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  Speaker 1: We're allowed to talk baseball. We are allowed to talk
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  Speaker 1: baseball the playoffs or underway. The flag is up and
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  Speaker 1: depth team coverage, which is me and my many personalities,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll start out in Los Angeles. It was the
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  Speaker 1: wild Card Round. It was an all day situation starting
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  Speaker 1: at one o'clock eastern ten am on the West coast.
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  Speaker 1: Baseball action all the way into the wee hours of
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  Speaker 1: the night. Well actually we're on in the wee hours
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  Speaker 1: of the night. But the Wildcard Round we had games
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  Speaker 1: starting in Cleveland. There were four games, two in the
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  Speaker 1: American League, two in the National League. Baseball action underway,
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  Speaker 1: and so we'll start with the last game. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you saw it or not, it ended not
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  Speaker 1: that long ago. Perhaps you were not watching if you
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  Speaker 1: had something else going on. I don't know, but don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: We watched so you would not have to. I wasted
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  Speaker 1: an entire day of my life watching these wildcard games.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, now, show hey Otani, show I'll you bet
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  Speaker 1: on two home runs. Otani and Tao Hernandez each had
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  Speaker 1: two home runs. And that schmuck Blake smell a Snell?
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  Speaker 1: Who smells Blake Snell? Fits seven innings of quality ball.
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  Speaker 1: The Dodgers mollywop the Reds now. The final score was
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  Speaker 1: ten to five the Dodgers was the perfect game for
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers because it was a ten to five game.
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  Speaker 1: They were up, it was ten to two at one point,
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  Speaker 1: and they allowed the Reds to get some runs. There
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  Speaker 1: more on that in a second. But the wild card
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  Speaker 1: game game one. It's best of three. Remember, so if
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  Speaker 1: you win the first game, you only have to win
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  Speaker 1: one of the next two and you have advanced into
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  Speaker 1: the divisional round of the playoffs. These Fugasey playoffs, they
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  Speaker 1: added some extra teams years ago, and they continue to
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  Speaker 1: do that. So let us discuss the question does this
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  Speaker 1: domination count as a statement victory for the Dodgers. All right,
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  Speaker 1: So on this one, I've got wind mills, dirty water,
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  Speaker 1: and ringworm, and we will combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and we are going to make some soggy ballpark nachos.
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  Speaker 1: So I opened up my my inbox, which is a
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  Speaker 1: you know, generally a mistake to open up the EMLFO.
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  Speaker 1: I finally had to block someone who just was harassing
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  Speaker 1: me via email. Just a loser. So I blocked that.
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  Speaker 1: Finally able to get through my email, which is good,
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  Speaker 1: and I was getting the huh, you're gonna apologize, Ben,
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  Speaker 1: You see you Dodgers a big deregive to apologize. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of Andrews and baker Field in Bakersfield out
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  Speaker 1: there doing this, not just so hey. To answer the
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  Speaker 1: question does this count as a statement win? The Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: getting ten runs fifteen hits, never in any real danger
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  Speaker 1: against the Cincinnati Reds in Game one of the Wild
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  Speaker 1: Card Round, my answer is three words, no, no, and no.
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  Speaker 1: That's my answer. All right, stop it just stop it?
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  Speaker 1: Is it amateur hour? Is that what we're doing now?
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  Speaker 1: It's not a statement. That was a formality. That was
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  Speaker 1: a formality when you're the heavyweight tramp bian of the world,
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  Speaker 1: the rating World Series champion, and you're walking in and
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  Speaker 1: here's the Dodge is walking in to the ring. And
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  Speaker 1: the Reds in this matchup are glass Joe. That's who
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  Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Reds are. They're glass Joe. They're playing with
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  Speaker 1: house money. The Reds are not even supposed to be here.
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  Speaker 1: The only reason they got in is because the Mats
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  Speaker 1: blow and lost their final game against the Marlins. So
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  Speaker 1: you're supposed to land a bunch of haymakers, and the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers did. It's the equivalent of announcing to the world
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  Speaker 1: I've won the Masters. Whoo, I won the Masters, all right,
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  Speaker 1: and then you look at the details, you're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: you won the Masters, but it was at a pitch
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  Speaker 1: and putt course and there were lots of windmills and
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  Speaker 1: fake volcanoes. Whooped, damn do congratulating like the Dodgers are
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  Speaker 1: the gambling favorites here. They have a roster that is
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  Speaker 1: a Galactic Empire type roster when you look at the
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  Speaker 1: payroll and who they've got. If anything, though, this was
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  Speaker 1: the perfect kind of a night if you're doing talk radio,
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  Speaker 1: because the Dodgers won, I don't want the Dodgers to lose.
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  Speaker 1: I like them to win. I don't think they have
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  Speaker 1: any chance going forward with the way this team is
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  Speaker 1: set up because they have a fatal flaw and they
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  Speaker 1: don't avoid the fatal flaw. The underlying condition popped up
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  Speaker 1: in this game that will could it pop up if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't watch The game was ten to five Dodgers one.
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  Speaker 1: They were never really in any danger but that bullpen.
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  Speaker 1: If they were a professional arrest of the bullpen, their
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  Speaker 1: name would be el Stinko, the Dodger bullpen. They walked
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  Speaker 1: in two runs. They have no balls. The Dodger bullpen
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  Speaker 1: has no balls. They're afraid to throw strikes when they
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  Speaker 1: have an eight run lead. What the f is wrong
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  Speaker 1: with those losers? You walked in two runs in the
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  Speaker 1: eighth inning, two different relief pitchers. Game was already over
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  Speaker 1: at that point, and the bullpen said, wait, don't forget
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  Speaker 1: about us. Here we are. That is the soft underbelly.
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  Speaker 1: That is the soft underbelly. That is the leaky false
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  Speaker 1: of the Dodgers. That's dripping that your water bills so
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  Speaker 1: high because of that bullpen. That is the weak spot.
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  Speaker 1: It is glaring. It is absolutely glaring, and so you
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  Speaker 1: know what's coming up. The winner of this series is
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  Speaker 1: gonna take on the Philadelphia Phillies. If you look at
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  Speaker 1: your playoff bracket, yeah, there's actually a playoff bracket. The
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  Speaker 1: winner will take on the Philadelphia Phillies in the next round.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're the Phillies, all right, that's working. We'll
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  Speaker 1: find out whether or not this continues or not. We'll
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  Speaker 1: find out whether or not these guys actually grow a
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  Speaker 1: spine and grow some balls and get hair on their
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  Speaker 1: chest and all that stuff in the next round. But
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers look like a really hollow team. Hollow bunny.
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  Speaker 1: The Dodgers, right, shiny and pretty on the outside, looks
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  Speaker 1: all good. You bite into it and you're like, oh man,
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  Speaker 1: that sucks. Whereas I thought that was solid chocolate. You know,
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  Speaker 1: in the Phillies could luck on. You know, the Phillies
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  Speaker 1: are legit that offense. But again, Cincinnati, it's like a scrimmage.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a scrimmage. You play Cincinnati is batting practice.
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  Speaker 1: The real test will be when you've got Bryce Harper
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  Speaker 1: there and you've got Kyle Schwarber hitting bombs and all
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  Speaker 1: that and doing his thing. That's the real test, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll see if the Dodgers end up being again like
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  Speaker 1: the chocolate bunny that's hollow, or or if they're actually
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  Speaker 1: a brick house, as the old song goes there. But
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  Speaker 1: Game one of the Dodgers and Reds, it was I
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  Speaker 1: call it a water works game. What does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: It means the Dodgers' offense was the fire hose. So
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  Speaker 1: that's the water on that side. But then the bullpen
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  Speaker 1: was the drippy, leaky faucet, and so that's the other side,
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  Speaker 1: as we pointed out. And it's it's nothing more than that.
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  Speaker 1: It's just, you know, they can still lose the next
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  Speaker 1: two games. They shouldn't. They shouldn't lose one game to
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  Speaker 1: the Reds, but you can't get a statement victory, like
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand, Like the mindset you guys were such.
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  Speaker 1: You were trying to troll me so hard. You know
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  Speaker 1: who you are, who sent me the emails? You know
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  Speaker 1: you are. You're trying to bust my balls that you
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  Speaker 1: didn't even factor in the opponent. You played a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of little leaguers, the Cincinnati Reds here, and and you
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  Speaker 1: came in there and your arsenate arsonist in the bullpen
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  Speaker 1: came in there, a bunch of Cincinnati hitters, and we're
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  Speaker 1: afraid to throw strikes right, And now you got later on,
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  Speaker 1: assuming you don't screw this thing up, You've got the
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  Speaker 1: Phillies and the lumber company from Philadelphia. Good luck in
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  Speaker 1: a bandbox of a ballpark, all right. Now, turning the page,
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  Speaker 1: we had Yankees and Red Sox. Yankees and Red Sox.
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  Speaker 1: Garrett Crochet getting her done there for the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 1: He had seventeen consecutive batters retired. I didn't play professional baseball.
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  Speaker 1: I'm told that's good. When you get seventeen consecutive batters out,
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  Speaker 1: I'm told that's good. And it was a sparkly performance
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  Speaker 1: as he had a lot shine Garrett Crochet in that one.
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  Speaker 1: And then it was a pinch hitter Masataka Yoshida who
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  Speaker 1: lined a two run ribby single off the whoe begone
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  Speaker 1: Yankee reliever Luke Weaver. Well, that guy sucks u and
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  Speaker 1: that was the big hit there. The Red Sox get
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  Speaker 1: past the Yankee. He's three game three to one the finals,
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  Speaker 1: so it's game one. All these games played at Yankee
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  Speaker 1: Stadium there, and so we'll see how this goes here
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  Speaker 1: but the the game had some dramatics there late as
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sox led three to one, he saw it.
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  Speaker 1: New York loaded the bases, single single single, had the
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  Speaker 1: bases loaded. Nobody out down two eraw this Chapman on
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  Speaker 1: the mound, all star closer, former Yankee, longtime multi time Yankee,
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  Speaker 1: Erald this Chapman, and he was able to get out
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  Speaker 1: of the jam. Did not give up a run despite
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  Speaker 1: single single single. The start things here. So Boston improves now,
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  Speaker 1: but another win against the Angle ten and four versus
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees there and there need one more win, one
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  Speaker 1: more win to advance. But the better story you know where,
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  Speaker 1: That's right, The better story is in the losing locker room,
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  Speaker 1: and so that is where we are going to go
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  Speaker 1: in the story everyone is talking about here the decision.
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  Speaker 1: Was it made by Aaron Boone? Was it made by Dorksville,
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  Speaker 1: USA and the Bronx? Who knows? But while Game two
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  Speaker 1: is later on on Wednesday night, we must go back
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  Speaker 1: and focus on what happened as the Yankees and Red Sox.
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  Speaker 1: The the better story in the losing locker room. So
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  Speaker 1: the big moment was when Aaron Boone decided to pull
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  Speaker 1: Max Freed, who was pitching a masterpiece. A masterpiece. Now again,
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  Speaker 1: this is something I know I'm gonna date myself with
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  Speaker 1: my generation. But I grew up like this was playoff baseball,
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  Speaker 1: great pitchers. This is why you have great starting pitching.
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  Speaker 1: You let them go out there and just deal. And
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  Speaker 1: it's a different style of play in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're heading into October. This was the last day
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  Speaker 1: of September on Tuesday. But my god, so stupid. So
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Boone decides to pull Max Freed, who was pitching
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  Speaker 1: a great game. He had I believe six and the
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  Speaker 1: third shutout innings of baseball, and he had thrown one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and two pitches. So I guess his arm was
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  Speaker 1: going to be amputator. If he threw one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: three pitches, they were gonna have to, literally right on
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  Speaker 1: the mount at Yankee Stadium from all the men, women
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  Speaker 1: and children, cut his arm off. Just tragedy if he
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  Speaker 1: had thrown one hundred and third pitch. So they took
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  Speaker 1: him out, and here is Aaron boom You hear the
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  Speaker 1: question and the answer here as he was asked about
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  Speaker 1: the big decision that blew up in his face. Take
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  Speaker 1: a Liss Aaron Maxfreed was dealing tonight.
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  Speaker 4: What was the thought process behind taking them out to
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  Speaker 4: go to the end there with nobody on and one
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  Speaker 4: out in the seventh.
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  Speaker 3: They pressured him pretty good in the fourth, fifth, sixth,
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  Speaker 3: you know, had a couple of bits each inning, so
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  Speaker 3: I felt like he kind of cruised through the first few,
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  Speaker 3: and obviously he ends up pitching great, but I felt
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  Speaker 3: like he had to work pretty hard, and I was
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  Speaker 3: gonna have the six b at the end. But once
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  Speaker 3: we got the double we finished with the double play,
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to go out and get Duran and then
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  Speaker 3: felt like we were lined up all right.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a quote from mister Boone. Jeez, it's like
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees are the East Coast Dodgers, and then the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers are the West Coast Yankees. It's the same bull crap.
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  Speaker 1: It is the same prepackaged bull crap. It's listening to
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Boone is like listening to Dave Roberts. It's fascinating.
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  Speaker 1: It's just wild, all right. So Max Freed was asked
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  Speaker 1: about all this. Max Freed was asked if he had
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  Speaker 1: more left to give on the mound after one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and two pitches. He said. Well, here's what he said, Tiglas.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I definitely felt felt good at the end. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: you know, coming out, coming out feeling good.
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  Speaker 1: Would you have liked to have stayed in longer?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm I'm gonna stand until I gets ball
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  Speaker 5: taken from me. I'm you know, I want to pitch
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  Speaker 5: as long as I possibly can, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 5: when when the ball gets sticking on my hands.
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  Speaker 6: This, Yeah, that's what it was.
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  Speaker 7: Next, did you feel like you had more left?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I definitely felt I felt good. I
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  Speaker 5: felt like, you know, whatever, whatever the team needed.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So that was Max Freed. I think I
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  Speaker 1: was somebody was talking about here, But I think he
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  Speaker 1: said at the end there, I had enough in the tank.
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  Speaker 1: That was one of the quotes that I saw bouncing around.
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  Speaker 1: I had enough in the tank, he said, I felt good.
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  Speaker 1: We heard that in the sound bite. So question, thumbs
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  Speaker 1: up or thumbs down? Thumbs up or thumbs down? Does
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Boone deserve to be char broiled? Char broiled for
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  Speaker 1: this loss? Taking Max Freed out against the Yankees. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go two thumbs way up, two thumbs way
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  Speaker 1: up on this one. I'm going to it. Aaron Boone
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  Speaker 1: should be cooked, not charboiled. I know that's too extreme,
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  Speaker 1: that's too extreme. Aaron Boone should be cooked like a
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  Speaker 1: dirty water dog. You know you're in New York, those
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  Speaker 1: dirty water dogs in that disgusting water at the hot
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  Speaker 1: dog stands there. Yeah, that should be cooked like a
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  Speaker 1: dirty water dog. Aaron Boone. Max Freed's out there like
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  Speaker 1: Picasso on the mound, and you're like, ah, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: we have this luxury brand. We've gone over to Madison Avenue.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a two thousand dollars Gucci suit on Madison Avenue,
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  Speaker 1: and we don't need that suit anymore. We've worn that suit.
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  Speaker 1: So why don't we go down to the discount been
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  Speaker 1: at Walmart and we'll put Luke Weaver in a playoff
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  Speaker 1: game playoffs. Yeah, that's your twenty twenty five Yankees in
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  Speaker 1: a nutshell right there. They have become a parody of themselves,
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  Speaker 1: much like the Dodgers. Right The Yankees, in their own way,
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  Speaker 1: have become a parody of themselves.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 1: You don't manage a game anymore. It's been this way
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  Speaker 1: for years. I still complain about it. You just follow
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  Speaker 1: the prompts on your iPad. You just follow the prompts.
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  Speaker 1: Green button pull Max f Rey done, a red button,
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  Speaker 1: bring in Luke Weaver. Press that button. Boom, Luke Weaver
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  Speaker 1: comes in and then the shocker, the Red Sox tee
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  Speaker 1: off on Luke Weaver. Who could have seen that coming.
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  Speaker 1: Just another case, just another example of the revenge of
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  Speaker 1: the nerds, the Ivy League dwebs who have taken over
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  Speaker 1: this invasive species in baseball that have taken over who
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  Speaker 1: were playing fantasy baseball just like they were back in
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  Speaker 1: the in the Ivy League, crunching numbers and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And now they're calling the shots at a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: Major league teams. Just happens to be the Yankees there
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  Speaker 1: in the Bronx, and they think that relief pitchers and
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  Speaker 1: starting pitchers are just like you know what, they're like,
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  Speaker 1: they're like apps. You just close the Max Freed app
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  Speaker 1: and then you open the Luke Weaver app and it's
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  Speaker 1: just a different app. That's all it is. It's like
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  Speaker 1: some kind of Microsoft word thing they've got going on.
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  Speaker 1: And then but happens to be a wild Card playoff
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  Speaker 1: game and it blows up in your face and it
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  Speaker 1: just blows me away because they never factor in the
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  Speaker 1: human element. They never facked in. Well, some guys are
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  Speaker 1: better in the moment than others. Some guys tighten up,
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  Speaker 1: get tight. Took a syndrome, as we like to call it.
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  Speaker 1: There ride the vomit comet. And they don't ever factor
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  Speaker 1: that in. They don't factor that in because there's no
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  Speaker 1: way to measure that stuff. That's that's a real manager
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  Speaker 1: that has you know, has some hutzpah, that knows his players.
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  Speaker 1: They don't fact they could. Dave Roberts doesn't do that
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  Speaker 1: with the Dodgers. Neither does Aaron Boone.
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  Speaker 3: Don't.
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  Speaker 1: They don't do that. It's geeked them, geeked them, USA
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. And Aaron Boone sitting there in
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  Speaker 1: that dugout, smiling like a sock puppet, just smiling right there.
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  Speaker 1: He is a sock puppet. The front office, what do
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  Speaker 1: they do. They tug the strings and he's just you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's like, he's like a bobblehead. He just shakes his head, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the Aaron Boone bobblehead in the dugout. And he's become
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: like a tenured professor. Aaron Boone. He's either too dumb
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: or too soft, or a little bit of both to
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: ever push back on anything. And Max Freed is just
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: I'd rather have Max Fried at pitch one oh three.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: He's better at pitch one o three than ninety ninety
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: five percent of the relief pitchers. But alas did not happen,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: the Nerds medal again, and the Yankees are on the
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: brink of elimination. The Red Sox need one more win.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Probably should win game two, though, because I don't even
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: know who's starting Game three for the for the Red Sox,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: as somebody I've never heard of. So the Red Sox
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: halfway to advancing now quickly the last word here, the
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: last word? So, what are some of the other takeaways?
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: There were two other games that were not featuring here.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: What were some of the other takeaways from game number
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: one of the wild Card Round?
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Here?
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: So Saya Suzuki a big time home run the Chicago
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Cups get her done three to one over the Podreys
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: at Wrigley Field in game one of that particular series. There, Now,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: I loved watching Fernando Tatisse go zero for four for
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: the Pod Squad. How great was that? You know what
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: he needs? He needs a special shipment of ringworm medication
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: because he's really good. When he's got the ring worm medication,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: he gets like fourteen year contracts. How about Mando, Yeah,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: good old many playoff Manny Machado. Oh for three for
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: the Padres and that pop gun Podre offense. Now they
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: if you go back, they have now mustered one run
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: in their last thirty three postseason innings. I'm told that's
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: not good. I'm told that's not good. And what happened
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: to the belly gazing Podres didn't play with that swagger,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: did not have that swagger all right in Cleveland, another
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: dominating pitching performance Trek Scouoble tying the postseason record with
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: fourteen strikeouts. Fourteen strikeouts. The Tigers beat up the I
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: say beat up, they beat the Guardians stude one. Although
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: watching the Guardians play offense, holy crap do they suck?
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: My god? How did they come back? The fact that
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: they were able to outplay the Tigers the last month
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: of the year and win the division's fascinating. This is
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: one of the worst offensive teams of all time to
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: make the postseason that, in my opinion, it's a fact
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: here and the I mean the Guardians, and they're not
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: bad office, they're historically bad. In fact, in this game
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: they were been draggled. The Guardians got out of thirty
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: three plate appearances, four balls left the infield, four out
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: of thirty three, four out of thirty three. Hodgepodge of nothingness.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: The Cleveland Guardians there, and you kind of expected it.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: That two twenty six batting average the worst all time,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: the worst batting average of all time for a playoff team,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: not counting the shortened pandemic season, and also the worst
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: on base percentage ever for a playoff team, the Cleveland Guardians,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: and the lowest slugging percentage going all the way back
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: to nineteen eighty eight. So that's that's a long time.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: What does all this mean? Game one winner, Game one winner,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: small sample sized Game one winner, Wildcard Round. They have
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: advanced in all twelve all twelve of the Wildcard series,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: ten of them have been sweeps. So based on that,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox, Tigers, Cubs, and Dodgers all right really
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: good shape.
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• 23:33
  Speaker 1: about South Beach. Baby. We go to South Beach and
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: if you have working eyeballs, you saw the ghastly, ghastly
• 23:44
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• 23:48
  Speaker 1: You heard about the horrific injury to the cheating. So
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: have you heard the latest on this? No very good.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: So Dolphins wide receive we got you. We got you
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: on this one. So Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill, they say,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: he's not. I love this. He's not going to need
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: another surgery. He underwent a major operation hours after the
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Dolphins Jets game to repair his dislocated left knee or
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: multiple ligaments, including his ACL. It was a case of snap,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: crackle and pop go the ligaments. Now, agent Drew Rosenhaus
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: he made some comments, but we have some audio. Here's
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: a Drew Rosenhouse commenting on Tyreek Hill. Let's go to
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: the audio tape. Take a listen. The surgery went well.
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: All of the torn ligaments, the injuries went back in
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: a place naturally. There's no nerve damage, no blood flow issues,
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: no broken bones. The cartilage is fine. The goal is
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: for him to be ready to play next season. It's
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: only one surgical procedure. There was some concerned that it
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: might be more than one surgery, but right now everything
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: round as.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Well as we could have hoped for.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: We'll pray for Tyreek to have a speedy recovery. We
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: know he'll do a great job with this rehab and
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: the goal is for him to be back in and
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: back to himself by the start of next season.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, do we know what medical school Drew Rosenhaus went
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: to do? We know I don't often look that. I'll
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: just google that. I'll put it on the AI there.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question. Are you buying what
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: you just here? That's Drew Rosenhaus. Are you buying what
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Drew Rosenhaus said what he is selling regarding the positive
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: outlook for Tyreek Hill, the Dolphins wide receiver. So I've
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: got Milton Bradley, Styrofoam, and Marty Grass and we will
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are going
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: to make your Babushka's favorite cotton candy is what we're
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: going to make. So number one, number enough, all right,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: one more time number. So to sum off what you
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: just sh stirred from Drew Rosenhause, he got in front
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: of the media and he was literally waving pomp pomps.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: He had his cheerleading outfit on. Everything is terrific, sunshine,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: rainbows and lollipops. Just left out one eighty bitty tiny
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: detail Drew Rosenhouse that the acl of Tyreek Hill was reconstructed.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: He just kind of left it. I left that side
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: to put that over here, right, put that over here.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: So also, Tyreek Hill is assuming he has a birthday.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: We all have birthdays every year, unless we don't. He'll
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: be thirty two by next NFL season. So I don't think,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: and again maybe I'm wrong. I just do the overnight show.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I don't think this is a trip to the dentist
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: office to have a cavity fill. This is a career
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: altering medical procedure. And the obvious thing is like, what
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: is the agent Drew Rosenhouse supposed to say? What is
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: he supposed to say? Like, well, it looks bleak. There's
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: a there's a priest and a rabbi coming in. They're
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: going to give last rites to Tyreek. I mean, come on,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: he can't say he's cooked. You got to be positive there,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: of course not. So this is what agents do. We
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: played the audio. Why didn't we play that? We had
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: the audio, That's why he played the audio. It's spin, spin, spin,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: spin spin, Drew Rosenhouse serving up what I call Candyland
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: optimism with Milton Bradley sugarcoating on top of that Candyland
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: optimism here, and he does get a percentage of Tyreek
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Kill's money, money, money, money. Yeah. So it's not giving
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: you a prognosis, Drew Rosenhaus. He's giving you more of
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: a sales pitch. That's what he's doing. He's an elevator pitch.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Everything's great, Oh my god. Yeah, uh okay. So we
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: go back to what we said in a previous episode
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: of the show that Tyreek Hill is a speed racer,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: blazing speed, tyreeg Kill right, blazing speed and all that stuff.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: That is his superpower. That's it game breaking speed. So
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: you take that out of the equation and what do
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: you got. You got just a five to ten wide
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: receiver with a lot of baggage, a whole lot of baggage.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: And let's not forget all right, let's not forget here
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: that every surgeon says that the surgery went well. That
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: is a default answer if you've ever had a surgery,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: if you've ever had a family member that's had a surgery,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: they always say, especially in sports, they always wow, it
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: went really well. The reason they say that is you
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: as you came out alive. There's a chance anytime you
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: have an operation, yet you're going to die on the
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: operating table, right. Unfortunately, that is the reality. And so
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: you came out alive. In every doctor for them, that's
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: a win. That is a win. You're not dead, You're alive.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: The operation was a success. The real success, as we
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: all know, will be if Tyreek Hill does return to form,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: decent form and actually looks like the player that he
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: had been and not a washed up version, a cheap,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: ripoff version of Tyreek Hill. So there you go to
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: giant flashing weasel word if that is a big time
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: weasel word. Now pace two to Atlanta we go, and
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: let's circle back to the trade chatter. We are now
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: into October. We're not that far away from the NFL
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: trade deadline. Falcons backup quarterback. That's right, mister Cousins. Not
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: my cousin, not your cousin, everyone's cousin, Kirk Cousins, who
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: was a starter with the Vikings and these trashing Atlanta
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: announce Kirk Cousins the backup to Michael Pennix Junior, who
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: snunck it up against Carolina and then bounced back at
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: a big game here last weekend. So Kirk Cousins was
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: asked how he's approaching the upcoming trade deadline. He said, quote,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: right now, it's just about the role I'm in, Cousins said,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: and I'm focused in on helping us win football games.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I'm being ready for next the next challenges we face.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: He said, I'll stay sharp and you never know what
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: the league will bring close quote all right, So question,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: how did that statement? How did that statement from Kirk
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Cousins on the trade deadline sound to you? All right?
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: So it sounded to me the Cousins quote is the
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: equivalent of biting into a rice cake. Is there anything
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: more disgusting than a rice cake? Oh? Yeah, It's like
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: he might as well just bite into styrofoam. Just enjoy
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: some styrofoam. Put some flavoring on that. No calories, no flavor,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: no substance, no nothing. That was That was the quote
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: from Kirk Cousins. And I did the math on this.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Thirty nine words he said, thirty nine words. He somehow
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: in thirty nine words he said less than a politician
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: just before election day, which is fascinating. It's spam in
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the inbox is what it is. Delete delete, delete, delete, delete,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: delete delete delete. The lead essentially told you, Kirk Cousins
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: essentially told you and me that, Hey, I'm in a
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: holding pattern at the Hartsfield Jackson Airport there waiting waiting
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: for air traffic control to clear the runway and tell
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: me where I need to go. That's it. It's a
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: lot of nothing. It's a whole lot of other like
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: just cliches stacked on top of cliches and you just
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: throw it all in there and just see what you
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: got and a bunch of slop and we'll see how
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: that goes here. And that's essentially the script that you
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: recite as a professional athlete. You go to sportscliche dot
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: com and if you have no leverage, you just start
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: saying that nonsense. And Cousins knows. At this point, the
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons, they have their hand on the joystick and
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: they're the ones that are playing the video game and
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: they're deciding like do they really want to get rid
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: of Cousins? Do they completely trust Michael Pennix Junior? Are
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: they completely strapped in with what they've got? And Cousins,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: I know he's strapped in he's in coach. He's not
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: in first class right now. He's in coach and he's
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: got a middle seat and there's a fat guy on
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: each side of him. And that's where he's at now.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: If the ravens Lamar Jackson looks like he's gonna be
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: out for for a little while, maybe longer than that,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: who knows shut him down for the year? Who says no?
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: The Bengals who look like they've never played football with
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Jake Browning? Or I like mystery team? Oh do do
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Do Do Do Do do Mystery day? Yeah, who will
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: it be? Who will step up that you're doing to zoom?
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Would want a quarterback developing hot dot dot dot. So
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: you gonna take a shot on Cousins. You know he's
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: got a lot of miles, got a lot of money, money, money, money. Otherwise,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Cousins will just be chewing bubblegum in purgatory for the
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: rest of the year, and either the Falcons will flip
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: him for a bag of peanuts, but unsalted peanuts, or
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: keep collecting frequent flyer miles. And you're just a bus rider.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: You're in the back of the bus You're getting to
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: travel where the Falcons play games, but you're not actually playing.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: There's no real destination there. That's it now, final point
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: to the courtroom by request a listener named Mike who
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: says he lives in the Greater Houston area and listens
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: to the show a couple of nights a week. He said,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: why have you not mentioned this story?
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: Ben?
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: I said, okay, you want me to do a few
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: minutes on it, I'll do a few minutes. So what
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: is the story? A man who we talked about a
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: lot on this show over the last couple of years,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Tony buzz Be. The fact that I know who Tony
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Buzby is is a testimonial to being a sleazy ambulance
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: chasing extraordinaire. And it's really impressive that. I mean, he's
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: a billboard ambulance chasing lawyer in Houston and we know
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: who Tony Buzzby is. Like these guys, there's no I
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: don't we do the show from LA. There's no town
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: that has more ambulance chasing billboard lawyers than La. But
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: in Houston, Tony Busby is the go to guy. And
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: he's back in the spotlight again, back in the spotlight again.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: So what is he doing. I'll give you the thumbnail
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: version here, I'll give you the brief thumbnail notes. So
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Busby is suing the NFL. Now is this some massage
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: gone back? No, now that was Deshaun Watson. This is
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: not Deshaun Watson. So he's suing the NFL. Get this.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: This is great. He claims the league conspired with Cal
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: McNair that's the owner of the Texans, to kick his brother,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: someone named carry McNair out of the Texans ownership group.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Family drama, o rama. So let's discuss the question on
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: this one. What is Tony Busby looking to accomplish with
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: his latest lawsuit against the NFL. This regarding the ownership
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: of the Houston Texans. So this is straight out of
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: if you go back and you look this up on Wikipedia,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: it's straight out of a bad soap opera. You've got
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Dynasty meets Judge Judy to be played out in Lower
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Manhattan Court and Busby he's not doing this. We know
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Buzby's not doing this because he's pretending to do like
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: a mother Teresa like act. That's not what this is.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: He's doing it, Why he's doing it? Tony Busby because
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: there is a giant pile of pesos right there on
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: the table, right, a lot of check a lot of
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: nice shekels right there, and he's seeking one hundred million
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: bucks from the NFL, not twenty five thousand or fifte
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: hundred million dollars. That's not seeking justice, right, it's not
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: seeking justice. It's like walking into the NFL's ATM machine
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: with a ski mask on. Give me the money, money money.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: So the NFL pays out hush money all the time.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: The NFL is known for paying out hush money like
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: they give beads out at Marty Grass in New Orleans.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Right every time, every time there's a scandal, the default
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: position of the NFL is to drag it out, drag
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: it out, and then eventually, if it gets dragged long enough,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: you just get out the checkbook and you're on your way.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Whether it's the flate Gate, bounty gate, spygate, the gate
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: in your backyard, whatever gate, you name it, the league's
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: go to move is to throw a fat stack of
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: benjamins right there at the problem and just make it
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: go away. And Buzzby knows this. We all know. If
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: I know this, I'm doing the Overnight Show. And if
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: I know this, do you think everyone knows that? Everyone
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: knows it. He's essentially standing outside Roger Goodell's Park Avenue
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: offices there in Manhattan with a tin cup and he's saying,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: spare change for the silent McNair. We need some spare
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: change here. And it's not about whether you're right or wrong.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: It is not about that. It's about leverage. It's all
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: about the leverage. And this guy, Carrie McNair, I was
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: doing a little digging on him, doing some opposition research.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: So he's the estranged brother who got escorted out of
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: the ownership group. He's the black sheep of the family here,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: the ugly, redheaded stepchild of the family. And so raising
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: his hand he got in trouble because he soos he
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: According to the lawyer, he raised his his hand. There
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: was a family like a board meeting and he essentially,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing this, but he said, guys, we shouldn't be
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: running the franchise like this. This is a joke. That's
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: not right. You people are losers and you need to
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: do better. And they said, okay, that's great advice. We
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: really appreciate that advice. You're no longer going to own
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: part of the team. We're going to get rid of you.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: You're done. That's it. And they booted him. Get your
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: ass out of here. And so the Busby account is
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: that this cost sixty million dollars in lost money. For
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: the kid that got kicked out says like, well, sixty million,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: I need another forty million for damages I got to
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: pay Buzzby, so I need one hundred million dollars. And
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: so now it's timed for a lawsuit. So we're going
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: to do the lawsuit. And Buzzby knows, he knows the
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: NFL game. They certainly don't want the family feud to
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: play out in the media, and so they want nice,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: tidy storylines. They want shiny new stadiums. They want European football.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: He wants you to talk about someone named bad Bunny,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: that's what they want. A lot of international love, that's
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: what they want. Taylor Swift walking through a stadium to
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: go to a luxury box. Those are the stories they want.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: They don't want Bob McNair's kids play Game of Thrones
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: in Houston. That's not what they're looking for. That's not
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: what they're looking for.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
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  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Here we Go, Here we Go.
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  Speaker 5: Here we.
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  Speaker 8: Gets great?
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: And I mean, do my Andrew impersonation Dodgers Dodgers DoD
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: go ahead.
• 39:45
  Speaker 7: After the Jets lost to the Dolphins on Monday, Sauce
• 39:48
  Speaker 7: Gardner says that he believes the Jets aren't getting calls
• 39:50
  Speaker 7: that better teams get from the officials. Ben, do you
• 39:53
  Speaker 7: think officiating favors the better teams?
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Yes? You know what this is. You know what kind
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: of sauce? It says? Weak sauce coop. What do you do?
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: I'd be so embarrassed, Like, just tell me you're soft
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: without telling me yourself. Come on, Yes, the NFL does
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: favor the better teams. Okay, I agree with you on that,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: but don't complain about it. Become a better team. It's embarrassing.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: He should not be called Sauce. That's not his real name,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: that's a nickname. He should call him something else.
• 40:19
  Speaker 7: Next, after the Raiders fell to one in three following
• 40:21
  Speaker 7: their loss to the Bears, Pete Carroll was asked if
• 40:23
  Speaker 7: he's considering starting Kenny Pickett over Gino Smith next week,
• 40:26
  Speaker 7: Carrol said, no, nope, we're not there, Ben, When will
• 40:30
  Speaker 7: they be there?
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Well, Coop, if you want to know what job security is,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: it's having Kenny Pickett as your backup Quarterick. That is job.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: This guy they found somebody that blows more than Geno Smith.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: There was a famous talk shot back in the nineties
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: who's still doing talk radio. He used to put the
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: worst possible people in his filling host because he didn't
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: want anyone good as a filling host because he was
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: he was worried they would take their job. Like, if
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: you're Geno Smith, it's wonderful. Kenny Pickett can't play. The
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: guy sucks, So I mean, there's no reason a bench
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Gino Smith next.
• 40:59
  Speaker 7: Nick Yoki spoke with the media on Monday and declined
• 41:02
  Speaker 7: to say if he intends to sign an extension with
• 41:03
  Speaker 7: the Nuggets next offseason, but also said that his plan
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: is to quote be a Nugget forever. Yes, Ben, do
• 41:09
  Speaker 7: you think Jok will stay there in his whole career?
• 41:11
  Speaker 9: Uh?
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Well, here's the way I see this, Like he seems
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: like one of those guys that will just retire early.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: I don't think he really loves basketball. He just makes
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: a lot of money at it. He's passion is like
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Polish horses. So yeah, I could see him retiring in
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: a couple of years. He's made enough money and that's it.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: So uh yeah, I could see him only being a nugget,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: but just because he's not gonna play till he's you know,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: an old man. Right there, It is mallardly third deree.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: How did we do you pass? They win? Sas cover,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: I won, I'm a winner. I won the game.
• 41:42
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• 41:55
  Speaker 1: It's up, its little rain and enough hearts going to
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  Speaker 1: help you. Gear Rye, gear ride to n gear Ryn.
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  Speaker 8: Dear Rye.
• 42:08
  Speaker 9: That's right, you heard the man. It is time for
• 42:11
  Speaker 9: love here on the Ben Mallor Show. You know, we
• 42:13
  Speaker 9: all love love, and I like to start out the
• 42:16
  Speaker 9: segment by giving a little piece of advice. And if
• 42:18
  Speaker 9: you are going to be cheating on your woman at
• 42:20
  Speaker 9: a festival, make sure you don't know other people there.
• 42:23
  Speaker 9: You could be recorded and that video could be sent
• 42:26
  Speaker 9: to your woman.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Oh so be careful. I feel like this is a
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: very specific Yes it happened.
• 42:32
  Speaker 9: It happened around me and my group of friends this weekend.
• 42:34
  Speaker 9: So I just want to give everyone a warning. If
• 42:35
  Speaker 9: you're gonna do some scandalous things, make sure you are
• 42:38
  Speaker 9: in a private area.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Is there really a private area? We live in a
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: police thing. Yeah, there's a ewhere Super Eights. Okay, So well,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: do's a hotel down the street here, the seven seven seven.
• 42:51
  Speaker 9: They have a continental.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Brand name it. I was gonna rip it, but yeah,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: all right, go ahead.
• 42:56
  Speaker 9: Oh yeah, so that was my advice for the day.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: Okay, so if you're planning on cheating, make sure that
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: there's no camera there are Is that a bad place?
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: I was gonna stay there. I think they charged by
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: the hour. Shane and Shane and the Moine rights and says, hey,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: if your significant other uses social media, are you obligated
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: to follow their page or pages? It seems redundant to me.
• 43:22
  Speaker 9: I mean yes and no. I think it's fun to follow,
• 43:25
  Speaker 9: but if you already live together, then yeah, it's not
• 43:26
  Speaker 9: really a necessity. Also, don't don't be one of those couples.
• 43:29
  Speaker 9: I guess the join pages that means you don't have
• 43:31
  Speaker 9: any trust. But also you could be seen as a
• 43:34
  Speaker 9: hater if you're not following yourself. Like when celebrities break up,
• 43:37
  Speaker 9: they unfollow each other on social media. So part of
• 43:40
  Speaker 9: following your lover on there is that you can support,
• 43:43
  Speaker 9: so you can still like their things, you can comment
• 43:45
  Speaker 9: and be like, oh my gosh, you're so beautiful today.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, it's just stay off social media altogether, like
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: you've kind of forced the if you're on there, you
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: might as well. Yeah. JT. The Wingman writes in from Knoxville, Tennessee.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: He says, Hey, since Halloween is coming up later this month,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: what is the best Halloween costume for couples that enjoyed
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: the lifestyle? Oh? Yeah, I enjoy that lifestyle. Which lifestyle
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: is he talking about? He's talking about having a swing
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: on one side and I don't know.
• 44:12
  Speaker 9: Oh, well, you know, I think that'd be really fun.
• 44:14
  Speaker 9: I like those plug in couples ideas and if you
• 44:17
  Speaker 9: get well, if you get a multiple adapter, think about that. Like,
• 44:20
  Speaker 9: if you're into swingers, like swinging and get.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: Multiple adapters Tekiva and line, you.
• 44:25
  Speaker 9: Could dress as a pineapple and a juicer. Yep, there
• 44:29
  Speaker 9: you go, baby, let's go all right, Alameda Lou did
• 44:34
  Speaker 9: call in.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: We smoked out, Alameda, Lou, I love you still have
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: the same Kingfish there, Lou still here.
• 44:41
  Speaker 10: So I think Lorena has a vibrant fan club on
• 44:45
  Speaker 10: this show. Dude to call in and kind of hit
• 44:48
  Speaker 10: on her. As a bartender at Kingfish, I've built up
• 44:51
  Speaker 10: my own fan club, And my question for Lorena is
• 44:54
  Speaker 10: is it wrong of me to not be interested in
• 44:57
  Speaker 10: these women but kind of yucking up tips while denying
• 45:02
  Speaker 10: every date opportunity to ask on Well, no, I.
• 45:04
  Speaker 9: Mean you need to be picky with who you actually
• 45:06
  Speaker 9: let access your circle. And if they want to tip
• 45:09
  Speaker 9: you more than they will, they also don't have to
• 45:11
  Speaker 9: tip you at all. They could just be like, I'm
• 45:13
  Speaker 9: gonna flirt with this guy and he'p he gives me
• 45:14
  Speaker 9: more alcohol.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Not one of these women you found attractive, Not one
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: of them.
• 45:19
  Speaker 10: It has nothing to do with that.
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: I just think.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: I think it would be weird meeting your person you
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: don't want to meet where you where you eat, or
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: you don't want to poop where you eat.
• 45:29
  Speaker 10: I've dabbled in meeting a woman at the bar before,
• 45:32
  Speaker 10: and whatever happened, she ended up pregnant and thank god
• 45:35
  Speaker 10: it wasn't mine.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Oh my, that would be a mess.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: That is wildish.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, just you know, work the man and still
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: milk it. You got to use the charm Lorena, right,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: the charm men with what they really want to see.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: There you go, Queen of Hearts.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Is attention.
• 46:01
  Speaker 8: Everyone is password, you idiot? Password the word Game of
• 46:09
  Speaker 8: the Stars. Here's Ben Meler. All right, let's do this.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Here we go, password time. Let's welcome in our contestants
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: against my better judgment, we have hollering James. Hello, James.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: Oh you're awake now you were on the air twice
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: already sleeping? Okay, James, welcome. Who do you want to
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: partner up with? James? Oh? Thank god? How lucky am
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: I am? I the luckiest man in the world. Holy crap,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: My dreams are coming through. I know all right? It
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: was amazing, Yes, all right? And John is in Needles.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: In Needles is a town in California named Needles. Hello John, Hello, man,
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: what's going on? John? Who do you want to partner
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: up with? We've got Lorena or Coop cool Lorena, you're
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: out of the show. I hate when I don't get picked.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: I know, well you hit all the mail though, you're right,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: I'll take that instead. Oh what about me?
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: I mean?
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: What am I? Six? And shoes? I don't know. On radio,
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: I'm very cute in person, and on TV not so much. Anyway. Oh,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: let's play the game. We have a list of words here,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: and you have punched James and James pick a number
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: one to ten, hollering James, the legend in Minnesota, hollering James,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: number one, number one? Can you say that a little
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: more pizazz?
• 47:32
  Speaker 9: Number one?
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: All right? How about premature?
• 47:42
  Speaker 6: Mature?
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Oh no, oh no, no, first number one. So you
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: think you by saying the word number one that the
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: clue would be oh my god. No, Go ahead there, Coop, John, John,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: let's go with punctual early. Yeah, you got it on
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: my clue. I guess, all right, John, picking number one
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: to two to ten, John, let's.
• 48:16
  Speaker 6: Do it number ship, go ahead.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Let's go with uh oh, come on, come on, let's
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: go with uh gag No, James, let's go James wise.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: Crack that's one word. Why is crack? Wise? Crack. Pick
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: a number, James, pick a number, picking James number three. Uh,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: you know we're don't have time. We can't get it
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: in now. We ended up in a tip. Oh next week,
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: you guys want to call back, We'll do it. Next week.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: We'll tie hay ties. What is this the NFL