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Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the Wednesday edition of the Sports Exchange.
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My name is Scott Morgan at the Motor City Madmouth have a great show lined
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up. World Series Edition. We're going to hit you with a lot of
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numbers, for sure. So but before I do that, I want to
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introduce the crew. But we're gonna start with the news guide to the south
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Ward Distribute family, and that is Jake Walker. I met Jake over an
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FAU game against Monmouth, and I found out that he had a very big
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desire to get into broadcasting. We spent some time talking and we developed a
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connection. And that's what happens with Joe. That's what happens Jacob. When
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you go to the press box, you don't know who you act you're going
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to meet. And now I have ourselves another member of our crew. So
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Jake, why don't you give us everybody a little information about yourself before we
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get with the program. All right, So currently, I'm a senior at
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Florida Atlantic University Multimedia Journalism major. Played baseball growing up, stopped playing when
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I was eighteen, but I've been following the game ever since. Pretty much
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all sports for that matter. NFL NBA MLB and just trying to get my
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foot in the door and broadcasting. Well glad, I'm glad that you joined
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our network. Obviously, you know you're going to get opportunities. I think
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our next opportunity for you will be to help develop the Baseball Show and bring
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it on. I know that we're making some wholesale changes to that show to
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try to infuse some new blood. I think JB and Ellis I talked about
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it, and one of our goals is to make sure every show that we
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have on the network is strong. And I know Inside the Piskin is a
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very strong show, as is a Sports Exchange. But some of the other
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shows that you have that you want to bolster the depth as well. And
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I know you're going to be a great You're going to do really well with
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that camera worked out so we can get you back on here. All right,
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But that said topic number one, and this show is going to be
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loaded. And when I say that, you might want to listen to it
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multiple times in case you don't get it by Friday, which is when the
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World Series starts. But according to CBS Sports, every team to beat the
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Brewers in the past and the postseason has advanced to the World Series. Let
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me let me go ahead and listen off this group nineteen eighty one, the
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New York Yankees, nineteen eighty two, the Saint Louis Cardinals two thousand and
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eight, Philadelphia Phillies twenty eleven, back to the Cardinals, twenty eighteen,
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to the Dodgers, twenty nineteen, to the Nationals, twenty twenty, to
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the Dodgers, twenty twenty one, to the Braves, and guess what,
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twenty twenty three, you got it the Diamondbacks. So what an incredible stance.
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So we're gonna start off with a new guy, Jake What are your
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thoughts about this? If you go through the Brewers, you got a shot
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to get to the World Series. It's really interesting, you know that it
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goes back to the nineteen eighties as well, not just in the current times,
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in the twenty first century. This year's Dbacks team, I really like
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the young talent they have. Corbyn Carroll's played well all year, stealing base,
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is playing great defense in the outfield, getting on base. So I
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think that's a really interesting stat. I didn't know that myself, so it's
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crazy to hear. Well, a lot of people didn't know it. I
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actually fed into a different crew in the base Fall Show, but decided to
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bring it back here because the Diamondbacks finished the job to get to the World
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Series, which allows me to turn over to jblis interesting stat. Never heard
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of it. You know, it's pretty cool to think that it goes back
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that many years, right, you know, it's impressive to see that list
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of teams that you that you mentioned, you know, some great talent and
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shows what the Burgers have done. You know. The amazing part of it
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is when I saw the stat first time, I wanted to follow up on
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it. You follow what I'm saying until we got to the end result,
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and it happened last night when the Diamondbacks knocked out the Phillies four games of
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three. All right, Jacob, you know something this with this does is
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that you get fans. This is what fans will do. Fans will be
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like, we would have won. If they wouldn't have been in the way,
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we would have won, and if it wouldn't gotten there. It's like,
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see, we we were this close. It could be the first round.
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We were this closed. See they had to get there. That's what
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fans will do. So they've got this, they've got the in Milwaukee.
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But truthfully, overall is you know what that shows outside of like the nineties
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they weren't that good. This has been a consistent team, right. You
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know, It's like this has been with a lot of the eighties. A
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lot of it's like the reason people don't see because they didn't win the World
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Series. They didn't win it. But it is hard. It's just like
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the Pittsburgh Steelers with the constantly getting winning seasons, the constantly being around in
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December, fans can get dumb, the little tired of what the new car
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smell of a new coach but it's very very very very hard to win consistently.
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So when you're especially like twenty eighteen, nineteen twenty, I was of
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it. If you're around in September all the time, you're doing well,
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eventually you break through. So eventually Milwaukee's gonna break through a number. It's
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a numbers game in life. So that's just a big thing. Fair point.
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Well, all right, the only ounce of football we're gonna have,
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and I mean this only ounce of football we're gonna have, is that Cowboys
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owner Jerry Jones he needs to drive across the parking lot and talk to Rangers
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owners Ray Davis and Bob R. Simpson to get pointers on how to get
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to the Championship, Rown, the World Series and the Super Bowl. Man,
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we're gonna have to go back aways. When the Cowboys ended up getting
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the Super Bowl, I believe Barry Switzer got on there on Jimmy Johnson's team.
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So all right, so what do you think do you think Jerry Jones
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gonna make his way over to the other side of the parking lot, Jake
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and talk to these guys, because Jerry hasn't figured out and he spent a
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lot of money and he built his big palace. Well, the thing.
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The thing with Jerry Jones is he beats to his own drum. He doesn't
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really like to take advice from a lot of people. He chooses the coach
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that he wants, whether the fans like it or not. Do I think
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he should do that. I do think he should do that, But whether
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he's going to do it is yet to be seen. But he he likes
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to be to his own drum and make the and run his organization his way.
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Okay, all right, JB listen, Jerry Jones may not have won
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the Super Bowl in ages with the Dallas Cowboys, but Jerry Jones has done
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something better than that. He's made a lot of money for thirty one other
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guys or ownership groups or women whoever owes those NFL teams. He put football
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back in LA when he worked on the stadium deal with the kron Keys.
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The man is a genius. He just not an NFL GM. He needs
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to step away from that. He doesn't need to go across the park a
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lot to talk to the ragers who've done a phenoml job together. Jerry just
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has to stay out of his own way, maybe not have sleepovers with coaches.
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You know, I don't get that one. But Jerry's a genius in
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business as far as football. He's fortunate enough to have the money to own
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an NFL team, but as far as his football grace is going at this
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time of his life, fair enough, okay, Jacob. One of my
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things when I was on. When I was on, I did pundit points.
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When JB noticed me the first time around. One of the things I
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said about Jerry Jones is he's not going to win one at all ever again
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until he finds one thing for himself. When he won those Super Bowls,
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he was that guy who was a oil wildcatter and borrowed money from the from
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the unions, by the Chargers originally back in the AFL days. He would
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gout see grinding, you know, old oil wildcatter with the wells and everything
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like that, who bought it for less but the Cowboys because he would rob,
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because he would fire Tom Landry, no one else would. He was
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the gutsy, grinding, no nonsense. And that's one of the things about
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this. For him to win another one, he has to find that oil
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old wildcat any to win it all, he has to It's like because right
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now all he's doing is making more money. It's like he's looking at not
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losing and trying to make it and to win, you might have to lose.
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Yeah, I mean, you know guyans Dak Prescott and what does Dad
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had to show for himself. He's a good businessman making a lot of money.
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Remember, once upon a time, I think all of us can recollect,
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or at least many of us can. Jimmy Johnson flee some Minnesota vikings
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and that herschel Walker deal with that boat. That as a fleecing because he
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had had like twelve hundred and fifty yards a year before. It would just
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end being a fleecing. You know, Well, the end up being a
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fleecing, Jacob because of the draft capital they ended up getting. Yeah,
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and a lot of that draft capitals that they ended up getting ended up leading
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to the core they're super Bowl And that was a fleae job of by ever.
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So it was that Aras Russell Wilson. What's that? It was basically
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that Ara Russell Wilson oay. And the reason I say that is because Russell
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Wilson was already starting to fall apart a little, but still you couldn't see
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this coming now. Walker was like twelve hundred and fifty yards the year before.
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No everybody thought he would help. It was worth it. He would
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help Minnesota. That was a fall apart of you, and in a quick
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way too. Okay, right onward we go here. Okay, now,
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let's talk about from the bizarre to eat to the even more bizarre. That's
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why I tell you, folks, you're gonna have to watch and listen to
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this show again and get your no pads ready here, because now and you
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believe, the Philadelphia Phillies played a game seven for the first time in one
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hundred and forty one seasons, with their history of dating back to eighteen eighty
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three. I don't know why. I almost feel like Vin Scully. You're
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rambling off these stats because only Vin Scully can do it. But don't think
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I'm implying that I am, because I am far from Vin Scully. All
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right, So Jays, yeah right, none of us were born when this
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happened. Jakes, I don't feel too bad. That's their longest pup of
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the group. But what are your thoughts of this one? I mean,
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the Phillies have always been a consistent franchise. They make the playoffs regularly,
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they make deep playoffs runs regularly. That's surprising to me that they haven't been
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in a Game seven situation in that long, considering how many times they make
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the playoffs and some of the great players that they've had, So I thought
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that was really interesting. You know, I wasn't aware of that either.
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Oh I told you, when I tell you, I got a lot of
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facts that JBL was warned earlier with our Texis change that I had them.
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Now I'm giving them to them, all right, JB for first Game seven
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and one hundred and eighty three year history, My goodness, you know,
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it's it's impressive. But at the same time, I'd have to look and
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see how many times they were in the playoffs and to see and I'd have
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to go and see how long they had best the sevens for because before sixty
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nine, when or what was the sixty two when they started doing the the
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playoffs, you know, I guess the Championship series before the World Series,
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they only had the World Series, which was best to seven. How many
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times did the Phillies making up to that point? Then the Championship series were
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best of five until I think the eighties so there really hasn't been that many
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game sevens possibilities. I guess it's not that crazy of a stat but at
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the same time, it is because the Phillies are weren't a horrible team throughout
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history, so I could go either way with it. It's just it's interesting,
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that's for sure. Okay, Okay, Jake, trust me. I'm
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called Jake everywhere else, everywhere else. Yeah, I'm riding the train tonight,
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man, No kidding. No. The biggest thing is you would the
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a Phillies had the most losses in the history of Major League Baseball. They
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fight around that long. It's kind of crazy. So not having a game
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seven doesn't shock me, but the it doesn't whatsoever. I mean, this
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was the This was somebody who once had a fifty nine wins season and Steve
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Carlson had twenty seven of the wins, right, this is that world that
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they once were in. But they and then they've had angry fans for the
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longest time. They hated they love Mike Schmidt now they hated him forever forever.
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And that's just the way Phillies fans have hit and stuff like that.
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It's like, you got to remember the nineteen eighty was a bit of a
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shocking to begin with because they were They just had years and years when they
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weren't good, so a lot of their times. Really this last couple of
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years runs was kind of shocking because they've had a couple of not very great
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they're consistent, but beating the Braids like this they have. Beating the Braids
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like this is the shock because the Braids are some of the best teams we've
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seen. They just found away. They're on a mission. But the truthfully,
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overall, the Phillies were the East Coast Cubs. They were you know,
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the I don't think that. And then they weren't as lovable as the
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losers as the Cubs weren't. They just weren't. It's like Cubs went completely
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useless by September for the longest time, so we can't say that about Phillies
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because it's too long to say. So it's one of the one of the
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biggest things we have to say with this team is just like the Cubs,
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it's no longer there. It's like we're not going to get those where the
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Phillies fans are gonna expect it and the Cubs fans gonna expected, They're gonna
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expect winning, so we're not gonna new generations are not going to be seeing
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this anymore. But as far as the game seven, no shock, because
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even the Cubs made that. It's like they made that. But they also
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worked a losing his team in the history major League Baseball. There. Let
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me give you, guys a very interesting story. When I was covering spring
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training back in the early eighties. You're ready for this. You brought up
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Steve Carleton, right. I wanted to interview him, but every but obviously
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he had a reputation. He didn't want to talk to nobody. So you
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know, when you talk about spring training, the only way you survive spring
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training, okay, guys, is you better be able to think on your
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feet real quick. So one obnoxious fan was saying to von Hayes, a
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sixth for one. You know, it was a real sarcastic comment, you
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know, because there were like six players traded for one or quite a few
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players. So you know what I did. I went out there and said,
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this is my story. I approached Von Hayes and he was great to
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me, He really was. And I think that von Hayes story would have
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wouldn't wind up turning out a lot better because there was a lot traded for
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him to get there, and he was just a super nice guy. And
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you talk about the fate of finding stories that either fall into your lap or
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the ability to think very quickly. You know how many times JV and Jake
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dub that have I told you about the master of being able to think on
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your feet really fast in order things to fall in your lap? Yeah?
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All the time. Yeah, It's like, yep, yeah, this way
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also, so you're gonna have four of us. Is going to be the
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master of doing that. He's just young, but he's gonna yeah. I
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mean, yeah. The main thing is is you know, and that's why
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one of the major reasons you know, I wrote written my book. I
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want to mention it one more time. The book will be released real soon.
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I'll lessen from the microphone. I'll get into that again later. But
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yeah, Von Hayes ended up turning out to be a good storyline. All
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right, Well, let's talk about the Arizona Diamondbacks. Once upon a time,
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I was a resident of Arizona and they won their only World series when
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I was in town about that two thousand and one. But the Diamondbacks had
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sixty five to one odds to win in ANL pennant in the preseason, and
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they are second biggest long shot in the preseason to win a pennant since two
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thousand, only behind the two thousand and eight Tampa Bay Rays. So when
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you think about that, okay, you talk about long odds at sixty five
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to one, and here we are, all right, Jake, Well,
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I don't think anybody saw the Diamondbacks. Well a lot of people actually,
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I think didn't even see them making the playoffs because of the division that they
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played in. You know, the Dodgers have won that division pretty annually the
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last couple of years. So I think their playoff run was insane. They
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beat the Phillies, they beat the Milwaukee Brewers, they beat some teams that
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you know were better than them, but they they were just on a mission.
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And you know, they were able to neutralize the hot Phillies offense in
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this series, which was surprising to me. So their playoff run was incredible,
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I mean neutralized. Bryce Harper, Nick CASTI JB pick it up from
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there. Listen, we we and Jacob have spoken about Arizona throughout the month
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of September when the Cubs were battling with them for one of the wild card
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spots, and we always said, you know, we can't be losing Arizona,
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this isn't a good team. Well we were wrong. Arizona's done everything
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they had to do. I'm still going to stick by my decision that the
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MLB Playoffs is skewed away from the top two seeds with that week off,
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because it's not natural for baseball they have a week off. So I'm never
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going to accept the fact that a team like Arizona's made the World Series and
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say it's great. Texas on the other hand, you know, different team.
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I think that they were one of the better teams in the American League.
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They just because with the division, they're going to be a top two
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seed. So that's kind of where I feel about that. Okay, Jacob,
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we brought this up on our last show, and Jake, you'll be
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part of this conversation. Real quick, I'll say this, your generation has
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known nothing by the expansion teams making it quick. Our generation is losing one
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hundred games. They get five years to get to ninety games. See,
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because what used to do is you have to have the draft. They used
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to have the draft, like they used to have a draft where you take
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all them crap and then you hope to get. What you do is you
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take the crap from the draft and then once the blue moon, you'll get
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that veteran that was ending his career. That'll be the veteran to the leader.
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So you had five years of that to get the ninety losses. Not
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anymore. You're used to seeing the Las Vegas, you know, the Vegas
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Golden Knights. Get to the first year, right, You're used to seeing
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that. You're used to seeing. And your list is even before you is
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the Florida Marlins taking it. Florida Marlin's taking it like five years in in
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ninety seven. This is a little more year. That's a little for you,
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but give a point. Yeah, but you're used to seeing these things.
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We aren't Arizona. It's like they came completely out of the blue every
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time, and it's like this is we're in this world now where we're not
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going to we're gonna see something like this. Anybody that shows up, like
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there's gonna be Seattle, there's gonna be Las Vegas that go to the NBA
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next Seattle was therefore, but Seattle and Las Vegas is gonna go there next.
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Somebody's gonna make it, probably two years. It's just that world that
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we get into now, and I should I am shocked that Arizona made it,
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because we did say that on our show Confidential. We did say it
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that we shouldn't have lost to it, But then we should have also know
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that the Cubs were not beating We're barely beating Pittsburgh, losing to the Royals,
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getting all that kind of stuff, So losing to Arizona should not have
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been a shock in the first place, and they were getting better. Well.
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George Aiicorn makes a good comment in the chat room saying that former Detroit
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Tiger Tory Level has done a great job. He really has. And one
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thing about the Diamondbacks was I understand I believe they extended him as well,
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so they're sticking with him. He's done a good job, and now they've
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been rewarded for their patients. All right, Well, you know what great
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segue what you were saying, Jacob, because now we're going to lead to
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it. The Diamondbacks and Rangers lost one hundred plus games in the twenty twenty
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one season. All right, Jake, Well, the turnaround has definitely been
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crazy. They're young, both teams young talents are both incredible. I saw
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something about a Doulas Garcia's story the other day, how he was designated for
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assignment, then came back to the major leagues and now he's a superstar.
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Corbyn Carroll's obviously been an amazing rookie. So the turnarounds for both of these
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teams were fast, and like Jacob said, nowadays you see teams turning around
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from worse to first way quicker than we've ever seen. So the turnarounds have
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really been incredible. And shout out to both of these managers. I have
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a lot of respect for both Tory Leavello and Bruce Bochi. Okay, jb,
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I mean Texas, you kind of expected it. You saw that they
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brought it some nice pieces. They were buyers at the trade deadline. They
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did everything they could to you know, bolster their young guys, and you
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saw that they were putting together a team that was going to be competitive.
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To think that they were to get to the World Series, I never thought
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that no one would think that they would had gotten past Houston or whoever was
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going to come out of the AL East because the Al East is still the
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best division of baseball even if they don't get to the World Series right now.
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But Arizona a good young corps of guys and they you know, there's
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a lot that could be said, you know, growing up watching baseball,
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you know, as a Yankee fan the eighties, when George steinburn it would
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try and buy it by the World Series every year. It never worked.
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We were the most game of the most games of the eighties that one World
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Series when he got suspended, and you know, Jean Michael got put you
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know, in charge, and he built the farm system and they had the
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core four that came up and then they burned the right veterans to go with
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them all of a sudden. The Yankees one of the magical run that lasted
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a really long time, and it's good to see other teams do it.
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There's a there's a lot of teams in baseball right now that followed that that
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formula, and there are getting better each year at Baltimore, Texas, Arizona,
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the Cubs, Detroit, these are all teams that could be good for
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years to come if they can keep their guys. Player development, that's what
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you're looking at, their player development. Keep them to the best you can
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to try to retain them. Don't take the Pittsburgh Pirates route and act like
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the TRIPAA version of Major League Baseball, because that's exactly what you have there,
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right, you know. But the Tigers are up and coming as well
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too. We saw a glimpse of that. And you think about the Diamondbacks
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there payroll you're talking about two payrolls, I believe text a little bit higher.
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But the Diamondbacks aren't and the Tampa Bay Rays, we can say what
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we want about it, and they consistently get in the playoffs. It's just
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they haven't been able to go any further than they're able to go. So,
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I mean, but when you just look at the whole thing in its
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perspective, player development is really what it's all about. And that's exactly how
25:56
these ended up getting there. And then when you get closer to the player
26:00
development part, then you bring in the veteran manager that takes you the distance.
26:03
So with that said, I'll hand it over to the Pundit's pundit.
26:10
One of the things, Jake, that we talk about, Pundit's pundit is
26:12
more than the meat head for sports stats. Oh God, better than yours.
26:19
We don't go there. We talk about we talk about the business end
26:23
of a lot and the world that we see. And here's the thing about
26:27
it. It's like comparison to what why these teams were so bad for so
26:32
long and why they get good faster. It's little things kind of like you
26:37
think of the whole idea of Caleb Williams now, who wants to who's saying
26:41
regards if he's nuts or not? Who wants to have ownership thing into the
26:45
team he gets nutty or not? They're thinking this mindset now business. It's
26:52
a lot of these players that it used to be even up the seven eight
26:56
years ago with old Peyton Manny. Peyton Manning would not go to Denver unless
27:03
they would have won the division had been San Francisco, if they would have
27:04
had Tim Tebow's you know, ten years ago or so, Tim Tebo saved
27:08
them and got them Peyton Manning, he would have gone to San Francisco.
27:11
Otherwise he wouldn't have to go to a bad team where you build. Now,
27:15
guess what taxes you think about your taxes which you don't go to Illinois?
27:21
Why the bears have trouble getting anybody. You'll go to Illinois to tax
27:23
things. You go to Florida, place like Miami and there's no tax,
27:26
sales tax, none of that kind of stuff there. You don't go you
27:30
go to Nevada. Why do people go to Nevada all the time? Right
27:33
away? No sales tax? You got Las Vegas like that? Why do
27:38
you go to Tennessee? Why Why would a DeAndre Hopkins go there? Right
27:42
in the middle of his thing saying it's like there are different business reasons why
27:48
people do things now. It's like before it would be like, oh,
27:52
that team's bad, they're not gonna win. It isn't that right now because
27:55
they know they can bring people in. They know they can bring people in
28:00
now because there is a business side to everything now and that's why you build
28:04
on it. And that's what we talk about on Pundit's Pundits and with Scott
28:08
George you know, everything like that one day JB when you're on the background,
28:12
you know when it's the backupd you know, it's like we talk about
28:15
these deals on this kind of thing, and that's where the world has gone.
28:22
Good points on the way around, all right, let's go to Bruce
28:23
Bochi. First manager to win the LC has for three different teams in nineteen
28:29
ninety eight and andres twenty ten, twelve, and fourteen with the Giants,
28:33
and those were three World Series titles, by the way, and now the
28:36
twenty twenty three Rangers. So all right, Jake, Bruce Bocci, we
28:41
already know how good of a manager is. Give me some thoughts on that
28:45
he's going after a first title. Well, since I've been around, I
28:49
used to watch those Giants World Series all the time, and you know,
28:53
I just remember those teams being so prolific and they you know, the Buster
28:57
Posey's, the Pablo Sandeal. You know, he's not really an analytics guy.
29:03
He likes to just let let his players do his thing, tells him
29:07
what he wants from them, and just lets them do their thing. And
29:11
I really respect the way he manages his teams. And you know, he's
29:15
been around for a long time, big baseball guy. So I have a
29:19
lot of respect for Bruce Bochi and his accomplishments. JB. He's a winner.
29:27
He's done nothing. But wait, you know he to do it with
29:33
three different teams just says a lot of it as longevity. The fact that
29:37
people keep giving him jobs and he keeps winning. Can't really say anything bad
29:41
about the guy. He finds ways to win. He's won multiple times in
29:45
San Francisco with teams that no one expected him to win. As well,
29:51
you know he wasn't always he did always have the team that everyone was looking
29:55
at as the best team in the league. You know, he's just a
29:57
good manager. And there you know that many guys out there like him that
30:02
could do it consistently. All right, pun, Well, what I loved
30:08
was two absolute legends going at it beautiful is exactly what the way this should
30:17
have gone. Way Dusty went out, Two legends going out. Vote analytics
30:22
please, only trash can use in this game. Is the throwaways toothpicks.
30:26
I mean this period, then the story, I mean the guy. But
30:30
see when you get that all that much older, and you've been on the
30:34
game that long, and you've had every type of loss and every type of
30:37
win, and you've got over two thousand wins and all of the accolades,
30:41
it means you use your gut and you know things will work, and you
30:45
you use what's in your mind in the moment, and you're not afraid to
30:49
try. It might not win, it may not lose. It may lose.
30:53
Excuse me, it may lose. It may not win, or it
30:56
may win, it may do right. But you get an idea. You
31:00
get an idea and you try it. And that's what these two were,
31:04
the masters of. It could be the pin hit, or it could be
31:07
a it could be even back in the time when you could do it a
31:11
shift. It could be any of those things. That's what I'm glad.
31:15
I'm glad there was no analytics in this series because you got masters. You
31:21
got masters of their game going back and forth, and Boachie got it.
31:25
Good for him, Good for Dusty forgetting the field in that last year,
31:29
and now he can go off. Hopefully when his knees finally go out,
31:32
he'll get a baseball shaped cane and he'll be the old sage telling stories,
31:37
good points all the way around nine. I read today that we all know
31:41
that Dusty Baker's on the virtue of retiring, but he says he may be
31:45
done with managing, but he feels that he wants to still be a part
31:47
of the game. And you can rest assure he's probably had conversations with Jim
31:52
Crane. The Astros did a great child the way they brought him on.
31:56
He bailed that program out of oblivion after what in half of with the what
32:01
with all the cheating that was going on there. But you know what,
32:05
you guys are so right, you really are. If this is way of
32:09
Dusty Baker retiring, more power to him, he deserves to go out on
32:15
his own terms, real real quickly about Dusty. If I was hit,
32:20
I'd be the full fledged manager for Darren. I need a full fledged manager
32:24
there. I'm used to Dusty with Darren because my dad was fifty when I
32:30
was born. I'm used to it. So it's like the older dad with
32:35
acknowledge and everything. Go around with each other because you don't know how much
32:38
longer you have with your dad like that, and I know they're close,
32:43
and you're the being his full time manager. You've got that. You've got
32:46
something to be able to get you around everybody that respects Dusty. Yep,
32:51
yeah, everybody respects Dusty. Go around with him and see how, you
32:53
know, get him with his batting, get him with he every Dusty was
32:58
in the league sixteen years. He knows how the league is going. He
33:00
could have that the angel on his shoulder at all times. It's something that
33:05
can help that. A lot of father a lot of sons don't have their
33:08
fathers doing that. He could have that. All right, let's go to
33:12
Denzel Snipes confirmed via ESPN, Baker's retiring, and then you know, and
33:15
we'll just go ahead and have our cracked status stician and a is Denzel Snipe
33:19
for years for ALCS, two pennants, one World Series title. Anybody will
33:24
take that run. You better believe Denzel, they definitely will. And one
33:28
more thing I want to get to and then what I'm going to do tonight
33:30
is, jb I'm going to turn over to you for like five or seven
33:32
minutes or so, and I want you to give everybody a detail of what
33:37
you the Tribune and Sideline Sports gonna be working on very soon. I know
33:40
you're working on a lot of things on your own, but this will be
33:43
our first opportunity to share with everybody else. But I want one more thing
33:46
I want to get to first before I turn over to you. All right,
33:49
Joe, all right, number one previo? What's that? And there
33:53
you go? Thanks? Sure? So all right? Preseason World Series odds
33:57
twelve thousand, five hundreds for Arizona. These sticks in Major My goodness,
34:04
all right, Jake, uh preseason, I did not see them even making
34:12
the playoffs. Preseason, you know, they I thought the Giants were going
34:15
to be better than what they were, and you know, it was just
34:22
a crazy run for them. I didn't see their I love Zach Gallon,
34:27
Zach Allen's one of my favorite pitchers. But for the most part, I
34:30
didn't really know much much of what they had, and they put it on
34:35
full display and showed us what what kind of team they really are. Tory
34:38
Leblo has done a great job, as we've mentioned, so their run is
34:44
probably one of the most incredible runs I've seen since I've been watching baseball.
34:49
I think they did it the hard way. They had to win four games
34:52
in Philadelphia. It's unbelievable, all right, Joe, Well I said I
34:58
said earlier. You know, I wish I would have put a parley on
35:01
that, you know, for a couple of hundred dollars. Right now,
35:06
you know, we'd all be going away for a while, having a nice
35:07
vacation. We go enjoy ourselves. Instead, we're just gonna watch a bad
35:15
World Series, Okay, well, let me ask you this. Now that
35:19
you got to do, buy off your what's your next target? Not sure
35:23
yet. I'm a free agent to travel wherever the deals take me. There
35:29
you go. All right, that's a fair answer, okay, pundit.
35:32
Well, Jake b now that you do that, you can be an assassin
35:36
for hire. You know, wherever the deal is you go, you can
35:42
take You could be like James Bond or something. Go and go ahead with
35:45
it. You just have a baseball cap. You're known for that. But
35:49
there you go. Yeah, and he's got the suit, you got the
35:52
cap. But no, I wouldn't have seen it. I wouldn't have done
35:57
it. But after seeing this, I'm just gonna fight the absolute lowest of
36:00
the low probably Kansas City Royals next year. I'm just gonna put one hundred
36:04
on it. I Am just gonna keep doing it until there's some kind of
36:07
luck and then I'm just going maybe two hundred, and then I'm just gonna
36:09
make a movie with my winnings. I'm just I'm just gonna be I'm gonna
36:14
make a small movie because I've done I've been an actor, I've made for
36:17
movies. I'm just gonna make a small movie with it or something like that.
36:21
It'll be like thirty grand I'll just make it that way. It's like,
36:24
how can you tell. You really can't tell anything anymore. You can't
36:29
predict. You can watch people on Twitter and the fans that think they know
36:32
what they're talking about. No one's a bad man. I'm saying. We
36:37
can say this to David Ross with the Cubs, but it's our show confidential.
36:40
He's not a great manager. But when you've made it through, you
36:44
can run. You can inch your way in somewhere, no matter what.
36:47
Astros ain't in it. No ratings, Yeah right, yeah, we can't
36:51
hate anybody. We can't. We can't hate him, so we can't get
36:53
that. But no, we we don't get it with big David Ross,
36:58
who makes horrible decisions. I can itch itself in in this baseball you never
37:02
know, and then they'll just keep getting jobs the rest of their life.
37:06
It's just the way it gets hitting. They can overcome bad advantagement, bad
37:09
everything. It's just the way baseball is now. It's the one sport that
37:14
that happens everybody else the coach can lose it. Well, let me tell
37:17
you this, now that you mentioned that you know you want to know what
37:20
my next book is. Guys, I'm going to be writing a baseball book
37:22
after I get done with this one. I got lots of stories covering this
37:29
game in forty years. Man, I'm telling you that's a pretty good book.
37:31
And I won't use a lot of the ones that I already put in
37:36
Lessons from the Microphone. I didn't have to. Okay, there's plenty to
37:38
go around for another book. And I can tell you right now my book
37:42
here, Lessons from the Microphone, is fifteen chapters, and if you really
37:46
want to turn it into a word count, it's like one hundred and ninety
37:49
four pages and over forty three thousand words. Now I have to tell you
37:54
my book coach and my editor, Melissa G. Wilson, who's done phenomenal
37:59
stuff with me, is giving me players you can write them shorter than this.
38:02
But the way we walked into this thing is I had the book already
38:06
done in the textbook format was a second and we were able to carry two.
38:10
We were able to go out there and take the two and then move
38:14
them over to the master book. And now I'm going to go ahead and
38:16
write a baseball book after. But this one. I'm really looking forward to
38:20
getting out there, all right, Joe, you know what, here's what
38:22
we're going to do, all right. I want you to I know,
38:24
we have a lot of things going on within Sideline Sports South Florida Tribune,
38:29
so I want you to give every our fans an overview of some of the
38:31
things that we're working on that they can look forward to in the near future
38:36
of the forgers. So I can't really say too much at this point,
38:40
so it's going to be really quick. We are working in the live sports
38:46
field to bring different sports to the Sideline Sports of the South Florida Tribute,
38:53
you know, possibly free over the airwaves, possibly through payd preview. We
39:00
are exploring all those possibilities. Also, we're looking at the possibility of expanding
39:07
the brands and being on in different areas. As everyone knows, Sideline Sports
39:13
The Maine Show is now on w DJY in Atlanta ninety nine point one.
39:19
We're thinking about expanding with a whole bunch of shows, including this show,
39:23
the Sports Exchange, Pundit's Pundit, which also includes Scott and Jacob, and
39:30
a few other shows. And we'll see in the next month or so,
39:35
we'll be making an announcement maybe quicker, but as soon as we have everything
39:38
officially wrapped up, we will make that announcement. And you know, we'll
39:43
make sure that we make it on this show as well, so that everyone
39:45
can hear about it and find out where they can see it. Well.
39:49
The way you're going to make that announcement not only on the air, but
39:51
hopefully Sideline Sports will produce a press release so I can get it there written
39:54
as well. So I want to make sure that I can get it to
39:58
as many people as I can, because you know, if we've been working
40:00
together a long time, and you know, Jake, I know you're here
40:04
on for the first time, Joe and I are communicating with two three four
40:07
times a week something like that, I mean, you know, at least
40:12
at least yeah, And I think that that's important that we're going to bet
40:16
when they back us any way they can with their help on social media,
40:20
we try to help them out as much as we can. And more importantly,
40:22
our goal here is to make sure that both companies are in a position
40:29
where we are able to go out there and build a good empire combining the
40:34
two. Obviously we're separate enemy, but we're not if that makes any sense
40:37
for partners exactly. Our goal is to continue to bring in new talent as
40:45
we have one here tonight, and Mike Brazier is usually on here, but
40:50
he was he was obviously head another commitment, but pay the opening for Jake
40:55
Walker. So you know, it's important that what you go out there and
41:00
do is our goal is to entertain, educate, and inform. I don't
41:07
care what show you're on. If you can't educate, entertaining, inform,
41:10
you haven't done the public and fans justice. And that's what it's all about.
41:15
I mean, Tonight came in with a lot of loaded stats, so
41:20
what I'm a stack guy anyways, you know, and one of the things
41:23
that I actually have on the back cover of my book is making sure that
41:27
you have a situation where everybody's accurate but no factual errors. You know,
41:34
they have four people to night. Sometimes we go five, six, seven,
41:37
but four or five is usually the norm. And you know what the
41:40
way I look at it is is you just want to make sure that everybody
41:44
gets something out of our shows Sideline Sports, and I think the one of
41:47
the things that's interesting when you compare pundit's fundents and no limits. Is you
41:52
know, I really like the magazine style formats that we have, Joe,
41:58
Jacob Jake, because what we're trying to do is, you know, JB,
42:04
I know you like to you yourself as like a ESPN Empire kind of
42:07
thing, you know, and I get it because you want twenty four hour
42:09
sports only to do a little bit better. My goal is to turn some
42:14
of our shows into the sixty minutes and twenty twenty version. I really like
42:17
those because you're able to narrow on specific topics sports and nonsports related. So
42:25
I think the combination of what you're doing is a twenty four hour sports empire
42:31
JB. Versus what we're doing where we make sure we have enough adequate shows
42:36
available for different tastes, both sports and non sports. Between magazine and what
42:40
you guys do, I think it's a strong combination. And I want to
42:44
put these comments up by Denzil and you know what, Jacob, you get
42:46
the opportunity to read it. Go ahead, Holutly we are about to come
42:51
up. It's about to get real dangerous for sports, Talk, Sidelines,
42:55
Sports and Southport. A tribute forming the Empire, Nuncle Scott is power.
43:04
I don't know where that comes up with this stuff. I am not Jeor
43:07
j R. Whatever you say, I am not Jorjo binks a. Denzel
43:12
by the way, just putting out to you my brother here. We did
43:15
create a group Chad here for a professor and the people. I hope you
43:20
get around and check it out because you is included. And that's the show
43:22
that I want JB to pay close attention to as well when he gets timed,
43:28
because here's the thing that Sunday show we have there is going to be
43:31
really strong. I think one of the things that was important when we decided
43:37
to go into different directions, and I felt that with the continuity that we
43:39
had at Basketbros. Joe as well as I'm punding fund it to have Denzel,
43:46
myself and Jacob on a show together, it was just too good of
43:50
an opportunity to pass up. And then we'll bring in guests on that from
43:53
time to time as well. So that's that's a lot of you know that,
43:59
those are just some of the things that we're gonna be working on.
44:00
And of course, once again I want to reiterate the debut of the MotorCity
44:04
mad Mouth Show. If everything goes according to plan, we'll be on next
44:07
Wednesday night. So I want to make sure jab yellis sad. Why don't
44:12
you get ahead of your book? And you know, I slept on it
44:14
and I don't see very much I did this time and meditation produced. Next
44:17
Wednesday is the day and that's exactly what my target is. So somebody,
44:22
somebody will helping me launch it and we'll give you more details. So with
44:27
that said, I hope we've given you plenty of information what to look for
44:30
in the world series. And you know, Jake, since you're the first
44:34
one in here, when I want as we get ready to wind down this
44:37
edition of the Sports Exchange, Jake, why don't you let everybody know how
44:39
they can get a hold of you? Okay, so my Twitter handle is
44:45
Jay Walk seven to nine Instagram, I'm Jake Underscore Walker seven and uh I
44:54
don't. I don't have a Facebook, but Twitter and Instagram is where my
44:59
social media are mainly based. Are you on Lincoln LinkedIn? Yes? I
45:06
don't know my ad on LinkedIn though if you have one, you'll develop that
45:10
over time. But at least that's what's all about, you know, JB,
45:14
and I can tell you how valuable LinkedIn is, right, JB.
45:16
We get a lot of stuff accomplished. Huge. Yeah, all right,
45:21
well JB, you're next. Dont you everybody know how they get ahold of
45:22
you? JB underscore the program on Twitter x whatever you want to call it.
45:30
Sidelline Sports every Tuesday eight thirty, Wednesday mornings at Atlanta seven and eight
45:36
and Sunday NFL pregames the show w DJ y uh Thus I quite what Atlanta
45:42
Jacob I am has to say this Sundays, I am starting November fifth,
45:49
I am the Professor and the pupils with the Scotton MotorCity mad Mouth. I
45:54
am that. Mondays we do the pro wrestling show off the top Rope talk.
45:59
It's the in the Sniper or Sniper and Pundit, depending on which ways
46:01
want to get. Tuesdays I go. I do an independent show called Yin
46:06
and Yang Wednesdays. Every two weeks. Wednesdays, I see the Confidential on
46:12
this one Thursday's Pundit's Pundit off the bench for Gauntlet when they need me on
46:16
Fridays and then I'm also I also do movies a little bit, part time
46:22
acting, part time and I've also on Ricochet, Substack and trying to get
46:28
my Patreon, trying to get my twitch going so key otherwise I'm not doing
46:31
it, Danny thing I could hardly tell. Okay, so yeah, I
46:37
have to give my my best Jbi. Well, you know, you know,
46:43
you know I could hardly tell. Is that pretty good? Listen?
46:49
I don't know. I don't know what's the Jacob. Well, you're gonna
46:54
find it. You'll get it, You'll get We'll be dealing with that when
46:58
I see it about a month and a half at five weeks. Anyway to
47:01
make my way back up to the Midwest. Sorry, let me go over
47:05
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behind the scenes, although tonight she's doing a little bit of fine tune editing
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for the book that I'm about to tell you right now, And it's a
48:07
media book, Lessons from the microphone tuning into the enduring wisdom of visionary leaders.
48:15
So this is a book here where I can probably tell you right now
48:17
that whether you're in the media or just an outsider that wants to get to
48:22
know the media, it's a book that you can go out there. Everybody
48:25
can learn. It's not limited. I know that I'm hoping to get some
48:30
response with students as I begin to sort out of marketing plan with it.
48:34
I know I'm looking forward to doing book signings when the time comes. But
48:39
this is a book that everybody can go out and enjoy. And I've been
48:44
in the business for now, just about forty four years on my birthday in
48:47
December, and I'll tell you I have a lot of stories and there's a
48:52
lot more and my future, in addition to our working relationship with Sideline Sports,
48:58
is to continue to write. There's so many stories I can tell.
49:01
And now that my wife has made me feel more comfortable with Google Docs,
49:06
you know, she's a technical person in the group and I went, ugly,
49:09
that's all you need to know. But nevertheless, it's thinking about ready
49:14
to come to conclusion, and I'm looking forward to getting it out there and
49:17
then work on my next one. And I will give her a plug one
49:21
more time my book coaches. Her name is Melissa Gee Wilson, and you
49:27
know, she walked into a tough situation where I had a guy that was
49:30
going to do it, but then all of a sudden, I think Joe
49:32
and Jacob and Jake can relate when somebody doesn't communicate what happens. No good,
49:40
no blot up, yeah right, no trust, no communication. Also,
49:45
poor Melissa I was referred to her and just shows you how important that
49:51
the Chamber of Commerces are. I went through one of my people at the
49:54
Chamber who wrote a book sent me over to Melissa, and Melissa has done
49:59
a good job taking over a situation that she had to go in the middle
50:01
of. And now we're getting down to the nitty gritty. So you know,
50:07
I'm very proud to mention Melissa because she does great work and none in
50:10
a matter of time, people will have an opportunity to see exactly, you
50:15
know, what type of work she does. But more importantly, I wanted
50:17
to write this because Joe, I know you're relatively new in the business.
50:22
He's been around what a few years, right, how long you've been in
50:23
it for? Yeah, about four years does go to the fourth year,
50:29
right, So you know that's what I mean. So you know, you've
50:31
come a long way Joe in the time that I've known you, and I
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know you're certainly obviously coachable enough that you have to learn a lot more things
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as we go along. Anyways, but I'm just hoping when you get your
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hands on this book and if you take one or two things out there that
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you can learn from and I was able to get my job done, and
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you're able to learn, and you know anybody, you know, I don't
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care who it is. So I'll be talking more about it and the next
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time, one of these days, i'll have it right my hands. So
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I mean, meanwhile, what's that? So? Yeah, it will I
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tell you how many hours I worked, But it'll be worth every time of
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it, it really will. And then I'll be going to shorter books.
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Plus the shorter books are easier to prove read anyways. So but this,
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and I will say one thing before we and it. I could. I
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only have about ten pictures in this book, and Melissa told me you only
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need ten. I want them to read the content and not get lost in
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the photos. What do you think of that? Strange? Very true,
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because here's the thing. If you wanted more pictures, you make a coffee
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table book. So to tell stories. That's the big thing. Coffee table
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books are for people that want to look at it and night ooh nice,
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look, hey look at photos. Yay, let's go flip, let's scroll
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our stuff. No, you want to get tell stories? Then they all
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need more than than buy ten books. It's those. It's the one worth
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the ten or usually in the middle of the book you flip through. That's
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nice, back to the stories. There you go. You know, well,
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you and Melissa and I, JB. And now Jake getting his first
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taste of this book. GMT A great mind, stink a light. So
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that said, we hope you've enjoyed our world series edition of The Sports Exchange.
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So I behalf of Jake Walker the Pundit's Punnit and Joe jb Ellis.
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I want to thank you very much for joining us, and we just give
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you ahead of our schedule tomorrow night, okay Pundits Pundit at eight o'clock and
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we'll do a fire up show immediately after we're done. So a bit more
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work to do the rest of the week. But meanwhile, once again Ray
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crew tonight. Glad to bring in a new face, one that I expect
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to hang around for a while, and to go along with some of the
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my veteran guys. It doesn't get any better than that. So once again,
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Joe the Pundit's Punnit. It was fun and I look forward to bringing
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you guys back collectively at some point down the road, all four of us.
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But that's what it's all about, so good night everybody, and we
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will catch you the next time.