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Hour 1 - The Blue Flu · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: That's baseball, Susan the Bennyman Can the Bennyman Can. It's
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  Speaker 1: our number one of the Bain Mallershow podcast. But you
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  Speaker 1: We stayed up all night doing this podcast. Now people say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: So here in hour number one, where are you at
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  Speaker 1: on the Doyers. They're not playing very well for the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, and Freddie Freeman gave a state
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  Speaker 1: of the Dodgers address during their slump. How did that
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  Speaker 1: resonate with you? We'll go to football. How big a
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  Speaker 1: loss is Teddy two Gloves Teddy Bridgewater his retirement from
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  Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. So Jared Goff's got a new backup
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  Speaker 1: quarterback there in Motown? And how are you going to remember?
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  Speaker 1: A bigger than life legend, a real character of the
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  Speaker 1: old days of pro bouncy ball. NBA coach Don Nelson,
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  Speaker 1: who died over the weekend we'll talk about that as well.
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  Speaker 1: A rare and appropriate Mallard eulogy. We'll get to that.
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  Speaker 1: And here it is our number one suffering from a
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  Speaker 1: case of the blue flu. How do you do? Welcome
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning of another week of the Ben Malor Show.
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  Speaker 1: not like the show. But all of them said, we
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  Speaker 1: but most of the time is correct. So we begin
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  Speaker 1: our lead this hour in the Valley of the Sun, Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: And here we are sitting in relatively early August, about
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  Speaker 1: to pivot over to the middle of August and a
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  Speaker 1: NL West showdown kind of. You had the Diamondbacks and
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  Speaker 1: the Doyers over the weekend. Now, remember Dave Roberts said
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  Speaker 1: everything would be fine after the Dodgers got their ass
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  Speaker 1: stuffed in by the Cobs. He said, not, everything will
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  Speaker 1: be okay, nothing to worry about. So they went to
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  Speaker 1: Arizona and Survey says, yeah, the d Backs won the
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  Speaker 1: weekend series was despite the hostile takeover, there very many
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  Speaker 1: Diamondback fans with mostly Dodger fans in that ballpark, and
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  Speaker 1: shockingly it didn't matter, as in the end the Diamondbacks
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  Speaker 1: win the series two out of three, which led to
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  Speaker 1: a State of the Union address if you will by
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  Speaker 1: one of these stalwarts of the Dodgers. If you didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear or see this, perhaps not you might have missed it.
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  Speaker 1: We have a little taste. Well let's we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: it in a second. But the Dodgers are stuck in
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  Speaker 1: this prolonged slump and there's no the insight. Freddie Freeman,
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  Speaker 1: he I guess he's been with the Dodgers a long
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  Speaker 1: time now. That seems like I always to me be
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  Speaker 1: in Atlanta, brave. But he's been with the Dodgers. I
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  Speaker 1: had one of the biggest World Series home runs in
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  Speaker 1: Dodger history against the Yankees in Game one of the
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  Speaker 1: World Series. So Freddie Freeman wants you to know there's
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  Speaker 1: no reason to panic, nothing to worry about. Here, just
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  Speaker 1: to prove I'm not lying, we have a Q and A.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go inside the Dodger clubhouse, and here is Freddie
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  Speaker 1: Freeman with some random, lowly played a lowly paid reporter.
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  Speaker 1: Take a list.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's a long season and they're going to
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  Speaker 3: be ups and downs with the offense. But when you
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  Speaker 3: look at just kind of what's been going on with
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  Speaker 3: the group right now, the double plays and just maybe
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  Speaker 3: some kind of unfortunate situation, A long question, are you
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  Speaker 3: seeing personally just right now.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly what you just said. It's face fall, ups and downs.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to go through it. No one's worried in here.
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  Speaker 1: Just goes have to be, you know, during the time
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  Speaker 1: where our pitching has been pitching good the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of games and has an offense for got to do better,
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  Speaker 1: so hopefully starts smart.
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  Speaker 4: There's been more than just this losing streak in nine
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  Speaker 4: and fifteen in the last month. Is that more of
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  Speaker 4: a cause for concern they're concerning Paronville.
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  Speaker 1: We're a good team, all right, there's something that so
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  Speaker 1: Freeman there pushing back against the doom. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: whoever that woman, I don't know who that was, but
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  Speaker 1: can she take a class on how to ask a question?
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  Speaker 1: It's short questions, not you don't need to give a
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  Speaker 1: long question. It's just terrible. That's I mean, that's embarrassing. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who that was. But Freeman pushing back
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  Speaker 1: against the Oh my god, the sky is falling on
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. And as you heard, he essentially said, these
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  Speaker 1: things are going to happen over one hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 1: two games. There's no concern here and we're a good team.
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  Speaker 1: So that was the message and the vibe and this
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  Speaker 1: is not just Freddy Freeman. The general vibe around the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers is, ah, no, everything's great. There's too much talent
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  Speaker 1: here and we're not going to be defined by this
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  Speaker 1: bad month of baseball they've been playing here of late.
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  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question where are you at on Freddie Freeman's
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  Speaker 1: State of the Dodgers' address during this slump For the
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  Speaker 1: team that is playing against the entire field in baseball,
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  Speaker 1: it's the Dodgers of the field. Would you rather have
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers in the playoffs or the field in the playoffs?
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  Speaker 1: That's the bet most are making. But where you at,
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  Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman? You just heard a little bit of it
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  Speaker 1: the State of the Dodger address. So I've got I hop,
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  Speaker 1: Walter White and giant ceramic pig, and we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together and we are going to
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  Speaker 1: walk the thin blue line is what we're going to walk.
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  Speaker 1: So A giving this response the rebuttal by Freddie Freeman,
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  Speaker 1: giving this some side eye, little side either the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: who have absolutely been sleepwalking going back until right around
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  Speaker 1: the All Star Game up until now. In fact, it's
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  Speaker 1: more than sleepball walking. They're enjoying their rim sleep here,
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers, and they even have a nice weighted blankie
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  Speaker 1: that they're enjoying. They're getting some quality sleep here. Freddie
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  Speaker 1: Freeman sounding a bit like that classic scene from nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighties Hollywood, Leslie Nielsen and the naked gun move on.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing to see here, please disperse while the fireworks go
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  Speaker 1: off in the background, and all kinds of craziness and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. So this has been my problem in
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  Speaker 1: this era of Dodger baseball. I call the Dodger hubris,
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  Speaker 1: which I don't particularly enjoy, I don't care for, don't
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  Speaker 1: like it. If Freeman saying don't panic, don't panic, don't panic,
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  Speaker 1: which is baseball's version of thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers,
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  Speaker 1: which really fixes nothing and is just annoying, So stop
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  Speaker 1: saying it. Okay, don't say don't panic. You might as
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  Speaker 1: well say, well, thoughts and prayers to us, thoughts and no. Stop.
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  Speaker 1: Lately the Dodgers their sponsorship. I know they've pretty much
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  Speaker 1: on the Japanese sponsorship, and they should have I Hoop
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  Speaker 1: as a sponsor here because they are serving up pancakes
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  Speaker 1: a night after night after night after night here of late,
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  Speaker 1: How bad is it Mookie Bets? This how soft la
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  Speaker 1: is at time? Mooki Bets is literally stealing money from
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. Stealing money from the Dodgers right now. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: has the balls to put it out put it out there,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll talk about it. Why not, We don't care.
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  Speaker 1: Mookie Bets since July first is batting. I looked it up.
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  Speaker 1: Two hundred since July first through Sunday. Two hundred. So
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  Speaker 1: move over, Mario Mendoza, welcome to the Mooki line, the
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  Speaker 1: Mookie line. He's right on it. Two hundred batting average
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  Speaker 1: for Mookie Bets. He got that forever contract and it
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  Speaker 1: was great for a while. Right now, the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of years, he has been stealing money from the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: Two hundred batting average since July first. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like Apple right now. They say, you know we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: we don't releasing a flip phone. Well, why would you
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  Speaker 1: do that? Why would you release a flip phone? Makes
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  Speaker 1: no sense? Everyone's confused. Watching Mookie Bets try to hit
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  Speaker 1: a baseball makes no sense. Everyone's confused. Everyone's confused. And
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  Speaker 1: for all the swagger of Tiascar Hernandez. He's betting two
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  Speaker 1: to eleven with four home runs since June first, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't play in the major leagues. I don't think that's
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  Speaker 1: particularly good. Andy Piz was mister May for the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: one of the great starts in Dodger history through April
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  Speaker 1: and May. Andy Pies, who since the beginning of June
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  Speaker 1: is now the real Andy Pies with I think he's
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  Speaker 1: got six home runs since the start of June, which
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  Speaker 1: ain't that many. It's now all in August early August here,
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  Speaker 1: so that's not good. How about the pocket Ace Baby
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  Speaker 1: Ace Justin Robleski his last nine starts for the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: This guy was great for a few months, last nine starts,
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  Speaker 1: and he's working in an Italian bistro serving up meatballs
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  Speaker 1: and also an urn run average of four point five
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  Speaker 1: to nine. Ah, you're being mean, Mallard. I'm just pointing
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  Speaker 1: out these are all factual things. You can look them up.
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  Speaker 1: Don't believe me, go back and look yourself. My favorite, though,
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  Speaker 1: is Edwin Diaz. Mister Timmy trumpet. You shove a trumpet up,
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  Speaker 1: as you know what. Edwin Diaz and mister big free
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  Speaker 1: agent signing got signed a free agent every year, the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: So they got him from the Mets, and he pitched
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  Speaker 1: like dog poo pooh, Edwin Diaz did the first part
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  Speaker 1: of the season. So the Dodgers said, up, we figured
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  Speaker 1: it out. We figured it out. It's the loose bodies, poltergeist,
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  Speaker 1: the loose bodies. Okay, So they had the operation, no problem,
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  Speaker 1: went on a three month sabbatical, probably playing video games
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  Speaker 1: with Blake Sneill and the other malfeasent players on the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers who don't show up. So Edwin Diaz three months
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  Speaker 1: sabbatical and loose bodies. And since he's come back, his
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  Speaker 1: earn run average is eleven point two the price of popcorn.
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  Speaker 1: Edwin dizra So my piece of advice, unsolicited is just
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  Speaker 1: stop hitting the snooze button. And he said, oh, that's
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  Speaker 1: only August, and that's true. However, these things settle in
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  Speaker 1: and he said, well, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: a bit. It's not obviously the playoffs. It's just disheartening
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  Speaker 1: how disheveled and frazzled the Dodgers appear to be, and
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  Speaker 1: how they're just so arrogant about the whole thing. Here
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  Speaker 1: and this thing completely unravels, and then you can't put
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  Speaker 1: it back together, and then what do you do? Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: to the NFL, and we go to Detroit. A veteran
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  Speaker 1: quarterback has said bye bye to his career, retirement, training camp, retirement, Teddy,
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  Speaker 1: two gloves, Teddy no more. As he exit, stays left,
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  Speaker 1: quitting the Detroit Lions. The Teddy Bridgewater, putting his NFL
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  Speaker 1: career on pause yet again. That's it. Dan Campbell, the
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  Speaker 1: man that will eat your kneecap, the head coach of
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  Speaker 1: the Lions, telling reporters Bridgewater's quit. He is stepping away
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  Speaker 1: from the NFL because he can't play anymore, so he's quitting.
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  Speaker 1: As a result, the Lions immediately went out and replaced
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  Speaker 1: him on the roster, adding quarterback Josh Dobbs. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: that Josh Dobbs. That is correct. Ding ding ding ding
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  Speaker 1: ding ding ding. Chances are Josh Dobbs played for your
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  Speaker 1: favorite team. He's played for thirty percent of the NFL teams,
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  Speaker 1: thirty percent, three hundred hitter. He's in the Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame when it comes to changing laundry. So Dobbs in
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  Speaker 1: Bridgewater out put on the reserve retired list Teddy two
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  Speaker 1: gloves out there. Dobbs signed a one year contract. He
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  Speaker 1: gets an extra four hundred and seventy five thousand gara
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  Speaker 1: on teed sight unseen guaranteed for Josh Dobbs. There thirty
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  Speaker 1: one years old, and he will now be the number
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  Speaker 1: two quarterback behind Jared Goff in Motown. A question how
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  Speaker 1: big a loss is backup quarterback Teddy Bridgewater to retirement
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  Speaker 1: for the LNS Lions, So on this one, listen Teddy
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  Speaker 1: Bridgewar's retirement is it is a minimal move. It just is.
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  Speaker 1: That's just the way. And the Lions are replacing him
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  Speaker 1: with Josh Dobbs, which is by definition a lateral move
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  Speaker 1: that is not a downgrade, that is not an upgrade.
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  Speaker 1: Detroit essentially traded in a night light for a flashlight
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  Speaker 1: that has dying batteries. That's the transaction, that's the move
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  Speaker 1: that they made. Now Dobbs is the NFL's version at
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  Speaker 1: this point of duct tape. And he's not a flashy guy,
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  Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs, he's not. You'd rather not use him. Your
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  Speaker 1: preference would be not to use the duct tape or
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  Speaker 1: to use Josh Dobbs. You wouldn't want that. And somebody
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  Speaker 1: always seems to keep duct tape and Josh Dobbs around
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  Speaker 1: very similar, like every junk drawer has some duct tape.
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  Speaker 1: Even if you haven't used it in thirty years, you
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  Speaker 1: still have it. It's very odd now the pastor not,
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  Speaker 1: which is right up there with great nicknames. You think
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  Speaker 1: of the big nickname big board, not a list terry
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  Speaker 1: in England, the big board when you have legends like
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  Speaker 1: the Amish rifle and the hefty Lefty. The past or
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  Speaker 1: not pretty good? Pretty good there. I studied aerospace engineering.
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  Speaker 1: I think we all know the story by now if
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  Speaker 1: you pay attention to the NFL, chose football and then
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  Speaker 1: became a pig skin hobo traveling to the boondocks of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL here wandering through nine different teams. Now the
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  Speaker 1: Lions will be Josh dobbs ninth team as he's the
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  Speaker 1: new backup in Detroit and Keimo what he has three
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  Speaker 1: wins in his career. He's earned over fourteen million dollars
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  Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs and he has three career wins to his name,
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  Speaker 1: and so I guess he made the right call because
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  Speaker 1: otherwise what we do working on like NASA or SpaceX
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  Speaker 1: or something. Right now, if he had gone that other direction,
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  Speaker 1: that's what he would be doing.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you make that much. You make good money,
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  Speaker 1: but you don't make that much money in that profession.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go, and you look around Jared Goff,
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  Speaker 1: who's still QB number one. Now, if Jared Goff goes down, down, down, down,
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  Speaker 1: down down, if goes goes down, Josh Dobbs is not
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  Speaker 1: changing the season trajectory in terms of a super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: for the Lions. And he's basically it's like Josh Dobbs
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  Speaker 1: on your team. He said, oh, there, I've been backup
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks should have got it. Yes, you know, once in
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  Speaker 1: a generation there's a Tom Brady or Nick Foles or
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  Speaker 1: if you go way back, Trent Dilford, Jeff Hosteler, guys
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  Speaker 1: that have had success as a backup. However, there are
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  Speaker 1: literally Amazon stores, like the warehouses of Amazon, filled with
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  Speaker 1: backup quarterbacks who couldn't get it done. And when you
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  Speaker 1: have Josh Dobbs on your team, it's basically like having
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  Speaker 1: the Walter White breaking bad health plan. Technically you're insured, right,
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  Speaker 1: Technically you're insured, but when something really bad happens, bad, bad, bad,
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  Speaker 1: bad bad. You're going to have to sell some meth
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  Speaker 1: to pay for it. So that's the problem. Okay, here
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  Speaker 1: you go, and having dobbs. Having dobbs is like it's
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  Speaker 1: like having your emergency parachute. Say, well, can I see it? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'll show you. It's right here in my duffel back. Okay, good,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. So here's the emergency parachute and it's just
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  Speaker 1: a bed sheet. Well, that's not gonna work. That's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna work at all. All right now, last word, I
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  Speaker 1: did want to spend a couple of minutes because I'll
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  Speaker 1: do old guy radio. Why not do old guy radio?
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  Speaker 1: What the hell? I wanted to spend a few good
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  Speaker 1: minutes talking about the life and times of the second
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  Speaker 1: winning as coach in NBA history, Don Nelson, a five
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  Speaker 1: time champion as a player for the ball in Celtics,
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  Speaker 1: whose numbers retired by Boston, which is not all that
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  Speaker 1: impressive because anyone who's visited the Garden more than seven
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  Speaker 1: times has had their number retired. Anyway, Don Nelson is dead.
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  Speaker 1: He lived a full life. Don Nelson was eighty six
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  Speaker 1: years old. The news came out over the weekend that
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  Speaker 1: his death was announced on Sunday. Longtime NBA coach and
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  Speaker 1: someone that I was around in my formative years as
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  Speaker 1: a young radio lad, and I stuck microphones in don
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  Speaker 1: Nelson's face when he was coaching the last few years
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  Speaker 1: of his career as an NBA coach, And so our
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  Speaker 1: pas crossed, and I wanted to spend a couple of minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Now that this is it for Don Nelson, lights out
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  Speaker 1: video game ends, The question is how are you going
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  Speaker 1: to remember? How are you going to remember former NBA
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  Speaker 1: coach Don Nelson who lived to the full age of
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  Speaker 1: eighty six. So, as I said, when I started doing this,
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  Speaker 1: he was still walking the sidelines of the and I
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  Speaker 1: will remember, And you can decide how you want to
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  Speaker 1: remember don Nelson, but I will remember Don Nelson as
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  Speaker 1: the I called him, the like the real life nutty
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  Speaker 1: professor of basketball. And that really fits, not exactly like
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  Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy, but the real life nutty professor of basketball,
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  Speaker 1: the mad scientist who was scribbling potions in basketball formula
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  Speaker 1: on whiteboards. But they were potions, you know, the chalk
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  Speaker 1: Back then they had chalkboards. Actually, if you had white boards,
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  Speaker 1: they had chalkboards and he was doing things thirty plus
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  Speaker 1: years prior that. The rest of the NBA thought, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's never gonna work. You're just messing around. You're you're
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  Speaker 1: ruining the integrity of the game. You know, the weird
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  Speaker 1: experimentation by the nutty professor Don Nelson back in the
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  Speaker 1: in the day. And then you think about now, in hindsight,
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  Speaker 1: Don Nelson, in all those years ago, Nelly was playing
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  Speaker 1: what is modern NBA twenty twenties, NBA basketball in the
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighties and early nineties, he was doing that. I
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: would point forwards, small ball pays, shooting mismatches, dragging the use.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: They used to have these big, useless, lumbering centers like
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Alton Lister and players like that. If you know who
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: that is, typically capty year old. And he put these
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: guys out above the basket, and it was unorthodox, as
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: you always wanted your center to be near the rim
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: to block shots and get rebounds. That Don Nelson said,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: screw that. And so he did not believe in the
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: traditional positions of the NBA and kind of like he
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: was using an iPhone when everyone else had rotary phones
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: and Don had an iPhone, Well, how can you use
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: an iPhone because nobody else has them, and that was
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: the problem. Nobody else had the tech that don Nelson
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: had back in those days, and he invented what at
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: the time was called Nelly Ball and one over thirteen
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: hundred games, don Nelson and never was able to get
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: a team to the NBA finals, never got to the
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: NBA finals as a coach. Despite all those wins, great
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: regular season coach, could not get it done in the playoffs.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: But the sport eventually morphed into this world, his worldview,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: don Nelson's worldview of what basketball should be like, and naturally,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: of course, a career that was unconventional, unconventional and he
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: needed the proper accessories. You got accessorize, and he accessorized.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Don Nelson, this guy coach. He hated having to wear suits.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: There was a time where they had to car him
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: in the NBA and coaches had to wear suits because
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: it was classy. Now they can just like slobs, and
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: don Nelson's like, I want to just like a slob.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: He was ahead of his time there too, all these
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: coaches just like slobs. Now, don Nelson he was forced
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: to wear a suit, so he'd occasionally take his tie
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: off he'd get fined for that. Then he wore one
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: point a fish tie that used to be a thing,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: a tie that looks like a fish, and that was
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: part of his shtikola. And at one point when he
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: was coaching the Milwaukee Bucks, the famous story that's been
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: passed down, who knows if it's true or not that
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: don Nelson would drive around trying to raise money for
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: charity and he had a giant ceramic pig. He was
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: raising money for farmers who were down on their luck
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: in Wisconsin and then completed the zany wackadoodle career life
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: arc and went out the right way. For many, many years,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: don Nelson has been embedded in the Hawaiian Islands. I
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: believe he was living in Maui, and there's some amazing
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: stories about him and Willie Nelson gambling and smoking weed
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: all the time and just living the life that you'd
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: want to live most people when they get to their
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: eighties and just enjoy life and do whatever the hell
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: you want. But you land on the beach somewhere. And
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: he also became in his later years a marijuana farmer.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Don Nelson was selling drugs in his life later years,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: but again five championships as a Celtic and did not
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: get it done there as a coach winning a championship,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: but had the all time wins record up until Popovich
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: passing it by. And the most amazing thing is all
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: those zany crazy ideas. And I remember the conversation when
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Don Nelson was doing that stuff. I watching minute ball
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: shoot three point shots. It was the dumbest thing in
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: the world. And now you look at it, it's like, well,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: everyone's doing what he did thirty forty years ago. His ideas.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: You know, the NBA caved into don Nelson's ideas on
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: how to play basketball and he was just ahead everybody else.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: And so if basketball were a movie, if it were
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: a movie, don Nelson was the director who got absolutely
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: panned on the release of the film and then won
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: an Oscar years later, won the Oscar.
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• 26:19
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• 26:23
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• 26:33
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• 26:38
  Speaker 1: that's somebody to look into for sure. Late Night Drug
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Tester writes in and says, don't worry Dodgers fans. The
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: cure for all those struggling teams is here a home
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: series with the twenty twenty seven AL Central Champions, the
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Royals that'll fix them? Alf the alien o piner right,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: sinceays I'm sorry that your Dodgers are struggling, But more importantly,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: who were these men and women in dress shirts, ties
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: and suspenders behind home play? Well, as much as I
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: like to know every person that sits behind home play,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: the only one I actually do know, Alf is Marlin's man.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: And I don't see Marlin's man in the crowd. I
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: have no idea why you would wear in that stadium
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: suspenders and dress shirts and ties. I do, I do
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: not know, And that's not That's not a very cool stadium.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: It's in Arizona, where's one hundred degrees at night and
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: all that, And that stadium they have a dome, but
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: as I remember, maybe they changed it since I was there,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: but I will was last there. They would leave the
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: dome open during the day for batting practice, and then
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: they'd close it like ninety minutes or an hour before
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: the game, so it was still pretty warm, still still
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: pretty warm in there by the time the game started.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Because you know what, it's expensive. Air conditionings are very expensive,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Doc dan Wright, since says winner gets to play, Bill Miller. Yes,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: the winner gets to play for sure. Let's see, I
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: think this is the Bill's mafia. Guy who changed his
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: name says. If don Nelson is the professor but the
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: professor is always learning, then does don Nelson actually know anything?
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: We've officially entered the Mallard paradox. Well, he's the nutty professor.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: See that's it. Chip in the cues right since, says
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: a Plus monologue. Duct tape is usually one of those
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: things you only readily have it on hand when you
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: have no current use for it. It's only when you
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: find you really need it that you don't have it.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: It's a fair point. Also, electrical tape would be in
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: the same category. You know that black electrical tape that
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: you can wrap things like wires, if your phone cables
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: a little fritzy, you can wrap it around and you
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: can't find that when you need it.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: You have it.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: You know you have it. Yeah. Nature Boy answering the
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: call in the wild, says, you make the phrase having
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: dobbs sound like a disease. You know it's not. Keith
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: and NorCal says, I had to check if I accidentally
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: hit a podcast from last year after this monologue about
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the fledgling Dodgers. Deja vu, here come the Pods. Yeah, well, Keith,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: as you know the mantra of the show, we have
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: a daily talk show to do. We have to worry
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: about the show that day. We won't wait until later on.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: That's how this works. So nothing to see here. Everything's fine,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: That's what Freddie Freeman's doing. The reality is that the
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Dodgers right now, in this moment, suck. Anthony in Anaheim,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: retired celebrity caller, couldn't handle the rigors of being a
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: celebrity caller, the paparazzo and all that. Says Mookie Betts
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: is going to have to change his name to Mookman
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Mike when he starts calling the show. Yeah, I'm sure
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: that'll happen right away. What else do you have? See?
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Can't a lot of reaction to Joshua Dobs the Baltimore
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Media Freeloader account right since says that lady still asking
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: a question inside the dodge of locker room should be
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: he denied any type of free meal until she learns
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: how to condense her question. We're in a world of
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: look at me media, when focused should be on the
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: next free meal. Isn't that why you got in the base. Yeah, well,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: back in the old days, as you know Baltimore Free
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Loader account, we had unbelievable copious amounts of free food.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Not anymore, No, not anymore. But yeah, that question triggered
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: me because I had many a program director in my
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: early days in radio who said, Ben, the quickest question
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: is the greatest question. It Larry King, who's been dead
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: for a number of years. But Larry would always for
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Larry didn't prepare. I love Larry. Larry was very good
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: to me when he was alive, But Larry King never
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: really prepared for anything. He just kind of winged it.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: And the greatest question is like why you know somebody says, well,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: it's give it an answer, going on, like let's just
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: do Freddie Freeman saying, well, you know, it's a long season.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of ways to go, you know, a
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: lot a lot of games ago. We're gonna be perfectly fine.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Why not, Well, you know this has happened, that's happened.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: You know, you scratch your ass, you beat one eighty,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: you don't scratch your ass. You bet two ten. Maybe
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: shouldn't scratch your ass. What do you have to say, Freddy,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: what are you doing? Seriously?
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Let mean hold, I got to move this? All I said, computer,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: move that so I can see it. Hold on SEC
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: live coverage. The computer was for some reason placed up
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: on the table. Let's say hello to eeny meeny miney mall.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Let's say how to David, who's in Lost Wages, Nevada.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Hello David, welcome, Hey byey.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: Three weeks at the steakhouse.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Do every time we'll be hanging out, it's gonna be
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: a what a night? That's gonna be what's afternoon? It's
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: gonna be late afternoon.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: But hey, I just wanted to say something kind of
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: personal about Don Nelson because, as you know, I'm of
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: a certain age. Yeah, so when I think of Don Nelson,
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: it's not as a basketball coach. It's not even as
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: a player for the Boston Celtics, which he was for
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: many years. But I'm so old that I go back
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: to when he was a forward and the star of
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: the Iowa Hawkeyes from nineteen fifty nine to nineteen sixty two.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: And I was a kid growing up in Iowa City
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: a Hawkeye fan, and as such, he was a He
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: was my first ever sports hero of any sport, college
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: or pro baseball, basketball, football, whatever. Everybody's got a first
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: sports hero in their life. I was six years old.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: My parents let me go to sleep with a radio
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: and I could listen to the Hawkeye games when I
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: go to sleep, and my older brother taught me, hey,
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: this is the star of our our team. And that's
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: my memory of Don Nelson going way back then. But
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: it's kind of a fun priority anybody else that calls
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: him tonight. Let's say, who do you remember who your
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: first ever sports hero was in life?
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, no, no, he cool? There you go. It's cool,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: cool memory when you were a little kid back in
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: the day and you saw the whole life of Don
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Nelson all the way up until retiring and MAUI hanging
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: out with Willie Nelson living the life in his final days.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: What a way to go out right? Come on? Amazing? Yeah,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: all right, so I'll see it a couple of weeks.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Seg you, David, the great David there in Vegas, who'll
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: be hanging out with us. We look forward to that.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Enie Meanie miney mo. Let's go
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: hi to Anthony, who's in Louisiana. Very rare that Anthony
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: calls on a Sunday into a Monday, but here he is.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Hello Anthony and Louisiana. Hello, how you doing well? Thanks Mesty.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: I had a whirl one weekend. I went very far
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: from the Malor mansion. Uh for for a very brief
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: amount of time. I will save that story for the
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: podcast later on, but I quite the whirlwind trip. How
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: was your weekend, Anthony? Good?
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: It was pretty good.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: It did.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: What was the highlight of Anthony? Because we we really
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: I think all the men, women and children in America
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: are dying to know what happened to Anthony in Louisiana.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: It was a beautiful day. I went outside and enjoyed
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: the sunshine. Was it human? It was weird?
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: Nice? But you liked?
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: You liked.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: You live in Louisiana, right. You gotta like the humidity
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: where you are. You can't not like it. You have
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: to embrace it. Yeah, you know, we had a little
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: rank yesterday. But it all okay, that's good. Did you
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: go Petta gator or something in the bayo?
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: No?
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: No, you did not?
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Okay? What's that? Oh? My pen of the ranks on vacation. Huh,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know. She didn't say she was not even here,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: but she's not here, so I don't know she did.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: She didn't tell me, but she's somewhere. Yeah, I don't know.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: She is my other Mark. Yeah, hey, ma, Markeye Mark,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: the pride of Chicago. Here he is right over there,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Marky Mark. I will let him know. He he's very
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: excited that you said hello to him. It means he's
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: upset you're not family. He wanted to be family with you,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: but you're not family.
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: So you know what happened to the dogs? What happened
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: to him?
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: They've sucked at a time you cannot suck there, and
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: they're not getting good enough pitching and their offense is futile.
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: Can you hit? Can you?
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Can you swing the bat? Can you swing the lumber
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: a little? I used to when I when I went
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: out to see, Well, the way they're hitting, I think
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: you're better right now, even as a blind man, than
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers, the way you're swinging the bat. So, uh,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: all right with Anthony fan you and you know, we'll
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: check back in later. I'm sure Lorene will be here
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: later in the week, Okay, okay, I'll let her know. Yes,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: absent what about Kathy and Madison, about Queen rox Anne
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: in Denver. Yes, all right, I lean, okay, I'll jot
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: it down. I'll make sure to let one thank you
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: got go way. There is our friend Anthony in Louisiana.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: It is the ban mall Or show. We are just
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: said Lee and there's a lot of that amazing content
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: continue on through the overnight. Well, we want Hollywood, we
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: don't want too much Hollywood. So Netflix is planning on
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: broadcasting this Field of Dreams game, which is Baseball's been
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: doing this for a few years and they have confirmed
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: this is great. So they don't want too much Field
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: of Dreams, you know, they want too much of the
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Field of Dreams in the Field of Dream games. So
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: they're going to have Kevin Costner appear. The broadcast is
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: coming up here a few days from now. So what
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: are you going to have him do? Like, I know,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: he's been in a bunch of baseball movies, but he's
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: an old actor, hadn't been much recently, right, very odd.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: So Netflix wants to not do too much with Field
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: of Dreams yet is bringing in Kevin Coster. Make it
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers as Jacob Miserawski, reaching two hundred strikeouts in
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  Speaker 1: Who else we have, nature Boy says Chico Eskella is
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  Speaker 1: the answer, lang Langley, Mark Langston from Poly d Jesse
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  Speaker 1: Pinkman from Dat Dude, Big Lou. He's on number two
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  Speaker 1: Sid Finch, one of my all time favorite Mets. Was
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  Speaker 1: If you don't know the history of Sid Finch and
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a long career. Didn't have a long career,
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  Speaker 1: mound for the New York Metropolitans. Marlowe guessed by just
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  Speaker 1: Josh Satchel Paige from Chip in the Huse. Bob Gibson
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  Speaker 1: tossed out by Johnny Q Derek in Buffalo the Bills Monster.
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  Speaker 1: Gotta change your handle on that Bill's monster, he says
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  Speaker 1: Edwin Diaz, Yeah, he stinks. Who else? Dwight Doc Gooden
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  Speaker 3: Ha ha.
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  Speaker 1: The correct answer Jacob Mezerowski second now all time in
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  Speaker 1: most to two hundred strikeouts, quickest strikeouts, and Spencer Streider
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  Speaker 1: The Braves, Spencer Streider, Schreider Spencer Streider