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BlackJack and Lo Duca talk MLB, NFL, and meeting Ron Jeremy · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites. I'm black Jack Fletcher, and joining
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  Speaker 1: me today it's former Major League All Star, legendary human
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: being and lover Paul La Duca. PAULI, how are we
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  Speaker 1: doing today? Did? Yes? You did? Miss you? Black Jack?
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: How are you doing? I'm fantastic. I don't miss you
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: because I'm gonna see in Vegas and about what like
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  Speaker 1: five days, Oh my god, me and Paul Laduca are
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: going out to Vegas and then we're gonna drive across
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: the desert to California. It has a very fear and
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  Speaker 1: loathing in Las Vegas vibe to it. Um probably will
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  Speaker 1: go down very similarly. Yeah, And I'm going to prove
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  Speaker 1: to everybody that I'm gonna bet the whole board and
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  Speaker 1: show all the tickets. We're gonna have so much fun,
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  Speaker 1: you know that wind up betting the board, We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a mess. If anyone's gonna be out in Vegas
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: a week, the whole thing for everybody. Yeah, we probably
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  Speaker 1: will wind up doing a lot of that. Hopefully we
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  Speaker 1: don't get fired. Yeah, true, we probably. Although you know what,
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: anyone who's listening to this show knows it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be the best damn content this company has ever put out.
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  Speaker 1: That's probably true. I mean that's not probably true. That
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  Speaker 1: is true. So yeah, if you're gonna be in Vegas
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  Speaker 1: next week, like Tuesday to Thursday, feel free to find us.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be visible. Um all right, PAULI. So we've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff to talk about today. There is
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  Speaker 1: a lot going on, particularly in the world of baseball
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  Speaker 1: and football. So let's jump right into it and go
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  Speaker 1: to your wheelhouse. Talk a little bit of baseball. What
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  Speaker 1: in the hell is going on with Bryce Harper? Machado
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  Speaker 1: signs last week with the Padres three hundred million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: We finally get a leak that the Phillies have offered
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  Speaker 1: over three hundred million ten years. He clearly does not
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  Speaker 1: want to play in Philadelphia. I don't really know how
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  Speaker 1: you can reach any other conclusion. Yesterday we hear the
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  Speaker 1: Giants are now willing to go ten years, where previously
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  Speaker 1: they wanted something short term. What's going on with him?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I tried to calm my sources, um
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  Speaker 1: with the Dodgers to see what was going on there.
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  Speaker 1: I've had a feeling that that was sort of uh,
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  Speaker 1: just so whisping a win in l a thing, maybe
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  Speaker 1: a Lon Rosen thing. He's been holding Magic Johnson's jockstrap
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  Speaker 1: way too long and he's got a power trip. So
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  Speaker 1: I think that's him making a bid for for Harper.
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  Speaker 1: Um if the Dodgers sign Harper will set their their
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  Speaker 1: franchise back. Considering my sources are saying that Clayton Kershaw
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  Speaker 1: shoulder is not that good. When you can't play catch
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  Speaker 1: right now, Um, that's not a good sign. And shoulder
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  Speaker 1: is way worse than elbow. So the Dodgers concentrating on
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  Speaker 1: Harper is the last thing they need to do, is
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  Speaker 1: So I think they're gonna maybe wise up and steer away.
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  Speaker 1: I'm with you there, And I don't think the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: are willing to go ten years. I think if Harper
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  Speaker 1: was gonna do like a five year deal, then maybe
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  Speaker 1: they get in it. But I don't think they're going
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  Speaker 1: ten years. I mean, I just don't see it happening.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess the question is now, because you can
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  Speaker 1: bet on this, where is he gonna go? I like
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco at plus nine sixty one because the Giants
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  Speaker 1: now were willing to go ten years. If you've gotten
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  Speaker 1: that far as San Francisco. You can probably get to
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  Speaker 1: the dollar amount he wants. That probably not that far
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  Speaker 1: off on that. And I think he prefers to be
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  Speaker 1: on the West coast for whatever reason to playing in
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia and at plus nine sixty one, there's a hell
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of value there. It's a lot of value,
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  Speaker 1: it really is. You're gonna have a new manager next year. Um,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot that they can propose to him. Um.
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  Speaker 1: They could say, listen, Boach is gonna leave. Come for
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  Speaker 1: Boaches last year. Um, and then we're gonna build everything
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  Speaker 1: back around you Busters, probably at the back end of
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  Speaker 1: his career, posey and they can start rebuilding. Um. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: here's the thing again, Barry Bonds is only left handed
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  Speaker 1: her that could ever conquer that ballpark, you know. And again,
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  Speaker 1: here's a kid hit to forty last year, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't see him hitting. He's gonna hit probably a little
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  Speaker 1: bit better, but if he goes to a Giants line
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  Speaker 1: up into that ballpark, I don't see it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this kid's want short term, I think, because he's not
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  Speaker 1: getting the long term because listen, nobody is worth the
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  Speaker 1: money that they're handing out. And the padres right now
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  Speaker 1: are saying, oh, they signed Manny Machado thinking Nolan Arronado
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  Speaker 1: was not going to get an extension. Can you imagine
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  Speaker 1: if Harper signs with the Giants. If if Harper had
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  Speaker 1: signed with the Giants and Aronado had signed an extension,
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  Speaker 1: I guarantee you the Padres who have not given Manny
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  Speaker 1: Machado three a lot tougher. Yes, So I just don't
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  Speaker 1: know where his head is. Is his head I want security?
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  Speaker 1: Or do I want to put up numbers list? But Paul,
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  Speaker 1: here's the other thing about Philadelphia. When you're a visitor
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  Speaker 1: going into Philly, which Washington is, they're not friendly fans. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to get over that. I've had batteries thrown
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  Speaker 1: at me in the bullpen. There. I quit. I warmed
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  Speaker 1: up the picture before every game except Philadelphia. It was
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  Speaker 1: useless because you have fans from batteries at you, and
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  Speaker 1: those are just your ex girlfriends. I mean they threw
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  Speaker 1: stuff at at Santa They I mean, that's just Philadelphia fans,
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  Speaker 1: So that might have an effect on it. Um, Bryce,
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  Speaker 1: you know he's he flips his hair back. He's not
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  Speaker 1: a Philly guy. I mean, let's be honest, Um, I've
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  Speaker 1: never been. And here's the other thing. I've never seen
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  Speaker 1: a guy that hit two be coveted for over three
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  Speaker 1: seven millions. Well that's the thing. And you're you're, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're right about the Philly thing in that it's a
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  Speaker 1: sports town that brings a lot to pressure. And if
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  Speaker 1: you go there and sign that contract, there's a ton
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  Speaker 1: of it. Whereas if you go to San Francisco. Listen, man,
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  Speaker 1: they stood by Barry Bonds through thick and thin. Those
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  Speaker 1: fans are relatively loyal fans. I mean, the Giants still
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  Speaker 1: draw a hell of a gate. But here when then
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  Speaker 1: you can't compare the two players, black jack, No, no,
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  Speaker 1: you have can come close to comparing him rocket fuel
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  Speaker 1: on or off. Give Give Bryce Harper all the rocket
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  Speaker 1: fuel he wants, give it, give it to him, give
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  Speaker 1: him all the stuff Barry got. It's not even close,
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  Speaker 1: not even a fraction of close to player Barry Bonds
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  Speaker 1: is not even close. Barry could have stole forty basses too.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, it was a four time m
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  Speaker 1: VVP before and was a good outfielder. Is like, they're
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  Speaker 1: putting this guy on a pedestal like some millions. Why
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  Speaker 1: tell me why he's on the pedestal because it's the
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  Speaker 1: only guy left. He's in the right spot at the
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  Speaker 1: right time. He's got that look. That's why I think
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  Speaker 1: l A looked at him, because he can they can
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  Speaker 1: market him. That's your fans, Listen that that's part of it.
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  Speaker 1: These guys now are and we're in a new millennium
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  Speaker 1: where guys are worried about their their brand. I was
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  Speaker 1: never worried about my brain. You were nine innings, was
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  Speaker 1: diving in the dugouts. I was playing with torn hamstrings.
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  Speaker 1: These kids get mosquito bites right now and they go
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  Speaker 1: on the DL because they're worried about their future. And
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: you know what, I wish I would have sort of
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: taken that approach a little bit too. You know in
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  Speaker 1: those games, in those days when I played, the trainer
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  Speaker 1: would open up the cabinet and go what do you
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  Speaker 1: need to play? And I'm like, I need that, that
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  Speaker 1: and that, and it just doesn't that's not I want
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  Speaker 1: to know what that that that was? Listen. No, I've
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  Speaker 1: played games on four or five Perko sets, so you
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  Speaker 1: have to do what you gotta do to get out there.
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  Speaker 1: I had a manager telling me, hey, you is better
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  Speaker 1: than the backup you're talking about Todd Pratt. Now, he
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  Speaker 1: was never my backup, although we rolled out. How about
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  Speaker 1: the catching corps we had with the dog is when
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  Speaker 1: Mike Socio was there. The worst, the worst decision in
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  Speaker 1: Dodger history was to let Socia go and then he
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  Speaker 1: went to the Angels. But it was myself, It was Piazza,
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  Speaker 1: and then they traded him. It was myself. David ross
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  Speaker 1: Um was in Triple A. I was in the Big Leags.
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  Speaker 1: David Rossell was in Triple A. Russell Martin was in
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  Speaker 1: Double A three and they just made Russell Martin to
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  Speaker 1: catcher and he was getting compared to me. We all
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  Speaker 1: became good friends. And now David's on ESPN and Russell's
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  Speaker 1: still playing. I gotta give him a ton of credit. Man.
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  Speaker 1: He's kept his body in shape and now catching back
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  Speaker 1: for the Dodgers. So those were fun days, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So where do you think Harper winds up at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day. I've said from day one that
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  Speaker 1: that he's going to go back to d C. This
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  Speaker 1: is all just deploy I mean, was that home run
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  Speaker 1: Derby really that fake? He seems so like exhilarating that
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  Speaker 1: his dad threw him BP and he won the home
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  Speaker 1: run derby in front of his home cut. And I
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  Speaker 1: wrote an article thinking he could be like alex Venchikin.
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  Speaker 1: He could be that, why do you want to go
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  Speaker 1: wander in the NLS. Stay in the n L East.
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  Speaker 1: You can win in division. If you stay in d C.
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  Speaker 1: You've got three pretty good starters. Now you get to
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  Speaker 1: play the Medicine Marlins thirty eight times a year exactly
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  Speaker 1: like uh. And then he's sort of be the hero.
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  Speaker 1: You went on this whole big old tour, the call
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  Speaker 1: Provano Tour. Remember that, let's let's go on the call
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  Speaker 1: Pavano Tour. And came and signed back and beat the
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  Speaker 1: Washington DC hero. But like, I don't see, it's just
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  Speaker 1: you don't read about it. Maybe it's the calm before
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  Speaker 1: the storm. But well, if people there now, I think
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna end up in Philadelphia, and I'll tell you why,
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  Speaker 1: because he knows he can put up monster numbers in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, for those interested in the team's Paul
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  Speaker 1: just mentioned Philly is plus one twelve day are the favorite,
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  Speaker 1: uh and the Nationals are plus thirteen forty seven. So
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  Speaker 1: if I think he's going back there. I agree with you.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's there's some about you in it, all right,
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  Speaker 1: So let's let's shift focus a little bit here. He's
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  Speaker 1: missing spring training, by the way, Paul, I mean, do
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  Speaker 1: you think that's of concern at all? Well, it's a
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  Speaker 1: tiny bit of concern because you want your timing back.
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  Speaker 1: You probably need twenty to thirty to forty at bats
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in that area. But he doesn't need to automatically,
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  Speaker 1: you know me to be too worried, because what you
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  Speaker 1: can do is like if a guy signs late, what
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  Speaker 1: they'll do is they'll put him on the backfield. Or
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  Speaker 1: I used to go to my manager and tell him, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I I feel just I don't feel good right now
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  Speaker 1: with my timing. Can I face some a ball? Double
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  Speaker 1: A double A guys? So on the backfields they'll have
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  Speaker 1: a ball and double A games and they'll let you
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  Speaker 1: lead off every inning. If you're a veteran guy. Um,
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: it's a way to get eight, you know, seven eight
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  Speaker 1: at bats in one day, and you get to see
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  Speaker 1: a lot of pitches and it's sort of good to
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  Speaker 1: see a bone double A kids. They got just a
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  Speaker 1: good arms. But the difference is those kids will throw
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  Speaker 1: one at your head at about ninety nine and then
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  Speaker 1: one on the corner, so you don't really know. It's
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  Speaker 1: an uncomfortable at BAD. So I'll probably do that. Whoever
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  Speaker 1: signs Bryce, like, get him on the backfield, get him
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  Speaker 1: something at BAD. So I'm not worried. He's a workout
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  Speaker 1: freak two, so him being in shape, that's not going
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  Speaker 1: to be the worry for whoever spents him. Now, talking
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  Speaker 1: about spring training, there are some people out there who
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: bet on spring training baseball. Do you have any advice
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  Speaker 1: for those people? Yeah, it's just I mean there's just
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  Speaker 1: too many variables. Listen, you you know that I'll bet
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  Speaker 1: on two roaches going across the floor. You know that. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but I can't play spring training baseball. You know, half
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  Speaker 1: the time that I my experiences was I was I
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  Speaker 1: knew I was catching four or five innings. You know,
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  Speaker 1: earlier in my career, I would go up swinging because
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to make a team. And then as
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  Speaker 1: I became the starting catcher, I did not care what
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  Speaker 1: I hit in spring training. I wanted to see more
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  Speaker 1: pitches because you know, um, Eric Carross came up to
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  Speaker 1: me and said, why are you swinging at the first
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  Speaker 1: pitch every time? I remember him telling me that my
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  Speaker 1: second year, and I'm like, what are you talking about.
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  Speaker 1: He goes, spring trains for you to see as many
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  Speaker 1: pitches as you can, goes if you hit a double
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  Speaker 1: in the gap on the first pitch, it does nothing
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  Speaker 1: for you because but if you see seven eight pitches,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna get your timing back. So each guy's have
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  Speaker 1: different approaches. Um, and then when I go catch, I
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  Speaker 1: might catch like you know, Eric Ganni or Kevin Brown
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  Speaker 1: or the guys that I caught in the future, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the past, and they would say, hey, I'm only
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  Speaker 1: gonna throw a fastball today. No curveballs, no slidders, no changeups.
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  Speaker 1: I'm only gonna throw like you know, two three innings.
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  Speaker 1: Ganyer would come in and say, hey, listen, I'm gonna
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: work on my curveball, which is like his fourth best pitch.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: So guys work on different things, and then you you
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: get the a ball double A kids that obviously got
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: the monster arms that are our prospects. But you just
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: don't know how they're going to react because they're trying
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  Speaker 1: to make a splash and they can make a game
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  Speaker 1: go sideways late. Yeah, and I agree with you. I
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: think betting spring training baseball is just asinine. I mean,
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: you've got players that don't really put full effort into it,
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  Speaker 1: to say the least. You've got different rules in play,
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: you don't know who's playing from day to day. It's
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  Speaker 1: just a mess. I would avoid it. Um, let's move
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: on and talk a little NFL. PAULI. We've got an
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: interesting scenario unfolding with Antonio Brown. The Steelers originally said
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  Speaker 1: I think there were three teams interested. Now they say
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  Speaker 1: that numbers grown. Where do you think Antonio Brown winds
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  Speaker 1: up in Week one of next season? M M, that
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: is a good question, Jerry World do you think Dallas? Well,
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: here's my thing, he's the only guy that can make
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  Speaker 1: the big enough splash and deal with that clown. Antonio
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: Brown's a clown. And here's the deal. Like when he
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: did the Facebook, when was the Facebook thing like three
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: years ago? Two years ago? He was two years ago.
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  Speaker 1: I mean he was a clown after that, He's been
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: a clown ever since. Great receiver. I get it. I
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: get all the intangibles and what he brings. Piece of clown,
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: So you gotta deal with that, um and why why
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  Speaker 1: would you want to leave that culture in Pittsburgh. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's um he to me. I think Antonio
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  Speaker 1: Brown created the culture, created the bad culture in that clubhouse. Um.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: You can say, um that Bell did, but you know
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: Bell was proven a point and he did what was
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  Speaker 1: best for him for his future. Um. So Antonio Brown says,
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  Speaker 1: I want out to and now this this whole thing
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  Speaker 1: is gonna happen, and god knows who's gonna jump in late.
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  Speaker 1: But the Cowboys are one great receiver and we saw
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  Speaker 1: Mary Cooper elevate them a little bit. If they, you know,
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  Speaker 1: or would be able to pull something off, Jerry would
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: be the guy that can do it. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: get that. The only the only hesitation I have is
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: that they gave up a first round pick for a
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  Speaker 1: Mari Cooper this season, So I don't know that they're
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: gonna move more top draft capital to do it. The
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  Speaker 1: team that I'm kind of looking at, and I know
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: it's a little bit out there, is the Arizona Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason I think the reason I think the
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: Cardinals could do it is I think they're going to
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: trade out of that one spot I don't think they're
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: gonna take Kyler Murray. I think they're gonna stick with Rosen.
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  Speaker 1: And if they trade down and they get a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of draft picks, they may spend some of those off
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  Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh and figure, let's go with Rosen and give
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  Speaker 1: him a top wide receiver and really give this thing
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  Speaker 1: a go. Maybe Larry Fitzgerald can call Antonio Brown down
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, um and maybe you know, he'll he'll
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  Speaker 1: rub off on him a little bit. Yeah, that could
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  Speaker 1: be a good play. Um. I thought they would be
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  Speaker 1: in the mix, but they're saying now they're not, especially
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: with Grappoo coming back. That could be obviously uh sneaky,
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  Speaker 1: But they're staying there out now. Yeah, it looks like
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  Speaker 1: they are. And by the way, the Cardinals are at
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  Speaker 1: plus one thousand, twenty one and the Cowboys at plus
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  Speaker 1: one thousand ninety. The favorite is the forty nine Ers
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  Speaker 1: at plus two thirty nine, followed by the Jets at
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  Speaker 1: plus four eight. I could see the Jets getting involved,
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  Speaker 1: but I think the Jets are more likely interested in
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: leave you on bell. Is it the Aaron Rodgers effact?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe Steve farm Insurance can throw some money in. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: maybe and get him. Speaking of the NFL, we had
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: the Uh, we had a I can't say bizarre story
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: because everyone is watching it. But Kyler Murray was at
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Combine today and he got measured measured out a little
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: over five ten hand size of nine and a half inches.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: For those of you interested, Darren, UM doesn't mean anything. Um,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: which team is going to draft Kyler? Mary Paul? I
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: have no clue, and I said it before the kid
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  Speaker 1: made the right choice. Um. Could he have got a
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: nice signing bonus in baseball, Yes, but baseball can sit
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  Speaker 1: around from him if if this doesn't work out. But uh,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: he's different type of player. He's so dynamic and now
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: the way the NFL is being played in the way
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: that they sort of protect the quarterback. Um, I think
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: he'll be okay. I mean, obviously it's explosive, but his height.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: I'm surprised that he actually did hit five ten because
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: I was five ten in the program my whole life,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: I can I'm barely touching five eight, So I'm surprised
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: that he actually, yeah, it's five ten, because usually that's
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: they would have listened to maybe a six one in
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: the program. It's the first time I can ever remember
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: someone measuring taller than what they were listening that actually
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: had to I would think a lot of Scott's be
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: a little excited. Also, he's put weight on too. He
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: he came in it like what two seven something like that.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's added some some weight to his frame.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: So I think that's going to help him. The teams
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: that I'm looking at for him, I'm looking at the
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Raiders because the Raiders have so much draft capital um
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: sitting on three first round picks. I mean, if they
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: want to move up, they could trade two first round
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: picks and still have, uh, the second overall pick. I
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: mean the Raiders really, and they're sitting there at plus
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: seven hundred. There's good value there. The other team I'm
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: looking at is the one right below them, which is
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: the Washington Redskins a plus a thousand. This really feels
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: like a Dan Snyder kind of move, doesn't it. Yeah,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: he likes this kind of dynamic, bring the the excitement
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: in obviously. Um, I think this kid's gonna be okay. Um,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: he's different than than other guys with his h height,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Like Manzelle had demons and other stuff going on and in,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: but this kid is a different kind of athlete. And
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: when I watch him play baseball, um man, he reminds
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: me a lot of mooky bets are the way he
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: swings the bat, that's quick hands, and there's no doubt
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: in my mind he would he would succeed playing ball.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: You can just tell by his swing. But listen, you know,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: let's see what happens in the NFL draft. And I think,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: like I said, I think he's making the right choice,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: and I think he'll he'll he'll be okay in the NFL.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I really do. Yeah. I mean, listen, I was concerned
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: about his frame. I thought he'd be injury prone. But
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: we can't hit a quarterback anymore with him coming in
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: with him coming in five ten, two oh seven, I mean,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: I'm less concerned. I thought he'd come in around. But
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I think he's tougher than people to think. And again,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: like just know, when the plays over, just slide, get down,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: he's gonna get I understand his size, but when he
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: gets out of the pocket, he's just just gonna be dynamic.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: So um, to me, drafting a smaller quarterback and smaller
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: frame quarterback is okay. Now with all the new rule
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: of not being able to touch a quarterback. Now, he
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: might take a late hit and and get hurt. But listen,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: that's the chances you take when you draft a guy
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: that's that stature. But you're right, two, two or seven
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: and in five ten is not that bad. No, I
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: mean he he compares physically very well to Russell Wilson.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: I mean the numbers are almost identical. So we'll see
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: what happens there. Um. But like I said, I'm taking
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: a look at the Raiders and the Redskins on that one. Um.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: The Eagles announced yesterday, Paul that they will not put
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: a tag on Nick Foles. They will let him walk
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: into free agency. Where do you think nick Foles winds up?
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, is there is there any team other than
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Jacksonville that makes as much sense? No, I was just
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: gonna say Jacksonville. Um, you know, I think Nick Foles
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: doesn't even carry ends up. I mean, here's a guy
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: that was on the brink of basically retiring, um twinning
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl as the backup, and he really gets
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: no respect the kid. Um. Yeah, and he's finally going
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: to get his due, or at least get get get
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: a paid a um. And I think it's Jacksonville. He's
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: got this calmness about it. Listen, it's tough to play,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: like I said, we were talking to it's tough to
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: play in Philadelphia. And the kid was able to play
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: on the stage, I mean on the big stage, on
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: the biggest stage, and was basically and the orchestrated the
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Philly what are they called the Philly play whatever? He said,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: let's run it. I mean that takes a pair of
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: pair of balls, Let's be honest. So you know, the
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: thing that that that surprises me is I feel like
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Nick Foles has been in the league for a long time,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: but he's actually a year younger than Kirk Cousins. And
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: last year Kirk Cousins got what nineties something million dollars
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: fully guaranteed over three years. Nick Foles isn't going to
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: touch that kind of money. What about? And it's crazy.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: He is a Super Bowl m v P winning quarterback.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Who do you take Nick Foles case Keenum or or
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: or Kirk Cousin? Nick Foles exactly, stick Folds. Let me
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: the top quarterback in the NFL. Maybe, Okay, And here's
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the other question. You you take your team and you're
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: starting right now, you take Ronado, Harper, Marcado Arnado. There
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: you go, the cheapest one, the one that's gonna stay
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: out of trouble. This is economics with Paul Laduca. It's
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: it's that simple. The Angels set themselves back twenty years.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Like I'm telling you, if the Dodgers signed, they're gonna
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: do the same thing the Angels did. They signed pool Holes,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Socio wanted Granky, Artie Moreno wanted Josh Hamilton's and pool Holes.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Now look what you got. You got a dead Angel
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: team for the last whatever ten years. So the same
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: thing is gonna happen with the Daughters or somebody that
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: signs Harper. Whoever signs Harper better be very smart. By
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: the way, are you recording this podcast that l a
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: X because I've heard car horns and airplanes both during
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: this this taping. Well, I'm I live sort of like
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: on this like crowded street. Yeah, it seems just like
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: zoomed by. I think they know they're here, they're trying
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: to take it. Maybe the paparazzi there trying to take pictures.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: That sounds right, all right, PAULI as as always, you
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: uh you are a prolific better you you have said
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: that when we're in Vegas, you're gonna bet the board,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: and I believe that. Um, what do you have in
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: the college slate tonight? We got a lot of college games?
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: What do you like? I'm on fire to last week?
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Pretty good? What do you night? Not bad? Although I
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: got hosed Jordans Caroline from the Nevada wolf Pack for
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: a lot of people who don't know one of my
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: sleeper teams, and a lot of people who don't know
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Jordan Caroline is the son of Simeon Rice. Remember Simeon Rice.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: He was too late free throws cost me the cover
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: last night in Nevada. Uh. But I love the Johnnies
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: against Xavier tonight. How about that? Okay? I like the
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Johnnies a little bit. Xavier had a big win. Um
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: their last game, they found the sort of they're they're
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: sort of one of those teams that is on the brink.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: They beat Nova. The Villanova's to me not the same team. Um,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I think they are. People are starting to catch up
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: to him Phil Booths. Every time he gets the ball,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: people are double triple team and stuff like that. So
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: I think it's a little bit of a funny win
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: and I like the Johnny Tonight St. John's over Xavier. Alright,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: so that is the gambling portion of our program. But
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: now we're going to move into um what I think
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: is rapidly going to become everyone's favorite moment of their week,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: and that's story time with Paul Laduca. Last week, Paul
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: told us his amazing story of Hideyo Nomo drinking over
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: thirty beers on a cross country flight and then waking
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: him up the next morning to go and eat with
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the Iron Chef in Philadelphia. Uh. This week, Paul, if
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I'm correct, you have a little bit of a spring
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: training story from the old Dodger Town in Vero Beach, Florida. Right. Yeah,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: it's a true story, obvious. So all these are And
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna put out a picture on my Instagram on
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: my story and the guy in the top left corner,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: his name is Dave Dickinson or Bones. He was a
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: clubhouse manager, so he can validate the Normo story. I
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: think we're gonna have him calling next week invalidate this story.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: This is it was crazy. And when I when you
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: go to spring training, they bring a ton of catchers.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: So in ninety seven those years they made me a catcher.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: They would bring in a ball, double a stuff like that.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: So I was just a young rookie and I remember
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Mark Guthrie went up to Carols and like I said,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Carrols was my mentor um and he always, you know,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: took care of me. And gut goes over to e
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: K and he goes, hey, who can of the young
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: kids can we trust around here to be the driver?
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I'm sitting there one what is he saying? And Carross
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: goes Luducas Luduca won't say a word, and he's the best.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: By the way I've driven with you. I wouldn't trust
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: you to drive me across the street. So I'm like,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: what's going on here? So now Gut three goes to
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: me and goes, hey, um, I'm gonna get your rent
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: a car for the whole spring training. Okay, So what
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: a lot of people don't realize if you're a minor
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: league player and not married, you have to live on Dodgertown.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: In those days, Dodgertown was like a Marriott with like
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: a residence in um you stayed two guys in a room.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Usually you stayed with another catcher who are your same position.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Player that kind of deal, and you had a guard
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: at the gate, and our curfew was midnight, so you
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: could rent a car if you wanted to, but you
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: had to be home by midnight and there was a
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: guard guarding. So I tell Gut. I'm like, I can't
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: have I can have a rent a car, but I
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: can't leave after midnight. What do I need the rent
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: a car for. He goes, well, there's one condition. You
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: have to pick me up at any time if I
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: call you. I'm like, what do you mean? Because you
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: get a free rent of car for all spring training,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: but you have to pick me up at any time
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: at night. I go, Gut, I can't I go. I
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: can't sneak past the guard. What do you mean? He's like,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I go, I have to drive the car out of Dodgertown.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: I can't I go. He goes, well, what what can
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: you do? I go, Well, the backfields. There's woods in
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: the woods in the backfield had a tiny little parking
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: lot where people could park over there. I said, if
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: you guys tell me what nights you're going out on,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I will park the car over there. So he would
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: text me here and there they're going out going out
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: and nothing's happening. Nothing happening. I parked the car over there.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: One night, I get a phone call at about two
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: in the morning. You gotta come get me. You gotta
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: come get me. I'm like, you gotta be kidding me.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I go, I can't Mark, I go. I gotta block
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: balls with Socia. At eight in the morning, He's like, no,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: you gotta come get us. That's the deal. So now
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: to get out of Daughtertown, you have to hop get
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: out of the front, hop over. Basically climb over. It
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: was actually pretty simple climb. But you can climb up
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: the roof and you just had to climb over one
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: little fence. Wait, you had to climb up a roof. Yeah,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: you have to climb up a roof and you have
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: to climb up a fence. It's how we snuck out
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: a daughter town. The only way you can sneak out,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: you get out. You wanted to have a drink. Where
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: where did you have to go to pick up? I
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: had to pick him up in Melbourne? Had a strip club. Okay,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I was trying to find the name of it and
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I still can't. So now it's a Melbourne, Florida strip club. Yes,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what else you So yeah,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I thought all you need to know now, Like I'm
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: on the phone, by the way, the flip phone that
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: he gave me, um, and I'm asking him where he's
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: at now. Melbourne's like a thirty five minute drive. So
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: he had got me like a jeep Cherokee, like an
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: suv on purpose because he knew, you know, he'd have
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: guys with them. So I drive all the way to Melbourne,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: walk into the Strip club. I look and there's just
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: boxes of pizza hut everywhere, and I'm like, look over
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: and there's Gut three with his arm around Ron Jeremy,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, is this really happening right now? So
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: there's just like five relief pitchers in Ron Jeremy, and
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: all I hear is Gut three, go, Douca, you are
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: the man, Let's go. I go. What So you took
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: him back to Dodgertown, right, No, we're driving back to
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Dodgertown about on. I don't even know what exit it was.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: We're going to Denny's. I the next thing I know,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I am having moons over Mi Hammy with Ron Jeremy,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Mark Guthrie and a bunch of Dodger relievers. We got
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: out of there at I think at five fort by
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the time we got back with six fifteen seven, I did.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I went straight to the field and straight to the field.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: What happened with the shower and blocked balls with social
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: What happened with Ron Jeremy? Like, where did you take him?
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: After Denny's? He just left, Like those guys like went
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: there because Ron Jeremy was going to that strip club
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: that night. And I don't know if one of them,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: I still don't know that just behind this story, like
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: did they know him or were like did they meet
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: him that night? I didn't ask questions. They was such
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: a bog. I saw pizza Hut. The fact that a
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: pizza Hut guy came to a strip club. God knows
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: what they gave that guy. It's Melbourne, It is true,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: it's Melbourne. It but when I saw guts arm around,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: I looked, I double took, like that's Ron Jeremy. Holy cow. Well,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: when I saw like Ron Jeremy's here for the night
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: and he was signing autographs and all those towns got
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: his autograph too, I mean, like a young impressionable Paula
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Duke a meeting. I never I was. I was a kid,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: you know, I remember why. I'm like, this is the
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: big league life. A Melbourne, Florida strip club with Ron Jeremy.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: It was like every stripper was coming up to Ron
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: and like you could have you could have set your
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: spatoon on his belly. I mean, like it was. It
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: was a sight to see that so many people. I
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: wanted to go home with Ron Jeremy. And and in
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: those days, like the sideburns were really kicking, and I
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: had some really good sideburns right there, and they couldn't
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: even touch Ron's. Wow, did you have any good stories?
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: He was pretty smoked, but he was telling a couple
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: of stories. Um, But when you he didn't really want
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: to talk about like the porn industry that much. It's
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: sort of like a job. It's like sort of like
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: when we don't want to talk about baseball a lot
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: off the field. We were trying to ask him a
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: bunch of questions this and that, but he wasn't really interested.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: More guys like Dad are asking us questions like when
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I later, when I talked to uh Gut three eight
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: and about it and Gut goes he came over and
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: recognized one of the other guys who I'm not gonna
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: mention that was there, Um, and he recognized him and
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: knew like there were a couple of Dodger guys and
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: you know, Ron wire to hang out with a bunch
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: of baseball players, and he was asking a bunch of
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: baseball questions. Actually he had no clue who I was.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: I was just the designated driver that was an a
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: ball kid. Now you mentioned that Dodgertown you kind of
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: stayed in like a Marriott. Yeah, So that was the
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: thing we ended up figuring out you could not come back.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: So I told Gut I like, listen, we that was
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: part of the reason why we went to Deny's because
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I was driving and I'm like, I can't go back
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: to Dodgertown right now. Can I sleep at your house?
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Because you could tell the security guard, hey, um, Mark
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: took me out to breakfast, and he's like, I didn't
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: see you leave, and like, yeah, he took me out
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: for breakfast. But if you came in at four in
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: the morning, you were popped, so you had to stay
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: out longer. So I stayed out longer. I just went
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: to Gut's house while he went to bed. Of course,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: he was a veteran relief pitcher. He didn't have to
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: be into like nine or ten. He laid down for
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: a couple of hours. I just took guts to I
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: took him to his house. I waited to like seven
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: seven fifteen. I drove Dodger Town at seven thirty and
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: the security guard was like, did you leave. I'm like, yeah,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go get breakfast. I'm tired of eating the
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: breakfast here. He's like, okay, and that was your move.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: You had to pull pulled in And I literally walked
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: straight into the clubhouse with with no sleep, um in
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: blocking balls and I remember I was in the shower
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: and all those guys just laughed at me. Um. But
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: that was the only time the guy I had a
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: free car. They were laughing at the shower because you
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: were out because they know and they knew what they
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: did they had done to me. But they all like
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: came up to me and said thanks, because you know,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: I had to drag him out of there. They were
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: being obnoxious. You know, when you end up being the
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: sober guy in that situation. In a strip club in Melbourne,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: when Ron, Jeremy and five Los Angeles Dodgers. You sort
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: of trying to clean up the mess. You know, when
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Paul Laduka is the responsible adult in the room, something
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: has gone horribly wrong. But where I was going with
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: the Marriott hotel thing, Paul is a lot of baseball
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: players will use alias is when they check into hotels.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Is that something you've ever done? Of course, what did
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: you use? Well, h Chuck E Cheese was my alias.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: I used Danny Zuko a couple of times. Tell me
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: more about using Chuck E Cheese in a hotel. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Chuck E Cheese was my daughter's favorite place to go to.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: So I just like in two thousand and one, when
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: I started like going off, I didn't realize that like
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: guy's had aliases. But my phone was ringing it sick
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: in the morning, seven the morning, eight in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: and I came to the clubhouse. So we were in
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and uh, Carols came up to I went up
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  Speaker 1: to Carrols like these people cone and He's like, you
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  Speaker 1: don't have an alias. I'm like no. He goes, dude,
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  Speaker 1: you need an alias, like you have to. They're gonna
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: call your room all the time. And he goes, look
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: at the back of the pamphlet. So whenever you get
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: your money, you get your money for your preper dam
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: up front before you go on the road, and you
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: get it in cash, and then you'll get the name list.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: And I never looked at the nameless well I started
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: looking at it was like Mr Flacco. It was like, uh,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Mr bean Um. It was crazy. Everybody had an aliens
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: and so I just came up with Chucky Cheese. So
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: we go to Philadelphia and right after Pittsburgh and my
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: ex wife was with me at the time, and she
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: would never call me during the game, but she's me
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: at literally five o'clock and I think it was like
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: a six fifteen game, and she called the clubhouse, and
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: the club house marriage like, Paul, your wife's on the phone,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: like what it's everything okay. I go call Oh. I'm
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: like are you okay? Okay? She's like, are you kidding me?
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: I'm like what. She's like, can you please talk to
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: this lady. I'm like whine, like I'm at the front
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: desk and they will not let me in because I
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: don't have an I D That says Mrs Cheese. That
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: is a true story. She couldn't get back in the room,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: she went to the gym. This is Mrs Cheese. Yeah
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: that's true. Oh god, damn it, you're a national treasure.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Just think three days in Vegas with me, black Jack.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: I can't wait. Wait all right, everybody, I think, I think.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: On that note, it's time to wrap it up. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for listening to the Favorites. We'll be back again
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: next week with Chad and Scooch and Paul and I'll
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: be back next Thursday. You can download the Favorites on
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