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Hour 1 - Georgia Peach to the Beach · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Bibbidi-boppidi-boo. How do you do? It's hour number one, hour
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  Speaker 1: one of the Ben Maller Show podcast. Happy Thursday to you.
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  Speaker 1: It is the eighth day of October, and here we
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  Speaker 1: are side by side again, another edition of the Ben
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  Speaker 1: Maller Show podcast. Reminder, the fifth hour podcast returns tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have three new episodes every Friday, Saturday, But this
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  Speaker 1: is the Thursday pod. We stayed up all night to
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  Speaker 1: give you a fresh pod as the Dodgers have punched
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  Speaker 1: their ticket into the Final Four. They exterminate the once-proud Braves.
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  Speaker 1: So instead of talking about the Dodgers to start, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to start with the team from the ATL. How
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  Speaker 1: much blame does Ronald Acuna Jr. deserve for the latest
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  Speaker 1: playoff elimination by Atlanta? And speaking of him, what does
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  Speaker 1: the future hold for Ronald Acuna Jr. in a Braves
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  Speaker 1: uniform today? A lot of chatter that his days are numbered.
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  Speaker 1: And on the other side, do the Dave Roberts Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: deserve a hooray for knocking out Atlanta? And a listener
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  Speaker 1: reached out to me saying that I need to open
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  Speaker 1: a flower shop and hand out flowers to the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: because they beat the Braves. I will explain why that
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  Speaker 1: is not the case. We'll get to all that and
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  Speaker 1: more right now. Your second bite of the apple. It's
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  Speaker 1: our number one. Well, the Georgia Peach is headed to
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  Speaker 1: Prop Guy that are all in. on nfl week five
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  Speaker 1: and i don't blame you boys because nfl week five
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  Speaker 1: is here baby and it's a big one bears versus
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  Speaker 1: packers stop bears versus the packers it's sunday's america's game
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  Speaker 1: of the week streaming live on fox one now if
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  Speaker 1: you miss it live you're just watching a highlight don't
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  Speaker 1: be that guy come on catch every play as it
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  Speaker 1: happens bears packers live on fox one coming up this
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  Speaker 1: week Excited about that. So the baseball playoffs. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a baseball-heavy night on the show as the
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  Speaker 1: series is ending. Everything except one. There's one left. And
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  Speaker 1: it's the least attractive. It's just a bunch of slop.
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  Speaker 1: Bullpen games, lack of star players, not a great product.
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  Speaker 1: But the White Sox, who gagged at home, all the
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  Speaker 1: people all dressed up, all dolled up, excited. They had
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  Speaker 1: their White Sox gear on. Guys like Faze in Chicago
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  Speaker 1: and Eugene were all excited about the White Sox. And
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  Speaker 1: then they went out there and laid an egg against
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  Speaker 1: the Cleveland Guardians. That is not our lead, though. But
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  Speaker 1: that's the only series remaining. Everything else is over. Kaput.
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  Speaker 1: The Brew crew get it done in the late game.
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  Speaker 1: So Milwaukee has advanced as the Padres do what the
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  Speaker 1: Padres always seem to do this time of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Put their tail between their legs and walk away. The
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  Speaker 1: Yankees are dead. The Yankees are dead. 17 years in
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  Speaker 1: a row. A Yankee haters paradise as the Bronx Bombers
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  Speaker 1: turn into the Bronx Bummers. The no-name Tampa Bay Rays
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  Speaker 1: have eliminated the The New York Yankees and the other series.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Atlanta. Why don't we start with Atlanta?
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  Speaker 1: It was elimination day, or was it, for the Atlanta Braves.
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  Speaker 1: Game four of the NLDS win or go home with
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  Speaker 1: the D-O-D-G-E-R-S Dodgers. Did you watch this game? Maybe not.
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  Speaker 1: The third different play-by-play announcer.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Game four, but three different playoff announcers. Joe Davis apparently
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  Speaker 1: down for the count again. Guess they couldn't get him
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  Speaker 1: any good steroids. Because usually when you have laryngitis, they
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  Speaker 1: just inject you with steroids and then you're good like
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  Speaker 1: within a couple hours. He wasn't there. And our friend
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  Speaker 1: Kenny Albert was busy doing hockey for friends and family
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  Speaker 1: to watch. And so they changed the announcers again. And
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  Speaker 1: it was fine. One thing that did not change is
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers' success as the light-hitting playoff version of Andy Paez.
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  Speaker 1: It was not light-hitting here. He drove in a pair,
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  Speaker 1: a two-ribby hit with the bases loaded, a single in
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  Speaker 1: the seventh inning to give the Los Angeles baseball team
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  Speaker 1: the lead. The Dodgers end up beating the Braves 4-1,
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  Speaker 1: and they wrap up the NL game. divisional series the
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  Speaker 1: dodgers winning back-to-back games in georgia to take the best
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  Speaker 1: of five match up three to one all that talk
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  Speaker 1: what a great home field advantage okay well it didn't
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  Speaker 1: work out uh for the home team there and so
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  Speaker 1: the dodgers back in the nlcs trying to become the
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  Speaker 1: first national league team to win three straight world series
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  Speaker 1: The better story, though, is in the losing locker room.
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  Speaker 1: So that is where we will begin as Ronald Acuna Jr.
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  Speaker 1: He went hitless in the game on hump day there
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday night, an elimination game, and finished his season.
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  Speaker 1: with a futile performance. It's like getting to the end
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  Speaker 1: of a marathon and tripping at the six-mile mark. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you get to go 6.2 miles. You can't just go
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  Speaker 1: 26 miles. No, no, I'm stopping at the, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to stop a little short, 0.2 miles short. Okay. Now, postgame.
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  Speaker 1: Ronald Acuna admitted, he gave some pointed quotes. He was
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  Speaker 1: very emotional. He was reclaimed. He said, I'm particularly frustrated
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  Speaker 1: with myself. I feel like I did nothing to help
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  Speaker 1: the team this series. Close quote. All right, so that
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  Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: Better story than losing a locker room. So how much
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  Speaker 1: blame does outfielder Ronald Acuna Jr. deserve for Atlanta's latest
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  Speaker 1: playoff eliminations? So I've got Oktoberfest, Copacabana, and Bugs Bunny.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll put all these things together. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: crank things into high gear. We are going to go
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  Speaker 1: into high gear. So A, Atlanta continues to advertise Ronald
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  Speaker 1: Acuna Jr. as a superstar. Apparently, truth in advertising does
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  Speaker 1: not apply to Major League Baseball. It doesn't. and this
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  Speaker 1: guy was a star at one point. Ronald Acuna Jr.
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  Speaker 1: has the Complete Superstar Starter Kit. So he's got the name.
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  Speaker 1: He's got some good you-know-what to it, and that's a
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  Speaker 1: solid name. It's not Joe Blow. It's Ronald Acuna Jr.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good name. He's got some highlights. People like
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  Speaker 1: the highlights. The merch. The only thing missing would be the,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, performance? Didn't show up in October. Sent
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  Speaker 1: out the cardboard cutout version wearing the Atlanta uniform, the
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  Speaker 1: Braves uniform there. So this was, again, supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity for the Braves star, Ronald Lacuna Jr., to
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  Speaker 1: celebrate Oktoberfest. Instead, he delivered the Oktoberflop. It's on the fest,
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  Speaker 1: not the flop version. That's a bad job by you.
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  Speaker 1: Going from the straw that was going to stir the drink.
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  Speaker 1: to a paper umbrella collecting dust. That's essentially what happened here.
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  Speaker 1: How bad was it? Thanks for asking. As Acuna went
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  Speaker 1: in 24 at-bats, had three hits. That's a robust 125
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  Speaker 1: batting average with zero extra base hits in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: He was 0 for 6 with runners in scoring position. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're being mean, Ballard. I know. I know. I'm the
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  Speaker 1: schmuck for pointing this out. You should really get down
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  Speaker 1: on your knee pads and celebrate the season. Okay. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not doing that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't play professional baseball. I do believe, though, if
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  Speaker 1: you hit 125 in the postseason, you're not doing your job.
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  Speaker 1: So the Dodgers didn't even really need to neutralize him.
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  Speaker 1: He came pre-neutralized right out of the box. So attention
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  Speaker 1: Braves management. I'll let you know right now. I am available.
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  Speaker 1: I know there's going to be a work stoppage coming
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  Speaker 1: up in baseball. I promise you I can go 0
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  Speaker 1: for 24 for a fraction of the money. that this
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  Speaker 1: catch make. So if you're interested, you know how to
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  Speaker 1: find me here. I'm not hard to find. And it's
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  Speaker 1: safe to say that Ronald Acuna Jr. gets the jumbo-sized
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  Speaker 1: slice of the blame cream pie there for the hometown team. Now,
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  Speaker 1: page two, keeping the theme going. here, as the Braves
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  Speaker 1: have been eliminated, the Dodgers advance. We'll get to the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers in a second. But what does the future hold
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  Speaker 1: for Ronald Acuna Jr. in a Braves uniform at this
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  Speaker 1: particular point? So as a distant relative of Nostradamus and
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  Speaker 1: friend of Nostradamus, his days in Atlanta are not just
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  Speaker 1: numbered in years anymore. They're numbered in months. The only
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  Speaker 1: thing that could save him is if there are no
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  Speaker 1: transactions because of baseball's war taking place and no transactions
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  Speaker 1: because there will be no collective bargaining agreement. Now, sure,
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  Speaker 1: the Braves will guaranteed activate the $ 17 million player option,
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  Speaker 1: or it's actually a team option for the next two years.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason they'll do that is even though this
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  Speaker 1: guy is a non-performer in the playoffs, compared to some
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  Speaker 1: of the other contracts, that's actually a bargain. Imagine a
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  Speaker 1: business where $ 17 million a year for a guy is
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  Speaker 1: that has proven he can't live up to the moment
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  Speaker 1: in October, and yet that's a deal. That's baseball. That's
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  Speaker 1: where we are in modern Major League Baseball. Now, that
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  Speaker 1: does not mean that they won't activate the contract and
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  Speaker 1: then put him into the flea market. If I'm running Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: I am listening to every phone call about this guy,
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  Speaker 1: every single one, every text message whatsoever. I'm scrolling my phone.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing everything. And you look around, you figure the
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  Speaker 1: Braves won't trade him to a National League team, but
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  Speaker 1: you look at the American League, there's some real suck
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  Speaker 1: bag teams like the Mariners or the Angels who have
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  Speaker 1: no offense. The Angels have no stars. Mike Trout's a
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  Speaker 1: part-time player. So they go down that road. And then
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sox would be a possibility as well. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if the analytics work out. We'd have to
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  Speaker 1: check with the algorithms to see if the Red Sox
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  Speaker 1: are into that because they're being run by a by
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  Speaker 1: an algorithm. And look, Ronald Acuna Jr. has a championship reputation.
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  Speaker 1: They love that big, shiny MVP trophy from back in
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  Speaker 1: the day. The baseball reference page when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: the postseason is tap water. So they go from champagne
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  Speaker 1: during the regular season to tap water. And the Braves aren't,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think, running a museum. Maybe they are. I
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  Speaker 1: believe that's the case. You can't just live off Forever,
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  Speaker 1: that old MVP trophy. You can't do it. In his career,
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  Speaker 1: Acuna is a. 233 postseason hitter with three home runs
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  Speaker 1: in 36 playoff games. And remember, the Braves did win
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  Speaker 1: a World Series within the last decade, and that was
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  Speaker 1: in 2021. You know who didn't play in that World Series? Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was hurt. Didn't play. So the reputation has
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  Speaker 1: to match the production. The label... appears to have already expired.
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  Speaker 1: It appears to have already expired. Ronald Cooner Jr. is
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  Speaker 1: like the Copacabana nightclub, which was really hot many, many
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  Speaker 1: years ago. They made songs about it, the Copacabana. And
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  Speaker 1: the sign, I'm sure, is still glowing somewhere. It's just
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  Speaker 1: not that popular. Nobody's really inside. That's that. Now, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the final word here on the Dodgers, the Dodgers side
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  Speaker 1: of things. So I was greeted by an email from
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  Speaker 1: listener Mike, who is in the San Fernando Valley here
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  Speaker 1: in L.A., in Encino, which is the next city over.
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  Speaker 1: If you're familiar with the geography, many of you don't
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  Speaker 1: live here or don't know where we do the show from,
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  Speaker 1: but we're doing it from Sherman Oaks, and just the
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  Speaker 1: next town over is Encino. There was a movie made
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  Speaker 1: years ago called Encino Man. So Mike, to me, is
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  Speaker 1: Encino Man. And he emailed me demanding, demanding that in
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  Speaker 1: this monologue here, we give the boys in blue their
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  Speaker 1: flowers for dispatching the Atlanta Braves. And Mike was very
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  Speaker 1: passionate about this. I don't know for sure. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to assume that he was hammered when he sent that
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  Speaker 1: email after drinking for three hours watching the baseball game.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll engage down that road. We'll engage. Why not?
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. I'm easy to please. So the question,
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  Speaker 1: do the Dave Roberts Dodgers deserve a hooray for knocking
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  Speaker 1: out Atlanta and advancing to the National League Championship Series?
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  Speaker 1: So unless we changed the rules of engagement, I'm giving
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  Speaker 1: this side eye. The Dodgers, this can blow you away.
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  Speaker 1: The Dodgers are not the little engine that could. Choo-choo! No.
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  Speaker 1: They're the luxury locomotive that should not could should. This
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  Speaker 1: is a World Series or bust situation. We got high standards. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: They do.
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  Speaker 1: They have high standards. And as Chris Rock, my professor,
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  Speaker 1: famously joked many years ago, you're not supposed to get credit.
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  Speaker 1: for doing what you're supposed to do. So my reaction to, hey,
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  Speaker 1: give the Dodgers their flowers, is the Bugs Bunny wake-up meme.
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  Speaker 1: You know the one where you got like one eye open,
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  Speaker 1: you get that gigantic yawn, and you stretch your arms out,
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  Speaker 1: and you put them behind your head, and you say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: what's up, Doc? As in Doc Roberts. So congratulations on
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  Speaker 1: handling your business. The Chris Sale win was nice. Yamamoto
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  Speaker 1: was wonderful. And again, the standard is the standard and
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  Speaker 1: all that. The bigger question is.
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  Speaker 1: There is margin for error because the Dodgers won with
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  Speaker 1: two of their better players essentially being along for the ride.
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  Speaker 1: And the question is, can the Dodgers keep winning in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs if Will Smith and Shohei Ohtani are essentially
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  Speaker 1: expensive decoys? And in this series, despite the Dodgers winning
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  Speaker 1: three of four, they were non-playable characters. That's a terrific
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  Speaker 1: magic trick, hocus-pocus. for one playoff series. But eventually, your headliners,
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  Speaker 1: those guys, are going to have to do something. And
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  Speaker 1: if Otani cannot play, then you've got to take him
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  Speaker 1: out of the lineup. I don't think they've got the
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  Speaker 1: balls to do that. And so now it's Dodgers versus Brewers.
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  Speaker 1: In the NLCS, you've got what a juxtaposition. You look
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  Speaker 1: at the tail of the tape, and I'm sure we'll
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  Speaker 1: have plenty of time over the next few days to
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  Speaker 1: look at the tail of the tape. The tape series
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  Speaker 1: doesn't begin until Sunday. But you got Pat Murphy's scrappy
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  Speaker 1: brew crew versus the big money, money, money, money, blue crew.
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  Speaker 1: So it's the brew versus the blue, and it's all
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  Speaker 1: about the crew for you. So we'll see how this
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  Speaker 1: plays out. Last year was a total mismatch, but that
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  Speaker 1: was last year. And the Brewers' formula is rather simple.
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  Speaker 1: They got to figure out a way to have the
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  Speaker 1: Miz start three games against They've got to win all
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  Speaker 1: three of those games, and then they've got to find
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  Speaker 1: one other win. That's it. You win the pennant if
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  Speaker 1: you do that. Just win when the Miz is on
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  Speaker 1: the mound, and you know you're going to get a
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  Speaker 1: solid out. The problem is these pitch counts and limiting
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  Speaker 1: the stress. Even if Miz is great, if you're taking
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  Speaker 1: him out in the fifth inning or the sixth inning,
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  Speaker 1: five in the third innings, you're going to, depending on
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  Speaker 1: the bullpen, and typically even as good as Milwaukee's bullpen is,
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  Speaker 1: the further along you get in the series, you see
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  Speaker 1: these guys more and more teams start adjusting and hitting
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  Speaker 1: the relief pitchers. So that's where we are. as the
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  Speaker 1: NLCS is now set. Dodgers and Brewers, it's on Fox.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be coming up on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. All right,
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  Speaker 1: here's the Ben Maller show, as we are just beginning. Now,
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  Speaker 1: next hour, Benny versus the Penny will make its appearance
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  Speaker 1: here for the one-island game on Thursday night. And, oh,
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  Speaker 1: what a great matchup it is. No. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
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  Speaker 1: the Creamsicles, taking on the Cowboys, who are just having
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  Speaker 1: a bad 30-year stretch when it comes to winning and
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  Speaker 1: all that. So that'll be the matchup. We'll do that
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  Speaker 1: in an hour or two. It's almost over. It's almost over.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost over. Yes. So that'll be an hour or two.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows? Oh, my gosh. That would make so much sense. Right?
• 19:42
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• 19:58
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• 20:59
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• 21:01
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• 21:03
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• 21:07
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• 21:13
  Speaker 1: the math here. There's the NLCS is set, half of
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: the ALCS, and then we've got Cleveland State. And the
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: White Sox in one of those teams will advance. And
• 21:23
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• 21:27
  Speaker 1: to the Final Four. And what will it be? The
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: last MLB playoff series until 2028. If you believe the
• 21:36
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• 21:39
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• 22:06
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• 22:09
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• 22:34
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• 22:39
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• 22:44
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• 22:47
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• 22:49
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• 22:53
  Speaker 1: a time you cannot suck. We talked a lot about
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Ronald Lacuna Jr. here in the open as he was
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: a no-show. Not a Burner writes in and says, what
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: is more satisfying from the playoff games, the Yankees getting
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: swept or David Vasse receiving a complimentary Dodgers submarine locker room?
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I guess you got like a nice locker room bath,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: you know, right in the face there. Yeah, they love Vasse,
• 23:22
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• 23:25
  Speaker 1: he says nothing bad about the guys on his little
• 23:26
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• 23:29
  Speaker 1: enough of him. I get it, too. If I had
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: somebody saying nothing but nice things about me, I'd want
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: to celebrate. Late Night Drug Tester writes and says, On
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: one hand, the remaining division series is pretty mid. On
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the other hand, I'm glad for Dick in Dayton to
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: cheer on his club for at least one more game. Yeah,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: we've not heard from the Dickster as much recently. Hopefully he's...
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Give me a little taste of that, Dick. Big social
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: butterfly out there. Elon Dogg writes in. He formerly known
• 24:01
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• 24:05
  Speaker 1: bring me the same joy I get watching that punk-ass
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Padre team get eliminated. If you want to see Tatis
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: and Machado again before next season... It'll be under the
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: big top with Bozo, the district attorney, a bunch of clowns.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: So he says. Yeah. Well, Fernando Tatis, remember, he was
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: called the smiling, dancing peacock and the athletic back in
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: the day. Mark the Walker writes in, says, so we've
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: got the fake avatar and all that. I guess he
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: keeps answering the who am I game early. It doesn't
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: work that way. Yeah. Curmudgeon Wayne in Duluth says, great monologue, man.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Always on point. We thank you for that. Appreciate that.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Always like the kind words. JJ from Renton writes in, says,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: you know the Dodgers are going to buy out Acuna's
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: contract next year. No, it's not happening. But have another drink.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Have another drink. Fargo Pete writes in, he says, I
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: hate to break the news to you and anyone else,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: who doesn't know baseball and thinks the Rays are no-name.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: They have four legit superstars and the most dominant pitcher
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: in the American League. Well, I hate to inform you,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Fargo Pete, you can't be a superstar if nobody knows
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: your name. You can be a good player. You can't
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: be a superstar. See, the whole point, Fargo Pete, of
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: a superstar is you go anywhere and you just watch. Oh,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: look at that. That's a star. I recognize that person.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: That person's a star. Yeah.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: These guys are not stars. Junior Caminero, good player, not
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: a star. Not a star, not a star, not a star,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: not a star, not a star. Monkey Biz Doug writes in,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: says the Braves have made the playoffs 10 times in
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: 20 years and reached the World Series exactly once. Nine
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: playoff trips just to repeatedly screw with my emotions. 2021
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: was not a dynasty. It was a clerical error. The
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: baseball gods forgot to correct. It's from Doug. Well, it
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: was a very important World Series because I was a
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Braves fan in the 2021 World Series. All of America
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: was a Braves fan. Now, Jill writes in from Minnesota,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: a big-time Yankee fan. She says, hey, Maller, I give
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: you full permission to rip the Yankees to pieces. And
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: that is on my big board, Jill. I will take
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: full advantage of that. Thank you for giving me a
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: hall pass today. And I will make you proud. I
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: will destroy the Yankees. That'll be coming up later on.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Jerry in a jar writes in, says Brewers versus Dodgers
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: will be an epic battle of pitching. The Brewers rank second.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers fourth. It'll be a great series. Didn't you
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: say the same thing? Well, maybe not you. I don't
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: think you were with us last year on the show.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: But I remember hearing the same thing last year. That
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: it was going to be a great matchup. And then
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: it turned out to not really be a great matchup.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: It turned out to be a lopsided... It's not a
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: classic at all. Not a classic at all. We have
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: the Who Am I game coming up also. In addition
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: to that, the battle lines have been drawn. The battle
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: lines have been drawn. What is that all about? We'll
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: explain what that is. We'll take some calls as well.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: 877-99 on Fox.
• 27:25
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• 27:36
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• 27:38
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• 27:40
  Speaker 1: coming up in hour number three. So that'll be in
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: hour number three. Ask Ben your questions and our answers.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: But to the phones we go. Let's see here. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
• 27:55
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• 28:00
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• 28:07
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• 28:10
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• 28:14
  Speaker 1: We got some big names here. Big names. Who do
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: we got? Let's see. Let's go to Wayne in Duluth
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: in the leadoff chair. Wayne wanted to compliment me on
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: my brilliant Mallard monologue. Thank you for that, Wayne. I
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: appreciate it, not only on social media, but also calling up.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Very kind of you. I do appreciate your hospitality. Go
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: ahead and tell me how great that was. Go ahead.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Well, it was great up until the point when I
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: hit send. And then after that, it went downhill.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: It went completely downhill.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: I want to know what's going on in your mind, Mallard.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: You just destroyed the whole podcast. What are you, Dr.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Phil or something like that? What are you getting at here?
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Well, you're always late to the show every night. Always
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: late to the show.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, wait, no, wait, no,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: time out, time out. Where is the show? Where is
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the show?
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Right here on my radio.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: That's right. And am I late to the show? Lorena,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: have I been late to the show? How often do
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: I walk in? I have never seen you late. exactly
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: okay okay so i am not i am not late
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: so so you've just told a lie sir wayne and
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: duluth has just told a lie why would you lie
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: you shouldn't lie i'm here every night i have a
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: job i can't be late to i wish i had
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: a job i can show up late i see people
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: show up late all the time i wish i could
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: show up late that would be great Why don't I say,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: you know what, I'm running a little late. I'll be
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: there 30 minutes into the show. Boy, that would be fun. Listen,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: there was a cockroach that flew into my car. Exactly.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I know. I'm just saying. Go ahead, Wayne. Yes, go ahead.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: So you're 0 for 1, Wayne. You're 0 for 1.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: You're toying with me.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Every night you're toying with me by putting.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: I'm not toying with you. I do the shows. I'm not. No,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not toying with you. There's no toying with you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you're toying with me. That's what you're doing. You're
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: mentally fucking... I'm sorry.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: You can't say that, Wayne. You're drunk. Stop it, Wayne.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: You can't curse on the radio. So you're 0 for 2.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: You've told a lie, and now you've said a naughty word.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Should I drop him? No, no, don't drop him yet.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I'm going to send you to detention if you keep
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: this up. I'll give you one more chance, Wayne. You're
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: 0 for 2. Would you like to strike out?
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: You got to be on time every night.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I'm on time. What do you point? I just explained
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: to you I'm on time. I do the show. The
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: show starts at the same time every night. I'm here
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: every night. Go ahead.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: I know you're here every night.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: I got to listen to you.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Exactly. I appreciate that. So what are you complaining about?
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: You're never on time.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I just said I'm on time, Wade. What do you mean?
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: It makes no sense.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Every night, I want that 1 a.m. You put that
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: rundown down so I know what's going on. I don't
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: know what's going on until like 2 o'clock in the morning.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: You've already run through your LeBron James love affair. I mean,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: holy jeez. All right, so you've complained now. Okay, so
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: you're upset that the Twitter rundown, the X rundown is
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: not posted. Is that correct, Wayne?
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: That's absolutely correct.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, so let me ask you this, Wayne. Can I
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: ask you some questions, Wayne?
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Do I get paid to work for Elon Musk and
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: X in Twitter? Yes. That's a lie. So you've now
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: told another lie. I don't make any money. I just
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: futz around on there during the show. My employer is
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, iHeartMedia. That's who employs me. I'm beholden
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: to them. They don't pay me. That's an add-on. I've
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: tried to explain. If you would pay for Malheur Plus, Wayne,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: and Duluth, you'd get the rundown.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: I'm not giving you $ 39.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: 99 a month. Why not? The burner account does. Late
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: night drug tester does. They pay. Doc Dan's paying over
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: there in Minnesota. They're all paying. Mark the Walker pays.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Kev Atomic pays.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: I ain't giving you $ 39. 99 a month.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: 99 cents.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: That's it. That's all you get.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Go away. That package comes with commercials. Yeah,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of commercials. I love these guys. Lane
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: is so obsessed with the little rundown on X. That
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: is the last thing I'm worried about. I don't care.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I don't get paid for it. If I have time
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: to do it, I'll do it. If I don't have time,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: who cares? It's irrelevant. In fact, in many ways, I
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: shouldn't even send it out because I want you to
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: listen and be surprised at what you hear. I don't
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: want you to know what I'm going to talk about.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: You should be surprised. Don't you want to be surprised?
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Isn't that fun to be surprised? No? You don't want
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: to be surprised? Come on. What's wrong with you? Anyway, well,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: that was a good start. Anthony in Louisiana is up next. Hello, Anthony. Welcome.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Another legend right there who's about to go under the knife.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: He might not make it. Hello, Anthony in Louisiana. Welcome. Hey, Ben. Wayne,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: he tell me a thing. What'd you say?
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: What? Wayne, the caller just before me, Wayne.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's Wayne from Duluth right there. He lives in Duluth.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: You ever been to Duluth? It's in Minnesota. There's a
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Lake Superior, the biggest great lake in America is right there.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: No, I haven't been.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's nice. I was there when we went to Minnesota.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: We drove up to say.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: We were on Lake Superior.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: I'm having my surgery tomorrow.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, later on today.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, later on today.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: All right. So, I mean, you got to tell me.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Now, if this does not happen, you're banned from the show.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: I'm for real. Yeah. Right, Lorena? This is the third time. Yeah,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: like I said, it's the boy who cried wolf. So
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: it either has to happen or... So unfortunately, you better
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: have that operation today. Because if that does not happen,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: heads are going to roll. In fact, if that doesn't happen,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: give me your doctor's number and I'm going to call
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: up and get this straightened out. I'm going to yell
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: at your doctor. That's what I'm going to do.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: Hey, yeah, it's happening today. It's for real.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Okay, it's for real. Well, good luck. We're all pulling
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: for you. You'll be all right. You'll be fine.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: So you're going to come and say anything?
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: You got my number?
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: I think I have. Well, you gave us the corrected number.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I think I have that because I tried calling you
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: two times ago when you were supposed to have the surgery,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: and then it was messed up. But I think we're good.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Hi, Anthony.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: It's good to hear from you, Lorraine.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: Good to hear from you.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you're in good spirits going into your surgery tomorrow.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Thank you. And make sure you get enough rest, okay?
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Because rest is a very important part of surgery. Drink
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: lots of water, lots of fluids. Okay, that will not happen.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: But I might call you because I'm a loser. But
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: she will not call you. All right, thank you. All right,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: there's Anthony in Louisiana. What an amazing start. What a
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: freaking great start we're off to. My God, did I
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: not tell you this is going to be amazing? Here
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: we are. We'll push back. The battle lines have been drawn.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: We'll push that back. Time now for the Who Am
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: I game. And this is where we pretend to be
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: somebody else, else we call it the Who Am I game.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: So the Brewers star Jackson Churrio has driven in 17
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: runs in his first 16 career postseason games for the
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Milwaukee baseball team. That is tied for the sixth most
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: in MLB history. I hold the record for the most
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: RBIs through my first 16 postseason games. Again, for those
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: of you a little slow in the back room, you
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: can answer this on X, at Ben Maller and Wayne
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: in Duluth. I don't get paid to be on X.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: That's just a tool we use for the show. Now,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: if they want to pay me over there, I'll make
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: sure that rundown's up right on time. Anyway, here's the
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Who Am I game again. Brewers star Jackson Churio. has
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: driven in 17 runs in his first 16 career postseason games,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: tied for the sixth most in MLB history. I hold
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: the record for the most runs batted in through my
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: first 16 postseason games. Who am I? That is the
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: question and the answer. We'll get to it, and we
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: will do it!
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: Next. Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: Maller Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio as we
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: continue on the overnight show as we are side by
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: side having a grand old time talking some baseball. The
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Dodgers and Brewers in half of the final four in baseball.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll find out who the team in the American League,
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  Speaker 1: the Rays, who beat the Yankees. How about the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: getting swept by Tampa Bay? Holy crap. My God, how
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees have fallen. Yeah. It's very similar to the Raiders.
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  Speaker 1: Like the Yankee fan and the Raider fan, very similar. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: So we appreciate that. And in the meantime, back to
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  Speaker 1: it we go. We'll pay off the Who Am I
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  Speaker 1: game in a minute. But let's say hello to Andrew
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  Speaker 1: in Bakersfield who wants to yap. Hello, Andrew. Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome. Hey, Ben, I like how you're trying to use
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  Speaker 2: the phrase Final Four like the Clippers, you know?
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you're watching the broadcast, I hope you were.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was the guy on Fox said that
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers are into the Final Four. Or maybe it
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  Speaker 1: was the Padre game. One of the guys I was
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  Speaker 1: watching said the Final Four. So it's common lingo. It's
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  Speaker 1: not out of the ordinary. You're four teams left. You're
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  Speaker 1: in the Final Four.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was listening on the radio, but concerning the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 2: I checked the surf report. It said it was going
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  Speaker 2: to be glassy and the waves were pitching. But then
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  Speaker 2: it got a little choppy in the fifth. You know
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  Speaker 2: what it means when it says the waves are pitching?
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  Speaker 1: What are you trying to do? What are you trying
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  Speaker 1: to do here?
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  Speaker 2: And then Dave Roberts pulling the strings looked like Geppetto
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  Speaker 2: out there.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You giving him some props?
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  Speaker 1: The Dodgers could not have won a single game without
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  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts.
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  Speaker 2: Good job, Davey.
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  Speaker 1: That franchise, I think, would have moved back to Brooklyn
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  Speaker 1: without Dave Roberts.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Ben.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks.
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  Speaker 4: Go Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: All right, time for the Who Am I game. This portion,
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  Speaker 1: We pretend to be somebody else's we call it the
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  Speaker 1: who am i game and here it is brewer star
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  Speaker 1: jackson churio 17 rbi's first 16 career postseason games that
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  Speaker 1: is tied for the sixth most in baseball history i
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  Speaker 1: hold the record for the most runs batted in through
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  Speaker 1: the first 16 games 16 postseason games mexican john dutton
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  Speaker 1: from maine says the answer is hey cuz eek in
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  Speaker 1: roseville minnesota going with big poppy david ortiz joe mauer
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  Speaker 1: from femi in minnesota the top uber eats driver alf
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  Speaker 1: the alien opiner says the great late butch husky batting
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  Speaker 1: practice legend gorman thomas from doc dan uh who else
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  Speaker 1: do we have page down wayne in duluth from mallor
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  Speaker 1: prop guy there's a good Imogen Wayne from Duluth. Jordan
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  Speaker 1: Alvarez from Mr. Irrigation and Cheating A-Hole. All right. Let's
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  Speaker 1: see what else. Page down. Joe, the ghost hunter says
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  Speaker 1: murderers row of calls. Lorena, do you have an answer, Lorena?
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  Speaker 4: Mac Miller.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Noma Garcia Parra. Noma with the Sox. 20 runs batted in.
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  Speaker 1: First 16 games.