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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: We had a Hodgepoge of options was debating where to
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  Speaker 1: go to begin and the thing that caught my attention.
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  Speaker 1: Since I still have editorial control over what I talk about,
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  Speaker 1: the story that I'm most interested in involves the robber
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  Speaker 1: barons of sports. Our lead this hour from Dallas. This
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  Speaker 1: is not a Jerry Jones story, So calm down. Is
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  Speaker 1: not a Jerry Jones story, I promise you lead us though.
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  Speaker 1: Where the Luka Doncik trade was so bad? How bad
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  Speaker 1: was it? That donation wasn't even a trade, it was
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  Speaker 1: a donation to the Lakers? Has now literally sparked a lawsuit?
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  Speaker 1: How many trades there have been trades that have caused lawsuits?
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  Speaker 1: This is this is the story? Is this not a
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  Speaker 1: am I wrong, Am I misreading the room here? This
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  Speaker 1: is not a good story that that trade was so ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: He had not a trade, it was a donation. That
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  Speaker 1: this has now created a hum danger of a store.
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  Speaker 1: So if you didn't see it, and perhaps you missed
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  Speaker 1: it to hear about it, we'll give you the details here,
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  Speaker 1: the inside skinny, if you will. So there's this really
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  Speaker 1: rich guy that got very lucky and made the sweetheart
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  Speaker 1: deal with Yahoo years ago uh rubbing audio content on
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  Speaker 1: the internet and has lived off that very well as
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  Speaker 1: a one percenter ever since then. His name is Mark Cuban.
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  Speaker 1: He bankrolled the Indiana Hoosiers college football championship this past year.
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  Speaker 1: Here well, Mark Cuban claims that he had a handshake
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  Speaker 1: slash verbal deal months before he sold his basketball team
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  Speaker 1: that gave him continued control over basketball ops. And we
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  Speaker 1: used to call it GM general manager transactions. And this
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  Speaker 1: guy Patrick Dumont, part of the rich gambling family from Vegas,
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  Speaker 1: that the Dumont crew, they would handle the business stuff,
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  Speaker 1: the boring stuff, you know, the real estate, casino deals,
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, as opposed to who gets traded
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  Speaker 1: and who gets signed and all that stuff. Now Here's
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  Speaker 1: where it gets really dicey. So Cuban sold about seventy
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  Speaker 1: percent of the mavericke he owns twenty seven percent, so
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  Speaker 1: he still got a stake in the team. This is
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  Speaker 1: Maverick on Maverick crime. According to the court filing, this
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  Speaker 1: guy Patrick Dumont did not honor, did not honor the
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  Speaker 1: verbal contract. Oh my god. Instead he gave control to
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  Speaker 1: that evil Nico Harrison, who should get his number of retired?
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  Speaker 1: The Lakers retire everyone's number. DeAndre Ayten's getting his number retired.
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  Speaker 1: Run on to Nico Harrison. Just give him a number.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. And so Nico Harrison was in control and
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  Speaker 1: Cuban was not. And Cuban explicity Mark Mark Cuban in
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  Speaker 1: this whole situation referenced in court documents the Luca trade
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  Speaker 1: as evidence that the handshake agreement was broken. So that
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  Speaker 1: is a good jumping up point. Let us discuss the
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  Speaker 1: question why is Mark Cuban, Why is Mark Cuban doing this?
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  Speaker 1: It's embarrassing is that now you're taking you owned the
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  Speaker 1: team for a while, you sold the team, and now
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  Speaker 1: years later here you're taking the Mavericks current owner to court.
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  Speaker 1: And also does Mark Cuban have a winnable case? Does
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  Speaker 1: he have a oneabole case? So I've got keystone, bucket, brigade,
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  Speaker 1: and rowing, and we will combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and we are going to make some Texas toast.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're going to make. So A I want
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  Speaker 1: to preface it, I'm not a lawyer, but I do
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  Speaker 1: play one on the radio. So you should never take
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  Speaker 1: legal advice from an overnight talk shows. That being said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to give out legal advice. So technically a
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  Speaker 1: handshake deal. These things, believe it or not, have come
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  Speaker 1: up over the years behind these powerful microphones and the
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  Speaker 1: bully pulpit of Fox Sports Radio. It's rather shocking that
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  Speaker 1: this story would come up, but it has in the past.
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  Speaker 1: So a handshake deal can be legally enforceable. Did you
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  Speaker 1: know that it can't? That's the good news. The bad
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  Speaker 1: news the problem is proof with a capital P. So
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  Speaker 1: that makes this a hail Mary play. If one person, like,
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  Speaker 1: let's say I came up to you and I said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I got a deal. I'm gonna sell you. I've got
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  Speaker 1: this old like this old motorbike thing that I have,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna give it to you and then you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna give me, you know, thirty thousand dollars or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. Okay, fine, that's the deal. So it's the
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  Speaker 1: problem is you just because one person says you agreed
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  Speaker 1: to it, the other one can say no, I didn't,
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  Speaker 1: and then it becomes a credibility contest. Without a digital
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  Speaker 1: paper trail, we're talking to email, text messages, that kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. It becomes a credibility contest. Now, as for
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  Speaker 1: the why why has Mark Cuban doing this? This isn't
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  Speaker 1: a lawsuit. This is an oligarch temper tantrum, is what
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  Speaker 1: this is. Because he's not the center of attention anymore,
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  Speaker 1: not right. Mark Cuban one of the great ego maniacs
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  Speaker 1: of our time. He's only suing because he cannot let
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  Speaker 1: go of what he had. And his entire identity was
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks. They were it. That was his baby.
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  Speaker 1: That's my baby right there, his ego project for decades, decades,
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  Speaker 1: and he made a terrible deal. Now, financially, it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: that bad. He got three point five billion dollars. However,
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  Speaker 1: when you take away the emotional stake that he had
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  Speaker 1: in that team, he got out played because he gave
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  Speaker 1: it up. He gave it up, and what he had
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  Speaker 1: as the face of the Mavericks was bigger, right, is
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  Speaker 1: bigger now the business people they got the team. They
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  Speaker 1: used some skullduggery, they got the team. And now he's
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  Speaker 1: having sellers remorse and he's been going on. So instead
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  Speaker 1: of admitting, hey, I screwed up on that one by
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  Speaker 1: handing over control without ironclad contracts, he's running to the
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  Speaker 1: courthouse crying about a handshake deal and using Luca that
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  Speaker 1: trade as a very dramatic excuse. And deep down, if
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  Speaker 1: you go to the very core of this, the lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: is just Mark Cuban drinking keystone light because he's got
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  Speaker 1: bitter beer face is what he's got. He's just bitter,
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  Speaker 1: and I get it, Like, why did he not think
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  Speaker 1: this through? Yeah, I already have enough money. You don't
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  Speaker 1: need money now. I heard from somebody that I was
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  Speaker 1: chatting with a few hours ago that said Cuban thought
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  Speaker 1: that for some reason the price of sports teams are
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  Speaker 1: going to go down. This was the time to do it,
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  Speaker 1: and he wanted to get in. He misread the market.
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  Speaker 1: He misread the market. That's what someone I chatted with
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  Speaker 1: who knows a lot about these things. That's their theory
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  Speaker 1: on this. And so here we are. Mark Cuban cannot
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  Speaker 1: accept the new normal, and so he's filled lawsuit against
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  Speaker 1: the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and he's inventing grievances
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  Speaker 1: to stay relevant, kind of claw back some of that influence.
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  Speaker 1: He's talked about why I should buy the team back. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the team's gonna cost more money now and it's not
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  Speaker 1: for sale. It's a classic case of a guy whose
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  Speaker 1: entire foundation is so wrapped up in owning that he's
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  Speaker 1: willing to go with a nuclear option. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: like the Brooklyn Bridge the other day, burn it up, baby,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, rather than worry about looking petty in
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  Speaker 1: public and move on and just enjoy a great life,
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  Speaker 1: a life that so many of us wish we could have,
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  Speaker 1: was just not having to worry about bills or anything.
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  Speaker 1: He's just he's a made man. And just watch old
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  Speaker 1: episodes of Shark Tank, which you also quit. So he
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  Speaker 1: quit Shark Tank and the Dallas Mavericks in the span
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  Speaker 1: of a very short time. So clearly the spell is
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  Speaker 1: not working now. Meanwhile, two Milwaukee go why, well, the
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks gave away the franchise a few days ago,
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  Speaker 1: and they now are facing the music. The GM John
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  Speaker 1: hurt Horst addressed the trade of Giannis Adenta Coombo to
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  Speaker 1: the Miami Heat for the first time now. The Bucks
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  Speaker 1: GM called trading Yannis quote a very difficult decision. He
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  Speaker 1: acknowledged that Milwaukee is not a better team today than
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  Speaker 1: they were the other day without him, and he described
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  Speaker 1: Janis as one of the greatest players to ever play
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  Speaker 1: in the state of Wisconsin for that basketball team. And
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  Speaker 1: you'd have to say he's neck and neck with Kareem
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  Speaker 1: lou Al Sender back in the day, right, they both
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  Speaker 1: won one championship with the Bucks and they were vi'sing
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  Speaker 1: the team one and all that. So the Bucks framed
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  Speaker 1: it as a mutual best interest decision. That's how their
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  Speaker 1: positioning is. It was a mutual best interest decision to
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  Speaker 1: reset and build a sustain tender, a building a new
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  Speaker 1: foundation for their coach, Taylor Jenkins, who has that great
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  Speaker 1: track record of success. The Bucks GM emphasized he was
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  Speaker 1: not forced to trade Jannis. Wink wink, nudge, nudge, All right,
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  Speaker 1: So that is a good spot. Let's let's kind of
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  Speaker 1: jump off that the question. The Bucks GM John Horse
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  Speaker 1: said he wasn't forced to trade Jannis Dentic Cumbo and
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  Speaker 1: it was a mutual decision. Do you believe him? So,
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm not good. I don't have a great poker face.
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  Speaker 1: It's a hard no. I believe every man, woman and
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  Speaker 1: child with even a rudimentary, rudimentary knowledge of basketball knows
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  Speaker 1: that this is gaslighting. It is gas lighting disguised as
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  Speaker 1: an argument. And the Bucks general manager saying that he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't forced to trade a Dentic Cuombo, that it was
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  Speaker 1: a mutual decision. Now, my friend Andy Furman likes to
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  Speaker 1: point out we were born at night, but not last night.
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  Speaker 1: You would need a suspension bridge to support the disbelief
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  Speaker 1: required to buy this. Milwaukee just got completely pants Now,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't look as bad because the Celtics trade was worse.
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  Speaker 1: What they did was worse. It's not great, though, it's
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  Speaker 1: not great right from the entire league. Get your pants
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  Speaker 1: pulled down there and you went commando style. And the
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  Speaker 1: Bucks GM is part of the bucket brigade doing mop
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  Speaker 1: up duty, trying to clean up the mess and painting
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  Speaker 1: this as noble best for both sides, best being as
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  Speaker 1: good as all the rest, of course, like a reset
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  Speaker 1: that is the broad brush equivalent of repainting a condemned building. Well,
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  Speaker 1: why would you do that? The building is going to
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  Speaker 1: get knocked down by a wrecking ball. That makes no sense.
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  Speaker 1: Why would you paint over it? It's just dumb. It's
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  Speaker 1: having a car, a beater car that needs to go
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  Speaker 1: to the junkyard, and you're like, well, let me take
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  Speaker 1: that and get that. Give me, let me get some
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  Speaker 1: new tires on that. I'll go to tire rack, get
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  Speaker 1: some new tires and put some new pain on that.
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  Speaker 1: What do you do? Like seriously, Now, the truth is
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  Speaker 1: Giannis was fed up and he straight up forced his
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  Speaker 1: way out of Milwaukee, no ifs ands or butts about it.
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  Speaker 1: After years of quietly sulking and not so quietly checking out,
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  Speaker 1: and he essentially quit. Uh you know. But he started
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  Speaker 1: calling out the Bucks a couple of years ago, and
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  Speaker 1: then it got progressively more and more and more and
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  Speaker 1: more and more and more and more, and so it
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  Speaker 1: was I was like, okay, well, he basically held the
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  Speaker 1: franchise hostage until they caved in and shipped him out.
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  Speaker 1: When you start calling out management publicly, that is a
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  Speaker 1: point of no return. And now we I will give
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  Speaker 1: credit to the Bucks because at least they admitted they're
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  Speaker 1: not a better basketball team. They're not as good today
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  Speaker 1: as they were the other day. And that is a
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  Speaker 1: rare level of executive honesty. And you juxtapose that with
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  Speaker 1: Brad Stevens, who treats that like a severe food allergy.
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  Speaker 1: When Boston dropped Jalen Brown into a Salvation Army bucket,
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  Speaker 1: Brad Stevens cowardly used optionality as a crutch to avoid reality.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bucks at least didn't hide behind any kind
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  Speaker 1: of buzzword here. The Greek freak is gone. The Bucks
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  Speaker 1: will be an irrelevant team for years, and no amount
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  Speaker 1: of corporate spin is going to change that. All right, now,
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  Speaker 1: last word to Miami, Miami, Miami. Why now I know
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  Speaker 1: Giannis is there, but this is about Hardaway, Tim Hardaway Junior.
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  Speaker 1: Now we don't normally care about guys that are kind
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  Speaker 1: of washed up. At this point, Hardaway is in as
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  Speaker 1: late mid to late I think he's thirty four to
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  Speaker 1: thirty five, something like that, and he's bounced heron. He's
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  Speaker 1: a journeyman NBA player. The sequel not as good as
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  Speaker 1: the not the equal to his dad. His dad made
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  Speaker 1: some headlines though recently and Sam, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: let my kid wear my old number, and so Hardaway
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  Speaker 1: he signed a one year deal and it turns out
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  Speaker 1: he will wear papa's retired number ten jersey. I know
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  Speaker 1: you're very concerned about that, the numerical value of a jersey.
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  Speaker 1: But again, the reports last week were that the father,
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  Speaker 1: Tim Hardaway Senior, who I always associated more with the
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  Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors than the Heat, although he has his
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  Speaker 1: number retired by Miami. Of course, the Miami Heat retired
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  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's number father embarrassing anyway. So it turns out
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  Speaker 1: this is what happened. The question what do you think
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  Speaker 1: convinced Tim Hardaway Senior, the dad here, to allow his
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  Speaker 1: Heat number ten retired jersey to be unretired for his kid.
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  Speaker 1: So I have a theory using some psychobabble. So Tim
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  Speaker 1: Hardaway Senior was rowing, rowing, and rowing the douche canoe,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Row row, row, row your douche canoe, clutching
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  Speaker 1: his legacy like a bitter gatekeeper. My legacy, My legacy
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  Speaker 1: is by You're just by and like somehow if the
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  Speaker 1: jersey was unretired. All of the accomplishments would vanish. I
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  Speaker 1: just completely vanish if somebody else his spawn wore the jersey.
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  Speaker 1: It's a piece of laundry. It is not the declaration
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  Speaker 1: of independence. The Naked City never sleeps now. The rumor
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  Speaker 1: has it that the Hardaway family they got together and
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  Speaker 1: they staged a much needed intervention. They sat down or
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  Speaker 1: the old man and reminded him that there's a phrase
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  Speaker 1: blood is thicker than retired jerseys, and they were able
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  Speaker 1: to twist his arm that this was not about erasing
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  Speaker 1: the past, but extending the family legacy. All right, now
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  Speaker 1: Junior Tomorroway, Junior gets the number ten jersey. Not that
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  Speaker 1: he's going to play a meaningful role in terms of
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  Speaker 1: impact on the heat. He's a rotation player who's okay,
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  Speaker 1: not great. And you get the heartfelt nostalgia news conference,
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  Speaker 1: you get that the warm welcome and in Tim Hardaway Senor, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it gets move on and that's it and we'll see
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  Speaker 1: how this goes.
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  Speaker 1: It is the hour of Baseball Talk and Bay's Ball. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, nothing interrupting me at all. I watched a
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  Speaker 1: full night of baseball, including the Mets and Royals, Yankees
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  Speaker 1: and Rais. I was flipping around there, a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of this, a little bit of that, Dodgers, Rockies, a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of games. So our lead this hour, though, is
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  Speaker 1: from the Motor City, where the Motor City kiddies stole
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  Speaker 1: the baseball headlines in this news cycle. As Tiger's pitcher
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  Speaker 1: Justin Verlander making some news. If you didn't see this
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  Speaker 1: or hear about it, perhaps not. We learned that Verlander
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  Speaker 1: had been selected to the All Star Game. What what
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  Speaker 1: are you doing? Yes, this is where Rob Manford man
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  Speaker 1: fraud is. It's the equivalent of the Ghost Runner. It's
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  Speaker 1: let's everyone get one name in each league and then
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  Speaker 1: we'll have everyone one kissed these people's ass, give them
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  Speaker 1: the Old Hawk Tour at the All Star Game. It's
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  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia this year. So Verlander was the selection by
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  Speaker 1: Rob Manford as a legend pick because he doesn't get
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  Speaker 1: his ass kissed enough, so everyone will kiss his ass
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  Speaker 1: at the All Star Game. Well, the surprise was the
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  Speaker 1: same moment that was announced. Quickly after that, Verlanders said, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, I'm done. I'm out, but I'm not
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  Speaker 1: leaving right now. I'm gonna wait till the end of
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  Speaker 1: the season. Now this led to what do you think
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  Speaker 1: it led to? It led to a urinating situation. A
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  Speaker 1: everyone's trying to compliment Verlander more than the other people,
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  Speaker 1: like the baseball riders who are so far up, the
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  Speaker 1: brown nosers that love these guys. I just can't get
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  Speaker 1: it of it. So they were trying to Oh, Verlander's
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  Speaker 1: this great, He's that He's like, Yeah, the baseball scrap
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  Speaker 1: is going back and forth. Al he's so good. Oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna compliment it more. I like it more than
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  Speaker 1: you that thing. It's like, what are you doing anyway?
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  Speaker 1: So going on and on, and Verlander the last of
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  Speaker 1: the great starting pitchers. I don't know. It seems like
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  Speaker 1: there's some decent starting pitchers now, although they don't go
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  Speaker 1: very far into games anymore. But one of the opinions
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  Speaker 1: that got my attention, and this is, I believe what
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  Speaker 1: we need to focus in on. So the popular opinion
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  Speaker 1: is as this is the last hurrah for Verland. It
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  Speaker 1: has been mostly hurt. It's a sticky situation, has been
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  Speaker 1: hurt most of the year because he's old, washed up,
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  Speaker 1: can't play anymore. So of course he'll be at the
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  Speaker 1: All Star Game. So Verlander, the popular opinion is he's
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  Speaker 1: not only going to be a Hall of Famer, he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a first ballot Hall of Famer. Justin Verlander,
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  Speaker 1: first ballot Hall of Famer. So I want you to
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  Speaker 1: chew on that for a second. I feel like that's
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let's discuss the question does
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  Speaker 1: Tiger's pitcher, Justin Verlander, deserve to be a first ballot
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. So I've got mister car Wash, Starbucks,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: and zombifide, and we'll put all of these things together.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: All of them will ring a bell, and we'll put
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: them all together, and we are going to crumble unless
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: we don't under pressure. I think we'll be okay. I
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: think we'll be okay. All right, So number one, number one,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: I think the number one thing there it is okay,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: finally there we go. I thought for a minute I
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: was in the twilights, all right, so number one. Yeah.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: My reaction here to the question does Tiger's picture Justin
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Verlander deserve to be a first ballot Hall of Famer
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: is can we please stop the boot licking Olympics? Can
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: we put a time out timeout on the boot licking Olympics?
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Justin Verlander absolutely does not deserve to be a first
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: ballot Hall of Fame player. He does not deserve that. Now.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Was he a great pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. Absolutely? Absolutely. However, however,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: his legacy was super charged by joining who who do
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: you think? Supercharged the legend of Verlander and put him
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: over the hump something he didn't do in Detroit? Ding
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Ding ding ding ding. The say it with me now, kids,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: The cheating E one one thousand and two, one thousand.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Oh uh, that was in twenty seventeen, So what did
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: they do in twenty seventeen? That's right, Oh, I remember
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: what they were doing in twenty seventeen. I do. Oh
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: my god, is twenty twenty six? What are you talking about? Okay,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: they never got punished, Tatoo limitations has not run out,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: and Cooper'stown, at least for me on this side of
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: the microphone, Cooper'stown is not a mister car wash. You
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: don't roll in there covered in trash, can grease and
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: come out sparkling. Verlander, whether you like it or not,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: sullied his in tire reputation. He rode that sign stealing
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: scheme straight to a world series ring an alcs NVP
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: and another Cy Young. It's kind of like getting straight
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: a's it turns out that you stole someone else's homework,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: or if you're a singer, you lip synced. So without
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: that tainted run where he was a part of it,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: he's just another strong pitcher waiting his turn. Now I
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: realized the Hall of Fame has already embarrassed itself. It's
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: all you humiliated itself. The baseball riders have turned out
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: to be total frauds, as they've allowed Carlos to cheater
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Beltron to get voted into Cooperstown. Like God forbid, they
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: don't put Beltron in the Hall of Fame even though
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: he was a part of that cheating thing as well.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Now Verlander, he said, well, he didn't bet mallor what
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: are you talking about, mallor calm down, put your pants on.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: So Verlander benefited directly. Whether or not he was in
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the batter's box hitting, it doesn't matter. He benefited directly
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: from the biggest scandal in modern baseball history, profiting from
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: the systemic culture of crooked baseball in Houston. And if
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: we're gonna let every cheating a hole in on the
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: first ballot, you might as well just bulldoze the Hall
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: of Fame in Cooperstown and turn it into a scape room.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Just do it. He'll get in eventually. I wouldn't, you know,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: put none of those guys in. He'll get in. Make
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: them wait, make them wait a little bit. And I
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: just love the selective outrage that takes place among the
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: baseball writers. Verlander was very good for the baseball writers.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: And who votes for the Hall of Fame. The baseball writers.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: He gave good quotes. He gave them from what I've heard,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: stuff behind the scenes, and so help them do their job.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: They'll scratch his back. He scratched theirs. That's the way
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: it's gonna work. It shouldn't work that way. Should not
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: be a first Battle Hall of Famer because he's associated
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: with the scum of the a holes. Now page two
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: to Philadelphi. We go the Delaware Valley where Jonathan and
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Delaware and Fry Daddy are very happy that the Phillies
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: have turned a miserable season around. They found a little magic,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: although so much magic last night per se or did they?
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Donnie Baseball has had a change of heart. Donnie Baseball,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the interim manager Don Mattingly has expressed interest in taking
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Phillies job full time. Yeah maddingly said that
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: he'd like to keep going. He took over as the
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: interim manager in late April for Rob Thompson, and the
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Phillies were tied for the worst record in baseball. There
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: were ten games under five hundred and with Mattingly, the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Phillies have the second best record in baseball since he
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: took over, and the turnaround has put Philadelphia right in
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: the middle of that playoff race in the National League
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: with the upstart Marlins and others, So a lot of
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: upstart situations going on there. So the question how likely
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: how likely is Don Mattingly to keep the Phillies managerial gig?
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: All right, So here's the deal. It's been a really
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: cool story turnaround. They looked like they didn't know what
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: they were doing for a bunch of dopes the first
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: couple weeks of the baseball season, and it's great. However,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, turnarounds are taxed at one hundred percent unless
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: they come with a deep add on playoff runt, and
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: it is a small sample size both ways. The start
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: at nine to nineteen was a small sample size. This
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: is a bigger sample size. It's still relatively small in
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: terms of Don Mattingly's job security. It is tied directly
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: to the month of October. And we all know, you know,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: and I know that Don Mattingly's fate will be decided
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: around the time Starbucks starts pumping out those pumpkin spice lattes.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Because Philly they only evaluate managers in the sweater weather,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: and we're not at the sweater weather, right now, so
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: matting Lee's job interview is going to be the postseason.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: The regular season is just the warm up back. This
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: isn't complicated the NLCS or the World Series. And you
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: do that and you're likely back. The Dodgers should win
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: this thing. It's just a matter of how many games
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: are they gonna have to go seven games in every
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: series or whatever. Now, if Philly is upset the Dodgers
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: or something like that, well that certainly helps out. And
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Don's old team. He managed the Dodgers years ago, and
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: so anything less than the NLCS and the World Series.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: And he's copying Mike the Leprechaun, packing Hawaiian tropic sunscreen
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: and looking for flights to Bora Bora is what he's doing.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: And Dave Dombrowski, who's from the Old Country, right, He's
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: from the Old country. Don Browski, he doesn't do patience.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: He swaps managers like Dura sel batteries, is what he does.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: All right, now, final point one of the games I
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: was watching, I'm gonna go to Pittsburgh. The Atlanta Braves
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: see Atlanta Braves and the Pittsburgh Pirates were playing a
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: game last night. And in that game, someone named Jared Jones.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Keeping up with the Joneses, I am told that as
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: a starting pitcher for the Pirates, Jared Jones, he's twenty four.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: He threw six perfect innings of baseball against the Braves.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: He struck out eight. He was only at seventy seven
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: pitches through six innings. It was a scoreless game against Atlanta.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: And at that point, someone named Don Kelly, who we
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: are told is the manager of the Pittsburgh baseball team, decided,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take this
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: guy out of the game. He removed Jared Jones out
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: of the game at the start of the seventh inning
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: out of and of course an abundance of caution because
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: of pitch limit. And that's it. He's coming back from
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: elbow surgery. Of course, what do you think the fans
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh did the bucko fans? Did they raise the
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: jolly Roger? No, they threw the jolly roger at the
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Pirates manager. They boot boom, They didn't shout shame, shame, shame.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Look the fans in Sacramento di al right, A good
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: job by them.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: The Braves went on to win the game three nothing.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: And a former Pirate, the man named after the subway
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: system in San Francisco, Joey Bart, who also played for
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: the Giants. But he couldn't how much money Joey Bart
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: could have made if he was good. He sucks like
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: he's bad at baseball, But if he had been good
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: with the Giants and they thought he was gonna be good,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: and you know Bart in the Bay Area, rapid transits
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: called Bart. That would have been perfect didn't work out,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: although in this night it did. He hit the game
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: winning home run in the eighth inning. Now, the story
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: is not that. The story is the removal of the pitcher.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: This is the second time, the second time we've been
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: having this conversation this week, days after the controversy with
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: the Marlins pulling Uri Perez after seven perfect ginnings in
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: the aforementioned Sacramento So the question, can you make any
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: sense of the Pirates in a home game, pulling Jared
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Jones from a perfect game after just seventy seven pitches?
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: All right, So it's not a slope. It's a nope.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: It's not a slope, it's a nope. It continues to
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: be something that is foreign to me. This is not
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the baseball I grew up with. I know things evolve.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Aren't they supposed to evolve for the better? Aren't things
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: supposed to improve, not get worse? Can anyone tell me
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: that this is not a step backwards? It's bizarro world.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball teams are run by pathetic cowards who
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: hate fun and they hate history. They don't want greatness.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: It's a race to the bottom because they've been zombified
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: by the Geeks. That's what's happened to baseball. And I
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: don't know any Don Kelly, you don't need to learn
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: the name of the Pirates manager because none of them
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: have been relevant since Jim Leland, and that's a long
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: time ago. But John Kelly yanked this guy Jones like
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: a little league kid over an arbitrary elbow surgery precaution
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: thing of a jig. Consequently, Jones became this is how
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: pathetic the Pirates are in baseball. This guy, Jared Jones
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: became the first starter since nineteen oh one to retire
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: every batter over six plus innings and not get the win.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: You know what that is? Cosmic Justice. Pittsburgh lost Cosmic
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Justice Front offices. And I continue to flog a dead
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: horse front offices are so terrified of the imaginary injury
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: boogeyman that they would rather ruin historic moments, which used
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: to be points that they would sell. I was like, hey,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: if this guy through a perfect game next year, will
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: have a bobblehead night, will have perfect game blanket night.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Now it's like no, no, no, we must take these
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: people out of the game. It's wild, and it just
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: goes against everything that I was raised with with sports
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: that you're supposed to chase immortality. There have been twenty
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: four perfect games in baseball. That's it. They don't care
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: about that. That's a legacy game, a perfect game. They
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: don't care about that. What they care about more is
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: appeasing the nerds and more importantly, covering their asses. That's
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: what this is about, right, Conservative pitch counts. As we
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: pointed out in a previous episode of the show, major
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: League Baseball actually has the data that proves pitch counts
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: are for gays, meaning there's no direct correlation causation that
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: if you throw eighty pitches, you're fine. If you throw
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: ninety five pitches, it's a problem. Right if you throw
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: ninety five pigs like this guy Jones he threw seventy
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: seven pitches. If he threw one hundred and ten pitches,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: his arm would have fallen like if you drop a
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: candalope off a skyscraper and it would have blown up. Now,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: there was a game involving the Blue Jays and the
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Giants where Dylan Cees did have a no hitter and
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: he threw one hundred and eighteen pitches, and the reaction
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: he's an older player. Good for the Blue Jays. I
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: will compliment the Blue Jays. Good job by them. They
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: allowed him in a ten to nothing game to go
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: out there. There's a guy that a team that gets it.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Of course, not an American team. The Toronto Blue Jays,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: they get it. They allowed their guy to go out
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: there and Chase History didn't work out. He didn't get
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: the no hitter and you know, gave up a base
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: hit to start the ninth inning. But the point is
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: you go for and I promise you all right, the
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: idea is that you don't shoot for the moon. They
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: don't shoot for the moon. They're happy circling the parking lot,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: babying pictures most of the time into mediocrity. Now, when
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: I become Commissioner of baseball. I am opening up re
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: education camps to teach these bozos that doing the bare
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: minimum is not a good thing. It should not be
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: celebrated and it should be looked down upon. You should
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: be shamed when you do this kind of bull crap.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: And that's just the way it is.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 33:36
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• 33:40
  Speaker 1: He go, here we go, here we go, here we go.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: How about we go.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: To the third degree?
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: Oh man, what does that open sound like? I don't
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: even I don't even hear it anymore. It was noted
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: on Tuesday morning by The Athletic that Donovan Mitchell signing
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: his new extension que will not impact the salary cap
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: for this coming season, so it wouldn't impact Cleveland's attempt
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: to sign Lebron James Ben the Cavs was your prediction
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: all along?
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: That's right?
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: What odds would you give it of happening at this point?
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: All right? So I say it's a seventy five percent
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: chance that Lebron goes to Cleveland. So that's a seven
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: to fifty hitter in baseball. That's the ending Lebron's all
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: worried about his image, his reputation. That's the Disney when
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: they make the Disney movie about Lebron, that's the ending
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: fade to black. Lebron comes back, wins another championship in
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Cleveland with his son next.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: Kevin O'Connell made some comments this week that suggests that
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: the starting quarterback job in Minnesota is Kyler Murrays to lose,
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: which had me wondering, how much of a leash do
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: you think Murray will have during the season.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: So Kyle usually is pretty good for the first three
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: or four games. Right about the time the new Call
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: of Duty comes out, he's cooked. So you just got
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: to look at the date, contact the maker of Call
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: of Duty, and that's when you're gonna know that he's out. Listen,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Murray's not that good. He's a mediocre NFL quarterback. He'll
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: play well for a few games now and then, but
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: he's not He's not gonna last in Minnesota.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: Next this week, Connor McGregor returns to the octagon for
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: the first time in five years in a rematch with
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: Max Holloway. McGregor returns as a plus one eighty underdog
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: Ben how much would a Losster at McGregor's brand at
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: this point.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: All right, this is how bad it is. I did
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: I did the math on the scoop. If Connor McGregor
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: loses and gets embarrassed again, he's going to have to
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: fight one of the Paul brothers. Okay, that's how bad
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: this is. Connor McGregor versus like Jake Paul. If he
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: doesn't get it done this week, how did we go?
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: You pass this edition? That is a when winter win
• 35:29
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• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Wait ask bad Twitter said this your questions on Twitter?
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go. It's point at me and
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: like a trained seal at sea, World will start bouncing
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: the beach ball on my head in this case, over
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: to the Kooper loop for the reading of the questions.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Here we go, Coop.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: All right, We're gonna start off with a question from
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: ferg Dog. Hi Fergie, he would like to know do
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: you like sprinkles on your ice cream? Or are you
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: an adult?
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: I don't hate sprinkles. I'm more of like a cupcake guy.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I don't mind sprinkles on that. But that's not like
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: I demand sprinkles. I'm open to them, Lorena.
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: You know, I don't hate sprinkles. I love the aesthetic
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: of it. I'm not a big fan of the flavor itself.
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: It's very there's no flavor of Yeah, it's just very chalky.
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: I don't know if it's needed, but I do think
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: it's pretty well.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: It's like our our friend Tammy Montana used to send us,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Remember the Coop's the cakes we got Coop that were
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: with fond it yes, which looks wonderful caste like crap
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: so bad, it's so terrible, Coop.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: I have never been a fan of sprinkles, even even
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: as a kid.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: That's that's a flex by Coop. I'm better than you, Papa.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: With you those sprinkles. They don't don't taste good. There's
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: no taste to them. It's more of a visual case.
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: It's not a good one.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: I don't think there's a taste if you if you
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: have the syrup on top of them, there's really no taste. Next.
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: All right, here's a question for some reason, he says,
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: just for me and Loraina.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't know, Okay, I will not answer.
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: This is from alf the alien o Piner. He wants
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: to know how do you guys feel about people who
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: put their feet on the dash while writing in car?
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Oh? He he asked me this on the Okay.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: I should start then. Yes, I am the people who
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: put the feet on the dash and I feel really
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: bad sometimes because I'll do it like barefooted too, and
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: then I'll leave my I can see my little toe
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: prints on the on the dashboard, and I have cute feet,
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: and I'm still like, oh huh, I should watch that.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: I feel bad sometimes that goes back.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: I did say on the podcast. I know I'm interrupting,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: but I said, it's mostly women that do this.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: A lot of men who put their feet up exactly.
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: I like sitting in a ball.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: What can I say?
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: I hate it.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: It's disgusting. Don't put your feet on my dash.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: I feel like Coop. You love your car, right, You
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: take good care of your car. That's a big part
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: of who you are is your car. I do I
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: do like my car.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I like my car.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: I like my too. But I don't worry. I watch
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: it every weekend. I think I have the oldest car
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: on the show, by the way, Yeah you do, pretty sure.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: So you also said that you don't like buying new cars.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: So that's just Oh I got burned. I had a lemon.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: I got the back door.
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: But the back passenger door of my brand new car
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: does not open from the inside, completely broken, and I
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: haven't known because I don't sit back there.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Oh man, well do you? Is it under warranty? You
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: get fixed? Right? Okay, get it fixed, but you better
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: not wait on that or else you drive a lot,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: so on it next, all right?
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: Shane and des Moines would like to know. Hi, Shane,
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: would you rather have what would you rather have in
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: your home? A movie theater style popcorn machine or a
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: cotton candy machine?
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Definitely popcorn. You know you can only eat so much
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: cotton candy and then your your head will explode. Popcorn
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: is great because you nor only make the butter popcorn.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: There's ways you can manipulate it with the kettle corn
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: and all that. So the popcorn is the way to go.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: What about you, Lorena? Popcorn all day cool?
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: Not even a big fan of popcorn, But I would
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: rather have that than the cotton candy machine.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: All right, movie popcorn those next level.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: Next Donkey Sausage would like to know what would you
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: consider the funniest moment in the show's history.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: It's a tough one. Yeah, I mean there, you know,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: there's been so many crazy things that have happened, like
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: on the air, off the air. We've had zany moments.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: You eating the hot dog, the what else did you eat? Tea?
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: The vacilline vasoline years ago? Hemis Henry Hill yelling and
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: cursing at me outside the door of the Fox Sports
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: mob guy. You know who Henry Hill is? Lorena he
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: uh yeah, good fellas. He was in the Witness Protection.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: That was amazing. Weed Man on the Lifeguard Tower, Genie
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: and Medford versus Pete and Pittsburgh. I can go on
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: and on.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: We've had some duet with oh yes, real talking Eddie.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: It was so good, Oh Eddie, mister serious newsman and
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: breaking into song. We can go on and on. That
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: was a good question.