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The Fifth Hour: The Greatest Show on Earth · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Cutbooms.
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Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
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Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearing House
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Speaker 2: of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
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Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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Speaker 1: In the air everywhere.
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Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with me, Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio,
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Speaker 3: who is producing this podcast, and he'll be with me
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Speaker 3: hopefully over the weekend for the Saturday and Sunday podcast.
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Speaker 3: But happy Friday. It is day two of the Major
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Speaker 3: League Baseball season.
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Speaker 1: But you knew that already. The twenty seventh day of
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Speaker 1: the month of March.
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Speaker 3: The final Fifth Hour podcast here in the month of March.
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Speaker 3: And the thing that I always get a kick out
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Speaker 3: of is we spend so much time us with opening
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Speaker 3: Day in Major League Baseball. If you heard the Overnight Show,
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Speaker 3: we talked a lot of ball, a lot of baseball
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Speaker 3: on the Overnight Show. And today it's like, yes, it's
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Speaker 3: the day after, it's like the second day of school.
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Speaker 1: You get all worked up.
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Speaker 3: I remember as a kid, my mom would Every mom
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Speaker 3: is pretty much the same, right, or your dad or whatever.
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Speaker 3: Maybe you have an uncle whoever you're with when you
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Speaker 3: were a kid, and they take you out shopping. You
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Speaker 3: got the clothes, you got the backpack, you got all
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Speaker 3: the crap for school back when we had backpacks.
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Speaker 1: I think some schools band backpacks.
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Speaker 3: And then you get all worked up all and I
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Speaker 3: never liked school, but you get all worked up for
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Speaker 3: the first day of school. And the first day of
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Speaker 3: school is usually pretty easy. The teachers are trying to
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Speaker 3: get on your good side. There's not a lot of
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Speaker 3: work to do. And then where the rubber meets the
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Speaker 3: road is day two. And in Major League Baseball, I
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Speaker 3: know the Dodgers and Cubs played those fugazy games in Japan,
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Speaker 3: which Baseball sold to Japan and they made a lot
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Speaker 3: of money on that. But the US opener and Day
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Speaker 3: two and then baseball falls off a cliff. Now I'm
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Speaker 3: still watching. I'll watch the game today. I don't know obviously,
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Speaker 3: March Madness. I don't know how much of that I'm
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Speaker 3: gonna watch actually today because by the time I get
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Speaker 3: back on the regular radio show on Sunday night in
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Speaker 3: the Monday. The games that are played tonight, I don't
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Speaker 3: think are going to be really that much to talk about.
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Speaker 3: Now I might if something's crazy going on, I might
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Speaker 3: flip over. So anyway, this's day two of the baseball
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Speaker 3: season today. It is also one of my favorite characters
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Speaker 3: in American history.
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Speaker 1: It is a day for them. And you say, well,
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Speaker 1: what is that.
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Speaker 3: It's Barnum and Bailey Day, which is actually two people.
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Speaker 1: It's not one. It's not one.
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Speaker 3: And and that's to appreciate the day Barnum and Bailey
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Speaker 3: Day for Phineas Barnum and James Bailey of the Barnum
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Speaker 3: and Bailey circus that thrilled millions and millions of our
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Speaker 3: relatives back in the day and came up with one
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Speaker 3: of the wonderful marketing terms of all time. That marketing
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Speaker 3: term the Greatest Show on Earth, which has been ripped
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Speaker 3: off by NFL teams.
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Speaker 1: Who were the Rams.
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Speaker 3: If you're old enough, when they had some really high
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Speaker 3: powered teams in Saint Louis, they called themselves the greatest
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Speaker 3: show on turf, which was which was pretty cool. But
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Speaker 3: Barnum and Bailey, the Barnum and Bailey circus which later
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Speaker 3: became known. When I was a kid growing up, I
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Speaker 3: remember coming to town it was the Ringling Brothers and
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Speaker 3: Barnum and Bailey Circus. They these two big circus outfits
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Speaker 3: combined together. But that actually went back to eighteen eighty one,
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Speaker 3: the Barnum and Bailey Ringling Brothers Circus eighteen eighty one,
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Speaker 3: and it ran for.
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Speaker 1: Over a century. In fact, it in and that's been
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Speaker 1: been a few years since.
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Speaker 3: It ended twenty seventeen, and they had the title they
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Speaker 3: were self proclaimed the greatest show on Earth, and that
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Speaker 3: was back back. And then the only reason they got
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Speaker 3: rid of that, well, there were two reasons. First was
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Speaker 3: sales weren't great. People's taste changed people because of social
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Speaker 3: media and things. Not just social media, but people were
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Speaker 3: not going out as much and they just weren't into it.
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Speaker 3: They could see any kind of animal they wanted, do
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Speaker 3: any kind of stupid trick they wanted, and they could
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Speaker 3: see clowns at a moment's notice, and their attention span
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Speaker 3: was pretty short, so attendance started away. And then you
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Speaker 3: also had these activists, these wackadoodles that were going crazy
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Speaker 3: about oh my hear abusing the animals. This, that and
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Speaker 3: the other thing, and so you can buy those two
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Speaker 3: things and that's it. And usually in business. I was
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Speaker 3: reading about this the other day, I fell down a
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Speaker 3: rabbit hole. It actually started on.
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Speaker 1: AI.
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Speaker 3: I was on one of the search engines that uses AI,
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Speaker 3: and I was, I.
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Speaker 1: Fell down this rabbit hole. I was like, I was.
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Speaker 3: It started out with second generation sports ownership, because we
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Speaker 3: have a lot of that. We have we have families
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Speaker 3: that got into the NFL or Major League Baseball eighty
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Speaker 3: years ago or whatever it was, and then they just.
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Speaker 1: Keep passing the team down to generation to generation.
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Speaker 3: Great examples of that would be the Raiders, the Las
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Speaker 3: Vegas Raiders, right Mark Davis who just happened to win
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Speaker 3: the genetic lottery and he happens to run.
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Speaker 1: The Raiders, even though he has no business running the Raiders.
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Speaker 3: But his father Al actually had some some perseverance and
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Speaker 3: some gusto and made something for himself. And then Mark
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Speaker 3: Davis just got to ride the gravy train. Same thing
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Speaker 3: about the Steinrenner family in New York. And you know
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Speaker 3: there's a bunch of teams Genie Buss with the Lakers,
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Speaker 3: people that are in the right position because of genetics,
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Speaker 3: not necessarily anything that they did.
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Speaker 1: So I fell down this rabbit hole.
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Speaker 3: And most businesses do not make it to the third generation.
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Speaker 1: Second.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but normally in sports are a little different because
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Speaker 3: it's a fool proof business. It's a fool proof business.
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Speaker 3: You're guaranteed to make money. Now you're not gonna make
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Speaker 3: as much.
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Speaker 1: Men.
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Speaker 3: I got a call a couple of nights ago from
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Speaker 3: a guy in Cleveland who was ranting and raving about
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Speaker 3: another caller.
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Speaker 1: You know, this being the first week of baseball.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, was going on and on, ranting and raving about
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Speaker 3: the salary structure and it's not fair, you know, this
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Speaker 3: whole thing.
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Speaker 1: Going on and on and on and on and on.
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Speaker 3: And he annoyed me because I thought a lot of
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Speaker 3: what he was saying was just talking points from teams
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Speaker 3: that don't want to spend a.
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Speaker 1: Lot of money.
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Speaker 3: But if you own a professional sports team, you're making money.
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Speaker 1: Now you might not be making a lot of money.
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Speaker 3: And I've heard from people that work in the business
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Speaker 3: who have told me they make projections. Every business makes projections.
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Speaker 3: We're going to sell this many cans a soup now. Obviously,
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Speaker 3: it's a lot different when you run a professional sports team.
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Speaker 3: There's a lot of hidden costs. There's also a lot
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Speaker 3: of hidden revenue that you can make. And if you
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Speaker 3: say your team X and you're projecting, you're going to
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Speaker 3: make and we do last year as an example, because
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Speaker 3: this year's who knows. But in twenty twenty four, at
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Speaker 3: the end of twenty twenty three, going into twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 3: you did the books and you looked at everything. You
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Speaker 3: had your spreadsheet out, and you said, listen, if we
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Speaker 3: take the TV revenue, the national money, the merchandise opportunities,
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Speaker 3: and we put all of these things together, we are
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Speaker 3: going to make profit. Once we give out all the expenses,
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Speaker 3: we're going to be sitting on a pile of ten
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Speaker 3: million ten million in profit, which.
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Speaker 1: Is not that much. That's not that much.
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Speaker 3: So then they play out the twenty twenty four season
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Speaker 3: and a few things go wrong and you only make
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Speaker 3: a profit of six million dollars. You then announced that
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Speaker 3: you lost four million dollars, that you're in.
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Speaker 1: The red for the year twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 3: When you actually made money, you just didn't make enough
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Speaker 3: gemstones because you thought you were going to make more
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Speaker 3: gemstones and you didn't. And so therefore you say well,
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Speaker 3: we were supposed to. I looked at the spreadsheet and
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Speaker 3: I crunched the numbers and I used the math, and
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Speaker 3: the math ain't mathing. And we were supposed to make
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Speaker 3: this amount of money.
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Speaker 1: We did not.
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Speaker 3: And so there you go. So again, boy, I went
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Speaker 3: way off, way off the reservation. But Wringling Brothers, Arnham
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Speaker 3: and Bailey circus lasted from eighteen eighty one all the way.
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Speaker 1: To twenty seventeen. Amazing.
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Speaker 3: Now, the modern circus began in the seventeen hundreds in England.
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Speaker 3: A guy named Philip Astley is the first person to
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Speaker 3: create a one stop show. And the original circus in
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Speaker 3: England had horseback riding or tricks.
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Speaker 1: Rather that riding. You watch people write horses anywhere.
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Speaker 3: The automobile was not a thing in the seventeen hundreds,
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Speaker 3: but they had horse riding tricks, so like some dude
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Speaker 3: on a horse juggling.
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Speaker 1: They had acrobats, clowns and other entertainment. And so that
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Speaker 1: was back in the seventeen hundreds and then P. T.
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Speaker 3: Barnum and Bailey got together and the circus started.
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Speaker 1: The US version of the circus. The PD.
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Speaker 3: Barnum was the first ever freak show and that that
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Speaker 3: is a wild story. P. T. Barnum figuring out that
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Speaker 3: people would pay good money to watch things that were different,
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Speaker 3: things that were different and whatnot.
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Speaker 1: But P. T.
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Speaker 3: Barnum he partnered with William Cameron Coop after he retired.
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Speaker 1: After his retirement and the P. T. Barnum Museum.
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Speaker 3: Menageree and circus, and that was where they came up
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Speaker 3: with the marketing term the greatest show on turf, and
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Speaker 3: so a major tip of the cap. And that actually
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Speaker 3: leads us to the word of the week. That's right,
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Speaker 3: the word of the week. We'll do it earlier this week,
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Speaker 3: on this Friday. So the word of the week is
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Speaker 3: circus in honor of P. T. Barnum and the Barnum
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Speaker 3: and Bailey circus and all of that in the Hippodrome.
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Speaker 1: But the word of the week is, as we said, circus.
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Speaker 3: The word circus, if you go way back in the
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Speaker 3: hot tip time machine, the roots of the word circus,
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Speaker 3: it's Latin and Old English mixed together, but it comes
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Speaker 3: from the Latin word of circus, which means circle or ring.
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Speaker 3: But in ancient Rome, the term circus cir cus it
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Speaker 3: referred to a large open air venue used for public events. Now,
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Speaker 3: back in ancient Rome they had chariot races and gladiators
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Speaker 3: in combat.
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Speaker 1: Who were slaves, by the way, gl ideas were.
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Speaker 3: Slaves, and they also had the circus maximus, and so
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Speaker 3: those those venues in ancient Rome were typically circular oval.
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Speaker 3: Thus the origin of the word. Now we move ahead
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Speaker 3: in this Word of the week word circus. So by
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Speaker 3: the late fourteenth century the term entered what was English,
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Speaker 3: but now we call it Old English, and it evolved
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Speaker 3: from the fourteenth century further on in the late eighteenth century,
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Speaker 3: the modern concept of what you and I call a circus, right,
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Speaker 3: it is a circus in that modern version of circus,
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Speaker 3: which features the clowns, the acrobats and the animals, all
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Speaker 3: of that. That was pioneered by someone named Philip Astley
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Speaker 3: in England. Now most people don't know who that is
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Speaker 3: because he's not as famous as P. T.
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Speaker 1: Barnum and the Barnum and Bailey circus and all that.
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Speaker 3: But Philip Astley in that period in England was the
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Speaker 3: first one to use that term in relation to what
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Speaker 3: is still known as what we think of as a circus. Right,
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Speaker 3: and so this usage hating the idea that the circular performances.
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Speaker 3: Remember that you go to you used to go to
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Speaker 3: the circus. You had round tents or rings and under
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Speaker 3: the big top and all that.
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Speaker 1: So there you go.
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Speaker 3: The word of the week. The word of the week
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Speaker 3: is circus. I know, so exciting, all right, So turning
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Speaker 3: the page from the word of the week, we go,
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Speaker 3: I want to go back to baseball.
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Speaker 1: And I didn't mention this.
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Speaker 3: I did the Bennies Baseball Bonanza, the big opening Day
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Speaker 3: show the other night, did a monologue about baseball and
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Speaker 3: the storylines of baseball. One thing I did not get
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Speaker 3: into that I wanted to do here on the pod
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Speaker 3: is the exotic player prop bets. Now I love these,
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Speaker 3: absolutely love them. And the twenty twenty five season is
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Speaker 3: now underway. We're off to the races and you can
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Speaker 3: bet the normal thing. You should not gamble. You should
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Speaker 3: not gamble if you can't control yourself, right, it's obvious,
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Speaker 3: right A lot.
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Speaker 1: Of people can't.
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Speaker 3: Many of us can, and like anything everything within moderation,
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Speaker 3: even moderation. But in honor of the start of the
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Speaker 3: baseball season on this State two today, I thought we'd
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Speaker 3: look at some of the more interesting exotic player prop bets.
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Speaker 3: And again not your normal over under or strikeouts or
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Speaker 3: any of that stuff. So we'll start with the face
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Speaker 3: of Major League Baseball show, Hey Otani, So Otani the
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Speaker 3: one prop bet. There's a bunch of Otani prop bets,
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Speaker 3: because you gotta get that money. You gotta get that money.
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Speaker 3: The one that I'm gonna use for this is will
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Speaker 3: Otani hit forty or more home runs and pitch enough
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Speaker 3: to win ten or more games?
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Speaker 1: So that is the question.
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Speaker 3: Now Otani, keep in mind, is not even yet in
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Speaker 3: the Dodger pitching staff.
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Speaker 1: He's he's coming back. Their slow rolling him.
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Speaker 3: He's I think I read the other day Otani's they
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Speaker 3: think you'll pitch maybe sometime in May.
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Speaker 1: I believe. I mean they're going very slow, very slow.
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Speaker 3: I might be wrong on that, but I think I
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Speaker 3: read that somewhere anyway, shoe A Otani will he had
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Speaker 3: forty or more home runs and pitch ten or more
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Speaker 3: wins this year.
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Speaker 1: So I would go know on this. I would go
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Speaker 1: know on this because you have and I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you can bet No.
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Speaker 3: All right, Otani is supposed to be pitching, but he
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Speaker 3: had major elbow surgery. That is his second major elbow surgery.
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Speaker 3: You combine that with the fact that he's likely going
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Speaker 3: to pitch maybe once every five every six days, and
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Speaker 3: he'll skip some starts, so he's not going to get
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Speaker 3: that many starts.
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Speaker 1: And when he does pitch, is he going to go
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Speaker 1: five six? Now? Is he gonna get enough innings to
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Speaker 1: get wins? Now?
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Speaker 3: The offensive number, I think it would be surprising assuming
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Speaker 3: all these things, Assuming hell, forty home runs. Absolutely, he's
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Speaker 3: already got, you know, he's already got a good start
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Speaker 3: to that. So he is projected to hit the odds estimate,
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Speaker 3: he is projected to hit about forty plus home runs.
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Speaker 3: The thing that's the wild card is the ten wins, right,
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Speaker 3: because not only do you have to pitch enough, you
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Speaker 3: got to be healthy.
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Speaker 1: Obviously with all this stuff.
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Speaker 3: But Otani's coming off a fifty to fifty season with
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Speaker 3: fifty four home runs and fifty nine stolen bases, and
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Speaker 3: he's a much better, much better offensive player. Obviously, an
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Speaker 3: MVP level offensive player is a generational offensive player.
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Speaker 1: He is not a generational pitcher.
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Speaker 3: The reason that Otani is so especially he's not terrible,
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Speaker 3: but it's.
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Speaker 1: The uniqueness of it. Like there have been.
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Speaker 3: Players who have futched around with pitching and hitting, and
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Speaker 3: they're usually really bad at one and okay at the other.
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Speaker 3: Otani is elite. He's omni present when it comes to
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Speaker 3: hitting the baseball, but pitching, based on what I saw
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Speaker 3: in Anaheim, he was, Okay, there'll be some good starts,
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Speaker 3: and there'd be a lot of crappy starts. But the
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Speaker 3: fact that he's just doing it at all, it's like, Wow,
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Speaker 3: that's like really cool.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: Some of the other exotic props for baseball this year,
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Speaker 3: how about Elie Dela Cruz, another dynamo for the Cincinnati Reds,
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Speaker 3: Elie Dela Cruz, who's now got a real manager in
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Speaker 3: Terry Francona. I would keep an eye on the Reds now.
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Speaker 3: They don't have enough if you look at a depth
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Speaker 3: chart pitching wise. But Terry Francona, and I didn't think
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Speaker 3: much of him when he was in Philadelphia and the
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Speaker 3: Red Sox had loaded teams when he managed there, they
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Speaker 3: with Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz, so I thought, well,
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Speaker 3: he's all right, but really they've got tremendous talent. But
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Speaker 3: the crafting of Terry Francona managing a team, I thought
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Speaker 3: in Cleveland. They used to be just called a team
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Speaker 3: called the Indians, and to me, that was where Terry
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Speaker 3: Francona just crafted these amazing teams that overachieved. Now, some
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Speaker 3: of that was.
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Speaker 1: The division and there weren't that many good teams in
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Speaker 1: the division.
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Speaker 3: But I thought that the Cleveland Indians and now they're
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Speaker 3: the Guardians with Francona, overachieved. They in and underachieved. They
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Speaker 3: overachieved based on what they I thought the talent level was,
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Speaker 3: and they were able to play off the radar. There
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Speaker 3: wasn't a lot of hype about their young players, and they.
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Speaker 1: Pulled it off.
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Speaker 3: And Francona played it off and pulled it off, and
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Speaker 3: so now he's in Cincinnati anyway, So this is not
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Speaker 3: about Terry Francona, but La did and the Cruz. The
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Speaker 3: prop bet is will he lead Major League Baseball in
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Speaker 3: stolen bases and triples? So leading the league in two
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Speaker 3: categories that involved speed is this is not that easy,
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Speaker 3: my friend. Now, last season Dela Cruz led major League baseball.
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Speaker 3: He had sixty seven sixty seven stolen bases and he
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Speaker 3: had ten triples. That was tied for second. But keep
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Speaker 3: in my playing in Cincinnati. That is a band box.
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Speaker 3: It's not a great Triples ballpark. You're more likely to
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Speaker 3: hit a home run than have the ball bounce off
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Speaker 3: the wall at the Great America Ballpark, which I think
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Speaker 3: it's still called, and then roll around. In order to
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Speaker 3: get that amount of triples, like where you're leading baseball,
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Speaker 3: there has to be like weird bounces and yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's like trick shot.
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Speaker 1: It's like your trick shot artist when you're doing that.
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Speaker 3: And anyway, so I would I would say, yeah, stolen
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Speaker 3: bases if you just bet that your eye the triples
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Speaker 3: is like total toss up right, You're just you're grabbing
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Speaker 3: out of thin air. Another prop bet for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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Speaker 3: It's Paul Skeens and pray for Raid, this phenom who
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Speaker 3: will be in Pittsburgh for a couple more years and
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Speaker 3: then play for the Yankees or the Dodgers and the
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Speaker 3: Red Sox or wherever he's from. Southern California. Actually Paul Skeins.
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Speaker 3: Fun fact, fun fact about Paul Skeins. He grew up
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Speaker 3: not that far away from where I grew up in
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Speaker 3: Orange County. In fact, he went to Eltoral High School
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Speaker 3: in Orange County. And when I was in high school,
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Speaker 3: we played against his obviously like a.
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Speaker 1: Million I'm a dinosaur compared.
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Speaker 3: To him, but we played against the high school where
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Speaker 3: he went, and so he does have ties to southern California.
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Speaker 3: But Paul Skeins pretty straightforward this exotic prop bet for
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Speaker 3: the baseball season.
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Speaker 1: Will he throw a no hitter? Will Paul Skeins throw
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Speaker 1: no hitter?
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Speaker 3: So on this one, the odds are plus twenty five hundred,
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Speaker 3: and much like leading the league in triples, it's impossible.
21:15
Speaker 3: I don't care what kind of algorithm you have. You
21:20
Speaker 3: can't just type it into some deep search engines said, well,
21:24
Speaker 3: that's going to be the answer. No, because no hitters
21:28
Speaker 3: are endangered species. They are a throwback to an era
21:35
Speaker 3: when pictures had hair on their chest and the world
21:41
Speaker 3: was not run by cowards, and pitchers could stay in
21:44
Speaker 3: games and you were actually shamed. It's one of these
21:47
Speaker 3: things that's changed in my lifetime. There was a time
21:50
Speaker 3: when you were shamed if you came out of a
21:53
Speaker 3: game early, and then at some point in the last
21:58
Speaker 3: about fifteen years or so, it changed and now, well,
22:03
Speaker 3: you're really letting the team down if you go too
22:04
Speaker 3: far into the game because you got to save those
22:06
Speaker 3: bullets for.
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Speaker 1: Later in the year.
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Speaker 3: Now, my favorite example of that is a couple of
22:11
Speaker 3: years ago, Clayton Kershaw was pitching a perfect game, not
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Speaker 3: a no hitter, not a no hitter, a perfect game
22:17
Speaker 3: against the Minnesota Twins. It was like it was like
22:19
Speaker 3: April or May. It was early in the year. Kershaw
22:23
Speaker 3: was dealing and they took him out of the game.
22:26
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts took him out. They had a perfect game.
22:29
Speaker 3: And the argument the Dodgers made was they had to
22:34
Speaker 3: save Kershaw because they're not worried about a perfect game.
22:37
Speaker 3: They had to save him for the playoffs. And I
22:41
Speaker 3: believe if I'm right, and I know if I'm wrong,
22:45
Speaker 3: you'll correct me.
22:46
Speaker 1: You'll send me a nast email.
22:48
Speaker 3: You said that on the podcast, and you were right,
22:50
Speaker 3: and I don't like that you were wrong, and I
22:52
Speaker 3: got to correct it.
22:53
Speaker 1: Anyway.
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Speaker 3: So I think that was the year that Kershall went
22:56
Speaker 3: out in the playoffs against the Diamondbacks and he did
23:00
Speaker 3: pitch and he vomited all over the mountain. He was
23:05
Speaker 3: in the vomit comet in that first start. I'm pretty
23:08
Speaker 3: sure that was it. So but anyway, get back to
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Speaker 3: Paul Skins, so will he throw a no hitter? No
23:14
Speaker 3: hitters are again, like it's like seeing if you're in
23:20
Speaker 3: California seeing a bald eagle. Now, I know on the
23:23
Speaker 3: East Coast, I've seen some bald eagles out and about,
23:25
Speaker 3: but very rare. In California you will see a bald eagle.
23:30
Speaker 1: Okay. Anyway, last season, you know how many no hitters
23:34
Speaker 1: there were?
23:35
Speaker 3: You got a number? How about three? In all of baseball?
23:40
Speaker 3: Three happened.
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Speaker 1: I'm surprised there were that many.
23:43
Speaker 3: Now Paul Skins is electric, all right, this guy is bananas.
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Speaker 1: He was the an L Rookie of the Year, had
23:51
Speaker 1: an ERA under two. Keep in mind, though, for a
23:55
Speaker 1: no hitter, you actually have to have help. What are
24:00
Speaker 1: you talking about? If they make an error, then that's
24:02
Speaker 1: not you know, that doesn't count as hit. Well, I
24:04
Speaker 1: understand that. Okay.
24:06
Speaker 3: The issue though, is if it's a fifty to fifty
24:09
Speaker 3: defensive play, they might give it as a hit or
24:14
Speaker 3: they might give it as an error. But if they
24:16
Speaker 3: give it as a hit, there goes you're no hitter.
24:20
Speaker 3: But is Paul Skins capable throwing? You know, yeah, one
24:23
Speaker 3: hundred miles an hour. He's got this killer slider that
24:27
Speaker 3: falls off the plate and all that. But I wouldn't
24:31
Speaker 3: bet on that because of the fact that he's likely
24:34
Speaker 3: not going to pitch that deep into games and he's
24:37
Speaker 3: playing for a suck bag Pittsburgh Pirates team.
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Speaker 1: He's just terrible all right. Now.
24:42
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, how about the Royals. Now, I was getting messages
24:46
Speaker 3: from my guys in Kansas City. My friend Bob Fesco
24:49
Speaker 3: was at the Royals opening game yesterday and some of
24:52
Speaker 3: my other friends in Kansas City.
24:54
Speaker 1: They were like, well, wish you were here.
24:56
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, By the way, my friend Bob
24:58
Speaker 3: Fesco has a awesome powder blue nineteen eighties Kansas City
25:04
Speaker 3: Royals jersey, which I want. I'm not even a Royals fan,
25:09
Speaker 3: but that is a smooth, smooth looking jersey.
25:14
Speaker 1: Really nice, really nice.
25:15
Speaker 3: Anyway, get back to the exotic prop bets. Bobby Witt
25:19
Speaker 3: Junior will he hit three hundred and steal forty or
25:24
Speaker 3: more bases this season for Cans City, So I'm actually
25:32
Speaker 3: gonna go yes on this.
25:34
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go yes. And here's why.
25:35
Speaker 3: He hit three point thirty two last season, had thirty
25:39
Speaker 3: one steals, so he's got a lot of wiggle room,
25:44
Speaker 3: a lot of wiggle room with the batting average. Even
25:48
Speaker 3: if he goes down twenty points, he bats three ten
25:51
Speaker 3: or three twelve or whatever.
25:53
Speaker 1: That's fine and the steals.
25:56
Speaker 3: The thing you worry about is if he's out for
26:00
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks because of injury, or even if
26:04
Speaker 3: he plays. But let's say he tweaks something Bobby Witt Jr.
26:08
Speaker 3: And he stays in the lineup, Well, the Royals are
26:11
Speaker 3: not gonna run him. But this is what I would
26:13
Speaker 3: actually bet yes on this because the three hundred average,
26:18
Speaker 3: I believe is a guarantee this guy's elite the steals.
26:23
Speaker 3: It'll come down to the final couple weeks of the season.
26:25
Speaker 3: The Royals are one of those fringe teams. Do they
26:28
Speaker 3: make the playoffs?
26:29
Speaker 1: Again? Do they not? But I would bet yes on that.
26:32
Speaker 3: Well, Aaron Judge hit a five hundred foot home run
26:37
Speaker 3: or the New York Yankees that old Captain El Capitan.
26:42
Speaker 3: So Aaron Judge is one of the largest human beings
26:47
Speaker 3: ever on a baseball field, and it's it's such.
26:50
Speaker 1: A crazy thing.
26:51
Speaker 3: I've seen Judge play in person a few times when
26:53
Speaker 3: the Yankees and Dodgers have played in LA and Most
26:57
Speaker 3: baseball players are petit there. They're not big dudes. And
27:03
Speaker 3: Aaron Judge is like a monster. He's the snowman. He's
27:09
Speaker 3: a sasquatch compared to these other mere mortals. Now that
27:14
Speaker 3: being said, if you look at Judge last season, his
27:19
Speaker 3: longest home run was four hundred.
27:21
Speaker 1: And seventy three feet.
27:25
Speaker 3: So the last time someone hit a five hundred foot
27:29
Speaker 3: home run, do you know what it was? It was
27:33
Speaker 3: Gean Carlos Stanton, who's hurt right now for the Yankees,
27:39
Speaker 3: and that was years ago when he was in his
27:42
Speaker 3: prime for the Marlins. I think they were called the
27:47
Speaker 3: Florida Marlins then before.
27:49
Speaker 1: They became the Miami Monas.
27:50
Speaker 3: But John Carlos Stanton is the last one to do
27:53
Speaker 3: it in baseball. And the other issue, when you look
27:56
Speaker 3: at Yankee Stadium, you don't have to hit the ball
27:59
Speaker 3: five one. It's like williamsport Pa. There at Yankee Stadium.
28:04
Speaker 3: You can just tap the baseball and it'll go in
28:08
Speaker 3: that short porch and you're just licking your chops.
28:11
Speaker 1: You're like, oh man, that's awesome. Anyway. All right, Moving
28:14
Speaker 1: on from.
28:15
Speaker 3: That, Roiki Sazaki, the next great Dodger phenom who made
28:22
Speaker 3: his debut in Japan last week. There's a prop bet
28:26
Speaker 3: will Roki Sazaki strikeout fifteen or more batters in a game?
28:33
Speaker 3: The latest addition from Japan. And again, I think those
28:39
Speaker 3: of you that reached out to me, I complained on
28:41
Speaker 3: this podcast.
28:42
Speaker 1: That the Dodgers.
28:44
Speaker 3: After thirty years of covering the Dodgers, the last two
28:47
Speaker 3: years I have been denied from daily access to the
28:50
Speaker 3: Dodgers because of the Japanese media that is covering Otani
28:55
Speaker 3: and I do appreciate it, and I am considering your offers.
28:59
Speaker 1: My favorite offer was that.
29:00
Speaker 3: I should quit the overnight show and work for Radio
29:05
Speaker 3: Tokyo or something like that. I get a job for
29:07
Speaker 3: a radio station in Tokyo, the Dodgers will give me
29:11
Speaker 3: the access that I had. The fact that I worked
29:14
Speaker 3: for their own station and whatnot is not good enough.
29:18
Speaker 1: It is not.
29:18
Speaker 3: But anyway, as far as this prop is concerned, roy
29:20
Speaker 3: Ki Sazaki willie strikeout fifteen over batters in a game. Now,
29:25
Speaker 3: he debuted in in Japan and has a really it's
29:31
Speaker 3: like a gimmick pitch. They say it's a splitter, but
29:36
Speaker 3: some of the baseball nerds sits more than that. There's
29:38
Speaker 3: something else going on, and he throws consistently over one hundred.
29:42
Speaker 1: Miles an hour.
29:44
Speaker 3: In Japan a couple of years ago, he had nineteen
29:50
Speaker 3: nineteen strikeouts in a perfect game in Japan. So that's
29:55
Speaker 3: pretty good. But here's the problem, the math on this,
29:57
Speaker 3: the malor math. Last season. Last season he all of baseball,
30:03
Speaker 3: all baseball, we had eight pitchers that struck out fifteen
30:07
Speaker 3: or more batters. So again, he's untested, and there's a
30:13
Speaker 3: learning curve.
30:14
Speaker 2: Now.
30:14
Speaker 3: Some guys get off to a good start and then
30:15
Speaker 3: the league catches up to them. So I would bet
30:18
Speaker 3: no on this. If you're able to a lot of
30:21
Speaker 3: these prop bets, you can't bet know. You just can't
30:24
Speaker 3: do it because most people would bet know and they'd win,
30:28
Speaker 3: and so you can only bet yes. And that's that anyway.
30:31
Speaker 3: All right, that's enough of that. We also have some
30:32
Speaker 3: time for some food. He fun, holl ry for food,
30:35
Speaker 3: he fun. Try to help you guys out. You boys,
30:38
Speaker 3: I know, working your ass off. You don't want to
30:41
Speaker 3: sit home and cook when you're done. You're not like
30:44
Speaker 3: my fat ass, where I have nothing but time. I
30:46
Speaker 3: do a four hour show a day. So anyway, all right,
30:49
Speaker 3: little Caesars now I'm bringing this. I've not eaten Little
30:53
Speaker 3: Caesars in years pizza pizza, but they have two items
30:57
Speaker 3: that caught my attention.
30:58
Speaker 1: Little Caesar's introduced.
31:00
Speaker 3: A five ninety nine large two topping pizza deal. Now
31:03
Speaker 3: that is available, of course, always only on the app,
31:07
Speaker 3: only on the app till April sixth, so you have
31:11
Speaker 3: a little time on that.
31:12
Speaker 1: That's that's a pretty good deal, large two topping pizza
31:15
Speaker 1: five ninety nine.
31:16
Speaker 3: You also have, now this got my attention more, the
31:19
Speaker 3: all new stuffed pizza with pretzel crust. Yeah, that's the
31:27
Speaker 3: petzel pretzel crust pizza.
31:29
Speaker 1: And I saw a photo. This actually looks pretty good.
31:33
Speaker 3: It's available for a limited time now. It starts March
31:36
Speaker 3: thirty first, so we still have to get through the weekend.
31:39
Speaker 3: Starts next week, nationwide availability in store and online, and
31:46
Speaker 3: it'll go.
31:47
Speaker 1: I guess it. It says it starts March thirty first.
31:50
Speaker 3: But then there's another note on this this story that
31:53
Speaker 3: I have that says April seventh to June twenty second,
31:57
Speaker 3: that'll be that'll be going on. There's there's also a
32:02
Speaker 3: story about who's got the greatest burger? And there was
32:05
Speaker 3: a recent survey that was done from Delish, and shockingly
32:12
Speaker 3: it said, in and out, in and out, that's what
32:17
Speaker 3: a Hamburger is all about. The greatest fast food burger. Yes, absolutely,
32:28
Speaker 3: and it's good.
32:29
Speaker 1: You know it's good.
32:29
Speaker 3: I've had I've had some. I like five guys. I
32:32
Speaker 3: used to be able to afford five guys, but they
32:34
Speaker 3: priced me out.
32:35
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't afford that. What else do we have? Subway?
32:39
Speaker 1: Are people still eating at Subway?
32:40
Speaker 3: Subway has debuted a new Hot Honey Pepperoni and Hot
32:44
Speaker 3: Honey Chicken sandwiches featuring their all new.
32:47
Speaker 1: Hot Honey sauce.
32:49
Speaker 3: Okay, bo Jangles Solid chicken fingers at bo Jangles underrated.
32:55
Speaker 3: When I go to the South, I go bo Jangles.
32:59
Speaker 3: Bo Jangles really a new item strawberry cobbler.
33:03
Speaker 1: I'm good on that. I don't think I need that.
33:06
Speaker 1: I'm all right.
33:07
Speaker 3: Pizza Hut has introduced the Cheesy Bites pizza, which I'm
33:12
Speaker 3: in on until they added the Ranch Lover's Flight, which
33:16
Speaker 3: is different. I don't want anything to do with that
33:19
Speaker 3: at all. All right, we'll get out on that note.
33:23
Speaker 3: Danny should join me at some point this weekend.
33:25
Speaker 1: Hopefully he'll be with me. Tomorrow, enjoy your.
33:28
Speaker 3: Day two of the baseball season US style, and also
33:34
Speaker 3: watch I will check out the college basketball. I'll watch
33:38
Speaker 3: some of that stuff. Have a wonderful rest here Friday.
33:41
Speaker 3: Thank you for supporting the radio show, the podcast, all
33:44
Speaker 3: this crap, and we'll catch you next time.
33:47
Speaker 1: Got a murder. I gotta go,