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Hour 2 - Not the Philly Special · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: The Benny Man can. The Benny Man can. It's hour
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  Speaker 1: number two. And a happy Wednesday to you. It's the
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  Speaker 1: final day of the month of September today, the 30th day.
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  Speaker 2: Of the month.
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  Speaker 1: And here in hour number two of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 1: Show podcast, we talk about Donnie Baseball. Phillies manager Don Mattingly,
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  Speaker 1: his decision to use his closer early this Is that
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  Speaker 1: a thumbs up or thumbs down based on the decision,
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  Speaker 1: not the result, that obviously backfired as Duran... Gave up
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  Speaker 1: the big home run to Austin Riley as Atlanta ended
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  Speaker 1: up coming back, getting the win in that game. But
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  Speaker 1: do you agree with the decision to bring in the
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  Speaker 1: closer early? Thumbs up or thumbs down? Also, what happened
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  Speaker 1: to the Cubbies in the opener of the MLB playoffs?
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  Speaker 1: They got shut out 8-0 by the pod squad. And
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk more about that Yankee game with the Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox on NBC. Lou Merloni and Anthony Rizzo had a
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  Speaker 1: discussion where they– agreed that the Red Sox won too
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  Speaker 1: much during that record streak where they went 27-3, and
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  Speaker 1: it took a toll on the team mentally and physically.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: The Red Sox won too much. How are you processing this,
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  Speaker 1: if at all? Yeah, welcome to crazy town. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to that and more. Here it is, hour number two.
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  Speaker 1: That was definitely not the Philly special. Not the Philly special.
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  Speaker 2: All right, in-depth.
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  Speaker 1: Around the clock, team coverage continues. And our lead this
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  Speaker 1: hour from Georgia, we go to the south below the
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  Speaker 1: Mason-Dixon line. Now, we were going to start this hour.
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  Speaker 1: The plan, if you look at the big board, not
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  Speaker 1: a list, big board. If you look at the big board,
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  Speaker 1: the plan in our afternoon production meeting was to start
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  Speaker 1: with the Padre Cub game. That game was such a dud.
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  Speaker 1: How big a dud was it? It was such a dud,
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  Speaker 1: we decided to pivot. And we're going to start with
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  Speaker 1: the game. That was the better game, and that's not
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  Speaker 1: the game in San Diego, Cubs and Padres, so we'll
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  Speaker 1: go later to the late game. We'll start with the
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  Speaker 1: early game on the National League side of the card,
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  Speaker 1: and dum-da-dum-dum-dum! But the better story is in that Atlanta-Philadelphia game,
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  Speaker 1: so wild card round game number one, and After a
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  Speaker 1: season in the dungeon, Austin Riley, who was not only
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  Speaker 1: a baseball player, he had been terrible for the Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: Braves this year. Well, he woke from his coma and
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  Speaker 1: hit the Earl Weaver special. That's an outdated reference, but
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  Speaker 1: there used to be this little guy, little short guy
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  Speaker 1: who managed the Baltimore Orioles named Earl Weaver, and he
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  Speaker 1: loved the three-run homer. And he would have absolutely loved
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  Speaker 1: the fact that Austin Riley hit a three-run bopper Off
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  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Phillies closer, Jawan.
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  Speaker 2: Duran in the eighth inning.
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  Speaker 1: And that lifted Atlanta to a 5-3 win over Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: in game number one of the National League Series there.
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  Speaker 1: The Phillies had taken a 3-2 lead in the seventh inning.
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  Speaker 1: You saw the game, you know, it was an afternoon game.
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  Speaker 1: But JT Riamuto, the catcher. Hit a two-run triple, and
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  Speaker 1: that led the Phillies to take the lead briefly. And
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  Speaker 1: then the interim manager, Donnie Baseball, Don Mattingly, made what
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  Speaker 1: many are saying is an unconventional move for modern baseball.
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  Speaker 1: What did Don Mattingly do? Well, he decided to bring
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  Speaker 1: in Duran, his closer, in the seventh inning. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Can you believe that? What is he, trying to kill him?
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  Speaker 1: Trying to kill him. Brought in his closer in the
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  Speaker 1: seventh inning. And he hadn't pitched in the seventh inning
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  Speaker 1: all year because, of course, none of these guys go
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  Speaker 1: above and beyond the call of duty. It's the bare minimum,
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  Speaker 1: the bare necessities. That's how baseball's operated for years. They
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  Speaker 1: don't go above and beyond. There's no pride in performance.
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  Speaker 1: Do the bare minimum. Save it for the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: OK, fine.
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  Speaker 1: So Mattingly getting ripped because it didn't work. Donnie Baseball
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  Speaker 1: had the strategy all mapped out, said it was all
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  Speaker 1: planned out. Now, Mattingly did defend the move afterwards. Donnie
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  Speaker 1: Baseball saying we had our best guy out there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the best means as good as all the rest. You
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  Speaker 1: live with this one. Close quote from Don Mattingly. Nonetheless,
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  Speaker 1: he's still getting charbroiled, Don Mattingly, for this. It's a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. Let us discuss. So the question here,
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Phillies manager Don Mattingly and his decision to use
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  Speaker 1: closer Joanne Duran in the seventh inning.
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  Speaker 2: Use him early.
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  Speaker 1: It's much earlier than you normally would bring in a closer.
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  Speaker 1: Thumbs up. Or thumbs down, thumbs up, thumbs down, based
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  Speaker 1: on the decision, not the result. Based on the decision,
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  Speaker 1: not the result. So I've got BMX bike, pot belly,
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  Speaker 1: and Mayo Clinic. And we'll combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and we'll see which way the ball bounces on
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  Speaker 1: this one. So in terms of the question, Don Mattingly
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  Speaker 1: getting killed here for this decision to bring in his
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  Speaker 1: closer early. You go thumbs up or thumbs down. Again,
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  Speaker 1: just based on the decision, not the outcome.
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  Speaker 2: We know the outcome.
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  Speaker 1: If you just base it on the outcome, well, that's
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  Speaker 1: a terrible decision. But I'm going to go thumbs up.
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  Speaker 1: I like the move, so I'm going to go thumbs up.
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  Speaker 1: Don Mattingly committed the unforgivable baseball sin. He used his
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  Speaker 1: top pitcher when the game actually mattered instead of saving
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  Speaker 1: the top guy for some hypothetical situation that may or
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  Speaker 1: may not happen down the line. And it's old school.
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  Speaker 1: And when I say old school, it's like what I
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  Speaker 1: was raised on.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I'm old.
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  Speaker 1: But it was old school, and Mattingly made the right call.
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  Speaker 2: He did. You can't coach scared. In fact, we have.
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  Speaker 2: I guess we have the audio. I just saw this.
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  Speaker 2: But we have the audio. Here's Don Mattingly. Let's hear
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  Speaker 2: what he had to say. Yeah, we show up and play.
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  Speaker 2: And these guys have been here before. So that game
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  Speaker 2: the other day felt like a must win.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we didn't know what was going to happen
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  Speaker 1: in the other game, playing at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean, that was a must-win for us there.
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  Speaker 4: We're back there tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: All right, back there tomorrow. It's kind of generic, but
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  Speaker 1: he did stand, trust me, he stood by the move.
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  Speaker 1: Baseball spent roughly 100 years, roughly 100 years, telling us
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  Speaker 1: that managers should trust their gut. And it's only the
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  Speaker 1: last 20 years or so that they've gotten away from that,
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  Speaker 1: really the last 15 years, give or take. So you're
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  Speaker 1: not supposed to trust your gut. You're supposed to trust
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  Speaker 1: the algorithm. You're supposed to trust the sabermetrics, the super nerds,
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  Speaker 1: the Ivy League people that use big words so they
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  Speaker 1: sound smarter.
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  Speaker 2: Those people.
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  Speaker 1: And it was now, after all that, 100 years of
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  Speaker 1: baseball where you trust your gut, now people are angry
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  Speaker 1: because Don Mattingly trusted his gut.
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  Speaker 2: What's wrong with you, Donnie Baseball?
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  Speaker 1: So Durand, the closer, is by all accounts the top
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  Speaker 1: pitcher the Phillies have in their bullpen. And they were
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  Speaker 1: going against the meat of the Atlanta Braves lineup, and
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  Speaker 1: you want to lose with your top guy. Now, you
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  Speaker 1: want to win with your top guy, but if you're
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  Speaker 1: going to lose, you're like, okay, I've got a top
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  Speaker 1: guy out there, and that's that. And the plan did
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  Speaker 1: not fail. The execution failed. The plan was effing brilliant.
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  Speaker 1: By the fight and fills. The plan was effing brilliant.
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  Speaker 1: The execution fills. So Durant, the closer, he breezed through
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  Speaker 1: the seven. You saw the game. He pitched very well
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  Speaker 1: in the seven. I think it was like 11 pitches
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. But with two outs in the
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  Speaker 1: eighth inning, the old bugaboo popped up.
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  Speaker 2: This unraveled. Now, why did it unravel?
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  Speaker 1: Durant blew it because he gave up the home run
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  Speaker 1: to Austin Riley, if you're looking at the Philadelphia Phillies,
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  Speaker 1: settings however there was a play by the Phillies that
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  Speaker 1: opened things up and rattled Durant the closer and that
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  Speaker 1: play was made or not made by shortstop Trey Turner
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  Speaker 1: who has been Edward Scissorhands defensively he's been terrible and
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  Speaker 1: he failed to make a play that would have would
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  Speaker 1: have changed the game dramatically. And it was a play
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  Speaker 1: that you have to make. It was the infield single.
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  Speaker 1: It was a difficult play, but not an impossible play.
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  Speaker 1: A big league shortstop should make that play. You've got
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  Speaker 1: to make that play in the playoffs. He crossed over
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  Speaker 1: second base to field the ball and then did not
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  Speaker 1: get the runner out at that particular point. So nobody
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  Speaker 1: gets in the playoffs. You don't get the perfect scenario.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a country club. You're asked to go above
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  Speaker 1: and beyond the call of duty, which is what supposedly
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  Speaker 1: makes it fun. And you don't get your nap time
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  Speaker 1: like you're supposed to get and your preferred inning.
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  Speaker 2: You don't get all those things. You don't save the parachute.
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  Speaker 2: There's an old line.
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  Speaker 1: You don't save the parachute because you're worried you might
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  Speaker 1: need it closer to the ground.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: When you fall out of the plane, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: wait a couple of seconds or so, and then you
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  Speaker 1: pull the parachute. You don't wait and say, well, maybe
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  Speaker 1: I should get a little closer to the ground to
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  Speaker 1: pull the parachute.
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  Speaker 3: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't have a problem with what Mattingly did.
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  Speaker 1: It obviously backfired and blew up, and the Braves won
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  Speaker 1: the game and all that. But I like it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: fine with it. And so we'll see what happens here
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  Speaker 1: as the Phillies now face elimination. Atlanta one win away
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  Speaker 1: from a date in La La Land. with the Doyers. Now,
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  Speaker 1: to the late game on the National League card in
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  Speaker 1: San Diego. To San Diego we go. NL Wildcard, Cubbies
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  Speaker 1: and Padres, America's finest city.
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  Speaker 2: It's on the police cards. It used to be on
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  Speaker 2: the police cards. I don't know if it is anymore.
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  Speaker 2: It used to be on the police cards when I
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  Speaker 2: was down there.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, the Padres. Boy, you talk about a waylay situation.
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  Speaker 1: They waylaid the Cubs.
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  Speaker 3: 8-0.
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  Speaker 5: 8-0.
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  Speaker 2: They served up Stakes of bear. You get a stake
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  Speaker 2: of bear, you get a stake of bear, you get a...
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  Speaker 2: The cubby bear.
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  Speaker 1: 8-0 in game number one of the NL wildcard series.
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  Speaker 1: So that means the Padres now, going back to the
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  Speaker 1: regular season, are 18-3 over their last 21 games.
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  Speaker 2: I'm told that's good. I'm told that's good.
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  Speaker 1: PED cheat forever. Fernando Tatis currently got the good stuff there.
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  Speaker 1: He had the party starter... He had the party favors
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  Speaker 1: there to begin the night as Fernando Tatis Jr. blasting
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  Speaker 1: the very first pitch he saw. 405 feet. A leadoff
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  Speaker 1: ding-dong for Fernando Tatis Jr. Manny Machado, who was stealing
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  Speaker 1: money much of this year for the Padres. Machado homered
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  Speaker 1: in the first inning as well. San Diego's starting pitcher,
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  Speaker 1: Michael King, the former Yankee, flirting with a no-hitter. He
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  Speaker 1: allowed one hit over seven scoreless innings with eight strikeouts.
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  Speaker 1: The no-hit bid was broken up by Nico Horner of
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  Speaker 1: the Cubbies there, broke it up in the seventh. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the better story is on the Chicago side. In the
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  Speaker 1: losing locker room, the Cubs starting pitcher Matthew Boyd rode
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  Speaker 1: the vomit comet as he got absolutely smashed to smithereens.
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  Speaker 1: So the question... What the hell happened to the Chicago Cubs?
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  Speaker 1: What happened to the Cubbies in the opener of the
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  Speaker 1: MLB playoffs? So apparently nobody told the Cubs that the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs actually started on Tuesday. They did not get the
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  Speaker 1: text message that they needed to be. They thought that
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  Speaker 1: was a workout.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we'll show up. Let's kind of go through the motions. OK,
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  Speaker 2: that's good.
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  Speaker 1: Why not? So they showed up to the ballpark. There
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  Speaker 1: they were at Petco Park in downtown San Diego with
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  Speaker 1: all the crackheads around the ballpark and the fentanyl addicts
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  Speaker 1: right there in downtown San Diego.
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  Speaker 2: Go visit San Diego. It's beautiful downtown. Way to go.
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  Speaker 1: So they're down there at Petco like tourists. And they
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  Speaker 1: accidentally wandered for some reason into a private event. And
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  Speaker 1: that was the game. They spent nine innings playing possum.
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  Speaker 1: And unfortunately, nobody explained to Craig Council's baseball team the
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  Speaker 1: part where they have to stop playing possum. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: stop playing possum. And we got to go back to
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Boyd, the starting pitcher for the Cubs, who got
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  Speaker 1: the ball from Craig Council there, starting a playoff game,
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  Speaker 1: not his first playoff appearance or anything like that. And
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  Speaker 1: it looked, while he was on the mound, like he
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  Speaker 1: was working the lunch rush of At Potbelly Sandwich Shop,
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  Speaker 1: he's serving up sandwiches. You get a meatball sub. You
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  Speaker 1: get a meatball sub. You get a meatball sub. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: gets a meatball sub. Now, meanwhile, Pete Crow Armstrong. The
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  Speaker 1: golden boy, Mr. Chicago, was Mr. Whiff-A-Go in this particular game.
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  Speaker 1: Three strikeouts. He did have a walk.
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  Speaker 4: Whee!
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  Speaker 2: Three strikeouts, though, for Mr. MVP.
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  Speaker 1: You've all given him the MVP there, Pete Crow Armstrong.
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  Speaker 1: The Cubbies ended up getting not only hoodwinked, they were
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  Speaker 1: bamboozled and hornswoggled, and they got all three. And Michael King,
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  Speaker 1: who was on the mound, he did not pitch against
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs. He conducted a nine-inning faith-healing convention. Petco Park
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  Speaker 1: was like a baseball tent revival there. They were wild
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  Speaker 1: and crazy. Man, it was like the World Series there
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  Speaker 1: for the Padre fan. The Padre fans, it was such
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  Speaker 1: a crazy scene there. It was like a faith healing
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  Speaker 1: convention type thing where you're like, whoa, I think some
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  Speaker 1: of the people had... left the ballpark, they were speaking tongue,
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  Speaker 1: in tongues, by the middle part of that game there.
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  Speaker 1: They got it done, and Tatis starting things off with
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  Speaker 1: the home run, and the 35,000 people got baptized there
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  Speaker 1: in San Diego from that home run. And Chicago's offense
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  Speaker 1: produced just three hits in a playoff game. They must
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  Speaker 1: have used the same hitting strategy the Red Sox used
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  Speaker 1: in their game, just three hits there. presumably because San
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  Speaker 1: Diego eventually got bored late in the game, and so
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs got a few garbage-time hits, and the Cubbies
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  Speaker 1: cranking up the old AC-DC for this game. They were thunderstruck.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely thunderstruck. All right, final point. Let's go back. I
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  Speaker 1: want to go back to the Yankees and Red Sox
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  Speaker 1: game because there was something said on the broadcast which
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  Speaker 1: was so ridiculous. I thought I might have not heard it.
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  Speaker 1: I thought maybe my mind was playing tricks with me,
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  Speaker 1: and this conversation did not happen. So I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you were watching the game.
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  Speaker 2: It was on NBC. I don't know if you saw
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  Speaker 2: the game or not. Maybe you did. Maybe you have
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  Speaker 2: no idea what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm going to relay what I heard, and then
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about it. So during the Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox-Yankee game, the broadcast had Lou Merloni, who was there,
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  Speaker 1: and Anthony Rizzo, and they had Joe Girardi. But this
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  Speaker 1: is Lou Merloni, who's a Red Sox homer, and then
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Rizzo, who played for the Yankees a couple.
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  Speaker 2: Years ago and all that. So they were there.
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  Speaker 1: Doing their thing, and it seemed like Rizzo made an
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  Speaker 1: excuse for the Red Sox, and then Lou Merloni backed
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  Speaker 1: up the excuse.
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  Speaker 2: So let me explain.
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  Speaker 1: So both agreed that the Red Sox were winning too much.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the Red Sox won 27 of 30 games? Remember that?
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  Speaker 1: A crazy month of baseball, 27-3 over a 30-game stretch.
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  Speaker 1: And that led Lou Merloni and Anthony Rizzo... Seemingly with
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  Speaker 1: a straight face. I don't think I was getting punked.
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  Speaker 1: They claimed that that much success put a strain on
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  Speaker 1: the team mentally and physically. All right, now I'm paraphrasing.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they said. So here's the question. You've got
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  Speaker 1: Lou Merloni and Anthony Rizzo claiming the Red Sox. They
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  Speaker 1: won too much. They won too much during their 27-3
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: stretch of baseball, and it took a toll on the
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: team mentally.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Mentally and physically.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: So how are you processing this conversation, if at all?
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: All right. So this take, and I'm in the hot
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: take business, this take is so egregious, this hot take,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: that it deserves a whole page of puffy stickers and
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: a whole crate of juice boxes. That is how egregious
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: this is. In the pantheon of meathead former jocks who
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: benefit from the jockocracy to get these great broadcasting jobs,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: and there have been plenty of them that have done this,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: this is head and shoulders and a protein shake above
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: the competition. Like, what are we doing? Does someone need
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: to call the Mayo Clinic? Boston came down with a
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: severe case of weaning too much. Oh, no! The Red
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Sox won 27 of 30! Oh, my God! Only modern
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: professional sports could diagnose winning as a medical condition. Way
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: to go, Lou Merloni and Anthony Rizzo. Dum-da-dum-dum-dum! My God.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Imagine being paid. Imagine being paid to say that winning
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: became such a burden. They needed a cleanse, a losing cleanse. This...
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: It's so dumb! It's so dumb. It really is. It's crazy.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: The Red Sox were victims of their own success. And
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: somebody cue the tiny violin there and get the duck
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: boats and all that stuff.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: My God. Now, that's not analytics. That is not analytics.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: That is something you hear, that kind of conversation from
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: somebody calling an overnight talk radio show at 3.30 in
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: the morning.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Kind of like when I'm on. That's what you hear, right?
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Somebody that spent all night at the bar and got
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: completely sloshed and then says, let me call into Malheur
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: and give a terrible take. Okay.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: These guys were actual former athletes. Y'all tell me how
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: important that is to be a former athlete to give
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: takes like that. Well, that's very important. Way to go. Now,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: back in my day, teams handled the burden of winning
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: by trying to continue to win.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, you're such a boomer.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Yes, the Red Sox need– they didn't need just one loss.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: They needed like a– not a vacation. They needed a slumpcation.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Is what they needed.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: They needed a slumpcation. Talk about first world problems. It
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• 21:23
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• 21:28
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• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Patrick in San Diego, a.k.a. DJ Spin. Now, Patrick's been
• 24:13
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• 24:16
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• 24:19
  Speaker 1: We love Patrick. He gets very protective of his Padres.
• 24:24
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• 24:27
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• 24:30
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• 24:35
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• 24:37
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• 24:40
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• 24:43
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• 24:46
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• 24:49
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• 24:50
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• 24:55
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• 24:55
  Speaker 1: I knew it. And you are going to say something
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: about Fernando Tatis's PEDs.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Am I not supposed.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: To bring that up?
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: I didn't know the rules.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Are there rules?
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: I'm in trouble now. Shut your, yeah.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: He served an 80-game suspension for cheating in 2022 and
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: then couldn't hit a home run the first half of
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the season, then all of a sudden starting hitting.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Home runs again.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know why. I'm sure there was nothing wrong.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Nothing odd about that. I don't think he went to
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: any pharmacy or anything like that. I'm sure he did
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: not get anything to help him hit home runs. No,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I am not saying that. Let the record show, I
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: do not believe Fernando Tatis, who could not hit a
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: home run to save his life the first part of
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: the season, I do not believe he went back on
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the PEDs again.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: I do not believe that. So I don't want that
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: out there.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I am not saying... I am not saying that the
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: T's did PEDs. Again, I am not saying that. I
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: just want to point that out. Michael in Tulsa, Oklahoma writes,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: and he says, Ben, between the fightin' fills and the E-A-G-L-E-S, lose, lose, lose,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: the Phillies and Eagles, at what point could Phillies steal
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Cleveland's Factory of Sadness title?
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: I'm fairly certain.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: The smelter has been turned on, and there might be
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: something coming out of the smokestacks in southeastern Pennsylvania. Well, Michael,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: you failed to mention, while the Eagles did not show
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: up to their game against the Bears, and that was
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: a zero-effort performance there by the Philadelphia Eagles, and the
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Phillies fought back, had the lead, and were in
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: position to win a game started by Chris Sale. until
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: their closer rode the vomit comet, you fail to mention
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia 76ers. LeBron James, his first moment in uniform
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: as a Philadelphia 76er, and he said, essentially, I would
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: have signed with the Knicks instead. He made it seem
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: like he didn't really want to play for the Sixers.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: The Sixers were plan B. His original plan was to
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: play for the Knicks, and then the Knicks had to win.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: And the thing that nobody's pointed out, that I remember
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: when LeBron was in Cleveland, I believe. I think he
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: was with Cleveland the first time, many, many years ago.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: And LeBron had made some comments, and I tried to
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: find them, and I think it might have been somebody
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: in the LeBron inner circle. But somebody around LeBron in
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: his circle, I think it might have even been LeBron,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: they were saying, well, LeBron's not going to play in
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: New York because of James Dolan. that Dolan's not a
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: good owner and he didn't want to play for James Dolan.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: So now we're supposed to believe that LeBron was more
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: than willing to play for the Knicks and Dolan. who,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: to my knowledge, hasn't changed his ways at all. He's
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: still the same James Dolan, the guy that has the
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: surveillance state at Madison Square Garden, where they track you,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: use AI, from what I read online, all kinds of
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: things to track you, and they don't allow anyone that
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: says anything bad about James Dolan in the building, supposedly.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: So it's an odd thing. Anyway, let's go to the phones,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: and we'll say hello to eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Let's
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: go to Mike. He's in Minneapolis. He's driving home from
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: the bar. Let's hope he's working. He worked at the bar,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: and he wasn't a customer at the bar. Hello, Mike.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Welcome.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Big Ben Mallard just pulled onto the homestretch here. Good.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: Pulling into the driveway.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: All right. We'll make this a brief call so you
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: can go to your house.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: We don't want to keep you too long.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of tears for the Minnesota Lynx today.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Number one all season. They just got swept by the Liberty.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: And all I've got to say about it is I
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: don't have to hear about it anymore. So pretty cool.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we were all devastated here. We were so emotional,
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: we decided not to talk about it or watch it.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: We were very worked up here for the links. Distraught, even.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: We decided to pretend.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I think the proper way to handle it as a
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: talk show is to pretend like it didn't happen because
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: we didn't know it happened. It's like if a tree
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: falls in the forest, if no one's.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Well, go liberty, I guess, for the rest of the year.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Okay, thank you. All right. My God. Go to your house.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Never call me again.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: Ever.
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: Never.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Never!
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Scotty is on the pike, and he's hanging out in
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: the Commonwealth.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Hello, Scotty. Welcome.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: What's up, Ben?
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: You want to talk some hot WNBA, Scotty, like that guy?
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: No?
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: No.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm pretty sure Mike was a customer, not an employee.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: It would appear. It would appear that way.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: It certainly sounded that way.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: No, we're talking about a tie-eight. Opening night, NHL.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: Bees.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: 3-0 winners. Against their original six rivals.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Come on. Hey, can we talk about that for a second?
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Does the NHL need to hire someone to be in
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: charge of making the schedule? Who is it at the
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: NHL that decides, rather than have our own night where
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: we're the standalone event, why don't we, rather than start on,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know, Monday, when there was, I know there's
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Monday Night Football, but let's be real, Monday would have
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: been better, or just a random day where there's not
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: much going on. The NHL decides to start their season...
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: and they get overshadowed by the baseball plug. Like, who's
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: making the schedule at the NHL? Do you know the
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: guy's name, Scotty on the Pike? Who's making the schedule
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: for the NHL? That does not seem like a great
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: move by the National Hockey League to try to get
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: the full attention, the most bang for your buck.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: It's wicked retarded. That's for sure.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: I don't disagree with you. We agree. So you were
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: watching the baseball. You were watching the hockey is what
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: you're saying.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: Well, I listen to it on the radio because I'm
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: out working. I listen to it on the radio. And
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: I just can't get stuck back into the fellowship of
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: the miserable with the Red Sox right now. They just
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: don't have a chance. They're most likely going to get swept.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: I give them credit for getting out of the doldrums
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: midway through the season. They had a nice little run. Yeah,
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: you got in the playoffs. I don't think it warranted
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: champagne and ski goggles.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Nobody celebrates more than baseball players.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Man, they have a good old time, those baseball players.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: They don't do that in basketball, except when you win
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: the championship.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: In hockey, do they do it? Every round, do they
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: go crazy in hockey? No.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Touch the conference trophy.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: When they win their conference, they don't even touch that.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Baseball players, man. They let their hair down, those baseball players, man.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: They have a good old time. Good old time, yeah.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Hey, you know, on your first read, however, was spot on, Massel.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: Good job by you.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you. I appreciate that.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: As you know, I'm an honorary Massel. As you know,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Massel Mickey, may he rest in peace. He gave me
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: the nickname, so... I've been deputized by a true person
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: from the Commonwealth.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: So there you go.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: No, you nailed it, brother.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: All right. Thank you, Scotty.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Scotty on the bike, driving around out there working.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Can I ask a question, Ben?
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Koopa Loop would like to add a question. You want
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: to go wicked? You want to say wicked?
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: Why are hockey fans? so obsessed with the original six.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: It is annoying. It is annoying. You know, I couldn't
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: answer that.
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: The franchise has been around a long time? Do we
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: do that when the Bears and the Packers play?
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: It's even worse than that. You know, the Cardinals are
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: one of the original franchises. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: one's saying, hey, I'm a fan of an original NFL franchise,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals. No one in Arizona is bragging about that.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: They don't do it.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the funniest thing about hockey people is they bitch
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: at me when I don't talk about hockey. And then
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: when I talk about hockey, they bitch at me because
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: I'm talking hockey, not the way they want me to
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: talk hockey.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: So there's really a no-win situation.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: I am fascinated that they decided to start their season, though,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: at the same time of the baseball playoffs, at the
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: same exact time, like the primetime TV window, and they're like, oh,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: let's play some hockey here. I was like, who sits
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: in that boardroom and says this is a good idea?
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Let's do that.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Why not?
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: What could possibly go wrong? With that, FergDog says, some
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: in the Mallard Militia might not like it, but I
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: appreciate the back-to-back baseball monologues. I don't do the streaming thing.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: I'm too old and set in my ways for it,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: so I wouldn't even know who won the games if
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: you didn't cover them, Ben.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: That's from FergDog. I do this as a public service
• 34:09
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• 34:12
  Speaker 1: DJ Smith Patrick in San Diego says, my first call
• 34:16
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• 34:20
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• 34:24
  Speaker 1: never say that. But I've been beside him and you
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: since then.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: That's a long time.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Eileen in San Francisco says, the Knicks did not want
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: LeBron in.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: They did not want LeBron. Okay, well, they didn't have
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: money for LeBron.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Kathy in Madison says that she is listening to the
• 34:50
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• 34:56
  Speaker 2: What are you doing, Kathy? You're listening on your local station.
• 34:58
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• 35:02
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• 35:04
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• 35:09
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• 35:12
  Speaker 1: It is the Ben Maller Show.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: And who goofed? I've got to know. Who goofed?
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: I've got to know. Pre-game, Yankees and Red Sox in
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: the Bronx. And there was something missing. There was something
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: missing from the game there.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Pre-game. Pre-game festivities, Yankees and Red Sox. Did you see
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: this story?
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: No?
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: You didn't see this? All right, so the Yankees are
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: playing the Red Sox. Fine, whatever. They play each other's
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: team all the time. Blood rivals, we're told.
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  Speaker 1: And guess who somehow did not get introduced before the game?
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  Speaker 1: That would be none other than number 99 in your program,
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  Speaker 1: but number one in your heart, Aaron Judge. Now, Judge
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  Speaker 1: is not on the active roster, but normally the protocol
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  Speaker 1: is you introduce even the players that are hurt. Judge
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  Speaker 1: was not introduced prior to the Yankees and the Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox game one. He is not on the wild card
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  Speaker 1: roster because of a calf injury. The omission, though, was
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  Speaker 1: strange because the Yankees did introduce multiple other players who
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  Speaker 1: were not on the active roster, which leads to the question,
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  Speaker 1: who goofed? I've got to know. Some very odd decision there.
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  Speaker 1: And the omission by the pregame team there for the
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  Speaker 1: New York Yankees, and there was no explanation that was given.
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  Speaker 1: Did Judge have to go take a doo-doo or something
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  Speaker 1: like that? Maybe he was not available. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but he was not introduced there.
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  Speaker 2: And Judge had.
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  Speaker 1: Said he planned on being able to play for the Yankees,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously that did not happen. It is the Ben
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  Speaker 1: Maller Show. Yankees one win away from advancing, and Judge
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  Speaker 1: can be on the roster in the next round. Time
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  Speaker 1: now for the Insta Trivia. Atlanta Braves infielder Ozzie Albies
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  Speaker 1: became the first player to blank in postseason history. Again,
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  Speaker 1: Braves infielder Ozzie Albies became the first player to blank
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  Speaker 1: in postseason history. That's the answer. And Mallard of the
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  Speaker 1: third degree.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to that. We will do it.
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  Speaker 1: Ben Maller's show, Fox Sports Radio. Reminder, next hour. we'll
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  Speaker 1: have the queen of hearts with Lorena so we need
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  Speaker 1: some questions hashtag queen of hearts if you'd like to
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  Speaker 2: We just love love don't we Bill.
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  Speaker 1: Speak for yourself that'll be next hour the queen of
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  Speaker 1: hearts hashtag queen of hearts which many of you are
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  Speaker 1: too stupid to know how to spell so try your
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  Speaker 1: best which means as good as all the rest the
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  Speaker 1: queen of hearts with Lorena she'll give love advice stock
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  Speaker 1: market advice AI you name it global any global issues
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  Speaker 1: you want resolved peace in the middle east she'll help
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  Speaker 1: you with that the whole thing Next hour. And here
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  Speaker 1: is the instant trivia. Atlanta Braves infielder Ozzie Albies became
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  Speaker 1: the first player in postseason history to do blank. Again,
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  Speaker 1: Ozzie Albies, first player to blank in the history of
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  Speaker 1: the baseball postseason. And that is the question. What is
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  Speaker 1: the answer?
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  Speaker 2: And let's see. Does anyone know the answer?
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  Speaker 1: We go to the great unwashed and catch a can
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  Speaker 1: of corn. From Alf the Alien O'Piner, Femi just went
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  Speaker 1: with Michael Jackson as his answer. Play a flute while
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  Speaker 1: running the bases from Jerry Najar.
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  Speaker 2: Now, that would be good. If he had done that,
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  Speaker 2: that would have been very impressive. What else do we have?
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  Speaker 1: Page down. I can't read that. Score a hat trick
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  Speaker 1: from JT the Wingman.
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  Speaker 2: That would be pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Cam Scadaboo from Robin, Minnesota. It appears no one's listening.
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  Speaker 1: Mediocre Kabuki from Barney Miller.
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  Speaker 2: What else do we have?
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  Speaker 1: Rob in the 321 says he's the first person to
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  Speaker 1: be called cuz by Anthony in Louisiana. First player to
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  Speaker 1: order churros during a game from Hugh on the 5.
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  Speaker 1: Solve a Rubik's Cube while blindfolded from Kyle. Introduced arson
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  Speaker 1: judge from Eileen in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 2: What else do we have? Let's see. Page down. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Give birth from Johnny Q. Now, that would be impressive
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  Speaker 1: as well. Do you have an answer, Lorena?
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  Speaker 7: I was going to say.
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  Speaker 2: Do it naked. Do it. Play baseball naked. Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Run the bases naked.
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  Speaker 2: That'd be great.
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  Speaker 1: Just do it naked.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's incorrect.
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  Speaker 1: Ozzie Albies of the Braves became the first player to
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  Speaker 1: win the first ever ABS challenge in a postseason game.
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  Speaker 2: And that was in the second inning.
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  Speaker 4: Of the Braves game.
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  Speaker 5: Here we go.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. How about that? To the third degree.
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  Speaker 5: This is when Big Ben gets grilled.
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  Speaker 1: Koopaloop.
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  Speaker 2: What do we got?
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  Speaker 6: Not long after the Dolphins fell to 0-3 on the season,
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: it was announced that star running back Devon A-Chain tore
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: his ACL and will miss the remainder of the season. Ben,
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  Speaker 6: what are the chances that you give Miami to go
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: winless on the season?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so they're trying. The front office is trying to
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: lose every game. At some point, late in the year,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: they play the Chargers, who are already eliminated. They've got
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: the two games with the Jets. So they should win
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  Speaker 1: one of those games. I'm going to say the odds
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: of the Dolphins going winless are... That's about 25%, which
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: are pretty high, but I still think they'll accidentally win
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: a game.
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  Speaker 6: Next! A report published on Monday listed three NFL head
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  Speaker 6: coaches who may be on the hot seat heading into
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: week four. It listed Jim Harbaugh, Matt LaFleur, and Todd Bowles.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Could you see any of those guys getting fired midseason?
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I don't think Harbaugh, the charges are too
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: cheap to fire him during the season. I think Todd
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Bowles is the one that will likely get whacked first. Next! Next!
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  Speaker 6: Drew Aller was asked about his former head coach, James
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  Speaker 6: Franklin's hot start as the new head coach for Virginia Tech.
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: Aller said he's not surprised because Franklin has a good
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: track record of turning programs around. Ben, are you surprised
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  Speaker 6: by Virginia Tech's 4-0 start?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, they haven't been good in years. I was a
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  Speaker 1: little young guy the.
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  Speaker 2: Last time they were good, the Hokies.
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  Speaker 4: How do we do?
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  Speaker 2: You pass this.
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  Speaker 1: That is a win. Put it on the board.
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  Speaker 3: What a, what a, what a, what a.