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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from baseball, and we
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  Speaker 1: start out at the town of Wrigleyville in Chicago, the
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  Speaker 1: North side of Chicago, not the baddest part of town,
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  Speaker 1: the richest part.
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  Speaker 3: Of town, well at least in that part of Chicago,
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  Speaker 3: and the.
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  Speaker 1: Much bally hood opening act of the Trek Schooble two
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  Speaker 1: month run in Dodger Blue as he put on his
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  Speaker 1: new laundry at the Friendly Confines, NAT. Did you watch
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  Speaker 1: this game? It was a National TV game on Turner.
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  Speaker 1: Did you you were not watching? Okay, you might have
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  Speaker 1: missed it. The Chicago Cubs doing the old Chubby Cubby.
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  Speaker 3: The Cubs get here done playing the role of spoiler.
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  Speaker 1: There they beat the Doyers five to one at Wrigley Field, Chicago,
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  Speaker 1: spoiling spoiler alert, spiler alert trek Scoobel's Dodger debut as
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  Speaker 1: the much anticipated performance ends up on the defeat side
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  Speaker 1: of the Ledger. Schoobel delivered a quality start, not the
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  Speaker 1: greatest start of all time. He at a couple runs,
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  Speaker 1: four hits over six innings. He walked to struck out
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  Speaker 1: six eighty five pitches. That's it, eighty five pitches, fifty
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  Speaker 1: one of them for strikes. If you're keeping score at home,
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  Speaker 1: and if you are, get a life, all right, So
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  Speaker 1: Dansby Swanson. He tied the game with his seventeenth home
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  Speaker 1: run and the Cubs ended up gaining the go ahead run,
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  Speaker 1: which is all they would need, even though they scored
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  Speaker 1: more after that on an infield single by mister Horney
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  Speaker 1: himself Horner. And that was that, as the Cubs get
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  Speaker 1: the win. The better story, though, is in the losing
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  Speaker 1: locker room, and that is where we will go. As
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  Speaker 1: it's all about the performance of the starting pitcher. There
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  Speaker 1: many upset the baseball purists furious about the debut of
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  Speaker 1: schoobl and everything that is involved in it. And that
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  Speaker 1: is a good jumping out points to let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question.
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  Speaker 3: We'll keep it simple.
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  Speaker 1: What are your opening impressions? Your opening impressions on Trek
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  Speaker 1: Scooble in a Dodger uniform. So I've got plastic forks,
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  Speaker 1: Mount Kilimanjaro and organic carbon and we will combine all.
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  Speaker 3: Of these things together.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to have some delicious deep dish pizza and
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  Speaker 1: that really good Chicago popcorn. Our buddy Tree in Chicago
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  Speaker 1: hooked us up with that popcorn. It was delicious, so
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  Speaker 1: solid popcorn town, Chicago, and pop goes to Dodgers in
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  Speaker 1: the Windy City here. So my first thought was, as advertised,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't the greatest, wasn't bad? Was solid professional pitcher? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: this is not some drabbroni out of him. Rather obviously
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  Speaker 1: we knew that when he pitched Scooball for the Detroit Tigers,
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  Speaker 1: he pitched like he had mainlined, mainline rocket fuel. Was
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  Speaker 1: coming out there on adrenaline and throwing some high octane
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  Speaker 1: on almost every throw early in the game. And he
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  Speaker 1: had that vibe you know when you ever changed jobs.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't changed jobs in a while. I've done some
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  Speaker 1: side jobs while I've worked here. And when you work
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  Speaker 1: somewhere new, you always want to impress your new coworkers, right,
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  Speaker 1: you want that good first impression, so that that fibe,
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  Speaker 1: like Schoobol went, there's I got to impress these people.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know these people, they don't know me. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out there and I'm gonna try to
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  Speaker 1: impress my new co workers. And he racked up thirteen whiffs.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's not thirteen strikeouts. That's swing back, I swing bat,
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  Speaker 1: I saw wing badah, and that's what that is. Scooble
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  Speaker 1: serving up mostly flamon on the mound, and the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: the new coworkers said, you know, we're not We're not
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  Speaker 1: into that right now. We only brought the plastic forks.
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  Speaker 1: That's all we have. Why do you only have the
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  Speaker 1: plastic forks? You should have the nice silverware. What's wrong?
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  Speaker 1: Would you?
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  Speaker 3: Shame on you?
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  Speaker 1: And so while at times Scooble pitched like a man possessed,
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  Speaker 1: not consistently throughout the game. Even we gave up a
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  Speaker 1: couple of runs the Dodgers while he was possessed on
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  Speaker 1: the mound. The Dodger hitters were just depressed when they
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  Speaker 1: were trying to hit cup pitching there, and you look
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  Speaker 1: at this and some big name players on this Dodger
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  Speaker 1: team right now, in this moment, they've lost five in
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  Speaker 1: a row, got their balls kicked in by the Red
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend. Now the Cubs have kicked their butt
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  Speaker 1: two games in a row, and in this moment, we
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about today show. In this moment, the
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  Speaker 1: Dowyers are paying Champagne money for tap water results is
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing here right out of the tap in Flint, Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: The quality of the performance. And you look around there
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  Speaker 1: and they're getting a lot of squad douche, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of squad douche. Mookie betts Man right now, he stinks
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  Speaker 1: and the catchers are both hurt, so they got some
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  Speaker 1: scrubs they traded for at catchers, so they're not getting
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  Speaker 1: much there. Kyle Tucker did have home run. He just
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  Speaker 1: carries himself and it's really hard to do. Kyle Tucker
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  Speaker 1: always looks like he just doesn't really give a crap.
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  Speaker 1: It's fascinating, like you could get you think occasionally it
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  Speaker 1: would appear like he's trying, like putting some effort out.
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  Speaker 1: He always has that vibe like I don't give a crap,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm getting paid. I'm just going through the motions. Man.
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  Speaker 1: Tremendous outfield defense by Tucker. I think I lost. I
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  Speaker 1: last saw that type of defense when I was watching
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  Speaker 1: a Little League game a while back. My good. So.
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  Speaker 1: And in the end, yeah, Trek Scooble ended up eating
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  Speaker 1: a Hogi. He had the Hogi of defeat that was
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  Speaker 1: served to him here. And the Dodgers have never won
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  Speaker 1: a start by Trek Schooble. Can you believe that, in
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  Speaker 1: the history of the franchise, they've never won a game
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  Speaker 1: started by Trek Scooble. Fascinating? Yeah, so, and this is
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  Speaker 1: again a microcosm of why you should not be having
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  Speaker 1: a hissy fit, you dopes. Everyone up in arms. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, Schooble does not guarantee anything. He went out,
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  Speaker 1: had a solid professional start and he lost. So the
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  Speaker 1: contract size, the name on the back of the uniforms,
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  Speaker 1: as the late great Tommulasorda used to rant about back
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  Speaker 1: in the day, it's all good, nice stuff. In modern times,
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  Speaker 1: you look at a tablet, you look at your phone,
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  Speaker 1: you say, oh man, that's some big names. I've heard
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  Speaker 1: of those players here. That's pretty good. It's not like
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  Speaker 1: they spot you three runs. Because you have the bigger
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  Speaker 1: sexy names on the team, you still have to go
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  Speaker 1: out and you play to win the game. And right now,
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  Speaker 1: the opponent, the way Mookie Betts is playing, and Tucker
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  Speaker 1: and the catching position, the opponent right now is on
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  Speaker 1: the power play, and the Dodgers are, despite their money,
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  Speaker 1: shorthanded on a nightly basis, all right. Meanwhile, staying with
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  Speaker 1: that theme, prior to his first start as a Doyer
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  Speaker 1: at Wrigley Field there in Chicago, Trek Scoobel defended the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: much to the chagrin of people having a hissy fit
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  Speaker 1: over this the blockbuster trade that happened the other day
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  Speaker 1: from Detroit. He argued that the criticism of the Blue
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  Speaker 1: Crew misplaced a Schooble said quote. Every team could have
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  Speaker 1: traded for me, he said, and other clubs simply chose
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  Speaker 1: not to match the Dodgers' offer to the Detroit baseball team. Schooble,
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  Speaker 1: praising the Doyers known to spoil. They're pampered baby players
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  Speaker 1: more than any other team, and so he's celebrated the
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  Speaker 1: organization for how they do things here they say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: they do all the right things, he said, that's a
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  Speaker 1: quote pointing to player development, winning culture, a commitment, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the extra private plane these elitist players get when they're
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  Speaker 1: on the road, God forbid, they hang around the unwashed,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. So his comments came after and this
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  Speaker 1: is going on, This is still going on. It's bubbling up.
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  Speaker 1: What is this the criticism, the complaints it's not right?
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  Speaker 1: Boooo who the Dodgers are ruining baseball?
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that nonsense which continues and still still banging the
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  Speaker 1: drum complaining here fans and bots and the algorithm pointing
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  Speaker 1: towards this is not right, no trust, just no peace
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  Speaker 1: because the Dodge traded for another good player. It's not right,
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  Speaker 1: it's not right. And people saying that Schooble should have
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  Speaker 1: just kept quiet, apparently not allowed to talk. I guess
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't like what he said, so you got
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  Speaker 1: to shut up.
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  Speaker 3: That's usually how that works.
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  Speaker 1: And the classless comments, all of that, all of that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and he kind of dismissed the noise, and that created
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  Speaker 1: more problems for the people that think this is a
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  Speaker 1: war crime, that there should be some kind of tribunal
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  Speaker 1: against the Dodgers. All right, question, what has the Tarik
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  Speaker 1: Schooble trade to the Dodgers exposed among baseball fans? What
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  Speaker 1: is this exposed? So, after a minutes long Mallard deliberation
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  Speaker 1: of the available information, we have determined that the Schooble
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  Speaker 1: trade has exposed extreme soft serve candy Land raised the
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  Speaker 1: younger generation of baseball candy Land. It's pathetic. I really
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  Speaker 1: am truly embarrassed, Like it was like, come on, you're
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  Speaker 1: making us all look bad. Do you realize you're making
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  Speaker 1: all of us look bad? Do you understand that you're
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  Speaker 1: bitching and you're complaining? Is unbecoming? What happened to you? Seriously?
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  Speaker 3: Who hurts you as a fan?
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  Speaker 1: Pathetic subset of cry babies, cowards and clowns. The people complaining.
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  Speaker 1: I think the Dodgers are some kind of horror movie
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  Speaker 1: and they can't get out of it. They're in it
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  Speaker 1: instead of approaching it the right way, like this is
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  Speaker 1: the boss level. That's the way you approach it. It's
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  Speaker 1: the boss level here, and that's it you inherited if
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  Speaker 1: you're complaining about the Dodgers. I hate to be the
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  Speaker 1: bearer of bad news, but you inherited a loser mindset.
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  Speaker 1: You're a loser. I would recommend returning that mindset, exchanging it.
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  Speaker 1: If you can't return it, get some store credit because
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  Speaker 1: it's not right. It's oh La is the big bad
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  Speaker 1: Wolf of baseball? Okay, I agree. I agree. They've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of big names, so much like the big
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  Speaker 1: bad Wolf of baseball. Go out there and blow the
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  Speaker 1: house down. That's how legends are made. That is how
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  Speaker 1: legends are made. And all these people again cry babies,
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  Speaker 1: cowards and clowns who are complaining about the Dodgers, I
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  Speaker 1: recommend grab a medelo. Remember the slogan back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta have that fighting spirit. You gotta unlock the
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  Speaker 1: fighting spirit and stop your whining, you pathetic piece of crap. Seriously, right,
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  Speaker 1: go to Tanzania. Go there Mount Kilimanjaro. Go over to
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  Speaker 1: Mount Kilimanjarro and climb it. Don't complain it's too high.
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  Speaker 1: They should cut down Mount Kilimanjarro. It's too I can't
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  Speaker 1: climb that. Oh my god, it's too big a mountain.
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  Speaker 1: O boo. That's how stupid you sound.
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  Speaker 3: You don't even realize how.
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  Speaker 1: Dumb you are. You Dingleberry, you dumbo. Seriously right, as
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  Speaker 1: the eighties rock band poison pointed out, every rose has
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  Speaker 1: its thorn. Every rose has its thorn. So find the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers thorn and twist it. If you're in that mind,
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  Speaker 1: twist it, embrace the suck, and go out and beat them.
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  Speaker 1: They're not invincible. Toronto almost beat them in the World
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  Speaker 1: Series last year. If the Yankees hadn't been incompetent, not
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  Speaker 1: know how to play defense, they could have made that
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  Speaker 1: a six or a seven game series. They didn't, but
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  Speaker 1: they had talent. They had star power there, the Yankees,
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  Speaker 1: and they botched the ball in that World Series a
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  Speaker 1: couple years ago. So this whole woe is Me mindset.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, go get some sunlight, touch some grass, get
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  Speaker 1: some electrolytes, grow a spine, get some hair on your chest.
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  Speaker 1: My God, grow some balls. Seriously, it's not fear the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers of God and beat him. Go out and beat him.
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  Speaker 1: Find a way. That's the story. That's the story. Like
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  Speaker 1: the famous store of David versus Goliath. You would say, well,
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  Speaker 1: David should not have to fight Goliath. Well, the reason
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  Speaker 1: it's to make sure see up checked Goliath. Hey, ap
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  Speaker 1: checked Goliath. The Dodgers of Goliath beat him. You losers,
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  Speaker 1: go and beat him, and then you'll celebrate, You'll have
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  Speaker 1: an orgasm, you'll be so excited.
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  Speaker 3: Instead, it's all we're.
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  Speaker 1: Scared of the fire breathing Dodgers. Oh man, the boogey Man,
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  Speaker 1: the boogey Man. So if that's your mindset, go play pickaball,
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  Speaker 1: Go play pickleball or tennis. Do that.
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  Speaker 3: Baseball's not for you. It's not all right.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the last word, we go to the Bronx and
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  Speaker 1: I believe Jesus Christ arrived at Yankee Stadium last night.
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  Speaker 1: George Lombard Junior. No, oh, okay, Well, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: hyph for this guy. He much anticipated debut. The story, though,
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  Speaker 1: is he had a home run you know Whoope Dando
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  Speaker 1: in his Yankee debuts. So I guess he's now the
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  Speaker 1: next Derek Jeter, Babe Ruth. All that stuff to me.
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  Speaker 1: The better story, the more compelling story with the Yankees,
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  Speaker 1: is Anthony volpi So I want to pivot over there
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  Speaker 1: for the last word.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Anthony Volpey is not a major league player.
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  Speaker 1: He's a Triple A player who was demoted to Scranton Wilkesbury.
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  Speaker 1: The Reil writers of the Triple A Baseball operation there
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  Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania. I saw Anthony Volpi the one WUSS game
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  Speaker 1: that we attended there with the Leprecaun and Matt Kay
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  Speaker 1: and the guys there in Worcester.
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  Speaker 3: They were the road team.
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  Speaker 1: So he got to see Anthony vaultany throw out me
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  Speaker 1: throw out the first pitch there. Very impressed. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: he was very impressed. So Volpi has been said down
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  Speaker 1: and Volpi's case has become a major flash point in
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  Speaker 1: this debate over how team should develop there prospects. You
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  Speaker 1: know how I feel of prospects. So this has become
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  Speaker 1: i'm a big talking point. And there's this whole conversation
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  Speaker 1: about balancing confidence with young players and opportunity and accountability
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  Speaker 1: and all these big words like flexibility and expectations, having
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  Speaker 1: realistic expectations, all of this stuff. Now many pundits are
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  Speaker 1: blaming Brian Cashman and the Yankees for having unrealistic expectations
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  Speaker 1: before Volpi had earned those unrealistic expectations, complaining about that,
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  Speaker 1: and well, you know, it's not really his fault. That's
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  Speaker 1: the part to me, that's the interesting. Like there's a
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  Speaker 1: number of pundits like Volpi's Yeah, he's in the minor leagues,
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  Speaker 1: it's not his fault, though it is not placing much
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  Speaker 1: of the blame on the organization that their decisions, and
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  Speaker 1: it's not solely on the fact that Volpi hasn't been
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  Speaker 1: able to play at a high level, either defensively or offensively.
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  Speaker 1: So three years later.
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  Speaker 3: He was given the.
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  Speaker 1: Starting job for three consecutive years. Now this year obviously
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  Speaker 1: not the case. He has been demoted again to the prospect,
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  Speaker 1: to the minor league, the prospect scrapyard, and another guy
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  Speaker 1: who was jumped over him, leap frogged over him. George
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  Speaker 1: Lombard Junior, took over at shortstop, hit a home run
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  Speaker 1: in his you know Yankee, you know first Yankee hit
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  Speaker 1: there in the Bronx and the dramatic shift in the
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  Speaker 1: plans for the New York Yankees. So the question, does
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Volpi get some kind of government pardon from blame
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  Speaker 1: because he was set up to fail by the New
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  Speaker 1: York Yankees? Not really his own fault, not really his
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  Speaker 1: own fault, that's the claim. So look, the thief. The
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  Speaker 1: thesis on Anthony Volpi that he deserves some kind of mulligan,
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  Speaker 1: some kind of pass because the Yankees set him up
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  Speaker 1: to fail, is a total joke. Capitol j capitol j joke,
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  Speaker 1: total joe. Anyone peddling this narrative is a hero worshiping
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  Speaker 1: Mama Luke. That's what you are, right Jack sniffing one
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  Speaker 1: oh one. That's you right there. You knows right in
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  Speaker 1: the jock. That's what you're doing. You're smelling all the
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  Speaker 1: dirty stuff. That's you. Okay, so stop it. The Yankees
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  Speaker 1: did not sabotage Anthony Volpi. They gave him an unbelievable opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: Like they gave him the Golden Goose, and he decapitated
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  Speaker 1: the Golden Goose, is what he did. That's it, like
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  Speaker 1: three full seasons as the starting shortstop for the New
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  Speaker 1: York Yankees, three of them every day right out the
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  Speaker 1: growing pains. Figure it out. What a gift. That's a
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  Speaker 1: great mitzvah. And what did Anthony Volpi do? Well, what
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  Speaker 1: he did was create a situation where they had to
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  Speaker 1: send it back to the minor league twice this season.
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  Speaker 1: And the belief that he gets some kind of pass
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  Speaker 1: because the Yankees set him up to fail, which is
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  Speaker 1: the argument the I want to say somebody, I can't say.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just say some of the baseball pundits have their
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  Speaker 1: nose and their other other things up parts of the body.
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  Speaker 1: So listen the belief that he gets this past that
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  Speaker 1: is rich in nitrogen and organic carbon. And the reason
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  Speaker 1: it's rich in nitrogen and organic carbon is because it's
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  Speaker 1: absolutely cow manure. Is what it is, absolute cow manure.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. The more vult he played, the more he
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  Speaker 1: was exposed. And it was like playing a hangman and
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  Speaker 1: every game, every couple of games, you know, here goes,
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  Speaker 1: there's a there's a foot, there's an arm, there's a leg.
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  Speaker 1: That's how that went. And the Yankee media machine manufactured
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  Speaker 1: this mythical phenom Anthony Volpi the next Derek Jeter, because
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  Speaker 1: that's what they do, right, And then of course everyone
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  Speaker 1: acted shocked, Oh, I can't believe it when the real
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  Speaker 1: guy that showed up the Yankee stadium did not match
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  Speaker 1: the brochure. It's kind of like if you've ever invested
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  Speaker 1: in a rental setup, you know, a timeshare thing, and
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  Speaker 1: he said, wow, this looks great. You get to go
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  Speaker 1: to Hawaii and Florida and you go to the south
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  Speaker 1: of France and then you actually go and you're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's not what I thought. I was getting. That's not
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• 19:36
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• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Volpi failed. That's that's on him. He's an abject failure
• 19:47
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• 19:48
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• 19:52
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• 19:54
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• 19:57
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• 19:59
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• 20:05
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• 20:08
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  Speaker 1: Money money, many money, money man eight. And then we'll
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: start out in Atlanta. Do you see the financial report?
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: No you did not?
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, the Atlanta Falcons. I'm told that's a football team,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: not a good one. The Falcons and star running back
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Bjon Robinson agreed to a not one, not two, but
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: three year contract extension through the twenty thirty season. Kids.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Yes, that's not that far away, twenty.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Thirty, making Robinson the highest paid running back in the
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: history of the NFL. Holy Eric Dickerson, Batman, where have
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: you gone? Walter Payton and Barry Sanders. Yes, Marshall Falk
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: the highest paid running back, but Jon Robinson in the
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: history of the NFL. The deal is worth up to
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: you know, that's weasel terminology.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Up to.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Do you ever go shopping?
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: They used to have these things called malls when people
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: left their homes and went shopping in stores. And in
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: the stores they would have sales and they would say
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: up to fifty percent off and you would end up
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: getting about a dollar off if you're lucky, about a
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: dollar off if you're lucky. So this deal worth up
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: to seventy five million dollars, includes fifty one million guaranteed.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: And but wait, there's more a thirty seven million dollars
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: signing bonus, and that breaks the previous record for a
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: running back contract. Now the Dirty Birds rewarding Bjhon Robinson,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: who had a big year last year, had over two
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: thousand yards from scrimmage and eleven touchdowns, first team All
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Pro honors, and a partridge and a pear tree. So
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: he had all that. Atlanta has now locked up the
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: core of their offense anyway, So following the additions of
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: long term contracts for Drake London and Kyle Pitts, now
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: they have signed their running back. So the three amigos
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: have all been paid and they're locked up for the
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: next few years in Georgia. Moore on that in a minute.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: The key part of this, though, is the contract for
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: the running back. So that is a good jumping off
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: point let us discuss now here we go. So the
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: question with John Robinson getting a record setting deal for
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: a running back in NFL history, did Atlanta did the
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Football team just ignore everything we've been told about
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: paying running backs for the last twenty years. So I've
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: got nineteen forty seven Cadillac convertible New York Times bestseller
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: and relay race, and we will combine all.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Of these things together, and we're going to.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Have some chicken and waffles.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Is what we're going to have. Yum yum to my
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: tom tum now, number one, I said, number one.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: I'm nodding my head yes to the question of whether
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: or not Atlanta just ignored everything we've been told for
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: the past twenty years about paying running backs.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: So yes, I am nodding my head.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Now. The deal is, I'm gonna say it's a breath
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: of fresh air, not toxic air. Fresh air, Atlanta. And
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I give him credit for this because everyone does the
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: same thing in sports these days, and for better or worse.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: The Atlanta Falcons.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Looked at all of the data, every data point from
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: the last twenty years that said don't pay, don't pay,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: don't pay, don't pay, don't pay, certainly the last decade,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: don't pay, don't pay, don't pay, don't pay, don't pay.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: And they said, let's just do the opposite. Ah, screw it.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: We'll just do the opposite. And that's what they did.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Like there is no rhyme or reason to do this
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: and to do it now, Yet Atlanta did. And is
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: he an elite running back? Absolutely, one hundred percent. But
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: John Robinson's a top running back.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: He is.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: However, paying a record amount of money in the Year
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: of Our Lord twenty twenty six is like buying the
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: world's greatest DVD player. You know, technically you could find
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: some DVDs and use the DVD player and you'd be fine,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: what are you doing? What are you doing? And the
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: position has the shortest shelf life. Running back the shortest
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: shelf life. It goes bad quick real you know, it's
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: like not a lot of preservatives. The bread starts getting moldy,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: it turns blue.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: It's not good. So it doesn't have a long shelf life.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: And it's got the highest injury rate if you look
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: per capita in the NFL. And it's also the easiest
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: to find a replacement in the running back pipeline. You
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: just go call the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and you get
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: a running back or the BC Lions and you'll hook
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: you up with the running back. That's how that goes.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: So it's kind of like bringing a classic nineteen forty
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: seven pink Cadillac convertible and bringing it your pride and
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: joy to a demolition derby, which is what this is.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: It rarely ends well. The pink nineteen forty seven Cadillac
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: convertible is not going to be a functional automobile after
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: the demolition derby.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: So good look on that. He has been the centerpiece.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: He being Bejon Robinson, the centerpiece of that offense in Georgia.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: I know Tommy in Atlanta likes that.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: However, the high volume musage and that obviously accelerates. It's
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: a bit of a turbo button, if you will, a
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: bit of a turbo button in terms of the lifespan,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the wear and tear long term and all that. And
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: by resetting the market, which they have done here, Robinson,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: that makes the algebra a little harder. The algebra is
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: a little harder here, ignoring that even legendary, even legendary
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: running backs carry a high risk more than receivers, pass rushers,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: players that get paid a lot of money. All right now,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: So Genie is moved by the Falcons doing what everyone
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: else wouldn't do, and you did now page two. So
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the big picture in Georgia. The question here is it
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: true that the Falcon's future is now looking bright and
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: sunny and the future is now set as Atlanta has
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: locked in on Robinson, Drake London and Kyle Pitts. They've
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: signed all of those players to multi year contracts in
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: the last couple of months. So is that true? It
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: is true they've signed them. Is it true that the
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: future is now set in Atlanta? No, When you play
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Peak a Bow and you look at the roster Peka Bow,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: I see you. Atlanta Falcons future is a one hundred
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: and eighty degree situation away from where they need to be,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: away from where they need to be here. Think of
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: it like this, all right, The jigsaw puzzle is missing
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: a giant piece and it starts with a que. And
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about Cubert the old video game. I'm
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: talking about the quarterback position. And you know it. I
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: know it. The dope in the back of the room
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: who's sleeping and not working, that person knows it. We
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: all know it, right, we all know it. Here thinking
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: you've got things heading in the right direction, that the
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: ship has been turned and it's ready to go there
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: you're locked in and all that when you don't have
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: a reliable quarterback. It's kind of like claiming, hey, I
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: wrote a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times bestseller,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: and then we can I see, can I read it? What? Yeah,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: I'll give you the advanced copy. Okay, great, thanks for
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: giving me the advanced copy. Very kind of you to
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: do that. And so you get the advanced copy and
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: all the person has is just the title page. Well
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: that's not a best seller. That's just the title page.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: That's all it's there. So sure the GM there, I
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: think it's Ian Cunningham, Maddie Ice, Matt Ryan running the
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: football ops department, and Kevin Stefanski, who somehow got another
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: job after coaching the Cleveland Browns. They have collected all
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: of these shiny skill position toys with Sean Robinson and
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Drake London and Kyle pittch But you know what that
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: means the Lombardy. The Lombardi Trophy is not one by
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: collecting the talent on the perimeter. It's not one that way.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: It's one by having the guy who touches the ball
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: on offense every single snap, every single snap. That's the key.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Right there, right, So that's Atlanta. Now they have stacked
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: the pantry. They got a lot of nice gourmet ingredients
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: in the pantry there in Georgia. However, until they prove
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: they've got the right chef, then it doesn't really mean much.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: And you know it, and I know it, we all
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: know it.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: There. It just doesn't mean that much because saying, hey,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: the future is now set for the Falcons is pure delusion.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: It's dressing. It's not Thousand Island dressing. It's not balsamic vinegar.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: It's window dressing, is what that is. There. So I'm
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: told if I talk any more about the Atlanta Falcons,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: they'll turn off the radio station. So I'll move on.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: All right Now, the last thing here, the final part
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: of this puzzle, if you will, and that would be
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: now that Robinson got paid by the football team in
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Atlanta and is the highest paid. There's a lot of
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: finger pointing towards the state of Michigan. Michigan, the Detroit Lions,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: the Honolulu blew the team that for years in my
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: youth was only seen on Thanksgiving to punish the American
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: people on Thanksgiving with a Lions game. So they've been
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: better the last couple of years fine and the finger
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: pointing at Detroit is okay. Jamiir gi Gibbs is still waiting.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: We talked about this in a previous episode. So Jamior
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Gibbs is still waiting for a big contract. Many are
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: wondering why, why is Jamiir Gibbs waiting on the money
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: money made?
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: What is going on?
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: And they're painting this as unfair the football elites in
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the media. This is not right. I can't believe it.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: And Gibbs has done everything necessary to earn a massive contract,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: So why are the Detroit Lions futzing around? What is
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: going on with that? So the question is it really unfair?
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Is it really unfair, unjust and unacceptable that the Lions
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: have not paid running back Jamiir Gibbs? Right, So is
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: it unfair? I mean, let me think here. No, it's
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: not unfair. Is it unjust? I don't think this is
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: a justice issue? And is it unacceptable? I'm gonna go
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: over three. I'm gonna go for three now again, much
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: like we've talked about with some of these other cats,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: this is actually a blessing in disguise for Jamiir Gibbs
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: and there's people that are not that smart, dumb dums
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: who don't seem to understand the economics involved in this.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: The silly amount of money flying around in the nfls
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: we've talked about. These teams have so much money to
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: spend because of the TV. They don't know what to
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: do with it. They're like a Mexican drug lord bearing
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: money in the backyard or the front yard because I
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: don't know. I got so much money. I don't know
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: what to do with this. It's my goodness. So the
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: main reason Gibbs should be happy about this is inflation,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: the putin price hike for running backs in the NFL,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: and as a result, as a result of what happened
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: with the Falcons, Gibbs is in really really good shape,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: really really really good shape right now. And so but
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Jehan Robinson just passed him the golden baton of the
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Great Relay Race of Cash in the NFL, handing over
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: a rather clear blueprint and said, all right, the next
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: man up, Well, this is what he got, so I
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: get more. You get fifty one million guaranteed thirty seven
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: million dollars signing bonus. So okay, I'll give you fifty
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: five million. Okay done, uh, thirty seven million dollars signing
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: most how about forty million? Okay, check that box. Boom
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: boom boom boom boom boom boom boom, as Real Talk
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: used to say, just like that, just like that. So naturally,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: of course Gibbs is doing what all these guys do.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: He's doing a contract hold in, which has to be
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: really cool. Now, I've worked at Fox Sports Radio for
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: many years and we've had some editors that have done
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: hold ins where you show up, you smile, you have
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: a snack, and get paid for it. It's like a
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: nice vacation. We've had a lot of people here that
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: have done that over the years at Fox Sports Radio.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: So I know people that do that, they're normally not rewarded,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: like NFL players that do it. So Gibbs showing up
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: and saying, all right, I'll smile and I'll go eat
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: some snacks about I'm not practicing, and the next deal,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: which he's about to sign here in the coming days,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: I would say, before the start of the regular season,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: unless something really unforeseen happens, is going to make But
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: John Robinson's deal with the Falcons seem like a book
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: of couponts, a nice book of coupons, and don't you
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: just love this is something always blows me away this
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: time of the year. The NFL media working as Santa's
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: helpers at the North Pole, desperately trying to get these
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: players these new contracts. Where is the media to try
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: to get radio people new contracts? Like why is it
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: football players? You know football players only play a few
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: months of the year. Radio is every day, no seasonal
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: off time, it's every single day, three hundred and sixty
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: five days a year.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: We have no locks on our door. We have no
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: locks on our door.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: We're always open, right, but this store is always open,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: the lights are always on. So where are the people
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: advocating for the radio people to get paid more money?
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Where are they? I see all these think pieces and
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: all this nonsense that this guy needs to get paid.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: It's not right. And I know they teach that at
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: sports writing clown college. They teach you, Okay, this is
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: like that George Lombard story in baseball. That's a great
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: one because you got the mom and dad angle, the
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: family angle. The money thing's also great, Like, oh, these
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: guys should all be paid and everyone needs to get
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: paid and it's not right. It's, as we said, unfair, unjust,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: and unacceptable that many of the football writers and the
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: media establishment are like with this guy doesn't get paid.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: That's all those things. And I'm like, okay, they're not
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: going to the soup kitchen.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: I think they'll be okay. And yeah, I'd love for
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: everyone to get paid.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: It'd be great. I'm not gonna sit here and bang
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: the table because some running back for the Lions is
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: not getting paid enough money yet to appease some sports
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: writer making fifty thousand dollars a year. I'm just not
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: into that.
• 36:00
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• 36:07
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• 36:11
  Speaker 3: All right, here we go, question Cooke, what do we
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: got here?
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Because it gets crail.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: The Browns coach Tod Monkin told reporters on Money that
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: Dylan Gabriel has been earning more reps on the practice field.
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: Do you think there's any chance he steals the starting
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: job away from Shadora Watson?
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: No, I know not.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: At the beginning of the year, It'll be either Watson
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: or Shader Sanders and Dylan Gabriel get a lot of
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: reps though in the preseason.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: Coop a lot of reps in the preseason for him.
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: Next, a recent report says that Klay Thompson would love
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: to return to la where he spent part of his childhood, Ben,
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: do you think Clay ends up on the Clippers or Lakers?
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: I hope he ends up on your Lakers. I think
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: he'd be a perfect Laker.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: I think he likes I think Clay, this version of
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Klay Thompson, who can't play anymore, perfect Laker. His dad's
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: a broadcaster for the team. You know, it's just set up.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: It's a Hollywood ending there for for Klay Thompson.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: You can get live on a boat, Live on a boat.
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: Next, Pete crow Armstrong admitted this week that he likes
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: a conspiracy theory that Babe Ruth never actually existed, Ben,
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: do you have a favorite sports conspiracy?
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Well, technically, if you weren't alive and saw someone in
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: person while they were alive, they didn't exist in your world, right,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: So yeah, my favorite is the cal Ripken game where
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: the lights went out because he got into a fight
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: with Kevin Kostner.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: And then called into Fox Sports Radio years later. I
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: believe that to be true.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: So that's what how we do?
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: How do we know who passes?
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: It is?
• 37:36
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  Speaker 1: Ben?
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: No comment, no comment, no comment?
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Yes, any opening foughts here, Lorena, this is your segment here.
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: I was going to talk about Toby because you know,
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: when love locks you out, sometimes you got to open
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: a window.
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: I'm so happy for him.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Didn't they make a movie How to Lose a Man
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: in a couple of days?
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Lock him out of your house. That's it.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: In the winter in Minnesota, lock him out of the house.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: He'll be gone, ladies. That's it. Yeah all right. Peter
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: writes in says, uh, he's very depressed because the Queen
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: of Hearts never checks the direct.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: Messages on Instagram, he guess.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: He says, I'm disappointed, just like every year being a
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Cowboy fan.
• 39:07
  Speaker 7: So that's yeah, I'm sorry, And sometimes I read your
• 39:11
  Speaker 7: messages and I just don't accept them, so.
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: You don't see that I've read them. Oh wow, there's
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: a lot going on in my inbox, so.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: I'm sure there is.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Just you know, I got you a fer Dog, thank
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: you for the love. I'm very bad about that too.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: I don't check it very often.
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: It would be my whole day responding.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: We're very popular, Ferg Dog says, Why aren't more women
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: into backgammon? This is a big issue, Lorena. I mean,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: we need women to be in the backgam and I'm
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: a big backgammon guy. Ferg Doog says, and I'm having
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: a hard time finding a girl who enjoys my hobby.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: What is backgammon?
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Well, it's it's a game that old people used to
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: play when I was a kid, and now that's a
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: long time ago.
• 39:49
  Speaker 7: So no, you should like try playing Uno. Cards are fun?
• 39:51
  Speaker 7: People like playing Uno?
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Are there like Uno groupies that you could get frosh
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: What if they did Uno speed dating?
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: Wow, that'd be whatever.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Who know?
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: Card you get like the number that's who you have
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: to talk to.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: We should we should start there.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: We should do that.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: That's a great idea for mensade unless it's not.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Doc Dan in Minnesota writes, and he says, Queen of Hearts,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: the traditional gift for a first wedding anniversary gift is paper.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Any ideas I was thinking of a certificate with a
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: spaw package.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: Ooh, that's a really good paper idea. You could also
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: fill her whole room with origami. I think that would
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: be really fun.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Oh that until yeah, it gets wet, and then it's
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: it's over. James in Tacoma's on the phone for you.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Lavin's the Queen of Hearts.
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: You love a phone call?
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Hello, James.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Hi, So my wife doesn't care about artificial intelligence.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Well, she's worried to what I have artificial sweeters in
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: my body? And recently I told her something very truthful
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: that is, like, grape juice.
• 40:53
  Speaker 7: Is cars in my poop to turn green?
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it might be we have grape juice.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't want you to have grape juice either. How
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: disgusting is that? But also why is she looking at it?
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: Flush that down the toilet?
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Guy?
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: That's a good point, you know, like why are you
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: telling her this.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Is not the observation deck at the skyscraper?
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: Are you trying to kill your romance faster? What are
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: you doing?
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Do you take pictures of it? James?
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: Send it to her while you're on the toilet. Babe,
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: look at this one.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: Look at my Instagram reel. It's me pooping. Great there
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: wonder No, no.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: I need I have lin kool aid and nothing happens
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: but that grape juice. Wow? Well, thank you? Yes all right?
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Will T writes in he says, what can men do
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: now in advance of their ladies to apologize for prioritizing
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: the super Bowl in twenty twenty seven over Valentine's Day?
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: The super Bowl is on Valentine's Day.
• 41:43
  Speaker 7: No, this is actually a really good opportunity for you
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: to get creative involved love into Valentine's Day.
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, like the Valentine's Day into football.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: JT the Wingman writes in it from Tennessee. He says,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: what is the best board game to play with your
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: partner to set the mood?
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: I like Battleship.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: That's the wrong answer. Oh it's got to be Twister.
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: Oh come on, now, I would be naked, though you'd
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: have to do naked.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: You have to do naked.
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: You don't have to be naked if you're gonna play
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: pastor be naked?
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Yes you do. I'm not not doing that.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: I'm not attention everyone.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: And password is password, you idiot? Password the word Game
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: of the Stars. Here's Ben Meler, and away we go
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: password Thomas. Welcome. In are contestants, and we have here,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: let's see any meaning miney moe. Oh, we have some
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: legends lined up here. Who are we gonna go with?
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: We have let's see here. We've got Peter in Ottawa
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: is gonna be one of our guys. Hello, Peter, welcome, Yes, Beddy,
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: how you doing, buddy? Good to have you, Peter, like
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: you got good to go with Loreina.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: We're gonna regain our titles from two weeks. Yeah, let's go.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: Okay, even though I don't think you're doing I don't
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: think I don't think you do, sir, I don't think
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: you've Let's see. Uh boy, all right, I guess I
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: got to pick. Let's go eating meaning mindy. Let's go
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: to a Mark on the north end. Hello Marky, Mark welcome.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Be good to have you, Mark. Who do you want
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: to partner up with you on past? We're in it
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: to win it very good past word time. We have
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: a list of words. It's a big board.
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: What number you want, Peter?
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Number one?
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: I like this word? Yeah?
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: Why do you like it?
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: I don't know, because you want a lot of your friends? Sorry, up,
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: say may be reliable.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: Friend? Wow?
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: Wow, that is tremendously bad.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Let's go, Mark.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: Let's go with consistent.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: Same No what no.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: To say?
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: Uh, let's do it supportive, helpful?
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Wow? All right?
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: How about study s t E A d y study.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Don't kiddy, it's not that hard. Nothing, all right? The
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: word was dependent? Okay, all right, Mark, neither one of
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: your dependable Mark, please pick a number two to ten.
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: Mark, in honor of Lorena, I'm gonna go number Oh
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: that was beautiful.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: All right, all right, let's go with blah blah blah
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: blah blah blah. How about uh doubtful, doubtful, d O
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: U B T f U L doubtful, skeptical ten points.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: We got the lead and we will not concede, as
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: the crossing guard used to say when he called the show.
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: All right, Peter, another number.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Number three is to tie the game. Do not choke,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Do not choke, do not choke.
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: Specifics hm, hurry up.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: Right, No, what he must be speaking you gotta speak Ottaway.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: You you know, speak Canadian English? Specific? All right? Mark?
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: How about particulars?
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: Certain we're out of time?
• 45:44
  Speaker 7: Details details, We won.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: You should have picked me, Peter, You should have picked me.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Mark wins