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Hour 1 - A Tiger in Your Tank · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: do in? Our number one? Is our in depth team
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Speaker 1: coverage on The Ben Malor Show of all of the
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Speaker 1: trades in Major League Baseball continues. What do you make
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Speaker 1: of the Tigers GM Scott Harris defending the wisdom of
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Speaker 1: the Trek Schouble trade to the Dodgers and not waiting
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Speaker 1: till the deadline making the trade on Saturday. The deadline
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Speaker 1: wasn't until yesterday on Monday. Also to the podres deserved
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Speaker 1: to be bashed for recklessly trading away prospects in order
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Speaker 1: to improve their pitching staff. And what's the lesson from
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Speaker 1: the Joe Adele experience with the Angels? Adele shipped off
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Speaker 1: to the Cleveland Bridges in a transaction before the deadline.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about all that and more. It is the Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball the trade deadline. If you do not
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Speaker 1: like baseball, it's gonna be a tough night for you
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Speaker 1: to listen to this show. It's gonna be a tough night.
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Speaker 1: Call me an ahole, call me a schmuck, call me
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Speaker 1: every name in the book. I don't give a crap.
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Speaker 1: I love trades. I can't get enough traits. We've got
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Speaker 1: traits trades up the wazu. Now are they all sexy? Hell? No,
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Speaker 1: most of them blow. It doesn't matter. They're trades. They're
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Speaker 1: fun to think about what could be after the trade
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Speaker 1: deadline has come and gone. Now it ended at six
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Speaker 1: pm Eastern Time on Monday, and we are left in
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Speaker 1: the autopsy room to do the post mortem on the
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six MLB trade deadline. There will be no
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Speaker 1: more transactions, no more transactions. That's right, that's right. It's
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Speaker 1: all over all over. So our lead this out. Where
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Speaker 1: do you think I'm gonna go with this? You I
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Speaker 1: kind of gave it away already. We're gonna start out
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Speaker 1: in Detroit, that's right, Motown, that is where after. I
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Speaker 1: believe that the number was forty eight trades in the
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Speaker 1: last twenty eight hours before the deadline. Forty eight trades.
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Speaker 1: That seems like a lot. It's high volume, high volume
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Speaker 1: trade deadline. And yet despite all of that activity, the
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Speaker 1: Yankees made to move the Phillies, the coubs, the podres Angels,
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Speaker 1: unloaded a couple of spare parts. Dodgers got a couple
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Speaker 1: of catchers suck because they needed more guys that suck
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Speaker 1: behind the plate. So they said we get two that suck,
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Speaker 1: and the Giants made some giveaway trades. So there's a
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Speaker 1: bunch of activity. And yet the thing that everyone is
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Speaker 1: still yapping about, because we do broadcasting, not narrow casting,
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Speaker 1: is the trade that happened involving the ace in Detroit.
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Speaker 1: If you've not heard the latest on this, perhaps not
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Speaker 1: the Tigers President of Baseball Ops. We used to call
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Speaker 1: it GM, but then the general managers complained, They said, well,
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Speaker 1: that's a week title. We want a big corporate title. Okay,
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Speaker 1: we'll give you a big corporate title, President of Baseball Ops,
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Speaker 1: which is just GM with a better title. So Scott Harris,
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Speaker 1: that's the bozo in charge of the Detroit baseball team.
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Speaker 1: He has spent the last twenty four hours defending his
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Speaker 1: strategy in saying bye bye to the ace Trek Scougble,
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Speaker 1: sending him outbound, decommissioning Schooble from the older City Kitties. Now,
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Speaker 1: Harris swore, seemingly on the Holy Bible that Trek Schouble.
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Speaker 1: The trade market had a genuine bidding war. There was
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Speaker 1: a bidding war for the pitcher Schooble, multiple teams, multiple
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Speaker 1: teams increasing their offers right up until the last moment
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Speaker 1: there until they reached what they described an almost audible pain.
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Speaker 1: Oh the drama Detroit. Ultimately, as we know, decided that
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Speaker 1: they wanted a tax break, so they donated trek scuble
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Speaker 1: to the Dodgers in a tax deductible donation. Saved some
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Speaker 1: money on their taxes there for a couple of minor leaguers.
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Speaker 1: Harris is getting absolutely cooked at this particular point for this,
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Speaker 1: and he rejected the widespread, nearly universal criticism that the
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Speaker 1: Tigers should have win until you know the actual deadline
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Speaker 1: and not trade him on Saturday night when they could
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Speaker 1: have traded him, I don't know on Monday at five
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Speaker 1: fifty nine Eastern time. He wanted to know part of
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Speaker 1: that the again universal opinion that Tigers should have waited,
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Speaker 1: could have waited, would have been better off waiting until
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Speaker 1: the deadline, calling the idea they could have extracted significantly
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Speaker 1: more value quote garbage. He used the word garbage, the
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Speaker 1: executive of the Tigers, saying the best offers had already
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Speaker 1: been made. The full quote is respectively, respectfully, rather respectfully.
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Speaker 1: The notion that we should have waited twenty four to
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Speaker 1: forty eight hours later to and extracted more value. Harris said,
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Speaker 1: that's garbage. That's not how these negotiations work. Close quote.
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Speaker 1: All right, so that is a good jumping off point.
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Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question for the esteem panel. What
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Speaker 1: do you make of the big kahuna there? The Tigers
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Speaker 1: executive Scott Harris defending the wisdom of not waiting to
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Speaker 1: the deadline and unloading Trek Schouble a couple days before
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Speaker 1: the deadline on Saturday night, the deadline on Monday, sending
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Speaker 1: him to the Dodgers in a tax deductible donation. So
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Speaker 1: I've got nineteen nineties Sports illustrated, San Juan Capistrano and eucalyptus,
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Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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Speaker 1: we will put the biscuit in the basket. Is what
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Speaker 1: we're going to do. The biscuit in the basket. Now
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Speaker 1: A this Tiger's executive, all these guys are, They're all
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Speaker 1: the same. I was watching the Cubs Dodgers game. I
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Speaker 1: don't like the Dodger broadcaster, so I was watching the
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Speaker 1: Cubs feed and Jed Hoyer, the general manager with the Cubs,
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Speaker 1: was in there. Weasel. They're all weasels. Pop goes to weasel.
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Speaker 1: So anyway, Scott Harris defending the trek Scouoble trade is
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Speaker 1: it's kind of like the mayor announcing, I know there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of potholes, but let me tell you something. Okay,
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Speaker 1: these potholes, they're part of the charm of our city. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they destroy your car and it costs you thousands of
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Speaker 1: dollars in repairs, but it's part of the charm. They
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Speaker 1: build character. The potholes they do, they build. It's like saying,
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Speaker 1: you learn more from a loss, Okay, then lose every
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Speaker 1: The Cleveland brass would be the smartest team in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: He lose every freaking game. The Jets apparently doesn't work
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Speaker 1: that way. Apparently hasn't worked that way. I know we're
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Speaker 1: talking baseball. I cross sports. Bad job by me, I
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Speaker 1: cross sports, Shame on me. So the whole premise of
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Speaker 1: the Tigers said, oh no, that's not how these things work.
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Speaker 1: You know, like, again, we're smarter than you. You just
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Speaker 1: gave away a reigning Cy Young picture for a bag
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Speaker 1: of beans so good you'll be farting congratulations. That's what
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Speaker 1: you got for your sighing picture. But this response by
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Speaker 1: the Tigers executive, it's hotels dot com pitchman like back
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Speaker 1: in the day, Captain obvious, Right, what else is he
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Speaker 1: going to say? Can you imagine if the Tiger's executive announced, listen,
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Speaker 1: I panicked, we all panicked. I blinked, I handed LA
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Speaker 1: another cheat code. Bad job by me. Now that's what
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Speaker 1: he could have said, And maybe he should have said
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Speaker 1: if he wanted to lose his job. Right, come on,
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Speaker 1: admitting regret in that business is career suicide. It just is.
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Speaker 1: You can't do that. And so he's currently handing out
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Speaker 1: complimentary earplugs to Detroit fans wearing the old English d
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Speaker 1: while the natives are banging on pots and pans making
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Speaker 1: all kinds of a ruckus. It's classic GM one oh
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Speaker 1: one is what it is. You make the deal, you
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Speaker 1: smile to the cameras, you nod to the scribes, and
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Speaker 1: you claim that you won this intense bidding war and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff. He was never ever Scott Harris, the
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Speaker 1: Tiger executive, never ever going to hold court at a
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Speaker 1: news conference and admit, yeah, the Detroit Tigers just got fleeced,
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Speaker 1: like nineteen nineties Sports Illustrated giveaway. Now, not gonna say
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Speaker 1: that this is just the sports equivalent of It's like
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Speaker 1: when politicians investigate themselves and find no wrongdoing. How is
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Speaker 1: I can't believe it? They found nothing wrong. It's amazing.
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Speaker 1: The real verdict will not come from any polished spin
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Speaker 1: or spin cycle from a executive. That's not how that works.
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Speaker 1: It'll come in time and we will see if those
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Speaker 1: Dodger minor leaguers either turn out to be good players
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Speaker 1: or star players or just footnotes. And the odds say
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Speaker 1: that we won't remember any of their names. That's it.
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Speaker 1: And Schooable, will he actually help the Dodgers win that
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Speaker 1: third straight World Series? And then we can go back
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Speaker 1: and judge it. Remember, the trades often look great at
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Speaker 1: the time with these minor leaguers because everyone projects them
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Speaker 1: to be amazing. You go back and look at some
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Speaker 1: of these trades that have happened, like the Mookie Bets trade.
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Speaker 1: We talked about that in a previous epist. So the show.
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Speaker 1: One of the guys is out of baseball, another one
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Speaker 1: of the guys in the Japanese League, and the third
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Speaker 1: player that the Red Sox got is their backup catcher.
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Speaker 1: That's what they got for Hall of Famer Mookie Betts.
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Speaker 1: Doesn't seem like that's a fair return. But at the time,
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's amazing. Meanwhile, speaking of that, to
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Speaker 1: San Diego, we Go and the Podras made two upgrades
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Speaker 1: to their starting staff at the deadline. They acquired Robbie
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Speaker 1: Ray and Casey Mize. Those two transactions taking place, one
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Speaker 1: from the Giants Robbie Ray so a divisional trade, and
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Speaker 1: then the Detroit Tigers as Casey mis former top draft
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Speaker 1: pick a few years ago goes to the San Diego
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Speaker 1: baseball team. They did not make a blockbuster trade. They
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Speaker 1: didn't sell, they added, they bought players at the deadline.
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Speaker 1: Here and yet again, another aggressive time for the Padres,
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Speaker 1: which led head to the general manager Aj Preller in
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Speaker 1: San Diego getting absolutely bludgeoned by the Dorks. Dark to
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Speaker 1: dark dark dark. Yeah, the Dorks are really upset that.
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Speaker 1: Yet again, the San Diego Baseball team traded away premium prospects.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, now you losers. So Preller defending the move,
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Speaker 1: obviously's gonna defend the move, saying, quote, we're trying to win.
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Speaker 1: Now that's offensive. That is offensive rhetoric to the Wolzers,
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Speaker 1: the baseball wolksters. They're offended. You're trying to win. Oh
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Speaker 1: my god, you should not be trying to wait, what
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Speaker 1: about the long time? So upset? What about the long
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Speaker 1: term anyway? So they said, hey, we're trying to maximize
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Speaker 1: the potteries. Mantra is, we're trying to maximize this. They've
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Speaker 1: got these forever contracts with that steroid cheat Fernando Tatis
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Speaker 1: Junior and the malcontent Manny Machado, So they're trying to
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Speaker 1: actually win a championship for those guys are not a
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Speaker 1: thousand years old anyway. So Preller continues his longstanding willingness
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Speaker 1: to some say recklessly get rid of talent, minor league
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Speaker 1: talent to improve the major league team, which is not
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Speaker 1: good for those that are obsessed with prospects. So the
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Speaker 1: question do the Podres deserve to be bashed? There's general
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Speaker 1: manager in the front office and all that for recklessly
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Speaker 1: trading away prospects. So on this one, I'm giving it
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Speaker 1: side eye is what I'm giving it. Here. This story
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Speaker 1: has now popped up with three four years in a row,
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Speaker 1: three four years in a row. It's like the Swallows
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Speaker 1: returning to San Juan Capistrano. The performative outrage of social
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Speaker 1: media over the Podres trading away prospects has become Baseball's
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Speaker 1: most predictable annual ritual at the trade deadline every July
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Speaker 1: or in this case, August. The Prospect Protection Society, that's
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Speaker 1: what we call it. The Prospect Protection Society acts as
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Speaker 1: if these minor leaguers are priceless museum pieces instead of
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Speaker 1: what they really are, which is currency. They are a
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Speaker 1: tool and if you don't believe that you're a tool bag,
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Speaker 1: they're a tool to improve the major league team. That's
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Speaker 1: what they are, right, And this spiler LARTs, spoiler lart
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Speaker 1: the objective. I know it's going to shock you. And
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Speaker 1: this is really it surprised me when I had the
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Speaker 1: Age of reason, the age of reason when I learned
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Speaker 1: and I was old when I learned this, because I
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Speaker 1: used to love prospects too. I was dumb. I was
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Speaker 1: a dumb person. I believed every minor league who was
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Speaker 1: going to live up to the hype. And then I
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Speaker 1: had the Age of reason and I realized that the
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Speaker 1: objective is not to win Baseball America's minor league rankings.
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Speaker 1: It is not it is not to collect the most
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Speaker 1: top one hundred prospects in the minor league system. It's
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Speaker 1: to win the game. As Herm Edwards hold NFL coaching.
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Speaker 1: You play to win the game. That's it. Prospects are
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Speaker 1: suspects until proven otherwise every man, woman, and child sh
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Speaker 1: you'd know that by now. And while Robbie Ray and
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Speaker 1: Casey Mize are actual big league pitchers granted average to
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Speaker 1: slightly above average or in the case of Mice, below average,
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Speaker 1: pittures who they can't help you in theory, they can
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Speaker 1: help you. They can help you in the big league level.
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Speaker 1: There and if your window is open, and they believe
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Speaker 1: it is. In San Diego, you don't admire the bricks
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Speaker 1: in the garage. You know, those are some good looking bricks,
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Speaker 1: really good. You use them, you finish the house. You
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Speaker 1: finish the house, and you get that done. That's it.
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Speaker 1: And so here I am defending aj Preller. I like it.
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Speaker 1: I want my teams to do that. Whatever team I like,
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Speaker 1: I don't want it. Whole kids are the prospects. Shut
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Speaker 1: them up. Your I can't say took us. I can
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Speaker 1: say that right, took us fun word tuck us. I
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Speaker 1: can say tuck us tuck tuckas tuckis tuckas I just
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Speaker 1: said it a bunch of times. So the critics who
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Speaker 1: obsess and be let's be fun to bash the Podrace.
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Speaker 1: I like the Dodgers. It's fun to bash the Potters.
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Speaker 1: But on this one I can't do it. Those that
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Speaker 1: obsess over the the fact that San Diego might lose
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Speaker 1: five years from now because they traded player X to
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Speaker 1: try to win right now, you're missing the entire point
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Speaker 1: of what this is. In professional sports. The future exists
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Speaker 1: to improve the present or go. The minor leaguers are
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Speaker 1: to improve the present. You don't just sit there and
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Speaker 1: hold on to them and collecting dust. That's not what
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Speaker 1: you do, all right now, last word to Anaheim. The Angels.
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Speaker 1: Did they trade Mike Trout? Hell no, but they made
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Speaker 1: a bunch of trades. The Angels conducted what is being
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Speaker 1: described as a fire sale by some, a sell off
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Speaker 1: at the twenty twenty six MLB trade deadline, a dramatic change,
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Speaker 1: some are saying from years past with Ardi Marino the
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Speaker 1: interim GM, the interim GM was allowed to reset the
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Speaker 1: roster in many ways, and John Mosaic, the former Cardinals
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Speaker 1: general managers of the interim GM, and Anaheim among those
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Speaker 1: excommunicated from the heavenly body of Angels Baseball. Joe Adell,
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Speaker 1: Bye bye, he gon't. Catcher Logan o'hapi was traded last
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Speaker 1: week as starter Jose Soriato went to Canada, oh Coda
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Speaker 1: with the Blue Jays, and a gaggle of relief pitchers
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Speaker 1: were also relocated. The Halos traded away seven major league
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Speaker 1: players in the days around the deadline. So we did
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Speaker 1: some malord math on that they dumped almost thirty percent
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Speaker 1: of their major league roster. They got rid of almost
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Speaker 1: thirty percent of their major league rosters, sending them to
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Speaker 1: tim buck to and beyond. And they of course dispatch
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Speaker 1: mostly roster spam, mostly roster spam, and some packing peanuts.
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Speaker 1: That's what they got rid of there. The surprising part
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Speaker 1: is that Ardi Marino allowed the interim general manager John
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Speaker 1: Mosaic to wheel and deal like this. That to me
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Speaker 1: is the interesting part here. Now, the only name that
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Speaker 1: raised any kind of eyebrows is outfielder Joe Adell going
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Speaker 1: to Cleveland, a team named after a bridge. They used
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Speaker 1: to be named after the Indian you know, Cleveland Indians,
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Speaker 1: but then the Wolkesters got involved. No no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: you're the Bridges. You're not Bridges, and so okay, what
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Speaker 1: we called the Guardian. Bridge. Sure, why not? Nothing is
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Speaker 1: better than a bridge bridge to nowhere, which is Cleveland
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Speaker 1: Baseball anyway. So get to the point, please, So the
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Speaker 1: Cleveland baseball team got their guy. Big picture, the Angels
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Speaker 1: did not trade Mike Trout. They did not trade Reed Debtmes,
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Speaker 1: although he was supposed to go to the Cubs, and
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Speaker 1: then that fell apart. That fell apart, and Zach Netto
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Speaker 1: was not traded either. So those three guys were all
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Speaker 1: rumored to be traded, they were not traded at the deadline,
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Speaker 1: so it was not a full demo job. The big
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Speaker 1: one is the outfielder. So let's let's use that the
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Speaker 1: question what is the lesson? Give me the lesson from
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Speaker 1: the Joe Adele experience at the Big A in Anaheim.
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Speaker 1: So Joe Adell is exactly what I'm talking about. And
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Speaker 1: I have taken a strong anti prospect position for years
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Speaker 1: and Joe Adell, I feel like, is the perfect example
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Speaker 1: to give to the judge in the court to decide
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Speaker 1: this case. So Joe Deell was the tenth overall pick
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Speaker 1: in the twenty seventeen baseball Draft. By all accounts, all
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Speaker 1: of the baseball nerds said, this guy is blue Chip
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Speaker 1: Blue Chippie Chip Chip, can't miss. They treated him like
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Speaker 1: a Picasso of minor league talent. Could do everything, could
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Speaker 1: do every Joe adoubt Well. It turned out, now that
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Speaker 1: he's been in the major leagues for a number of years,
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Speaker 1: he's more of a paint by numbers set that you
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Speaker 1: picked up at a garage sale that's missing several colors, unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: and he was, I guess another way to look at it,
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Speaker 1: he was like a startup that needed venture capital, promising
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Speaker 1: that they were going to become Amazon, the next Amazon,
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Speaker 1: and the only thing they did was sell eucalyptus scented
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Speaker 1: candles on Etsy. Even though they had venture capital to
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Speaker 1: become the next Amazon, the only thing they actually sold
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Speaker 1: was eucalyptus scented Campbell's candles there on Etsy. So sure,
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Speaker 1: Joey Dell did tease you Lumberjack power at thirty seven
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Speaker 1: home runs last year on a bad team. Spider Man
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Speaker 1: like catches three home run robberies in one game earlier
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Speaker 1: this season against the Mariners. But too many fatal flaws,
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Speaker 1: too many fatal flaws, and so instead of trading, you
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Speaker 1: realize what the Angels could have gotten for Joe Adell
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Speaker 1: when everyone was hyping him up as God's gift to
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Speaker 1: the future face of baseball type guy. The Angels at
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Speaker 1: his peak could have gotten a number two starting pitcher.
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Speaker 1: That in theory and I believe in the multiverse, if
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Speaker 1: the Angels had just traded Joe Adell, let's say, in
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Speaker 1: like twenty twenty two, to get a front line starting pitcher,
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Speaker 1: then in that dimension, Otani stays with the Angels with Trout,
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Speaker 1: they make the playoffs, maybe win around in the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: win the wild card round, and instead Ardi Marino in
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Speaker 1: the Angels brass and all this Joe Adell's too good,
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Speaker 1: he's a prospect. We're gonna keep him. Oh, this guy's
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Speaker 1: gonna be great. So they wanted to protect the future,
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Speaker 1: and now this is the great The reality is, if
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Speaker 1: they'd done it, then they would have gotten like a
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Speaker 1: number two starting pitcher for Joe Adell. Now they traded
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Speaker 1: him for what is a guy projected to be a
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Speaker 1: backup catcher in the Major League exact Jacob Cozart is
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Speaker 1: this guy's name, and so he's projected to be a
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Speaker 1: backup catcher in the Major So smart franchises, the ones
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Speaker 1: that know what they do what they're doing here. They
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Speaker 1: trade the idea of a savior before that savior turns
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Speaker 1: out to be a pumpkin. Okay, and the Angels didn't
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Speaker 1: do that, And so Jodell is the poster child at
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Speaker 1: this particular point for the dumbest religion in sport, trusting prospects,
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Speaker 1: believing the hype on prospects. It's a three card Monty game,
22:29
Speaker 1: is what it is. So Joydell again, a couple of
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Speaker 1: years ago, twenty twenty two, could have got a number
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Speaker 1: two starting pitcher for Joydell as the key player in
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Speaker 1: the trade. The Angels waited. They just traded a mid
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Speaker 1: season here a few years later for a guy projected
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Speaker 1: to be a backup catcher. You can't make this up
22:47
Speaker 1: so bad. It's so freaking bad. It is the Ben
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Speaker 1: Maler Show. If you'd like to comment on this or
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Speaker 1: nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven nine nine six
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Speaker 1: six three six nine. The games begin. The trades. Trades.
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Speaker 1: We've got trades. Yeah, got trades. You can also get
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Speaker 1: on the show via the The Excess, I said Ben
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Speaker 1: Maler on ex Lorena FSR Tech Queen, I down, you
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Speaker 1: Worcester in that area, says I in the Commonwealth, I
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Speaker 1: was a bit skeptical at first about spending my money
25:54
Speaker 1: on Malard Plus, but when I heard that you and
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Speaker 1: Jay Scoop went into the last for six months before release,
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Speaker 1: I just had to lay down the cash. I can't
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Speaker 1: wait for your Thursday hour four breakdown of the Steph
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Speaker 1: Paul George trade. Yeah, that'll be a big one. That'll
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Speaker 1: be a big Everything lined up there now everything lined up?
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Speaker 1: Will t rights In says in my opinion, it was
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Speaker 1: irresponsible of the Tigers to let their ace go without
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Speaker 1: getting a fair haul in return. Baseball pre two thousand,
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Speaker 1: this never would have happened. Rejecting the salary cap over
26:32
Speaker 1: and over has led to egregious profiting or profiteering rather
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Speaker 1: over a backyard children's game. Yes, and I just love
26:44
Speaker 1: the dumb people will tea that are like, well, this
26:46
Speaker 1: is going to lead to the salary cap. How exactly
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Speaker 1: is that going to work? Because the only ones that
26:51
Speaker 1: have a vote not the fans. Joe Blow, who loves
26:55
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Rays, not spending any money does not
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Speaker 1: get a vote. It's the player that get a vote.
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Speaker 1: That's it. The players are the ones that get a vote.
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Speaker 1: There you go. Chicky writes in says, hey, Ben, how
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Speaker 1: about the day those Buckos had? First they won the
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Speaker 1: trade deadline sweepstakes, then they go out and kick the
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Speaker 1: Brewers arses. Can you do your hour two monologue on
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Speaker 1: the Buckos? Let me check. We'll have to go to
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Speaker 1: Malard Pruss Mallard plus and see what's going on to
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Speaker 1: check that out for sure. One hundred. Let's see here,
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Speaker 1: I can't read that. Oh, Pirito says he has not
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Speaker 1: quit the show. He says, He says he's got some
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Speaker 1: things going on there. He cannot respond. He says to
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Speaker 1: Mallard's bowl, Pucky takes be back soon, all right, So
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Speaker 1: Purito feel better, Purrito, I know weed Man will be
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Speaker 1: devastated an hour two when we do the ask a
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Speaker 1: weed Man soon, he'll be very upset by that. And
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Speaker 1: and a and angry, angry, and the Baltimore Media Freeloader
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Speaker 1: Baltimore Media Freeloader update says, how do you do a
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Speaker 1: baseball monologue and not mention the Orioles trading their former
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Speaker 1: first overall pick to the Red Sox for a bag
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Speaker 1: of balls. Amazing. This team will give away an all
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Speaker 1: star catcher but still charge sixteen dollars for a horrendous buffet.
28:23
Speaker 1: Baseball malpractice. Well, that is a great example of Baltimore
28:26
Speaker 1: freeloader account. The Orioles had the number on number one,
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Speaker 1: number what and they traded him away to the in
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Speaker 1: division Red size. There were a lot of divisional trades.
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Speaker 1: Did you see that? Did anyone else notice that? A
28:43
Speaker 1: lot of divisional trades in baseball? That was one of
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Speaker 1: those taboos. You're not supposed to make a trade inside
28:51
Speaker 1: the division. No, no, no, you're gonna be haunted by that.
28:54
Speaker 1: You can't do it. What's wrong with you? And we
28:58
Speaker 1: saw a bunch of these Padres and Giants made a
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Speaker 1: trade together. There's some National League Central trades. The Brewers
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Speaker 1: and Cardinals completed a trade. Adlee Rushman was the player
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Speaker 1: going from the Orioles to the Red Sox. We will
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Speaker 1: have that. That's on my big board. That is on
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Speaker 1: my big board for later on. As the O's have
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Speaker 1: gotten out of the Adlie Rushman business, he don't he's cooked.
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Speaker 1: He's out of there. There you go. Analog Al rites
29:28
Speaker 1: and says, you made this trade news interesting and entertaining.
29:31
Speaker 1: If they were smart, these teams would hire you every
29:34
Speaker 1: year around this time for a few days. I agree,
29:37
Speaker 1: antalog Al. Why am I not getting paid for this?
29:40
Speaker 1: My god? For Major League Baseball? All right, let's go
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Speaker 1: to the phones. Let's say hello, any Meenie money Moe.
29:45
Speaker 1: Let's go now to the belly of the beast, and
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Speaker 1: we sayalo to Chuck, representing the entire state of Michigan. Hello, Chuck,
29:52
Speaker 1: You're on the Ben Mather Show. Hello Chuck, how you doing?
29:55
Speaker 4: Bud love your show? I was listening to your tech
29:59
Speaker 4: school will sing, and you know I could. I could
30:03
Speaker 4: probably go on for hours about Scott Harris, but let
30:08
Speaker 4: me just tell you one thing that happened around the deadline.
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Speaker 4: I don't. I'm not going to sure you followed it,
30:12
Speaker 4: since you know, maybe you're not like focused on the
30:15
Speaker 4: Tigers like I am because I live here. But I
30:17
Speaker 4: actually live in Michigan about three hours away from Detroit.
30:20
Speaker 4: But in either case, so the day they signed farm
30:24
Speaker 4: or Farmer Veldez, the day they shined them, they told
30:29
Speaker 4: Schoolball about twelve hours before that they didn't have money
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Speaker 4: to sign them, so they turn around and not that
30:39
Speaker 4: they signed Valdez for four hundred million. I think he
30:42
Speaker 4: got one hundred and eighty or two hundred and ten
30:44
Speaker 4: or something like that. But they turned as soon as
30:47
Speaker 4: they told school they didn't have the money to sign him,
30:50
Speaker 4: they turned right around and sign Valdez and then and
30:56
Speaker 4: then he went to arbitration. Schooble went the arbitration that day. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: and got awarded thirty two million I think from the arbitrator.
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Speaker 4: And Scott Harris is running around telling everybody, oh, you know,
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Speaker 4: we tried. They never tried one time to sign that guy.
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Speaker 4: They should have.
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Speaker 1: Well I did, I did see. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: you saw this, Chuck, but they somebody caught up with
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Speaker 1: Scott Boris, who's the agent there for school Bulk, and
31:22
Speaker 1: they asked because Scott, because Harris did say they tried
31:25
Speaker 1: to sign as you said, they tried to sign school
31:27
Speaker 1: Ball to an extension and he wanted to go to market.
31:30
Speaker 1: And according to Boris, and who knows he's got invested
31:34
Speaker 1: interest in this, he claimed that they did try to
31:37
Speaker 1: sign him. That was back in twenty twenty four, but
31:39
Speaker 1: they had no effort since then to try to sign
31:41
Speaker 1: school Ball to an extent.
31:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the guys probably next to Erlander and
31:46
Speaker 4: thanks for letting me you know, spoo a little bit here,
31:49
Speaker 4: but next to Urlander, he he's the best pitch of
31:53
Speaker 4: the Tigers have ever had. He's a one on a
31:55
Speaker 4: generation guy. I mean, why wouldn't you? And see that
31:59
Speaker 4: leads me up. And one more quick thing here that
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Speaker 4: even I don't don't I don't care what the payroll says.
32:05
Speaker 4: Mike or Chris Ilitch, in my opinion, is one of
32:08
Speaker 4: the worst owners in pro sports. That guy is a
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Speaker 4: complete buffoon. His dad would have went out and signed
32:15
Speaker 4: school in a minute like he did Miguel Cabrera and
32:18
Speaker 4: other Tigers down the line like he did Justin Upton
32:20
Speaker 4: and J. D. Martinez and Nick Castiano's and so on
32:23
Speaker 4: and so on and so on. Chris Harris and Chris
32:27
Speaker 4: Iliz wants absolutely nothing to do with these big contracts,
32:31
Speaker 4: and I understand that to a degree, But this guy
32:33
Speaker 4: makes five billion dollars a year annually just on pizza sales.
32:38
Speaker 1: Pizza boy, that's really and that's cheap. That's cheap pizza.
32:40
Speaker 1: That pizza pizza is cheap pizza. That's a lot of
32:43
Speaker 1: money on pizza. Imagine how much Domino's and Pizza are
32:45
Speaker 1: making these other chains. If pizza Pizza is making my god,
32:49
Speaker 1: all right, listen, Yeah, you feel a little better, Chuck.
32:51
Speaker 1: You just you just killed the Tigers on a bunch
32:54
Speaker 1: of radio stations. You feel good about that because I
32:56
Speaker 1: think it was a great call. I thought you were great.
32:58
Speaker 4: Well, thank you very much, I'm I'm very thank you.
33:02
Speaker 1: All right, go away, all right, thank you. There's our
33:04
Speaker 1: buddy for Michigan, representing all of the Tiger fans. Right
33:07
Speaker 1: there's one guy representing all the Tiger fans. So the
33:10
Speaker 1: comings and goings in baseball continue. And it's fair to
33:14
Speaker 1: say that if you were a Yankee prodigy a couple
33:17
Speaker 1: of years ago, right now, you're not feeling so good
33:20
Speaker 1: as the Yankees making a couple of roster moves after
33:24
Speaker 1: the trade deadline, and the New York Yankees went out
33:30
Speaker 1: and decided, where are you going to promote the number
33:32
Speaker 1: one prospect, the number one they have there, George Lombard
33:37
Speaker 1: junior to the major league level, and the Lomboard Lommbard
33:42
Speaker 1: rather at the very top there, and the twentieth overhaul
33:46
Speaker 1: suspect in Major League Baseball. There was some chatter that
33:49
Speaker 1: he was going to be traded. He was not created.
33:52
Speaker 1: And now he's been called up to the major leagues,
33:56
Speaker 1: and the Yankees have sent down Anthony Volpi to Scranton
34:01
Speaker 1: Wilkesbury to Triple A. So the guy that booted the ball,
34:04
Speaker 1: my favorite booted baseball by a shortstop in World Series history,
34:08
Speaker 1: Anthony Volpi in the World Series. And then what the
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Speaker 1: greatest enning I've ever seen by the New York Yankees.
34:13
Speaker 1: You had Aaron Judge misplay a ball in the outfield,
34:16
Speaker 1: Anthony Volpi boot a ball in the infield. You had
34:19
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole, the highest paid pitcher in baseball, failed to
34:21
Speaker 1: cover first base. It was just just a clown show.
34:24
Speaker 1: And I loved every one of those mistakes. I thought
34:26
Speaker 1: they were great. So Anthony Volpi hitting two forty with
34:30
Speaker 1: one home run this season, and the Yankees also have
34:34
Speaker 1: Jose Cavallero who's batting a robust two forty five. Nobody
34:39
Speaker 1: cares about average. Bloomer. I like average. I still like
34:42
Speaker 1: average anyway. So neither of those guys has proven to
34:46
Speaker 1: be the man at shortstop. So now it would appear
34:50
Speaker 1: that the Yankees are going to You don't call up
34:53
Speaker 1: your top minor league guy unless you're planning on playing him,
34:56
Speaker 1: So we'll see if this actually does happen that way.
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Speaker 1: But George Lombard Junior, the latest prodigy who will likely
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Speaker 1: be a bust, has been called up to the New
35:07
Speaker 1: York Yankees down the Stretch, down the Stretch here in August,
35:11
Speaker 1: and then if he does well, well, there's no one
35:14
Speaker 1: they can get other than the people they have. They
35:15
Speaker 1: can't trade for anyone else, so it kind of stuck
35:18
Speaker 1: with him. It is the Ben Mallord Show as we
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Speaker 1: Here we go? So the Cardinals Alec Burrelson and no
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Speaker 1: relation to Rick Rick Burlson. That's an old baseball player.
37:58
Speaker 1: I don't think so anyway. Alec Burlson is the second
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Speaker 1: player to hit three multi run homers in a single
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Speaker 1: game as a visiting player against the Yankees, joining me,
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Speaker 1: Who who am I? That's the question, that is the question.
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Speaker 1: What is the answer. Let's find out. Does anyone know
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Speaker 1: Steve Garvey. Oh look at this. Ed from Spokane is alive.
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39:08
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