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  Speaker 1: begin the new week the way that we left the
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  Speaker 1: end of last week. There's a common theme here. There's
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  Speaker 1: a common theme as we begin the new week, and
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  Speaker 1: that is Jerry's world in the nard in Aux Nerd
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  Speaker 1: Cowboy training Camp. And if you have not been following along,
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  Speaker 1: there have been some new developments over the weekend. We
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  Speaker 1: got you covered. We got no life, we got no life.
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  Speaker 1: We got you covered. So, since we last chatted behind
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  Speaker 1: these powerful booming microphones of Fox Sports Radio, Micah Parsons.
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  Speaker 1: We know he had publicly requested a departure. He wanted
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  Speaker 1: a one way ticket out of town. He requested a
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  Speaker 1: trade Cowboy legends over the weekend, taking positions backing Micah
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  Speaker 1: Parsons publicly, there was much angst directed at Jerry Jones.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones advised the cowboy fan to not lose any sleep,
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  Speaker 1: and don't do that. Now. We never lose any sleep.
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  Speaker 1: We're up all night anyway, so it doesn't matter. We
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  Speaker 1: don't lose any sleep. So let us discuss the question
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  Speaker 1: for the esteem panel. The question is this, how do
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  Speaker 1: you process the weekend events around Micah Parsons and the
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  Speaker 1: issues with the Dallas Cowboys. So I've got my thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on this. I've got coupon book, crypto scam, and catapulted,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll combine all these things together and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: make some cinnamon roll cookies, is what we're gonna make.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna bake those up and we'll put those in
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  Speaker 1: the oven. Then we'll take them out, we'll eat them
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  Speaker 1: and they'll be wonderful, all right. So A my first
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  Speaker 1: thought on this is it continues what I call the
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  Speaker 1: paint by numbers formula. Do you understand what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: the paint by numbers formula. So, Jerry Jones loves turning
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  Speaker 1: the routine contract neutiation on into a full blown circus
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  Speaker 1: under the big top. Right, there's elephants over there's clowns
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  Speaker 1: over there. We've got for some reason, there's some kind
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  Speaker 1: of rhino. I don't know what that's all about. He
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  Speaker 1: can't help himself, and I'm there for it. Listen, my
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  Speaker 1: talk show host, I'm there for it. He literally said,
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  Speaker 1: right when it gets slow around here. In the past,
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  Speaker 1: Jerry has said, I'll stir it up. It's all about
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  Speaker 1: the spotlight. It's all about the spot It's like his
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  Speaker 1: personal hobby. Some people go to hobby lobby and they
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  Speaker 1: build stuff. Now now Jerry Jones, this is his hobby
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  Speaker 1: and he's good at it. It's the game. What's in
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  Speaker 1: the gate, it's the game now. Michael Parsons trade request
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  Speaker 1: is not authenticated, it's not legitimate. It's not a serious,
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  Speaker 1: serious trade request. It's more frustration. Annoyance is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: And it's all part of the theater. Not that kind
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  Speaker 1: of theater. It's leverage theater is what I call leverage theater.
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  Speaker 1: So Michael Parsons is mad at the way this is
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  Speaker 1: getting drawn out. At least that's the perception out there
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  Speaker 1: that he's things have installed and they thought they had
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  Speaker 1: something worked out back in March, and here we are
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  Speaker 1: in August and nothing has gotten done. And so he
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  Speaker 1: took some shots. He took some shots at the cowboys
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  Speaker 1: and whatnot. But let's be clearer, just between me and you,
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  Speaker 1: Michaeh Parsons does not actually want out. He doesn't. Every man,
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  Speaker 1: woman and child knows this. He does not actually want
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  Speaker 1: to leave the Dallas Cowboys. He just doesn't want to
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  Speaker 1: be used by Jerry Jones behind closeddars doesn't want it
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  Speaker 1: right now. This is the classic rule of drama. We've
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  Speaker 1: often talked about this over my time behind these microphones.
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  Speaker 1: It's right out of also the Anchorman playbook What Happened
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  Speaker 1: over the Weekend Boy? That escalated quickly, as Ron Burger
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  Speaker 1: he taught me years ago in that old movie. But
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  Speaker 1: Michaeh Parsons goes from I love the fans, I love
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  Speaker 1: the fans, I love them, I love them, I love them.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be here, I want to be here
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  Speaker 1: to I want out earns on a dime. All right,
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  Speaker 1: twenty four hours. You know what that is? That is
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  Speaker 1: professional wrestling, That is WWE. Heel turned. So what happened?
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  Speaker 1: All right? So did Jerry Jones. I'm trying to think
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  Speaker 1: what CODEB did? Jerry Jones at some point say, hey, Micah,
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  Speaker 1: here's the latest offer, just between me and you. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to offer you a coupon book of some discount
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  Speaker 1: codes to the Cowboy Team Shop instead of money. So
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you the coupon book. You can go in
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  Speaker 1: there and get a Cowboy souvenir koozie, you can get
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  Speaker 1: pajamas with my face on it. It'd be just really cool.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone loves that stuff. We sell it the Cowboy Team Shop.
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  Speaker 1: What's not the like mark? Come on? You kidding me?
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  Speaker 1: So and Jerry Jones he also knows at this point
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  Speaker 1: in the story that Micah Parsons isn't going anywhere. He
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  Speaker 1: isn't going anywhere. And he said, he said it himself, right,
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  Speaker 1: he said it himself. He said, don't lose sleep over.
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  Speaker 1: This is what the quote going around from Jerry Jones
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend. Now, that is code. That's a dog
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  Speaker 1: whistle or dog whistle code for it. We've got him.
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  Speaker 1: He's not going to actually do anything that's going to
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  Speaker 1: hurt the team here. He's too valuable to walk. He'll
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  Speaker 1: cave in eventually. We just got to stay strong. So
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  Speaker 1: Jerry's out there playing some poker and his best card
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  Speaker 1: in the house there, Michah Parsons is just bluffing, just
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  Speaker 1: like that. He's bluffing, and Jerry knows now, Jerry Jones
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  Speaker 1: knows it. However, you've got the low information fan passionately
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  Speaker 1: screaming pay Micah pay, michaeh a training camp there, An Oxnard.
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  Speaker 1: You've got legendary cowboy players of years gone by who
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  Speaker 1: are publicly taking sides, and so it's creating this chaotic
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  Speaker 1: cloud over the cowboys, this chaotic cloud. And regardless though
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  Speaker 1: Jerry does love it, he loves the chaos cloud. It's
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  Speaker 1: a really good cloud for the Dallas Cowboys. There, and
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  Speaker 1: you think he's stressed. You think Jerry Jones is sitting
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  Speaker 1: there and he's really stressed. Oh man, I'm just putting
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  Speaker 1: an actor. No, no way. In fact, I'll bet you
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  Speaker 1: dollars to nonuts that Jerry Jones is sipping some Johnny
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  Speaker 1: Walker blue on his yacht off the Pacific from Oxnard there,
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  Speaker 1: and he's watching all these talking heads discuss and debate
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys and Michael Parson he's got it on
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  Speaker 1: mute and he's got subtitles on. He's watching it in
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  Speaker 1: the background. He's like, oh man, we nailed it. We
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  Speaker 1: absolutely nailed it. Look at this coverage. Oh man, I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting the chubby. He's all excited. Right, this is great coverage. Right,
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  Speaker 1: it's noise, it's drama, It's Dallas. That's what they do
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  Speaker 1: in Jerry Jones until his last breath in this mortal coil.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones is the director, the producer, and the lead
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  Speaker 1: actor of the longest running soap opera in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys are always always about the Dallas Cowboys. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what year the Simpsons started. I know
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  Speaker 1: Jerry took ownership, I think in eighty nine, and so
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  Speaker 1: the cowboy drama has been on since eighty nine. The
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  Speaker 1: Simpsons about that time, give or take, I think around
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  Speaker 1: at exact time, maybe even earlier than that, and the
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  Speaker 1: Simpsons the longest running show on television. But the Dallas
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys for what they do in terms of soap oper boom,
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  Speaker 1: all right now, page two. By the way, I'm told
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  Speaker 1: they voice in my head tells me that the Simpsons
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  Speaker 1: started in nineteen eighty nine. So that does mean that
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys and the Simpsons. You have the longest soap
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  Speaker 1: opera sports soap oper the Cowboys, and you have the Simpsons,
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  Speaker 1: the longest running cartoon anyway. So turning the pace, So
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  Speaker 1: what are the now, I'm of the position that there
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  Speaker 1: will be no trade. There is going to be a deal.
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  Speaker 1: I maintain my position that this week worked out. There'll
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  Speaker 1: be a Jay Glazer story that pops up on the
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  Speaker 1: NFL on Fox pregame show right before the start of
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  Speaker 1: the season saying they've worked out a deal at the
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  Speaker 1: eleventh hour. Micah Parson is going to sign a record
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  Speaker 1: setting contract with the Dallas Cowboys. However, for the purposes
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  Speaker 1: of talk radio, what are the odds that Jerry Jones
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  Speaker 1: ends up eventually doing a one pint eighty on Micah
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  Speaker 1: Parsons and that I'm wrong and you're wrong, and the
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  Speaker 1: person over there is wrong, and Michah Parsons ends up
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  Speaker 1: being packaged somewhere else. So the Mallard of Sports Book
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  Speaker 1: odds as you know, these are the odds of record,
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  Speaker 1: the malor of sports book odds plus two thousand that
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  Speaker 1: Michael Parsons eventually gets traded. Now, that is not zero,
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  Speaker 1: That is not zero. That implies a less than five
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  Speaker 1: percent chances, slightly less than five percent chance that Michael
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  Speaker 1: Parsons is repackaged somewhere else. Now, how would that work?
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  Speaker 1: How would that work? So Michael Parsons was someone that
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  Speaker 1: was singing Kumbaya with Jerry Jones for the first couple
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  Speaker 1: of years of his career. Now they're talking about money,
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  Speaker 1: so they're fighting all that. But the way it would work,
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  Speaker 1: Parsons has, in the eyes of Jerry Jones, the wrong agent,
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  Speaker 1: which is any agent, and Jerry hates agents. He especially
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  Speaker 1: appears to have a strong distaste for David mulla Getta,
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  Speaker 1: the agent for Micah Parson. So Jerry, here's the name Mullaghetta, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's Michael Parson's agent. And he thinks that's gotta be
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  Speaker 1: some kind of crypto scheme or something like that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's an old guy. I don't know what this is.
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  Speaker 1: And so mulla Getta thinks he's reinvented how agents do business, right,
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  Speaker 1: he's the smartest guy in the room. And maybe he is.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I never heard of the guy a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and all of a sudden he
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  Speaker 1: got that sleezeball Deshaun Watson all that money. Well everyone
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  Speaker 1: knew he was a sleezeball, and Mullagetta was able to
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  Speaker 1: convince the dummies in Cleveland to set a record amount
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  Speaker 1: of guaranteed money. So who knows this guy, David Mullageda
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  Speaker 1: might be the smartest guy in the room anyway, So
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Mullageda thinks he's cracked the system, and Jerry just says,
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  Speaker 1: there is no cracking of the system. I am the
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  Speaker 1: system and that's it. And so you have this urinating match,
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  Speaker 1: flexing muscles and all that stuff. And Jerry's of course
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  Speaker 1: got a mind. You whose name is on the deed
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  Speaker 1: to the Dallas Cowboys and all that stuff. So what
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  Speaker 1: would the return be in that hypothetical demension where Micah
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  Speaker 1: Parsons were to be relocated? So you're not just flipping,
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  Speaker 1: You're not flip flopping the guy for a couple of
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  Speaker 1: second round picks and journeyman defensive back. That's not how
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  Speaker 1: this would work. And under that scenario, Jerry Jones will
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  Speaker 1: stand up with his megaphone, as Jerry is known to
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  Speaker 1: do at a news conference, and he will first of
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  Speaker 1: all say I did not want to trade Micah, but
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  Speaker 1: Micah left me no choice. He wanted out. We got
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  Speaker 1: some value in return for Micah, and we're excited about
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  Speaker 1: these picks. We think there'll be good players. We love
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  Speaker 1: young defensive players. And we don't know who we're going
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  Speaker 1: to pick, but some guy from East North Southwest University.
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  Speaker 1: We think very exciting, very very exciting. But the only
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  Speaker 1: way to make the trade is for Micah Parsons to
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  Speaker 1: fully burn the house down. So what he did with
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  Speaker 1: that opening salvo did not burn the house down, Like
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking a full blown, right, full blown social media
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  Speaker 1: sports terrorism. The more than just cryptic posts on Instagram
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  Speaker 1: liking comments about the Philadelphia Eagles and wanting to play
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  Speaker 1: for the Philadelphia Eagles unfollowing the team. Of course, the
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  Speaker 1: nuclear option. There's a couple of ways to go about this.
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  Speaker 1: But guess what he might might you Micah already asked
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  Speaker 1: for a trade, So he already asked for a trade,
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  Speaker 1: So he just cracked the door open a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like a faux ask at this particular point
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  Speaker 1: in time, and Jerry just has to walk through it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to do it now, and doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: to do it now. There's no reason to do it.
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  Speaker 1: The season starts in a month, and at that point,
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  Speaker 1: that's when it gets real. In terms of what would
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  Speaker 1: actually come back to the Dallas Cowboys. He's saying you start,
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  Speaker 1: the starting point would be at least not one, but
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  Speaker 1: two first round draft picks, which would make a lot
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  Speaker 1: of sense for a team that is likely going to
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  Speaker 1: be picking near the bottom. If you're in Kansas City,
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  Speaker 1: for example, under this hypothetical multiverse, if you're a team
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  Speaker 1: like the Chiefs, and you know for the next concept
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  Speaker 1: couple of years, because of Mahomes and Andy Reid, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be one of the better teams in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Even if you go down a little bit, you're still
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  Speaker 1: gonna be one of the better teams in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: So why would you not trade two first round picks
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  Speaker 1: to get a twenty six year old, Yeah, pay him,
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  Speaker 1: but to get a guy who's in his twenties who's good,
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  Speaker 1: but who knows if he plays well in big games?
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  Speaker 1: He hasn't done that yet. So a team like that
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  Speaker 1: would make sense. A team like that would make sense.
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  Speaker 1: And so you know, it's not so much about the
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  Speaker 1: picks or whatever in this case, it would be about
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  Speaker 1: the power for Jerry Jones. And if you cross Jerry Jones,
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  Speaker 1: if you get on the bad side of Jerry Jones,
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  Speaker 1: if you do that, you pay the price. And Jerry's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna let some agent, some Weasley agent with a
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  Speaker 1: weird last name, dictate terms in his building because he's
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas cowboy, you know, same old cowboys, always chasing
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  Speaker 1: the shadows, the ghosts, the Poulter guys to the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: nineties cowboys. And it's not the multiverse in this case,
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  Speaker 1: it's the Jerry Verse. It's the Jerry Verse there and
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  Speaker 1: a trade is not likely. Again not likely, but it
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  Speaker 1: is not impossible either, And we're going less than five
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  Speaker 1: percent in the multiverse. There's always a dimension in the
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  Speaker 1: multiverse which is a spin off of the Jerry Verse.
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  Speaker 1: There's always a dimension where Micah Parsons is repackaged, and
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  Speaker 1: he's repackaged for some berries, some apples, some strawberries, apples,
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  Speaker 1: and then you're throw in like maybe I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what else could you throw in there? A cantelope, like
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  Speaker 1: a nice cantilope? Shere whenna all right? Now, last word?
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  Speaker 1: Here we go to Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami. The sound
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  Speaker 1: of the day. We have audio. Here's Mike McDaniel, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill the other day broke down why he thought
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  Speaker 1: the Dolphins should not feature the there running back there
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  Speaker 1: they're they're generally they're starting running back in the short
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  Speaker 1: yardede situation. Well, here's the head coach commenting on the
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  Speaker 1: defensive or the lack of defense of the mouth of
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  Speaker 1: Tyreek Killis.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was a genius reporting by Tyreek, seeing
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  Speaker 3: how we had a short yardage period that very day
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  Speaker 3: that you guys, you guys were in attendance for, and
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  Speaker 3: his suggestion was, I guess, uh congruent with coach Studentsville.
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  Speaker 3: That's exactly how he we wrapped the backs in that
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  Speaker 3: shortyard period that very day.
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  Speaker 1: But we thought it was funny that.
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  Speaker 3: He reported the news that wasn't news on that practice
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  Speaker 3: day in that shortyards period that you guys were all
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  Speaker 3: there too for.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So that's that's Mike McDaniel. It's sund
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  Speaker 1: of little lot to me. Mike McDaniel, the Dolphin head coach,
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  Speaker 1: not pleased with Tyreek Hill and the public critique of
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  Speaker 1: the Dolphin short yardage package, saying, as you heard there,
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  Speaker 1: he reported news that wasn't news. So what does this
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  Speaker 1: signify to you? What does it signify to you? So
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  Speaker 1: translation from the coach who sounded like he just put
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  Speaker 1: his long down. Shut up Tyreek. That's what he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to say. He didn't say that, but that's what he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to say. You don't get just get speed when
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  Speaker 1: you have Tyreek Hill. You don't just get the speed.
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  Speaker 1: You don't do that. It's the all inclusive Tyreek experience,
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  Speaker 1: the all inclusive Tyreek experience, which is not just speed.
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  Speaker 1: You get the drama, you get the sound bites, you
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  Speaker 1: get controversy on Asle five. There's a spell on Aisle five,
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  Speaker 1: there's some controversy. It's like a hard rock hotel meets TMZ,
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  Speaker 1: I have a child, and it's Tyreek Hill right over there.
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  Speaker 1: One minute he's torching a defensive back for a touchdown
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  Speaker 1: and dancing and prancing and having a fine time, and
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  Speaker 1: the next he's torching his own team. The fact that
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  Speaker 1: he's still there I continue to be fascinated the fact
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  Speaker 1: that he is still hanging out at good old Miami
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  Speaker 1: front office, the coaching staff. Tyreek wanted out. He's at
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  Speaker 1: a point in his career where this is likely going
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  Speaker 1: to go real bad, and the Dolphins kept him around.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: It's wild, right, and so it continues to be a
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: tinder box of a situation for the Dolphins. And we've
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: seen this movie hundreds of times in the last twenty
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: years in the NFL. The moment Tyreek hills forty times,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: the moment it drops just a little bit a tenth
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: of a second, The moment goes down about a tenth
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: of a second. He's getting catapulted out of Miami like
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: an ejector's seat on a fighter jet in the Air Force.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: It's just hit the ejack button and see you later.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Bye bye, bye bye. And Mike McDaniel knows it. Everyone
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: knows it. Right. You're done, You're gone, see you later.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: They're not keeping you around for sentimental value. That's not
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: out of words. It's Bill Parcells one oh one, old
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: school NFL. When the production outweighs the aggravation, you keep him.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: When the aggregation outweighs the production you say bye bye,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: and you get rid of him just like that. And
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: it's a simple malar math, simple malar math, and Tyreek
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: working on a deficit. Right now at this moment, you
• 19:28
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• 19:32
  Speaker 1: medicating himself, so he's not too annoyed. He's got that
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: passive aggressive nerd rage bubbling up as much as it
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: can trying to get through the weed haze under the
• 19:42
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• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill is great until he's not and and then
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: that's it. And if he's not, then the Dolphins are
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: going to throw him, throw him overboard, and throw him out,
• 19:56
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• 19:59
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  Speaker 1: Bristol Boondoggle, the Bristol Boondoggle, the best laid plans of
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  Speaker 1: mice men and Major League Baseball. Now someone named Eli White.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Eli White, Apparently that's a player for the Atlanta baseball team.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Eli White hit a three run homer, also had a
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: solo shot, and the Atlanta Bros betea Cincinnati Reds forty
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: two the game on Sunday, the rain delade, the rain
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: to laid. Major League Baseball Speedway Classic played at the
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: iconic Bristol Motor speed the first ever Major League Baseball
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: game played in Tennessee. It was supposed to be played
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: on Saturday. Now they say that ninety one thousand brave
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: souls were in attendance. They showed up men, women, and
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: children to that game on Sunday. However, that's not the story,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: all right, That is not the story here. If you
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: were watching the mess happen in real time, you'll likely
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: know what took place on Saturday. If not, if you
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: missed it because you were out doing stuff, maybe you
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: didn't hear what happened. Possibly not. So the game itself,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: which was the showcase for baseball, the vehicle to showcase
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the Bristol Motor Speedway. Major League Baseball is crossover, this
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: confab all that. So the game itself took a back
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: seat to what happened on Saturday. So if you were there,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you to either validate what
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I'm hearing or to dismiss what I'm hearing. So the
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Majorly Baseball Speedway Classic was promoted as a spectacle. Oh,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: you had to be there. But they had this massive
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: rain delay that did not subside on Saturday. It was
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: supposed to be nationally broadcast on Fox, so the game
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: was put on hold. But that was just the tip
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: of the spear. You also had a logistical nightmare for
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: fans in attendance at the game on Saturday. Now, issues
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: with just about everything from a customer relations standpoint. So
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: let us discuss the question is this, how do you
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: sum up Rob Manford's Major League Baseball showcase in Tennessee
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: there and the game at Bristol Motors Speedway. So I've
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: got bonfire, mumbo and Egyptian linens and we will combine
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: all of these things together and we will go bugget
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: and mugging and mugging and mugging and mugging. Let's race,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: all right? So first of all, be careful what you
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: ask for, right, be careful what you ask for. That's
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: my first life major League Baseball. As we said, they
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: wanted a spectacle, they wanted a spectacle, and oh did
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: they get a spectacle? Man? Did they get a spectacle? Uh?
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: And just not the kind they had anticipated they were
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: going to get. They didn't anticipate this. Major League Baseball
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: was pumping its chest out. They were all hyped up.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Another great moment, storybook moment for Major League Baseball. Bristol
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Motor Speedway, first ever Major League Baseball game build as
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: this grand you know, genre building moment, and it was
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: a novelty event, but it was something you'd pass on.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: So I was there, and for many people it turned
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: into a very soggy, stomach turning circus, if you will.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: On Saturday, and if you squinted hard enough, very briefly,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: they tried to play through the monsoon there in Tennessee
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: and the Appalachian downpour. They tried to play through. It
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: didn't really work, and the pouring down it seemed like
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: there was some fog out there, and you might have
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: seen baseball briefly on Saturday, just a little glimpse of baseball,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: or at least the ghost of a baseball game before
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: they pulled the plug and said that's it. And heck,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the Fox broadcast team didn't even know that the game
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: had been called for the night. They thought they were
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: still waiting around to play baseball. So that is part
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: of it. But what the fan got, the fan got
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: the burd is what the fan got right. What the
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: fan got was Major League Baseball's version of the Fire Festival.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: And that is the point of demarcation, right that music
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: event where they didn't have any food and people were
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: sweating and profusely and then they travel accommodations that were
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: promised were not There was a disaster. So this was
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: being compared to Major League Baseball's version of the Fire Festival.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: From the standpoint to be fair, I don't think Jah
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Rule was involved in this, so he was not there.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: He didn't promise anything. So instead of sandwiches with no meat,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: they had nachos with no cheese. What do you call
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: nachos with no cheese? Chips is what you call it.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: They had hot dogs without a bun. They didn't have
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: they ran out of buns apparently for the hot dogs.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: And the rain, see like the rain part of it
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: that happens, you can't really say, well, that's Baseball's fault.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I as much as I love to pick and prod
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: and poke major League Baseball, you can't really say, hey,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: you know, this is the issue here the rain, because
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: that you know, you can't predict one hundred percent it's
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: going to rain or it's not gonna rain in all
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: that stuff. Two hour delay, zero contingency plan on Saturday.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: That will make that a strike. It's not an out,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: it's a strike. So that strike one, no contingency plan
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: on Saturday. People waiting around you had empty concessions. These
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: are boots on the ground reporting empty concessions before first pitch,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: running out of food before first pitch. Strike two. And
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: the kicker of kickers. And this is from people who
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: are in attendance. They said the infrastructure designed to get
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: people into Bristol Motor Speedway for the baseball game revolved
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: around multiple shuttles to get in. There was no explanation
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: from anyone wearing those dopey Major League Baseball polos on
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: how exactly to do it. So that is strike three.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: You're out, see you later, goodbye. Right now. The fans
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: were certainly out of luck, there's no question about that.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: They're also out of food, and many of them, based
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: on the commentary, very very upset and out of patience
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: with what happened. So listen, it takes a special kind
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: of hubris from Rob Manford and all the underlings in
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the mafioso of Major League Baseball, the Organized Baseball Committee
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: to cram tens of thousands of humanity fans into a
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: NASCAR stadium turned ballpark as Frankenstein set up there for
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: baseball and not consider, hey, maybe we should go through
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: the logistics on how these people are gonna get in
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: here and get out of here, or you know, what
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: to do if there is a weather situation, or the
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: bathrooms or the food. And it looks like either they
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: didn't consider any of those things or they just didn't care.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: They just didn't care. So but hey, they apparently had
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: a lot of beer and they had peanuts. So that's
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: what they had beer and peanuts, and that's all you need.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: And so that to me is like nineteen eighties style
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: high school football hospitality. Beer might have beer, nineteen eighties
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: high school football, they had peanuts, get your peanuts now,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: but twenty twenty five, so it doesn't really work. And
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: now the biggest insult though Major League Baseball, the ham
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: fisted attempt by Major League Baseball to brand this as
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: a social media spectacle. Now, that is where this goes
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: next level, That is where this becomes the fire Festival.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball saying, hey, this is going to be
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: a social media spectacle. So they handed the fan, They
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: handed the fan the right the cameras. Everyone's got cameras
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: these days. Forgetting that the phone points both ways, if
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, The phone points both the way.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: So what Major League Baseball in the marketing meeting in
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Manhattan thought was going to be in their head, this
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: glitzy day of trending topics baseball would dominate the weekend
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: on the socials, And it turned out to be a
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: digital bonfire for Major League Baseball, with photos documenting mile
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: long shuttle lines to get to the stadium. Fans had
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the receipts, right, they had the receipts from the entire event.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: It was a a disaster, and many people pointing out
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: the way that this sums up Major League Baseball's operation.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: People in ankle deep puddles in the stadium, the nachos
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: without cheese, the hot dogs without buns, all of that,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: everything documented for posterity's sake and saved for time. And
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: so everything's getting frozen in images and video of the
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: logistical failure, the spectacular debacle of Rob Manford and Major
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: League Baseball in real time. And this is not just
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: a one off. Mind you, this is not just one
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: off because the priority is never the fan. They don't
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: care about the fans. There's seventeen million streaming services to
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: watch major League Baseball. They're asking you to pirate major
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: League Baseball because otherwise you gotta pay for the Hulu
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: game of the week. You gotta get to the you know,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: the Peacock game of the week, this game, that game,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: all that stuff, and it's not about the actual fan.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: They you know, it must like a lot of these
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: places that used to give you something and make you
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: feel like you were getting a lot more than that.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: They've cut back on that. But major League Baseball they
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: want the headlines. They thought they were gonna get the
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: hashtags and not have to do the heavy lifting and
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: all that, and surprise, surprise, surprise. H fans there, as
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: we said, were documenting all of the logistical failures one
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: after another. Right, and you go back and you talk
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: about Baseball some of the events they've done. This is
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: the new strategy to have these one off events. You
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: remember the Field of Dreams game in Iowa. For a
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: lot of people was Field of screams. Who attended that
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: game and Baseball we guarantee they're going to spin this.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: They said, well, I was a learning opportunity and acclaim
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: there was just overwhelming interest and exceeded expectations until the
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: next Baseball one off event, which turns out to be
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Burning Man, uh, the reenactment of Burning Man with fire
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: and included so Stagium. But if you were there, I'd
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: love to hear from you. If you were in attendance,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: And I'm guessing the amount of people that were there
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: in ninety one thousand, there's at least one or two
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: that are listening to me right now in real time.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: They can give us some real time feedback on what
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: your experience was like. Does it coincide with all that
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: took place on the social media channels and all the
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: reports and the photos and the video and all that. Now, meanwhile,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: keeping up with the Speedway classic theme that we began
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: this hour with, over the weekend, you had a heated
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: conversation in rain Delay filler about Big Poppy and Derek Jeter,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: the man that could not attend the Yankee Old Timer
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: game later this month because his daughter has a birthday party. Anyway,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Big Poppy and El Kapatan Derek Jeter were crying on
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Fox crying on Fox about La Dela Cruz being buried
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, bummed he's not in a big market, and
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: essentially claim that it's a shame we don't get to
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: see him and all this stuff. So what is your position?
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: What is your position on this? So this is with
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: a capital L, capital L a loser take. This is
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: just a classic example of Major League Baseball not knowing
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: how to promote the product, is what this one is.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: And these old players Big Poppy and Derek Jeter complaining
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: and all that. They think you've got to be in
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: New York, LA or Boston to be relevant. Meanwhile, I
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: would argue it has never been easier in the history
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: of marketing. It has never been easier to get a
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: guy out in front of the public and to market them.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: You've got all the social media, which again I'm down
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: on I think it's the matrix, but you have it
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: as a tool with TikTok, Instagram, x YouTube. It's not
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine anymore. And even that, Oh, by the way,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: if you want to go down that rabbit hole and
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: marketing and all this stuff, if you go back to
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: the nineties in Major League Baseball, the biggest star by
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: far played in a small market. Ken Griffy Junior in Seattle,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: and he was in the air everywhere in terms of marketing.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Cal Ripkin in the eighties played in sleepy Baltimore and
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: was a huge deal. Tony Gwinn, mister Padre was beloved
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: in San Diego. There was no social media when those
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: guys were playing, and none of them played in media meccas,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: and yet they were able to get it done. Hell Cincinnati,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: and they had a guy named Barry Larkin who was
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: a very popular player for the Cincinnati Red small market Cincinnati.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: The problem is not Cincinnati, it's major League Baseball being
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: stuck in the stone age, and Baseball, just in the
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: last couple of years is realized, well, maybe we should
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: embrace having our content out there and not send cease
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: and desist letters to anyone that uses Major League Baseball content.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: And so Baseball essentially is blaming the zip code, if
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: you will, when the reality is they don't know how
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: to sell the stars of the game. They don't. And
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: La de la Cruz of the Reds, he is tailor
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: made for viral highlights. He's a switch hitter, he's got
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: electric speed, a bazooka for an arm. He's got some swag,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: he's got that aura what you're looking for, and he
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: should be everywhere, should be a household name, but he's
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: stuck doing the mambo and the mediocrity mumbo in Cincinnati.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: That's where you take a step forward, take a step back,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: and shake it all about. That's the Reds. That's the
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati Reds. That's what they doubt. That's what the Reds do.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: So it is inevitable. It is inevitable that he's eventually
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: going to leave Cincinnati. Why is that not because of
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: the marketing. It's gonna be because of the the way
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: the franchises run, the lack of commitment to success by
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: the ownership there. You think the Reds are going to
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: pony up and put a good roster together to win.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: They figured out a way to do it in Milwaukee.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: They figured out how to do it in Tampa most
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: of the time, where they put a competitive team on
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: the field. But Cincinnati, no, So yeah, Eventually, Big Poppy
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: and Derek Jeter will get their way and Cruise will
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: end up in La or New York or Boston or
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: San Francisco somewhere like that, and you can blame Major
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: League Baseball. You blame Rob Man for blame the owners
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: who won't spend in Cincinnati, and play the blame game
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: all you want. The league office that still operates often
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: like it's the nineteen seventy five season and not the
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five season. So it's not a market size issue.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: I maintain that it is a marketing issue. And there
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: was a point when baseball marketed itself as a national pastime.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: It is a regional sport, but as a national pastime,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: they would have stars everywhere and you'd want to hear
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: about them. Now you have regional You care about the
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: hometown team and all that. And here's an example. You
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: have one of the most electrifying players in baseball and
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: many people know about him, but they don't know that
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: much about him, and he's in the league. But that's
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: a failure by the league, is what that is? All right? Now?
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Final fun to Minnesota we go follow up to the
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: follow up. Follow up to the follow up. The Minnesota
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Twins who decided to get out of the Major League
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Baseball business. They're now a bush league, minor league outfit.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: The Minnesota Twins trading away almost fifty percent of their
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: roster at the trade deadline, So Bryan Byron Buxton, the outfielder,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: one of the guys that was not traded away. He
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: was asked whether or not he is looking to relocate.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: He said, quote, he is not planning on leaving after
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: the Twins traded almost half the team. Is he serious?
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Byron Buxton, So Buckston. The way I will answer this question,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Buckston is either in denial or he's lying to himself
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: that that Minnesota clubhouse probably sounds like I would think
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: an echo chamber here at this point, I wasn't fifty percent,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: it was like forty percent of the roster. Gonzo see
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  Speaker 1: you later. That is not a retool. That is a
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  Speaker 1: straight up liquidation sale, is what that is. They waved
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  Speaker 1: the white flag with both ants and said that's it,
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  Speaker 1: We're done. And don't I don't buy Buxton for a second.
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  Speaker 1: I don't you don't come out and say I'm gone,
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  Speaker 1: because then everyone is boo you the rest of the year,
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  Speaker 1: all the seven people that show up the Twins games
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the year, and he's saying like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not leaving and all that stuff, and yeah, he'll
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: be playing for the rest of this year and likely
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  Speaker 1: for years to come, surrounded by Triple A, Double A players.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: But the only reason that you would stay in Minnesota
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: is because you got the bag. What's in back? Seven years?
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  Speaker 1: One hundred million dollars. Hello, that's a big bag guaranteed
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: money for an outfield. And we're not talking about Juan
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Soto or No, we're talking about a guy in Bustin
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: who's good but not great, and guaranteed Mulah and all
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: that stuff. That's a lot of coin. That's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money for a guy who typically spends a good
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: chunk of every Major League Baseball season in the injury tent,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: and he's been that way for some time. But you
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: throw Egyptian linens and a hot tub in your Minneapolis
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: mansion and you can deal with a lot of crappy
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: decisions by the boss. Suddenly that rebuild doesn't feel so bad.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: But ultimately, Egyptian linens aside, you can have those any
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: place anywhere because you've got the money. The losing sucks,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: check clears, direct deposit, all that stuff, and so you're
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: essentially sleeping in a sleeping bag filled with cash money. Right,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: And we have a feeling we have a feeling that
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Buxton's gonna reath think things right, rethink things, and either
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: he's gonna ask out or they will ship him out
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: against his will there and he will not be back.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: But obviously can't trade him now because the trade deadline
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: has passed. But that's the story in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go. How
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: about that?
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  Speaker 2: To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets great.
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: Last week, he mentioned these Saints as one of the
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: teams that could go into tank mode this season. Vegas
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: has their over under win total set at six and
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: a half games.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Ben, is that too many? Well, if everything breaks right
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: for the Saints, if they stay relatively healthy and one
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: of these quarterbacks turns out to be halfway decent, they
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: can win six games. Spider Alert, that ain't happening, Coop.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: They're not winning six games. The injury rate is one
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: hundred percent in the NFL. Unless they've got some New
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Orleans voodoo bugoloo, the Saints are going to be worse
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: than six and a half. Bet the under next.
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: ESPN and NFL reached a massive deal over the weekend
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  Speaker 5: that gives ESPN control over NFL media, and the NFL
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: has ten percent ownership of ESPN. The deal will need
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: federal regulatory approval before it is finalized.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Ben, do you think Trump could hold this up? Well, yes,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: he has a beef with the NFL, and you know, Camo,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: he would never become president if he had gotten the
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: bills ownership shops. All you people at hey Trump, because
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: you would let him own the bills. He would have
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: just owned the Buffalo Bills. But it's a bad deal
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: for fans, Coop. They're gonna put commercials on the NFL
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Red zone. Like ESPN and the NFL already in bed
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: with each other, but this is next level. It is
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: a bad deal for the customer and it should be
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: tied up in court. I hope it does get tied
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: up in the in the legal system.
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: Next, the New York Knicks and Michael Bridges agreed to
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: a four year, one hundred and fifty million dollars extension
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: over the weekend. Sources said the deal happened because the
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: Knicks have intel that Giannis won't be requesting a trade
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: from the Bucks. Do you think Giannis is staying in Milwaukee.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Well, it's it's a Michale. But listen, Yannis, I don't
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: think he's staying in Milwaukee. I think he doesn't want
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: to play for the Knicks. That's what this is about.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: How did we do you pass up? That's a wed
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: I won for Will. I did it for Will. I
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: won the game. I won. I'm a winner.
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• 42:32
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• 42:35
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• 42:50
  Speaker 1: the New York Yankees who got spanked over the weekend
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: by the Lowi Miami Marlins and Aaron Mooning. Knowledge that
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: it's getting late in the season, the Yankees are falling apart.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: Aaron Boone says it's gut check time for the Yankees
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: after getting swept by the Marlins. And any advice, any
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: advice you have to the Yankees, who are falling apart,
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: one of the worst teams in baseball since June. Advice
• 43:17
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• 43:23
  Speaker 1: on the airline one. Advice to the Yankees. Line one,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: David Vase always looks like you just say a bage
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  Speaker 1: with extra cream cheese. Okay, thank you for that. There's
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: our friend Tony, Tony in the Bay Area. Yeah a
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  Speaker 1: line Line three, you're on the airline three.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, you the least stopped the bust in Maryland.
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  Speaker 1: Man, come on, well, that's right. We got to pick
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  Speaker 1: up Rick forgot Rick and Maryland. Come on, man, we
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  Speaker 1: gotta get Rick on the bus. Moves on the bus.
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  Speaker 1: Line five, you're on the airline five. Hello, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: Never to never to go when line six, you're on
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  Speaker 1: the airline Sex. Hello to be liberty. Okay, it sounds
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  Speaker 1: like you're picking death. Let's go to uh. Line one.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the airline one. Hello. Okay, coughing up, caving
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  Speaker 1: up along online one. Line two you're on the airline too,
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  Speaker 1: Hello nine two are not paying attention? Line three Hello,
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  Speaker 1: line three, okay, thank you for rooting the show yet again, James.
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  Speaker 1: Line four, you're on the Airline four. Hello, rah, get it,
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: that's it. They'll see you before you see them, those
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  Speaker 1: glorious PSA's back to the day. Line five, you're on
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  Speaker 1: the air line five. Hello. Line five's not there, We'll
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  Speaker 1: thank god, what a mystery. Line six. You're on the
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  Speaker 1: air at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: line six, Oh, heads are going to roll in the bronx.
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  Speaker 1: It's from Sean the hood Guy. Line number three Hello,
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  Speaker 1: line three, always right from front to back.
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  Speaker 2: Don't forget the second.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: That's right, Hulkelemania.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: I would do one more, only one more of it's good.
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  Speaker 1: I'll take credit. If not, I'll blame the Cooper Loop instant.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: The vice line for the Yankees got swept by the
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: Marlins over the weekend. Line five. Line five, you're on
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  Speaker 1: the airline five. Go you picked him? You picked James?
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Line six, Line six, not paying attention should pick line seven,
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: but we don't have a line seven.