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Hour 4 - Climbing the Hill · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: The Benny man can. The Benny man can. It's our
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  Speaker 1: number four and a bibbidi-boppidi-boo. And how do you do
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  Speaker 1: in our number four? Is it possible that the Tyreek
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  Speaker 1: Hill Chiefs reunion takes place? Is this football destiny? or
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  Speaker 1: reheated leftovers from Applebee's. We'll take a look at that. Also,
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  Speaker 1: what does Seattle signing Joe Mixon, they're about to sign him,
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  Speaker 1: tell us about the severity of the running back situation
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  Speaker 1: in the Pacific Northwest? And both general manager Craig Breslow
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  Speaker 1: and manager Chad Tracy in Boston denying in baseball the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox are dependent on the numbers, even though two
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  Speaker 1: of their players said as much. Are the Red Sox
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  Speaker 1: too reliant on the analytics? We'll take a look at
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  Speaker 1: that and more. Here we go. Settle in. It's our
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  Speaker 1: number four. Enjoy the rest of your Tuesday, the sixth
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  Speaker 1: day of October. Here's our number two. Climbing the hill.
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  Speaker 1: crown is yours. We've been here all night. We thought
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  Speaker 1: we would have a lot of great talk about the
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  Speaker 1: Monday night football game. That was a dud. Yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: was bad. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. As the Atlanta Falcons,
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  Speaker 1: the Dirty Birds, smashed, absolutely smashed the New Orleans Saints
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  Speaker 1: and the NFL had this whole big production, heartstrings marketing,
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  Speaker 1: 20th anniversary of the, Returned to the Superdome after the
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  Speaker 1: Saints were kicked out because of Katrina. And they had
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  Speaker 1: the ceremonies with all the Saints royalty there. And then
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  Speaker 1: the Falcons went out and kicked their ass. The home team,
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  Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints. At one point, it was 45-17
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. And the Saints scored a garbage
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  Speaker 1: time touchdown. So Atlanta's back to 500. They're 2-2. The
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  Speaker 1: Saints are 1-3 now. As the Falcons ran for over
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  Speaker 1: 200 yards in that game, the star of the show
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  Speaker 1: was Bajon Robinson with two touchdowns, 145 yards. Falcons had
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  Speaker 1: five rushing touchdowns. Brian Robinson had three of them. So
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta playing well. The baseball, if you're a Yankee hater,
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  Speaker 1: you're smiling from ear to ear. You've got a Cheshire
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  Speaker 1: Cat smile. The Yankees playing like a little league team
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  Speaker 1: on a Saturday morning at the neighborhood park as they
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  Speaker 1: had four errors. Actually, at one point had five. They
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  Speaker 1: took one of the errors off. George Lombard Jr., baby Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: screwed up, had an error, a misplay. They should have
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  Speaker 1: had like six or seven errors in the game. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Rays, they win, and they are one
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  Speaker 1: win away now from eliminating the The New York Yankees
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  Speaker 1: and the Chicago White Sox. They don't even have any
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  Speaker 1: good pitchers. They just use bullpen games. That's a gimmick,
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  Speaker 1: and they're doing it, and it's working because Cleveland sucks,
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  Speaker 1: and so the White Sox are a couple wins away.
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  Speaker 1: We're looking at a White Sox raise, ALCS, and there's
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  Speaker 1: some TV executives right now down the hall like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God. Holy crap. And you always look at what's
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  Speaker 1: like the worst possible World Series of the teams left.
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  Speaker 1: And this one would be, in terms of television audience,
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  Speaker 1: Brewers Rays would be biblical. Brewers Rays would be biblical.
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  Speaker 1: The White Sox, Chicago's obviously a big city, but I
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  Speaker 1: guess the White Sox would be okay. The Rays and
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  Speaker 1: Brewers would be the one that, or the Padres. Padres
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  Speaker 1: would also not be particularly great. It is the Ben
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  Speaker 1: Maler Show. Now to the meat of the matter. The
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  Speaker 1: meat of the matter. Don't bury the lead, my man.
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to bury the lead. Calm down. Keep
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  Speaker 1: your pants on. So we go to Kansas City, the
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  Speaker 1: home of the Ben Maller chicken fingers and the landing
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  Speaker 1: in Liberty. I got to get back to Kansas City.
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  Speaker 1: It's been too long. I got to get back to
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City. And we'll do another meet and greet next
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  Speaker 1: year in Kansas City at the restaurant there. Have the
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  Speaker 1: Ben Maller chicken fingers. Anyway, a lot of buzz. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of buzz around the Chiefs. They won again. Beat
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders. Down go the Raiders. I love the commentators.
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  Speaker 1: It was a good loss by the Raiders. Losers. Good loss.
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  Speaker 2: God.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Anyway, Kansas City wins again. And so
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs are off to the perfect end. 4-0 start
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  Speaker 1: on the season and just la la la la la la.
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  Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker is a dominator in the backfield. The wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver is not doing so well right now for the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: I bring that up because if you have not been
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  Speaker 1: following the latest scuttlebutt around the NFL, perhaps not. Tyreek Hill.
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  Speaker 1: He's lurking in the shadows. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill nearing an NFL return. I know. So exciting.
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  Speaker 1: And the Chiefs are said to be very interested. They're
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  Speaker 1: not alone. There are teams other than the Chiefs that
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  Speaker 1: are interested. But Agent Drew Rosenhaus expecting some movement in
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  Speaker 1: the next couple of days here. A deal could happen.
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  Speaker 1: By the end of the week, could is a weasel word.
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  Speaker 1: It could also not happen. Hill remains a free agent.
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  Speaker 1: He's recovering from his knee turning into shredded pork. after
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  Speaker 1: he tore the whole thing up during the 2025 season
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  Speaker 1: while playing for the Dolphins. The player once known as
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  Speaker 1: the Cheetah, once known as the Cheetah, was the go-to
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  Speaker 1: guy for Patty Mahomes back in the day there. The
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  Speaker 1: glory days of the Chiefs, and then was upset with
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  Speaker 1: his contract, so the Dolphins said, hey, we'll take you.
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  Speaker 1: And so he went to Miami, and he hung out
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  Speaker 1: and caught a bunch of passes, and the Dolphins didn't
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  Speaker 1: do anything, and now... He's available back on the market,
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  Speaker 1: and so here we are. Now, the reason the Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: are interested, if you remember that big pass and catch
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  Speaker 1: play with Tyquan Thornton when he got up and his...
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  Speaker 1: ankle was bent the wrong way and it was pretty nasty.
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  Speaker 1: It was like something you'd see in a horror movie
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  Speaker 1: around Halloween. So his ankle, I love how they said
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  Speaker 1: he's out up to 16 weeks. Well, how many weeks
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  Speaker 1: are left in the NFL season? Let's see. We're heading
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  Speaker 1: into week five. So he thinks he's not going to
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  Speaker 1: play again in the NFL this year. Yeah, shocking. So
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  Speaker 1: Taekwon Thornton is out. It's always amazing when those guys
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  Speaker 1: whose legs and feet are bent the wrong way come
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  Speaker 1: back and play at all. Thornton is supposed to come
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  Speaker 1: back next season. Rashi Rice The hammy, it went whammy.
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  Speaker 1: And so he's out for not as bad as it
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  Speaker 1: could have been, but he's going to be out from
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  Speaker 1: what I read. And so that has created a giant void.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the Bermuda Triangle at the wide receiver position.
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City needs some help, so that's a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question. Is a possible
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  Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill Chiefs reunion possible? football destiny. Or just some
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  Speaker 1: reheated leftovers from Applebee's. So I've got Labor Day, Tribute Band,
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  Speaker 1: and Madagascar. And we will combine all of these things together.
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  Speaker 1: And we are going to have some sad jambalaya because
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  Speaker 1: the Saints got spanked. And I know Ben Jamin's not happy.
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  Speaker 1: His Saints got spanked. He called up yesterday and said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to a pig roast. That's what we do
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  Speaker 1: in New Orleans. And he threw a bunch of caging
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  Speaker 1: words out and all that and i oh boy that's
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  Speaker 1: great and then they got out and got smashed we'll
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  Speaker 1: have some baba ganoush we'll have the gabagool little matzo
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  Speaker 1: ball soup will be good to go all right now
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  Speaker 1: first of all all right some of you when i
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  Speaker 1: say you some of my guys in kansas city who
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  Speaker 1: are Chiefs fans, seem to be salivating over Tyreek Hill,
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  Speaker 1: a reunion. I believe you're chasing a phantom. And my evidence,
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  Speaker 1: I know everything's different, but Odell Beckham went back to
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  Speaker 1: New York, and oh, Beckham's back where he belongs in
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey with the Giants. How'd that go?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Don't ask. So you want... The Cheetah flying around Arrowhead
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  Speaker 1: Stadium again. Patrick Mahomes chucking the ball up there. The
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  Speaker 1: gang is all reunited. And what version do you think
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  Speaker 1: is going to walk through that door if he goes
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  Speaker 1: to Kansas City? Yeah, the name on the locker will
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  Speaker 1: say Tyreek Hill. Boom, right there, Tyreek Hill. And that
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  Speaker 1: sounds terrifying. Oh, man, the Chiefs are 4-0, and they're
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  Speaker 1: going to add Tyreek Hill. Oh, my God. The actual
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  Speaker 1: player attached to the locker, that is a much different
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  Speaker 1: conversation A much, much different conversation. He is a depreciated
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  Speaker 1: asset at this particular point. If he were still El
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  Speaker 1: Clasico Tyreek Hill, do you think his agent, Drew Rosenhaus,
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  Speaker 1: would be going around advertising him like a mattress on
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  Speaker 1: a Labor Day sale? Come on down. We have a
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  Speaker 1: doorbuster sale on your mattress this Labor Day.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes is a magician. He's back in form. He's playing well.
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  Speaker 1: And it seems like last year was an aberration. He's
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  Speaker 1: playing pretty good. But even he cannot turn back the
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  Speaker 1: biological clock for Tyreek Hill. So you're not getting the
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  Speaker 1: cheetah version of Tyreek Hill. You're getting the commemorative cheetah plate.
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  Speaker 1: So I hope you enjoy the cheetah plate there. And
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he's still out there and there hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been too much buzz since The Patriots need wide receivers.
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  Speaker 1: You don't hear a lot of connection between the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: and Tyreek Hill. So it's interesting. It's not football destiny.
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely not football destiny. It's microwave leftovers. It's a
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  Speaker 1: doggy bag, rather sad doggy bag, that's got the boneless
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  Speaker 1: wings and some mozzarella sticks from But the mozzarella sticks
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  Speaker 1: were left out, and I don't know if I'd eat them.
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  Speaker 1: You might get food poisoning, so I'm not sure about that. Now, secondly,
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  Speaker 1: we have a roster update from Seattle. You remember this
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  Speaker 1: guy named Joe Mixon? Running back. Played with Cincinnati and Houston. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Mixon, out of the NFL, announced he was done
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  Speaker 1: with football. He's back! At age 30, he worked out
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  Speaker 1: for the Seahawks. And they are expected to sign Joe Mixon.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to join the reigning Super Bowl champions that,
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  Speaker 1: according to coach Mike McDonald, Mixon will initially start out
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  Speaker 1: in the practice squad. That's more of a logistical situation.
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  Speaker 1: He missed all of 2025 foot injury. And according to
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  Speaker 1: the coach, Mike McDonald, he said the scouting report was
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  Speaker 1: very uncomplicated. He said, Of the Seahawks, we're down runners.
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  Speaker 1: We need running backs. He's a good running back. Okay. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that last part is open for debate. Now, the last
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  Speaker 1: time Mixon played a full season in 2024, he ran
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  Speaker 1: for 1,000 yards. Keep in mind, there's 17 games. And
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  Speaker 1: he did have 11 touchdowns for the Houston Texans. So
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  Speaker 1: the question, what does Seattle agreeing to a contract with
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  Speaker 1: Joe Mixon mean? tell us about the severity of their
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  Speaker 1: running back room, that situation running back in Seattle. So
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  Speaker 1: I've got a headache if I'm a Seahawks guy. I
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  Speaker 1: know all these guys that are in Seattle. We're on
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  Speaker 1: the radio there. They call up. They're like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 1: we're in good shape. You know what you're talking about, Mallard.
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  Speaker 1: All this stuff. But we're four weeks into the NFL season.
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  Speaker 1: Let me make my elevator pitch why you should be
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  Speaker 1: very worried if you're a fan of the Seattle football team.
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  Speaker 1: Not only did you lose to the team formerly known
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  Speaker 1: as the Redskins, and their backup quarterback. But we're four
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  Speaker 1: weeks into the NFL season, and Seattle is already at
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  Speaker 1: this moment going around the flea market and looking to
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  Speaker 1: grab a retread running back. You already signed a guy
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  Speaker 1: facing life in prison. You signed him to help your
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  Speaker 1: defensive backfield. Now you're going to the flea market trying
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  Speaker 1: to get a running back. They're in absolute desperation mode,
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  Speaker 1: and we're only heading into Week 5. Seattle's not adding
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  Speaker 1: Joe Mixon. They're recycling him like a bottle of Coca-Cola
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  Speaker 1: is what they're doing. The Seahawks are not going to
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  Speaker 1: get Joe Mixon from back in his salad days. They're
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  Speaker 1: going to get the Joe Mixon tribute band is what
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  Speaker 1: they're going to get. I hope they enjoy it. Mixon
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  Speaker 1: missed all of last year. He now, when he joins Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: he'll enter the Seattle locker room. And unless they have
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  Speaker 1: the Fountain of Youth, maybe J.J. and Renton or Nostradamus
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  Speaker 1: has the Fountain of Youth there somewhere in the woods
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  Speaker 1: around Seattle. Because I know last time Mixon attempted to
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  Speaker 1: play football, he was cooked, done, finito. And suddenly Seattle
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  Speaker 1: has him rooming with what, Sasquatch? Joe Mixon and his
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  Speaker 1: roommate Sasquatch in the Pacific Northwest. Why not? Meanwhile, Kenneth Walker,
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  Speaker 1: the guy that they didn't want back, is leading the
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  Speaker 1: NFL in rushing for Kansas City. He wanted to go back.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he complained, I want to play in Seattle. I
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  Speaker 1: want to leave. And then they didn't want him back,
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  Speaker 1: and they changed the locks on him, and Seattle wanted
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  Speaker 1: younger and cheaper. And how did that work out? A
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  Speaker 1: month into the season, they're calling a 30-year-old running back, saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: how would you like to play for the Seahawks? He
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  Speaker 1: spent all of last season watching football on TV, unless
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  Speaker 1: he didn't even do that. Anyway, running backs are supposedly
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  Speaker 1: disposable right up until you don't have a running back,
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  Speaker 1: and then they are no longer disposable. All right, final thought.
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  Speaker 1: We go back to baseball. Back to baseball. I love baseball.
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  Speaker 1: The hostility around the Red Sox. How bad are the rest?
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  Speaker 1: The Yankees look like they don't know how to play
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  Speaker 1: baseball when they play Tampa Bay. Against the Red Sox,
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  Speaker 1: they were the Bronx Bombers, the New York Yankees. They're
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  Speaker 1: like the 27 Yankees against that Red Sox team. How
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  Speaker 1: much do the Red Sox suck? My God. Anyway, this
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  Speaker 1: is where the feature is. in baseball right now. Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox general manager Craig Breslow. They now don't call them GMs.
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  Speaker 1: They call them chief baseball officer. I'm offended by that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm offended by that. Anyway, because everyone's offended by everything.
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  Speaker 1: Craig Breslow, the general manager, and the manager, Chad Tracy,
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  Speaker 1: they met with the media, and both of them denied
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  Speaker 1: that Boston is overly dependent on analytics and This after
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  Speaker 1: a player revolt, a player revolt in the Red Sox
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  Speaker 1: clubhouse following the wild card elimination by the New York Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: Wilson Contreras questioned the dependence on the data, and that
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  Speaker 1: was more important. The computers arguing that baseball still requires
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  Speaker 1: experience and a veteran judgment. Oh, they're going to trade
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  Speaker 1: his ass. Wilson Contreras, his ass is grass. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: criticism continued. A lot of it directed at the decision
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  Speaker 1: to pull both playoff starters after four and two-thirds innings
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  Speaker 1: in a close game against the Yankees before eventually being
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  Speaker 1: outscored 18-2 in the series as the Red Sox bullpen
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  Speaker 1: had holes in it. And it was a hot mess.
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  Speaker 1: And so Chad Tracy denied receiving front office manipulation. No instructions,
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  Speaker 1: he said. Insisting that those decisions, this is a quote,
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  Speaker 1: those decisions are mine. And that baseball operations never dictated
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  Speaker 1: his pitching move. Or his moves. All right, so the question.
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  Speaker 1: You've got both GM Craig Breslow... And manager Chad Tracy
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  Speaker 1: denying the Red Sox are dependent on the numbers. So
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  Speaker 1: I'll ask the obvious question. Are the Red Sox too
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  Speaker 1: reliant on analytics? So I'm nodding my head yes. They
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  Speaker 1: are obviously too dependent on analytics. And everything in moderation,
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  Speaker 1: even moderation. Red Sox didn't get that memo. So I
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  Speaker 1: read that they had like a two-hour meeting with Wilson
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  Speaker 1: Contreras yesterday. trying to deprogram him from the non-analytical mindset.
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  Speaker 1: And Craig Breslow says there's no analytics problem. Sounds like
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  Speaker 1: something you would say if there was a problem, right?
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  Speaker 1: It's like the guy that manages the restaurant that just
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  Speaker 1: had not one, not two, but three health code violations.
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  Speaker 1: And he says, listen, I want you to enjoy your meal.
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  Speaker 1: And the kitchen, I just went to the kitchen. I
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  Speaker 1: manage this place. I've been here for 30 years. I
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  Speaker 1: go to the back of the kitchen, and it is spotless.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely spotless. There is not one Madagascar hissing cockroach in
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  Speaker 1: that kitchen. Not one. It is so good, I'd eat
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  Speaker 1: off the floor. It's that good. Which is good, because
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the food is dropped, and we just
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  Speaker 1: put it back on your plate, so you're going to
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  Speaker 1: eat it off the floor. Anyway, Chad Tracy can declare
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  Speaker 1: that he's the Lone Ranger. Lone Ranger. He can say,
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  Speaker 1: my decision. My decision. He can say it 500 times.
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  Speaker 1: He can jump up and down. He can pound the table.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: My decision! My decision! My decision! My decision!
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: But....
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: How come I look at the Red Sox and I
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: think of him as... I think of him as just
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: like a Marinette with Craig Breslow pulling the strings. And
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: not just Craig Breslow, but there's a bunch of people
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: you don't even know who they are. Nerds that are
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: into that. That are really the ones calling the shots
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: behind the scenes. It's baseball... buy algorithm the red sock
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: way and there's occasionally some human supervision that goes into
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: this john henry and the ownership group went all in
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: and listen they're not alone the dodgers do pretty much
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: the same thing dave roberts is just a sock puppet
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: for whatever the nerds want tampa bay they can get
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: away with it in tampa because nobody really cares about
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: the rays so they do whatever they want it's not
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: like there's going to be a big upheaval And so
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: now they've got an owner who's going to spend a
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: little money, allegedly. So now we'll see what happens with that.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: But yeah, just baseball by algorithm. That's it. And when
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: in doubt, what Boston does is they trust the flowchart.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: It's all about the flowchart. Got to have the flowchart.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: And don't tell me this is just some angry fans.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I love when teams are like, well, it's just the fans.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: They don't know what they're talking about. They're just a
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: bunch of idiots. Those sports radio callers. I love when
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: People in sports, oh, it's just some idiots to call
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: sports radio. Well, trust me, that's bull crap. You have
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: two of your players, Wilson Contreras and Sonny Gray, who
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: have essentially become whistleblowers. So you don't need a whistleblower
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: other than that. You already have two. You've got two.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Calling out the Red Sox organizational... internal philosophy, the organization philosophy,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: all that stuff, calling it out. Complaining and all this stuff.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: If analytics are not driving the bus, the wheels on
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the bus go round and round, the wheels on the
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: bus go round and round, why do the players keep asking,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: who's behind the wheel? They went public and now Wilson
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Contreras got called into the principal's office and got to talk.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: We're paying you a lot of money, and it's not
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: in our best interest to have you go out there
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: and point out that we are not really doing anything
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: other than following what the AI tells us to do.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: And perception is reality. We know that. Perception is reality,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: and the perception is simple. The Red Sox need a
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: spreadsheet to tell them when it's raining. They're so beholden
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: to that way of life that if you tell them, hey,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: just manage a game without the three-ring binder and the tablet.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I can't do that. What are you, crazy? It is
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the Ben Maler Show. You want to comment on any
• 22:25
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• 22:27
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• 22:27
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• 22:30
  Speaker 1: to bail on his responsibilities also. In addition, hey, can
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I get my job back? I would like my job back.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Good luck on that. We'll get to all of it,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: and we will do it!
• 22:51
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• 23:31
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• 23:36
  Speaker 1: early in the morning on this Tuesday, the sixth day
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: of October. NFL moving on to Week 5. Yeah, I know.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: It begins with an absolute dud on Thursday night. Get
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: to that in a minute. A reminder, though, that you
• 23:56
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• 24:03
  Speaker 1: We'll have Sight to Bite, the great sports radio mystery,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: coming up later this hour. Where random people call up
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: with goofy names. Cowboy John Brad occasionally calls up, throws
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: out some player from like the 60s that he might
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: have known. And one of our friends from Boston calls up,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: mentions an old Red Sox. That'll be coming up later
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: this hour, Sight to Bite. Also on the X Machine,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: at Ben Maller. That's at Ben Maller. You can say
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: hello to La Reina right over there. Number four.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: La Reina.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Number four. Number four. Yes, she's bracing for El Nino. Yes,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: bracing for El Nino. And she's the FSR Tech Queen
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Koopaloop there. Right over there. Check him out at abrocofan.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Your comments can and will be used against you in
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the court of Malheur Militia. Got a message from one
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: of my friends that is in the TV world. And
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: they love mocking the local news, like how they overreact
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: to everything. And there's a lot of panic. They love
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: to sell panic. They like to scare people. Because people
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: that are scared listen to shows longer. They watch shows longer.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: So the big thing is bracing for El Nino. Oh, yes.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: It's going to be the biggest one we've had in
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: a long time. I'm so scared. And the ocean, if
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: you look down in Laguna Beach and along the coastline there,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: we've already seen a lot of damage. So can't wait
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: to see what happens this winter. I can't. I'm so
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: excited for my El Nino. I cannot wait. Whatever happened
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: to that guy? I'm going to have El Nino. Oh, yeah,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the guy that used to call named El Nino?
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: These guys disappear. They call for a while. They move on.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know what happens.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Some of them are dead. Some of them are in jail.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: What happened to Jed? I thought he got out of jail.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Is he back in jail? What happened to him? I
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: thought he got out of jail.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: He called one time. Do you think he escaped? Do
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: you think... Wouldn't that be wild if he escaped and
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: then called up on a random night and then got
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: caught and went back to jail? He was kind of whispery.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Like, Jed... there was a guy I don't want to
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: say his name I don't know if he wants some
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: guy looked up Jed's case and I guess he had
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: got put back in jail for a while and so
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: this guy sends me his email and it was very
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: nice he sent me he said listen I found Jed's
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: criminal case or whatever I looked through the websites and
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: everything's online so Jed went back to jail so I
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: said okay well I guess he's supposed to be released
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: like next year and then he called up like a
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: month later he called up but then he hadn't called
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: since and I thought he was addicted to calling the
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: show What happened?
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: By the way, the Week 5 NFL card, you talk
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: about a cover-your-nose situation. The Dallas Cowboys kick off the
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Week 5 NFL card on Thursday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: The headless Bucs, their quarterback Baker Mayfield, out. So, wow.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Dallas is an eight-point favorite in that game. That is
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: a massive point spread. Short week, eight-point spread. Cowboys, that'll
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: kick off. the week five festivities in the nfl let's
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: go back to the phones and let's say hello eeny
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: meeny miney moe pick a caller by their name let's
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: say hello to tillio who is up next and he
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: is in the sunshine state he's always got the gabagool
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: hello tillio welcome.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: How you doing buddy hey listen no gabagool for jazz
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: chisholm jesus god in heaven where do they get these
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: guys Yeah.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Well, Jazz will not be on the Yankees next year.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: He will sign.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Thank God.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: You would think. There's no way they'd bring him back, right?
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: They can't make him a qualifying offer. He'll take the
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: qualifying offer.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: You're right.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: He would.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. You know what he said before the
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: season started. He's going to be a 50-50 guy. Oh,
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: is that?
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I know.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: I remember.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were mocking him on that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: 50 errors? Is that included, the 50-50? I'm trying to
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: think of that.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Let me say one thing before I talk about my Yankees.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: I've got to take my good buddy, my Paizan, Justin Cooper,
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: to task. A week ago, he committed a mortal sin.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: He said he puts pineapple on pizza.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, stop it. Yeah, Coop, you're kicked out. You're a
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: fake Italian.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Guy, dude.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Pineapple absolutely. He's fake, right? That's not a real Italian guy.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Real Italian guys don't eat pineapple on their pizza.
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: Real Italians eat potato on their pizza.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: That's not pineapple.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but none of you eat potato on your pizza.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: None of the pizza you eat out here is real
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: Italian pizza, so it doesn't matter.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Well, isn't pizza mostly an American creation anyway, right? Like
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: in Italy originally? Yeah, exactly.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: New York City. But I will say he did redeem
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: himself because he said he likes the cheese puffs.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: That's not true either. Pizza came from Italy. No, no,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: but American pizza is much different than Italian. That's my
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: whole point. That's why it doesn't matter if I put pineapple.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: It matters to me, and it matters to Tillio. It
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: matters to us.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: That's right. Right?
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Come on now. Original pizza. I remember reading. I did
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: this for the stupid podcast I do on the weekends.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: I think the original pizza, they just had leftovers, and
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: they threw it all in a little casserole, and they
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: put the dough on top, and that was the pizza.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: They just put whatever leftovers they had from the day
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: before so they wouldn't waste food.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Who eats potatoes? I grew up in Newark, so, I mean,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: nobody had potatoes on pizza.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Is that a popular topping, Coop? Potatoes on pizza? In Italy, yeah.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but... We're talking about New Jersey and New York. Exactly.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Come on.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Please. That's not wrong with me.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: I cut him slack, though. He likes the cheesy puffs,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: not the friggin' crunchy crap.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Well, they... I gotta tell you, our Canadian brothers and sisters,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: my guy Nico in Vancouver, opened my eyes to those
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: cheese doodle things they have in Canada. Much better than
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: our cheese doodles. Much better. Really? Oh, yeah. What's the name?
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know the brand. Actually, I think it's an
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: American company, actually, I think. But it's a really good... Yeah.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Why do you get all excited when I call him
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: out about pineapple?
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Come on. He's very emotional, Koopaloop. I don't know why.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: He is, yeah.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: He's upset. He's upset.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: I can't stand these purists that say that pineapple doesn't
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: belong on pizza.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: It's delicious. Oh, you're funny.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: That is funny as hell.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I've been at a social event where they had pineapple
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: on the pizza, but I didn't go out of my
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: way to get the. I would happen to be there,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: but it's like, yeah, I'm not looking for that. Anyway,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: what else? You want to rip your Yankees? My favorite
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: thing about the Yankees here. What's his name? Cam Schlittler.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: I've got to say that carefully because I did mispronounce it.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: He's like, this is not the way the Yankees play.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: This is exactly how the Yankees have played under Aaron Boone.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: And I've got to tell you, Ryan McMahon, who sucks
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: as a hitter, the only reason he's there is for defense,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: and he made a fielding error. What the hell?
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: You know what it is? It's shades of game five
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: versus the Dodgers. They had the game, and then all
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, the Keystone Cops were in the infield.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Judge didn't make an error all year. He dropped an
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: easy five ball. Then Volpe, you know, he pulled the catch.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was my favorite inning.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Garrett Cole not covering first base. Don't forget about that.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Don't get on this stuff in Little League. I mean,
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: come on.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: They make a lot of money. They can't be bothered
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: to hustle.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, on a lighter note, I'm going to give you
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: this before I go.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: So I'll get coop in this. You won't stay mad
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: at me. You won't mad at me. I'm furious. Okay,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: not the card, but they auctioned off an actual photo
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: from Mickey Mantle's rookie card. They got the negative, and
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: how much did it go in an auction? Closest to
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: the pin.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: So just a photograph.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: It's a picture. Yes.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: The original photo.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: The original photo.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, it must have been a lot. You're bringing
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: this up. I don't know. How close you get? 1.2 million.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Koopa Loop.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: 700,000.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Lorena.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Two bucks. My mommy. Ben, you win. It was $ 3 million.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Hey, I win. All right. What do I win? I
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: get a golden ticket. I get a golden ticket. I
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: got a golden ticket.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: I'll put you on hold. Go ahead. Let's say hello
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: to Mike the Leprechaun, who was part of the Fifth
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Hour podcast this past weekend. And as always, he ruined
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: the magic of the podcast by revealing what time it
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: was when we were doing the podcast. Hello, Mike the Leprechaun.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Hello, Ben. I hope you enjoyed the music Lorena played today.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Did you pick those songs?
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: By the way, Eugene in Chicago writes in, he says,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Lou Malnati's is the way to go. I don't disagree, Eugene.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I don't disagree. Absolutely. Ryan writes in, he says, I
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: stand with Coop, pineapple and ham on pizza all day. Well, Ryan,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: go to detention. Go to detention. Ryan and Maine, go
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: to detention. Yes, how can we help you? Yes, I
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: pick all the music, just like I pick my nose.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: All the music.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Yes. He was 0-3.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Leprechaun was 3-0.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: And Ben was 1-2 on the games. But that's okay.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: I wasn't 1-2. I picked every game.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: On the games.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: The Raiders game. I got the Raiders game right. I
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: got the Packers game right. Tampa Bay got a backdoor cover. No, no, no, Panthers.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: The Packers game was a tie, actually. I think it
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: was a push.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: I did get the.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Panthers game incorrect. Screw the Lions. Don't bet on bad defenses.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: That's one of my rules. I broke my rule, and
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I got burnt. Bad job by me.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Can we set up the verbal octagon for next week?
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you want to do it next week, we'll
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: set it up. Marcel and Brooklyn and you. I have to.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Go into intensive training. Intensive training.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: He doesn't call. Today's Tuesday. We can't afford to have
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: him call on Tuesday. He'll call tomorrow.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: And I agree with Coop. Pineapple is great, but I
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: do like potatoes on my pizza because I'm Irish.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you like potatoes and everything. You like potatoes in
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: the morning, potatoes in the afternoon, potatoes at night, potatoes everywhere.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: I love potatoes. And I love drinking potatoes. You like
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: drinking potatoes, right?
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can make them into moonshine, basically.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: There's a guy called Tony.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: He called earlier. He's a lawyer. He said he works
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: pro boner. What does that mean? All right, thank you.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: All right, appreciate that. I'm glad we took that phone call. Outstanding.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Freaking great. Well, the former number one overall pick in
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: the draft, who not only is a quarterback, he's terrible.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: We're talking about Cam Ward. And he was getting called
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: out by some of the media people. He tried to
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: cut short his post-game media obligation... After Tennessee lost to
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens, who didn't play the second half with
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, the Titans are now tied for the worst
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: record in the NFL at 0-4 this season. Cam Ward,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: the top pick in the draft, has now started 21
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: games and is 3-18. That is the worst record in
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: the history of the NFL for a quarterback through the
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: 21-game mark. And there is no sunlight at the end
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: of the road. Now, the controversy took place because Cam
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Ward got to the podium in Baltimore, and many of
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: the reporters were still talking to other players in the Titans'
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: locker room. And this happens pretty much all the time. Remember,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Sean McVay had a hissy fit and stormed off after
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: a game the Rams played earlier this year, and he
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: got in trouble for that, and he had to apologize. Well,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Cam Ward... Wanted to pull a Sean McVay. He was impatient.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: And he told some underling for the Titans, he said, listen,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: we got three minutes. I'm going to walk out. That's it.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: And so Cam Ward issuing an ultimatum. And Peele said, well, A,
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  Speaker 1: it's in your contract. You have to sit around and
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  Speaker 1: talk to the media. It's in the standard contract. You're
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: the face of the franchise also. So it's kind of
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: your deal. You have to face the music. And he
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: didn't want to face the music and get out of there.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: The timing has not been great on these post-game situations.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Like the reporter's in the locker room and then they've
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: got the media room or the press conference room where
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: they're doing stuff. So you've got that. Also, give me
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: my job back. That would be that guy Braden Bell.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Remember the guy that got fired because the Blazers are
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: so woke? They fired him because of the crap he
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: said when he was 14 and 15. There would not
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: be a single man or woman employed. If you based
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: their employment on things they did when they were 14
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: and 15, everyone would be out of a job. So
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: this guy hired a lawyer, of course, and he's trying
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: to get his job back. Good luck on that.
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  Speaker 5: Look, it's one thing if you actually say some really
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: bad stuff when you're 14 or 15.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Everyone's an a-hole when they're 14 or 15. Yeah, but
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: I read those tweets. It wasn't even bad. Oh, you're
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: going to get canceled, Coop. You're going to get canceled.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: I didn't think it was terrible either, but they get
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: so upset. My favorite part of it is the TV
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: people that reported it are getting killed. They had to
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: shut down their social media. Yeah, yeah, I saw that.
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: But the one tweet that mentioned race, it started off
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: by saying, I'm not racist.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: So there you go. I think he said a but, though.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: But yeah. Which discounted that. Anyway, we'll see what happens
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: with the lawyers. We have Sight to Bite, the great
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• 38:14
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• 38:31
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• 38:39
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• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Sight the Bite. Where we play
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: random generic sound bites.
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  Speaker 2: You know, inane.
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  Speaker 3: Sports and entertainment cliches spoken by so-called experts. You try
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: to tell us who's doing the talking.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: All right, not a lot of time. Let's get right
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: to it. Sight the Bite. Let's play the audio bite.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody from sports the last seven to ten days. See
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  Speaker 1: if you can figure out who it is.
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  Speaker 2: That's all I need.
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  Speaker 1: One more time? That's all I need.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Anyone get it right, I'll say caller five. Lorena? Caller three. Coop?
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  Speaker 5: Five.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Let's go.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: 877-99-ON-FOX.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: The call-in number.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: That's all I need.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Let's start out with Coach Russell is in Orlando. Caller one,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Coach Russell. Who is it, Coach Russell? I'm not sure,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: but I'm going to go with Jim Mora Jr.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: I know it doesn't sound like it, but I'm going
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: to go.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Is that Jim Mora Jr.? No, that is not. Let's
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: go to Chris in Boston. I'm sure Chris will give
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: us a legitimate answer. Chris, who is it on site
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: to bite?
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: That's one of the Red Sox right-handed pitcher, Hideo Nomo.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Hideo Nomo. When I think of Hideo Nomo, I
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: think of the Red Sox. No, that is in Nomo Mania.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: All right, Coop, quickly. He went to Penn State. All right,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Aaron is in Minnesota. Caller three, Aaron.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: That is Frankie Sweet Music Viola.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, Frank Viola, Circle Change. No, that is incorrect. Pizza Papa.
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  Speaker 2: Last one.
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  Speaker 1: Pizza Papa. No. Who is it, Coop? Joey Porter Jr.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Joey Porter. Joey Porter. Joey Porter Jr.