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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: Our lead story the plot thickens in the MLB dynasty
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  Speaker 1: and the Dodgers on the field the Colorado Rockies. The
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  Speaker 1: real story, though, is off the field, so our lead
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  Speaker 1: is in la and report bouncing around the pinball machine.
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  Speaker 1: Here just how bad things are going for the embattled
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  Speaker 1: owner of the Dodgers, This guy Mark Walter. We've been
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  Speaker 1: following and chronicling his situation of late, the Dodgers owner.
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  Speaker 1: We are told now because according to a report in
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  Speaker 1: one of the trade papers speculating that Mark Walter, the
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  Speaker 1: Dodger owner, approached Charter Communications, the the parent company involved
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  Speaker 1: in the cable deal that they have which everyone bitches about,
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  Speaker 1: all the loser fans. Oh it's not fair, boo, you losers.
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  Speaker 1: You know who you are. I'm embarrassed for you. It's okay,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to be eb I'm embarrassed for you.
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  Speaker 1: So the people that we complain about TV contract, well,
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers owner, if you believe this report, went to
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  Speaker 1: the cable company and said, listen, let's get let's get
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  Speaker 1: you out of this. Let's end the TV contract. Not
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  Speaker 1: only for the Dodgers, he owned the Lakers, so let's
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  Speaker 1: get rid of the Laker contract as well. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: rid of all the local TV deals and take the
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  Speaker 1: large lump sum payment right now. Just pay out the deal,
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  Speaker 1: the buy now deal, and pay up front and then
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  Speaker 1: you'll be done. And that's it and see you later. So,
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  Speaker 1: if you didn't see this, perhaps not. It's a fascinating,
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  Speaker 1: fascinating part of the story. We think about the big
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  Speaker 1: money involved, and that is supposed to be the secret
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  Speaker 1: sauce for the Dodgers. That's what you all say, right,
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  Speaker 1: y'all tell me that, oh it's not fair and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. Okay, Now, the most striking part, when you
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  Speaker 1: get down into the nitty gritty here the TV contract.
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  Speaker 1: It is a twenty five year this generation, twenty five
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  Speaker 1: year eight point three five billion with a b like
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  Speaker 1: man billion. It averages the Dodgers get It's like three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four million dollars a year Chid Ching
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  Speaker 1: Chow Jing Chow Jing from TV. All Right, that's one
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  Speaker 1: of the richest and most valuable media deals in the world,
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  Speaker 1: not just in America but in the world. It's insane
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  Speaker 1: the amount of money. That's like Premier League soccer type money.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just for the La Dodgers here. So, now,
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  Speaker 1: Mark Walter, the reason he was supposedly looking and snooping
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  Speaker 1: around trying to do this, he was willing to trade
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  Speaker 1: away years and many years of that long term contract
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  Speaker 1: because he needs the cash. Now he's got a little problem.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of a big problem. It's a pretty massive
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  Speaker 1: situation that he's facing right now. The proposed agreement did
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  Speaker 1: include the Lakers, so it would have screwed the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: over also, meaning that essentially Mark Walter, to put it
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  Speaker 1: in Layman's terms, that he explored liquidity from multiple assets
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  Speaker 1: that at the time he owned. Now technically he still
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  Speaker 1: owns the Lakers. The sale is not official, official official.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't selling equity in the teams. He was getting
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  Speaker 1: out of the TV deals, which doesn't seem like a
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  Speaker 1: great idea if you know, if you had television's not
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  Speaker 1: doing that great. I don't know if you know about that,
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  Speaker 1: all right, So that is a good jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question for the esteem panel, which
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  Speaker 1: you're part of. So the question is Mark Walter attempting
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  Speaker 1: to end to hit the kill switch on the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: and the Lakers record cable TV deals, get out of
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  Speaker 1: those deals early for a massive cartoon check payment. How
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  Speaker 1: do you size this one up? So let's check out
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  Speaker 1: the tail of the tape here. So I've got plinkoh,
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  Speaker 1: surf and turf and seasonal allergies, 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: have a meat ball HOGI, a delicious meatball HOGI with
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  Speaker 1: the cheese on top.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be absolutely great. So a oh, this
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  Speaker 1: is absolutely you talk about the Dodgers trying to get
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  Speaker 1: out of a TV contract, which is mana from heaven
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  Speaker 1: like this is completely perfectly normal activity, unless it's not.
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  Speaker 1: Unless it's not here. Nothing to see move along, nothing
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  Speaker 1: to see here, And Mark Walter was ready to load
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  Speaker 1: up the pickup truck to put the Dodgers cash cow
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  Speaker 1: the blue cow.
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  Speaker 4: Moo moo.
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  Speaker 1: To put the blue cow in the back of the
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  Speaker 1: truck and go directly to the slaughterhouse. To take that
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  Speaker 1: cow to the slaughterhouse. Chop, chop, chop, cut up the cow.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone eats meat, just like that. Trading Tomorrow's gold and
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  Speaker 1: it's a ton of goal. It's gold mine. Really, what
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  Speaker 1: it is for an immediate payout from speedy cash. He
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  Speaker 1: wanted the speedy cash option. I know the interest rates
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  Speaker 1: aren't great, but he wanted the speedy cash. So the
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  Speaker 1: cable company said, sure, why not, but we're gonna give
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  Speaker 1: you a clearance type situation so we know you need
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  Speaker 1: the money. We're not dumb. We might not be that smart,
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  Speaker 1: but we're not dumb. And so pennies on the dollar
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  Speaker 1: and the math didn't work out, and so or go,
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  Speaker 1: the deal obviously did not happen. So they were like, well,
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  Speaker 1: why wouldn't he pay retail when the billionaire needs the
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  Speaker 1: money like three days ago, and so it's it's interesting now. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the whole reason this is happening is because while the
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  Speaker 1: cow was being driven to the slaughterhouse and they had
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  Speaker 1: to turn around at the slaughterhouse was Uncle Sam with
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  Speaker 1: a butcher knife and a machete and a carving knife,
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  Speaker 1: and they were just gonna chop that bad cow. That
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  Speaker 1: just chop it up, getting getting hold pieces. And so
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  Speaker 1: this is like a it's like a special episode of
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  Speaker 1: The Price Right and Mark Walter, come on down, Mark Walter. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: play plinko. Oh everyone loves plinko. Play planko. And you
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  Speaker 1: can do this with your own sports empire. Just like that.
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  Speaker 1: You spin the big wheel round and round, big money,
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  Speaker 1: big money, stop and you pray that that wheel does
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  Speaker 1: not stop on federal trouble, because right now you're in
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  Speaker 1: federal trouble because the Showcase showdown. If you do get there,
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  Speaker 1: that could mean you win an all expense paid trip,
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  Speaker 1: a tropical vacation, all bills paid, room and board at
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  Speaker 1: the Palm Tree Penitentiary in Florida. Yeah sounds like fine,
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Okay, So when you're willing to think about it,
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  Speaker 1: when you're willing to butcher the golden blue heifer, a
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty four million dollars or a year
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  Speaker 1: heifer today, you're negotiating the only asset you have left.
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  Speaker 1: This is a I don't think people realize how crazy
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  Speaker 1: this story is. Like there is a scenario in the
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  Speaker 1: multiverse where the guy that owns the Dodgers goes to
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  Speaker 1: jail like it's crazy if he can't pay back the Feds,
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  Speaker 1: as I understand it from what I've read, then there's
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  Speaker 1: a scenario where he does. Now, granted it's rich people
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  Speaker 1: jail where they have delicious paninis and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: but you're still going to jail. You know, yeah, you can.
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  Speaker 1: You can cut tomatoes up and do all that in
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen, and you know it's not like hard jail,
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  Speaker 1: but you're still going to jail. It's crazy, crazy, crazy crazy.
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  Speaker 1: So that's why. And you know that it's that desperate.
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  Speaker 1: If you're willing to buy the Lakers and sell them
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  Speaker 1: after less than a year, and the even more than that,
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  Speaker 1: the Golden Cow, the goose, whatever you want to call it,
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  Speaker 1: you're willing to get rid of that, it's crazy crazy. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: to the Tucker Clucker, say that very slowly for those
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  Speaker 1: of you that listen closely and are very ligitious. The
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  Speaker 1: Tucker Clucker, well, he did have a double. That would
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  Speaker 1: be Kyle Tucker Way, he had a double. He's back. No,
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker has been so bad this season? How bad
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  Speaker 1: has he been? Thanks for yelling. He has been so
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  Speaker 1: bad this season that he was recently seen wiping a
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  Speaker 1: tear from his eye in the Dodger Doug. It's a
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  Speaker 1: sob story. It's a sob story for Kyle Tucker. The
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  Speaker 1: struggle has continued. He gave a quote this week. He said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I've tried just about everything, and every
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  Speaker 1: time I feel like I'm turning a corner, I get
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  Speaker 1: hit with a roadblock. Close quote. Now, of course there's
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  Speaker 1: always the jocksniffers, the fable boys. I love when they
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  Speaker 1: entered the chat. So the fat boys have entered the
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  Speaker 1: chat and they got their nose out. They're sniffing that
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  Speaker 1: nice dirty jockstrap, and they're like, it's not fair.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: The the amateur psychologist crowd are like, well, it's unfortunate.
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  Speaker 1: Tucker shouldn't be criticized. He should be supportian. He should
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  Speaker 1: be supportian because he cares. He cares. He was crying. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's under a massive amount of pressure. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the usual nonsense. So the question do you feel bad
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  Speaker 1: for the in battled Dodgers outfielder Kyle Tucker that he's
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  Speaker 1: being trolled and roasted over an open social media platform
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  Speaker 1: of your choice. Do you feel bad? And I have
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  Speaker 1: three words. Boo freaking who. That's what I have. I
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  Speaker 1: wrote that on my scorecard. Boo freaking who for Kyle Tucker.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, you're so mean? Mail or you come on?
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  Speaker 1: So this just in millionaire athletes criticized the nation mourns
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  Speaker 1: some people in the nation. I was taught by my professor,
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  Speaker 1: professor Tom Hanks. He taught me there's no crying in baseball.
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  Speaker 1: He taught me that years ago. Yet the social media
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  Speaker 1: pity party wants us to treat Kyle Tucker like he's
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  Speaker 1: spent months working at the coal mine and because all
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  Speaker 1: because some strangers criticized his performance and his statistics on
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  Speaker 1: his baseball reference page. And it's not right. So spare
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  Speaker 1: me the massive pressure nonsense which some of you are
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  Speaker 1: trying to to sell. I'm not buying it. We know
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  Speaker 1: that in life, real pressure is when you have two
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  Speaker 1: dead end jobs that you don't have enough money, the
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  Speaker 1: rents coming due on Friday. You have a family minivan
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  Speaker 1: that sounds like it's a dishwasher filled with silverware. That's
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  Speaker 1: not good, and you don't know what you're gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: Like Tucker makes sixty million dollars a year, Garonteed. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he's plausibly played to be good. He's paid to be good,
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  Speaker 1: to hit the ball and all that stuff. Generational wealth, which,
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  Speaker 1: mind you, is guaranteed. It's not hey, earn the money,
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  Speaker 1: go out there and get some miss. No, he's already
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  Speaker 1: got done. He can have zero hits the rest of
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  Speaker 1: his time with the Dodgers and he's getting paid zero,
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  Speaker 1: and I can go at three thousand hits. He's gonna
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  Speaker 1: get the same amount of money. He's also got this
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  Speaker 1: opt out where if he was good, he would opt
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  Speaker 1: out Tucker of the contract and get more money. He's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna do that because why would you? Have you
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  Speaker 1: seen him play terrible and so generational wealth is absolutely
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  Speaker 1: gar on Teed again. Whatever happens on the field, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. The rest of us are playing financial whack
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  Speaker 1: a mole, not him. So you take the king's ransom.
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  Speaker 1: Good for him, it's a great mitzvah, and you get
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  Speaker 1: king size expectations. And you when you failed to meet
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  Speaker 1: those expectations, when you were unable to meet those expectations. Well,
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  Speaker 1: guess what happens, Yeah, exactly, exactly right. So I'm not
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  Speaker 1: lighting a candle for the Dodgers stiff Kyle Tucker. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not all right, you can and you know, finally people
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  Speaker 1: noticing it's been the last like a few weeks. People
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  Speaker 1: have noticed, Wait a minute, this guy's underperforming. And it
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  Speaker 1: goes with the territory. And the Dodgers thought they were
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  Speaker 1: getting the surf and turf. They ordered the surf and turf,
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  Speaker 1: they paid for the surf and turf, and instead they've
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  Speaker 1: got some fish sticks and some slim gems. That's what
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  Speaker 1: they ended up with. Well, that's not exactly the surf
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  Speaker 1: and turf. It's a poor man's version of the surf
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  Speaker 1: and turf. And it's not even really trolling when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to Kyle Tucker. It's not really trolling. You know
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  Speaker 1: what it is the Internet doing its job. That's I guess.
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  Speaker 1: I'm from the old country. You play well, you get cheers.
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  Speaker 1: You don't play well, you get booze. It's really not
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  Speaker 1: that difficult, all right. Meanwhile, the last word, we go
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  Speaker 1: to Milwaukee. I had to mention this game. I was
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  Speaker 1: flipping around the games watching various baseball games and did
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  Speaker 1: flip over this because I thought the score was I
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  Speaker 1: thought my phone was broken. I thought, well, that can't
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  Speaker 1: be right. There's no way, you know, there's no way
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  Speaker 1: that the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Seattle Mariners twenty two
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  Speaker 1: to nothing. That's impossible. It must have been a glitch
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  Speaker 1: on my phone. So I flipped over the game. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners, the Seattle baseball team, suffered the worst loss
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  Speaker 1: in their mediocre franchise history. There absolutely what's the proper demolished.
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  Speaker 1: They were vaporized twenty two to nothing by the Milwaukee
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  Speaker 1: baseball team that surpassed their worst previous loss against the
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  Speaker 1: cheating ass one thousand and two one thousand holes in
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  Speaker 1: Houston back in twenty nineteen. Now, the defining moment slash
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  Speaker 1: blooper in this game came in the eighth inning when
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  Speaker 1: center fielder Julio Rodriguez, who Robbie the Mariner fan has
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  Speaker 1: a fat head of on his wall in his bedroom
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  Speaker 1: and has a Julio Rodriguez onesie, it's more like a MUMO,
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  Speaker 1: but he still got it all right, And Rodriguez caught
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  Speaker 1: Christian Yelicks Yelecks fly ball. There it was the second out,
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  Speaker 1: so second out of the eighth inning, bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: eighth inning. Okay, so two outs, one more out to get.
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  Speaker 1: He then catches the ball and chucks it into the crowd. Suvini,
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  Speaker 1: get you souvenir baseball right here, thinking the inning was
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  Speaker 1: over and another runner scored there that made it twenty
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  Speaker 1: one to nothing. That would be twenty two to nothing
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  Speaker 1: would be the final. So very impressive here Seattle. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, that twenty two to nothing loss and just
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  Speaker 1: that margin, that is the margin defeat, tied for the
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  Speaker 1: largest shutout loss in modern baseball history. You got to
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  Speaker 1: go back all the way to nineteen seventy five, Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: over the Cubs in nineteen seventy five, and you also
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  Speaker 1: had Cleveland over the Yankees way back in four Bailly.
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  Speaker 1: You know that was before my time, of course. So
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  Speaker 1: that the chatter, though, was all about jo Rodriguez in
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  Speaker 1: the outfield. So the question on this one, what was
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  Speaker 1: Mariner star center fielder Julio Rodriguez thinking when he tossed
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  Speaker 1: the second out into the bleachers in Milwaukee. So Jay
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  Speaker 1: Rodd he's got the nickname, not the game, but he's
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  Speaker 1: got the nickname so Jay Rod obviously was daydreaming, we think,
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  Speaker 1: and we're never wrong about these things. We believe he
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  Speaker 1: was daydreaming about delicious, authentic Wisconsin cheese curds, and he
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  Speaker 1: was thinking about sneaking out to Kenosha to the cheese Castle.
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  Speaker 1: And he was distracted because he looked at the baseball
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  Speaker 1: and he said, this looks like a really fat cheese curd.
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  Speaker 1: Let me throw that bad boy in the crowd. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: a fan wants to have a delicious cheese curd. And
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  Speaker 1: that was it. It's pretty wild because he sure as
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  Speaker 1: hell wasn't keeping track of the game. No. Granted it
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  Speaker 1: was at the time twenty to nothing at the time
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  Speaker 1: the game. Still I have noticed I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you've noticed this. I watched way too much baseball, I
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  Speaker 1: admit it. I always have it on the background when
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  Speaker 1: I'm preparing for work. And so forgetting how many outs
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  Speaker 1: there were in a major league game? Now is it
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  Speaker 1: is baseball's current version of seasonal allergies. And it's the
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  Speaker 1: dog days of August. The Red Sox forget how many
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  Speaker 1: outs they dependent on the scoreboard. That happened last week.
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  Speaker 1: Now we've got the Mariners here, and this though, is
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  Speaker 1: bigger than just the twenty two to nothing final score
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  Speaker 1: and all that. It's a little postcard, a perfect little
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  Speaker 1: postcard from the Julio Rodriguez experience. And Seattle bet a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money that they were getting Secretariat. They were convinced.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, how much money did they bet, Well, they
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  Speaker 1: bet two hundred and nine million dollars in a mega
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  Speaker 1: deal that they were gonna get Secretariat, and that could
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  Speaker 1: also balloon up to four hundred and seventy million dollars
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  Speaker 1: or more. But they have not gotten Secretariat. Far too often.
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  Speaker 1: They've gotten a draft horse, is what they've gotten. Impressive
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  Speaker 1: at times, powerful, however, not sniffing MVP and all time
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  Speaker 1: great status. That stuff's not happening. They're the Triple Crown.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't have to worry about him, he doesn't have to
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  Speaker 1: worry about Jay Rod at all. And the Superstar label
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  Speaker 1: doing some heavy lifting here, some heavy lifting here one week.
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  Speaker 1: The guy looks like a video game cheat code Julio
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  Speaker 1: Rodriguez the next and possibly even like the next couple
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  Speaker 1: of games. He looks like somebody unplugged the controller, turned
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  Speaker 1: off the Wi Fi. And that's that. There's no sustained dominance. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he's young, Okay, good for him. That doesn't mean he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna get any better.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Some people plateau at a young age. Not everyone continues
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  Speaker 1: to get better and better, and you just assume he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna get better. That's what the Mariners bet on, that
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  Speaker 1: this guy's gonna get better. I haven't seen it. I
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  Speaker 1: think he's like twenty five and he just kind of
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  Speaker 1: settle in. And there is a belief that many have
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  Speaker 1: had over the years. And I tend to lean this
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  Speaker 1: way that when you get the forever contract. He's got
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  Speaker 1: a twelve year contract, it's great to have that your motivation.
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  Speaker 1: Though he got the money. You know, he's not gonna
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  Speaker 1: get any real more money is what The contract is
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  Speaker 1: the contract and that's it, and that's going to be
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  Speaker 1: the bulk of his career with the Mariners. And so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't want to suck. That don't even't want to suck. However,
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  Speaker 1: that extra motivation, like if I go out have a
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  Speaker 1: big year, I can get more money. Well he's already
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  Speaker 1: got the money. Yeah, he can get it more in
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  Speaker 1: the contract. He already signed it. Man, it is it
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  Speaker 1: is wild. So again, no consistent domination and it's like
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• 20:41
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• 20:45
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• 20:48
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• 21:50
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• 21:55
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• 21:59
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• 22:09
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• 22:16
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• 22:20
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• 22:24
  Speaker 1: it is rich people jail. But that's interesting. Now are
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: lead This hour is from the party Bus and the
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Laker family feud. Oh this is so good. This is
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: freaking great. This is for a Laker hater. It's porn.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: It really is, just to see everything crumbling. They got
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: this guy, Bob Iger who's gonna buy the team and he,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: you know, Jack's prices up. He'll screw over the fans.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: It's just gonna be just wonderful, just abso great. Anyway,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: so they're having me sold completely. First, and all the
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: emails I got when Mark Walter was gonna buy the
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Dodge or by the Lakers says oh same, oh man,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: all the Lakers are set. Dynasty, dynasty. No, So here's
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: the latest on the Laker family feud. NBA insider Shams
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: or Shams or whatever. The guy's name is the guy
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: that's not as good as Woj. That guy, yeah, the
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: guy that can't hold Woj's jockstrap. So Sharani, I guess
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: is his name. He is standing by his report that
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Genie Buss's attorney Adams streisand challenged his account the insider
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: report of the Bus family attempting to sell the remaining
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Lakers ownership stake. Now Sharani has said, I fully stand
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: by my reporting. Okay, thank you Bernstein there, I appreciate that. Now,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: the courtroom cowboy that'd be a lawyer accused Sham Sharadia
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: of falsely reporting, falsely reporting that all six all six
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: of the Bus siblings, they all agreed, they all voted
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: to sell, sell, Sell, Sell, Sell. But turns out that
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Seam Sherania uh, he says he never reported that. He
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: says only that a majority vote of at least four
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: of the six was required, and that's what he put
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: out there, Sharania. He reported that five of the six
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Bus siblings voted to sell, with only Genie Buss the
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: only one that was a holdout. I wonder why. I
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: wonder why? All right, So that is a good jumping
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question on the big board,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: not a list question. On the big board. Look at
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: the scoreboard, look at the JumboTron. It says right there,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Genie Buss is currently building her bunker. She's bunkering down
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: to keep the Laker share that she she wants to
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: have that seat at the table with all the cool kids,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: all the Hollywood a holes that go to those Laker games,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: and she wants to schmooz with them. So what is
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: your read? Loosely speaking on the latest developments in this
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: ongoing Soka, So I've got Gettysburg address, mashed Potatoes, and
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Riverboat Casino, and we will combine all of these things
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: together and we're going to play Connect three. That's what
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: We're gonna play. Connect three, all right, So we always
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: start to play Connect three, we are to start with
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: number one. I didn't say it again. It's the damn
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: thing's broken. It's broken. Stop it from you know what,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring in Gunner from Minnesota. Fix it. Gunner
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: is gonna come in from Minnesota. He was on a
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: seven month vacation, all right. Anyway, So here's here's what's
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: going on right now. All right, my read on this,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: loosely speaking, Uh, somebody grabbed a bugle. We're not sure
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: who grabbed the bugle. We don't know where they got
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: it from. H And they blew into the bugle and
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: there we go. Because the Bus family civil war is underway.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Jeanie Buss is currently facing off with not one, not two,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: not three, not four, but five siblings and she is
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: out numbered by four hundred percent in this battle Royale. Right,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: and there's more buses coming over the hill. Yeah, watch out,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: the cougars are coming. The cougars are coming. We on,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: the buses are coming. The buses are coming to oust her.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: So you've got Jim, Johnny, Janey, Joey, and Jesse. I
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: guess Jerry liked the Jay letter. He's a big fan
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: of the Jay. They killer Jay's right there, all of them,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: So they're all they're all out there, the siblings Jim, Johnny,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: j D, Joey, and Jesse, and they issued their own
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: version of the Gettysburg Address, claiming that they remain united.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: And of course I believe that's billionaire code. I'm not
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: a billionaire. I've studied billionaire code. It's a secret language
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: of the elites. And I believe billionaire code for show
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: me the money. I think that's what that means, show
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: me the money. I think that's it. So Genie is
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: still waving around, she's holding the papers up. She's at
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. I got court orders here from twenty seventeen.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I've got trust documents. It's like she's holding yourself like
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the Dead Sea scrolls. And her siblings are out there
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: and they're like, hey, we have our own cash register
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: and we would like to have a nice payout. We'd
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: like to have this money in our cash register. Chop, chop,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: what's wrong with you? So forget that Winning time, remember
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: that Winning Time thing on HBO back a couple of
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: years back. Forget that. Let's just redo it and we're
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: gonna call it cashing out time, the Genie Bus story
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: or the Bus siblings story. I'm telling you it's gonna
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: be one hell documentary. It's gonna be great. I can't wait.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: It's getting messy in here. It's getting messy. The next
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: imagine the next Bus family reunion. They're gonna have to
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: have metal detectives, adepting arm security. They're gonna have to
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: have a neutral site location, a demilitarized zone, by God,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: holy crap man. And this happens all the time. Every family,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Every family has something like this. I know in my family,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: I've got some cousins that don't talk to each other anymore.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Parents passed away, left a lot of money and people
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: were fighting over the money. This is delayed, though. Jerry
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Buss croaked years ago, and this is a delayed reaction,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: and it's bad. I mean. And there's things that are
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: being said about Genie Bus. I don't know how much
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: of that is true or not, but I mean, the
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: things are being said are terrible, all right, speaking a
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: terrible Let's go to Seattle, where I'd love to hear
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: the spin from the apologist up there. No Stradina, okay,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: because problem the Seahawks evil plan is not playing out
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: the way they thought it would play out. En if
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: you didn't see this one, perhaps not we have learned
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: now that defensive back Terry On Arnold. Yep, that guy,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: the guy fired by the Lions because he's in a
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: whole lot of trouble, a whole lot of trouble. So
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: the plan was, all right, easy, pas, lemon, squeeze, this
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: guy's gonna go play for the Seattle football team. Well,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: time out, time out on the field. It turns out
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: the commissioner said, wait a minute, we're gonna put this guy,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Terry On Arnold, on the Commissioner's exempt list once he
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: officially signs with the Seattle Seahawks. Now Arnold and the
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Seattle football team, they have not completed the signing as
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: of yet. They have to do the docu sign so
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: they haven't done that. Once that happens, and by all accounts,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks, believe it or not, you'd think they won
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. They'd be happy. No, they're so horny
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: to bring this guy in. I don't understand why. Somebody
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: can explain that to me. So they're still planning on
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: getting the deal done now, State sponsored prob the news
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: service or in this case, the NFL media tell us
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: that they are working through the timing. What the f
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: does that mean, like, it doesn't matter. He's not gonna play,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: so who cares. So they're working through the timing of
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: this and the transaction. It's going to take a while.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: You think, you think it's gonna take a while, So placement.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: If you don't know what this means, it's been around
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: for years. The exempt list is the naughty list. You're
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: on the naughty list, and that means while you're on there.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Terry on Arnold, it was a first round draft pick
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: of the Lions, is ineligible to do things like, you know,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: playing games or practice while he remains on that naughty list.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: So here's the question on this one. The NFL planning
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: their own media outfit. The mouthpiece of the NFL says, hey,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: they're gonna put this guy, Terry on Arnold, defensive back
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: on the commissioners exemplst How big a blow is this
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: for the Seahawks? How big a blow is this for
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks. So, taking a couple of minutes to review
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: the information and come up with a conclusion, we have
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: determined that this is a significant say it with me now,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: body blow, body blow for the Seattle football team. And
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: despite I'm sure the spin right now that no Streudinus
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: is cooking up. It doesn't matter coach Mike McDonald's grand plan,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: much to the dismay of Crying Craig and Seattle, his
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: plan to upgrade clearly a weakness, the Seahawks proving they
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: are scared of the La Rams. You would not sign
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: a guy like this if you thought you were good
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: enough to beat the Rams. They know last year was
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: a fluke in Seattle. McDonald knows it. Everyone there and
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: that organization knows it. It was bogus. They were given
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: a gift by the football gods and that two point
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: sham foe two point conversion there, so they know they're
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: not good enough. The Rams are better. So like, we
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: got to sign this guy. I know it doesn't look good.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: The optics are bad. We got to bring this guy in.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: And now the NFL's like, put the kabash on this,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: and I know you can't do it. So putting Terry
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: on Arnold on the commission's exemplest means, as we said,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: he's not able to do anything. He's as useful as
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: if the Seahawks added JJ and Renton to the team. Okay,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: so that's that's where we are. And Arnold as an
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: NFL player. It's essentially if Seattle adds him, it's like
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: putting someone on layaway, and it's like, Okay, we'll put
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: down a deposit now and maybe we'll take him on
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: our roster like later, maybe that'll happen. So with Arnold,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: he's facing not one, not two, not three, not four,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: not five, not six, not seven, eight felony counts for
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: things like kidnapping and armed robbery charges. And he was
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: supposedly the ring leader, if you believe the prosecutor. That's
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: what they're saying. Anyway, maybe they affed up possible putting
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: bet on that and the punishment, what do you think
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: the punishment is? Like twenty years, thirty years in jail,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: something like that. Yeah, how about life in prison? Yeah,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: he's facing up to life in prison, which seems like
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: a big thing. Seattle is betting the long term lottery
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: payout will pay off here, and so they're really at
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the mercy of the Florida court system and Park Avenue.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: That's where they are. And so maybe maybe McDonald eventually
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: gets the defensive back that he wants. Maybe it's possible
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: that Terry on Arnold's next defensive assignment is not guarding
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: a wide receiver in the NFL, it's guarding the mashed
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: potatoes at the prison mess hall. That's also a possibility
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: in the multiverse. So who knows. We'll see how this
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: plays out. But either way, Seattle didn't get the player
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: they won. They didn't, right, and they're about to add
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: a giant question mark. That's what they're about to get,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: all right. Now, final point to the trial lab we
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: go follow up to the follow up. Now, we talked
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: about this in a previous episode of the show. We
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: didn't really spend too much time discussing it here when
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: it was actually going on. What is it? What we've learned?
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: The company behind the enhanced games, remember this where they
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: had steroid guys against people that weren't doing steroids. Yeah,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about anyway, So the company
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: behind the enhanced games. Do you think they made money,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: lost money, or broke even Yeah, the answer is they
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: lost their took us They lost nearly sixty two million.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Nearly sixty two million in the second quarter the cost
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: of staging the event. This was back in May if
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: you didn't see it, and the NBA playoffs were going on.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Now during the event, you had clean athletes who largely
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: outperformed the steroid cheats, Which makes no sense because I
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: watched baseball in the nineties when guys were looking like
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: the Incredible Hulk and hitting home runs like the Incredible
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Haulk and the Bonds and McGuire and Sosa and those guys,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: and yet here we always, well, the clean guys outperformed
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: the performance enhancing drug crew. All right. So here's the question.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: After losing, after losing close to sixty two million dead
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: presidents at the enhanced Games, are they already doomed, doomed
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: to doom, doom doom? All right? So we did a
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: wellness check, because that's what we do here, by the people,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: for the people, all about the people. So we did
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: a wellness check. And somebody, somebody may want to bring
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: in the crash cart, if you know what I'm saying there. Now,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: this thing is under fire from pretty much every direction.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: At this point, you've got Wall Street. The shares of
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: the company have been body slammed. In fact, they're down
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: I read almost eighty four percent, eighty four percent year
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: to date. Critics are calling the whole operation dangerous and irresponsible.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: How dare you. Of course, they allowed these steroid guys
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: in baseball during the nineties in the early two thousands,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: And there's guy's right now, Futson around and someone are
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: not getting caught. Hell, I watched Fernando Tatisa, steroid cheat,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: and he had a big day against the Mets. I
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: wonder what's going on there? And I took a grand
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: slam away, good catch, Razzle Dazzle hit a couple of
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: bombs in Queen's Last Night. So any on on the
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: US what is it? The USA DA says that the
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: outfit is prioritizing entertainment and shock value over athletes long
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: term health. Then came the ultimate oops a daisy? What
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: was the ultimate oops a daisy? In this story? I'll
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: tell you the clean athletes, as we said, actually did
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: better than the dirty ones. Say what, holy pineapple batman,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: what are you talking about? Yeah, So they built the
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: enhanced games under the premise, which at this point is
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: a false premise that athletes doing the full chemistry set
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: at the Science Fair that they would produce better results. Well,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: so far one event in and who knows if there'll
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: be another one that has not been that has not
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: been the case It's kind of like opening a river
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: boat casino and somehow the house loses every night. You
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: know how impossible it is for the casino to lose money.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: People go into a casino knowing they're going to lose money,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: and they happily go la la la la, la la la,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: hopping and skipping into the casino. Here, take my money.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: And yet they're the ones that open up basically a casino,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: and they somehow screwed this up. Now, it does cost
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: money to start a business. Sixty two million seems like
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: a lot of money to start a business. And you're
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: building something. Is this something people really want? I don't
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: know about that. I don't know about that. You know,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: I can't. You can't keep lighting the money on fire
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: while trying to convince everyone that you should care. So
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: the clock, it's not done yet. The clock is ticking.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: You can almost hear it in the background, you can
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: kind of make it out. I could hear it a
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: little bit in the background there. So, yeah, the clock
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: is ticking. The runway is shrinking, it's shrinking a little
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: bit there. So, unless somebody finds a financial defiberator and
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: gives some oxygen and some life to the body there.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: The enhanced games are getting close to getting the oh bit.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: They're getting close to that oh bit.
• 38:47
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• 38:52
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• 38:55
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• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Here we go, cupoloo.
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: A panel of sports experts published a pair quotes a
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: quotes Yes, sorry, I did it and I realized him
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: in your voice. They published a piece this week where
• 39:13
  Speaker 6: they predicted the future of all thirty two NFL teams,
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: and one of the predictions was that Lion's defensive end
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: Aiden Hutchinson will win Defensive Player of the Year within
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: the next three years. Ben, can you get behind that trajectory?
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Well, I can for two reasons. Number one, he's good
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: and number two the reason on Benny Bright's side. I
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: had him on the podcast when I was at the
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl a couple years ago. So yes, absolutely, friend
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: of mine, Me and Aiden Hutchinson were tight. So yes, yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 6: Next, Brown's defensive end, Jared Verst, was involved in a
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  Speaker 6: training camp fight this week, but told reporters that he
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  Speaker 6: thinks fighting is necessary in football, Ben Is he right?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, I still love and I feel like this
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  Speaker 1: is the last couple of years. People get so worked up.
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  Speaker 1: There's these wokesters in the media lose their fricking mind.
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  Speaker 1: I was I was reading a story about the fights
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  Speaker 1: that were I think it was the Saints practice. There
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  Speaker 1: were chargers, there were a bunch of fights. This is
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  Speaker 1: what happens. So Nick's got in a fight exactly. They
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  Speaker 1: got the players. Most of the players love it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when we are getting ready for the radio season, we fight.
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely kicked Danny G's ass a couple of years,
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  Speaker 1: remember that trade. We had a training camp brawl and
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  Speaker 1: Jay Moore, the reason he left radio, kicked his ass.
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  Speaker 6: After being traded to the Charlotte Hornets, Dennis Schroder only
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  Speaker 6: needs to join one more team to tie the record
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  Speaker 6: for the most teams played for an NBA history. He
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  Speaker 6: said an interview this week that being a journeyman gets
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  Speaker 6: a bad rap for the media because the teams pay
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  Speaker 6: for everything. For us, we continue to live just as
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  Speaker 6: we lived before. Ben does he have a point.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like you don't realize, Like the housing's taken care of,
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  Speaker 1: the travels taking care of They give you per diem.
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  Speaker 1: You live in a hotel when you change teams. And
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  Speaker 1: there was a guy named Tony Massenberg that played billion
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  Speaker 1: teams back. It's it's really not that bad. It's fun.
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  Speaker 1: Oh really sounds very serious. The tone is very serious.
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  Speaker 7: Well, you know, blind Scott made some very serious accusations,
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  Speaker 7: We contribute every day. We are making connections every.
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  Speaker 1: Day oh, yes, very big connection in the air. Every
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  Speaker 1: look at you, Lorena. It's amazing there.
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  Speaker 7: I quote you all the time.
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  Speaker 1: You're very modern day. I feel like if you know
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  Speaker 7: And when I hear other sports commentators say, oh, they
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  Speaker 7: have momentum, I'm like, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: They don't. It's a bad take. That's called laziness, Lorana.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun writes in he says, how would you
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• 43:51
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  Speaker 7: That's really funny. I'm a big fan of fat shaming.
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  Speaker 7: So like, if you're gonna what woman isn't if you
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  Speaker 7: I've never been to Sugar Lens Distillery, but I feel
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  Speaker 7: Oh, definitely Flag Day. You can pick your own flag,
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  Speaker 2: and the password is password, you idiot. Password the word
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  Speaker 2: game of the stars.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Ben Meler the way we go. Password time. Let's
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: welcome in our contestants for password. We have Mark on
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  Speaker 1: the North End. Hello, Mark, Welcome in Boston. What's going on? Marky? Mark?
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  Speaker 1: The real king of the North End? Not compared to
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: the other guy there right.
• 45:40
  Speaker 7: I can't believe the other guy's even back.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: I know he did leave for a while, but well,
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  Speaker 1: you own it. You're the kingpin of the north end.
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  Speaker 1: We know that. Who do you want to partner up with? Mark?
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  Speaker 7: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: You all right? We're in it. I mean and you
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  Speaker 1: side by side. Now I've got two options, one of
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: them I can't go to. So I have to now this.
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  Speaker 1: I love this guy to Chris is that you loves
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  Speaker 1: the game. So Chris and Boston's an all Boston matchup? Chris,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on? Chris?
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  Speaker 2: Let's play?
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  Speaker 1: All right? You're you want to let's do it? All right?
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: What do you what do you want? You want the
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Lorena or Coop? Who do you want to partner on?
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  Speaker 1: A coop? All right? Coop? You're in it? And let
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: me make sure I lock this. That's the wrong one
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  Speaker 1: and I'll lock this lining. Okay, we have words quickly, Mark,
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  Speaker 1: pick a number one to ten, sir, please three number three?
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: All right, it's password word. Game of Stars. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: with the foundation oh beginning?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: All right, Chris, let's go.
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  Speaker 4: With helpm No, all right?
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: How about underpinning? Underpinning? Wow? Okay, thank you, sup. Work
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: that's a good word. I've out kicked the coverage, all right, Chris,
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the Mallard maneuver. Here I don't
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  Speaker 1: do that.
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  Speaker 5: Tack tack.
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  Speaker 1: Eh. You know what in last segment was actually better
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: than this. Think of all the clues tack.
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  Speaker 4: No foundation.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, Coop is now having a breakdown in the
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  Speaker 1: other room because of this.
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  Speaker 7: Sorry, such a good clue.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: No, well, apparently not Coop the word we were looking for. Gentlemen,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: this is terrible. Support Support foundation is a sport found
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  Speaker 1: that's a part, some part. All right, we'll have more.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do better next time, yes, all right, my god,
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  Speaker 1: all right,