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  Speaker 2: all that three to zero three career hitter in playoff
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  Speaker 2: baseball for Devers, and so you figure he's going to
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  Speaker 2: hit on you know, looks can be seeing the Giants.
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  Speaker 2: I hope they paid the extra money to the airlines there,
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  Speaker 2: because when Devers arrives across country flight there to join
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  Speaker 2: the Giants, he's pretty sure he's he violates all of
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  Speaker 2: the baggage policies as far as excess weight in baggage.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of extra baggage that Devers brings all right.
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  Speaker 2: Now, final point and the last word on the Rafael
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  Speaker 2: Devers mega trade as he goes from the Red Sox
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  Speaker 2: to the Giants. So how will RAFAA DEVS handle the
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  Speaker 2: West coast? Much is a different experience if you've traveled.
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  Speaker 2: If you've been around the United there's much different experience
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  Speaker 2: going from playing professional sports in Boston to the West
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  Speaker 2: Coast and San Francisco. So it's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a culture shock, you know, different atmosphere all
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  Speaker 2: the way around there. Fenway Park loud, intense, it's a
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  Speaker 2: pinball machine. And you go out to San Francisco and
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  Speaker 2: it's like Oracle Park, I think it's what they still
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  Speaker 2: call it. Used to be packed Belt Park and something else.
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  Speaker 2: But you go out there, majestic, beautiful views.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I've been there a few times. McCovey cove, the
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  Speaker 1: bright blue sea out there. You get the city on
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  Speaker 1: one side.
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  Speaker 2: It's wonderful, but it's all about being like a nineteen
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  Speaker 2: sixties pop song from Donovan, Mellow Yellow.
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  Speaker 1: It's just mellow, laid back, you know.
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  Speaker 2: It's all that it's And so Devers will he flourish
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  Speaker 2: in that environment? Does it matter? Is he's going to
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  Speaker 2: really care? It's it's not a hitter's park. That's the
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  Speaker 2: big thing here. And if you look at the comps
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  Speaker 2: of players that have left the Red Sox and the
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  Speaker 2: numbers when they're finway to Pennant, Raphael Devers across the
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  Speaker 2: board is a much better offensive player at Finway Park
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  Speaker 2: the pinball machine than he is on the road. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: in his career at Oracle Park, he's in eighty three hitter.
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  Speaker 2: He's only played a few games there, but he's hitting
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  Speaker 2: eighty three small sample size devers again measureably worse. Then
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  Speaker 2: you got the contract. Now it's not my money. I
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  Speaker 2: don't have to pay the money, so I don't really
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  Speaker 2: worry about that. But from a contractual perspective, for the Giants,
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  Speaker 2: you've got a guy you've picked up who's got a
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  Speaker 2: bad attitude already, not a team guy, doesn't stay in shape,
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  Speaker 2: and here you're paying him the rest of his contract
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  Speaker 2: to twenty thirty three, three hundred and thirteen million dollars
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  Speaker 2: to a guy with a bad attitude. He's not a
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  Speaker 2: team guy, who's a selfish schmuck.
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  Speaker 1: So that's who you're paying.
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  Speaker 2: So you're betting that it doesn't matter, because baseball you
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  Speaker 2: can be selfish and you'll still put up big numbers
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  Speaker 2: and all that.
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  Speaker 1: But it's like the.
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  Speaker 2: Old Niners coach Mike Singletary, and it's like you want
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  Speaker 2: you want winners.
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  Speaker 1: I want winners.
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  Speaker 2: I can't selfish players, cannot win with them, cannot right,
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  Speaker 2: cannot coach for the whole thing, that whole rant, cannot
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  Speaker 2: do it.
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  Speaker 1: I want winners, go on and go on and on.
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• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Dever's won the World Series in twenty eighteen. Well the
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Red Soite we're cheating in twenty eighteen when they won
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: the World Series. So there is that.
• 17:33
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• 17:36
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• 17:40
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• 17:42
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• 18:05
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• 18:10
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• 18:26
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• 18:30
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• 18:33
  Speaker 2: you have choices in the middle of the night, but
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: we're glad you've chosen to hang out with us, and
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: we're here every single night on the red eye flight
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: you're working, hang out with us. And if you're just
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: up with insomnia, we thank you got the creeping crud
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: all you got up because nobody beats the whiz other
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: than this audio. All those fine reasons, fine, fine reasons
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: to be part of the show. You can interact with
• 19:04
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• 19:07
  Speaker 2: the phone companies don't work on the weekends. So you
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: can try to call in and probably won't work. In fact,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I'm betting it will not work. But anyway, if you
• 19:17
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• 19:21
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• 19:26
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• 19:29
  Speaker 2: coming up here in a bit. And now back to.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: It all, right, back to it.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: We go and the call to the bullpen. We'll get
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: that coming in a couple of minutes. We will have
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: more on the big story.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: We got a trade. Fergnog says that was a close call. Ben.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: I reached to turn off my radio the second I
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: heard in for Ben Maller until I heard your voice.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Don't scare me like that. Many people asking how that happened.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I have no idea. Obviously somebody didn't listen, but I
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: don't know what happened. Stuck in Sacramento says he plus
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: on the Open Mallard monologue for the week. The difference
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: between Devers going to San Francisco and Mookie to La
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: is simple. Bets is a team first guy, a piece
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: to the puzzle. With Devers, there is no puzzle. He's
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: just a piece playing for a piece of blank organization.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: That's from Stuck in Sacramento. What else do we have?
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Let's see here. I can't read that on the air
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: page down, Josh Josh Writeson says, did I just check
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: big Ben Maller leaving the Dodger game? Look like you
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: left a bit early there. Ben, well that I was
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: a guest. We'll get to that right now. They called
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: it the bullpen. So this was a very last minute situation,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: A very last minute situation, Josh. So, I was hanging out,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: minding my own business, trying. I was contemplating the time
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: space continuum, and I get a text at like four
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: in the morning from Marlin's.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Man who's a fan of the show.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: He's based obviously Miami, and he.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I haven't talked to him in months.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: He sends me a message, he said, hey, you going
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: to the Dodger game tonight.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I'm not allowed.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Once they got Altani in no room for me, you know,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: So I said I'm not going. I'm kind of outlawed there.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: And he said, well, you want to go, I'm going.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: I'm flying. I'm on a plane. I'm at the airport
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: in Miami and wherever he was in Florida, and I'm
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: flying out to LA and be there today and i
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: want to go to the game and I'll get your ticket.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: So without blinking, I said, hell, yeah, I want to go.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Of course I'll go.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: So I went and I hung out, but I was
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: invited by him and it was with his some other
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: people there, so I had to leave when he left
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: because it was not my event. But yeah, I left,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: like two out in the ninth inning.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I left and what did you eat? Ben?
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Well, there were lots of actually sports with Coleman was
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: demanding the food they had. He's great Now was Father's Day,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: so they liked a lot of Like it was the
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: vip dugout sweet thing, which is where like the where.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: The rich people go stop it.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Oh they had Yeah, it was all you can eat man.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: People were picking out.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Uh they had like chicken strips. No, they have chicken strips.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: I had a chicken palm sandwich, several of those. There
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: was some steak, a little bit of that. There was
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: a lot of sausage and a big sausage guy. Corn
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: all kinds of different. There was one guy dressed up
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: as Sho Hail Tani. It reminds allowed well, well, no,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: he had the uniform like the pants and the jersey,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: and it reminded me of when I ran into Helmet
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Man and he was dressed as an oriole and walking
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: around the streets of La like this guy was at
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Dodgers Day. It looked like Otani went in to get
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: a bite to eat, like he was hungry and he
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: wanted to get some potato salam.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: You got pictures of this?
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I did, I got, I got a photo the guy.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: But epic desserts hit cupcakes hard, that was good. Frosting
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: was amazing. And yeah, there was a lot of food.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: I only got a few photos there, but it was
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: like pretty much every kind of food. A lot of
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: it was not my to my standard, but I did
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: partake and I had a great time. And it was
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: very hot, but it's air conditioned under there, so I
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: had a fine time. And Marlin's man actually just text
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: me he is on a flight. He went right to
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Lax after the game, and that's one of the reasons
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: we had.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: To leave, like in and out.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's flu in for the day. He's got he's
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: got business he's got to take care of. He's I think,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: find Orlando. So he's got Yes, he's flying to Orlando,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: so he's doing this thing. But it was a lot
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: of fun. I had a great time. Saw my my
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: buddy Rick Monday and passing mod Monday there. I said
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: a load to him. I said, hey, Rick, I'm not
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: allowed here anymore. Kept going and uh, and that was it.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: So I had a good time. It was It was
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Enjoyed it, and it was nicely. Had a couple of
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: friends there, like actors or whatever. I don't know, but
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: I definitely did not belong there. They were having conversations
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: about where they liked the vacation, and they were like.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, I like this place.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: There's this place in the south of France, you know,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, okay, I like Riverside. I like there's
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: a casino and Riverside I go to. It's really nice.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: There's San Bernardino's.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: I can go there. And then that's that. It's very nice.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Anyway, let's see here Eugene in Chicago, says Ben.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: The bottom line has been don't work. I don't listen.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Wow, you're very kind, although I think I still get
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: credit if people are listening, although I guess it looks
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: makes me look better if no one listens when I'm
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: not here. But I want you to listen. My name's
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: still on the show. Hopefully we won't hear that imaging
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: of the rest of the night. Shane in the Moynes,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: says Ben. At the Mallor meet and greet, that was
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: not a Malor meeting greet. That was just a social
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: event and that was it. Burner account says, oh my god, Ben,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: I just turned iHeartRadio off for the night. I was
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: just turning it off. And then thanks for the head fake.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: I gotta keep you on your toes. Chip and the
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: q's right since says a plus on the Malla monologue.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: This trade, the Rafaeld devastrate will be a total steal
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: for the Giants if only they can somehow get Rafael
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Devers a lobotomy. The dudes a million dollar talent with
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: a ten cent head. Are they still doing the bottomies?
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Are they still like?
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Have you seen those?
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Ben?
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: I'm good. That is crazy, like taking an ice to yourner.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: I listen, I don't want to hear it's a Frankenstein.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: It's Frankenstein. I don't want to hear about it. It's Frankenstein.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I don't want to hear about Frankenstein. It's Frankensteins. Stuff,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: is what it is. That's what I don't want to
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: hear about.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: That man.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: All right, mister Irrigation, who's like the King of Houston
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: rights and he says, the best thing that the Red
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Sox got out of the trade is sowary cap space.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: There is no sowary cap real salary cap in baseball,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: a bunch of space apparently half a game out of
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: the wild card and swept the Yankees. Also, well, there
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: is a conspiracy. One of our listeners Boston sent to me.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Now keep in mind, I have no idea whether this
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: is true or not because I do not follow football,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: but if you do, you can confirm this. So a
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: couple of guys who live in the Boston area and
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: listen to us on our home there, the Ben Maller
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Show home on the Sports Hub, claim that the Red Sox,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: the owners the Finway Sports Group, agreed to pay a
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: record transfer fee for some soccer player, like one hundred
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: and fifty million dollars or something like that for Liverpool,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: and then they at the same time unloaded Rafael Devers
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: contract for players that don't make that much money. So
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: the conspiracy is that it's all about balancing the books
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: for Finway Sports Group, and that the reason they made
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: this trade is because they the soccer team paid one
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty million dollars or some according to what
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: people were emailing me, some soccer whiz guy, and then
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: they had to, you know, because the Red Sox Fenway
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: ownership group owns the Red Sox and the soccer team.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: So if you.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Take money and put it in Liverpool, then you take
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: it away from the Red Sox and then you balance
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: the books and then that's that's the way that works.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Which I would not be shocked if that happens, or
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: that happened, I would not be shocked by that.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Uh, let's see supermarket Steed rights and says, I thought
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: you were going to be nice when I saw your
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: rundown and not mentioned my Yankees getting swept by the
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Red Sox. Yet you managed to squeeze it into the
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: first hour mile of the monologue. I wonder how many
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: times you will bring that up tonight. I wasn't an
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: embarrassing supermarket Steve in New York Yankees a Red Sox,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: an average Red Sox team, and they have won what are?
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: They won five of six?
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Now the Red Sox over the Yankees, and that's an embarrassment.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: And we have to ask the question, are the twenty
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: twenty five New York Yankees a paper tiger? Is this
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: team a fraudulent team that picked up a bunch of
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: wins right good and sexy record They lost a series
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: of the Dodgers, they got their face bashed in by
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: the Red Sox. What's going on with that?
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Man? All right?
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: See what else do we have? Paige super Market? Seve
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: also says, once again, how come I don't see on
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: your rundown Caitlin Clark coming back from injury and dropping
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: thirty five points? Well, I don't do a w NBA show,
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: that's why.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Oh she's back, Ben, that's fabulous.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Well I thought you shouldn't you watch your w NBA
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: She already played on SAD. I guess it was on Saturday.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: I must have missed it. Three logo threes in a
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: row weren't actually from the logo. I didn't see a
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: second of it.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: I Hugh on the five rights in he says, did
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Rick Monday give you a failed witty bust ball busting
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: remark like he does to the various whipper snappers hanging about?
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Rick gave me kind of a it was kind
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: of with his eyebrow, kind of a shrug.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Huh, you know, kind of that was that kind of thing.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: It was an I did not I did not expect
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: to run into him.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Did not expect to run into him because I was
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: not there in a media capacity but they have long
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: escalators at Dodger Stadium, and I was going down the
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: escalator and Rick was coming up the escalator like ships
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: passing in the night.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: And I love Rick.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Years ago and in another life when I did Dodger Talk,
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Rick was one of the broadcasters with the Daughters. I
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: know Rick very well, and he actually listens to the
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: show on a regular basis, And so I'm always happy
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: when I see Rick Mondy. I don't see Hi much
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: anymore at all. Though, what else do we have this?
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: See page down. Boy.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: A lot of you guys think we're on satellite radio
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: and can just say all the bad words. Oh too bad.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Unfortunately we are not on satellite radio. We cannot say
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: all the bad words. Well, let's go down to the
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: belly of the Beastysky Boots on the Ground reaction to
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: the Rafael Devers trade.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: And there's tons of people awake.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: They can't sleep in Boston because the Rafael Devers trade.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: They're up all night with us. And who better to
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: be the voice of the Red Sox than Blind Scott
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Blind Scott Boots on the ground. What's the reaction?
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is terrible for the Red Sox. I woke
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: up to get ready for the show. I work on
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: on the overnights and this couldn't be worth for the Reds.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: Like Kevin Mallaia is like, we need people that need
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: to play. This is one of the best players in baseball.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: He comes from the greatest baseball country in the world,
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: the Dominican Republic. There's John Henry, There's Craig Breslow, and
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: there's Alex Cora. One of these dudes needed to fall
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: on the sword before you got rid of Rathfield Devers.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: You need to defire Craig. Craig Breslow, he is not
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: a baseball general manager. You do not get rid of
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: the best player in baseball and send him to the Giants.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: So, just for the record, holds, I said you were
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: calling for the removal of the Red Sox general manager.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Is that correct?
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's send that out on social media. Boston is
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: demanding that the GM of the Red Sox is fired.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: Boom, Yeah, Alex Corey, he's softman. He was drinking a
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: Moca like a moocha latte dunkin Donuts coffee that time
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: during the press conference after his daughter's graduation from Boston College.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: You know, Boston College is a very hard school to
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: get into. And I understand that he used what do
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: they call that diversity equity inclusion maybe to get his
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: daughter to get into the school there. But we don't
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: care in Boston, dude, we're all academia. This is academic here.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: We want the Red Sox. We want him to manage
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: the Red Sox. Why is our score of the mouth
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: piece for the Red Sox. Now, you know he's not
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: going to come and say, I've been working with this
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: young player for a long time. I could have worked
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: with him. He's gonna say whatever John Henry wants him
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: to say, because he just collecting a paycheck. You know,
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: the Red Sox are one of the best franchises in baseball.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: They have the biggest payroll. If John Henry wants a minute,
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: he owns the Penguins, and he owns the Liverpool and
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: these other teams. Dude, why have so many teams? He
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: could easily just sew this team to Jeff Basso to something. Dude,
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: do us a favorite John Henry? We hate John Henry
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: and Boston. You know, he has a yacht and everything
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: that's great. He had.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: You know, every rich guy has a yacht. That's what
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: you do when you're rich.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: Chat dude, are you rich?
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Non? No yacht for you?
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: So Ray Lorraine and you know, guys, I didn't like
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: the exchange between turn Dog and Ben and like, you know,
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: somebody fat figured something and then there was gas light
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: and going on. And you know, if I worked in
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: the studio and you were reading that and it was mine,
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: I might have got up out of my seat and
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: charged your chair. You know what I'm saying.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Well, I could chick your I could kick your ass.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I don't care about you kick absolutely.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: Scott's no waits all day long, just up and down.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Mayby, What are you gonna do? I've taken your call,
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: You're the first call.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Are you going to go to bed?
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? You've done so.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: I got the marlins Man photo and the Ben Mallet photo.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: So my buddy Fred and me and Fred actually we
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: went to the Red Sox, but we you know, we
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: didn't take photos. We didn't need a photo op.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: You know, like you go, fred't You're I'm.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: Gonna be passing that photo around national media right now.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: It's gonna be on every outlet in a few hours.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: The Inquire is going to have every major sports video.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: It is going to have the Ben Mallard Marlin plane. Dude,
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: these are two major heads reunited. We haven't heard from.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: He's spend about it's been about two years.
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  Speaker 4: It has been about do you know you haven't been
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  Speaker 4: mentioned them because you didn't want the fans to go
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  Speaker 4: after him, you know, and please, you know, he's a
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  Speaker 4: great car.
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  Speaker 1: You're vallguarding the time. Please by go away? I mean,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: what do you want me to do?
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Uh So there's some spin coming out also on this
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Rafael Devers trade that the story is that Devers didn't
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: want to be in Boston anymore. They're spinning that, and
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: then they also are claiming that this sounds like the
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Lucas situation two point others saying that some of the
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: reports we're hearing that the Red Sox did not did
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: not shop Rafael Devers around, that they just had they
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: just talked to the giants like why would you do that?
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Like are we in the age of stupidity in the
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: world of sports?
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Like it's not illegal, right, it's just not a smart move.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Well, it's not illegal, but why would you Like it
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: makes no sense if you have a car and you
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: want to sell the car. Wouldn't you not just go
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: to one person say what are you.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Going to pay for the car? I'll give you the car.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Or would you just put it out there and say,
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: all right, let's get some bids. Highest bida, that's right,
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: the highest bidder. I see a big name on line one, boy,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: I got to make sure line one stays. Don't hang
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: up line one. I can't take line one right now,
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: but I want to take line one because line one's
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: a big name. People have been asking me about line one,
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: So I want to get to line one.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: But time now for the who am I? Game? And
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: here is the who am I? Game? Where we pretend
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: to be somebody else. That's we call it the who
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: the who am I? Game? It's very exciting.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: So Rafael devers Is hit thirty plus home runs in
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: a season three times in his career. I was the
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: last San Francisco Giants player with thirty plus home runs
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: in a season. Again, Rafael devers Is hit thirty or
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: more home runs three times in his career. I was
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: the last San Francisco Giants player with thirty plus home
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: runs in a season.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Who am I? That's the question. The answer, We'll get
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: to it. We'll do it next.
• 35:06
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• 35:11
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• 35:12
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• 35:44
  Speaker 2: All right back to it time now for the who
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: am I?
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Games? Where we pretend to be somebody else's. We call
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: it who am I? Game?
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: So Rafael Devers is hit thirty or more home runs
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: in a season three times this career, I was the
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: last San Francisco Giants player to hit thirty year more
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: home runs in his season. Who am I? That is
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: the question? What's the answer, mister nice guy? Going with
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: one of the great Blue Jays of all time, Lloyd Mosby,
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Chris Outfield of all time, Jesse Barfield, George Taco Bell
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: and Lloyd Mosby Tricks Rabbit from Donkey Sausage, Cliff Doobie
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  Speaker 2: Robinson from Big Lou He's on number two, Andy and
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Lionel Lake this Minnesota got to write. Bad job by him,
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Kurt Man wearing great name by Alf the Alien Opiner,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Good job Bay City, Tony's going with Giants legend. Dion
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Sanders is his answer. Rennie Stennette or Stennett rather from
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Malibu Rubin.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Page down?
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Duck mcstuffen from Far Out, Dave Clipper legend, Brent Barry,
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  Speaker 2: the first white guy to win the Slam Dunk contest
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: from Shane in Des Moines, Ben Vereen from Bobby and Florida.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Who else do you have? Marlon Man's freeloader friend Nico
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: from Terry in Terry is very upset. He needs to
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: really chill out and get a life. Who else do
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: we have a page down? You are half pint waiting online?
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: One from Supermargan Steve rob Deeer, good name, good name
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: from Seawn that's his answer. In the Valley of the Sun,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Speccoli not the caller of this guy Spaccoli. Who else
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Chip Le the Cues got a right bad job by him?
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Count Dracula from Mark listening over in Santa Monica, Mark
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: in Queens in Arlington, Texas, going with Buster Posey, who else?
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Paige down?
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: This guy? Jeremy says, I heard the answer earlier.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Okay, well you get a life, dude. Don't listen all
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: the time. All right, Lorena, do you have an answer?
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Lorena? Well, yes, Ben, My guess is Cheach from Cheach
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: and Charn.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: A fine answer, but incorrect. It's also not Andrew Dice
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Clay guess by Gil in San Diego. The correct answer
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: would be.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: None other then Barry mand way back in twenty oh four.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: It's been over twenty years.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Every other team in the Majors is at least six
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: thirty plus home run seasons for a player since five
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: bonds last one. We have the play of the night,
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: and what better way to honor the career of Rafael
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Devers his last home run as a Red.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Sox The Play of the night. Take it him. Here
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: is rafuse Skys one deep in the left field.
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: This thing is way back in.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: It is far gone over the red line.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: It is out of here.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: For Devers an opposite field, Homer, it barely got over
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: the red line. Devers launches and it is two nothing
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: Red Sox.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: I used to know the Red Sox played by play announcers.
• 38:47
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• 38:49
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• 39:09
  Speaker 2: Ever, let's going out quickly to Minnesota and we say
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: hello to Hayes in Minnesota.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Hello, Hayes.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: I couldn't sleep tonight. My radio went down. I looked
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: at the phone somehow I call it fifteen times?
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, where have you been? Is? I've been drinking six
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: beers a day.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: I just can't get enough of it.
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: I've been drinking that's a lot.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That is that in like a ten hour period?
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Or is it like a two hours?
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: No? No? So I work six days now.
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: The only thing I do.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: I'm off on Sundays. The only thing I do is
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: I drive the dead bodies. The only thing I have
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: control over is the radio. So I played the radio.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Yes, for those who don't know, Hayes works at a
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: like a graveyard. Right, you were going to mortuary.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, I live one mile away
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: from the new place that I work at.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Oh you changed, you change place.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: There is there a lot of competition to get people
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: to work at different mortuary.
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: I wear I wear a clown sheep suit, so it
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: just makes people happy.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: So if I put you on hold, you're gonna hang up.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: Every time I put you on hold, you're gonna hang up.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: I don't have a lot.
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, no, I will wait.
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: I'm just I don't The radio went down?
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: All right, I want to I want to talk more
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: to you, but I have a hard network out here,
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: so I have to put you on hold.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: I hope you understand.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: But every time you say you're gonna stay on hold,
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: you hang up. I know you're gonna hang up. Don't
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: lie to me. Just say I'm gonna hang out.
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: Okay, I BoNT you promise, I will keep drinking. I
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: will wait.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, keep you have another beer. Have two beers. I'll
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: do another monologue. Have like five. I don't care. You're
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: at home, don't drive. Stay. You can get drunk in
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: your house. That's not illegal.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Yes, drink a small money drink, drink, drink, drink, drink, drink,
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: do whatever.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: You want, drink. I don't care. He's at home. He
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: can drink. He's an adult.