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Hour 3 - The Real MVP · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Oh, what is going on? Welcome in. Happy Friday to you.
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  Speaker 1: Hope all is fantastic. I want to get to one
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  Speaker 1: of the worst sins a sports fan can commit right here.
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm thinking of the NL MVP race. Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: let me set up the race and then I'll get
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  Speaker 1: to one of the worst sins. It's Shohei Otani versus PCA.
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  Speaker 1: That would be Pete Crow Armstrong of the Chicago Cubs.
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  Speaker 1: who's having a great season. PCA is doing his thing.
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  Speaker 1: But it's Shohei versus PCA. And the reason I bring
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  Speaker 1: this up, because we've got news. We've got new news.
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  Speaker 1: Shohei Otani could start on Sunday against the Tigers as
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  Speaker 1: a pitcher. He had a bullpen session here, and he's
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  Speaker 1: on track to, if not start Sunday, start very soon
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  Speaker 1: as a pitcher again. Been dealing with knee and biceps injuries.
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  Speaker 1: Hasn't pitched since July 3rd. So if he's able to
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  Speaker 1: pitch a couple of times down the stretch, that would
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  Speaker 1: most likely boost Shohei's MVP credentials. And this is what
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  Speaker 1: bothers me about the whole thing. If you look at
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  Speaker 1: PCA versus Shohei Ohtani... Shohei Otani pitched 14 games this season.
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  Speaker 1: As a position player, most notably a hitter. He's DH-ing.
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  Speaker 1: He's one of the best hitters in the game. His
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  Speaker 1: numbers are neck and neck with PCA. Their hitting stats
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  Speaker 1: are almost identical. There's a notch here, like a slight
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  Speaker 1: edge here for Shohei, slight edge there for Shohei, slight
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  Speaker 1: edge here for PCA. PCA has hit slightly more home
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  Speaker 1: runs than Shohei. RBI is almost identical. OPS is in
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  Speaker 1: Shohei's favor slightly. They're very, very similar hitting stats. And oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, Shohei pitched 14 games and not just
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  Speaker 1: got out there and pitched and gave him some innings. No,
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  Speaker 1: he struck out. 95 guys in 85 and two-thirds innings.
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  Speaker 1: And his ERA was under two. His ERA is 1.79
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  Speaker 1: this season. Across 14 starts. Was literally one of the
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  Speaker 1: favorites to win NL Cy Young. But he got hurt
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  Speaker 1: and he hasn't pitched enough. So he's not going to
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  Speaker 1: win that. But he's in the heart of the chase
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  Speaker 1: with guys like The Miz, Jacob Mizorowski with the Brewers.
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  Speaker 1: Shohei was in the mix to be NL Cy Young.
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  Speaker 1: That's how great he was as a pitcher this season.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just completely dismissed. It's crazy to me. And
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  Speaker 1: that to me is one of the biggest sins a
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  Speaker 1: sports fan can commit is just taking greatness for granted.
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  Speaker 1: That's really what it is. It's one of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: sins you can commit. And that's what's happening with Shohei Ohtani.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a collective shoulder shrug. Like, well, he hasn't
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  Speaker 1: pitched the whole season. So, like, well, and we've seen
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  Speaker 1: better seasons from Shohei before. So it's not about Shohei
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  Speaker 1: versus Shohei. We're not comparing Shohei in 2026 to Shohei
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  Speaker 1: in 2022 or whatever year you want to pull out.
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  Speaker 1: We're comparing Shohei to PCA. We're comparing Shohei to anybody
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  Speaker 1: else who's an NL MVP candidate. It's not about Shohei
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  Speaker 1: of the past. It's about Shohei this season. And I
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  Speaker 1: look at it like this. I think it's important to
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  Speaker 1: flip the script. This is very handy. I call this
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  Speaker 1: my Homer slash hater test. This is very, very useful.
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  Speaker 1: If you are commenting on your favorite team, it's a
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  Speaker 1: great thing to do to just flip the scenario completely.
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  Speaker 1: And see if your answer changes. Your answer should stay consistent.
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  Speaker 1: If it doesn't, it will indicate that you're either being
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  Speaker 1: a homer or you're being a hater. Either way, your
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  Speaker 1: judgment is impaired. You're basically driving on the highway while
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  Speaker 1: intoxicated with your sports takes. That's what's happening. So for
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  Speaker 1: anyone who's like, oh, PCA, I mean, look at the war.
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  Speaker 1: He's the best defensive guy. And listen, war matters. being
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  Speaker 1: arguably the best defensive player in the game right now matters.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying it doesn't, but let's flip the scenario completely. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: PCA's production is Shohei's production and vice versa. Shohei's production
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  Speaker 1: is PCA's production.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Like really walk down this road. You're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to do some mind jujitsu here, but hear me out.
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  Speaker 1: If you are flipping the production, okay, it's, Shohei Otani,
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  Speaker 1: that he's the best defensive player in the sport right now.
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  Speaker 1: He has the top war. Okay. That's, those are Shohei's credentials.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Pete Crow Armstrong, he's the guy that's put up
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  Speaker 1: a lot of production hitting. And oh, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: he's pitched 14 games. to the tune of a sub-2 ERA.
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  Speaker 1: His ERA is 1.79. Are you telling me if Pete
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  Speaker 1: Crow Armstrong was doing exactly that, that we'd be saying, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's Shohei Ohtani. I mean, look at the war. Look
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  Speaker 1: at him being the best defensive player in the sport. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my gosh. There's zero chance. chance that is the case
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  Speaker 1: no one is arguing for for for Shohei if PCA
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  Speaker 1: is the guy that's also pitching no one is doing
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  Speaker 1: that and so what's happening here is that people are
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  Speaker 1: getting used to Shohei's greatness and they're taking it for
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  Speaker 1: granted and it's just a shoulder shrug this is Babe
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  Speaker 1: Ruth only enhanced that's what Shohei Otani is And you're
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  Speaker 1: taking that for granted just because he's won MVP before?
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. If he's the most valuable player in 2026,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care that he's won MVP multiple times before.
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  Speaker 1: He should be named MVP again. But that's what's happening
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  Speaker 1: is you're just taking it for granted. If this was
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  Speaker 1: the first season that Shohei ever pitched, like really walk
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  Speaker 1: down that road also. We've never seen Shohei Otani pitch
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  Speaker 1: before in Major League Baseball. He's going to try it
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  Speaker 1: this season. And he pitches 14 games, strikes out 95 guys,
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  Speaker 1: has an ERA of 1.79. His record is 8-2. He
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  Speaker 1: puts up all those numbers. Do you realize if that's
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  Speaker 1: your first taste of Shohei pitching and being a legitimate
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  Speaker 1: NL Cy Young candidate? People would be losing their minds.
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  Speaker 1: They'd be like, this is amazing. This is extraordinary. Holy cow,
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  Speaker 1: this guy pitches too? Oh, NL MVP without a debate?
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  Speaker 1: No question, MVP. But because this is one of many
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  Speaker 1: seasons that he's pitched, it's like, well, I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: last time we saw him pitch was July 1st. It's
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  Speaker 1: almost like, who cares? That's the general thought is like,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, big deal, really. Big, what? What are we
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  Speaker 1: doing right now? This is so dumb. It is Shohei Otani,
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  Speaker 1: and it's not even close to say, oh, no. People
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  Speaker 1: are saying it with a straight face like, oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's PCA. PCA's the guy. I mean, I saw him
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday night. There was a fly ball to the outfield,
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  Speaker 1: and Pete was like, I got it. I got it.
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  Speaker 1: And then he caught it. It was unbelievable. It's like, what?
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  Speaker 1: What are we doing right now? It's insanity. I think
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  Speaker 1: that is I think that's the second worst sin a
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  Speaker 1: sports fan can commit is just taking greatness for granted.
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  Speaker 1: This happens all the time. Look at Russell Westbrook. Russell
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  Speaker 1: Westbrook averaged a triple double for an entire NBA season.
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  Speaker 1: It was extraordinary. We never thought we would see that again.
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  Speaker 1: Oscar Robertson did that back in the day. And we're like, man,
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  Speaker 1: the big O did it. We're never going to see
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  Speaker 1: it again. And we have. When Russell Westbrook did it
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  Speaker 1: the first time, we lost our minds. We were like,
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  Speaker 1: that was unbelievable. I remember Jalen Rose before that season.
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  Speaker 1: He suggested that it might happen. And I was just like, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Wake me when that happens. And it did. He was right.
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  Speaker 1: And Russell Westbrook did that for multiple seasons. And the
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  Speaker 1: second season he did it, we were just like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we've seen this act before, Russ. Like, triple-double for the
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  Speaker 1: whole season. Like, okay, what else you got in your
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  Speaker 1: bag of tricks? Like, we get so bored so fast.
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  Speaker 1: And it's obnoxious. It happens constantly. And it's happening this
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  Speaker 1: year with Shohei versus PCA. And I'm not trying to
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  Speaker 1: dump on PCA. He's had a sensational season. He's just
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  Speaker 1: not the NL MVP. He's the Anne Hathaway. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: trying to, you know, talk trash about Anne Hathaway. She's
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful girl. She's just not the most beautiful. She's
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  Speaker 1: better than Blake Lively. She's not the most beautiful. That's
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  Speaker 1: the thing. That's exactly what it is. PCA is the
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  Speaker 1: Anne Hathaway this season. It, Anne Hathaway's sensational. PCA's had
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  Speaker 1: a sensational year. Just not the most sensational year, okay?
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  Speaker 1: That that's the thing. Like Shohei's year is better. It's
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  Speaker 1: easily better. Imagine if Shohei, you can play the if
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  Speaker 1: game all you want. Imagine if Shohei, his 14 games
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  Speaker 1: that are pitched are happening now at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the season. And it's the last thing you saw. You'd
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  Speaker 1: be like, this guy is amazing. This is making a
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  Speaker 1: big difference for the Dodgers right here. They're eight and two.
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  Speaker 1: And Shohei's games pitched, well, at least that's what Shohei's
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  Speaker 1: record is. Dodgers record, probably even better than that. 1.79
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  Speaker 1: ERA and 14 starts. It happened at the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the season, and it's a distant memory right now. And
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  Speaker 1: it's a collective shoulder shrug? It's obnoxious. I won't stand
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  Speaker 1: for it. Shohei Ohtani's the NL MVP. Easily. This is
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  Speaker 1: voting fatigue 101.
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  Speaker 3: It's like....
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  Speaker 1: Seeing a movie again and again and again. And you're like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready for something new. That's what people are like here.
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  Speaker 1: It's happened when basketball happened with Jokic. Jokic won the
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  Speaker 1: MVP three or four seasons. And then it was like,
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  Speaker 1: let's give it to Joel Embiid. You know, I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: tired of this. And then you start poking holes where
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  Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, well, his defense, he's not a shot blocker.
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  Speaker 1: And those are legitimate criticisms. It becomes more of that
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  Speaker 1: than this is arguably the best offensive player the sport
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  Speaker 1: has ever seen. The most well-rounded offensive player the sport
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  Speaker 1: has ever seen. It's just like, well, he doesn't protect
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  Speaker 1: the rim very well. You know, you start to nitpick.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it's become with Shohei. It's like, well, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he hasn't pitched since early July. I mean, what's the
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  Speaker 1: big deal? Like what? Again, if this is the first
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  Speaker 1: time you're seeing it this season, you're not saying the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. You're not saying, well, it's only 14 starts.
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  Speaker 1: You're like 14 starts. This guy who's a fantastic hitter
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  Speaker 1: is pitching also.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 1: But it's just like one of many seasons. And you're like,
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  Speaker 1: I've seen this before. What else you got for me?
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  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous, man. We go to, you know, this was
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  Speaker 1: a PCA on Wednesday. This was good, too. it ties
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  Speaker 1: into the discussion as well. And maybe I'm just, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know because Shohei in my mind is easily a
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  Speaker 1: better MVP candidate in the national league this season than PCA.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's getting a little personal for me. This was
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  Speaker 1: PCA on Wednesday, the Cubs lost to the diamondbacks. And
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  Speaker 1: there was an obvious balk that was not called by
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  Speaker 1: the umpires. The Diamondbacks pitcher, he stepped off the mound
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  Speaker 1: while he was in mid-pitch. Clearly a balk. Like, no
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  Speaker 1: doubt about it. And the umps missed it. Should have
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  Speaker 1: been a run scored for the Cubs. It's a low-scoring game.
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  Speaker 1: D-backs won 2-0. And so Pete Crow Armstrong was ticked
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  Speaker 1: off about it after the game. Here is PCA after
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  Speaker 1: the game on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 5: I saw four umpires miss a pretty obvious play.
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  Speaker 2: So....
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  Speaker 5: They're out there every day just like we are. Their
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  Speaker 5: one job is to get calls right. And if they
• 13:01
  Speaker 5: get it wrong, they're supposed to talk about it, figure
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  Speaker 5: it out, and get it right. And they didn't. I
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  Speaker 5: think they find new ways to screw something up every day.
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  Speaker 5: So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now I worked very hard on my impression of PCA.
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  Speaker 1: I practiced it. I had a long drive on Thursday
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  Speaker 1: to the Braves game from Miami, right? So I practiced this.
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  Speaker 1: During those long hours of driving. And I worked on it.
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  Speaker 1: I reworked it. This is what I came up with. PCA. Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Complaining about the umpires there. Here we go. Try it
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  Speaker 1: on for size. That's PCA. What a baby. Are you
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  Speaker 1: kidding me? This guy. This whiny little bastard. It's funny
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  Speaker 1: too where... pca he could do no wrong that's all
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  Speaker 1: i heard on thursday it was like wow pca telling
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  Speaker 1: it like it is wow telling it like it is
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  Speaker 1: this last part is obnoxious they.
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  Speaker 5: Didn't i think they find new ways to screw something
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  Speaker 5: up every day so there you.
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  Speaker 1: Go they find new ways to screw something up every
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  Speaker 1: day Every day, we got 162 games for every team
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  Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball. They find a new way to
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  Speaker 1: screw something else up every single day. That's your statement, PCA.
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  Speaker 1: That's a dumb statement. That's absolutely incorrect. Totally untrue. Not
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  Speaker 1: even close to being a legitimate statement. And all I've
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  Speaker 1: heard is, oh, PCA, wow, calling it like it is. Wow, PCA, man,
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  Speaker 1: he was really hammering the umpires. Whoa, PCA, man, he
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  Speaker 1: was hot. He can do no wrong. He can do
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  Speaker 1: no wrong. People are so used to Shohei dominating that
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  Speaker 1: they're just tripping over themselves to prop up somebody else
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  Speaker 1: so they can have something new. That's what's going on here.
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  Speaker 1: And it's obnoxious. I hope that Shohei Ohtani comes back,
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  Speaker 1: pitches on Sunday, and his light's freaking out. And all
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  Speaker 1: these PCA fanboys are going to be faced with the
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: reality of, guess what? He's not the real MVP. And
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  Speaker 1: then what's it going to be? Well, I mean, look
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: at Shohei's whip. Leave something to be desired. It's obnoxious, man.
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  Speaker 1: Shohei Ohtani. is the true MVP this season. And we'll
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  Speaker 1: see how much he pitches from here on out. But
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  Speaker 1: that's the trump card right there, if Shohei pitches well.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll see. We'll see how it goes down from
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  Speaker 1: here on out. But I think that's the second worst
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  Speaker 1: sin a sports fan can commit, is taking greatness for granted.
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  Speaker 1: I think the worst sin a sports fan can commit,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's cheering an injury. That's what happened with
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  Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. That's the irony, too, is Deshaun, it was clumsy.
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  Speaker 1: It was clunky. There was no way it was going
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  Speaker 1: to land well with Deshaun Watson, of all people, playing
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  Speaker 1: the victim card, right? So the story was he played
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  Speaker 1: badly in the second preseason game, and he was booed
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  Speaker 1: by the home fans. And after the game, he was like,
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  Speaker 1: that's personal. It has nothing to do with performance. That's
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  Speaker 1: personal right there when they're booing you when you had
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  Speaker 1: this major injury and I'm sorry, and they're cheering, they're
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  Speaker 1: cheering for the injury. And that's the weird thing, not
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: to do a whole thing here, but I'll go quick
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  Speaker 1: with the Sean. That's never going to land well because
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: he was a guy that made victims, right? Like the
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  Speaker 1: massages and all that stuff. Like he, he was victimizing, right?
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  Speaker 1: So turn around and play the victim card. That's never
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  Speaker 1: going to land well. Ever, ever land well. But did
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  Speaker 1: he have a point? A little bit. Now, they're cheering
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  Speaker 1: for injury because the production wasn't there. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: can't say it isn't production-based. If Deshaun Watson is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: throwing 30-plus touchdown passes a season... Those Browns fans are
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  Speaker 1: crying on their way out of the stadium. Like Deshaun's hurt.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, this is the worst thing ever. But
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  Speaker 1: because his production is in the toilet and their low lives,
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  Speaker 1: they're cheering. So it's absolutely production based. But did he
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  Speaker 1: have a point saying it was personal? Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: He did.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. He did. You don't cheer someone's misery. You don't
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  Speaker 1: cheer injury. I don't care if the guy's stats are
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  Speaker 1: in the toilet. And they traded three first rounders and
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: they gave him a contract to the tune of $ 230
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  Speaker 1: million that were fully guaranteed. I don't care about all
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  Speaker 1: of that. If you're cheering someone's injury, you're a disgusting person.
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  Speaker 1: There's no two ways about it. You're the lowest of
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  Speaker 1: the low. There's no lower than you. There's no lower.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the thing is, if you felt that way, okay,
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  Speaker 1: keep it to yourself. Like, I'm not naive enough to
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  Speaker 1: believe that people in the stadium are like, he's freaking Deshaun, man.
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  Speaker 1: Three first-round picks, $ 230 million fully guaranteed. He hasn't done anything.
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  Speaker 1: He just misses games left and right, and he's hurt.
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not naive enough to think that no one has
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  Speaker 1: that running through their head. But if you do, keep
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  Speaker 1: it to yourself. You don't have to cheer. You don't
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  Speaker 1: cheer out loud. You don't keep things to yourself in life.
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  Speaker 1: You keep things to yourself in life all the time.
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  Speaker 1: All the time. Like, I don't know, your girlfriend puts
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  Speaker 1: on weight. Do you just vocalize it? Man, holy cow,
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  Speaker 1: you're putting on a lot of weight. You're like almost
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: two bills now or what? No, you disagree with your boss.
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  Speaker 1: That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard. What are you
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  Speaker 1: talking about? No, you don't do any of that. You
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  Speaker 1: keep it to yourself. Why don't you do that as
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  Speaker 1: a sports fan? You should do that as a sports
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  Speaker 1: fan too. You don't cheer someone getting hurt no matter
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  Speaker 1: what the context is. I think that's the worst sin
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  Speaker 1: you can commit. That's my list. Two-pronged list right there.
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  Speaker 1: Worst sins a sports fan can commit. Number one, cheering
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  Speaker 1: an injury. cheering someone's misfortune and misery number two taking
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  Speaker 1: greatness for for granted that's what happening with Shohei that's
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  Speaker 1: my list there you go there's two items on the list.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. I'm sure it's much more extensive. You could
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: come up with stuff all day long if you wanted to.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Feel free to check in. Militia 877-99 on Fox is
• 19:58
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• 20:01
  Speaker 1: gotta fire up the tweets here. Let's see who's checking in.
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  Speaker 1: I've been piecing audio together and you know, getting Pete
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  Speaker 1: Crow Armstrong sound bites and everything. What was that? What
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: was that epic quote from PCA that he's getting, uh,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: nothing but roses thrown at his.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: Feet for, I think they find new ways to screw
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: something up every day. So there you go.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: New ways to screw something up every day.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: Hmm.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: You know, um, Here's a little homework assignment, okay? Friday
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: rolls around, let's say, or someday, right? Like maybe you
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: got plans on Friday. Maybe you're like Coop and Lorena
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: and you're hightailing it over to Vegas for the meet
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: and greet, right? Maybe you're busy. But the next time
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: you watch a baseball game, okay, just watch the game
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: and have PCA's comment in mind. They find new ways
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: to screw something up every single game, every single game.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: No exceptions. Every game it just gets worse and worse
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: and worse. And they figure some way to screw something up.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Even worse than before. That's impossible. There are too many
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: games for that to actually be legitimate. It's like literally
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: impossible that he's correct. It's the dumbest statement I've heard
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: in quite some time. He's getting nothing but bouquets thrown
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: at his feet. Oh, did you hear PCA? Oh, man,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: he really hammered the official. He really hammered the umpires. No,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: he just said dumb things. That's what he did. He
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: said dumb things. And he's getting applauded for it. It's ridiculous.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: All right, Militia, the floor is yours. We were all
• 21:39
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• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I had all kinds of stuff here. College football kicking
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: off soon. I'll tell you how college football is just
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: like a bad girlfriend right now. I'll give you that
• 21:52
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• 21:54
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  Speaker 1: It is Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian Ngo, in for
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Big Ben Maller. I'll get to the militia here in
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: just a couple minutes. Like, literally, a couple minutes. Setting
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: a time limit on myself to not yak the night away.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: We'll get to the calls in just a little bit here.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: But I'll pay this off real fast. I think that
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: college football is kind of like a bad girlfriend right now. Okay? Like,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: if you think about a bad girlfriend... There are good
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: things about anybody. You know, I've had some bad relationships
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: in my day, but there are good parts of those
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: relationships as well. I feel like college football is the
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: bad part of the relationship at this stage. Don't you
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: feel that way where it's like, can we just get
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: to ball? Can we just get to the season? I
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: know it's right around the corner here. Where after week zero,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: which is a dud, we get the real games going.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: We got some great matchups here. When conference play begins
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: in the SEC, we got Lane Kiffin and LSU going
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: back to Ole Miss with that whole backstory. That's going
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: to be sensational. I can't wait for that. There are
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: many games. I'm a Notre Dame honk. I can't wait
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: for Miami to go to South Bend this year. There
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: are so many things I'm looking forward to this season,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: but Right now, it's just been an off-season of temporary
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: restraining orders. And this judge this, and that judge this,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: and the NCAA that ensuing here. And it's like, oh
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: my gosh, man, this is brutal. The latest thing is
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: that LSU picked up a couple of dudes that were
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: just on NFL training camp rosters. That's what happened. I
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: love Rams head coach Sean McVay. He was like, I
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: feel like I just took a freaking gummy. Like, what
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: is happening right now? And so these major conferences, the SEC,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: the Big Ten, Big 12 has done it. I think
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the ACC is just about to do it, but they
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: at least have rules in place where if a player
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: signs a pro contract, they can't come back to college
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: and play. And, of course, in true college fashion, it
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: gets way more complicated than that. Some conferences, it's all sports.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Other conferences, it's, well, it's basketball, football. If it's WNBA, NBA, NFL,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: if you sign a pro contract, you can't come back
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: to college. Now, of course... That doesn't exactly make it so.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: These college football and college sports in general, they don't
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: really have rules now. They just have suggestions, right? It's
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: strongly encouraged that you don't sign someone to your college
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: roster that signed a pro contract. Now, there's nothing we
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: can really do about it. If you want to challenge
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: this in a court and there's a judge that grants
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: a temporary restraining order, then I guess you can't have
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: them on your roster. So there's that. But I just
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: don't know how many schools are going to go rogue
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: and try to go head-to-head with their own conference. So
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I do think this is going to slow down a bit. But.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Nothing's a hard and fast rule. This is just a suggestion.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: It'd be like this. It'd be like a parent strongly
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: suggesting and strongly encouraging their kid to do their homework. But,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: you know, there's no teeth to that. You're not going
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: to get grounded for two weeks if you don't do
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: your homework. You're not going to be unable to watch
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: TV if you don't do your homework, right? Like, It's
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: just strongly encouraged. It would be a good thing if
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: you did your homework, right? And the kid's just like, yeah,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm, I'm going to watch some tube right now. Actually,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: I'd rather not do homework. And the parents like, ah, well,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow you'll feel like, cause it is important, right?
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: That's what we have in college sports, just strong suggestions.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: You're strongly encouraged to do this or that. But if
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: you'd rather not listen to that at all, but you
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: probably can get a judge to see things your way
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: and that you could just do your own thing. That's
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: where we are in college sports. It's crazy. But yeah,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I'm over it, man. I'm over the, Temporary restraining orders
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: and judges and blah, blah, blah. I just want to
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: get to ball. I want to watch football and get
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: to the good stuff. I feel like literally you've got
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: a girlfriend that's just nagging you to death right now.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: You don't take the trash out as early as you
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: say you are. It's another day and you still have it.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: That's what college football is like. It's like, oh, my gosh,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: can you just put on? The French maid outfit, can
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: we have some good times? Can we do that? That's
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: where we are in college sports right now. It's the
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: bad times until the season rolls around, and then we'll
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: get to the good. That's where we are.
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Let me go to– this might be good. Chris, it
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: just says Rialto. This might be a Portland thing here. Chris,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: you're on Fox Sports Radio. What's going on, man?
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: Hey, what's going on, brother?
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: How are you?
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Pretty good.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so definitely not from Portland, from the IAE for sure.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: So I got a good I was there moment.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: In 1995, my parents or my dad took me and
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: my family to the Dodger game, and it was the
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: Cardinals versus the Dodgers, obviously. The game wasn't going so well.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Tommy Lasorda goes out, and the promotion that day, were
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: hard balls baseballs given out to everybody um not a
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: good look obviously everybody knows what happened uh everybody's just
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: throwing the balls out onto the field trying to pelt
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: the players it was a pretty wild scene as a
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: 10 year.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Old i'll tell you that oh man did you see
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: anybody get hit anything wild on top of that happening.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: No, you know, I don't remember anything happening like that.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: I don't think Dodger fans necessarily at that point had
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: really good aim, but I do remember everybody we're on
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: the top deck, by the way, everybody's egging me on,
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: throw the ball, throw your ball, throw your ball. And
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: I'm 10, my sister's eight. We're just looking at each other.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Like we're absolutely not throwing these balls. If I do,
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: it's probably going to hit some old lady in the
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: head on the first deck. Like I'm 10 years old.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: I'm for sure not making it all the way on
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: the field.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Wow, man, that's crazy. That's good. It reminds me of man,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: we could have a whole segment on fans throwing stuff.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: I remember, I think it was the Chargers were playing
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: the Giants, and fans were throwing like these snowballs, like
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: almost like ice balls at the players, at the Chargers,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: and some of those guys are getting tagged. With these,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: you know, ice-like snowballs. It's crazy, man. Can get wild
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: right there. Appreciate that, Chris. Yeah, I thought, so the
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Portland thing that I mentioned, there was this, it was
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: kind of like this, I don't know what it was.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: It was like a sports bar on HGH or something.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: But it was called the Rialto. And so I used
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: to do ads for it, and I would whisper it,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: the Rialto. And so that's what I thought. It just
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: says Chris Rialto was there. And so I'm like, well, shoot.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: I thought he was maybe going to be like, I
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: was at the Rialto. That's what I thought it was
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: going to be, but it was something else. He's talking
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: about throwing baseballs at Cardinals. That's basically what he was
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: talking about. That's good. We've got Joshua. He's over in Littleton.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: He's got a Broncos star right here. Curious about this.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: What's going on, Josh?
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Hey, last hour there was a Raiders fan that said
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: that the Raiders have arrived and that Bo Nix is
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: not the one. and that Fernando Mendoza is the chosen one.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: So I'm here to give you my predictions on what's
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: going to happen this year to the Broncos and the Raiders.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: You ready?
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I'm ready. Yeah, what do you got?
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: The Raiders are going to go 6-11. Fernando Mendoza will
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: throw 2,800 yards, 16 touchdowns, 12 interceptions. Nick Benito will
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: be Defensive Player of the Year, and the Broncos will
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: make the Super Bowl.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Frank.
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Wow. All right.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Josh with the walk-off right there. Drop the mic. Hang
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: it up. There you go. Got the script and everything.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: What do you think about that, Coop? Nick Benito. Now,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: we have burner accounts, you know, on social media, X, whatever.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Are there burner calls online? Was that you disguising your
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: voice talking about Nick Benito, defensive player of the year, Coop?
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Is that what just happened right there? No, but I
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: like it. Okay. Nick Benito, D-P-O-Y. By the way, what
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: do you think about that Mendoza stat line and the Raiders?
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: 6-11.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: It's actually not a terrible prediction. I could see them
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: being right around that area.
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: 16-12.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Touchdowns to picks for Mendoza. 2,800 yards. What do you
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: think about that?
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, it's not crazy.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: It's not that crazy. The true question is, how many
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: games does he start? If Mendoza is just starting, let's say,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: 10 games. I don't know how many games Kirk is
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: going to start. Let's say it's the first seven. If
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Mendoza starts 10 games, I just don't know that he's
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: going to reach any of those numbers. It depends on
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: the starts, I think. How many starts for Mendoza this year, Coop?
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Where do you put it at? I say 10.
• 32:45
  Speaker 8: I mean, it's it's tough to say, you know, because
• 32:48
  Speaker 8: I imagine if Kirk Cousins doesn't look like absolute garbage.
• 32:55
  Speaker 8: Then they're going to keep playing him until he does,
• 32:57
  Speaker 8: you know. So and it's and it's possible that he
• 33:00
  Speaker 8: doesn't at all. So I don't I don't know. I mean,
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: do you think that they go to Mendoza no matter
• 33:08
  Speaker 8: what at some point if they're not?
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Yeah. They'll go to Mendoza for sure this year.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: He'll start games. He's got to start games. I just
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: wouldn't start him week one. I won't regurgitate the whole thing.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: You can check out the podcast first segment. But I
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: wouldn't start him out of the gate. I think that's
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: just a different pressure. I think that as a young quarterback,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: you're just trying to tread water. And Mendoza talked about
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: that after the preseason game. We got some sound. We
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: might throw some sound your way where he's like, Yeah, man,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: I'm learning a lot in the preseason over here. He's
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: still in the learning stage. Do you agree with that, Coop?
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Would you start him week one? I wouldn't. I would
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: wait a little bit. I would wait a little while
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: because you want him to have full confidence going into
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: year two. I don't think the way to put him
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: in position to have full confidence going into year two
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: is to start him in week one. I just don't
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: think it's a great recipe.
• 34:02
  Speaker 8: You, what do you think? Would you start him week one?
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: I'm not sure how I feel about this debate. I
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: know Ben is the complete opposite of you. He's on team.
• 34:11
  Speaker 8: Start them right away. See what you got.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: So who do you like better, me or Ben? That's
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: really what it comes down to.
• 34:19
  Speaker 8: You know, it's I just I'm not I'm not sure.
• 34:23
  Speaker 8: And I don't know if it's because I don't have
• 34:25
  Speaker 8: an opinion because it's not my team. I think if
• 34:29
  Speaker 8: I was a Raiders fan, I'd want to start Kirk
• 34:32
  Speaker 8: Cousins just to.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Just to see. I think what's interesting about that
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: whole debate is you point to a lot of former
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks or quarterbacks of the past to sort of make
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: your argument. And you could play that game on both
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: sides if I'm being completely fair.
• 34:53
  Speaker 8: Well, how many recent examples do we even have of
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: quarterbacks that, you know, were– developing on the bench jordan
• 35:03
  Speaker 8: love you know.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah they're a lot yeah sure definitely a lot
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: are there who else besides well love yeah like just
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: going back it's well going back there are plenty i'm
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: talking about like most recent examples yeah well like i'll
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: work backwards and try to work forwards if that makes
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: sense right we all know about aaron rogers right probably
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: most famous uh Um, start going from there. Well, even,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: even Phillip rivers further back, right. Phil did the same
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: thing for a couple of years. Uh, Carson Palmer, right. He, he,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: he weighed a little bit. I believe so. Um, let
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: me double check that. When did Carson start? Um, I don't,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: he started pretty early.
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: He played, he started 13 games as a rookie season. Um,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: so that's, that's a bad example or no, wait, he
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: was drafted in oh three.
• 35:55
  Speaker 8: So, um, Yeah, he didn't start until his second year.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, second season. Okay, more recent examples. Man, if we
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: go draft by draft here, let me see. I got
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: a trusty thing right here.
• 36:06
  Speaker 8: I feel like most quarterbacks get thrown right into the
• 36:09
  Speaker 8: fire these days.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, more times than before. We're talking like first rounders
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: and the upper echelon guys. Let me see. Um, yeah,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Cam Ward started last season. Jackson Dart didn't start right away.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: They had Russell Wilson, first rounder, not first overall, but
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: first round pick.
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a great example, but, um,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: I don't, I don't think that Bryce Young start right
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: away for the Panthers. I don't think so. Right. That was, he,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: he was riding pine a little bit. Wasn't he? Let
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: me check real quick. Um, his rookie season. No, he
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: started all six. Well, he started 16 games, his rookie season. Well,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: I take that back. It was, uh, uneventful 11 touchdowns
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: and 10 picks, but yeah, he started pretty much right away. Uh,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: let's see. CJ Stroud pretty much started right away. Even
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson started pretty much right away. It was like
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: he might have came in at halftime of the first game.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: It was pretty quick, right? Nothing most notably. Trey Lance
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: with the Niners. Remember they traded up for Trey Lance?
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: He didn't start right away. He hardly started at all.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: That might be a decent example. Think about a team
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: right now, Coop. That was in 2021. You're telling me
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: next year, 2027? some team trades three first-round picks to
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: move up, drafts a quarterback, they're most likely not making
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: him wait. So I hear you. I get your point. But, yeah,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: the Raiders didn't trade up to get Mendoza. Even though
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: he's the number one overall pick, I just don't understand
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: the rush. I just... If he starts midway through the
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: season and you let Kirk take the bullets at first,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: then we know they're going to lose games. The roster
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: just isn't talented enough. And then you pivot to Fernando Mendoza.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: I think that makes way more sense. All right. We
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: had a hard 47 right here.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: Right, Lorena?
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: You're stressing me out. Let's go. I know it. I
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: know it. You're becoming Chris Perfette, you know, on the
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: weekends right there. If you yell break. I'm going to
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: be like, you're Chris. You're Chris right now is exactly
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: what's happened.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to the QB list a little bit more
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: in detail. While we're talking QBs, there's one thing that
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: keeps happening that is obnoxious. I'll lay that out for
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: you right around the corner. I'm Brian Ngo in for
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  Speaker 1: Big Ben Maller. Hang with us here on Fox Sports Radio.
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• 38:51
  Speaker 1: It is Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian Ngo in for
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Big Ben Maller. Yeah, while we were talking about QBs. Goodness.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: A little froggy over here. Sorry about that. Apologize. You
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: know what's funny to me? Wow, this is a short segment. Man, Lorena,
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  Speaker 1: you should have told me I was running late. I'm
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: just kidding.
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  Speaker 8: My name's Chris.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, radio jokes. I swear they're the best. It's totally
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: my fault. I'm just joking. You know what's funny to
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: me about preseason football? Fans fall for this every single year.
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  Speaker 1: This year it was Fernando Mendoza. Looked really good in
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: the first game, right? Against Arizona. Oh, I would start
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: him week one. A lot of it was fueled with
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: how they saw him play that first preseason game. Ty
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  Speaker 1: Simpson with the Rams. Oh, man, the Rams got it right.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Ty Simpson, he looked great against the Chiefs. Carson Beck,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Carson Beck, the Hall of Fame game. Whoa, Carson Beck, man,
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  Speaker 1: he really lit them up. No one does that with
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: veteran quarterbacks. Josh Johnson, he's been around forever. He looked good.
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  Speaker 1: If he just carved up the other team, no one's like,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: look out. Josh Johnson, if he gets in as a starter,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: look out, man. No one's saying that. We just say
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: that with rookies. People get way too excited way too easily.
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  Speaker 1: I hate to be the fun police, but you got
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: to do it against starters for it to really matter.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the baseline rule. All right, coming up next,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: this was a horrible idea from the get-go.