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Hour 3 - Billionaire Status · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Shazam! It's hour number three, and a boom shakalaka to
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Speaker 1: you and the Ben Maller Show. Don't forget, fifth hour podcast.
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Speaker 1: We have the Maller Travelog from Vegas, a recap of
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Speaker 1: the great Maller meet and greet. You can only get
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Speaker 1: that on the fifth hour Friday podcast, but new episodes
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Speaker 1: on Saturday and then again on Sunday as well. But
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Speaker 1: here in hour number three, how much credit does Roger
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Speaker 1: Goodell actually deserve to for the NFL becoming a financial juggernaut.
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Speaker 1: He picked up a four-year contract extension, Roger Goodell did. Also,
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Speaker 1: do you buy Quinton Lake's claim that other NFL teams, quote,
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Speaker 1: hate the Rams as they get ready to begin the
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Speaker 1: NFL season later this week in Australia? against the 49ers.
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Speaker 1: Does umpire Doug Eddings in baseball deserve credit for apologizing
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Speaker 1: to Cardinals rookie pitcher Hansel Rincon for his crooked hat
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Speaker 1: kerfluffle over the weekend? We'll examine that bizarre baseball controversy
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Speaker 1: and much more right now. Here it is, our number three. Well,
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Speaker 1: you can Roger that. You can Roger that.
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Speaker 1: So our lead story this hour from the National. Football League.
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Speaker 1: And you can say Roger that. Roger that. Our lead
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Speaker 1: from the business of the NFL. So if you didn't
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Speaker 1: see this over the holiday weekend buried in the middle
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Speaker 1: of a holiday weekend, we have learned. that the NFL
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Speaker 1: owners have gotten together, the aristocrats, and they have decided
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Speaker 1: that Roger Goodell needs to stay around. Roger Goodell gets
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Speaker 1: a not one, not two, not three, but four-year contract
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Speaker 1: extension that will keep him as your commissioner of the
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Speaker 1: National Football League through 2030. So Roger Goodell will be
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Speaker 1: around until 2030 at least. If you didn't see this,
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Speaker 1: perhaps not. The previous deal was set to expire in
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Speaker 1: the spring of 2027, which is rapidly approaching. Goodell, who
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Speaker 1: is 67, has led the NFL as the commissioner since
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Speaker 1: September of 06. He has been the commissioner of the
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Speaker 1: NFL for a generation, and it will continue for longer.
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Speaker 1: So this marks his fifth contract extension. The financial terms
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Speaker 1: not disclosed, although business reports reporters saying that Goodell's getting
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Speaker 1: a contract at the minimum of four years, $ 260 million.
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Speaker 1: Let me repeat that for those of you that are intoxicated.
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Speaker 1: That's over $ 60 million or about $ 60 million plus per
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Speaker 1: year minimum. It is believed that his salary per year
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Speaker 1: is higher than any individual player in the NFL. And
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Speaker 1: more than 95% of Roger Goodell's compensation is performance-based. It's
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Speaker 1: tied to the league results. The NFL has a license
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Speaker 1: to print money now. It is subject to the NFL's
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Speaker 1: Compensation Committee's discretion. That sounds like a bureaucracy if I've
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Speaker 1: ever heard one. Yeah, the NFL Compensation Committee's discretion. Okay,
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Speaker 1: that is a good jumping-off point. Let us discuss the questions.
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Speaker 1: How much credit, how much credit does Roger Goodell actually
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Speaker 1: deserve for the NFL becoming this financial juggernaut and now
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Speaker 1: his latest contract extension? So I've got Coca-Cola, Boy Scouts
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Speaker 1: of America, and The Walk. And we will combine all
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Speaker 1: of these things together, and we're going to guzzle it
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Speaker 1: all down. Just going to guzzle it all down. So
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Speaker 1: to lead off here, the NFL owners. The ownership group,
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Speaker 1: the 31 owners and then the Packers are not owned
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Speaker 1: by any one person. It's a panel that does the Packers.
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Speaker 1: So the NFL ownership group, they treat Roger Goodell like
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Speaker 1: he's Steve Jobs. And spoiler alert! Spoiler alert! He's not. Oh,
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Speaker 1: you're such a hater, Mallard! Yeah, I know. Roger Goodell
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Speaker 1: is about as far from Steve Jobs as you can
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Speaker 1: possibly get. The NFL is a cow.
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Speaker 2: Moo.
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Speaker 1: It's a cash cow.
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 1: And the reason is because of a mass addiction problem
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Speaker 1: that many men, women, and children have. The Americans are
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Speaker 1: addicted to professional football. It's an addiction. There's no 12-step
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Speaker 1: program for it. They're not addicted to the NFL, you
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Speaker 1: and I, because of Roger Goodell and some kind of
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Speaker 1: mystical business sorcery that he happens to own. That's not true.
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Speaker 1: Calling him some kind of architect of the boom, the
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Speaker 1: financial boom, is like giving the tollbooth operator, not that
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Speaker 1: they have those anymore. Actually, they do. In Maine, they
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Speaker 1: have tollbooth operators. In Maine, I saw some tollbooth operators.
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Speaker 1: We were driving up there, and I think legally they
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Speaker 1: have to have them. Anyway, so if you're a Maine
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Speaker 1: toll booth operator, telling the toll booth operator there in
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Speaker 1: the state of Maine, listen, you are so important. We're
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Speaker 1: going to give you credit for all the traffic on
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Speaker 1: the highway. You get the credit. That's it. Now, Roger
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Speaker 1: Goodell did not build the money machine. We're pretty sure
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Speaker 1: about that. He just managed to not drive it into
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Speaker 1: the lake. So he didn't take it to the lake there,
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Speaker 1: which is good. And I'm telling you, you could put
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Speaker 1: a purebred Pomeranian, you could take a Pomeranian in the
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Speaker 1: commissioner's office and put it right there tomorrow, and the
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Speaker 1: league would still print money without missing a beat. That's right,
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Speaker 1: a fullbred Pomeranian. That's all you need, a purebred. Put
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Speaker 1: them out there, and that's it. Now, 32 obscenely rich oligarchs. Well,
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Speaker 1: 31 again, because the Packers are... community based 31 obscenely rich.
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Speaker 1: Good for them. Robber barons of business are so petrified
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Speaker 1: of changing the formula, putting a new commissioner in. They're
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Speaker 1: so terrified that if they do that, the NFL will
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Speaker 1: become like Coca-Cola in 1985 when they changed the recipe
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Speaker 1: and said, let's get new Coke. Well, that didn't work
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Speaker 1: out very well. People didn't want new Coke. They like Coke.
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Speaker 1: They didn't want new Coke. Why'd you make new Coke?
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Speaker 1: Who's the idiot that came up with that idea? So
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Speaker 1: they figured if they change commissioners, everyone wants to put
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Speaker 1: their own stamp on something. So they don't have to
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Speaker 1: worry about that. Goodell just continues to motor along and
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Speaker 1: all that. But Roger Goodell's true genius. I was thinking
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Speaker 1: about this as I was making the long drive in
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Speaker 1: from the Northwoods here. Roger Goodell's true genius is not innovation.
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Speaker 1: It is convincing the people that run these NFL teams.
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Speaker 1: very wealthy people that made their money elsewhere or inherited
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Speaker 1: their money and did nothing to help society but inherit
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Speaker 1: the money and win the genetic lottery, that he was
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Speaker 1: able to convince these people that keeping the ship study
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Speaker 1: is worth $ 60, $ 65, $ 70 million a year. And Goodell
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Speaker 1: is not irreplaceable. He's obviously not irreplaceable. He's simply the
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Speaker 1: human embodiment of if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Speaker 1: And don't touch anything. Everything's fine here, and that's it. Now,
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Speaker 1: to L.A., we had a call earlier, if you were
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Speaker 1: listening in the last hour, about the Rams, and our
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Speaker 1: buddy from Tampa called up, and he was trying to
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Speaker 1: bust some balls and all that. Rams aren't that good,
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Speaker 1: all this stuff. So Safety Quinton Lake chimed in from
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Speaker 1: the Rams, and he says that the locker room understands
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Speaker 1: that the Rams have become the NFL's villain. after their
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Speaker 1: blockbuster off-season shopping spree. And he was talking about how
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Speaker 1: he was joking a little bit. There's a little truth
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Speaker 1: in every joke, though. We learned that little truth in
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Speaker 1: every joke. And he said the other teams hate us.
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Speaker 1: That's a quote. They hate us. That's what he said. Now,
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Speaker 1: Lake compared the Rams to the D-O-D-G-E-R-S Dodgers, who are
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Speaker 1: also hated in baseball, known for stockpiling superstar talent. and
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Speaker 1: also investigations by the feds, which is currently going on
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Speaker 1: right now. So the Rams, if you were sleeping somehow, hibernating,
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Speaker 1: the Rams this offseason went out and got the reigning
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Speaker 1: defensive player of the year, speed racer Miles Garrett. from
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Speaker 1: the late of the Cleveland Browns, so they picked him up.
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Speaker 1: They brought Aaron Donald out of retirement. But wait, there's more.
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Speaker 1: The Rams had some issues in the secondary, so they
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Speaker 1: acquired the Chiefs secondary, both their starting defensive backs. They
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Speaker 1: picked up from Kansas City, all-pro cornerback Trent McDuffie. They
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Speaker 1: paid him an S-load of money, and they also got
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Speaker 1: Jalen Watson from Kansas City. So, Lake obviously embracing the
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Speaker 1: reaction around the NFL, calling the Rams essentially the new Dodgers,
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Speaker 1: and adding, I get it, he said. All right, so question.
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Speaker 1: Do you buy, do you buy Quinton Lake's claim that
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Speaker 1: other NFL teams hate the Rams? Capital H, hate. Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate!
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Speaker 1: All right, so to answer the question, I'm nodding my head,
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Speaker 1: In agreement. I'm nodding my head like a bobblehead. Benny
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Speaker 1: the bobblehead. I'm nodding my head. It is more from fans.
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Speaker 1: I would argue it's more from fans, but rival teams
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Speaker 1: are crying too. Embrace the hate, right? Get to embrace
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Speaker 1: the hate. You have to do it. The Rams are
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Speaker 1: not America's team. We know that's the Dallas Cowboys, no
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Speaker 1: matter that they've sucked for 30 years. They're not America's team.
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Speaker 1: They're America's most wanted. And I'm in for it. Listen,
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Speaker 1: you know I like the Rams if you listen to
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Speaker 1: the show, and I'm in for it. I'm all about it.
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Speaker 1: It's great. You got the GM over there, Les Snead.
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Speaker 1: Les Snead, who showed up and bought Boardwalk and Park Place.
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Speaker 1: Boardwalk and Park Place on the Monopoly board. And so
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Speaker 1: they are, at this point, the Rams are the boogeyman.
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Speaker 1: under the NFL's bed, hiding. Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! Boogeyman! Yeah, except the
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Speaker 1: Boogeyman has Aaron Donald and Miles Garrett. Until Aaron Donald
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Speaker 1: somehow gets hurt. But the Rams have... I was thinking
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Speaker 1: about this, too. They have more recognizable names on both
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Speaker 1: offense and defense... Then if you were to go to
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Speaker 1: a Vanity Fair Oscars party, there's not as many name
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Speaker 1: brand people at the Vanity Fair Oscars party as the
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Speaker 1: Rams have on both sides of the ball at this
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Speaker 1: particular point. They have become everything the NFL claims to
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Speaker 1: hate and secretly wishes they could be. That's just the
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Speaker 1: way it is. This is the Boy Scouts of America
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Speaker 1: certified merit badge titled Super Team. Up, up, and away!
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Speaker 1: The Super Team badge. Sew it on the damn sash
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Speaker 1: right now. Put it on the sash. There's no apologizing.
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Speaker 1: It's somehow like the Rams should feel guilty. People seem
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Speaker 1: to think the Rams should feel guilty. It's not fair!
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Speaker 1: So many losers. Tell me you're a loser and will
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Speaker 1: forever be a loser if you have that mindset. It's
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Speaker 1: the other team's too good. It's not fair. Go out
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Speaker 1: and beat them. Go out and beat them. And yet
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Speaker 1: these people just love to sit on the sidelines and
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Speaker 1: bitch and complain and just total loser fandom. Totally pathetic.
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Speaker 1: So don't apologize for getting all the good players. The
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Speaker 1: object is to win the Super Bowl. The object is
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Speaker 1: to put the top team you can together together. You're
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Speaker 1: not here to say, well, we have too many good players.
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Speaker 1: Why don't we donate one to the Salvation Army? Well,
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Speaker 1: that makes sense. No, it doesn't. Okay, so stop. You're
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Speaker 1: not trying to earn the sportsmanship ribbon. You're trying to
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Speaker 1: earn the super team merit badge is what you're trying
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Speaker 1: to earn. Now, you could lose that badge if you
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Speaker 1: embarrass yourself and all that. But you know who nobody
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Speaker 1: hates in the NFL? Nobody hates the Cleveland Browns. Nobody
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Speaker 1: hates the New York Jets. Nobody cares about the Houston Texans,
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Speaker 1: those Arizona Cardinals. Nobody hates them. You know why nobody
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Speaker 1: hates them? They're irrelevant. They don't have many good players.
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Speaker 1: The roster comes, this roster the Rams have this year,
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Speaker 1: comes with one setting and one setting only. It is
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl or public humiliation. That's it. That's all. And
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Speaker 1: I'm in for it. That's great. That's how every season
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Speaker 1: should be. And it's certainly on steroids this year for
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Speaker 1: the Rams. Now, last thing. We got to go to baseball.
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Speaker 1: Controversy of the week. The catch of the week in
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. We go to Colorado. When the Rockies
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Speaker 1: and the Cardinals get together, you throw out the records.
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Speaker 1: Why is that? Because you wouldn't watch if you knew
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Speaker 1: the records. Just the Rockies alone. So we had a
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Speaker 1: brouhaha develop with veteran umpire Doug Eddings. Now, Doug Eddings
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Speaker 1: apologized to someone named Hansel Rincon, a pitcher for the Cardinals. Now,
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Speaker 1: why did he apologize? This after ordering him to straighten
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Speaker 1: his tilted cap. Remember Fernando Rodney had that tilted cap
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Speaker 1: all those years? Well, anyway, this guy, Rincon, a rookie,
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Speaker 1: making his first appearance there with the Cardinals, and Doug
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Speaker 1: Eddings told him, hey, you've got to adjust the hat.
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Speaker 1: He apologized for that in his MLB interview. Major League
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Speaker 1: Baseball told Eddings apparently that he acted inappropriately and he
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Speaker 1: went a little bit too far. He crossed the line
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Speaker 1: just a little bit too far. Now, the Cardinals manager,
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Speaker 1: Oliver Marmol, Ollie Marmol, he was ejected. Get out of here.
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Speaker 1: He was ejected from the game for calling, he called Eddings' behavior, quote,
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Speaker 1: a power-hungry move. Eddings claimed that a Rockies batter questioned
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Speaker 1: Rincon's cap. However, the player, Hunter Goodman, denied. He said, no,
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Speaker 1: I never said that. I never said that. He lied.
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Speaker 1: He lied.
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Speaker 3: He lied.
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Speaker 1: Liar, liar, liar. Essentially, I'm paraphrasing what Hunter Goodman of
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Speaker 1: the Rockies said. So then the following day, you had
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Speaker 1: Cardinal players with a silent protest as they wore their
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Speaker 1: hats crooked. Not all of them, but a lot of
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Speaker 1: the players wore their hats crooked. You had several Rocky
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Speaker 1: players who joined the silent protest against Doug Eddings. All right,
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Speaker 1: so here's the question. Does umpire Doug Eddings deserve credit
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Speaker 1: for apologizing to the Cardinals rookie reliever Hansel Rincon for
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Speaker 1: his crooked hat kerfluffle? So... Spare me the feel-good photo op,
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Speaker 1: which is what that was, a feel-good photo op. And
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Speaker 1: Doug Eddings, he made a mistake. He didn't realize that
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Speaker 1: it was 2026. The umpire thought it was like 06
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Speaker 1: or 1996. He didn't realize the time that he was in.
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Speaker 1: And so he went out there and acted like the
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Speaker 1: hall monitor, Doug Eddings, the hall monitor of the catwalk.
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Speaker 1: Do a pirouette on the catwalk and shake your tushy
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Speaker 1: right there on the catwalk. And he treated Hansel Rincon's
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Speaker 1: minor cap issue. It's just a minor deal. Who cares?
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Speaker 1: As though somehow baseball, I guess he didn't realize that
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Speaker 1: baseball had already embraced the custom where players wear all
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Speaker 1: kinds of exotic cleats and And they wear chains, bling, bling,
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Speaker 1: and all of that. All of that stuff. I was
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Speaker 1: talking to my guy, Sports with Coleman, and I pointed
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Speaker 1: this out. It's like every day in baseball now is
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Speaker 1: casual Friday. It's casual Friday in Major League Baseball. And
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Speaker 1: it wasn't like that for a long time. Baseball was
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Speaker 1: a very buttoned-up sport. and you had to dress like
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Speaker 1: a big leaguer, and there was some pride in that.
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Speaker 1: Just like over time, these things change, and you see
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Speaker 1: photos and clips of people flying, and people used to
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Speaker 1: get all dolled up to fly on planes, and the
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Speaker 1: women would wear their dresses, and the men would have
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Speaker 1: their suits on and all that stuff, and now they're
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Speaker 1: dressed like slobs. Baseball players now dress like slobs. That's
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Speaker 1: what they do, and baseball has embraced their inner slob.
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Speaker 1: So if Doug Eddings had been umpiring 30 years ago,
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Speaker 1: this would have been the proper way to do things.
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Speaker 1: Back in the 90s or even the early 2000s, 20
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Speaker 1: years ago, baseball actually had standards for on-field appearance. Not anymore.
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Speaker 1: Then came my favorite part of the story, the, quote, spontaneous,
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Speaker 1: close quote, apology. So Eddings could have found this Cardinals
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Speaker 1: rookie pitcher, Rincon, in the bowels of Coors Field, knocked
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Speaker 1: on the clubhouse door, gotten somebody to go set up
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Speaker 1: a meeting in the hallway. And apologize. That's what normal
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Speaker 1: human beings do in that situation. Just take care of it.
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Speaker 1: That's it. Instead, he got the walk. And we got
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Speaker 1: to watch the walk. Major League Baseball obviously told him
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Speaker 1: to do the walkie-walkie-walkie. The walk of shame. The walk
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Speaker 1: of shame. A carefully choreographed on-field performance for the ages
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Speaker 1: with all the giant cameras recording. Now, Major League Baseball
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Speaker 1: later confirmed the entire gesture was essentially stage managed by
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Speaker 1: the commissioner's office and put out into the ethos to
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Speaker 1: try to solve the cyber situation, the cyber PR wildfire
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Speaker 1: that was taking place. Didn't really hide it very well.
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Speaker 1: It's like you see those cheesy videos, those staged videos
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Speaker 1: on social media where people are doing pranks and it's like, okay,
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Speaker 1: Can you at least try a little bit to make
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Speaker 1: it believable? Like Doug Eddings on the field going. over
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Speaker 1: and apologizing no that doesn't happen in real life unless
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Speaker 1: somebody orders it to happen it just doesn't happen so
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Speaker 1: Eddings mishandled what for modern times again in old days
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Speaker 1: that would have been a legitimate argument because again baseball
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Speaker 1: used to have standards and they had pride in appearance
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Speaker 1: they don't have that anymore so he mishandled a trivial
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Speaker 1: uniform dispute The overlords at Major League Baseball headquarters stepped in,
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Speaker 1: and suddenly we were served up a giant dish of
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Speaker 1: Doug Eddings' Redemption, the Redemption tour conveniently broadcast in full HD.
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Speaker 1: So the late Joe Morgan. manager, not the second baseman
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Speaker 1: for the Big Red Machine. He died years ago. But
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Speaker 1: the late Joe Morgan, the manager who died over the
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Speaker 1: weekend at age 95. What a good run, 95. I'm
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Speaker 1: guessing he probably won in 96 or 97, but he
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Speaker 1: died at 95. So Joe Morgan died over the weekend
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Speaker 1: at age 95. He drove a blank to supplement his
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Speaker 1: income before reaching the big time as the Red Sox
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Speaker 1: manager in In the late 1980s. Again, the late Joe
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Speaker 1: Morgan died over the weekend at age 95. He's got
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Speaker 1: a very interesting life story. He actually at one point
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Speaker 1: had to drive a blank to supplement his income before
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Speaker 1: reaching the big time as Red Sox manager in the
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Speaker 1: late 1980s. That is the Mallard Riddle of the Day.
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23:54
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23:56
Speaker 1: died over the weekend at age 95. Good run for
23:59
Speaker 1: Joe Morgan. Drove a blank... to supplement his income before
24:03
Speaker 1: reaching the big leagues as a Red Sox manager in
24:08
Speaker 1: the late 80s. That's a big-time manager there in Boston.
24:12
Speaker 1: So that is the Mallor riddle of the day. Let's see,
24:15
Speaker 1: does anyone know the answer? King Roy says he drove
24:19
Speaker 1: the Homer. Oh, the Homer mobile. He drove a hard
24:23
Speaker 1: bargain as an unbreakable glassware salesman to restaurants in Las Vegas.
24:29
Speaker 1: According to Alf, the alien opponent, yes, I did have
24:31
Speaker 1: an incident involving superhuman strength, unless there really was no
24:35
Speaker 1: superhuman strength. Yeah, I was at a restaurant in Vegas,
24:38
Speaker 1: and I had a glass. It's not in the podcast,
24:41
Speaker 1: but I was drinking a glass of water, and then
24:43
Speaker 1: it kind of slipped down, just like, you know, it
24:45
Speaker 1: kind of slipped. And then it wasn't even like I
24:47
Speaker 1: didn't throw it down, and then the thing shattered. And
24:49
Speaker 1: it was all over my chicken parm. Oh, my gosh.
24:51
Speaker 1: Did you cut yourself? No, I didn't. But I couldn't
24:55
Speaker 1: eat the chicken. And they offered. I was not in
24:57
Speaker 1: the mood to eat. But it was like the fettuccine
24:59
Speaker 1: had a little piece of glass in it. You know,
25:00
Speaker 1: it ruined it. That's a hazard. It ruined the meal. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Malapropguy says, a Zamboni for the Boston Bruins. Oh, look
25:07
Speaker 1: at that. Joe Morgan driving a Zamboni. Very nice. He
25:10
Speaker 1: had to drive a M4A3 Sherman Tank from Robbie the
25:15
Speaker 1: Mariner fan. What else do we have? A really big
25:17
Speaker 1: wheel from Courtesy Flusher. It's the Mallor Riddle of the Day.
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Speaker 1: And he drove himself to drinking. That's from Jerry in
25:25
Speaker 1: a Jar. Morgan drove the tour bus for Two Life
25:30
Speaker 1: Crew from the Pizza Papa. A herd of goats from
25:33
Speaker 1: Johnny Q. A woolly mammoth from Fargo, Pete. Chudley says
25:39
Speaker 1: he drove a rickshaw in downtown Toledo. There's just something
25:44
Speaker 1: great about a rickshaw. Isn't the rickshaw great? Man, do
25:47
Speaker 1: I love a good rickshaw. It would be great if
25:49
Speaker 1: they weren't so expensive. Yeah, I know. What's a rickshaw? Oh,
25:53
Speaker 1: my God. Come on now. You don't know what a
25:55
Speaker 1: rickshaw is? Mm-mm. Coop, is she lying? I don't think so.
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Speaker 1: This ought to be good. What do you think a
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Speaker 1: rickshaw is?
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Speaker 4: Well, it kind of sounds like a saw, and it
26:06
Speaker 4: also kind of sounds like a rake. So I'm thinking
26:09
Speaker 4: maybe you could buy it at Lowe's.
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Speaker 1: At Lowe's? No. It's a three-wheeled bicycle. Those are popular, like,
26:20
Speaker 1: in India, right? A trike?
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Speaker 4: Well, you know, when you go to, like, a city somewhere,
26:24
Speaker 4: and there's people, like, riding around, and they're like, oh,
26:27
Speaker 4: you want to ride? And you get, like, in the
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Speaker 4: back of the thing, and they're riding the bicycle, and
26:30
Speaker 4: it's like a little carriage.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, like in Central Park or something like that.
26:33
Speaker 4: And they do it late at night, and they put
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Speaker 4: little lights on it?
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes. That's a... It's called a rickshaw. Rickshaw, okay.
26:39
Speaker 1: They're popular in... I mean, you see them in tourist
26:42
Speaker 1: towns and stuff, but they're... They had them in Denver
26:44
Speaker 1: after the game. Okay.
26:46
Speaker 2: Yeah.
26:46
Speaker 1: There you go. What else do we have? Let's see. Paige, Dan,
26:50
Speaker 1: Kathy in Madison says he drove birthday boy Roberto's bus. Oh,
26:56
Speaker 1: is it Roberto's birthday?
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Speaker 5: Is that right?
26:58
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that. Feliz cumpleaños. There you go. He's
27:02
Speaker 1: got his Mexican 2000 Doppler ready to go. The Gabagool
27:06
Speaker 1: truck from Attillo. That's his answer. A horse buggy carriage
27:09
Speaker 1: around Central Park from Mike. The Leprechaun Fat Daddy says...
27:15
Speaker 1: Who said that? What's that? Mike the Leprechaun. What did
27:19
Speaker 1: he do? He literally stole my word-for-word answer. A horse-drawn
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Speaker 1: carriage through Central Park. Oh, okay. All right. Joe Morgan
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Speaker 1: drove a Zamboni from Fat Daddy. All right, that's enough. Lorena,
27:31
Speaker 1: do you... That was my answer. Okay, that was your answer. Well,
27:33
Speaker 1: you're wrong. Turns out, this is great, the late, great
27:36
Speaker 1: Joe Morgan drove a snowplow on the mass turnpike to
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Speaker 1: supplement his income before he became the Red Sox manager.
27:45
Speaker 1: That is just as mass hole as you can possibly be.
27:50
Speaker 1: Does it get any more Massachusetts than driving a snow
27:54
Speaker 1: plow on the mass turnpike to try to make a
27:57
Speaker 1: couple extra bucks? I remember I was a young lad
28:01
Speaker 1: when he took over in the ladies and the Red
28:03
Speaker 1: Sox won like 19 of 20 some. I forget how
28:08
Speaker 1: it was. It was a lot of wins in a
28:10
Speaker 1: very little amount of time. I think he took over
28:13
Speaker 1: like the All-Star break or something like that. But who
28:16
Speaker 1: the hell cares? Only I care. But it was fascinating
28:19
Speaker 1: at the time. Let's go to the phones. Let's say
28:20
Speaker 1: hello to Arthur, who's in Tucson. What's going on, Arthur?
28:26
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ben Maller Show.
28:29
Speaker 6: Thanks for having me, Ben. It's been a long time.
28:33
Speaker 6: I talked to you, and I was trying to figure
28:34
Speaker 6: out the year you were talking about somebody's, how they
28:37
Speaker 6: had a good voice, right?
28:39
Speaker 1: Yeah.
28:39
Speaker 6: So then I'm thinking, when I talked to you last time,
28:43
Speaker 6: You had the exact same voice, man, and it's been years.
28:46
Speaker 6: And maybe you could tell me what year it was.
28:49
Speaker 6: You had a woman on the show, and her name,
28:52
Speaker 6: I believe, was Karen Kay or something.
28:54
Speaker 1: Yes, KK. That goes back... A long time ago.
28:59
Speaker 6: I want to feel like 0-1-0-2.
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Speaker 1: No, it wasn't then. It was probably a little bit
29:05
Speaker 1: after that. I thought I was the only woman on
29:08
Speaker 1: your show. I'm sorry. There have been actually many women
29:10
Speaker 1: that have worked here.
29:11
Speaker 6: Maybe then it was 0-5-0-4.
29:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's probably 0-5-0-4, something like that. But yeah, Karen,
29:15
Speaker 1: I love KK. She's retired now. She's out of the
29:18
Speaker 1: radio world and she's living her great life there. And
29:21
Speaker 1: she's happily married and all that, living happily. Living the dream.
29:24
Speaker 1: My friend KK. Remember she used to say MySpace is huge.
29:29
Speaker 1: That was one of her drops there. And she used
29:31
Speaker 1: to get very upset. She loved the Chargers and she
29:33
Speaker 1: would get very upset when I'd rip the Chargers because
29:35
Speaker 1: she loved the Chargers. I'm very offended by that. But, man,
29:38
Speaker 1: where have you been? That's 20-something years ago.
29:41
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was young. But I'm telling you, you were
29:45
Speaker 6: the same. You had the same, like, you don't even,
29:47
Speaker 6: you were, I guess you were young then.
29:49
Speaker 1: My space is huge.
29:50
Speaker 3: Oh, wait, wait, wait.
29:51
Speaker 1: We found it. We found it right now. So I
29:52
Speaker 1: figured I'm going to get involved in this too. Oh, no,
29:53
Speaker 1: that sounded really bad. Do not mark the tape. Okay.
29:57
Speaker 1: My space is huge. There it is right there. That's
29:59
Speaker 1: the drop. My space is huge. My space is huge.
30:02
Speaker 1: So you're all growing up now, Arthur. I'm sure you're
30:04
Speaker 1: very successful, very wealthy. Everyone loves you. You've got a
30:06
Speaker 1: great life.
30:07
Speaker 3: Yes?
30:09
Speaker 6: Ah, you know, you take some, you know, you give some, right?
30:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, you win some, exactly, right? You win some, you
30:15
Speaker 1: lose some. Look at that optimism. Yeah. Exactly.
30:17
Speaker 6: Yeah, so like I said, you had the same sarcasm.
30:20
Speaker 1: Well, thank you. I appreciate that.
30:21
Speaker 6: Comedy, good comedy. Your dialect seems like you haven't aged
30:26
Speaker 6: a bit, dude.
30:26
Speaker 1: Oh, well, thank you. I'm in my fighting shape. I've
30:30
Speaker 1: actually lost a lot of weight since then. I was
30:32
Speaker 1: at my biggest, well, no, I was at my biggest
30:34
Speaker 1: probably in the 90s, I think, in the 90s.
30:36
Speaker 5: Okay.
30:36
Speaker 6: Okay. And then I wanted to talk about something. Maybe
30:39
Speaker 6: you have an answer because I don't understand it. I'm
30:41
Speaker 6: a big sports fan, obviously. I've been following sports for
30:44
Speaker 6: a long time. I don't understand it, man. And it
30:47
Speaker 6: actually sickens me. It sickens me because how much these
30:51
Speaker 6: players are making. It sickens me 500, 600. And then
30:55
Speaker 6: what sickens me more, too, not more, but some of
30:58
Speaker 6: these fans are asking them to get more money. I'm like,
31:00
Speaker 6: are you kidding me? We foot the bill at the end.
31:03
Speaker 6: The owners pay it.
31:04
Speaker 1: Sports.
31:06
Speaker 6: you know, channels, you know, you know, um, contracts, but
31:09
Speaker 6: you know, at the end of the day, it's the fans,
31:11
Speaker 6: you know, how much does it get to make to,
31:13
Speaker 6: to buy a Jersey? How much does it take to
31:16
Speaker 6: take the family out to a game? You know, we
31:19
Speaker 6: fit the bill and then, you know, look at our,
31:21
Speaker 6: our jobs and how much money is going. And then
31:24
Speaker 6: you see these players, you know, um, Oh, acting a
31:27
Speaker 6: fool and not being, I don't, I don't see it.
31:29
Speaker 6: I mean, a lot of them are, you can't put
31:30
Speaker 6: them all in the same pot, but not being appreciative. And,
31:33
Speaker 6: you know, players that, how much is that guy making? Oh,
31:36
Speaker 6: he has a $ 200 million contract. He's not even that good.
31:39
Speaker 6: And they're going more and more and more. And it just,
31:42
Speaker 6: I don't understand the fans. Like there's not more crap.
31:45
Speaker 6: And you might say, okay, well, where's the owners? Is
31:47
Speaker 6: the owner supposed to keep all the money? No, that
31:50
Speaker 6: wouldn't be either good, but I wish they could come
31:51
Speaker 6: up with a system that says, you know what? The society, fans, people.
31:56
Speaker 1: I got you. It is crazy how much. When I
31:58
Speaker 1: was a kid, I'm older than you, but when I
32:00
Speaker 1: was a kid, the guys were... Some of them still
32:03
Speaker 1: had to have jobs in the offseason. Now nobody needs
32:05
Speaker 1: a job in the offseason. But listen, that's the way
32:07
Speaker 1: it works. It's the way of the world. There's a
32:09
Speaker 1: demand for it. It's the only thing left, Arthur, that
32:12
Speaker 1: people watch live is sports. Nothing else. No TV shows.
32:15
Speaker 1: Obviously movies are recorded and it takes a year to
32:19
Speaker 1: make a movie or whatever. But it's the only thing left.
32:21
Speaker 1: And as long as that continues, there's no end in
32:25
Speaker 1: sight to the amount of money. But we have had
32:26
Speaker 1: the Great Awakening. With cable television pretty much going away
32:30
Speaker 1: and the regional cable channels are in the crapper. And
32:35
Speaker 1: so that's not good.
32:36
Speaker 5: Hey, Arthur.
32:38
Speaker 1: Yeah. You said you don't think Ben's dialect has changed?
32:41
Speaker 1: He hasn't aged at all? This is where he plays
32:43
Speaker 1: an old sound.
32:44
Speaker 6: No, dude. I mean, he sounds just like.
32:46
Speaker 1: I'm not too sure.
32:48
Speaker 5: Royals having their problems on the road. I'm Ben Maller,
32:51
Speaker 5: Kansas City, fighting for the American League Central with the
32:53
Speaker 5: White Sox. They're in Texas on this Labor Day, and
32:56
Speaker 5: the Rangers bombing away.
32:58
Speaker 1: It looks so refreshing. I've decided to put on my
33:00
Speaker 1: swim trunks and dive right in. How is it?
33:03
Speaker 5: If you could see me now, you would know.
33:07
Speaker 1: Clearly not the highlight there. I don't know what that was.
33:09
Speaker 1: Mark Teixeira, two home runs, and the Rangers on top, 6-2. Yeah,
33:16
Speaker 1: that's from probably 25 years ago. That's from Mark Teixeira.
33:20
Speaker 1: When did he last play in the major leagues, Mark Teixeira?
33:24
Speaker 1: Let's see if I can get it up here. Mark Teixeira. Uh,
33:27
Speaker 1: he last played in 20, he last played 10 years ago.
33:30
Speaker 1: And what team was he on there?
33:31
Speaker 5: The Rangers?
33:32
Speaker 1: Was he on the Rangers? Should I restart it? No,
33:34
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear it again. So he last
33:35
Speaker 1: played for the Rangers in 07. So that's 20, yeah,
33:39
Speaker 1: about 20 years ago. So, Hey Arthur, call more often, buddy.
33:43
Speaker 1: We're here every, every night. It's great to hear from you.
33:45
Speaker 1: Thank the great Arthur. That down memory lane, me and Arthur,
33:50
Speaker 1: a couple of old boys, uh, Isn't that right, Hollering James, right?
33:54
Speaker 1: You remember the olden days, James. James? James, do you
34:00
Speaker 1: remember that call you had a couple years back, me
34:02
Speaker 1: and you?
34:04
Speaker 3: Really?
34:07
Speaker 1: Interesting. This is holiday edition of Hollering James. Instead of
34:15
Speaker 1: story time, it's snorey time. Yeah. This is a man
34:20
Speaker 1: that is the model of health. A human bowling ball.
34:28
Speaker 1: Right now he's dreaming of Tammy in Montana.
34:31
Speaker 6: Yeah.
34:35
Speaker 1: Oh. Is he farting? It did sound kind of like
34:38
Speaker 1: a fart, didn't it?
34:40
Speaker 6: Yeah. All right.
34:42
Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, James, who do you think is going to
34:44
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl, James? Really? Okay. Why? Is that right?
34:52
Speaker 1: No way. Hmm. Okay.
34:56
Speaker 5: All right.
34:57
Speaker 1: Well, you got a lot to say. This is the
34:59
Speaker 1: most rapid fire I can recall, James.
35:01
Speaker 4: I know.
35:03
Speaker 1: I haven't questioned if he was breathing once. No, he
35:05
Speaker 1: hasn't really paused. Must be some new medications. It's consistent.
35:11
Speaker 1: It's rat-a-tat-tat snoring. Makes me jealous. You're listening to our
35:15
Speaker 1: live coverage. This is a gentleman named Hollering James. I've
35:19
Speaker 1: met him. This is not some fake person. This is
35:21
Speaker 1: a real person. Hollering James. Did he just talk in
35:26
Speaker 1: his sleep? James! James! Wake up, James! James!
35:36
Speaker 5: Not right.
35:40
Speaker 1: Can we just... Why don't I just leave? We'll just
35:42
Speaker 1: leave this on. How about that? It's a holiday, no? Yeah,
35:46
Speaker 1: I think this is great. We'll go straight to break
35:47
Speaker 1: out of this. Why don't I get out of here,
35:48
Speaker 1: and then we'll just play this for like the next
35:49
Speaker 1: hour and 20 minutes. Ben and I can go home.
35:52
Speaker 1: You just have to run the board. Yeah, just leave
35:55
Speaker 1: it up. Just leave the pot up. Let's get out
35:57
Speaker 1: of here, Coop. Overnight radio. Let's get out of here.
36:00
Speaker 1: My fill-in is hollering James from a care center in
36:04
Speaker 1: Minnesota somewhere. He is really going for it. He is
36:09
Speaker 1: sleeping good. Oh, my gosh. Man.
36:12
Speaker 4: Can you imagine if we did leave and we just
36:15
Speaker 4: played Hollering James Snoring and then he wakes up.
36:17
Speaker 1: Starts cursing.
36:18
Speaker 4: And he hears himself on the radio. Well, I don't
36:20
Speaker 4: even hear the show though, so maybe he's not even listening.
36:23
Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow. Okay. All right. As much as I would
36:27
Speaker 1: just love to do that for the rest of the hour,
36:29
Speaker 1: I'm told we must move on with the broadcast. Thank you, James.
36:32
Speaker 1: Tremendous job. There he is, hollering James. We've got the
36:34
Speaker 1: Insta advice line for Big Ten replay officials. We'll get
36:38
Speaker 1: to that. We'll do it next.
36:39
Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
36:42
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36:44
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36:48
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36:57
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37:30
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37:33
Speaker 3: Hey, you sports figure guy or girl.
37:36
Speaker 1: Who the hell are you talking to, son? Here's some
37:38
Speaker 1: instant advice. whole second and if you don't like it
37:45
Speaker 1: and away we go it's the incident of ice line
37:48
Speaker 1: on screen radio who needs the wisdom the knowledge of
37:51
Speaker 1: the great unwashed and the mallard militia well who else
37:55
Speaker 1: but the big 10 replay center who just gave michigan
38:00
Speaker 1: an extra second of time to beat western michigan so
38:04
Speaker 1: what is your advice to the big 10 replay center
38:07
Speaker 1: you're live on the air when you hear my voice
38:08
Speaker 1: at 877 99 on fox Keep it clean. It's a
38:11
Speaker 1: family show. So many kids listening at this time in
38:13
Speaker 1: the morning. Line two, you're on the air. Line two,
38:16
Speaker 1: we'll start with you. Advice to Big Ten replay officials.
38:19
Speaker 6: Storm in the field after beating Western Michigan.
38:23
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you for that. Yes, Calder, you're on the air.
38:25
Speaker 1: You're next here. Advice to the replay center of the
38:28
Speaker 1: Big Ten. I'll take two hours of hollering James snoring
38:31
Speaker 1: over one second of Robbie the Man. All right, calm down.
38:34
Speaker 1: Is that true, James? Do you agree with that hollering, James? Yes. Okay,
38:39
Speaker 1: he woke up. He ruined the bet. Yes, caller, line five.
38:43
Speaker 1: You're on the air, line five. Hello. Hey, picking the puppy.
38:46
Speaker 1: We're going to bet on it. The sun comes out tomorrow.
38:49
Speaker 1: Look at that. Poppy's right there. Caller, line six. You're
38:52
Speaker 1: on the air, line six. We're giving advice here to
38:55
Speaker 1: Big Ten replay officials after they botched the Michigan-Western-Michigan game
38:59
Speaker 1: over the weekend. Hello, line six.
39:01
Speaker 6: Yeah, go get Pablo Torre.
39:03
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. I'll go get him. Yes, line... Oh,
39:06
Speaker 1: James is back sleeping. Let's go to you. Line two. Hello,
39:10
Speaker 1: line two. You're on the air, line two. Is it true?
39:14
Speaker 6: The Rams are favorite to win Super Bowl 61 at
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Speaker 6: five and.
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Speaker 3: A half to one.
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Speaker 1: All right, line four. Great tribute there to Jim Healy
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Speaker 1: and me who stole that from Jim Healy. Line four. Hello,
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Speaker 1: line four.
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Speaker 6: It's not worse than the Clippers.
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Speaker 1: Hey, calm down, Sean. You're a patient. You're a Pacer fan, dude.
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Speaker 1: Line five, the Clippers will win a championship before the Pacers.
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Speaker 1: Line five, hello, line five. We got some more murders.
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Speaker 1: Got to go.
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Speaker 5: Oh, there he.
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Speaker 1: Goes, our man from Boca. And hello, call. You're on
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Speaker 1: the air, caller. Hello.
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Speaker 4: Hello, line six.
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Speaker 6: Bend over and look out your good eye.
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Speaker 1: All right. That sounded like slug. Was that slug? It
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Speaker 1: kind of sounded like slug. All right. It's the instant
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Speaker 1: advice line for the Big Ten Replay Center. You know
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Speaker 1: who we've not heard from? Rick in Maryland. Morning time.
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Speaker 1: Rick must be off for the holiday. I guess we
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Speaker 1: couldn't afford to pay for him. Let's go to you.
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Speaker 1: Call your next year. It's the instant advice line for
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Speaker 1: the Big Ten Replay Center at 877-99 on Fox. Hello,
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Speaker 1: line two.
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Speaker 6: Yes, they ought to get a better umpire to be
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Speaker 6: a better referee.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that's Frank the Tank with another terrible call. All right,
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Speaker 1: we'll do one more. Which one here, Coop? Last one.
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Speaker 1: Line five. Line five. You're on the line five. Go
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Speaker 1: line five for the Big Ten replay center.
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Speaker 2: No, line five.
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Speaker 1: You should have picked line four. Go on line four. No,
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Speaker 1: they all suck. Every one of these guys stuck. They're terrible. Help.