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  Speaker 1: be talked about. There is no one story that must
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  Speaker 1: be talked about for our purposes. Something happened that is
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  Speaker 1: so egregious, so insane to the membrane that it has
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  Speaker 1: to lead off the show. There's nothing else over the
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  Speaker 1: last ten years that has to find this radio program.
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  Speaker 1: Then a story involving decrepit activity deep in the heart
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  Speaker 1: of Texas, and it is taking a turn to the
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  Speaker 1: wild side. So we'll start out at Cooper's Town. That's
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  Speaker 1: in New York. In New York, it was election day
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  Speaker 1: for the Hall of Fame and the announcement was made out.
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  Speaker 1: If you saw this or not, Like I was busy,
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  Speaker 1: I don't really care. I mean I care, but I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't paying attention. I'm not a loser like you. I
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  Speaker 1: actually have a life, all right. So fine, So maybe
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  Speaker 1: you missed it, so we'll fill you in. Center fielders
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Jones, made famous from his days as a kid
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  Speaker 1: for the Atlanta Braids a teenager when he came up
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  Speaker 1: for the Atlanta Braves years ago, and another life and
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  Speaker 1: centerfielder Carlos Beltron. Carlos Beltron, it's painful to say the
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  Speaker 1: name now. He played for a gaggle of teams, kept
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  Speaker 1: getting bounced around. Normally great players don't bounce from team
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  Speaker 1: to team to team. But Carlos Beltron, who played for
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  Speaker 1: the Royals, the Mets, the Cardinals, and that other team,
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  Speaker 1: along with Andrew Jones, who also played with the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: And when he played with the Dodgers, he actually worked
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  Speaker 1: at SeaWorld as a blue whale on the weekends. It
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  Speaker 1: was a wild he was so fat with the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, those guys are in the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: And the story here is rather obviously, if you paid
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  Speaker 1: any attention, any attention at all, you know what the
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  Speaker 1: story is. And the story here is Beltron. So that's
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  Speaker 1: the part of this we're going to begin with. And
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna break this down piece by piece. It's a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. A man that was convicted of
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  Speaker 1: being part of the cheating A Strews has been voted in,
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  Speaker 1: has been voted in. Let us discuss the question. With
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  Speaker 1: Carlos Beltron, the cheating astro elected to Cooper'stown, what message
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  Speaker 1: have the baseball scribes sent to the sporting world. So
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  Speaker 1: I've got Ringleader, Spirit, airlines, and boot lickors, and we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we are
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  Speaker 1: going to make a giant trash can, because that should
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  Speaker 1: be what goes in to Cooper's Town. You know, usually
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  Speaker 1: they put the face of the player. It's a it's
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  Speaker 1: a mausoleum there in Cooperstown. But they should put a
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  Speaker 1: trash can instead of Beltron's face in the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: Now that would be good. I would support that. I
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  Speaker 1: would I don't think they're going to do that, but
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  Speaker 1: I would support that. So my first my first thought is,
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  Speaker 1: this is the end of the Hall of Fame. We
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  Speaker 1: should have a moment of silence. We should all sit
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  Speaker 1: shiva for the Hall of Fame. It's over. This is
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  Speaker 1: the day the Hall of Fame died. This is it.
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  Speaker 1: It's all over. All those holier than now baseball riders
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  Speaker 1: who took that vote completely seriously have decided to defecate
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  Speaker 1: all over the Baseball Hall of Fame, all over it.
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  Speaker 1: Public defecation by baseball writers. What in God's name are
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  Speaker 1: you doing? Seriously? You elected the dirty, rotten scoundrel Carlos
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  Speaker 1: Beltron to Cooperstown. The BBWAA has pulled out the megaphone
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  Speaker 1: and they've announced to every man, woman and child. They
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  Speaker 1: have announced that cheating is okay. It is acceptable, provided
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  Speaker 1: it's the right kind of cheating, and it's done by
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  Speaker 1: the right guy. Because we liked him. We liked him,
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  Speaker 1: so we're gonna put him in the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: Beltron was not some kind of innocent bystander. He wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just an eyewitness to what took place in Houston. That
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  Speaker 1: the single greatest cheating scan in modern sports, the twenty
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  Speaker 1: seventeen scumbags. Okay, a trash can burlesque show, it's what
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  Speaker 1: it was. And he was the adult in the room.
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  Speaker 1: Beltron was the seasoned veteran and all that stuff. He
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  Speaker 1: was a ringleader, a ringleader from the den in iniquity.
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  Speaker 1: That's where Beltron was right there. The guy was might
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  Speaker 1: as well been banging the drum. Literally while the integrity,
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  Speaker 1: the integrity of the sport was stuffed into a locker.
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  Speaker 1: They locked it, and that locker had a hunk of metal,
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  Speaker 1: just a piece of metal. According to the Commissioner of
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  Speaker 1: Baseball there, rob Manfreud, that's it. Welcome to the hall,
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  Speaker 1: the baseball riders said, my fat ass, Welcome to the hall.
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  Speaker 1: And meanwhile, you've got players along the lines of Barry
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  Speaker 1: Bonds and Rocket Roger Clemens and Alex Rodriguez and Manny
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  Speaker 1: Ramirez who's now off the ballot, who's now off the ballot?
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  Speaker 1: All those guys remain locked outside the halls, right. Their
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  Speaker 1: noses are pressed up against the glass there, and they're
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  Speaker 1: treated like contaminated bio hazards because they cheated. Okay, you
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  Speaker 1: just let a cheater in, dummy, You just let a
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  Speaker 1: cheater in, moron, you let him in the writers now
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  Speaker 1: because you know they they're so on top of holy mountain, right,
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  Speaker 1: they put a moat around the Hall of Fame, filled
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  Speaker 1: it with crocodiles. When any steroid guy they don't like,
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  Speaker 1: I should say, gets in, I don't like them. They
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  Speaker 1: of course, they rolled out the red carpet here for
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  Speaker 1: electronic espionage. Can anyone make it make sense? Can they?
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  Speaker 1: I mean to me, this isn't morality. This is again
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  Speaker 1: selective outrage. It's the Hall of hypocrisy. It's the Hall
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  Speaker 1: of hypocrisy. And steroid gays. Now they were already in
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  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. I guess steroid guys in the
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame already. Now you've gone next level and say,
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  Speaker 1: not only that, but we're going to allow the cheating
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  Speaker 1: a holes to get in. Right, big poppy David Ortiz
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  Speaker 1: comes to mind, right, look up that list from back
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  Speaker 1: in the day. He didn't pass the test, according to
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  Speaker 1: the Internet, and that's what I read. So now you
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  Speaker 1: have a certified bonafide cheater, cheater, Carlos Beltron who joins
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  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, class, and so spare us the
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  Speaker 1: think peace sermons. I can already tell you that they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna say, oh, well, this is a healing moment.
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  Speaker 3: No it's not.
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  Speaker 1: You've just soiled the Hall of Fame. You have, You've
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  Speaker 1: just done it. Congratulations, it's over. It's as meaningful as
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  Speaker 1: the pro bouncy ball Hall of Fame with Muffett McGraw
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  Speaker 1: and Russian coaches you've never heard of. Done the same
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  Speaker 1: to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Congratulations. So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: You've exposed the Hall for what it is. The Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame a dusty museum about four hours from New
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  Speaker 1: York City, and it's run by the gatekeepers there with
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  Speaker 1: crooked measuring sticks and selective amnesia. And the badge reads
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. The fine print rule right below that,
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  Speaker 1: the fine prince says, rules applied differently. Rules applied differently,
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  Speaker 1: is what it says there Now. Meanwhile, continuing the train
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  Speaker 1: of thought, so the other member of the Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame is also bizarre. It's a different kind of bizarre.
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  Speaker 1: This has become the new normal now in baseball. So
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  Speaker 1: former Atlanta bravestar Andrew Jones with a with a weird
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  Speaker 1: spelling of Andrew. But Andrew Jones, who was on the
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  Speaker 1: ninth of ten possible appearances on the Hall of Fame
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  Speaker 1: about meaning the previous eight years he was eligible ball
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame he didn't get in. So on year
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  Speaker 1: nine out of ten, the Hall of Fame ballot came
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  Speaker 1: back and all of a sudden, he had picked up
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  Speaker 1: an extra seventy plus votes for the Hall of Fame,
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  Speaker 1: and so he got the required threshold he got to
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  Speaker 1: get over seventy five percent. Andrew Jones got seventy eight
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  Speaker 1: point four he needed seventy five, So he's in question
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  Speaker 1: for the Esteem panel. What changed? What do you think
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  Speaker 1: changed for Andrew Jones to pick up the extra seventy
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  Speaker 1: two votes needed to get into Cooper's town. So the
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  Speaker 1: answer is capitol En nothing, capitol En, nothing changed. The
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  Speaker 1: man's in his late forties. He made a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: He's not hit any more home runs I checked, no
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  Speaker 1: more gold gloves added to his baseball reference page. More
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  Speaker 1: likely than not, Andrew Jones is sitting around eating cinnabun
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  Speaker 1: and watching YouTube videos on how to put better when
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  Speaker 1: he's out golfing. So he went from seven percent when
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  Speaker 1: he first popped up on the ballot Andrew Jones seven
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  Speaker 1: percent of the electorate to seventy eight over seventy eight percent.
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  Speaker 1: That is not growth that involved. That should be investigation.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get let's get an investigation. I think this thing
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  Speaker 1: was rigged. What's going on here? All right? That's the
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  Speaker 1: dollar menu Hall of Fame. And this is when you
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  Speaker 1: think about the cheater, Carlos Beltron on the Hall of Fame,
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  Speaker 1: and then you put Andrew Jones in, who had seven
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  Speaker 1: percent of the vote. That is a one way ticket
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  Speaker 1: on Spirit airlines to crazy Town. Congratulations, baseball scribes, did
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  Speaker 1: we do mail in ballots? Can we check the verification
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  Speaker 1: on that ballot harvesting? Was there any of that going
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  Speaker 1: on for Andrew Jones to get in the Hall of Fame?
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  Speaker 1: Somebody checked the truck of the cars in the back
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  Speaker 1: of that pickup truck. There's got to be boxes of
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  Speaker 1: ballots for the Hall of Fame, all right? And it
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  Speaker 1: makes the baseball scribes and there're a holes anyway. Most
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  Speaker 1: of these guys. I have some friends that are baseball, right,
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  Speaker 1: A lot of them are just schmucks. They're all really
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  Speaker 1: little people, and some of them wear bow ties and
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  Speaker 1: they think they're like God's gift to baseball, and you
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  Speaker 1: obviously are not. You voted a cheater in and a
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  Speaker 1: guy that had seven percent of the vote all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden gets in the Hall of Fame. This just
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  Speaker 1: looks so ridiculous, so ridiculous. Hall of Fame is a
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  Speaker 1: pass fail situation. It's kind of like you're either pregnant
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  Speaker 1: or you're not pregnant. You know, there's not a gray area.
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  Speaker 1: There's like that, only there's a gray area. They're either
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  Speaker 1: gonna have you're pregnant or you're not pregnant. And there's
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  Speaker 1: no almost right, there's no almost, It's not fifty shades
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  Speaker 1: of gray. And yet here we sit on this sad
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  Speaker 1: day for baseball and really depressing day. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: was hoping to go to the Hall of Fame some day.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think i'll go now. I think I will
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  Speaker 1: avoid it. I actually was driving one time. I was
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  Speaker 1: driving through Central I was running from Buffalo down to
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  Speaker 1: New York City, and I was like, well, I could
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  Speaker 1: go to the Hall of Fame. This is many years ago.
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  Speaker 1: It's so far off the beaten path out in the
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  Speaker 1: woods that it would have taken an extra two hours
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  Speaker 1: and really four hours because I had to go back
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  Speaker 1: the other way, and I go some of it, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't really want to go. I mean, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: put a cheater in. There's why do I need to go.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need to go. You can go for me.
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  Speaker 1: You can go for me. You talk about lowering the
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  Speaker 1: ball the bar right, lowering the bar like doing the limbo?
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  Speaker 1: How low can you go? And all that stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: this is continue Andrew Jones gets in, But you had
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  Speaker 1: Scottie Rowland in recent years, Billy Wagner and now Andrew Jones,
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  Speaker 1: and people are so clueless on why this is bad.
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  Speaker 1: I've always said, oh, I know you're gonna rip the
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, and you don't understand. This is the
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  Speaker 1: feedback I get from you idiots. This is the feedback
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  Speaker 1: I get from you idiots. Let me explain, all right,
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  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame to have legitimacy, this is my
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  Speaker 1: my take on this. The Hall of Fame to be
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  Speaker 1: legitimate should be exclusive. You have to have standards, you
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  Speaker 1: have to have stand If everyone gets in the Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame, it's just it's just a big venue with
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  Speaker 1: nice lighting. It's nothing special. It's just another random museum thing.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing special about it. You lower the standards by
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  Speaker 1: putting Billy Wagner, Scott Rowland and now Andrew Jones in
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  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. You lower the standards. You don't
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  Speaker 1: honor more players. It's not being inclusive, all right, which
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  Speaker 1: was the big word a few years ago. It's not
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  Speaker 1: about that. If everyone is getting it right, it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: again honor more players. What it does is it cheapens
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  Speaker 1: the ones who earned it legitimately. And that's what you've done.
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  Speaker 1: You cheapened the Hall of Fame for Babe Ruth and
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  Speaker 1: Willie Mays and all the other greats, all the other greats.
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  Speaker 1: You've cheapened it with what you've done. Congratulations, help You're
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  Speaker 1: proud of yourself. You lose your baseball writers, Good job
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  Speaker 1: by you, all right now. The other part of this
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  Speaker 1: a developing story as tensions being ratcheted up involving the
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  Speaker 1: sport of baseball. The owners are said to be quote
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  Speaker 1: raging in the wake of Kyle Tucker's record break in
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  Speaker 1: contract with the Dodgers in average annual value as he
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  Speaker 1: gets sixty million dollars a year and behind a paywall
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  Speaker 1: on the Athletic. They're reporting it is one hundred percent
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  Speaker 1: a certainty, one percent of certainty that the owners will
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  Speaker 1: have a salarycap. Now, my former radio partner actually did
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  Speaker 1: some shows with this guy when I worked at EEI
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  Speaker 1: years ago. Evan Drelich, who's a base he's a scribe
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  Speaker 1: at the Athletic and he covers the business of sports,
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  Speaker 1: and he wrote that major League Baseball is going to
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  Speaker 1: go for a cap no matter what it takes, according
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  Speaker 1: to his source. So question, should major League Baseball owners
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  Speaker 1: be ranging for a salary cap? So I look at
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  Speaker 1: this one cross eyed. I look at this one cross eyed,
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  Speaker 1: and another one of these things that I can't figure out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not that bright. That's why I'm doing the overnight show.
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  Speaker 1: It does. I don't understand why poverty fans are out
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  Speaker 1: there acting like billion air of boot lickers. It blows
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  Speaker 1: me away. Can you explain to me why you're a
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  Speaker 1: billionaire boot licker? I'd like to know. I'll give out
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  Speaker 1: the number in a minute. It's a cold war and
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  Speaker 1: the regular joes are the guys working in factory driving
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  Speaker 1: a truck right working their ass off, and they're carrying
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  Speaker 1: the water for the aristocrats like what are you doing Like,
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  Speaker 1: it's a total shell game. It's trickeration and they're laughing
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  Speaker 1: at you and you're playing along. These billionaires have convinced
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  Speaker 1: the regular guy, the schmo, the person with the lunch pail,
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  Speaker 1: the hard hat, that crowd that the outfielder getting the
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  Speaker 1: big contract is the reason that your tickets are expensive
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  Speaker 1: and you're paying twenty two dollars for nachos in a
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  Speaker 1: plastic bowl. Yeah, it's again the billionaire boot licking thing.
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  Speaker 1: You've convinced that these are blue collar people doing this.
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  Speaker 1: It's the ultimate con, is what it is. It's the
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  Speaker 1: ultimate con. You've got the fans carrying the water for
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  Speaker 1: guys who own private islands.
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  Speaker 3: We really need.
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  Speaker 1: To help these people out. We really need to make
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  Speaker 1: sure they keep more of their money. It's very important.
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  Speaker 1: And the other thing is, like all these teams. Owning
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  Speaker 1: a Major League Baseball team, you own it because you
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  Speaker 1: want to go to social events in the Hamptons and
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  Speaker 1: Beverly Hills in South Beach and hang out with other
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  Speaker 1: a holes that will ask you, oh like to own
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  Speaker 1: your team and all that stuff. So that's why you
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  Speaker 1: buy a team. It's also a license to print money.
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  Speaker 1: It is, and you never ever sell a team for
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  Speaker 1: less money. The Tampa Bay Race who suck financially. Everyone
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: says they suck financially. They played a minor league ballpark
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: last year as a hurricane ripped the roof off their stadium.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: They just fetched one point seven billion. Okay, there's a
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: conga line. Do the conga a conga line of these
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: robber barons who are waiting to buy these professional sports teams,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: even baseball. Why passive income? That's why it's great passive income.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: It's a it's a geyser that never runs dry. The
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball ball pie twelve billion dollars. That's a
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: big pie. Twelve that's a big a pizza pie, twelve
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: billion dollars. So if you do the Malord math on it,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: as I understand it, this Maler math. So if you
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: cap and say, well, we've got to divide the revenue,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: twelve billion is the pie. So that would mean if
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: you spread the butter on the bread all over and
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: you do the math on that, that would mean that
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: each team has to have a two hundred million dollars
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: payroll because it would be six billion if my math
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: is correct. So okay, you think the pirates want to
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: go for that. There's other issues here where you you
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have the money giving teams giving it, like the
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: pirates and the a's who aren't trying to win you
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: embarrassing franchises like to add the marlins, so they don't
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: want that. It's a cold war, is what it is.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: And the owners want fans to be their infantry. And
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: it sounds to me like many of dump many of
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the dumb people are going along with this, like you're
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: you're falling, you're drinking for the the kool aid and
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: the cry poor, you know, they cry poor. So the
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: owners are the ones that are crying poor. Here the
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: actual people that are like not poor, poor, but you know,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: not naked as much as these people. The owners are
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: crying poverty, and they're collecting giant amount of the small
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: market teams. The teams aren't trying get checks from the
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Dodgers and the Mets and the teams that are actually trying.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: And it's the equivalent. I guess the analogy would be
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: like if you're starving and you're at a restaurant and
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: you're like, I'm going to vote and I'm gonna give
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: the steak back the Porterhouse steak. I'm gonna give that
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: back to the restaurant owner because even though I'm really
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: hungry and I'm starving, I want them to have it.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I just they don't need it. You know, they have
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: plenty of stak, but I want them to have it.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: But I'm starving. I just think they should have it.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: It's comical. Please stop advocating, all right, Stop advocating for
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the house to win. The house always wins, The House
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: always wins.
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• 22:34
  Speaker 1: comment away our lead this hour from the Trading Post.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: We have a deal. We have a deal in baseball.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: So what is it? Who cares? That makes money? So
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: we've learned that the New York Metropolitans have added center
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: fielder Louise Robert Junior from the Chicago White Sox. Who
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: what Louise Robert Junior. That doesn't make it, That doesn't
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: make it tingle? No, okay, the Mets will send outfielder
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Louise Angel Akuna. Yes he is related to his the
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: brothers siblings, the guy for the Braves that always gets hurt,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: and a minor league pitcher you've never heard of. They
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: go from the Mets to the White Sox and the
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Truman Show. There you go. So the Pope's favorite team
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: gets a couple of scratcher takes. Now immediately the reaction
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: has been what over the top? As only the Met
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: fan can do, only the Met fan can do. There's
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: immediately the Met fans, some of them are hyping up
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Luise Robert Jr. He's the great Cuban missile and just
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: what the roster needs, just what the roster needs, and
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: perfect addition to the Mets lineup. Shouting from the heavens,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: we have gotten our man. It's like he's got that
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Broadway aura. They, of course, keep in mind the same
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: people that are saying this, the same people that are
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: barking this out. These are casual baseball fans, and they
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: when the trade was announced, they went, who is that?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: What's that guy's name? That's what That was their first reaction.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: And then they said, well, he's him in record time, right,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: They just they google him. They google this guy once
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: and they're like, all right, let's build a statue. Come
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: on now, right next to mister Matt We'll build a
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: statue right there and Ralph Kiner. So that is a
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question the
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Mets trading for White Sox outfielder Luis Robert Jr. Does
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: this count as a blockbuster trade? No, I've got Nordstrom rack,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: corporate retreat, and where's Waldo and we will combine all
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: of these things together, one, two, three and ABC. So
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: number one I said number one, one more time. Number
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: This is not a blockbuster in the traditional sense that
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: we use in the lexicon of sports radio. It is
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: not and we know this. You know this, and you're smart.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I'm smart. So this is a blockbuster video in twenty
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: twenty six. That's the kind of blockbuster. This is the
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: empty shelves, dusty DVD cases and that please that little
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: sticker that used to slap on there, please be kind
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: and rewind. You know that thing there? That's it. That's
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: what this is. Once upon a time, in a land
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: far far ago, you had Luis Robert Jr. Who got
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: MVP votes. He was considered a luxury brand. Think of
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: it like if it was a watch, he would have
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: been a rolex with the white sox. He just broke out.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Was amazing and almost forty home runs, drove in a
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: bunch of runs. He was great. At this point in
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the story, We're at the point in the story where
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Luis Robert j You're is like a scratched fit bit
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: sitting in the clearance bin at the Nordstrom rack. That's
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: where he is right now, red tag final sale as
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: is no returns there you go. Keep in mind, the
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Mets wanted Kyle Tucker. They thought they were gonna get
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker. Instead, the Mets are now convincing themselves the
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: front office that the broken dreams of this guy Robert
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: they got from the White Sox. They just needed a
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: new zip code. Give him a new zip code. Everything.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Change of scenery, classic change of scenery, rebirth story arc
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: at Sportscasting Clown College. So there is that, and it's
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: kind of like the house plan is dying on your window. Still,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: You've got a right on the windows kind of dying there,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: and so we'll just move it a little over to
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: the right and then it'll be good. So let's talk
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: about geography. You want to talk about geography. Oh, it's
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: a sports radio show. We don't care about geography. So
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: the Mets play in Queens, the Borough of Queens, more
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: specifically Flushing, which could not be more appropriate, could not
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: be more appropriate. That's not branding. That is baseball destiny.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: That is baseball destiny. Careers don't blossom there, they don't.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: They don't blossom there, and they go down the porcelain
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: is where they go right, do the old swirly swirl
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: right there, swirl swirl and then you know where that
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: ends up right right around the ball and disappears into
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: the East River. And then someone goes and catches a
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: fish and the fish is in well, you know what
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: happens anyway. So the Mets, what do they need pitching?
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: You gotta get pitching. You gotta get pitching, you gotta
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: get and do the Mets have that. No, Instead, they're well,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: we didn't get talkers, so let's go out and get
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: some gold. Of course, it's it's fool's gold, is what
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: it is, right, And so of course many people, oh,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: it's great, wonderful, not exactly the championship kind of move
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: when you're looking for the career renaissance. Good luck. It's
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: a flyer. It's a flyer that the Mets are playing.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: They're paying this guy twenty million. I spent the flyer
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: twenty million dollars. I read the Mets are paying this guy.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: So the Mets are playing the runner up ribbon game,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: as are twenty nine other teams, because all of you
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: have told me it's all over. There's no need to
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: play this season. The Dodgers are gonna win the World Series.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: There's no chance they don't win the World Series. They're
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: gonna win the World Series. So twenty nine other teams
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: are playing for the silver medal. The Dodgers have already
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: wrapped up the gold medal. The Mets are one of
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: those teams. But you look at the Mets. They have
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: a history of lies and promises that were never met
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: and hope that's always on layaway. That's the Mets, That's
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the Metway, same song, years have changed, different kind of disappointment.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, we head to pro bouncy ball, where the Parisian
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: prodigy making some headlines. Here Spurs star Victor wembon Yama.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Victor Omanyama said this week, I want name of the
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: All Star team and all that. I want a big
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: face of the new age of the NBA, he said, quote.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I want to push the great players of this sport
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: to play in the All Star Game just as hard
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: as I will. Wemby stated, We'll see how it goes,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: but if they don't play hard, I'll do it without them.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Close quote it's Victor Webber Nama. Here's the question, what
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: are the chances just between us, what are the chances
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: that Wemby, the San Antonio Spurs star Wemby helps make
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: the All Star Game great again by actually hustling? So
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: the odds malar odds on this. We spent about thirty
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: seconds deliberating the available information on the NBA All Star Game,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: and the odds say squad Douche gets an S for
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Squad Douche. Good luck on that. This is adorable though
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: it is right, how naive you can be and think
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: that this is all going to work out for It's
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: kind of like a kid shown up to a poker
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: game with a bunch of Monopoly money in a rule book.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: It's like, you might want to sit this one out,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: you know. I'm just saying so. Wemby says he's gonna
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: play hard. He's gonna play hard. And the other stars,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: of course, they don't like that, right, and he says
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: if they don't pay attention, he'll just do it alone.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: And that's what he's gonna do. It's terrific, very noble
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: of wem ban Yama to say that he's also showing
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the world he's absolutely clueless, absolutely clueless. Why this Just
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: in to the Ben mal Show on Fox Sports Radio,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: the NBA All Star Game is not broken. People think
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: it's broken. It's not broken. It is working exactly as
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: it is designed to work. They keep futzing around with
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: the format, but it's working the way they want it
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: to work. When I say they, I'm talking about the
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: people that are on the court. It is a corporate
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: retreat with sneakers. That's what the NBA All Star Game is.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: A corporate retreat in sneakers. It is a showroom. It
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: is a handshake, grab ass convention with a basketball problem. Right.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: The problem is they're supposed to play in the All
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Star Game. They don't want to play in the All
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Star Game. And years ago, with no one asking, the
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: players of the NBA were so soft. How soft were they?
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: They were so soft, these players that they voted with
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: their feet wildcat style, wildcat strike style, and their effort
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: or the lack of effort in the NBA All Star Game.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: They stop caring and we stop caring, all right, so
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: nobody cares. That's the NBA All Star Game. No defense,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: no diving for loose balls, no sweat stains. Some of
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: these guys in the Also Game. They don't even need
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: to take showers after the game because they don't put
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: no effort into the All Star Game. It's all about
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: positive vibes and all that, you know, and the social
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: media selfies and you know, put on the gram and
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: TikTok and the occasion we just every once in a while,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: the uncontested circus dunk. Uh, that's just to keep the
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: sponsors from panicking, just to keep them from panicking and
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. So every few years, and this just
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: happens to be Wemby, But every few years in all
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: these sports, there's a young buck that comes along, that
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: shows up like a fire breathing dragon, and listen, I'm
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: gonna play. I gotta earn my money, i gotta sing
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: for my supper, and I'm gonna play hard even though
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: it's the All Star Game. And inevitably what happens is
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: tap tap, They'll get the tap on the shoulder. Hey
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: hey kid, we'd like to talk to you. What is it? Yeah,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: so you know you're making us look bad here. It's
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: a it's a marathon, not a wind sprint the All
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Star Game. Save save the energy, save the calories. Nobody's
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: getting paid extra for caring. No one's getting extra money
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: for hustling.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: So there you go. So listen, Wembley. Wemby can play hard.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Good for him, But the revolution changing the All Star Game,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: making it great again is not going to happen here,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: and just not. So that's how the NBA hot Dogs
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: are made. Good luck, I recall when I was covering
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: baseball years ago before the Dodgers became good, when they sucked,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: and I was doing the Dodger programming in another life,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: and there was a guy on the team that they
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: called up from Triple A Albuquerque Albuquerque Dukes. And this
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: guy was hustling and running wild and young, young outfielder,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: and he got the talk and he was taught about
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: the what they call it the big league jog. It's
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: still a thing in baseball where you hit a ball
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: that's almost guaranteed to be an out and you don't hustle.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: This guy would hustle, and he would make the other
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: guys look bad because they were lazy. They were lazy,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: so he got the talk. The veteran player said, listen,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: making us look bad. Here, come on, like, what are
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: you doing all right? Now? Final point to Buffalo. Here
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: we go, Buffalo Bill's mafia going through these seven stages
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: of grief after they lost in Denver and then lost
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: their head. And I read an interesting story here. I
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: saw this or not. The Bill's organization on the leaders
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: had a pow wow. Was Sean McDermott, the former coach,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: and McDermott pointed out. According to the story, McDermott pointed
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: out the many flaws in the Buffalo Bill's roster that
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: were preventing the team from reaching the promised land. So,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: according to the reporting breathless reporting, the GM mister Bean
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: and Terry Pegoula, the owner, were not happy. They were
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: upset with McDermott and they got annoyed that he was
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: complaining about the way the roster was built there in
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Western New York. So the question for you, and I'm
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: gonna answer this first, but here's the question. Former coach
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Sean McDermott pointing out that the Bill's roster was not
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: up to standard, it was a bit broken and being rejected,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: rejected by ownership. How do you decode this particular report.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: So let's use the Malar decoder ring on this one.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: We're also going to open up the MiB. So not
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: only are we using the Mallard Dakota ring, We're gonna
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: open up the MiB. Now that's not men in Black,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: that's the Malor Investigative Bureau, so you can investigate. So
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: this leak out of Buffalo and it smells, it smells
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: like some rotting chicken wings from the anchor, bar and
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: grill that were left outside to rot. Is what it sounds.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: It smells like that. Yeah yeah, So this is another
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: one to the low information fan, to the casual fan.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: They see this headline and it makes the bills look
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: like villains twirling their mustaches. You know, the classic cartoon
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: villain twirling the mustache. That's what it looks like if
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: you just look at the way the story was reported.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Oh no, my coach, who I love you? What better players?
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: And the mean owners said no, no, no, no, you
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: don't get better players. And how's my acting on? That? Was?
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: All right? Not bad, not bad, not bad thing. I'll
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: be here all week anyway. If you don't like, it's
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: an overnight If you liked it, I'll be here all week.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: If you don't like, it's an overnight show. So chill out, dude,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: it's wrong with you. Go have a beer, all right anyway,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: So let's be level headed on this one. I'm gonna
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: be level headed. Uh, I'm gonna play the parlor game.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: What do you say? You and I are gonna play
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: the parlor game. So the parlor game works like this,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: who not? Who done it?
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Who leaked it?
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: We always ask two questions, why leak it now? And
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: who does the leak benefit? And so I've done that
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: and activating the Malard Investigative Bureau. This one is child's play.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: This is easy. This is like beginner level. This is
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: an entry level question. I'm gonna ask my students. It is.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: It's child's way. It sure as hell wasn't the Buffalo
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Bill's ownership. Can we all agree on that? You're nodding
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: your head, Yes, it wasn't the Bill's ownership, because this
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: makes them look like a bunch of country bumpkins. You
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: can't handle the truth. Now, if you follow the cookie
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: crumbs from Felexus in Buffalo and Bill's monster, if you
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: follow and also inca tear. If you follow the cookie crumbs,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: they lead right to the Sean McDermott Caucus. Is where
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: they lead. And this is a where's Waldough situation? So
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: where's Waldo situation? Now? What do I mean by that?
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Everyone and their uncle they're looking at the roster. And meanwhile, Waldo,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: if you look for Waldo, were in a headset saying, hey,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: hey I didn't choke. I didn't choke in those big games.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: My toys were broken. This is what's called reputation laundering
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: by the Sean McDermott group, the people that are invested
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  Speaker 1: in McDermott getting another head coaching job. It is public
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  Speaker 1: relations scented candle, like like light the candle, you'll change
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  Speaker 1: the smell in the room and all that stuff. Flip
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  Speaker 1: the script, right, you flip the script. Sean McDermott goes
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  Speaker 1: from playoff underachiever to misunderstood martyr. He had. Oh it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't his fault. He knew they needed better players and
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  Speaker 1: they didn't get him better players. Of course that's a
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: loser's attitude, right, You complain about the the ingredients, the
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  Speaker 1: tools you have, and you'll figure it out, all right,
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: you figure it out. That's the way you're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: do it. And it's also a day get it. It's
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  Speaker 1: a tell buffalo brass. We obviously didn't leak it again,
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  Speaker 1: no chance this was leaked intentionally because Sean McDermott would
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  Speaker 1: like to get the Raider job or the Browns job,
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  Speaker 1: one of these other jobs that is open. So simpon
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  Speaker 1: you have playing the tug at the heartstrings. Symphony Symphony, Symphony.
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  Speaker 1: I can't say the word. There you go the uh,
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  Speaker 1: trying to get public favor if you will, that sells.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to court a public opinion and all this.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
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  Speaker 1: Here We're going, It's We're gone to the third degree.
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  Speaker 1: This is one big Ben gets gral cool.
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  Speaker 5: In his ten games with the Seahawks, Rashid Shahed has
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  Speaker 5: returned to kickoff for a touchdown three times now summer
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  Speaker 5: crediting Shahied with changing Seattle season. Ben is the trade
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  Speaker 5: for Shahied the best deadline deal since the forty nine
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  Speaker 5: ers dealt for McCaffrey.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, he didn't change their season. They were
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  Speaker 1: having a good year. That what changed their season is
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Puka Nakula went on a podcast and ripped the NFL
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: officials or a live stream in the NFL officials violated
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  Speaker 1: the rule book and helped Seattle out in that game
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  Speaker 1: on that Thursday night. That helped a lot more than
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  Speaker 1: anything else but the playoff game against the Night. They
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  Speaker 1: could have had Doug Baldwin out there or Tyler Lockett
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: and they would have won that game the way the
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  Speaker 1: forty nine ers played, it's been a good trade. Let's
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  Speaker 1: not get crazy, though, Come on place Next.
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  Speaker 5: There's been a call for full time reps for years now,
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: but former VP of Officiating Mike Pereira might be the
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: most prominent person calling for that. Peira said in before
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: the divisional round that the seventeen referees who lead each
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: of the officiating crews should be full time employees. Ben,
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: with that and all the controversy over the weekend, do
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: you think the NFL finally takes a shot at this.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: No, Because the NFL loves controversy, it wouldn't end the controversy.
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  Speaker 1: Baseball has full time umpires, People still wrap up umpires.
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  Speaker 1: NBA has got full time officials. How often does Scott
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Foster get ripped in the NBA? Doesn't change it. The
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  Speaker 1: issue is the subjective nature of the calls. That's never
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: going to change. The NFL likes it that way.
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: Next, these Charlotte Hornets are eleven games under five hundred,
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: but analyst Brian Winhorse believes that they would beat the
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  Speaker 5: Lakers in a series.
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  Speaker 3: Ben, if the Lakers you that bad, well, if.
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  Speaker 1: Brian wind Horse said it, the Hornets have They did
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  Speaker 1: play well against the Lakers this year, but now in
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: a seven game series, it would be different. I would
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: like to think they would beat the Hornets. Otherwise, JJ
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, feeling feeling good? Are you ready to answer some
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Yes, Ferg Dog writes and he says, hey, Lo Raina.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Do women buy dude wipes or are they fine with
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: single ply toilet paper. Great question.
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  Speaker 7: I think wet wipes have been around for a long time.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Now these are dude wipes, so this is a better product,
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  Speaker 1: right right?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I think the dude branding is to get you
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  Speaker 7: guys to want.
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  Speaker 1: To use They're special. There's something mad. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: where it is, but in my opinion, it's magical. Well.
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  Speaker 7: I did buy a whole bunch of dude wipes here
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  Speaker 7: a couple months back. I did, I did, and I
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  Speaker 7: tight Shirt stole all of them.
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  Speaker 3: Oh is that right?
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Yes? I like that. You added him on the air.
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  Speaker 1: Does he work here anymore? I never see him?
• 42:42
  Speaker 7: I don't know. I think it's Mary all the time.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, the vegan Alex, the vegan kaus of got
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  Speaker 1: in a relationship. Oh is that why? I think so?
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: So they're not allowed to work. He's in a related
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: What kind of weird you should ask him? None of
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  Speaker 1: my business. I just I never see him. I used
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  Speaker 1: to see him all the time. Like what happened?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: All right? Next up, Mike the lepregaunt says, is it
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  Speaker 1: a red flag when on a first date you discover
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  Speaker 1: that your very good looking date has already had three divorces.
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  Speaker 7: No, I think you should be really thankful that she's
• 43:17
  Speaker 7: gotten rid of those husbands so that she could be
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  Speaker 7: on this date with you. You should be thankful and
• 43:21
  Speaker 7: not hold her past against her.
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  Speaker 6: Huh.
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  Speaker 1: Probably, I say we all get one mulligan. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know though, maybe even two, but three.
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  Speaker 7: I think Jlo's on what six?
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  Speaker 1: And she Yeah, she's a nut job. She's a nut job.
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  Speaker 1: Comes back? Well, yeah, because I d even went back
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: three times. She's got money and all that, but she's
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure she's talented in some areas, but
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: come on now, no, you you got one or two,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: but once you get to three, that's you're in the
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: danger zone at that point.
• 43:50
  Speaker 7: Maybe she's a hopeless romantic or.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Or what she's a whacker doodle? How about that?
• 43:57
  Speaker 7: Maybe she's a oh what's that called? You should find
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  Speaker 7: out for X husbands are dead. That's what you should
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  Speaker 7: worry about.
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  Speaker 1: There you go poisoned? Yes, yeah, okay, I have your problem. Yeah.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Danny is in Toronto on the phones. He has a question.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Hello Danny, welcome, Hello Ben. Hello.
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  Speaker 6: So here's here's my question for Lorena, And this is
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: a genuine question. This is honest here. So I dated
• 44:26
  Speaker 6: a girl for three months this summer. So imagine you
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: were dating a guy for three months and everything was perfect.
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: He checks all the boxes. He's handsome, he's got a
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: great sense of humor.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: You guys have ever had paycheck? Uh huh? Yeah?
• 44:42
  Speaker 7: Keep going?
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  Speaker 3: What's up?
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: Sounds like you didn't keep going?
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: Uh huh?
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: But but hurry upset.
• 44:50
  Speaker 6: Everything's perfect and then you find out he gets cold sores?
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: Are you in?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: Okay, so pre existing? Can I believe? Yes?
• 45:01
  Speaker 7: Yes, you know a lot of people have cold soares
• 45:04
  Speaker 7: aka herpes. They have it in their face, and we didn't.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Doctor Drew say that pretty much like I think.
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  Speaker 7: I think eighty percent of the people people.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Don't even know they haven't.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, so you know, just watch for outbreaks, and if
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  Speaker 7: you really like the person, you should just make sure
• 45:17
  Speaker 7: you're protecting yourself or just.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Enjoy some private time with yourself. What do you want
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: me to do? All right? Thank you, Danny? All right?
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Man alive? All right? What else do we have?
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: Bob?
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  Speaker 1: Question Bobby? Yeah, wonderful question, Bobby, and Florida says, is
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: anything that gives every woman the ick factor? Besides being
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: a leprechaun.
• 45:37
  Speaker 7: Being overly like on top of that person like stop.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Stop space j The women says, when in a relationship,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: should you start traveling by.
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  Speaker 7: Plane as soon as you want to go on a
• 45:48
  Speaker 7: date somewhere?
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: That's not that's more than a date, Lorrange, No, I
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: used to do that.
• 45:52
  Speaker 7: All the time, especially if you're a long distance I'll
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  Speaker 7: meet you anywhere, baby.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: Let's go about that one.
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• 46:05
  Speaker 2: and the password is password, you idiot, password the word
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  Speaker 2: Game of the Stars.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Ben Meler. All right, let's do it. Password time.
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  Speaker 1: We welcome in our contestants for password. We know I
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  Speaker 1: got to see here. Manuel and Gardena is going to
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  Speaker 1: be one and Soca Hello, Manuel, welcome.
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  Speaker 3: Manny Bong Ribs, what's please?
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  Speaker 1: And my man? We Man good to hear from you.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: And who would you like to be partnered up with?
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  Speaker 1: Manuel and Guardina? You all right? We're in it to
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  Speaker 1: win it? Okay, very good. We're gonna be one of
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: the teams. And Lorena pick between two and six. Pick
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: a number between two and six.
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  Speaker 7: Darn, let's go with two.
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  Speaker 1: Really sure about that?
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  Speaker 7: Six?
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Okay? Six? Okay? Six? It is he talked you out it?
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  Speaker 2: Two?
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Well you picked Chris in Boston. Hello, Chris, welcome, good morning,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: How are you? Good morning, sir, welcome to the show.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Who would you like to partner up with? There, Chris Cooper?
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Don't seem very confident. I wouldn't be confident either.
• 47:08
  Speaker 7: A the better choice, though, for sure.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know about that.
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: About that not lately. Let's play the game. We have
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: a list of words one to ten and Manuel you
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: were on the air first, so please pick a number
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  Speaker 1: number number the oho. Al right, here we go. Let's
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: see you. Let's go with and I could do the
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  Speaker 1: malar maneuver on this right, I could. Right, let's see
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: if you can all right, uh, potted soil?
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: What?
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: No?
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: Go ahead?
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  Speaker 5: Cool?
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: Are you on the right word?
• 47:49
  Speaker 7: Are we looking at the same word?
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Well, I just grabbed this out of the printer, he said, Oh,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: I thought, he says, okay, all right, all right, all right,
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: I screwed that up. Go ahead there there you're screwed.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Then you're screwed, then.
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: Yours, Chris. Let's go with courageous.
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  Speaker 2: Great, yeah, there we go.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: It was easy. Come on, please, all right, I gave
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: you that one. I spotted you. But go ahead there
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: picking number Chris.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go in honor of Marcello.
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  Speaker 1: Number two. Wow, it's a shot. Yeah, good luck, coop.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: Number two.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: That's what you said.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: Okay, let's go with uh foliage.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, all right, U man, Well let's go with
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: U container.
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  Speaker 3: What are you in the right number again?
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: Maybe all right, Chris, I'm gonna do the valor of Duba.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: I don't do the mall of maneuver. Don't do that.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: Hurry up, potted.
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: Toil.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: No, alright up flower and well.
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  Speaker 7: Oh quickly.
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  Speaker 6: Wait no, no, no, we're out.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: We're out of time.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: It's the word.
• 49:14
  Speaker 6: Was the word.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: It was bland play. That was my that was my
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: partner that got that win, the winner, kicking down. I
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: didn't win anything, you know. It's a for Gayzy list.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: It's for Gayze. This list, my god,