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  Speaker 1: we do from the bully pulpit.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we stand on the bully pulpit and we look
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  Speaker 3: down on the sporting world from the peak and we
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  Speaker 3: spit loogis at you. But where are we gonna be?
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  Speaker 3: You know, you know where I'm gonna begin, right?
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  Speaker 1: Is there any question where I'm going to be in
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  Speaker 1: the Come on, Yes, We're going to start out in
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  Speaker 1: the land of the dere We'll start out in Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 1: It was oening night of the National League Championship Series
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  Speaker 1: in the American League is already played two games, although
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  Speaker 1: really just Seattle's played two games. The Bluejays really haven't
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  Speaker 1: played one, but more on that later, but we'll start
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  Speaker 1: with the National League. That was the late game, David
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  Speaker 1: versus Goliath. That's the building, the build up, David versus Goliath,
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  Speaker 1: and unlike the Bible game, one went to Goliath. So
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers Brinks truck pulled up there with all that
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  Speaker 1: money and moo la, moo la, moo lah, the big
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  Speaker 1: Blue and Green wrecking crew, the Green from the Money,
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  Speaker 1: the show. Hey Otani, Dodgers drove into Milwaukee. I think
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  Speaker 1: o Tany was driving the Brinks truck there. It'll playdate
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  Speaker 1: with the brew crew, the ragtag upstart. Don't belong here,
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers. Where are you watching?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: There was other stuff going on. We had two football games.
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  Speaker 1: It was good night if you like just sitting on
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  Speaker 1: your ass and getting hemorrhoids flipping around. So perhaps not
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  Speaker 1: Blake Snell. Yes, that Blake Snell. We don't like him.
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  Speaker 1: Blake Snell allowed one base runner in eight eight shutout innings,
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  Speaker 1: and the La bullpen leaked a lot of fluid.
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  Speaker 3: There was a lot of fluid at.
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  Speaker 1: The crime scene, and by the skin on their chinny
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  Speaker 1: chin chin, the Dodgers barely hold off and they open
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  Speaker 1: up the NLCS with a two to one win over
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  Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Baseball team. Snell struck out not one, not two,
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  Speaker 1: not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven,
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  Speaker 1: not eight, not nine.
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  Speaker 3: Ten, ten, He walked none.
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  Speaker 1: Ten, I got no walks, and the game still was
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  Speaker 1: in the balance as it was too nothing LA. They
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  Speaker 1: got an insurance run late, and then in the ninth,
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the ninth the Brewers scored a run off.
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  Speaker 1: What I was told by Roberto the bus driver, and
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  Speaker 1: my friend already is big Dodger fan. I said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: this Roki Sazaki unhitable. This guy is so good, he's amazing. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't in this game, and he didn't even make
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  Speaker 1: it out of the inning. Sazaki was touched up and
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  Speaker 1: the bases were loaded. Blake Trining came in in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of all that, and the Brewers bases loaded. Bryce
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  Speaker 1: Terrain at the plate to end the game and.
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  Speaker 3: Saw wing saw Wing Bara. He struck out.
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  Speaker 1: So Game two, quick turnaround, Game two, best of seven,
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  Speaker 1: Best of seven. NLCS will be right back at it
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday night. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on on the mound for
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. He's good against Freddie Peralta, he's also good
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  Speaker 1: a couple of all stars. That is the pitching match
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  Speaker 1: up there. But the better story is in the losing
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  Speaker 1: locker room. So that is where we are going to go.
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  Speaker 1: And let us discuss the question for the esteem panel
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  Speaker 1: who is most responsible for Pat Murphy's Brewers losing game
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  Speaker 1: number one of the NLCS. So my thoughts, I've got
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  Speaker 1: military grade body armor, meat ball surgery, and pigeon and
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to make some.
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  Speaker 3: Delicious cheese curds, because.
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  Speaker 1: Even when the Brewers don't play well, the cheese curds
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  Speaker 1: taste delicious, absolutely delicious. So my first thought on this,
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  Speaker 1: what a gut punch for the brewkery. Now, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I would like to see the Dodgers win, but I
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  Speaker 1: have course, I'm a neutral observer from the bully pulpit here.
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  Speaker 3: But the story here, as we.
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  Speaker 1: Spin the Wisconsin cheese wheel of regret, and there's lots
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  Speaker 1: of regret to go around, it's yes, round and round,
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  Speaker 1: the cheese will goes round and round and round. Amstop,
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  Speaker 1: big chase, Big Chase. It's easy to sit here and
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  Speaker 1: just do the lazy things. Oh, you know, let's just
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  Speaker 1: tip the old cheesehead cap to Blake Snell if you're
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers and said, wow, he went full snell Zilla
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  Speaker 1: his cheesy nickname, and shoved it down your throat. He
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  Speaker 1: shoved it down your throat. It's easy to say that
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  Speaker 1: that's the lazy river approach. We don't do lazy. Other
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  Speaker 1: people do lazy. We're not doing lazy. We're not good,
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  Speaker 1: but we're not lazy.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And so, as a talk show host looking at this objectively,
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  Speaker 1: we know the story for Milwaukee is way uglier.
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  Speaker 3: Then just say, man, Blake Snow was great. That's it.
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  Speaker 3: You know what wonderful? What if I told you the
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  Speaker 3: Milwaukee Brewers in Game one of the National League Championship
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  Speaker 3: Series actually executed their game plan to a t. They
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  Speaker 3: did well, they lost the game. What are you an idiot?
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  Speaker 4: You're moron.
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  Speaker 3: That's why you're on overnights. Shot up. You lose there.
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  Speaker 3: Let me explain, I mean, let me explain.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So the whole plan for the Bruis, they knew
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  Speaker 1: they were not going to get to Blake Snow. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they would have liked to have not been as a
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  Speaker 1: knemic as they were but the plan was much like
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  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Filis and everyone that plays the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 3: You want it close and get to the bullpen late.
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  Speaker 3: You want a close game, get to the bullpen late.
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  Speaker 3: Have an opportunity against the bullpen. So the Brewers, they
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  Speaker 3: didn't get blown out.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't seven to nothing going to the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the night, didning It was a two run game. It
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  Speaker 1: should have been a one run game. But it was
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  Speaker 1: a two run game going to the ninth bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the night. So they did what they wanted. They got
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  Speaker 1: into the bullpen. Close game. They dragged this thing into
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  Speaker 1: the suck bag Dodger bullpen. You realized when Dave Roberts
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  Speaker 1: when he goes to the bullpen, now I know these
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  Speaker 1: are not really his decisions, and the nerds decide who
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  Speaker 1: pitches and who doesn't pitch it. But Dave Roberts, when
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  Speaker 1: you go to the bullpen, they call to the bullpen. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: It's like he's reaching into a bucket with dark water
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  Speaker 1: and it's filled with piranhas and razor blades, handed blindfolded.
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  Speaker 1: That's the call to the bullpen for the Dodgers. And
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  Speaker 1: this is exactly where the Brewers wanted to be. They
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  Speaker 1: had the game where they wanted to be, and they
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  Speaker 1: still blow it. That Brewers still blow it. Milwaukee actually
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  Speaker 1: had the Dodgers right where they wanted them again. They
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  Speaker 1: had the tying run on third the winning run on
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  Speaker 1: second base, bottom of the ninth inning. The crowd's going bananas,
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  Speaker 1: and what happens the moment too big? Yeah, you screwed
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  Speaker 1: the thing up at the end there, bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: ninth and now the bases were lowered by this point.
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  Speaker 1: The very wobbly, the very very wide. You know that
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  Speaker 1: wobbly table. You can go to a restaurant sometimes the
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  Speaker 1: table's kind of wobbley. Doesn't that suck?
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  Speaker 3: God? That's it? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Can I change tables? The tables? What Blake trining is
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  Speaker 1: the wobbley table. So he comes in on the mound
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  Speaker 1: and he throws it on just a bit inside, just
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Is a pitch that literally had a
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  Speaker 1: bullseye on bryce terrain of the Brewers. It would have
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  Speaker 1: either hit him in the knee or the lower leg.
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  Speaker 1: The ball was about to give the man a tattoo
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  Speaker 1: in front of thousands of people in Wisconsin, right there
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  Speaker 1: on the leg and free run batted in tie game,
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  Speaker 1: and even if you don't score another run the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the game, it's all slopped from the Dodger bullpen
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  Speaker 1: and those guys blow. You would have had an advantage.
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  Speaker 1: It would have been the chaos situation. And instead Bryce
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  Speaker 1: Terrain gets on a pogo stick and jumps out of
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  Speaker 1: the way and it's like he's in dodgeball in Jim class.
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  Speaker 3: He gets out of the way there and that was it.
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  Speaker 3: That was it.
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  Speaker 1: One pitch later, good afternoon, good evening, and good night,
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  Speaker 1: strike three, swinging body. He also swung on a pitch
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  Speaker 1: out of the strike zone. So that is it. The Brewers,
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  Speaker 1: who were given a gift the Dodgers wanted to give
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  Speaker 1: them that game. They did not want that game. They
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  Speaker 1: did not want that game to dodge. They said, we
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  Speaker 1: want you to have the game Milwaukee. The door was
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  Speaker 1: WI open, I wide open. And instead instead of charging
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  Speaker 1: through it like some beer soaked dudes that smell like
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  Speaker 1: broughtwurst right there in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 3: What happened?
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  Speaker 1: They politely step back. They said, listen, we know our
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  Speaker 1: place in the baseball universe. We don't want the game.
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  Speaker 1: You take the game.
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  Speaker 3: And the doctor said, okay, we wanted to give it you,
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  Speaker 3: but you don't want it, Okay, we'll take it. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: And Pat Murphy's scouting report for game number two is
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  Speaker 1: pretty simple.
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  Speaker 3: Here that it needs the need for the Brewers.
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  Speaker 1: You have the whiteboard in the clubhouse where they talk
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  Speaker 1: about points of emphasis and all that stuff. So if
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  Speaker 1: the bases are loaded and the ball's coming at you,
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  Speaker 1: wear it. I am to wear it like you're at
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  Speaker 1: fashion Week in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 3: Wear it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you're not made out of glass. You're not going
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  Speaker 1: to shatter if you get hit by a pitch. Do
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  Speaker 1: not flinch, Do not flinch. Take one for the team.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I recommend that you imagine yourself as a
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  Speaker 1: human pinata.
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  Speaker 3: And what they need to go and.
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  Speaker 1: Do is get some military grade body armor, slap the
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  Speaker 1: Brewer's logo on it, and pass it out to everyone
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  Speaker 1: that goes up the home plate. That's how the underdog
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  Speaker 1: team gets it done, a team that does not have
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  Speaker 1: the firepower. Just don't flinch, don't flinch. Take one for
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  Speaker 1: the team. And legendary playoff moments don't come from hopping
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  Speaker 1: like you're on a pogo stick.
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  Speaker 4: Away.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to look like a scared Kangaroo with
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  Speaker 1: ossiwas in Western Australia. Now the man of the hour
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  Speaker 1: that could have should have tied the game and the
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  Speaker 1: night we'd still be playing right now. Bryce Terrang said, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's it's nature that took its course.
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  Speaker 3: Take aless, you know, it's it sucks.
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  Speaker 5: It is, it is what it is.
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  Speaker 3: It is what it is.
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  Speaker 5: Natural reaction to kind of get out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a lot.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, there's nothing I could do. I can't go back.
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  Speaker 5: And then I was looking up at the top of
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  Speaker 5: the zone for the sinker sweeper that he's thrown and
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  Speaker 5: he threw meineforcing took off. So yeah, it.
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  Speaker 3: Is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is what it is. You sucked any time
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  Speaker 1: you cannot suck. Okay, I know you can't go back
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  Speaker 1: and do it. But our job is to critic you.
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  Speaker 1: We're the critic. We are in the upper balcony and
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  Speaker 1: we are right now throwing paper planes that we're shooting
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  Speaker 1: them down your direction. Meanwhile, as for the Dawyers who
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  Speaker 1: tried to give the game away but still won, it
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  Speaker 1: is all about Blake Snell.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Brewers manager Pat Murphy said of that performance by
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  Speaker 1: Blake Snell. It was the most dominant performance he's seen.
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  Speaker 3: He's been in.
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee for like a decade, I believe close to it,
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  Speaker 1: if not a decade, not all his manager, but his
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  Speaker 1: coach and whatnot. Freddie Freeman was licking the toes of
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  Speaker 1: Blake Snell. He said it was a masterpiece. So the
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  Speaker 1: question is, how do you quantify the dominant performance in
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  Speaker 1: game number one of the LCS by Blake Snell of
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  Speaker 1: the Doyers. So this is peak twenty twenty five Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: if you want to a preview, a glimpse the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: in a nutshell game one of the NLCS. It was
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  Speaker 1: smooth jazz, keeping your jazz commercial free right there, right
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  Speaker 1: for eight innings, and then heavy metal, heavy.
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  Speaker 3: Metal wash pit in the ninth fitting.
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  Speaker 1: It was a white knuckle, teeth grinding, no fingernails left,
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  Speaker 1: hold on for dear life situation. It was a roller
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  Speaker 1: coaster ride. The big Blue wrecking crew almost wrecked the
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  Speaker 1: entire game right there. And they're many nights where you're
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  Speaker 1: watching what I'm told you about the all time great teams.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, this roster's amazing, and you're watching through
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  Speaker 1: your fingers, right, you're watching through your fingers like this,
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, oh my god, this is like a horror.
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  Speaker 3: Movie, is what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: But Blake Snell was surgical. It doesn't mean we like him,
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  Speaker 1: but he was surgical.
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  Speaker 3: Was good.
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  Speaker 1: Picasso in Spikes and all that continues to be a
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  Speaker 1: mortal enemy of this show. We remember. We have very
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  Speaker 1: good memories here. The timeless quotes. We were on the
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  Speaker 1: air during the pandemic back in twenty twenty. I had
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  Speaker 1: players I got mine, Bro, well he got his, and Bro,
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  Speaker 1: I'm risking my life.
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  Speaker 2: Bro.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think he's okay. Might have died a
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  Speaker 1: couple times on the mount, but he survived. So it's
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  Speaker 1: very nice that Blake can miss three months of work.
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  Speaker 3: Bro, I'm risking my life.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, Bro, three months sabbatical during the season while
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  Speaker 1: everyone else is playing. And I was selling the great
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  Speaker 1: Mike harmon my colleague here at Fox Sports. Ready, we
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  Speaker 1: were discussing the thinking about the Dodgers is it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like you don't even pay attention. They're ruining the
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  Speaker 1: regular season, like the NBA players have ruined the regular
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  Speaker 1: season in pro bouncy ball, Like we don't even pay
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  Speaker 1: attention to the NBA regular season because the players don't
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  Speaker 1: really care. The Dodgers don't really care about the regular season. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they won all these games.
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  Speaker 3: There were twelve games under where the expectation was the
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  Speaker 3: gambling market, and they had guys that could have pitched,
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  Speaker 3: but they just wanted to be cautious, sounded up bundan
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  Speaker 3: of caution and all that. They didn't really take it
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  Speaker 3: that seriously.
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  Speaker 1: And yet here we are there, seven wins away from
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  Speaker 1: winning another World Series. And so I guess the lesson
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  Speaker 1: is it we should not pay much attention at all
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  Speaker 1: to regular season baseball. But again back to play stell.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're gonna skip three months, right, three months, fine,
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  Speaker 1: you better be like a Bond villain in October. And
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  Speaker 1: he has been, and Snow was out there. He was
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  Speaker 1: a surgeon, as we said, The Brewers were the patient there,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a little meatball surgery. The scalpel was
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  Speaker 1: very sharp, very very sharp.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 1: Now we would have left Blake Snell, and I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what are you saving him for. He's just gonna miss
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  Speaker 1: four months of next season anyway, so you might as
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  Speaker 1: well pitch him to a one hundred and twenty pitches.
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  Speaker 1: He threw one hundred and three. It's the playoffs, and
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  Speaker 1: that was his.
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  Speaker 3: Night, right, This is the way I was talking about.
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  Speaker 1: In modern baseball, you can't have your night fully because
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  Speaker 1: because of the analytics and all that stuff. But this
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  Speaker 1: was his night. And Dave Roberts goes to the bullpen.
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  Speaker 1: It's not really a strategy when the Dodgers go to
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  Speaker 1: the bullpen. It is playing a Russian roulette. But there
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  Speaker 1: are five bullets in the chamber. So that's not a
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  Speaker 1: great The odds aren't really in your favor there. The
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  Speaker 1: odds aren't great for you when you're playing that way.
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  Speaker 1: Roki Sazaki, who had been nails right y'all, told me, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this guy's amazing, And well, let's just say he wasn't exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Mariano Rivera in Game one of.
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  Speaker 1: The National League Championship Series, so had a hit, he
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  Speaker 1: gave up a couple of walks, base runners panic in
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  Speaker 1: the streets, and so that's October. It's not supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be easy, they tell us. All right, so you've got
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  Speaker 1: that soft underbelot and any team that wins a championship,
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  Speaker 1: the same thing applies. You have to overcome your kryptonite
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  Speaker 1: for the Dodgers. It continues to be their bullpen and
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  Speaker 1: exposed nerves yet again for the Dodgers, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people that like the team have ulcers watching the
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: team play. They survive and so they advance. All right, now,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: last word, and this is something that people aren't really
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: talking about. You know, the LA media soft one guy.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: I've been in LA a long time. This one guy
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: in LA media.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: That had balls. He's dead.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: TJ Simers, everyone else is a total fanboy in the
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: LA media. So what is your level of concern for
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: the obviously slumping show?
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: Hey, Oltani, what is your level of good?
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: So now we don't particularly care what his dominance was
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: in the regular season, right, we just mentioned the Dodgers
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: in the regular season. It's just kind of a it's
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: more of a nuisance than anything, the way they approach
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: the regular season.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: And Otani was great.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: He's most likely going to win another MVP and the
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: fifty five home runs, the double Nickels for home runs,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: and three MVP trophies that he's collected. There, I'm sure,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: I sure as hell don't care about the seven hundred
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: million dollars country. All of that is prologued, it does
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: not matter here right now in this mammy shoe, Haltani
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: is say it with me now, non factor. He's a
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: non factor for the Dodger and they're still winning.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: They're still winning.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: The guy's batting a buck thirty three, which I think
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: is a highway somewhere. A buck thirty three in October,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: buck thirty three for Otani in October. And you're supposed
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: to be the man, and that's what you're doing in
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: the face of the sport and all that. Right now,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: he's not, you know, he's he's a birdy. He's a
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: stool pitching, is what he is. He's a decoy in
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: the postseason right now, Otani is a decoy. He didn't
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: play well in the World Series last year, not playing
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: well this year, and teams are still walking him out
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: of an abundance of respect because of his aura. They're
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: still walking show Haltoni's reputation precedes him and all that.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: But when they actually pitched to Otani, there's a hole
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: in his swing. In fact, I went back and I looked,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I watched on the on the rebroadcast of the clips online,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: and the hole in Otani's swing is actually the size
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: of a school bus that Roberto the bus drive could
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: drive through.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: It's that big a hole, pretty big, pretty big hole there.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: He looks lost in some of these at bats. Didn't
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: if you watch the game or maybe a blind heard it,
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: but he just looked lost.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: And it's not the Otani that we see from April
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: until September. This is different Otani. And because the Dodgers
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: are winning, he looks mortal, right, he looks mortal, but
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: they're winning, and if they stumble, they lose game two here,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: or you lose a couple of games.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: The story becomes a def con one for the talk.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Shows, and you've already got people say, well, what's going
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: on here?
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Like Otani's not like one thirty three. The broadcasters they.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Give him a bubble bath, they give him the manny
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: and the petty on the TV broadcast, they love him
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: and playoff baseball exposing those wards.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: He's very similar to Barry Bonds.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: A lot of home runs, and Bonds was a not
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: known for being very good in the postseason, and he's
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: getting that October treatment here where there's a lot of
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: intentional walks, there's nibbling around the zone and and the
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Dodgers keep winning, and so this is on the back burner.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I would be clear, this is on the back burner here.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: But the malar level of concern, which is the only
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: measurement that matters, the mallor level of concern, is we're
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: at a medium right now in the stove. We're not
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: going all the way up to full burn. We're at
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: a medium there, and we will at a moment's notice
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: go full blown panic, full blown panic when the Dodgers
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: start losing some of these games because of Tani's not
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: hitting a one thirty three batting average, and we're three rounds,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: one game into the third round, but we're three rounds
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: into the playoffs there, and the conversation will flip from
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: generational superstar to the ghost of October.
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  Speaker 1: if you're on hold on the app out the baseball.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: As the Mariners are up two to ozho on Toronto
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: and the Dodgers barely get by the Milwaukee Brewers in
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Game one of the NLCS. And if the Mariners and
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Dodgers play in the World Series, uh, the entire sports media,
• 23:09
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• 23:13
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• 23:14
  Speaker 3: You I don't want to watch that. Who wants to
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: watch the Burners and the Dodgers of the world.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Of course they're gonna complain. If Toronto's in there, they're
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: gonna complain. If Milwaukee's in it.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: They're gonna complain. Oh, this is so bad, all right?
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Anyway to the football twin Bill on a Monday night,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: You've got Troy Aikman and Joe Buck.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: They were doing the Fox Refugees. We're doing the game
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: on ABC.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: They were there in the Brew Dob Bears, Dob Bears,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: fresh off the bye week, trying to snap out of
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: that hibernation. The Chicago Bears team against the squad formerly
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: known as the Redskins right there they were the match
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: up there and Caleb Williams and Dob Bears get the
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: better of Jaden Daniels.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: If you did not see the game, as they take
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: down the Commanders on.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: The final play as time ran out, Chicago defeating Washington
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: by one point twenty five twenty four on a thirty
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: eight yard field goal by kicker Jake Moody. Yes, the
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: same Jake Moody who was fired by the forty nine Ers,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: the same Jake Moody who was at loggerheads with his
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: teammates on the sidelines because he missed so many kicks
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: in a forty nine er uniform. Well, he makes the
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: game winner, as he was the interim kicker there for
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: the team from Chicago, the Chicago Bears, paced by DeAndre Swift,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: he ran for one hundred and eight yards on just
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: fourteen carries.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: I'm told that's pretty good. I'm told that's pretty good.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: And also grabbed a pair of receptions for sixty seven yards,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: including a fifty five yard catch and run yak and
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: e yack yards after the catch there for a touchdown
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: against a very sloppy Washington defense poor tackling. There by
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: that defensive units of the Bears are over five hundred.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Don't tell anybody, but the Chicago Bears are over five hundred.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: At three and two, They're coming off their bye week,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: and they've now extended their winning streak to not one,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: not two, but three aps in a row. So the
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Bears have won three straight under Ben Johnson. But the
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: better story is in the losing locker room. So that
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: is where we will begin, and the question what went wrong?
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: What went wrong for Jaden Daniels and the Washington football team?
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: And I've got Bart Simpson, Hollywood Squares, and Will Smith
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: and we'll combine all of these things together and make
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: the Baba Ganoosh.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: We're gonna make the Baba Ganoosh is what we're gonna make.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: So to kick off here, this was a night to
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: absolutely forget for Jadeen Daniels, the Prodigy, the breakout star
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty four NFL season, not just Jaden Daniels,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: but the Commanders in general. Jayden Daniels is the headliner
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: and all that. And my word, and it's a conjoined word,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: but my word for this night, for Jaden Daniels and
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: the Commanders is self inflicted. Self inflicted is the term
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I will use here most games. As a rule, we
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: have several truisms, if you will, several of the points
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: that are part of the ethos of the show. Better
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: stories in the losing locker room and most games are lost,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: not one. These two things are related. You see the
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: better stories in losing locker room because most of the
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: time somebody eft up to cost their team the game.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: This is a great example of it. This is exhibit
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: exhibit to exhibit A. If you will exhibit A on this.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: You don't need a Zibruder film style frame by frame
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: breakdown to figure it out. Jade and Daniels, I know
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Halloween's a few weeks away here, we're in the middle
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: of October, so but Jane Daniels picked up his Halloween
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: costume a little early. He decided he wanted to be
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Bart Simpson, and he said, you know, when you're.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Bart Simpson, you got to hand out candy, and I'm
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: gonna hand out butterfinger and he used his butterfingers to
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: give the game to the team from Chicago.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Daniels out there in the rain, rainy night and auditioning
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: for the remake. I don't know if this is still
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: in the air the America's Funniest Home Videos that used
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: to be a think back of the day but is
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: still on. Really, but it must be America's Funniest Cell
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Phone Videos exactly that they had no home video, but
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: he had Jaden Daniels one interception, he had two fumbles,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: lost one of the two fumbles in the game. Also,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: his running back Jakobe Krosky Merritt also fumbled on his own.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: So those three.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Hairballs coughed off by the Washington football team gift wrapped
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: thirteen points. Thirteen points for Eugene in Chicago's Bears. As
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: they get it done now, they might as well have
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: left the Amazon package on the porch and then Washington
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: just invites Caleb Williams to come over there and come
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: pick it up. Before the porch pirates get it and
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: he picked up the packages. I like the package. That's
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: a good package. And here's the thing, Chicago wasn't even
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: that shark like. This was not the most aesthetically pleasing matchup.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: It was not ian.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Chicago had nine penalty I think we're over eighty yards
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: in penalties.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: They were begging, begging.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Washington to put the game away, but Washington said, na, nah,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: you know we can't have it.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: We want you.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Very similar to the end of that Dodger Brewers game
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: in the NLCS where the Dodgers tried to give the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: game away and the Brewers, like Pogo sticked out of
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the batter's box and said, we don't want the game.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: And the same thing here, the magic carpar It was
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: a magic carberk. We all agree on that it was
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: a magic carpet ride. Last season NFC title game. And
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: there's some turbulence going on now, right there's some turbulence.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: This is not a team that looks like a playoff
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: team right now, just based on what we saw here recently.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: They did beat the Chargers, the beaten and broken Chargers
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: in the previous game, but if you look at Dan
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Quinn medicine Man's Washington Commanders. One week they are the
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Grandfather clock ticking perfectly, and the next week they're busted
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: in in a pawn shop. And it goes back and forth,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: it goes back and forth. And then on the other side,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the Bears, they come out of the bye week, they're
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: feeling all good about themselves, right, they win their third
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Strade game.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: And we were.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Goofing on Ben Johnson earlier in the year, some turbulence
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: to begin the seasons, behind the scenes, drama, O rama,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: and now he's like, wow, he could be the coach
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: of the month, you know, why not? Coach of the month?
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: All excited. So the Bears feeling good about themselves, Washington.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Not so much. Outside of that, we go out to Detroit.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Follow up, follow up.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: To fisticus postgame fallout from the Monday Night Haymakers scene
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: around the football world, the NFL has decided to punish
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Lions safety Brian Branch.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Did you hear about this? Yes? You did? Okay?
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Brian Branch maybe not, has been suspended suspended for one game,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: one game he will miss without pay for unsportsmanlike conduct
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: after he decided to get physical with Chiefs wide receiver
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster. That set off a Johnny Brook post
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: game as they were showing on NBC. So the question,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: give me your reaction to the Lions safety Brian Branch
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: being suspended for his postgame haymaker to someone wearing a
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: helmet by the way in ju Ju Smith Shuster, So
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: this is all about the island. It's all about the
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: island us. Everybody's watching these island games. You cannot run,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: you cannot hide. They're gonna get you. Bad boys, bad boys,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: They're gonna get you. I he can't pretend that nobody
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: saw it. It wasn't the early TV window when there
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: were seven other games going on.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: This was a game, standalone game.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: And look, I know there's some I got some feedback
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: from some of our guys in Michigan who are like,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: they'd like the Lions.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: I'm like, well, you're not getting the whole story.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Ear Now we figure things out, and some of those
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: line guys are crying, they're complaining. Well, but Juju Smith
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Schuster shoved mister Branch in the back during the game,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: and that's what he was upset about, and that's why
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: he became combative postgame. And my response to that is
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: two words.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Who cares?
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Uh, This isn't recess, It's the National Football League. And
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: you swing on someone and after the final whistle the referees.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: Are leaving the field like this is.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Games overright, Calm down everything, you're in the postgame scrum.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Second.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: The old days, we'd laugh about this, But the modern NFL,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: this is corporate NFL. This is the bureaucracy of football,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: modern NFL. If you do that, and Brian Branch did
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: it to the Lions, you're handing the NFL a hammer,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: a massive hammer, and you're telling Roger Goodell in the NFL.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: You're saying, please hit me, hit me right in the nose,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: right in the schnozzle, right between the eyes, hit me
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: with the hammer. Hit me with the hammer. That's what
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: you're saying, right, you're saying that. And so the NFL obliged.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: They said, okay, we'll hit you in the face with
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: the hammer. Now, this is not Branch's first rodeo.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: It is not.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: It's not his first dance here. He's been through this before.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: He's got a little bit of a rap sheet. Not
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: he's not the all time greatest villain in the NFL.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: But he's gotten some issues here. So the league loves
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: to pretend that they're all about sportsmanship. They love that
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: the optics of the Island games very important here, the
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: sportsmanship optics, especially in these primetime games.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: And so this is like the Hollywood Squares.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: If you play in one of these games on the
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: NFL calendar, you are in the center square, even a
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: safety for the Detroit Lions. And Sunday Night you had Royalty,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: had Taylor Swift, the First Lady of America, you had
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark, the Second Lady of America. They were in
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: the house, everyone's watching, everyone's checking it out right there, right,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: and then you do something stupid, and that's going to
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: cost this guy some real money. Now there's a chance
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: the NFL vacates the suspension and just finds him a
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: game check and allows him to play or something like that.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: But that is, if he does miss the Lions next game,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Brian Branch will lose seventy six thousand, six hundred and
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: twenty four dollars for that punch. Have you ever wanted
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: to punch someone enough where you'd be willing to give
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: up seventy thousand dollars of your money?
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Because he did.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: And this isn't about sending a message. It's childish. Even
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Branch agrees with that. I thought me saying that. That's
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: mister Branch of the Lions. He said in himself postgame
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: he said it was childish. I mean that when a
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: guy had mins it in the locker room like that,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: there's not a lot of debate.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: He said it was childish. It was childish, and he's.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Absolutely cooked cooked in his appeal Dan Campbell. Now, the
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: franchise charter, as I understand it with the Detroit Lions
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: is go out there and bite kneecaps, play tough, but
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: you've got to be disciplined. Okay, So instead this is
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: more wwe like, it's more along those lines. That's what
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: this is.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Last thing, dubb Pittsburg. We we go Pittsburgh, PA. Where Steelers
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: coach Mike Tomlin open league question the Browns and general
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: manager Andrew Berry for the decision to decide mid season.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: You know what Joe flaccoh eh, we don't need Joe Flacco.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: And they traded into the Bengals. And so the Steelers
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: beat the Cleveland Browns on Sunday being pretty good, all right,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: and So Mike Tomlin at his newser on Monday, the
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: issue of now going against Joe Flack of the Steelers
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: and Bengals play on Thursday Night football.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Hey, here's what Mike Tomlin had a said. Five. It's
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: interesting one to have you hear it. Here's Tomlin in
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: his own words.
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  Speaker 7: You know, to be honest, it was shocking to me.
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  Speaker 7: Andrew Berry must be a lot smarter than me or us,
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: because it doesn't make sense to me to trade a
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: quarterback that you think enough of to make your opening
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: day starter to a division opponent that's hurting in that area.
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: But that's just my personal feeling.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, short and sweet from Mike Tomlin.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: So again, those comments coming day after the Steelers mollywop
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: the Browns and their rookie quarterback Dyllan Gabriel, a two
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: touchdown win for the team that loves Iron City Beer,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: and just a couple of days before the Bengals will
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: take on the Steelers here that game in Cincinnati. Tickets
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: are available on Thursday night. So the question, what did
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: you make of Mike Tomlin calling out calling out the
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: general manager Andrew Berry for trading Joe Flacco in the division.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: So my rear. I loved it. I thought it was
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: obviously I brought it up on the show. I liked it.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: I would don't bring this stuff up. I don't like
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: I have this other stuff I ignore because it doesn't interest me.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: I thought this was great.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Because Tomlin is not exactly known for just blurting out criticism.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: He's a great sound by.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Tomlin's one of my favorite people in sports to listen
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: to because he speaks not in cliches. He gives you
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: something fresh, even if it's a cliche wrapped in a different,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: different group of words.
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  Speaker 3: And I appreciate that.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: And so this is not some passive, aggressive, oh gollie
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: g coach speak that we get from almost all of
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: these guys. No, this was straight right across the jaw.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: That was a straight right right across the jaw kaboom,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: kind of like Brian Branch And so I thought it
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: was God. He used the name, he used his name,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: he said his name, say my name, he said his name,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: he said the name, he said the GM's name. That's personal,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: that is personal. It is It's very rare. This is
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: a special treat. We don't normally get this. Normally we
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: get is off the record comments where you know so
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: and so said a person high up in the Pittsburgh
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Steelers Like this could have been reported that way.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: Tomlin could have told one of his beat reporters.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, I don't understand why this happened, and then
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: the reporter would have said, according to a source close
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: to the Steelers, they're upset that so and so Joe
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Flacco was traded to Cincinnati. But no, Tomlin just he
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: came on and said it. He said, listen, we're all
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: in the same division. And he's like he walked into
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: the AFC North Family Diner and he flipped the table
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: over like a scene out of a comedy, and he
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: flipped the table right over there, and he said, Hey, Liz,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: what the hell are you doing? What's wrong with you
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: calling out the Browns like a guy calling his neighbor
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: an idiot for leaving the keys in his ignition, Like
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: what are you doing here?
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: And you know you don't just hand a.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Team that's broken like Cincinnati, a division rival, a quarterback
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: not keeping Mike Tomlin's He's saying the quiet part out loud, right,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: we know that. But this is a classic Pittsburgh Ginser
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: type stuff from tom because the Steelers they kick your
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: ass on Sunday, that was a domination situation. Then Monday
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: comes around and now Mike Tomlin planted a terrible towel
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: right on the front of the lawn and he put
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: one also. He sent it to the Cleveland brown facility
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: even though they're not playing the Browns again right away,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: and they kicked Cleveland's ass. Dylan Gabriel not very good,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: playing like he was out there in the innermurals and
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: not doing well at the rec center, the rookie quarterback
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: for the Browns, and tom was like, hey, and one
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: more thing, by the way, boom, let me pour a
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: little salt in the wound.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: And he did.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: So that was essentially Mike Tomlin. He was doing some
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: cosplay as Will Smith. Remember that famous scene that the
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: oscars a few years ago when he walks up and
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: in this case, he walked up to Andrew Barry. Of
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: course we have the microphone.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: Tomlin walks up and you know, slap him right across
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: the face and he walked away, had the mic still
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: in his hand, just walked away and that was it.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Now to play Devil's Advocate. While we loved what Tomlin
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: had to say, we totally get why the Bengals did
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: what they did because they the Bengals needed a quarterback.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: From the Browns perspective, though it made sense also to us.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: And so I will play devil's advocate and try.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: To give a little bit of at a boy to
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: Andrew Berry, because what I had heard was Cleveland was
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: planning on releasing Joe flacko that once they made the
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: decision to get off Joe Flacco and they were going
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: to go with Dylan Gabriel and they've got Shdera.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Sanders's like, okay, we're gonna get rid of this guy.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Flacco's done, they were done with him. And so in
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: this case, they're like, well, we got a ham sandwich.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: We don't really like ham sandwich, but we got a
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: ham HOGI for this guy.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: And we were not even going to get that.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Because we're just going to put him on waivers, and
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: so we got something instead of nothing.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: It's not a great sandwich, but we'll take it. And
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: all this stuff.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: The optics are are pretty bad, I'll agree, the optics
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: are not great.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: Right. The training your former.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Number one quarterback Joe in the division to a desperate
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: division rival who lost their quarterback for the season in
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow in mid October earlier than that does not
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: look great, rights, that's Factory of Sadness Vintage.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: One oh one right there. But meanwhile, Tomlin's in the
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: corner there and he's just sipping Iron City beer and
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: he's sharpening the blade, Mike Tomlin and getting ready for
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: that Thursday night game in Cincinnati.
• 41:19
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• 41:21
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• 41:24
  Speaker 3: Here we go, Here we go, Here we gore? How
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: about that?
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: To the third degree, This is one gets great.
• 41:35
  Speaker 8: The Seattle Seahawks knocked off the previously foign one Jacksonville Jaguars,
• 41:39
  Speaker 8: and Sam Donald is looking better each week.
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: With his new team.
• 41:42
  Speaker 8: Then do you think it's safe to say that Donald's
• 41:44
  Speaker 8: resurgent with the Vikings last year wasn't they fluke?
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: No, it is not, because the thing he did with
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: the Vikings is at the end of the year he
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: rode the vomit comet and so yeah, he's playing well,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: I'll give him that right now. The real measuring stick, though,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: for Sam Donald, the acid test is late season games.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Late season games when you lost a couple of offensive linemen, Like,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: he's fine if everything's perfect. When things aren't perfect, he collapses,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: And so I don't trust him. He's playing well, I'll
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: give him that right now, but I still don't trust him.
• 42:12
  Speaker 8: Next, So, the Tampa Bay Bucks have been hit with
• 42:14
  Speaker 8: a number of injuries to playmakers this season, but that
• 42:16
  Speaker 8: hasn't stopped them from going five and one to start
• 42:19
  Speaker 8: the year. Now, Ben, they have the best record in
• 42:20
  Speaker 8: the NFC, But are they the best team?
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Well, we do the show. What do we say, Coop today?
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Is we got to worry about today right now? Yeah,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: you'd have to say the Buccaneers are playing better than
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: anyone else in the NFC. Do I think that'll be
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: the case by the time we get to the playoffs
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: in January? No, But we do the show today and
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: right now they're playing very well, and they got a
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: bunch of guys out and they're not bitching about it.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: They're going out and playing ball and they're they're winning.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: So and we've done a one to eighty on Baker Mayfield.
• 42:49
  Speaker 8: Next, with the Ravens falling to one and five on
• 42:51
  Speaker 8: the season, at what point do you think the team
• 42:53
  Speaker 8: should consider shutting Lamar Jackson down never you never know.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: It's the NF This is not the NBA, this is
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: not Major League Baseball.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: No, you don't.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: I hate that. I can't stand shut it down. I
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: can't stand it.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: The trade deadline is coming up in a couple of weeks.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: We'll see if the Ravens start unloading players.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: But I no, don't. If he wants to play an
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: these healthy playing, how do we do? Way? I want again?
• 43:15
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• 43:40
  Speaker 2: what it takes to get to the top?
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: Probably not, that's sure. Here we go. Time now for
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: Malors Mountain of Money. And let's welcome in our contestants.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: And who do we have?
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: This is page down. Let's say hello to d J,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: who's in Anchorage, Alaska. Hello DJ, welcome, good.
• 44:03
  Speaker 9: Evening, Ben, thanks for having me.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: On man, all right, good to have you. What are
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: you doing Anchorage, DJ?
• 44:09
  Speaker 9: I liv an Anchorage for my jobs. I got a
• 44:11
  Speaker 9: two week on, two week off job on the north
• 44:13
  Speaker 9: part of the state with an oil and gas company.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: You're rolling in the money man, making the big bunny, right, yeah,
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: but someday probably right, I guess, so I don't know.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, hold on, you're gonna play the game. DJ.
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: Who do you want to partner up with me? Ben? Coop?
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: Or if you really want to have some fun Lorena?
• 44:29
  Speaker 9: She got the best voice in Late Night Lorena. But also,
• 44:32
  Speaker 9: no disrespect to you, mister Ben mollershot caller. I'm gonna
• 44:35
  Speaker 9: go Coop.
• 44:36
  Speaker 8: Yeah right right, he knows he gives the superior clue loser.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: Let's go to Mac in Washington. Who's gonna play? Hello
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: Macady Mack, Welcome Mac? Oh Ben, what's going on? Buddy?
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: You ready to play?
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: Sure?
• 44:53
  Speaker 8: I'll give it a shot.
• 44:54
  Speaker 9: I'm looking forward to it.
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: All right. What are you doing? Washington? I have a
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: landscape property manager since late in nineteen ninety eight.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, so a long time twenty seven years. All right,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: let's do it. Here we go and quickly, Coop?
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: What are the categories? Please?
• 45:11
  Speaker 8: All right, gentlemen, this is Malard's Mountain of money Usher. Addition,
• 45:14
  Speaker 8: he turns forty seven years old.
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: Today.
• 45:16
  Speaker 8: The categories are confessions, burn, second round and at a
• 45:23
  Speaker 8: DJ you were on first, which category would you like?
• 45:26
  Speaker 9: Burn?
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: Burn?
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: And then MAC, how about.
• 45:30
  Speaker 8: You confession confessions second round or ATA confession second round?
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: Confessions?
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: Well you say both?
• 45:42
  Speaker 8: There are two separate categories. Do you want confessions or
• 45:44
  Speaker 8: second round?
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: Second round?
• 45:46
  Speaker 8: Okay, okay, alright, alright, alright, DJ, our category is burn.
• 45:51
  Speaker 8: These athletes have their houses damaged or destroyed by fire.
• 45:55
  Speaker 8: Forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin. He is
• 45:59
  Speaker 8: a guard. He wanted to championship with the lebron James.
• 46:01
  Speaker 8: He's on the Mavericks now. Yes, this guy is a
• 46:07
  Speaker 8: wide receiver. He just got hurt for the season for
• 46:09
  Speaker 8: the Dolphins. Yes, this guy was on the seventy six ers,
• 46:15
  Speaker 8: the Clippers, the Pacers. He always gets hurt everywhere. His
• 46:19
  Speaker 8: number is thirteen. He was teamed up with Kawhi Leonard
• 46:24
  Speaker 8: on the Clippers. All right, he is the He is
• 46:26
  Speaker 8: the current coach of the Lakers.
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: Terrible clue.
• 46:30
  Speaker 9: Oh that's uh, Jesus.
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: He's got initials for his name.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: Jesus is coaching the Lakers. All right.
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: How about the former MVP for the brewerswing here twenty eighteen.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: M VP for a right yell too late thirty points, Coop.
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: That's a good job, but you solid effort. All right?
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: Let me if you didn't talk over Mike showt show
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: us on this show Master, Mack. You ready to go here?
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: These are some of the greatest fleets drafted in the
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: second round. Are you ready?
• 47:04
  Speaker 9: Ready?
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: All right? Forty five seconds?
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Run away go a quarterback who won the Super Bowl
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: with the New Orleans Saints. Yes, the star of the
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets they just won the championship a couple of
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: years back.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: He's from uh yeah, go ahead there he.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: Knows the joker, Oh John cut a bit. Okay, that's
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: not even close. Running back running back joking, Well, okay,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: how about the greatest receiver of all time for the
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: forty nine ers with Joe Montana in the nineteen eighties,
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: the gold No, all right, how about the greatest Red
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: Sox DH of all time? African Americans, an outfielder in
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties, won an MVP Award, Hall of Famer.
• 47:52
  Speaker 8: Great job, A thank you. I think I think you
• 47:54
  Speaker 8: really showed me how it's done.
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, I was very impressed with that.
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: He didn't he just no, he didn't get that ten points.
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: You didn't get Jerry Rice at the end there, you
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: didn't get that.
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: Well, Jerry Rice doesn't even on the list, so that
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: would have been weird.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: Well, he said Jim Rice. Though he didn't get Jim right,
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: I said Jerry didn't get Jim Rise. All right, let's back.
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: You're back up again.
• 48:14
  Speaker 8: Would you like confessions or at a?
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: All right, go ahead, ben hold on, don't start all right?
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: All right? These athletes were all born in Atlanta. Here
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: we go, forty five seconds, run away, go uh, let's
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: see he won an MVP in Orlando Center. Not Shaquille O'Neal,
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: though he was on Dancing with the Stars.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: Power what's his first name? Yes, there you go, running
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: back for the Saints right now? Currently start running back
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: for the New Orleans Saints. He got into a dust
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: up in Vegas, punched the guy on camera.
• 48:50
  Speaker 9: Yeah, but I'm drawing a blank.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, it doesn't help us. M VP for the Carolina Panthers.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: He's now he wears funny hats. He's on TV.
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: Now, yeah, there you go. All right, let's see what
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: else do we have our greatest nick of all time?
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: From the nineteen sixties. Oh no, we won't winter. We won.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: We did win win.
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: I won the game. I won the game.