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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: Talking baseball. We go to the Sunshine State, where there
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  Speaker 1: were actually fans in attendance. Very rare to see a
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  Speaker 1: Rays game where there's actually people in the crowd. It's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of Yankee fans, a lot of New York
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  Speaker 1: transplants that live in that area. Yankees spring training home,
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  Speaker 1: and Yankees played like a spring training team, which is appropriate. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we were planning on leading off this night talking about
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. The NFL is king. We know that. That
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  Speaker 1: Falcon Saints game was so bad. How bad was it?
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  Speaker 1: It's not worthy of leading off the night here. The
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  Speaker 1: Falcons absolutely mollywhopped the New Orleans Saints. So we will
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  Speaker 1: start with the baseball. An upset brewing by the bay.
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  Speaker 1: Upset brewing by the bay. If you did not watch,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps not. Someone named Richie Palacios. I have no idea
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  Speaker 1: who that is. But Richie Palacios hit a two-run single,
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  Speaker 1: four-run fifth inning. So a two-ribby single, four-run fifth inning,
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  Speaker 1: and the Tampa Bay baseball team taking advantage of the
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  Speaker 1: sloppy Joe defense played by the New York baseball team
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  Speaker 1: from the American League as they end up beating Cam
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  Speaker 1: Schlittler and the Yankees 5-2. Mr. Cy Young, Cam Schlittler,
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  Speaker 1: and the Yankees take it on the chin, and that means...
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  Speaker 1: that the Tampa Bay baseball team has won the first
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  Speaker 1: two games of this series. They only have to win
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  Speaker 1: one more to advance. The Rays are one victory away
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  Speaker 1: from reaching the American League divisional title into the ALCS
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  Speaker 1: in the Final Four Best of Five. So Game 3,
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  Speaker 1: we'll head back to the Bronx Best of Five there
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  Speaker 1: at Yankee Stadium and A listener emailed and said, aren't
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  Speaker 1: your coworkers having a party in New York for the Yankees?
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  Speaker 1: I wonder who's bringing the funeral potatoes to that thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yikes.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, listen, the story here. is on the Bronx Bombers' side.
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  Speaker 1: That's the better story, the losing locker room. The Yankees
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  Speaker 1: had not one, not two, not three, but four! Four miscues,
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  Speaker 1: another defensive blunder from the New York Yankees there. One
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  Speaker 1: after another, they had three unearned runs, and that set
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees up for defeat. Great start there, three errors
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  Speaker 1: right off the bat. The Yankees are now one defeat away.
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  Speaker 1: from falling short of their 28th World Series title for
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  Speaker 1: the 17th straight year. You hate to see it, unless
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  Speaker 1: you don't. Just think, if you're in high school, like
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  Speaker 1: there's a high school kid that's never seen the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: win the World Series. The Yankees are not that far
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  Speaker 1: away from becoming like the Dallas Cowboys who always talk
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  Speaker 1: about how good they used to be. And the thing
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  Speaker 1: that I love about this is the Yankee fan doesn't
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  Speaker 1: realize how perilous this situation is. They don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: And I find that fascinating. Like 17 years. They're not
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  Speaker 1: going to win this year. So 17 years without winning.
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  Speaker 1: And they're just going to keep the status quo and
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  Speaker 1: all that. Now, Cam Schlittler postgame said that New York
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  Speaker 1: did not play our brand of baseball. And so I
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  Speaker 1: thought that was a really good jumping off point. That
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  Speaker 1: resonated with me. Did it resonate with you?
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: It did?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, Cam Schlittler saying that New York did not
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  Speaker 1: play our brand of baseball. So let's discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: Is Aaron Boone, the skipper, ultimately responsible for the Yankees'
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  Speaker 1: four-error monstrosity in this playoff game? So I've got Billboard 200,
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  Speaker 1: Morgan & Morgan. and Hannah, the hula girl. We will
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together, and we hope to
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  Speaker 1: speak the Queen's English or something close to it, the
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  Speaker 1: Maller version of the Queen's English. So, A, how delicious
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  Speaker 1: is this Yankees disaster for everyone who is not wearing
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  Speaker 1: pinstripes right now, right? Oh, my God. Now, I know
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  Speaker 1: my friends Jill in Minnesota, Yankee fan, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: think E-Dog in New York is. I don't think he
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  Speaker 1: cares about that.
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  Speaker 3: Uncle Mo.
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  Speaker 1: Uncle Mo is a Yankee fan in Jersey. We got
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  Speaker 1: a few others. Our friend from the supermarket grocery store, Steve.
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  Speaker 1: So there's some guys that are Yankee fans out there.
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  Speaker 1: For them, they're bummed out. But for the rest of us...
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  Speaker 1: It was hilarious watching the Yankees try to play baseball.
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  Speaker 1: It was just freaking great. It's like a Saturday afternoon
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  Speaker 1: at the neighborhood park. Where are the orange slices? My God.
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  Speaker 1: One of baseball's glamour franchises, the New York Yankees, sponsored
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  Speaker 1: by Chico's Bell Bonds. They transformed into the Bad News
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  Speaker 1: Bears is what they did there. And Aaron Boone, he's
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  Speaker 1: in the big chair.
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  Speaker 2: Whee!
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  Speaker 1: Aaron boone good old aaron boone lifetime employment like a
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  Speaker 1: supreme court justice you can't get rid of aaron boone
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  Speaker 1: it is never his fault no it's not because everyone
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  Speaker 1: else is micromanaging and brian cash was like we can't
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  Speaker 1: we can't fire aaron boone because he just does what
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  Speaker 1: we tell him to do he has no culpability in
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  Speaker 1: any of this he does get the biggest slice of
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  Speaker 1: the blame pie not that it matters the yankees don't
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  Speaker 1: get rid of him I guess they used their quota
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  Speaker 1: previous generation getting rid of managers to get rid of
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Boone. So the philosophy is rather simple here. When
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  Speaker 1: you talk about the Yankees' approach to baseball and how
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  Speaker 1: bad they were defensively, you're either coaching it or you're
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  Speaker 1: allowing it to happen. And my favorite was Ryan McMahon,
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  Speaker 1: who absolutely sucks as a hitter. He's not a big
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  Speaker 1: league hitter. The only reason the man's in the lineup
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  Speaker 1: is for defense. And he made an error. So good.
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  Speaker 1: So good. So the Yankees were the word is bedraggled.
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  Speaker 1: That is how they played bedraggled. And you are how
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  Speaker 1: you play. And this was fundamentally flawed. And it continues
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  Speaker 1: to be a fundamentally flawed baseball team, a low IQ
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  Speaker 1: baseball team, the New York Yankees, who were frazzled yet again.
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  Speaker 1: The moment was too big. Bright lights, big city. My
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  Speaker 1: fat took us for the New York Yankees. The lights
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  Speaker 1: got bright and we know what happened. They rode the
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  Speaker 1: vomit comet. That's exactly what happened. So Cam Schlittler saying
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  Speaker 1: that this was not Yankees baseball is measurably not true. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 1: It just is. In fact, I would argue what I
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  Speaker 1: have seen in the first two games of this series,
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  Speaker 1: Yankees and Rays, is qualified to make the Billboard 200
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  Speaker 1: for Aaron Boone's October Greatest Hits album. Now, it will
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  Speaker 1: not top my favorite Aaron Boone greatest hits moment. Game 5,
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  Speaker 1: World Series 2024, Yankees and Dodgers in the Bronx when
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  Speaker 1: Garrett Cole failed the cover. First base, Anthony Volpe misplayed
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  Speaker 1: a ball in the infield, and Aaron Judge went Edward
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  Speaker 1: Scissorhands in the outfield. And that was still better than
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  Speaker 1: this because it was the World Series, obviously. This is outstanding.
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  Speaker 1: You look at this. You had the base-running boo-boo in
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  Speaker 1: Game 1. Yankees get shut out. They've had one guy hit.
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  Speaker 1: Ben Rice is oh-so-nice. Everyone else sucks for the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: And perhaps they have to watch the tape. Now, coaches
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  Speaker 1: always say, I want to watch the tape. I've got
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  Speaker 1: to watch the tape. Now, I would argue not the
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  Speaker 1: tape from the games. What they have to do is
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  Speaker 1: they have to go on eBay right now and start
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  Speaker 1: typing around some things. And I recommend. And I'm never
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  Speaker 1: wrong about these things. The Yankees have to get their
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  Speaker 1: hands on a VHS player, and then they have to
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  Speaker 1: get their hands on a Fred McGriff-endorsed Tom Amansky defensive
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  Speaker 1: fundamentals videotape. That's what they need, clearly. Meanwhile, those pesky Rays,
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  Speaker 1: the no-name Rays, poison for television, bad TV, the Tampa
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  Speaker 1: Bay Rays... Yes. Not must-see TV. What's that? There's some
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  Speaker 1: dude on TikTok more famous than anybody on the Tampa
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  Speaker 1: Bay Rays. It's a team that was picked up out
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  Speaker 1: of the lost and found. A hodgepodge of nothingness there
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  Speaker 1: in Tampa. And yet, it's working. It's working. They sit
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  Speaker 1: one win away from the Final Four, the Tampa Bay Rays.
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  Speaker 1: Just one little win away. Meanwhile... We now go to Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: and don't look now, but that team from the south
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  Speaker 1: side of Chicago, the baddest part of town, getting her done.
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  Speaker 1: That was the undercard. Game two from the land, Brandon
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  Speaker 1: Montgomery getting her done there. He ripped a two-ribby double
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  Speaker 1: down the right field line, and that was in the
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  Speaker 1: sixth inning. Go-ahead run scored for Chicago, and someone named
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  Speaker 1: Sean Burk allowed one hit over five and a third
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  Speaker 1: innings of relief. It was the dreaded bullpen game for
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  Speaker 1: the Southsiders as they rallied past the team formerly known
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  Speaker 1: as the Indians. 4-3. So the team from Chicago up
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  Speaker 1: 2-0 in the ALDS. Game three is Wednesday at the
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  Speaker 1: corporately named ballpark in Chicago where the White Sox can
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  Speaker 1: clinch Their first postseason series at home since 1906. No
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  Speaker 1: one was alive. Not a single man or woman was alive. Now,
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  Speaker 1: who was alive then? All right, so anyway, that's what's online.
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  Speaker 1: But the better story, as always, on the loser's side
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  Speaker 1: of things. So Cleveland's offense has completely vanished into thin
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  Speaker 1: air at the worst possible time, wasting another... outstanding pitching performance.
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  Speaker 1: And so the question, how embarrassed are the Guardians to
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  Speaker 1: waste Gavin Williams? This guy's a horse. He's a Clydesdale.
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  Speaker 1: To waste Gavin Williams' 11 strikeout performance. So how embarrassing
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  Speaker 1: is it for the team known after a bridge they're
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  Speaker 1: named well that's embarrassing enough can it get any more
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  Speaker 1: embarrassing your team is named after a bridge okay of
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  Speaker 1: course the White Sox are named after a sock so
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  Speaker 1: that's embarrassing too they're all embarrassing names uh all right
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  Speaker 1: so in terms of how embarrassing is it is so
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  Speaker 1: embarrassing someone needs to call Morgan and Morgan because Gavin
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  Speaker 1: Williams has a legitimate malpractice case that's how bad this
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  Speaker 1: was And Williams serving prime rib on the mound. You
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  Speaker 1: get a slab of prime rib. You get a slab
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  Speaker 1: of prime rib. And 11 strikeouts outstanding. And the Guardians
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  Speaker 1: showed up with plastic forks. Bad job by them. So
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland treating the home plate area to get around and score,
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  Speaker 1: treating that like it requires TSA pre-check. It's very hard
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  Speaker 1: to do that. And the Mallard diagnosis here. The team
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  Speaker 1: formerly known as the Indians suffering from the extreme case
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  Speaker 1: of tight tuchus syndrome. It's a seasonal allergy that pops
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  Speaker 1: up in October. Now, meanwhile, the White Sox manager, Will Venable,
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  Speaker 1: throwing bullpen games like he's emptying the junk drawer and
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  Speaker 1: it's working. Now, you know how I feel about bullpen games.
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  Speaker 1: One of my pet peeves. I hate it. I hate it.
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  Speaker 1: But Venable out there conducting a bring-your-own-pitcher night against to
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  Speaker 1: the ballpark, and Cleveland still sucked. It's unreal. It's a
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  Speaker 1: spring training style, and the White Sox are using it.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen it a lot in the playoffs. It is unbecoming.
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  Speaker 1: If baseball had real leadership, a real boss with balls,
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  Speaker 1: this would not happen. But Rob Manfred's there looking clueless.
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  Speaker 1: He was actually in the Cleveland White Sox ballpark there
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  Speaker 1: as they showed him on TV, and he looked dazed
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  Speaker 1: and confused as he always does. Completely clueless, says the commissioner.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a spring training thing. It's like they did
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  Speaker 1: this in spring training. They still do it in spring training.
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  Speaker 1: Get your innings in. Go out and golf. Now they
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  Speaker 1: do it in the playoffs. It's wild. They've done it
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  Speaker 1: in the World Series. Yeah. My God. So it is
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  Speaker 1: alarming that the team from Northern Ohio got food poisoning
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  Speaker 1: and essentially a pitching potluck. That's all it was. And
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  Speaker 1: so everyone loves to talk in the baseball media about
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  Speaker 1: the culture of Cleveland, the culture club they have going
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  Speaker 1: on there, which is just wonderful. They have great culture,
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  Speaker 1: wonderful culture. So does the culture know how to hit
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  Speaker 1: in October? Because it doesn't seem like it knows how
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  Speaker 1: to hit in October. It seems like it's forgotten that
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  Speaker 1: over the years. And the manager, Stephen Vogt, claims that
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  Speaker 1: the team he has thrives. They thrive with their backs
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  Speaker 1: against the wall. which they can all talk about next
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  Speaker 1: week when the team has a get-together, a goodbye party
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  Speaker 1: on a pontoon boat while they're fishing. They can say, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we love our backs against the wall. We are going
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  Speaker 1: to do great. All right, last word. Let's move away
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  Speaker 1: from the American. Let's go to the National League side
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  Speaker 1: of things and the big controversy of the day. in
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball out of San Diego, where Padres manager
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  Speaker 1: Craig Stammen was asked about the viral social media post
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  Speaker 1: claiming that the Brewers had cracked the code on Mason Miller.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see this?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: All right, so Craig Stammen was asked about this. He
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  Speaker 1: dismissed the social media investigators claiming that claimed they had
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  Speaker 1: uncracked the code, they being the Brewers, and they had
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  Speaker 1: video to back it up that Mason Miller was tipping
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  Speaker 1: his pitches during his Game 2 meltdown in the ninth inning.
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  Speaker 1: Now the suspicions grew as Milwaukee repeatedly laid off the
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  Speaker 1: lethal as an anaconda pitch, the slider during the ninth
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  Speaker 1: inning comeback, which is typically a pitch that hitters do
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  Speaker 1: not lay off of. They just don't. They normally swing
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  Speaker 1: at that, and that's the secret power. So Miller threw
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  Speaker 1: 40 pitches over the two innings, only 21 for strikes.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a 50-50 proposition for Mason Miller. He walked
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  Speaker 1: three Brewers before Jackson Churrio had the biggest hit in
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  Speaker 1: recent Brewers history there, and they get to win. So
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  Speaker 1: Craig Salmon said that San Diego has a staff specifically
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  Speaker 1: assigned to detect a pitch tipping and insisted the Padres
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  Speaker 1: are completely on top of it. That's what he said.
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  Speaker 1: He dismissed the online chatter, the detective work online saying
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  Speaker 1: the internet can be crazy. That's his quote. The internet
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  Speaker 1: can be crazy from the Padres manager. Well, expressing complete
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  Speaker 1: and total confidence. Of course, the Padres know what they're doing. Wink, wink, nod, nod.
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  Speaker 1: So here's the question on this one. Did Padres manager
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  Speaker 1: Craig Stammen successfully kill the internet-driven Mason Miller pitch-tipping controversy,
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  Speaker 1: or did he simply pour gasoline on it? So in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the idea that he successfully killed the story, please, please, right?
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  Speaker 1: We don't buy that at all. He consulted with Hannah
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  Speaker 1: the hula girl. And they got together and they decided
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  Speaker 1: to pour Arco top-tier gasoline all over, all over this
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  Speaker 1: particular story. Now, Stammen never, it's very important to listen
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  Speaker 1: to the words, he never explicitly said Mason Miller wasn't
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  Speaker 1: Tipping is pitches. And tipping pitches is not like a new,
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  Speaker 1: it's a new thing. As long as you don't get
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  Speaker 1: out a 17 camera set up with buzzers and trash
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  Speaker 1: cans like the cheating a-holes, it is allowed. Baseball for
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  Speaker 1: years used to employ really senile old men. And they'd
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  Speaker 1: put these guys who were in their 80s in uniform.
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  Speaker 1: When I was a kid, it was like the dumbest thing.
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  Speaker 1: Why is that guy in uniform? Oh, because he was
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  Speaker 1: good at finding the tails. who was tipping pitches and
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  Speaker 1: what they were doing. And I remember the Angels used
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  Speaker 1: to go to those games. They had a guy named
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Reese, who was a really nice man. Everyone said
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  Speaker 1: how nice Jimmy Reese was. And he was around with
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  Speaker 1: the Angels. He was Babe Ruth's roommate. But his job
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  Speaker 1: was to hit fungos before the game and try to
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  Speaker 1: figure out the pitches, what was coming. Teams have done this.
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  Speaker 1: Every team, when I was younger, they all had somebody
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  Speaker 1: like this. Anyway, the point is, The manager of the
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  Speaker 1: Padres never said, hey, he wasn't tipping pitches. He just said,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to take care of it. They're not concerned.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, no one's ever concerned about anything. The Internet refuses.
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  Speaker 1: The Internet refuses to accept Occam's razor. When a conspiracy
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  Speaker 1: theory is available, they dismiss Occam's razor. The simplest answer
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  Speaker 1: is most likely the right answer. Now, maybe Mason Miller
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  Speaker 1: was tipping his pitches. maybe Mason Miller was hurt. That's
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  Speaker 1: another excuse you all make when somebody doesn't play well.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe our friend Andrea can tell us that Mercury was
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  Speaker 1: in retrograde. And stay with me here. This is going
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  Speaker 1: to blow your mind. Maybe Mason Miller just sucked at
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  Speaker 1: a time you cannot suck. No, the baseball intelligentsia cannot process,
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  Speaker 1: cannot process the concept of a random human falling apart
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  Speaker 1: in a big moment. No, he must be hurt. He's
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  Speaker 1: just tipping his bitches.
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  Speaker 4: It was no.
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  Speaker 1: No, it can't be that, God forbid, the guy just gagged.
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  Speaker 1: Can't say it. Cannot do it. No. So somebody must
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  Speaker 1: have cracked some kind of Mason Miller code and Morse
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  Speaker 1: code or something along those lines. And every bad performance,
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  Speaker 1: this is of the last like 10 years or so,
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  Speaker 1: every bad performance needs an alibi. Got to have an alibi.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently he stunk, which sounds pretty good to me. That
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  Speaker 1: sounds kosher to me. He stunk is no longer acceptable.
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  Speaker 1: In American sport. Now, sometimes a professional athlete simply has
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  Speaker 1: a lousy day at the office. It does happen. There's
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  Speaker 1: no decoder ring required and all that. So we'll see
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  Speaker 1: what happens in that game. If the Padres are even
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  Speaker 1: in position to put Mason Miller on the mound, they
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  Speaker 1: are facing... The clergy outside their door right now is
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  Speaker 1: a priest, a rabbi, a shaman. They're all out there
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  Speaker 1: waiting for the last rites of the Padres.
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• 20:13
  Speaker 1: We move over to our old friend. The National Football League.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: There was just one game left. An Ivan game!
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: I like football.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: We love it. What is that, Anthony? What's that?
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: I like football.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: You do? Okay, we're going to talk football. Calm down. See,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: that's the kind of drop we need more of. I
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: love that. We can have so much fun with that. Anthony,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: what should we talk about?
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I like football.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, we'll talk about football, and why not? So our
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: lead this hour is from the bayou where somewhere Ben
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Jamin is jamming down some jambalaya, and he went to
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: that pig roast in the morning, and then in the
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: nighttime hours, the hometown team, well, they were roasted like
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: a pig. Yes, NFC South, slobber knocker, slobber knocker on
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: the shores of the mighty Mississippi River. You had the
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Fox refugees, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. Lame duck Troy
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Aikman right there on ABC. So I don't know if
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: you watched the game or not. Perhaps not. But John
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Robinson doing it again. Getting her done. 145 yards and
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: not one but two touchdowns. And he started the festivities,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: the lid lifter, a 59-yard touchdown run. Rumbling and stumbling.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: He was not tackled by the turf monster. And that
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: was on Atlanta's third play from scrimmage. The Falcons get
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: it done. They give the Saints an absolute thumping in
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: the dome. And it was supposed to be a night
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: of celebration. This is a body blow, body blow to
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: those of you that think all of this is fixed.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: It's all scripted. If it was scripted, the Saints would
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: have won the game. This was not part of the
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: happy-go-lucky script. Nonetheless, that's what happened. So this was supposed
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: to be a night of celebration to commemorate the 20th
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: anniversary of the Superdome reopening, which is wild. It's been
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: 20 years since Hurricane Katrina knocked out the dome and
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: put New Orleans underwater all those years ago. And so
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: they had a big celebration. The honoring of Mr. Gleason
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: was there and Drew Brees and all these old Saints
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: legends from years gone by were in the house. The
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: better story is in the losing locker room, so that
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: would be the home team. The team from Louisiana. So
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. How
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: does New Orleans come out that flat on this particular night?
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: It's one thing to... lose late and don't play well
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: down the stretch they got their doors blown off the
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: hometown team there with the dome anniversary celebration how does
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: that happen so i've got airport carpeting puffy and cherry
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: red and we will combine all of these things together
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: and we are going to have a grand old hootenanny
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: is what we're going to do. So number one!
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: One, one, one, one, one, one, one, one!
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Number one!
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I said number one!
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Number one!
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: All right, so Coach Kellen Moore, he had an extra day. Now, normally,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: if you look at the trends, when you have an
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: extra day of preparation, you're in good shape. You're in
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: good shape. The team that has a rest advantage typically
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: does very well. So Kellen Moore's team had an extra
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: day to prepare, and apparently they used it to update...
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: The Express Pros profile. He was updating his resume there.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: An extra day and played on Monday. Didn't play on
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Sunday and all that. So everybody in Louisiana, every man, woman,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: and child who pays attention to football knew. that Atlanta
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: was going to come out and run the ball early
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: and run the ball often. Even if your only experience
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: with football is playing video games, you could easily have
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: deciphered that that is what the Falcons were going to do.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Apparently everyone knew that except the defense for the Saints.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: So you cannot blame the football gods. You can't blame
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: the football gods on this one when the other team
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: is gashing you for over 200 yards rushing. I think
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the final total was 205 yards of rushing offense. That
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: is football Darwinism for the New Orleans Saints there. They
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: spent all week hyping up the Dome Coming. Oh, what
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: a cute little marketing term. Whee! Dome Marketing. The Dome Coming.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: And then they played with the emotional intensity of airport carpeting.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: And they were flat. How flat were they? They were
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: flatter than a day-old Dr. Pepper. Actually, check that. They
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: were not flatter than a day-old Dr. Pepper. They were Dr.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Pepper that was left open in the garage since August.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: That would be August of 2023. That's how flat they were.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: And we've long believed the mantra of, that you don't
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: want to play bad teams early in the year because
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: they don't realize they're bad. Like the Raiders. The Raiders
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: are a bad team. They don't realize they're bad. And
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: they beat some other bad teams, and so they feel
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: good about themselves. And it's not legit. And people get
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: hornswoggled by teams like the Raiders. New Orleans is a
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: bad team. And they played the Raiders already, lost to
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: the Raiders. New Orleans is your classic bad team. They
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: did upset the Baltimore Ravens, which is another demerit for
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson's And all that. But good teams are able
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: to disguise their weaknesses. Bad teams, well, let's just say,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: like the team from New Orleans, they put their weaknesses
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: on display in 4K. And they don't know early in
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: the year they're bad. They think, well, things could be different.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: We could be good. At 1-3, and that is the
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: record of the hometown team there in New Orleans, the
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Saints have reached essentially the quarter pole mark record. If
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: you will, in the NFL, about four games, that's where
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: you see where you are, do a check and say, okay,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: where are we at? So you're four games in, and
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: this is about the time on the calendar where the
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: bad teams start looking in the mirror and they realize,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, that's me. I'm bad. Bad to the bone.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: We suck. And it's like, oh, no, that's actually us.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: We're that. Oh, no, we're screwed. They don't have depth.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Bad teams don't have a lot of depth. The backups
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: aren't very good. The coaching doesn't coach up the backups.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: And that's essentially what the Saints are in a nutshell.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Kellen Moore doesn't really coach these guys up. And so
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: if you have your starters, you can compete. And then
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: when those guys start getting hurt, you're porked. Meanwhile, to
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the Atlanta side of things, and watch out because everybody–
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: jumping up and they're jumping up and down and say,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Oh my God, there's a new player at the table.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: A big boy table player. There are the Atlanta Falcons.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Suddenly a legitimate heavyweight contender in the national football conference.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Hold your horses on that. Congratulations. You beat the saints and, Congratulations.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Way to go. And I will give you a puffy sticker.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I will give you a puffy sticker for that. Beating
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: a bad New Orleans team and slapping around a Green
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Bay team that should not make the playoffs. Now, they
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: may make the playoffs. They shouldn't make the playoffs. The Packers.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: And doing that in prime time is neat. That's great.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: So here's my position on the Atlanta football team. Uh, they,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: they beat a couple of teams that are not elite.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: So that's unfortunately something I can't give you style points for.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: I can't. And yeah, Atlanta brought the razzle dazzle at times.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: They had some big plays, but these were games where
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: you were supposed to play. Well, you had the more
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: talented roster and fine. You did it. And you've got
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: the star power. We can all agree that Bajon Robinson
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: and Drake London and friends and all these guys, they
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: have the name players or players that are becoming names
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. Certainly for you dorks that play fantasy football,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: it's kind of big. And they've got the building blocks
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: not to be the Legion of Boom, more likely Legion
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: of Zoom as they zoom past you. And the blueprint
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: here is rather simple. Run, run, run, run, run. Run
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: the ball early. Run the ball often. And use your quarterback,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Michael Penix Jr., as a decoy. It's essentially what they did.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Threw the ball, I believe, 20 times or something like that,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: which in modern NFL is not very much. Just keep
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: it around that number if you're Atlanta. And everyone loves
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: the Dirty Birds today because, let's face it, people that
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: follow sports... have chronic recency bias. And if you won,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: you're great. And if you lost, you're the worst thing
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: in the world. And that's just the way it is.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: It's just a classic recency bias situation. So you look
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: around and it's like, oh, John Robinson's legit, but he's
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: just a running back. How far can that take you?
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: It's just having a good running back. And so the
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Falcons contender status, I have them still under investigation. The
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: schedule gods are smiling. i believe they play the ravens
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: and the bears upcoming and those teams will likely be
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: without their starting quarterbacks so that's good i'm intrigued by
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: atlanta but there is a difference between what you do
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: in october being interesting in October and a team to
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: keep an eye on, and then being an intimidating team
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: come January. So we're not buying the Falcons. We're not
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: selling the Falcons. We're in a holding pattern on the Falcons.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: The report card, I wrote down not an A or
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: a B or a C. I wrote down an I
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: for incomplete. It is an incomplete report. report card for
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons. All right, now, final point, follow-up, follow-up
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: to a story we talked about in a previous episode
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: of the show. We go to Arizona. Another day and
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: another report that the Cardinals could trade wide receiver Marvin
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Harrison Jr. I love the engagement farming going on on
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: social media, saying multiple teams doing their due diligence to
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Their due diligence on the former number four overall pick.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Number four. That's live. Marvin Harrison Jr. And the Colts
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: were mentioned. Adam Schefter making the rounds there. Somebody brought
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: up the Colts. And he said, wouldn't that make sense? Which,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: of course, all he had to say, Adam Schefter, was
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: wouldn't that make sense? And the floodgates were open. So
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of trade speculation. I don't understand it
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: because I've actually watched him play. And he can't play.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: But yet, the always cockeyed optimistic executives around the NFL
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: are like, well, he's bad there, but if he comes
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: to our team, he'll be better. So a lot of chatter.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: And the belief is that Marvin Harrison Jr. is likely
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: to be traded. The trade deadline is November 10th. So
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: we're about a month out from the NFL trade deadline.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Here's the question. Would Cardinals wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr.,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Going to Indianapolis, because that was the rumor of the day.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison Jr. going to Indianapolis. Be the NFL's best
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: feel-good story. Or another example of sports becoming obsessed with nostalgia.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: It's all about the nostalgia. So the arrow on this
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: one is pointing firmly towards schmaltz. It's all about the
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: schmaltzy bullcrap. That's what you love, right? Romanticism. He was
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: a little boy on the sidelines with the Colts, Marvin
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Harrison Jr., and now he's all grown up dropping catches
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: or not even trying to get open. So his father,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: of course, Marvin Harrison Sr., spent his entire career in Indianapolis,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: lived a very interesting life off the field, a life
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: that some say was of crime. But he played on Sunday,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: played well, played well on Sunday. And all the family reunions.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Tug at the heartstrings. Tug at the heartstrings. Crank up
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: the Blackstone. We're going to be grilling some burgers and
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: all that. Why not? Checks all the boxes. Checks all
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the boxes. Good bloodlines. He's 6'4, 220, chiseled out of
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: stone like a Greek god. He's Adonis. You look at
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: this guy, Marvin Harrison Jr., workout warrior. Now, the problem
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: is the actual results. That's the problem here. Four games.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: The Cardinals have played. How many catches do you think
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison Jr. has in four games? What do you
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: think he's got? We'll make it multiple choice. I'll make
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: it easier for you. Do you think he has 13 catches,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: nine catches, or seven catches? What do you think? All right.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Reveal answers. And the correct answer is D. None of
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: the above. No, the correct answer is five. He's got
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: five catches in four games. Five catches in four games.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: 85 yards. 85 yards for Marvin Harrison. Can I ask
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: you a question? Why are some of you treating Marvin
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Harrison Jr. like he is an elite receiver? The man
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: has five catches. Five catches. Does that not make him
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: the NFL's ultimate NEPO baby? Top five pick in the draft.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Can't play. Can't play. Now, one NFL executive, I brought
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: this up the other day in a previous episode of
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: the show, but I went back and got the quote.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: So there was an NFL executive recently behind a paywall
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: on The Athletic who gave a scouting report about Marvin
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Harrison Jr. Here's the scouting report. Said, forget where he
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: was drafted. Watch him play. The NFL. unnamed nfl executive
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: said of marvin harrison jr's watch him play he's like
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: a third receiver with upside.
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: Now here's the money part of the quote about marvin
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: harrison jr the unnamed nfl executive said he's not fast
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: he's not physical and he doesn't do anything.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: After the catch close quote hey oh that's a mic
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: drop right there that is a mic drop quote Wow.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: So not fast, not physical, doesn't do anything after the catch.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Other than that, he's a hell of a guy. And
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: he really makes some good scrambled eggs with cheese. Really
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: good scrambled eggs with cheese. Outstanding. So buying Marvin Harrison Jr.,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: buying him from the Cardinals, would be like buying a
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: cherry red Porsche with no engine. Great paint job, looks
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: wonderful on the outside. But you're not really getting anywhere.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: You're not really getting anywhere there. So good afternoon, good evening,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: and good night.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 35:34
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• 35:38
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• 35:53
  Speaker 3: Underdogs at home. After the game, Cam Scadaboo said, it's dumb.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: It's dumb to be underdogs at home. Felt like they
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: were disrespected, Ben. Do you think it was dumb that
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: they were the underdogs at home? No.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: The Cardinals had the ball driving down the field late,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: and then the Jacobi were sent through an interception. The
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Cardinals were in position to, I think, tie the game
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: or take the lead even late in that game. It wasn't,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: you know, disrespected. The Giants have Jameis Winston. That's the
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: proper level of respect. Your quarterback's Jameis Winston. Next! Next!
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: So the Packers were able to win another game. They're
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: now two and two, but they didn't look any better
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: doing it.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: No, they didn't.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: They're missing Micah Parsons and Josh Jacobs. Do you think
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: when those two eventually return, things will turn around for
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: Green Bay?
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: No, because Micah Parsons doesn't sound like he's in a
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: rush to come back. He's milking it, taking his time.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: And imagine if he got paid based on his performance.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: He had to show up and work. He'd probably already
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: be playing. But the problem is Jordan Love is not
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: as good as the Packers thought he was going to be.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: And you don't get around that. Like, how do you
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: get better with that? He's just not that good. He's mediocre.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Next.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Travis Hunter had a good game on defense, had an
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: interception that was nullified by a penalty, some pass deflections
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: and a few big hits. but he didn't play a
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: single snap on offense. Have we seen the end of
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: this two-way experiment?
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Well, it would appear if you don't play a single
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: snap on offense, you're no longer a two-way player. You're
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: only a defensive player. And so why did the Jags
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: trade up to get him? It's ridiculous. How did we do, Kubelow?
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: You passed this.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: That is a win. Put it on the board. Winner, winner, winner.
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• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Mallard's Mountain of Money.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: Lord, that's a lot of money.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: Probably not.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: And let's play Mallard's Amount of Money. Let's welcome in
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Mike from Salem, where the witches hang out there in
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: the Commonwealth. Hello, Mike.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: Welcome.
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: Good morning.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: What's up, guys? What's going on, Mike? You're going to
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: play Mallard's Amount of Money. Who do you want to
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: partner up with, Mike?
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: I'll go with you, Mallard.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: You need more confidence. I need more confidence. Let's go, man.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: There we go. All right.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: He knows how often I win this game. He wants
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: to go with the star of the show.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: And we have J.C. who's right down the street from
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: us here in Sherman Oaks. Hello, J.C. Welcome. Hello, Mr. Ben.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Always a pleasure. Always a pleasure. Thank you. You want
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: to play with Lorena or Coop? J.C. will choose J.C.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: That's right. J.C.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: Squared.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: There you go. There you go. All right.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: Stop.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: All right, gentlemen, you're online. What are the categories here? Cool, please.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: All right, gentlemen, this is the ACDC edition. Brian Johnson
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: turned 79 years old on Monday.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: The categories are Back in Black, Hell's Bells, Brain Shake,
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: and Thunderstruck. Mike, you were on first. Which category would
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: you like?
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Hell's Bells. Hell's Bells.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: All right. JC, how about you?
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Back in black.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Back in black. All right. Very good. We will put
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: 45 seconds on the clock. We need the first and
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: last name. These athletes struck fear into their opponents for
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: 45 seconds. Are you ready? there, Mike, in Salem? Let's go.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: All right, 40. We're on our way. Go! He was
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Kobe's sidekick on the Lakers.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: Shaquille O'Neal.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Yes, the biggest steroid home run guy in baseball history
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: for the Giants. Barry Barnes. Yes, the big unit for
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: the Seattle Mariners and other teams.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: Randy Johnson.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Yes, the greatest linebacker for the New York Giants. Lawrence Taylor. Yes,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: he was a Pittsburgh Steelers star. He was a very
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: mean defensive star for the Steelers. Mean Joe Green. There
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: you go. The Nigerian nightmare for the Kansas City Chiefs
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: back in the day. Running back. Played at Azusa Pacific,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: of all places. That doesn't do anything for you.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: No.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: Herschel Walker?
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: No. Another Steelers legend. All right. Christian Okoye, the Nigerian
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Nightmare was his name. Before your time, I'm sure. And
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: we didn't even get to the 100-point question, so all right.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: What is that, Lorena? 160. 160. All right, Coop, you're up.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: All right, JC, this is a much tougher category, but
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: we're going to kill it.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: No, it is not. It is.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: All right, so back in black, these athletes all recently
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: passed away within the last year.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: They're all dead. Yes.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: All right, 45 seconds o'clock, JC.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Are you ready? Got it.
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: All right, let's begin. One of the best professional wrestlers
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: of all time, brother.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: This guy has a surgery, an elbow surgery named after
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: him in baseball.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: This guy has a grill named after him, a boxer. No, no. He's...
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: All right, we'll skip that one. No. This guy was
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: a longtime coach in the NBA of the Warriors and
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: the Mavericks.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: This guy was a Hall of Famer for the Pirates.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: His nickname was the Cobra.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: His name, Dave Parker. Yes.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: It was a NASCAR driver just recently died. His brother's
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: name is Kurt.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't get that. 110.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: Kyle Busch. Yeah. George Foreman has a grill, not a.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Damn.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Damn, you're right. I throw the mob grill.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: Sorry. Oh, you were thinking of the diamond grill.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: That's my fault.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Well, here we go. What is the score here?
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: 160 to 110. Oh, well, we're winning. Yeah. So you
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: and I are back up, JC. Do you want do
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: you want Brain Shake or Thunderstruck?
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Thunderstruck.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: These athletes were all on teams that suffered epic upsets.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: 45 seconds.
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: Let's begin. Best quarterback of all time for the Patriots.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: One of the best Dallas Mavericks of all time from Germany.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: This guy was a quarterback for USC and the Jets.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: The butt fumble.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: The best player on the New York Knicks before Jalen Brunson.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: This guy's nickname was the Golden Arm. He was the
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: quarterback for the Baltimore Colts.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: This guy was an outfielder, Hall of Famer for the Orioles.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: His nickname was the Judge.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know that one.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: This guy was the number one overall pick from Michigan.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: He was a left tackle.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: What's the score?
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: 270.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: Here we go. Here we go. Are you ready? Are
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: you ready, Mike? Yep. Brain shake. Here we go. Celtics
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: color commentator on TV from USC, Bob Redhead guy. Brian Scalaberry. Yeah!
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: You don't win. You're 10 short. We win.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: No, we won, actually. No, you didn't. Because I ran
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: out of time, so I won because we got the
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: 100-point question.
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: Nope.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: That's the rule.