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Hour 1 - Remove Your Sox · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Here we go. That's baseball, Susan.
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  Speaker 2: It's hour number one. Hour one of the Ben Maller Show.
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  Speaker 2: And you smell that? It's not what the rock's cooking
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  Speaker 2: for you.
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  Speaker 1: It's October.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the first day of October. What a great
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  Speaker 2: way to celebrate October, doing overnight talk radio, staying up
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  Speaker 2: all night.
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  Speaker 1: We did that. We did that for you. For you,
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  Speaker 1: the American listener, or Canadian, or Mexican, or wherever you are.
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  Speaker 2: So were the Red Sox supposedly big bats when they
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  Speaker 2: needed them as they have been exterminated from the playoffs?
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  Speaker 1: They lose to the Yankees in two games in the
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  Speaker 1: wildcard round. We'll talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: Also is watching Houston get booed at home and swept
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  Speaker 2: from the wildcard round against the White Sox baseball's version
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  Speaker 2: of comfort food. And how demoralizing is the playoff sweep
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  Speaker 2: for the Cubbies as they got absolutely polaxed by the Padres.
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  Speaker 1: In San Diego. We'll talk all baseball. Give us a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes.
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  Speaker 2: We'll give you some hot baseball talk, and we'll do
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  Speaker 2: it all right now. Here it is, starting this podcast
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  Speaker 2: in hour number one. Well, these Sox get zonked out
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  Speaker 2: of the playoffs. Welcome in the beginning of another night
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  Speaker 2: of the Ben Maller Show as we are in.
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  Speaker 1: The air everywhere. You see how that works?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We shoot the breeze here. And we do not have
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  Speaker 1: a crater face. But it wouldn't matter because we're on radio.
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  Speaker 4: And.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that used to be true, but that's not true
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  Speaker 1: anymore because even Raiders cameras all over me. What's up
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  Speaker 1: with that? The police state here in the studio.
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  Speaker 2: As we are coast-to-coast, border-to-border, and beyond on the vast
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  Speaker 1: Where Mark the Walker.
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  Speaker 1: And then it was the great Donkey Sausage. You know
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  Speaker 1: it's important when Donkey Sausage tells you to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And he says, you know, Myler, can you tell the
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  Speaker 1: people what time of the year? I said, well, it's October.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, not on the West Coast. It's still September.
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  Speaker 1: We're heading into October. And there's no time like October.
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  Speaker 1: The NLDS is here streaming live on Fox 1. Do
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  Speaker 1: it live!
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  Speaker 2: We know the Padres and Brewers will be one half
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  Speaker 2: of the NLDS, and the Dodgers will play either the
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  Speaker 2: Phillies or the Atlanta Braves. Both NLDS series can be
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  Speaker 2: seen on Fox 1. Every hit could be the one
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  Speaker 2: that changes everything. Stream the MLB postseason live on Fox 1.
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  Speaker 2: So check that out. We are back at it here.
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  Speaker 2: As the fuse box has been updated, so we're good
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  Speaker 2: to go. And we begin this hour talking baseball.
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  Speaker 1: A little baseball for you. I know. Why are you
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  Speaker 1: talking baseball, Balor? I don't know. Because the playoffs are
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  Speaker 1: going on. That's why.
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  Speaker 2: That would be why. So our lead story is out
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  Speaker 2: of the Bronx. It was a win or go home
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  Speaker 2: situation for the Boston baseball team against the New York
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  Speaker 2: baseball team in the wild card round. It is a
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  Speaker 2: best of three, so my computer-like brain tells me if
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  Speaker 2: you lost the first game, you then have to win
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  Speaker 2: the next two. I don't know if you watched this
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  Speaker 2: or not. I don't know what else you were doing.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you were coughing up a furball.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea. So you might have missed it.
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  Speaker 2: We watched it so you would not have to. We
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  Speaker 2: watched it so you would not have to, and we
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  Speaker 2: witnessed Yankee starter Max Freed hold the Red Sox to
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  Speaker 2: three hits over six innings, and he struck out six,
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  Speaker 2: walked one.
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  Speaker 1: And Cody Bellinger, a belly bomb for the Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: He drove in four runs, had a three-run meatball sub
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  Speaker 2: that capped off a six-run explosion in.
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  Speaker 1: The sixth inning.
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  Speaker 2: And the fat lady was singing, came over from Broadway,
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  Speaker 2: and she sang... Turn out the lights.
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  Speaker 1: The party's over.
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  Speaker 2: See you later, Boston. Luis Garcia Jr. Very important we
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  Speaker 2: get the junior in there. He hit a dinger and
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  Speaker 2: had three hits. His first postseason start there with the Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: They got him midseason. So New York advances. If you
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  Speaker 2: update your bracket, and you can clearly see on the
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  Speaker 2: radio straighter here, that the Yankees will face the champions
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  Speaker 2: of the AL East. We're guaranteed of getting an AL
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  Speaker 2: East team into the championship round the american league championship
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  Speaker 2: series as the yankees will play tampa bay so that'll
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  Speaker 2: be the match up there and that's most would agree
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  Speaker 2: that that is the the real alcs right that whoever
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  Speaker 2: the white socks we'll get to them in a minute
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  Speaker 2: day one they advanced and they They will play in
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  Speaker 2: the other side of the bracket.
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  Speaker 1: But the real, the JV is that side.
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  Speaker 2: The varsity would be the Yankees and the Tampa Bay
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  Speaker 2: Rays in the divisional series.
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  Speaker 1: That will begin on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: So Boston, while the Yankees are getting ready to play
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  Speaker 2: the Tampa Bay Rays, Boston will be facing off their
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  Speaker 2: next opponent.
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  Speaker 1: I looked at their schedule. They have sand traps and
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  Speaker 1: water hazards. That's who they're going.
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  Speaker 2: Up against at a golf course near you if you
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  Speaker 2: live in a very rich part of town because these
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  Speaker 2: guys are all loaded.
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  Speaker 1: They play baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the better story is in the losing locker room.
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  Speaker 2: It is always in the losing locker room. And that
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  Speaker 2: is a good jumping off point. So let us discuss
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  Speaker 2: the questions. Where were the Red Sox supposed big bats
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  Speaker 2: when they needed them in the wild card round? We'll
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  Speaker 2: start with that because that seems to be the story here.
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  Speaker 2: My God, what the hell happened? Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic, pathetic, pathetic.
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  Speaker 2: So I've got picnic dinner, ambulance, and two-star hotel.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll put them all together, and we're going to steamroll.
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  Speaker 1: Steamroll through this hour is what we're going to do.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, we're going to steamroll. Don't question me.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to do it. All right, so A, the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox lineup. We'll start with the offense.
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  Speaker 2: So the lineup turned into an airport vending machine when
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  Speaker 2: you've got about 30 minutes and you've got to go
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  Speaker 2: all the way across the airport. You're like in Terminal
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  Speaker 2: A-15 and you have to get to Terminal B-45. But
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  Speaker 2: you want a snack. So you go to the airport
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  Speaker 2: vending machine. So you go to the vending machine, and
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  Speaker 2: you put your last dollar. For some reason, it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: take the electric pay. So you put your last dollar in,
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  Speaker 2: and the vending machine, not only does it eat your dollar,
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  Speaker 2: it gives you nothing. That's what the Red Sox did.
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  Speaker 1: Boston hit a pathetic— I thought, when I did the math
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  Speaker 1: on this, I thought, well, maybe I'm wrong. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm using mallet math. The Red Sox hit 117 dollars.
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  Speaker 1: 117 against Yankee pitching with 18 strikeouts in the series.
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  Speaker 1: They were outscored 18-2. It seemed like it was worse
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  Speaker 1: than that.
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  Speaker 2: The Red Sox hitters performed like NPCs.
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  Speaker 1: They were non-playable characters here.
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  Speaker 2: It was wild. Wild and crazy and, I mean, my God. Like,
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  Speaker 2: what are you doing? What on God's green earth?
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  Speaker 1: Seriously. It was insane.
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  Speaker 2: You thought at some point they'd start to hit. And
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  Speaker 2: maybe they will tomorrow, but that doesn't help them today.
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  Speaker 2: It does not help them at all. They treated the
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  Speaker 2: batter's box like airport security. Get in, get uncomfortable, and
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  Speaker 2: get the hell out.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. And Adley Rushman, the guy they picked up
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  Speaker 1: from Baltimore, known more as an offensive player than a
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  Speaker 1: defensive player, he hit one of eight in the series today.
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  Speaker 2: Zidane Raffaella was 0-7. Roman Anthony 0-2. And Snap Crackle Pop,
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  Speaker 2: the second coming, the next great Red Sox hitter, who
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  Speaker 2: did look good early. But man, his career has taken
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  Speaker 2: a turn for the worse here this season. And just collectively,
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  Speaker 2: the message for the Red Sox is they sucked at
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  Speaker 2: a time you cannot suck. And over at Yankee Stadium,
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  Speaker 2: they enjoyed a nice picnic dinner. Normally people have picnic lunches,
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  Speaker 2: but they had a picnic dinner. They ate their Panic Sandwich.
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  Speaker 2: So they enjoyed that.
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  Speaker 1: They ordered a second panic sandwich, and then they washed
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  Speaker 1: it down with some juice. Now, was it grape juice?
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  Speaker 1: Was it apple juice? No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: It was a very exotic juice. It was chokeberry juice.
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  Speaker 2: They enjoyed the chokeberry juice. They thought that was pretty good,
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  Speaker 2: so they had a lot of that. And meanwhile, the manager,
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  Speaker 2: Chad Tracy, needed the fast-acting tenactin because his player is
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  Speaker 2: suffering from a severe case of jock itch, a total
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  Speaker 2: collapse of the heart.
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  Speaker 1: For the Boston Red Sox, who had that.
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  Speaker 2: Magical carpet ride, proving there is no such thing as momentum,
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  Speaker 2: as they were exterminated now from the playoffs. Here's Chad Tracy,
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  Speaker 2: who was asked about what stands out, what's going to stand.
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  Speaker 1: Out about the 2026 championship. in Red Sox history. Take
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  Speaker 1: a listen. Remember this year down the line.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, right now it's regardless of all the special
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  Speaker 5: things that happened in the summer and there was, Quite
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  Speaker 5: a few. The goal is to win the World Series,
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  Speaker 5: and that ended for us tonight, so it's frustrating. There's
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  Speaker 5: a lot of things you can say, but in the
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  Speaker 5: moment right now, I think the guys only care that
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  Speaker 5: we lost, and it's going to take some time to
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  Speaker 5: get over that.
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  Speaker 2: So at least it did sound like a morgue. And
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  Speaker 2: that is the losing locker room. You must sound like
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  Speaker 2: you're in a morgue when you're in the losing locker room. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Chad Tracy, this guy. Now, I'm a little biased here.
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  Speaker 2: I knew his dad a bit back in the day.
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  Speaker 2: Jim Tracy, who managed the Dodgers and the Pirates and
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  Speaker 2: the Rockies. I'm a big fan of Jim Tracy. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm pulling for Chad Tracy.
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  Speaker 1: I really am.
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  Speaker 2: And I had said in a previous episode of the show,
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  Speaker 2: there's no way I would have given Chad Tracy a
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  Speaker 2: contract extension. until after the playoffs. The Red Sox already
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  Speaker 2: did that. So he got extended. He's going to be
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  Speaker 2: there next season unless the Red Sox buy him out,
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  Speaker 2: which is highly unlikely. So he got extended before the
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  Speaker 2: playoffs started as they had that dopamine hit from just
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  Speaker 2: making the.
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  Speaker 1: Playoffs after being 14 games under. 500 in Boston.
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  Speaker 2: And Chad Tracy's now being called out. And he's being
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  Speaker 2: called out for an issue that his dad had, the
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  Speaker 2: itchy trigger finger. And Tracy got a little too cute there.
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  Speaker 2: Chad Tracy with the bullpen. He micro-managed that Red Sox
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  Speaker 2: team into oblivion.
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  Speaker 1: Into oblivion.
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  Speaker 2: One of the questions that was raised, the Sonny Gray,
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  Speaker 2: who was not shut down great, but was pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: And he got yanked out of the game. And many
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  Speaker 2: of us watching said, well, it's the playoffs. You don't
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  Speaker 2: have to do that. This is not a game in June.
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  Speaker 2: You can leave him in there. And you'd rather have.
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  Speaker 1: Him in there. than some of the gas cans that
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  Speaker 1: come out of the bullpen.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, here's Sonny Gray commenting on getting pulled.
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  Speaker 1: A little prematurely. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 6: The best pitcher in the American League going through the
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  Speaker 6: order the third time. I think that's a fact. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I would have liked to live or die
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  Speaker 6: with me in that moment, but that's the competitor I am, and.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you can probably ask the guys, and
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  Speaker 6: they felt the same way. So I felt strong. I
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  Speaker 6: felt confident. I felt convicted. You know, I'm just going
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  Speaker 6: to put what you need to do, you know.
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  Speaker 2: All right, where's Sonny Gray there postgame as he.
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  Speaker 1: Said, hey, wait, put me in.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Sonny. Poindexter says you can't pitch. Poindexter, who's
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  Speaker 2: never picked up a baseball in his life, has determined
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  Speaker 2: you're not able to pitch.
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  Speaker 1: So, sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Go talk to Poindexter. Because he's got all the algorithms
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  Speaker 2: and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, the Boston Bullpen, out of the 18
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  Speaker 2: runs the Yankees scored, the Boston Bullpen gave up 15
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  Speaker 2: of the 18. Now, I did not play Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 2: I am told that is not good. I am told
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  Speaker 2: that is not good. Now, page two.
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  Speaker 1: To Houston. Oh, man.
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  Speaker 2: I am smiling from ear to ear. The Chicago White Sox.
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  Speaker 2: They were America's team this week. The Chi Sox.
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  Speaker 1: And they beat the.
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  Speaker 2: S-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1- Series win since the 05 World Series.
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  Speaker 1: I was a little child back in 05. No, I
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  Speaker 1: was not working here unless I was.
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  Speaker 2: Chicago exploding for four runs in the first inning. And
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  Speaker 2: Hunter Brown now has plenty of time to go out
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  Speaker 2: and hunt. He was supposedly the ace, y'all told me,
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  Speaker 2: of the Astros pitching staff. Hunter Brown, and he got
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  Speaker 2: yanked after just two outs. That seems to suck. Houston
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  Speaker 2: also committed a couple of errors, and it was the
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  Speaker 2: great Chase, Chase Meidroth, who delivered the KO. Body blow,
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  Speaker 2: body blow, knockout punch for the Chi Sox. A three-run
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  Speaker 2: ding-dong of Brian Abreu.
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  Speaker 1: There for the Chi Sox in the sixth inning to
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  Speaker 1: extend the lead to 7-3. So the White Sox have advanced.
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  Speaker 2: We told you that varsity is on one side of
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  Speaker 2: the bracket in the American League. Yankees and Rays, the
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  Speaker 2: junior varsity is the White Sox and the Cleveland Bridges.
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  Speaker 1: They're named after a bridge. They used to be called
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  Speaker 1: the Cleveland Indians, and then the Wokesters got involved, and
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  Speaker 1: so now they're named after a bridge.
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  Speaker 2: That is the AL Divisional Series. It begins on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: in northern Ohio. Tickets are available.
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  Speaker 1: The better story, though, is in the losing locker room.
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  Speaker 1: So here's the question. Here's the question. Is watching Houston.
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  Speaker 2: Get booed off the field at home Baseball's version of
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  Speaker 2: comfort food. For the second consecutive game, they got booed
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  Speaker 2: at home.
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  Speaker 1: This is not just comfort food.
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  Speaker 2: This is a dino-sized helping of comfort food.
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  Speaker 1: We were overdosing on schadenfreude.
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  Speaker 2: I was a little groggy because this was a day game.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still trying to get my wits about me during
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  Speaker 2: the day. And I'd already watched the Braves and the Phillies,
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  Speaker 2: which is now that series is going to... the final game,
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  Speaker 2: but this game overdosing on shot in Freud, watching the
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  Speaker 2: a holes implode. In fact, I almost needed an ambulance.
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  Speaker 2: I almost needed an ambulance for some medical attention. It was,
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  Speaker 2: it was great.
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  Speaker 1: It was therapeutic.
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  Speaker 2: And every man, woman, and child, non-Houston baseball fan, enjoying
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  Speaker 2: every delicious ooey-gooey morsel, every second of them getting bounced.
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  Speaker 1: So don't ever apologize. Now, so you shouldn't be like that. No,
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  Speaker 1: don't apologize for that, okay?
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  Speaker 2: Don't apologize for loving the a-holes getting kicked out of
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs. Sports hate is part of the entertainment package.
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  Speaker 2: And if it goes away, I'm out.
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  Speaker 6: I'm out.
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  Speaker 1: We used to have this guy named Jihadist John from Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: God love him.
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  Speaker 2: He was one of the big super fans of the show.
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  Speaker 2: Very active on the show. And he was beaten and
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  Speaker 2: broken as a sports fan. He got to the age of,
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  Speaker 2: this is years ago, got to the age of 40.
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  Speaker 2: Got to the age of 40 and he.
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  Speaker 1: He said since his teams didn't win, he just gave
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  Speaker 1: up sports. You know, like if you're religious, like you
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  Speaker 1: give up certain things for certain religious holidays.
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  Speaker 2: He gave up sports, and I haven't heard from him
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  Speaker 2: in probably 15 years. He just, that's it. He said,
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  Speaker 2: my teams don't win, and I'm done.
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  Speaker 1: I'm out. And he just quit.
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  Speaker 2: But never give up. Never give up on the... It's
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  Speaker 2: just wonderful. Sports hate is the greatest kind of hate.
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  Speaker 2: We should get rid of all other hate and just
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  Speaker 2: have sports hate. The world would be great. When I
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  Speaker 2: become a deity, that'll be my thing. Nobody will be
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  Speaker 2: allowed to hate anyone other than sports teams.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way to do it. Perfect. You know, of course,
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  Speaker 1: it just contains sports hate. My God. But that's part
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  Speaker 1: of the entertainment.
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  Speaker 2: What a perfect ending for that little cheatin' pipsqueak, Jose Albuve,
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  Speaker 2: the conductor of the Trash Can Marching Band.
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  Speaker 1: Back in the day. No, we have not forgotten.
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  Speaker 2: And to think that franchise went from banging on trash
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  Speaker 2: cans to being tossed into a trash can by their
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: own fan base. They're the worst team ever to make
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: the postseason. Didn't have a winning record. Their home field
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: advantage is now a Groupon nobody wants to redeem at
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: this particular point. They've dropped, I saw this, nine straight
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: postseason home games. It turns out that winning at home
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: isn't so easy without the contraband that they were using
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: back in the day.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: It was extra delicious. It was, I cannot stress this enough,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: how delicious it was.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Hearing the hometown fan base serenade the ass, one 1,000,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: two 1,000 holes, with Boo Flat. Like the Greek symbol,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: you know that symbol of the snake eating its tail?
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: That's what's happening now with the Astros. They're done. Dun-da-dun-dun-dun! Ah,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: so great. All right, last word. Late game.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: San Diego, we go. The Padres have eliminated the Cubbies.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: They're out. Now, 4-1, the final.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: San Diego wins the late game, and they complete the
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: mini two-game sweep-a-roo in the NL Wild Card Series. Gavin
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Sheets with the big haymaker coming off the bench here
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: to two-run the knock uh homer moonshot whatever you want
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: to call it there and that was the big hit
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: san diego pitching yet again twisting the chicago cub hitters
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: into a nice soft pretzel there five padre pitchers combined
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: to hold the cubs to just five hits in game
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: two it was boring the fans seem to be loving
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: it in san diego my My old town there, I
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: worked at San Diego Radio back in there because when
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: I was there, the Padres, nobody cared about the Padres.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: When I worked in San Diego, they had a fire
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: sale every couple of years. I used to go out
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: to Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego, and I'd buy
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: the cheapest ticket, which was out in the outfield, the
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: top part there, and I'd sit. by the second inning
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: I'd be I'd go to those businessman specials used to
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: come and I'd be sitting behind whatever dugout I wanted
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: because nobody cared about the Padres and I'd be watching
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Bip Roberts and players like that and now you look
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: at it it's like Mike they're the only game in
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: town I was talking to one of my buddies from
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: San Diego.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I was like, can you believe, back in the day,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: at one point they had an.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: NBA team, the Chargers were there, should still be in
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: San Diego, and now it's just the Padres. But anyway, listen, nonetheless,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: the Pod squad now advanced to play the Brew crew
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: in the NLDS starting this weekend.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: The better story, though, is in the losing locker room.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: So the question, how demoralizing is this playoff flop-a-roo.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: For the Cubs. He's getting swept in this little two-game series.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: So the Cubs invested a fair amount with manager Craig Council,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: who I believe is making big boy money still as
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: the Cubs manager. And they invested in some of their
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: younger players, gave them contracts. And the Cubs right now,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: only to watch that offense ride the vomit comet straight
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: into the postseason oblivion, which is where they are right now.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: And look, sometimes you're the dog. like our friend Andre's dog, Willis,
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: back in the Commonwealth. Sometimes you're the dog, and sometimes
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: you're the fire hydrant. And we all know the role
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: the Cubs played, swinging like they had been tranquilized. Did
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: they have too many fish tacos in San Diego?
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: What happened? Were they out in Pacific Beach too much?
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Where did they go? I don't know. So the San Diego.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Pitching staff treating the Chicago lineup Like the complimentary breakfast
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: at a bed bug infested two-star hotel.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: Ew.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I don't think they have those in San Diego.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: At least not in the good part. Probably if you
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: go outside San Diego, they have those. But absolutely nothing.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I'll have to check Hotel Circle to see all the
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: hotels down there. But absolutely nothing to fear.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: The cubbies were flummoxed, flustered, flattened, and finally flushed by
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: the Padres. So there you go. And by the way,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: how do you lead Major League Baseball in runs and
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: you lead the NL in home runs and then.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Manage eight measly hits? All of them, I think seven
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: of them were singles, or I think seven of the
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: eight were singles there, over 18 innings of baseball. And, well,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: the Komodo dragon in the room, of course, is Pete
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Crow Armstrong, who was, the word for him is bedraggled.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: He went from big, big, big, big bopper MVP of
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: the National League. Y'all told me that's going to win
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: the MVP award.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Probably will.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Probably will. Pete Crow Armstrong, MVP of the National League.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: And he was a jag in this two-game set.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Just another guy. He's just another guy wearing very expensive
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: batting gloves. So, I mean, he had really nice batting gloves.
• 22:44
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• 22:53
  Speaker 2: We'll talk a little later about the Phillies, who were
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: on final rights being given to them, and then they
• 23:01
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• 23:04
  Speaker 2: coming up big after Bryce had a boo-boo out there
• 23:07
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• 23:09
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• 23:44
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know. Yeah, and in addition to that,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Lorena is here, FSR Tech Queen.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Hi, Bill.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Very demanding in our production meeting. I mean, very rude.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I want it the way I want it, and that's
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: just it. What is this, Burger King? And Koopaloop. Wasn't
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: that their slogan back in the day? Yeah, like have
• 26:37
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• 26:39
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• 26:40
  Speaker 2: And Koopaloop right over there at a Bronco fan. That's
• 26:47
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• 26:48
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• 26:51
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• 26:59
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll take some calls here. And first, of course,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: the comments. Everyone has a hot take. Everyone has something
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: they would like to say.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: And why not?
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Also, later this hour, the celebrity almost Donnybrook that happened
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: in the Bronx... This is a sidebar story, which is
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: pretty interesting. We'll get to that coming up in a minute.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Inca Terror writes in from New York. He says, Benny,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: I am over the moon giddy. Both of my nemesis
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: are gone in one day. The Red Sox and the Astros.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Humiliation was baseball comfort food indeed. Three cheese macaroni with bacon, garlic,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: mashed potatoes, and.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: French onion soup. There you go.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: I'm listening in a happy food coma. French onion soup
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: is outstanding, and it's hard to get a perfect French
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: onion soup. When you have a good French onion soup,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: when you find a place that has it, you've got
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: to make that a regular thing so they don't get
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: it off the menu there for sure.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Let's see. What else do we have here?
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Steve writes, since the NFL front office has spoken out
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: that it was the wrong defensive pass interference call during
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: the Sunday night game, Do you think the NFL should award.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: The victory to the Rams?
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Yes. Just like Western Michigan should have been given the
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: win against Michigan. It's a great football injustice. We'll get
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: to that later.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: We have four hours of talk radio, so we will
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: get to that. In a little bit, Shane in Des
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Moines shouting from the mountaintop, the cheating Astros are eliminated.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Eliminated.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: I'm getting text messages from people. Major TV guy. I
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: don't want to give his.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Name away because he'll get in trouble for listening to
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: the show. But big TV guy sent me a text.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: He's happy with the Astros going away.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: So, absolutely. Absolutely.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Anthony in Anaheim, who gave up the life of luxury
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: and celebrity as a caller to talk radio, and he
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: chose the family life, he says, Koopaloop wants you to
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: rattle off some of your nicknames.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's... No, I don't. I don't know.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Well, Anthony says you do, and he's more important. Anthony
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: in Anaheim, I say he's more important. When's the last
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: time we saw Anthony? He doesn't even show up to
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: these events we do anymore.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, he doesn't even listen to the show.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: No, I think he listens for like 10 minutes and
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: goes to bed because he's like 90 years old now.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: He's an old man. He used to be a young man,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: but that's what happens. You become old.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Well, just for old time's sake, I have been called,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: among other things, give me some music, Lorraine, get me
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: in the mood. I have been called the Baron of Balderdash.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Big Gall Bladder, I don't have one anymore, Bennis the Menace,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Benny Beatdown, Captain Knee Jerk, what is this, 1980s porn music?
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: What are you doing?
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Duke of the Northwoods, General of Degenerates, the Tycoon of Tease,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: The master of disaster.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: We like the Benny Hill song. Be hustler or filibuster.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: You went opposite of Benny Hill. You went 1982 porn.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Nightlight of nightlife. Pummeler of producers. Benny Brightside. I've been
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: called the manatee of insanity. Marconi Mallard. I did work
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: at two radio stations that won a Marconi award. Moneyline Mallard.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Masshole Mallard. That's one of my great nicknames, deputized by
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: a true masshole. Masshole Mickey, rest in peace. Emissary of embellishment.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Weeknight windbag. Wizard of wacky. Slayer of naysayers, the Grand
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Goober of Gab, the Oligarch of Dark, Tower of Babel, On,
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Honest Adonis, Senator of Sarcasm, Nocturnal Colonel, the Underdog of Monologue,
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: and the Holy Pope of the Slippery Slope. And that's
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: only half my nicknames. We don't promise that we're going
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: to give you a good show. We just promise that
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: we're going to give you a lot of nicknames. Now,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Ivan the Terrible, Ivan the Terrible, he's... He's in mourning
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: right now because he's a big fan of the Cheaters there,
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: and he's very upset that it's all over for them.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: All over.
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: All over.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Let's see.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Curmudgeon Wayne in Duluth, right on the shores of Lake Superior, says,
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: I think the way you're going bonkers right now. A
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: 72-hour hold with Blind Scott is needed.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what happened to
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Blind Scott. I think he retired from the show. And
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: somebody told me, I got an email the other day,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: said his X account was, he got knocked off X,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: which is shocking because he should have been knocked off
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: about 15 years ago from X. So I don't know
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: what happened with that. I don't know if that's true
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: or not, but that's what somebody emailed me. And I,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: of course.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: I'm too lazy to check, so I don't know if
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: he did get knocked out or not. King Rory writes
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: in and says, is it a coinkydink that on the
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: same day the White Sox advanced in the playoffs, the
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Cubs got eliminated? I think not. We all know there
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: is a higher power to all this, and it's Pope Leo.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if he's aiding the Bears as well.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Okay. I'm sure that's... That's going on here. All right,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: let's go to the phones. And eeny, meeny, miny, moe,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: we've got Peter in Ottawa cashing a golden ticket. Hello, Peter. Welcome.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: I've got a golden ticket. I've got a golden ticket.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: I love her.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: She's my dear. Calm down.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Calm down. Oh, well, come on, Ben. Let me give
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Lorena some charm. Well, nobody does that. Lorena doesn't get
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: any love from anyone that listens to the show. Well, no,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: she does for me. Oh, from you.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: What are you, Anthony in Louisiana? Are you jealous of
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Anthony in Louisiana?
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: No, not at all, Ben. I love you.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: I've been listening to you for 20 years, and I.
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: Love you, buddy.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much. I appreciate that. Now say
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: whatever you want. If you've listened to me for 20 years,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: I'll give you the next 20 minutes. I don't care.
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: I forget the girl's name.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: You were with the M & M Marina something. Oh,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Miranda Marino. Yeah, Miranda Marino. Do you remember Credit Card Gordon?
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know what happened to him. I remember Credit
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Card Gourd. Oh, my God.
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: He was from Ottawa, too.
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: That's why I brought him up, because he was one
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: of your neighbors, and then he moved, and then I
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: don't know what happened.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: No, I don't know where he went, but no, man.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: I've been listening ever since.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: I love you, buddy.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, well, thank you. I love you, too. You know what?
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: I'm going to hug you right now. Let's hug. You
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: want to hug me? I'm hugging you. I'm hugging you.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: I don't need the sound effects. You're the best, buddy.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: That was wild. But, no, I don't want to say
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: something that I don't want to say.
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: But, like.
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: I even forgot what I was.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Going to say. Oh, come on.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Come on.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: You got the knob. I threw you off your game.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Come on, Peter. Come on, Peter. Peter, you know what?
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: This is such a great call. You've listened to me
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: for 20 years. I'm going to give you another golden
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: ticket so you can call tomorrow. You get another golden ticket.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: You get another golden ticket.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: I got a gold ticket. I got a gold ticket.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: Thank you, guys.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: I'm going to hang up on you now. But thank you.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Call tomorrow. And you can try to remember what you
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: wanted to say. Something flirtatious to Lorena. Which is very rare. Again,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: generally speaking, people are not very nice to her.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Never.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: I am just hated on this show. All right.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Portland, and Super John is in Portland.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: He's upset, and we need to talk him off the ledge.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: What is upsetting you, Super John? I'd like you to
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: come into my office right now. Why are you upset?
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: What's going on?
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: You tickled my hate bone. You did with your sports
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: hate take and got me going a little bit. Now,
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: I want to tell your listeners that their karmic cycle ended–
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: in September, and a new karmic cycle starts. So I'm
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: going to lay off the hate. But before I do,
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: my new hate team is the Philadelphia 76ers. I cannot
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: stand meeting the Sixers.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: You should be happy because they're not going to win
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: this year, so you should be happy.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Dr. J is a great favorite of mine, but I'm
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: telling you, I'm not going to like the Sixers this year.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to like the Astros ever. I'm not
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: going to like the Cowboys ever. And I'm not going
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: to like the USC Trojans ever. And that's the way
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: it's always going to be.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: That's good.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: That's solid.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: All right. Enjoy your hate, sir. Again, sports hate. We
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: all need it. It just don't have the other hate.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Let's all love each other. That sports hate? Solid. Solid.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Love me some.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Sports hate is the greatest kind of hate.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Lucky Tony is up next. Hello, Lucky Tony in the Bay.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Get that dump button ready. Hello, Lucky Tony. Welcome.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Hey, Ben.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: I'm not trying to plug nothing except Benny versus the Penny.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: But how about me versus Penny Nichols? If she nods
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: in agreement, it's heads.
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: Thanks, Ben.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: All right, thank you for that. Aaron Judge, will he play?
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Will he not play? Yankees have advanced, and Judge is
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: on the fence.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: He's unsure.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Despite all that propaganda that Judge could have played against
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: the Red Sox, now he didn't play.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: And how bad does that make Aaron Judge look?
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: The Yankees didn't miss a beat without Aaron Judge, and
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: the captain is unsure whether he'll be able to play
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: in the divisional series. He's been out since September 16th
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: with a strained right calf. Time now for the Who
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Am I game. This is where I pretend to be
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: somebody else. Thus, we call it the Who Am I game.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Red Sox catcher Adley Rushman is now 0-7 in his
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: postseason career. I have played in the most losses without
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: a win in MLB playoff history.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Again, this is without a hit, I should say. I
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: guess I could include that.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: That's kind of somewhat important here. So, again, Adley Rushman
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: of the Red Sox. He also played in the playoffs
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: with the Orioles. Hitless in the postseason games in his
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: career and not part of a win. I have played
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: in the most losses without a win and do not
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: have a hit in those losses in my playoff career.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Who am I? The answer. We'll get to that, and
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: we will do it.
• 38:01
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• 38:04
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• 38:07
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• 38:10
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• 38:12
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• 38:16
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• 38:17
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• 38:20
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• 38:24
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• 38:27
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• 38:29
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• 38:31
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• 38:37
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• 38:42
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• 38:47
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• 38:51
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• 38:52
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• 38:55
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• 38:58
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• 39:01
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• 39:06
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• 39:08
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• 39:08
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• 39:11
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• 39:14
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• 39:15
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• 39:20
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• 39:20
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• 39:23
  Speaker 1: We'll pay off the Who Am I game.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: Who?
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: A reminder, though, before we pay off the Who Am I,
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Am I game, there is no time like October. The
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: NLDS is here streaming live on Fox 1. Padres and Brewers,
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: one half. And the Dodgers will play the Phillies or
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: the Braves on the other half. Both NLDS series can
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: be seen on Fox 1. Every hit could be the
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: one that changes everything. So stream the MLB postseason live.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: on Fox 1. Here's the Who Am I game. Red
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: Sox catcher Adley Rushman has now played in seven postseason
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: games in his career.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: And lost all seven.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: I have played in the most losses without ever getting
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: a win in MLB postseason history.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Who am I? That is the question. What is the answer?
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: And let's see, does anyone know the answer? We go
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: to the great unwashed here. Lou Merloni from Alf the
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Alien O'Piner. Cody Bellinger from Mr. Irrigation.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Roscoe P. Coltrane from Truck Stop Fungus. Chris and Houston's
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: favorite tennis player from Not a Burner. The second most
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: hated man in Wisconsin from King Rory.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Who do we have?
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Abe Froman, Mark the Walker says, the Sausage King of Chicago.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Do you have an answer, Lorena? Yeah, I'm going to
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: go with Ken Griffey Jr.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: No, it's the great Red Sox legend of the 80s,
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Jody Reed. 0-11 for the Red Sox. And he also
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: played for the Padres.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: But 0-11, Jody Reed.