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  Speaker 1: Heading to Brown Town. If you will welcome in the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of another night of the Ben Malors Show. We
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  Speaker 1: fan of the number ten thousand. So our lead this
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  Speaker 1: hour is from football, kind of football, not good football. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I long have had a mantra under the cover of
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  Speaker 1: darkness that the better story is in the losing locker room.
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  Speaker 1: And some teams find ways to lose even in the offseason.
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  Speaker 1: They find new creative ways to f up in the offseason.
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  Speaker 1: But our lead this hour is from the owners meetings,
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  Speaker 1: and they are at a swinky resort in Florida, the
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  Speaker 1: oler garks of pig skin getting together and really talk
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  Speaker 1: about roughing it. I mean, my god. They're at the
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  Speaker 1: Breakers in Palm Beach, living the hard life. It is
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  Speaker 1: not easy. It is not that job is not that easy.
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  Speaker 1: So some interesting comments. We go where the news of
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  Speaker 1: the day takes and I thought this was pretty interesting.
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  Speaker 1: We spent a couple minutes shaking and baking it. Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: football team, the robber baron of the Cleveland football team
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  Speaker 1: making some headlines. If you didn't hear what he had
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  Speaker 1: to say, probably not. Why would you? You might have
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  Speaker 1: missed it. See the guy named Jimmy Haslam. Jimmy Haslam,
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  Speaker 1: he's the owner of the Browns and he has driven
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  Speaker 1: that franchise right into the abyss, even further the abyss
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  Speaker 1: than they thought they could go. And it's like, how
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  Speaker 1: low can you go? Let's go a little lower. Let's
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  Speaker 1: see how low we can go. And down down, down, down,
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  Speaker 1: down down down. So Jimmy haslm with comments from the
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  Speaker 1: Palm Beach Sore the NFL league meetings there, described the
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  Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson transaction as a big sow wing and a
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  Speaker 1: miss I saw wing and a whoop. It's like he's
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  Speaker 1: playing designated hitter for the Boston Red Sox. Justay right
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  Speaker 1: through the pitch, just boom, just through the pitch. He said,
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  Speaker 1: quote we thought we had the quarterback, we didn't, and
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  Speaker 1: we gave up a lot of draft picks to get him,
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  Speaker 1: has Lim said of Watson, So we've got to dig
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  Speaker 1: ourselves out of that hole. He stated it was an
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  Speaker 1: entire organization decision. He said, it ends with D and
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  Speaker 1: I blaming his wife as well. That's what every good
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  Speaker 1: man does, blame your wife. So I hold us accountable.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, D has and Jimmy Haslam, they are responsible,
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  Speaker 1: as Haslam ranted, Watson is done as the Browns quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: not gonna play this year, and we'll never start a
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  Speaker 1: meaningful game again for the Cleveland Browns. But that's not
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  Speaker 1: the talking point here. The talking point, as we discuss,
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  Speaker 1: is the commentary from the owner of the Cleveland football team.
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  Speaker 1: So thumbs up or thumbs down question? Thumbs up? Were
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  Speaker 1: thumbs down on it being possible for Browns fans to
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  Speaker 1: truly hold owner Jimmy Haslam accountable? In air quotes? Can
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  Speaker 1: you really hold an owner accountable? Is that even possible
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  Speaker 1: to do? So? I've got teflon, sewing machine, and iPhone
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to make an outhouse, which is the
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  Speaker 1: the Cleveland brown franchise. They are in the outhouse? What
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  Speaker 1: an appropriate name the Browns right to brown Town? We go.
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  Speaker 1: So to answer the question thumbs up or thumbs down?
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  Speaker 1: Is it possible for the brown loyal minion to hold
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  Speaker 1: owner Jimmy Haslam accountable? So I'm going to go thumbs
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  Speaker 1: down on this. I'm going thumbs down on the idea
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  Speaker 1: that you can hold the owner accountable. It's impossible. Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: HASLM knows this. He knows this. I like how I say,
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  Speaker 1: it's an organizational decision. The buck stops with you buckaroo,
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  Speaker 1: you dumb dumb You're the owner of the team. So
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Haslm knows that he's got nothing to worry about here.
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  Speaker 1: He's insulated. He is the football teflon don as the
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns owner, and the NFL does not penalize owners
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  Speaker 1: for being dumb dumbs. They don't when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: football decisions like bad trades or even worse contracts. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter how ridiculous it is, like, you don't even
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  Speaker 1: get punished for anything as an NFL loaner. What do
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  Speaker 1: you jim Irsay and robber Craft have gotten some punishment,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not real punishment. Said, well, you can't go
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  Speaker 1: to your luxury box for a couple of games. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to punish you. Oh my god, I've got to
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  Speaker 1: stay at my mansion and watch on television. How terrible
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  Speaker 1: is that? The hardship, it's ridiculous. So he's not gonna
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  Speaker 1: be punished Haslam. The only punishment is he's got to
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  Speaker 1: pay two hundred and thirty million dollars to a stiff, the
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  Speaker 1: creepy quarterback to Sean Watson, and he lost some scratcher
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  Speaker 1: tickets that were given to Houston. That's the only punishment.
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  Speaker 1: And the NFL, if you look at when they intervene
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  Speaker 1: in situations, the only time they will even pretend to
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  Speaker 1: do anything is if you damage the brand. If you
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  Speaker 1: attack this shield right then they go nuts. Or if
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  Speaker 1: you attack the money the finances, now that is a
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  Speaker 1: capital offense. That's high crimes and misdemeanors when you start
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  Speaker 1: messing around with the finances fraud legal scandals. Ironically, Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: Haslam knows a thing or two about that. You might
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  Speaker 1: want to look up and do a Google search on
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  Speaker 1: the Flying J, the pilot Flying J and some financial
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  Speaker 1: shenanigans that took place back in twenty seventeen. There was
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  Speaker 1: a large settlement and there were certainly some people that
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  Speaker 1: raised eyebrows at that time. Keep in mind that during
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  Speaker 1: the Browns purchase, he's owned the Browns the Haslam family
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  Speaker 1: since twenty twelve. I believe it is, but the NFL
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  Speaker 1: approved it anyway, so it's not like they didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a problem with everything that was going on the Watson
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  Speaker 1: related fallout. If there is any real fallout other than
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  Speaker 1: mean things being said on social media, he has not
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  Speaker 1: crossed any any kind of punishable territory, if you will.
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  Speaker 1: And the only way to really get back at ownership,
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  Speaker 1: and it's only happened a few times in my lifetime,
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  Speaker 1: is the a word apathy. That is for a very loyal,
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  Speaker 1: passionate group of knuckleheads in Cleveland who live their life
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  Speaker 1: around the Browns to no longer care. And if you
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  Speaker 1: are able to demonstrate that successfully for a extended period
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  Speaker 1: of time, that gets people's attention because they don't like that,
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  Speaker 1: and they're bothered by that, and they know right now
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  Speaker 1: they got a bunch of suckers, right, no matter how
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  Speaker 1: pathetic the Browns are, You're gonna buy your jerseys, You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna go to the games, You're gonna watch the games
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  Speaker 1: on TV, because what the hell else do you have
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  Speaker 1: to do? They got you by the balls, But the
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  Speaker 1: moment they don't have you by the balls, then that changes.
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  Speaker 1: The Dodgers were able, Dodger fan base was able to
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  Speaker 1: do that with that evil, wretched Frank McCord. They got
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  Speaker 1: rid of him. Now he still owns the parking lots,
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  Speaker 1: but they were able to show apathy for several years,
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  Speaker 1: and that really freaked out the people that Major League
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  Speaker 1: Baseball and so they pressed a few buttons, and now
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers spend a gazillion dollars every year and everyone's
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  Speaker 1: happy now Page two. As far as the brown situation,
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  Speaker 1: taking a couple of steps back here, how would you
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  Speaker 1: describe Deshaun Watson's time with the Browns now that it's
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  Speaker 1: heading officially towards an end that the owner of the
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  Speaker 1: team has said with with he might have said wolf
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  Speaker 1: wolf because it's a wolf wolf situation. So Jimmy Haslam
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  Speaker 1: did not go far enough the Oligark, owner of the
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns, when he said it was a big swing
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  Speaker 1: and a miss that just scratches the surface. Okay, just
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  Speaker 1: scratches the surface. Here they knew what they were getting,
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  Speaker 1: the idea that somehow they were in trouble because they
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  Speaker 1: didn't know the full depth of the situation. No, they
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  Speaker 1: were in the middle of it, and they still went
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  Speaker 1: for it. It was the Houston, Texan scandal that the
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  Speaker 1: Browns wanted. They asked for it, and Watson was in.
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  Speaker 1: He was neck deep in it. He was neck deep
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  Speaker 1: in it in Houston, and the Browns still said we
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  Speaker 1: want you. And they weren't alone. There were multiple teams
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans and Atlanta wanted this guy. Also, the Browns
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  Speaker 1: actually thought they had won because they got Deshaun Watson,
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  Speaker 1: and it has turned out into a three alarm fire
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  Speaker 1: burn baby burn with Deshaun Watson as the Browns quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: And Watson a lot of people don't know this, but
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  Speaker 1: he's multi talented. He's not only a terrible quarterback, but
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  Speaker 1: he's also pretty good with the sewing machine as a
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  Speaker 1: Watson pulled out the sewing machine and he has stitched
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  Speaker 1: together a quilt. Let's hear limited availability. He's got that
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  Speaker 1: on the quilt there. He's got that. He's got subpar
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  Speaker 1: performance to terrible performance. Check check, and a lot of baggage,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of carry on baggage. Check check check check.
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  Speaker 1: So he's got all that on the quilt. He's owen
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  Speaker 1: that all together there. Since joining the Browns in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, Watson has played just nineteen games as a
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  Speaker 1: starter in Cleveland over three seasons. Now they play seventeen
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  Speaker 1: a year. He's played nineteen total in three seasons. He
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  Speaker 1: had an eleven game suspension, which was a slap on
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  Speaker 1: the wrist the NFL looking the other way to the
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  Speaker 1: conga line, how about the parade of people getting checks.
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  Speaker 1: You get a check, you get a check, you get
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  Speaker 1: a check, you get a check. Everyone got a check
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  Speaker 1: from Deshaun Watson. The allegations and so both twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: three and last season injuries ended those years. He had
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  Speaker 1: a shoulder injury in twenty twenty three and an achilles
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  Speaker 1: injury last year which is also going to take him
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  Speaker 1: out the next NFL season. And the actual performance when
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  Speaker 1: he has played, Watson has been not only a quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: he has been god awful with the Browns and just terrible.
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  Speaker 1: And so for now the Browns what do they have.
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  Speaker 1: They have Kenny Pickett and that's not any good. He
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  Speaker 1: sucks also, and they're gonna have to bring somebody else
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  Speaker 1: in Carson Wentz or someone like that. Holy crap, draft somebody,
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  Speaker 1: my god. All right, now, last word, we pivot from
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland to me Minnesota. We go to Minnesota. Interesting comments
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  Speaker 1: from the league meetings from the head coach of the
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota football team. I thought these were intriguing. I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to share them with you if you didn't see so.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell is the quarterback whisper of the Minnesota football
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  Speaker 1: team and O'Connell regaling the scribes and the pigskin media
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  Speaker 1: there with stories. He was asked about the Vikings interest
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  Speaker 1: in Aired Rogers and what did he say, So, Kevin
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  Speaker 1: O'Connell said, the reason that the Vikings had a little
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  Speaker 1: chit chat with with Aaron Rodgers was it was just
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  Speaker 1: unique opportunity, just a unique opportunity. It was not reflective.
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  Speaker 1: He indicated, I'm paraphrasing here of any kind of concern
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  Speaker 1: at all for the young upstart JJ McCarthy who was
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  Speaker 1: drafted out of Michigan last year and is supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be the starting quarterback and then he got hurt last year.
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  Speaker 1: So are you going to buy or sell? Buy or sell?
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  Speaker 1: Coach Kevin O'Connell saying that the interest in Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 1: having multiple conversations with Aaron Rodgers was not a knock
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  Speaker 1: on JJ McCarthy. You're going to buy that or sell that.
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  Speaker 1: So we are going to sell, sell, sell, sell, and
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  Speaker 1: if you buy it, you're full of hell? How about that?
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  Speaker 1: All right? So if you are and this is the
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  Speaker 1: dimension I'm in, I realized we live in the multiverse,
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  Speaker 1: but in my dimension, as a neutral arbiter of pig
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  Speaker 1: skin justice. If you are completely sold on JJ McCarthy,
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  Speaker 1: If JJ McCarthy is your quarterback and that's your guy,
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  Speaker 1: you take your iPhone. You pick up the iPhone and
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  Speaker 1: you go to the settings apps. You gotta kind of
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  Speaker 1: scroll the settings app. I don't know what is on
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  Speaker 1: your phone. It's on the front page of MyPhone. So
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  Speaker 1: you go to the settings app there and then you
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  Speaker 1: tap on a couple of things. You get to focus, okay,
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  Speaker 1: and then and then you click on the focus thing
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  Speaker 1: and that way it's do not disturb. You don't even
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  Speaker 1: get the call. You don't have the opportunity to talk
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  Speaker 1: to Aaron Rodgers because you're not able to get the call.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I had focus on, I couldn't. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: receive any phone calls. That's it. Do not disturb? What
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  Speaker 1: do you want me to do? You shrug your shoulders
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  Speaker 1: and say that's it. But since they chatted multiple times,
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings and Aaron Rodgers, that is a dead do waight,
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  Speaker 1: dead do way. That's right. It's a tell that Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: is not thoroughly convinced that JJ McCarthy is the guy.
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  Speaker 1: There's still some issue there. Now I've heard it. They
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  Speaker 1: think he's a little immature still, and even though he
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  Speaker 1: says all the right things in the media, has some
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  Speaker 1: stuff behind the scenes. Whether that's true or not, time
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  Speaker 1: will tell. But if I'm the Vikings, I would just
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  Speaker 1: throw him out there and play and what the hell,
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  Speaker 1: just go for it. You've got two stud receivers. Even
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  Speaker 1: if he's got a few bumps along the way. Better
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  Speaker 1: get that going right now rather than wait another year.
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  Speaker 1: What's the point in doing that. But there's definitely some
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  Speaker 1: kind of internal debate that has been taking place there
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  Speaker 1: for sure.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from baseball and a massive,
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  Speaker 1: massive contractual agreement has been announced. Was it Vladimir Guerrero
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  Speaker 1: getting his deal with the Toronto baseball team? No, no,
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  Speaker 1: it was not. But our lead this hour is from
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  Speaker 1: the Rain making it rain, and that would be the
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  Speaker 1: team that plays in Boston. They have yet to play
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  Speaker 1: at the friendly confines there at Fenway Park this year.
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  Speaker 1: They've been on the road and a man alive. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is not about Rafael Devers he's making it rain
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  Speaker 1: with strikeouts. More on him later, because that's quite the story.
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  Speaker 1: We need to do a deep dive on that, but
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  Speaker 1: we'll save that for later in the show. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: the story which popped up late Monday night, the story
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  Speaker 1: if you did not hear it, possibly not the Boston
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  Speaker 1: Baseball team. We have learned the Red Sox have opened
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  Speaker 1: up the wallet and they have taken a giant wad
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  Speaker 1: of money and thrown it at Garrett Crochet, and he
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  Speaker 1: has docu signed a six year contract that is believed
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  Speaker 1: to be worth one hundred and seventy million dead presidents,
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  Speaker 1: a massive contract extension for Garrett Crochet. The deal includes
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  Speaker 1: an opt out why not that's for the twenty thirty season. However,
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  Speaker 1: if he sucks, he won't opt out and he'll stay
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  Speaker 1: with the Red Sox through the twenty thirty one season. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: the opt out only works if you're bad. If you're good, rather,
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  Speaker 1: if you're bad, you don't opt out because you're not
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  Speaker 1: likely going to get the more money. All right, So
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  Speaker 1: let us discuss the question for the esteem panel. How
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  Speaker 1: do you categorize how do you categorize this Garrett Crochet
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  Speaker 1: extension with the Red Sox. If you're not familiar with
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  Speaker 1: his game, he is a starting pitcher and he's starting pitchers.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got Tom Cruise, popular vote, and loggerheads, and
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to fly the friendly skies, which Garrett Crochet
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  Speaker 1: will not have to do because he can fly private.
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  Speaker 1: With one hundred and seventy million dollar contract. After taxes
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  Speaker 1: and the millionaire's tax and the Commonwealth, that's about ten million.
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  Speaker 1: But it's still a lot of money, about ten million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: So number my first thought is rewarding bad behavior. Rewarding
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  Speaker 1: bad behavior will explain why the Red Sox are rewarding
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  Speaker 1: bad behavior coming up in a moment. But Boston traded,
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  Speaker 1: They boxed themselves into a corner here. They traded a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of suspects better known in the industry as scratcher
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  Speaker 1: tickets to the Chicago American League Baseball team, the White Sox.
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  Speaker 1: So the Red Sox to the White Sox, and they
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  Speaker 1: got great Garrett Crochet. And now they are throwing caution
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  Speaker 1: to the wind because they feel like they have no
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  Speaker 1: choice and they're betting the bank that this is going
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  Speaker 1: to work out. They're betting the bank that this is
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  Speaker 1: all going to work out. Garrett is set to reach
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  Speaker 1: free agency. Now he's not. He would have been a
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  Speaker 1: free agent in twenty twenty seven, so we had all
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  Speaker 1: of this year, all of next year, and then in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven he would have been a free agent.
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  Speaker 1: And now that's off the table. Instead the Red Sox
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  Speaker 1: locking him up and he is supposed to be the anchor,
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  Speaker 1: whatever that means. He's supposed to be the anchor of
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sox rotation, front of the rotation, a number
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  Speaker 1: one above the fold, starter for the next at least
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  Speaker 1: half a decade in Boston, if not longer. And Crochet,
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  Speaker 1: he's about to turn twenty six this summer, so it
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  Speaker 1: must be nicer twenty five. You hat one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: seventy million dollar contract. However, this is like an early
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  Speaker 1: Tom Cruise movie. It is risky business. It is risky business.
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  Speaker 1: And it is also a case where the Red Sox
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  Speaker 1: are rewarding bad behavior. Because last year the White Sox
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  Speaker 1: were an abomination. They attempted to trade Garrett Crochet and
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers were actually interested in him, and rather than
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  Speaker 1: go to La and pitch on a team that would
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  Speaker 1: go on to win the World Series. This coward, Garrett
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  Speaker 1: Crochet said, I ain't playing unless I get mine.
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  Speaker 3: Bro.
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  Speaker 1: He pulled the Blake Snell, that little weasel Blake Snell
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  Speaker 1: from the Dodger, and so he refused the trade. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going over a certain threshold because my arm's
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  Speaker 1: going to fall off because he's such a mister softy.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: If he was a cat, he'd be the pussy willow
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: kind of flower. Actually, So anyway, listen that he got rewarded.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: He got his money for refusing to pitch in a
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: pennant race. And the Red Sox have no idea. You
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: don't know what you don't know. You're assuming that he
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: will a stay healthy and b have that big game
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: pedigree that go out there and put a ketchup pack
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: in your sock and make it like fake blood like
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Kurt Shilly and go out there and dominate or Pedro Martinez,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: that he'll be one of those guys rather than a
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: guy that goes out there and rides the vomit comment.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: So you don't know. He's already had Tommy John surgery.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: He's not battle tested in big games. He's very fragile
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: and he got paid the bag. Now, the reason he
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: got paid is because last year with the White Sox,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: when he did pitch on a totally embarrassing baseball team,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: he had a thirty five point one percent strikeout rate
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: across one hundred and forty six particular innings. And that's
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: the other thing. I believe he's not pitched more than
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty innings in any season. You know
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: how many big league wins Garrett Crochet has. He's been
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: with the White Sox for several years now he's with
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox. How about nine. He's been in the
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: major leagues for parts of multiple seasons. He has nine wins.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Widge don't matter, Boomer, Okay, there was a time. I
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: know I'm dating myself. I'm an old school I'm from
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: the old country. Well, you had to show a little
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: more to get that kind of money. But we're at
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: the point now where you're not in position to have
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: to show more. You get the money anyway, you get
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the bag. The Red Sox they don't know what they're getting.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: They think they know what they're getting. Eric Rosche is
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: gonna pitch on Wednesday. Can go out and snap, crackle, pop,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: that's it, No Tommy John. The odds of coming back
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: and dominating after multiple Tommy John surgeries are slim and none. Right,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: as the old line goes, so good luck on that.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: But hey, he gets a king's ransom there, and he
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: is at one start. He has pitched I believe, eighty
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: eight pitches as a Red Sox in a regular season game,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: and now he gets the money. Now page two to
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the Merchandise Department. The merch Department of Major League Baseball.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: The updated updated a list of who's selling and who's
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: not selling the most sold Major League Baseball jerseys since
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: the end of the World Series where he Doyers raised
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the trophy in the Bronx and celebrated the championship. Now,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: as you might imagine, there is a lot of front running.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers have dominated in merchandise sales, people running out
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: to buy the Dodger gear. Sho Hey Otani is number one,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: He's right there at the top and jersey sales, and
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman was second. Freddie Freeman was number two in
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: all of baseball. So that sounds like a lot of
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Atlanta brave fans who miss Freddy went out to buy
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the Freddie Freeman jersey just because they love Freddy and
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: all that and the Dodger fans. So that was number
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: one and two and thirty percent of the top twenty
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: are Dodgers. If you go by the top sixteen, almost
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: forty percent of the top sixteen players in terms of
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: merchandise sales for their jersey are Dodger players. You've got
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Joe Otani, Freddie Freeman, Mookie Bets is number for Yoshinobu Yamamoto,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: who wasn't even all that good. Number ten Clayton Kershaw,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: who doesn't have a Clayton Kershaw jersey. By now, I'm like, god,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: guy's been pitching for twenty years. Who doesn't have one? Well,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: he was number eleven and then the one that had
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: many stunned. Key k Hernandez has the sixteenth most popular
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: jersey in all of Major League Baseball. Yeah, that's a
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: hum dinger of a name. That's a humdinger of a name.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: So explain, please, in layman's terms, why a two twenty
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: nine hitting utility player named Key k Hernandez was the
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: sixteenth most popular person in baseball according to jersey sales.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: So the first thought I have on this is Obviously,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: regular season stats don't matter. The fact that you're a
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: backup doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. But Keik had a
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: couple things going for him. The first thing he had
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: going for him is he is not lacking the clutch gene.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: He batted almost three hundred in the playoffs, had a
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: couple of dingers in the World Series for the Dodgers.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: He won the popular vote. He's got this quirky personality.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I remember when he first got to the Dodgers, some
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: of the people were rubbed the wrong way by Key
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: k Arnanda. This guy's kind of a clown, but he's
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: stuck around clearly some of the nerds like keyk Hernandez.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: He's popular with the dorks in the Dodger organization, and
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: he obviously appeals to the masses. The other thing Kyk
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: has going for him is his surname. If you go
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: by the most common surnames in the United States, now
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Smith is number one at the very top. More people
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: in America with the last name Smith than any other name.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: But her name day Is is number eleven. It is
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the eleventh most common surname in the United States. So
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: you've got a lot of people that have that last name.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: And you also have the Dodgers who dominate in the
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Latino community. They are kings of the hill in that department.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Now you know it should be upset. Here is ti
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Oscar Hernandez, because he's the good Hernandez. Ti Oscar Hernandez, right,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: that guy, he's also got the last name Hernandez, but
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: he does not have a top twenties selling jersey in
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: all of baseball. It's Kiki Arene? Is you gotta be
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: annoyed by that? All right? Now, final thought, We're gonna
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: quickly go quick, right, quick, right, We're gonna go to
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: the NBA story that it happened recently, and I haven't
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: really delved into it. I think it's interesting. It would
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: have been a bigger story had it been in New
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: York or LA or you know, big market team. It's not,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: but I still think it's worthy of a couple of
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: minutes of your time. And the basketball team known as
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the Grizzlies, because when I go to Memphis, I always
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: see a lot of Grizzly Bears in Memphis. So the
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Grizzlies recently excommunicated their head coach. They said bye bye,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: and there's been a lot of buzz that this was
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: an inside job, that the star of the team made
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: some phone calls, made some connections, and next thing you know,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: the coach is gone. Because normally you don't get rid
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: of a coach with less than ten games to go
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: in the regular season, which is what Memphis did here.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: So question, did Jaw Morant, the gun Totin Strip club
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: going Memphis star, did Jaw Morant play a role in
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the firing of Taylor Jenkins as the head coach there?
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: And based on an overwhelming amount of circumstantial evidence, I
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: am nodding my head. Yes. My opinion is yes, that
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the jaw played a role in this. And while technically
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: there is no actual direct evidence, there's a lot of
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: circumstantial evidence that there was some star player involvement, that
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: this was a power Oh power play, power play, power
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: play by Ja Morant. And let me give you my
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: elevator pitch. I will go over the evidence. I am
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: the prosecutor. I will go over the evidence as I
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: have attained it. So you have Jah Morant, who publicly
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: was at loggerheads with Taylor Jenkins the coach. Now I
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: don't sit here in obsess with the Grizzlies. Why would I.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: It's broadcasting, not narrow casting. However, I did a little
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: digging and started snooping around, and it's pretty public knowledge
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: that he was frustrated with the offense the Grizzlies were
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: running this year. That was implemented, but it was supposedly
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: by the front office. They put it in there, and
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: John Morant had been marginalized. He was not handling the
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: ball enough to his taste, and the pick and roll plays,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the things that were central to his playing style had
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: been downgraded, and so he was annoyed by that, and
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: he had sparred with the head coach. He's the headliner,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: John Morant's the face of the franchise, and so he complained.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: He complained about the system that the Grizzlies were running,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: even though they had a pretty good record, and the
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: people around the team said he was disengaged. So your
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: star players disengaged, doesn't like the offense the front office,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: you make the call. You're gonna fire yourself, or you're
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: gonna blame the coach and fire the coach. There was
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: obviously some tension there. Now some reports say that Taylor
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Jenkins was just following orders that's all he was doing there.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: And then he actually, at the very last minute before
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: he got fired, he tried to pacify Ja Morant by
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: bringing back some of the old plays that Jah wanted.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: But in that business, if the franchise player is not happy,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: and he's the one that's got the suitcase with the
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: nuclear codes and can go kaboom and get rid of
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: the coach. So either Ja Morant got Taylor Jenkins fired
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: or Taylor Jenkins was fired to send a message to
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: If that was the case, then watch out. Then John
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Moran is going to be traded this summer. So it's
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: either Ja Morant got the coach fired or or the
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: opposite that the team was trying to send a message
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: to him and therefore he's next to go.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Here we go, It's.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Mallar a hole the third degree.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: This is one big Ben gets great.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: Ravens president Sashi Brown said on Sunday that Justin Tucker
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: would remain on Baltimore's roster until the NFL concludes their
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: investigation of the kicker.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: And why do you think the Ravens are even bothering
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: to wait well.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Because they want to follow the book. They know they're
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: they're going to draft a kicker at the end of
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: the draft, whether it's the sixth or seventh round, the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: final day of the draft, but they're they're going through
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: the formatics of it. They're following the guidelines of the
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: league office. But yeah, there is a better chance that
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: sports with Coleman kicks for the Ravens then the kicker
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Justin Tucker, So he's not gonna be there. But they're
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: just they're dragging their ass on this and they'll they'll
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: release him and they'll do it on a Friday in
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: a news dump and they won't make a big deal
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: about it, guaranteed.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: Next Pete Carroll told reporters over the weekend that the
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Raiders aren't quote working on an extension for Gino Smith.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: He went on to say that Smith is not a
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: bridge quarterback and that the team traded for him to
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: be under center long term. Be you think Carroll has
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: tied his fate with the Raiders to Gino Smith, Here's
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: the thing.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Uh, when you're seventy three years old, there is no
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: assisting as a bridge quarterback, you only have Pete Carroll's
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: only gonna be there for two or three years at
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: the most, So Gino Smith will probably be there for
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: two or three years. So yes, they are tied together. Like,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: it's not whether he's a bridge quarterback, Pete Carroll's a
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: bridge coach. So they're both bridges over troubled waters. Like
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: the Raiders are so pathetic, they'd be happy if they
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: went eight and nine every year. They'd be or nine
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: and eight is what happened in Seattle? All right?
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: Next he passed this edition on pass tracking the Rainers.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's being reported that the Atlanta Hawks tried hard
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: to trade for Kevin Durant before the deadline, so hard,
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: so hard they continue to look for a superstar to
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: pair up with Trey Young. Yeah, Ben, do you think
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: a Durant Young duo would have made the Hawks serious
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: contenders in the East?
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Well, the East is much softer than the West. But
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: last I checked, Kevin Durant is a falling star. What
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: do we always say, Coop, do not allow a falling
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: star to fall on you? And it's an age thing.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant's thirty six years old, and maybe he ends
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: up in Atlanta next year. He doesn't. He's like a vagabond.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: He bounces around. But no, I do not think it
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: would have made a difference. How did we know?
• 32:39
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• 32:41
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• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Right, that's so welcome in our contestants. We have the
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: game ready to go. We've got who do we have
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: or it's gonna be mallards amount of money. We've got
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Mike in Boston. Hello, Mike in Boston. Welcome. You're gonna
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: be one of our contestants. All right, Oh what's going on?
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: Mike?
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Ohmy kind of I'll fix it. I got my an
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: buzzer and hold on. All right, take your time, don't
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: mind the fact we're on live radio. Don't bother, don't
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: don't be in a rush. It's a little better. Got
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: very good. You're gonna play Malos mount money, And who
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: do you want to partner up with? You got me
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: or Coop or Lorena? I'll play with Justin all right,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: play with with the coop. All right, that's a bad
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: job by you. And we have Jed who Fled in
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Parts Unknown the swamp lands of Florida. Hello, Jed who fled? Yeah,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: it's it's chilly Friday night. When you saw those two
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: grand flans of winning. Huh did you have a besy
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: crackers to go with it? The plains? Jed? There's other
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's other people I can play. I don't
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: have to use you as a contestant. Then you're playing
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: them right now? About got Jed? Jed? Got Jed? You're
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: not You're not gonna tank the game, Jed. I don't
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: want any shenanigans here. I need somebody in the bullpen
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: in case, Jed. I know sometimes you tank the game,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: so I need somebody back. I need a backup at
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: it as the phones ring at eight seven seven nine,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: all right, quickly cool? What are the categories?
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Quick? Right?
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: This is the Angus Young edition of Mallard's Mountain of Money.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: He turned seventy years old on Monday, happy Birthday. The
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: categories are It's a Long Way to the Top, TNT
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: back in black, and thunderstruck.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: It looks like we hung up on my teammate.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Oh so that's.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: Like Jed picked Thunderstruck.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: You picked Thunderstruck. No, I mean he got Thunderstruck.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: I have D and d well.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: No, you picked you picked? Yes, all right, Mike is back.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: I understand through the magic of the phone system. And Mike,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: let me punch him up. Here, Mike, which kedder do
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: you want you have? It's a long way to the top,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: tnt or back in black, back in black? All right,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: very good, all right, stay right there, don't hang up.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: All right, very nice. We are going to have innoc
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: entirety Mallard's amount of money. We'll get to that, and
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: we will do it next.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallor
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Mailor's Mountain of money. Hell, do you have what it
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: takes to get to the top? Probably not.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Let's do it. Here we go. We have our contestants.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: We've got Mike in Boston who is with Cooper Loop
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: and Jed who fled. God only knows where Jed who
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Fled is and what kind of the bauchery he's getting
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: involved then, and that is the matchup. Mike is locked in.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Jed is locked in. All right, Coop, you're going first,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: right back in black. I believe it's the Keddy.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: That is right, Mike.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: We need the first and last name of the athlete
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: in order to get points.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: We're gonna have forty five seconds of the clock. Are
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: you ready? Yes, these athletes all died young. Let's begin
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: all right. Number eight, the Black Mamba Kobe.
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: This is a baseball player for the Yankees. There's a
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: disease named after him.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: This was the intimidator NASCAR driver Dale. Yes, tight end
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: for the Patriots. He killed somebody and then killed himself. Yes,
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: baseball player for the Pirates. He died in a plane crash.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Yes. Uh.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: This guy was drafted by the Celtics. He died doing cocaine. Yes,
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: such an easy and this guy was from Croatia. He
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: was like one of the best euro basketball players ever.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: Died at twenty eight in a car crash after joining
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: the NBA.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: I'm you played the nets.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Man? I like I like mulling with buffers. I like
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Petrovich riding a bike with training wheels on. All right,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: we picked Thunderstruck. Are you ready here? You Are you
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: ready my man here? Yes, yes, all right? Uh. These
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: athletes were all heavy favorites. They got thunderstruck by the underdogs.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Are you ready? All right? Here we go forty five
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: seconds on the clock.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Go.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: A quarterback for the Green Bay Packers before Aaron Rodgers. Yes,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: the big german for the Mavericks. Yes. Uh, the greatest
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: receiver in Viking history. He also played for the Patriots. Yes,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: known as the glove for the Seattle SuperSonics. Yes, greatest
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: receiver for the greatest show on turf, the Saint Louis Rams. Uh. No, yeah,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: that's right. He's a former Dodgers with the Phillies. Now
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: he's the shortstop. Really, skinny guy, white guy for the Phillies.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Signed a bit coy. No, no, no, no, no, it's
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: with the Phillies. Used to play for the Nationals, all right.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Pitcher for the Seattle Mariners when they had the great team.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Latin guy, No, not different, Latin. No, he's not loud.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Come on, it's a good why guy, You gotta keep talking.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: Trey Turner was who you missed there? Well, he also
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: missed Freddy Garton and then yeah, Freddy Garcon. Yeah.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: So one sixties so you guys are back up again, Jed,
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: Do you want TNT or it's a long way to
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: the top, long.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Way to the topic?
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: You want rogers smoke?
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: All right? All right, we'll put forty five seconds on
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: the clock. These athletes didn't win a championship until late
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: in their career. Are you prepared to answer this category?
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll put forty five seconds on the clock.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: And way we go. Quarterback for the Broncos, number seven,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighties. Way, Yes, the bus goes round and rounds
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: for the Pittsburgh Steel Yes, gap tooth New York Giant defense. Yes,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: the big unit for the Seattle Mariners. All right, he
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: also played for the Mariners. He pitched till he was
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: like forty seven years old. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Safety
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: played mostly for the Chargers, was played with the Ravens.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Won a Super Bowl with the Rams at the end
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: of his career. White guy power, it's just a few
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: years ago, all right. Basketball player out of Xavier won
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: a championship with the Golden State Warriors, I believe at
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: the end of his career. Uh, not not East, but
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: not East, but uh it was a good.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: Clue at the end there.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: David West, West, who's talking about? And then Eric.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: Weddleiath, okay, that's a three points.
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: All right, Mike, we've got TNT.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: These athletes all work or worked for TNT.
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: Mike you ready, shut shut up? Keep talking for forty
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: five seconds, Mike, you ready? All right? Let's begin, all right.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: This guy was a quarterback for the Rams. He was
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: also the athletic director for USC.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Uh, no chance, all right, Let's let's.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: Try a black quarterback for the Eagles most of his
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: career later the Vikings. Yes uh, this guy was the
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: Oilers quarterback. He was a CFL legend.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: Yes uh. This guy was on the Fab five. His
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: last name is a flower. Yes uh.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: This guy shoots lights out for the Pacers. He's an
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: analyst on TANT Now, all right, the round mount of rebound.
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: We're out of time.
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: Sorry, I don't think let's recount.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Let's recount the vote on that. I