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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: All right, we are back at it, and let's start
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  Speaker 1: with some baseball. We'll change it up here a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: talk some baseball. It's never too early to have a
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  Speaker 1: sky is falling baseball heavy Mallard monologue. We'll start with that.
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  Speaker 1: To our lead from the Diamond. We're gonna start out
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  Speaker 1: in Minnesota. Not every day that a headline top five
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  Speaker 1: pitcher turns into a pinata. That took place on a
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  Speaker 1: random Monday night in the Twin Cities. Here, the twin
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  Speaker 1: killing of the Ace of the Socks no longer, at
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  Speaker 1: least not in that night. Wow. No, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you saw this or not, even probably weren't watching it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a glutton for punishment. I was flipping around to
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  Speaker 1: the different baseball games. So the Red Sox if you
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  Speaker 1: missed it, the Red Sox ace the savior of Boston
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  Speaker 1: pitching for years and years to come. Garrett Crochet. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: let's just say they would have been better off with
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  Speaker 1: someone actually doing Crochet on the mound, making some kind
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  Speaker 1: of blanket. Would have been better off. Crochet was ambushed.
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  Speaker 1: He gave up a nine hits, eleven runs, ten of
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  Speaker 1: them earned, and three walks and a partridge into par tree.
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  Speaker 1: All of that in one and two thirds innings pitch
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  Speaker 1: the worst start of his career, a career that has
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  Speaker 1: gotten him to the point where he's making ridonculous amounts
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  Speaker 1: of money there in Boston. It's not even really close.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was just horrific, Like the kind of
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  Speaker 1: thing that they got somebody out of the crowd and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: how would you like to pitch with the rerets? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how to pitch. That's fine, we'll give
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  Speaker 1: you a glove. Go out there. Just look like you
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  Speaker 1: know what you're doing. Okay, I'll look like I know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm doing. And that's what happened. And so the
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  Speaker 1: immediately when anytime a good pitcher sucks at a time,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot suck and immediately the default position is, well, tippin' pitches. Tippin'
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  Speaker 1: pitches now, years ago, when I was doing stuff before
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers won all the time, and you know, back
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  Speaker 1: when they were mediocre and I was around the team
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  Speaker 1: a lot. I remember we were in Arizona one time
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  Speaker 1: and the guys were convinced that there was some serious
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  Speaker 1: stealing of signs that was going on from the center
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  Speaker 1: field camera at the ballpark there in Phoenix. They were
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  Speaker 1: convinced of it. But that's kind of the baseball culture
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  Speaker 1: when anybody, anytime somebody has a bad performance, so well,
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  Speaker 1: it can't be just they were bad. There has to
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  Speaker 1: be something else going on. It's all a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: out point. So let us discuss the question, how worried
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  Speaker 1: should the Red Sox be that they're one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: seventy million dollar ace. Garrett Crochet gave up eleven runs
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  Speaker 1: to the Twins, Holy Kirby Pucket Batman and looked completely
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  Speaker 1: lost while he was out there. So I've got nonverbal
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  Speaker 1: my thoughts, nonverbal Bonnie Tyler and Booby trapped, and we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together, and it is
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  Speaker 1: a race a mile a minute. We're going a mile
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  Speaker 1: a minute around here, so a to we always go
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  Speaker 1: by the scale panic at the disco, the panic at
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  Speaker 1: the disco sl scale. So the answer, I'm not quite
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  Speaker 1: there yet. We'll see what happens the next twenty four hours. However,
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  Speaker 1: these speakers are starting to crack a lacle. The speakers
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  Speaker 1: crack alacle, just a little bit of that. Garrett Crochet
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  Speaker 1: underwent a metamorphosis on the mound there for the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 1: He went from the ace to a short ordered cook
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  Speaker 1: and all the twins got a nice smash burger and
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  Speaker 1: they smashed those pitches from Garrett Crochet there. It was
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  Speaker 1: like he was working the night shift at Steak and Shake,
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  Speaker 1: and he was just you get a smash burger. You
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  Speaker 1: get a smash burger. Eleven runs that is being vaporized.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't the absolutely vapor It's like one thing for
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  Speaker 1: Miles Michelos or whatever his name is again from the Nationals,
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  Speaker 1: who was at the end of his career. He's pitching
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  Speaker 1: for Washington. He got smoked in a game. This is
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  Speaker 1: a guy in the prime of his career, got the
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  Speaker 1: big money and it doesn't seem like it's a hiccup.
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  Speaker 1: It's more of an inferno for Garrett Crochet. Now, I'm
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  Speaker 1: never as you know, my style is not to be
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  Speaker 1: the sky's falling guy, unless it is. When you peel
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  Speaker 1: back the onion. On the recent performance of the Ace
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  Speaker 1: of the Red Sox, it gets worse. The velocity dip.
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  Speaker 1: Crochet his velocity went that people lose their mind, the
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  Speaker 1: nerd class, the dorks Dorksville say they lose their mind.
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  Speaker 1: Velocities down nearly two miles from his early season average
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  Speaker 1: his four seamer ninety four point nine miles an hour
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  Speaker 1: compared to ninety six point one. I can give you
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of numbers, but you won't recall any of
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  Speaker 1: them because it's radio and all I have is my
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  Speaker 1: spoken word, and so I'll just tell you that all
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  Speaker 1: of the numbers are trending the wrong direction in terms
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  Speaker 1: of velocity. So that's a red flag. Also, while Crochet
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  Speaker 1: had a good opening start for the Red Sox, is
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  Speaker 1: two starts prior to this, he had an ERA of
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  Speaker 1: four point seven. I just do the overnight show. I'm
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  Speaker 1: told that it's not good though, when you have that
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  Speaker 1: era or your two previous starts and then you go
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  Speaker 1: out and get lit up. So that's a yellow flag.
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  Speaker 1: That is a yellow flag. And you stack all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together and you line them up, and now
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  Speaker 1: you've got the caution tape wrapped around the pitchers room
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  Speaker 1: there at Finway. And this also the other thing here
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  Speaker 1: is the non verbal communication. We're very into verbal communication
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  Speaker 1: because that's all we have here. I could do sign
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  Speaker 1: language what you can't see, So we do nonverbal communication,
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  Speaker 1: and we understand the body language. One of my nicknames
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  Speaker 1: Benny body language. So if you look at the body
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  Speaker 1: language here, it screamed. It didn't whisper, it's screamed. For
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  Speaker 1: Garrett Crochet, the Red Sox. You had shoulder shrugs. You
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  Speaker 1: had that thousand yard stare. You ever seen that? You
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  Speaker 1: ever done that thousand yards stare where you're just staring
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  Speaker 1: off to the wild blue yonder and you're contemplating the
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  Speaker 1: time space continuum and how you were here and why
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  Speaker 1: you were here and how did that happen and all that.
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  Speaker 1: And he had no answers, no answers. And that's not
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  Speaker 1: just an off night and off nights. I gave up
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  Speaker 1: five runs. That was an off night. This is a
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  Speaker 1: guy searching for the emergency exit and I gotta get
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  Speaker 1: out of here. I got off the road. And here's
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  Speaker 1: the reality. The Red Sox obviously did not cut the
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy million dollar check for a They
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  Speaker 1: don't want to jag. This is supposed to be a
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  Speaker 1: no assembly required, just roll them out to the mound
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  Speaker 1: and to ching chi ching, ch ching chi ching. Supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be the auto pilot that number one started. You
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  Speaker 1: start them thirty times, yeah right, these days twenty seven times,
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  Speaker 1: twenty five times. But you win the vast majority, right,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's not supposed to be a weekly episode
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  Speaker 1: of unsolved Mysteries. So how worried? On the Malor scale
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  Speaker 1: of panic? We are at a medium high grade on
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  Speaker 1: the Malor scale of panic. Not def Con one. We're
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  Speaker 1: not going deaf Con one here on Gary Crochet. We
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  Speaker 1: gave up eleven runs to the mediocre Twins. The Velocity,
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  Speaker 1: the Velo is the nerd safe. The Villo stays down.
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  Speaker 1: You have to cue the deep state Illuminati conspiracy that
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  Speaker 1: he's hurt. Nobody's talking about it. We're gonna send him
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  Speaker 1: back to Boston to have an MRI. We're gonna have that.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna have a second opinion. He's gonna, you know,
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  Speaker 1: skip him in the rotation. Alex Coro will announce that
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  Speaker 1: kind of thing. R. Meanwhile, we go to Seattle and
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  Speaker 1: it's not necessarily about the Mariners, but Josh Naylor hitting
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  Speaker 1: a couple of Bazoukas into the crowd there first two
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  Speaker 1: home runs of the year, drove in five runs, and
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  Speaker 1: Kirby on the mount, George Kirby on the mound allowed
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  Speaker 1: two runs, pitched very well into the eighth inning, deep
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  Speaker 1: into the eighth inning there, and the Mariners complete the
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  Speaker 1: four game sweep of the cheating a one one thousand
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  Speaker 1: and two to one thousand hole yep, swept him. Game
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  Speaker 1: was an afternoon game on Monday. Now, the better story
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  Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room. The reason I bring
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  Speaker 1: this up is jose Alboove. I haven't forgotten and the
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  Speaker 1: Cheaters have now lost eight straight a straight losses. How
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  Speaker 1: efen great is that they suck? They haven't sucked this
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  Speaker 1: much since twenty thirteen. I was a child in twenty thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Do you understand this? This is redefining suckage and I
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  Speaker 1: love it. I love it. Of course, the excuse makers
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  Speaker 1: are crawling out like cockroaches behind the refrigerators. Well, listen,
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  Speaker 1: they got three starters out, they got a couple of
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  Speaker 1: relief pitchers that are dinged up, and this guy's hurt,
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  Speaker 1: that guy's are. Well, if Hunter Brown comes back and
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  Speaker 1: Christian Javier, they're set. They're in the injury deech and
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  Speaker 1: even the shortstop Jeremy Panya the hammy went whammy and
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  Speaker 1: all of that. So the question, though, eight losses in
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  Speaker 1: a row, here's the question. Is this an astro slump
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  Speaker 1: or is this the beginning of a return to normalcy
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  Speaker 1: and a full blown baseball apocalypse in Houston? Holy orbit Batman.
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  Speaker 1: So this is not just a slump. It gets late early.
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  Speaker 1: As Yogi Bear famously said back in the day, he said,
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  Speaker 1: well that's mid April. Who the hell cares? You start
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  Speaker 1: getting buried, and that mountain to climb up becomes higher
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  Speaker 1: and higher, So good luck on that.
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  Speaker 3: Eh.
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  Speaker 1: Straight losses is not a rough patch. That is the
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  Speaker 1: Bonnie Tyler crank to the max. Total eclipse, total eclipse,
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  Speaker 1: not of the heart of the baseball team. Lights out,
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  Speaker 1: good night, Irene. I don't know what else you want
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  Speaker 1: me to say. That's the point. So spare me. The
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  Speaker 1: injury excuses drives me bonkers. Tell me you're a loser
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  Speaker 1: without telling me you're a loser. Oh, it's all the injuries. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: this just in Good teams are able to survive injuries.
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  Speaker 1: It happens. Great teams are able to weaponize that as
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  Speaker 1: a rallying cry. And Houston, they've essentially so far this
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  Speaker 1: season gotten stuffed in a locker and given a wedgie
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  Speaker 1: and said thank you, Can I have another wedgie? Is
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  Speaker 1: essentially what they've done here. This was predictable. The core
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  Speaker 1: of this team, the dirty, rotten scoundrels like Alboove and
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  Speaker 1: that punk Carlos Correa. These guys are aging like milk okay,
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  Speaker 1: and the pitching staff is shredded. Pomesana is what that is.
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  Speaker 1: The farm system is a barren wasteland, apparently when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to this, and so the if you look at
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  Speaker 1: the ERA and the Whippity Whip, the Whip, the combo meal,
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  Speaker 1: they are dead last, not second to last, dead last,
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  Speaker 1: worst in baseball and urn run average and whip. Now
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  Speaker 1: that's not bad luck. That is bad to the bone
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  Speaker 1: baseball in Houston, and they're back to being picked your
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  Speaker 1: poison here, the Astros, the Dizi Stros, and I like
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  Speaker 1: this because of the way they are in the standings,
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  Speaker 1: the last Stros that's right there in last place, bringing
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  Speaker 1: up the Tukas of the American League West for right now,
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  Speaker 1: so take your pick. Could not happen to a more
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  Speaker 1: deserving bunch of scoundrels who were never punished. Now they're
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  Speaker 1: putting some of these punks in the Hall of Fame,
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  Speaker 1: like that Beltron and what a joke that is urinating
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  Speaker 1: all over the Hall of Fame, and that pip squeak
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  Speaker 1: cheater jose Albouve. Okay, this guy full circle theater for
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  Speaker 1: this guy. He debuted when he came up years ago,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred losses, one hundred losses the first couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: And now at this moment we do the show today,
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  Speaker 1: we worry about today's show, and the Astros at this
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  Speaker 1: moment are on pace to lose over one hundred games.
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  Speaker 1: So never too early to celebrate and enjoy some shotenfreude,
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  Speaker 1: which we are so old corps again, thin arms, empty pipeline.
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  Speaker 1: And this is not just a slump. This does certainly
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  Speaker 1: give you the feeling that it's the beginning of the end.
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  Speaker 1: And so remember, if this is the end for the Astros,
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  Speaker 1: rather than pour one out for Houston, make sure to
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  Speaker 1: bang on a trash can bang bang or why don't
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  Speaker 1: you hey zap the buzzer? Hey up, check it for
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  Speaker 1: the buzzer, that kind of thing, just for old time sake.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Meanwhile, last word, we go to college football.
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  Speaker 1: Why are you talking about? Oh my god? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: know the natives will be rested, but I thought this
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  Speaker 1: was a good story. And since I have editorial control,
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  Speaker 1: truck Stop, Fungus and all the other supermarket Steve can
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  Speaker 1: go Pound sand So Boulder, Colorado. Dion Sanders coach prime.
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  Speaker 1: Now I remember we got to Colorado. The attendance was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone was all fired up. The initial hype. Well, turns
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  Speaker 1: out the spring football game. This has gone viral here
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of days the spring football game and
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  Speaker 1: Boulder did not go so well. The spring game attendance
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  Speaker 1: went from forty seven thousand plus in twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 1: when Dion arrived on the scene to seventeen thousand and
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  Speaker 1: five hundred this past weekend in Boulder, Colorado. So the
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  Speaker 1: question should the University of Colorado be worried that the
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  Speaker 1: prime time brand is not drawing crowds anymore. Should Colorado
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  Speaker 1: be concerned that this is not working? So the answer
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  Speaker 1: is rather obvious. It's a rhetorical question. Absolutely, you absolutely
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  Speaker 1: have to be. This is the hangover for the hype party.
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  Speaker 1: And it was quite the hoot and nanny. It was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fun. We all bought in to Dion Sanders,
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  Speaker 1: the blueprint that Dion provided, the flash, the swag, all
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  Speaker 1: of that, the idea that he'd flipped the script overnight.
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  Speaker 1: Good store ratings were huge. Colorado was getting on television
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  Speaker 1: every possible chance. The networks were fighting to put Colorado
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  Speaker 1: football on. However, the thing I'm a jig is not
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  Speaker 1: working like it was supposed to. No, the prime effect
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  Speaker 1: of Coach Prime went from can't miss TV to why
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  Speaker 1: is this even on TV? Like? How did this happen? Down?
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  Speaker 1: The attendance of the spring game down? I did the
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  Speaker 1: malord math here. I believe the attendance is down sixty
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  Speaker 1: three percent from when Dion arrived on the scene. That's
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  Speaker 1: not a dip, you know what that is. That is
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  Speaker 1: a booby trapped door opening up and falling into a
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  Speaker 1: pit of perata. Is what that is. That's what that is.
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  Speaker 1: And so this is what happens when you don't win
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  Speaker 1: enough and the razzle dazzle turns the fizzle, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what we are in the story arc of Dion Sanders. Now,
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  Speaker 1: will there be a redemption right now? This is a
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  Speaker 1: novelty act that had a shelf life and we've reached
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  Speaker 1: the expiration date on that shelf. Like Colorado, sitting with
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  Speaker 1: Dion Sanders, I believe they have like a four point
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  Speaker 1: thirty winning percentage or something like that. They're five games
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  Speaker 1: under five hundred since he took over, and I know
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  Speaker 1: they had a terrible record before he got there and
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  Speaker 1: all that. But with the portal and the nil stuff,
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  Speaker 1: you're supposed to be mister turnaround person and all that.
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  Speaker 1: So under Dion, the story of stories here is you
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  Speaker 1: can win the news conference, and Dion has been very
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  Speaker 1: good with the press conferences, and you can dominate the
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  Speaker 1: TikTok tik talk. He's done that eventually, though you need
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  Speaker 1: the ws wwwww a lot of ws and those aren't there.
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  Speaker 1: So the Mallard theory on this, the Malord theory is
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  Speaker 1: that the fan base in Colorado, most of them were
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  Speaker 1: not real Colorado Buffalo fans. They just wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: part of the cool kids club. So that's why they
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  Speaker 1: showed up. That's the first thing. And those that did
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  Speaker 1: show up, the fan base got drunk on social media,
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  Speaker 1: the sugar high from social media, and now they're waking up.
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  Speaker 1: They got a headache, they're like a little hungover, like
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  Speaker 1: what was that, dude, I don't know what that was.
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  Speaker 1: And the social media sugar high has crashed down, down, down, down, down,
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  Speaker 1: down down, and no more empty calories. Now they actually
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  Speaker 1: want substance. And that's the problem. That is the problem.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of years ago, we were talking about Deon
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  Speaker 1: Sanders going to the NFL. Now we're talking about Deon
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  Speaker 1: Sanders going to television because this is not working out
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  Speaker 1: so well.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington from the Odd
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  Speaker 4: And in addition to hearing us live weeknights from seven
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  Speaker 4: excited to announce brand new YouTube channel for the show.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. You can now watch the Odd Couple live
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube every day.
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  Speaker 1: Check us out on YouTube and subscribed. So our leaders
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  Speaker 1: from pro Bouncy Ball and we have a couple of
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  Speaker 1: games here. You joned up for the Hornets and the heat.
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  Speaker 1: Does that get you all excited? Now? How about the
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  Speaker 1: Trailblazers and the Suns. No, well that's what's on the menu.
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  Speaker 1: So instead of talking about those games just to be
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  Speaker 1: coming up on Tuesday night, instead we discuss the grumble grumble, grumble,
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  Speaker 1: and a number of Laker historians are not happy because
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  Speaker 1: lukea is ineligible for the NBA postseason Awards. He missed
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  Speaker 1: too many games, so sorry, can't do it now. If
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  Speaker 1: you didn't see this, the complaints and people angry and
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  Speaker 1: all that, maybe he missed it. So Luca marching in
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  Speaker 1: Shouder Society. They point out that Luca led the NBA
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  Speaker 1: in points scored, he had the second most points and
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  Speaker 1: assists combined, and he was in the top forty in
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  Speaker 1: minutes played this season, Yet he is ineligible for any
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  Speaker 1: of the postseason awards, the All NBA, the MVP. The
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  Speaker 1: league has a sixty five game rule, sixty five game rule.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: He did not meet that threshold, miss it by one game.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: discuss the question now with all these people complaining about Luca,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: is not fair? Is not fair? Luca can't win his
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: little trophy. Is not fair? So is this really that complicated?
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: The league said sixty five games to win an award,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: everyone knew it, and Luca didn't get to the sixty
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: fifth game. So what exactly is the debate here? So
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I've got wild Rivers, We've got Wild Rivers, FedEx and
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: San Diego Zoo, and we will combine all of these
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: things together, and we are going to give you the
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: alphabet ABC. We'll start with that, so number stop. So
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: this is not complex. Most of these arguments are not complex.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: It is kindergarden level malarmth kindergarten lever level malormath with
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: a max contract attached to it. So the NBA drew
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: They took a bright red sharpie and with that bright
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: red sharpie, they drew a line. And it's the threshold.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: It's at sixty five games. That's what they determined, and
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Luca showed up sixty four games. You see, he didn't
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: make the sixty five, so it's sixty five and above.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: So this is not some kind of grand conspiracy. Of course,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the NBA could still change their mind and say, oh,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: we're gonna allow him to be eligible. As of the
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: time of this monologue, that is not the case. That
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: is not the case. So the Laker historians who are crying, listen,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Luca missed the punch card. That's it, that's all. This
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: is all right, and you're crying in your statues, but
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: look at the stats. Go go after your stats, your
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: stat effort, go after your stats. Right, you're treating us
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: like it's a courtroom drama, But your honor, look at
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: the totals. Look at the totals. Okay, points, rebounds, assist,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: a statistical buffet. Great, you don't want to do for you,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a puffy sticker, little puffy sticker. Congratulations,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: that's right. Not you did not earn a scratch and
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: sniff sticker, just a puffy sticker. So I'm sorry. But regardless,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Luca did not meet the minimum requirement. Now I know
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the last number of years, we've been lowering standards on everything.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: But this is the bare minimum. This is the participation
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: trophy generation crashing into reality the last couple of years
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  Speaker 1: since the NBA put this rule in. So it's not
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: that hard if you want to win the MVP or
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: be on the All NBA team and all that stuff.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: If you want to travel down glory road, travel down
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: glory the clock is rather simple, all right, You got
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: to put time in on the clock. So the malor
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: verdict in the judges chambers, the malar verdict on this.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: This isn't some part time summer job. You're eighteen years old.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: You're working at the Wild Rivers water Park. It is
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: supposed to be a full season grind. But it's not right.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, this gun's might get a boom boom. Okay,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I love that, like all these young guys who are like, oh,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: we're so much tougher, we're so much better than it
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: used to be. And yet those guys in the past
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: traveled by commercial airline, not chartered flights, and occasionally played
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: three games in a row. And these guys back to back,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: you might as well be sent to Guantanamo Bay. Back
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: to back right. These guys lose their mind over that.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: But then they have all the chefs and the trainers
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: and all that, and yet they can't show up to work.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: And then when you call them on that, you say, well,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: you're supposed to be, you're supposed to be have there
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: planings like you're not working at Wilde Rivers. Well, well no,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: we're working at Lazy River. It's a different spin off.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: So the rule was clear. Here's the thing I don't understand.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: So the rule was clear, the number was out there.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: The outcome if you didn't make the number was also clear.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: No loopholes, no exceptions, no violin music, and it's simple
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: malormth If you get to sixty four, that's not sixty five.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Case closed all right now, Page duo. Continuing the theme
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: though of this hour, So only of the entire NBA,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: they're roughly five hundred and eighty players that appeared in
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: at least one game in the NBA. Know a lot
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: of those guys only played in a couple of games,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: vast majority. You know, thirty teams. You can do the
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: math on that. Each team, I am about fifteen players,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: and of those fifteen, eight to ten rotation players so
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: somewhere in that department, so you can you can do
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: the mass. So you say, well, just we'll say that
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: teams have a long, long, deep bench. So if that's
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: the case, so we'll do the math math, so we
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: determine there's thirty teams, so if ten, and then you
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: just do the times of thirty there and you do
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: the male of the math and so that's that's three hundred,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: but it's actually more than that. But either way, So,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: out of those players in the NBA, how many players
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: in the NBA reached the threshold to be eligible for
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: all NBA and MVP and all the other let's pat
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: you on the back awards. You want to take a guess,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: you got it? You got a number? Okay, good? The
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: answer out of around five hundred plus total players in
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: the NBA, eighty six players is the number eighty six
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: across the entire league, eighty six players met the eligible threshold,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: the eligibility threshold for end of season awards eighty six
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: and the entire NBA. How freaking embarrassing is that for
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the NBA? Seriously, So let's do the math on that,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: So eighty six and then you divide that by by thirty.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: That means if you just do the look ahead, it's
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: like less than three players per team qualified out of
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: thirty teams, less than two point eight out of the
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: thirty teams qualified. So the question is the NBA sabotaging
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: like some of you knuckleegs are saying, are they sabotaging
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: their own product by enforcing the rule, the sixty five
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: game rule that sidelines the biggest names in the sport,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: many of them from these races to win the various awards.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: So is this an act of sabotage by the NBA?
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: To that, I say, poppy Cock, Capitol p this is
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: not sabotaging anything. In fact, this is actually the NBA
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: admitting something that we've all known. It's been obvious for
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: years that they got a problem. Now, just because you
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: admit you have a problem does not mean that you're
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: gonna be able to fix that problem. The product was
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: getting watered down beyond water down, and because the stars
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: they weren't showing up, they were not showing up. The
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: league did not create the problem, right, it responded to it. Now,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: the league was a little lax in not keeping track
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: of what was going on. Adam Silver was asleep at
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the switch. But it was the teams and they hired
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: a bunch of dorks who have figured out, well, if
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: you play thirty three minutes, you're going to have an injury.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: If you play thirty one and a half minutes, you're
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: going to be perfectly fine. It's voodoo medicine. And there's
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: a lot of people that are stupid that work in
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: pro sports and they buy this crap and so be it.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: They believe it, and they they did it for years
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: and it kept getting it was the boiling frog theory.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Little by little more of this dogma got into the
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: NBA year by year, and before you know it, we
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: were on full skullduggery and that's where we are and
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: that's why the sixty five game rule took place and
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the league is trying to fix it. And by the way,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: let me point out this is very important. The NBA
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Players Association, they co authored, as I understand the rule, like,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: they signed off on it, they stamped it, they notarized it,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: they went to FedEx and they sent the thing. And
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: so all you dumb dumbs in outrage army who were
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: upset because of Luke and some of these other guys
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: who aren't eligible to win awards. If you can't hit
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: sixty five games out of eighty two, why would you
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: even be in the conversation for the MVP right now.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: The reason you have to have the rule is because
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: there's some wokesters who vote for these awards. Well, I
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: don't care that Joe Blow only played thirteen games. He's
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: my envp Okay, you loser, So you got to put
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the rule in there because he's idiots will take advantage
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: of it. But production and availability kind of a big deal.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Both matter, both matter, and it's not a sob story.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: The players were tougher before and despite all these critics, Oh,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: you're playing against a bunch of plumbers and all that. Well, No,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: at age thirty nine, Michael Jordan played eighty two games.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Why would you do that? What is wrong with you? Mind?
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: He was playing for the Washington Wizards, a joke of
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: a franchise, and he played eighty two games. No load management,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: no maintenance days, No I need the day off. I'm
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: getting a manny and a petty like we have today.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: We didn't get that. And this rule exists because the
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: players stop showing up the work. That's it. Right, that's
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: the real story. You want the award, you punch the clock.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: If you are gonna miss almost twenty percent of the season,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: whatever it is there, you're out. End of discussion. That's
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: it now. Meanwhile, we go to the Big Apple and
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: every year we get the same story. The Knicks are
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. It's been the way in the last
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: few years. Knicks are in the playoffs. Is this the
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: year the Knicks have not won a championship in over
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: fifty years? Is this going to be the year that
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: the Knickerbockers wake up the echoes of Walt Clyde Fraser
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: and Willis Reid and get it done well anyway. Shaquille
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: O'Neal commenting recently, Shaq commenting about Carl Anthony Towns of
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: New York in the upcoming playoffs, Shaq said, you know
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: what scares me about the Knicks? I think you know
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: he says, he said, it's kitty cat Karl Anthony Towns says,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: am I going to get tiger or a pussy cat?
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Is what Shaq said about Carl Anthony town So the
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: question on this one is Shaquille O'Neal basic lead telling
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the world you and me and the world that Nick
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: star Carl Anthony Towns is a mister softy. Is that
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: what he's saying. So I am nodding my head, Yes,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I am nodding my head. Yes, that is the case here.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: So Shaquille O'Neal is not just sending a message. It's
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: not a message in a bottle, it's a message in
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: a podcast. But he's he's handing out for Carl Anthony
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Towns the jet puffed marshmallow certificate. Congratulations. You can pick
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: that up on your way out, but you get the
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: jet puffed marshmallow certificate. When a Hall of Fame center,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Shaquille O'Neil questions your competitive DNA. Of course, remember Shack
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: took time off because he got hurt on company time.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: He wanted to rehab on company time. That's a different conversation.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: But the comments that Shack made, the comments that Shack
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: made about Karl Anthony Towns not a pep talk. It's
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: not a pep talk. It's an indictment. It's not wrong either.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Like the Knicks going into the playoffs, the Nicks know
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: that they're gonna get an honest night's work from Jalen
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Brunson However, Karl Anthony Towns, it's like the ultimate Amazon
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: mystery box. What's in the box, Well, we don't know.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: We haven't opened the box. We don't know what's in
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: the box. One night you open that box up and
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: it's high end electronics and you're like, WHOA, that's great,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I got what it is awesome. The next ten nights
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: in a row, it's just packing peanuts and bubble wrap
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: and disappointment. That's all it is. And well, he has
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: not quite Karl Anthony Towns reached Playoff Hardened level. It'd
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: be almost impossible to reach the level of Playoff Harden,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: that level of infamy. And my condolence is to strip
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Club John Ohio al and all our guys in Cleveland
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: who have that to look forward to as your dreams
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: will be broken yet again by Playoff Harden. That's coming
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: up le Karl Anthony Towns. It seems like most of
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: the time he's daydreaming. We're not sure what he's daydreaming about,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: and why would you daydream at night? But he does
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: it on the court and he has the raw aggressiveness.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns, like if you were to go to
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: the San diego zoo and get your binoculars out and
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: look at the koalas who are in the trees getting
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: high on the eucalyptus. That's essentially what Carl Anthony Towns
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: is in a playoff game. And so New York, New
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: York betting their entire season on essentially a moon ring. Well,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: what color is it gonna be? Is it gonna be violet?
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: That's good, he'll play well. No, no, it's gray. Oh
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: oh it's black? Oh no, is it okay? He's good,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: he's good. All right. So in the middle of April
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: now here, we are playoffs about to begin. Now, the
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Knicks don't play till this weekend because they're not in
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: that fugazy playing thing. This weekend, the playoffs will get going,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: and the Nick's second option. It's like the TV show
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: I did Benny Versus Depending. That's essentially what is It's
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Benny versus Depending. Shaq is not motivating anybody, he's not.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: He's exposing the structural flaw that the concrete was not
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: made properly, and everything's starting to crack there. And once
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: the playoffs get a little hot, and they'll be I'll
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: tell you what's gonna happen to you. There'll be one
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: game where Anthony plays well and says, Boom, I told
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: you I'm so good, and then the next couple of
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: games will suck. That's happened before as well. You got
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: to follow the Malor wisdom on this, the Malor wisdom,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: if you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. The
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: key to life is to expect nothing, and if anything
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: happens in a positive my god, that's great. What a
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: wonderful thing that is. And just don't be surprised in
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: this case, don't be surprised when the lights turn up
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: and Karl Anthony Towns is hanging out with his friend
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Garfield eating lasagna or some other cartoon cat whoever you like.
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• 34:22
  Speaker 3: Patriots quarterback Drake May was interviewed at the Masters over
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: the weekend, where he said, quote, everybody's got the same
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: goal this time of year, to get back to that game.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: As of today, the Patriots are only tied for the
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: fifth best odds to get to the Super Bowl?
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Ben, do you think the odds should be better for them? No,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: that's about right. They played a bunch of cupcakes last year.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: They didn't play anybody. Although I look at the schedule
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: this year, Mike, it doesn't seem that much harder than me.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: But yeah, they have to prove it they're legit because
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: they played a very weak schedule and so people don't
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: take them seriously. So that seems about right where they
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: should be. They have to validate that last year was
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: not just a product of the schedule. Next.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: New Brown's head coach Todd Munkin was asked recently he
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: can do to change the perception that things always go
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: wrong for the Browns. Monkin said, winning changes everything. Ben,
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: how much winning and for how long would it take
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: to change the narrative around the brands.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Well, they did have one year where they want a
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: playoff game. Pittsburgh gave that game away. It didn't change anything.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: So they'd have to have sustained success for three to
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: five years. And you might want to show up to
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: the coaches photo. Remember Todd Monkin was getting a nice
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: haircut and forgot to go that's not a good look,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: all right. Next, then the playing tournament starts Tuesday. Which
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: are the four teams involved?
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Do you think has the best chance to not only
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: make it to the actual playoffs, but potentially advanced past.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: The first round? Oh? I love this. Who's gonna make
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: some noise? I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with Charlotte.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: I like the Hornets, con Canipple and Alonzo Ball, those
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: two guys back and forth. I like that. And then
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: also I think the Clippers in the West. But those
• 35:48
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• 35:52
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• 36:08
  Speaker 1: That's welcome, mar contestants for the big game here. It's
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: mallards amount of money. We have Chris in Syracuse. Who's
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: gonna play? Hello? Chris?
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: What up?
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: What up?
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: What's up? Because you who do you want to partner
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: up with? Chris? Uh?
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna partner up with the man himself.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: I'll take you. Okay, Well, I didn't know I was
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: the man, but I appreciate. How can I be the man?
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: You're the man. You're the man that holds Scott Farrell
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: back in the day, Scotty Farrell on the bench. All right, uh, Chris,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: what are you doing, Syracuse? What's that? What do you
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: what do you do? Are you working right now? Are
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: you hanging out? What do you do? I'm in the
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: partner law of waiting for the gym to open. Okay,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: so the gym opens about twenty minutes. Yeah, perfect, all right,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: we got your covered. All right, Hold on a second, Chris,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: look at it. I got big Studi's gonna go on
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: a treadmill, go do some impossible leg day. I don't know.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Did you make it to the gym yesterday? Coop Lorena,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: let's go on with the game. What are you doing? Lorena?
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Pick pick two or three? Lorena two? All right, you
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: have picked Coach Russell the game show contestant of the year. Hello,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Coach Russell, welcome, Hey, good morning.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: I'm easily not up this early, but I had to
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: take someone to the airport this morning before I go
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: back to get ready to go to school.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: All right, well, good, you're on, and yeah, you're gonna
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: team up with Cooper Loop. Is that alright because I've
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  Speaker 1: already been picked?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, all right, very good categories quickly cool, This call
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  Speaker 1: will be recorded? What was riot? Well, that's one of
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  Speaker 1: our guys. I think this is Chris. Are you recording
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  Speaker 1: this call? Who's recording this call? Somebody's recording this call?
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  Speaker 1: Call recorded? I hit him? Okay, I don't care. We're
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  Speaker 1: being broadcast, so all right, all right, all right, all right,
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  Speaker 1: this never happened before.
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  Speaker 3: This is Matter's amount of Money, lou Bega edition. He
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  Speaker 3: turned fifty one years old on Monday. The categories are
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  Speaker 3: Mambo number five, Baby, Keep Smiling, Mommy is Hot, and
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  Speaker 3: King of My Castle.
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  Speaker 1: Chris, you were on first? Which category would you like?
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Mommy is Hot for Lorena all right,
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  Speaker 1: all right? And coach Russell, how about you will yo
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  Speaker 1: with the first one? Mambo number five?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Well, number five? All right? Everyone hold on a second,
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  Speaker 1: do not hang up, gentlemen. We are going to have
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  Speaker 1: in its entirely mallards amount of money. We'll get to that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do it next.
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  Speaker 2: Mailor's Mountain of money. Lord, you have what it takes
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  Speaker 2: to get to the top. Probably not.
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  Speaker 1: All right, here we go, time to play the game.
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  Speaker 1: We have Chris in Syracuse. He's waiting for the gym
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  Speaker 1: to open, and Coach Russell is taking somebody the airport
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  Speaker 1: and he's gonna start his day in the Orlando area.
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  Speaker 1: And let's get started. I am up with Chris in
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  Speaker 1: Syriaes you picked the Mommy is hot, Mommy is hot?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you? Okay, these athletes are all are you there,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, Chris, Yes, all right, these athletes are
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  Speaker 1: all said to have hot mamas. Are you ready? We
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  Speaker 1: need first and last name. Chris. You got it all right,
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  Speaker 1: forty five seconds on the clock. We're on our way.
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  Speaker 1: Go splash, brother, but not Klay Thompson.
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  Speaker 3: Stop Curry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Quarterback for the New York Giants. He was a
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  Speaker 1: rookie last year. Jack Dark Yes, Giants wide receiver legend
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  Speaker 1: years ago. He's kind of hanging around trying to get
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  Speaker 1: back in the NFL this year. What's just well, we'll
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  Speaker 1: take it. Yes, defensive star for the Detroit Lions. White guy,
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  Speaker 1: dominant defensive Yeah, look at you. Quarterback for the Jets.
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  Speaker 1: He was a bust out of BYU. I believe he's
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  Speaker 1: bounced around the NFL last couple of years. Was a
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  Speaker 1: number all right wide receiver for the Chiefs. He keeps
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  Speaker 1: getting in legal trouble wide receiver for Patrick Mahomes has
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  Speaker 1: been arrested. No, you got one hundred points, Tyreek Hill.
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  Speaker 1: Now I can keep going. Xavior Worthy it was. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if he's gotten in trouble though. No, I
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  Speaker 1: thought you got in some trouble. No, Mayor, I'm wrong. Alright, Uh, coach,
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  Speaker 1: you and I have mambo number five. It's good.
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  Speaker 3: These athletes all wore the number five jersey. All right,
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  Speaker 3: I need the first and last name. Are you ready, coach?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to get try yet.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's begin. He is the current star on
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  Speaker 1: the Minnesota Timberwolves. Anthony Edward.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, this guy is the current coach of the Dallas Mavericks.
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  Speaker 3: One of the best point guards of all time. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: this guy was a quarterback for the Eagles for a
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  Speaker 3: long time. Yes, this guy was one of the best
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  Speaker 3: running backs in college football history.
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  Speaker 1: He wore this number with the with the USC.
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  Speaker 3: Ready book. Yes, this guy played for the Kansas City Royals.
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  Speaker 3: He freaked out because Pine Tar got on his bat.
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  Speaker 3: George Bread, Yes, this guy's son Cameron is on duke right, Nowser,
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  Speaker 3: that's right there, Carlos.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we will now beat you and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: milk the clock here, all right, Chris? Do you want
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  Speaker 1: baby keep smiling or king of my castle? All right?
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  Speaker 1: All right? These athletes are considered the best of their
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  Speaker 1: respective sports families. Are you ready, Christopher?
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  Speaker 2: You got all right?
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  Speaker 1: Forty five seconds We're on our way. Go quarterback a
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  Speaker 1: long time Indianapolis colt and Denver Bronco quarterback one super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl man. Yes, uh, the money Man boxer nicknamed Money, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: tight end for the Patriots. He's on Fox now. Tom
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  Speaker 1: Brady's great Yes, Yankee star back of the day, Joltin
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  Speaker 1: Yankee star in nineteen fifties, all right, catcher for Sant
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  Speaker 1: Louis Cardinals in the nineties, in the two thousand, two thousands. Actually, yes,
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  Speaker 1: Manager Aaron Yankee manager. Aaron's dad Yankee manager, Aaron his
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  Speaker 1: dad boom No, his dad two twenty total Bob boone
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  Speaker 1: his dad there, all right, Coach Jodomagio, we have a
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  Speaker 1: chance here, Baby keeps smiling. These athletes were all known
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  Speaker 1: for their for their constant grin.
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  Speaker 3: Don't show Coop all right, not forty five seconds, Let's
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  Speaker 3: begin quarterback for the Panthers. He was an MVP, but
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  Speaker 3: he stinks now he's not. Yes, this guy was the
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: best point guard of all time for the Lakers. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: this guy is struggling right now for the Mets. He
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  Speaker 3: came from the Indians. Seck, this guy's got the fastest
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  Speaker 3: fastest man of all time from Jamaica.
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  Speaker 1: Oh not gonna make it.
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  Speaker 4: We say it.
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  Speaker 1: Say it. He's like, hoo pose no, no, said, have
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  Speaker 1: a great workout, Chris