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Hour 4- Fighting for the Right · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: The Beny Man, Can the Beny Man?
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Speaker 2: Can?
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Speaker 1: It is hot? It is far, it is gone. In
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Speaker 1: our number four fifth hour today, check that out. Red
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Speaker 1: Sox first baseman Wilson Contreras says that quote smart fans
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Speaker 1: and real fans close quote don't mind his lack of hustle.
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Speaker 1: In fact, he said he's allowed to not hustle. How
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Speaker 1: do you rule on that? And is Michael Kay going
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Speaker 1: to get called into the principal's office as a broadcaster
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Speaker 1: for saying the Yankees had a quote offensive orgy against
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Speaker 1: the Orioles? And do you have any advice for Major
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Speaker 1: League Baseball teams on how to handle calling up prospects
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Speaker 1: with a pending workstoppage in twenty twenty seven, All of
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Speaker 1: those stories covered here in our number four. Also an
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Speaker 1: interesting back and forth this hour between Marcel and our
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Speaker 1: number four of the Ben Maler Show. It's your right now,
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Speaker 1: fighting for the right to be lazy, Fighting for the
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Speaker 1: right to be lazy. Welmeme. In the beginning of another
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Speaker 1: this hour from Baseball Baseball is the story. So I
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Speaker 1: got set the story from Mike. It's in Boston, and
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Speaker 1: Mike sent this to me. He said, Ma, this is right,
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Speaker 1: and so meatball right down the middle for you. And
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Speaker 1: I said, you know what, Mike, You're absolutely right. Thank
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Speaker 1: you for this. I would also like to thank Red
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Speaker 1: Sox first baseman Wilson Contreras. I was unaware of this story.
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Speaker 1: So this is a good story. This is really right
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Speaker 1: in my wheelhouse as a meatball, big spicy meatball. So
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Speaker 1: Wilson Contreras is having an All Star years, been an
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Speaker 1: All Star game guy, first baseman, former catcher, first baseman
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Speaker 1: for the Socks, and he was booed recently at a
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Speaker 1: Red Sox game this week at Finway for the second
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Speaker 1: time this month for being lazy. The lazy jog la
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Speaker 1: la la la la la la la la la la
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Speaker 1: la la la down the first baseline hit a run
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Speaker 1: scoring groundout. So if you didn't see it, perhaps not Contras's.
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Speaker 1: The story is not that he was lazy. There's a
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Speaker 1: lot of baseball players that are lazy. They take pride
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Speaker 1: in it. They pick their spots when they hustle. Now,
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Speaker 1: Contreras responded by putting his hand to his ear, encouraging
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Speaker 1: more Booze really leaning in to the heel and then
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Speaker 1: became involved. There was an incident that happened with a
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Speaker 1: fan behind the Red Sox dugout who apparently said the
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Speaker 1: magic words. I saw the clip Jared Duran, some other
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Speaker 1: players became involved in it, and there's some grainny video
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Speaker 1: online and all that. Now contrez was asked about all this,
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Speaker 1: he pushed back strongly against the criticism and then did
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Speaker 1: the thing that you didn't expect him to do normally,
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Speaker 1: when you get called into this situation, are called out
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Speaker 1: in this situation, you said, well, you know, the fans
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Speaker 1: are entitled of their opinion, and I'll try to do better.
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Speaker 1: I'll try to try to hustle more. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: work on that. He didn't do that, though, no. When
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Speaker 1: asked about the criticism from the fans, he then decided
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Speaker 1: to be a professor and lecture the fan. He said, quote,
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Speaker 1: this is Wilson Contrell's All Star first basement of the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox. He said, if you're a smart fan, you
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Speaker 1: know what's going on, adding that a quote real fan
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Speaker 1: who understands baseball should recognize there's little reason for him
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Speaker 1: to risk aggravating his injury on a routine ground ball. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so that is a good jumping off point. Let us
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Speaker 1: discuss the question. You've got Red Sox All Star first
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Speaker 1: baseman Wilson Contreras saying that smart fans and real fans,
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Speaker 1: smart and real fans don't mind his lack of hustle.
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Speaker 1: How do you rule in the court of maler So,
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Speaker 1: I've got sam Adams, pop tarts and jumbo shrimp, and
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Speaker 1: We'll throw some mots of ball soup in there. Will
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Speaker 1: cover almost all the bases, almost all the bases. Now
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Speaker 1: to lead off here to answer the question, how do
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Speaker 1: you rule on Wilson Contrera's lecturing the smart fan and
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Speaker 1: the real fan and all that. So this is extra
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Speaker 1: strength hutzpa from Wilson Contreras. Fans paying seemingly paying. Maybe
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Speaker 1: there's some people got free tickets, but the fan paying
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Speaker 1: fin way prices expecting to see effort, and they're the problem.
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Speaker 1: They're the problem. Like, how dare you take issue with
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Speaker 1: Contreras for treating the first baseline like he was walking
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Speaker 1: the Freedom Trail and he's just taking a gentle stroll
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Speaker 1: trying to find Sam Adams grave. He's like, what are
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Speaker 1: you doing? Just leave me alone. I'm trying to find
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Speaker 1: the grave and that's it. I don't want to be bothered.
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Speaker 1: And then he goes poor Man's hault Cogan from back
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Speaker 1: in the day, kind of cupping his ear in my
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Speaker 1: head anyway for the Boo Birds throwing kerosene on the fire,
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Speaker 1: so good. I think this is hilarious and so yes.
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Speaker 1: Now Contreras supposedly as a bum hamstring. He claims that
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Speaker 1: the interim manager Tad Chase, the Tad Tracy, Chad Tracy
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Speaker 1: of the Red Sox, gave him a hall pass to chill,
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Speaker 1: I guess in the back of the clubhouse in his
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Speaker 1: lazy boy chair, which is wonderful. Congratulations. Now, the Major
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Speaker 1: League Baseball jog a classic move which used to be
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Speaker 1: called eyewash, giving the illusion of hustle when you're not
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Speaker 1: actually hustling. And so the Major League jog has been
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Speaker 1: around since at least the Reagan administration. But in the
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Speaker 1: court of malor, Wilson Contrera's is still guilty of what
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Speaker 1: exactly deliberate indifference. The reason why he violated the very
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Speaker 1: first rule, the very first rule of the MLB jog.
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Speaker 1: You don't brag about the MLB jog. You don't announce
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Speaker 1: that you're actively being a lazy person while doing it.
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Speaker 1: You don't you don't lecture the customer on what a
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Speaker 1: smart fan is and a real fan. You don't do that.
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Speaker 1: You appreciate the fact that they're paying money and they're
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Speaker 1: not exactly paying it for you to loaf around like
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Speaker 1: a big tub of goo. So that's not diplomacy by
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Speaker 1: Wilson contraz to the Red Sox. That is handing the
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Speaker 1: fans a bucket of deep fried lazy bones, fried lazy bones.
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Speaker 1: All right. Now, furthermore to Baltimore we go where Yankee
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Speaker 1: broadcaster Michael Kay became a trending topic. And I think
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Speaker 1: we have this audio here. So Michael Kay raised some eyebrows.
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Speaker 1: This is a Thursday game at Camden Yards. It was
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Speaker 1: a six to one Yankees win for the Orioles, and
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Speaker 1: he had a very interesting way of describing a three
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Speaker 1: run third inning performance by the Yankees offense. Now, Jose Caballero,
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Speaker 1: the pest, Ben Rice, and Elliott Ramos each drove in
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Speaker 1: runs during the third inning rally, and then Jazz Chisholm
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Speaker 1: Junior struck out to end the frame, and that led
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Speaker 1: to Michael Kay describing what happened for the Yankee offense.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to the audio tape. Here is Michael Kay
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Speaker 1: explaining what actually took place for the Yankees in that inning.
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Speaker 1: That'll do it. But the Yankees three runs in it.
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Speaker 1: It's an offensive.
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Speaker 3: Orgie had this guy.
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Speaker 1: Run, Yeah, who play it again? Play it again, play
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Speaker 1: it again, playing again, playing again, play again. Here you go.
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Speaker 1: But the Yankees three runs in it, it's an offensive.
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Speaker 1: Orgie had this gun the music playing in the back.
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Speaker 1: They were going to break. As Kate delivered the line,
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Speaker 1: they were heading the commercial. He added that Ramos really
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Speaker 1: needed it. Apparently he needed the Orgy Rbi doubled the
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Speaker 1: center field. So this became a thing. And as always,
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Speaker 1: there's a certain percentage of knuckleheads that are like, you
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Speaker 1: shouldn't be saying that on the Yankee bruccause this is
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Speaker 1: what are you doing? I thought it was funny. So
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Speaker 1: the question is Michael Kay going to get the call?
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Speaker 1: Is he going to get the text message and be
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Speaker 1: called into the principal's office by the Steinbrenner family for
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Speaker 1: saying that the Yankees had an offensive orgy. Now, by
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Speaker 1: the way, let's make a note for the production team.
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Speaker 1: We need just the part where he says offensive orgy
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Speaker 1: has a drop. I'd like to add that to my
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Speaker 1: collection of drops. So let's try to make sure we
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Speaker 1: get that in the system. I know there's music in
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Speaker 1: the background, but that's just too good to pass up.
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Speaker 1: Longtime Yankee play by play announcer Michael Kay and the
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Speaker 1: offensive orgy. So in terms of him getting in trouble,
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Speaker 1: we would hope not. I would say it's highly unlikely
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Speaker 1: that Michael Kay gets summoned to the principal's office over
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Speaker 1: this one. And the reason he's broadcasting Yankees baseball on
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Speaker 1: the Yes Network. He's not delivering Sunday Mass at the Vatican. Now,
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Speaker 1: if the Pope gets up there and is talking about
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Speaker 1: Orgi's that's a problem. Michael Kay calling a three run
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Speaker 1: inning and offensive orgy. That's colorful. It's a little goofy,
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Speaker 1: you know. It's a way of describing what has been
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Speaker 1: a pretty lifeless Yankee offense without Aaron Judge suddenly waking
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Speaker 1: up and having a party. Now it's quite the party
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Speaker 1: of that party. And there's a line from years ago saying,
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Speaker 1: lighten up Francis, right, light lighten up Francis. And it's
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Speaker 1: also last I checked, not nineteen fifty nine. The kids
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Speaker 1: aren't exactly gathering around their phil Co radio for Yankee
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Speaker 1: oriole games and or their TV for that matter. They're
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Speaker 1: black and white TV in the sixties. And if they
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Speaker 1: are watching or listening, congratulations to the parents, you've somehow
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Speaker 1: defeated TikTok so a way to go. And besides those kids,
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Speaker 1: I guarantee any kid that was watching that game and heard,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, Yankees offensive word, they have heard so
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Speaker 1: many things worse than that, just scrolling the internet and
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Speaker 1: while in the morning aren breakfast eating their pop tarts.
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Speaker 1: Before they finish their pop tarts, they've heard seventeen things
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Speaker 1: or more worse than that. And so I have fine
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Speaker 1: just doing play by play. I had a little spice
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Speaker 1: to it, spicy metaphor. I say, no fine, no suspension, certainly,
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Speaker 1: no sensitivity, seminar and all that stuff. Playball, playball. Now,
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Speaker 1: speaking of playing ball, there is a penning controversy involving
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Speaker 1: some of the top prospects in baseball. We're getting to
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Speaker 1: that time. It's almost septembers. Today's August twenty first, as
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Speaker 1: we're doing this in real time, so we have it's Friday,
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Speaker 1: August twenty first, and in less than two weeks you'll
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Speaker 1: hear September call ups, which is not as big a
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Speaker 1: thing as it used to be. It's still a thing,
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Speaker 1: just not as big a thing. And as you know,
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Speaker 1: a prospect is a suspect until proven otherwise. We've talked
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Speaker 1: about that many times. So we are hearing now that
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Speaker 1: there is a legitimate debate behind the curtain in baseball.
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball contenders will they or won't leap they
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Speaker 1: promote their elite prospects coming up in September. The reason
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Speaker 1: you would not do that is why that's right. The
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Speaker 1: workstoppage is pending the Cold War in Major League baseball,
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Speaker 1: and if there is no baseball season in twenty twenty seven.
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Speaker 1: That is the dilemma that if you put the young
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Speaker 1: player who's not currently on the forty man roster, you
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Speaker 1: activate them, put them on the roster, you promote them
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Speaker 1: right now. Well, the issue is are they going to
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Speaker 1: be good enough to help you? And they likely would
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Speaker 1: not be able to play in any games next year
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Speaker 1: because of the doom and gloom that would thus stunt
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Speaker 1: that particular player's development. All right, so here's the question.
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Speaker 1: Do you have any advice for Major League Baseball teams
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Speaker 1: on how to navigate calling up the prospect, the top
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Speaker 1: prospect with a pending workstoppage in twenty twenty seven. So
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Speaker 1: the advice is this, live in the moment. I would
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Speaker 1: say live in the moment, because your five year plan
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Speaker 1: is currently hiding under the bed, crying next to the
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Speaker 1: ghost that Lorrain is dealing with right now.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 1: This is paralysis by analysis. It happens all the time.
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Speaker 1: This is the baseball version of paralysis by analysis. Forget
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Speaker 1: player development. It's not about that. It's childcare with the scoreboard,
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Speaker 1: is what it is. So in order for me to
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Speaker 1: believe this, you're telling me that a team that has
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Speaker 1: a path to the playoffs, a contender with a month
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Speaker 1: to go in the baseball season. They said, well, you know,
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Speaker 1: we have this player who could help us, and we're
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Speaker 1: going to keep that player buried in the minor leagues
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Speaker 1: because well, we just we are worried about potential armageddon
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Speaker 1: in labor and we don't want that. Get out of
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Speaker 1: here with that, get out here now. Most prospects are
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Speaker 1: baby and they flop anywhere. That's just the reality of
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Speaker 1: the situation. If you don't believe me, you might want
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Speaker 1: to talk to my friend Anthony Volpi of the Triple
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Speaker 1: A team Scranton Wilkesbury ask him a thing or two
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Speaker 1: about that. So you look at the history of this,
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Speaker 1: these guys get baby, they end up on the scrap
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Speaker 1: heap of baseball history. The failed prospect, a prospect, a
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Speaker 1: suspective to a profit otherwise, and the baseball reference is
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Speaker 1: filled with cannot miss, cannot miss phenoms who currently are
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Speaker 1: working in real estate if they're lucky. So you don't
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Speaker 1: hide in the bubble wrap of the grandma's fine china.
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Speaker 1: You can't put these players in the bubble rap of
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Speaker 1: the plastic wrapper on the sofa, which used to be
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Speaker 1: a thing by the Babushkas back in the day because
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Speaker 1: you're worried, Oh man, this player is gonna miss precious
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Speaker 1: reps next season when he could play for the Akron
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Speaker 1: Rubber Ducks or the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp. You gotta be
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Speaker 1: very worried about that. You need that player playing for
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Speaker 1: the Jumbo Shrimp if he can help you win a pennant,
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Speaker 1: right now, Calm him up, period. Stop. It's not even
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Speaker 1: a debate. Those dumb flags that you're trying to win
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Speaker 1: the pennant, they fly forever, right, They go on and
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Speaker 1: on and on and on. Prospect rankings they come out
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Speaker 1: every year. Baseball America and the own in house Major
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Speaker 1: League Baseball website it has their own version of prospect ratings.
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Speaker 1: Those rankings are fish rap. You've got a flag that'll
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Speaker 1: fly forever, and you've got fish rap. Are you gonna
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Speaker 1: lean into fish rap? That's what you're gonna do. If
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Speaker 1: your front office, if you're a baseball team in contention,
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Speaker 1: and your front office prioritizes a double a at bat
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Speaker 1: over a possible pennant World Series appearance, your priorities are
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Speaker 1: ass backwards, right, Do everyone a favor, Do everyone a favor,
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Speaker 1: Get the f out of baseball. Go manage your jiffy lube,
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Speaker 1: Go manage a jiffy Get out of here. Get out
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Speaker 1: of here with that nonsense. Please, It is the Ben
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Speaker 1: Mallor Show. No nonsense here, No, I mean, there is
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Speaker 1: some nonsense. We did have two exhibition games in the
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Speaker 1: NFL last night, and we talked about one on the
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Speaker 1: other game was so bad we didn't really spend much
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Speaker 1: time on the The Raiders. Fernando Mendoza, who looked like
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Speaker 1: he should not be an NFL quarterback, completely drowned in
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Speaker 1: an exhibition game, two games in the number one overall
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Speaker 1: pick in the NFL, drown looking like a fifth or
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Speaker 1: sixth round developmental quarterback, as he has a passer rating
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Speaker 1: below seventy five and is averaging less than six yards
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Speaker 1: of pass against vanilla defenses. Backups of backups, of backups
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Speaker 1: of backups. My god, does it look like the Raiders
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Speaker 1: f this up? Yeah? And all those trolls, all those
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Speaker 1: trolls who are very loud there yelling at me. I
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Speaker 1: wonder what happened to that. They don't seem to be
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Speaker 1: very loud right now. I don't know why, don't know
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Speaker 1: why don't know what happened. Certainly fair to say that
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Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza is not ahead of schedule. He's definitely not
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Speaker 1: Hour podcast, Alf the Alien Opiner says, do minor league
21:43
Speaker 1: baseball operations commence during a Major League Baseball workstoppage? Are
21:48
Speaker 1: we all stuck watching Marble racing asking for a friend? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: So from what I just said, if you're not on,
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Speaker 1: you're not part of the Union, which you know you're
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Speaker 1: in the major league. I think there's some gray area.
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Speaker 1: I think there will be some minor league baseball. That's
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Speaker 1: what I heard. Don't quote me on that. And so
22:08
Speaker 1: that was the debate, like, if you're on the forty
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Speaker 1: man roster, you cannot participate in anything. You're cooked. However,
22:14
Speaker 1: if you're not on the forty man roster, I think
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Speaker 1: there's I don't know the exact rules, but from what
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Speaker 1: I was told, and I might have been a little
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Speaker 1: sleepy when I was told this, but I was told
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Speaker 1: that some of these guys that that's the debate, like,
22:26
Speaker 1: if you're not on the forty man roster, you can
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Speaker 1: play games next year because you're not. I guess in
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Speaker 1: the Union, do you have to join the Union when
22:34
Speaker 1: you're in the minor leagues? I don't think so. I
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Speaker 1: think it's only for the major leagues. Remember we had
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Speaker 1: this debate fifteen years ago. Because there's really nothing to
22:40
Speaker 1: protect the minor league players. It's the major league players
22:43
Speaker 1: that have to like one day in the major leagues,
22:46
Speaker 1: you got to pay your dues and all that. Anyway,
22:48
Speaker 1: let's go to the phones and let's say hello, eenie meenie,
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Speaker 1: miney mo. Let's go to Scottie on the pike. He
22:53
Speaker 1: needs some cheering up. And who better to cheer up
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Speaker 1: a random person than the Ben Maler Show. Hello, Scotty.
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Speaker 1: So what's going on, Scotty? What you got man?
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Speaker 4: Hey, Ben, I may be overthinking this, but.
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Speaker 7: Obviously my name.
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Speaker 5: Is Scott and I live in the Democratic People's Republic
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Speaker 5: of Massachusetts.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, so does this mean I only have four degrees
23:19
Speaker 7: of separation from blind Scott?
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Speaker 1: Because if if that's the case, I don't know, I
23:23
Speaker 1: might have to move to Nepal.
23:24
Speaker 2: Be A s.
23:27
Speaker 1: I recommend Bora Bora. If you do move, just go
23:30
Speaker 1: to Bora Bora and knock yourself out. Yeah, you are
23:33
Speaker 1: in the same area, although you're not in the North End,
23:36
Speaker 1: so I don't think you have to worry about that.
23:39
Speaker 1: But it's in the North End, nor End.
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Speaker 7: But Massachusetts isn't all that big, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, No, I know, I know it's not that big
23:46
Speaker 1: at all for sure. So I it's falling in the studio.
23:48
Speaker 1: Things are falling here in the studio. What is happening here,
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Speaker 1: Scotty on the Pipe? Would you like to change your name?
23:52
Speaker 1: I like that. I like the name Scotty on the Pike.
23:55
Speaker 1: We could change their name. Do you have another name
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Speaker 1: that you use? Do you have an alias that you use?
24:02
Speaker 7: Well, my wife has something for me.
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Speaker 1: But oh yeah, Hello, you look at you, your big
24:08
Speaker 1: stud unbelievable. Al right, a whole sect. Let me check
24:11
Speaker 1: with my my counsel here, let me see, let me
24:14
Speaker 1: check with Marcel. Put Scotty on whole for second, Marcel,
24:18
Speaker 1: what do you think a good nickname would be for
24:20
Speaker 1: Scotty on the Pike? Marcel?
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Speaker 7: Ooh, let me guess non nicknames? What shall I say?
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Speaker 7: The answer is definitely unacceptable?
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Speaker 1: Okay, So you want him to be known as Unacceptable
24:35
Speaker 1: on the pike.
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Speaker 7: Or put Scotty on the pike if you can. I'm
24:40
Speaker 7: still the dynasty here.
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Speaker 1: Okay, it's not about you, Marcel. We're trying to get
24:44
Speaker 1: to the bottom of Scotty. He says. He's a little
24:47
Speaker 1: concerned because blind Scott is known as blind Scott and
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Speaker 1: he's Scotty from the Pike, and he's worried that people
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Speaker 1: will confuse.
24:54
Speaker 7: You said Scotty on the Pipe. It comes to blame
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Speaker 7: side people because on Scott Austin becomes Scotty on the Pike.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, not you're You're just doing what I said.
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Speaker 1: He's worried about. Can you give me a nickname? I
25:13
Speaker 1: need a nickname. A I'm gonna move on. I need
25:15
Speaker 1: a nickname. What's his nickname?
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Speaker 7: Unacceptable on the Pike?
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Speaker 1: Okay, Scottie on the Pike. Are you down with being
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Speaker 1: known as unacceptable on the pike?
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Speaker 8: Oh?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, that will cheer me up. Is he not
25:33
Speaker 1: the most creative guy? Marcel?
25:34
Speaker 3: What Marcell is the best?
25:36
Speaker 1: Marcel Unacceptable on the Pike. Yeah, well, cheer up, Buttercup.
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Speaker 1: Things will be better. I guess I don't know. I
25:42
Speaker 1: probably get worse. All right, there he goes unacceptable or
25:48
Speaker 1: Scotty on the Pike. Let's go to Paul in Ottawa
25:50
Speaker 1: real quick. Hello, Paul in Ottawa. Welcome, Hei man.
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Speaker 8: I just wanted to say I I agree with you
25:56
Speaker 8: that the fan was right and the first basement there
26:00
Speaker 8: was wrong. And it reminds me of the time that
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Speaker 8: Carlton Fisk when he was playing with the White Sox,
26:06
Speaker 8: Dion Sanders hit a pop up and he just kind
26:10
Speaker 8: of stood around and waited for it to be caught,
26:12
Speaker 8: and Carlton Fisk yelled at him run the blanking thing out,
26:17
Speaker 8: And I thought that was good because a catcher has
26:20
Speaker 8: to have a lot of perseverance and if you care
26:23
Speaker 8: about the game, you don't want it to be taken yeah.
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Speaker 8: The other one was Gary Carter and Pete Rose. I
26:35
Speaker 8: was watching the game in person in Montreal when Rose
26:39
Speaker 8: was playing for the Phillies and Rose was coming around
26:42
Speaker 8: third and the throw is to the plate and Gary
26:46
Speaker 8: Carter and Rose was safe, and he got up and
26:51
Speaker 8: just padded Carter on the on the butt. His road
26:54
Speaker 8: to say, you're a real competitor and I'm a real competitor,
26:57
Speaker 8: and we really respect each other. And that's what it's
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Speaker 8: all about, for sure.
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Speaker 1: It's like, you know, it says like just like maximum effort,
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Speaker 1: like just a hustle. It just you don't have to
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Speaker 1: be the greatest athlete in the world. You don't put
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Speaker 1: some work in. That's it anyway, all right, call me earlier.
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Speaker 1: I'll give you more time. But I'm good to hear
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Speaker 1: your voice. Call me more often. We love you, Paul
27:18
Speaker 1: and Ottawa. There very nice to hear from him. And
27:22
Speaker 1: you know, what do we have here? I got to
27:25
Speaker 1: get to the koop scoop on entertainment. I gotta get
27:28
Speaker 1: to that. I got what do we keg drinking? Steve
27:31
Speaker 1: wants to say, give me one line, keg drinking Steve,
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Speaker 1: one line right now, hurry up, one line chop chop.
27:36
Speaker 3: He hung up.
27:37
Speaker 1: He's gone good. Mike the Leprechaun, give me one line,
27:40
Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun, right now, give me one line. Here
27:42
Speaker 1: we go, Mike the Leprechaun.
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Speaker 4: Beam me up. Scottie would be a good name. And
27:48
Speaker 4: Marcell is the rack the way field and hooray for Holly,
27:55
Speaker 4: Hooray for Holly.
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Speaker 1: Now you're upset, Marsa. You cut out when you I
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Speaker 1: didn't hear what you said. So anyway, Marcel, he's trying
28:04
Speaker 1: to steal your bit. What do you think of that, Marcel,
28:05
Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun is trying to steal your big.
28:08
Speaker 7: All put him on the explosion side of life and
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Speaker 7: putting into me. That's my job, not.
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Speaker 1: His, No, Mike the Leprecaunt. He says that it's his
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Speaker 1: job and you're stealing his job.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it wouldn't be so hard to steal his job.
28:27
Speaker 4: A baby could do his job. He has the brain
28:31
Speaker 4: power of a figgin mosquito.
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Speaker 7: We all, lepracaun, you better shut your mouth before better
28:37
Speaker 7: it's gonna block you forever.
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Speaker 4: You don't have a funny bone in your body.
28:44
Speaker 7: Blah blah blah, fool.
28:51
Speaker 4: Funny bone shape and Raccoon from the Mets.
28:57
Speaker 7: Excuse me there, idiot. Con What I'm not foul fool
29:01
Speaker 7: mouth is that if I wasn't down the mailbo going
29:05
Speaker 7: on the weekends.
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Speaker 3: For the mail.
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Speaker 1: All right, you guys, okay, alright, go away, Marcel do
29:12
Speaker 1: your thing. Please Coop standing by, he's.
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Speaker 7: Ready, and thank you for having me on the Fifth
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Speaker 7: Hour podcast. I will do it getting again for you
29:19
Speaker 7: in a sometime in the future. But for now, hooray
29:21
Speaker 7: for Hollywood folks. Coop Scoop On Entertainment starts right now,
29:25
Speaker 7: and here is my man, just Scober. I'll brop on
29:28
Speaker 7: fan on that. It's all yours.
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Speaker 9: Thank you, Marcel. All right, Ben have you have you
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Speaker 9: seen The Odyssey yet? I have not, I have, well
29:37
Speaker 9: a lot of people have. It has now become the
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Speaker 9: highest grossing R rated movie of all time, surpassing Deadpool
29:47
Speaker 9: and Wolverine, with one point three billion dollars at the
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Speaker 9: box office.
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Speaker 1: Charge you seven hundred dollars perticular.
29:56
Speaker 9: You know, it's like it's like twenty six or twenty
29:59
Speaker 9: seven or something and if you go to Imax, uh,
30:01
Speaker 9: but worth it though.
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Speaker 3: It was pretty awesome.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 9: Some other entertainment news we have some rumors about the
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Speaker 9: next James Bond.
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Speaker 1: Uh double O seven.
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Speaker 9: Yes, I am almost positive. I think I would bet
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Speaker 9: my life that you don't know who this is?
30:19
Speaker 3: Ben Uh do you know? Have you heard of Jacob ELORDI?
30:25
Speaker 1: No, he's not my lord?
30:26
Speaker 3: Yeah? No in things? Yeah, Lorraine this weekend? What?
30:32
Speaker 1: No? What do you You're not even listening? Yeah? LORDI
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Speaker 1: is that his name?
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Speaker 3: Jacob E lordy yes E L O R D I
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Speaker 3: or something like that.
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Speaker 1: All right, let me see what this guy is. I
30:44
Speaker 1: have never seen that person in my life.
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Speaker 9: He was nominated for an Academy Ward. He played uh,
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Speaker 9: the Franken Scin's Monster in the most recent adaptation of that.
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Speaker 1: He's also on Oh he's Australian. He's an as Yeah,
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Speaker 1: muff the Aussie Muffett.
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Speaker 9: Which would be a little weird because James Bond supposed
31:04
Speaker 9: to be English, right, So but yeah, it.
31:06
Speaker 1: Looks like a classic leading man he does though it
31:10
Speaker 1: would it would fit.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, And he's and he's he's a pretty good actor
31:14
Speaker 9: as well. So yeah, that's the latest in the realm
31:17
Speaker 9: of entertainment news. We're gonna go over to the theaters
31:19
Speaker 9: for what is premiering this weekend, and the one movie
31:21
Speaker 9: that I want to point out is called Mutiny.
31:24
Speaker 8: Uh.
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Speaker 9: This is the latest action flick from Jason Statham. In Mutiny,
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Speaker 9: after witnessing his billionaire bosses murder and being framed for
31:32
Speaker 9: the crime, Cole Reid played by Statham, boards a cargo
31:36
Speaker 9: ship on a one man crusade to revenge his boss's death,
31:39
Speaker 9: only to discover an international conspiracy.
31:43
Speaker 1: Love it.
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Speaker 9: It's you know, got the reviews that you would expect
31:46
Speaker 9: from you know, high octane action movie.
31:49
Speaker 3: Middling middling reviews.
31:51
Speaker 9: Going over to television, not much this weekend, but there
31:55
Speaker 9: are a couple things that I want to point out.
31:57
Speaker 9: We have season three of the show Conan o'bra.
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Speaker 3: Ran Must Go.
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Speaker 9: As you know, I am a huge Conan O'Brien fan.
32:02
Speaker 9: I think he's the greatest of all time.
32:05
Speaker 1: Greatest of all time, the goat.
32:07
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean when it comes to like late night
32:10
Speaker 9: and which is you know, also a bold claim, but
32:13
Speaker 9: you know that's my kind of my kind of humor.
32:19
Speaker 9: This in this show, he travels to different countries to
32:24
Speaker 9: meet his fans in person and then kind of like
32:27
Speaker 9: experience the culture. I watched the first two seasons. It's
32:30
Speaker 9: very funny. I would check it out. That's on HBO
32:32
Speaker 9: Max streaming right now. And then, last but not least,
32:35
Speaker 9: I figured I might as well bring this up because
32:38
Speaker 9: you know, theoretically we are a sports show. The latest
32:42
Speaker 9: installment of the Untold series on Netflix, this one is
32:46
Speaker 9: going to be untold.
32:47
Speaker 3: The testimony of Vince Young, Well.
32:52
Speaker 1: That's one of the great where he just spent all
32:54
Speaker 1: his money on cheesecake factory.
32:57
Speaker 3: I was just about to say, I don't know what
32:58
Speaker 3: he's testifying about. I guess.
33:01
Speaker 1: I mean, that's one of the all time downfalls. How
33:03
Speaker 1: do you lose your money? Did you? Did you buy cars?
33:05
Speaker 1: Spend money on chicks? No, I bought cheesecake factory. That's
33:08
Speaker 1: why I.
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Speaker 3: Just I just looked at the synopsis and I mean,
33:12
Speaker 3: you're kind of right.
33:12
Speaker 9: It's it's you know, it's talking about how his career
33:15
Speaker 9: was reeled by injuries, conflict, and sudden.
33:18
Speaker 1: Loss, sex, drugs, rock and roll. It's sex, drugs and cheesecakes.
33:26
Speaker 3: Anyway, that is goop scoop.
33:28
Speaker 9: But entertaining, all right, especially since the movie the music's done,
33:31
Speaker 9: so I guess I'm not allowed to talk.
33:33
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33:35
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33:38
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33:42
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33:45
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33:47
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33:50
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35:36
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35:40
Speaker 2: All right?
35:40
Speaker 1: Who do we have here? Eenie meenie, miney moe. We've
35:44
Speaker 1: got keg drinking Steve. Who wants to play? Hello keg
35:47
Speaker 1: drinking Steve.
35:48
Speaker 2: Oh happy weekend?
35:50
Speaker 1: Ben?
35:50
Speaker 2: Did you did you see Lamar Odom was on a
35:53
Speaker 2: mushroom trip and said Kobe Kobe Bryant visited him from
35:57
Speaker 2: the afterlife and said that the afterlife is not all
36:00
Speaker 2: this cracked up to be.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I did not see that. I'm sorry, Kobe's not
36:05
Speaker 1: happy with the after Let's play game, all right, Hold
36:11
Speaker 1: on a second. Heavy Metal Kevin is going to play
36:13
Speaker 1: our game. Hello heavy Metal Kevin.
36:17
Speaker 2: Mabey.
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Speaker 1: All right, gentlemen, Well, your name is your buzzer. You're
36:23
Speaker 1: both veterans of the show, so you know how this works.
36:25
Speaker 1: The categories are close, but no cigar and top dog.
36:30
Speaker 1: And let's see who was on first key drinking Steve,
36:34
Speaker 1: you were on first.
36:35
Speaker 2: All right, that's me, the top dog in the legend.
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Speaker 10: Let's do it.
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Speaker 1: The top dog. I will give you the team. You
36:43
Speaker 1: tell me the last player to win MVP for that
36:46
Speaker 1: particular team. Okay, last MVP for that team for two
36:50
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. Your name is your buzzer, top dog, last MVP.
36:54
Speaker 1: I'll give you the team. Tell me the player the
36:56
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams Steve Evan Kevin. Yeah, that is right,
37:05
Speaker 1: heavy Metal Kevin. Matthew Stafford, Just what do you remember?
37:10
Speaker 1: Four hundred dollars I will name the team. Tell me
37:13
Speaker 1: the last m v P for that team, The Denver Nuggets,
37:17
Speaker 1: The Denver Nuggets, Come on, Steve Uh, a joker. We'll
37:28
Speaker 1: take yeah, yeah, something like that. He likes horses, top dog.
37:38
Speaker 1: I'll name the team. Tell me the last player to
37:40
Speaker 1: win m VP from the Chicago Bulls, Kevin.
37:48
Speaker 8: Jordan.
37:50
Speaker 1: That's a good answer. It's not right though, there has
37:53
Speaker 1: been an m VP since Jordan. Steve. There you go, Steve,
37:58
Speaker 1: there you go. Okay, drink Steve. The Derek Rose answer
38:02
Speaker 1: is correct. Eight hundred dollars. I'll name the team. Tell
38:04
Speaker 1: me the last player to win MVP for that team
38:06
Speaker 1: from Major League Baseball Ocada DA, the Toronto Blue Jays, Steve.
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Speaker 10: Uh, Joe Carter, Joe Carter, heavy Metal.
38:25
Speaker 1: You want to give it a shot? Heavy Metal VI
38:27
Speaker 1: I okay, okay, we'll see babies. Josh Donaldson is the answer.
38:36
Speaker 2: Toronto sucks man, Joe Carter.
38:38
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you for our friends listening to Toronto right now.
38:41
Speaker 1: You suck thousand dollars. I'll name the team. Tell me
38:44
Speaker 1: the last player to win MVP for that team. The
38:47
Speaker 1: Old Oakland Athletics, The Old Oakland Athletics, Steve Kevin, Oh,
38:56
Speaker 1: goody go you. You definitely don't know baseball. That is
39:02
Speaker 1: not correct, KEG drinking Steve, would you like to give
39:05
Speaker 1: it a shot? Mark McGuire, you're wrong too. How soon
39:11
Speaker 1: we forget Miguel ta Hata, Miguel Toda the moneyball as
39:16
Speaker 1: Miguel Todd. All right, here we go close, but no cigar, gentlemen,
39:20
Speaker 1: little time left. These NFL players have been finalists on
39:23
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame ballot for multiple years without getting
39:26
Speaker 1: in two hundred dollars. This quarterback two time Super Bowl champion,
39:29
Speaker 1: but hasn't been voted in due to his overall mediocrity.
39:33
Speaker 1: His older brother got in on the first ballot.
39:35
Speaker 7: Steve Steve.
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Speaker 10: Eli Manning, Yeah, five hundred quarterback.
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Speaker 1: He's not that good and not a Hall of Fame.
39:44
Speaker 1: A good job by the Hall of Fame voters. All right,
39:47
Speaker 1: Steve Wins, Steve, you won, steevegt Keg drink heavy metal.
39:54
Speaker 1: Kevins's complaining, He's yeah,