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Hour 2 - Bye Buy Blue · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Here we go.
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Speaker 2: It's our number two, our number two, and boom goes
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Speaker 2: the dynamite for a number of umpires. What message is
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Speaker 2: major League Baseball sinning? As we begin this hour of
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Speaker 2: the Ben Mather Show, what message is major League Baseball sinding?
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Speaker 2: By buying out controversial umpire C B. Buckner along with
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Speaker 2: laz dz, Brian o'na and some others. Also, does Marlin's
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Speaker 2: manager Clayton McCullough deserve the heat for pulling his starting
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Speaker 2: pitcher during a perfect game seven innings of perfect baseball,
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Speaker 2: ninety two pitches, eight nothing lead. Oh my god, we've
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Speaker 2: gotta take the pitcher out. Also speaking of that, is
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Speaker 2: pulling Juri Perez after ninety two pitches sound logic by
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Speaker 2: the marks. We gonna address just the pitch counts in general.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to all that, and butter my biscuit, it's
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Speaker 2: our number two.
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Speaker 2: I leave this hour from the guardians of the Baseball Galaxy.
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Speaker 2: What kind of big shakeup? Big shakeup developing the men
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Speaker 2: in Blue? The Men in Blue. Now, if you have
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Speaker 2: not heard yet, perhaps not, we learned over the holiday
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Speaker 2: weekend that C. B. Buckner, yep, that guy. If you're
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Speaker 2: even a casual baseball fan, you know who. C. B.
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Speaker 2: Buckner is, long time controversial baseball umpire, and we found
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Speaker 2: out that he is going to say bye bye to
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Speaker 2: umpire after the season.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: Buckner is in his early sixties, sixty three. He debuted
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Speaker 2: as a nationally umpire way back in nineteen ninety six
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Speaker 2: before social media. Oh my god, yeah, nineteen ninety sixty.
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Speaker 2: I became a full time umpire in the year two thousand,
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Speaker 2: two thousand, and he's worked over four thousand regular season games.
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Speaker 2: I'm told that's a lot, plus multiple All Star Games
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Speaker 2: and many postseason series.
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Speaker 1: C B.
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Speaker 2: Buckner has been behind home plate and working the bases
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Speaker 2: as a umpire. That's what he does. Now it turns
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Speaker 2: out he's not alone. He's one of seven umpires who
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Speaker 2: have accepted a buyout. Baseball offered a giant check everyone's
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Speaker 2: got a price. Seven men out, seven men out, no
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Speaker 2: longer umpiring. These guys are there umpire, some of them now,
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Speaker 2: some of them have already stopped umpiring. Included on the
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Speaker 2: seven people on the natty list, you have Laz Diaz,
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Speaker 2: who's also gotten into a scuffle or two. Brian O'Nora
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Speaker 2: he's out, Lance Barksdale gone, Marvin Hudson, and Tony Randazzo,
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Speaker 2: along with somebody named Andy Fletcher. We're not sure who
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Speaker 2: that is, but apparently a number and comes as Baseball
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Speaker 2: this year has rolled out the the bots, the automated
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Speaker 2: ball strike, the abs thing of a jig. They've got
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Speaker 2: that going this year. And so that is a good
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Speaker 2: jumping off point that the key here, the headliner is C. B. Buckner,
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Speaker 2: uh and these other guys. So let us discuss the
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Speaker 2: question what message give me? The message that major League
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Speaker 2: Baseball is sending by buying out C. B. Buckner, Laz Diez,
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Speaker 2: Brian o'norra, and these other umpires. So I've got cardboard, kale, salad,
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Speaker 2: and tabernacle, and we will combine all all of these
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Speaker 2: things together and be somewhere in between. I'm not sure
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Speaker 2: what that means. Just we'll just do it, all right.
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Speaker 2: So number one, und number one, number one, number number one,
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Speaker 2: rum the right number from the left number.
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Speaker 5: No, no, uh.
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Speaker 2: Is it true that that that that guy that you
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Speaker 2: just played? Number two guy, our friend from the Boston area,
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Speaker 2: the one only Leprechaun, was not allowed on the air
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Speaker 2: last week. I got a very angry message from Mike
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Speaker 2: the Leprecown that he was somehow blocked from getting on
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Speaker 2: the air. I know nothing about nothing, all right. Well,
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Speaker 2: the question again, what message is major League Baseball sending
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Speaker 2: by buying out C. B. Buckner, Las d As, brian
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Speaker 2: O Nora and these other umpires. So this is simple,
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Speaker 2: It's not that hard. The era that I grew up
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Speaker 2: in with the bigger than life manager and the bigger
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Speaker 2: than life umpire is Oh, it's dead, d e hey
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Speaker 2: d dead dead dead. That's it all right. That era
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Speaker 2: of the celebrity umpire is done now. When when I
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Speaker 2: was a punk, I would go out to games and
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Speaker 2: we would engage with the umpire and these guys would
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Speaker 2: fight back. One of my favorite memories when I was
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Speaker 2: going to games I was a young young lad, was
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Speaker 2: this umpire named Derwood Meryl. You know, he's long dead
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Speaker 2: or whatever in many years. But Derwood Meryl was a
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Speaker 2: longtime americanly gumpire and he would get into it with
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Speaker 2: fans who would heckle him. And we heard about this,
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Speaker 2: and so we would heckle him and he did get
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Speaker 2: into it. It was awesome. It's like one of my fondest
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Speaker 2: memories going to baseball games when I was younger, was
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Speaker 2: getting into it with him. And anyway, this is not
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Speaker 2: just your normal routine roster shake up where it's like,
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Speaker 2: I know, the newspaper business pretty much bought everyone out
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Speaker 2: that was making any you know, real money. They used
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Speaker 2: to have these things called columnists, and the most newspapers
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Speaker 2: barely exist these days. But anyway, this is not just routine.
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Speaker 2: This is performance purge. Performance purge is the way I
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Speaker 2: will describe it here, wrapped in a personality purge, that's it.
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Speaker 2: And so for a quarter of a century, the Umpires Union,
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Speaker 2: they treated these guys as untouchable. They were the untouchables.
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Speaker 2: They were immortal, untouchable demigods. You couldn't get rid of
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Speaker 2: bad umpires, you couldn't wild. So now major League Baseball,
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Speaker 2: after all these years, finally was able to take out
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Speaker 2: the trash and if you base this on what Baseball says,
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Speaker 2: C B. Buckner was the candy wrapper at the very
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Speaker 2: absolute bottom of the trash bin. That's kind of sticking there. Now,
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Speaker 2: out of ninety one umpires, where did C. B. Buckner
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Speaker 2: rank this season? The last I checked it? This checked
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Speaker 2: this number a couple days ago. They have websites that
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Speaker 2: track the grades of umpires. So out of ninety one umpires,
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Speaker 2: where was C. B. Buckner? Now we know he wasn't
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Speaker 2: in the top ten. I couldn't have been that low, right,
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Speaker 2: He's been around for thirty years. It had to be
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Speaker 2: higher than you know somewhere the middle reveal answer reveal answers, well,
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Speaker 2: C B. Buckner out of ninety one umpires ranked you
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Speaker 2: ready for it? You see it. You didn't see us.
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Speaker 2: Number ninety one dead last baby, that's this year. That's
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Speaker 2: not a performance metric. That is a cry for help,
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Speaker 2: is what that is. For twenty five years at least,
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Speaker 2: if not longer, players have been screaming and complaining and
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Speaker 2: saying we must get rid of C. B. Buckner. He's
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Speaker 2: calling balls and strikes. It's just terrible. So now Rob
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Speaker 2: Manford has stepped in and he is sending a message
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Speaker 2: and he does not want umpires. He wants background characters.
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Speaker 2: As a talk show host, I'm gonna miss C. B.
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Speaker 2: Buckner because I knew once or twice a year he'd
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Speaker 2: f up so brilliantly I'd get it a monologue out
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Speaker 2: of it. And that's gonna that's gonna end. That's gonna
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Speaker 2: end because they're getting rid of CB Butner. But that's
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Speaker 2: the point. They want background characters, they want non playable
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Speaker 2: characters at Major League Baseball just stand there. And it's
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Speaker 2: like the line about the kids. You know, you're supposed
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Speaker 2: to be seen, not not heard. I used to say,
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Speaker 2: that's a that's in a line from from Britain. It's
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Speaker 2: just like, hey, listen, you're like the wall that's like
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Speaker 2: a beige wall. They just you're there and it's you're
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Speaker 2: not really doing all that much. And then there's that.
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Speaker 2: So if Manford could replace every single umpire in a
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Speaker 2: cost can remember during the pandemic they had those cardboard
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Speaker 2: cutouts because he didn't let fansy Manford was that's a
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Speaker 2: good idea. Why don't we put a cardboard cutout of
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Speaker 2: the umpire. We'll put it right behind the catcher. Nobody
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Speaker 2: even know, and we should have done this five years ago. Right, Well,
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Speaker 2: welcome to the new Major League Baseball, where the ideal
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Speaker 2: umpire will never trend. You'll never know they exist. You
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Speaker 2: won't know what they sound like, you won't know what
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Speaker 2: they look like. It just it's just background stuff. That's
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Speaker 2: it again. That's something that changed when I was a kid.
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Speaker 2: The managers had bigger than life personalities, real characters, real personality.
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Speaker 2: The umpire's also the umpires also, I had real personality
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Speaker 2: and it was it was great. I liked it. That's
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Speaker 2: what I grew up with. That's what I knew when
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Speaker 2: I was coming. You know, as a young fan of sports,
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Speaker 2: I love the bigger than life manager, the bigger than
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Speaker 2: life umpire. That's fairs gone. Like like, these managers are
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Speaker 2: so dull, they are so boring, These Major League Baseball managers.
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Speaker 2: There is there one with personal Dave Roberts, oh man,
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Speaker 2: is he boring? They're all boring all right now? Page
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Speaker 2: two to west Sacramento. We go not east, not north,
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Speaker 2: not south, not on west. Now, we normally would not
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Speaker 2: waste valuable talk radio real estate discussing a Marlins A's
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Speaker 2: matchup However, here we are. This is the exception of
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Speaker 2: the rule. So Miami starter Uri Perez was pulled after
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Speaker 2: seven innings of perfect baseball, and he started against the
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Speaker 2: Athletics on Sunday, ended that bid for a perfect game.
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Speaker 2: He retired all twenty one batters, twenty one up, twenty
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Speaker 2: one down, faced over seven innings, struck out eight on
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Speaker 2: just ninety two pitches, just ninety two pitches. Perfect game,
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Speaker 2: throwing a perfect game through seven innings, six outs away
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Speaker 2: from immortality in the baseball record book. And he didn't
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Speaker 2: throw a perfect game. Did the A's get a hit
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Speaker 2: off him?
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 2: No, no no. The only thing that could stop the
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Speaker 2: Marlin starting pitcher Uri Perez was his manager, a gentleman
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Speaker 2: named Clayton McCullough, who for some reason removed Euryperez despite
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Speaker 2: the perfect game being in progress. It was eight nothing
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Speaker 2: at the time, it was eight nothing at the time.
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Speaker 2: He said, no, no, let's go to the bullpen. And the
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Speaker 2: bullpen immediately imploded, and the Marlins did win the game.
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Speaker 2: They won it nine to eight. They had an eight
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Speaker 2: nothing lead and a guy pitching in a perfect game,
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Speaker 2: and they had to bite their fingernails and they won
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Speaker 2: by the score of nine to eight. Now that's the story.
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Speaker 2: The Marlins manager said postgame that he went into the
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Speaker 2: game with a predetermined number of pitches right around ninety
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Speaker 2: and despite the fact that the game was for all
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Speaker 2: purposes over, he made the decision based on what I
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Speaker 2: love this, what was best for the player and the
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Speaker 2: Marlins going forward. Perez said, previously missed some time with
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Speaker 2: Tommy John surgery, which is about nine out of ten
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Speaker 2: pitchers in baseball about Tommy John surgery. By the way,
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Speaker 2: the real Tommy John still alive, lives out in Palm
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Speaker 2: Springs area. How about that fun fact, had him on
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Speaker 2: my podcast couple years ago. Anyway, fans in Sacramento, now
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Speaker 2: there are not many fans in Sacramento, but there are fans.
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Speaker 2: There were people that actually paid money to o the game.
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Speaker 2: So the fans of Sacramento chanted, shame, shame, shame. That's
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Speaker 2: that's a recreation. That's not actually them chance, it's me chanting. Shame, shame, shame.
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Speaker 2: And they pointed towards the Marlins dugout when the eighth
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Speaker 2: inning began and they had realized, wait a minute, the
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Speaker 2: pitcher with the perfect game is not there anymore. Gonzo question,
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Speaker 2: does the Marlins manager Clayton McCullough deserve the heat for
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Speaker 2: pulling his starting pitcher after seven perfect innings and ninety
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Speaker 2: two pitches. There is only one acceptable answer. This is
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Speaker 2: not true false, This is not thumbs up thumbs down.
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Speaker 2: There's only one acceptable answer. This guy is a dumb
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Speaker 2: dumb that's it, one hundred percent. He deserves all the
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Speaker 2: crap he's getting. Yeah, he's not getting that much crap
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Speaker 2: because no, but he really cares about the Marlins. But
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Speaker 2: this is utterly deflating, is what it is here. You
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Speaker 2: don't pull a guy during a freaking perfect game unless
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Speaker 2: you're somehow allergic to history. Here we are, though, McCullough,
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Speaker 2: the manager of the Marlins, managed to read the room
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Speaker 2: like someone who brings a kale salad to a hot
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Speaker 2: dog eating contest, Like what are you doing? There have
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Speaker 2: been how many perfect games baseball has been played since?
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Speaker 2: Like the eighteen seventies. It's one hundred and fifty plus years,
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Speaker 2: and there have been twenty four official perfect games in baseball.
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Speaker 2: The Marlins skipper had a chance to manage number twenty
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Speaker 2: five and said, no, no, let's cheat. Let's treat this like
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Speaker 2: a side session like a bullpen session. That's what we're
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Speaker 2: gonna do. He didn't manage the game. He managed to
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Speaker 2: ruin the moment is what this dumb dumb did. And
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Speaker 2: sure he recognized that, listen, I'm just gonna go with
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Speaker 2: the predetermined pitch count. That's what I'm going to do.
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Speaker 2: And he completely failed to recognize what could have been
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Speaker 2: a perfect game would have been massive for a rather
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Speaker 2: no name pitcher for the Marlins, would have put him
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Speaker 2: on the map, would have given a little razzle dazzle
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Speaker 2: to the Miami Marlins, even though the Marlins are in
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Speaker 2: position to fight and scratching claw for a playoff spot
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Speaker 2: in the Nation League. Here we are, yet again the
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Speaker 2: analytically obsessed mindset, and this is what we've got, and
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Speaker 2: so good luck ever seeing a perfect game again. Mccullus
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Speaker 2: should be embarrassed, he should be ripped. He won't be
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Speaker 2: because it's not high on the radar. It just doesn't
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Speaker 2: get it. And I do love the Sacramento fans that
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Speaker 2: went out to this A's game and they decided we're
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Speaker 2: gonna go full Game of Thrones with the shame bell shame, shame, shame,
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Speaker 2: all that. And now you have to do as a manager.
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Speaker 2: You have to do the walk of atonement, good luck
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Speaker 2: skip all right, now, final point, keeping the theme going
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Speaker 2: so in I just wanted to follow this up. So
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Speaker 2: the question now is this is pulling Uri Perez after
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Speaker 2: ninety two pitches sound logic by the mars. Now I've
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Speaker 2: already laid out why it's not. I would like to
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Speaker 2: add on this called the dog pile part of it.
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Speaker 2: The dog pile part of it. So the pitch count cult,
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Speaker 2: and I do call it a cult, is undefeated at
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Speaker 2: one thing, killing the mojo. And back in the day
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Speaker 2: when I used to be out at baseball games all
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Speaker 2: the time and I talked to some of the old
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Speaker 2: timers about the pitch count and it was just hilarious
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Speaker 2: the reaction. Back then, I was like, ah, yeah and anything.
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Speaker 2: And that was the time when I got into it.
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Speaker 2: There were still a lot of managers that had personalities
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Speaker 2: and had balls, and they had hair on their chest,
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Speaker 2: and they were able to make decisions and they didn't
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Speaker 2: need some poindexter guy with a Harvard degree or a
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Speaker 2: Yale degree to tell them what to do. They actually
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Speaker 2: just went by the field of the game. There you
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Speaker 2: had guys who would throw The late great Fernando Valezuela,
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Speaker 2: the most important Dodger of all time in terms of
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Speaker 2: the La Dodgers and their fan base. Fernando Valezuela. The
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Speaker 2: legend is he would throw two hundred pitches. They didn't care. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you know these younger days in the Mexican you know,
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Speaker 2: growing up in Mexico, before he was discovered, they just
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Speaker 2: kept pitching him and Levon Hernandez, who pitched in Cuba,
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Speaker 2: supposedly tons and tons of pitches and whatnot. So, but
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Speaker 2: it's it's something that's happened the last twenty so years.
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Speaker 2: It's been a while. This is not necessarily new, but
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Speaker 2: the pitch count thing. The teams in baseball, like the Tomorrows,
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Speaker 2: this ninety two pitch thing. They treat it like it's
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Speaker 2: a radiation threshold. It's like, no, relax, okay, it's a pitcher.
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Speaker 2: It's just people love round numbers and it's like, well,
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Speaker 2: we can't get him to one hundred, and he's like,
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Speaker 2: well we're coming off, Tommy, Joe. Pitch counts are kind
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Speaker 2: of like the TSSA of baseball. There's a lot of
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Speaker 2: rules and regulations on what you can and can't take
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Speaker 2: through TSA. There's very little evidence that they actually prevent
21:05
Speaker 2: much of anything other than taking your water bottle when
21:09
Speaker 2: you're going through the security or your ranch dressing or
21:11
Speaker 2: whatever that might be. Here's the thing, all right, major
21:16
Speaker 2: League Baseball, the mindset of Major League Baseball, their own
21:24
Speaker 2: injury tracking. They keep track of all this stuff. The
21:27
Speaker 2: baseball has the data. This is the thing that blows
21:29
Speaker 2: my mind. And maybe you're smarter than me, and it
21:32
Speaker 2: can explain what this is all about. Baseball's track the
21:35
Speaker 2: injury data, and it does not support the theory that
21:39
Speaker 2: you're protecting the pitcher, like if you limit them to
21:42
Speaker 2: less than one hundred pitches or just one hundred pitches,
21:45
Speaker 2: that they're gonna have health, they're gonna last longer. That,
21:49
Speaker 2: in fact, is not the reality. Injury rates have not
21:52
Speaker 2: dropped despite twenty years of data with limiting pitches and
21:57
Speaker 2: cutting back on this. They literally know it doesn't work,
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Speaker 2: and they still do it. Can anyone tell me why
22:04
Speaker 2: that makes any sense other than, hey, if this guy
22:07
Speaker 2: gets hurt, at least we can say, well, we've tried
22:09
Speaker 2: to baby him and all that. If you're going to
22:12
Speaker 2: worship the pitch count, if that's your Michigans to worship
22:16
Speaker 2: the pitch count. At least admit that you're in the tabernacle.
22:20
Speaker 2: It's a religion. It is not a science. Is there's
22:24
Speaker 2: no science, mind it. And pulling this guy the pitcher
22:27
Speaker 2: Perez is the baseball equivalent of rebooting your laptop because
22:32
Speaker 2: the Wi Fi flickered for a minute. It's superstition wearing
22:37
Speaker 2: some kind of lab coat with a bunch of beakers
22:40
Speaker 2: and all that stuff. Now, I will tell you that
22:41
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are responsible for this. Here's why the Marlins
22:46
Speaker 2: no name manager. This guy, Clayton McCullough is a disciple
22:50
Speaker 2: of Dave Roberts. He's running the Dave Roberts DOS a
22:55
Speaker 2: Dodger operating system. Doesn't work quite as well with the
22:59
Speaker 2: Marlins as it does with the Dodgers. But essentially the
23:01
Speaker 2: point of all this is that Clayton McCullough was I remember,
23:05
Speaker 2: was it Rich Hill was pitching either a no hitter
23:07
Speaker 2: or a perfect game for the Dodgers. Dave Roberts pulled
23:09
Speaker 2: them out. Dave Roberts pulled them out.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
23:12
Speaker 2: My favorite is the Clayton Kershaw was pitching against the Twins.
23:17
Speaker 2: It was again either a no hitter or a perfect game.
23:19
Speaker 2: Was in complete control, low pitch count, dominating performance in
23:23
Speaker 2: the Twin Cities chance for baseball history. And Dave Roberts
23:26
Speaker 2: pulled them out to save him for the I want
23:28
Speaker 2: to save him for the playoffs. Now, this is like April.
23:31
Speaker 2: The Dodgers lost in the first round of the playoffs
23:33
Speaker 2: that year. How great is that? But they saved Kershaw.
23:36
Speaker 2: They Dave Roberts and the Nerds, the Nerd Brigade, they
23:40
Speaker 2: saved Kersh the same. This is the same thing. It's
23:44
Speaker 2: just you know, auto update, auto remove, auto ruined the vibe.
23:49
Speaker 2: That's that's the mindset. So you hire a disciple at
23:52
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23:56
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Speaker 2: weird spot. Before they get to Vegas, Scrooge rights in.
27:51
Speaker 2: He's into younger demo, He says, since today is my birthday.
27:53
Speaker 2: I don't need a birthday shout out because this ain't
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28:05
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Speaker 2: do We don't do that. We don't get paid enough.
28:10
Speaker 2: The people that do morning shout outs, the big morning guys,
28:12
Speaker 2: get paid a lot of money. I also saw Andrea
28:16
Speaker 2: the astrology insider, checking in from her cosmic compound in
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Speaker 2: somewhere at a secret location in Berkeley. Yeah, all the
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Speaker 2: big stars, they're all out. Mark the full name guy
28:30
Speaker 2: sending me random messages about Sandy Kofax pitching perfect games
28:34
Speaker 2: back in the day and all this stuff. So let's
28:38
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28:40
Speaker 5: To Andre Andre Andre in the Commonwealth, Hello Andre, Welcome,
28:47
Speaker 5: Hello Ben.
28:48
Speaker 4: It's good to be with you, coming off of fourth
28:51
Speaker 4: of July two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of this nation.
28:56
Speaker 4: Beautiful thing here particularly, you know, in the land of
29:01
Speaker 4: Liberty here right Boshington tea party dropped in your eyes.
29:07
Speaker 4: It was a big to do, but so I thought
29:09
Speaker 4: it went off well with the fourth July and uh,
29:13
Speaker 4: you know, so it was good. I hope things were
29:15
Speaker 4: good on the Left coast out there.
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Speaker 2: Oh they were great.
29:17
Speaker 1: You know.
29:17
Speaker 2: As you know, Andrea, fireworks are illegal in many places
29:21
Speaker 2: where I live, of course, so that meant everyone had
29:24
Speaker 2: illegal fireworks. And it was I don't know if you've
29:27
Speaker 2: seen the video, Andre, there somebody was flying into LA
29:30
Speaker 2: and right about prime firework time, and everywhere you looked
29:36
Speaker 2: it was fireworks like disney Land style fireworks. It was
29:40
Speaker 2: next lefl There was a haze in the air. Not
29:44
Speaker 2: Hayes from Minnesota used to call the show, Andre, like
29:46
Speaker 2: a haze. There were that many fireworks that day. And
29:49
Speaker 2: that you don't you don't get the Hayes from the
29:51
Speaker 2: safe and sane ones. You don't get there's no haze
29:54
Speaker 2: from the safe and sane ones. You got to go
29:55
Speaker 2: like next level to get the Hayese.
29:58
Speaker 4: Indeed, indeed, shout out to Hayes from him from Minnesota.
30:02
Speaker 4: You know he's out there working third shift providing you know, distinctive,
30:06
Speaker 4: distinctive perspectives. But it's been great, you know what I mean,
30:09
Speaker 4: Like Sandlot, you know that the fireworks go up once
30:12
Speaker 4: once a year on two hundred fiftieth anniversary. It's amazing
30:16
Speaker 4: for Ben. Listen here, all right, we got this World
30:18
Speaker 4: Cup situation. You know, us say all the way, big
30:22
Speaker 4: game tomorrow. I gotta say, Ben, I'm a little bit
30:25
Speaker 4: conflicted in terms of right, what's going on? I'm seeing
30:29
Speaker 4: these memes. You know, we picked out a card from Uno,
30:32
Speaker 4: right and it's the reverse the root. Meanwhile, we're planning
30:35
Speaker 4: to be without by Lagoon. I hope I pronounced it right. Okay,
30:38
Speaker 4: this lead striker and all of a sudden, team USA
30:41
Speaker 4: has a lineup that can actually win the World Cup.
30:44
Speaker 4: We got bona fide stars, poultic By Lagoon near the
30:47
Speaker 4: rest of the team stepping up. You know, we saw
30:49
Speaker 4: what happened with Brazil today. You know, we've got a
30:52
Speaker 4: little big Brazilian American population here on the Cape Islands
30:55
Speaker 4: in New England. People are hurting. But the fact of
30:57
Speaker 4: the matter from the soccer analyst, they said, this team
31:00
Speaker 4: wasn't like that. This wasn't a Ronaldo Lavino, you know
31:04
Speaker 4: what I mean. It wasn't a superstar let team from Brazil.
31:06
Speaker 4: So even though it's difficult, they lost, you know, and
31:09
Speaker 4: keep it in a hundred. They didn't have the town
31:11
Speaker 4: that they've had in previous years, but the United States
31:13
Speaker 4: we do have the town. Here's the bottom line. Ben, Honestly,
31:16
Speaker 4: I'm conflicted. Do I want Balagoon to play, Yes, I do,
31:19
Speaker 4: but I'm coming from the basketball to drisses tradition soccer.
31:22
Speaker 4: People film me in here. This is like unheard of.
31:26
Speaker 4: You get the red card, You're done, like end of stores.
31:29
Speaker 4: And now we have spionages you talked about or you know,
31:32
Speaker 4: we got high level government officials implicated. We don't know,
31:36
Speaker 4: but it's a possibility. We're not sure what that is
31:38
Speaker 4: going on. All I'm saying is I want to win
31:42
Speaker 4: far and square. I don't want any kind of team.
31:45
Speaker 2: Well, listen, you know when that game begins, it was
31:50
Speaker 2: well they called lumen Field or whatever the name of
31:52
Speaker 2: it is in Seattle.
31:53
Speaker 1: There.
31:54
Speaker 2: If the USA wins and they you know, there's only
31:56
Speaker 2: a few more games to go. The World Cup ends
31:58
Speaker 2: in like ten days. I believe the final date is
32:01
Speaker 2: the sixteenth, I think, But it's it's gonna be over soon.
32:04
Speaker 2: If the USA which no matter what, Andre, I will
32:08
Speaker 2: guarantee you there's gonna be Oh, it's rigged. You know this,
32:11
Speaker 2: that and and That's what I'm lary about.
32:16
Speaker 1: Then you know it.
32:17
Speaker 2: Doesn't just be just prepare for it. That's the way
32:19
Speaker 2: it's gonna be fine.
32:21
Speaker 4: In conclusion, other people, I want to hear from the Socratey,
32:24
Speaker 4: it just happened before. I don't know. All I know
32:27
Speaker 4: is I'm checking my fantasy sports app. I'm hoping I
32:29
Speaker 4: won my barn Burner, and I'm seeing you know that,
32:32
Speaker 4: I'm seeing the memes that got turned around here. That's
32:34
Speaker 4: not it happened as I guess that I get you back,
32:37
Speaker 4: you know. So Okay, I'm happy, but I just don't
32:40
Speaker 4: want it to be kind.
32:41
Speaker 2: Of every everything that anything that happens these days, it's
32:45
Speaker 2: always there's a conspiracy. That's just the way it is.
32:48
Speaker 5: Are I gotta go, Thank you the great Andre Andre,
32:50
Speaker 5: Andre Andre.
32:51
Speaker 2: From the Commonwealth. There will it be the summer of
32:53
Speaker 2: Andre Who knows. Let's go to Dan, who's out in
32:59
Speaker 2: Palm Desert, Indio. What's going on?
33:01
Speaker 3: Dan? The man?
33:02
Speaker 2: Welcome Dan?
33:04
Speaker 8: How you doing Ben?
33:05
Speaker 1: Yeah?
33:05
Speaker 8: I watched a Rod Red Cubs replay nineteen sixty five.
33:11
Speaker 8: Ten intings pictures would go to first base put on
33:14
Speaker 8: a jacket. Okay, stayed in the game. Dirty uniformers running
33:18
Speaker 8: the basis. One hundred and eighty eight pitchers plus guys
33:21
Speaker 8: to a no hitter, unbelievable. That's when men were men
33:25
Speaker 8: and billy goats were scared.
33:27
Speaker 2: Yes, this year, are you afraid of the billy goat? Yeah?
33:30
Speaker 2: It is cool, isn't it wild?
33:32
Speaker 6: Though?
33:32
Speaker 2: Then, because everyone loves to brag about how these guys
33:34
Speaker 2: all have their private chefs and they've got their personal trainers,
33:38
Speaker 2: and they are fully dedicated. Back in those days, guys
33:41
Speaker 2: still had jobs in the off season. Some of the
33:43
Speaker 2: guys they didn't have their full salary cover. And yet
33:46
Speaker 2: with all of all of the advances, Dan, these guys
33:51
Speaker 2: they get to one hundred pitches and they get the willies.
33:53
Speaker 2: They can't handle anymore. They got to come out of
33:55
Speaker 2: the game's wild.
33:58
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's like a parent overpitched. I think their child.
34:01
Speaker 8: Let him play.
34:02
Speaker 2: Let him plet's right, Dan, let him play. Dan put
34:05
Speaker 2: them in dance a game. Play the damn game. Dan,
34:08
Speaker 2: play the game.
34:09
Speaker 8: Just the way you did when you were young.
34:11
Speaker 2: Ben, exactly. Think my moneyball Mallard, when I played basketball,
34:15
Speaker 2: Betty and Bopper and baseball. Damn right, all right, thank you,
34:19
Speaker 2: all right, I gotta go. Thank you Steve real quick.
34:21
Speaker 2: Steve's a legends in South Dakota. We love Steve. Hello, Steve,
34:26
Speaker 2: what do you got? You got a hot take on
34:27
Speaker 2: this the umpire thing. They're getting rid of. C. B.
34:30
Speaker 2: Buckner buying out all these umpires. They want no personality
34:33
Speaker 2: from the umpire.
34:34
Speaker 1: Steve, you know, ban their collars umpires. I I umpire
34:42
Speaker 1: this year, amateur baseball. I have an umpire. In ten years,
34:45
Speaker 1: they brought me back. I love it. People hackle me.
34:50
Speaker 1: I hackle right back at him. You know, it's a
34:54
Speaker 1: good time. I'll tell you a quick story. Three years ago,
34:56
Speaker 1: I'm umpired. They didn't have an umpire. So I this
35:00
Speaker 1: little league game and this coach he's Oh, I'm like,
35:06
Speaker 1: it's little league. Clean the bat Anyway. This guy, he
35:10
Speaker 1: ain't even forty years old. I'm in my mid seventies.
35:15
Speaker 1: He comes into the umpire room after the game. I
35:18
Speaker 1: dropped him. The fans who loved it, Oh, I dropped
35:22
Speaker 1: him hard. Then I did something about his family.
35:26
Speaker 2: But oh that right, Steve, you were you were taking
35:30
Speaker 2: you were taking nothing, Steve. You were not putting up
35:33
Speaker 2: with anything.
35:34
Speaker 1: No who goes into an umpire room in that little
35:38
Speaker 1: league game.
35:39
Speaker 2: I didn't even know they had. I didn't know they
35:40
Speaker 2: had umpire rooms at litle league games. I had no idea.
35:43
Speaker 2: That's wild.
35:44
Speaker 1: Oh hell yeah, that's a big time. But I new
35:47
Speaker 1: amateur baseball and.
35:49
Speaker 2: No, that's great, that's great. Well, that's good. I got
35:51
Speaker 2: to run because they're yelling at me, Steve, But I
35:53
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38:18
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38:26
Speaker 9: Former NFL Genital general manager Scott mcclewan commented on the
38:31
Speaker 9: draft pick of the Rams and said, I think the
38:33
Speaker 9: quarterback from Alabama is overdrafted. Compared him to JJ McCarthy
38:38
Speaker 9: and Matt Jones a career back up.
38:40
Speaker 2: Uh huh, Ben.
38:41
Speaker 9: Do you think he's gonna be better than JJ McCarthy
38:44
Speaker 9: and mac Jones.
38:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he's got better coaching, he's gonna have better plays. Reund,
38:47
Speaker 2: I don't love the pick. I hated the pick. I
38:48
Speaker 2: wouldn't have picked him. That's not the guy I wanted.
38:51
Speaker 2: They didn't consult me. I don't think it's a good
38:53
Speaker 2: pick at all.
38:53
Speaker 6: Now.
38:54
Speaker 2: I hope it works out. I hope I'm wrong. I
38:55
Speaker 2: hope he turns into something. But uh, most of those
38:58
Speaker 2: Alabama quarterbacks have not been very good in the NFL.
39:00
Speaker 9: The Nick Saban guys next, Ben, The US's win over
39:04
Speaker 9: Bosnia had thirty three and a half million viewers on TV.
39:09
Speaker 9: You compare that to the NFL's twenty twenty six wild
39:11
Speaker 9: Card Round.
39:12
Speaker 2: Which is three levels below the super Bowl. They had
39:14
Speaker 2: thirty two million viewers.
39:15
Speaker 9: Yeah, the super Bowl had one hundred and twenty seven million.
39:19
Speaker 9: Where do you think the World Cup finale will be?
39:23
Speaker 2: Well, if the USA is in there, they'll get a
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Speaker 2: super Bowl audience, So yeah, I think they will. If not,
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Speaker 2: forget about it, you know, it'll be the usual soccer
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Speaker 2: cult that'll watch it. All right, what's next?
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Speaker 9: George Kittle gave his Mount Rushmore of tight ends. He
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Speaker 9: put Dallas Clark on there. That's kind of weird. But
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Speaker 9: the question is, Ben, do you think George Kittle will
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Speaker 9: end up on the Mount Rushmore of tight Ends when
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Speaker 9: it's all said.
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Speaker 2: Ending, no, I think Kittle's good. I don't think he's
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Speaker 2: like all time great tight end guy. I don't have
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Speaker 2: him in that stratus for how do we do, Kobolo?
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Speaker 2: You pass? I won the game. I won like you
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Speaker 2: just heard it. I won the