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  Speaker 1: I get them in, and so.
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  Speaker 4: I talk whatever I want.
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  Speaker 1: But some nights you just kind of have to talk
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  Speaker 1: about things, and this is one of those nights. Now
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  Speaker 1: people accuse me of always talking about the Lakers. This
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  Speaker 1: is a sad story. The Lakers are not gonna win
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  Speaker 1: the championship. There's a lot of people that are gonna
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  Speaker 1: have broken hearts.
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  Speaker 4: But that is the story. And we have a Mantrea
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  Speaker 4: Heart to heart.
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  Speaker 1: We go where the news of the day takes us,
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  Speaker 1: even in the dopey sports world. So our lead is
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  Speaker 1: from pro bouncy Ball. The center of the sporting universe
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  Speaker 1: was in the Dallas Metroplex there, and I assume if
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  Speaker 1: you're a casual sportsman, this was something you kind of
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  Speaker 1: wanted to see. Maybe a few minutes of it, you
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  Speaker 1: probably didn't watch the whole game. Is why would you
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  Speaker 1: have the regular season game? But you might have watched
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  Speaker 1: a few minutes.
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  Speaker 4: Of it, perhaps not. And don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: We're here so you can go to the movies or
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  Speaker 1: do whatever you're doing. And we watched the games. So
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  Speaker 1: the stars were out. These stars were out Dallas stop.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is not like in La or New York.
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  Speaker 1: Crowd the star now that's Mahomes, Patrick Mahomes is there,
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  Speaker 1: Derrick Henry's and Dirk Noovitchky That's who. They showed, big stars,
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  Speaker 1: huge stars. So it was all about Luka Hookah Luca.
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  Speaker 1: He did some hookah before the game. I think, maybe not,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but Luka Doncik went out there, had
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  Speaker 1: a massive first half. It didn't do much in the
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  Speaker 1: second half. He ended up with forty five points in
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  Speaker 1: his first game, almost like it was scripted back in
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  Speaker 1: Dallas since being traded to La La Land and so
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  Speaker 1: Luca went out there, had a big stat line. The
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  Speaker 1: Lakers will be in the playoffs, but probably not for long,
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  Speaker 1: but they wrapped up a playoff spot. Now. Luka Doncik
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  Speaker 1: his return two months after the wacky Tobacci trade out
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  Speaker 1: of finn Air so bad that people are convinced that
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  Speaker 1: there was some funny business going on.
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  Speaker 4: There was some maneuvering behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 1: The television executives were involved, and this was all about
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  Speaker 1: getting more money in the TV contract. But he went
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  Speaker 1: out to La. He spent five and a half seasons
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  Speaker 1: with the Mavericks. Most assumed that he would just be
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  Speaker 1: there the rest of his career, or at least the
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  Speaker 1: good years of his career.
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  Speaker 4: Still had two years left on his contract. So the
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  Speaker 4: forty five.
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  Speaker 1: Points matching Lukas season high, okay, what he damn do?
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  Speaker 1: I also had eight rebound, six assists, four steals, and
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  Speaker 1: a partridge in a paar tree. But it was the
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  Speaker 1: old geezer Bron Bron who led the way there to
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  Speaker 1: the finish line. He had thirteen of his twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: points down this stretch in the fourth quarter. So the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers who did fall by, I'm how embarrassing is that
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  Speaker 1: you're trailing?
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  Speaker 4: They were trailing in the fourth quarter again.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't name three guys on the Mavericks who are
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  Speaker 1: playing right now. And the Lakers were actually losing this
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  Speaker 1: game at one point in the fourth quarter to the
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  Speaker 1: flotsam and jetsum the drek of the Dallas Mavericks. How embarrassing.
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  Speaker 1: And then they rallied back. But man even to be
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  Speaker 1: trailing in the fourth quarter, Holy crap, man, you suck
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  Speaker 1: all right, So let us discuss the question. Let's just
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  Speaker 1: forget about the game. Who cares about the game? Let's
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  Speaker 1: focus in on the sidebar, because it's all about the sidebar.
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  Speaker 1: So let's play a fun fill in the blank game.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone loves a fill in the blank game.
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  Speaker 4: I do you do?
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  Speaker 5: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Now, I'm gonna go first because I have the microphone,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'll give out the number in a little
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  Speaker 1: bit you can call up and you can fill in
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  Speaker 1: the blank on your own it. So here's the film
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  Speaker 1: The blanket, right, Luka Donciks Emotion Return to Dallas was
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  Speaker 1: blank right, filling the blank?
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  Speaker 4: So I've got Stephen King, Kitty Cat, and fly Swatter,
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  Speaker 4: and we will.
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  Speaker 1: Combine all of these things together and we are going
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  Speaker 1: to refuse to budge an inch while we make some
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  Speaker 1: cowboy boots and hats, giant cowboy hats and cowboy boots.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah all right, So my word is smaltzy. That is
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  Speaker 1: my word, smalty. Luka Doncics return his emotional return to
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  Speaker 1: Dallas was schmaltzy. For me, it was uncomfortable, and I
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  Speaker 1: understand I'm in the minority.
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  Speaker 4: This was not for me.
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  Speaker 1: I get it. This tribute was for the emotionally wounded
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Maverick observer. Nevertheless, way too sappy, Way to pee yea?
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  Speaker 4: What is that? Sap?
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  Speaker 1: This two minute montage that played on the job. If
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  Speaker 1: you loved him so much, why did you trade him?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's so stupid. It's like he died, but
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  Speaker 1: they're on the jobbo trout for two minutes felt like
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  Speaker 1: two hours, highlighting Luca's journey from being drafted and he was,
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  Speaker 1: of course traded famous draft trade in twenty eighteen Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: and Dallas and then leading the team to not win
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  Speaker 1: a championship and lose in the NBA finals, and you had.
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  Speaker 4: The full circle of life, the circle of life like
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  Speaker 4: the Lion King. Back in the day of the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: They had highlights of him as a rookie, big playoff shot.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, I didn't see any highlights of him when
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  Speaker 1: he lost to the Clippers multiple times. Luca in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: real real heartstring tugging music.
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  Speaker 4: It was like a hallmark movie, like a Hallmark movie.
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  Speaker 1: But in many ways, this experience for the Dallas basketball
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  Speaker 1: team on the court and all together, it was like
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  Speaker 1: a Stephen King novel meets religious revival, pet cemetery, a
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  Speaker 1: horror story. The Mavericks experience the chilling consequences of bringing
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  Speaker 1: a loved one back the life from the other side
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  Speaker 1: and just not quite the same, not quite the same Hookah, Luca,
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  Speaker 1: now he had the great awakening, right, he had the
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  Speaker 1: awakening there for the Dallas fan. You had the passionate sermon,
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  Speaker 1: the rhythmic chanting that was taking place there. The it
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  Speaker 1: was kind of like a house of worship, and there
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  Speaker 1: were testimonials, divine experiences that Luca.
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  Speaker 4: Did and all of that. It was like a healing session.
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  Speaker 1: It was therapeutic now page two here, So the Dallas
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  Speaker 1: fans were in it, dizzy. It was a I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: the rhythm make chanting fiery Goo Byrko.
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  Speaker 4: Now fi all right, went on and on like that.
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  Speaker 1: But it was a vortex of outrage. So my question
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  Speaker 1: is how should the Maverick ownership deal with the upheaval
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  Speaker 1: from the Natives on Luca Donzik's return to the scene
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  Speaker 1: of the crime.
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  Speaker 4: So much like.
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  Speaker 1: A kitty cat here, kitty here, kitty like a kitty
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  Speaker 1: cat with a cheshire cat.
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  Speaker 4: Smile from ear to ear.
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  Speaker 1: If you're the Dallas Mavericks ownership you've won, let me
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  Speaker 1: explain why. All right, that spark is still there. The
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  Speaker 1: spark has not left the building. And over my years
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  Speaker 1: of gas baggery, the one constant, going back to my
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  Speaker 1: early days and still alive and well today is is
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  Speaker 1: the thing that you cannot have, the thing that is
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  Speaker 1: the kill shot. In the business of entertainment, the business
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  Speaker 1: of professional sports, is the a word apathy. And there
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  Speaker 1: was no apathy. I didn't see any apathy at all.
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  Speaker 1: I saw no apathy in that building in Dallas. I
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  Speaker 1: saw engagement, I saw raw emotion.
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  Speaker 4: I saw all that.
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  Speaker 1: But when apathy happens, when that creeps in, you're cooked
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  Speaker 1: right in. People in sports don't care if you love
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  Speaker 1: them or even if you hate them, as long as
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  Speaker 1: you're interested, just stay interested, and they got you buy
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  Speaker 1: the balls. They've got you by the balls. The apathetic
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  Speaker 1: fan the apathy of the fan base that leads to
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  Speaker 1: fewer tickets being sold, less merch being sold, more importantly,
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  Speaker 1: lower television ratings, which means the ad advertisers pay less
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  Speaker 1: for the commercials and just a general lackluster cloud hanging.
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  Speaker 4: Over your team so that there's none of that. Now,
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  Speaker 4: does that happen?
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  Speaker 1: Is this gonna settle in where the Dallas team blows
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  Speaker 1: for years to come and then we have that. Possibly,
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  Speaker 1: But at this point, there were a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: that looked like they still cared about the Mavericks and
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  Speaker 1: they were upset because of the trade. And so if
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  Speaker 1: you own the team, like, oh, okay, I don't care
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  Speaker 1: if you're upset with me, as long as you've watched
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  Speaker 1: the games on TV and supporting our sponsors, all right, now,
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  Speaker 1: last word here. So the mav Rex tried to line
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  Speaker 1: up some sponsorship deals. We heard we heard about this
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  Speaker 1: in the lead up to the game. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you saw this or not. Maybe maybe not. I was
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  Speaker 1: bouncing around the echo chamber and I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: interesting and worth a mention.
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  Speaker 4: So the Mavericks tried to line up some sponsorship deals.
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  Speaker 1: We were told they were trying to line them up
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  Speaker 1: with some Luca brand partners.
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  Speaker 4: Get that money, get that dumb money right, and is
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  Speaker 4: return games.
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  Speaker 1: They thought they'd do some cross promotion and mix in
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  Speaker 1: some of Luca's business partners.
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  Speaker 4: It turns out, though, that the.
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  Speaker 1: Luca marching in Shoudo Society said no bueno and they
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  Speaker 1: rejected the idea.
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  Speaker 4: So what intrigues you the most.
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  Speaker 1: About this wrinkle in the story that Luca's advisors said
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  Speaker 1: no itx nay on the advertisers a get your own advertiser.
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  Speaker 4: So hukah Luca.
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  Speaker 1: In the cartoon bubble them on my top of my
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  Speaker 1: head here went out and got a fly swatter, took
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  Speaker 1: a fly swatter, and he treated the Mavericks like a
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  Speaker 1: pesky insect.
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  Speaker 4: He whacked them.
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  Speaker 1: I whacked them with the fly swatter, and it's absolutely
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  Speaker 1: fair game. It is fair game financially, while Luca will
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  Speaker 1: make a lot more money from endorsements, wearing that ugly
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  Speaker 1: purple and gold jersey and having all the fanboys and
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  Speaker 1: historians of the Lakers all his crap. That's true. The
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  Speaker 1: other part of it, though, on court earnings. Dallas did
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  Speaker 1: him dirty. They did him dirty. I've done the mal
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  Speaker 1: of math on this. I believe I'm correct. You can
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  Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong. But by the trade, the Mavericks,
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  Speaker 1: if my math is correct, cost Luca around one hundred
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  Speaker 1: million dollars by trading him rather than giving him the
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  Speaker 1: super duper uper Max, the Oui Guey Max contract with
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  Speaker 1: all the extra zeros on it. But since he's traded,
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  Speaker 1: the most he can get is like one hundred million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: I think he'll be okay. I'm pretty sure we don't
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  Speaker 1: need to have a baked sale or a GoFundMe for Luca.
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  Speaker 1: But still one hundred million dollars is money that you're
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  Speaker 1: not going to be able to get that you would
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  Speaker 1: have gotten if you had just stayed with Dallas. And
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  Speaker 1: now to think the Mavericks had the hutzpa to go
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  Speaker 1: out and try to get another money grab by writing
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  Speaker 1: the coattails of Luca, and the deal fell apart after
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  Speaker 1: again Luca's his his posse declined to give its blessing
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  Speaker 1: and said ixnay on the DLA as we said there,
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  Speaker 1: and they also said, which is kind of amusing. They
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  Speaker 1: noted that he now plays for a different team other
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  Speaker 1: than the Mavericks, so like, what are we doing?
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  Speaker 4: They did give out some T shirts. I understand some
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  Speaker 4: of those are already on.
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  Speaker 1: The resale market, so if you want to buy one,
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  Speaker 1: go on on the eBay and pick up one of
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  Speaker 1: your shirts.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know that's worth that much.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure there's some sports memorabillion people out there that, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's actually worth Just save it and put
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  Speaker 1: in a box, and he goes to the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 4: Oh man, watch out, watch out.
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  Speaker 1: So if you were to make like a Mallord Militia
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  Speaker 1: offensive line, I'd have Robbie the Mariner fan would be
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  Speaker 1: my left tackle. I'd have big Greg as like my
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  Speaker 1: right tackle. And there was a listener I forget his name.
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  Speaker 1: He was in Missouri. He makes bullets all night. He
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  Speaker 1: would be on the offensive line. He'd beat my starting center.
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  Speaker 1: So I need like two more offensive linemen, and then
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure we could beat the Carolina Panthers. We'd
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  Speaker 1: have the most dominant offensive line, large and in charge. Large,
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  Speaker 1: maybe Eugene in Chicago. We could probably put Eugene in
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  Speaker 1: there somewhere on the offensive line. But listen, we've got
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  Speaker 1: the size. We have the size, we've got physicality.
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  Speaker 4: But our lead this hour is from Toronto. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you don't hear a lot of conversation about the
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jays on sports radio.
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  Speaker 4: Why would you? Why would you?
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  Speaker 1: But we go places other people don't go because we
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  Speaker 1: are not the mainstream. We are on at hours which
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  Speaker 1: are unholy, so we can go places other people don't go.
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  Speaker 1: Now we have a better understanding of the massive implications
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  Speaker 1: of the big payday that happened a few days ago.
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  Speaker 1: A stutter from up north the bird's nest as Vladimir
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  Speaker 1: Garrero Junior.
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  Speaker 4: You know by now that he landed a.
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  Speaker 1: Five hundred million dollar deal with the Blue Jays. However,
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  Speaker 1: it is interesting to note that the fine print is
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  Speaker 1: what really stands out about this contract. Now, we had
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  Speaker 1: heard there was no deferred money, and there is no
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  Speaker 1: deferred money. Now, I don't know if you've heard the
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  Speaker 1: news here, maybe not, but we have learned now through
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  Speaker 1: the magnifying glass and reading the minutia of the contract
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  Speaker 1: and not turning away, we have learned that Vlati Guerrero
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  Speaker 1: Junior's contract includes a three one hundred and twenty five
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  Speaker 1: million dollars signing bonus three. Let me repeat that three
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  Speaker 1: hundred in twenty five million, as a signing bust. The
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five million that's remaining that will
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  Speaker 1: be paid as an actual salar. So to rephrase that
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  Speaker 1: again for those of you a little slow, the Toronto
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  Speaker 1: Baseball team will pay their first basement. They'll pay out
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  Speaker 1: sixty five percent of Guerrero's contract in a signing bonus.
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  Speaker 1: Now that is a sight to behold. Now, both the
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  Speaker 1: bonus and the salary will be sent out in annual installments,
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  Speaker 1: kind of like when you win some contest and they
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  Speaker 1: pay you a year after year. But he'll get a
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  Speaker 1: big fat check for the bonus, big fat check for
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  Speaker 1: the salary over the next fourteen years, next fourteen years.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question we're gonna play. You
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  Speaker 1: make the call, I love you make the call. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you make the call. Who does the three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty five million dollars signing bonus favor more? You can
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  Speaker 1: only pick one, Vladimir Guerrero Junior or the team, the
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jays. You make the call. Who gets more out
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  Speaker 1: of this? Is it the player or is it the team?
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  Speaker 1: Now my observation, I've got triggeration, the gap band and embargo,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together.
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  Speaker 4: We will lock them together like lego blocks, is what
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  Speaker 4: we're going to do. So numb burn?
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  Speaker 1: Can I get a numb burn? All right? Based on
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  Speaker 1: a minutes long Mallard deliberation in the jury box, the
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  Speaker 1: arrow is pointing firmly at Vladimir Guerrero Junior. And it's
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  Speaker 1: not even close. Now I heard some of you knuckleheads.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the blue Jams are gonna save money, is
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  Speaker 1: not gonna go against the salary cap because it's it's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna be the luxury taxi.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's good for them. Yeah, you were telling me
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  Speaker 4: there's there's some kind of loophole.
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  Speaker 5: There's a loophole.
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  Speaker 4: Ben, this is what everyone's gonna be doing. They're gonna
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  Speaker 4: get around the luxury tax.
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  Speaker 1: Well, turns out that is the B word bogus capital
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  Speaker 1: b bogus, capital b bogus. The signing bonus is included
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  Speaker 1: in the average annual value in terms of how they
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  Speaker 1: document the luxury tax, meaning that Vladimir Gerrel Junior's annual
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  Speaker 1: luxury tax hit will still be thirty five point seven
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  Speaker 1: million dollars even No, he's not going to be paid
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  Speaker 1: based on the actual salary part of it that so
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  Speaker 1: the winner is Vladdie by a country mile, and what
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  Speaker 1: he is doing with his representation here upon further review,
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  Speaker 1: is tricker ration to avoid the tax collector. Now, I've
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: seen a lot of stories written, these these think pieces,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: these bleeding hard stories about how what a great story
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: this is for the Toronto baseball team native Canadian Vladimir.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Guro Junior, who was born in Montreal.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I believe his dad was playing for the Expos, and
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: now here he is, and he.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Wants to stay in Canada.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Well, spoiler bert alert, spoiler alert, turns out that Vladimir
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Guerrero Junior actually.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Resides in Florida.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: And those of you who live in Florida love to
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: remind me and love to point out how much better
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: you have it than I do living in California, because
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: you live in a state without income tax, which means,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: if you're a baseball player and you're getting a massive
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: amount of money sent your way, you will then have
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: to have the honor of being able to avoid paying
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: state tax on the bonus, which will generate millions and
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: millions in value added.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: To the contract.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: So you put your residence in a state that does
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: not have state income text like, think about that. Oh
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: my god, do you imagine places where they don't apps,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: they don't try to gouge you on everything.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: I can't believe those places exist. Now.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: People have also said this is a lottery situation for
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Vladimir Guerrero Junior. And while the three hundred plus million
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: dollars does appear to be a lottery, it's it doesn't
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: even justify that. That is not the right phrasing of it.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: So I looked it up. I did the research. Do
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: you know in the history because he plays in Canada,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: So in the history of Canadian lotteries, going all the
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: way back to the start of those Canadian lotteries, there
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: have been no instances of a single jackpot reaching three
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: hundred million. In fact, the biggest jackpot they've ever had
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: in the Canadian lotteries is seventy million. So Vlad's getting
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty five overall five hundred but three
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: and twenty five signing bonus. And even in the United States,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: where they have had lotteries going back to what the
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: early nineties, and that's a fair amount of time. That's
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: a lot of money invested by people that they lost
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: their money bet on the lottery. But since the beginning
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: of the lottery system, there have been a total of
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: sixty six sixty six separate jackpots over three hundred, three
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: hundred or more thirty five and Powerball thirty one in
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: mega millions. So I would expect some combination of this,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: along with the sho Heo Tani contract to be the
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: new normal.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: This does not help the team as much.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: The sho Heo Tani deal helps the team, and I
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: support it because it screws over the evil tax losers,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: the scumbag politicians in California, So I fully support that absolutely.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: And the CBA and Baseball does not restrict though the
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: amount a team can include any signing bonus, just like
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: it doesn't limit the amount.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Of money you can have in deferred payments. So we'll
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: see what happens going forward.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Now page two to the Big Blue Wreck not wrecking
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: crew wreck the Dodgers.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: They did get a win. They wrapped up the road
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: trip a losing road trip.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: With a matinee win over the Washington Nationals as they
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: finally got by that natitude on Wednesday. But there was
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: an interesting quote a quote interesting quote that came out
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: of the mouth of Tiascar Hernandez, that is a baseball
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: player for the Dodgers, outfielder, got some swag to him,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: got some rasmatask ti Oscar Hernandez. So Tiascar Hernandez claimed
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: he prefaced this by saying, I'm not making an excuse.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: But he chalked up the Dodgers sputtering road trip where
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: they lost both series to philadel to Washington. He said
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: the reason that they had some issues on the road
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: was quote not being used to playing in the cold weather.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: So how exactly do you process that particular quote. The
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Dodgers had problems on the road because they were not
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: used to playing in cold weather. So this is face
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: palm worthy, right, I mean it is right that face
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: palm worthy is what it is.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Tiasra claimed that again he wasn't making an excuse, and
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: then made an excuse.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: And as you know.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: From listening to the show, there's two things you should
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: know by listening to this show. The first thing you
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: should know is that the term best means as good
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: as all the rest, Right, That's what that means. The
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: second thing is everything a person says before the word
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: butt is a lie.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: When you say I'm not making an excuse.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: But liar, liar, that's it right, So time to go
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighties funk gap band. You dropped a bomb on me.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: And here's a truth, Bob, truth Bob, Truth, Bob, truth Bob.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Every cold weather team, whether they be on the in
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: the Northeast or the Upper Midwest, every cold weather team
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: in baseball has a common bond. It's something they share
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: with every team that plays in a dome or a
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: West coast city, the grapefruit and the cacti, or go
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: spring training. Every player, even if they're in cold weather,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: they're not used to the cold weather. They just spent
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the last month and a half from mid February until
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: late March in the sunny and mild conditions of Florida.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: In Arizona. I mentioned the other night. I was watching
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: the Red Sox.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays game a couple of nights ago, and it
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: looked like the Red Sox were preparing to rob a
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: bank or a convenience store the way they were out
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: there all d I mean, it was wild.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: They were.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: It was like they're playing in the Arctic, and that's
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: a cold weather team and all. But this is about
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers, is just pathetic and last I checked, when
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: you get to the World Series, chances are going to
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: be playing in a cold weather city in the American League,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: and chances are pretty good that it will be frigid
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: as you dance around the diamond at that point.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: Now, speaking of a cold weather city, that wasn't the
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: World Series. Final point to the Boogie Doown Bronx we
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: go where the.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: New York Yankees and outfielder Cody Bellinger making some rather
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: odd headlines here.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you saw this or not.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Bellinger missed some time recently moves out of the Yankee
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: lineup because of a meal gone bad.
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Bellinger now has publicly sworn off chicken wings for five
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: years because he got food poisoning at a Motor City
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: hotel eating.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Said chicken wings.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: So question here we go, is Cody Bellinger's chicken wing
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: band an overreaction or a smart move? So I have
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: it as neither a smart move or an overreaction. I
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: have it as hyperbolate, is what I have it. Do
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: not believe Bellinger. I don't believe him.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: He's saying it got some headlines.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Don't believe him. He will not follow and honor the embargo,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: he will not do it. There will be wings in
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: the man's belly within the rest of the baseball season.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: How about that. I don't believe him. Now, I am
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: not a wing guy. I know that the chicken finger
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: is better than the wing.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: My favorite are the Ben Mallard chicken fingers at the
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Landing in Liberty, Missouri.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: That is my go to for the chicken fingers, not wings.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: Chicken fingers.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: However, I realize that there are many that are a
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: passionate lover of the wing, the chicken, wing, bock chicken,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: and you will eat them all the time. Now, if
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: you love the wing. The part of this which really
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: is messed up. It appears that the Bellinger said he
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: was eating no frills wings, basic biach wings, no sauce,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: bare bones.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Now this is the age old food conundrum that you have.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: If you have a job where you travel and you
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: don't have access to a kitchen, you're then at the
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: mercy of whoever is preparing your food. It's risky business
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: and most of the time you eat out, everything will
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: be fine. But that one time the person the line
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: cook in the back smoked a little too much weed
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: and they weren't paying attention, and they forgot to cook
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: your food the proper way, and so you get some salmonilla.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: That kind of thing.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Now, I've had food poisoning twice in my life. Have
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: you had food poison I've had food poisoned twice.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: In my life.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: I once ate a bad ballpark hot dog, man I
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: was I was really messed up from that.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: That lasted.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: I had the old dysentery there, and then I had
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: the Crazy Chicken restaurant right across the street from work.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I ate there and also did not cook the chicken properly.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: And yeah, but spoiler alert, spoiler alert, Yeah, I still
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: eat the hot dog, the Frankfurter, the Wiener uh and.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: And the chicken. I still eat chicken box chicken, a
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: lot of it, tried and true.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: My boycott lasted, at the most, I don't remember exactly,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: at the most a couple of a couple of months,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: and I was back.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Meller
• 28:53
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• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Yet that third degree, this is one Big Ben gets grilled.
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: Coo dow loop justin Ben with the revelation that breest
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: Hall's workload in New York will be dramatically reduced. Apparently
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: they're gonna go with a three running back scheme. Some
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: speculated that a trade could be in the works. Ben,
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: where do you think the best landing spot for Hall
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: would be?
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Well, the Pittsburgh Steelers would not be bad. I mean,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: he doesn't have that much value because even though he's
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: deemed to be a pretty good player, he's a running back, right,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: And so if you if you look at the way
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: this all breaks down, there's not a ton there. I mean,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: you're there are teams that would would acquire, but it's
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Pittsburgh because they didn't really fill that void.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: There's some talk they're gonna get a running back to
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Cowboys need some help in the running back position.
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: Next, with Taylor Jenkins and Michael Malone both being fired
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: before the end of the NBA season, who do you
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: think will be first coach to go once it's over all?
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Right, so you look for somebody that has high expectations
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: that will likely not live up to those high expectations
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs, Right, So I'm gonna go Doc Rivers.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Doc Rivers. Wait, in doubt, throw Doc
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Rivers name out. Uh and Bucks are okay, you know
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: obviously in the playoffs and all that, but Doc will
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: screws something up.
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: He always does.
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: Next, Ben, what has been the biggest surprise for you
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: so far in this young twenty twenty five MLB season.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Well, the biggest surprise is that it's April ninth and
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: you're asking me the biggest surprises in the baseball season.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: We've been played like it, hardly any games at all.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: But I would say the Orioles off to a terrible start.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I thought they'd be better. And the Atlanta Braves, that's
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: those are the obvious ones. What's going on with him?
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: And how did we do?
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: Not the Dodgers being in third you fail?
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers are ten and have a seven hundred winning
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: percent place. Flunny mine third place.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: You're a loser.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: You're you're The Ages are in first place. The Ages
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: have a worst record.
• 30:59
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• 31:10
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• 31:12
  Speaker 4: It's now time for time wait ask Twitter said? Is
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: your questions on Twitter?
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: Hey, the way we go.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Is ask Ben your questions are answers for the rest
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: of the hour. Over to Cooperloo for the reading of
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the question.
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: All right, Ben, this is a question from gus I.
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: Guss I believe this is a pretty easy one for me,
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: but we'll see you guys. He says, if you can
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: only have one fast food for the rest of your life,
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: what would it be?
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: Raisin Kings next, all the Raider.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: Oh, that is so hard. I love it, not hard? Gosh,
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: dairy queen? What dairy queen?
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: That's the worst answer possible, Coop, go ahead.
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: Cool Taco bell That's that's the odd.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: I know you've always loved taco. That's a tough He
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: also loves diarrhea.
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: Tho, I have an iron stomach. It does not affect me.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: You're getting you're getting older.
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: I was I was born in the Taco bellop.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: You're getting older? All right? What's that?
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: One day you're gonna wake up too and you're gonna
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: what happened to my stomach? Uh?
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: Ferg dog.
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: He would like to know would you rather be attacked
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: by a shark or a swarm of piranhas?
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: So I definitely piranhas. Because they're smaller, but the teeth
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: do look really crazy. I just like a great white shark.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: I'm done. Yeah, they rip your arm off, you bleed
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: the death. They rip your leg off, you bleed to death.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: They eat your head. You're done. What about you?
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: Well, I know the piranhas want to eat me, compared
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: to the shark is kind of actually curious most of
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: the time, and you can push his nose away.
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: So I'm gonna go with the shark. Yeah, your dad cool,
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: I'm picking the shark for a similar reason.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: You can.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: You can try and fight one shark. But if you've
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: got to like swarm of piranhas what he's supposed to do,
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: You're done.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: I got a lot of hands and legs. Go next.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: We're eating your clock. We're eating the clock, is what
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: we're doing, all right?
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: Late night drug tester? Uh, he says for the crew,
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: I need three more numbers for a powerball ticket. Can
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: each of you give me one lucky number?
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, twenty nine.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: I was gonna say twenty seven, okay.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Seven, I was gonna say twenty one, okay, boom, all
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: in the twenties, no chance that happens. But all in
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: the twenties, and if it does happen, remember us, Please
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: remember us?
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: All right? What's next year?
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Is?
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: Ask Ben? Your questions all answers we claw away.
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: Uh. This one is from Milkman Mike. He wants to know,
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: if you could go back in time, what decade would
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: you like to live in?
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Oh Man, that's you know, in our lifetime, like the
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: decades we've lived.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: I say, I don't know, because this says. That says.
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: He says, what era slash decade?
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: So in my.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Lifetime, I guess I would say maybe like the nineties.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd say the nineties. Well what about you, Lorraine?
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: Aren't you alive in the nineties, bro?
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Like I?
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: I wasn't alive in the I want to do like
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: grease times.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: No you don't.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: They don't have toilets. I like the don't like everything smelled.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Imagine the body odor. Imagine the body odor around that
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: only crap. There's no deodorant. You don't want to live
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: in those times. No toilet paper.
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: This is the fifties. Not I would see it.
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: If I'm thinking of it the way you're thinking of it, Ben,
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: and I would be staying my same age. I would
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: go back to the nineties for sure, even though I
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: was alive in the nineties. But if I'm going to
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: one that I was not alive in that I did
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: not experience, I'd picked the sixties.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: Okay, that's fair enough. What is next?
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: Where we got Donkey sausage?
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: Would like to know?
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: Crunchy or smooth? Peanut butter?
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm fine, you know, I'm peanut butter. I'll go
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: either way, crunchy or smooth. I guess I lean towards.
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: Smooth, Lorena, I lean towards crunch event.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: Okay, you're an animal. What about your cool?
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: If I'm making a PB and J, it's got to
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: be smooth. But if I'm like melting some on top
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: of ice cream, crunchy.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: What's the next? Just ask Ben your questions our answers
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: for the rest of the hour.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: The King Rory was like, No, did you ever fake
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: being sick to get out of going to school.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: All the time?
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: Are you kidding me?
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: Come on, we went to school? What about you the
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: right eye?
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: No?
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: I never did that. Yes, somebody, Lorena, that's that's what
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: us may do.