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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: The big game. Epic matchup. Epic pitching matchup. Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: The second round of the postseason. And we head below
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  Speaker 1: the Mason-Dixon line. It was on Fox. Boy, Kenny Albert
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  Speaker 1: sounded freaking great. Is that guy not a stud as
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  Speaker 1: a broadcaster? So Joe Davis came up lame. He couldn't
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  Speaker 1: do the game well. And it was as good as
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  Speaker 1: any broadcast I've seen. Kenny Albert is freaking great. Kenny
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  Speaker 1: Albert is awesome at play-by-play. Now, I might be biased
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  Speaker 1: because he's a friend of the show, but Kenny Albert
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  Speaker 1: stepped in there at the last minute. Flew in, apparently,
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  Speaker 1: the same day there. God forbid! Showed up and showed
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  Speaker 1: out with John Smoltz on the Fox broadcast. But the
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  Speaker 1: epic pitching matchup in Game 3, series tied 1-1. You
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  Speaker 1: had Yoshinobu Yamamoto versus Chris Sale in the suburbs outside Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone had their Braves fan gear on. They're all dressed up,
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  Speaker 1: all dolled up, ready to go. Looked like a commercial
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  Speaker 1: for the Braves gift shop. Looking at the crowd there.
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  Speaker 1: I did not see Tommy in Atlanta, though. I looked
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  Speaker 1: for Tom, my friend Tommy, big Braves fan there, friend
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  Speaker 1: of the show. I did not see Tommy in Atlanta there,
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  Speaker 1: or the Georgia boy, for that matter. But the matchup
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  Speaker 1: lived up to the hype. Probably not if you're a
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  Speaker 1: Braves fan, but on this side of the aisle, holy crap!
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  Speaker 1: Yoshinobu Yamamoto struck out 10 Atlanta Braves in seven stellar innings,
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  Speaker 1: and Kike Hernandez, who sucks in the regular season... Not
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Hit another two-run ding-dong. And Freddie Freeman
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  Speaker 1: really had two home runs. One was robbed by a
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  Speaker 1: great defensive play by Atlanta. Hit another home run there.
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  Speaker 1: And the Dodgers never trail. And they end up. Beating
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  Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves 3-1. And so the L.A. Dodgers, the
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  Speaker 1: bad guys. Y'all hate the Dodgers, right? They spent too
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  Speaker 1: much money. They got all the good players. The Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: have a two games to one lead in the National
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  Speaker 1: League Divisional Series. Yamamoto dominating the highly anticipated matchup here.
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  Speaker 1: getting the best of Atlanta's Chris Sale, who allowed three runs,
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  Speaker 1: seven hits in five innings. The better story is in
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  Speaker 1: that losing locker room. So that is where we will begin.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good jumping off point. So let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question. Whose fingerprints are more prominently on this particular
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  Speaker 1: loss for manager Walt Weiss's Atlanta Braves? Who's got their
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  Speaker 1: fingerprints all over this? So I've got... We've got the Blueprint, ACDC,
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  Speaker 1: and we have Poltergeist as well. And we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together, and we are going to
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  Speaker 1: put the biscuit in the basket is what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do. So, A, I love stories like this. It
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  Speaker 1: happens all the time. And we do Benny versus the Penny.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not doing that great on Benny versus the Penny.
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  Speaker 1: But one of the things I've learned over the years
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  Speaker 1: is wherever the public is at, go against the public.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever popular opinion is in terms of gambling, if you
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  Speaker 1: can find out where everyone's convinced something's going to happen,
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  Speaker 1: you go the other way and you're going to win
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  Speaker 1: more times than not. Now, you're not going to win
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  Speaker 1: all the time, but you're going to win more times
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  Speaker 1: than not. I bring that up because the best laid
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  Speaker 1: plans of mice, men, and baseball managers like Walt Weiss
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  Speaker 1: usually end up with somebody warming up in the bullpen
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  Speaker 1: way too soon. And it happened again. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to make the old line, Vince Scully used to use
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  Speaker 1: this quote all the time, if you want to make
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  Speaker 1: God laugh, Tell them about your plans, right? Well, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So if you want to make Dodger fans laugh, tell
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  Speaker 1: them about Chris Sale on extra rest. Oh, my God,
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  Speaker 1: the fear factor. Oh, man. Oh, we're cooked. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: Skipper Walt Weiss had it all mapped out. He had
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  Speaker 1: the blueprint. What a freaking great blueprint for the Atlanta Braves.
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  Speaker 1: It looked great on a tablet. It looked really good.
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  Speaker 1: You built the runway. You cleared the airspace. You gave
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  Speaker 1: your big horse, your big Clydesdale, some extra time off
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  Speaker 1: in this epic prize fight, Dodgers and Braves, the showdown
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  Speaker 1: in a town. And this was the game. This was
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  Speaker 1: the game to turn it upside down and put all
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  Speaker 1: the immense pressure on the Dodgers. And this was it.
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  Speaker 1: You had your guy. Extra rest. This is why you
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  Speaker 1: give Chris Sale extra rest for a game like this
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  Speaker 1: at home. The Braves treated this like a title fight.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't blame them. It seemed like a great
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  Speaker 1: strategy here. Unfortunately... Even though it was billed as a
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  Speaker 1: title fight, Chris Sale showed up and fought like he
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  Speaker 1: was on the undercard. Who goofed? I've got to know.
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  Speaker 1: Two home runs. Should have been three. Freddie Freeman robbery there.
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  Speaker 1: Seven hits. Five innings. That's it for Chris Sale. And
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  Speaker 1: that is not a thoroughbred horse right there. That is
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  Speaker 1: not a horse that can win the Kentucky Derby. That
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  Speaker 1: is a pony ride at the Georgia State Fair. is
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  Speaker 1: what that is. Uh, yeah, not good sale. He put
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  Speaker 1: the plane in the weeds. Uh, you're supposed to put
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  Speaker 1: it on the runway there, Chris, you put it in
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  Speaker 1: the weeds, bad job by you. So turning the show
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  Speaker 1: down in a town into the let down in a
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  Speaker 1: town for the hometown team. They're not good enough to
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  Speaker 1: better be better. And it didn't happen here for the
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta baseball team. Now, Page two. On the other side here,
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers side of the aisle, the question, can you
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  Speaker 1: sum up how good Yoshinobu Yamamoto has been in these
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  Speaker 1: playoff games for the Dodgers over the last couple years?
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  Speaker 1: So the song here, and it's also a tribute to
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  Speaker 1: one of our big fans of the show, it's ACDC's
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  Speaker 1: Big Balls. If you've been to the Malheur Meet and
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  Speaker 1: greets we've done the last couple times in Vegas. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Big Balls Bob, a karaoke legend there. Yamamoto showing the world.
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  Speaker 1: He does have the ACDC Big Balls. Absolutely everything the
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  Speaker 1: Dodger fan spent years begging Clayton Kershaw to be in October.
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  Speaker 1: And they said prayers and they did all these rituals
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  Speaker 1: to try to get Kershaw to be the man in October.
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  Speaker 1: And he... was Mr. Tiny in just about every big
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  Speaker 1: spot Yamamoto showed up from Japan carrying the luggage it
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  Speaker 1: was all there big balls in the luggage the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing the Dodgers paid for a luxury import and amazingly
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  Speaker 1: the luxury import actually works as advertised you know how
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  Speaker 1: rare that is Yamamoto has been as good as he
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to be some would say even better plus
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  Speaker 1: shipping and handling included the whole thing That is an
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  Speaker 1: increasingly rare phenomenon in the highly compensated world of professional sports,
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  Speaker 1: the industrial complex of sports, which is just hyperbole. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: this guy's going to be the greatest thing ever! Oh
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  Speaker 1: my God! And then they pitch and they blow. Not Yamamoto. No.
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  Speaker 1: So the hyperbole was backed up by performance.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 1: And the kindest thing I've ever said about anyone is
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  Speaker 1: that Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the anti-Kershaw. Put that on your
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  Speaker 1: billboard around Dodger Stadium. We have our guy, Yamamoto, the anti-Kershaw.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. Instead of Dodger fans having to reach for
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  Speaker 1: antacids when a guy like Kershaw is on the mound
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  Speaker 1: in October, they're reaching for another ice-cold brewski to celebrate
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  Speaker 1: The good times. And big stage, big pressure, all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And he just treats October like a Tuesday afternoon in
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  Speaker 1: May against the Rockies. Just la-la-la-la-la-la-la. La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. And the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: are a cup check time. And it's good to report
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  Speaker 1: that Yamamoto is very well taken care of in that department.
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  Speaker 1: The cup check, not a problem. As Yamamoto passes just
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  Speaker 1: about every time, he's got eight playoff wins already, and
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  Speaker 1: he's three playoff wins away from being in the top three,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, all time. Some ridiculous statistic in terms of
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  Speaker 1: playoff wins. He's just been insane. Oh, wins don't matter, Maller!
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  Speaker 4: Okay, nerd.
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  Speaker 2: Nerd, nerd, nerd, nerd, nerd.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: October, it has a way of exposing imposters. Happens all
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  Speaker 1: the time. It also has a way of validating those
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  Speaker 1: that deserve the validation, like Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who's been freaking great.
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  Speaker 1: Pitch him much better than that stiff Blake Snell, that
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  Speaker 1: turd Blake Snell. This is a real pitcher. Dump Blake Snell.
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  Speaker 1: Get me another Yamamoto. Do they have another guy? in
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  Speaker 1: Japan like Yamamoto? Bring him over right now. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Pay him a lot of money. All right. Last word.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to the big picture. So right now, as
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  Speaker 1: we speak, the Dodgers have a two games to one
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  Speaker 1: lead in the National League Divisional Series. Much to the dismay.
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  Speaker 1: of those that grew up fans of the Braves, whether
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  Speaker 1: you're in the South or just a fan of the
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  Speaker 1: Superstation back in the day. And here we look, and
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  Speaker 1: we say, wait a minute. The Dodgers need one more
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  Speaker 1: win to reach the Final Four. That's it. So the question,
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  Speaker 1: are Matt Olsen and the Atlanta Braves completely cooked in
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  Speaker 1: the National League Divisional Series? Are they completely cooked? So
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  Speaker 1: we took the thermometer out. We got the temperature. It's
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  Speaker 1: not going well. Obviously, it's not going well. Atlanta, though,
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  Speaker 1: we're happy to report they're still breathing. It's real labored.
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  Speaker 1: It's really labored. The breathing's really labored. And there's a
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  Speaker 1: very obese woman, a very fat lady, who's warming up
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  Speaker 1: her vocal cords behind the curtain right now, as they
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  Speaker 1: said back in the day at the opera. And so
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  Speaker 1: she's eating some snacks right now, but she's also warming
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  Speaker 1: up her vocal cords as we speak. So the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: did not, this is going to blow you away, did
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  Speaker 1: not eliminate the Braves on Tuesday night. You see, it's
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  Speaker 1: not the first team to win two, it's the first
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  Speaker 1: team to win three. However, what the Dodgers did accomplish,
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  Speaker 1: and this is what Atlanta's going to have to deal with,
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  Speaker 1: is they eliminated the margin for error for the Bravos.
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  Speaker 1: So they're going to have to tomahawk chop times two here.
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  Speaker 1: And they can't have an off performance at all. So
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  Speaker 1: the air fryer, the Braves are in the air fryer
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  Speaker 1: at this particular point. And the air fryer is currently
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  Speaker 1: on keep warm. That's the setting. It's already cooked. The
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  Speaker 1: food's been cooked, and now it's on keep warm. So
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  Speaker 1: Chris Sale was supposed to be the October boogeyman. Boo! Boo! Boogeyman. Instead, L.A.
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  Speaker 1: checked under the bed, and they dragged the boogeyman out
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  Speaker 1: by the boogeyman's ankles. And Atlanta, after stealing game two
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  Speaker 1: in Chavez Ravine, they came home with high hopes, and
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  Speaker 1: they had their ace all lined up, ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, right. Body blow, body blow right to the gut. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: it's a gut blow, gut blow, gut blow. So that's
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  Speaker 1: not just a loss in game three. That is a
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  Speaker 1: poltergeist level. Soul extraction is what that is. Saving your ace,
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  Speaker 1: which Walt Weiss did saving your ace and losing anyway.
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  Speaker 1: My God, that is the baseball equivalent of having an
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  Speaker 1: issue in on your yacht and you end up firing
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  Speaker 1: an emergency flare and you shoot it right into your
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  Speaker 1: own boat. That's essentially what the Braves did. So now
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  Speaker 1: they are trusting Tyler Malley. And the Malley rally is
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  Speaker 1: what they're trying to do here. He'll pitch just a
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  Speaker 1: generic roster, middle of the rotation, starting pitcher guy. who's
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  Speaker 1: played for a bunch of teams. So he'll be on
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  Speaker 1: the mound for the Braves in Game 4. And Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Glass now certainly capable of coughing up a furball for
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. Don't trust him much at all. That's the matchup.
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  Speaker 1: Braves have to win, have to get her done, or
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  Speaker 1: they're completely cooked. So the doomsday clock, if you look
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  Speaker 1: up at the Jumbotron, the doomsday clock is ticking.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a couple of guys on the Braves right now.
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  Speaker 1: They're checking their iPhone and they're saying, what's the flight
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  Speaker 1: availability for Cabo? How can I get to Cabo? What's
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  Speaker 1: the cheapest flight to Cabo? And can I get an
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  Speaker 1: all inclusive resort? And I want good restaurants. I want
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  Speaker 1: the spicy Alfredo. I want the fettuccine. I want that.
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  Speaker 1: I want the whole thing. So where can I get that?
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  Speaker 1: So our lead story this hour from San Diego, where
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  Speaker 1: the Padres trying to stave off elimination. The only time
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  Speaker 1: we use the word stave is in sportscasting. Is there
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  Speaker 1: any other reason in life to use the word stave?
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  Speaker 1: Years ago, when I did a very popular round-robin NFL
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  Speaker 1: show on Sunday, we were given the gift of talking
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  Speaker 1: to all the big Fox broadcasters at the time, and
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  Speaker 1: one of the biggest was Joe Buck, and we had
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  Speaker 1: Joe on, and we asked him, we said, Joe, do
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  Speaker 1: you ever use the term stave in your day-to-day life?
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  Speaker 1: And he was... flummoxed by that question as i remember
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  Speaker 1: but that's what was on the line there padres trying
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  Speaker 1: to stave off elimination brewers looking to close out the
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  Speaker 1: pod squad in game three of the nlds punched their
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  Speaker 1: ticket to the nlcs the final four it was on
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  Speaker 1: fox did you watch no you were not okay why
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  Speaker 1: not Okay, that's fine. So Jake Cronenworth hits the tie-breaking
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  Speaker 1: home run. Bye-bye! And that was the difference. As Michael King,
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  Speaker 1: proving that not every baseball player is a wuss, Michael
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  Speaker 1: King put on his big boy pants and went out
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  Speaker 1: there and pitched the final two innings on one day
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  Speaker 1: of rest. That's how desperate the Padres are. They're like, listen,
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  Speaker 1: we are cooked here. We got to stay alive. So
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  Speaker 1: King answered the call. One day of rest. And San
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  Speaker 1: Diego does stave off playoff elimination. They get the 4-3 victory,
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  Speaker 1: biting their fingernails down to the cuticles as they beat
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers in Game 3 of the NL Divisional Series.
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  Speaker 1: Xander Bogarts turned a game-ending double play on At shortstop,
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  Speaker 1: the ex-Red Sox back in the day there playing for
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  Speaker 1: the Padres here for many, many years. And got that done. Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 1: they were lurking in the shadows, but they could not
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  Speaker 1: close it out. Couldn't. They blew the lead. And so
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee loses. And that means the best of series now
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  Speaker 1: two games to one. Game four will be coming up
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday night at Petco Park in San Diego. And
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  Speaker 1: I did see some video the other day. They cleaned
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  Speaker 1: out one of the homeless encampments, which was across the
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  Speaker 1: street from the Padres ballpark. Wonder why they did that. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: it's a regular season. It's okay to have the homeless
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  Speaker 1: encampment right across the street from the ballpark. In the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: apparently not. So if necessary, game five would be back
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  Speaker 1: in Wisconsin on Friday. The better story, though. You know
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  Speaker 1: where the better story is. The better story is in
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  Speaker 1: the losing locker room. So that is where we will
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  Speaker 1: begin our diatribe here. And with that being said, good
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  Speaker 1: job on all points. Let us discuss the question. Who
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  Speaker 1: gets the biggest bag of blamed cheese curds for Pat
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  Speaker 1: Murphy's Brewers? Who gets the biggest bag of blamed cheese
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  Speaker 1: curds for the Pat Murphy-led Milwaukee Brewers? So I've got Volleyballs,
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  Speaker 1: we've got Rolex, and we also have, always popular, the delicious...
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  Speaker 1: Hina Kolata. And we will combine all of these things together,
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  Speaker 1: and we are going to have a wonderful, wonderful beach tent.
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  Speaker 1: You know those beach tents where they're like cabanas? You
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  Speaker 1: can put them, you buy them, and pop up there.
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  Speaker 1: You can still use them in San Diego. It's still hot,
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  Speaker 1: real hot heat wave here in San Diego. SoCal recently.
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  Speaker 1: But we begin with this. Again, the question, who gets
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  Speaker 1: the biggest bag of blamed cheese curds for Pat Murphy's Brewers? So,
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  Speaker 1: number one! Number one!
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  Speaker 3: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
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  Speaker 1: I said one!
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  Speaker 5: Number one!
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  Speaker 1: Can I get a one?
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  Speaker 4: Number one!
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  Speaker 1: So the Brewers' offense, even though they did score three runs,
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  Speaker 1: they get the family-sized bag of curds. So congratulations there.
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  Speaker 1: The Brewers caught a bad case, not of loving you,
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  Speaker 1: a bad case of unclutch. The unclutch gene popped up
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  Speaker 1: for the Brewers at exactly the wrong time. Now, Jackson Churio, he,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, used too much of it. There's only so much.
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  Speaker 1: There's a finite amount of clutch. And Jackson Churio was
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  Speaker 1: captain clutch the other day for the Brewers. In game three, though. Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 1: they needed the whole Justice League, and nobody showed up.
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  Speaker 1: The Padres practically put a vacancy sign up there in
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  Speaker 1: the ratings, and Milwaukee still couldn't check in. They couldn't
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  Speaker 1: check in. They're failing to score against the backside of
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  Speaker 1: that Padre bullpen, a guy on one day's rest, a
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  Speaker 1: Padre bullpen without... Mason Miller. More on that in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: The Brewers left not one, not two, not three, not four,
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  Speaker 1: not five, not six. How about 11 men on base?
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I'm told that's not good. I'm told that's not good.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: The Brewers left so many men stranded. How many men stranded?
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: They left so many men stranded that they should have...
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: handed out volleyballs and called everybody Wilson. My God. Championship
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: teams generally cash those checks. Now the Brewers are still
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: in good shape and all that, but with runners in
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: scoring position, making those plays. And Milwaukee kept getting insufficient
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: funds as they were trying to get it done at
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: that point. There was also a throw that was a mistake. Well,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: it was a battered bat, a shattered and battered bat.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: If you're watching the game, Cooper Pratt, the prodigy who
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: hasn't quite been a prodigy this year, he signed the
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: forever contract for Milwaukee. And his mistake there, his error,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: let Xander Bogart score an insurance run. for the San
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Diego baseball team. And the Magic, they're not quite working
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: out on the road, which is the problem. The Brewers
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: have lost 12 straight postseason games. I think that's bad. Oh,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: you shouldn't say that, Maller! I know. I know. So,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: a lot of losses there. Milwaukee. should just stop staying
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: at hotels. And instead of spending the money on hotels,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: they should just book an exorcist is what they should
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: do at this particular point when they go on the road. Now,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: page two, to the San Diego side of things. Here's
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: the question. Who is smiling the biggest after Manny Machado
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: and the Padres did, as we said, stave off elimination,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: staying alive, staying alive. So the happiest Padre, it's not
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: even close. The happiest Padre was not even at the ballpark.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: He was out on paternity leave. He was pregnant, and
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I hope it was a good pregnancy for him. Mason Miller. Yeah,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the guy that choked the game away the other day.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Mason Miller had a Cheshire cat smile wherever he was,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: and he does owe. We determined he owes Michael King
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: a Rolex, a basket of fruit, and a box of chocolates,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: and possibly even a lifetime supply of fish tacos. For
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: taking the mound on short rest and bailing out the Padres.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Because that could have gone a much different direction there
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: if the bullpen implodes for the San Diego Padres. The
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: absence of Mason Miller. The absence of Mason Miller on
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: paternity leave becomes San Diego sports folklore. Man, we can't win.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: The Padres have never... won a championship, here's a team
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: they think's good enough, and they're in the divisional round,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: and their guy leaves to go on paternity leave. You
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: juxtapose Mason Miller bailing on the Padres with Yankees pitcher
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Max Freed, whose woman there is also expecting birth of
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the child there soon, except Max Freed told the media
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: he refuses to abandon his Yankee teammates. And he's going
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: to pitch. Despite the kid being inbound, he's there. I'm
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: taking him out. I've worked it out. Everything's there. So
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: if the opposite had happened, this is all nuclear sports
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: radio plutonium is what it is. And you think this
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: has been an issue a long time. I don't know
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: if you know this, but women have been having babies
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: for a long time. I believe since the beginning of
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: time with the men and women getting together and making
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: whoopee and all that and the birds and bees. So
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: I remember I was reminded of this, actually. I didn't remember,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: but I was reminded by one of our friends here
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: that Oral Hershiser, back in 1988, his wife was expecting
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the birth of a child. That's what happens. And this
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: is when Kershaw was in the streak for the most
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: consecutive scoreless innings that he set that particular year, broke
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: the record. And he and the wife made a deal
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: where they induced labor on a day he wasn't pitching.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: So he could be there on the mound. But that
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: was a different time. Priorities have obviously changed for many.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: And it's not as big a deal to show up
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: to work and not bail on your teammates and all
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: that stuff. So I get it. I understand the world's
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: changed and A lot of you think that's great that
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Mason Miller bailed on his teammates. But the bottom line is, listen,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: it worked out for him. So it worked out for him,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: and it's good. There isn't an alternative universe. There isn't
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: an alternative universe where the furious fans there have their
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: pitchforks out in one hand, And in the other hand,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: they have a bag of fish tacos and they're chasing
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: after Miller with pitchforks and torches and a cloud of
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: fish tacos running him out of San Diego, running him
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: right to the county line. Get out of here. Instead,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: he avoids Mason Miller becoming a trivia question that nobody
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: wants on the back of their baseball cards. Who's the
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: guy that didn't show up, the all-star that didn't show
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: up to the Padres when they faced elimination and their
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: bullpen blew the game? That didn't happen. Now, another question
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: some of you brought up. Well, the Padres have all
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: the momentum now. They won this game. They've got all
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: the momentum. No. Remember, this is a refresher course. Momentum
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: is baseball's imaginary friend. Nobody can prove it exists. You
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: know when you go down and you see people down
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: on their luck and they've done a lot of fentanyl
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: and crack and they're talking to themselves? In their heads,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: they're talking to another person. We can't see that other person. Now,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: it's possible there is someone actually there. We can't see them.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: And we've determined as a society that that's not reality.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: And you all told me the Padres had all the
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: momentum when they'd won, what, 19 of 22 at the
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: end of the regular season, the San Diego baseball team,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: and Had all the momentum, and then they rode the
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: vomit comet as they blew two games in dramatic fashion
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: against the Milwaukee Brewers. So why would they lose the momentum?
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Makes no sense. All right, final point to Philadelphia. What
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: are you doing in Philadelphia? Is this about LeBron? No,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: it is not about LeBron. Is it about the Eagles? No,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: we'll get to them later. Believe it or not, the
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Phillies have squirreled away some of the headlines here.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Did you hear the news? Alex Cora, the man that
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Dave Dombrowski wanted to be the next Phillies manager, well,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: it turns out that Alex Cora has let Dave Dombrowski
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: know the news. Did you hear this? Big, big storyline
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: in baseball. Alex Cora has informed the Philadelphia Phillies He
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: doesn't want the job. O-M-G. Yeah, he will not be
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: taking the Phillies' 2027 job, if you believe the reporting.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: He told the Philadelphia general manager, Dave Dombrowski, his Boston buddy,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: that he plans to take the entire season off. A
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: nice sabbatical. Wouldn't that be great? Your job. A lot
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: of you guys work two or three jobs here. You
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: listen on the overnight and you're busting your ass just
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: trying to. pay the bills, and wouldn't it be great
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: to be Alex Cora and just like, oh, I've got
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: FU money. I'm just not going to work for a year.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Just take it off. That's it. Wouldn't that be nice? Yeah, well,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: he's doing it. And that's it. So this is essentially
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: now Alex Cora turning down the Phillies for the second time. Remember,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: he got Polak's by the Red Sox, and then the Phillies,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Dave Dombrowski's like, well, let's hire this guy. Hey, how
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: would you like to manage the Phillies? Eh, I'm good.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: He didn't want to manage the team. And he told
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Dave Dombrowski that, I'm good. I'm going to take, again, sabbatical.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I'm out of here. So he rejected the job back
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: in April and wanted to spend the summer with his family.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: I always love, I want to spend time with my family.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: What a bull crap excuse that is. All right, so
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: the question, why did Alice Corr really turn down the
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Phillies job? After a minutes-long deliberation of the available information,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: we have determined... that he turned the job down because
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: of the golden parachute. I believe the Red Sox are
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: paying Cora $ 7 million. whether he manages, whether he sits
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: on a stool and picks his nose, picks giant boogers
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: out of his nose the entire summer. They're paying him
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: $ 7 million. That is a golden parachute, if I ever
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: heard one, from the Red Sox. So that means he
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: can afford to be a picky eater. And as a
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: picky eater, you don't have to eat the broccoli and
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: the cauliflower. I don't want the broccoli and the cauliflower.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I said you don't have to eat it. You can
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: be a picky eater. Okay, fine. So why inherit somebody
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: else's garbage? Just a classic garage, garbage sale there. And
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: you can just sit on the beach in your banana
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: hammock collecting all that money from John Henry and the
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Red Sox. So rejecting Dave Dombrowski again is also a
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: vote of no confidence for the Philadelphia Phillies and their
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: chances in 2027. Coral took a look at that roster
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: and he said, wait a minute. That job blows. There
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: she blows, he said, for that job. And a lot
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: of dead weight. Guys that had been good called them has-beens.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: And players that are aging in front of our eyes.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: And so the window of opportunity, it's not completely closed.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of fog on it. There's a lot
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: of fog on it. It's a manual window. It's a
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: manual window, so it's a bit of a problem there.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Bryce Harper, Trey Turner. who are not getting any younger
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: and their production is not going to get any better. Otherwise,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: this is not some turnkey operation. If it was a
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: good job, Alex Cora would have taken the job. It
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: was not. This is not turnkey where Cora walks into
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia and just strolls on in, does the pimp walk,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: and pushes the magic button, and then they schedule a parade,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: and it's off to the races. He knows the game.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: He knows the game. Now, he might be wrong about this,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: but he knows the game. And you take the cushy job,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: you win, you're a genius. Take the Philadelphia Phillies job,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: you flop the old flop-a-roo in Philadelphia with that aging roster,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: and suddenly the baseball intelligentsia decides the only reason the
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Red Sox won in 2018 is because they cheated. And
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: that's it. And that's ancient history. And then Cora will
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: just bore us all on television. He'll get some no-show
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: job at NBC where he shows up and just spews
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: cliches all the time, which a lot of you dummies like.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: And then he'll get paid for that. And it's still
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: possible to take a broadcasting job and just wait. Wait
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: for one of the good jobs to open up. Why
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: volunteer for the death sentence, the electric chair? When, again,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Boston is paying you 7 million dead presidents to not work.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: You can sit on the beach and have a bunch
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: of pina coladas and just enjoy yourself, have some appetizers
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: and knock yourself out.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Pacific. Here we go. Third degree time. Here we go.
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: Time shift.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: It's Maller.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Yes, it is.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: To the third degree. I heard that.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Are you ready?
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: This is when Big Ben gets grilled.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go. The evil plan is coming together.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Enjoy every single word. It's Mallard to the third degree.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: The coop all loop.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: So with the Broncos slow start, there's been a lot
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: of speculation about. Sean Payton taking play calling back from
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: offensive coordinator Davis Webb. An NFL insider said this week,
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: I think Sean is not going to sacrifice the season
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: in the name of developing Davis Webb as a play caller,
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: but I also think he's going to give him more
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: than four weeks. Yeah. Ben, do you think there's any
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: point this season where Sean Payton does take back the
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: play call?
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if they go out and lose to the Rams.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Are you going to that game, by the way, Coop?
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Are you going to be out there? Oh, the Chargers? Oh,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: the Chargers. That's right, the Chargers. Are you going to
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: be out of that game? I'm going to try and
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: get tickets. The last minute, try to get cheap tickets? Okay,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: fair enough. Yeah, so something's got to change. Denver has
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: the 27th-ranked offense. I don't think it's good, Coop. Does
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: that mean to say they're not good at 27th in
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: the NFL? 32 teams. They have a worse offense at
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: this point than the New York Giants, who have started
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Jameis Winston for multiple games. Anyway, listen, if they lose
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: to the Chargers this weekend, I think there will be
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: a change. You can't wait too long. And you've got
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: to figure out, is this Bo Nix? Is this a
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Bo Nix problem? Or is this a play-calling problem? Because
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Bo Nix last year was not all that good either.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: He had a few moments, much like he's had this year.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: He's had a few moments. But overall, he hasn't been
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: that good. He's one of the lower rated quarterbacks in
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Next.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: So the Raiders opened the season with 130 rushing yards
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: against the Dolphins. And then the three games following that,
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: they've rushed for 247 or 242.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: Clint Kubiak said on Monday, I put it on myself.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I have to do a better job of putting us
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: in a better position. Yada, yada.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: Coach speak.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: Ben, do you think it is Kubiak's fault or do
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: they have an Ashton Gentry problem?
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: It's a combination. The offensive line is not that good.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: And they've actually played some some teams that are a
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: little better up front. That's also you can play the
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Dolphins a few more times. The Raiders will look great
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: and be like the old school Raiders back in the
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: day with Bo Jackson and Marcus Allen and all that. But, yeah,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: it's more probably you're just playing a better team. The
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Raiders are not a good team. I've tried to tell people,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: people don't want to even listen to me. They're not.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: They're 3-1. The cupcake schedule to begin the year, they
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: played a good team. They lost to the Chiefs. And
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: anytime they play a good team, they're going to lose
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: because they're not good. So it's an offensive line issue.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: It's just the fact they're not that good.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Next.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: So you mentioned yesterday about Cam Ward saying they've got
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: three minutes, bro.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I'm going to walk out.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Come on, bro. Come on, bro. No media, bro.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: The reaction from Titans fans has not been great. They're
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: not happy with Cam Ward. Ben, do you think how
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: long before we see Mitchell Trubisky for the Titans?
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Well, it'll happen because Cam's going to get hurt. And
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: even if he's not hurt, they'll come up with some
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: soft tissue injuries so they can put Cam Ward down.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: on the bench. You talk about a quagmire. That is
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: the ultimate quagmire in Tennessee. They brought in Robert Sala,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: they brought in Brian Dayball as the offensive coordinator, and
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: those guys were hired to fix, to fix Cam Moore, right?
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: You had Robert Sala, Mr. Positivity, right? Tony Robbins seminar.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: And you had Brian Dayball, who some of you idiots
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: told me was a genius because of Josh Allen happening
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: to be good in Buffalo. And so they hired these
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: two guys, hand-picked them for you got the positivity from
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: the head coach, you got the X's and O's genius
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: from the offensive coordinator, and Cam Ward is not only
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: a quarterback, he's terrible. So I do think he will
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: end up on the bench, but they'll likely couch it
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: as some kind of mild injury situation to rest in.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: But you can't Keep sending him out. He's terrible. He's
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: a bottom quarterback. He's not the very bottom, but he's
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: right there, neck and neck at the bottom. All right,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: there it is. Mallory, the third degree. How did we do?
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: You passed the station.
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: That is a win.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Chicken dinner.
• 35:08
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• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Exciting and new.
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: Queen of hearts She wants to talk to you Lorena.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Soon she'll be making your hearts be one Lorena.
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: What a great start to love day.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: I'm happy for Kyle.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: This just really goes to show you got to shoot
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: your shot, even if you're in, you know, or under
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: the influence of.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Getting your teeth cleaned. Anesthesia. Yeah. He shot a shot
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: on the game, Kyle, and rode the vomit comet.
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: You can't hit everyone, but you miss every shot you don't.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Shoot, right? I've heard that. I've heard that. Dating's all
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: a numbers game, right, Lorraine? It's all a numbers game.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: All right. These are actual questions by actual listeners. Will T.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: writes in and says, hey, Lorena, romantic gift ideas outside
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: of the standard flowers, chocolates, dinner, movie, et cetera. Do
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: you have any? Uh, yeah.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: You know, one of the most romantic gifts you can
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: do is when you're just listening in a regular conversation
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: and you hear something that they talk about and then
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: you're out the next day or in the week and
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: you get it, you know, you like, it's a thoughtful
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: gift because you listen. So I like those.
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: Types of gifts.
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: So you have to, that's very difficult for men to listen.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Bad job by you.
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: I know it's, it's a layered response, but I think.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: It makes it better.
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Mike, this is an email question. Mike writes and says, hey, Lorraine,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: I know you love Disneyland. By the way, not a
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: love question, Lorraine. I know you love Disneyland. Is Disney
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: in trouble? They're selling tickets at a discount at Costco.
• 37:14
  Speaker 7: Costco always has good deals on tickets.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Apparently you can save $ 170 at Disneyland now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got sent a thing today that a regular
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: park ticket is going up to $ 229.
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  Speaker 7: Are you kidding me? Yeah, for the most expensive time
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: of your day.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. That is pretty wild. Yeah, it's crazy.
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: You're addicted, though. You love it. That's your thing. Fergdog
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: writes and says, how long do I have to pretend
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: to like a girl's show before I can put my
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: foot down and say we're watching cartoons and that's fun?
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  Speaker 7: You know, sometimes you kind of get into it.
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  Speaker 4: Give it a shot.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: But you know what?
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: You don't have to watch it. You can fall asleep,
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: you know.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: All right. Truck Stop Fungus writes in, says, Hey, Lorena,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: I would like to renew my vows with the old
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: battle axe. Would the largest truck stop in the USA,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Iowa 80 truck stop in Walcott, Iowa, be more romantic
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  Speaker 1: than a wayside rest in.
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  Speaker 3: nebraska oh my gosh could you imagine a truck stop
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  Speaker 3: wedding you could have all the trucks lined up and
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: they could give you like a truck salute you know
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: that would be so.
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  Speaker 1: Cool i've never been to iowa i that would be
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: a place to go the world the law not the
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: worlds but the largest truck stop is.
• 38:28
  Speaker 7: In iowa that would be kind of check that out yeah.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: That would be pretty neat what's the.
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: Largest size truck they could fit in there.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: You think Well, no, it's just the most gas things.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: It's not that, yeah. Late Night Drug Tester says, which
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Nobel Prize category is most attractive to females? Physics, medicine, chemistry, literature, peace,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: or economics?
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: This sounds like a Miss Congeniality question. World peace.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, peace. World peace. That's basketball play. World peace. JT
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: the Wingman says, do you think these shoes will impress
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: my day? He's got poutine shoes. A poutine pizza and bowling.
• 39:02
  Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, poutine sounds so good. Can we go
• 39:05
  Speaker 7: to Canada and have poutine again?
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: I want to go to Toronto. Let's do it. Let's go.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Attention, everyone. And the password is.
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  Speaker 1: Password. Idiot.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: Password.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: The word game of the stars.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: Here's Ben Maller.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Here we go. This portion of the show made possible
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: by our friends at Fox One. NFL Week 5 is here,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: and it's a big one. Bears versus Packers. Sunday, America's
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Game of the Week.
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  Speaker 4: The Bears.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Streaming live. The Bears on Fox One. Miss it live?
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: You're just watching a highlight. Catch every play as it happens.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Bears-Packers live on Fox One. Let's welcome in our contestants.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: We have Faze from Chicago. Hello, Faze. Green Bay sucks.
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  Speaker 2: Green Bay sucks.
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  Speaker 1: Who would you like to partner up with, FaZe? Let's
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: go with you, man. All right. We're in it to
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: win it. And we have eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Hollering
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: James is going to play. Hello, Hollering James. James, don't
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  Speaker 1: make me regret this. Who do you want to partner
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  Speaker 1: up with, James? I was in perfect love with Coop,
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  Speaker 1: my best friend.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Good luck, Coop. God bless you. All right, Jed. I
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: really thought you were going to pick me. I know. Oh, Lorraine,
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  Speaker 1: you got to sit this one out. Okay. Oh, wow.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Look at that tough guy, James. Here we go. A
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: list of words. One to ten. Faze, get the party started, please, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Pick a number. One to ten.
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  Speaker 2: Number one.
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  Speaker 1: James, try not to fart. Let's go with... Actually, this
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: is not as easy as I thought it would be.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go with.
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  Speaker 1: Boy, there's a couple... How about gridlock? Stuck? What'd he say?
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  Speaker 1: It's stuck.
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  Speaker 2: Stuck?
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  Speaker 1: No. All right, go ahead, Coop. All right, James, let's
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  Speaker 1: go with band.
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  Speaker 4: Say it again.
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  Speaker 1: Band.
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  Speaker 2: Band.
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  Speaker 4: Banned?
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  Speaker 1: Yep. B-A-N-N-E-D.
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  Speaker 2: Banned.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: You can't spell.
• 41:14
  Speaker 7: Um, tie up?
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  Speaker 5: No.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Now, how about, uh, clogged?
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  Speaker 7: Ooh, that's a good one.
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  Speaker 1: Faze? Clogged?
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  Speaker 6: Uh, banded?
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: What? Jammed? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: How about this, James? Swatted? Swatted? No chance.
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  Speaker 2: Snap?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 1: How about a shot? S-H-O-T. I don't know, bro. Oh,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: come on. Trying to piggyback off my clue. It was blocked.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: The word was you're all blocked.
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  Speaker 7: Everybody is blocked.
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  Speaker 1: You're all blocked. You're blocked. You're blocked.