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- 0:32Speaker 1: So our lead this hour from the swap Meet. We
- 0:35Speaker 1: are getting real close now to pens down and the
- 0:40Speaker 1: music stops. Grab a chair and that's it. A lot
- 0:45Speaker 1: of chatter out of Motown. Epic choke job by the
- 0:49Speaker 1: hometown team there and a day game against the Orioles.
- 0:53Speaker 1: But Monday deadline rapidly approaching and the Tigers are sliding
- 0:58Speaker 1: further under five hundred, and with their ace and the
- 1:02Speaker 1: whole Treek school on the mound, they blew a seven
- 1:05Speaker 1: run lead. I believe in that game. A two time
- 1:08Speaker 1: al Cy Young winner, and most important to our little
- 1:12Speaker 1: conversation here, a pending free agent. You know what that means? Yes,
- 1:17Speaker 1: he now becomes the top rental on the mark, the
- 1:22Speaker 1: top rental target. I think high end Airbnb verbo like
- 1:28Speaker 1: a presidential suite type set up. Now, he made what
- 1:33Speaker 1: is likely his last start in that game on Wednesday,
- 1:36Speaker 1: So if you've not heard the latest on this, perhaps not.
- 1:38Speaker 1: Multiple teams are on the prowl. They're bird dogging, bird
- 1:44Speaker 1: dogging the man, the myth, the legend. So that would
- 1:49Speaker 1: be the Dodgers, the Yankees, the Atlanta Braves, and the
- 1:52Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Rays all pursuing the aforementioned school ball. Now
- 1:57Speaker 1: we have learned that most major league teams, but the
- 2:00Speaker 1: consensus is by popular people. The popular pick by the
- 2:03Speaker 1: popular people is that Schooble is going to end up
- 2:08Speaker 1: with the GRS Dodgers. That that is going to be
- 2:13Speaker 1: where he lands here to close out the twenty twenty
- 2:17Speaker 1: six season, the Dodgers will acquire the top pitcher on
- 2:21Speaker 1: the Detroit baseball team, Terrek school Book LA considered the
- 2:26Speaker 1: most likely destination if you look at your GPS here
- 2:31Speaker 1: because supposedly they have good minor league players. You know,
- 2:34Speaker 1: a prospect is a suspect until approven. Otherwise I trade
- 2:38Speaker 1: all my prospects to get this guy. I don't care.
- 2:40Speaker 1: You get new prospects every year. They have endless amounts
- 2:44Speaker 1: of money. They got all that Japanese money because of
- 2:46Speaker 1: Otani and a desire to fatten up the rotation, because
- 2:51Speaker 1: it does seem like Otani's not going to be somebody
- 2:53Speaker 1: you can depend on. He's not going to be a
- 2:55Speaker 1: tent pole in the playoffs. As Dodgers try to come
- 2:57Speaker 1: the first team since the Yankees to win three World
- 3:00Speaker 1: Series in a row. You already a two in the
- 3:03Speaker 1: hole now trying to get another one. So people are
- 3:05Speaker 1: freaking out. Of course, the mere chatter, the mere speculation,
- 3:09Speaker 1: the rumor that Terrek School is gonna end up in
- 3:13Speaker 1: La has people needing a therapy dog because they're very
- 3:17Speaker 1: upset by this. Oh my god, they're ruining baseball so bad.
- 3:21Speaker 1: Oh so Terraball, they're ruining ourn't sport of baseball. Yeah,
- 3:26Speaker 1: a bunch of cry babies, so yeah, exactly. So that's
- 3:29Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question
- 3:32Speaker 1: should the Dodgers hold off? Should the Dodgers hold off
- 3:36Speaker 1: on the pursuit of Trek School with a picture from Detroit,
- 3:40Speaker 1: just to spare the hurt feelings of these other teams.
- 3:45Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I've got Disneyland School bus
- 3:49Speaker 1: and rebroadcast and we'll put them all together and we're
- 3:53Speaker 1: gonna make some Detroit style pizza. Now, my entire life,
- 3:57Speaker 1: up until a couple years ago, I didn't even know
- 3:59Speaker 1: there was a thing called Troit style peats. I had
- 4:01Speaker 1: Chicago style, had New York style peats, but only like
- 4:03Speaker 1: a few years back that we had Detroit style for
- 4:06Speaker 1: the first time.
- 4:06Speaker 3: And it's good.
- 4:07Speaker 1: It's good. It's fine anyway, all right. So, to begin
- 4:10Speaker 1: the rantier, should the Dodgers hold off on the Trek
- 4:14Speaker 1: Schooble trade because people are going to lose their mind
- 4:18Speaker 1: if they get this guy. My response to that, I
- 4:22Speaker 1: have four words. You've got to be joking. Okay, you've
- 4:26Speaker 1: got to be joking about this now, last I checked,
- 4:29Speaker 1: And I might be wrong on this. I've been out
- 4:30Speaker 1: there a while, been banned shadow bands since so Tony
- 4:32Speaker 1: got there. But I believe the Dodgers are not running
- 4:35Speaker 1: a nonprofit organization. I don't think that's the case. Now,
- 4:38Speaker 1: why on earth should they care? The LA Baseball team
- 4:43Speaker 1: care about upsetting the other teams currently, who I believe
- 4:47Speaker 1: are lobbying for a salary cap. Like if the rest
- 4:51Speaker 1: of the league is crying about you That is a
- 4:55Speaker 1: badge of honor, is it not? Does anyone disagree? I
- 4:58Speaker 1: don't see anyone raising their head. That is a badge honor.
- 5:01Speaker 1: It just means that you're doing things the right way.
- 5:03Speaker 1: And these small budget, tight wad whiny teams are literally
- 5:08Speaker 1: trying to rewrite the MLB bylaws in part to stop
- 5:14Speaker 1: the big blue wrecking crew. So why would you play nice? Yeah,
- 5:17Speaker 1: they all want to make more money, and they then
- 5:19Speaker 1: want anyone know how much money they actually make. So
- 5:22Speaker 1: they figure out, we bet a cap, we'll make more money,
- 5:24Speaker 1: and we'll also stop the Dodgers. It's double your pleasure,
- 5:26Speaker 1: double your fun. So go get Schooble, And I would
- 5:30Speaker 1: go out here if I'm the Dodgers, knowing that there's
- 5:33Speaker 1: going to be either be no season in twenty twenty
- 5:35Speaker 1: seven or there's going to be a long stoppage in
- 5:38Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven, and there's be a whole different set
- 5:42Speaker 1: of rules going forward. So go full Disneyland as in
- 5:46Speaker 1: the Magical Kingdom Firework Display. I'm talking Fourth of July
- 5:52Speaker 1: Grand Finale style, go out with a Blazer glory trade
- 5:57Speaker 1: for Schooble. I would go out and get two other
- 6:00Speaker 1: All Stars if I could just to watch the jealous
- 6:03Speaker 1: teams and their fan bases melt down on social media
- 6:07Speaker 1: like toddlers denied a pudding dessert. You don't get any pudding.
- 6:11Speaker 1: I want pudding. I need my pudding. No, you don't
- 6:14Speaker 1: get any pudding. So let the rest of the league
- 6:18Speaker 1: write the angry emails to the commissioner and all that stuff,
- 6:22Speaker 1: and all the blowhards and the media make them weak.
- 6:24Speaker 1: Go for it now. Speaking of go for it, the
- 6:28Speaker 1: New York Baseball team. If you like their trainer's room,
- 6:33Speaker 1: it's it's Phil. It's got Aaron judge On, Carlos Stanton,
- 6:36Speaker 1: and Cody Bellinger. The Bronx Bombers getting desperate for reinforcement
- 6:42Speaker 1: now the way we hear it the Yankees. The latest
- 6:44Speaker 1: chatter out of New York is the Yankees would love
- 6:50Speaker 1: to add Blue Jays outfielder George Springer before Monday's deadline.
- 6:58Speaker 1: Say what, yeah, well they need a right handed bat,
- 7:02Speaker 1: so I guess they'll take anybody. The question, would Toronto's
- 7:07Speaker 1: George Springer be a good fit in the Bronx Zoo?
- 7:14Speaker 1: So on our scorecard, we stamp this on our scorecard.
- 7:19Speaker 1: Rejected is what we did. Now I have no skin
- 7:21Speaker 1: in the game, not a Yankee guy, not a Blue
- 7:23Speaker 1: Jay guy. But as I learned from Missus Frizzle from
- 7:26Speaker 1: the Magic school Bus, taught me that you don't let
- 7:31Speaker 1: a falling star fall on you. At thirty six, Springer
- 7:36Speaker 1: is not just washed. He has been pressure washed, spin cycled,
- 7:41Speaker 1: and left out to dry on the clothes line. Mostly
- 7:45Speaker 1: a DH at this point, mostly a DH. His bat
- 7:48Speaker 1: has regressed. He is now a league average player offensively.
- 7:53Speaker 1: This is not an impact pat, it's a jag, just
- 7:57Speaker 1: a guy. And then there's the rap sheet, which in
- 8:02Speaker 1: recent years is longer than the line at Katz's Delhi
- 8:06Speaker 1: for lunchtime. If you know what I'm talking about there
- 8:08Speaker 1: in New York. Crack tow check, knee soreness check check,
- 8:13Speaker 1: oblique strain check check check, concussions check check check. He's
- 8:19Speaker 1: basically a commemora of Bobblehead with a limp. At this point,
- 8:23Speaker 1: Springer is. And finally, let's not forget the overweight baggage
- 8:27Speaker 1: fees from Delta Airlines. That Duffel bag is overflowing because
- 8:31Speaker 1: he is forever a cheating astro. He's got those cooties,
- 8:37Speaker 1: He's got the cooties. He does, you can laugh at me.
- 8:40Speaker 1: He's got the cooties. Springer was not just a small
- 8:43Speaker 1: part of that despicable team of twenty seventeen. He was
- 8:48Speaker 1: a core piece of the cheating ah. So you remember
- 8:52Speaker 1: the electric sign stealing, the trash cans, the buzzers or
- 8:55Speaker 1: the whistles, all that stuff. This guy was so dirty.
- 9:00Speaker 1: How dirty was he? Thanks for asking? He was so
- 9:02Speaker 1: dirty that he won the World Series MVP for a
- 9:06Speaker 1: team of cheats. So he was like the king cheat.
- 9:09Speaker 1: He was like at the very top of the pyramid
- 9:12Speaker 1: of cheat. Like, it doesn't get any higher of cheat
- 9:16Speaker 1: than if you're the World Series MVP on a team
- 9:19Speaker 1: that is actively cheating. So much so it was in
- 9:22Speaker 1: the MLB produced World Series video the table they put
- 9:26Speaker 1: up to cheat just near the dugouye. So that's the guy.
- 9:31Speaker 1: You want that guy? I don't want that guy. I
- 9:34Speaker 1: want nothing to do with that guy. Nothing right, And
- 9:37Speaker 1: he received immunity the cheating a hole George Springer because
- 9:42Speaker 1: he cooperated and also because Rob Manford is a toothless,
- 9:46Speaker 1: gutless commissioner. However, the scandal, the scandal remains radioactive, all right,
- 9:54Speaker 1: because he's radio acting. The toxicity is unforgivable, and the
- 9:58Speaker 1: real Yankee officionado want nothing to do with them. You know,
- 10:02Speaker 1: some fake fraud Yankee people that just bought their jersey
- 10:06Speaker 1: and they have to tag on it and all that.
- 10:08Speaker 1: All right, last word to Philadelphia, we go, the city
- 10:13Speaker 1: of brotherly love, and right now bad baseball, the Fighting
- 10:16Speaker 1: Phils coming apart at the seams in front of our eyes.
- 10:21Speaker 1: What happened? They've now lost nine of twelve games, which
- 10:25Speaker 1: I don't think is good. I didn't play in the
- 10:27Speaker 1: major leagues. I just don't think that's good. Oh, you're
- 10:29Speaker 1: being mean malor yeah, I know. And they're hanging on
- 10:33Speaker 1: right now, the Phillies by their fingernails. So we can
- 10:37Speaker 1: now add on to that some drama orama. Bryce Harper
- 10:43Speaker 1: has entered the chat.
- 10:44Speaker 2: Now.
- 10:45Speaker 1: Bryce Harper recently made a plea to the Philadelphia Phillies
- 10:50Speaker 1: front office, namely Dave Dombrowski. We have the audio tape.
- 10:53Speaker 1: Here's Bryce Harper commenting on the situation for the Fighting Phills.
- 10:59Speaker 1: Take a listen.
- 11:00Speaker 3: Do you think this is the line of our team
- 11:01Speaker 3: would be good pitching in October? Because presumably come on
- 11:05Speaker 3: to her, you guys will see.
- 11:06Speaker 4: Quite a bit of it.
- 11:07Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think we need some help, you know.
- 11:10Speaker 5: But you know, I think we've proved, you know, pretty
- 11:12Speaker 5: much all year. We've we've done a pretty good job.
- 11:15Speaker 5: But you know, anytime you can, you know, get some
- 11:17Speaker 5: help in here and reinforcements, I think it helps.
- 11:19Speaker 2: Do you think that help would be best coming in
- 11:23Speaker 2: the form of an arm or back.
- 11:25Speaker 5: I think both, you know. I think obviously Ayrton knows
- 11:29Speaker 5: what we need. So I think I've said it over
- 11:31Speaker 5: the last couple of days.
- 11:33Speaker 1: All right, so Bryce over those three words need some help.
- 11:36Speaker 1: And then he repeated it, and he's the Phillies apparently
- 11:39Speaker 1: are so bad that they need reinforcements on offense and
- 11:43Speaker 1: on the pitching staff. That comment rubbed the front office
- 11:48Speaker 1: the wrong way to irritated some big shots there with
- 11:51Speaker 1: the Phillies. They had their panties in a bunch. We
- 11:54Speaker 1: have learned now that Harper's remarks, well, it turns out
- 11:57Speaker 1: that this is part of a long cold war. Oh,
- 12:01Speaker 1: I love a good cold war. With the President of
- 12:04Speaker 1: Baseball Ops formerly known as a GM, Dave Dombrowski, you
- 12:08Speaker 1: might remember we talked a lot about this last last October.
- 12:12Speaker 1: I believe it was when Don Browski questioned whether Harper
- 12:16Speaker 1: was still elite and whether he remains in that upper
- 12:21Speaker 1: tier of players in baseball. Well, so that that was
- 12:27Speaker 1: the response. Now we have Don Mattingly, who's the manager.
- 12:31Speaker 1: His kid is the GM, which doesn't have much muscle
- 12:34Speaker 1: compared to Dombrowski. But here's Don Maddingly. He was asked
- 12:38Speaker 1: about Bryce Harper publicly saying the team is not good enough,
- 12:41Speaker 1: they suck and they need help both pitching and offense.
- 12:44Speaker 1: Here's maddingly to say something about our team.
- 12:51Speaker 3: Then you're saying something about war and Von first that
- 12:53Speaker 3: you don't like him to feel we need to talk
- 12:56Speaker 3: to him and Archida not really.
- 12:58Speaker 6: I mean Bryce, Bryce is going to say anybody wants.
- 13:01Speaker 6: So I'm not really concerned about it. I just take
- 13:04Speaker 6: it kind of with a grand salt and knowing how
- 13:08Speaker 6: players are over the years, I heard this. That's not
- 13:12Speaker 6: the first time I've heard this. You know, we need,
- 13:15Speaker 6: we need.
- 13:18Speaker 3: I always look at it like, internally, you know.
- 13:22Speaker 6: I gotta get better. We got to get better, and
- 13:26Speaker 6: that's simple as that.
- 13:29Speaker 1: All right. So we actually had our mic was over
- 13:32Speaker 1: in Maldova, so it was a boom mic from Maldova,
- 13:35Speaker 1: so you could barely hear it. Maddingly, we like to
- 13:37Speaker 1: make you turn up the sound just to challenge you
- 13:39Speaker 1: a little bit while you're listening to the show. So
- 13:41Speaker 1: the question are the phillies cooked? Because Bryce Harper and
- 13:45Speaker 1: Dave don Browski are at loggerheads and this is the
- 13:50Speaker 1: palace intrigue of it all. So my response is I
- 13:54Speaker 1: have a n absolutely not. This is just a couple
- 13:58Speaker 1: of rich dudes argue over who gets the bigger mirror
- 14:02Speaker 1: so they can navel gaze. That's what this is about. Now,
- 14:05Speaker 1: Dave Don Browski did not disrespect Bryce Harper. He committed
- 14:10Speaker 1: the cardinal sin of telling the truth. He was trying
- 14:13Speaker 1: to poke the bear. Don Browski figured, I know what
- 14:16Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna motivate. I'm gonna lie a fire under
- 14:19Speaker 1: Bryce Harper and I'm gonna poke the bear is what
- 14:23Speaker 1: I'm going to do. And so he tried that, and
- 14:28Speaker 1: well didn't go so well. As it turned out, he
- 14:32Speaker 1: did not kiss the imaginary ring of Bryce Harper, and
- 14:36Speaker 1: people were shocked by that, and so Harper went full
- 14:39Speaker 1: Guy Fieri, stirring up drama, and the drama pot stir
- 14:44Speaker 1: of the pot, stir of the pot, stir of the pot.
- 14:46Speaker 1: And he has this season up until this point, Bryce
- 14:50Speaker 1: Harper has somehow managed to drop essentially a carbon copy
- 14:55Speaker 1: performance the evil Twin of last season. Offensive He's essential
- 15:00Speaker 1: the same exact player he was last year. There's no regression,
- 15:03Speaker 1: there's no progression. He's exactly the same thing of this
- 15:06Speaker 1: Like it's like a rebroadcast, except without the express written
- 15:11Speaker 1: conseet of Major League Baseball, which is not allowed. I'm sorry.
- 15:14Speaker 1: So look, I point this out all the time. There's
- 15:17Speaker 1: this belief that everyone who's on a team has to
- 15:20Speaker 1: get together and they have to love each other and
- 15:22Speaker 1: be lifetime friends. And it's just not reality. It's much
- 15:26Speaker 1: more complicated than that. It's work friends, it's not real friends.
- 15:32Speaker 1: It's the Major League Baseball version of sharing a cubicle,
- 15:36Speaker 1: is what it is. And in my early days, I
- 15:38Speaker 1: covered some teams and I was doing the radio stringing thing,
- 15:41Speaker 1: and I was in locker rooms all the time. And
- 15:42Speaker 1: I have told this story a few times over the years,
- 15:45Speaker 1: but I was around the La Clippers of the nineties
- 15:46Speaker 1: and they had really popular, good players, talented college players.
- 15:51Speaker 1: They all liked each other, they just couldn't play basketball together,
- 15:54Speaker 1: but they hung out. They hung out together on the road,
- 15:56Speaker 1: They had a great time. They you know, everyone loved
- 15:58Speaker 1: each other and they just suck for forty eight minutes
- 16:01Speaker 1: when they got on the court. That happens a lot
- 16:03Speaker 1: in basketball, in particularly like the Celtics Jason Tatum and
- 16:05Speaker 1: Jaylen Brown didn't really like each other, they won a
- 16:07Speaker 1: lot of games, won a championship. Kobe and Shack the
- 16:10Speaker 1: most famous example of that. In baseball, there have been
- 16:13Speaker 1: examples the Yankees back in the olden days with this
- 16:16Speaker 1: guy named Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson, and they were
- 16:20Speaker 1: at each other's necks and they had some success together.
- 16:24Speaker 1: And so it's not out of the ordinary. It's normal
- 16:28Speaker 1: workplace tension is the way I would file that, and
- 16:31Speaker 1: friction at the office in this case the stadium. It's
- 16:34Speaker 1: only a problem if you lose, if you succeed. It's
- 16:39Speaker 1: just a nice subplot in the book. It's chapter seven
- 16:42Speaker 1: of the book. Winning. Winning cures pretty much everything. And
- 16:48Speaker 1: if you lose and it doesn't work out, then you
- 16:52Speaker 1: get A Netflix docu series on the unraveling of the
- 16:56Speaker 1: Philadelphia Phillies. The Downfall of Bryce Harper, and those are
- 17:00Speaker 1: the kind of things you get.
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- 18:14Speaker 1: You can ram it all day, you can ram it
- 18:16Speaker 1: all night. We start out in La Laland, a team
- 18:21Speaker 1: that was robbed rob by the NFL last year as
- 18:24Speaker 1: they handed Seattle a bogus two point conversion. They're back
- 18:27Speaker 1: at it again, a brand new season here and the
- 18:29Speaker 1: story a lot of it about wide receiver Puoka Nakua,
- 18:34Speaker 1: and there was this debate will he or won't he arrive?
- 18:38Speaker 1: I know you're very concerned about people showing up to work.
- 18:42Speaker 1: It's like you have no problems in your life. You've
- 18:45Speaker 1: got plenty of food, plenty of money, no problems with
- 18:48Speaker 1: the family. Just everything's great anyway. Pooka Nakua said he
- 18:52Speaker 1: has never considered seriously holding out a RAM training camp
- 18:57Speaker 1: while waiting to get paid big extension. He responded when
- 19:02Speaker 1: asked about this, he said quote, No, not really if
- 19:05Speaker 1: the idea ever crossed his mind. So I do you
- 19:07Speaker 1: saw this or not? Maybe you missed it. Pooka Nakoua
- 19:10Speaker 1: explained that football is his safe space. Oh that's good
- 19:16Speaker 1: to know. That's good to know, I said. Outside issues,
- 19:20Speaker 1: you listen. Certainly there are many have affected his ability
- 19:24Speaker 1: to enjoy the game, but being back in a Ram
- 19:28Speaker 1: uniform is something he doesn't take for granted. Well, hallelujah, hellllelujah, hellllelujah.
- 19:35Speaker 1: Now the star recy that'd be Pooka Nakoa entering now
- 19:39Speaker 1: the final year of his rookie contract, A guy that
- 19:42Speaker 1: came out of nowhere lightning in a bottle for the Rams,
- 19:45Speaker 1: and he is the top extension candidate in the NFL
- 19:50Speaker 1: according to many, and he has become one of the
- 19:53Speaker 1: preeminent wide receivers in the NFL for several years now.
- 19:56Speaker 1: That is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
- 19:59Speaker 1: the Queskin on the Malord scale of one to ten.
- 20:05Speaker 1: How surprised are you that Puka Nakua did not even
- 20:10Speaker 1: threaten a RAM contract holdout, considering that is the way
- 20:15Speaker 1: to go. It's not so much a holdout a hold
- 20:17Speaker 1: in the hold in thing. So I've got my observations,
- 20:20Speaker 1: I've got supernatural teen drama, pottery, barn and the brothers
- 20:26Speaker 1: as in Warner Brothers, and we will combine all all
- 20:30Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to go
- 20:34Speaker 1: into a tizzy as we work up an appetite. Now
- 20:37Speaker 1: number one, number number one, Okay. So on the Malor
- 20:44Speaker 1: scale of surprise one to ten, I'm at a two,
- 20:49Speaker 1: which is close to ice cold. It's lower than Luke.
- 20:51Speaker 1: Like Luke Warren would be like a five. I'm at
- 20:54Speaker 1: a two. I'm out a two. And here's why I'm
- 20:56Speaker 1: at a two. He would have been an absolute nut
- 21:01Speaker 1: job to hold out of this particular pointer hold in right, seriously,
- 21:05Speaker 1: because of the wild ride of an offseason. What fun
- 21:08Speaker 1: Pooka was having there. He's already dragging with him a
- 21:13Speaker 1: U haul full, a U haul full of drama O
- 21:17Speaker 1: rama everywhere he goes. This man has elite hands and
- 21:21Speaker 1: very questionable decision making and some very interesting kinky hobbies. Now,
- 21:25Speaker 1: his summer had enough plot twists here to fill an
- 21:30Speaker 1: entire streaming series. I'm talking about a real life supernatural
- 21:35Speaker 1: teen drama, like a reboot. C W's gonna reboot the
- 21:41Speaker 1: Vampire Diaries with Pooka Nakua. So my vice, unsolicited Mallard advice,
- 21:47Speaker 1: just stay off TMZ, step away from the tabloid tractor
- 21:52Speaker 1: beam that you're in. Pooka, stop giving the internet free
- 21:55Speaker 1: content and crank up the old Johnny Cash tune, the classic.
- 21:59Speaker 1: It's time to walk the line, not down the dusty
- 22:03Speaker 1: Winnemucker road. You gotta just walk the line there. You're
- 22:06Speaker 1: a foundational piece of the offense and you will get
- 22:10Speaker 1: the back you mark my words. You're gonna get the back.
- 22:12Speaker 1: You're gonna take a bite out of that is what
- 22:14Speaker 1: you're gonna do, provided you can continue to not eat
- 22:18Speaker 1: your vegetables. Right, avoid vegetables. And you're part of the
- 22:21Speaker 1: brotherhood that doesn't like vegetabs Al Michaels, Puka Nakua, Ben
- 22:25Speaker 1: mallor anti vegetable people. All good people, all good people.
- 22:30Speaker 1: So just avoid the vegetables and keep your hands and
- 22:33Speaker 1: teeth to yourself. Keep your hands and teeth to yourself.
- 22:36Speaker 1: The Rams do not need a white out who bites, okay,
- 22:41Speaker 1: they need one who behaves and bites the football. Okay. Anyway,
- 22:46Speaker 1: pitch you to No Leans. We go No Orleans. Louisiana,
- 22:50Speaker 1: where Taysom Hill has announced turn out the lasts, the
- 22:55Speaker 1: parties over, yes, nine years, nine years. This guy was
- 23:00Speaker 1: with the Saints nine years and it's ov r over over,
- 23:08Speaker 1: yuh said in a prepared statement on the Socials that
- 23:11Speaker 1: returning to naw Lence is not in the cards. They
- 23:15Speaker 1: don't want him. He'll thanked the organization on He thanked
- 23:21Speaker 1: the city, apparently the entire city, even the people that
- 23:23Speaker 1: don't know what a football is from a tomato. And
- 23:26Speaker 1: his teammates and the fans and all that, and the
- 23:29Speaker 1: Saints of course did the hoky Let's honor him farewell
- 23:33Speaker 1: video narrated by Drew Brees. So you got all that, Okay,
- 23:37Speaker 1: that's just effing great, wonderful. Okay. So the question where
- 23:42Speaker 1: do you land on former Saints player Tayson Hill and
- 23:47Speaker 1: his situation right now? Because he's not he announced his retirement.
- 23:50Speaker 1: He just said the Saints he's not going back, so
- 23:54Speaker 1: we assume he implied he wants to play. So where
- 23:57Speaker 1: do you land on the former Saint now Taysom Hill.
- 24:00Speaker 1: Taysom Hill's situation. So Taysom Hill is not at a crossroads.
- 24:05Speaker 1: He is at a rural country intersection. Now he's in
- 24:10Speaker 1: a rural country intersection where the sign just says good luck,
- 24:16Speaker 1: good luck, and I do give him credit. Taysoon Hill
- 24:21Speaker 1: rode the go go gadget label. This guy made over
- 24:27Speaker 1: sixty million dollars and he was a big player. It's
- 24:33Speaker 1: like he was pottery Barnes highest paid NFL decorated throw pillow.
- 24:39Speaker 1: Essentially what he was. He was like a throw pillar,
- 24:41Speaker 1: a decorative throw pillow. That was what Taysoon Hill was
- 24:44Speaker 1: for the Saints. He made more money. If you look
- 24:48Speaker 1: at the jackpot in most state lotteries today right now
- 24:51Speaker 1: as we're doing this in real time, sixty million dollars
- 24:54Speaker 1: is more than most of the state's lotteries. He played quarterback,
- 24:57Speaker 1: tight end. He was a run a slot guy, a receiver,
- 25:02Speaker 1: a Swiss army knife. However, ultimately turns out that Taysoon
- 25:08Speaker 1: Hill was the jack of all trades, as they say,
- 25:11Speaker 1: master of none. He turns thirty six in a minute here,
- 25:16Speaker 1: thirty six in a minute, So by NFL standards, that
- 25:20Speaker 1: makes you a gadget guy who's elderly. An elderly gadget guy.
- 25:25Speaker 1: So at this point the only thing he's running is
- 25:28Speaker 1: errands and shrinking the market right He's gonna have to wait.
- 25:33Speaker 1: The market right now is about the size of a
- 25:35Speaker 1: It's not that small or big. It's about the size
- 25:37Speaker 1: of a sesame seed. Waiting for snap crackle pop, for
- 25:41Speaker 1: jobs to open up. Desperation means the phone will ring,
- 25:44Speaker 1: the text messages will light up. Right now. He's playing
- 25:48Speaker 1: a classic TV game show. And I used to watch
- 25:51Speaker 1: this game show back in the day. It's called Who
- 25:53Speaker 1: Wants to Be Employed? The Taysoon Hills Show to spin
- 25:56Speaker 1: off of that other game show, and he has hit
- 25:59Speaker 1: the lifeline phone a friend. The obvious answer to this
- 26:02Speaker 1: is Sean Payton. It's not what you know, it's who
- 26:06Speaker 1: you know. And Sean Payton. In the Mile High City,
- 26:09Speaker 1: somebody gets hurt there and then the Broncos go out
- 26:12Speaker 1: and bring in Taysoon Hill. Outside of that, I could
- 26:15Speaker 1: see a world where the Buffalo Bills with Joe Brady
- 26:17Speaker 1: as the coach there and they try to take some
- 26:20Speaker 1: of the wear tear off Josh Allen using Taysoon Hill
- 26:24Speaker 1: as a goal line type quarterback short yardage situation for him,
- 26:29Speaker 1: and then possibly the speed racer, the reckless driver Kyle
- 26:34Speaker 1: Shanahan in the Bay Area as another unique offensive option
- 26:41Speaker 1: for the forty nine ers. The other possibilities. Just do
- 26:43Speaker 1: a cheesy jock podcast. That's what a lot of these
- 26:46Speaker 1: guys do. They just do the jock podcast. And then
- 26:48Speaker 1: you can do that and knock yourself out. All right, now,
- 26:51Speaker 1: final point to Atlanta. We go. That's right, get your
- 26:56Speaker 1: Chick fil A ready there in Atlanta, where the Falcons
- 26:59Speaker 1: have a back quarterback rivalry. I guess in a way. Yeah,
- 27:04Speaker 1: did you see this?
- 27:05Speaker 9: No?
- 27:06Speaker 1: Okay, So starter to a tongue of Iilo. That's right,
- 27:09Speaker 1: he's not in Miami anymore. If you missed it, He's
- 27:11Speaker 1: now in the atl started to a tongue of Ilawa
- 27:14Speaker 1: has been knocked out of Falcon training camp with a
- 27:17Speaker 1: back injury. Oh my back, my back, it flared up,
- 27:21Speaker 1: it flared up, tightness in the back. So Atlanta signed
- 27:24Speaker 1: former Cowboys and Ravens quarterback the man that proved he
- 27:27Speaker 1: can't play at a high level, Cooper Rush, and he
- 27:31Speaker 1: is a depth edition coached Kevin Stefanski. Yeah, the old
- 27:34Speaker 1: Browns coaches now Atlanta. Kevin Stefanski emphasized that the injury
- 27:38Speaker 1: not considered long term. He put on a happy face
- 27:42Speaker 1: saying Tua would turn to the Falcons sooner then later.
- 27:48Speaker 1: Well that's good to know, isn't that good to No, okay,
- 27:50Speaker 1: it's good enough. Question. How do you sum up quarterback
- 27:54Speaker 1: to a tongue of ilawa? Is back flare up in Atlanta?
- 28:00Speaker 1: So this at this point, it is a movie trailer
- 28:05Speaker 1: in a world where both quarterbacks are broken and beaten.
- 28:10Speaker 1: One team dares to call this a quarterback competition. From
- 28:15Speaker 1: the studio that brought you The Nun and The Exorcist,
- 28:18Speaker 1: Warner Brothers presents The Falcons Quarterback Room. The most terrifying
- 28:23Speaker 1: movie of the year. There it is, and honestly, it's
- 28:26Speaker 1: really a great horror film because right now you have
- 28:30Speaker 1: two a tongue of my law, oh my back, my
- 28:32Speaker 1: bag my baggers a much my back. So you got
- 28:35Speaker 1: to a tongue of my low with a bad back.
- 28:37Speaker 1: You've got Michael Pennex Junior who's not been cleared to
- 28:41Speaker 1: practice with an acl he's recovering from. So if my
- 28:45Speaker 1: math is correct, that means both quarterbacks with the Falcons,
- 28:49Speaker 1: both guys are competing for the job while they are
- 28:54Speaker 1: out of practice. This is a quarterback competition. You got
- 28:58Speaker 1: one guy who's racing from his wheelchair and the other
- 29:02Speaker 1: dude who's like, I'm not in a wheelchair. I've got
- 29:05Speaker 1: my crutches. Who's going to win the guy in the
- 29:08Speaker 1: wheelchair or the guy with the crutches. Video on eleven,
- 29:12Speaker 1: Video ont eleven. Now Atlanta does not have obviously, they
- 29:16Speaker 1: don't have a quarterback controversy. They have a medical documentary,
- 29:19Speaker 1: is what they have at this particular point. It's a
- 29:22Speaker 1: horror film or a medical documentary. And Kevin Stefanski is
- 29:27Speaker 1: out there selling hope. Gallons and gallons and gallons of hope.
- 29:32Speaker 1: You get some hope. You get some hope, but you
- 29:36Speaker 1: know what that means. The fine print clearly reads batteries
- 29:39Speaker 1: and functioning ligiments not included. There are some really depressing
- 29:45Speaker 1: quarterback situations in the NFL. You've got thirty two teams,
- 29:49Speaker 1: twenty nine of them, and then you've got those other three.
- 29:53Speaker 1: Arizona with Jacoby Brissett Man he blows and he's the
- 29:58Speaker 1: de facto start of the Cleveland Brown with the clown
- 30:00Speaker 1: quarterback in Deshaun Watson and that spawn of Dion Shader Sanders,
- 30:06Speaker 1: the influencer who's playing quarterback in then Atlanta and there's
- 30:11Speaker 1: some other bad situations with man, what a mess, What
- 30:16Speaker 1: an absolute bloody mess that happens to be.
- 30:19Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
- 30:22Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific were go.
- 30:27Speaker 9: Blah blah blah blah blah, Saquon, excuse me, Saquon Barkley.
- 30:34Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, chucked up.
- 30:36Speaker 9: Saquon Barkley was asked about his famous backwards hurdle play
- 30:39Speaker 9: this week. He said it's a play that he'll never forget,
- 30:42Speaker 9: but he doesn't want to be remembered for that play.
- 30:44Speaker 3: Ben, do you think that's what he'll be remembered for?
- 30:47Speaker 1: No, the Eagles won a championship if they hadn't like
- 30:51Speaker 1: Odell Beckham. Even though he did win a championship, Odell's
- 30:54Speaker 1: known for the catch with the Giants. I don't. I
- 30:56Speaker 1: don't think Barkley's just known for that play. I feel
- 30:58Speaker 1: like he's got a good body work with the Eagles
- 31:01Speaker 1: and a few highlights with the Giants. So I'm gonna
- 31:04Speaker 1: go know on that. Although it's a really cool PLA,
- 31:06Speaker 1: it's a video game plan. It's wonderful.
- 31:08Speaker 9: Next Colts GM, Chris Ballard was asked if he expected
- 31:11Speaker 9: to get a contract extension this offseason, and he said no,
- 31:14Speaker 9: I wouldn't do one. I'm on last year of my deal.
- 31:16Speaker 9: We need to win, Ben, make the call. Is Ballard
- 31:19Speaker 9: gm with the Colts in twenty twenty seven?
- 31:21Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's got a lifetime. He's like a professor.
- 31:24Speaker 1: He's a tenured professor. I don't know how he's kept
- 31:27Speaker 1: the job this long. The Colts haven't been very good.
- 31:30Speaker 1: They've been pretty mediocre for years and years and years.
- 31:33Speaker 1: And it's like, I know Urs died and his daughter's
- 31:35Speaker 1: running the team. I don't see any reason they're gonna leave.
- 31:37Speaker 1: They keeping no matter what next.
- 31:39Speaker 9: During a recent podcast, Draymond Green said that Jalen Brnson
- 31:42Speaker 9: shouldn't have taken less money from the Knicks and that
- 31:44Speaker 9: someone like Josh Hart should have done it. Ben, do
- 31:46Speaker 9: you think Brunson's sacrifice was a key part of the
- 31:47Speaker 9: next championship run?
- 31:50Speaker 1: Uh? No, I don't know a key part. He still
- 31:52Speaker 1: had to prove himself when he got to the Knicks.
- 31:54Speaker 1: It's not like if people forget Jalen Brunson was not
- 31:58Speaker 1: established start, how do we do passes?
- 32:00Speaker 3: Edition?
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- 32:17Speaker 3: It's now time for time for Honey, Honey, Honey waite.
- 32:21Speaker 2: Ask bad Twitter, Send us your questions on Twitter now.
- 32:26Speaker 1: And no way were going to ask men your questions
- 32:28Speaker 1: our answers for the rest of the hour. These are
- 32:30Speaker 1: actual questions by actual listeners. This is nothing like the
- 32:33Speaker 1: mail bag, which we do in the Fifth Hour podcast
- 32:35Speaker 1: every Sunday. Here it is with a reading of the
- 32:39Speaker 1: questions the Coop Dow Loop.
- 32:42Speaker 3: JT the Wingman would like to know.
- 32:45Speaker 1: I've met him. He's gonna be in Vegas too, JT
- 32:47Speaker 1: the wing.
- 32:48Speaker 9: That's right, Yeah, he wants to know what is your
- 32:50Speaker 9: favorite non gambling thing to do in Vegas.
- 32:54Speaker 1: Oh, I've been in Vegas and I have some restaurants
- 32:56Speaker 1: I love that are only in Vegas, like local. I
- 32:58Speaker 1: don't go to like the change local establishments. I have
- 33:01Speaker 1: some family in Vegas, so I go there. I like
- 33:03Speaker 1: just walking around walking around. Although I told you guys
- 33:06Speaker 1: lot I love Fremont Street, like where our iHeart building
- 33:10Speaker 1: is down there, except it's great for people watching. Last
- 33:14Speaker 1: time I saw stuff, I saw some stuff that was
- 33:16Speaker 1: so depressing. I might take a break on that, but
- 33:19Speaker 1: I usually just walk around like a human zoo seeing
- 33:21Speaker 1: all the freaks out on free Must Street.
- 33:23Speaker 4: What about you, Lorena, Yeah, my favorite thing has to
- 33:26Speaker 4: be eating. I just love all the different foods and
- 33:29Speaker 4: the fanciness.
- 33:31Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're not eating at the local dive barbecue place.
- 33:35Speaker 3: I do stop.
- 33:35Speaker 4: I do stop at the pawn shop barbecue shop, Rick's
- 33:40Speaker 4: Rolling Barbecue.
- 33:41Speaker 3: It is my favorite spot.
- 33:43Speaker 4: They have the best bloody mary that is stacked high
- 33:45Speaker 4: with everything you could possibly want in your mouth.
- 33:50Speaker 1: Okay, cool.
- 33:52Speaker 9: I'd have to agree with the eating food aspect. I mean,
- 33:56Speaker 9: gambling is mostly what I'm doing there, but I do
- 34:00Speaker 9: have some nice meals in Vegas.
- 34:03Speaker 1: You get the cheaper meals off the strip, though, if
- 34:05Speaker 1: you really want to save a couple of bucks, you
- 34:07Speaker 1: go off the strip. Sas been your questions are answers
- 34:15Speaker 1: and what is next? On this edition of Ask Ben?
- 34:18Speaker 1: Hashtag ask Ben.
- 34:20Speaker 3: If you'd like to join the fund Donkey Sausage.
- 34:23Speaker 9: Now, I feel like I need to give a little
- 34:25Speaker 9: bit of background on this question.
- 34:28Speaker 1: Donkey Sausage Hi, donkey, there.
- 34:30Speaker 9: Have been I guess a lot of rattlesnake encounters here
- 34:35Speaker 9: in southern California lately over the past couple of months,
- 34:39Speaker 9: like bites from rattlesnakes have increased like like something like
- 34:43Speaker 9: four hundred percent or something this year.
- 34:45Speaker 3: So he wants to know, have you seen any rattlesnakes lately?
- 34:50Speaker 1: Yeah? No, Unfortunately, they have not come into my home,
- 34:52Speaker 1: so I've not spent much time outside, so I have not.
- 34:56Speaker 1: When I go outside, I usually go to the beach.
- 34:58Speaker 1: That's my spot. So seeing them at the beach, so
- 35:01Speaker 1: I have not. I did see a video on the
- 35:03Speaker 1: internet of a couple of uh snakes, you know that
- 35:08Speaker 1: snake thing where they're fighting with each other.
- 35:09Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's that's what he That's what he was quoting.
- 35:12Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I saw that. Okay, Uh No, I've not
- 35:14Speaker 1: seen any, Lorena, No.
- 35:16Speaker 3: I have not.
- 35:18Speaker 1: Cool.
- 35:19Speaker 9: I was gonna basically like your answer, in order to
- 35:21Speaker 9: see battlesnakes, you have to go outside, and it's I'm yeah,
- 35:26Speaker 9: it's not something I do.
- 35:27Speaker 1: Wait till it cools down. I'll go outside a little bit,
- 35:29Speaker 1: you know, I won't see them, So that'll be that
- 35:32Speaker 1: what's next? Just ask Ben that video of the snakes
- 35:36Speaker 1: fighting was pretty cool. Though, that's pretty cool. Do you
- 35:38Speaker 1: think those were like brother snakes you know you're older,
- 35:41Speaker 1: you know, brusting each other's balls? I guess snakes don't
- 35:45Speaker 1: have balls, do rattles? All right? Yes? Exactly?
- 35:49Speaker 7: All right?
- 35:49Speaker 1: Uh? Man?
- 35:51Speaker 3: Well, and Guardina wants to know you met him.
- 35:53Speaker 1: He's a legend.
- 35:54Speaker 3: Man, Yes, yes, he wants to know. Are you open
- 35:57Speaker 3: to never taking a call from any caller? Andre? No?
- 36:03Speaker 9: But that he also asks, like, I guess that's a
- 36:06Speaker 9: joke question, because he followed it up with a real one.
- 36:09Speaker 3: Do you ever eat cheese puffs?
- 36:12Speaker 1: I do?
- 36:13Speaker 7: There?
- 36:13Speaker 1: The problem is I'll eat the whole freaking bag, And
- 36:16Speaker 1: so I picked my spots rare and appropriate with the
- 36:18Speaker 1: cheese puffs. Love cheese puffs. Although you know what I
- 36:21Speaker 1: really love is that Canadian thing that Nico sent me
- 36:24Speaker 1: if you and we bought a bunch we were in Canada.
- 36:27Speaker 1: Oh yeahoids yeah, Nico hooked me up. Man that those
- 36:32Speaker 1: things are so freaking good man. I love those. I'd
- 36:35Speaker 1: eat those every day, What about you, Lora?
- 36:37Speaker 4: I just feel like they're so unhealthy, Like if you
- 36:39Speaker 4: could line up a row of things you shouldn't eat
- 36:42Speaker 4: that would be on there. But I love licking the
- 36:44Speaker 4: stuff off my fingers.
- 36:46Speaker 1: Yeah, well, probably everything's unhealthy and raina. You have a
- 36:51Speaker 1: fatal disease. It's called life. You're not getting out of live,
- 36:53Speaker 1: so you might as well enjoy it. You know, I'm
- 36:54Speaker 1: just saying cool.
- 36:57Speaker 3: What was the question?
- 36:59Speaker 9: It was something about chee cheese cheese puss.
- 37:03Speaker 3: That's right, Yes, I loved, I loved. I love cheesy poofs.
- 37:07Speaker 1: Cheesy poofs. All right, what's next? Is asked Ben? Your
- 37:10Speaker 1: questions are answers. Let's keep it going. Who's next.
- 37:13Speaker 9: We've got speaking which we've got out the alleno pineer
- 37:15Speaker 9: and he wants to know, is there's a snack that
- 37:16Speaker 9: you rarely have if ever, but you love it.
- 37:18Speaker 3: It's just not on your radar. For him, it's crackerjacks.
- 37:23Speaker 1: Yeah. I like, Yeah, I like crackerjacks. I don't eat
- 37:25Speaker 1: him very much. There's a lot of I have a
- 37:27Speaker 1: lot of snacks in the house, but I don't They
- 37:28Speaker 1: were like kind of buried in the back, and I
- 37:31Speaker 1: unless it's in front of me, I don't think it exists.
- 37:34Speaker 1: So there's a lot of stuff I could be eating.
- 37:35Speaker 1: I don't eat what about you, Lorena.
- 37:37Speaker 4: I'm gonna go with salty peanuts, okay, like the ones
- 37:40Speaker 4: in the shells.
- 37:42Speaker 3: Yeah, power seeds.
- 37:43Speaker 4: I really like those.
- 37:44Speaker 3: I just don't eat them very much.
- 37:45Speaker 1: Cool.
- 37:46Speaker 9: I missed those, the Keebler Elf chocolate sandwich cookies.
- 37:50Speaker 3: Those. I loved those as a kid. I haven't had
- 37:52Speaker 3: them forever.
- 37:53Speaker 1: We'll go buy some today, go out and buy some,
- 37:55Speaker 1: and you go to d Q stop by the market
- 37:58Speaker 1: and then you can have one of those two.
- 37:59Speaker 3: Yeah.