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Hour 3 - Talent Without Effort · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Playball.
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  Speaker 2: It's our numb birth three under scrutiny, our number three.
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  Speaker 2: So Major League Baseball's got a problem on their hands.
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  Speaker 2: They're looking to move the Tampa Bay Rays home games
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  Speaker 2: if they make the playoffs. They're playing at a minor
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  Speaker 2: league ballpark, a spring training ballpark. Right now, give me
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  Speaker 2: your reaction to baseball plotting to relocate a team for
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  Speaker 2: the postseason also pirates outfielder O'Neil Cruz. His general lack
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  Speaker 2: of effort recently is that a big deal, a little.
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  Speaker 1: Deal or no deal will go there?
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  Speaker 2: And how do you digest the National Hockey League looking
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  Speaker 2: to add more regular season games while the NBA community
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  Speaker 2: is just saying we got to get rid of games.
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  Speaker 2: There's too many games. What a juxtaposition. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 2: that as well. Right now here, it is our number three,
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  Speaker 2: a hardball problemo. Welcome in the beginning of another.
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  Speaker 1: I'd be so our lead. This hour is.
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  Speaker 2: From from Baseball. From Baseball and the Tampa Bay Rays.
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  Speaker 2: That is a baseball team that does not have a
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  Speaker 2: large fan base, but is a pest.
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  Speaker 1: They win a lot of games.
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  Speaker 2: They're a bit of a weird science experiment in Tampa.
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  Speaker 2: Every year, the Rays are playing their home games at
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  Speaker 2: George M. Steinbrenner Field. You might remember that the Yankees
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  Speaker 2: spring training home and the hurricane there ripped through Tropiccanafield
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  Speaker 2: took the literally took the roof off the place.
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  Speaker 1: It's like they said to take the roof off it,
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  Speaker 1: you know they did.
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  Speaker 2: That was last October, the big hurricane, so they can't
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  Speaker 2: play there. So they've been playing at this minor league
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  Speaker 2: ballpark for the New York Yankees, and that that is
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  Speaker 2: rapidly becoming a problem, a problem for Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: So if you've not been following this, I thought this
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  Speaker 1: was interesting. Tampa Bay got off to a pretty.
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  Speaker 2: Mediocre start and they have come on like as the
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  Speaker 2: phrase goes, gangbusters.
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  Speaker 1: They've been coming on like gangbusters.
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  Speaker 2: So Tampa Bay is on pace to make the Plus,
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  Speaker 2: they are lurking right there with the Yankees near the
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  Speaker 2: penthouse of the American League East, and that has sparked chatter, chatter.
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  Speaker 2: We are told the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team in
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  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball have engaged in preliminary conversations about what
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  Speaker 2: the f to do if the unthinkable becomes reality and
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  Speaker 2: the Tampa Bay Rays make a deep run in the playoffs. Now,
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  Speaker 2: spoiler alert, spoiler alert, they will not be allowed to
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  Speaker 2: play in their little minor league spring training Grapefruit League Ballpark.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question. Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Looking to relocate the Tampa Bay Rays home games if
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  Speaker 2: they go deep in the postseason, give me.
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  Speaker 1: Your reaction on.
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  Speaker 2: So I've got Swamp, Picasso, and Saskatoon, and we will
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  Speaker 2: combine all of these things together and we are going
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  Speaker 2: to hang on by a thread.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: So first of all, let's start with somebody that we
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  Speaker 2: have goofed on for many many years on this show,
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  Speaker 2: Rob Manford. So Rob Manford, I'm told that is the
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  Speaker 2: Commissioner of Baseball. He has decided that the Tampa bay Rays,
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  Speaker 2: the scrappy, no name flotsam and jetsam, nobody believed in
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  Speaker 2: us Tampa Bay Rays, that if they do go into
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs, they can't play games at home. So he's
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  Speaker 2: essentially admitting and saying the quiet part out loud that
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  Speaker 2: this is not a big league situation. It essentially a
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  Speaker 2: high school field the Rays are playing in. It's an
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  Speaker 2: embarrassment to Major League Baseball. And if you do actually
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  Speaker 2: get into a jewel event, an island game deep in
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs, we cannot we cannot do it.
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  Speaker 1: You're playing in a high school stadium has a little
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  Speaker 1: bit better lighting.
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  Speaker 2: And so Major League Baseball looks at Steinbrenner Field like
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  Speaker 2: it's a lemonade stand and it just doesn't meet the
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  Speaker 2: revenue code of Major League Baseball. Why is that, Well,
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  Speaker 2: the obvious one is size size too small, too small. Right,
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  Speaker 2: it's a kiddie meal, you know, it's a kids meal,
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  Speaker 2: and they want a jumbo sized, supersized meal is what
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  Speaker 2: they want.
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  Speaker 1: There's not enough luxury boxes. Major League Baseball has a problem.
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  Speaker 2: They are in long term contracts with major sponsors and
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  Speaker 2: they have allotted thousands of tickets to a variety of
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  Speaker 2: they call them stakeholders.
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  Speaker 1: It's all gibberish.
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  Speaker 2: It means that they've already handed out tickets to corporate sponsors.
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  Speaker 2: They get free tickets for buying commercials on television and
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  Speaker 2: in stadiums, and in return for that they are given
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  Speaker 2: a little carrot on the stick that they get to
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  Speaker 2: go to games in the League Championship Series and the
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  Speaker 2: World Series. And if you don't have enough tickets, you
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  Speaker 2: can't give those tickets away. There are no tickets to
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  Speaker 2: get away.
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  Speaker 1: So what's the plan.
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  Speaker 2: So right now we're hearing that they're gonna move the
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  Speaker 2: Rays either to Miami or Atlanta. Now the assumption is
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  Speaker 2: the Braves aren't gonna make the playoffs. Atlanta has been
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  Speaker 2: a team that's been fledgling. They got off to the
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  Speaker 2: zero to seven start on the West Coast, and they
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  Speaker 2: have played a little bit better against the Mets, but
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  Speaker 2: they still have a long way to go. Now, the
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  Speaker 2: smart money says they're gonna end up in Miami because
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  Speaker 2: Baseball would be concerned about locking in Atlanta. If the
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  Speaker 2: Brave somehow sneak in and get a wild card, that
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  Speaker 2: would be a problem.
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  Speaker 1: You won't have two teams playing.
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  Speaker 2: What if the Braves got to the World Series somehow
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  Speaker 2: and played Tampa Bay and all the games would be
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  Speaker 2: played in Atlanta. I know Scott Boris would would would
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  Speaker 2: be all excited because that's what he wants. He wants
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  Speaker 2: a neutral site World Series. But it wouldn't be neutral
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  Speaker 2: site number one and number two would be a disaster.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So I have an idea right baseball that they don't
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  Speaker 2: want to play in the minor league ballpark in Tampa.
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  Speaker 1: Why not just play the games, get like a big giant.
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  Speaker 2: I think the boat they could play, go to the Everglades,
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  Speaker 2: you know, go to the swamp.
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  Speaker 1: Why not just play the games in the swamp?
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  Speaker 2: I mean the Rays don't have that many fans anyway,
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  Speaker 2: and get some of that Alligator.
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  Speaker 1: If even the Gators would buy.
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  Speaker 2: Tickets to the World the playoffs, the World Series, Like
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  Speaker 2: you could have the dugouts half submerged in the swamp.
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  Speaker 1: How cool would that be?
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  Speaker 2: And the relievers coming out of the bullpen they could
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  Speaker 2: canoe in from the bull and you could play.
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  Speaker 1: These games that will be unique.
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  Speaker 2: And you could really have fans come in on airboat tours,
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  Speaker 2: you know those airports, the airboats they have in the Everglades. Boy,
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  Speaker 2: that would be great all right. Now, secondly to Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 2: BA we go yinsers, we got a problem. So the
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  Speaker 2: Pirates have a player by the name of O'Neil Cruz.
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  Speaker 2: You might recognize that name. If you do, you're a
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  Speaker 2: baseball hard o or you're from Pennsylvania and you like
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  Speaker 2: the Pirates. So O'Neil Cruz came on the scene a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years back, a much bally hooded, much balllyhooed
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  Speaker 2: minor league players a shortstop and this was the next
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  Speaker 2: big thing. This was the next big thing because one
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  Speaker 2: thing baseball has done over the years, they are not
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  Speaker 2: very bashful about pumping the tires on minor league players
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  Speaker 2: when they get to the major leagues.
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  Speaker 1: Right, they go all in, all in.
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  Speaker 2: And people love the next big thing. So people get
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  Speaker 2: all horny for whoever the next big thing is. So
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  Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, O'Neil Cruz was that guy. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we now advanced the story and the Pirates they've moved
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  Speaker 2: him to the outfield. O'Neil Cruz has been demoted, not
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  Speaker 2: to the minors, he's been benched because of a lack
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  Speaker 2: of energy and effort. You mentioned this in a previous
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  Speaker 2: episode of the show. O'Neil Cruz didn't realize how many
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  Speaker 2: outs there were.
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  Speaker 1: Yikes.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this is a guy that I believe has thirteen
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  Speaker 2: home runs I think, and he leads the National League
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  Speaker 2: and stolen bases and we're seventy games in or.
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  Speaker 1: So for the Bacos and closer to eighty. But he
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  Speaker 1: got pulled from the game.
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  Speaker 2: So Pirates outfielder O'Neil Cruz general lack of effort recently.
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  Speaker 2: Is this a big deal, a little deal or no deal?
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  Speaker 2: So this is a big deal, right, it is a
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  Speaker 2: big deal. Isn't a masculating deal.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a little deal. It's not I'm gonna have it.
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  Speaker 2: As an emasculating big deal because Cruise is supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be the positional player version of Paul Skeins, who the
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  Speaker 2: Brew crew lit up. I was watching some of that game.
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  Speaker 2: Milwaukee just toasted Paul Skins in that game on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: this one game. Who cares but O'Neil Cruz rising Star,
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  Speaker 2: a player that was described as a building block that
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  Speaker 2: is said to be in the ninety ninth percentile when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to athletic ability and his arm, and the
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  Speaker 2: nerds get all excited for exit vlo.
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  Speaker 1: They call it exit velocity.
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  Speaker 2: So here's a player who simultaneously has scouts literally drooling
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  Speaker 2: because of his ability, and then the nerds over at
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  Speaker 2: stat cast are spontaneously combusting with his talent and all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff. But yet he just doesn't get it. They
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  Speaker 2: moved into the outfield thinking that center field would be easier,
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  Speaker 2: he could focus more on his game and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: How is that going?
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  Speaker 2: Don't ask? So they have a stat for everything. We
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  Speaker 2: are inundated with stats. It is a paralysis.
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  Speaker 1: Of analysis.
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  Speaker 2: So one of the stats is defensive runs saved DRS.
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  Speaker 1: Have you heard of that? Yeah, back in my day,
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  Speaker 1: this was not a thing. I know alf same, Well,
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  Speaker 1: not my day either I get it, but they have
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  Speaker 1: the stat now.
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  Speaker 2: So in defensive run saved out of one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: forty five players who have appeared in center field this season,
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  Speaker 2: O'Neil Cruz is ranked at undred and forty second out
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  Speaker 2: of one hundred and forty five minus seven. Now, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't play in the major leagues, but as I understand it.
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  Speaker 1: That blows. That blows. The other thing which I don't
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  Speaker 1: believe you can get around.
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  Speaker 2: Is the lack of effort. And it's one of those
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  Speaker 2: things you can't teach. You either have it or you don't.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not a sports thing. I know from working
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  Speaker 2: in radio. I worked around people in radio who are
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  Speaker 2: so lazy they just don't put any effort in. But
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  Speaker 2: I've also worked around people that have a passion and
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  Speaker 2: they go for it right.
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  Speaker 1: They want to do.
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  Speaker 2: A good job, they're proud of their work there. They
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  Speaker 2: don't show up late, they do what they're supposed to do,
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  Speaker 2: and you want to be around people like that. You
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  Speaker 2: don't want to be around lazy people. Maximum effort and
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  Speaker 2: hustle on. In sports in particular.
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  Speaker 1: You don't need athletic ability.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to be built like Adonis and run
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  Speaker 2: like a gazelle to put effort in. And there's a
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  Speaker 2: great quote by an old football coach named Mike Ditka,
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  Speaker 2: who I don't think is in very good health these days,
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  Speaker 2: But Mike Dicka said back in his day, effort without
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  Speaker 2: talent is depressing. Right, Effort without talent is depressing. But
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  Speaker 2: talent without effort.
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  Speaker 1: Is a tragedy.
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  Speaker 2: And that seems to be where we are at this
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  Speaker 2: moment as we do the show today.
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  Speaker 1: For O'Neil Cruz, that's him in a nutshell.
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  Speaker 2: Like he's watching balls kick off the wall, like he's
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  Speaker 2: at an art museum admiring a picassa. You know, he's
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  Speaker 2: just standing there. There was a really bad highlight a
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  Speaker 2: couple of days ago, and I saw the clip, and
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  Speaker 2: man it was he misplayed the ball in the outfield
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  Speaker 2: and then just stood there as the ball rolled like
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  Speaker 2: he was watching a golf ball roll towards the hole
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  Speaker 2: and jogs down the line like he's at some kind
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  Speaker 2: of red carpet event.
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  Speaker 1: He's sasheing down the line there, and so so that
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  Speaker 1: is load management.
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  Speaker 2: Now, keep in mind, to be fair, having been around
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  Speaker 2: baseball back in the day, there's a thing called the
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  Speaker 2: major League jog, which is it's been around for one
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  Speaker 2: hundred years, maybe one hundred years, at least fifty years
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  Speaker 2: the Major League jog's been around. That is where you
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  Speaker 2: give the illusion of effort, But that is only when
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  Speaker 2: it's an obvious out and when you have a chance,
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  Speaker 2: when you have that kind of speed, you can beat
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  Speaker 2: out a player you're never supposed to do that bad
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  Speaker 2: job by him, And the other part of this, I
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  Speaker 2: can't help but think what must be going on internally.
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  Speaker 2: Knowing a little bit how these things work. For the
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  Speaker 2: pirates to publicly tar and feather the player, to publicly
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  Speaker 2: humiliate O'Neil Cruz for being a sluggard and lazy and
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  Speaker 2: going a wall.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine what must have been going on behind the scene. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I've been told by coaches over the years that have
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  Speaker 2: worked here and people that I know elsewhere that normally
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  Speaker 2: what happens is you try to handle this in house.
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  Speaker 2: You try to keep this in house, right, it's common sense.
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  Speaker 2: You don't need me to tell you that you have
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  Speaker 2: an issue. You don't want to go public with it.
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  Speaker 1: You want to embarrass the player.
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  Speaker 2: You also embarrass your own organization because it makes you
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  Speaker 2: look bad.
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  Speaker 1: That you can't get this guy to play hard.
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  Speaker 2: So the last thing you do is to publicly shame
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  Speaker 2: the player. And here we are, and so Don Kelly,
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  Speaker 2: the interim manager of the Pirates, he went public. And
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  Speaker 2: this guy, O'Neil Cruz, he's got all the tools to
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  Speaker 2: be a centerpiece ball player. Right now, it looks like
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  Speaker 2: a cautionary tale. He's lazy, right and it makes you
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  Speaker 2: believe that either he just doesn't get it and he's
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  Speaker 2: totally obtuse, or this is a deliberate act.
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  Speaker 1: It is deliberate indifference. And is O'Neil Cruz.
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  Speaker 2: Is it true that O'Neil Cruz is trying to get traded,
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  Speaker 2: that he is forcing his way out of Pittsburgh, that
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  Speaker 2: by miss identifying balls in the outfield, by not hustling,
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  Speaker 2: the Pirates will get so frustrated they'll trade him to
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  Speaker 2: the Dodgers or the Yankees, or the Giants, or a
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  Speaker 2: team that's actually trying to win.
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  Speaker 1: It has happened before. Now.
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  Speaker 2: There's some some legendary stories, and you know, one of
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  Speaker 2: the more famous ones, I think it was Gary Sheffield
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  Speaker 2: with the Brewers who didn't want to be in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 2: And I think the legend is he started throwing balls
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  Speaker 2: into the eighth row and eventually the Brewers traded him
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  Speaker 2: and got rid of him, and all all right, now
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  Speaker 2: final thought to hockey, that's right hockey. So the NHL,
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  Speaker 2: that's a National Hockey League, and the players Association, they're
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  Speaker 2: negotiating to increase.
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  Speaker 1: The amount of games play. They're working on the CBA
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  Speaker 1: be collective bargaining agreement, and they're talking about going to
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  Speaker 1: an eighty four game regular season played eighty two for
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  Speaker 1: a long time.
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  Speaker 2: So how do you digest the NHL looking to add
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  Speaker 2: to expand the regular season, add extra games. So the
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  Speaker 2: immediate reaction I had, my knee jerk reaction, is what
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  Speaker 2: a juxtaposition you have the NHL, which is legitimately thinking
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  Speaker 2: about adding adding, going to eighty four games count of
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  Speaker 2: eighty four games, while anytime you bring up the NBA
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  Speaker 2: regular season, the fan base is convinced that eighty two
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  Speaker 2: games is some kind of draconian, medieval torture for our
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: poor heroes of basketball.
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  Speaker 1: And yet the hockey players, I've not heard any complaining.
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  Speaker 2: They appear to continue to be tougher than a Saskatoon
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  Speaker 2: two dollars stake. I just wanted to say the word
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  Speaker 2: Saskatoon and the NBA players for years have been delicate
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  Speaker 2: little flowers.
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  Speaker 1: They need a spa day if they have to play
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  Speaker 1: back to back games too much.
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  Speaker 2: The NHL, though, they're obviously not doing this because the
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  Speaker 2: players want it. They're doing this because they want to
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  Speaker 2: make more money. And teams have complained that they have
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  Speaker 2: an imbalanced number of divisional games against rival opponents, and
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  Speaker 2: they typically draw larger crowds and bigger television audiences. So
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  Speaker 2: they want to have a couple of extra games for
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  Speaker 2: television because they can.
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  Speaker 1: Make money on it, and they can make more.
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  Speaker 2: And the NHL is the last sports league that really
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  Speaker 2: is dependent on box office. My friend Eddie Garcia, who
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  Speaker 2: does a hockey podcast, used to work here. He always
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  Speaker 2: says that as the hockey's the most important is they
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  Speaker 2: make the box office.
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  Speaker 1: They got to sell the tickets.
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  Speaker 2: Right again, I have not heard any pushback from hockey players.
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  Speaker 2: If the NBA wanted to add more games, there would
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  Speaker 2: be no justice, no peace. There would be protests in
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  Speaker 2: the streets right there are people outraged like they can't.
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  Speaker 1: Get rid of enough game.
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  Speaker 2: Now, they haven't done it yet because they'd have to
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  Speaker 2: take money away from the players, but the load management
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  Speaker 2: and players sitting out. How many times do players sit
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  Speaker 2: out because of general soreness in the NBA? Right and
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  Speaker 2: you know, players miss games to preserve themselves for June
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• 25:33
  Speaker 2: the home dugout at Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: That is the mallor riddle of the day. Let's see
• 25:42
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• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Robin Minnesota says a picture of Marge shots dog Shotzi.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Well, you're dating yourself, but that's very funny.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Fird dog going with a Skyline Chili dispenser Justin in
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  Speaker 2: Cincinnati's favorite.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Mm.
• 25:58
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• 26:03
  Speaker 2: that Skyline chili that I saw a can of it.
• 26:06
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• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Eddie just like left it on the table in the kitchen.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: So I looked at it. It didn't look that appetizing
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: on the on the can.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Kegger Raider from Big Greg and Iowa, who I met
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: at the Mallard Meet and greet, says it helped in
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Boston years ago.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: He installed it. There you go, What else do we have?
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Uh? I can't read that on the air far out
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• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Didn't he destroy the game the other day? I believe
• 26:37
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• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Glory Hole.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Malard prop guy going with a baseball glove barstool. I
• 26:46
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• 26:52
  Speaker 2: william also went with the Keggerator, a Japanese toilet from clam.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: That's the bidet, right they call it the dad think
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  Speaker 2: all that In Japan they probably called.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Something crazer behind. Yeah, yeah, nice and clean.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: A chili vending machine from Donkey Sausage, Shawn and Portland,
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: says Terry Francona had an Instagram booty model installed into
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: the is that allowed. I don't know that you can
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: install one in the dugout. Ozzie Waz says a sign
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: in support of his favorite things and many people do
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: enjoy that as well. Who else do we have? A
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: bidet guessed by alf as well a red spidet can't
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: read that cigarette.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Machine in honor of Earl Weaver.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: There's a good name from from Kirby. Squatty Potty from
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Milkman Mike in Colorado. Our friend Fudgie from Boston also
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: went with the glory whole answer a spatoon from Eke
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: and Roseville, Minnesota, JT went squatty Potty.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Who else do we have?
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: I saw Jay Scoop the Great musician also checked in
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: on that ball washer from Larry d. A pickle splushy,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: A pickle slushy machine from Jared. That sounds that sounds
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: pretty bad. Who else do we have a page? Dan
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: can't read that. We did get a brother of Sasco.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: My mention of Saskatoon was he that created brother Sasco
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: to send me a message?
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: All right? Do you have an answer? Lorraino?
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: The Malay riddle of the day is Red's manser. Terry
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Francona had a blank installed in the home dugout a
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: great American ballpark in Cincinnati.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: Well, I was trying to think of what I would want,
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: and I'm thinking a red vine dispenser, a.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Red Vine dispenser, because they are the Cincinnati Reds. That
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: is a great answer. That is absolutely wrong.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: No, that is incorrect. The correct answer. Terry Francona had
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: a boat seat. You know those seats that.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Pop up on a boat, like the captain sits on
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: on the wheel. Yeah, that's what he had installed.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: A boat seat was installed in the home dug out.
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  Speaker 5: There.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
• 29:02
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• 29:04
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• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Let's hello to helmet man, who's in La, La Land.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Hello helmet man of the morning. Hello helmet man.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, thirty four we and we gotten for second place?
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Who is we?
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: The Oils? Oh?
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Congratulations?
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: I know you actually you actually work for the Oils.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: A lot of people don't know that, but you are
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: the number.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: One, the number one. Congratulations.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: You're very excited about Oriole baseball and the last place,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: the last place, Baltimore Orioles.
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: You think they're going to play the Dodgers this.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Year, Well, they will play the Dodgers. I don't think
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: they've played yet. The question is will it be in
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: LA or will it be in Baltimore. They change and
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: one year you play in like one year the Dodgers
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: will go to Baltimore and then the next year the.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Orioles will come to come to Los Angeles. So I'm
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: not sure. I'd have to check the schedule. Shouldn't you
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: know that you're the Oriole fan. Shouldn't you know that.
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: Schedule?
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: You didn't look that up? I understand. Well, let's see
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: here now I'll do it for you.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Let's see the Dodgers, and looking here, I do not
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: see any games in LA at least. Well, this is
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: the first half, so we the first half is pretty
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: much over right, we got to go to the second half.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: And what else did you have? Helmet man, Well, I
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: look that up. What else did you have?
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: What's the raven camp looking like?
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Well, they haven't had Ravens camp. It doesn't open until
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: the next man. Oh, here we go.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: The Orioles will be in Baltimore. If you'd like to
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: go back and see your mom. Is your mom still
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: there in Baltimore? Helmet in September fifth, sixth, and seventh,
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: So that'll be the NFL season begins right around then.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: So you can go to Baltimore and see the Dodgers
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: and the Oils.
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: Oh, I'll be over there. I'll be around there.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Oh you are You're gonna go back and go to Baltimore? Yeah, okay, Yeah,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: you want.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: To see my he can stay at my friend's Sports
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: with Coleman's house if you want.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: He'll put you up sports with Coleman. Jerry. He lives
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: in Baltimore. He's a big media guy. Oh you sound impressed.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: You sound impressed.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: All right, more more apportly, helmet man, let's get down
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: to business. You go around l A, you sell merchandise.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: You told us a great story about Aaron Judge when
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: the Yankees were in La. You ran into Aaron Judge
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: in West Hollywood. He would not he would not sign autographs.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: He did, what do you do? Take a photo? I
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: think is what he did? Is that what he did
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: with you?
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: Or he sounded like one Audi Kins.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: But he gave you one hundred dollars or something, right,
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: he give you some more, give you a hundred dollars.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: So it's either get autographs or get I'd rather have
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: one hundred dollars. I'd rather have one hundred. Have you
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: run into any other famous people since we last talked?
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: Uh? No, No, I didn't want to know nobody.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, know one you recognized that's famous. Yeah.
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: I was thinking about going to the into a dull Sunday.
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: I think they had the Big Three, the Big Three basketball.
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: I thought about that, but I watched the NBA Chapman
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: as Ship.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably more enjoyable to watch that. Yeah, sure, all right,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Well come see you sometime, helmet man.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: We want to. We haven't been seen you in a while,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: So come by and say hello sometime.
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: Okay, because I go to the Good Wheel down the street.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean you think I hadn't.
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: Been out there in a long time.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: I know we have not seen you in many, many years.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Some man, I understand that I did.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: I did see you at Sofi Stadium one time at
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: a Rams game.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I think it was after a Rambams something there. Yeah, yeah,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: all right, well, thank you. I gotta go.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: There's the great helmet man checking in from La La Land.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Let's say hello to Mike in San Antonio. Hello, Mike, welcome.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: No way fucking made it? All right? Well, curse You're
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: just cursed, so you can't. Uh that's the first thing
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: you said. By the way, he was just so excited.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: I know, good right, Inger was on the trigger. I dumped.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: I don't care if people say that, but my bosses do.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Danny in Boston. Hello, Dan is this
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: is this who I think it is. Let's see here
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: it says Danny, but I think it's it's my guy.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Hello Danny, Yes, Danny DeVito, this is Ian.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Did you know that you spoke to Danny DeVito when
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: you picked.
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: Up the phone and you just put his name is Danny.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: That is disrespect to Danny DeVito. You put his name.
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I just make that to him. I didn't say
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: nothing about the guys man, nothing like that.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: So all right, well this is now Danny DeVito Ian.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Danny DeVito is the most famous trash man in America.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: He picks up trash around Boston. A lot of people
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: know him from his acting in Hollywood. But he know
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Hollywood doesn't play that much.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: They don't. They don't pay as much in Hollywood.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: So Danny had to get a little side hustle and
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: he's picking up the trash. But it must be fun
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: this time of the year, Danny with that nice hot
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: weather in the Boston area and that trash just smelling fresh,
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: and just like the trash is sweating.
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: Brutal, it is brutal at least I'm not doing the
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: residential normal. I'm on commercial if you know, so, I
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: picked dumps up. I was doing the street trash before.
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: I'm not doing that normal. But it's still fad. It
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: was one hundred and two here bet on Tuesday record.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: No I know, I mean, I listen, I I know
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: on a hot day, even in like the kitchen, my
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: kitchen trash starts smelling. I can't imagine leaving it outside
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: in the in the can all day and overnight or whatever.
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: We maggot you got you got rodents, maggots, all that
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: stuff there.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: It's pretty bad. That's why you get paid the big
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: money right there, That's.
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: Why exactly right, where's uh, where's Cooper's coop on vacation? Uh?
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. I don't know. He didn't tell me.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: He just said he's not gonna be here for a
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks. I don't know where he went, but.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I assume he's on vacage. He han't
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: talk to me much, but yeah, I think so.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well I wanted to which is Dylan? Uh, Dylan
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: Hoppa there. I checked out the mother and it's very nice, man,
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: I was. I was impressed for that. Everybody get back
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: to when I was a child. I had a childhood
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: friend and his mother was absolutely smoking right, and uh
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: the problem with her was she was married, but she
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: used to cheat around the husband a lot, and uh,
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: everybody used to dump all you know, they used to
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: ruin his son about it. He used to dump all
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: all over.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's tough, man.
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, he's get all worked up about that, you know.
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: But I was calm because we got to give some
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: credit to what's his name, Brad Stevens. You know how
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: many times been he trimmed the fat? How many times
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: every year? And this goes through all four major sporting
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: teams there, Uh that teams have hot times doing what
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: he did. And he got rid of some of the guys.
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: You know, one guy was thirty five and all that,
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: and the other guy was often agent. But even though that,
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: they were good place. But they came here for a
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: couple of years and we got that ring and they
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: and he finally says he he dump them. But a
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: lot of teams, Ben, they don't have any a lot
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: of coaches, a lot of gms, a lot of franchise
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: have a hard time of that. And I give Stevens credit.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: All Right, I gotta leave it there. I would rant here,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: but I have a hard out. So but thank you, Dan.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: It's good to know you're still out there.
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  Speaker 7: I want to say right where I am.
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  Speaker 7: at Disneyland or getting a root canal? Well?
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  Speaker 2: No, I actually just went to it to Disneyland and
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  Speaker 2: I had a great time. I talk about that probably
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  Speaker 2: Disneyland's rare and appropriate. I'm not like the Loraina who's
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  Speaker 2: got to pass and goes.
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  Speaker 1: All the time.
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  Speaker 2: But I I go every once a while while it's cool,
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  Speaker 2: and I'd definitely rather have that than a root kid.
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  Speaker 1: What about I know, I know, Loraina, you're what about you? Ian?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's not a not a tough question there.
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  Speaker 7: I think I'm taking Disneyland.
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  Speaker 1: But what kind of it depends if the dentist is
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  Speaker 7: Good point? Yeah, let's go to this one for the crew.
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  Speaker 7: What superhero would you like to be?
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  Speaker 5: And why?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: We get asked this question quite a bit, and I
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  Speaker 2: am I am actually a superhero. You don't know this
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  Speaker 2: because you're younger than I am. But I am gasbag Man,
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  Speaker 2: and that is a superhero. My superpower is hot takes
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the night and I can overwhelm
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  Speaker 1: What about you, Lorena, I.
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  Speaker 7: Like the idea of being like an elastic girl type thing.
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  Speaker 7: I used to want to be a contortionist, so being
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  Speaker 7: super flexible would be fun.
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  Speaker 2: So being able to stretch your limbs yeah, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 2: like stretch.
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  Speaker 1: There used to be when I was a kid, there
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  Speaker 1: was a Stretch Anderson or arm stretch Armstrongs. Yeah. What
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  Speaker 1: about you, Ian? What would your super puero?
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  Speaker 7: You know, I feel like Batman has the best life
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  Speaker 7: outside of being a superhero because he's rich and you
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  Speaker 7: know Playboy.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a butler, Alfred the Butler.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, he's got his own butler. So I didn't go
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  Speaker 7: with Batman, but power wise, I like the flash you
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  Speaker 7: or dash from the incredible super speed. That kind of thing.
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  Speaker 7: What do we Yeah, we'll go to Mike the Leprechaun,
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  Speaker 7: favorite alcoholic beverage you guys enjoyed in Vancouver?
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  Speaker 1: This one's not applicable to me.
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  Speaker 2: But uh yeah no, I mean I didn't drink too much.
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  Speaker 2: I had some beer, which I like, and I had
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  Speaker 2: the same beer that I have here, so it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: like any special Canadian beer. What about you, Lorena?
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  Speaker 7: I had their Caesar, which is like a bloody Mary,
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  Speaker 7: but with clam juice.
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  Speaker 1: Today it was good clam juice. Let me go, Let
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  Speaker 1: me go. Puke in my mouth always