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Hour 1 - The Matchup Is Set · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Playball.
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  Speaker 2: It's our number one, and we are now set up
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  Speaker 2: for the championship game of the Baseball World Classic. It'll
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  Speaker 2: be Venezuela versus the USA, and that it'll be coming
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  Speaker 2: up here on Tuesday night. And here in our number one.
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  Speaker 2: Holy cow, we react to Aaron Judge l Capitan of
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  Speaker 2: the Yankees. What did Aaron Judge accomplish by saying that
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  Speaker 2: the World Baseball Classic feels.
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  Speaker 1: Bigger and better than the World Series?
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  Speaker 2: Also, One Soto, the highest paid player in baseball for
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  Speaker 2: the Metropolitan says the Dominican Republic team he played for
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  Speaker 2: showed who's got the best team in baseball?
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  Speaker 2: That's the radio show. It's our number one. The matchup
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  Speaker 2: is now set, one game left until they play one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two other games and.
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  Speaker 2: that we begin this edition as we slide into a Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: still late Monday in the West, and our lead from
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  Speaker 2: the World Baseball Classic. It was on FS one right
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  Speaker 2: there in Miami, and the winner of the game on
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  Speaker 2: Monday night getting a date with USSE USA. No, I
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  Speaker 2: check this out's watch it. I was watching so Rodal
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  Speaker 2: Lacuna Junior Braves, mikel Garcia and Luisa rs So.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's with the giants now.
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  Speaker 2: They all had run, scoring two out singles in a
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  Speaker 2: seventh inning rally to sparkle for.
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  Speaker 1: The team for Venezuela. They went four to two in
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  Speaker 1: the game on Monday night. You come back and.
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  Speaker 2: Vault past the team representing Italy, even though all the
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  Speaker 2: players are from here.
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  Speaker 1: But they beat Italy.
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  Speaker 2: And now that sets up the matchup with the United
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  Speaker 2: States on Tuesday night, and the dancing will end and
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  Speaker 2: then it'll be on at Duardo Rodriguez going to start
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  Speaker 2: for the team representing Venezuela and the Americans going with
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  Speaker 2: the New York Mets. Alleged prodigy Nolan MacLean will get
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  Speaker 2: the start for the USA, and hopefully he doesn't write
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  Speaker 2: the vomit comet in this game we will find out
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  Speaker 2: to listen, there's not a lot of buy in. These
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  Speaker 2: guys are all delicate little flowers and they all must
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  Speaker 2: be protected. We must protect our pictures at all costs.
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  Speaker 2: And so this is what you get, right. You're upselling
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  Speaker 2: this as a world series. You're upselling this is a
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  Speaker 2: big deal and everyone's wrapped in bubble wrap. So do
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  Speaker 2: what you want with that. That's the reality now. In
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  Speaker 2: the lead up to this matchup, the captain made some
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  Speaker 2: headlines and I wanted to talk about this because I
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  Speaker 2: thought this was interesting going into what is going to
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  Speaker 2: be a racus supposed environment in Miami because they don't
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  Speaker 2: get racis there when the Marlins played, because why would you?
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  Speaker 2: But in this they're going crazy. So Aaron Judge, these
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  Speaker 2: comments still have legs here this week, the Yankees captain
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Judge on the environment of the World Baseball Classic,
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  Speaker 2: what it's like playing these games. He laid it on
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  Speaker 2: extra thick. This not smooth peanut butter. This is extra
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  Speaker 2: crunchy peanut butter. And he laid it on Thick talking
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  Speaker 2: about how he feels like a kid again playing in
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  Speaker 2: the World Baseball Classic, and it's a standard boiler plate
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  Speaker 2: cliche quote. Then he gave the money quote. Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 2: giving the money quote here talking about all this, he
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  Speaker 2: said he believes the World Baseball Classic feels bigger and
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  Speaker 2: better than the World Series because of the passion of
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  Speaker 2: the fans. The environment is better than the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
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  Speaker 2: discuss I've been lucky enough. I've been to a few
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  Speaker 2: World Series over the years, and attend to that, I've
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  Speaker 2: not been to the World Baseball Classic.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have any interest in going to the World
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  Speaker 1: Baseball Classic.
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  Speaker 2: But I have been to the World Series multiple times
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  Speaker 2: in different periods of my life, and I always found
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  Speaker 2: it to be really cool. Always found it to be
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  Speaker 2: really cool. Aaron Judge thinks this is better than the
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  Speaker 2: World Series. So as we jump off on that, let's
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  Speaker 2: discuss the question what did Aaron Judge accomplish The Yankees
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  Speaker 2: captain Aaron Judge accomplished by saying the World Baseball Classic
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  Speaker 2: feels bigger and better than the World Series. Talking about
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  Speaker 2: the environment of the World Baseball Classic. So my thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on this, I've got Applebee's, and I've got canoe and Lumberyard,
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  Speaker 2: and we will combine all of these things together, and
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  Speaker 2: we are going to put the biscuit in the basket,
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  Speaker 2: is what we're going to do, all right. So, a
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  Speaker 2: this smells to me like insecurity. That's what it smells
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  Speaker 2: like to me insecurity. This is the guy that batted
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  Speaker 2: to twenty two to twenty two in his only World
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  Speaker 2: Series appearance for the Yankees back in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: His Kodak moment, Aaron Judge in the World Series on
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  Speaker 2: the biggest stage of them all, was butchering a ball
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  Speaker 2: in the fifth inning that helped push the Dodgers to
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  Speaker 2: what would become the championship that day because of his
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  Speaker 2: encomp did he and Garrett Cole's absolute and compnence in competence,
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  Speaker 2: Volpi also gets winking.
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  Speaker 1: A nod on that.
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  Speaker 2: So now now Aaron Judge is going Luke Skywalker trying
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  Speaker 2: to use a Jedi mind trick here on everyone, and
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  Speaker 2: he's like, let's forget about that, because this is a
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  Speaker 2: bigger deal.
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  Speaker 1: This is a bigger deal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's rebranding Aaron Judge rebranding failure, and hey, don't
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  Speaker 2: look at my baseball reference page. Do not look at
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  Speaker 2: what I did in the World Series. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: it's March. I'm mister March. Now the Yankees used to
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  Speaker 2: haven't really cared about winning. George steinbern he's dead. The
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  Speaker 2: kids don't really care that much. They make a lot
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  Speaker 2: of money. It's old family money. George Steinbrenner famously nicknamed
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  Speaker 2: Dave Winfield mister May because he would always get it
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  Speaker 2: done early in the year and then when the playoffs
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  Speaker 2: came around not so much. And not that they made
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs all that often in those years there was
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  Speaker 2: no wild card teams, but he wouldn't get it done
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  Speaker 2: down the stretch.
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  Speaker 1: That was the point. So now you got Aaron Judge.
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  Speaker 2: If the Yankees don't win anytime soon, and where we're
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  Speaker 2: going right now, where we're looking here at the possibility
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  Speaker 2: of the USA team beating Venezuela, and so then you
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  Speaker 2: got Aaron Judge. Will he become mister March? Does that
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  Speaker 2: become his nickname here? It's not like he's played all
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  Speaker 2: that well. He's in two sixty in the World Baseball
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  Speaker 2: Classic and all that, but in terms of the wide
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  Speaker 2: angle wins. Aaron Judge able to hit the daily double,
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  Speaker 2: the daily double, the daily double because he not only
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  Speaker 2: pissed off the Yankee fan but also the Dodger fans
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  Speaker 2: because he played World Series games at Dodger Stadium and
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  Speaker 2: Yankee Stadium in that twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Four World Series.
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  Speaker 2: So he got the two for one special congratulations on that.
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  Speaker 2: That's impressive, and Yankee Stadium it looked like it was rocking.
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  Speaker 2: The Yankees didn't give a lot for the fans to
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  Speaker 2: cheer about in that World Series. And here's Aaron Judge like,
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  Speaker 2: oh no, this is better, this is a better deal. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: all right, I'll read the room. The twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic. Has it been better than I thought?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I had very low expectations with the World Baseball Classic.
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  Speaker 2: It's been better than I thought. However, it's still called
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  Speaker 2: what it is here. It's an artificially crafted, made for
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  Speaker 2: TV extravaganza because baseball got kicked out of the Olympics.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't not cool enough for the Olympics, and so
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  Speaker 2: they got booted out. So they cooked this thing up
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  Speaker 2: and say all right, well, screwed you. We don't need
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  Speaker 2: the Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: We'll just do this.
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  Speaker 2: And it took about twenty years and now this thing's
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  Speaker 2: starting to click and okay, fine, good for them. That's
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  Speaker 2: where we are. And it's like, well, we can sell
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  Speaker 2: some games to Netflix and all that and they'll buy it,
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  Speaker 2: and why not. And you know, the World Baseball Classic
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  Speaker 2: think of it like an appetizer. You go to Applebee's,
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  Speaker 2: you get the sampler, you get the onion rings on there,
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  Speaker 2: you get the cheese sticks on there at Applebee's and
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  Speaker 2: then but the World World Series, that's like steak and potatoes, right,
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  Speaker 2: that's the steak and potatoes and all that. And Judge
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  Speaker 2: sounds like a guy to me. It sounds like he's
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  Speaker 2: trying to convince himself. He's like, listen, this is where
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  Speaker 2: it's at. I'm gonna do it. And this is damage control. Loud, clumsy,
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  Speaker 2: a little bit desperate. That's what it sounds like to me.
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  Speaker 2: You better not f this up, though, you better not.
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  Speaker 2: See it's you're damned if you do, and you're damned
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  Speaker 2: if you don't. Because if the USA team wins an
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Judge, I say it's a big home run or
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  Speaker 2: something like that. That's great, but ultimately you get it
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  Speaker 2: with the Yankees. That's more important for Aaron Judge than
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  Speaker 2: this whatever this thing is. Even if you think it's
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  Speaker 2: a big deal that winning a championship with the Yanks,
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  Speaker 2: everyone wins other than Don Mattingly, everyone wins with the Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: It's that you got to go back one hundred years
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  Speaker 2: for someone to play as long as Aaron Judges played
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  Speaker 2: for the Yankees and not get it done.
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  Speaker 1: But that's where Judge is, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, continuing the theme from the World Baseball Classic, here
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  Speaker 2: the post mortem on Team USA, who will now play Venezuela,
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  Speaker 2: Oh for the championship thing.
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  Speaker 1: Think of a jig, I guess they have a trophy?
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  Speaker 1: Do they have a trophy?
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  Speaker 2: Assume they have. Everyone's got a trophy, right, Just go
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  Speaker 2: down and buy a trophy. It's like a pawn shop.
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  Speaker 2: Here's your trophy. So anyway, the USA beat the Domitic Republic,
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  Speaker 2: a rather futile, pathetic effort by the.
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  Speaker 1: Team from the Dominican Republic.
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  Speaker 2: But the good thing is the final call of the
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  Speaker 2: game was a ball that was outside of the strike zone,
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  Speaker 2: so they can die on the mountain.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we would have gotten that call we would have won.
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  Speaker 2: Just dismissed the fact they scored one effing run in
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  Speaker 2: the game. Just dismiss that because the umpire blew the call.
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  Speaker 2: That would have changed everything, My fat ass, that would
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  Speaker 2: have changed everything. Well, the mother quote and this was
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  Speaker 2: the mother of ball quotes from Juan Soto, baseball's highest
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  Speaker 2: paid player from the New York Metropolitans. Juan Soto gave
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  Speaker 2: the quote for the Ages. After losing with the Dominican Republic,
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  Speaker 2: he gave a quote which still has legs here. He said, quote,
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  Speaker 2: we showed the world. Juan Soto said, who's the best
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  Speaker 2: team in baseball? That's all I got to say. Close
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  Speaker 2: quote so good.
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  Speaker 1: God, I help this guy plays forever. He's so stupid.
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  Speaker 1: It's wonderful. He soap tooths. God loved Wan Soda. What
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  Speaker 1: a moron?
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, question, Juan Soto says, the Dominican Republic showed who's
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  Speaker 2: got the best team in baseball? How are you reading this? Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's wonderful. I love the Hubris. I'm a big fan.
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  Speaker 2: As a talk show host of Juan Soto, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's great and it's just perfect. Think about my friends
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  Speaker 2: who are Mets fans. They thought they got the greatest
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  Speaker 2: owner of all time. I had the hedge, fun guy
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  Speaker 2: fanboy of the Mets, and he hasn't proven to be
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  Speaker 2: all that good, all right, And now they got the
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  Speaker 2: biggest free agent signing, Juan Soto, and this is his
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  Speaker 2: mindset as so bad. Oh it's great. So this is
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  Speaker 2: like getting knocked out in the first round. The analogy
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  Speaker 2: for me would be like getting knocked out in the
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  Speaker 2: first round back when boxing mattered.
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  Speaker 1: A heavyweight fight.
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  Speaker 2: You're getting knocked out and he's like, well, listen, I
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  Speaker 2: am actually the heavyweight chamber.
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  Speaker 1: But we know you lost in the first round. You
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  Speaker 1: got knocked out. You got But no, I'm the heavyweight chain.
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  Speaker 1: Why are you the heavyweight champion.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm the heavyweight champion because I looked down standing.
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  Speaker 1: In my robe when I made my walk to the ring.
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  Speaker 2: My ring walk was great, my posse with me, I
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  Speaker 2: had good music. I was dancing, I was shaking my touche.
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  Speaker 2: It was wonderful. I'm the heavyweight champion. But you got
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  Speaker 2: knocked out.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't matter? Does it matter? You look good?
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  Speaker 2: So one, So apparently he's paddling his own canoe down
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  Speaker 2: the river of delusion. It's a nice river. It's a
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  Speaker 2: nice river. So the final score, which I think they
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  Speaker 2: still use that as a measuring stick, who won the game,
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  Speaker 2: and so it goes to the USA. There the whole story,
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  Speaker 2: and it's possible Wan Soto is a fan of this
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  Speaker 2: show and he's using the term best to mean as
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  Speaker 2: good as all the rest, which is the legal definition
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  Speaker 2: of the term best. It just means you're as good
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  Speaker 2: as everything else in that category. That is possible. The
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  Speaker 2: Dominican Republic, though, that big bad lineup with all those boppers, only,
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  Speaker 2: as we said the other night, they turned into floppers
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  Speaker 2: in this game. Won Soto himself zero for four, hit
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  Speaker 2: into a big double play in the middle dings of
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  Speaker 2: that game, also butchered a ball in the outfield. And
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  Speaker 2: it does also sound very Canadian. I recall when the
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  Speaker 2: Olympic hockey team, I went back to my notes after
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  Speaker 2: the Olympic hockey team from the USA beat the Canadians,
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  Speaker 2: it was Nathan McKinnon, I believe, who said were the
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  Speaker 2: better team or something like that, we're the better team
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  Speaker 2: even though they.
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  Speaker 1: Lost and all that.
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  Speaker 2: So well, that's usually not the way that it works.
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  Speaker 2: Usually the winner gets to say they're the better team.
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  Speaker 2: And so this whole thing it reminds me of like
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  Speaker 2: an AMC story, a preview of coming attractions for the Mets,
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  Speaker 2: the one Sodo quote, a preview of coming attractions. So
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  Speaker 2: buckle up, buckeroo, buckle up, buckeroo. Seven hundred and whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is, million almost eight hundred million for Juan Soto,
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  Speaker 2: And you got what motivational posters from Fantasy Island is
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  Speaker 2: what you got from Juan Soto here as he's batting
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  Speaker 2: a thousand in the excuse game, thousand issues game, and
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  Speaker 2: so this appears to be how he's hardwired, and good luck.
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  Speaker 2: This is not going to end well for the Mets.
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  Speaker 2: It does not appear all right. Meanwhile, the last word
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  Speaker 2: here quite the story, a humdinger of a story.
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  Speaker 1: For about five good minutes, we had quite.
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  Speaker 2: The story here from Baseball The Athletic, where you have
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  Speaker 2: to pay extra to get the Athletics behind a paywall.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine charging extra on a paywall? Who's paying
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  Speaker 2: for that? Well, somebody apparently is. I guess they're in business.
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  Speaker 2: They were purchased by the New York Times, and so
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  Speaker 2: the Athletic a reporter for the athletic erroneously identified Dodgers
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  Speaker 2: infielder Miguel Rojas as a steroid cheat, claimed that he
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  Speaker 2: got suspending for eighty games.
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  Speaker 1: This thing went.
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  Speaker 2: Immediately all over the pinball machine, bouncing around the echo chamber.
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  Speaker 2: And oh, did you hear what happened to Rojas, the
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  Speaker 2: guy that hit the home run in Game seven?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? My god, he tied it, that's all. Can't believe it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, it turned out that there was a Rojas
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  Speaker 2: who was suspended by Major League Baseball for a banned substance. However,
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  Speaker 2: the reporter got it wrong. It was not Miguel Rojas
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  Speaker 2: or the Dodgers. It was the Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Johann Rojas.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: As he is, oops yeah, oops of Daisy, Oops of Daisy.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: That's the correct player. So the question here the Dodgers
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: World Series hero Miguel Rojas wrongly identified as a ped cheat.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Your thoughts on how that all played out? So, I
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: think this is an interesting test of the not the
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: emergency broadcast system, just an interesting test of the reaction.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: And man, did the digital piranhas have a feast. It
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: was a hit and run situation for the Ages with
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers, Miguel Rojas here for five glorious minutes. For
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: five glorious minutes, the internet mobs celebrated.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: It was orgasmic, It was unreal.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: This was it all the people that have long despised
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers, and it was mistaken identity, the wrong Rojas.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: You got the wrong Rojas, evandrelic bad job by you,
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: who goofed. I've got to know. It was a feeding frenzy.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: To me, that's the most interesting part. It was a
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: feeding frenzy. The bots came out the party. They came
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: out like would work, Like the termites there and the younger,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: the termites attacking the wood in a in a lumber yard.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: It was just it was eating it up and it
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: couldn't get enough of it, screaming void ring, void d ring,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Toronto's your real champion, the Blue Jays or the chump
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Bins of the world.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: And all that.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: It's like a coordinated digital mob the algorithm dogpile on
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas. And how much of that was real? Who's
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: coordinating all this?
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Was this the bot farm in Maldova
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: that was activated? Who activates it? Now?
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: I do know that at least in the interworld interweb,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: world world wide Web. There the DDS is alive and
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: well Dodger derangement syndrome, and it is antibiotic resistant. There
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: is no cure. There is no cure. Michel Rojas taking
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: some major shrapnel. Major shrapnel here as the drive by
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: error from the reporter, and it's a classic case of
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: mistaken identity in the golden age of post it and
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: don't double check it, don't think about it, just post that.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: The Blue Crew haters society. They didn't want the truth.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: You can't handle the truth. They wanted a scalp, so
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: that's what they went for. It is the Ban Malor Show.
• 20:13
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• 20:27
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• 20:30
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• 20:31
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• 20:36
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• 21:27
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• 23:20
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• 23:23
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• 23:24
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• 23:27
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• 23:39
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• 23:43
  Speaker 2: says Aaron Judge. Pumping up the World Baseball Classic title
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: game is just following what John Sterling has always preached.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: You gotta sell the soap screat line by mister Sterling
• 23:53
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• 23:57
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• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Yankee broadcast with about thirty five minutes of commercials, so
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: that's how that went. King Roy says, about two months ago,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: the US liberated Venezuela, and now these two countries play
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: each other in the World Baseball Classic. Coincidence. I think,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: not here we go, here's the deep State, here we go.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: It's all rigged. Unfortunately for Venezuela, they will lose to
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: the greatest country in the world. So he's calling shot
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: King Royce's United States of America win the World Baseball Classic,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: and Roy's wrapping himself from the flag right now. Ferg
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Dog writes and says, Juan Soto's not completely wrong. Sometimes
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: the better team doesn't win. Somebody can convince me that
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: these Seahawks were the best team in the NFL last season,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: not Nostradinas, not the Twelves, or said, nobody can. Nobody
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: can convince me SEAWO was the best team, not the Twelves,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: not Nostra Denas or any other weirdos from Seattle.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: What about JJ and Renton? How about JJ and Renton?
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Shanon Moyes says, legally blind Christopher gets my vote for
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: International Blind Caller of the.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Year next year. We'll worry about that that.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Then nature Boy, answering the call to the Wild, says,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: I wasn't going to watch the World Baseball Classic, but
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: when I saw Altuve and I want to see Venezuela
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: get stopped. So he says, Usa, Usa, Usa, Mark the
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: full name guy who has been diagnosed with Dodger derangement syndrome.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and he he goes on and on about some
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: nonsense and yeah, Mark I don't know what's going on
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: with you, he says, I'm trying to get to sleep.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: I got an appointment in the morning or whatever. I'm
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: going there, you go, I'm counting on your bed. He's
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: in Ashland, Oregon.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Beautiful as there.
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: That's where they have the Shakespeare Festival. Yeah, everyone's naked.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Oh that's why Mark lives there, because he marks a
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: newdist Mark. The po really do have.
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: A really strong newdist community.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well that's what Mark, the full name guy. Nobody
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: wants to see him naked, but he's there and he's
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: doing this thing, and.
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: So here if you want to see yeah, exactly.
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• 26:23
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  Speaker 8: Wait, wait, are you telling me we have SpongeBob and Elmo.
• 26:34
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  Speaker 1: We go. Let's go to the Pacific Northwest. We go
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  Speaker 1: to Portland. Oregon, and we say.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Hello to super John who's in Portland. Hello, super John, welcome, Thank.
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: You, mister Boller. And uh, I was wondering about the Bennies.
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: Is there a list? Is there a complete list of
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: winners somewhere I.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Can Well, it's very hard to get that information, but
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: now I will send that out.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Were you listening did you hear the Bennies? You were
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: able to listen? Yeah?
• 28:17
  Speaker 9: It was great?
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, you enjoyed that? Yeah, you know.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: I'll put that up at some point on social media
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: and we'll have the post game show. I have all
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: the winners there from the first fer Dog who won
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: all the way up. Did you hear John who won
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: the Caller of the Year, the Genie and Medford Caller
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: of the Year award?
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm all for it.
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: That was great.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Who won? Do you remember who won? Do you remember
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: who won the Call of the Year?
• 28:43
  Speaker 9: The caller from Oregon?
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: No, definitely not.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: You're wrong, you just if you were, really, you're not
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: even close like you're you're not You're not in the
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: right you're not not.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: In the right time zone, You're not in the right
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: part of the country.
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: Don't hate me.
• 29:06
  Speaker 9: Please put that list all.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Right, all right, just admit I just said, you know
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: we caught you. You just say I didn't. That wasn't listening.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: That's fine. Shame that happened. Shame, all right, thank you,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: super John. When that happens.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Of course, to be fair, the person that won the
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Benny Award does not know they wont does Let's.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Find out, right, weed Man, do you know who won
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: the Caller of the Year?
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: We Man?
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Who do you think was? Who do you think was
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: voted the Caller of the Year? Weed Man? Hippy?
• 29:35
  Speaker 9: I no idea?
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: All right, so who do you who? Do you think
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: this is? This?
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: This would be a good litle exercise. So who do
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: you think weed Man was the most deserving as the
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Caller of the Year as voted by hundreds and hundreds
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: of people that took time out to vote for this
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: thing that Benny Wan?
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Who do you think it is? I'm curious.
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: I really don't know.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I have no I think you know. I think you lie.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: I think you know. I think you know.
• 30:09
  Speaker 9: I should get it. No, no, no, no, no, I.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Should get it.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: You think you should get Now why should you get it?
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Because you you you you are part of the show.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: But you don't. You're not a listener. You'd admit you're
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: not a listener, right, you'd admit that.
• 30:25
  Speaker 9: No, I need to get no, but you're not.
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: I mean, okay, so I don't listen, but i'm here.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you're not.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Of course, of course, no, you don't. You listen two
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: segments a week when you're on the jokes and you're
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: on your segment where you give advice.
• 30:41
  Speaker 9: And that's definitely not true.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not true.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: All right, So if I if I asked you some
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: questions about the show, how many would you get?
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Anything?
• 30:54
  Speaker 9: I can't remember?
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: You can't. You've smoked so much weed you can't remember anything.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying that over here? Yeah? All right,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: all right, well wait till next hour.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: We man, we'll tell you who won the Benny Award
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: for the Call of the Year next hour.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: A legally blind Christopher is on the international line, although
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: I believe he's in North Carolina, so he's not on
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: the international line. He's taking care of some business before
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: he moves back to London. Hello, legally blind Christopher.
• 31:29
  Speaker 9: Good morning, mister Mallard. As I'm enjoying my earl grade God,
• 31:33
  Speaker 9: this sucks. Anyhow, My point is, I'm so honored that
• 31:36
  Speaker 9: John Boy won the appropriate title for International Caller of
• 31:40
  Speaker 9: the Year. But my question to you is this, mister Mallard,
• 31:43
  Speaker 9: since I am not able to enjoy the college basketball
• 31:46
  Speaker 9: tournament or baseball tournament, I'm stuck watching the Wold baseball
• 31:51
  Speaker 9: tournament tomorrow, and that is my only chance of enjoying
• 31:54
  Speaker 9: baseball for the year, because as of the twenty sixth
• 31:56
  Speaker 9: of March, I have to start understanding soccer. God help
• 31:59
  Speaker 9: me so, since the Tigers are not getting a chance
• 32:03
  Speaker 9: to pitch, how in the heck am I going to
• 32:05
  Speaker 9: enjoy anything the rest of this year since my only
• 32:09
  Speaker 9: hope was watching one inning of my best pitcher. Who's
• 32:13
  Speaker 9: going to win tomorrow? Mister mallor, I need to know.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Well, it's Tuesday night and the USA is going to win.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Usay US say, USA.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: They're going to get it done.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: And you can't watch baseball in London, although it's going
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: to be some very odd times late at night, I
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: guess you had to watch the day games, which won't
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: be that late. East Coast day games will be late afternoon.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: That'll be all right for you.
• 32:33
  Speaker 9: Right, Well, yeah, but seen. The beautiful thing is the
• 32:36
  Speaker 9: sun in London doesn't set until nine thirty. Why the
• 32:39
  Speaker 9: hell I want to listen to baseball when I can
• 32:40
  Speaker 9: be outside enjoying what little sun I get in London.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: It's a fair point. It's a fair point to stay outside.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: But part of the year, when it's dark you can,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: I guess you can.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: It's not all year.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: The sun's up till nine thirty, so that part of
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: the year you're good to go. I thought you were
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: in North Carolina. You are you back in London?
• 32:56
  Speaker 9: I am, I'm My house is just about sold my
• 33:00
  Speaker 9: next week and so yes, I'm crapping up everything I
• 33:03
  Speaker 9: can to get back to long Thank you so much
• 33:05
  Speaker 9: for taking my call.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: All right, I congratulated. There you go, enjoy your trip back.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: It's legally blind, Christopher.
• 33:13
  Speaker 8: I'm curious.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: What are you curious?
• 33:15
  Speaker 8: You know, as a relationship kind of queen over here,
• 33:17
  Speaker 8: I'm wondering, after a divorce, if he's willing to be
• 33:21
  Speaker 8: out back in the market dating again, or if he
• 33:23
  Speaker 8: wants to take his time to himself.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Well, I hung up on him, so we can't ask.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: We don't call back. If he wants he.
• 33:29
  Speaker 8: Can love segment tomorrow one thirty in the morning.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Well four thirty in the morning actually Eastern Standard time
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: via four to thirty Eastern and in London though it's
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: morning drive, so there's someone and it's early in the morning.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: People are awake, they're out doing stuff. So Bam out
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: of Bio, Bam, Bam, Bam out of Bio goes for
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: eighty three points last week. This created quite the the bluster,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: a lot of bluster for Bam out of Bio, the
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: eighty three point game. What are you doing and all
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: that stuff, and a bunch of people initially came out
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: trash Bam out of Baio. Then we had that famous
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: quote from Eric Spolstra, I apologize to absolutely no one
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: and all that, and now.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: The latest a little late to the party. But Gordon Hayward,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: who was.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: An All Star at one point actually averaged twenty plus
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: points a game and all that, and he claims now
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: that the Bam Adebaio eighty three point game is not
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: great for the league. It's not great, and he said,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: no disrespect to Bam. I think Bam is one of
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  Speaker 2: the best two way players in the league at his position.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what that means everything He just said,
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  Speaker 1: is a lie lie.
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  Speaker 2: Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie lie Lie. He's had
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  Speaker 2: the word, but he lied and he said, anyway, he's
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  Speaker 2: not a scorer, right, So for him to break Kobe's record,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's great for the league. I think
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  Speaker 2: it highlights how they're already struggling with how it kind
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  Speaker 2: of feels like a pickup game when you're watching, and
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  Speaker 2: for him to shoot forty three foul shots is not
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  Speaker 2: you think, he says, makes it feel not legit. So
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  Speaker 2: there's the commentary there also we had in I generally agree,
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  Speaker 2: and then the thing was just ridiculous. People upset with
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  Speaker 2: me because I put that out. Like, I guess I'm
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be a cheerleader. If the NBA wants to
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  Speaker 2: pay me a couple hundred thousand dollars a year, I'll
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  Speaker 2: be a cheerleader for the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: But they're not paying me. That wear a cute skirt
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  Speaker 1: and I'll wear.
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  Speaker 2: Lipstick if I have to, I will wear lipstick and
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  Speaker 2: nice wears some perfume.
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  Speaker 1: I would anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Nimmo, who that's the guy that was not friends
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  Speaker 2: with for Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto, so they had
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  Speaker 2: to get rid of Brandon Nimo the Mets because they
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  Speaker 2: only want people that are fanboys of Juan Soto, who
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  Speaker 2: played on the best team in baseball, the Dominican Republic
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  Speaker 2: team that lost to the USA and scored one run. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Neimo's now with the Texas Rangers. He really really
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  Speaker 2: wanted his jersey number. He really really wanted to wear
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  Speaker 2: his number twenty four, and so he made a deal.
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  Speaker 1: What did he do.
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  Speaker 2: He handed over to a teammate, Michael Hellman. I believe,
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  Speaker 2: like the mayonnaise people, handed over a Rolex watch for
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  Speaker 2: the number twenty four jersey. What's the cheapest Rolex watch?
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  Speaker 8: You can get five off the sidewalk, maybe like twenty bucks.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's true. What if you like bought one
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  Speaker 2: legitimate Rolex watch that's five thousand, ten thousand.
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  Speaker 1: Five to six thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but chances are this is more than that, right,
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  Speaker 2: this is baseball money. I've never really been a watch guy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a shoe guy. I'm not a watch guy.
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  Speaker 2: I have friends that are watched guys. I have friends
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  Speaker 2: that are shoe guys. I'm just not that guy. You're
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  Speaker 2: not that guy, pal, you're not that guy. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: that guy. If you're a watch that's a nice item.
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  Speaker 2: course in the NBA regular season. Again, Golden State coach
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  Speaker 2: Steve Kerr has joined me as the only people to
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  Speaker 2: both coach six hundred plus wins and play in six
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  Speaker 2: hundred plus wins in the NBA regular season. Who Who
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  Speaker 1: We have confirmed that the watch very important here.
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  Speaker 2: The Rolex watch that was given to a Texas Ranger
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  Speaker 2: player by Brandon Neimo for a jersey number is worth
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  Speaker 2: twenty five thousand dollars twenty five grand. What is the
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  Speaker 2: retail value once you buy a Rolex? Does it keep
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  Speaker 2: its value or do you use.
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  Speaker 8: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: No, it totally do. I mean, depending on the model,
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  Speaker 1: some might even go up, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So you could sell it right away and get twenty
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  Speaker 2: five grand for it, like or would he go down.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit and you have to wait a little while.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good question, don't. I don't own a Rolls,
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  Speaker 2: although I did get a high end watch from Padd
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  Speaker 2: O'Brien when he worked, had a pob pob man.
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  Speaker 1: He ripped my watch.
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  Speaker 2: I guess well, I'm told we have a play there,
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: So let's go to Boston, the Celtics and the Suns.
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  Speaker 2: It was a barn burner at the garden and Jalen
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  Speaker 2: So Golden State coach Steve Kerr has joined me as
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  Speaker 2: the only people to both coach six hundred plus wins
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  Speaker 2: and play in six hundred plus wins during the NBA
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  Speaker 2: regular season. Who am I? That's the question? Ostrich and
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  Speaker 2: DC going with Bobby Brown as his answer. Ben Ogilvie
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  Speaker 2: goat Man, Curly Neil from Amy and Lionel Lakes.
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  Speaker 2: Celine Dion from Bobby Keelin Pie Bobby and Florida Femi
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  Speaker 8: I'm gonna go with doctor Rivers.
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  Speaker 1: That's Doc River.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor don Nelson is the correct answer, Doctor Rivers. Oh
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  Speaker 2: my god, Doctor River
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  Speaker 1: Not a doctor.