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Hour 2 - Gone From the Windy City · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Playball. It's our numb bird two, our number two, and
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  Speaker 1: we go to the Windy City and the retirement announcement
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  Speaker 1: is in people wondering should the Cubs end up retiring
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Rizzo's number. We'll discuss that. Have an honest conversation
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  Speaker 1: about Anthony Rizzo and number retirement. Also, how do you
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  Speaker 1: digest the report that the Angels are being tied to
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  Speaker 1: Albert poulhos as a manager. The assumption is that Ron
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  Speaker 1: Washington won't be coming back, or they could even bring
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  Speaker 1: back Mike Soosha as the Skipper. Will discuss that. What
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  Speaker 1: do you make of Mike Trout and his epic collapse
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  Speaker 1: in Anaheim. He's got a career long homerless streak which
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  Speaker 1: is in progress at the Big A. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: all that and more here. It is our number two,
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  Speaker 1: gone from the Windy City. Welcome in the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: So all lead this hour with us some baseball. I
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  Speaker 1: thought this was interesting. These kind of debates always drive
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  Speaker 1: me nuts, and since I have the bully pulpit here,
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  Speaker 1: I thought, why not just to have some fun with this.
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  Speaker 1: So we go to Dateline Chicago and it's all she
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  Speaker 1: wrote for a franchise legend in the Windy City. If
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  Speaker 1: you have not heard by now, maybe not Anthony Rizzo
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  Speaker 1: done now we saw Rizzo. He is a Yankee game
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  Speaker 1: the other night he played with the Yankees, his last
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  Speaker 1: big league team. Rizzo, though, was drinking a beer in
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  Speaker 1: the stands in the news came out. He is going
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  Speaker 1: to officially retire as a member of the Cups, one
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  Speaker 1: of those ceremonial retirement ceremony thing of a jigs that
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  Speaker 1: I love so much. And he's going to join the
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  Speaker 1: organization as a team ambassador. All right. So Rizzo, thirty six,
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  Speaker 1: spent ten of his fourteen big league seasons in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: He has fully vested in the Major League Baseball pension program.
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  Speaker 1: So he's set gonna get big fat checks, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as long as he lives. And those are really nice checks,
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  Speaker 1: really sexy checks that you're gonna get. And so he
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  Speaker 1: helped them win the World Series in twenty sixteen. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: told me that the Cubs are gonna become a dynasty,
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  Speaker 1: and they pretty much snunk ever since then. And so
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  Speaker 1: the issue here is this debate that has popped up
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  Speaker 1: now that Rizzo's announced his retirement. Is he going to
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  Speaker 1: get the ultimate honor from the Chicago National League Baseball team?
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  Speaker 1: So let's discuss That's a good jumping off points. So
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  Speaker 1: the question should the Cubs retire Anthony Rizzo's number? Should
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  Speaker 1: they retire his number? So I've got ring around the
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  Speaker 1: Rosie turtle, wax and Superman, and we'll combine all of
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  Speaker 1: the ingredients together. We're gonna make Babushka's favorite potato lacas
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  Speaker 1: is what we're gonna make, all right, So number, I
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  Speaker 1: said number? My answer, Should the Cubs retire Anthony Rizzo's number?
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  Speaker 1: It's a hard no, not a soft no. It's a
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  Speaker 1: hard no. We are against Jersey retirements as a rule
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  Speaker 1: of thumb. This thing's gotten way out of hand, way
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  Speaker 1: out of hand. These uniform funerals are the corporate version
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  Speaker 1: of taking your grandma's photo album and then charging you
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  Speaker 1: twenty dollars or thirty dollars for the privilege of looking
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  Speaker 1: at them. Hey remember twenty sixteen, Boy, that was a
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  Speaker 1: long time ago. Remember the curse, the Curse of the
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  Speaker 1: Billy Goat. Yeah, somebody let Doc Mike know the Billy
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  Speaker 1: Goat curses over because he's still dropping goat heads off
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  Speaker 1: at Wriglely Feel. But it's Wrigleyville marketing oxygen right now,
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  Speaker 1: I understand. We got great cub fans tree in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: Wonderfully give me a good gift package from the Cubs,
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  Speaker 1: which is where kind and all the other guys that
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  Speaker 1: we've met over the years in chicag so Eugene in Chicago,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of guys can't name them, g manje. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna try, though, No Phase, he always gets upset. Who
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  Speaker 1: you said? My name? My name's Phase.
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  Speaker 2: Eh.
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  Speaker 1: I did meet him in a cup game actually, ironically enough.
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  Speaker 1: But the whole point of this is to say, no,
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  Speaker 1: Rizzo was a fine member of the Cubs organization. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: But the whole marketing thing was like, come breathe the
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  Speaker 1: air of twenty sixteen. Well, no, it's twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to brethe the air of twenty I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to breathe the air of twenty sixteen. It's
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. And while the Cubs are playing the
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  Speaker 1: violin in the background, that sappy violin music, as they
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  Speaker 1: roll out the highlight reel, the fluff piece, and they're
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  Speaker 1: essentially selling bottled air from twenty sixteen. That's what this is.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about the heartstrings and the people saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: retire's number, retire's number, and you know, just keep the
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  Speaker 1: cash register Hummond and Memory Lane, all that good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But you need an Anthony Rizzo ice bucket to the face.
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  Speaker 1: Reality check here. If you look at the precedent, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm against retiring anyone's number, I think the whole thing's lame.
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  Speaker 1: But if you are in the camp of retiring numbers,
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  Speaker 1: there have to be some standards. You can't be like
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees and retire everyone's number, right, it's embarrassing, or
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  Speaker 1: the Celtics, the Lakers so embarrassing. But the Cubs have
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  Speaker 1: a president, Ernie Banks, mister Baseball, Ryan Sandberg who just
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  Speaker 1: passed away not that long ago, Greg Maddox, Ron Santo,
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  Speaker 1: Fergie Jenkins, Billy Williams. That's it. That's the list. Those
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  Speaker 1: all of them are Hall of famers. Most of them
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  Speaker 1: are hardball immortals. And Andre Dawson, who is a better Cub,
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  Speaker 1: didn't play as long as you gotta go, a better
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  Speaker 1: cub than Anthony Rizzo. Dawson doesn't have his number retired,
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  Speaker 1: and I believe he's a Hall of Famer. He actually
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  Speaker 1: works in the same business now. Andre Dawson, if you're old,
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  Speaker 1: you know who is? You played baseball a long time ago?
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  Speaker 1: For he played so long ago a team called the
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  Speaker 1: Montreal Expos when he played. But Andre Dawson now as
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  Speaker 1: an undertaker. He has the job that our friend Hayes
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  Speaker 1: has in Minnesota. Not quite the same exact job, but
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  Speaker 1: he works at a mortuary. So anyway, this whole thing
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  Speaker 1: is the riglely Ivy effect your wrapper. You know, anything
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  Speaker 1: in ivy you put a retro font on it, and
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  Speaker 1: the cub fan will eat it up. They will eat
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  Speaker 1: it up.
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  Speaker 2: It comes.
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  Speaker 1: Actually don't have a bad team this year. They don't
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  Speaker 1: here to have a championship team and they're not a
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  Speaker 1: bad team. And you know, everyone seems to have a
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  Speaker 1: playoff shot that comes are right there on that big
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  Speaker 1: mix in the in the playoff field. But they'll sell
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  Speaker 1: you the same old walk down Clark Street there and
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  Speaker 1: the yellow brick road. It's a brilliant business model. And
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  Speaker 1: so it's not really so much selling baseball. You're selling
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  Speaker 1: the nostalgia with stuff like this. And as far as
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  Speaker 1: the whole number retirement thing, I know that most teams
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  Speaker 1: are obsessed with this and just will retire numbers because
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  Speaker 1: they can't help themselves. They have no control. It's out
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's off the hook. To me, though, you
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  Speaker 1: should try to pee like the Dallas. Well, I would
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  Speaker 1: just say the Cowboys. The Cowboys have never retired a number.
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  Speaker 1: They have never retired number. They have a ring of honor,
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  Speaker 1: and the malord advice, unsolicited malle advice. How about ring
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  Speaker 1: around the rosie or in this case, ring around the
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  Speaker 1: ivy and just put a ring of honor around Wrigley
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  Speaker 1: Field and say, all right, we have a haul, we
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  Speaker 1: have the number retirement. We're done doing that, and so
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  Speaker 1: from now on we're gonna have a ring of honor. Boom.
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  Speaker 1: And you can even put it outside the stadium on
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  Speaker 1: one of those rooftops which the Cubs bought, and give
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  Speaker 1: Rizzo a plaque and have a bobblehead day and there
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  Speaker 1: you go. Problem solve just like that, all right now
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  Speaker 1: page two to Anaheim, we go, Yes, Anaheim, I saw this. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta be kidding me. So a report out from
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  Speaker 1: the baseball insider crowd that it is most likely not
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  Speaker 1: going to be a return to Ron Washington next season. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there's still a Chancey comes back, but more likely than not,
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  Speaker 1: Ron Washington will be elevated. He had a major heart
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  Speaker 1: major bypass surgery. I believe, and so most likely he
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  Speaker 1: will just get an advisor role and that's it, And
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  Speaker 1: so the Angels will have a new manager next year.
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  Speaker 1: So how do you digest the report that the Halos
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  Speaker 1: are being tied to Albert Pulhos, Yes, that Albert Poohos
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  Speaker 1: who played for the team and really stole money from
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  Speaker 1: the team for years and was terrible. And the possibility
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  Speaker 1: that they will go back to Mike Soshia remember him,
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  Speaker 1: He's been out of baseball for several years. But they
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  Speaker 1: could turn back to Mike sosher the guy that was
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  Speaker 1: the skipper when they finally won the World Series back
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  Speaker 1: in the day. So how do I digest this? It
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  Speaker 1: is the theater of the absurd in Anaheim, the Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles Angels, of Disneyland, of Truros, of eternal irrelevance, all
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  Speaker 1: of that, and we don't talk about this guy because
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  Speaker 1: the Angels are irrelevant. We have apathy. But Artie Marino
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  Speaker 1: is doing cosplay as Jerry Jones and failing miserably. He's
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  Speaker 1: chasing headlines. A lot of the moves the Angels maker
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  Speaker 1: to chase headlines, and he's like addicted to the shiny
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  Speaker 1: object and he's running the Angels like a bad Vegas
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  Speaker 1: lounge act. And he even did the fake head fake
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  Speaker 1: thing where he's like, I'm gonna sell the team. Psych
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  Speaker 1: I'm not selling the team bringing back Mike Soosha, though,
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  Speaker 1: why not go get a shovel, dig up gene Autry.
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  Speaker 1: You can't do that. Bring back the ghost of gene Autry.
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  Speaker 1: Trot his ass out there on opening day twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: and he can sarenade Mike Soosha as he gets back
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  Speaker 1: into the dugout back in the saddle again, and the
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  Speaker 1: Angels they might as well just tire my guy, Kawhi Leonard.
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  Speaker 1: We know Kawhi loves no show jobs. Managing the Angels
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  Speaker 1: is a no show job. You're a mascot in a hoodie.
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  Speaker 1: You're a Walmart greeter with a lineup card. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand why they have another The Angel should
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  Speaker 1: get Turtle White as a sponsor. The manager should have
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  Speaker 1: a patch that says Turtle Wax right on the uniform there,
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  Speaker 1: because when you're managing the Angels, you spend about six
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  Speaker 1: months of the year polishing turds. That's what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. It's the organizational philosophy, and they Mike Trout
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  Speaker 1: and show Ootani in the same lineup to Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Famers for multiple seasons, and they managed to be irrelevant
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  Speaker 1: by Labor Day every single year. It's fascinating that is
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  Speaker 1: not a bug in the system. That is an entire
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  Speaker 1: operating error, is what that is. That's a software issue.
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  Speaker 1: There's a trojan horse in the software. And hiring Albert
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  Speaker 1: Pools or bringing back Mike Sosher or I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: go find Joe Madden somewhere in Margaritaville somewhere. None of
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  Speaker 1: it matters. It's like asking a quod Don Blue chef
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  Speaker 1: to cook an award winning meal and the ingredients are
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  Speaker 1: kibbles and bits and catnip. The Angels at this point
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  Speaker 1: they don't even need a manager. They don't they need
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  Speaker 1: an exorcism, is what they need. Get some holy water,
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  Speaker 1: some garlic, clothes, all of it. Until then, as the
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  Speaker 1: Great Donnie Brasco said, forget about it, right, remember this,
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  Speaker 1: the Angels could hire. I'm convinced they could hire the
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  Speaker 1: Pope as the manager. The Dali Lama could be the
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  Speaker 1: third base coach, and the tooth Fairy could be the
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  Speaker 1: hitting coach and they'd still finish in fourth place in
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  Speaker 1: the American League West. That's the way they are now,
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  Speaker 1: one final final point while I'm at it. So I
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  Speaker 1: saw this and I thought it was worthy of a
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  Speaker 1: mention staying at the Big A. This guy was the
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  Speaker 1: biggest deal in baseball. Who didn't want to be the
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  Speaker 1: biggest deal in baseball? Mike Trout. Remember, Mike Trout was
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  Speaker 1: the top player in baseball, and he hated He's like
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  Speaker 1: an intro over it. Didn't want to deal with the media,
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  Speaker 1: didn't want and didn't want to do interviews. So Mike
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  Speaker 1: Trout has gone. Based on the Angels Twins game, which
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  Speaker 1: took place on Wednesday, Mike Trout has now gone. I
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  Speaker 1: believe that math is right on this. One hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty three plate appearances, eight games without hitting home run.
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  Speaker 1: He's sitting on three ninety eight. His previous longest drought
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  Speaker 1: was one hundred and seventeen played appearances. That was a
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  Speaker 1: decade ago. So question, what do you make of Mike
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  Speaker 1: Trout and his collapse in Anaheim. So it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like watching Superman walk around and he's got a neck
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  Speaker 1: brace and he's limping it. It's kind of like that like,
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  Speaker 1: this is brutal. Mike Trout has been locked in since
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  Speaker 1: August sixth, over a month now, on that same home
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  Speaker 1: run total. And we know he's got that rare like
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  Speaker 1: it's a spinal tap spinal condition thing there. He's basically
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  Speaker 1: the world's most expensive day to day player. He's on
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  Speaker 1: that twelve year contract for four hundred million dollars and
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  Speaker 1: I believe he's got five years left. He will be
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight, Mike Trout, and he's already a shell of
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  Speaker 1: what he was and his salad days. And the Angels
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  Speaker 1: are handcuffed. They're handcuffed Mike Trout. Now, they are really
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  Speaker 1: nice handcuffs, like a Rolex pair of solid gold handcuffs,
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  Speaker 1: really solid, really good handcuffs. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: They also have a ball and chain which it's got
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  Speaker 1: the Angel logo on it. So it's okay, they've got
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  Speaker 1: the Angel logo. Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty exciting. So they've got that going for him. But
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  Speaker 1: they're they're stuck. They're stuck, and you can you cannot
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  Speaker 1: build around Mike Trout anymore. You cannot depend on Mike
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  Speaker 1: Trout anymore. He's played actually a lot of games this
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  Speaker 1: year by Mike Trout standards. And here's where things get interesting,
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  Speaker 1: right where the rubber meets the road. Ardy Marino cannot
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  Speaker 1: cannot quit these guys. He can't. I and people said, well,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna trade Trout because he's not a lead guy.
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  Speaker 1: He can be a good number three guy, like you
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  Speaker 1: have two stars, he's your third star. You can be
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. But they had Otani. Everyone knew that Otani
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  Speaker 1: was gonna leave the Angels because they were they don't
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  Speaker 1: know what they were doing. And instead of trading Otani
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  Speaker 1: and saying we'll get some for him, they just kept
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  Speaker 1: Otani because they got all that Japanese advertising, which the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers are obsessed with, by the way, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: they are sucking every dollar they can out of the
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  Speaker 1: Japanese economy. But and I don't blame him. I do
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. But anyway, Otani left as a free agent,
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  Speaker 1: and that means that based on that, Mike Trout is
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  Speaker 1: not going anywhere, like even if teams called the ends up,
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  Speaker 1: like Marino is going to already, Marino is going to
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  Speaker 1: have to eat a bunch of money just to get
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  Speaker 1: Trout out there. And he's I don't think he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: do it. I can't see him doing it, even though
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  Speaker 1: the Halos could absolutely get offers, and they could entice
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  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Phillies to bite on Trout from Jersey, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, in the Philadelphia part of Jersey, Southern Jersey,
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  Speaker 1: so I believe he grew up a Phillies fan. And
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: then the Yankees are always there. They love falling Stars,
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  Speaker 1: they can't get enough of them. They're ready for the
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  Speaker 1: falling Stars challenge and all that. So you find a
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  Speaker 1: sucker who still believes that Mike Trout's got enough star
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  Speaker 1: dust to justify acquiring him. And then the Phillies are
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  Speaker 1: chasing rainbows and they're at a weird point now if
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  Speaker 1: they don't win this year. They've got an older team,
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of players that are gonna leave in free
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  Speaker 1: agency or could leave in free agency. So they got
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  Speaker 1: to sign Schber he's going to be a free agent.
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  Speaker 1: They've got Bryce Harper, he's getting older now. And so
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  Speaker 1: if you can put Trout out there with those guys
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  Speaker 1: and Castellanos leaves, for example, that would make some sense
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  Speaker 1: that the Yankees, they would be trying to resurrect Mike
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  Speaker 1: Trout like their doctor Frankenstein, if he went to the Bronx,
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  Speaker 1: and you look at the comps on this, if you
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  Speaker 1: take the name away, if you take the Mike Trout
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  Speaker 1: name away, and did the blind Pepsi challenge, the blind
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  Speaker 1: Soda challenge, Mike Trout his production offensively this season is
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  Speaker 1: on the same level with Isaac Parides of the Astros
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  Speaker 1: and Jonathan Arnda of the Tampa Bay Race, who exactly
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  Speaker 1: these are not household names. They make chicken feed compared
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  Speaker 1: to what Mike Trout makes. He's being fed like a whale.
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  Speaker 1: He's being fed like a whale. And they're being fed
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  Speaker 1: like a crab on the beach, a little sand crab.
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  Speaker 1: And the Halos. Listen, we not to flog a dead Halo.
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  Speaker 1: But they're deep in a deep dark place and they're
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  Speaker 1: not good. They're not bad. They're just stuck on this
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  Speaker 1: treadmill of mediocrity and more probably they're irrelevant, while the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers are in this golden era where they make the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs every year, and if they know, I can't imagine
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  Speaker 1: Albert Poohos, Anthony Rendon and Josh Hamilton, who those are
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  Speaker 1: three of the worst signings my god ever heard of.
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  Speaker 1: You had Hamilton snort and Coke Rendon who hates baseball,
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  Speaker 1: and pool host who played like he was seventy. What
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  Speaker 1: a great what a great move? Those all turned out
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: to be holy crap. Yeah, they had quite the quite
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the lineup there, absolutely quite the lineup. Mark the full
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: name guy is hiding behind his smart device there in Oregon,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: and he's taking shots at the Dodgers. Funny enough, he's
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: not talking about the uh the other teams that he likes,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: because they they all sucked. They all suck. Let's go
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: back to the phones, and let's go down to a
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: man cashing a golden ticket. Andrew that great country western
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: town of Bakersfield. Hello, Andrew, what's up?
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: Ben? I just thought I'd cashing the golden ticket where
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: Cooper and nine destroyed you in the game. By the way,
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: remember that anyway, no.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: One remembers that it was. It was terrible radio, It
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: was horrible.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: So on the night where the Dodgers officially clinched a
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: winning season, I thought I'd call in and did.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: You are you really? Are you really calling to celebrate
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers, who have all the stars of baseball clinching
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: a winning season that you think that is an accomplishment?
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Are you really? Are you seriously calling up to celebrate
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the fact that a team that has underachieved all season
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: has guaranteed a winning record?
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: Really?
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: You're that guy?
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: Well, I thought we should microwave the take where you
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: were criticizing Dave Roberts and Rookie Betts And how did
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: Muky Vetts do tonight?
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I was wondering, Okay, so he played the Now, who's
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the worst team in baseball? Can you help me out
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: on that? Do you know who the worst team in
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: baseball is? Who's that?
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Who?
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Would that be?
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: Rockies?
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah? That's right? Who did the Dodgers play? Who they play?
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: Though?
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Who they play? That played the Rockies? That's right?
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: All right, So so you you think that somehow I
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: should I should be upset that I that Mookie Bets too?
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: How many much did he take a three months of
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: the baseball season? That that's okay with you? Like, seriously,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: you're okay with that? So you you're okay with the
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: guy stealing money. Mookie Betts was stealing money from the Dodgers,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: all right. He was playing like a freaking demon, not
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: a good kind of demon. And you think I'm supposed
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: to sit here every night while he's flailing away at
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: home plate, and well, just give him time, he'll be okay.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Come on, I told you, I told you, Okay, all right,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: And I'm sure you'll call up when Mookie bats two
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: hundred in the playoffs and makes four errors and you'll say, well,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: you'll do that, right, I'm sure you'll call up.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: Yes, maybe we'll see.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: We'll see. You'll hide like all these other clowns. I
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: know how it works. You'll run and hide, just like
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: there was that dope in Minnesota that used to call
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: the show and I was a coward. Doesn't call anymore
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: because all the Minnesota teams suck. The guy that worked
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: at the walmart, Remember that guy. It was a terrible caller. Yeah,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: that guy.
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: Are you a Dodgers fan.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm a real fan. I'm a better fan
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: than you. You're a fanboy. I'm a fan, you're a fanboy.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Do you understand the difference? A fanboy? Is we enthusiastic? Oh,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: it's so great, everything's wonderful.
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: A real fan is a critic. A real fan is
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: willing to bad mouth the team. Right, you're you're not
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: a real fan, You're a fanboy. There's a difference. There's
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: a difference between a fan and a fanboy. And it's
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: not semantics. It's not trivial details and all that. It's
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: more than that.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: Just I just wanted to remind you that I said
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: it was only a matter of time. Tell MOOKI the story.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, yeah so again. May I, man, we
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: all have you as our boss where we will take
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: three months of the year off and get paid every
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: week our salary and it doesn't matter. May we all
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: have a boss like you? All Right, I go away,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I'm done with you. Let's go to Let's go to
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: dog or or the boss dog is. I wondered what
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: happened to this guy. This guy calls up for like
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: a couple of days, a couple days in a row
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: and then he vanishes like he's a ghost. I don't
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: know what. I don't know where Dog goes. I don't know.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: It's a There's this weird thing with E Dog and
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Steven Manhattan. Are you guys related to each other? You
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: don't know Steven Manhattan?
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: Do you that Theatre of the Well?
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: It's Steve s T E V E. I believe is that?
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I believe?
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: That's that's how I am the great Listen, man, I'm
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: the greatest caller that there ever was.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: How does one quantify that? How does one determine.
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: I'm in the mood for a niche? But I want
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: to tell you the truth, though, Get who I'm back
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: in touch with and guess.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: All right, so this scene we're trying to guess here,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: E Dog, I'm gonna go Joe Dogg.
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: Definitely not tonight, Not Joe Dog.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, that girl that you were you broke up with
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: that one? What's your name?
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: Melissa?
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Are you back with Melissa?
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: Yep?
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Love is in the air. I guess Eat Dog and Melissa.
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: You're not gonna believe this, But I was going to
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: a treatment center and I really did. I'm not going
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: to tell you why but I really didn't partake, and
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: you know and the people that I that I go
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: there for. But she got me set up for an
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: orientation soon and uh pretels for a dollar and she
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: promises me she'll never cheat on me again. But I
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: don't believe it. But I don't care, you know, I'm right.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Well, so she cheated on you. Who who she hooked
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: up with?
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: I think this guy James, you know, but I don't.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Really can't do you. You don't care about that. I
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: got you well, usually most of most people would care
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: about that, But that's fine.
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: What okay? How about shoever for the m v P.
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: What do you think about that?
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: And not going to happen on? Tony's gonna win the
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: m v P again, you're a Doger fan?
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Ah?
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Yes? Are you a Phillies fan?
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: Definitely not?
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Well okay, then why would you want Swarb to win the.
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: M v P.
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: Well, I think he's gonna win it. I'm not saying
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: are you talking?
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Are you really trying to talk sports here? By the way,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: is that what you're trying to do?
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: You're trying to Yeah, now here's the question, Lorena. Yes,
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: I want you to answer this question to see if
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: you get it right. It's called a stump arena and
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: stump ben Nola.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Okay, well that's quite the game. I'm excited about this game.
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: What jersey do I have? I'm not going to tell
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: you what swort? But he was drafted number one and
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: and I have his jersey? Can you pick him?
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: He was drafted number one.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: You're not going to tell this is the worst game ever.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: You're not going to say what's sport?
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: No, because if I told you what you'd get it
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: right away?
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Man, how would we get it? There are number one
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: picks every single year would.
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: Be plus and I still wouldn't get it.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go because I know you're you're you know
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: you live out on Long Island, right he dog, but
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: you're really a tough guy. I'm gonna go with that
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: old school Alan Iverson Sixers Jersey. That's what I'm going.
• 29:12
  Speaker 8: I'm gonna go with Lebron James Jersey.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: No, that's a that's a good one. Okay, do we
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: go again? Do we guess again?
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: Is it?
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: It's just the game? Okay, I'm gonna go all.
• 29:26
  Speaker 8: I'm gonna go with Luca Mavericks Jersey.
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: Definitely not so far.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: You guys go for five, We're not oh for five.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: It's like, we're excuse me, we're we're not ben I'm
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: done with this game. I don't like this game. You say,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: who cares? Who is it?
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: Anthony Hardaway? Who Hardaway for the magic?
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Tenny Hallway?
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: That's also have him with this guy.
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: I was somewhere and he was.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: You know, I've noticed you're so good at calling because
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: you don't you don't shut up. I was ready to
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: end the call and just keep talking like you talk.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I have other people that want to get on the air.
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: I understand. But last thing, okay, say it, okay. There
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: was this guy. I was talking to him.
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: Man, I'm talking.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: All right, I'm done. I gotta thank you. All right,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: go back to rehab. Let's go to Tree in Chicago.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: What's going on? Tree? My guy? Tree? Hello, Tree, that
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: was a good call.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: What's up?
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: No?
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: That was not a good call. Tree, No, that was
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: not that. We don't want to encourage that kind of
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: a call. Tree, We do not want to.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Encourage that shut out shout out to do. But uh,
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: I was calling in. I was coming in to trying
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: to say I was against you. Man. But I think
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: you're right man. The whole president thing. You're right, man,
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: You're right, the dusted thing, that's, uh, you knocked me.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: He knocked me out with that one.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Rizzo is the man got the iconic moment caught caught
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: the ball for the last out. Him and Chris Brian
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: was going back and forth to the MVP that year
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. But uh, I think you're right man. Okay,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: that's the record.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Show Coop said that out on x I a lifelong
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Chicago cub fantry who lives in the belly of the
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: beast there in Chicago, and he agreed that Rizzo should
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: not have his number retires. See that's you're a good fan.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Try because you agree with me. You're a good fan clearly.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: So I get that one. And I'm with a e dog.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Though he was tripping as far as the overall call,
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: the car was hilarious. I think people should look at
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: swarps man, but I get it. I think his bad
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: average is a little low, but fifty home runs for
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty three.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and because of the pitching thing to even though
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers he hasn't really pitched that great exactly. It doesn't.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, first place in the East, the first place, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: They're in the first place. They just kicked They've been
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: kicking the Mets ass this week. The Phillies. They've won.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I think that one game left. They won every game
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: against the Mets.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: So well, all right, he might have been right about that,
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: but that was that was a good call.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: All right, Tree, all right, man, thank you, buddy, the
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: great Tree in Chicago, we met him. He came in,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: very nice guy, came in studio, hung out with us
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: for a night. Let's say hello, or for a little bit.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Let's go to D in North Carolina. What's going on?
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: D welcome d.
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: Hey Ben.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna follow up the Tree with about Anthony Riz.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: By the way, I saw a guy wandering around with
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: a kitty Hardaway jersey the other day. I wonder if
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: it was eat. But anyway, uh, I grew up listening
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: to Harry Carey watching Sanberg Dalton.
• 32:47
  Speaker 7: And another Cups first base and.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: That actually led some decades and hits, double sack of
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: fight flies and his number. He wasn't even welcomed back
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: to Wrigley until about ten or fifteen years later. He,
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: along with Pete Rose, are the only ones not in
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: the Hall of Fame that led their decade and hits
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: from nineteen hundred out.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: I know who that is. I'm familiar with his game.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Here he he the Reft Chicago. He won a World
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: Series with the airs of a time back and yeah, yeah,
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: great park great and yeah Chris.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Who, by the way, went to saddle Back College Mark Grace.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Fun fact, there you go, fun fact where I went
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: to school. He went to my my college there malor
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: fun fact. Absolutely, I have no problem Mark Race led
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: that he led the nineteen nineties in hits right, the
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: decade of the nineties, I believe.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's the first time he was voted
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: to see if he was a Hall of Famer or not.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: He didn't get enough, but Tote even get a second chance.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: But yeah, Chris Brownt was wearing number seventeen years after
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: Grace retired. I don't see how Anthony Rizzay is up
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: there with.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Bryan said, all right, don't agree. I'm two for two.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: I made my compelling argument and I got two cub fans,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Tree and D and they agree with me. And it
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: rhymes thank you, D, thank you for listening, and I'm guessing.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: I'm guessing you grew up watching the Cubs on the superstation.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: You probably around my age and I did the same thing. Anyway,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Thank you. All right, It is the Ben mahlerd Show.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Time.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Now for the Insta trivia, we have Mallard of the
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: third degree. Here's the answer trivia. Pittsburgh Paul Skeens has
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: a one ninety four career earn run average that is
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: the lowest in a pitcher's first fifty three career starts
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: in the live ball era. He bested Blank's previous record.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: That's the Insta trivia. The answer. We'll get to it
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: and we will do it next.
• 34:47
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  Speaker 1: the insta trivia and then we'll get to Mallard to
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  Speaker 1: the third degree. Here's the instant trivia question. Paul Skeens.
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  Speaker 1: That's a pitcher. He's a good one on a bad team.
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's Paul Skeens has a one ninety four earn run
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  Speaker 1: average in his career. That's the lowest in a pitcher's
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  Speaker 1: first fifty three career starts in the live ball era.
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  Speaker 1: Goes back over one hundred years, besting Blank who had
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  Speaker 1: the previous record. All right, that's the question. What's the
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  Speaker 1: answer that sees anyone know the answer? We go to
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  Speaker 1: the great unwashed here Bobby in Florida, says former Fox
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  Speaker 1: Sports radio host Rob Dibble. Dibble was doing radio in Hartford,
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  Speaker 1: Connecticut last I heard. I don't know if he still is.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea. Who else do we have page down?
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  Speaker 1: Grover Cleveland Alexander from The Grill Sergeant, that's an interesting name.
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  Speaker 1: Sally Struthers from Manuel and Gardeina dating himself with that.
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  Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Page down? Rick Sutcliffe from
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  Speaker 1: Ryan That's a good name. Arthur Roade, solid name from
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  Speaker 1: Sean in the Valley of the Sun. Billy Chappell, That
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  Speaker 1: guy was good for the Tigers from Doug. Boog Powell
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  Speaker 1: from j T the Wingman. I think JT. The Women
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  Speaker 1: kind of looks like boog Powell a little bit. I
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  Speaker 1: think he does. Who else do we have? Sandy Kofax
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  Speaker 1: from Robbie the Mariner, Fan e Dogg's Therapist guessed by
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  Speaker 1: Andy and Lionel makes Bob Gibson from William Jay and
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  Speaker 1: Silent Bob from Milkman Mike in Colorado, The American Dream Ron,
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  Speaker 1: Dusty Rhodes from Rob in Vegas. Who else Femi's going with?
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  Speaker 1: Ferg Dog Sydney Ponson, the Prince from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: The daff Man, Oh Yeah from King Rory? Who else?
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  Speaker 1: Sudden Sam mcdaugas by Alf the Alien opiner. Lorena, what
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  Speaker 1: say you, Lorena, I'm gonna say, David Spade, David Spade,
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  Speaker 1: all right, No, it's increct. The correct answer Vita blue.
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  Speaker 1: Vita blue sounds like the color of a crayon, Vita blue.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go, all right, Sam Aller, how about that?
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  Speaker 1: To the third degree?
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  Speaker 4: This is one big Ben gets grilled cool.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 8: I know it's only been one week, Ben, but it's
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  Speaker 8: being reported that kickoff returns are way up so far
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  Speaker 8: this season thanks to the new rule moving touchbacks to
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  Speaker 8: the thirty five yard line. Is the NFL finally fixed kickoffs?
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  Speaker 1: A small sample sized, Coop, small sample size. It was,
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  Speaker 1: let's put it this way, week one. It was not
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  Speaker 1: a useless play and for several years in the end,
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  Speaker 1: actually more than several years, like you just didn't need
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  Speaker 1: to watch kickoffs because it just nothing ever happened. So
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  Speaker 1: that's the time to go get snacks. That's not a
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  Speaker 1: time to pay attention. But now, yeah, it's one week,
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  Speaker 1: so at this point we do the show today, Coop.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: Next, the Toronto Blue Jays are only a few games
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  Speaker 8: ahead of the Yankees in the Al East, and they
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  Speaker 8: just had to put their star shortstop Bobachette.
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  Speaker 1: On the il.
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  Speaker 8: Do you think they'll be able to hold off the
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  Speaker 8: Bronx Bombers.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you've seen the way the Yankees have played
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  Speaker 1: this week, getting just destroyed by the Detroit Talger, the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees are a flawed baseball team. So Toronto's not great either.
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  Speaker 1: But based on side by side, the Yankees, all they
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  Speaker 1: do is hit home runs. If they don't hit home runs,
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  Speaker 1: they really don't win very often at all. They showed
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  Speaker 1: some weaknesses in their bullpen here, So yeah, oh Cada
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  Speaker 1: next A.
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  Speaker 8: Roldis Chapman has been on an insane run for the
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  Speaker 8: Boston Red Sox. He was till yesterday, well before that,
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  Speaker 8: it was seventeen straight appearances without allowing a hit, only
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  Speaker 8: won run last thirty seven games.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Do you think chapman success this year secures him a spot.
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  Speaker 1: In the Hall?
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  Speaker 7: No?
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  Speaker 1: No, he's got a lot of baggage and he you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's one of those borderline guys. He's got some
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame numbers. Now, if the Red Sox going
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  Speaker 1: to run in the playoffs and he's lights out, then
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  Speaker 1: you can revisit this but he's still borderline Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame even with this renaissance, and he's been great. He
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  Speaker 1: already signed for next year. The Red Sox already signed
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  Speaker 1: Chapman to an extension. All right there, it is Mallor
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  Speaker 1: to the third degree. He got lit up by the
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  Speaker 1: A's And how did we do pass?
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  Speaker 5: This edition is again take that Justin and Cincinnati. I won.
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  Speaker 4: Justin