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Hour 2 - For the Birds · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Boom, shaka Laca. It's our number two. We thank you
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  Speaker 1: in the pod. It's a baseball heavy hour and hour
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  Speaker 1: number two. We start out in Saint Louis, where Cardinals'
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  Speaker 1: third baseman Nolan Aronato said no bueno to the Astros
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  Speaker 1: this offseason. He says the reason he did that, in part,
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  Speaker 1: was because Kyle Tucker was traded to the Cubs and
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  Speaker 1: it made him a little uncomfortable. How does all of
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  Speaker 1: that hit you? And what is the word to describe
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  Speaker 1: Chris Bryant's tenure with the Rockies as he has a
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  Speaker 1: degenitive injury, And how do you digest Pete crow Armstrong
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  Speaker 1: turning down seventy five million from the Chicago Cubs. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about all of those stories and more right now here.
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  Speaker 1: It is our number two for the Birds. Welcome in
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  Speaker 1: of the number ten thousand, So or leave this hour
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  Speaker 1: is from baseball now. As you know, I have my routine.
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  Speaker 1: We are all creatures of habit. And then normally when
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  Speaker 1: I'm futxing around getting ready for the show, got my
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  Speaker 1: laptop open, looking around, and I'm watching some games, and
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  Speaker 1: I have all the games available to me. And there
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  Speaker 1: were some really bad gays, like there were some total
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  Speaker 1: no shows in Major League Baseball, and leading the way
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  Speaker 1: the Boston Red Sox, who were just god off, just
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  Speaker 1: god ill, why they even show up to the ballpark
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  Speaker 1: there in Tampa. So Ronald got their tail kicked. There
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  Speaker 1: were a bunch of blowouts all over the place. Philly
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  Speaker 1: got swished by the Higantes, although that was somewhat closed
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  Speaker 1: for a while, somewhat close for a while. But our
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  Speaker 1: lead this hour is not from those games. It is
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  Speaker 1: not a game that was also lopsided. Some more dirt,
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  Speaker 1: some more intel coming out of the heartland, and it
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  Speaker 1: involves a red bird that stayed in the nest, a
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  Speaker 1: redbird that stayed in the nest. It was one of
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  Speaker 1: the bigger stories of the baseball offseason and it has
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  Speaker 1: new life because the player that was going to be
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  Speaker 1: traded that rejected the trade. He moved tumboed the trade
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  Speaker 1: and said, no, I'm not going there has spoken. If
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  Speaker 1: you didn't see this, you have no idea what I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about. He said, why are you talking pig Latin?
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  Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? Have you lost your mind? Let
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  Speaker 1: me explain. So, the Cardinals have a third baseman making
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money named Nolan Aernado, and they got
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  Speaker 1: him years ago from the Rockies, and he's hit a
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  Speaker 1: lot of home runs, a lot of meaningless empty stats.
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  Speaker 1: Team doesn't win in Saint Louis. So the Cardinals wanted
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  Speaker 1: to unload Nolan Aernado, and they had agreed to a
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  Speaker 1: trade and it was all worked out, and then Aeronado said,
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  Speaker 1: I ain't going, and he didn't have to go because
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  Speaker 1: he had a no trade clause. Nolan Aernato has now
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  Speaker 1: confirmed one of the reasons why he said, not over
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  Speaker 1: my dead body, am I going to to use my
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  Speaker 1: no trade clause. I'm not going to Houston. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to play for the cheating as one one thousand, two,
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  Speaker 1: one thousand holes. Don't want to do it. And he
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  Speaker 1: said the reason that he rejected the trade is because
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  Speaker 1: the Houston baseball team had traded all star outfielder by
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  Speaker 1: the name of Kyle Tucker to the Cups and he say,
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  Speaker 1: an that's not going to work. You're not trying to win.
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  Speaker 1: The quote from Aeronauto he said, Tucker is one of
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  Speaker 1: the best players in the game. He grumbled Aeronato. He said,
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  Speaker 1: when you see a team trade him, a ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: out of one hundred players would probably be wondering what
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  Speaker 1: does that mean? What does that mean? That's the question
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  Speaker 1: I asked myself. Now. Aeronauto ended up blocking the trade
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  Speaker 1: to the cheating a Holes in mid December, five days
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  Speaker 1: five days after the deal that sent Tucker to the
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  Speaker 1: the North Side of Chicago had been announced. So let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question. Cardinals third baseman Nolan Aernado confirming
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  Speaker 1: that he said no to play for the cheating Assstros
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  Speaker 1: after Alfieler Kyle Tucker had been traded away made him
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  Speaker 1: a little uncomfortable. So how does that one hit you?
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  Speaker 1: How does that one hit you? So I'll go first here.
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  Speaker 1: I got Buckey's family guy and Dodgeball, and we will
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together, and we are going
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  Speaker 1: to make toasted ravioli, which is wonderful, delicious and it's
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  Speaker 1: a tradition in Saint louis now much better than the
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  Speaker 1: Skyline chili of Cincinnati. Uh. You talk about cities that
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  Speaker 1: have signature foods, toasted ravioli, which is the food of
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  Speaker 1: Saint louis much much higher up on the big board.
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  Speaker 1: Not a list, not a list, a big board of
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  Speaker 1: signature dishes known in a certain location. So all right,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, I totally get it. I totally get it.
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  Speaker 1: You don't need to preach on and on if you're
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  Speaker 1: knowing Aeronada on this the reasoning is on point. It
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  Speaker 1: is on point here. You're preaching to the choir, is
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  Speaker 1: what you're doing on this one. And it's Essentially, if
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  Speaker 1: you're Aeronauta, you're like, listen, I'm not a plumber. I
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  Speaker 1: don't own a plunger. I don't want to. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to sit on a clogged toilet. And the Houston
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  Speaker 1: Baseball team is a clog toilet. So why would you
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  Speaker 1: sign up when you know if you wait, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have other options down the line. And aeronauto is I
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  Speaker 1: know he didn't go to Ohio State, right, He's not.
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  Speaker 1: He's not a traditional buck guy, but in many ways
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  Speaker 1: he is a buck guy, blood guy. He's a buck
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  Speaker 1: guy's blood guy because much like the Ohio State Marching Band,
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  Speaker 1: he dotted the eye on this one. The Astro franchise
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  Speaker 1: is built on a hill of marshmallows, hill of marshmallows.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, it is counterfeit. They've accomplished nothing, and
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  Speaker 1: Aeronado knows that, and he wanted no part of that.
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  Speaker 1: And you can't fault the player. It's his right. He
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  Speaker 1: had a no trade clause, and he realized, why would
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  Speaker 1: I want to go there? I want nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with that, right, I mean, everything they've done there is
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  Speaker 1: that we get a buzzer over here, you got a
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  Speaker 1: trash can over there and those little pieces of metal.
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  Speaker 1: That's not my words, that's what Rob Manford said. He
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  Speaker 1: thinks the World Series trophy is just a piece of metal,
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  Speaker 1: so it's not worth a warm bucket to spit. It's
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  Speaker 1: not worth a warm bucket to spit. And I get it.
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  Speaker 1: Aeronado knows if he plays all right for the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: He had a home run in the game on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: And if he plays okay, then Aeronauto he'd rather spend
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  Speaker 1: a little more time in the outhouse that is the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: But the Cardinals are so bad. No one's even going
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  Speaker 1: to the games. Even when the Cardinals were bad, people
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  Speaker 1: just go to the games. I was watching the Cardinal
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  Speaker 1: game and there was like nobody there. It was like
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  Speaker 1: I thought I was watching the old Cleveland back in
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  Speaker 1: the day. There was like ten people at the ballpark.
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  Speaker 1: Wild They have sucked so long and been so bad
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  Speaker 1: in Saint Louis now, even the greatest fans at baseball
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  Speaker 1: they've turned their back in the car case. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the only way you get ownership to make changes
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  Speaker 1: is if you just ignore the team. You got to
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  Speaker 1: have apathy. And the Cardinal fans are showing apathy. But anyway, listen,
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  Speaker 1: that's where we are. And if you just wait, if
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  Speaker 1: you're Nolan Aeronato, you can handpick and end up in
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  Speaker 1: a better situation. Now turn the page. We head to Denver,
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  Speaker 1: but not not for nugget Tucks. It's come to my attention.
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  Speaker 1: It has come to my attention that there is a
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  Speaker 1: great thief in the night that is getting no negative publicity,
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  Speaker 1: but is one of the great heists of our time
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  Speaker 1: in professional sports. And it's going on right under our nose.
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  Speaker 1: And it involves those unlovable losers from Colorado who are
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  Speaker 1: making some headlines here. I saw this or not. The
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  Speaker 1: Rockies announced they have placed their big free agent pickup
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, Chris Bryant, on a ten day.
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  Speaker 1: They call it injured list. We used to call it
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  Speaker 1: d L back in they disabled list. Then the Wolchsters
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  Speaker 1: in baseball said no, no, no, it's injured. It's injured. But
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  Speaker 1: they say that he's got a degenerate disc disease. He's
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  Speaker 1: got a degenerate problem with his back. That sounds like
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  Speaker 1: a problem. Yeah, that sounds sounds like a problem there.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not a doctor, but I can play one
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  Speaker 1: of the radio So what is the word to describe
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  Speaker 1: Chris Bryant and his tenure with the Rockies. This guy,
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  Speaker 1: at one point was on as they say, im Polker.
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  Speaker 1: He was on the coup with the Cubs. And we
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  Speaker 1: talked earlier about the Cubs winning the World Series. And
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  Speaker 1: it's been almost a decade or so since the Cubs
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  Speaker 1: won the World Series and they thought they had the
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  Speaker 1: next great dynasty and you look at what a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of turds most of those guys in the Cubs turned
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  Speaker 1: out to be. They all made a lot of money,
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  Speaker 1: but of successful, big time, productive careers, a lot of frauds,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of frauds. And this is one of these
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  Speaker 1: you bet on these young players and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these guys do not have the longevity do it for
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years. Chris Bryant's on that short list.
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  Speaker 1: But to answer the question, what is your word for
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  Speaker 1: Chris Bryant's tenure with the Rockies. My word is it's
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  Speaker 1: from family guy quagmire. It's a quagmire is what it
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  Speaker 1: is here. It's a hot mess. And instead of quagmire,
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  Speaker 1: how about q Q quiet quitting. That is what Chris
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  Speaker 1: Bryan has done and say I just said it. And
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  Speaker 1: here's the thing. There's this loser in Anaheim that named
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Rendon who said the quiet part out by. The
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  Speaker 1: guy hates baseball. Baseball hates him. The Angels are so
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  Speaker 1: stupid they gave him like two hundred and forty five
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  Speaker 1: million dollars. The guy is a total malcontent, doesn't play,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't even pretend like he wants to play. Just a loser, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, everything you hate about professional sports is summed
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  Speaker 1: up in Anthony Rendome. And the different between Chris Bryant
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  Speaker 1: and Anthony Rendon is a little more money, right, actually
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  Speaker 1: a lot more money. But the other thing is that
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  Speaker 1: Chris Bryant you never hear. You don't know whether he
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  Speaker 1: hates baseball or anything like that. He just doesn't play.
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  Speaker 1: He just sucks when he plays, and you don't hear
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  Speaker 1: about it. And this guy was at breakout star for
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago Cubs years ago and he is currently floating
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  Speaker 1: on the lazy river. He might as well be on
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  Speaker 1: disability with the With the Rockies at this particular points,
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  Speaker 1: he's played about one season, but he's been there three
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  Speaker 1: plus years. In Colorado, he's played one hundred and seventy games,
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  Speaker 1: and the Rockies he has a minus one point six
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  Speaker 1: war wins above replacement, which means the Rockies are tangibly
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  Speaker 1: worse with Chris bryan on the field. All right, and
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  Speaker 1: he's in the middle of a seven year, one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty two million dollars contract with the Colorado Baseball team.
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  Speaker 1: And again, now you crunch the numbers on this, He's
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  Speaker 1: now in his fourth year as a member of the
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  Speaker 1: Rockies and he has not played over eighty games. He
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  Speaker 1: has not passed eighty games in any of those campaigns.
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  Speaker 1: And the latest appearance now his one superpower, the one
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  Speaker 1: area where Chris Bryant is elite as a Rocky is
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  Speaker 1: ending up on what we used to call this able list.
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  Speaker 1: This is not his first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth.
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  Speaker 1: How about his ninth trip to the injury list since
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  Speaker 1: joining the Rockies. That is impressive. And oh, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: but wait, there's more. The Rockies will be paying him
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  Speaker 1: eighty one million to sit on his ass and not play.
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  Speaker 1: And then when he does play, go up there in
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  Speaker 1: back two forty four. With mediocre numbers across the board,
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  Speaker 1: you could have gotten a guy out of the Mexican
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  Speaker 1: League that would have put up those numbers. But I digress.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now final thought, we now go to Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: There was a story that threw this was sent in
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  Speaker 1: actually my listener named Steve, who says he is he's
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  Speaker 1: in the suburbs of Chicago, but he's up Ladi's nocturnal
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  Speaker 1: and he listens to our show. So thank you Steve
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  Speaker 1: for sending this my way, and we'll give you a
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  Speaker 1: couple of minutes on this. So some developments from the
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  Speaker 1: Friendly Confines the Cubbies enjoying a West coast trip here
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  Speaker 1: early in the season, and we learned recently the Cubs
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  Speaker 1: tried to sign outfielder Pete Crow Armstrong. That's a mouthful,
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  Speaker 1: Pete Crow Armstrong to an extension. They offered him a
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  Speaker 1: relatively large extension, seventy five million dollars, seventy five million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: He said, no, I reject your seventy five million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want your seventy five million. I don't need
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  Speaker 1: your seventy five million. I'm not going to accept your
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  Speaker 1: seventy five million. So instead, I'm going to counter that
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  Speaker 1: offer and I'm going to ask for something else. However,
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  Speaker 1: the offer was not accepted by the Rockies, so they
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  Speaker 1: have decided to table the contract talks, which is a
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  Speaker 1: polite way of saying we're not paying you. Go away.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. He's twenty three years old and he's in
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  Speaker 1: his third major league season. Now, the guy did hit
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  Speaker 1: some bombs against the Dodgers over the weekend, and how
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  Speaker 1: do you digest? This was the big prize the Cubs
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  Speaker 1: got in the Hobby bayas trade. Another one of those
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  Speaker 1: can't miss young Cub players who blows he's terrible anyway,
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  Speaker 1: how do you digest Pete Krohl Armstrong turning down seventy
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  Speaker 1: five million from the Cubs and then off trying to
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  Speaker 1: get even more out of him in the Cub said no, So,
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  Speaker 1: as I learned from Dodgeball back in the day, that
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  Speaker 1: is a bold strategy. Cotton is what that is. Let's
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  Speaker 1: see if it pays off. We will find out. I'm
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  Speaker 1: betting on it won't pay off. Now, krol Armstrong is
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  Speaker 1: so far when you turn about his offense. He did
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  Speaker 1: some home runs recently, but you talk about his offense
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  Speaker 1: and it's a lot of sizzle. His game in general
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of steak, Like, not a lot of
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  Speaker 1: steak there. He's got some speed, good defensive player, and
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  Speaker 1: his bat has been like the band Limp Biscuit, just
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  Speaker 1: a lot of limp, a lot of limp in the
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  Speaker 1: bat there, and he's yet to get his sea legs
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  Speaker 1: underneath him at this particular point, does not have that,
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  Speaker 1: and he's making I love how it used to be
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  Speaker 1: when you were on a rookie contract. Boy, you really
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  Speaker 1: got to get a job selling cars or you know,
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  Speaker 1: cleaning up trash in the offseason. But this guy's making
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred and seventy one thousand dollars as a third
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  Speaker 1: year player. So where I come from, that's a good
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  Speaker 1: amount of money. Seven hundred and thousand dollars. However, it's
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  Speaker 1: not seventy five million. It's not that. And here's the
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  Speaker 1: other thing. He's not arbitration eligible till twenty twenty eight,
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  Speaker 1: so he's not going to get the big, big, big
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  Speaker 1: money until at least twenty twenty eight. So that's three
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  Speaker 1: more years. And if this guy goes out there in
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  Speaker 1: bat's two thirty every year and doesn't hit enough, he's
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  Speaker 1: not going to get to that point and get the
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  Speaker 1: big money. Seventy five million is generational wealth. He's betting
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  Speaker 1: on himself. We'll see if it works out. You know,
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  Speaker 1: seventy five million with a good investment portfolio of some
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  Speaker 1: real estate and some investments in commodities and whatnot. You
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  Speaker 1: are set up. You're good to go, and generations of
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  Speaker 1: your family are good to go. But he's he's going
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• 18:34
  Speaker 1: is pressing some buttons and playing random songs that you
• 18:37
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• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Kooboalop Bronco Fan. Your comments can we'll be used against
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: you of sports radio. That's right, and don't forget coming
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: up later this hour, we'll have the insert tribute also
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Mallard to the third Degree coming up a little bit
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: later in the hour, and a Brave Move we will
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: go there as well, a brave Move that'll be coming
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: up a little bit later in the hour and late
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: night drug tester Rights. Sinceys with all the Major League
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Baseball players not living up to their contracts, makes me
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: wonder why owners want to expand since there's an obvious
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: lack of talent for the teams we have now, Well,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: they want to expand because they's more money. Money, money, money.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: It's all about that. It's always about you know, the
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: It's always about the money. What else do we have?
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Page down? Fergduck says, as delicious as it sounds, dollar
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: shave clubs, shave butter is not edible. Yell me, I
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: found that out the hard way. Okay.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Was there ever anything in your childhood, Ben that you
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: knew you shouldn't have eaten, but you did anyways, Like Plato,
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: a lot of kids eat playing.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah Plato. I ate glue crayons. Wellhen I was a
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: little kid. Yeah, I was a little kid. Yeah, because
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I was bored. I hated school. So I would like
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: put glue all over my fingers and then wait for
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: it to dry, and then pick the glue off my
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: fingers to entertain myself. Wow. And then I'd roll the
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: glue into a little a wall. But I didn't always
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: eat it, but sometimes I nibble at it, like I
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: nibble at the glue a little bit. I do that.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: And the crayons, I thought, well, the blue one must
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: taste good. I like the color blue. It must taste
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: It didn't taste It didn't taste good, did not taste good.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: You know we did Career Day this past Friday.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I did that.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: It wasn't here.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: It took off for career and then were the kids
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: riveted where they were going away by this?
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: They love radio and I got to show, you know,
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: I did our Mallard meet and greet. Photo from Vegas
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: year in my slide show, so I talk about you guys.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: One of the kids was like, I listen, my dad
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: listens to you guys every night.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, cool, very cool.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Signed a couple of sweaters. But there was this one
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: kid and he was like eating the pamphlet, like there
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: was little flyers for the day and there was bite
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: marks when we first started, like tiny ones. He came
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: back five sessions later and his paper was almost gone.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Listen, wherever you can get your vitamins, you get your vitamins. Okay,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: you don't. You don't judge the kid. Someday run a company.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Some day, that kid's gonna grow up a very successful child,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: and they'll everyone will laugh about this and the things
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: they do in your kids. You know, I'd say, you
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: were a little kid, you probably ate some weird stuff.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: You ate your boogers.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a booger eater.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and when did you stop? How have you stopped it?
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: It was about sixth grade when I stopped that.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Sixth grade.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I dated another booger eater and I didn't know
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: he was one. And his friends were like just so
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: you know, oh, it's like, oh, is that something to
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: be ashamed of. Never mind, I won't do it anymore.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: You think you'd bond over that. This is like, this
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: is a bonding thing. You have something in common there,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: your love of mucus and uh yeah, but that did
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: not work out that way. I got you. All right,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Let's take some calls. It is a call in a show.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: We began this hour. Couple of baseball stories here, including
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Chris Bryant, who you talk about having a meltdown. I
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: mean not not the kind of like nuclear meltdown, but
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: just signing with the team and then going into retirement.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: And he's done it. Chris Bryant, and this guy at
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: one point was the next great thing in baseball and
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: he got the big money and that's it. Let's call
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the phones. Will say hello to Anthony, who's hanging out
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: in Bakersfield in California. Yea, hello, Anthony, welcome, Hey, what's
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: that man?
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: How you guys doing?
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: If I was any better, I'd be a Rocky, but
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: not a Colorado Rocky because they're terrible. Yet. You know, people,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: people have talked about the Dodgers winning one hundred and
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: twenty games, which are not going to do or something
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: like that. But the Rockies have a chance to lose
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty games. They're in a division with
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. The Giants are pretty good this year. The
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Diamondbacks don't suck. The Podres are good, and that's they play.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: The Rockies play all those teams the most. Oh my god,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna. Look if they win two games
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: against every one of those teams this year, my god.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah. You know, my Dodgers hid the skid this past
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: weekend in the past three series that they had, So
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: whenever I saw the Rockies on the board, I was like,
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: all right, cool, this back to gain in a winning form.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. The great thing about the Rockies too, is they'll
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: have great attendance because when the Rockies come to town,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: you always give away your bibble heads, you give away
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: your stuffed animals, because that's the only way to get
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: people to show up when the Rockies are there.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, they have good deals at the concession stands.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: A lot of people don't know that, but whenever the
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: lesson teams come in, they you know, they advertise on TV,
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: but they also promote into stands and they get they
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: have a lot more giveaway than.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: What people ANTICIPATEE got to sell that alcohol, man, the nachos,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the alcohol. You have everything flowing, for sure. I got you.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: What's on your mind? You didn't call about that, though, Anthony,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: what's on your mind? What's your agenda?
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: No, sir, I I'm talking about the outfielder Pete Crow.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: What a lot of people don't know about him is
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: that his parents are very successful actors and he was
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: born with a silver spoon in his mouth over here
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: in Sherman Oaks, the better part of California. I'm in
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: the Central Valley of California.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: And is that right? We are broadcasting. We are broadcasting
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: from Sherman Oaks, so we actually do the show from
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: our studio.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, understandable, yes, sir.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: And so he was, Who's just who are his parents?
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Have I heard of them?
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: Man? They were at the game? Uh?
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Very famous? Well, they're famous. But we I mean hold on,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, so you you're saying I wouldn't. I'm gonna
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: look it up. But you're saying I would know who
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: these people are. You think I would know who they are?
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: You could?
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: You could see them in some B level movies and
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: they show Yeah, I mean, but they I mean they
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: have more money than the average people. Well, you know,
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: so it's easier for their son to.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Whose parents Pete Crol Armstrong. Yeah, and with the Harvard
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Harvard Westlake. That's a bougie high school, Harvard Westlake. That's
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: he says. Family is actors, big successful actors, and they're.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: They're they're pretty known and they got millions in the bank.
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: I have seen this guy before, but I would have
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: never John Matthew john On. I've seen his face, but
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: I I would have like if you told me that name,
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: I would have never.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: What's he? What's he been in here? He's been in?
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: So the TV show Heroes Back in the Day, which
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: which I loved on NBCNBC. Yeah, yeah, the numbers was
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: another big one and n.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: C I s I have known who this is. What
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: about the mom Ashley Krow Is that actually Croach?
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: She actually I looked it up earlier before I called
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: you guys. She actually has a higher network than what
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: the father does.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, she's actually older than the father. How about that?
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Many?
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, look at that. That doesn't really work out that way? Yeah,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the older layer. Yeah, all right, I've never heard of
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I've never heard of either one of them. But I
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: congratulations if they've got a lot of money. Maybe they do.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I've never.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: Never heard of well, but the thing I'm the thing
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: I'm trying to point out is that it's easier for him.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: He's not in as much of a rush as he
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: would say from a guy from the Dominican or a
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: guy from the middle class.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that's a fair point. That's a fair point.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: If you got money you don't need, yeah, you can
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: wait a little bit. Like Bronnie James didn't need. The
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Lakers gave him the money anyway. You know, Bronnie didn't
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: need the money. He's mad made man. But the Lakers
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: gave him the guaranteed money anyway. Is it true he
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: had the worst he had the worst shooting percentage in
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: the NBA, And I saw that stat. I don't know
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: if that was true or non.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: And I was just flicking that up and it's it's horrible,
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: Like honestly, Yeah, I'm a big Blaker fan. After Kobe left,
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: everything went downhill. The stuff that Lebron's doing, I do
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: not respect it.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, exactly, all right. I gotta go,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: thank you. Andrew. You've got a good call. Let's go
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: to Texas Jack. Who's next? And I haven't heard from
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Texas Jack in a while. I know he's been in morning,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: he's been sitting shiva, uh for the Mavericks. Hello, Texas Jack?
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: How you doing?
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Man?
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: How you doing?
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I thought you'd never call again. I thought this was
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: such an embarrassing thing you your team did. You'd never
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: call again, and here you are. You waited several months,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: but you've called in.
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: Oh. I've been sick.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: I couldn't heat, couldn't sleep.
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: It's horrible.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: Nicol Harrison ought to be hung.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't go that far. That seems a little drastic,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: but uh, maybe we're uh, we're good on that, Texas Jack.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: How about how about fired in shame? How about that?
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Since drive him to the airport, get him out of town.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: I should have been five today before the trade.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I remember you used to call up Texas Jack,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: and you would, you would call up, and you would,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: we would go back and forth, and you would wax
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: poetic and you would, you would slobber all over Luca.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: And now you got nothing.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: I've got nothing, I got nothing.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Nothing, nothing.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: You need to mean broken heart.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: What do you got one? Yeah, one, you couldn't even
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: you couldn't even get more than one first round drafting.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: That's so stupid. Oh my god, it's begne. It's begune
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: beyond embarrassing.
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: Like I made the deal.
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: I didn't make you know, I know, but the fact
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: that I.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Know it just it just feeds into the conspiracy. You've
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: got to think, no one's that stupid that somebody something
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: must have conspired. There must be some kind of deep
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: state involved in this, whether it's television that wanted Luca
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: in La or something. You'd like to think, what does
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: the NBA really care? Maybe the NBA wanted it. Maybe
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: the NBA is like, is what we want? Of course,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: of course that's why that's why one should hate the Lakers.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Lakers are disgusting. Everyone should hate the Lakers. Screw lak
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: You see, we found Dodgers are the lakers of baseball.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: They are not.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: They're not talking about baseball right now, We're talking about.
• 28:41
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• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry.
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: I haven't called. I had to switch jobs and took
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: a little time off.
• 30:06
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  Speaker 1: join the show. There it goes the great Beaten Man
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Texas Jack Beaten and broken Man. Yeah, so a, we're
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: talking about a brave move. Let me go to a
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: blind Emit here. I want to get his take on this.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Blind Emmitt, the Seahawk fan. Blind Emmett, did you see
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: what happened? I say that, of course, knowing you're blind,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: But did you did you hear what happened? Involving the
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves? The braves are in Toronto and the sideline
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: reporter for the Atlanta Braves in the middle of the
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: in gag these little vignettes where they tossed to the
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: sideline reporter and the braves reporter on camera asked a
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: somewhat attractive female fan for her phone number. A.
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: You're shooting it? Saw that's crazy?
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I did not hear that now? Is that it
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: had a baller move or is that is that a
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: beta move?
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: Baller a beta you know, like for the media side
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: of things, like it's probably pretty beta. But like for me,
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: as like someone who like doesn't really care about the Braves,
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: bro shoot your shaw. You know, you gotta go for
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: the love. You know, it may she's the love of
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: your life. I mean, we've seen, you know, stuff like
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: this happen where like I believe Joe Burrow was with
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: the Reporter a while ago.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Going on, well, there have been many well listen, many reporters.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Lauren Sanchez, who's married to the richest guy in the world,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: was with Tony Gonzalez and some other she was a
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: sideline reporter.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what you're saying is I need to be a
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: sideline report.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: I think Lorena, if you were, if you're looking to
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: find a professional athlete that you would like to spend
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: some quality time with, I think that might be the
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: way to go. I'm just I'm just saying it seems
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: to work out. I remember years ago there well I
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: don't want to name names, but as just say, I
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: in my younger days, there were some friends of mine
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: that worked as a sideline reporters who did end off
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: up enjoying very successful financial lives with men that played sports.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: That's all same, Hey, you know it happens.
• 32:09
  Speaker 7: But I want to talk about the Kevin Durant and
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: like the Phoenix Suns firing their head coach Mike Buenholzer. Now,
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: I think that you just, obviously we say all the
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: time in sports, like the coach's a scapegoat. And the
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: Sons Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal, Devin Booker era we've seen
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: for a few years now, and it obviously hasn't worked,
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: and they bring in Bud thinking all right, we're gonna
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: we're gonna fix this, and it just completely backfired. So
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: he had to go. And I think the Sons obviously,
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: like you said, they're trying to build around Devin Booker.
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: They said, Devin Booker is untouchable with the deadline. So
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: I think Kevin Durant, obviously he's probably done after this year.
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: He's going somewhere else. He's gonna try and ring Chase
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: get another ring. And Bradley Beal. I think that's a
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: hard thing to kind of cope with because if you're
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: a Sun fan you have to worry about him accepting
• 32:51
  Speaker 7: the player option. And then it's like no one's gonna
• 32:53
  Speaker 7: want a trade, like no one's gonna want Bradley Beal
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: with the no trade clause because he can.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: They'll just buy him out. They'll just pay him, they'll
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: buy it. Hey, a ridiculous amount of money this guy,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: matt Ishbie has got. He's got plenty of dough if
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: he wants to just flush his money down the toilet.
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: Fifty million. We don't even have your draft pick this year.
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: You only have your first.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Doesn't matter if he's a If he's a problem, you
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: get rid of the problem. If you think you're better
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: off without him, get rid of it.
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: It would be super Phoenix Sun though, because they don't
• 33:21
  Speaker 7: have their draft pick, like I was saying, they're in
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: a desperate spot to just keep them.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Well, even if they had, even if they had their
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: draft pick, and most of these, most of these picks
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: blow their their farts in the wind. Okay, that's all
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  Speaker 1: about you get I mean.
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  Speaker 1: basic here. Blank is the most common first name among
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  Speaker 1: current players in the NFL. Most common first name among
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  Speaker 1: current players in the NFL. Malaprop Guy going with defendant.
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  Speaker 1: All right, very funny. Andy in Line O Lakes, Minnesota says,
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  Speaker 1: The alien appuntis is Mark Andre is the answer? By
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  Speaker 1: Gabe says, baby Daddy is the most popular name. Em
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  Speaker 1: Patrick No. The most common first name in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: currently is Josh. There are thirty two players named Josh.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty two.
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  Speaker 1: You don't like the name Josh. You ever dated a
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  Speaker 1: guy named Josh? Have you ever? You've never dated a judge?
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  Speaker 2: This is one big Ben gets grilled.
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  Speaker 6: It was reported a couple of weeks ago that the
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  Speaker 6: Chiefs wanted to become a permanent fixture on Christmas Day,
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  Speaker 6: much like the Lines and the Cowboys are on Thanksgiving. However,
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  Speaker 6: we recently learned that the NFL currently doesn't have any
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  Speaker 6: plans to make anyone a permanent host on Christmas, Ben,
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  Speaker 6: would you like to see a permanent Christmas team I would.
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  Speaker 1: I grew up. We all grew up with the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: and the Lions on Thanksgiving. That's just what you came
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  Speaker 1: to know. And in the NBA it's always you're annoying
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  Speaker 1: Lakers and the Celtics usually would play on Christmas. They'd
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  Speaker 1: have the high profile teams there every year, and it's
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  Speaker 1: just it's part of the circle of life. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when the holidays come up, you're going to see at
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  Speaker 1: least you know one of the teams is going to
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  Speaker 1: be playing there. I say, why not. The Chiefs have
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  Speaker 1: been pretty good. They're not gonna be good forever. At
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  Speaker 1: some point they'll suck again. But I have no problem
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  Speaker 1: with it. To me, it makes sense that I have
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  Speaker 1: that one signature team that you know, you associate the
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  Speaker 1: holiday with. I don't see what the problem is next.
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  Speaker 6: Alex Sar recently just became only the third rookie ever
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  Speaker 6: to have one hundred three pointers made, one hundred plus blocks,
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  Speaker 6: and one hundred plus assists. Ben, do you think Sarr
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  Speaker 6: has locked up Rooie of the Year award?
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  Speaker 1: Well not, according to the gambling market. According to the
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  Speaker 1: gambling market, he's the odds are not actually in his favor.
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  Speaker 1: That the the numbers indicate the gambling market that it
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  Speaker 1: says Stephen Castle the Spurs is the overwhelming favorite, like
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  Speaker 1: he's going to win it. And uh, you know the
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  Speaker 1: Hawks are in the playing thing here, the Spurs, they've
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  Speaker 1: got their own they're also in the plan. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's not the favorite.
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  Speaker 6: Next, there are five teams that have ten percent or
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  Speaker 6: more of a chance to land the number one overall
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  Speaker 6: pick in the NBA lottery. Yeah, aka the Flag Sweepstakes.
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  Speaker 6: Are the Jazz, Wizards, horn Its, Pelicans in seventy six ers? Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: and if one of them were guaranteed to get the
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  Speaker 6: number one pick, Philly's got to be the best landing
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  Speaker 6: spot for Flag.
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  Speaker 1: Right uhe now, because Joel Embiid's a hot mess, I'm
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  Speaker 1: market wise, Yeah, I feel it. If By the way,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna simulate the lottery right right now, Cooper, I'm
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  Speaker 1: on tankaphon right now, I'm gonna simulate the lottery. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, the Charlotte Hornets have won the lottery. Oh
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  Speaker 1: he's good. I know he's from Maine, but Flag is
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  Speaker 1: going to Charlotte. I've just I've just run. I put
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  Speaker 1: I did sim lottery on tankfon send that out, Coop.
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  Speaker 1: We are now reporting that they're Charlotte Hornets. The nineteen
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  Speaker 1: win Hornets have won the lottery. They've moved up two spots.
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia got the second bick. But no, if this guy's
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  Speaker 1: the real deal, I have my questions. But Brooklyn would
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  Speaker 1: not be bad. Right, They don't have much of a chance.
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  Speaker 1: But Brooklyn's in the lottery. That's the New York market, Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: Something better than Toronto or Utah or San Antonio. There
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  Speaker 1: passed the raft, I got a degree. I passed the test.