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  Speaker 1: another night of the world. So is do we have
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  Speaker 1: live baseball action right now? No, we do not have
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  Speaker 1: any live baseball action right now, but we start out
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  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles or a top of mountain looking down
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  Speaker 1: on skid row the Dodgers and the Blue Jays back
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  Speaker 1: at it. Less than twenty four hours after the eighteen
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  Speaker 1: inning thriller in Chavez Ravine and Toronto was looking even
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  Speaker 1: the series up in Game number four right there, big
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  Speaker 1: stage here. Man, it was a massive so important. We
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  Speaker 1: had live music for it. La a huge pitching advantage.
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  Speaker 1: If you looked at the matchup, you said, Okay, that's
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  Speaker 1: a win for the Dodgers, chuck that up for a win.
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  Speaker 1: You had Shane Bieber representing the Canadians and Sho Hail
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  Speaker 1: Tani for the Doyers, the greatest player ever to play
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  Speaker 1: the sport. Of baseball. You cannot lose. You cannot lose
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  Speaker 1: a game started by the greatest player, God's gift to humanity,
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  Speaker 1: show hail today. You cannot lose. That's why they play
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  Speaker 1: the games. So if you didn't see it, I assume
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  Speaker 1: you know by now we watched, so you would not
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  Speaker 1: have to. It's our good mits of the day. But
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  Speaker 1: Flattie is your daddy, and he walloped a two run
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  Speaker 1: homer off God's gift of baseball, show Hail tany in
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  Speaker 1: the third inning there and Shane Bieber, of all people,
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  Speaker 1: Shane Bieber, the Beabs went out there and pitched four
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  Speaker 1: hit ball into the sixth inning, into the sixth inning,
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  Speaker 1: Shane Bieber, who's got like a terminator arm. Unreal, unreal,
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  Speaker 1: and Toronto gets back on track. They get a six
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  Speaker 1: to two win over the Doyer's Addison Barger adding a
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  Speaker 1: couple of hits and an RBI for the JS and
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  Speaker 1: don't look down, but Toronto has reclaimed home field advantage
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  Speaker 1: and we are guaranteed that the World Series will end
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  Speaker 1: on Canadian soil at the Rogers Center in downtown Toronto
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  Speaker 1: right there. At some point this weekend, the World Series
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  Speaker 1: will come to an end there in that fine city.
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  Speaker 1: And that is a good jumping off point because Dave
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  Speaker 1: Roberts better storing the losing locker room. And so Dave
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  Speaker 1: Roberts addressing a very pathetic Dodger offense here and the
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  Speaker 1: question and Roberts insinuating that there's going to be some
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  Speaker 1: changes to the Dodger lineup heading into the next game here,
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  Speaker 1: game number five of the World Series. So the question
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  Speaker 1: is what has gone haywire? What has gone haywire for
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  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts and what was billed as the big blue
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  Speaker 1: wrecking crew at Dodger linup. So my thoughts on this,
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  Speaker 1: I've got Ripley's believe it or not, Super Nintendo and
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  Speaker 1: Checkered Flag, and we will combine all of these things together.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna put them in a food processor. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: pick out whatever comes out of that food processor. Man,
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  Speaker 1: is it going to be delicious. So a the Dodger
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  Speaker 1: offense has been offensive, Let's call it like it is here.
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  Speaker 1: They got the names, they don't necessarily have the games
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  Speaker 1: they don't. It's been far too many weak performances by
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers the entire postseason, which is shocking. It shows
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  Speaker 1: you how great the Dodgers must be, because they're in
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  Speaker 1: the World Series two wins away and they haven't played
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  Speaker 1: well on offense pretty much the entire postseason since the
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  Speaker 1: wild card round. They're well below they being the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: well below their regular season domination, and even that was
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  Speaker 1: below what they were supposed to be. It is carried
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  Speaker 1: over the Toronto Blue Jays doing what the Brewers could
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  Speaker 1: not do. A contact heavy lineup of Blue Jay hitters here,
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  Speaker 1: opportunistic bullpen exploiting the soft underbelly of the Los Angeles Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: and something again Milwaukee was unable to do. And yet
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  Speaker 1: here we are and Toronto is doing it at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Although they're not winning the series. The series is tied up.
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  Speaker 1: It's now a best of three and Toronto has home
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  Speaker 1: field advantage yet again. But La has gone from the
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  Speaker 1: big blue wrecking crew with all these amazing names, and
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  Speaker 1: they still have the names, but now they're like a
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  Speaker 1: wet noodle, like a pool noodle, a blue pool noodle
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  Speaker 1: is what they are right there. And so the offense,
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  Speaker 1: which has been billed as a nuclear reactor, right now
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  Speaker 1: it's a dead battery and they need some jumper cables
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  Speaker 1: because it's not going well. And it's not just one guy.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just one guy. This is as the line goes,
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  Speaker 1: and all encompassing suck is what's going on right now
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  Speaker 1: with the Dodgers. Pete Rose the long gone, well, not
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  Speaker 1: that long. You can die that long ago. But Pete
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  Speaker 1: Rose was asked to describe his philosophy. The All Time
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  Speaker 1: hit King was asked to describe his philosophy on hitting,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, I believe it was six words, see
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  Speaker 1: the ball, hit the ball. Boom, that's it. See the ball. Ball.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe the Dodgers need to go to the eye
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  Speaker 1: doctor because they must not be seeing the ball. They're
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  Speaker 1: not really hitting the ball at all. The boys in Blue,
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers here, they're not stringing together hits. Everyone's treating
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  Speaker 1: it like batting practice, trying to hit home runs here,
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  Speaker 1: and they can't even fake it at this particular point.
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  Speaker 1: The four to twenty one ops for the Dodgers in
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  Speaker 1: the postseason. Now, I didn't play in the major leagues.
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  Speaker 1: I just do an overnight talk sho. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that's good. Oh, you're being too critical. The boys are trying. Okay, great,
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  Speaker 1: that's congratulations. If you want that kind of contempt, sure
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  Speaker 1: that guy David Vassa does. The Dodger post game will
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  Speaker 1: lick the toes of all the players, despite massaging Mookie
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  Speaker 1: Bets right now as we speak. But that is not
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  Speaker 1: a slump, by the way. That is who you are
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  Speaker 1: this postseason. That is who the Dodgers are this postseason.
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  Speaker 1: It's also a cry for some kind of intervention. They
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  Speaker 1: might want to bring in some major league tactics and
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  Speaker 1: put a shrine up in a locker and get a
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  Speaker 1: little statue burned, some sage in the locker room or
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  Speaker 1: something along those lines. So the Dodgers making some washed
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  Speaker 1: up blue jay pitchers collectively looked like the ninety five
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves with Glavin Maddox and Smoltz, Bang bang bang,
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  Speaker 1: just like that. Now, Mookie Bets, I'm gonna start with Mooki.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about the Dodgers' offensive problem. I want to
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  Speaker 1: start with Mooki Bets. And here's why. Because everyone tells
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  Speaker 1: me that the resume matters. Y'all tell me that. So
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  Speaker 1: Mooki Bets is an MVP, he's an eight time All Star,
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  Speaker 1: He's won a bunch of Silver Slugger Awards. I'm told
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  Speaker 1: that's a big deal. Right now. He is like an
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  Speaker 1: old NFL kicker, mister automatica. In this case, he's an
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  Speaker 1: AUTOMATICA out. He's on Highway one fifty eight. Mookie Betts
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  Speaker 1: is batting a buck fifty eight. He's an automatic out.
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  Speaker 1: He needs a map, he needs a GPS to find
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  Speaker 1: his way. My got Mookie Bets ball. You know, at
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  Speaker 1: this point he belongs in a museum, Not the Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame, Mookie Bets. He belongs in the please Believe
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  Speaker 1: it or Not museum, the freak show department right next
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  Speaker 1: to Lobster Boy. You can have the human corkscrew. I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you, it's like a corkscrew. He might be trying
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  Speaker 1: to kill some kind of bugs, maybe some mosquitoes or
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  Speaker 1: something like that. That's why he's swinging the way he
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  Speaker 1: is and just not trying to put the ball in play.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, well, I'm not hitting home runs right now,
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  Speaker 1: and this is I was called the bad guy. Let
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  Speaker 1: the record show this hot take validation, Hot take validation.
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  Speaker 1: I got killed. Two monologues upset the Dodger fans more
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  Speaker 1: than anything this year. The Clayton Kershaw one. I'm still
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  Speaker 1: getting crap about at the end of the year when
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  Speaker 1: they had the mock funeral of Kershaw, they dug up
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  Speaker 1: the mound. It was unbelievable. It was like he was
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  Speaker 1: a dinosaur and they dug up the bones. And then
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  Speaker 1: also the Mookie Bets sucks monologue, which was completely accurate.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred games in terrible and all the fanboys, the
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  Speaker 1: cheerleaders there, the Dodger marching and showers is Saudi very upset.
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  Speaker 1: You shouldn't say that. Is it true? Yes, but you
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't say that. But it's true. I know it's true,
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  Speaker 1: but you shouldn't say that. Oh my god. Sorry. Mookie
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  Speaker 1: bat sucks right now. Nineteen at bats, three hits, zero
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  Speaker 1: extra base hits in the playoffs for rookie bats. He's
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  Speaker 1: a punch and judy hitter at this point, and they're
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  Speaker 1: paying him like he's prime. Tony Gwinn back in the
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  Speaker 1: day and Barry Bonds love child with Tony Winn or
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  Speaker 1: something like that. And then you've got the I would
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  Speaker 1: say Comodo dragged him the room, but that's being too kind.
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  Speaker 1: You've got the rat in the room, the big vermin
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  Speaker 1: in the room. That would be Andy Paez of the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: The Dodgers would actually be better off, and this is
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  Speaker 1: rather shocking with a Pez dispenser. If they had a
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  Speaker 1: Pez dispenser at home plate, they would be better off.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, Andy Paez is on Highway sixty seven.
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  Speaker 1: He's hitting oh sixty seven in the World Series. He's
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  Speaker 1: doing the full Michael Conforto cosplay. Now, Michael Conforto was
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  Speaker 1: the guy that Dodgers added, was supposed to be a
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  Speaker 1: big bat in the lineup, and is so horrific that
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  Speaker 1: he can't get near a batter's box in the in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs here because he's just talks, and that is
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  Speaker 1: Andy pis. He's been completely overmatched. He's he just lost late.
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  Speaker 1: He needs to contact someone over at Baywatch because he's drowning.
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  Speaker 1: At this particular point. It's bad, real bad, and they're
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  Speaker 1: leaving them out to dry. Dave Roberts is leaving them
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  Speaker 1: out there. The guy's shown you he can't play. He's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: we can't play, and Roberts keeps saying it's not rob
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  Speaker 1: it's the nerds because they don't believe that there's a
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  Speaker 1: thing called the slump. They don't think that every game's
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  Speaker 1: individual and all that stuff and lack of confidence is
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  Speaker 1: not a thing. And so here's the guy drowning and
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  Speaker 1: he's continued to be and there does sound like Roberts.
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  Speaker 1: Finally after losing another game in the World Series, it's like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, well, the nerds have told me that I
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  Speaker 1: can put somebody else in there, so we'll do that,
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  Speaker 1: and they Andy Poz can get a one way ticket
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  Speaker 1: to cam Kun or some other nice tropical location if
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  Speaker 1: you would like. And it's not just those guys you got.
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  Speaker 1: Will Smith had the big home run in Game two
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  Speaker 1: in Toronto, hadn't done much other than that. Max Muncy,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on? What's wrong with him? We not good either.
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  Speaker 1: They're both kind of in the witness protection program most
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  Speaker 1: of these games in the World Series, so that's where
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  Speaker 1: we are. And Roberts, it keeps running out the same
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  Speaker 1: lineup because that's what the nerds tell him to do,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, he's just the middle manager and that's
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  Speaker 1: what he does, and he just sends them out there.
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  Speaker 1: And now, as for the pitching, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people I could rip for the pitching, but I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to focus in because I've limited time, as you know,
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  Speaker 1: because it's a network radio show. So I would like
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  Speaker 1: to focus on Blake Trining. Now, Blake Trining should be
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  Speaker 1: put on an exploratory rocket out to Mars, never to
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  Speaker 1: come back. Holy crap. I'm convinced that the Nerds and
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  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts that Blake Tryon has photos of them because
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  Speaker 1: he keeps getting into these games. It's unreal. Another guy
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  Speaker 1: that has shown you he's washed up, he can't play,
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  Speaker 1: and he keeps getting in these World Series games has
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  Speaker 1: an eight thirty one earned run average as a reliever
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  Speaker 1: in the postseason eight thirty one earned run average. Blake
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  Speaker 1: trying to He's cooked, he's burned. It's horrific. It's like
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  Speaker 1: knowing you're going to pour gasoline on a tinderbox. Who
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  Speaker 1: would do that? Dave robertson the Nerds, that's who does it.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's like you watch a guy that keeps
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  Speaker 1: hitting the self destruct button and makes things worse when
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  Speaker 1: he comes in out of the bullpen, and like he
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  Speaker 1: keep saying, well, this time he hits the button, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be confetti. Well no, it's not confetti trapnel, But
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  Speaker 1: next time it's gonna be confetti. But again it's trapnel,
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  Speaker 1: but no, next time. Next time, it's enough enough and so,
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  Speaker 1: and then you add that with the Dodger offense, who's
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  Speaker 1: is supposed to be a death star and it's a
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  Speaker 1: dollar general is what they are now turning the page.
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  Speaker 1: So I would like to adjust to me. And I
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  Speaker 1: realized this is my pet peeve and no one else
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  Speaker 1: has this dick. When I'm about to complain about nobody
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  Speaker 1: else has, I'm the only one that is gonna get
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  Speaker 1: on the bully pulpit and complain about this. But it's
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  Speaker 1: my job to do it because I see bull crap
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  Speaker 1: and I just have to yell. It's therapeutic. I just
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  Speaker 1: bear with me, just just go with it. So the
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  Speaker 1: story after the Dodger Blue Jay game, a game won
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  Speaker 1: by Toronto to even up the World Series, was not
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  Speaker 1: that Shohiltani didn't get it done. It's that it's not
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  Speaker 1: his fault he didn't get it done. You feel me
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  Speaker 1: on that. So Otani was zero for three at the
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  Speaker 1: plate with two strikeouts, and he was also the losing
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  Speaker 1: pitcher on the mound. He allowed you know, he was
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  Speaker 1: pitching okay, and then he allowed the last inning and
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  Speaker 1: there's some runs that gave but he ended up giving
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  Speaker 1: up four runs Otani in six hits and he was
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  Speaker 1: the losing pitcher. And ever since that World Series game ended,
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  Speaker 1: it's been a couple hours, there has been NonStop media
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  Speaker 1: working overtime to cook in the kitchen of excuses. So
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  Speaker 1: the question for the steam panel, the question is where
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  Speaker 1: are you at on the media going into the kitchen
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  Speaker 1: and cooking up alibis for sho Heo Tani and his
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  Speaker 1: World Series clunker. So the media fanboys and girls, all right,
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  Speaker 1: here's some of the excuses. I jotted down a few
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  Speaker 1: of them. The media has told us that the reason
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  Speaker 1: Otani sucked in the World Series because he was tired.
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  Speaker 1: They told us that he didn't get enough sleep, like
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  Speaker 1: that it was hot and the eighteen inning game went long,
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  Speaker 1: so he was too tired. The level excuse, my friends, here,
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  Speaker 1: the level of bull crap, like, what the hell is
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  Speaker 1: wrong with you people? Seriously, can you imagine I don't
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  Speaker 1: get much sleep at all during the week doing the overnights.
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  Speaker 1: I should go to my boss and say, listen, just
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  Speaker 1: the reason the show's not good. It's uh, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: get enough sleep. Okay, that's good, that's perfect. But again,
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  Speaker 1: the problem with Otan. I'm not anti Otani. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: sound like I'm anti Otani. I'm gonna get email. You
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  Speaker 1: don't like Otani, you don't like No, I don't he
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  Speaker 1: I like he's been built into baseball's demigod. Show. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: Atani is Baseball's demigod. He is. He's half man, half
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  Speaker 1: mythical lumberjack. And the minute that Otani looks mortal like
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  Speaker 1: he most certainly did in this World Series game, instead
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  Speaker 1: of just calling it like it is, it's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: let's check his sleep IQ score. How much? How much
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  Speaker 1: deep sleep did Otani get? Oh? My god? As for
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: the weather, it was a little warm. It was not
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  Speaker 1: Phoenix Arizona warm. Okay, it was not Vegas warm. It
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  Speaker 1: was not Death Valley warm. So what are we doing here? Okay? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's La baseball in October. It's still hot in La
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  Speaker 1: in October. That's why people put up with the ridiculous
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  Speaker 1: People's Republic of California taxation and all that crap because
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  Speaker 1: of the weather. All right, And so you think Babe Ruth,
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  Speaker 1: maybe he did. I don't know. I was alive when
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  Speaker 1: Babe Ruth. But you think Babe Ruth ever complained because
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  Speaker 1: he didn't get enough sleep. Wasn't the legend of Babe Ruth.
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  Speaker 1: There's this old guy named Bert Sugar died years ago,
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  Speaker 1: boxing guy, a sports historian, and Bert used to tell
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  Speaker 1: stories about Babe, the womanizing of Babe Ruth and the
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  Speaker 1: drinking of Babe Ruth and the just the excess of
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: the Bambino. And they traveled by train and they'd be like,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: you know, random women chasing after Babe half naked and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Never got reworded. But anyway, so I don't think Babe
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  Speaker 1: Ruth complained about that. But see this is the problem.
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  Speaker 1: Is the problem as I get on the Bully pulp.
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  Speaker 1: But the media has built Otani into a Super Nintendo
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  Speaker 1: cheat code, like just a Super Nintendo cheat code come
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  Speaker 1: to life. It's like if a video game Avatar could
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  Speaker 1: come to life. Here it is and then he goes
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  Speaker 1: out there and again he looked very human in this
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  Speaker 1: particular game. And you have to invent excuses out of
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  Speaker 1: thin air to keep the dream alive. You got to
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  Speaker 1: keep the fantasy alive. Otani is too big to fail,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a lot of people invested in this. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of reporters from Japan that have gotten on
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  Speaker 1: the company dime there and they're free loading in America,
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  Speaker 1: covering the Dodgers on a daily basis. There's a lot
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: of people that have Otani endorsing their products. Major League
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Baseball's heavily invested in the myth of Otani. They need Otani.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: They cannot have Otani fail here, and so he's not
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: going to be perfect in every game. But to me,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: that weakens the legend. When you do crap like this,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: it weakens the legend, and that's not cool. You don't
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: need a Greek chorus of pr hacks coming in here
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: and explaining, well, the reason that Zeus misplaced his lightning
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: bolt is you know X, Y and Z. You just
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: just say he's stunk, miakopa, he'll be better next time,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: and that's it, right period, hard stop. You don't need
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: all this other stuff. And it's like, are these real people?
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: I'm not wired that way? Maybe I should be. Everyone
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: else seems to be making a lot more money than
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: me and they're wired that way. I guess I should
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: just be a kiss ass like everyone else in the media.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Holy crap, I just admit it, move on, and you
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: don't need to say, well, it's because you didn't get
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: his twelve hours of sleep. You imagine needing twelve hours
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: of sleep to function, Holy Canoli, My god. All right,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: last thing, quick, right to the Toronto side of things.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: So the Blue Jays get the win in La. They
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: had to do that. They lost home field in Toronto
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: in game two, so they had to win a game
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and they did. So how are things
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: looking for Vladi Guerrero's Blue Jays in the World Series? So,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: as Larry David would say, pretty deep, britt deep, pritt
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: deep good, not bad, not bad. When you look at
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: the tailor of the tape, the Dodgers a big favorite,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: as Viva los Vicki lects to tell us in the
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: World Series, I had big favorite and all that, but
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: you look at it, and if you look at the
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: tailor of the tape, the Toronto Blue Jays are matching
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: La punch for punch. Four games in to the World Series.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Everybody told us that the Dodgers had all the momentum
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: from Freddie Freeman's dramatic eighteen inning home run. The eighteenth
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: inning home run, the marathon. It ended like a half
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: hour from now yesterday. So my god, but Toronto again,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: they're right there, neck and neck. They're getting it done.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: And they were supposed to be emotionally fried because the
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Dodgers had all the momentum. I'm right ready to pack
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: up the maple syrup and go back to Canada. Well
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: what happened. The Jays dropped the haymaker on the Dodgers,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: and the reason there is no such thing as momentum. Oh,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: he said it out loud. He said it out loud. Yep. Sorry,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Now the Jays are guaranteed to have the World Series
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: decided on their home field. They'll enjoy mama's home cooked
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: poutine and they'll get these skyline fireworks, the whole bit
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: right there, it's gonna be great. As far as the Dodgers,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: maybe they'll find their offense. I think they left it
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: somewhere between La and Toronto so they can find it.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: It looks like they're stuck in gridlock traffic at this point.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Good luck. But it is rather incredible that Shane Bieber
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna I've already gotten people. Well, it's fixed,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: it's it's you know, it's a scary, terry situation. Uh,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: that guy Porter, you know it's all rigged. I'm not
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: going there because if that's the kid, why are we
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: even doing this? Like if that's if this is all
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: like scripted professional wrestling, Like what are we doing? I'm
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: as well just do something else, talk about some other
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: crap on the radio. I need to talk about sports
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: if it's all rigged. But that said, all right, that
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: said bieber Fever. Bieber Fever. In the World Series. He
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: was supposed to be weekend at Bernie's and the ghost
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: of cy Young passed Shane Bieber and he went five
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: plus innings and one run ball. That is an act
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: of God, is what You've gotta be kidding me. The
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Dodgers got emasculated by the corpse of Shane Bieber. That
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: is what in the Billion Dollar Boys Club and all
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: that four hits, It's rather unreal when you think about it.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: That's why they play it. Even Mad Max that Suresy
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: should've gotten his ass kicked by the Dodgers, and he
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: didn't get his ass kicked. So the Jays they rolled
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: out a couple of Beater cars and somehow they have
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: at this point taken the checkered flag as they've matched
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers blow for blow in the World Series Grand Prix,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: so they're they're right there. Unfortunately, Toronto did not get
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the text message. They must have been on airplane mode.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: They did not get the text message that they were
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: supposed to roll over and play dead in the World Series.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: So again we're tied up to two. Home field goes
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: back to North of the Border and it's going to
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: be decided either way on Canadian soul. I just haven't
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: won a World Series at home since I think the
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixties, so they don't usually win at home. They
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: won't win at home this year. They might not win
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: at all, might not win. You know, it's mikes a
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: weasel word, but the way they're playing, the bullpen returned
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: to form. They suck and the offense sucks, so what
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: are you gonna How do you win with that? How
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: do you win with a bad offense and a bad bullpen?
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: And they won again they shouldn't have won. So that's
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: where we are. So sticky situations like the Dodgers are
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: covered in syrup, Canadian syrup, and right now the day
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: is feeling pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: lead is not from the World Series. Instead, it is
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: from the dirty Birds of Atlanta. Inching closer to the
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  Speaker 1: trade deadline as it is less than a week away.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Now today is Wednesday, and that'd be next Tuesday. It
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: is coming Tuesday, the trade deadline. So we do the shuffle.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: You gotta do the shuffle. Now we're talking about the
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: quarterback shuffle. Here is what we're talking about. And a
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: story has popped up which is out of the files
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: of the captain obvious Department of Sports Media. As we
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: inch closer and closer to the trade deadline, time is
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: running out, time is running out, and NFL teams have
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: to make those last minute moves the November fourth trade deadline,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: and a quarterback has emerged on the market. Who is it, Well,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: that would be Kirk Cousins, shaker of Yes, the guy
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: that went out there and wrote the vomit comment against
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. So he reportedly wants to start. He
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: realizes Atlanta loves them some Michael Pennix Junior, so they're
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: not that interested in starting him, even though he was
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: an emergency starter because Penex was hurt So the story is,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: from what we understand, that the Falcon backup quarterback desires
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to start elsewhere. Is that really a that
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: shocking that someone who's a backup wants to play. Okay, However,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: they say that no trade appears imminent or eminent imminent.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Now why because Cousins is making so much money they'd
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: have to take money out of Fort Knox in order
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: to make the trade happen. And so that's a good
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: jumping off point. As we get closer to the trade deadline,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: let us discuss the question does a Falcon Kirk Cousins
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: trade budge the needle? Would a trade of Kirk Cousins
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: budge the needle in the NFL? So on this one,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: I've got QBC, Drew Carey, and Spanish American War, and
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: are going to have a colossal good times. What we're
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: gonna have? So number one, I said number one, Number
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: all right, I'm giving this one stink eye is what
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I'm giving it. Okay, Kirk Cousins, if you happen to
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: have the misfortune of watching him play quarterback this past
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: weekend against the Miami Dolphins. You know where I'm going
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: with this. Kirk Cousins had a showcase. He was in
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: the display case for the entire NFL to watch against
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: a pathetic, gutless Miami Dolphin team. Even Stevie Meatballs can
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: see how bad the Dolphins are this year. And what happened.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Cousins went out there and slipped on a banana peal,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: He did a face plant and he essentially it was
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: on a live infomercial for everyone in the NFL. Everyone's
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: watching where they're gonna watch the tape afterwards against the Dolphins.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: This was a segment on QVC. He was on the
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: home shopping channel. There and the phone lines, nobody called,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: nobody called bat signa and Dad giveaway. There's just not interesting.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: This was supposed to be Kirk Cousins come back concert,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: a bunch of beautiful throws. It was gonna be glorious, right,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: a symphony for Kirk Cousins. Instead, it looked like an
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: open mic night at the local Applebee's on a Monday.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Did not go well. No touchdowns, no juice, a lot
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: of checkdowns, a lot of just blah blah blah blah
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah football now regardless, Right, here's the thing.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: He's still a quarterback and he's gott He had success
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: in the NFL, so somebody all we takes the bait. Now,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: the question is would Atlanta be willing to do it?
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: They don't have to do it, and it's better to
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: get something than nothing. If you look at the contractual
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: situation of Kirk, Cousins' days are limited there now looking around,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: as a distant relative of Nostradamus and friend of nostra Denis,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: you look around the NFL and there are a few
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Lonely Hearts club members. When it comes to the quarterback position.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: You're talking about the Raiders. Gino Smith can't play. The Browns,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: they haven't had a quarterback since Bernie Cozar. The Saints,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: where have you gone, Drew Brees or Lonely Hearts? Miss you?
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Those teams are dumpster diving franchises. So it doesn't make
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: a lot of sense. You're not going anywhere. Why would
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: you acquire a veteran, high paid quarterback at the trade deadline.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: It's one of those things. It's like it's like being
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: on the dating app at one fifty eight in the morning,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: and you know, you're not finding the one. You're finding
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: a one, but you're not finding the one. You know
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, looking for somebody to keep it warm.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: That's essentially what those teams are looking for at this point.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: This get us through the rest of the season. We'll
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: get a high, shiny draft pick and that'll be that.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: So what does that mean? Well, when you continue to
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: look off in the wild blue yonder around the NFL,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: you realize that there's only really two teams that have
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: any kind of intrigue when it comes to a possible
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins trade. Now, I'm going to make my elevator pitch,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: and I want to see if you agree or disagree.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: So those two teams are Survey says forty nine Ers Vikings,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: that's it, that's all. That's not a list, Terry and England.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: That's a big board. That is a big board, not
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: a list, a big board. So the forty nine ers
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: have Brock Purdy who's limping around and when he's played,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: he hasn't played that Well, now he's hurt, so he's
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: not playing and he got paid and all that, and
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: then so he got that and he's limping around on
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: one stick on one leg and it's like he's like
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: at this point, he's like a him and Mac Jones.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Mac Jones has been playing a lot. Mac had some
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: decent games to start. He's fallen off the side of
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: the road there lately, and he's kind of like a
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: rental car that's got four flat tires. It's not good
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: to look at and all that. Then you've got Viking
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: red shirt rookie JJ McCarthy, who's so bad? How bad
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: is he so bad that he looked over his head
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: to the point where Carson Wentz was starting ahead of
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: a healthy JJ McCarthy, Which is not a vote of confidence,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: which is not a vote of conference. Now McCarthy's a
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: red shirt freshman. He's supposed to come back. The Vikings
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: are massive underdogs against the Detroit Lions this weekend because
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: there's his thirty seven. He isn't a long term savior
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: for anybody. However, you need a new band aid, you know,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: take off your Hello Kiddie band aid. You can put
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins on right. And he's got a pulse and
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: coaches love the father flannagain. We're gonna gonna fix this guy,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: make him better with our team, and I can coach
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: him up and all that stuff, and quarterback desperation is undefeated.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: The Bengals went out and traded for Joe Flacco, who
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: got benched by the Cleveland Browns. So if Joe Flacco
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: can get benched by the Cleveland Browns and then end
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: up being relocated to you know who, the Bengals, then okay,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: So Cousins knows it. The flea market is open and
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: it is really the balls in the court of Atlanta
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: whether or not they want to deal with it, and
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: do they really value Cousins? Is it better just to
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: leave them? Let him leave, or you'll get some kind
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: of compensation. Pick I believe that's how that works. Now,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: speaking of the trade deadline, we go to Jersey conflicting
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: reports regarding the Giants edge rusher Keevan Thibodeau, the old
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Oregon duck Kevon Thibodeaux, who has been described as a
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: name to watch in quotes, name to watch in quotes
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: during the upcoming trading season now State sponsored propped the
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: news service of the NFL NFL Media. They tell us
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: that the teams have called the Giants trying to poach
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Cavan Thibodeau and inquire about trading for his services, much
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: to the dismay of our friend the movie man, and
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: they have been told the Giants have no interest, no
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: interest in discussing a trade involving the fifth overall pick
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty two I believe it was NFL draft.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: So we've got conflicting reports. You've got he said, he said,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: question for you, and I'm gonna answer it first. But
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna pose the question and then i'm gonna answer.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: And if you want to call up, there's a line
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: that opened up, so I'll give out the number in
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: a minute. But here it is, is Giants Edge Rusher
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Cavan Thibodeaux available or not? Because again one report said
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: implied these available, and then immediately there was well the
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Giants are not willing to trade him and all this stuff,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: all right, So the Giants, what they're doing is they're
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: playing a kids game. So you know what it is.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: That's right, Pikaboo, that's what they're playing. They're playing peekaboo
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: with the truth. You know it, and I know it.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: This is what we call a Drew Carey situation. Now,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: what is a Drew Carey situation when it comes to
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: the NFL trade deadline. If the price is right, you
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: can get the showcase Showdown. In this case, that would
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: be Kevan Thibodeau or go. You offer the right package
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you get to play. This
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: ain't plinko. We're not playing plinko, if you know what
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. So linebacker is actually something that the Giants
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: have a lot of. You wouldn't know it by the
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: way their defense is played most of the year, but
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: they have some name brand players. Brian Burns has been
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: a very good player on bad teams most of his career,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: and they drafted Abdul Carter and they've they've got him.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: So that was all after they went out and drafted
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Kavan Thibodau, who was a Giant bust to begin his
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: NFL career. Let's call it like it is. He's mostly
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: been roster spam. You're the number five overall pick in
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: the draft. He's got no All pros, no Pro Bowls,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: and the Pro Bowl they play TikTok toe. You can't
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: even get in a competitive game of tic tac toe
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: and flag football. My god. So the point is they
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: have some wiggle room here to trade the trade the player. Now.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: The issue is they they were gambling that this was
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: going to be a breakout year Kevon was going to
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: go and this was the year they picked up the
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: fifth year options. So they're like, well, this is gonna
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: be great. He'll be so good, he'll be so great.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: And they're still waiting, and they're waiting, and they're waiting
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: and they're waiting. If somebody dangles a nice big bag
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: of goodies, I mean a lot of goodies in there,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: then the giants, let's say they're not putting their phone
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: on airplane mode. They're going to respond, They're going to
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: read the comments and all that stuff, and that's that.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: So good luck. So yeah, technically, if you want to
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: get on a technicality, technically he's not available Covon Tibodeau
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: until he is. Until he is. And then a translation
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: for those of you a little slow in the back
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: of the room. Everyone's available at the right price. Everyone's
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: available at the right price. All right, now, final point.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: We go now to Houston, the home of Mister Irrigation
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: and Ivan the Terrible and so many other great contributors
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: to the show. Despite him, my very passionate, spicy commentary
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: over the years about the cheating astro. So I saw
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: this and this was right in my wheelhouse. Now, to
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: be fair, I did not see this initially. This was
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: sent to me by a listener who I believe is
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: named Mike, who does not live in Houston, but lives
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: in the suburbs of Houston. He says, Ben, did you
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: see this? He sent me an email this afternoon and
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: he said, the Texans, So this is this is the
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: coach of the Texans, Tomko Ryan. Now Dimiko Ryans lectured
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: the media, the beat writers that cover the Texans, and
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Mike wanted me to see this. So the Texans, who
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: as a team have been lukewarm, I think we can
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: all agree on that they've been luke warm most of
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: the season. They shown some signs of life, but not
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: consistently in just another run of the mill mediocre team. However,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: despite being lukewarm the roster, they are boiling hot, at
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: least the coaches and Demiko Ryans, who has said many
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: times he doesn't care about the media, consumes the media. Yes,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Dimiko Rans gave a dissertation on media coverage and among
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: the things that he had to say, Ryan's was very upset.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Dimiko Ryans that the media, he said, everybody wants to
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: write a hot story. The Texans coach said, and most
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: of the time it's negative stuff that people want to
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: talk about. Nobody wants to talk about the positive stuff
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: that happens. Now, I added this last part boohoo hoo
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: question coach Demico Ryans of the Houston Texans. He says,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: the media thrives around the Texans on negative coverage at
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: the very into negativity. What is your read on this one?
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: What is your read on this one? So on this one,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: if you open up the textbook to page thirteen of
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: the textbook and you read right at the very top,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: it is a textbook case of I don't care. But
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: let me present a research paper for five minutes on
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: why I don't care? Or go you care? Right? You care?
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: So you either ignore the noise. Might you ignore the
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: noise the concophony of sounds, or you don't. There's no
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: need for a ted talk. You're not the editor, you're
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: not the program director of the media. You're not I
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: don't know what podcasters have. I don't know, nobody do
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: it by themselves. But whatever, and You're not there to
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: teach the media to avoid negative headline. It's like you're
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: trying to reinvent the wheel, Like, what are you doing?
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Demko Ryan? Seriously, for years it has been if it bleeds,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: it leads. Now, why is that phrase popular in mass media?
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: If it bleeds at least? And why do I always
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: say the equivalent of that in sports radio the better
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: stories in the losing locker room? Now, why do I
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: use that phrase? I use that phrase because it's it's
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: the human condition is what it is. And the phrase
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: just give you an example of how far this goes back.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: The phrase if it bleeds it leads originated in the
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: eighteen hundreds. Do you understand that we're talking about the
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: eighteen nineties during the Spanish American War. And I'm not
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: making this up. You can literally do your own research.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Shall google it, ai it, do whatever you want. This
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: goes back to the Spanish American War of the late
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: eighteen nineties when the newspaper magnet William Randolph Hurst and
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: if you've ever been to the Hurst Castle, you know
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: this guy was loaded. Okay, So William Randolph Hearst Hurst
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: realized in the newspaper business that when you sensationalize a
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: story of violence what happened, more people wanted to read
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: about it, and therefore you sold more newspapers and trickle
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: down economics, you made more money. So Dmiko Ryans is
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: acting like this is some kind of new phenomena. It
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: goes back to the eighteen nineties, dude, like, seriously, this
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: is how the media has operated. I would say it
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: goes back to the caveman in the Angerthal days when
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: they would draw the sabertooth tiger on the wall of
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: the cave to warn the others to avoid the saber
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: tooth tiger. You get the point. So it's again, it's
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: just human nature. That's my point. People don't click on
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: stories that say Texans are playing great, everything's fine. They
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: don't click on that. You click on sky is falling,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: Texans blow, They're in trouble. You click on that story,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: and you make money based on the clicks. So that's
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: how it works. It's essentially factory settings, is what it is.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: And because of evolution or whatever you want to call it,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: we're all even though we're all different wink wink, nod
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: not we're not. We're all hardwired to prioritize threats over
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: the warm fuzzy It's kind of you know, the warm
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: fuzzy stuff's fine, but you're more worried about threats. You
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: spot a lion out on the serengetti, you're gonna spot
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: a lion rather than sit there and admire the sunset.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: You got me on that. I know. Listen, it's right
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: my wheelhouse. I want to think Mike, who sent me
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: the story, Good job by you. Low hanging fruit, which,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: as I've said for years, is the most delicious fruit
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: is the low hanging fruit. So again, just stop whining,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Dimico Ryan. You want nice, warm coverage, go to Texans
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: dot com, which is like, you know, the Sunshine website
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: for the Texans. I'm sure it's all propaganda and you
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: probably love that, right, get your pants down there. You're
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: all excited and otherwise, you know, that's the content industry
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: that we're in. The content mill is open.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Here we go, it's Mallard. How about that to the
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: third degree? Here? Wait, it's one Big Ben gets grilled.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: So Carson wentzen said to undergo season ending surgery on
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: his left shoulder, and that leaves the Vikings with only
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: two quarterbacks on their roster, JJ McCarthy and some guy
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: I've never heard of ben. Is there anyone that the
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: Vikings should target in a trade?
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jameis Winston. That's it. I mean, it's all depressing,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: but Jameis Winston is fun bad. He's not bad bad,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: he's fun bad. He'll at least be fun. Other than that,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: it's Russell Wilson. It's Kirk Cousins. You are had Cousins.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: Wilson's done. So that's it. That's the not a list.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: That's the big board. It's a big board of one.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's third string quarterback there behind Russ and Jackson Dart,
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: Jamis Winston next.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: Kyle Shanahan told reporters on Monday that it isn't a
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: long shot for Brock Purty to play in Week nine
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: after missing the last four games in a row for
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: the forty nine ers. Does Party's return make san Fan
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: more of a threat in the NFC West.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: No, No, because he's been exposed as a second tier quarterback.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: So it's about the other players. They don't have their
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: name brand defensive players. I'm not part of the forty
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: nine er Brock Purty marching in chowder society. And that said,
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Mac Jones has cooled off, so Purty would be a
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: slight upgrade over the way Max played recently.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: Next, Tony Dungee took to social media this week to
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: say that the NFL needs to make every play reviewable.
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: This comes after the outrage over the Eagles Tush push
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: being called dead for forward progress when Jalen Hurts had
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: the ball rip from his hands.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Ben, do you think Dungee's right about this? Yes, Let's
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: make every game like Game four or three of the
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: World Series. Make every game six hours and thirty nine minutes.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: We'll just keep going and go. How we done? Cobo up?
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Come on, I want, I won, Michael Africa on, I won,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: I won, I did.
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• 46:33
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  Speaker 3: Gear Rye gear Rye to nine, gear ry to nine,
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: be rid.
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. You heard the man. It's time for
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: some love here on the Ben Mallor Show. And I
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: just want to give a little warning out there for
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: all you people in situationships. Okay, yeah, your delusion can
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: only take you so far.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: Swash yourself all right? Were emailing me, Lorena? Then apparently
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: I made him a mistake. Here is it? Was it
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: your birthday this week?
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: It was my birthday?
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: You didn't say anything about it. I didn't want to
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: be what's that called? That's the word. Okay, Yeah, I
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: don't know your I'm not.
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: I'm sure you saw my post.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: On I don't go on. I'm telling you I really.
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm officially thirty three, and you'll be invited into
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: my birthday.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Well, what is it? Was your birthday yesterday? It was Monday, Monday,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: so this is two days after your birthday. But because
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: did you know about this? Coop? Yes? Why didn't I
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: know about it?
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: He didn't get me any balloons either.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: I didn't. I had no idea.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: You got.
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: Only and Coop only knew because he knows that I'm
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: going to plan my birthday party on his birthday weekend.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: And it actually made him mad. Oh you have you
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: have a big party. Well that is true, that.
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: Is yes, and you will be invited.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: But I didn't know it was.
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: Your birthday before that incident happened.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: We're wasting valuable time. This is very important. We're doing
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: God's work here. Happy birth, Taylor, And I apologize I
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: did not know Arbio season. Okay, Lady Cydeburn says, how
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: do I dress my partners downstairs? Smelling issue? Oh my gosh.
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: I just had this conversation with my friend the other day,
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: like how far have you gotten before you got turned off?
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: And I was like, no, that's why you got to
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: test it first, right, But if she really does have
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: an issue, you should have her go to the doctor.
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: Might have a bacterial infection, and don't use like sprays
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: to cover up the scent.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: That's not how that works. No, No, what if you
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: put like a clip on your nose.
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: You can still taste it?
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: Oh hello, all right, there you go. Rob the goat
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Man says dating advice for everyone. When is the ideal
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: time to let that first? The one rip? You know,
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: just let one rip? Do?
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: I think the best time is either accidentally or like
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: when you're asleep, right, Like they can't blame you if
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: you're sleeping. But for me, the first time one of
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: my boyfriends farted around me, we were like playing, so
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: he picked me up, and by picking me up, it
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: put pressure on him and.
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: He parted it.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: Ah, so it's your fault. Yeah, you cause that.
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: And but you know, the embarrassment was there for both people.
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: So laugh about it, laugh about it, move on, and
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: make sure you didn't eat anything nasty that day because
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: you really can smell it.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: So avoid the garlic and the onions. Yeah, maybe some
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: pineapple or something delicious. Well, speaking of that, JT. The
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: Wingman writes in from Knoxville. He says, is there a
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: particular food that puts a lady in the mood? You?
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Of course, representing all women, Lorena would know what every
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: other woman likes that gets her all giddy.
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a that's a good one because they say oyster?
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: Is that afrodij Yeah? I like the slurping motion of it.
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: I mean, think about what the man does with his
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: mouth when he eats.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: I mean the oysters.
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: There's things that are really unattractive to watch a man eat.
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: So don't don't like hot dogs around her or something
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: like that.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well, open wide baby, depends what you're into.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: Blind Scott is up, bellow, blind Scott, what's up?
• 50:09
  Speaker 5: Larry Bird? Birthday?
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: Thank you?
• 50:11
  Speaker 5: I know I don't have much I know I don't
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: have much time up again, so this is a serious question.
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: I was dating someone just like me, like a year ago,
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: and you know, I look at myself as the biggest celebrity.
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: But we were being made fun of in public. They
• 50:22
  Speaker 5: might be listening right now. They're like me, They're like, uh,
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: you know, non binary. But we were being made fun
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: of so bad. I just dumped them. I feel like
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: I want to get back together with them, But you
• 50:31
  Speaker 5: think like, since they're autistic, I directly told them that
• 50:34
  Speaker 5: I didn't like them anymore. You think that I can
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: recover this relationship. I'll take the questions off the air.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: Well, no, I do you really want to? I mean,
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: what do you do?
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: I kind of like this question to be honest with you.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: On the dating, was he dating on the spectrum? Was
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: that what he was doing?
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: A lot of people have to date on the spectrum.
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: More people are on the spectrum than you'd imagine, which
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: is why probably are a lot or single.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Make sure you communicate Okay, I've been to the Spectrum.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: It was in Philadelphia Basketball Arena.
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: It's a beautiful place, beautiful place to Yeah, they find
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: really good relationships, sure about that. Yeah, just make sure
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: you know, you know what you do want and if
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: you're okay to handle the pressure of being in a
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: public relationship with that person or you know, keep them
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: under the covers.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: There you queen of Hearts with love arena. Well.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: and the password is password, you idiot. Password the word
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meller's do it right
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: to the game.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: We go, and we sail over to Daniel in Port Wayne, Indiana,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: America's favorite crossing guard. Hello Daniel, Good morning Ben.
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: How are we doing?
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: If I was any better, I would be a Dodger,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: but not an LA Dodger because they lost the World
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: Series game last week. So yeah, yeah, anyway, you're gonna play,
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: who do you want to partner up with? Sir Dan,
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: I gotta go with you. You didn't say I'm in
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: it to win it and all that. You just said,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with you. I appreciate that whole. On
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: a second, and we have Mitch in man Cato. Hello, Mitch,
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: Hello Ben, how are you Mitch? You ready to go?
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: My man? If I was any better, I'd be a Viking.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: But not a Minnesota Viking, because you know right they
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: got their doors blown off by the chargers last week.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: Who do you want? You want you play with? Oraina
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: or Coop? Who do you want to play with? Cool? Okay,
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: there you go, Coop? Yeah, okay, all right, you said it.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: You don't never beat it. Daniel in Fort Wayne. We
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: have a list of words. Uh well, it's a big
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: more of a big board. Please pick a number one
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: to ten, number one, number number number three. Alright, let's
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: go with blah blah blah blah blah. How about now?
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: I believe this is one word. It's it's a conjoined word,
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: which is one word? Yes, all right, it is low price.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: You're looking at it right here, he says, low It's
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: a conjoined word, low price.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: It is?
• 53:16
  Speaker 6: What is it?
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: Daniel? All right? All right? God, let's go with inexpensive.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: He che guys dummer, your guys dumber.
• 53:35
  Speaker 6: If it wasn't the answer for him, I'm gonna be
• 53:38
  Speaker 6: the answer for us.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: How about you? All right, it will get economical. How
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: about that? You go all right, we're on the board.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, pick a number of bis. I mention, I
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: love you because you really upset Coop and I love that.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: I really am happy for you that you've annoyed Coop
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: so much. I know that's that's the beauty, that's that's
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: why it's special.
• 54:00
  Speaker 6: Go ahead, pick a number, please, Mitch, pick a number,
• 54:07
  Speaker 6: he says, say five, five, okay, hurry hurry up.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: Coat big again, coat co o a T coat, hurry up.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: Three two say Awork, you lose, Coop, you lose. Bad
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: clues by you. Coop is now walking away in defeat.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: He's given up.