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Hour 1 - Pinstripes in Paradise? · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Here we go. It's our number one of the Ben
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  Speaker 1: Maller show and here in our number one talking some
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  Speaker 1: baseball as the ALDS took center stage back on Monday night.
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  Speaker 1: Is Aaron Boone ultimately responsible for the Yankees for error
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  Speaker 1: playoff game? As the Yanks are on the ropes against
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. How embarrassing is it for the Guardians to
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  Speaker 1: waste Gavin Williams? 11 strikeout performance. Cleveland now down two
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  Speaker 1: games to the Chicago White Sox. And in the National League,
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  Speaker 1: did Padres manager Craig Stammen successfully kill the Mason Miller
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  Speaker 1: pitch-tipping controversy? Or did he accidentally pour gasoline all over?
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  Speaker 1: We'll take a look at the internet-investigated conspiracy theory about
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  Speaker 1: closer Mason Miller. That and a whole lot more as
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  Speaker 1: it's a zippity-doo-dah, zippity-day kind of an hour. It's hour
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  Speaker 1: number one. Well, pinstripes in paradise. Losers, welcome in the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of another night of the Ben Maller Show. We
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  Speaker 1: so we are back at it here on this Tuesday show,
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  Speaker 1: still late Monday night in the West. We have made
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  Speaker 1: an editorial decision to begin the show. Our lead, talking baseball.
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  Speaker 1: We go to the Sunshine State where there were actually
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  Speaker 1: fans in attendance. Very rare to see a Rays game
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  Speaker 1: where there's actually people in the crowd. It's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of Yankee fans, a lot of New York transplants that
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  Speaker 1: live in that area. Yankees spring training home and Yankees
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  Speaker 1: played like a spring training team, which is appropriate. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we were planning on leading off this night talking about
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. The NFL is king. We know that. That
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  Speaker 1: Falcon Saints game was so bad. How bad was it?
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  Speaker 1: It's not worthy of leading off the night here. The
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  Speaker 1: Falcons absolutely mollywhopped the New Orleans Saints. So we will
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  Speaker 1: start with the baseball game. And upset brewing by the bay.
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  Speaker 1: Upset brewing by the bay. If you did not watch,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps not. Someone named Richie Palacios. I have no idea
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  Speaker 1: who that is. But Richie Palacios hit a two-run single,
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  Speaker 1: four-run fifth inning. So a two-ribby single, four-run fifth inning.
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  Speaker 1: And the Tampa Bay baseball team. taking advantage of the
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  Speaker 1: sloppy Joe defense played by the New York baseball team
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  Speaker 1: from the American League as they end up beating Cam
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  Speaker 1: Schlittler and the Yankees 5-2.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Cy Young, Cam Schlittler, and the Yankees take it on
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  Speaker 1: the chin, and that means that the Tampa Bay baseball
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  Speaker 1: team has won the first two games of this series.
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  Speaker 1: They only have to win one more to advance. The
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  Speaker 1: Rays are one victory away from reaching the American League
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  Speaker 1: title divisional title into the ALCS and the final four
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  Speaker 1: best of five. So game three, we'll head back to the, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the Bronx, uh, best of five there at Yankee stadium.
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  Speaker 1: And a listener emailed and said, aren't your coworkers having
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  Speaker 1: a party in New York for the Yankees? I wonder
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  Speaker 1: who's bringing the, the, uh, the funeral potatoes. So that thing. Yikes.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Anyway, listen, the story here, uh, is on
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  Speaker 1: the Bronx Bombers' side. That's the better story, the losing
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  Speaker 1: locker room. The Yankees had not one, not two, not three,
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  Speaker 1: but four! Four miscues, another defensive blunder from the New
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  Speaker 1: York Yankees there. One after another, they had three unearned runs,
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  Speaker 1: and that set the Yankees up for defeat. Great start there,
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  Speaker 1: three errors right off the bat. The Yankees are now
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  Speaker 1: one defeat away. from falling short of their 28th World
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  Speaker 1: Series title for the 17th straight year. You hate to
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  Speaker 1: see it, unless you don't. Just think, if you're in
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  Speaker 1: high school, like there's a high school kid that's never
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  Speaker 1: seen the Yankees win the World Series. The Yankees are
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  Speaker 1: not that far away from becoming like the Dallas Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: who always talk about how good they used to be.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing that I love about this is the
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  Speaker 1: Yankee fan doesn't realize how perilous this situation is. They
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  Speaker 1: don't get it. And I find that fascinating. Like 17 years.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to win this year. So 17 years
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  Speaker 1: without winning. And they're just going to keep the status
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  Speaker 1: quo and all that. Now, Cam Schlittler postgame said that
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  Speaker 1: New York did not play our brand of baseball. And
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  Speaker 1: so I thought that was a really good jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: That resonated with me. Did it resonate with you?
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: It did?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Cam Schlittler saying that New York did not play
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  Speaker 1: our brand of baseball. So let's discuss the question. Is
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Boone, the skipper, ultimately responsible for the Yankees' four-error
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  Speaker 1: monstrosity in this playoff game? So I've got Billboard 200,
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  Speaker 1: Morgan & Morgan. and Hannah, the hula girl. We will
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together, and we hope to
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  Speaker 1: speak the Queen's English or something close to it, the
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  Speaker 1: Maller version of the Queen's English. So, A, how delicious
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  Speaker 1: is this Yankees disaster for everyone who is not wearing
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  Speaker 1: pinstripes right now, right? Oh, my God. Now, I know
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  Speaker 1: my friend's a jail in Minnesota Yankee fan, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't think E-Dog in New York is. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: he cares about that. Uncle Mo. Uncle Mo's a Yankee
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  Speaker 1: fan in Jersey. We got a few others. Our friend
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  Speaker 1: from the supermarket grocery store, Steve. So there's some guys
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  Speaker 1: that are Yankee fans out there. For them, they're bummed out.
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  Speaker 1: But for the rest of us, it was hilarious watching
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees try to play baseball. It was just freaking great.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a Saturday afternoon at the neighborhood park. Where
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  Speaker 1: are the orange slices? My God. One of baseball's glamour franchises,
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  Speaker 1: the New York Yankees, sponsored by Chico's Bell Bonds. transformed
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  Speaker 1: into the Bad News Bears is what they did there
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  Speaker 1: and Aaron Boone he's in the big chair Aaron Boone
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  Speaker 1: good old Aaron Boone lifetime employment like a Supreme Court
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  Speaker 1: justice you can't get rid of Aaron Boone it is
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  Speaker 1: never his fault No, it's not because everyone else is micromanaging.
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  Speaker 1: And Brian Cash was like, we can't fire Aaron Boone
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  Speaker 1: because he just does what we tell him to do.
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  Speaker 1: He has no culpability in any of this. He does
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  Speaker 1: get the biggest slice of the blame pie. Not that
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  Speaker 1: it matters. The Yankees don't get rid of him. I
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  Speaker 1: guess they use their quota, a previous generation getting rid
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  Speaker 1: of managers to get rid of Aaron Boone. So the
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  Speaker 1: philosophy is rather simple here. When you talk about the Yankees'
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  Speaker 1: approach to baseball... and how bad they were defensively, you're
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  Speaker 1: either coaching it or you're allowing it to happen. And
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  Speaker 1: my favorite was Ryan McMahon, who absolutely sucks as a hitter.
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  Speaker 1: He's not a big league hitter. The only reason the
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  Speaker 1: man's in the lineup is for defense. And he made
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  Speaker 1: an error. That's so good. So good. So the Yankees were,
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  Speaker 1: the word is bedraggled. That is how they played, bedraggled.
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  Speaker 1: And you are how you play. And this was fundamentally flawed.
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  Speaker 1: And it continues to be a fundamentally flawed baseball team,
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  Speaker 1: a low IQ baseball team, the New York Yankees, who
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  Speaker 1: were frazzled yet again. The moment was too big. Bright lights,
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  Speaker 1: big city. My fat took us for the New York Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: The lights got bright and we know what happened. They
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  Speaker 1: rode the vomit comet. That's exactly what happened. So Cam
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  Speaker 1: Schlittler saying that this was not Yankees baseball is measurably
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  Speaker 1: not true. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 1: It just is. In fact, I would argue what I
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  Speaker 1: have seen in the first two games of this series,
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  Speaker 1: Yankees and Rays, is qualified to make the Billboard 200
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  Speaker 1: for Aaron Boone's October Greatest Hits album. Now, it will
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  Speaker 1: not top my favorite Aaron Boone Greatest Hits moment, Game 5,
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  Speaker 1: World Series 2024, Yankees and Dodgers, in the Bronx, when
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  Speaker 1: Garrett Cole failed the cover, first base, Anthony Volpe misplayed
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  Speaker 1: a ball in the infield, and Aaron Judge... went Edward
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  Speaker 1: Scissorhands in the outfield. And that was still better than
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  Speaker 1: this because it was the World Series, obviously. This is outstanding.
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  Speaker 1: You look at this. You had the base-running boo-boo in
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  Speaker 1: Game 1. Yankees get shut out. They've had one guy hit.
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  Speaker 1: Ben Rice is oh-so-nice. Everyone else sucks for the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: And perhaps they have to watch the tape. Now, coaches
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  Speaker 1: always say, I want to watch the tape. I've got
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  Speaker 1: to watch the tape. Now, I would argue not the
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  Speaker 1: tape from the games... What they have to do is
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  Speaker 1: they have to go on eBay right now and start
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  Speaker 1: typing around some things. And I recommend, and I'm never
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  Speaker 1: wrong about these things, the Yankees have to get their
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  Speaker 1: hands on a VHS player, and then they have to
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  Speaker 1: get their hands on a Fred McGriff-endorsed Tom Amansky defensive
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  Speaker 1: fundamentals videotape. That's what they need.
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  Speaker 3: Clearly.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, those pesky Rays, the no-name Rays, poison for television,
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  Speaker 1: bad TV, the Tampa Bay Rays. Yes, not must-see TV, must-like.
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  Speaker 1: What's that? There's some dude on TikTok more famous than
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  Speaker 1: anybody on the Tampa Bay Rays. It's a team that
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  Speaker 1: was picked up out of the lost and found, a
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  Speaker 1: hodgepodge of nothingness there in Tampa, and yet it's working.
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  Speaker 1: It's working. They sit one win away from the Final Four,
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  Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Rays. Just one little win away. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: we now go to Ohio. And don't look now, but
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  Speaker 1: that team from the south side of Chicago, the baddest
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  Speaker 1: part of town, getting her done. That was the undercard.
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  Speaker 1: Game two from the land. Brandon Montgomery getting her done there.
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  Speaker 1: He ripped a two-ribby double. Down the right field line,
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  Speaker 1: and that was in the sixth inning, go-ahead run scored
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  Speaker 1: for Chicago, and someone named Sean Burke allowed one hit
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  Speaker 1: over five and a third innings of relief. It was
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  Speaker 1: the dreaded bullpen game for the South Siders, as they
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  Speaker 1: rally past the team formerly known as the Indians, 4-3.
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  Speaker 1: So the team from Chicago up 2-0 in the ALDS.
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  Speaker 1: Game 3 is Wednesday at the corporately named ballpark in
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  Speaker 1: Chicago where the White Sox can clinch. Their first postseason
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  Speaker 1: series at home since 1906. No one was alive. Not
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  Speaker 1: a single man or woman was alive. Now, who was
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  Speaker 1: alive then? All right, so anyway, that's what's online. But
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  Speaker 1: the better story, as always, on the loser's side of things.
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  Speaker 1: So Cleveland's offense has completely... vanished into thin air at
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  Speaker 1: the worst possible time, wasting another outstanding pitching performance. And
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  Speaker 1: so the question, how embarrassed are the Guardians to waste
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  Speaker 1: Gavin Williams? This guy's a horse. He's a Clydesdale. To
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  Speaker 1: waste Gavin Williams' 11 strikeout performance. So how embarrassing is
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  Speaker 1: it for the team known after a bridge? Well, that's
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  Speaker 1: embarrassing enough. Can it get any more embarrassing than your
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  Speaker 1: team is named after a bridge? Of course, the White
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  Speaker 1: Sox are named after a sock, so that's embarrassing, too.
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  Speaker 1: They're all embarrassing names. All right, so in terms of
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  Speaker 1: how embarrassing is it, it's so embarrassing, someone needs to
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  Speaker 1: call Morgan & Morgan because Gavin Williams has a legitimate
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  Speaker 1: malpractice case. That's how bad this was. And Williams serving
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  Speaker 1: prime rib on the mound. You get a slab of
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  Speaker 1: prime rib. You get a slab of prime rib. And
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  Speaker 1: 11 strikeouts outstanding. And the Guardians showed up with plastic forks.
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  Speaker 1: Bad job by them. So Cleveland treating the home plate
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  Speaker 1: area to get around and score, treating that like it
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  Speaker 1: requires TSA pre-check. It's very hard to do that. And
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  Speaker 1: the Mallard diagnosis here. The team formerly known as the
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  Speaker 1: Indians suffering from the extreme case of tight tuchus syndrome.
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  Speaker 1: It's a seasonal allergy that pops up in October. Now, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the White Sox manager, Will Venable, throwing bullpen games like
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  Speaker 1: he's emptying the junk drawer and it's working. Now, you
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  Speaker 1: know how I feel about bullpen games. One of my
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  Speaker 1: pet peeves. I hate it. I hate it, but Venable
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  Speaker 1: out there conducting a bring-your-own-pitcher night to the ballpark, and
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland still sucked. It's unreal. It's a spring training style,
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  Speaker 1: and the White Sox are using it. We've seen it
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  Speaker 1: a lot in the playoffs. It is unbecoming. If baseball
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  Speaker 1: had real leadership, a real boss with balls, this would
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  Speaker 1: not happen. But Rob Manfred's there looking clueless. He was
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  Speaker 1: actually in. the Cleveland White Sox ballpark there as they
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  Speaker 1: showed him on TV, and he looked dazed and confused
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  Speaker 1: as he always does, completely clueless as the commissioner. But
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  Speaker 1: it's a spring training thing. It's like they did this
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  Speaker 1: in spring training. They still do it in spring training.
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  Speaker 1: Get your innings in. Go out and golf. Now they
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  Speaker 1: do it in the playoffs. It's wild. They've done it
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  Speaker 1: in the World Series.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: My God. So it is alarming that the team from
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  Speaker 1: Northern Ohio got food poisoning and essentially a pitching potluck.
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  Speaker 1: That's all it was. And so everyone loves to talk
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  Speaker 1: in the baseball media about the culture of Cleveland, the
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  Speaker 1: culture club they have going on there, which is just wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: They have great culture, wonderful culture.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 1: Does the culture know how to hit in October? Because
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like it knows how to hit in October.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like it's forgotten that over the years. And
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  Speaker 1: the manager, Stephen Vogt, claims that the team he has thrives.
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  Speaker 1: They thrive with their backs against the wall, which they
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  Speaker 1: can all talk about next week when the team has
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  Speaker 1: a get-together, a goodbye party on a pontoon boat. While
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  Speaker 1: they're fishing, they can say, oh, yeah, we love our
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  Speaker 1: backs against the wall. We are going to do great.
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  Speaker 1: All right, last word. Let's move away from the American.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to the National League side of things and
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  Speaker 1: the big controversy of the day in Major League Baseball
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  Speaker 1: out of San Diego, where Padres manager Craig Stammen was
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  Speaker 1: asked about the viral social media post claiming that the
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  Speaker 1: Brewers had cracked the code. on Mason Miller. Did you
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  Speaker 1: see this?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: All right, so Craig Stammer was asked about this. He
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  Speaker 1: dismissed the social media investigators that claimed they had uncracked
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  Speaker 1: the code, they being the Brewers, and they had video
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  Speaker 1: to back it up that Mason Miller was tipping his
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  Speaker 1: pitches during his Game 2 meltdown in the ninth inning. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the suspicions grew as Milwaukee repeatedly laid off the lethal
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  Speaker 1: as an anaconda pitch, the slider pitch, the slider during
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  Speaker 1: the ninth inning comeback, which is typically a pitch that
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  Speaker 1: hitters do not lay off of. They just don't. They
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  Speaker 1: normally swing at that, and that's the secret power. So
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  Speaker 1: Miller threw 40 pitches over the two innings, only 21
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  Speaker 1: for strikes. It's like a 50-50 proposition for Mason Miller.
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  Speaker 1: He walked three Brewers before Jackson Churrio had the biggest
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  Speaker 1: hit in recent Brewers history there, and they get the win.
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  Speaker 1: So Craig Salmon said that San Diego has a A
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  Speaker 1: staff specifically assigned to detect pitch tipping and insisted the
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  Speaker 1: Padres are completely on top of it. That's what he said.
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  Speaker 1: He dismissed the online chatter. The detective work online saying
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  Speaker 1: the Internet can be crazy. That's his quote. The Internet
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  Speaker 1: can be crazy from the Padres manager. Well, expressing complete
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  Speaker 1: and total confidence, of course, the Padres know what they're doing. Wink, wink, nod, nod.
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  Speaker 1: So here's the question on this one. Did Padres manager
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  Speaker 1: Craig Stammen successfully kill the internet-driven Mason Miller pitch-tipping controversy,
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  Speaker 1: or did he simply pour gasoline on it? So in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the idea that he successfully killed the story, please, please, right?
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  Speaker 1: We don't buy that at all. He consulted with Hannah
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  Speaker 1: the hula girl, And they got together and they decided
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  Speaker 1: to pour Arco top-tier gasoline all over, all over this
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  Speaker 1: particular story. Now, Stammen never, it's very important to listen
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  Speaker 1: to the words, he never explicitly said Mason Miller wasn't
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  Speaker 1: Tipping is pitches. And tipping pitches is not like a new...
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  Speaker 1: It's a new thing. As long as you don't get
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  Speaker 1: out a 17-camera setup with buzzers and trash cans like
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  Speaker 1: the cheating a-holes, it is allowed. Baseball, for years, used
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  Speaker 1: to employ really senile old men. And they'd put these
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  Speaker 1: guys who were in their 80s in uniform. When I
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  Speaker 1: was a kid, it was like the dumbest thing. Why
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  Speaker 1: is that guy in uniform? Oh, because he was good
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  Speaker 1: at finding... The tells who was tipping pitches and what
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  Speaker 1: they were doing. And I remember the Angels used to
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  Speaker 1: go to those games. They had a guy named Jimmy Reese,
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  Speaker 1: who was a really nice man. Everyone said how nice
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Reese was. And he was around with the Angels.
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  Speaker 1: He was Babe Ruth's roommate. But his job was to
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  Speaker 1: hit fungos before the game and try to figure out
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  Speaker 1: the pitches, what was coming. Teams have done this. Every team,
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  Speaker 1: when I was younger, they all had somebody like this. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the point is, the manager of the Padres never said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't tipping pitches. He just said, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: take care of it. They're not concerned. Of course, no
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  Speaker 1: one's ever concerned about anything. The Internet refuses. The Internet
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: refuses to accept Occam's razor. When a conspiracy theory is available,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: they dismiss Occam's razor. The simplest answer is most likely
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: the right answer. Now, maybe Mason Miller was tipping his pitches.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Maybe Mason Miller was hurt. That's another excuse you all
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: make when somebody doesn't play well. Maybe our friend Andrea
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: can tell us that Mercury was in retrograde. And stay
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: with me here. This is going to blow your mind.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Maybe Mason Miller just sucked at a time you cannot suck. No!
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: The baseball intelligentsia cannot process, cannot process the concept of
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: a random human falling apart in a big moment.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: No!
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: He must be hurt! He's just tipping his bitches! No! No,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: it can't be that, God forbid, the guy just gagged.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Can't say it. Cannot do it.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: No.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: No.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: So somebody must have cracked some kind of Mason Miller
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: code and Morse code or something along those lines. And
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: every bad performance, this is of the last like 10
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: years or so, every bad performance needs an alibi. Got
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: to have an alibi. Apparently he stunk, which sounds pretty
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: good to me. That sounds kosher to me. He stunk
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: is no longer acceptable. In American sport. Now, sometimes a
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: professional athlete simply has a lousy day at the office.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: It does happen. There's no decoder ring required and all that.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens in that game. If the
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Padres are even in position to put Mason Miller on
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the mound, they are facing... The clergy outside their door
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: right now is a priest, a rabbi, a shaman. They're
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: all out there waiting for the last rites of the Padres.
• 22:01
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• 22:28
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• 22:30
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• 22:42
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• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Back to the NL Card. On a Tuesday as the
• 22:51
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• 22:55
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• 23:01
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• 23:02
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• 23:08
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• 23:13
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• 23:13
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• 23:14
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• 23:19
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• 23:24
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• 23:29
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• 23:30
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• 25:23
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• 25:28
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• 25:31
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• 25:35
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• 25:39
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• 25:43
  Speaker 1: And let's see, what else do we know? Paige Dan,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Baltimore Freeloader account writes and says, nothing like a great
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Reese story that the young audience can relate to.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: As you know, a lot of kids are up listening
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: with that radio under the pillow. I recall Jimmy hitting
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: fungos to Honus Wagner and watching Cy Young tip his pitches. Well,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox had Johnny Pesky, right? That was their
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Reese. Every team had one of those guys. What
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: else do we have? Let's see. Page down. I can't
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: read that. Atilio writes in from Florida. He says, I
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: have to sadly agree with you, Ben. Until Brian Cashman
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: is gone, we are stuck with Boone and losing in
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: the playoffs if only George was here. There you go.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Jill in Minnesota says, do not blame Cam. The Yankees
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: had four errors. They broke a record. I'm not blaming
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Cam Schlittler. I'm merely pointing out he said this is
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: not the Yankee brand of baseball. And my memory of
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: the Yankees in the postseason is exactly this brand of baseball.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Shannon Des Moines writes in. He says, the only way
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: to make the Falcons and the Saints worse would be
• 27:02
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• 27:05
  Speaker 1: more about it. He says, those primetime games living up
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: to the hype, unless they don't. So he says. What
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: else do we have? Let's see. Page down. King Roy says,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: for the second time in three days, a baseball hits
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: the roof of a dome stadium. Coinkydink, I think not.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball told both Tampa Bay and New York
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: to hit the roof at Tropicana to remind the Fairweather
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: fans that this stuff happens and both teams know the rules,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: whether they like it or not. Curmudgeon Wayne in Duluth says,
• 27:42
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• 27:47
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• 27:50
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• 27:53
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• 27:56
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• 27:58
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• 28:01
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• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Curmudgeon Wayne, You'll get your little rundown. But it's a
• 28:06
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• 28:08
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• 28:10
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• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Joe writes in from New York. He says, Ben, I
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: have been listening to you for years from your first
• 28:18
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• 28:21
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• 28:24
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• 28:28
  Speaker 1: you described it perfectly. Them getting beat. That's from Overnight Joe.
• 28:31
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• 28:34
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• 28:38
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• 28:40
  Speaker 1: say hello to Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe. No Andrew in Bakersfield,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: but we do have Lucky Tony, who's in the Bay Area. Hello,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Lucky Tony. Welcome.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Hey, Ben. In this dream, I'm walking up to a
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: taco truck in an empty parking lot. And as I'm
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: walking up to the window, there's a guy off to
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: the side near the taco truck. And when I go
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: to the window, he basically cut in front of me.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: So I think to myself to say something, but then,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: you know, he was there before me, so I be quiet.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: And as he's ordering, there's a guy who stands where
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: he was at before. They start talking in Spanish, so
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: I don't understand it, but I can tell that they're
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: friendly with each other. So I think, man, this guy
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: better not try to, you know, cut with his friend because,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: you know, I'm in line. So go figure, the guy
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: orders his food and he walks away. The other guy
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: tried to dart in front of him. So I said, hey, man,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: there's an effing line and I could tell by their
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: faces that they didn't appreciate the way I was talking
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: to him so there's a lot to his dream but
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: I'll cut to the chase so as I'm walking away
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: with my food I'm looking around to make sure that
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: nothing's going to happen and I see three guys probably
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: the same guys and another guy coming from across the
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: street so I reach into my pocket get my pocket
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: knife and I was going to hit the trigger to
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: let the springboat go, but I kind of thought, well,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: if it doesn't walk and I start swinging, then there
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: could be a problem. So then I grabbed the blade
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: with my finger to try to open it up the
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: old-fashioned way, and then I think, man, my hand's on
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: the blade. This isn't good. You know, you shouldn't have
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: your hand on a blade if you're about to get down.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: So then I went back to the spring-loaded trigger, and
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: when I hit the spring-load and turned to him, I
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: woke up. Thanks, man.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: All right, thank you. Let's see here. What do we have?
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Let me do this story. So Ronald Acuna Jr., who
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: was supposed to be a Hall of Famer and amazing
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: and all that for the Atlanta Braves, and he's mostly
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: been hurt, mostly been hurt in his time in Atlanta.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: He did win an MVP. He got off to that
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: fast start in his career. He was the rookie of
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: the year. And then a few years after that was
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: the most valuable player, and he's had a lot of
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: years where he's played very few games. So I bring
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: this up. Now, I was going to use this in
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: a monologue. I chose not to use it in a
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: monologue because there's some controversy whether or not the way
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: the story is being portrayed is completely accurate. So Ronald
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Acuna Jr. appeared on a podcast, a Spanish language, William
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Contreras and Jackson Churio. So these guys all did some
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: baseball podcasts. I'm sure it was wonderful. And according to
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: those who transcribed the podcast, William Contreras asked Ronald Lacuna Jr.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: about Atlanta coaches now that Brian Snitker is no longer
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: managing the Atlanta baseball team. So the clip has been
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: translated and it's been bouncing around the interweb. And according
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: to the clip, They claim that Ronald Acuna Jr., his
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: response to being asked about what it's like now with
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: the Braves, with the new coaches, now that Brian Snicker
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: is gone, Acuna apparently said, according to one translation, he said,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: All good, bro. They didn't bother me again. You know
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: that blank blank thought he was the king. Close quote. Now,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: there's some saying, well, he didn't exactly say that because
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: the word that I bleeped, I'm not allowed to say.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: It is the same name as a former NFL linebacker
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: that used to work here at Fox Sports Radio and
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the same surname as the old Atlanta Braves manager from many,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: many years ago. So that is the quote bouncing around.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: There's other people saying, well, it's not exact. And there's
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: some nuance when you use... Language, obviously, there's different versions
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: of the translations and whatnot, so it was lost in translation.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: You mean Bobby Cox? Yeah, Bobby Cox. Brian Cox worked here.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Bobby Cox, yeah. Absolutely. For Halloween, Coop, I know you're
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: hoping to get a sucker. You want to get a
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: little sucker there for Halloween? It's got trick-or-treating. Anyway, so
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: we'll see. Skeptical. I speak Spanglish. I don't speak Spanish.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: I speak Spanglish, so I'm not the right person to translate.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: So I'm basing this off other people's translation and that's
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: what they're saying. So we'll keep an eye on that. Now,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: as far as the Malheur math is concerned, it ain't
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: looking good here. It is not looking good. And the
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: New York Yankees, in all best of five postseason series,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: teams with a 2-0 lead have gone on to win
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: the series 83 of 93 times. That's 89%. So based
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: on what has happened, Tampa Bay has an 89% chance
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: of advancing. Teams that have won the first two games
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: at home in the divisional series with the current 2-2-1
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: format have gone on to win the series 83 33
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: out of 36 times. That is 92%. Remember, as the
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: great Dick Stockton taught me years ago, stats tell you
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: what has happened, not what's going to happen. So that
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: is what has happened in regards to the short series.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: We'll see if that continues. And the Tampa Bay Rays
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: in good shape. So are the Chicago White Sox and
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: teams that have won the first two games on the
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: road in the divisional series. with the current format, have
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: gone on to win 17 of 19, which is 89%.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Andrea. She's the astrology insider, and
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: she's in the Bay Area right there. She's hanging out
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: with us. Hello, Andrea.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: Welcome. Welcome.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Hello, Ben.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: How are you?
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: If I was any better, if I was any better,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: I'd be taking a nap. But no, I'm not. Actually,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I guess sleeping. Most people sleep at this time. But,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm not a big napper. And lately I
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: took a couple of naps. Very rare for me to nap.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: But what's on your mind, Andrea? How can we help you? Yes.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: No, we definitely need your energy. So thank you, Ben.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: A lot going on planetarily. And, you know, it's really interesting. Obviously,
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: I always listen to your show. I'm a loyal listener
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: and caller. And I heard you say, oh, is Mercury retrograde?
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: Let's see. Maybe Andrea will call.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes. I smoked you out. My evil plan worked.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: And here you are to save the day, to save
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: the day. Yes.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: You're very tuned in. I'll tell you, check this out, Ben.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: Mercury is not retrograde, but Venus is retrograde. That's more rare.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: It's once every two years for six weeks. It started
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: October 3rd, just a couple of days ago.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: When Austin Wells had that really bad error and the
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: Yankees lost the game, he.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Went for.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Can't make the third out at third base. You cannot
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: do it. Bad job by you.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: That is true. So Venus retrograde, October 3rd to November 13th.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: It rules relationships and finances. And it's in Scorpio and Libra.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: So when Venus retrogrades, we review, rethink, reassess our relationships,
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: our finances. Basically, when a planet retrogrades, you know, it's
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: really kind of a time when there can be more errors.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: And check this out, Ben. Mercury will retrograde October 24th.
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: to November 13th. So we'll be dealing with a double
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: retrograde of Mercury and Venus coming up for the next
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: few weeks.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Aha! Double your pleasure, double your fun. Okay. Keep an
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: eye out for that. All right.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: So that's a rare occurrence. So I wanted to alert
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: the Malo militia and your listeners about Venus being retrograde now, rules, relationships,
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: and finances. People coming back from the past can happen
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: also with Venus retrograde, rethinking finances. And then Mercury retrogrades
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: October 24 to November 13. So we will be dealing
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: with Venus. A double retrograde. So that's coming up soon.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: All right, prepare. Please brace for double retrograde. Hold on
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: to your table, please. Hold on to your table. Double retrograde.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Weed Man Hippie right now is freaking out. You know
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: he's freaking out there in Miami. You know he's like, oh,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: my God, no, I don't need this. I do not
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: need this.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure he'll be calling it to your show
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: quite a bit.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, I'm up against the clock. We'll leave
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: it there. But thank you, Andrea. And Virgo in service
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: on X. Thank you, Andrea. There you go. Be well.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: There she goes, our friend Andrea. Checking in. See if
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: anything happens with this Ronald Acuna Jr. story, whether that
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: was legit or not. We'll see. Here is the Who
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Am I game. This is where we pretend to be
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: somebody else. We call it the Who Am I game.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: So Grant Taylor of the White Sox became the first
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: MLB reliever since me to have four-plus outs in each
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: of their first three career postseason appearances. Again, Grant Taylor
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: of the White Sox has become the first MLB reliever
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: sent me to record four or more outs in each
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: of their first three career postseason appearances. Who am I?
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: That is the question. The answer. We'll get to it.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: We'll do it next.
• 38:22
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  Speaker 1: Pacific. The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio. Still
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out why there's a teleprompter in the studio.
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  Speaker 1: It's very annoying. It's right in my line of sight.
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  Speaker 1: Who needs that? I don't know. It's very dusty. And
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  Speaker 1: the only one I've ever worked with that needed a
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  Speaker 1: telestrator was Tom Looney, but he's not working here. So
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  Speaker 1: maybe they took that from the old Benny versus the
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  Speaker 1: Penny studio and they got the old telestrator, Telestrator Looney.
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  Speaker 1: Telestrator Tom, we call them. Used that a lot on
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  Speaker 1: the TV show back in the day. But it is
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  Speaker 1: here and it's literally right in front of me. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I already couldn't see behind the glass anyway. I literally
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  Speaker 1: cannot see Coupadour. I can barely make out the outline,
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  Speaker 1: the silhouette of Lorena. That's it. I can kind of see,
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  Speaker 1: but I cannot. Literally, the telestrator's right in front. It's
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  Speaker 1: a small problem. It's a first world problem. But it's
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  Speaker 1: And thank you. Back to it. All right, back to it.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: And here we go. Pay off the Who Am I game.
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  Speaker 1: And here it is. Someone named Grant Taylor. Of the
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  Speaker 1: White Sox becoming the first MLB relievers since me to
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  Speaker 1: record four plus outs, four more outs in each of
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: their first three career postseason appearances. That is the question.
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  Speaker 1: What is the answer? And let's see. Does anyone know
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  Speaker 1: the answer? By the way, our buddy Tree from Chicago
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  Speaker 1: hanging out in London. Not that pretty cool, man. What
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  Speaker 1: a baller. Out there hanging out, a little Bears football. Greg. Quickly.
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  Speaker 1: The Real Estate Mogul says, Archie Bunker. Who else do
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  Speaker 1: we have? Liberty Bibberty from OG Art Puffin. Very funny.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Carter from Scrooge. Page down. Trevor Lawrence, who's 27
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  Speaker 1: today from Late Night Drug Tester. Charlie in Wisconsin says,
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  Speaker 1: Ben Meatball Marinera sub Maler, that that's the answer. Thank you, Charlie,
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  Speaker 1: for the AI. giving Alf a sandwich. Skeletor from Alf
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  Speaker 1: the Alien O'Piner. Mr. Bill from Chuck Stop Fungus dating himself.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Selleck from Doc Dan also dating himself. Do you
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  Speaker 1: have an answer, Lorena? Shia LaBeouf. No, it's Al Holland
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  Speaker 1: over 40 years ago for the Phillies in 1983. Al Holland.
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  Speaker 1: That's an old guy named Al Holland.