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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: We survived another weekend, and here we are the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of days this week college basketball. Everyone that does
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  Speaker 1: this for a living in sports talk radio will suddenly
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  Speaker 1: become a college basketball expert, and we'll all be joned
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  Speaker 1: up because coming up this Sunday is Selection Sunday, which means,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know, I haven't talked to management. I'm
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  Speaker 1: speaking out of school here. There will be some kind
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  Speaker 1: of bracket thing of a jigger, what's your McCall it
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. I would imagine been here a
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  Speaker 1: long time. We do one every year, so that'll be
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  Speaker 1: coming up next week. Selection Sunday is this Sunday. But
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  Speaker 1: we're not talking about that. No, no, no, it's our
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  Speaker 1: leave this hour from La La Land where the lri
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  Speaker 1: Ams have paid out a bunch of money here, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money. I don't just saw this or not.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of days after they got All Pro defensive
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  Speaker 1: back Trent McDuffie from Kansas City, they have given him
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  Speaker 1: a record breaking contract. Now we had heard through the
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  Speaker 1: grapevine this was going to happen, but now we know. Money, money, money,
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  Speaker 1: just how much money? So if you didn't see this,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure it's very similar to your contract. Four years,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty four million. That includes one hundred
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  Speaker 1: million guaranteed, which is bigger than most of the lotteries
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  Speaker 1: that are going on right now in individual states. One
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  Speaker 1: hundred million guaranteed. The deal will make McDuffie, Trent McDuffie,
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  Speaker 1: the highest paid defensive back in NFL history. Holy prime time, Dion. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's all about when you're born. That's a big part
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  Speaker 1: of the money game in professional sports. Right revs. Island,
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  Speaker 1: all those guys they got paid a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: But McDuffie now sets the new standard. It comes just
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  Speaker 1: days after the Rams trade a traded a bagful to
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs, a package of picks, including the twenty ninth
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  Speaker 1: pick in the draft. All you draft nerds get a
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  Speaker 1: horny for that. Enjoy that, and so it's a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. Is the
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  Speaker 1: one hundred million guaranteed given to defensive back Trent McDuffie
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  Speaker 1: a smart business move or reckless spending by the Rams?
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this. I've got British boy manned
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  Speaker 1: RB's drive through and cheddar cheese ruffles and we'll put
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  Speaker 1: all these together. We are going to build a better
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  Speaker 1: mouse trap. You likely thinking there was no way to
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  Speaker 1: build a better mousetrack mousetrap. We're gonna We're gonna do it.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna build a better mousetrap. So a let's address
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  Speaker 1: the Komodo dragon in the room, which would be the
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  Speaker 1: sticker shock crowd hyperventilating. Calm down, take deep breasts. Everything's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be okay. Oh my god, they give me. The
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  Speaker 1: Rams are doing it. Oh they're ruining the NFL. Oh wait,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Those are the people that upset with the Dodgers. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the Rams guaranteeing one hundred million for Trent McGuff McDuffie. People, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's not the top quarterback quarterback. What are you doing now?
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  Speaker 1: This is basic accounting, and it's basic accounting here, so
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  Speaker 1: you think of this like an escrow account. And when
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  Speaker 1: when the Rams made the move to get McDuffie from
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs, the way that they facilitated the trade was
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  Speaker 1: they they knew the bill was coming due. They had
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  Speaker 1: to pay the guy, and so they knew they were
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to pay the money. Wasn't a surprise. They
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  Speaker 1: were gonna pay him a lot, whether it was thirty
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  Speaker 1: million a year, thirty one million, which it turned out
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  Speaker 1: to be, it was a lot. It was pre baked
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  Speaker 1: into the recipe. So that's already pre baked in there.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing you can do. They budgeted it like it's
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  Speaker 1: a family, setting aside cash for property taxes. And let's
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  Speaker 1: not pretend the Rams are rummaging through couch cushions in
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  Speaker 1: the stadium. There's so far all you people that, oh,
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  Speaker 1: no one's going to Rams games. It's all fans of
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  Speaker 1: the other team. Okay, Well, the Rams are making money
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  Speaker 1: either way. And Stan Kronkey the largest landowner outside of
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  Speaker 1: the federal government in America, worth twenty two billion, and
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  Speaker 1: so the Rams have a license to print cash between
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  Speaker 1: Sofi Stadium and LA and all the TV in general
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  Speaker 1: that they're getting like everyone else. But on top of it,
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  Speaker 1: all that extra revenue plus the NFL salary cap, I'd
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  Speaker 1: let you just step in and I want you to
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  Speaker 1: sign up for my webinar, Mather's webinar on the salary cap.
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  Speaker 1: The salary cap in the NFL is like a British
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  Speaker 1: boy band. It's one direction, it goes up one direction.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the kicker. Trey mcduffee. Isn't some stat sheet
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  Speaker 1: mirage piling up empty calgaries. It's not like he was
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  Speaker 1: playing for the Cowboys of the Cleveland Browns. He's battle tested,
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  Speaker 1: not one, but two Super Bowl appearances with Kansas City,
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  Speaker 1: bright lights, big stage, all that, and he got it
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  Speaker 1: done and he didn't shrink, he didn't run away and hide,
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  Speaker 1: and he showed up with brass knuckles. So he has
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  Speaker 1: proven unlike the whoever the twenty ninth pick in the
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  Speaker 1: draft will end up being, is not proven, is not
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  Speaker 1: guaranteed to success succeed well, nothing is totally guaranteed, but
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  Speaker 1: you'd rather have someone that's actually done it, who's had
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years under their belt to pay that
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  Speaker 1: particular player now page two. So keeping the smooth sound
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  Speaker 1: going here, question does Trent McDuffie transform the Rams defense
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  Speaker 1: or does he just patch one hole? Is this just
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  Speaker 1: one little hole? So clearly, if you know anything about
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  Speaker 1: the economics, I think you do, you're not a moron
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  Speaker 1: that it's not just nice player money. That is what
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  Speaker 1: we call n f Z money no fly zone, no
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  Speaker 1: FLI zone. Thirty one million a year, if my math
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  Speaker 1: is correct, means that quarterbacks should have to contact the
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  Speaker 1: FAA to get clearance to throw in the direction of
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  Speaker 1: Trent McDuffie. If you're paying that kind of cash, this
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  Speaker 1: guy can't just patch a little pothole. Can't be that right.
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  Speaker 1: It's got to repave the whole highway and stripe it
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  Speaker 1: and all of that. The Rams basically drove to Kansas
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  Speaker 1: City and they treated Arrowhead Stadium like it was an
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  Speaker 1: RB's drive throw and they said, yeah, Hi, we need
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  Speaker 1: some help in our defense. I'll take one all pro
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  Speaker 1: defensive back combo meal because you're advertising you have the meats,
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  Speaker 1: so we need some meat in our secondary. And they
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  Speaker 1: needed it. They got it. Their secondary last year was
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  Speaker 1: softer than those delicious bird ends in Kansas City. Not
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  Speaker 1: quite as good, not close to being as good as
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  Speaker 1: the Ben Mallard chicken fingers at the landing in Liberty, Missouri. Now,
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  Speaker 1: is this guaranteed to work? No, of course not. This
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  Speaker 1: is not the windmill and the spinning obstacles at the
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  Speaker 1: miniature golf course, the putt putt golf course. This is
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  Speaker 1: not that we've seen this movie before. Oh man, it's
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  Speaker 1: had been almost ten years now. But I remember when
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  Speaker 1: the Rams went shopping in Kansas City, and this was
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  Speaker 1: eight years ago. They got Marcus Peters, who at the
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  Speaker 1: time was considered one of the top defensive backs in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. The problem was Peters sucked at a time
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  Speaker 1: you cannot suck. That was the problem, and it was
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  Speaker 1: worth the risk. It didn't work, then McDuffie's legit. He's
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  Speaker 1: a top ten defensive back, great tackler. Supposedly you got
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  Speaker 1: to be the eraser right. Twenty twenty six, the Rams
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  Speaker 1: will play in the division, assuming the Seahawks don't lose,
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Smith and Jigba he'll be there, Marvin Harrison Junior,
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  Speaker 1: who's hit and miss, And then outside the Division of
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  Speaker 1: Rams play the Cowboys and Ceedee Lamb and at this
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  Speaker 1: point the Eagles have aj Brown will see but those
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  Speaker 1: guys have to be vaporized by the aforementioned Trent McDuffie.
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  Speaker 1: And you're supposed to build the MDS, the missile defense system.
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  Speaker 1: The plan is to build the missile defense system. If
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  Speaker 1: balls are still flying over that secondary, then the RAMS
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  Speaker 1: they mismanage their money and they did not get the
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  Speaker 1: lockdown defensive back and they just paid one hundred million
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  Speaker 1: for a fancy band aid. There is the multiverse. We
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  Speaker 1: do believe in the multiverse, so it is conceivable that
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  Speaker 1: that outcome happens, although we would bet on him being
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  Speaker 1: fine at least for a couple of years. It's a
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  Speaker 1: a four year I believe me be a four year
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  Speaker 1: contractor Yeah, I think that's right. So that's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of that's a lot of cash, all right. Now, last
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  Speaker 1: word here to tabloid village. To tabloid village we go.
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  Speaker 1: So TMZ over the Weekend breathlessly reported and I this
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  Speaker 1: was so outrageous that I had to bring this up.
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  Speaker 1: I could not wait to talk about this. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you follow TMS or now, but TMZ
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  Speaker 1: over the Weekend reported, I've never seen a report like
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  Speaker 1: this before in my life. I thought, my god, this
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  Speaker 1: is the most amazing thing I've ever seen. So the
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  Speaker 1: people over at TMZ reported breaking news apparently Donna Kelcey.
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  Speaker 1: Donna Kelcey and I it's with a heavy heart that
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  Speaker 1: I say this. I'm a little embarrassed to bring this up,
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  Speaker 1: but I think we can all send our thoughts and
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  Speaker 1: prayers to Donna Kelsey. She's replacing nine windows and six
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  Speaker 1: doors at her home in Orlando. Let me repeat that.
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  Speaker 1: That's TMZ big news over the weekend. Donna kelce is
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  Speaker 1: replacing nine windows and six doors at her home in Orlando. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: now I know that's the store. It's a shocker windows
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  Speaker 1: and doors. TMC of course getting roasted for this, being
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  Speaker 1: called out for reaching a new low and all that.
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  Speaker 1: So the question why, I know this is not for
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  Speaker 1: the faint of heart, but why would TMZ report on
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  Speaker 1: Donna kelce getting new windows and doors? Why would this
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  Speaker 1: be a report? Because we are living inside the AIIC.
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  Speaker 1: What is the AIC, the algorithm industrial complex? That's why
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  Speaker 1: this is content farming with a capital f for farming.
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  Speaker 1: These bot farms from Guanzhoe, China are no joke. Right,
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  Speaker 1: you toss the word Kelsey into that digital ocean like
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  Speaker 1: chum in shark infested water, and the engagement fish start thrashing.
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  Speaker 1: Right now. We hear, of course in Fox Sports Radio,
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  Speaker 1: new thing, right, guaranteed human and all that. Well, these
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  Speaker 1: are real humans who score right past that. But the
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  Speaker 1: bots don't, right, the bots, the dummy accounts, the engagement
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  Speaker 1: farms in Maldova, in the matrix, they all are they gobble,
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  Speaker 1: gobble gobble. It's like if you've gone to the beach
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  Speaker 1: during the summer, you drop a cheddared cheese ruffles on
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  Speaker 1: the beach and there's a seventeen pigeons that come over there,
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  Speaker 1: and the pelicans and everything. They're attacking that birds right
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  Speaker 1: there on the beach. They want to get that cheddared
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  Speaker 1: cheese ruffles. They want it. So this is the afterglow
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  Speaker 1: of Taylor Swift. It's the afterglow of Taylor Swift. The
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  Speaker 1: Kelsey name is like a magic spell online, and even
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  Speaker 1: the most un name thing, a home Deepot receipt, a
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  Speaker 1: home Deepot receipt golden, golden. You type it and boof
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  Speaker 1: your engagement goes through traffic appears Abra cadabra. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you listen to the Fifth Hour podcast over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: we had a interesting so I think it was in
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  Speaker 1: the mail bag. We talked about the fact there was
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  Speaker 1: a listener actually sent this to me. I think it
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  Speaker 1: was on was it Twitch or something one of the
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  Speaker 1: streamings I forget which one one of the social networks.
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  Speaker 1: The person that runs it was encouraging people to get
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  Speaker 1: dummy views to get the numbers up, saying that even
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  Speaker 1: good content is not enough, which is what I've been
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  Speaker 1: preaching from the bully pulpit for some time. It's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of manipulation. There's a lot of people taking to
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  Speaker 1: the cleaners. But you got to play the game. If
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  Speaker 1: you're in that world, play the hits, mom Man, play
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  Speaker 1: the hits, as one of our old bosses used to say.
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  Speaker 1: And today it's Donna Kelcey installing windows. Tomorrow it's Donna
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  Speaker 1: Kelsey getting a manny and a petty. Next week, we
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  Speaker 1: understand Donna Kelsey will buy a new toaster. Will it
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  Speaker 1: be a red toaster or will it be a green toaster?
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  Speaker 1: Developing hot, developing hot, dot dot dot, and listen here's why.
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  Speaker 1: Because the robots, the robots click aty click, and the
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  Speaker 1: advertisers pay, all right, they pay whether they're getting hornswoggled, bamboozle,
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  Speaker 1: let astray buy the machine. They haven't figured it out yet.
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  Speaker 1: At some point there will be the great awakening. At
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  Speaker 1: some point there will be the great awakening that has
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  Speaker 1: not happened yet. And this is a great example. Even
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  Speaker 1: TMZ's like, wait a minute, if we just merely say hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is the mama of Travis Kelsey and Jason Kelcey,
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  Speaker 1: we can get the bots to click on that, and
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  Speaker 1: then we can make money on that. So everyone else
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  Speaker 1: will point fingers and go haha and goolf on you.
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  Speaker 1: But it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. You come out ahead.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from baseball, and I
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  Speaker 1: got a couple of emails over the weekend. No, no, understand
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  Speaker 1: why you're not into the whole World Baseball Classic. I
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  Speaker 1: don't hate it, It's just not something I'm all jonesed
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  Speaker 1: up for. I did watch what a great game. I
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  Speaker 1: watched the Mexico game on Fox Sports one. I think
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  Speaker 1: it was FS one. Mexico played Brazil. I believe it
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  Speaker 1: was sixteen nothing, very competitive game, outstanding. Good competition. There
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  Speaker 1: love athletic competition, but our lead it is from the
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  Speaker 1: World Baseball Classic, where Philly star Bryce Harper was a
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  Speaker 1: trending topic over the weekend. What did he do? Did
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Harper end up getting hurt? Did he know hitting hurt?
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  Speaker 1: Did he hit three home run? No, he didn't hit
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  Speaker 1: three home Did he demand a trade? Did the Yankees? No? No,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't do that. None of the above, none of
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  Speaker 1: you above. One of the stars of USA's World Cup
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  Speaker 1: World Baseball team the WBC, Bryce Harper, came out and
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  Speaker 1: he gave a less than ringing endorsement of the World
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  Speaker 1: Baseball Classic. Harper had a lot to say. I think
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  Speaker 1: we have some audio on this, I believe. Let's see
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  Speaker 1: what we do or not. All right, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Bryce Harper and his thoughts on the World Baseball
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  Speaker 1: Classic in comparison to that other event that happens every
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  Speaker 1: few years. Let's go to the audio tape. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, the WC has been great, but it's not the Olympics, right.
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  Speaker 4: That's no disrespect to the WC or anything, but everybody
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  Speaker 4: knows that when the Olympics are on, everybody's watching don't
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  Speaker 4: matter what sport it is. It could be the most
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  Speaker 4: random sport and it's got, you know, all the fans
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  Speaker 4: watching it. So I'm hoping, you know, like twenty eight happens.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. All right, So again they've been the
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  Speaker 1: WBC has been great. It's not the Olympics, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not the Olympics. There you go. So this was met
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  Speaker 1: with condemnation, damnation and vilification. How dare you? How dare
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  Speaker 1: you Bryce Harper not go with the orthodox and say
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  Speaker 1: how great the World Baseball Classic is because that's what
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  Speaker 1: you're supposed to do, and he didn't do it. So
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  Speaker 1: good jumping all point. Let us discuss the question how
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  Speaker 1: did Bryce Harper's comments about the WBC the World Baseball
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  Speaker 1: Classic not being the Olympics up to the standard of
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  Speaker 1: the Olympics land with you. So I've got five guys,
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  Speaker 1: combo meal, cookie cutter, stucco house, and Burger King, and
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to play nice in the sandbox unless we don't.
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  Speaker 1: So Number I said Number y'all right, all right, stop it,
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  Speaker 1: please trying to do a show you So, Bryce Harper
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  Speaker 1: says the World Baseball classic is great, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: the Olympics. And as you know from being a loyal
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  Speaker 1: minion in the mal or militia, whether you're sworn it
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  Speaker 1: or not, you know that that word but but but
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  Speaker 1: but but but but but but but is doing a
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  Speaker 1: lot of heavy lifting. Every man, woman and child that
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  Speaker 1: has paid any attention to the Overnight Show knows that
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  Speaker 1: anything before the word but is a lie. It's a lie.
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  Speaker 1: It's the classic political weasel move, no disrespect, but here
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  Speaker 1: comes the disrespect. Now truth bomb, truth bomb? But but
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  Speaker 1: b U T T but that is the universal lie
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  Speaker 1: detector word. It's like when your buddy says, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to start a fight, but yeah, suddenly
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  Speaker 1: you know, you guys are squaring up, there's chairs flying.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing? Dude? Harper nailed it, like save
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  Speaker 1: the faux outrage. The Olympics are the super Bowl of
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  Speaker 1: global sports. Now, I'm not a big Olympic guy either,
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  Speaker 1: but I am fair enough to point out that the
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  Speaker 1: Olympics are If you're into that kind of thing, the
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  Speaker 1: global sporting scene, that's where it's at. The WBC. It
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  Speaker 1: might as well be a preseason bowl game in Shreeport okay,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: And you know who secretly agrees with Bryce Harper but
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: will never admit it, will never admit it. Major League Baseball.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: The whole thing exists because Major League Baseball got kicked
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: out of the Olympics in the first place. They were
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: not deemed cool enough for the Olympics. Have you seen
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: some of the Fugaese sports in the Olympics, And they
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: kicked baseball out. They got tossed out like a scam
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: artist caught counting cards in Vegas. Technically not illegal, but
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: you're not welcome here anymore. And Bud Selick, who was
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: the commission at the time, and his evil henchman who's
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: been proven to be a worse commissioner than Bud rob
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Manfreud cooked this thing up in a panic. Look all
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: you need to know about how unpopular it is. The
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: ticket prices. Did you know that the USA Opener, Now,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: they played a couple of games, so I think it
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: was on Friday. The buy in price on the secondary
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: market for the USA Opener the World Baseball Classic. It
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: was actually cheaper to buy a ticket to the World
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Baseball Classic than to go to five guys and get
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: a combo or just even a cheeseburger. That tells you everything.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: It also tells you the five guys is overpriced, but
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: that's a different conversation. Listen again, We'll watch. I did watch.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I've been watching. I've been checking it out. You know
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I'll watch it. Why not? Am I excited? You know?
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about it. I have a talk show to
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: do every day, so I'll talk about it. Let's not
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: kidd ourselves though. The Olympics are like the bacon cheeseburger
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: would be the Olympics very popular burger the WBC. That
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: would be a plant based meat burger, no toppings on,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: just wrapped in play paper, wrapped in playing paper. That's
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: it now, Page two. So on the other side of
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: the aisle, this is not a bipartisan issue. On the
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: other side of the aisle, we had a not a star,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: but a guy that's been in some big games because
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: he happened to be riding the coat tails of the
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: team in LA. But we're talking about Key k Hernandez.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: So very popular with the Dodger fans. They love this guy.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: So he was asked about what the World Baseball Classic means.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: A Dodger utility guy's a backup on the Dodgers. Key
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: k Hernandez, who is part of Puerto Rico's team, kind
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: of more than that in a minute, and he opened
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: up about the tournament and it's important. He said, quote,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I've played in five World Series, and I don't know
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: if it's because of what's across my chest, which would
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: be Puerto Rico, but the Classic feels above that. Hernandez
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: said close quote all right, question, if you're a Dodgers fan,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: are you annoyed that Keith k Hernandez is saying that
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: the World Baseball Classic is more meaningful than the Fall Classic,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: where the Dodgers are one of the last two World Series.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: So I know some people out there trying to work
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Dodger fans into a ladder. I don't think this as much.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I'm not worked up into anything here. I'm not annoyed,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: not even a little bit. If you decode the messaging here,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Key Ky Hernandez is playing to the crowd. He's playing
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: the crowd. He knows the international audience eats this stuff up,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: romanticizing what is a relatively new shiny toy, the World
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Baseball Classic. It's shorter, it's louder at times, and it's
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: certainly fresher. It's kind of like summer camp. You show up,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: you wave the flag, everybody sings Kumbai Ya, you rowse
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: some marshmallows, and then you go home. Now that's said,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: let's not get too carried away here, comparing the World
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Baseball Classic to the World Series. Right side by side,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: have the World Series on one side, you have the
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: World Baseball Classic on the other. It's like comparing the
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: ancient Pyramids to a cookie cutter stucko home at the
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: end of a cul de sac. No one would say, well,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: that's stuck go home in the call de sack. That's
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: where it's at. No one has history carved in stone, literally,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: and the other has a very expensive hoa and some
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: really annoying people that force you to change the outside
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: of your house because there are a bunch of schmucks. Now,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: my favorite part is that keyk who's braggadocious about how
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: great the World Baseball Classic is in comparison to the
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: World Series. He's not even playing. He had snap crackle,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: poppy tore elbow ligaments and tendons and all that elbow
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: got all torn up. He had surgeries out till mid
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: season for the Dodgers. So he's sitting there watching the
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: World Baseball Classic this way that you and I would
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: be watching. And it is also fun to point out
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: that Waile Key k Hernandez has the reputation of being
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: mister October. Mister October, the modern day clutch player. This
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: is more and more a man who shot liberty valance. Situation,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: when the legend becomes the fact, you print the legend
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: because the reality is that in the World Series, Ki
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: ky Hernandez last year batted under two hundred in his
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: career in five World Series. Key Kate Hernandez in the
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Fall Classic is a career two oh two hitter. He's
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: right at the Mendoza ligne in the World Series. Now.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: He has had some big hits in other rounds of
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, and he's even had a few in the
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: World Series. But overall his full body of work, Ki
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: k Hernandez is batting two oh two in the World Series.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Put that in your pipe and smoking now. Final point elsewhere,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: cy Young winner Terry Scouga, who pitched over the weekend,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: more on that pitching the World Baseball Classic more than
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: that in a minute, but he also revealed the ace
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: of Motown. The ace of Motown, Trek school Will, revealed
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: the Tigers never ever made him a long term offer.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: In the offseason. There were stories about would there be
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: a deal done, would schoolbl sign an extension to stay
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: in Detroit? And they never made an offer. That's what
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: he said over the weekend. And then there won't be
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: an offer until the end of the season, the cy
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: young pitcher said when he could potentially become a free agent,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: he said, quote, there is no offer and there won't
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: be an offer, Schooble said until the end of the season.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: My focus is on playing baseball and winning this year,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Schooble grumbled to a gaggle of reporters there. He says,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: I'll deal with the contract stuff at the end of
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: the year and then we'll kind of see and that's fine.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: It's their decision, all right. Question, does Trek Schoogle actually
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: want to be in Detroit and does Detroit want him?
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Or is he halfway out the door already? Is this
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: just a FATA complay that when we get to the
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: midsummer trade deadline he's gone. All right, so spare me
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: the violin music, right, schoopbl not emotional, not emotional about Detroit. Now,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: my word for this, and I would say it's on
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: both sides, is indifference. In difference, the Tigers are owned
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: by old family money. The pizza pizza, pizza guys long gone.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: The family runs the Tigers, and that money. If they
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: don't spend it on Schooble, they can spend it on
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: private jets and third and fourth homes, vacation homes and
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: things like that. And so they're in an interesting situation
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: to trade because they're supposed to be one of the
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: better teams in the American League this year than Tigers.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: They were in the playoffs last year. We saw what
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: they did a year ago. So if you're in contention,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: you cannot trade schoob then you end up like the
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Angels with Otani, although they were not really in contention
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: that year. They were like a faux contender and the
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Angels had offers for Otani and didn't trade him. What
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: happened to him. I guess he's signed with the Dodgers.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they've had any success or not.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I have to go check on that. But that's the problem.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: So if Detroit's good, you got to keep Schooble. If
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: he's bad, you get rid of him. But the chances
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: are pretty good that they'll be good. And I think
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: he's indifference right if the Tigers are the highest bidder,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: which it doesn't seem like they're interested in being. Suddenly,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: then Schoobol comes out. I love mochat. Oh my god,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Detroit Stall Pizza is the greatest doll pizza in the world.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Those coney dogs to die for the whole thing, right
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Greek Town, come on and right now though he's at
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: the twenty six mile mark of the marathon, the twenty
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: six mile mark of the marathon, two tenths of a
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: mile left until he runs straight in to a giant
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: pit of money like think Fort Knox, the vault at
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Fort Knox, and and he gets there, he's going burger
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: king baby and have it your way, and schoolbl's ordering
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: the whopper with extra zeros because he's gonna get a
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: whopper now. I believe just starting pitching wise, the Philadelphia
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Phillies Zach Wheeler, of all people, has the highest average
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: annual value of their contract at forty two million a
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: year for Zach Wheeler, Oh my god, schoobl is gonna
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: get at least forty five million a year. He's looking
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: at something like five years two hundred and twenty five million.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: That's like the starting point for a school. Bl Now,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: as far as the I'm focusing on baseball, that is humbuggery. Yeah,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: just like me. I'm focusing on the talk show. If
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: management wants to give me a new contract and pay
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: me a lot more money and give me a helicopter,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm in okay. I can multi task. I
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: can do the talk show and I can sign the
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: you sign and get the contract. I'm good to go.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I'm good to go. Right, that's it, good to go.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: So I was always I'm focused on baseball. If Detroit
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: right now put an offer of six years two hundred
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: and sixty million or six years three hundred million on
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: the table, he would sign faster faster than a guy
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: slapping that, you know, the buy it now button on eBay.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: He'd be all about it, man, he'd be all about it.
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• 29:40
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• 29:41
  Speaker 5: Been a couple of days ago President Trump held a
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: saving College Sports roundtable at the White House, Yes, and
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: he said that he's going to write an executive order
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: within a week that will quote solve all of the
• 29:54
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• 29:59
  Speaker 5: do you think what do you think is gonna come
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: with this anything?
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Nothing. He's not gonna fix college sports because there'll be
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: a bunch of lawsuits and they'll take it all the
• 30:06
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• 30:08
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• 30:11
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• 30:17
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• 30:18
  Speaker 5: Next, Nikola Jokicic was asked about potentially playing for another
• 30:22
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• 30:24
  Speaker 5: wouldn't like to imagine that, and he went on to
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: say that he found his life here, his kids were
• 30:28
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• 30:30
  Speaker 5: the type of guy that's gonna stick with one team
• 30:31
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• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm surprised. I would be surprised if he as
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: a long career group. He seems like the kind of guy.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: He doesn't seem to really enjoy playing in the NBA.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: He'd rather be sitting back home and with his horses
• 30:43
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• 30:46
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• 30:48
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• 30:51
  Speaker 1: people to stay on one team, so chances are he'll
• 30:53
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• 30:54
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• 30:57
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• 30:58
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• 31:00
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• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it's a big move. It's it's a
• 31:04
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• 31:06
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