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BlackJack and Lo Duca on Final Four, Sox+Yanks slow starts · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorite. I'm black Jack Lester live from
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  Speaker 1: our remote Lexington, Kentucky studios, which is the bar at
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  Speaker 1: good Fellas is the Distillery District. And joining me today
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  Speaker 1: as always is my best friend, future roommates and uh
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  Speaker 1: possibly platonic life partner, Paul Luduca. Are we doing, PAULI
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  Speaker 1: I'm a little hurt. You're a little hurt. Yeah. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of a lot of pictures without me, and you're
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  Speaker 1: in Lexington taking pictures with horses. You're not anonymous man bourbon,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not in any of them. You sent a picture
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite hoss of all time? Who's oh Jacomo?
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  Speaker 1: I what I sent back to you? You told me
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't make out with that horse? I would tongue
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  Speaker 1: jock mom. He wanted me eat gran Why wouldn't I
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  Speaker 1: kiss a horse? I mean he was a beautiful specimen
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  Speaker 1: um and he did win you an awful lot of money? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: How was he? Uh? Spectacular? How do you like? How
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  Speaker 1: you like it? By the way, I try to tell
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  Speaker 1: people all the time, get your butt to Lexington because
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  Speaker 1: it's way better than you think. And oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: Lexington is the best. One of my favorite places I've
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  Speaker 1: ever been to. I love it here. I may not
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  Speaker 1: come back because you can drink so cheap here um,
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  Speaker 1: and that's one of my highest costs in life. So um,
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  Speaker 1: I may. I may just wind up becoming Alexington native.
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  Speaker 1: And Paul, don't worry, I'll find a spot for you. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's not a problem. What I love about Lexington there's
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  Speaker 1: either sports or horse racing on every single restaurant in Lexington,
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  Speaker 1: so um, there's something to gamble on whatever. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure good fellows right now, although there's no horse racing
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  Speaker 1: on now has got something on and the races will
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  Speaker 1: be up watching Twins Royals right now. There you go, well, Paul,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of Lexington. Obviously, this past Sunday was a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a disappointment for the natives here as the
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  Speaker 1: Wildcats lost to Auburn and the Elite Eight. But we
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  Speaker 1: have the Final Four coming up around the corner on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody around the country, the millions and billions of
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  Speaker 1: listeners to this show, want to know what does Paul
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  Speaker 1: la Duca like in the final four. Let's start with
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  Speaker 1: Virginia and Auburn. Virginia five points favorite total set at
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  Speaker 1: one thirty eight in that game? What do we like? Paulli? Wow,
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  Speaker 1: I still can't get over. I don't know if I'm
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  Speaker 1: ever going to get overbidding Perdue on the money line
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  Speaker 1: and having perdue second half and the whole nine yards.
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  Speaker 1: But was this meant for Virginia, all the agony they've
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  Speaker 1: had in the town as, Now they get to the
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  Speaker 1: final four? Um, and do they get the job done
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  Speaker 1: against an Auburn team that's just on a role, they
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  Speaker 1: lose their best player, they still win. I I am
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  Speaker 1: so torn in this game, black Check. I have my
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  Speaker 1: heart wants to go with Auburn. My brain says Virginia
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  Speaker 1: probably locks him up. Um, you know what, I do
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  Speaker 1: like the numbers pretty high, considering it's close to the
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  Speaker 1: Michigan State game, which I thought would be Michigan State
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  Speaker 1: in Texas, tex So. I really have no opinion if
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  Speaker 1: probably would take the points just because I'm rooting for Auburn,
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  Speaker 1: because I really don't love either side. All right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you, PAULI, I'm going on the other
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  Speaker 1: side here. I'm laying the five with Virginia. I think
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  Speaker 1: this game sets up really nicely for Virginia. Auburn is
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  Speaker 1: a team that likes to push pace. They're one of
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  Speaker 1: the faster teams in the country, but they are solely
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  Speaker 1: depended on shooting. You mentioned the injury to their best player,
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  Speaker 1: and now they're even more dependent on the outside shot.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what Virginia does better than anybody in the country,
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  Speaker 1: is they defend so well that they will suffocate the
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  Speaker 1: life out of you. And people overlook the fact that
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  Speaker 1: Virginia is a top of UH offense in the country
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to efficiency that we score okay last week,
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  Speaker 1: I think this game sets up really nicely for Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: I think this whole Final four sets up nicely for Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: I'll lay the five with Cavaliers. We said it last
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  Speaker 1: week where the difference between Virginia and North Carolina was
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  Speaker 1: what I said it. I said, tread lightly with North
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  Speaker 1: Carolina because they do not defend the three Virginia does,
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  Speaker 1: I get. I get where you're going there. I get
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  Speaker 1: where you're going there. The thing about Auburn, it's there's
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  Speaker 1: such a jackal and high team. They were the whole
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  Speaker 1: year all but they've been just unbelievable. But are they
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  Speaker 1: due for that that twenty or thirty point to go out.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it does happen, But um, Bruce Pearl has got
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  Speaker 1: those kids playing, and one thing I will give Auburn.
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  Speaker 1: He goes seven eight, nine deep, so he's running bodies
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  Speaker 1: at you. But this is going to be a Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good game. But but I still
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  Speaker 1: think that everything sets up nicely for the Cavaliers here. Um. Also,
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a little bit of an emotional bounce back,
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  Speaker 1: Like you know, you have the injury to your star player,
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  Speaker 1: you come out, you rally around him. They bring him
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  Speaker 1: out in the wheelchair in the second half, which, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think it was kind of an underhanded move.
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  Speaker 1: For being honest, Okay, there's no way they could lose
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  Speaker 1: that game bringing a kid out in a wheelchair on
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  Speaker 1: the sidelines. So I think that maybe now though that
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  Speaker 1: you've had a few days, everything sinks in. I think
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  Speaker 1: maybe now there's a little bit of a regression emotionally, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there could be a little bit of a aggression. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And then Virginia with playing on such a high to
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  Speaker 1: escape winning the Purdue game, I mean, got a one
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  Speaker 1: percent chance of covering that game. When he missed the
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  Speaker 1: free throw. Um, what a game that was. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so did Virginia. You know, every national champion, it seems
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  Speaker 1: like they've always had like a tiny little luck or
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  Speaker 1: a little hiccup. We're and they've gotten away with it.
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  Speaker 1: Duke almost got away with it three times. I love
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  Speaker 1: the people that are saying, uh, imagine having Lebron James
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  Speaker 1: and not making it to the final four. They almost
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  Speaker 1: didn't make it to the Sweet six. Team, let's let's
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  Speaker 1: go there. Okay, so um uh so let's give some
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  Speaker 1: other teams credit. But yeah, I don't know what to
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  Speaker 1: do the game. The total I thought was a little high. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but if Auburn hits their shots, yes, I thought it was.
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  Speaker 1: To be honest with But here's the thing is, like
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  Speaker 1: everybody thinks if Auburn hits their shot, Virginia will score.
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  Speaker 1: In Auburn Hubburn does not play great defense. They really don't.
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  Speaker 1: So I think they actually might score some point in
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  Speaker 1: that game, where the other game I think is just
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  Speaker 1: going to be a slugfest. Yeah, I I kind of
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  Speaker 1: agree with you about the other game. And let's get
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  Speaker 1: to that. At this point, Michigan State at two and
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  Speaker 1: a half point favorite over Texas Tech. We've got a total.
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  Speaker 1: They're of a hundred and thirty two and a half.
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  Speaker 1: I love the under. In this game, you're dealing with
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  Speaker 1: two defenses that are top ten and two of the
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  Speaker 1: slowest offenses in the country. Two teams that like to
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  Speaker 1: play in the half court. They don't like to run.
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  Speaker 1: That generally means longer possessions, fewer shots, are less points.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think about Michigan State in Texas Tech.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't agree with you more. I really could not
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  Speaker 1: agree with you more. M Beard has done just an
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  Speaker 1: unreal job with this Texas Tech program. I've never seen
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  Speaker 1: a team dominate a tournament like they've dominated. UM. Defensively,
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  Speaker 1: they get their hands on every single loose ball. UM,
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  Speaker 1: They're so active defensively. But I think the equalizer is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be Cassius Winston. I really do. He has played
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  Speaker 1: so well, so under control black jack. He had one
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  Speaker 1: turnover in last game. He's gonna be key. Obviously, he
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  Speaker 1: keeps possession, he keeps Michigan State from turning the ball over. UM.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go the with the experience of Tom is Oh.
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  Speaker 1: You look at all the four coaches that are there,
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  Speaker 1: Tomzo has been there, and I think that could be very,
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  Speaker 1: very key. But I'm with you. This is what Izo wants.
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  Speaker 1: Iso doesn't want a game, he wants a fifty four game.
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  Speaker 1: This is right, Michigan States Bruiser, Ali Ali, and this
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  Speaker 1: game is going to be a barnburner. It really is,
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  Speaker 1: and it's gonna be I think this is the first
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  Speaker 1: six I would leave Texas. Text myself, I love the job.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Beard is downe there you talking about tom the
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  Speaker 1: all time great, but Chris Beard is an incredible, unreal
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  Speaker 1: job in there, and that team outside of Virginia is
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  Speaker 1: as good as any in the country defensively, I would
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  Speaker 1: leave that way, but I think the Federals wander. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm with you. And here's the other thing, Like, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta give Chris Beards so much credit because here's the deal.
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  Speaker 1: They're number one and adjusted defense. And like when you're
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  Speaker 1: a coach at any level, every kid comes up and goes,
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  Speaker 1: I want to hit, I want to shoot, bask No
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  Speaker 1: one wants to play defense. So when you get your kids,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's not sexy. So when you can get your
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  Speaker 1: kids to buy into the defense, and now they've bought
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  Speaker 1: in and like, listen, it's scary to bet against Texas
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  Speaker 1: Tech right now. It really is the way they're playing.
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  Speaker 1: So you got to give this guy all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: credit because all the final four PAULI. Obviously, baseball season
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  Speaker 1: has started up in the last week. We've got some
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  Speaker 1: storylines that are kind of interesting. I want to get
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  Speaker 1: your take on, first and foremost, what do you think
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  Speaker 1: about the Philadelphia Phillies in the way they've started. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they've gotten off to it's hot to start as anyone
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  Speaker 1: could have imagined. Bryce Harper goes back to d C,
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  Speaker 1: has in himself a hell of a night. It's a
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  Speaker 1: home run, engages with the crowd to bat, flip the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing. Tell me what you think about the Phillies
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  Speaker 1: start better than I than I expected. Maybe not better
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  Speaker 1: than I expected. But you know, I had wrote an
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  Speaker 1: article and I was completely wrong. When I had gotten
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  Speaker 1: traded um to the Dodgers, from the Daughters to the Marlins,
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  Speaker 1: I had to come back to to l A and
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  Speaker 1: you have so many things in your mind. Now this
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  Speaker 1: is completely different. You know, I got traded, he chose
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  Speaker 1: to leave, but when I came back, I was all
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  Speaker 1: out of sorts. I didn't know what to do. I
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  Speaker 1: you know, cameras were in my face. Do I go
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  Speaker 1: over and say hi to my other teammates? Um? Are
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  Speaker 1: they gonna come over and say hi to me? The
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  Speaker 1: guys I got traded for. It was just a weird situation.
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  Speaker 1: So when Bryce came back, his first two at bats,
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  Speaker 1: boom boom. He strikes out against Scherzer. But they were
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  Speaker 1: able to put up right. I mean, that was so
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  Speaker 1: key for the Phillies to go in for Series of
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  Speaker 1: the Year and Spanky. They spanked them around, they really did.
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  Speaker 1: And then when Sharzer got out of the game, the
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  Speaker 1: games out of reach, Bryce hits the home run. All
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  Speaker 1: the relief goes away. Believe me, when you go back
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  Speaker 1: to your old ballpark, your old team, you're nervousness can be.
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  Speaker 1: When he hit that home run, it was Katie by
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  Speaker 1: the door. All the relief is gone. Then you got
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  Speaker 1: a couple of hits. He had a couple of hits yesterday. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and they got a real deal lineup. If McCutcheon keeps
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  Speaker 1: playing like this, he's playing well. Riamalto gives you a
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  Speaker 1: good at bat. Hoskins gives you a very very good
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  Speaker 1: at bat, Bryce Harper gives you a good at bat,
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  Speaker 1: Sir gurg gives you a good at bat. Now. Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Nola got hit around a little bit yesterday. He'll right
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  Speaker 1: the ship. He's very very good. But offensively, they are
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  Speaker 1: going to put up some tremendous numbers if they stay healthy.
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  Speaker 1: Looks like they will now. The flip side of that
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  Speaker 1: coin the a l East, where we expected maybe two
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  Speaker 1: teams to win a hundred games a piece. The Yankees
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  Speaker 1: and Red Sox both kind of look like a mess
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  Speaker 1: right now. And granted we're only a weekend, but what
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  Speaker 1: do you make of what's going on with the Yankees?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're a walking mash year and at this
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  Speaker 1: point with all the injuries they have, and the Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox are just struggling all over the field. So what
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  Speaker 1: do you think the future holds for the two of
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  Speaker 1: those things? Well, the Red Sox, Uh, I'm a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more worried about the Yankees than I am the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox. The Red Sox, I can't say that either.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Christale only striking out one guy in his
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  Speaker 1: velocity down worries me a little bit. I'm surprised that
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  Speaker 1: Boston gave the extension. Um, obviously there's no structural Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but obviously there's no structural damage in their blackjack. But
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  Speaker 1: Christale doesn't strike out one guy. I'm sorry. Nathan of
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  Speaker 1: Aaldi got hit around again last night. Um, their bats
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  Speaker 1: finally woke up. That that's going to be the key.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Um, their bats need to wake up. But
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  Speaker 1: they didn't do much in the off season, did Boston?
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  Speaker 1: Now the Yankees, Um, they're turning in the Mets. They
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  Speaker 1: have more injuries. They're like the Mets the last two
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  Speaker 1: years with all these injuries and now, uh, I mean
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  Speaker 1: wishful thinking. Troy to Lewinsky got a mosquito bite and
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  Speaker 1: boom he got hurt again. So uh, I mean honestly,
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  Speaker 1: when they signed him, do they think they're going to
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  Speaker 1: get more than four or five games out of him? Right?
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  Speaker 1: So now you you mentioned just then the Mets tell
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  Speaker 1: me to do what they're starting often put hot stuff himself.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think can they sustained this? Well? Listen,
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  Speaker 1: they went eleven and one to start the season last
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  Speaker 1: year and everybody was excited, but it was a different
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  Speaker 1: fools goal. When you have a kid like Peter Alonso
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  Speaker 1: swinging the boat, the Way is a Rookie of the
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  Speaker 1: Year candidate, UM with some kind of power. The ball
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  Speaker 1: he hit the dead center the other night was a
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  Speaker 1: bomb um. And then you put canoe, you put some
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  Speaker 1: guys in the lineup. They can give you professional and bats.
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  Speaker 1: They finally got to catch Or that knows what the
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  Speaker 1: heck he's doing. And Wilson Ramos, so you can they've
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  Speaker 1: had since. Well, I appreciate that. I appreciate what you Listen,
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  Speaker 1: you need a guy who can handle the staff. I
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  Speaker 1: mean like you've got guys like Mazzaraco talking ow he
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  Speaker 1: handled Jason de Gram. Listen to me. My daughter could
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  Speaker 1: catch Jacob Degraham and he wouldn't give up any runs, right,
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  Speaker 1: So like, just go back there and hit and do
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  Speaker 1: what you can. So Ralmos I think pieces together the
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  Speaker 1: other guys because he's a veteran. And here's the other part.
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  Speaker 1: He's been around the l e UM, the nl E
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  Speaker 1: so he knows a lot of the hitters and and
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  Speaker 1: that too. That's a big advantage. And people don't understand
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  Speaker 1: those kind of things. But if they can stick together
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  Speaker 1: and and in Callaway can stay out of his own
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  Speaker 1: way because he's a little questionable. Some of the moves
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  Speaker 1: that he makes, they can get in the hunt for
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  Speaker 1: a little while. All Right, now, there's one more surprising
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  Speaker 1: team that I have to get your take on. I
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  Speaker 1: know our producer, Matt Ford, the Chuckler, is going to
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  Speaker 1: really want to hear your opinion on this, and that's
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  Speaker 1: the Baltimore Orioles. Wow, the team is off to a
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  Speaker 1: surprising start, a team that I think most people expected
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  Speaker 1: to be the worst in baseball. What are you seeing
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  Speaker 1: out of Baltimore? I don't know. They're scoring runs and
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  Speaker 1: it's even better that they they were. They scored three
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  Speaker 1: runs in the ninth, but it's even better that they
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  Speaker 1: beat the Yankees. And I know that he's he loves
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  Speaker 1: it even more. They were back to back? Were they underdogs?
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  Speaker 1: Three to one? Back to back and they beat the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees something like that? Yeah, I mean pretty close. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they were very very heavy dogs. Continue. Oh and then
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  Speaker 1: here's the thing, is like Vegas is going to keep
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  Speaker 1: on doubling down. Um, let's see today they're at home
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  Speaker 1: in their plus one ninety four and they're playing the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees again, Like, what do you do? Do you roll
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  Speaker 1: with them again? I mean think? Uh, they're under and
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  Speaker 1: over for wins was fifty seven. How do they have
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  Speaker 1: already four? You got five four more left to go,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a pretty good start. It's a great start.
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  Speaker 1: It's surprising. But again, you know, with everything we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about here, I want to cast you everyone. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: week one, very very long day. And again with Boston,
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  Speaker 1: they haven't even gotten their rings yet. How about that?
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  Speaker 1: Like I, that's the other part. Going on a West
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  Speaker 1: Coast swing, it sucks. It's just it's it's hard to do.
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  Speaker 1: And they went on and they're going on and basically
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  Speaker 1: nationally West Coast Swing and then they'll go on in
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  Speaker 1: americanly West Coast Swing. So they had to do it
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  Speaker 1: right out of spring training. So they haven't even gotten
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  Speaker 1: their rings yet. They don't get their rings till the
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  Speaker 1: ninth of April. So you know, I would chill on
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  Speaker 1: Boston and listen. I know a lot of people say
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  Speaker 1: I always hate on the Inkees. I would. The Yankees
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  Speaker 1: are in trouble, Geane Carlos Stanton. I know he's hurt,
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  Speaker 1: but he couldn't hit me, all right, Pali. So I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned that the time to show that I'm out here
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  Speaker 1: in Lexington, I'm actually heading to Keenland right now. You
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  Speaker 1: mentioned in Santa Anita Derby. Give us a couple of
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  Speaker 1: picks of this weekend in these big races. Well, obviously, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I like game winner, um for badfort Um. There's not
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  Speaker 1: a many that many horses. Uh in the Sanity and
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  Speaker 1: Derby only six horse felt a lot of people, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people are are you know, saying stay
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  Speaker 1: away from Santa Nita. But the problem is there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot in the wood and there's a lot in the
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  Speaker 1: blue grass. But um, yeah, the last time a horse
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  Speaker 1: won the Kentucky Derby from the wood was Fusa Hi
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  Speaker 1: pigas this from people need to chill on that. There's
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  Speaker 1: been like seventeen horses from California that have won the Derby.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't care. Like in the blue Grass on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good question. I'll tell you what I'm looking at.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: It's a little bit of a long shot. Is Sir Winston.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Sir Winston ran a very nice races last time out,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: showed great closing speed. I think maybe in a race
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: like this he might have a shot in a bigger,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: bigger fields. I actually do like yeah, um, actually do
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: like big fields. Closers and big fields. But what post.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to looks see what post my horse drew.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: I like the Coma, but he's nine in the five,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: the weaver horse. Um, I can see where you're going,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Sir Winston that if you're looking for more chalk, I
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: would say, maybe win win Win is someone to take
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: a look at. Yeah, maybe Dreammaker can bounce back. He
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: seems like Cassie's horses seem like they bounce back. Um
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: at a price a little bit there. Um, Coma is
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: gonna be tough. I know, I know that we were
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: always like that horse a ton Um not the prettiest
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: mover in the world. There's many moves like his his
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: daddy a little bit. But um, he tries really hard
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: and he ran a good race last time. Um in Florida.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I do own this, uh spice perfection for Peter Miller.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be very tough in the Madison. Um. I
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: talked to Peter the other day and they're shipping him
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: or ship excuse me her to Lexans and she's already there.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: So Um, there's our there's our horse. Racing Picks of
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: the Weekend, Big Weekend and Racing it's a long time
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: for everyone's favorite part of the week, which is storytime
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: with Paula Duca. Uh. Now, Pauli, you were telling me
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: recently about a story involving some of your former Dodger
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: teammates and a bullpen car during a rain delay in Texas. Yeah,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: this is a true story. Um. And uh, We're in
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Texas and I had gotten called up for two days. Um,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: there was a there was like a h a glitch
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: and the forty man roster Antonio Soona he uh he
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: like got hurt and like I don't know how it
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: worked out, but there was a spot open for two days,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: and Glenn Hoffman had just got Bill Russell had just
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: got fired. If I'm not mistaken or was Yeah, it
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: was Bill Russell. Bill Russell got got fired. Glenn Hoffman
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: was an interim manager. Closed me in the office and
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: he basically says, hey, that I'd call you up for
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: a couple of days. And when you get called up
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: for a couple of days and you're in the minor leagues,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: your pay goes up, so you're automatically soon as you
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: get sent down, you get to three days to like relax.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: You don't have to meet the team that are other
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: and so it was like three two days and I
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: remember in those two days I pinched ran for Paul
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Knirko me pinch running, yeah, catcher that that those are
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: That's what I did in those two days. But we're winning,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: like uh, I want to say, was a a Saturday
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: night game or Friday night game one or the other. UM,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: And we're winning like nine one in the seventh inning
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: and it's like just torrential downpour UM, and it's coming
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: down like like monsoon Texas style. UM in Arlington, m M.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: And it looks like like, you know, they're just gonna
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: call the game. We're up seven one, and it was
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: already through the seventh inning, UM or nine month excuse me,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: and we're already through the seventh thinning. And so you
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: get updates and the clubhouse guys come in here and there.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: When the clubhouse guys come in and they say listen, UM,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: they're gonna make a decision. And about half hour, but
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the last time I heard there, you know, basically you're
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: just gonna call the game whatever. So UM, in Arlington,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: there's a strip club about to about a mile and
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: a half, maybe less than a mile away from the ballpark. Well,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: it was poorn rain so much that half the stadium
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: left there was anything. They're down nine one. So a
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: bunch of the boys from the bullpen got some money
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: together and we're having a couple of pops because they
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: got the game was basically over. So they hopped in
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the bullpen cart in their cleats, in their unis and
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: went to the Strip Club. Went into the Strip Club.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Every one of them got a lap dance in their
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: spikes as myn Mike cuts out in their Uni. Okay, okay.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: So then I'm sitting there and the Carrols who's the rep, goes, Hey,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: the umpire just came in and said, the game's still
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: not canceled yet. Uh, we have to try to get
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: this game in because we're not coming back to Texas,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: you know, we don't want to come back to Texas
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: in the middle of August. Uh and have to play
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: in one of our days off this and that. I mean, well, guys,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: you want to finish it. So boom, fifteen minutes later, Hey,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: they're they're taken off the tarp. It's gonna be ready. Well,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: we start panic and start calling these guys, well, none
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: of them took took their phones to the strip club
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: in the bullpen cart. God knows where they parked the
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: bullpen cart. I can't evenieve they let him in. But
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: you got again again. This is before camera phones. Um,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: so we come back and they get back just in time.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: It's like four guys and you can just see like
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: in the sixth inning or like not in the sixth
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: ex gonna be like in the eighth inning. Bought in
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the eighth when they pulled off the tarp and like
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: there was two outs. You see like four guys sprinting
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: to the bullpen, and I'm like, okay, and you see
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Glenn Hoffen goes what happened to? Where are these guys been?
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: And then all I heard was something like oh, there,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: they're in the bathroom. And remember half going They all
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: go to the bathroom at the same time. So he
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: was dumbfounded. He didn't know what was going on. Long
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: story short, all four of those guys came in. We
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: lost the game eleven nine. Do wait a second. The
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: four guys who left to go to the strip club
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: in the game in the eighth sitting at this point
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: and blow an eight run lead, eight run lead and
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: just to be clear you were not one of the
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: guys in the strip club. No. I just got called
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: up like like two hours earlier. I was like, this happens.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I'm remember telling myself, this kind of stuff happens here.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: You could just take the bullpen was corrupted early. I
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: could just at those times, I was wearing ponies, so
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: I could just go in ponies and go into you know,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Lucy's cabaret and get a lap dance in my spike.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, like, were the spikes hitting the floor? Was there?
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: It was there carpet at this strip club? What the
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: heck was going on? I don't know, Polly, I don't
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: know the interior decor of Arlington, Texas clubs. Do you
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: think they thought it was Halloween? People at the strip club,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know the bullpenk car am I giving it
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: away a little bit. Here's my thing is when I
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: think it was like the next day we went out
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: and I think we had a day off. They were drunk,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: and I remember asking one of them, like the guy
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: at the at the thing, I said, you wanted to
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: valet park the bullpen card? I'm like, are you absolutely
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: kidding me? Because the guy at the valet didn't know
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: what was going on, like, and they're like no, no, no, no,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: we're just dressed up. But this is our own thing,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: didn't you know? He didn't know what was going on,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: and they're like, no, no, we'll just park it here.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: And then the valley guy was trying to tell him
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: from what I heard, like, you can't just park this
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: thing in the middle of nowhere. We gotta park it somewhere. Yeah. Well, Polly,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: you your wealth of entertainment, you never disappoint. Oh god, alright,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: that sounds like it's good at places up today's episode.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Thanks everybody for listening to the Favorites. We'll be back
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: again next week Tuesdays and Thursdays. As always, you can
• 26:53
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• 26:57
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• 27:00
  Speaker 1: on Blackjack Pleaser, He's Paula Duca, will see you soon,