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  Speaker 1: Now, this is the real mistake by the leg Welcome
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  Speaker 1: should be. So it was a Hall of famer along
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  Speaker 1: it's a beautiful night for hot sports takes. So let's
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  Speaker 1: play two. Let's have a This is the second half
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  Speaker 1: of a day night, doubleheaded butter lead this hour. Do
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  Speaker 1: 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 baggery, 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: pretty good one. It's a pretty good one. You might say. Well, now,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't know much about it, you just see
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  Speaker 1: the headline, ask nothing, but it's something, trust me if
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  Speaker 1: you haven't seen it. So there's a team named after
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  Speaker 1: a bridge that used to be called the Cleveland Indians,
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  Speaker 1: but they changed their name because baseball was losing their
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  Speaker 1: mind a few years back. So they're now named after
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  Speaker 1: a bridge. They're called the Guardians as a Guardian Bridge
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  Speaker 1: in Cleveland. And there's a pitcher named Luis or Teest
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  Speaker 1: probably don't know who that is. Louis Ortiz is the
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  Speaker 1: subject of a Major League Baseball gambling investigation and he
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  Speaker 1: has been placed on the Naughty List, Yes, the non
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  Speaker 1: disciplinary leave, which is the natty list, but we don't
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  Speaker 1: want to say it's naughty. Now. The investigation, if you
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  Speaker 1: were following along here, the investigation related to in game
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  Speaker 1: prop bets on not one, but two pitches made by
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  Speaker 1: Ortiz that for some reason, a lot of money was
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  Speaker 1: bet a lot of activity, and that raised a red flag.
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  Speaker 1: There were unusual amounts of money wagered on a couple
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  Speaker 1: of random pitches. Now, if you're not a gambler, you
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  Speaker 1: can bet on everything, right, and yeah, exactly, And so
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  Speaker 1: this was going to start in Seattle on June fifteenth,
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  Speaker 1: much to the dismay of Robbie the Mariner fan. And
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  Speaker 1: then there was an outing more recently June twenty seventh,
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  Speaker 1: so within the last last week or so in Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland was in Saint Louis, so the gambling activity of
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  Speaker 1: those pitches was given. The dreaded red flag was highlighted
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  Speaker 1: by a betting integrity firm. That is, the group that
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  Speaker 1: found this, not Major League Baseball. At outside firm. They
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  Speaker 1: read flagged this and they contacted Major League Baseball. Baseball
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  Speaker 1: has said that Ortiz is on paid leave through the
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  Speaker 1: end of the All Star Break and players return to
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  Speaker 1: their teams July seventeenth. The games zoom the following day
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  Speaker 1: on July eighteenth, so he can go on a nice
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  Speaker 1: tropical vacation and possibly never come back. Now, that can
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  Speaker 1: be extended, and if you don't believe me, asked Trevor Bauer.
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  Speaker 1: It can be extended if the investigation remains ongoing. So
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those saying, oh, we don't find anything,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we'll keep holding this guy back. So let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question for the esteem panel, which you
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  Speaker 1: are part of. What intrigues you most about the Guardians
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  Speaker 1: pitcher Luis Orties gave drama exactly. So I've got Flamingo,
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  Speaker 1: Craigslist and Jigsaw puzzle, and we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together, and we are going to wrap ourselves
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  Speaker 1: in the flag, is what we're going to do, because
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  Speaker 1: that's what you got to do, kind of Fourth July weeknd,
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  Speaker 1: you wrap yourself in flag. So a listen, this story
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  Speaker 1: has all the ingredients, all the ingredients of a modern
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  Speaker 1: day sports scandal stew because you've got a no name pitcher,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of random sliders and I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 1: these kind that you eat that. And these sliders they
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  Speaker 1: missed the plate. I think they were in the next
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  Speaker 1: zip code over. They were at least a zip code
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  Speaker 1: away from where they needed to be. And you've got
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  Speaker 1: a betting integrity firm that is like a basset hound
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  Speaker 1: and they're sniffing around. They're sniffing right, and they're there.
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  Speaker 1: They're the bloodhound at a barbecue. And so we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about a picture that you could not pick out out
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  Speaker 1: of a police lineup. If I said, hey, can you
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  Speaker 1: pick the one that is the pitcher and this guy
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  Speaker 1: was the only one wearing a baseball uniform and a glove,
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  Speaker 1: you still wouldn't pick him out of the police lineup.
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  Speaker 1: So on both of the pitches, and of course the
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  Speaker 1: Internet finds this stuff right away and for our blind listeners,
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  Speaker 1: both of the pitches that were red flagged by Major
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball or the outside firm that went to Major
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball. The pitcher Luis Ortiz opened the inning with
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  Speaker 1: a slider that, to quote the Great Lake Tommy Lesorda,
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  Speaker 1: would not have hit water if it fell out of
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  Speaker 1: a bleeping boat. All right. When a roster spam pitcher
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  Speaker 1: suddenly becomes the darling of the prop bet underworld, there
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  Speaker 1: are alarm bells that start ringing right eww. Just it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like that, and it stands out when you have
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  Speaker 1: a pitcher that much like the guy in the Toronto
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  Speaker 1: Raptors that was suspended from the NBA for gambling and
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  Speaker 1: all that, John tay Porter. I believe the guys, and
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  Speaker 1: then we even knew he was. So nobody knows who
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  Speaker 1: Luis Ortiz is, and all of a sudden people have
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  Speaker 1: been a lot of money on a pitch of a
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  Speaker 1: third inning. That that's nothing that stands out like a
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  Speaker 1: flamingo in a flock of pigeons. Of flamingo in a
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  Speaker 1: flock of pigeons right now. As for the non disciplinary
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  Speaker 1: paid league, that is corporate jargon. Let me use my
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  Speaker 1: malor Rosetta Stone to translate, that is major League Baseball's
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  Speaker 1: way of saying, we don't want to admit yet that
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  Speaker 1: he did it, but we also don't want him anywhere
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  Speaker 1: near a Major League Baseball clubhouse, and certainly not a mound,
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  Speaker 1: because we do not want to deal with the Pete
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  Speaker 1: rose in disguise when we find that out. Now, when
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball got into it, and I like gambling,
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  Speaker 1: I've done the last couple of years, I've done a
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  Speaker 1: TV show about gambling. When major League Baseball got into
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  Speaker 1: bed with the gambling industry, got a lot of money, right,
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  Speaker 1: Did they think that the sheets were going to stay
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  Speaker 1: clean up? No? No, this is not the first, it
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  Speaker 1: will not be the last. A Major League Baseball will
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  Speaker 1: continue to be. The word I will use is be deviled.
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  Speaker 1: That's the word I will use by the gambling gods,
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  Speaker 1: and they get the checks and from the very industry
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  Speaker 1: that I just love the fact that for my entire childhood,
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  Speaker 1: baseball treated gambling like it was a deadly disease. It
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  Speaker 1: was a virus. And now every pitch, every swing, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: if the right fielder of the Atlanta Braves sneezes on
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  Speaker 1: a one o'clock start on a Saturday afternoon. You can
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  Speaker 1: bet on it. If it happens between the third and
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  Speaker 1: the sixth inning, you can bet on that. It's all
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  Speaker 1: potential wagers. And if you can bet on it, you can.
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  Speaker 1: I'll guarantee you know this. You can manipulate it, right,
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  Speaker 1: If you can bet on it, you can manipulate it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not paranoia. It's math, is what it is, all right. Now,
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  Speaker 1: turning the page on that, we go to Los Angeles
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  Speaker 1: where the Dodgers completed the sweep of Marquee Mark Chicago
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  Speaker 1: White Sox. 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 monce he would be out.
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  Speaker 1: We still don't really know the Dodger third baseman, 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 Monsey's out. They're 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,
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  Speaker 1: which for reasons Beyond Me was not shown on the
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  Speaker 1: local LA Dodger broadcast. Bat Job by Them, but it
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  Speaker 1: looked like the Max Mounsey knee had been hit by
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  Speaker 1: a pickup truck that was driven by Michael Taylor of
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago White Sox who slid in the third base.
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  Speaker 1: It was a kind of a play that you would
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  Speaker 1: see maybe in like nineteen seventy seven. You don't normally
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  Speaker 1: see it today. And the knee bent like you might
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  Speaker 1: imagine a folding chair after you've had too many hot
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  Speaker 1: dogs and burgers at a Fourth of July barbecue. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll wait on you and snap and then down goes
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  Speaker 1: the chair. So how do you How did the Dodgers navigate?
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  Speaker 1: How did the Dodgers navigate things without Max Monsey in
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  Speaker 1: the lineup? So the obvious thing is you start out
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  Speaker 1: by saying, well, well, next man up? Right, you go, well,
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  Speaker 1: next man up. You know that's the way it's got
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  Speaker 1: to work, and all this stuff, and you know, do
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  Speaker 1: your job, all those things that we've said for years.
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  Speaker 1: But the regular season, you know, the Dodgers, you figure
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  Speaker 1: they'll patch it together. They've got some time here, the
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  Speaker 1: grueling adventure marathon. But this is an absolute gut punch,
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  Speaker 1: mostly because Max Munsey no longer sucks. He flipped the switch.
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  Speaker 1: He he was terrible for the first month the season.
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  Speaker 1: Max months he betted one eighty four with one home run.
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  Speaker 1: I would have released him if I ran the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: And then he had this magic moment. He had this
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  Speaker 1: magic epiphany and it's called bifocals. Yes, who knew. So
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  Speaker 1: since months he put on glasses, he has been seeing
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  Speaker 1: the ball like Neo in the matrix. Last fifty games,
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  Speaker 1: he has been as hot as the sidewalks out there
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  Speaker 1: in Palm Springs. Two ninety one batting average, twelve home
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  Speaker 1: runs and a nine to seventy four ops, which the
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  Speaker 1: nerds get all horny about. And so now in the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers in the short term are gonna have Miguel
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  Speaker 1: Rojas and Key k Hernandez who's only good in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: trying to hold down the fort. And so it's it's
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  Speaker 1: not really a platoon. That's that's like an ad you
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  Speaker 1: posted on Craigslist that really messed it up. You know,
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  Speaker 1: wanted one hot corner savior. Bring your own glove and
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  Speaker 1: bring your own cleats and all that, and there you go,
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  Speaker 1: so Roll 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 April, it's snap, crackle pop. But then right
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  Speaker 1: around Midsummer, a key position player normally goes down for
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  Speaker 1: the count. So it's not the fourth of July weekend
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  Speaker 1: until another prominent player is on what used to be
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  Speaker 1: called the disabled list for the Dodgers. And then you
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  Speaker 1: have Dave Roberts saying we're optimistic. I think I've heard
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  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts say we're optimistic about injured players more than
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  Speaker 1: 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. Of course, some would argue they
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  Speaker 1: don't have a shortstop either. They have decided that Jazz
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  Speaker 1: Chisholm good name, a lot of Rasthma Taz, pretty mediocre player.
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  Speaker 1: They decided, though, he belongs at second base. So are
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  Speaker 1: you okay with that? The Dodgers are the Yankees rather
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  Speaker 1: have decided they're gonna move Jazz Chism to the second
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  Speaker 1: base and then back to second base. He's not a
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  Speaker 1: third baseman, so obviously don't have any skin in the game.
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  Speaker 1: But sometimes, as my friend Uncle Moe, who used to
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  Speaker 1: live in Brooklyn but now lives in Jersey, would tell you,
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  Speaker 1: the jigsaw pussle pieces just don't fit, and you can't
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  Speaker 1: force them to. You can't do it right now, Jazz
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  Speaker 1: as a third baseman, square peg forced into a round hole.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like if you go out car shopping
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  Speaker 1: and you buy yourself a ferrari and then you use
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  Speaker 1: it as a snowplow. That's not what it's for. It's
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  Speaker 1: a waste of a far Now. I'm not saying this
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  Speaker 1: is a ferrari by any means. Put jazz is much
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  Speaker 1: better at second than third. So this is a it
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  Speaker 1: is a correction, it's ad meeting. Hey, we screwed up,
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  Speaker 1: and so now with this decision, they go all right, bam,
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  Speaker 1: let's kick it up a couple of notches at the
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  Speaker 1: at the trade deadline. So is that Nolan Aeronado from
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  Speaker 1: Saint Louis, Like, who are they gonna get? It's not
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  Speaker 1: exactly rocket science here, it's it's simply baseball. There's only
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  Speaker 1: so many third basemen that are obviously available, so you
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  Speaker 1: just try not to screw it up. So stay tuned,
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  Speaker 1: It is not veal, it is beel Welcome in the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of another hour of the Ben Mahlor Show. We're
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  Speaker 1: Who's very excited about that? And will anyone be sworn
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  Speaker 1: in here on the fourth of July. Stay tuned, but
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  Speaker 1: This hour is from the Valley of the Sun and
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  Speaker 1: a big shakeup now it hasn't happened yet. Big shakeup
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  Speaker 1: though on tap allegedly in the Grand Canyon State, like
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  Speaker 1: a monsoon coming in this time of the year. If
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  Speaker 1: you have not been paying attention to the scuttle but
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  Speaker 1: perhaps not, we have learned that the once proud basketball
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  Speaker 1: team discussing a potential massive buyout of Bradley Beal. It
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  Speaker 1: would be bye by Beal, is what it would be now.
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  Speaker 1: If you have not paid attention Bradley Beal's time in
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  Speaker 1: Phoenix has been the daily double. It has been injuries
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  Speaker 1: and underwhelming performers. Now since Bradley Beal is one of
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  Speaker 1: only two two players in the entire NBA with the
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  Speaker 1: no trade clause, you know who the other one is.
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  Speaker 1: It's not Bronnie No, it's not Bronnie j No, not
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  Speaker 1: Luca No, not Jason Tate, not Steph Curry, Lebron Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So Bradley Beal and lebron the only players with no
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  Speaker 1: trade clause is now. Beal has been incredibly difficult for
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  Speaker 1: the Suns to handle because he's bad at basketball right
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  Speaker 1: now and they can't get rid of him. So if
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  Speaker 1: he accepts a buyout that if he does that, he
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  Speaker 1: would have to give up his no trade claw because
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  Speaker 1: he wouldn't be able to contract anymore. He would also
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  Speaker 1: be an unrestricted free agent allowed to roam around the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're very concerned about where he ends up
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  Speaker 1: in the United States or Canada once he clears waivers. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Phoenix will need Bradley Beal to leave a good chunk
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  Speaker 1: of money on the table now per the rules, not
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  Speaker 1: to get to the minutia, but per the rules, the
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  Speaker 1: amount of salary the Sons have finagled the books. Now
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  Speaker 1: I'm a salary cap truther. I'm a salary cap truther.
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  Speaker 1: But they cannot exceed fifteen percent of the salary cap
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  Speaker 1: the salary they stretch out. So it's I'm not an
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  Speaker 1: accountant either of you, I assume. So let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question where does Bradley beal go. He's at a
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: fork in the road. Where does Bradley beal go? At
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: this fork in the road with the suns? So I've
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  Speaker 1: got quantum leap, inflation crisis, and one legged duck quack
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: quack quack quack will combine all of these things together,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: and we are going to make a delicious cheese steak sandwich,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: which hot take better than a hot dog, better than
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: a burger. The cheese steak salmon properly made, properly may
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: proper amount of cheese, proper amount of steak, and then
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: a proper amount of onion pepper. All that all right?
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: So number wa, I said, number Wa, Bradley Beer. What
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: he's trying to do here is a hoodini. He's trying
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: to hoodeni his way out of the gilded cage covered
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: in gold. And he's the one that built the gilded cage,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: right will he or won't he? So right now, oh
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the drama. Bradley Beal is staring down a desert mirage
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: there in Arizona. It's the ghost of his own past
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: and his past decisions, and so he's like, what am
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I going to do? Well, it's right there in front.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a heatstro hallucination over the valley of the Sun.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Now he's taken since he put on that Sun's uniform,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: he has taken part and a very public quantum leap.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: He has gone from underrated stars stuck in d C
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: right with ostroch ant wathing him play basketball and nobody
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: else and you know, all boohoo, Bradley Beal good play
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: on a bad team, if only he played on a
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: good team. And then he went to a team that
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: was supposed to be good. And now he's changed his identity.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Bradley Beal now identifies as overpaid bust with a no
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: trade pause. That's his new identity. And so that's a
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: quantum leap. And so he's not just trying to leave Phoenix.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: He's trying to rewrite the narrative, assuming he cares about
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: that before it fossilizes and that's it. Bradley Beal needs
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: to agree to give up a large amount of the
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: one hundred and ten point eight million in guaranteed salary
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: remaining on his contract for all of that to take place.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: So it's an easy move. Here. The Malord think Tank
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: has been activated. Here's the advice, unsolicited overnight talk radio
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: advice to Bradley Beal. You give up twenty point eight
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: million of the one hundred and ten point eight million.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Give up twenty point eight million. That gets you down
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: to ninety million dollars. And if you can't make ends
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: meet on ninety million dollars, you've done something terribly wrong.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: It is still larger. Ninety million dollars is larger than
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: the lottery payout in pretty much every state right now
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: in these United States on the fourth of July for reference,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Lotto Texas the jackpot is thirty three and a half million,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: the New York Lottery fifteen point three million. How about
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Mega Millions, which is in a number of states across
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: the country sixty million dollars. So Bradley Beal, if he
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: gave up twenty point eight he would still have thirty
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: million dollars more coming to him than the current jackpot
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: in the mega millions, and you can make that money back.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: And what do you do You get into it? Be
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: into it. Dome in the hood in Inglewood. That's where
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Steve Balmer's Clippers play in LA and Balmer not only
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: owns the Clippers, he's also been running a reputation rehab
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: where he brings in troubled NBA players, much to my dismay,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: like Ben Simmons and a couple of years back, Russell Westbrook.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: If you're on the NBA scrap heap, made a lot
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: of money and used to be good, the Clippers will
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: take you, no questions asked, no questions asked, and Bradley Beal,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: come on down all right. Meanwhile, we now go to
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: the words of KCP, not KFC KCP. That's Centavious call
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: old Well Pope, not a real pope. He's a journeyman guard.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: So he recently explained in a podcast interview that both
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Tyrese Haliburton and Donovan Spider Mitchell are not superstars o MG.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Now for Kntavious Calbo Pope, he says a superstar must
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: be held to a higher standard, and he believes that
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: it's the consistency that sets apart the best of the best.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: That was his argument, he says. He mentioned Lebron and
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: SGA and Nicole jokichen Giannis who almost always complete the deal.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: They don't disappear in playoff games and all that, and
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: they contribute to the box score. He has a lot
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: of people get stats in basketball and low information fans
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: think they're better than they are. So question, are you
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: picking up what Kntavious ca Abo Pope is trying to
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: put down here on what makes a superstar? So on
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: this one, after a minutes long Mallard deliberation, I am
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: nodding my head. Yes, Contavious decided to light a match
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: on the fourth of July. Well it was actually earlier
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: on that, but light a match under the what he
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: believes is the myth of Tyrese Haliburton and Donovan Mitchell
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: and their stardom. So I would like to rephrase the
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: argument because I think I can phrase it better. So
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I'd like to rephrase it the NBA. What he's saying
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: to me, this is how I interpret it, Like fine art,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: the NBA has a superstar inflation crisis, a superstar inflation crisis,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: and what he's saying, is everyone who has a jump
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: shot and you know, some kind of signature shoe and
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: a sizzle reel on social media is knighted like they're
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the reincarnation of Air Jordan. You might remember during the finals,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: SGA was being compared to Michael Jordan, who goofed. I've
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: got to know so anyway, Colwell, Pope, he didn't mince
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: his words. He called Halliburton a fifty to fifty guy
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: and said he would not build a team around Spider Mitchell.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Why because he said, the superstars they don't just fill
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: the stat sheet. They win, they elevate their teammates and
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: all that they show up on the big stage. All
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: those cliches, right, all those cliches, And the reference was
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: to Halliburton, who made several game winning shots in the playoffs,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: like that shot at Madison Square Garden. One of the
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: great postseason shots that I've seen in a long time
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: in my life. It's got to be top five playoff shot.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Most of the other ones are mister big Shot, Robert
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: orri but Halliburton made several big shots. He also had
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: four points and was ozer of six. Remember that playoff game,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: but it was Game five of the Finals against against
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: okay See had four points and no field goals made,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: no field goals made. Now, Spider Mitchell is the NBA's
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: version in Cleveland, and he was the same way in Utah.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: He's the summer blockbuster that never gets any oscar buzz
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: because it's got cartoon characters in it. It's loud, you know,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of explosions, it's flashy, and then yeah, I
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: kind of forget about it, and by the time the
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: buttered popcorn has left the bucket, you've moved on to
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: something else. But a superstar isn't just someone who gets
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: the baskets right, someone who changes the temperature of the room.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: And so I would combine what he said he being
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the aforementioned Kentavious called Will Pope with what Magic Johnson said.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: We talked about this in a previous episode of So
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Magic's on a yacht right now with Rodney Pete somewhere
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: in Europe. But Magic Johnson said that a true superstar
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: doesn't just dominate, they fill the arena. Now. He also
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: talked about inspiration all that, but I box office, like
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: that's a big part of it, and are people going
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: out of their way to buy tickets to watch Spider
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Mitchell eh no sga eh now all right, final point,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: developing drama, developing weekend drama, Mile High City. The Nuggets
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: made a move which is not official yet as the
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: teas have not been crossed and the eyes have not
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: been deted dotted. The newest addition to the Nuggets, Yonas Valentunis,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: great name, great regular season player, limited in the playoffs.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Limited in the playoffs. So Yonas Valentunis was traded from
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Sacramento to Denver's not official yet. He may never play
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: for the Nuggets. May never play for the Nuggets. After all,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: he's thirty three years old from Lithuania, and the reports
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: we're hearing now he's close to accepting an offer from
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: a Greek powerhouse team in Athens, a move to Athens
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: and play there. Valentnis could soon sign a three year
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: contract twelve million dollars. There's a problem, He's currently under
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: contract with the Sacramento Kings. That contract's going to be
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: transferred to the Denver Nuggets for ten point four million
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: for one year. So that NBA contract includes a team
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: option to extend him for another year. It's beginning to
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: look to some as low Valentnists would actually prefer to
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: play overseas. And so that news comes just a couple
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: of days after that trade was announced, not a major trade,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: but people getting all horny because the Nuggets improve their
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: bench and Valentis is supposed to be part of that.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Denver unloaded one of their bad contracts to get Valenters.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: So the question does Yonas Valentnis have ulterior motives by
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: threatening to leave the NBA before he ever wears a
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Nuggets uniform and go play for a team in Greece?
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: So does he have ulterior motives? Does a one legged
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: duck swimming circle bingo? Right? And this is not about
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I want to be clear, this is not where he
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: actually wants to play for the team in Greece. I
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: don't buy that. This is not Wonder Lost or anything
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: like that. It is a contract negotiation with a side
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: of sauce, Suzeki sauce. Right. I mean this is a
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: classic euro I'm dangling this European contract and everyone knows
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: the playbook. We've seen this before. It hasn't been used
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: that often recently, but Valentius is like, listen, I'm gonna
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: go play for the Nuggets you're gonna have as a backup,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: which means my stats aren't gonna be that good. I'm
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: thirty three. By the time I'm up for my next contract,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: i'll be thirty four years old, and nobody's gonna pay
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: me the amount of money I want. So give me
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: another year or guarantee you're gonna buy out my contract
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: and I'll be able to be a free agent at
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: the end of the year. Right, So he's essentially he's
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: looking at his money. He realizes he's passed his prime valentiunis.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: He's like, all right, I'll take my hammer and I'll
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: crack open the piggy bank and I'll hornswoggle the nuggets
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: to pay me to be a backup, and I'll squeeze
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: a few more shekels out of the Denver Nuggets or
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: else I'll go eat. I'll eat some great food in Athens,
• 31:30
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• 31:33
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• 35:02
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• 35:31
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• 35:47
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• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Was not mud? That's another one from Surfer Todd, the comedian.
• 35:59
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• 36:03
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• 36:26
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• 36:28
  Speaker 1: weed Man get excited during Blair's most recent call. Why
• 36:34
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• 36:40
  Speaker 1: there if he pays you that's that's Eric in Kansas. Well,
• 36:46
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• 36:55
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• 37:00
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  Speaker 1: What the hontingmoon will be over before two years? Yeah,
• 37:12
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• 37:17
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• 37:46
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• 37:48
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• 37:50
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• 37:56
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• 38:08
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• 38:10
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• 38:15
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• 38:20
  Speaker 1: That's Robbie from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Which city does
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  Speaker 1: Greet to be in? What? Mentor? Ohio? That's Eric Eric
• 38:36
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• 38:41
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• 38:46
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  Speaker 1: Lizzo licking her chops before eating? What? Well, she's actually
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  Speaker 1: licking her pork chops, weed Man, her pork chops. That's
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: from the great Surfer Todd the Comedian. It would be great,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: weed Man if you and Surfer Todd the Comedian hung out.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: I think you guys would be immediate friends if you
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: guys ever got together. That would be so nice. All right, great? Yeah, yeah,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: are you going to show up, weed Man? There's rumors
• 39:16
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• 39:17
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• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Which I hit?
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Loo?
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Did I come okay? Because of the woman? The women
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: rather upsetting him with the nudity on the apps? What
• 39:31
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• 39:36
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• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Who sent out when and out Dariy? Why does Mike
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: the Leprecaun lose? Why does Michael lepricun lose at the casinos? Why?
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Because he always keeps Dublin down? He's doubling down weed man.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: That's Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. These are actual jokes by
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: actual listeners. If you want to send a joke in
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: in a future episode of the show, send it care
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: of Ben Maler Show at gmail dot com. Put jokes
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: in the headlines Benmallershow at gmail dot com, and we
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: move on. Buttermilk Chavo sent this one in. What do
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: you call an angry leprechaun that doesn't realize he is
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: cursing on the air? What a hot Mike? A hot?
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: All right? Why? Why did Mike the Leprechaun cross the road?
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Why to get on Lorena's bad side? It's buttermilk chavo there?
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: What new nickname is Mike the Leprecaun responsible for what? Lorena?
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Who fled? That's from chip In Yes you not here?
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Not here with Mike the Leprecaun. What do you call
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: unscreened cocaine? What do you call that? The instant advice line?
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: That's Kurt from Earth who sent that one there? What
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: was the best thing about Mike the Leprechaun's studio visit
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: what it made? The cockroaches seem less? Annoying? That's from
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Chipping made last one. How can Mike the lepreca How
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: can Mike the Leprechaun stop stop bringing it? Being Lorena's enemy,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: how can that happen? Wow, give her a pot of
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Acca puco gold. That's buttermilk chamo. I know you want
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: that also, weed Man, have a great fourth Enjoy that you.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Fireworks weed Man all over Miami tonight