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Hour 1 – Gambling Guardian · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: America, America. Happy fourth of July. Happy Independence Day. If
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Speaker 1: have a really good day. So it's our one of
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Speaker 1: the podcast, and it's all about scandal to begin our
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Speaker 1: number one of this live recorded, live on tape edition
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Speaker 1: of The Ben Malor Show. So what intrigues you most
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Speaker 1: about the Guardians pitcher Luis Ortiz involved in a gambling
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Speaker 1: drama arama. We'll talk about that. Also, how do the
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Speaker 1: La Dodgers navigate things without Max Munsey in the lineup?
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Speaker 1: He's gonna be out at least six weeks and likely
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Speaker 1: longer than that with a messed up knee. And the
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Speaker 1: Yankees have started to make calls to acquire a third
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Speaker 1: basement after deciding that Jazz Chisholm belongs at second base?
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Speaker 1: Are you okay with that decision by the free falling
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Speaker 1: New York Yankees? All that and more on a fire
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Speaker 1: should be. So there was a Hall of Famer long gone,
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Speaker 1: of a day night doubleheaded. But I'll lead this hour.
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Speaker 1: Do not mess around, no small talk on this live show.
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Speaker 1: Independence Day weekend. But our lead this hour from Cleveland,
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Speaker 1: just in time for the big holiday weekend here in
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Speaker 1: the United States. Major League Baseball facing a new scandal.
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Speaker 1: And there's one thing that I've grown to love over
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Speaker 1: my years of gas baggerie, and that is a good
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Speaker 1: scandal you can really bite into. And this is a
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Speaker 1: this is a pretty good one. It's a pretty good one.
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Speaker 1: You might say, well, no, if you don't know much
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Speaker 1: about it, you just see the headline, ask nothing, but
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Speaker 1: it's something, trust me if you haven't seen it. So
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Speaker 1: there's a team named after a bridge that used to
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Speaker 1: be called the Cleveland Indians, but they changed their name
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Speaker 1: because baseball was losing their mind a few years back.
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Speaker 1: So they're now named after a bridge. They're called the
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Speaker 1: Guardians as a Guardian Bridge in Cleveland. And there's a
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Speaker 1: pitcher named Luis Ortiz. You don't probably don't know who
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Speaker 1: that is. Louis Ortiz is the subject of a Major
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Speaker 1: League Baseball gambling investigation and he has been placed on
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Speaker 1: the naughty List, Yes, the non disciplinary leave, which is
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Speaker 1: the knotty list, but we want to say it's naughty now.
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Speaker 1: The investigation, if you were following along here, the investigation
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Speaker 1: related to in game prop bets on not one, but
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Speaker 1: two pitches made by Ortiz that for some reason, a
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Speaker 1: lot of money was bet a lot of activity, and
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Speaker 1: that raised they red flagged there were unusual amounts of
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Speaker 1: money wagered on a couple of random pitches. Now, if
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Speaker 1: you're not a gambler, you can bet on everything, right,
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Speaker 1: and yeah, exactly, and so this was going to start
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Speaker 1: in Seattle on June fifteenth, much to the dismay of
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Speaker 1: Robbie the Mariner fan. And then there was an outing
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Speaker 1: more recently June twenty seventh, So within the last last
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Speaker 1: week or so in Saint Louis. Cleveland was in Saint Louis,
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Speaker 1: so the gambling activity of those pitches was given. The
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Speaker 1: dreaded red flag was highlighted by a betting integrity firm,
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Speaker 1: that is, the group that found this, not Major League Baseball.
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Speaker 1: At outside firm they read flagged this and they contacted
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. Baseball has said that Ortiz is on
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Speaker 1: paid leave through the end of the All Star break
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Speaker 1: and players returned to their teams July seventeenth. The games
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Speaker 1: were zoom the following day on July eighteenth, so he
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Speaker 1: can go on a nice tropical vacation and possibly never
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Speaker 1: come back. Now, that can be extended and if you
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Speaker 1: don't believe me, asked Trevor Bauer. It can be extended
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Speaker 1: if the investigation remains ongoing. So it's one of those
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Speaker 1: saying no, we don't find anything. You know, we'll keep
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Speaker 1: holding this guy back. So let us discuss the question
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Speaker 1: for the esteem panel, which you are part of. What
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Speaker 1: intrigues you most about the guardians, Pitcher, Luis orties, gambling
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Speaker 1: drama exactly. So I've got Flamingo, Craigslist and jigsaw puzzle
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Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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Speaker 1: we are going to wrap ourselves in the flag, is
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Speaker 1: what we're going to do, because that's what you got
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Speaker 1: to do kind of fourth July weekn you wrap yourself
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Speaker 1: in flight. So a listen, this story has all the ingredients,
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Speaker 1: all the ingredients of a modern day sports scandal stew
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Speaker 1: because you've got a no name pitcher, couple of random
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Speaker 1: sliders and I'm not talking about these kind that you
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Speaker 1: eat that and these sliders they missed the plate. I
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Speaker 1: think they were in the next zip code over. They
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Speaker 1: were at least a zip code away from where they
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Speaker 1: needed to be. And you've got a betting integrity firm
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Speaker 1: that is like a basset hound and they're sniffing around.
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Speaker 1: They're sniffing right, and they're there. They're the bloodhound and
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Speaker 1: a barbecue. And so we're talking about a pitcher that
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Speaker 1: you could not pick out of a police lineup. If
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Speaker 1: I said, hey, can you pick the one that is
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Speaker 1: the pitcher? And this guy was the only one wearing
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Speaker 1: a baseball uniform and a glove, you still wouldn't pick
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Speaker 1: him out of the police lineup. So on both of
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Speaker 1: the pitches, and of course the Internet finds this stuff
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Speaker 1: right away, and for our blind listeners, both of the
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Speaker 1: pitches that were red flagged by Major League Baseball or
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Speaker 1: the outside firm that went to Major League Baseball. The
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Speaker 1: pitcher Luis Ortiz opened the inning with a slide that,
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Speaker 1: to quote the Great Lake Tommy Lesorta, would not have
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Speaker 1: hit water if it fell out of a bleeping boat.
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Speaker 1: All right. When a roster spam pitcher suddenly becomes the
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Speaker 1: darling of the prop bet underworld, there are alarm bells
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Speaker 1: that start ringing rightw just it sounds like that, and
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Speaker 1: it stands out when you have a picture that it
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Speaker 1: much like the guy in the Toronto Raptors that was
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Speaker 1: suspended from the NBA for gambling and all that. Johntay Porter,
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Speaker 1: I believe the guys, and I don't even kneo he was,
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Speaker 1: so nobody knows who Luis Ortiz is, and all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden people have bet a lot of money on
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Speaker 1: a pitcher of the third inning. That that that's nothing
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Speaker 1: that stands out like a flamingo in a flock of pigeons.
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Speaker 1: Of flamingo in a flock of pigeons. Right now, As
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Speaker 1: for the non disciplinary paid lead, that is corporate jargon.
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Speaker 1: Let me use my mallor Rosetta stone to translate. That
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Speaker 1: is Major League Baseball's way of saying, we don't want
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Speaker 1: to admit yet that he did it, but we also
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Speaker 1: don't want him anywhere near a Major League Baseball clubhouse
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Speaker 1: and certainly not a mound, because we do not want
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Speaker 1: to deal with the pete rose in disguise when we
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Speaker 1: find that out. Now, when Major League Baseball got into it,
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Speaker 1: and I like gambling, I've done a last couple of years,
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Speaker 1: I've done a TV show about gambling. When Major League
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Speaker 1: Baseball got into bed with the gambling industry, got a
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Speaker 1: lot of money, right, did they think that the sheets
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Speaker 1: were going to stay clean. No, you know this is
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Speaker 1: not the first, it will not be the last. A
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball will continue to be. The word I
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Speaker 1: will use is be deviled. That's the word I will
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Speaker 1: use by the gambling gods, and they get the checks
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Speaker 1: and from the very industry that I just love the
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Speaker 1: fact that for my entire childhood, baseball treated gambling like
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Speaker 1: it was a deadly disease. It was a virus. And
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Speaker 1: now every pitch, every swing. In fact, if the right
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Speaker 1: fielder of the Atlanta Braves sneezes on a one o'clock
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Speaker 1: start on a Saturday afternoon, you can bet on it.
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Speaker 1: If it happens between the third and the sixth inning,
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Speaker 1: you can bet on that. It's all potential wagers. And
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Speaker 1: if you can bet on it, you can. I'll guarantee
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Speaker 1: you know this. You can manipulate it. Right, If you
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Speaker 1: can bet on it, you can manipulate it. It's not paranoia,
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Speaker 1: it's math, is what it is. All right. Now, turning
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Speaker 1: the page on that, we go to Los Angeles, where
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers completed the sweep of Marquee Marks Chicago White Sox,
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Speaker 1: Like that was a shocker, Dodgers lost Max Munsey. Now,
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Speaker 1: I was doing the day portion of the day night doubleheader.
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Speaker 1: We didn't know how long months he would be out.
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Speaker 1: We still don't really know the Dodger third basement Max Munsey.
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Speaker 1: They're saying, now he's out for not one, not two,
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Speaker 1: not three, not four, not five, How about six weeks?
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Speaker 1: Six weeks? Max Monthsey's out there calling it a bone bruise,
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Speaker 1: not a tear, not a tear, not a fracture, not
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Speaker 1: a fracture, a bruise. A Bruce Now looked watching the replay, which,
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Speaker 1: for reasons beyond me, was not shown on the local
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Speaker 1: LA Dodger broadcast. Bat job by them, But it looked
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Speaker 1: like the Max Monsey knee had been hit by a
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Speaker 1: pickup truck that was driven by Michael Taylor of the
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Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox who slid in the third base. It
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Speaker 1: was a kind of a play that you would see
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Speaker 1: maybe in like nineteen seventy seven. You don't normally see
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Speaker 1: it today. And the knee bent like you might imagine
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Speaker 1: a folding chair after you've had too many hot dogs
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Speaker 1: and burgers at a Fourth of July barbecue. We'll wait
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Speaker 1: on you and snap and then down goes the chair.
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Speaker 1: So how do you How did the Dodgers navigate How
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Speaker 1: did the Dodgers navigate things without Max Mounsey in the lineup.
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Speaker 1: So the obvious thing is you start out by saying, well, well,
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Speaker 1: next man up, right, you go, well, next man up.
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Speaker 1: You know that's the way it's got to work, and
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Speaker 1: all this stuff, and you do your job, all those
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Speaker 1: things that we've said for years. But the regular season,
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Speaker 1: you know the Dodgers, you figure they'll patch it together.
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Speaker 1: They've got some time here the grueling adventure marathon. But
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Speaker 1: this is an absolute gut punch, mostly because Max Munsey
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Speaker 1: no longer sucks. He flipped the switch. He he was
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Speaker 1: terrible for the first month of the season. Max months
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Speaker 1: he batted one eighty four with one home run. I
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Speaker 1: would have released him if I ran the Dodgers. And
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Speaker 1: then he had this magic moment. He had this magic
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Speaker 1: epiphany and it's called bifocals. Yes, who knew. So since
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Speaker 1: months he put on glasses, he has been seeing the
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Speaker 1: ball like Neo in the matrix. Last fifty games, he
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Speaker 1: has been as hot as the sidewalks out there in
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Speaker 1: pomp Springs at batting average, twelve home runs and a
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Speaker 1: nine to seventy four ops, which the nerds get all
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Speaker 1: horny about. And so now in the meantime, the Dodgers
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Speaker 1: in the short term are gonna have Miguel Rojas and
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Speaker 1: Key k Hernandez, who's only good in the playoffs, trying
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Speaker 1: to hold down the fort. And so it's it's not
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Speaker 1: really a platoon's that's like an ad you posted on
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Speaker 1: Craigslist that really you messed it up. You know, wanted
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Speaker 1: one hot corner savior, bring your own glove and bring
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Speaker 1: your own cleats and all that, and there you go.
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Speaker 1: So Rojas and Hernandez who have the same amount of
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Speaker 1: pop as a wet sponge, but they will be playing there.
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Speaker 1: And this is in many ways the Dodgers' annual summer tradition.
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Speaker 1: If you look at the calendar of the Dodgers in
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Speaker 1: this era, they spend a lot of money, they get
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Speaker 1: the biggest names they can get every offseason. That happens
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Speaker 1: in December and January, and then in the spring in
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Speaker 1: March and in April it's snap, crackle pop. But then
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Speaker 1: right around Midsummer, a key position player normally goes down
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Speaker 1: for the count. So it's not the fourth of July
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Speaker 1: weekend until another prominent player is on what used to
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Speaker 1: be called the disabled list for the Dodgers, and then
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Speaker 1: you have Dave Roberts saying we're optimistic. I think I've
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Speaker 1: heard Dave Roberts say we're optimistic about injured players more
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Speaker 1: than i've heard him say I like him in that spot.
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Speaker 1: So there you go, all right, last word, quickly, panic
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Speaker 1: in the Bronx. The Bronx is burning. So we're hearing
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Speaker 1: the Yankees. The Yankees have figured out, they've had a
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Speaker 1: great epiphany and they've realized they need to start calling
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Speaker 1: teams to try to make a trade. They do not
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Speaker 1: have a third basement, because some would argue they don't
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Speaker 1: have a shortstop either. They have decided that Jazz Chisholm
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Speaker 1: good name, a lot of rasthma taz, pretty mediocre player,
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Speaker 1: they decide, though, he belongs at second base. So are
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Speaker 1: you okay with that? The Dodgers or the Yankees rather
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Speaker 1: have decided they're gonna move Jazz chism to uh the
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Speaker 1: second base and then back to second base. He's not
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Speaker 1: a third baseman, so obviously don't have any skin in
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Speaker 1: the game. But but sometimes the as as my friend
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Speaker 1: Uncle Moe, who used to live in Brooklyn but now
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Speaker 1: lives in Jersey, would tell you the jigsaw puzzle pieces
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Speaker 1: just don't fit, and you can't force them to. You
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Speaker 1: can't do it right now. Jazz as a third baseman,
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Speaker 1: square peg forced into a round hole. It's kind of
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Speaker 1: like if you go out car shopping and you buy
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Speaker 1: yourself a ferrari and then you use it as a snowplow.
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Speaker 1: That's not what it's for. It's a waste of a fara.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm not saying this is a Ferrari by any means,
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Speaker 1: but Jazz is much better at second than third. So
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Speaker 1: this is a it is a correction, it's ad meeting. Hey,
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Speaker 1: we screwed up, and so now with this decision, they go,
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Speaker 1: all right, bam, let's kick it up a couple of
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Speaker 1: notches at the at the trade deadline. So is that
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Speaker 1: Nolan Aeronado from Saint Louis, Like, who are they gonna get?
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Speaker 1: It's not exactly rocket science here, it's it's simply baseball.
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Speaker 1: There's only so many third basemen that are obviously available,
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Speaker 1: so you just try not to screw it up. So
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Speaker 1: stay tuned. Developing hot dot dot dot all right. It
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Speaker 1: back to it, right back to what we go. I
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Speaker 1: got an email from Danny in New Hampshire who writes
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Speaker 1: and he says, what the hell happened to that miserable bastard?
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Speaker 1: Angry Bill haven't heard from him in a while. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what happened, Danny. As much as you
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Speaker 1: think these guys are all paid actors on the show
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Speaker 1: and I'm their mother or something like that, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Bill was a daily caller to the talk show for
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Speaker 1: a long time and then all of a sudden he stopped.
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Speaker 1: And that's fine, I mean, we're not We do the
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Speaker 1: And that's it. Either that or he had some kind
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Speaker 1: the answer. Milkman Mike in Colorado writes in he says,
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Speaker 1: all the games are rigged at the carnival because they
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Speaker 1: don't want you to win, but they want you to win,
20:53
Speaker 1: but they want you to spend one hundred bucks for
20:54
Speaker 1: a stuffy that costs about three dollars, So they're all
20:59
Speaker 1: rigged in all that. Anyway, there's some cheat codes out there. Well,
21:02
Speaker 1: good luck for a dog in the State Fair season
21:05
Speaker 1: coming up, A Cowboy Killer writes in. Uh say says,
21:09
Speaker 1: hey man, it's been a minute. I'm working in the
21:12
Speaker 1: dreaded day shift now. Oh no, we lost Cowboy Killer
21:14
Speaker 1: to the day shift. I missed the live show, but
21:17
Speaker 1: no worries. I double download the podcast every day. Uh,
21:22
Speaker 1: he says, one suggestion, no more, e Dog. That guy
21:26
Speaker 1: just rambles incoherently mal or Militia for life, says Cowboy Killer. Well,
21:30
Speaker 1: good news, E Dog has not called in a while either.
21:33
Speaker 1: From Long Island. I've noticed, like some of these guys,
21:38
Speaker 1: I think it depends what time of the month it is.
21:40
Speaker 1: I don't mean it like that, but they call in
21:42
Speaker 1: at certain points in the month, and then that that does.
21:45
Speaker 1: It's Steven Manhattan. There's another guy, Steven Manhattan. He'll call
21:50
Speaker 1: up for ten days and then vanish for like the
21:52
Speaker 1: next thirty, Eileen writes in from Parts Unknown. She says,
21:57
Speaker 1: no one cared that show hailed was gambling with his
22:01
Speaker 1: best friend. But now, oh no, there's gambling in baseball.
22:06
Speaker 1: Cover your eyes, Eileen says, with an emoji. Well, yeah,
22:11
Speaker 1: they're not gonna have Otani go down for gambling. He's
22:15
Speaker 1: too big, too important for the sport. It's you know,
22:19
Speaker 1: like it's like certain people get to a level and
22:23
Speaker 1: that's it. I mean, in a hypothetical world, like a
22:26
Speaker 1: guy like Lebron James Lebron. Maybe not so much now,
22:30
Speaker 1: but in his prime, Lebron could have pretty much done anything,
22:35
Speaker 1: violated any of the rules of the NBA, and they
22:39
Speaker 1: wouldn't have punished it like Theo Tani thing. And I
22:42
Speaker 1: gonna punish Otani. He's the biggest money maker. He makes
22:45
Speaker 1: more money for baseball than Aaron Judge or anyone else
22:49
Speaker 1: for that matter. It's not even close with the money
22:51
Speaker 1: coming in from Japan. Uh. Not only for the Dodgers,
22:54
Speaker 1: but it trickles down to everyone else in Major League Baseball.
22:58
Speaker 1: So they're not gonna do anything about that. Now. A
23:00
Speaker 1: random pitcher on the Cleveland Guardians who you had to
23:04
Speaker 1: look up on Baseball Reference to find out who Louis
23:07
Speaker 1: Orties is, Now that's a different animal. That's fair game.
23:10
Speaker 1: You got to follow the rules. You're not a big deal.
23:14
Speaker 1: You got to follow the rules. Come on now, Benito,
23:17
Speaker 1: the long suffering cowboy fan says, shout out to Louis
23:21
Speaker 1: Ortiz for making me money on draft gangs. Very funny.
23:24
Speaker 1: Eugene in Chicago says, while Malard working on the fourth
23:27
Speaker 1: of July, even I took a vacation this week. There
23:31
Speaker 1: you go, all right, Well, good for you. Job by Eugene,
23:34
Speaker 1: who I almost met last time I was in Chicago.
23:36
Speaker 1: I actually reached out to Eugene, said Eugene, why don't
23:38
Speaker 1: we'll go have a beer or something like that, and
23:41
Speaker 1: he was he works like two jobs, so he couldn't
23:43
Speaker 1: couldn't leave the gag. A chip in the Ques says
23:46
Speaker 1: A plus on the top of the hour of Mallond monologue,
23:49
Speaker 1: who is really surprised that another dude with the last
23:53
Speaker 1: name Ortiz is not following the rules. I think that's
23:55
Speaker 1: a shot at David Ortiz, I believe, kind of obvious.
23:58
Speaker 1: Shane in des Moines writes In says, I hope the
24:01
Speaker 1: Leprechaun is out, not one, not two, not three, not four,
24:03
Speaker 1: not five, how about six weeks from the show with laryngitis. Yeah,
24:11
Speaker 1: so I'm guessing we won't hear from the Leprechaun for
24:13
Speaker 1: a while. He was very kind when he came in here,
24:15
Speaker 1: much to the dismay of some people in management that
24:18
Speaker 1: were concerned that he should not be allowed in. But
24:21
Speaker 1: he was fine. And I'm guessing because he's on the
24:24
Speaker 1: West Coast and he's on vacation, I'm guessing he will
24:27
Speaker 1: not be be checking in Terry and England. Who did
24:30
Speaker 1: He's doing the day night doubleheader and he has reported
24:34
Speaker 1: for duty. So we'd like to alert all the affiliates
24:36
Speaker 1: down the line, Terry in England, who was very upset
24:39
Speaker 1: that we did not unload on the daytime show on
24:42
Speaker 1: the Enemy of Combatant. Enemy Combatant of the show, David
24:46
Speaker 1: vass very upset by that. And one of the guys
24:50
Speaker 1: that loves to unload on Vassie on this show, and
24:53
Speaker 1: I am told it has gotten back to enemy of
24:58
Speaker 1: the Mallard militia right now, David, And that's Tony in
25:01
Speaker 1: the Bay Area, who is relentless. He is a absolute
25:07
Speaker 1: pit bull Tony in the Bay Area when it comes
25:11
Speaker 1: to his attacking. And let's go to him right now.
25:14
Speaker 1: He's in the lead off chair, Tony in the Bay Area.
25:16
Speaker 1: What's going on, Tony?
25:17
Speaker 3: Welcome, hey man, Thanks for the compliment. But I want
25:21
Speaker 3: to tip my hat. My bears had to furd dog
25:24
Speaker 3: because the other day he brought up a good point
25:26
Speaker 3: that if you type in David Bassay going down to
25:30
Speaker 3: kitty slide on a Blanky then bounces off the wall
25:34
Speaker 3: like a bag of crap and rolls around like a
25:37
Speaker 3: little girl. So I forgot the blinkie and the kiddy slide.
25:41
Speaker 1: My bad. All right, thank you, hang up on yourself there.
25:47
Speaker 1: He goes another classic Tony call, short and sweet, leave
25:52
Speaker 1: him wanting more, leave them wanting more. Very important, very important.
25:58
Speaker 1: So our friend, long suffering, I say, long suffering Yankee fan,
26:03
Speaker 1: that would be supermarket Steve, he says. Moving Jazz Chisholm
26:07
Speaker 1: from third base to second base is Boone? Aaron Boone's
26:12
Speaker 1: fix for the Yankees. Losing seven out of nine series
26:16
Speaker 1: since the Dodgers series and getting swept in three of them.
26:20
Speaker 1: Maybe my team isn't really that good. Well, it was
26:24
Speaker 1: the June gloom and now it's spilled over into July
26:28
Speaker 1: as the first time ever the Toronto Blue Jays all
26:33
Speaker 1: caughtaa the Blue Jays spank the once proud Yankees in
26:40
Speaker 1: their own ballpark there in Toronto, a domination situation as
26:47
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays in first place by themselves after sweeping
26:52
Speaker 1: the New York Yankees in four games, an absolute poop
26:56
Speaker 1: fest of Yankee baseball over the week. So bad is
27:00
Speaker 1: it for the Yankees? Well we are on July fourth,
27:04
Speaker 1: and the manager of the Yankees, Aaron Boone, has given
27:08
Speaker 1: the Yankees a pep talk, a win one for the
27:12
Speaker 1: Gipper's speech. Now the Yankees are heading into a big
27:16
Speaker 1: weekend matchup with the New York Metropolitans that will be
27:21
Speaker 1: over in Queens and Flushing, right near LaGuardia Airport. Beautiful
27:25
Speaker 1: LaGuardia Airport, one of the worst airports I've ever been to,
27:28
Speaker 1: And so Aaron Boone will be, uh, we'll be leading
27:31
Speaker 1: the Yankees in there on a quick turnaround. And according
27:36
Speaker 1: to Jazz Chisholm, who's getting a lot of airtime here
27:39
Speaker 1: this hour on Fox Sports Radio, he said that Aaron
27:42
Speaker 1: Boone in his pep talk to the Yankees reminded them
27:46
Speaker 1: that they are quote the best team in the league
27:50
Speaker 1: and he wants them to be quote unfhased by their
27:55
Speaker 1: recent problems. Okay, well, a couple of things. As I
28:02
Speaker 1: was taught about ratings and radio, past accomplishments, and much
28:09
Speaker 1: like Wall Street any kind of investments, past results do
28:12
Speaker 1: not guarantee future outcomes. And while you can have a
28:16
Speaker 1: Bobblehead night and you can have promotions based on what
28:19
Speaker 1: you have done, the fact that the Yankees won the
28:22
Speaker 1: American League pennant last year has no bearing on this
28:26
Speaker 1: season obviously. And if I'm not mistaken, the Toronto Blue
28:30
Speaker 1: Jays sucked last season. They were an embarrassment. And right now,
28:35
Speaker 1: midway through the baseball season, Toronto's in first place. So
28:39
Speaker 1: should the Blue Jays think, wow, we're not this good
28:42
Speaker 1: one of the worst teams in the American League. We
28:45
Speaker 1: should be phased by the fact we're playing over our skis.
28:49
Speaker 1: We're playing too well. Now. One of the other funny
28:52
Speaker 1: storylines the battling broadcasters. So Michael Kay, who's doing double duty.
28:56
Speaker 1: You talk about a tough job. So Michael Kay is
28:58
Speaker 1: a Yankee broadcaster, which is an easy job because when
29:01
Speaker 1: you're a Yankee broadcaster, you just wear knee pads and
29:04
Speaker 1: you give shoulder massages to the Yankee players. You're a
29:06
Speaker 1: suck up. That's what team broadcasters are. That's what you're
29:09
Speaker 1: supposed to do. But when your talk show hosts, you
29:11
Speaker 1: have to be critical. It's a different skill set. When
29:14
Speaker 1: you're a talk show host, you have to be someone
29:15
Speaker 1: that critiques performance. So apparently Michael Ka the other day
29:20
Speaker 1: on his he does a talk show in New York
29:22
Speaker 1: sports talk show, obviously, and he said that he was
29:26
Speaker 1: praising the Yankees, and even though the Yankees have had
29:30
Speaker 1: a tough stretch, but he took some shots at the
29:34
Speaker 1: Toronto Blue Jays unloaded on Toronto. They were making their
29:38
Speaker 1: run there. He said that the first place Blue Jays
29:41
Speaker 1: are not a first place team. Oh, body blow, body blow,
29:47
Speaker 1: body blow. Quote? Is blue Jays not a first place team?
29:51
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Kay said? He went on and quote continues
29:56
Speaker 1: for Michael Kay says, if you look at the run differential,
29:58
Speaker 1: the Yankees run differential as plus one five. The Blue
30:02
Speaker 1: Jays this is the other day, were at plus four.
30:06
Speaker 1: So he said that should be a five hundred team. Yeah, okay, Unfortunately,
30:12
Speaker 1: and I might be wrong in this. I don't know.
30:14
Speaker 1: I mean, I just do the Overnight show. I don't
30:16
Speaker 1: think the team that wins the World Series wins it
30:18
Speaker 1: based on run differential. I know that a lot of
30:20
Speaker 1: hard ow baseball people worship run differential, and that's that's
30:24
Speaker 1: an old school stat actually goes back much further than
30:26
Speaker 1: the modern day spin rate and my favorite exit velocity
30:31
Speaker 1: exit v low. Yeah, how much do you think baseball spends?
30:35
Speaker 1: I watch I'll watch all these games I was watching.
30:37
Speaker 1: I sally watched them with the Blue Jay Yankee game.
30:39
Speaker 1: I was flipping around watching them a little bit of
30:41
Speaker 1: the Mets game with the Brewers. Great, any of that game.
30:44
Speaker 1: We love a call the Mets Brewers game by ending
30:47
Speaker 1: on a replay call that should have been inconclusive and
30:51
Speaker 1: the game, you know, the runner stays at second. It
30:54
Speaker 1: was a stolen base that was they went to replay,
30:56
Speaker 1: was called safe on the field and it should have
30:58
Speaker 1: stayed safe. Of course baseball said, oh, the runners out,
31:03
Speaker 1: which was ridiculous. But in all these games, anytime someone's
31:06
Speaker 1: home run within five seconds, they've got the exit velo
31:11
Speaker 1: up there, so baseball's paying for that. Anyway, Michael Kay
31:14
Speaker 1: ranted about that. So one of the Blue Jay broadcasters,
31:17
Speaker 1: somebody named Jamie Campbell, I don't know who that is,
31:19
Speaker 1: but he works on the Blue j TV broadcast. And
31:22
Speaker 1: then he had a broom and was very excited and
31:24
Speaker 1: took a little shot at Michael Kay enjoying the moment.
31:30
Speaker 1: That's friendly baseball broadcaster banter, is what that is? Friendly
31:36
Speaker 1: baseball broadcaster banter. Let's go back to the phone, so
31:40
Speaker 1: say hello to listener Mason in Huntington Beach. Hello, listener, Mason, welcome.
31:47
Speaker 4: Hey man, long time, no speed.
31:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh this is the great. This is not Mason
31:54
Speaker 1: and Huntington Beach. This is Mason in the Bay Area.
31:57
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Welcome back, Mason, and it's good to talk
32:01
Speaker 1: to you, my man.
32:02
Speaker 4: Well, same same for me to you.
32:05
Speaker 2: Man.
32:05
Speaker 4: I mean I emailed recently. I know this is an
32:08
Speaker 4: off air conversation, as you like to say, but no,
32:12
Speaker 4: I emailed you a little bit ago and you didn't
32:15
Speaker 4: get back to me, so I didn't know what was
32:16
Speaker 4: going on. But I heard you meant to my name.
32:20
Speaker 1: I don't know. Listen, I guess Coop, who's hardly here,
32:24
Speaker 1: has an issue with you, and uh, I don't know.
32:26
Speaker 4: No, I get it.
32:27
Speaker 1: I get yeah, I don't know what happened, So I
32:29
Speaker 1: don't know. They don't talk to you, doesn't talk to me,
32:31
Speaker 1: So I have no idea what's going on with that? Yeah,
32:33
Speaker 1: but anyway, yes, you're here now, so what's going on?
32:37
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just a holiday weekend and I just
32:40
Speaker 4: wanted to say hello to you because I mean, you've
32:42
Speaker 4: been on my mind as may have I been on yours.
32:46
Speaker 4: I just want to, you know, reach out.
32:48
Speaker 1: Well that sounded all that sounded awkward me see sound
32:52
Speaker 1: that sounded like we're in a relationship. But no, I
32:54
Speaker 1: mean I appreciate you're a you're a senior member the
32:57
Speaker 1: Mala militia. You've been a long time support of the show,
33:00
Speaker 1: going back many years. You've told some great stories on
33:02
Speaker 1: the show. Used to work at Tesla, you lost your job.
33:04
Speaker 1: You became a bus driver. Am I correct on that?
33:06
Speaker 1: I think I'm right on that. Are you still a
33:07
Speaker 1: bus driver? Attackurate? So you're still a bus driver. We've
33:11
Speaker 1: lost a lot of good guys to bus driving. Roberto
33:14
Speaker 1: became a bus driver here.
33:15
Speaker 4: But it's like, weird circumstances happened, and sometimes you bring
33:20
Speaker 4: it upon yourself. And uh, sometimes things get caught up
33:24
Speaker 4: in the you know, the mindriff, and it just you know,
33:28
Speaker 4: things happen. But I mean, I'm still here and I'm
33:30
Speaker 4: still thriving, and I see you too, and it's.
33:33
Speaker 1: All love all right, all right, well listen Mason. We yes,
33:38
Speaker 1: it's welcome to Love Line. No listen, Mason, thank you? Uh,
33:42
Speaker 1: and I guess you can call in whenever Coop's not here,
33:44
Speaker 1: but thank you, and uh, I don't know what to
33:47
Speaker 1: tell you. All right, I'll check. I got a lot,
33:51
Speaker 1: all right, I'm doing like seven hours of radio. You
33:54
Speaker 1: want me to check my keep up with my email?
33:55
Speaker 1: Come on, I don't check. It's usually bad stuff in
33:59
Speaker 1: the email to avoid that. But thank you Mason, the
34:02
Speaker 1: great listener, Mason from the Bay Area who told some
34:06
Speaker 1: amazing stories years ago about getting arrested. He's been to
34:11
Speaker 1: a couple of the meet and greets that we've done
34:13
Speaker 1: over the years, so hopefully we'll see Mason again. I
34:16
Speaker 1: start getting back into the meet and greets. I know
34:18
Speaker 1: we're in July now. I'm still waiting on some news
34:22
Speaker 1: and once I get clarity on that, I'll be able
34:23
Speaker 1: to set my schedule and hopefully have some other Mallard
34:25
Speaker 1: meet greets coming up. Hopefully the plane is as soon
34:29
Speaker 1: as the end of the month, but I'm still waiting,
34:32
Speaker 1: so hopefully in next week or so. I thought i'd
34:34
Speaker 1: hear something this week, but nothing. Nothing has come down
34:37
Speaker 1: the pike. Nothing yet. Time now for the who am I?
34:39
Speaker 4: Game?
34:40
Speaker 1: And this is where we pretend to be somebody else
34:42
Speaker 1: and we'll get back to these calls. But here's the
34:44
Speaker 1: who am I? Game? So. Ronald O'Connell Jr. Made his
34:49
Speaker 1: season debut for the Atlanta Braves in the fiftieth game
34:53
Speaker 1: of the season for the Braves. He is now slated
34:56
Speaker 1: to start the All Star Game for the National League
35:00
Speaker 1: I am the only other player, the only one in
35:04
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball history to start the All Star Game,
35:07
Speaker 1: despite not making my season debut until my team's fiftieth
35:13
Speaker 1: game or later. Again, Ronald Lacuna Junior the Braves made
35:18
Speaker 1: his season debut game fifty. He is now slated to
35:22
Speaker 1: start the All Star Game, the only other player. I'm
35:25
Speaker 1: the only other player in baseball history to start the
35:27
Speaker 1: All Star Game despite not making the season debut until
35:32
Speaker 1: the team's fiftieth game or later. Who am I? That
35:35
Speaker 1: is the question. The answer. We'll get to it. We
35:38
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35:39
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36:27
Speaker 1: back to it we go, and we'll pay off the
36:29
Speaker 1: who am I? Game? And this is where we pretend
36:32
Speaker 1: to be somebody else, as we call it the who
36:34
Speaker 1: Ami Game. We'll go to baseball where Ronald Acuna Junior
36:39
Speaker 1: of Atlanta made his season debut in the Braves fiftieth game,
36:44
Speaker 1: and it was announced earlier this week he is slated
36:46
Speaker 1: to start the All Star Game. I am the only
36:49
Speaker 1: other player in baseball history to start the All Star
36:52
Speaker 1: Game despite not making my season debut until my team's
36:56
Speaker 1: fiftieth game or later. Who am I? That is the question?
37:03
Speaker 1: What is the answer? And let's see who do we
37:06
Speaker 1: have here? Malaprop Guy's going with Mason the Millennial as
37:11
Speaker 1: his answer. Who else do we have? Page Down Chappelle
37:16
Speaker 1: Roan from Bobby and Florida, Chicken Jockey from Cowboy Killer Fire,
37:21
Speaker 1: Marshall Bill tossed out by Alf the Alien, olpiner Veda
37:27
Speaker 1: Pinson from Ike and Roseville, Minnesota, Jim Palmer from Aileen
37:33
Speaker 1: who's a big fan of Palmer and his endorsements back
37:36
Speaker 1: in the day when he was playing for the Oriols.
37:39
Speaker 1: Hubbub Mister Freeze from Scrooge in the Bay Area, mister
37:43
Speaker 1: nice guy. One of my all time favorite Dodgers. One
37:45
Speaker 1: of the good guys I ever came across with the Dodgers,
37:48
Speaker 1: Darren Dryford. I love that guy. I was doing Dodger talk.
37:51
Speaker 1: Dryford was with the team. Good dude, good guy. Didn't
37:55
Speaker 1: make it. You know, I didn't make it. Made a
37:57
Speaker 1: lot of money for the time, but good dude. Donkey
38:00
Speaker 1: Sausage going with Popeye as his answer. Shane in Des
38:03
Speaker 1: Moines says Lakers star Lonzo Ball is the answer. G
38:09
Speaker 1: Man says a melancholy Michael Mattson saw that sad sad
38:15
Speaker 1: news Private Potato from Big Greg in Iowa. Anthony and
38:19
Speaker 1: Anaheim going with the iconic Dominican Mike, who still listens
38:24
Speaker 1: to the podcast, but he is a dreaded daytime employee
38:27
Speaker 1: now unfortunately, who spends part of the year in Florida,
38:31
Speaker 1: part of the year in Arizona. Rqie Cianfranco. That's a
38:35
Speaker 1: good name from Sean in the Valley of the Sun.
38:40
Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Super Marcus Steve says, you
38:41
Speaker 1: are my favorite Dodger of all time? Yasiel Puige very
38:47
Speaker 1: exciting for about a year, about a year, really exciting.
38:53
Speaker 1: Who else we have? Bum Phillips guest by just for now,
38:58
Speaker 1: Just for now? Who else? Page down? Boog Powell from
39:01
Speaker 1: Mark in Queen's answering, not that that's not the riddle
39:05
Speaker 1: of the day, that's the who am I? Game? Bat job?
39:07
Speaker 1: But you Rich is going with Mike Sharperson, iconic Dodger
39:11
Speaker 1: from back in the day. Mike the Leprechaun is up listening,
39:15
Speaker 1: and he says Big Poppy is the answer. Jeff Bagwell
39:19
Speaker 1: from Chipping the Cues. Who else do we have? Page down?
39:23
Speaker 1: I can't read that? All right, Brie, We'll go to Brie. Brie,
39:28
Speaker 1: do you have an answer to the who am I? Game?
39:31
Speaker 1: Ronald Acuna Jr. Made a season debut in the Braves'
39:35
Speaker 1: fiftieth game. He's going to start the All Star Game.
39:37
Speaker 1: I'm the only other player in baseball history to start
39:40
Speaker 1: the All Star Game despite not making the season debut
39:44
Speaker 1: until the team's fiftieth game or later. Tim Salmon Tim
39:49
Speaker 1: Salmon there's that's the woman right now, Tim Salmon, and
39:54
Speaker 1: let's hear that is incorrect now the correct answer. A
39:58
Speaker 1: man whose name. When I hear his name, I want
40:01
Speaker 1: to sing a song. I want to break out in
40:03
Speaker 1: the song when I hear this person's name. And in
40:05
Speaker 1: his era, he dated one of the most famous starlets
40:08
Speaker 1: of all time. Do you know who it is? Joe
40:13
Speaker 1: didn't Joe Demaggio, Oh you said Dagon No? No, Oh
40:23
Speaker 1: my god, no, Joe DiMaggio. And uh, he's got the record,
40:28
Speaker 1: one of the all time great records, the most consecutive
40:31
Speaker 1: games with a hit. Marilyn Monroe. He dated her right, yeah, famously.
40:35
Speaker 1: I think he was married to her briefly. I think, yeah,
40:40
Speaker 1: look at that Mark new right away, one of the man.
40:44
Speaker 1: She didn't live that long, but she enjoyed herself, and
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Speaker 1: so did he. When I was a kid, I went
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Speaker 1: to an autograph show. I used to like chase around,
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Speaker 1: get autographs, try to sell him, make money. And I
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Speaker 1: saw Joe DiMaggio at a hotel in San Diego, and
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Speaker 1: he snuck through the kitchen. So I saw like the
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Speaker 1: back of the Maggio's heads, and he was an old man,
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Speaker 1: you know. I was a kid, and he was an
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Speaker 1: old man at that time. He snuck through the kitchen
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Speaker 1: at this expensive hotel in San Diego. He was in town.
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Speaker 1: We found out what hotel he was staying at. He
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Speaker 1: was there for an autograph show. I was so upset.
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Speaker 1: How could you, How could Demaggio go through a hotel kitchen.