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Hour 2 - No Ray of Sunshine · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: That's baseball, Susan. It's our number two. Our number two
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  Speaker 1: ready to go as we do the Mallard Mambo in
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  Speaker 1: our number two. How much responsibility should manager Stephen Vogt
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  Speaker 1: shoulder for the Guardians elimination? Spoiler alert, it's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: The Guardians decided to save their top pitcher for game seven,
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  Speaker 1: which is really good news. Except there is no Game 7, dummies. Also,
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  Speaker 1: what grade do you give the 2026 World Series matchup?
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  Speaker 1: It is all set now. The Brew Crew taking on
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  Speaker 1: the Rays. The winner will have their first championship matchup
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  Speaker 1: In franchise history and in New York is Aaron Boone
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  Speaker 1: returning good news for the Bronx Bomber fan base. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about that as well. It's all coming your way
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  Speaker 1: right about now. Here we go with our number two.
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  Speaker 1: Not exactly a ray of sunshine. Welcome in the beginning
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  Speaker 1: So I had a chance to watch the baseball playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Our lead is from baseball. And I did see the
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  Speaker 1: patch the team from Tampa is wearing. And it has
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  Speaker 1: the Wee Bull logo right there. And I pointed at
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  Speaker 1: my TV. I said, I will be talking about Webull later.
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  Speaker 1: And sure enough, I did. So our lead from St. Petersburg,
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  Speaker 1: it was game number six of the ALCS. The Guardians
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  Speaker 1: looking to force a Game 7. Another team with a
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  Speaker 1: dumb nickname. They're named after a bridge. The Guardians trying
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  Speaker 1: to get to a Game 7 winner-take-all Game 7. Anything
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  Speaker 1: can happen in a Game 7 game. And the Rays
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  Speaker 1: hoping to end things and advance to a higher level
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. A team from Wisconsin eating cheese curds,
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  Speaker 1: waiting around to find out who they were going to play.
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  Speaker 1: You had Brian Anderson, the Brewers broadcaster. He had the call.
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  Speaker 1: Ron Darling and Jeff Francor on TNT. They were calling
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  Speaker 1: the game. And you were probably watching the football game,
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  Speaker 1: or I don't know what you were doing, but you
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  Speaker 1: were most likely not watching this based on the ratings.
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  Speaker 1: It's not good. Yandy Diaz. Yandy, Yandy Diaz and Junior
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  Speaker 1: Caminero went kaboom! Kaboom! Each of them had a two-run ding-dong,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm told is good. And next met Freddy Peralta.
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  Speaker 1: Mets trash is your success. As Peralta, who was not
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  Speaker 1: good wearing the Metropolitan's uniform, went down to Florida and
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  Speaker 1: he grounded a round on the mound. Five and a
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  Speaker 1: third innings. Tampa Bay ends up beating Cleveland 7-3 in
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  Speaker 1: Game 6 of the ALCS, and it's on to the
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  Speaker 1: World Series, their third pennant in 29 seasons. As a
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  Speaker 1: big league franchise, you think of some of these teams
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  Speaker 1: that have been around, like the Angels and others who've
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  Speaker 1: only been to one World Series. The Mariners have never
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  Speaker 1: been to the World Series. Tampa Bay, they spend no money,
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  Speaker 1: they have no fans, and they've now been to three
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  Speaker 1: World Series, have a chance to win their first World
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  Speaker 1: Series championship. The Rays will face the Brew Crew, the Brewers,
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  Speaker 1: in the first matchup in which both teams are trying
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  Speaker 1: for their first World Series title. That's the first time
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  Speaker 1: this will have happened in almost 50 years. 1980, the Fightin'
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  Speaker 1: Phils got their first franchise championship over the Kansas City Royals.
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  Speaker 1: and George Brett. That was way back in 1980, so
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  Speaker 1: 46 years ago. Now, game one, I know you're counting
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  Speaker 1: down the minutes to game one. It's on Friday, Friday, Friday,
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  Speaker 1: and that'll be in Milwaukee. And it's possible the roof
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  Speaker 1: will be open based on the weather pattern, unlikely in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 1: So that would mean if the Brewers play all the
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  Speaker 1: games with the roof closed and the Rays don't have
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  Speaker 1: a roof to open unless there's another hurricane, that means
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  Speaker 1: this will be an all-Dome World Series. Dome-da-dome-dome-dome! Yes, cannot wait.
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  Speaker 1: Dome baseball. When you think the great outdoors, you think...
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  Speaker 1: dome stadiums but that's what we have on tap so
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  Speaker 1: at least we won't have to worry about a rain
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  Speaker 1: out or a rain delay unless the roof breaks at
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  Speaker 1: the house that bud selig built there in milwaukee but
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  Speaker 1: the story here is tampa bay winning and kevin cash
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  Speaker 1: and we got one more bite announcing to his team
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  Speaker 1: one more bite There you go. Big celebration. They were
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  Speaker 1: all going crazy in the locker room as Yandy Diaz
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  Speaker 1: talked the talk. He guaranteed a game six victory through
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  Speaker 1: an interpreter on Sunday. And then he walked the walk,
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  Speaker 1: getting it done on Monday night. But the better story
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  Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room. And the Tribe, the
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  Speaker 1: team formerly called the Tribe before you wokesters made them
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  Speaker 1: change their name. So the Tribe were up 2-1 in
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  Speaker 1: the American League Championship Series, and they let it all
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  Speaker 1: slip away. Bye-bye! See you later. And they end up
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  Speaker 1: blowing the lead, lose three games in a row, and
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  Speaker 1: that's all for the Cleveland baseball team. So good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question. How much responsibility
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  Speaker 1: should the manager, Stephen, vote shoulder as the Guardians eliminated
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  Speaker 1: from the American League Championship Series? So how much responsibility
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  Speaker 1: falls on the shoulders of the manager? So I've got
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  Speaker 1: Air Force Paratrooper, Peter Luger Steakhouse, and Soup of the Day.
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  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things, and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to sing Kumbaya. We're going to sit around
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  Speaker 1: the fire and we're going to sing Kumbaya. Now, we
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  Speaker 1: always start with.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even have to say it anymore. It sounds
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  Speaker 1: like you're clogged. It's all choked up. Very emotional. I'm verklempt.
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  Speaker 1: I'm verklempt. All right, so most games, what's the mantra?
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  Speaker 1: Most games are lost, they're not won, right? Most games
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  Speaker 1: are lost, not won. Better story, losing locker room, all
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  Speaker 1: that bull crap I say every night. Now, most series
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  Speaker 1: are lost, not won. This is a textbook example. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the good news is I can tell you what happened
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  Speaker 1: because chances are you were not watching. I know Ohio Al,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, was watching, possibly Dick and Dayton, possibly Dick
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  Speaker 1: and Dayton, and a few others. But there it was. Cleveland...
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  Speaker 1: Did not get eliminated by Tampa Bay. Cleveland eliminated Cleveland.
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  Speaker 1: So the Guardians were up two games to one. And
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  Speaker 1: you know what they were feeling? They were feeling groovy.
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  Speaker 1: They were feeling groovy. They were like, oh, this is great.
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  Speaker 1: And they went from that, and they ended up getting
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  Speaker 1: outscored the final three games 17-7. Three consecutive trips. On
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  Speaker 1: the Vomit Comet. Three consecutive nights on the Vomit Comet. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Vogt, the manager, did not play. We all know that.
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  Speaker 1: He did not play. However, his fingerprints are all over
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  Speaker 1: the crime scene. The DNA is in the air everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: It just is. So Stephen Vogt took a bottle of
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  Speaker 1: stupid pills from the medicine cabinet there. He was not managing.
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  Speaker 1: He was micro-managing, trotting out how many relievers? Not one,
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  Speaker 1: not two, not three, not four, not five, not six,
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  Speaker 1: not seven. How about eight relievers? Like he was conducting
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  Speaker 1: some kind of odd science experiment. And the guinea pig
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  Speaker 1: was the Cleveland baseball team's playoff hopes. Just like that. Congratulations, professor.
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  Speaker 1: The manager of the Cleveland baseball team. You outsmarted yourself,
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  Speaker 1: and it's right on to Cancun. Knock yourself out. So
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  Speaker 1: relying on your eight MyPonies, and that's what relief pitchers are.
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  Speaker 1: They're not as good as starters, or else there would
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  Speaker 1: be starters. So the eight MyPonies, and you ended up
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  Speaker 1: saving your stallion. Your stud of studs, Gavin Williams, you
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  Speaker 1: saved him for game seven. That is a choice. That
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  Speaker 1: is a choice that you made. It is also managerial malpractice.
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  Speaker 1: It is the equivalent of being in the Air Force.
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  Speaker 1: You're an Air Force paratrooper, and you're like, hey, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I know we're going to do some practice stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: we're going to jump out of planes. So what we're
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  Speaker 1: going to do is we're going to save the good parachute,
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  Speaker 1: For the second jump, we're going to use the one
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  Speaker 1: that's got a hole in it and it's a little frazzled.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to use that parachute on the first jump.
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  Speaker 1: And then on the second jump, we'll use a really
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  Speaker 1: good parachute that's going to come down perfectly. There is
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  Speaker 1: no second jump, dummy. There is no second. This is
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  Speaker 1: the disease of modern baseball. And it continues to backfire.
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  Speaker 1: And no one has the base balls to put a
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  Speaker 1: stop to it. It's ridiculous. Modern baseball. Everyone's got all
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  Speaker 1: the gadgets and gizmos and all the spreadsheets and all
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  Speaker 1: the notes and all that stuff. They've got the matchup
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  Speaker 1: charts over here. And nobody uses their brain. Nobody uses
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  Speaker 1: their brain. What is the point? Let me ask you this.
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  Speaker 1: What is the point of having a dominant, top-starting pitcher
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  Speaker 1: like Gavin Williams? What is the point of having a
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  Speaker 1: pitcher like that and then saying, you know what, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to save him for Game 7? Do you understand?
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  Speaker 1: The choke factor in a Game 7, it's akin to
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  Speaker 1: a professional golfer, the final round of the Masters. How
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  Speaker 1: often do these guys gag at these big golf tournaments? Well,
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  Speaker 1: in baseball, if you get to a Game 7, and
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  Speaker 1: there is a widespread case of tight-tooker syndrome. A sphincter
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  Speaker 1: gets a little too tight there. But you can't figure
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  Speaker 1: out who's got that and who doesn't have that if
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  Speaker 1: you don't get to a game seven. What on God's
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  Speaker 1: green earth? Was this completely Stephen Vogt's choice or was
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  Speaker 1: this a group decision? Was this some poindexter in the
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  Speaker 1: front office?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But I will be Benny Brightside on one thing. I
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  Speaker 1: will give a positive review because I will guarantee you
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  Speaker 1: that while it didn't work out and Gavin Williams did
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  Speaker 1: not take the ball in Game 7, because.
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  Speaker 4: There is no Game 7! There is no Game 7!
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  Speaker 4: The good news is he'll be extra fresh for that
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  Speaker 4: Cactus League opener. If there is a Cactus League in 2027,
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  Speaker 4: the way it's looking, there will not be. a Cactus
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  Speaker 4: League in 2027 with the pending work stoppage. But if
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  Speaker 4: there is, Gavin Williams has that extra rest.
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  Speaker 5: Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now, page two. So let's go up to
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  Speaker 1: 36,000 feet. That is our cruising altitude on the red eye.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to look down, and we look down there,
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  Speaker 1: and we have the matchup. We have the matchup. Just
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  Speaker 1: like every whiz kid, every algorithm predicted... Way back in
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  Speaker 1: spring training, it is on like Donkey Kong on a
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  Speaker 1: Friday night in Brewtown. The Brewers into the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere Sleazy Cheese is smiling. And the Green Bay Gobbler,
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  Speaker 1: very happy. Even JT, the wingman, he might live in Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: but his heart's back in Wisconsin. So their team on
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  Speaker 1: to the World Series. Here's the question. What grade, give
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  Speaker 1: me a grade, what grade do you give The 2026
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  Speaker 1: World Series between the Brewers and the Rays. The Brewers
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  Speaker 1: and the Rays. That is the matchup. So we have
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  Speaker 1: decided to dub this World Series the proper name. It
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  Speaker 1: is the Speakeasy Fall Classic. It is the Speakeasy World Series.
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  Speaker 1: You have to knock three times. You got to whisper
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  Speaker 1: the password. and promise not to tell anybody the games
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  Speaker 1: are being played. Do we all agree on that? Very good.
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  Speaker 1: So on the Maller grading system, the Maller scale of interest,
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  Speaker 1: the Maller scale of interest, 1 to 10, with 10 being, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, I can't wait to watch. I am at
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  Speaker 1: a 2. I'm at a 2. A matchup that has
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  Speaker 1: all of the national buzz of that of a zoning
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  Speaker 1: board meeting in Sheboygan. In fact, I would argue there
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  Speaker 1: might be better snacks and cheaper snacks at a zoning
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  Speaker 1: board get-together in beautiful Sheboygan. Unfortunately, that is not what
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about here. It's the fall classic. Nobody, nobody ordered...
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like going to Peter Luger's Steakhouse, and
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  Speaker 1: you get in there, you're all excited, you sit down,
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  Speaker 1: they get the white tablecloth, they get you a cocktail,
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  Speaker 1: and then they say, well, we have a limited menu. Okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's fine. I'll just get something off the limited menu.
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  Speaker 1: And the waiter hands you the menu, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: big dish. big menu thing and then there's like there's
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  Speaker 1: only one thing i said well okay it's probably like
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  Speaker 1: a porterhouse steak or something like that no no no
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  Speaker 1: no uh the menu is a limited menu and we're
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  Speaker 1: only serving tonight they said the waiter says we're only
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  Speaker 1: serving steamed broccoli uh no spice nothing no steak and
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  Speaker 1: that's it we have drinks and we have steamed broccoli
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  Speaker 1: well i don't want steamed broccoli but that's all you're
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  Speaker 1: getting you're getting steamed broccoli you're not getting anything else
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  Speaker 1: so the raisin brewers now i can sit here behind
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  Speaker 1: the bully pulpit and say man there's some really good
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  Speaker 1: stories In there, some really good stories. Jackson, Churrio, The Miz,
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  Speaker 1: and Junior, Caballero, and all these guys. There's some good
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  Speaker 1: stories in there. I can also tell you a documentary
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  Speaker 1: about Twinkies has some good stories, but nobody's watching that either.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going out of your way to watch a
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  Speaker 1: documentary about Twinkies. You're not. That's just the reality of
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  Speaker 1: the situation. And so this thing is built. This World Series,
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you what this is built for. This is
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  Speaker 1: built for people who know what FIP and war are.
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  Speaker 1: All 37 of you are all horny for this World Series. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: This is the World Series for you. If you're a
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  Speaker 1: big fan of War and War Plus, War to the
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  Speaker 1: Tenth Degree, all of that stuff, and FIP. So congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: You have now eliminated 98% of your possible audience here.
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  Speaker 1: And the ratings will be so bad. How bad? How
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  Speaker 1: bad will they be? The ratings will be so bad
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  Speaker 1: that the people over there at Nielsen... are going to
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  Speaker 1: have to send someone to the stadium to verify the
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  Speaker 1: games actually happened. They're going to have to verify. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I hope I'm wrong. I'm never wrong. I hope I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I hope I'm wrong. So there you go. You've eliminated
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  Speaker 1: most of the others. The hard-on nerds, the Rays have
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  Speaker 1: no fan base outside of a very small group there
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  Speaker 1: in the Tampa-St. Pete area. And the Brewers, they own Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 1: That's great, but not a lot of fans outside of
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  Speaker 1: of the state of Wisconsin, and that's it. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: get it. Listen, if you're from Wisconsin or you're a
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  Speaker 1: Rays fan, I totally get it. Enjoy the hell out
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  Speaker 1: of it. The problem is I do broadcasting, not narrowcasting.
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  Speaker 1: It puts me in a bit of a pickle that
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  Speaker 1: I am doing a broadcasting situation. I know from talking
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  Speaker 1: about the Rays and the Guardians a few times I did,
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  Speaker 1: the listener engagement, the tools that we have were not good.
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  Speaker 1: There's not a lot of interest in this. And that,
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  Speaker 1: there certainly wasn't. I can't imagine it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: much better. Now, I'm going to watch. I like baseball.
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  Speaker 1: I watch any World Series. I don't care. As I
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  Speaker 1: was talking to the great Steve DeSegar in the hallways
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  Speaker 1: before he went to bed and recorded his updates there
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  Speaker 1: for the overnight, and DeSegar, we were like, hey, we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about some of the worst World Series matchups. And
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  Speaker 1: I was at one of the worst all the time.
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  Speaker 1: The Cleveland Indians played the Miami, then they were called
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  Speaker 1: the Florida Marlins in the World Series. And that was
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  Speaker 1: a Game 7 thriller of a World Series a million
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  Speaker 1: years ago. And it was great. It was awesome. It
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  Speaker 1: was just a magical thing. But there was two teams
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  Speaker 1: that don't have... Cleveland a little bit because they've been
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  Speaker 1: around for a long time. They were then called the Indians.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how many Guardians fans there are. But
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  Speaker 1: this is what we got. We had Arizona and Texas
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  Speaker 1: not that long ago. That was a crap World Series matchup.
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  Speaker 1: And now I guess this is the era of crap
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  Speaker 1: World Series matchups. Now you're probably wondering, why are you
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  Speaker 1: at a 2, Ben, and not a 0? Let me explain.
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  Speaker 1: So Major League Baseball, the reason I'm at a 2
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  Speaker 1: and not a 0... Major League Baseball owners have spent
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  Speaker 1: the better part of 30 years preaching that small market
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  Speaker 1: teams cannot compete. It's impossible. It's a real poverty story.
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  Speaker 1: It's a real sad story. Major League Baseball just can't
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  Speaker 1: have these teams that are in these smaller cities that
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  Speaker 1: don't spend a lot of money. They can't compete. So
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  Speaker 1: 30 years, baseball owners have been saying that same dogma.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of you idiots bought it. And now
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  Speaker 1: you all look like jack wagons. And I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I love it all. You all look like total donkeys.
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  Speaker 1: And the owners, Milwaukee is 19th in payroll. They're 19th.
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay is 28th in payroll. And one of those
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  Speaker 1: teams will win the World Series. Tampa, 28th in payroll.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: The salary cap argument of the owners is, is torn
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: up like an Achilles. Snap, crackle, pop. It's bad. The
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Billionaires are in Cancun. The Coupon Clippers will be playing
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: in Wisconsin on Friday night. And what a total harpoon
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: job to the whole argument of the owners out the window.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I was away from my post. I saw the owner
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: of the Orioles said the quiet part out loud. Hey,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: we make a lot of money. We make a lot
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: of money. And that's not ideal. That's not ideal for
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: the owner's argument. But I've learned that a lot of
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: sports fans are idiots, and no matter what is in
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: front of you, you're going to buy the propaganda. It's sad.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: I'm disappointed. But I've learned that. A lot of you
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: are just idiots, and whatever these people say, oh, I
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: want the owners to make more money, and they need
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: a salary cap. Okay, thank you. All right, last word.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Quickly to New York, New York, the Big Apple. We
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: have learned that Aaron Boone, will return as the Yankees
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: manager in 2027. It'll mark his 10th season in the
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Bronx Zoo since taking over in 2018. I think it
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: was 2017, I think he took over. Anyway, it'll be
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: 10 years for Aaron Boone as the manager. The Mallor
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: math not working on that. Now, in the regular season,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Aaron Boone, 583 winning percentage. In the playoffs, he has
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: a losing record, a. 474 winning percentage with all that
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Yankee talent in playoff games. Now, despite another October choke
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: job by the New York Yankees, the Yankees are choosing
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: to go down the highway marked continuity, continuity highway, rather
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: than make a change. Boone gets another opportunity. to end
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: the franchise championship drought. I was barely alive the last
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: time the Yankees won a World Series. There's a lot
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: of kids right now getting ready to get out of
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: high school that have no memory of the Yankees ever winning.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: Ever.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Losers. Who's in a worse spot, the Lakers or the Yankees?
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: The Lakers haven't won since Kobe, and that's a long
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: time ago. No legitimate championship, and the Yankees, 2009.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: My God.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: That was back in the Stone Age before TikTok, 2009.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: All right, so here's the question. Is Aaron Boone returning
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: good news for the Bronx Bomber fan base? Is this
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: good news? Aaron Boone back in the dugout one more time.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: So for 29—I did the math on this— for 29 fan bases—
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Break out the champagne, take out the noisemakers, and put
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: on a happy face, and put on the party hats. Why?
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: It is a glorious day if you're a Yankee hater.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: This is a wonderful day. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Aaron Boone is back, baby!
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Way to go!
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Groundhog Day in the Boogie Down Bronx with
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Aaron Boone, same sock puppet manager. Same sloppy, fundamentally unsound baseball.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: And the same skipper saying the same bull crap after
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: it happens year after year. How proud he is of
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the boys. I am so proud. That was the greatest
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: error I've ever seen by Anthony Volpe. Boy, he really tried.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: So good. So good. And remember, Boone is not really
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: a manager in the sense of a traditional old school manager.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: He's middle management. We talked about this. He's a middle manager,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: corporate spokesman, wears baseball pants, and he's got more lives
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: than what? More lives than a feral cat living behind
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: some kind of old seafood restaurant in the bad part
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: of town. Now, technically, you know what Aaron Boone is?
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: The soup of the day. And what is the soup
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: of the day? It's not French onion. It's not matzo ball.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: It's not tomato bisque. The soup of the day. is
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: duck soup, or in this case, lame duck soup, as 2027,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the final guaranteed year of the contract for Aaron Boone
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: with the Yankees. And so that's lame duck status, lame
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: duck soup for Mr. Boone. And yet again, Yankee owner
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Hal Steinbrenner embarrassing the family legacy as Hal Steinbrenner has
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: confused stability with And he thinks that's good. It's really stagnation.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: You don't realize it because you're not that bright, apparently.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: And turning the Bronx Bombers, the once proud Bronx Bombers,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: into the Bronx Bumbling Sock Puppets, as they have been
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: for many, many years now. And so instead of a
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: parade through the Canyon of Heroes in Manhattan... Enjoy the
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: same traditional October funeral procession. Not exactly the parade the
• 24:31
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• 24:33
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• 24:37
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• 24:40
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• 24:43
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• 24:44
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• 24:50
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• 24:53
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• 24:57
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• 24:58
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• 25:43
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• 25:44
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• 25:55
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• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Wild thing, I think I love you. The one and
• 26:13
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• 26:19
  Speaker 1: really the sex symbol of the overnight. I love you.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: The song makes me so high. She's a man killer.
• 26:27
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• 26:31
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: It is the Ben Maller Show. Kathy famous for Hey Mona.
• 26:37
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• 26:40
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I know. Stay calm. A reminder, you can support the
• 26:43
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• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Billy coming in here in a sec to save the world,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: and he'll be in, hanging out. Hashtag Ask a Weed
• 26:51
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• 26:54
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• 26:56
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• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Koopa Loop at a Bronco fan. Your comments can and
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: will be used against you in the court of sports radio. Man.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Back to it. All right, well, let's get right to it.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: This is not to waste any time here. His name
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: is Billy. He was on the mailbag over the weekend,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: and he's back. You always answer your phone, whether I'm
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: in Mexico or wherever I might be. I answer my.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Phone any time you call, that's for sure.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: I know, you do. He does answer the phone. To
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: be fair, you don't have anything else distracting you like
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: a job or anything like that.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Most people have things like that.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: All right, man.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, look at that. There's Lisa.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: Unbelievable.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: The dynamic duo reunited. Any opening thought here, Weed Man,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: before we get to the question?
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: I can't believe that the World Series is going to
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: be in Tampa Bay and Milwaukee. That's just unbelievable. Nobody's
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: going to watch that.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Well, people will watch it, and just not many. Not many.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Not many at all, yeah. I got a message actually
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: about that from, who was it? I have it somewhere here. Oh,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I think it was our friend Jill from Minnesota. She
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: was like, I don't understand why people aren't going to
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: watch it. She's going to give me the whole rap
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: about that. Jill says, anyone that likes baseball, why wouldn't
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: you be watching? I don't understand people because their teams
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: are not in it. They quit watching. I've watched every game.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: How many playoff games have you watched, Weed Man?
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: This year? None. None. All right.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Even on those Russian websites you're not supposed to be using,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: you haven't been able to figure out.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: VIPbox.net, I think, right?
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Thanks for promoting it. All right. Well, that's one of many. Okay. Well,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Alf writes in. He says, hey, Billy. How did you
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: get to Florida? Did you fly or did you walk?
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: That's a great question. We've never heard the origin story.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: We know you're from New York, Weed Man. You had
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: a toy store. It all went away. You went down
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: on your luck. How did you end up in Florida?
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: I flew here.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: You flew. One-way ticket?
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, one-way ticket. Did you have a place to stay
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: when you went down there? Or were you just like,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go to Florida and see what happens?
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go far and see what happens. That's all.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: And you've been back to New York since then or no?
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Have you been back to New York since you left
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: or no?
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: No, no.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: It's cold in New York. I like it warm.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: No, I understand. But did you visit or anything? No?
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: And you just left everything behind?
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Unfortunately, yeah. Interesting.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: And you've never been back to visit?
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: No.
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: No.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Go back to visit?
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Well, I want Lisa to come here.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. Lisa, how do you feel about Florida? Are
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: you a fan of Florida or no?
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: I do love Florida to visit, not to live.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: But I do have a comment.
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: And I do have a comment about the Yankee manager.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: I am an insane fan, and as you know, I am.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: A New Yorker.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: And I'd like to say this to the Steinbrenners, if
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: they're listening, and to you.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: I love that you brought this up.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Your show is brilliant, and it gives everyone an opportunity
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: to voice their opinions.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Twice their opinion.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: So if the Brenners are listening, if it's not broke,
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: don't fix it. But if it is broke, fix it fast.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: You have to take massive action. And clearly they're keeping
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: him because they can micromanage him.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: It is so flat.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: It is so boring. And as a fan, here is
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: the rhyme of the moment. stagnation kills and movement builds
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: it is so disappointing you could have this kind of
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: a payroll and we just sit here with forget lackluster
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: we can actually anticipate nothing and so i'm beyond disappointed
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: and maybe they're just blaming it on judges injuries.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: But it goes beyond that.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Take massive action, and that's all I have to say.
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: That means change.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Look at that. Lisa with a hot take. Save that.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Hot take, hot take, hot take, hot take. That's hotter
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: than your takes, Weed Man. What's up with that? King
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Rory writes and says, Hey, Weed Man, can I borrow
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: $ 3, 000 so I can attend the World Series in Milwaukee?
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: I don't have $ 2, 000. I wish I had $ 2, 000.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: All right. Milkman Mike writes in from Colorado, says, Weedman,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: can you confirm or deny that the Indianapolis Colts have
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: reached out to you about their recent GM vacancy?
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll do a new GM. That's great.
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: All right. And you have to live in Indianapolis, though.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Well, that's okay. To be GM, I'll do that.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: You'd live as cold in Indianapolis in the winter, though.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: It's chilly.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: But you'd make enough money you can buy a jacket,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: so it'd be all right, and a heater.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: That'd be great.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Your friend Nada writes in. She works at LAX, and
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: she keeps all the planes going around. She wants to know,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: she's into the love aspect. She wants to know, how
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: did Weed Man meet Lisa? Where did it all begin? Whoa.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Okay, do you really want to know?
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, give me the short version. How long have you
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: guys been together? High school, college? You guys were out
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: of college? Like, when did you meet?
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, so the really short version is we were ahead
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: of our time. It was 1980s, and Billy bought his motorcycle.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: But that was before YouTube.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: It was like speed dating or something like that? Is
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: it like a speed dating?
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: No, it was actually called Intro Lens. It was a
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: video dating service. But instead of it, there was no internet.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: You have to understand it was the.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. It was back in the time before dinosaurs. Yeah, Stoney.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: They were like chat lines people would call into, but
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: this is something different.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: No, it was a video.
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: That's it.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right. And you guys were a match in
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: the rest of history, all these years later.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's called Intro Lens. All right.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's around anymore, so it's okay.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: No, it's gone.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: All right. Lily Ann writes, or actually, Tiger Lily, excuse me,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Tiger Lily from Michigan.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: Hey, Tiger Lily, what a nice name.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: She wants to know, she is asking, she says there's
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: a technical snafu where there were some commercials playing. I
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: think that's a local issue there, Tiger Lily. That's not
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: on our end because I'm pretty sure there's no... No commercials.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: Well, I would like to say that on my screen,
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: that first block did not load.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: So it was kind of just up in the air
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: on what would happen. So I'm sorry. Whatever happened, happened.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Good morning. Well, I couldn't hear the commercials. They sounded
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: good on our end. I hope they sounded really good.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed those commercials. We love our commercials. Remember,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Tiger Lily, the show gets in the way of the commercials.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: We'd like more commercials. What else do we have? Let's
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: see here. What was the last... Oh, here's a good
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: question from the Baltimore Media Freeloader account. What was the
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: last live sporting event that Weed Man attended? Does he
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: even remember what he had to eat? Maybe Lisa can help.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: That's from.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, I used to go to all the net games.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: I used to go to Shea Stadium when they.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: No, I know, but the last game, was it a
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: New Jersey Nets game back in the day? Something like that?
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I went to Madison Square Garden and saw
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: the Knicks.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Like mid-' 80s or late-' 80s?
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, when I was in New York.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Was Ewing on the team still, Patrick Ewing?
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Patrick Ewing. I love Patrick Ewing.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: It's been a bit a while. Patrick Ewing! Remember the
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: PA announcer at the Garden there?
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was too bad Team Elijah kept beating Ewing.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: All right, Eileen says, Lisa for the Yankees take gets
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: the win. Alf says, Lisa for female caller of the year.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: So congratulations, Lisa.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: It's not a lot of competition for that.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: No Bozo the district attorney this week. What's up with that?
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: No Bozo.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: Bozo the clown.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I know, but he didn't write in. That's so crazy.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Let's see here. Michael in Tulsa says, did you get
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: my package? Pareto sent me your address. How about that?
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: So did you get a package from Michael in Tulsa?
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Hey, that's really cool. I did get something.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: You buried the lead, man. What did he send you?
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much. You sent me just some food.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, you got some food. So you need food. Look
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: at these guys are taking care of your weed, man.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really cool.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: You're going to get plumped.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: That would be great.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I don't think Weedman can get plump.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: Greedo, that Outback Steakhouse was great. Thank you.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: All right, Late Night Drug Tester says, how can I
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: activate the underwater talk feature on my phone like you
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: use on the 5th Hour Mailbag? Yeah, people continue to complain, Weedman,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: that for some reason your phone sounds fine here, but
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: on the 5th Hour it doesn't sound that good. I
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: don't know why.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: I don't know. It's always good.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: It sounds the same to me.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: You need to get a microphone.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Well, that would help. But if you can do that,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: that would definitely help.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, we're out of time. It's all over. Thank
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: you so much, Billy, a.k.a. Weed Man Lisa. Thanks for
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: staying up. I love you, Bill.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: All night.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Be well.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: That's a warning. There they go. Lisa and Weed Man.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: What a couple. They've known each other since the 80s.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: They stay on the phone. It's like Romeo and Juliet.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: They stay on the phone together all night. Haven't seen
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: each other in probably 40 years. Something like that. Pretty crazy. Anyways,
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay's Junior Caminero sent a postseason record for blank.
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  Speaker 1: That's the record in the stat cast era. Tampa Bay's
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  Speaker 1: Junior Caminero setting a postseason record in the game that
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  Speaker 1: was played on Monday night, a record for the stat
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  Speaker 1: cast era. What was the record for? That is the
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. All right, time now for the payoff on
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  Speaker 1: the Insta trivia. Quickly, here it is. Tampa Bay's Junior
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  Speaker 1: Caminero setting a postseason record for blank. In the game
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  Speaker 1: that was played on Monday night, that's in the StatCast era,
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  Speaker 1: a record for blank. And let's see, does anyone know
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  Speaker 1: the answer? A record for the most cigarettes smoked at
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  Speaker 1: once since Jim Leland. Very funny. Most bubble gum bubbles
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  Speaker 1: blown in nine innings. Late night drug tester for having
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  Speaker 1: the largest Tony Womack baseball card collection from who else
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  Speaker 1: but our friend Alf, the alien opiner. Nacho Benny from
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  Speaker 1: Not a Burner. Rob in the 3-2-1 was the answer
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  Speaker 1: from Shane in the morning. What say you, Lorraine? I
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  Speaker 1: was going to say Robin Hood and his Squishmallows. All right. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's incorrect. Unfortunately, Junior Caminero is setting a postseason record
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  Speaker 1: for the longest home run trot at 38.7 seconds on
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  Speaker 1: a home run trot.
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  Speaker 6: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. Quickly, quickly, quickly.
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  Speaker 3: What do we got? What do we got?
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  Speaker 1: Coop, coop, coop, coop.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go.
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  Speaker 7: After the Chargers fell to 0-6, some comments from Jim
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  Speaker 7: Harbaugh after the game made it seem like Mike McDaniel
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  Speaker 7: is definitely on his way out. However, Monday has come
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  Speaker 7: and gone, and he was not fired, as far as
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  Speaker 7: we know. Do you think that means he's safe? No,
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  Speaker 7: the Chargers have a bye. They're not playing this weekend,
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  Speaker 7: so they could have already fired him. They just didn't
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  Speaker 7: announce it. I assume McDaniel would have made it public
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  Speaker 7: at the end.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody has to be, much like the Aztecs of Mexico, somebody,
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  Speaker 1: they need a human sacrifice, Coop. And Mike McDaniel will
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  Speaker 1: be doing a podcast about kombucha tea before too long. Next.
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  Speaker 7: So the Broncos have won their last couple of matchups,
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  Speaker 7: but you wouldn't know it based on social media reactions.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. This is Coop trying to give some propaganda.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 7: Sean Payton was actually asked if he's considered benching Bo Nix.
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  Speaker 1: He just said no. Do you think that's true?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you can't admit it. You don't admit it until
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  Speaker 1: you actually do it. But we're getting late in the
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  Speaker 1: season now, middle of the season. Bo Nix is the
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  Speaker 1: 27th-ranked quarterback. Jacoby Brissett has been a better quarterback. Something
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  Speaker 1: has to change. It is not sustainable. The Broncos, either
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  Speaker 1: Bo Nix has to get better, or if that's not
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  Speaker 1: going to happen, they've got to replace him next.
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  Speaker 7: You want a fun question or a sporty question?
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  Speaker 1: Let's do fun. Why not?
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 7: What was the best thing you ate on your trip
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  Speaker 7: to Mexico City?
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  Speaker 1: I don't like soft tacos, but I did enjoy the
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  Speaker 1: soft tacos in Mexico. I did not eat the grasshoppers
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  Speaker 1: they had on the menu.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I chose not to eat the grasshoppers. What else did
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  Speaker 1: I eat? No, obviously, the taco shops. I love that
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  Speaker 1: stuff's open, like, 6 in the morning. Like, you can get, like,
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  Speaker 1: good food until 6 in the morning. And, more importantly,
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  Speaker 1: didn't get Montezuma's Revenge, Coop. Did not get that.
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  Speaker 3: Nice. That's good.
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  Speaker 1: How'd we do? You passed us an issue.
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  Speaker 3: Winner, winner!
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  Speaker 1: Winner, winner!
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  Speaker 7: Chicken dinner!
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  Speaker 1: Woo!