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  Speaker 1: almost on like donkey gong the nfl This is our
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday show. It's still late Tuesday in the West, but
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  Speaker 1: it's our Wednesday show. And we'll all be together, except
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  Speaker 1: for our friends in Hawaii and Alaska, soon enough into Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: And then it's on. The NFL begins. The NFL regular season.
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  Speaker 1: You smell that? It's either B.O. or it is the
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  Speaker 1: Patriots trying to dethrone. Well, you can't really dethrone anyone
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  Speaker 1: in the first game of the year. They'll take on Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: a rematch, the traditional Wednesday night NFL opener. As Seattle
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  Speaker 1: was a four-point favorite on the opening line, that line
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  Speaker 1: anywhere from three to three and a half. Have to
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  Speaker 1: look over at DraftKings and see what the line is
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  Speaker 1: right now. The Seahawks' favorite, pretty much a toss-up game.
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  Speaker 1: You get a few points at home, so it's pretty
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  Speaker 1: much a toss-up game there. We'll have more on that
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  Speaker 1: and a primetime special later on. We think we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do this in hour two of Benny versus the
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  Speaker 1: Penny for the Wednesday night game. So we're excited about that.
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  Speaker 1: Big ratings win. Big ratings win for that coming up
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  Speaker 1: in our number two. The penny has been on ice. Ice, ice, baby,
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  Speaker 1: for some time. But don't bury the lead, my man!
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to bury the lead. We are not
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  Speaker 1: going to bury the lead. Our lead this hour from Tampa,
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  Speaker 1: where the cigars are good, the sandwiches are great, and
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  Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield ain't going anywhere. Not anytime soon. You see this?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe perhaps you missed it. Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers
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  Speaker 1: have stood together. They're roasting marshmallows and they are singing
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  Speaker 1: Kumbaya as Baker Mayfield agrees to a three-year extension, keeping
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  Speaker 1: him in Tampa Bay through 2029. We are told the
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  Speaker 1: deal is reportedly worth up to like $ 160 million, $ 165
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  Speaker 1: million dollars. and averaging $ 55 million per season. We live
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  Speaker 1: in a world where Baker Mayfield is a $ 55 million
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  Speaker 1: a year quarterback. Let that settle in. Baker Mayfield is
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  Speaker 1: a double nickels, $ 55 million player. It's a dramatic turnaround.
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  Speaker 1: I remember a few years ago, Baker Mayfield was was
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  Speaker 1: persona non grata in the NFL. Just a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago, Baker Mayfield cut off negotiations. He huffed and
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  Speaker 1: puffed and he had a hissy fit. And he started
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  Speaker 1: training camp. He said, hey, the previous offer was a
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  Speaker 1: disrespectful offer to Baker Mayfield. However, they figured it out.
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  Speaker 1: So as we mentioned here, Baker Mayfield, allowed his agents
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  Speaker 1: to continue the negotiation. Why would you ever stop? What's
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  Speaker 1: the harm in talking? So they continued to talk, negotiated
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  Speaker 1: the deal, and after a cooling off period, There's a
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  Speaker 1: cooling off period. Yeah, both sides return to the table.
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  Speaker 1: The deal has been apparently finalized and just in time
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  Speaker 1: for the start of the NFL regular season. So that
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  Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: Are you surprised? Are you surprised that Tampa Bay blinked
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  Speaker 1: after Baker Mayfield played the disrespected card from the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the deck? So I've got Chili's gift card. Beehive,
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  Speaker 1: and Van Gogh. And we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together, and we are going to float your boat
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  Speaker 1: is what we're going to do. So, A, to answer
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  Speaker 1: the question, look, the NFL, as we have pointed out
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  Speaker 1: in previous episodes of this show, it's like the Mexican
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  Speaker 1: drug cartel. They got so much money. They don't know
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  Speaker 1: what to do with the money. It's FU money times
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  Speaker 1: FU money to infinity and beyond. The NFL money machine.
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  Speaker 1: So they got all this cash. You genuinely have to
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  Speaker 1: try to not get paid in the NFL. I'm convinced
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  Speaker 1: of that. And there are a few exceptions. For example,
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  Speaker 1: there's one in Dallas. It's kind of like Belgium-style beer.
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  Speaker 1: Once in a blue moon, once in a blue moon,
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  Speaker 1: does a guy not get the big money? Long-term contract.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, that would be George Pickens in Dallas. who
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  Speaker 1: remains capital K knucklehead for Jerry Jones out of the
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  Speaker 1: bubble of trust and thus out of the long-term contract
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  Speaker 1: game at this point. But Baker Mayfield, on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: The baker spent training camp acting like Tampa Bay offered
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  Speaker 1: him a contract that included a Chili's gift card and
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  Speaker 1: complimentary parking at the Chili's. Well, the parking's free. Why
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  Speaker 1: do I need complimentary parking? Well, it's just an add-on item.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you for that. But they have free parking
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  Speaker 1: at Chili's. I don't need... I don't need the parking.
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  Speaker 1: I know. But just it sounds better if we say
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  Speaker 1: complimentary parking. OK, fine. So he got the gift card,
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  Speaker 1: the complimentary parking. And then, of course, that insulted his honor. Baker,
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  Speaker 1: a very proud man, very proud man, Baker Mayfield. So
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  Speaker 1: that was how that went. And he climbed straight on
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  Speaker 1: to the mountain. Was it Mount Kilimanjaro? No, it was
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  Speaker 1: Mount Principal. Baker climbed up Mount Principal. He planted his
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  Speaker 1: flag there. much like he did back in college. He
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  Speaker 1: planted his flag and then came sledding right back down,
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  Speaker 1: right back down there when the $ 165 million showed up.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, OK, my principles have now been met
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  Speaker 1: and I'm good to go. Why not? So Tampa Bay
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  Speaker 1: clearly getting drunk. The Buccaneer front office there on the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback inflation game. And they have now paid filet mignon
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  Speaker 1: prices for Baker Mayfield. Baker Mayfield is like a really
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  Speaker 1: good hamburger. A really good hamburger. It's not filet mignon.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a good hamburger. And the quarterback nobody wanted,
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  Speaker 1: was it three years ago? I think it was like
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  Speaker 1: three years ago, Carolina?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And they fired him, and then he went to the Rams,
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  Speaker 1: and he showed up and played right away. And the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders are so bad, of course, he beat the Raiders
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  Speaker 1: because everyone beats the Raiders. They suck. You know, that
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  Speaker 1: whole thing. And there you go. Just like that. It's
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  Speaker 1: the rise. He was the top pick in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: draft out of Oklahoma, although he had to play for
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  Speaker 1: the Browns. So then it was the fall. Remember Odell Beckham,
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  Speaker 1: his daddy, used social media to get him off the
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  Speaker 1: Browns because he couldn't stand Baker Mayfield. Then he goes
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  Speaker 1: to Carolina, does a face plant, goes to the Rams,
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  Speaker 1: does okay, goes to Tampa, and then it's on. So
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  Speaker 1: there you go. Now richer than he was. He already
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  Speaker 1: had a good amount of money, so he gets another contract,
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  Speaker 1: and he benefits from the tax that the NFL has.
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  Speaker 1: There's a scarcity tax. When it comes to quarterbacks in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. All right. Now, the other part of this,
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  Speaker 1: page two, now that Baker Mayfield has gotten his money, money,
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  Speaker 1: money yet again, yet again in his early 30s, Baker Mayfield.
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  Speaker 1: So we need to get our shovel out. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to get our shovel out right now and dig. a
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  Speaker 1: little deeper. And I don't know if you're ready for
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  Speaker 1: this or not, but I'm ready. I'm going to dig
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  Speaker 1: a little deeper. So the question, is Buccaneers quarterback Baker
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  Speaker 1: Mayfield a true franchise quarterback? Is he a true franchise
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  Speaker 1: quarterback at $ 55 million a year? So, look, I don't
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  Speaker 1: see it, and we're never wrong about this stuff. We're
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  Speaker 1: never wrong about this analysis when it comes to quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: We're not. Just ask the Arizona fans. We're all over
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  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, and they didn't believe us. Alligator Arms Murray
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  Speaker 1: had that workout. Schmucks. Anyway, listen, Baker Mayfield, here's what
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  Speaker 1: we know about. He treats criticism... like the Library of
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  Speaker 1: Congress treats historical documents, every single slight, every single critic,
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  Speaker 1: every disrespectful comment gets preserved forever. Baker Mayfield's still upset
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  Speaker 1: about something Colin Cowherd said in 2019, and he's still
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  Speaker 1: pissed about it. Dude, it's seven years later, man. you
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  Speaker 1: might want to chill on a little bit. I'm just saying. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: nobody converts perceived criticism, disrespect into content better than the baker.
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  Speaker 1: He's a content maker, and he makes the media availability
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  Speaker 1: time absolute must-see television. That's the reality. And Mayfield is
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  Speaker 1: elite when it comes to a microphone. You put him
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  Speaker 1: in front of the microphone. He's elite. He'll snap. He'll
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  Speaker 1: have a hissy fit. And that's always good for business
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  Speaker 1: around these parts. But think of it like a beehive. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's my sound of bees. So think of it like
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  Speaker 1: a beehive. So you've got in the beehive, here's what
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  Speaker 1: I know about beehives. I learned this in school. I
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  Speaker 1: want to thank Ms. Kleeman. She taught me this. I
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  Speaker 1: was in school. So you've got queen bee, right? You
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  Speaker 1: get the queen bee and the beehive. And that's the
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  Speaker 1: queen of queens. You're on the the main star of
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  Speaker 1: the show queen bee and the beehive so you got
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  Speaker 1: queen bee you've got the worker bee and then you've
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  Speaker 1: got the drone bees so you've got the three types
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  Speaker 1: of bees i believe that's it you get the the
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  Speaker 1: three types of bees so for three games for three
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  Speaker 1: games you're going to get an elite-level quarterback from Baker Mayfield.
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  Speaker 1: Three or four games, right? Baker is a dirtbag, heart-and-soul
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  Speaker 1: guy who plays with gumption and grind and all those
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  Speaker 1: big words. He's not the queen bee. He's not the drone.
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  Speaker 1: He's a worker bee, and he's the man in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Baker Mayfield is. So, again, three or four games.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be like, wow, he's great. Remember, was it last
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  Speaker 1: year or the year before? For three or four weeks,
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  Speaker 1: he was the MVP of the NFL. Then they had
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  Speaker 1: to play the rest of the games. And boy, that sucked. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: that sucked. For eight or nine games, you'll get middle-of-the-road
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  Speaker 1: quarterback play, average worker bee play from Baker Mayfield. And
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  Speaker 1: then for the rest of the games, you'll be wondering
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  Speaker 1: why he's not selling insurance somewhere. He's just unusable. He's
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  Speaker 1: a non-playable character. He's so bad. And so while the
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  Speaker 1: news conferences are appointment viewing, Sunday afternoon remains... It's optional.
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  Speaker 1: It's optional. But, hey, good for him. He got paid.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't cost me anything, and he'll get his money,
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  Speaker 1: and he's at the end of his athletic prime here,
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  Speaker 1: so the Bucs will be paying him for a couple
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  Speaker 1: years past his athletic prime. We'll see how that works out.
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  Speaker 1: That never goes bad. It's like buying bread that's moldy.
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  Speaker 1: It's enjoyable. Just cook it and cook the mold off it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, last word. To La La Land, or is
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  Speaker 1: it Aussie Land? Update, update Aaron Donald. Will we see
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  Speaker 1: him on Thursday night NFL football? Will we see Aaron Donald?
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  Speaker 1: And the star out of retirement as the Rams open
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  Speaker 1: up their season against the 49ers. No. Aaron Donald saying no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Donald will not, will not play in the Rams season
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  Speaker 1: opener against the 49ers, those great NFC West rivals meeting
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  Speaker 1: 8,000 miles away. NFL barnstorming. I'm sure a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: people in Melbourne are going to go out and buy
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  Speaker 1: Rams and 49er gear because of this, and they'll make
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  Speaker 1: a ton of money, unless they don't. Anyway, the comeback
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  Speaker 1: delayed until at least week two. The Rams will play
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  Speaker 1: the Giants on a Monday night at SoFi. So, Sean
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  Speaker 1: McVay announcing that Aaron Donald did not travel. The Rams
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  Speaker 1: are on a plane right now. In fact, they're listening on,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you can hear Fox Sports Radio on those planes,
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  Speaker 1: those jumbo jets. They got the radio feed, so... We'd
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  Speaker 1: like to say hi to all the boys from the
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  Speaker 1: Rams traveling party. They're making their way. The 18 hour
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  Speaker 1: flight they took off Tuesday night. They'll be listening to
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  Speaker 1: the entire show. So we welcome the Rams listening to
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  Speaker 1: us here on the Fox Sports Radio channel on that flight.
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  Speaker 1: The chartered flight that they're taking from L.A. to Melbourne.
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  Speaker 1: They took off Tuesday night and they'll play on Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: which is actually Friday for them. You see how that works?
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  Speaker 1: It's called time zones. Oh, my God, there's time zones?
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  Speaker 1: What's up with that? So McVay had previously indicated that
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  Speaker 1: all the Ram players, including Donald, were going to make
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  Speaker 1: the trip. Another lie by a coach. That happens all
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  Speaker 1: the time. Rams claim they saw really no benefit for
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Donald to be a tourist there. and travel halfway
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  Speaker 1: around the world. I don't know. Is that halfway or
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  Speaker 1: is that all the way? I'll go all the way around.
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  Speaker 1: It's the other side. Do I go to a 180? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: do a 180. To the other side of the world
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  Speaker 1: there just to merely watch. You can just watch it
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  Speaker 1: on TV and knock yourself out so the 35-year-old will
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  Speaker 1: instead remain in la-la land and continue to get ready
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  Speaker 1: for the upcoming season. So the question is this. What
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  Speaker 1: message is Aaron Donald sending by skipping the Rams season opener?
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  Speaker 1: What is the message there? So here's the message. Donald,
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  Speaker 1: who's passed his athletic prime, and he's back with the
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  Speaker 1: Rams here. He has been down. Here's the message. Donald
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  Speaker 1: has been down in the football basement for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years now. There's going to be cobwebs. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of cobwebs there. You've got some rusty hinges. You
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  Speaker 1: got to take care of that. And boxes, you got
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  Speaker 1: to move those around. And so you got to do
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff before the machinery starts humming and clicking
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  Speaker 1: on all cylinders and all that. So we love to romanticize. Well,
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  Speaker 1: some of us do. I'm not really much of a romantic.
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  Speaker 1: Lorena's a romantic, but I'm not much of a romantic there.
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  Speaker 1: I love love. Oh, my God. Speaking of that, her
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  Speaker 1: segment will be coming up later. Oh, I forget it's Wednesday. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's always Wednesday somewhere, I think. I think it's always
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday somewhere. Anyway, so that's the message. The message is
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  Speaker 1: that even though you romanticize this, he is an add-on item.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Donald to the Rams defense. That's... That's what he is.
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  Speaker 1: He's an add-on item. And don't expect the old wrecking
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  Speaker 1: ball every game. You'll see flashes of a domination situation
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  Speaker 1: from Aaron Donald. And so this is like the NFL's
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  Speaker 1: version of the Van Gogh traveling exhibit. And the Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Donald experience, we'll call it, coming to a town near
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  Speaker 1: you featuring limited practices and Limited snaps. Pick your spots
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  Speaker 1: when you're going to play. And a lot of see
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  Speaker 1: you when we see you. Think of him like the
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  Speaker 1: football version of Rod Stewart. Aaron Donald is the football
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  Speaker 1: version of Rod Stewart. What are you talking about, Mallard?
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  Speaker 1: Let me explain. Sir Rod Stewart. Just think about like
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  Speaker 1: Rod Stewart singing Maggie Mae, right? Classic tune by Rod
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  Speaker 1: Stewart there. The aging rock star who skips rehearsals, avoids
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  Speaker 1: the sound check, and just kind of wanders onto the
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  Speaker 1: stage purely to play the greatest hits of his career.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. And so it's a lot of nostalgia for
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, and we're all just kind of waiting to
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  Speaker 1: see if he can still hit those high notes, at
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  Speaker 1: least by the time the playoffs come around. All right,
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• 23:55
  Speaker 1: with this story. I'm fascinated by the story in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: So LSU, I don't know if you saw this or not.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: This is bonkers. Okay, effing bonkers. So LSU is facing
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: a meeting on Thursday among the Southeastern Conference presidents and chancellors.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: They're going to have a vote on Thursday. So today's Wednesday.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: That would be tomorrow. And from what we're told, there's
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: going to be a vote on Thursday on whether or
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: not to terminate the school's conference membership. All of this
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: over a fight over former NFL players returning to college now.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: It is interesting to note that LSU did finalize their
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: roster at 105 players, and the NFL bounce-back players were
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: not on the roster, although you can certainly change the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: roster as you go forward. So if you didn't see this,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: perhaps not. It is... Next level. You talk about the
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: legend of Lane Kiffin. You imagine if LSU gets kicked
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: out of the Southeastern Conference because of Lane Kiffin? My God.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: So anyway, at best, we're hearing there'll be a significant
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: punishment for both the school and the coach. There will
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: be a vote, though. You need a two-thirds vote from
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: what we're reading here to kick LSU, Louisiana State University,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: out of the Southeastern Conference. So that is a good
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. for the
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: esteemed panel, which you are a part of. So what
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: are the odds? What are the odds that the Southeastern
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Conference gives the boot to Lane Kiffin and LSU, kicks
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: them out of the conference for flirting with bounce-back NFL players?
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: So I've got Snapple, Williamsburg Bridge, and Pinwheel. And we'll
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together. And we are going
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: to scream into the night is what we're going to do.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Just like they're doing right now at the U.S. Open
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: at Arthur Ashe Stadium there in Queens. They're screaming into
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: the night as tennis keeps going on and on and on.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: And all the rich celebrities get shot on television. Well,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: not shot, but they're shown on TV. Is that Kevin Hart?
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: I believe Kevin Hart there. Oh, my gosh. Kevin, it's
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: past your bedtime, Kevin. It's 3 in the morning. What
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: are you doing? It's a bad job of you. All right,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: so to answer the question, what are the odds that
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the SEC kicks LSU and Lane Kiffin out of the conference?
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: They have a meeting scheduled for Thursday. There will be
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: a vote taking place. So we go right to the Malarods.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: The Malarods, Sarray says... Plus 4,800. What does that mean
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: in layman's terms? That implies a 2% chance. A 2% chance. Now,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the SEC is threatening. Expulsion. As in, crank up the band. La, la, la, la. La, la, la, la. Hey, hey. Goodbye.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Just like that. All right. So it's kind of like
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the way I would describe this. It's like apparently everyone
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: had this happen when they were a kid. I had
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: it happen to me. Everyone I know has had this happen.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it happened to you. You're going on a
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: family road trip. You got mom and dad or maybe
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: just dad or maybe just mom or somebody else, your guardian, whoever,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: in the car, driving along, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: You're annoying the F out of your parents. And one
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: of the parents says, one more time and we are
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: turning the car around. Yeah. Yeah, Mama Maller used to
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: say that quite a bit in three boys. It was
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: a middle child. We had a lot of testosterone, and
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: nobody ever turned the car around. Never happened. Never happened.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: You'd be better off, if you think LSU's getting kicked
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: out of the Southeastern Conference, you would be better off
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: betting on McDonald's getting rid of the Big Mac and
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: replacing the Big Mac with steamed kale. Hey, can I
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: get the Big Mac? No, we don't have the Big Mac. Well,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: what do you have instead? Well, we've got this steamed
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: kale thing. Well, who wants that? Nobody wants that. You're
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: not going to go to a drive-thru for steamed kale.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Have you lost your bloody mind? Yeah. Or it's like
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the Southeastern Conference presidents and chantlers voluntarily, voluntarily saying, you know,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: we don't need all that television money. We don't want
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: to be greedy. Why don't we give some back? Let's
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: give some back to the TV people. We don't need
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: all that money. Good luck. This is performative outrage with
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: a conference logo stitched to the polo. That's it. And
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: they don't want LSU gone, the Southeastern Conference. They want
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: LSU scared. That's what they want. They want them scared.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: They want them fined. They want public humiliation, a little
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: publicly humiliated time for LSU. That's what they want. And
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: then what's going to happen? I've seen this play out
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: in my head here, and I'm never wrong. A distant
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: relative of Nostradamus, friend of Nostradamus. So then they'll call
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: it unprecedented accountability is what they're going to call it,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: which I believe is corporate gobbledygook for please stop asking questions.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: I think that's accurate. Just don't ask any questions. So
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: LSU is like the Southeastern Conference's pebble in the shoe.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: is what it is. But it's a pebble that delivers
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: pretty good TV ratings, sometimes monster TV ratings, and bags
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: and bags of cashola. That kind of matters, right? That
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: kind of matters. So the SEC has a love-hate relationship.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: They used to make these things called rom-coms back in
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: the day. Usually rom-coms were always about love-hate, you know,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: the girl hates the guy. The guy's a loser, and
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden they fall in love. That's SEC-LSU.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Right now SEC hates LSU, but LSU's the bad boy.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: They kind of get into the whole bad boy act
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. There you go. Love-hate relationship with LSU.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: They hate the headaches. They love the juice. They can't
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: get enough of the juice. LSU is the Snapple of
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: college football. Occasionally it gets a little sticky. Frequently it's messy.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: And they do bring it. They bring that. As we said,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: they bring the juice like like Snapple. You spill Snapple
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: gets all over the place. Looking into the Oracle and
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: you got to get an Oracle. If you have an
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: overnight talk show, we have an Oracle, Benny's Oracle and
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin. Here's what's going to happen. He is going
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: to get suspended. And the reason Lane's going to be
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: suspended is because somebody has to be the ceremonial head
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: that the SEC's medieval spike hits into. And that's going
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: to be Lane Kiffin there. They have to have a
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: pound of flesh. So they'll suspend Lane Kiffin. And the punishment, though,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: here's where they have to thread a needle. And this
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: is where it gets a little messy. Because they want
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: to punish Lane Kiffin for being Lane Kiffin. The issue
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: is the punishment has to be carefully calibrated, and here's why.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: They want to get the headlines. They want to get
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the attention that they're disciplined. They're bringing down LSU, bringing
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: down Lane Kiffin. However, the punishment has to be small
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: enough not to damage their television pals over there at ABC.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: That's the problem, and the very important date is is
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: not LSU's next game. I believe they play Louisiana Tech,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: I think, is who they have next. It's the game
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: after that. It's the third game of the season for
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: LSU that matters. And that's the one. That's the game
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: against Ole Miss. Made for TV. You think ESPN, ABC
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: want that shot of the Lane train rolling in there
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: down from Baton Rouge to Oxford, Mississippi? And Lane, public
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: enemy number one there and all that? The SEC doesn't
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: want a divorce from LSU. They just want LSU to
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: sleep on the couch for a little while. So either
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: suspend Lane Kiffin for one game... Or if you suspend
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: him for multiple games, you give him the opportunity to appeal.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: You make sure that you don't hear the appeal until
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: after LSU plays Ole Miss. You see what I'm saying there?
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: All right. Meanwhile, to the Bronx. That's right, we're going
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: to baseball. What kind of baseball? Alex Rodriguez, better known
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: by his gangster name A-Rod. So A-Rod says that he
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: does not expect the New York Yankees to invite him
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: back to Yankee Stadium for future old-timer day events, even
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: though he was one of the more prolific offensive Yankees.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Asked whether or not he would attend, A-Rod said bluntly, quote,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I don't think I'll get invited back, so I don't
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: have a choice. Close quote. Now, Rodriguez stressing that he
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: has a affection for the franchise that says he loves
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: the Yankees and their fans. I thought he was a
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Mets fan growing up. Anyway, A-Rod did attend the old-timers
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: day at Yankee Stadium in 2024. However, that was only
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: because they honored the 15th anniversary of the 09 Yankee
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: World Championship, the last time the Yankees won. They have sucked.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: For so many years, the Yankees. How embarrassing. They have
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: not won since 2009. Oh, my God. They're not going
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: to win this year. I don't know. Is Judge the
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: new Don Mattingly? Aaron Judge the new Don Mattingly? Boy,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: that comeback went great last night. 0-3 against one of
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: the worst teams in baseball, the Rockies. A couple of
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: strikeouts there. Judge is in midseason form. Looked like Giancarlo
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Stanton coming back from the injury. So the question regarding A-Rod.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: A-Rod says he doesn't expect to be welcomed back to
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: the Yankee family. How does that strike you? From Alex Rodriguez.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: So A-Rod is starring in a remake of that classic
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: film Dazed and Confused. And having somehow confused being a
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: great Yankee with being a beloved Yankee. Because he was
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: very productive, A-Rod, as a Yankee. Was he beloved? No.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: So what did A-Rod think? What did he think was
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: going to happen after going nuclear and fighting everybody? He
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: wanted to fight everybody. You know that drunk guy that
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: goes in there and the angry drunk that wants to
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: fight everyone at the bar? That's A-Rod. That was A-Rod
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: when all that stuff was going down back in the day.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: And so he's not being blackballed, per se. There's some
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: people who say, oh, A-Rod's being blackballed. No. He's simply
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: experiencing the consequences of his own behavior. And it's not
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: because of the PEDs. It's interesting to note, some say, well,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: he's a PED cheat. No, baseball's welcome back to PED cheats.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: They like him, except the Hall of Fame. The baseball writers,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: they'll only put certain PED cheats in, and the other
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: guys aren't. A-Rod's on the naughty list, so he doesn't
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: get in. Clemens doesn't get in. Bonds, those guys can't
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: get in. McGuire and Sosa. But there's other guys, David
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Ortiz and others that were in that world, and they're
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame. They don't have a problem
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: with those guys being in the Hall of Fame, right?
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Why not? There's a cheating a-hole in there. Carlos Beltran,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: cheating Astro. They got a cheater in the Hall of Fame, right?
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Come on now. So you got all that. He would
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: have been fine. A-Rod would have been fine. Just the
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: PD thing. The Yankees, here's my evidence. They love Andy Pettit,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: who's a steroid cheat. Andy Pettit's a steroid. They love
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Andy Pettit. They bring Andy Pettit back. It was the
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: litigation situation that torpedoed Alex Rodriguez's relationship here. He sued
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. More importantly, he sued the Yankees team doctor.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: a team physician, those two moves by Alex Rodriguez were
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: lung penetrating toxins when he did that. And instead of
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: just kind of going along with the flow and all that,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: he decided, I'm going to go pyro. I'm going to
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: burn the Williamsburg Bridge, and I'm going to pour gasoline
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: on the ashes, and then I'll complain I don't have
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: a way back. Because the bridge is now in the
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: water and you've ruined the bridge and all that. And
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: that's that. Now, sports writers, of course, often demand, the
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: sports media elites, they demand that you have to forgive
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: your sports stars. You have to forgive them. And no
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: matter how miserable those people made the teams they played for,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: you have to forgive the star athlete. That's kind of
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: the rule. But this is a classic carnival trip for A-Rod.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. And the
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Steinbrenner family, they're not very good owners, but they're continuing
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: to hold a grudge against A-Rod. That's one thing they're doing.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: All right, final point. To the expansion game we go.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: And oh, Canada, could we see in our lifetimes the
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: return like the phoenix rising from the ashes of the
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Montreal Expos? Could the Expos be back in Major League Baseball? Well,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball planning expansion and story bouncing around more
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: than 20 years after they were decommissioned to become the
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Washington Nationals. A very wealthy Canadian mogul who runs an
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: internet video company, someone you've never heard of, is assembling Voltron,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: a group of investors, to bring baseball back to Montreal.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: The Major League Baseball ownership... According to one of the
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: panelists who's involved in this, they say that Montreal is
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: a city worthy of monitoring because of the demographics and
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: the baseball history. Now, expansion is gearing up. The Rays
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: got a ballpark agreement in the Tampa area, so they're
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: going to have a new stadium. The Athletics are moving
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: to Las Vegas soon. We were just in Vegas. They
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: are building the stadium. In fact, a couple of our boys,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: at least one of them, doing the electricity right there
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: in the stadium as he listens. They work at night
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: because it's too hot to work during the day, and
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: they're putting the electricity in that stadium right now and
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: listening to our show. So Rob Manfraub, the commissioner and
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: clown of Major League Baseball, Rob Manford wants two expansion
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: cities selected before he's out in 2029. And he's said
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: to be the sixth leading candidate. There are six leading candidates.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: You've got Montreal, Salt Lake City, Nashville, Raleigh, Orlando, and Portland, Oregon.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Those are the six leading candidates to be expansion teams.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: They want one in the east. and one in the West.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: That's what they want. All right. So the question, how
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: much of the Montreal expansion chatter, the push for expansion is,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: how much of this is legitimate business? It's a good opportunity.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: And how much of this is nostalgia doing the heavy lifting?
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: So we activated the Maller think tank on this one
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: to fix baseball's expansion obsession dilemma. and all that. And
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: while baseball hunts for new markets, here's the, the Maller plan.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Like Miami's operating a franchise there. Like it's a pop-up
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: spirit Halloween store, the way they're, they're operating there. So
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: I have a simple solution using the Maller think tank here.
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  Speaker 1: You move the Marlins. You don't excommunicate the Marlins. You
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  Speaker 1: move the Marlins out of Miami and you move the
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  Speaker 1: Marlins to Canada and Oh, Canada. And then that franchise,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: the Marlins transition, and they become the new team. You
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: scrub off the fishy smell from the Marlins, and you
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: start over again. You have that solution. You unplug the freezer,
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  Speaker 1: and the Expos have been sitting next to Ted Williams'
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  Speaker 1: head for the last 20-plus years there. So you take
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  Speaker 1: them out. of their cryogenically frozen freezer there. And after
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  Speaker 1: two decades, you bring them back to life. And Montreal,
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  Speaker 1: the biggest obstacle is not interest. If they built a
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  Speaker 1: downtown ballpark, one of these typical beautiful downtown ballparks, granted,
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  Speaker 1: it'd probably have to have a roof. But if you
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  Speaker 1: build that, they will show up. That's not the problem.
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  Speaker 1: The fans of Montreal, I believe, will show up. The
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  Speaker 1: problem is convincing 29 billionaires that, You know, Canada's the
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  Speaker 1: way to go. Well, we should keep it in America.
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  Speaker 1: There's more money in America and all that. But I
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  Speaker 1: say bring the Expos back. That's what I say. Why not?
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  Speaker 1: And you can have Yuppie return, Yuppie freelancing. For all
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  Speaker 1: these years with the Montreal Canadiens, the Habs, he's been
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: there long enough. Bring back that fat orange lunatic. Back
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  Speaker 1: to Expo games. Enemy of the late great Tommy Lasorda.
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  Speaker 1: Bring Yuppie back. Bring back the red, white, and blue
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  Speaker 1: pinwheel hat. That classic Montreal Expo hat with the red, white,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: and blue pinwheel. and the Expos logo. And you can
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  Speaker 1: even have Vladimir Guerrero Sr. throw out the first pitch
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  Speaker 1: from 340 feet away out in the outfield. You can
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: have that. Bring back Tim Wallach and Andre Dawson and
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: all the legends of Montreal baseball. Now, as far as
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: the expansion is concerned, we used the Malheur think tank
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  Speaker 1: for that. Here are the cities that are going to
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: get expansion teams. Salt Lake City... We can call them
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: the Jell-O Belts. We're going to call them the Salt
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Lake Jell-O Belt. It's a unique name. Nobody can be
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: offended by Jell-O, I think. And why not? I have
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: a six-foot-tall mascot named Wiggles for the Jell-O Belts. As
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: you know, Utah, because they don't drink much in Utah,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: so it's the state with the highest per capita consumption
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: of Jell-O is Utah. They consume, I think in the
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: entire world, they have more Jell-O in Utah than than
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: anywhere else. And now I would also give Nashville the team.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: And I thought, well, instead of just calling the Nashville, whatever,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: you know what a cool name would be? The music
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: city diddies, right? Like, isn't that good? Come on. No,
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: can't use diddy. No, no, no, no. I don't mean no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're, you'd say, I knew you would say that.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: I knew you would complain about that, but no diddies
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  Speaker 1: with a T not a P not like P diddy,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: you know, uh, like a song, like a diddy, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a song, it's a country music town, you know, diddy,
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  Speaker 1: you know, No? I guess they'd be canceled for that name.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: That would suck. You come out of the bullpen, you
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: have to sign a waiver for royalties or something like that.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: The whole thing. The Mallard plan. Montreal gets the Marlins.
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  Speaker 1: And the good thing is nobody in Miami will care
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: because nobody goes to those games anyway. And then Nashville,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: they get a team. And that would break some razzle-dazzle.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: And then you've got Salt Lake City. You can call
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: them the Jell-O. Everyone wins. And that would be a
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: rival for the Rockies. They don't have any rivalry there
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: in Colorado. There's a rival there. It is the Ben
• 43:37
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• 46:06
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  Speaker 1: LaDainian Tomlinson. That's the question. What's the answer? And so
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  Speaker 2: This third degree.
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  Speaker 1: Brandon quickly brandon.
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  Speaker 3: Already with packers running back jordan love on the commissioners
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  Speaker 3: except or jordan love josh jacobs sorry yeah i got
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: this from coop coop might.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Have been sleeping i like that you immediately threw coop
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  Speaker 1: under the bus i love that you know what you
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: we passed mallard to the third degree yeah.
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah you passed yeah no no but basically uh coop
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: An NFL insider that believes that Jordan Love can win
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: an MVP. That's where he mixed up. He was comparing
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: the two. Because some of the goal line runs by
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: Jacobs will be passes by Love.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: No, because Jordan Love will not be consistent enough to
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: win an MVP award, so no. Next!
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: All right, it was reported this week that Pukunuku is
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: unlikely to face discipline stemming from the offseason lawsuit in
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: which he was accused of biting a woman.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Ben, are you shocked? Like Dracula. Well, I don't know.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: Maybe they were both into kinky stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But listen, it's a civil matter, right? It's not a
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: criminal matter, so the NFL usually kind of looks away
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: from civil matters. Next!
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: An NBA insider speculated this week that Houston Rockets haven't
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: traded Kevin Durant simply because there isn't a trade market
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: for him.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that's the case? Yeah. Well, he's older.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: He's got a lot of internal issues, Durant. He's an
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: acquired taste. I think somebody would take him because he'll
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: still sell some tickets, but it's not a great market
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: for Kevin Durant. I like the Kevin Durant slander, though.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: And by the way, Brandon, you win because you ripped
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: Koopa Loop right away. So you're the winner. I love it.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Two seconds he took
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: a shot at Koop.