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Hour 3 - Bad Report Card · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Boom, Shaka laka, it's our number three, our number three,
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Speaker 1: and talking Basebaul, Well, not really baseball, but it's indirectly baseball.
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Speaker 1: How do you process Major League Baseball's legal department and
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Speaker 1: the Athletics franchise failing to get it done. They have
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Speaker 1: not yet been given permission. They were denied the trademark
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Speaker 1: for the Las Vegas Athletics nickname. I'm not kidding. They
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Speaker 1: were denied by the federal government using the Las Vegas
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Speaker 1: Athletics nickname. Also, why is it that in the first
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Speaker 1: week of January, free agent outfielder Kyle Tucker later the
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Speaker 1: Cubs seems no closer designing than he did two months ago,
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Speaker 1: despite everyone saying he's the top free agent on the
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Speaker 1: market this offseason. Spring training starts in a little over
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Speaker 1: a month. Also, former Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw said to
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Speaker 1: be a top studio target for NBC's Major League Baseball coverage.
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Speaker 1: How does that sound to you, Kersh? In the booth,
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about all of that, or at least the studio,
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about all that and more. Right now here,
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Speaker 1: it is our number three. Well, I'm looking at your
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Speaker 1: report card and it turns out that you did not
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Speaker 1: did not get a's. No, no, no, you definitely did
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Speaker 1: and coming up a little bit later in the hour,
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Speaker 1: but call in later and we'll do that. But our
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Speaker 1: lead this out. We don't change it up. We'll get
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Speaker 1: back to the football. Well, get back to the football.
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Speaker 1: We're not gonna start with the footba though. We'll get
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Speaker 1: back to the football. Not gonna start with the football.
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Speaker 1: Get back to the football. Our lead this hour from
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Speaker 1: the US Patent and Trademark Office, say what yeah? In
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Speaker 1: my favorite story of the day, My favorite story of
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Speaker 1: the day. Problems in Sacktown, Say what yeah? Stuck in
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Speaker 1: Sacramento must be loving this story here now. If you
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Speaker 1: have not heard, maybe not the Athletics. That is a
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Speaker 1: professional baseball team, not a good one. The Athletics now
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Speaker 1: they used to be called the Oakland Athletics, but you
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Speaker 1: can't call them that now. And they don't want to
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Speaker 1: be the Sacramento Athletics, though they might be that next year.
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Speaker 1: The Athletics. That's again, professional baseball team, not a good one. Failing, failing,
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Speaker 1: f f the f's FM. They failed in their bid
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Speaker 1: to register the Las Vegas Athletics nickname with the US
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Speaker 1: Patent and Trademark Office. The new trademark was supposed to
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Speaker 1: be set up in advance of their move, which I
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Speaker 1: still believe is three years away to Sin City. No seriou,
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Speaker 1: I'm not meaning this up, by the way, although it
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Speaker 1: most be a fake story. No, no, no, seriously, we
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Speaker 1: are told that the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Speaker 1: denied the A's application because it determined that the Las
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Speaker 1: Vegas Athletics is primarily geographically descriptive, meaning the name combines
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Speaker 1: a well known place name with a generic sports term.
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Speaker 2: What wall uh.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so granting, according to the FEDS, granting exclusive rights
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Speaker 1: to the phrase, which they've had since they were the
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Athletics over one hundred years ago, but they say now,
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Speaker 1: granting exclusive rights to the phrase could that's a weasel word,
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Speaker 1: could prevent other legitimate athletic organizations in Las Vegas, in
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Speaker 1: Las Vegas from using common language common language to describe
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Speaker 1: their activities. And that is a no no. That is
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Speaker 1: a no no. So the decision, as you might imagine,
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Speaker 1: would have massive implications if it has not changed for
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Speaker 1: the franchise's ability to charge you over priced hoodies and
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Speaker 1: baseball caps and jerseys that for the team in Major
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Speaker 1: League Baseball the pennies on the dollar to make, and
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Speaker 1: then they charge you exorbitant amounts of money. So God
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Speaker 1: forbid that they are not allowed to price gouge you
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Speaker 1: with their craft that they sell you. So yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: kind of a big deal. And it would also, we
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Speaker 1: are told, prevent the people at Major League Baseball from
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Speaker 1: fighting knockoff merch So if you don't get the trademark
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Speaker 1: to Las Vegas Athletics, anyone can make Las Vegas Athletics,
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Speaker 1: which could mean the prices would actually be somewhat affordable
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Speaker 1: to buy the merchandise, and maybe more people would buy
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Speaker 1: the merchandise because you're not taking their wallet. You dummies anyway,
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Speaker 1: So it's good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question,
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Speaker 1: how do you process the Athletics. That's a Major League
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Speaker 1: Baseball franchise, not a good one, not getting the trademark
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Speaker 1: for the Las Vegas Athletics nickname. So my views on this.
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Speaker 1: I've got Ricky Ricardo, TJ Max, and Walgreens, and we
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Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we are
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Speaker 1: gonna make the Gobba goo'na make the gobag, and then
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Speaker 1: we're gonna have some babagoosh as well. We'll have both
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Speaker 1: those things, all right. So first of all, I can't
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Speaker 1: tell you, and I said it already. I know I'm
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Speaker 1: repeating myself. I love this story. This is so great
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Speaker 1: to me. There are some major schmucks that work at
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, and they did so full of themselves,
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Speaker 1: and now I do like baseball, but there's some people
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Speaker 1: there that are just this is a good reality check.
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Speaker 1: It's a really good reality check that you know your
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Speaker 1: poop does smell. It does. So the Athletics got rejected
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Speaker 1: like Mutumbo back in the day, faster than a counterfeit chip.
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Speaker 1: When you go into a casino there at the high
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Speaker 1: roller table, even just the regular tables there. Denied, denied, denied, denied.
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Speaker 1: Now the Feds say the name is too geographic, too generic,
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Speaker 1: to paint by numbers, if you will, And to that,
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Speaker 1: I say, I karumba, My god. This is one of
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Speaker 1: those moments where somewhere in Manhattan on Park Avenue, I
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Speaker 1: think it's Park Avenue, I walked right by Major League
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Speaker 1: Baseball's the headquarters there. All of the sports leagues in
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Speaker 1: the industrial complex of American sport are within about a
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Speaker 1: three block radius in midtown Manhattan. And I was there
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Speaker 1: while back to my brother and just started wandering around,
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Speaker 1: like two in the morning. I was like, let me
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Speaker 1: just see where Major League Baseball's office is. Okay, where's
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Speaker 1: the NBA. Okay, that's oh, we're on fifth hour, Fifth Avenue.
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Speaker 1: Where's the NFL. Okay, this over there. I did all so,
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Speaker 1: but somewhere in Major League Baseball's headquarters there you could
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Speaker 1: hear the famous meme from Ricky Ricardo screaming, Lucy, you
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Speaker 1: got some explaining to do, because I'm sure the person
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Speaker 1: named Lucy is the one that screwed this up at
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. Only Lucy here is Major League Baseball.
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Speaker 1: Some middle manager who clearly mailed it in mailed it in.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: I remember years ago I was talking to somebody that
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Speaker 1: worked for a professional basketball team that relocated. They were
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Speaker 1: explaining the pro sess of relocating sports team and they
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Speaker 1: laid it all out to me, and a lot of
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Speaker 1: it was boring. But they said, even before you announced
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Speaker 1: that you're relocating, legal the legal department has to file
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Speaker 1: all of these trademarks. You do it before you announce it.
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Speaker 1: Therefore you don't have any problems. And sometimes they'll they'll
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Speaker 1: announce trademark deals they don't even use. They'll when teams relocate,
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Speaker 1: they'll do like I remember the Montreal Expos which became
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Speaker 1: the Washington Nationals if I remember correctly, and we were
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Speaker 1: here at Fox Sports Radio when they moved from Montreal.
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Speaker 1: But they changed like they threw out a bunch of
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Speaker 1: different names, and because they tried to throw people off
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Speaker 1: the set. But the fact that Major League Baseball did
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Speaker 1: not have this done two years ago is relocation malpractice,
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Speaker 1: is what it is like. Honestly, like Major League Baseball,
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Speaker 1: they should actually take this as a positive. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna spend that Why would this be? This is
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Speaker 1: a pop champagne moment. Take advantage of your boner. Take
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Speaker 1: advantage of it. The trademark office, not Merkels boner. This
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Speaker 1: is Major League Baseball's bonner. The trademark office just save
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Speaker 1: for now. They save Major League Baseball from selling reheated leftovers.
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Speaker 1: Now leftovers are okay, but you'd rather have a nice
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Speaker 1: fresh meal. Now you would. And if you're moving to
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Speaker 1: Las Vegas, you don't slap a new address on an
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Speaker 1: old suitcase and then you call it innovation. No, you
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Speaker 1: don't do that. You rebrand. You start fresh. You start
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Speaker 1: fresh like the hockey team. One of the dumbest name.
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Speaker 1: We don't talk about hockey is since they whacked Eddie
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Speaker 1: in a while back. But the hockey team in Vegas,
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Speaker 1: the Golden Knights. What a dumb name. That is dumb,
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Speaker 1: da dum, dumb dumb. You could own a Vegas mantra,
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Speaker 1: like a Vegas slope. So my advice for the Major
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Speaker 1: League Baseball executives is leave the Athletics name, leave the colors,
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Speaker 1: the dusty history of the Oakland Athletics and the Kansas
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Speaker 1: City Athletics and the Philadelphia Athletics, and just leave it
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Speaker 1: like a forgotten buffet voucher. Just leave it off to
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Speaker 1: the side there and cook up a whole new persona.
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Speaker 1: Just why not call them the Blackjacks. Oh I don't,
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Speaker 1: twenty one's the warn Armed Bandits, or just call them
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Speaker 1: the bandits, the Vegas Bandits, the neon Now. I remember
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Speaker 1: when hockey moved there, they said you could not call
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Speaker 1: the team this out stupid. Gary Bettman is the commissioner.
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Speaker 1: That little weasel couldn't use a like a gambling type
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Speaker 1: thing because they didn't want to promote gambling, which is
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Speaker 1: hilarious when every other commercial is for gambling. Well, you
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Speaker 1: can't use a gambling thing. We don't want to encourage gambling.
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Speaker 1: Fast forward five years, everything is about gambing. I agree.
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Speaker 1: How about the Vegas vis Yeah, now, because I know
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Speaker 1: that the girl and the cowboy hat, the big neon sign,
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Speaker 1: that's Vegas Vicky and her husband which was across the
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Speaker 1: way at the other casino was Vegas Vick. They were married.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, A lot of people don't know that, but they.
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Speaker 1: And if you go to in which hotel is it
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Speaker 1: in Vegas? It's the new hotel. I love the sports
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Speaker 1: I forget the name of it, but the Vegas Vicky
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Speaker 1: sign is still in Vegas. It's just inside on the
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Speaker 1: casino on the Fremont Street experience. I forget the name.
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Speaker 1: I'm having a mental block here, but it's inside like
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Speaker 1: you can see the sign anyway. How about I.
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Speaker 2: Think Vegas Strippers would be a good name.
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Speaker 1: It's a good name. I like that too. How about
12:39
Speaker 1: the sassy sallies? Come on? Who says no? Yes, put
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Speaker 1: a hot woman on the hat there? Boom done? Come
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Speaker 1: on now now, when I become the commissioner of all sports,
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Speaker 1: and I'm probably just a couple years away from this,
12:50
Speaker 1: when I become the commissioner of all sports, the malor
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Speaker 1: golden rule, if you relocate to take taxpayer money in
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Speaker 1: another city, which is would all these scumbag owners do,
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Speaker 1: you're allowed to do it. However, no emotional carry on.
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Speaker 1: You have to leave the name. You leave everything behind,
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Speaker 1: You leave your dusty trophies, you leave behind all your records,
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Speaker 1: all your memories, and you start fresh. That's how it's done.
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Speaker 1: You pull the slot handled down and you live with
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Speaker 1: the results. Oh, by the way, my man Rob pointing
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Speaker 1: out circa the great Rob, one of the great sports
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Speaker 1: writers out there, and I've known this guy for a lot.
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Speaker 1: He worked at newspapers when people read newspapers back, that's
13:34
Speaker 1: how long ago he worked at newspapers. But Rob puts
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Speaker 1: out circa. Yeah, if you go into circa now, you
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Speaker 1: gotta be twenty one or over. That's the way they
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Speaker 1: keep the riff raft out. But in there they have
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Speaker 1: the Vegas Vicky sign. It's awesome too, It's pretty cool.
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Speaker 1: I love it. I went to the Neon Museum in
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Speaker 1: Vegas last time I was in Vegas. Awesome too, it's great,
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Speaker 1: a lot of cool.
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Speaker 2: I didn't see that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's off the strip. It's better. It's act. There's
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Speaker 1: one in La, but the one in Shockingly, the one
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Speaker 1: in Vegas is better. That's hard to believe that the
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Speaker 1: city that made Neon neon. Yeah. Anyway, Secondly, moving on
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Speaker 1: to free agency, we go. The big whale is still
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Speaker 1: waiting to be catched. The whalers are not doing their job.
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Speaker 1: The big whales out in the Pacific. The uh spring.
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Speaker 1: Can you believe? Spring training is like a month away?
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Speaker 1: We're like a little over a month away from pitchers
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Speaker 1: and catchers reporting to Florida and Arizona for spring training.
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Speaker 1: The Great Fruit Leaue the Cactus League. Well, Kyle Tucker
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Speaker 1: with a T. Kyle Tucker, former Chicago Cub outfielder played
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Speaker 1: for the cheating Astros. He is still twisting in the wind,
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Speaker 1: twisting in the wind that Tucker, who all you baseball
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Speaker 1: scribes told me, was the consensus number one player on
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Speaker 1: the market, and no one signed, No one signed. So
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Speaker 1: the question why is it that we see here on
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Speaker 1: this first week of Janus, January seventh, as we're doing
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Speaker 1: the show right now in real time, and the most prized,
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Speaker 1: most coveted free agent, Kyle Tucker, is no closer to
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Speaker 1: signing than he was two months ago. What the heck?
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Speaker 1: All right? So my determination on this Major League Baseball,
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Speaker 1: which is run by the nerds, the analytics department, the
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Speaker 1: front offices are a little gun shy because the Geiger
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Speaker 1: Counter is not looking good, all right. Buyer, beware, handle
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Speaker 1: with care, buyer, beware that thing's going in the dark,
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Speaker 1: possible biohazard. Teams are clearly not completely sold on Kyle Tucker.
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Speaker 1: What is my evidence he hasn't signed. He's got an
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Speaker 1: asking price, the teams haven't met the asking prize. There
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Speaker 1: you go. Otherwise he would have been signed, sealed, and delivered.
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Speaker 1: He's not. Now why not? In part because of the
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Speaker 1: way he performed or didn't perform in the second half
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Speaker 1: with the Cubbies in a contract year on a contending
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Speaker 1: Chicago Cum team, on a contending Cubs team. After July first,
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Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker was benched. He hit two twenty five with
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Speaker 1: just five home runs. Now, what do I know? I
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Speaker 1: just do the overnight show. But that sucks. That's not
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Speaker 1: a franchise cornerstone player, Kyle Tucker. That's that's the fruit
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Speaker 1: flies haven't shown up yet, but they're circling. They're circling,
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Speaker 1: and that's Kyle Tucker right now. The warning signs for
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Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker are humming. They're humming. And so he wants
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Speaker 1: five hundred six hundred So do I. I'd like five
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Speaker 1: hundred six hundred million. And so he is priced Kyle
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Speaker 1: Tucker free agent. Kyle Tucker is priced like a Picasso,
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Speaker 1: and he's playing like some wal art you'd buy TJ.
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Speaker 1: Max or Ross dress for less. You know that little
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Speaker 1: art section. Yeah, that kind of thing and the other issue,
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Speaker 1: and there's really no other way around it. Unpopular opinion.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's I don't think it's wrong.
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Speaker 4: Though.
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Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker is a star, he's not a superstar. Kyle
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Speaker 1: Tucker is a star, but he's not a superstar. That
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Speaker 1: that's my meaning. He doesn't move tickets. Nobody's gonna say, oh,
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Speaker 1: we gotta go out and watch guys. Like when Otani
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Speaker 1: comes to town, I gotta see Otani the Unicorn. When
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Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker comes to town, you're like, oh, whatever, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't care. Like when he's coming up to bat,
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Speaker 1: you're like, I can't get my nachos because I gotta
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Speaker 1: watch Kyle. No, you get your nachos, you get a beer,
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Speaker 1: and it'll cost you seventy five dollars. Nobody's running to
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Speaker 1: watch television. The ratings don't betten when Kyle Tucker is
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Speaker 1: playing for your team. So he's asking for money, and
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Speaker 1: the volatility is at a mince meat level. Oh maybe
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Speaker 1: just ground beat. So you read the fine print. He's
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Speaker 1: most likely got three years left in his prime. He
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Speaker 1: wants a six or seven year contract, so the math
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Speaker 1: on that's not good. Now, Toronto, the Blue Jays are
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Speaker 1: still playing foot see the Dodgers are lurking like a
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Speaker 1: shadow in a parking garage. And nobody's forlorn. This has
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Speaker 1: the vibe like this guy's gonna go into spring training
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Speaker 1: and no one's gonna sign him. There's been no movement
18:29
Speaker 1: radio silence here. And so they say, well, it's the
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Speaker 1: cost of doing business. All these guys that were paid
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Speaker 1: and all this stuff. Sure, However, here's the issue. Nobody wants
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Speaker 1: to buy a used appliance that hum's funny, and there's
18:42
Speaker 1: no return policy and all sales are final, which is
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Speaker 1: these free agent contracts. It's not like the NFL where
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Speaker 1: there's a bunch of dead money and you get out
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Speaker 1: of the contract or whatever. All right, now, final thought
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Speaker 1: to TV Lane, we go question former Dodger. Former Dodger
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Speaker 1: pitcher Clayton Kershaw is a said to be the top
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Speaker 1: studio target for NBC and their Major League Baseball coverage.
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Speaker 1: How does that sound to you? Kersh in the booth?
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Speaker 1: So this is baseball's version of hotel lobby music, Clayton Kershaw,
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Speaker 1: It just is, you know, and who knows if he's
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Speaker 1: gonna get the job or not. It's it's like that
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Speaker 1: the lobby music at a hotel. It exists and it's
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Speaker 1: background noise. And five minutes after you hear it, you
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Speaker 1: don't remember a single note because you're not supposed to. Now,
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Speaker 1: Kershaw is not offensive. I don't think you said anything offensive.
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Speaker 1: He's just kind of nothing. It's just it's it's like,
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Speaker 1: what are you doing? And it's like you go down
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Speaker 1: to Walgreens and he's a drug on the market. He's
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Speaker 1: a drug on the market with no side effects, no benefits. Sterrell,
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Speaker 1: just another ex jock reading off the teleprompter, Q cards
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Speaker 1: and assembling. It's like he's assembling Ikea furniture and just
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Speaker 1: follow the numbers. And the only problem with Krushaw other
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Speaker 1: than that is if you have him call playoff games.
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Speaker 1: And I don't think NBC is gonna doing much playoffs,
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Speaker 1: but if you have him call playoff games, we know
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Speaker 1: how he performs in October so flops, weat and uh yeah,
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Speaker 1: the whole thing discomfort, nausea, vomiting, and what about the
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Speaker 1: whole bull crap about I want to be home with
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Speaker 1: my family. I want to be with my kids. It's
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Speaker 1: armed to work, Tarror. So if you take the job,
20:41
Speaker 1: if you're it's a studio job. The NBC hub is
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Speaker 1: in Stanford, Connecticut. I've been there, been to Stanford, Kennedict.
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Speaker 1: I worked there, the old building, not the new building.
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Speaker 1: So you'd be flying from Texas to Stanford, Connecticut seemingly
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Speaker 1: every week. You'd have to get a place like he
20:58
Speaker 1: can afford it. Pontificate about the Kansas City Royals, bullpen.
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Speaker 1: Do you want to do that? Okay? Good chicken fingers
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Speaker 1: at Bobby V's in Stanford, Connecticut. It's still there, somehow,
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Speaker 1: still there. So I don't. I don't think of Krishaw
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Speaker 1: as an enlightened young grasshopper. I don't. So anyway, there
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Speaker 1: And here we go, So Titans GM Mike Boorg Ganzi's
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Speaker 1: news conference was interrupted by blank, all right, that is
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Speaker 1: the question. What is the answer? Gonzo guessed by Nick.
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Speaker 1: A band of gypsies from Luke the vending guy, like that,
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Speaker 1: it's good answer. Someone shouting six to seven yeah, daught,
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Speaker 1: sing that. What else do we have to see? Page
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Speaker 1: Bobby V plugging his second restaurant location near Bradley International
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Speaker 1: Airport just outside of Hartford. I didn't know he opened
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Speaker 1: another one. Daniel Boone look alike from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota,
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Speaker 1: INCA Terra says, a torrent of ping pong balls from
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Speaker 1: do we have? Rob says a hard hitting case of
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Speaker 1: post skyline intestinal gurgling. The rain is going to enjoy
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Speaker 1: that donkey sausage, says A rabid wombat is the answer.
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Speaker 1: A peacock from Dante. JT the Wingman says Uber eats
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Speaker 1: delivering in order of Culver's cheese curds, which I did eat. JTS.
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Speaker 1: You know how you listened to the Fifth Hour podcast.
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Speaker 1: I was in Arizona over the holiday time out there,
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Speaker 1: and they have Culvers in Phoenix. I was able to
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Speaker 1: go to Culver's and get my cheese curds fixed when
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Speaker 1: I was in the Valley of the Sun. That's the locust,
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Speaker 1: the closest culver and I will be back in Arizona
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Speaker 1: once the BUCkies opened.
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Speaker 2: When I went to I think it was Chicago. I
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Speaker 2: saw Culver's and I was like, I want to go,
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Speaker 2: and I never went.
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Speaker 1: Bad job by you.
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Speaker 2: I don't think I saw it again, or else they
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Speaker 2: would have.
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Speaker 1: You know, it was just around Chicago. There's Wisconsin in
25:20
Speaker 1: the Midwest, all right. Anyway, again, the Riddle Titans GM
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Speaker 1: Mike Borgganzhi's news conference was interrupted by blank good answers here, Well,
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Speaker 1: what's your answer?
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Speaker 2: The raina I think it was interrupted by a giant
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Speaker 2: purple flying dildo.
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Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, I know that's a great answer. But lights
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Speaker 1: somebody turned the lights out on the news count.
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Speaker 6: The lights went out over.
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Speaker 1: The phones quickly. Quinzel in Oakland is cashing a golden ticket.
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Speaker 6: Hellwins weeah golden ticket? What's going on? I hope everybody
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Speaker 6: had a blessed New Year. What's going on?
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Speaker 1: Big game to have your bad coins all that?
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Speaker 6: One?
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Speaker 5: Man?
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Speaker 6: All right, man, I just I wasn't really gonna call.
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Speaker 6: But then when you started calling the Oakland A's like
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Speaker 6: Dusty Man, I had to remind you that, man, they
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Speaker 6: were three p in the seventies. This is four I
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Speaker 6: was born, and they went to three straight in the
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Speaker 6: eighties to the ninetieth apoll.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I recommend you go to an ear doctor
26:22
Speaker 1: because I said, I want to honor the Oakland Athletics
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Speaker 1: by not having their name used in Las Vegas. Perfect.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, check this out A big ban. I don't know
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Speaker 6: if that's good because you're probably not familiar with the
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Speaker 6: politics out here. That the A's would have still been in.
26:36
Speaker 7: The Bay area.
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Speaker 6: The Giants kept blocking it from getting the stadium because
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Speaker 6: they were trying to add a Sa Fadie in Fremont,
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Speaker 6: which is in the East Bay not on the seventh
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Speaker 6: slub side like twenty miles south.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know all about that. But there
26:49
Speaker 1: were way you didn't have to move the team. There
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Speaker 1: were ways to get it done. You didn't have to
26:53
Speaker 1: know the team.
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Speaker 6: I understand that. Yeah, I'll say you on that one.
26:56
Speaker 6: But hey, but let me before you cut me out.
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Speaker 6: Remember y'allre talking about this cow many how people make
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Speaker 6: all that much money like us in the bathroom and
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Speaker 6: dreams and stuff, and I was I was seek and
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Speaker 6: I was like, I was like, I had this dream
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Speaker 6: that like what was that was that I was out
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Speaker 6: to eat and like with rain and going like thodder
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Speaker 6: or nose or whatever the lady's doing in the bathroom.
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Speaker 6: And then she came out and I had this like
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Speaker 6: I had, you know, those table trays like for the
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Speaker 6: breakfast and bed tables like with waffles and pancakes, you
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Speaker 6: know what I mean. And I was like it was
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Speaker 6: such a blessing. I woke up and I was back
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Speaker 6: at the Oakland Collegem. But I love you, and God
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Speaker 6: bless you.
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Speaker 2: Learning happy you all right, I'm glad I could be.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. Make sure I'm not in your dream. I
27:42
Speaker 1: don't want me in your dreams, but I like it
27:43
Speaker 1: Quin's but I don't want to be a dreams I think.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead, all right, there's like Quin's Ell from Oakland.
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Speaker 2: He'll meet him. We'll meet him when we go up north.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, hopefully he'll be there. Yeah, we'll be in his backyard.
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Speaker 1: All right, Here we go, Here we go, Here we go,
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Speaker 1: here we go.
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Speaker 2: Oh oh yeah. That one thing that we do.
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Speaker 1: Him a jig to watch you McCall it the do
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Speaker 1: Hickey hit that event mallard game. We've endored too many
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Speaker 1: of these? Is it too much or not enough? Already?
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Speaker 1: Get to that game, and we bring in the guy
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Speaker 1: that had the most famous win in the history of
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Speaker 1: too much or not enough? Hollering James from Minneapolis.
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Speaker 7: It was.
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Speaker 1: Shut up. He was fast asleep when he won the game,
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Speaker 1: our friend, the great hollering James. Hello James, how's life
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Speaker 1: treating you? James? Everything? Okay, you don't believe me?
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Speaker 6: A good Jewish player?
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, a trope at all? All right, very
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Speaker 1: nice here, James, Let's play the game too much or
28:44
Speaker 1: not Enough? Are you ready? Yes, you are, of course
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Speaker 1: you are. I gotta get three right to win the game.
28:53
Speaker 1: Question number one Sunday. Sunday Sunday marked only the fourth
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Speaker 1: time in NFL history that every team in a division
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Speaker 1: was in action on a given day and none of
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Speaker 1: them scored an offensive touchdown? Is that too much or
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Speaker 1: not enough.
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Speaker 6: Enough?
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Speaker 1: All Right's find out, man, I get that wrong too much?
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Speaker 1: It was only the second time that that is too much.
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Speaker 1: I was back in nineteen eighty eight. AFC West, There
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Speaker 1: you go. AFC East was also back in ninety eight.
29:29
Speaker 1: There you go, all right, AFC West. This week, here
29:31
Speaker 1: we go. Question number two. The Ravens are one of
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Speaker 1: only six teams in the NFL with one hundred and
29:36
Speaker 1: eighty plus wins during John Harbaugh's eighteen year tenures. That
29:42
Speaker 1: too much or not enough?
29:44
Speaker 7: Too much?
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Speaker 6: All right?
29:46
Speaker 1: Let's find out that's right? Look at you?
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Speaker 6: All right?
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Speaker 1: They are one of four franchise along with the Patriots, Packers,
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Speaker 1: and the Steelers. Question number three for hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: He's the biggest listener we have in Minnesota. Is that correct, James?
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Speaker 6: I say, I am the number one, number one listener
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Speaker 6: in Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: Shaye Jogis Alexander has nine games with a plus minus
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Speaker 1: of plus twenty, which makes Kyrie and okay see very
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Speaker 1: happy with twelve again. Let me repeat that. Shae yogis
30:22
Speaker 1: Alexander nine games with a plus minus of plus twenty
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Speaker 1: or better this season? Is that too much or not enough?
30:28
Speaker 6: Not enough?
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Speaker 1: All right? You're right? Look at you right again? He
30:33
Speaker 1: leads the league with eleven games of plus twenty or more.
30:36
Speaker 1: Do you see that Sopranos game the other night in
30:38
Speaker 1: the NBA, the the Oklahoma City Thunder got blown out
30:43
Speaker 1: at home by the Charlotte Hornets.
30:45
Speaker 2: Count out?
30:46
Speaker 1: Say we used to call that back in the old days,
30:48
Speaker 1: a mob special. All right? Question number four? Justin Jefferson
30:54
Speaker 1: just became the fifth wide receiver all time to begin
30:59
Speaker 1: their career year with six straight one thousand yard seasons?
31:03
Speaker 1: Is that too much or not enough? You're mister Minnesota Viking,
31:06
Speaker 1: you better get this right. Justin Jefferson just a fifth
31:08
Speaker 1: wide receiver all time to begin their career with six
31:11
Speaker 1: straight one thousand yard seasons? Too much or not enough?
31:14
Speaker 1: For the win? Hollering James, I love.
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Speaker 6: Checking on Tanner. I hope I just destroyed for the
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Speaker 6: Golden diget more. I'm gonna say too much.
31:22
Speaker 1: You see, that's all my God, hollowing. James, you just
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Speaker 1: want a golden taken a golden James. You are the
31:34
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31:36
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31:42
Speaker 7: I am the one.
31:44
Speaker 1: He was shy the line you were streaming. We couldn't
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31:49
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31:51
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31:56
Speaker 7: I need to be real good.
31:58
Speaker 6: I gimmick good.
31:59
Speaker 7: Dammy, she comes to my neighbor blood.
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