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Hour 2 - War of Words · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Playball. It's our nabird right out of left field and
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Speaker 1: in your ear drums here on the Ben Mathers Show
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Speaker 1: on this Thursday, the nineteenth day of February. And the Guardians,
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Speaker 1: that's a baseball team now named after a bridge. Their
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Speaker 1: GM Mike Chernoff says it's just impossible with this economic
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Speaker 1: landscape to sign top tier free agents. To translate his
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Speaker 1: cryptic message for the regular guy, also, do you have
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Speaker 1: any advice for the robber barons of baseball to win
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Speaker 1: the pending civil war labor dispute with the players? And
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Speaker 1: what do you make of the Minnesota Twins claiming that
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Speaker 1: just fifty thousand people in a state of millions have
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Speaker 1: subscribed to watch their baseball games on television, a rather
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Speaker 1: embarrassing number if true. Obviously this was an intentional leak.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about all of those things and more right
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Speaker 1: now here. It is our number two, cranking up the
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Speaker 1: war of words, words, words, words, words, words. Welcome in
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Speaker 1: this hour is from baseball. Oh and the World Baseball
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Speaker 1: Classic is around the corner. The people that Major League
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Speaker 1: Baseball hope you watch that they plan on piggybacking off
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Speaker 1: the Olympics. The Winter Olympics is that will wind down
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Speaker 1: soon and then the World Baseball Classic will start up.
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Speaker 1: In the meantime. The only real stories that are coming
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Speaker 1: out of spring training are people getting hurt and complaining
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Speaker 1: about the other side. The players are complaining about the owners.
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Speaker 1: The owners are complaining about the players, and you are
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Speaker 1: in the middle. Now the latest we go to Cleveland.
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Speaker 1: We'll start out there Cleveland spring training camp in the
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Speaker 1: Cactus League, where the rhetoric is getting cranked up for
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Speaker 1: baseball's civil war. And if you've not been following the
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Speaker 1: latest development, So the Cleveland baseball team, which is named
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Speaker 1: after a bridge, that it changed their name. The Wokester's
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Speaker 1: demanded they changed their name, and so the Wolkester's won
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Speaker 1: and the team's called the Guardians named after a bridge anyway,
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Speaker 1: that's what they're named after. The Guardian Bridge in Cleveland.
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Speaker 1: So the GM, Mike Churnoff, I believe is the gentleman's name,
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Speaker 1: and he explained this week the importance of scouting and
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Speaker 1: development for the Cleveland baseball team given the financial constraints,
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Speaker 1: a real hardship story here. He said that quote, we
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Speaker 1: can't meaning as a small market team, we can't sign
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Speaker 1: top tier free agents. It's just impossible with the economic
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Speaker 1: landscape in baseball. Booooooo, the GM said, Now this comes
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Speaker 1: days after the most powerful man in baseball. You know
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Speaker 1: who the most powerful man in baseball is? You know?
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Speaker 1: No it's not Rob Manford, No, no, no, Scott Boris.
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Speaker 1: Scott Boris is the guy's name. So the agent, now,
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Speaker 1: Scott Boris explained that every MLB team can afford one
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Speaker 1: to two top level free agents, said everyone. And that
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Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point. So let us discuss
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Speaker 1: the question. You've got the Guardian GM again, Mike Churnoff,
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Speaker 1: I believe it is the gentleman's name who says it's
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Speaker 1: just impossible. It is just impossible with the economic landscape
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Speaker 1: to sign top free agents. Would you translate all of
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Speaker 1: this these cryptic messages for the regular guy. So I've
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Speaker 1: got my observations, jumpbo sized junior high school, and three stooges,
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Speaker 1: and we'll combine these together. We'll go and put them
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Speaker 1: in order and play Connect three. And I have never
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Speaker 1: lost Connect three. I don't lose Connect three. I'm not
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Speaker 1: planning on losing Connect three right now. I'm certainly not
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Speaker 1: gonna lose to you. That's not gonna happen. Now, let's
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Speaker 1: see here, number wa I said, number one number all right.
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Speaker 1: So the GM guy Mike churnoff the Cleveland GM again,
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Speaker 1: saying it's impossible. It's impossible to add a big name
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Speaker 1: free agent. It's like they're trying to split the atom.
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Speaker 2: Is all.
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Speaker 1: My god, it's impossible. It's my god. And to that,
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Speaker 1: I stretch, and I yawn stretch. I said, come on, well,
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Speaker 1: you're waiting for that Eureka moment playing the small market
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Speaker 1: card from the bottom of the deck, right, And this
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Speaker 1: is jumbo sized propaganda. You don't have to go up
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Speaker 1: to thirty thousand feet and look down. You don't need
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Speaker 1: a telescope to look up. It's jumbo sized propaganda. It's
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Speaker 1: weaponized poverty, and they're lining it up. It's the battle
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Speaker 1: for the hearts. Minds and souls of the consumers that
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Speaker 1: people that care about baseball, and that would be you,
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Speaker 1: unless you don't really care about baseball, and then you
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Speaker 1: don't matter, no hard feelings. So this is all pre
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Speaker 1: lockout nonsense. It's a sob story tour every sad sack
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Speaker 1: team in baseball. It happens, every labor negotiation, everyone, everyone,
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Speaker 1: And I was there, I mean as a young young
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Speaker 1: lad back in the day when they lost an entire postseason.
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Speaker 1: There was no World Series in the nineties one year
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Speaker 1: because of a work stoppage that happened and swallowed up
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Speaker 1: the season. In the beginning of the following season, they
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Speaker 1: even had replacement players. It was a big mess back
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Speaker 1: in the day. And this kind of stuff, the war
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Speaker 1: of words, happens now. The owner of the Cleveland baseball team,
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Speaker 1: the Dolan family, Paul Dolan, is worth four or five billion,
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Speaker 1: depending on where you look, and either way that's pretty good.
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Speaker 1: Either way, that's pretty good. And so we're supposed to
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Speaker 1: believe here that they just have no path to even
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Speaker 1: adding one free agent in Cleveland. Just more grumbling about
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Speaker 1: the boogeyman, who the Boogeyman, the big blue Boogeymon all
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers, the evil Dodgers. A right, they're distorting everything.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's so great. God is it great?
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Speaker 1: You all hate the Dodgers. It's too hard, it's too
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Speaker 1: doll my god. They're wicked. The Dodgers are wicked. And
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Speaker 1: to that, I say, bravo. You have just outed yourself.
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Speaker 1: You've stepped out of the closet. You're a loser, complete
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Speaker 1: and total loser. You have no fighting spirit, no fighting spirit,
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Speaker 1: and you know, just sit there like a scared turtle. Uh,
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Speaker 1: scared turtle. Right. Major League Baseball right now is ratcheting
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Speaker 1: up the rhetoric here in what are we supposed to
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Speaker 1: have a GoFundMe for the boys at the yacht club?
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Speaker 1: Is that what we're supposed to do here, the owners
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Speaker 1: at the yacht club? Is that how we do this here?
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Speaker 1: And so you the fan, you buy the merch, you
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Speaker 1: buy the tickets, and you hand them, you hand them
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Speaker 1: your time. Most valuable thing you have is your time,
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Speaker 1: and they give you a flea ridden roster. So I
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Speaker 1: believe it is not impossible to add a free agent
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Speaker 1: if you're a team like Cleveland. It is just inconvenient.
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Speaker 1: And rich dudes hate being inconvenience. They can't stand it.
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Speaker 1: So rather than be inconvenience, they'll just convince dumb people
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Speaker 1: that they need to have a salary cap all right.
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Speaker 1: And these are the same people who if their boss said, listen,
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Speaker 1: we were gonna cut your salary, would you be okay
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Speaker 1: with that? Would you just okay?
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Speaker 2: Sure?
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Speaker 1: Why not? No, you shouldn't be now Page two, keeping
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Speaker 1: the drum beat going of the Hour of Discontent here
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Speaker 1: on the Ben Malor Show. So the question is this,
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Speaker 1: do you have any advice? Do you have any advice
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Speaker 1: for the robber barons of baseball to win this labor
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Speaker 1: dispute against the player? Now we'll be talking about this
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Speaker 1: for the next year and a half. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to spend all of my bullets on this, but I'll
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Speaker 1: spend some bullets on this today because I think it's
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Speaker 1: interesting considering all of the stories that are bouncing around here,
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Speaker 1: and the bar is pretty low. The bar is pretty low.
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Speaker 1: But do you have any advice? Now, if you have
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Speaker 1: paid attention in previous episodes of this show, you know
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Speaker 1: I am on the side of no cap. I am
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Speaker 1: a no capper, no capper. I believe in no cap
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Speaker 1: and While I find many of these pompous, coddled, spoiled
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Speaker 1: Braddy baseball players annoying, I still support them. I still
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Speaker 1: support them. Now, what would it take for me to
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Speaker 1: do a one eighty? What would it take to do
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Speaker 1: a one to eighty and go the other way and say,
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Speaker 1: I'm in that purple area. I could go either way
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Speaker 1: as a voter. Where what would it take for me
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Speaker 1: to go to the other side? So I'm glad you asked.
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Speaker 1: I have activated the Mather Think Tank. So this is
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Speaker 1: what it would take. My advice to the tycoons of
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Speaker 1: baseball if you want to win my vote. And I'm
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Speaker 1: clearly on the side of the players. All right, you
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Speaker 1: know this big food fight we're going to have between
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Speaker 1: the ownership class and the union. This is a radical
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Speaker 1: concept and I guarantee you if you can do this,
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Speaker 1: I'm in I'm on your side. I will pull for
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Speaker 1: the owners. Stop hiding the books, right, You're hiding it
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Speaker 1: like it's the kernel's secret recipe, the eleven herbs and spices.
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Speaker 1: Stop if you truly believe that your sport is broken,
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Speaker 1: and all these pathetic stories about poverty this and poverty
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Speaker 1: that for the billionaires and if you really want a salarycap,
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Speaker 1: that's fine. Let's go back to junior high junior high school.
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Speaker 1: Open book test, open book test. What does that mean?
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Speaker 1: That means you don't have to show me, but show
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Speaker 1: the players. Open the books up, show the profit and
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Speaker 1: loss statements, Itemize the revenue, itemize the expenses, the creative
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Speaker 1: accounting that you've been doing, and all that stuff. Let
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Speaker 1: the players bring their own calculators, their own being counters.
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Speaker 1: And if the sport of baseball is truly gasping for air,
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Speaker 1: which you have all bitched about for fifty years or longer,
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Speaker 1: just prove it. That's it. It should be easy. Does
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Speaker 1: anyone dis why would that be a problem? Seriously, why
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Speaker 1: would that be a problem. Don't give us the George W.
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Speaker 1: Bush line from back in the day, fuzzy math and
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Speaker 1: wrapped in a press release. Listen, even as I understand
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Speaker 1: the hungry puppies, the pathetic loser franchises that have been
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Speaker 1: competent ownership, like the Pirates and Tampa Bay and the
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Speaker 1: what are the Sacramento They want to be called Sacramento
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Speaker 1: and embarrassed by Sacramento. The Athletics somehow managed to turn
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Speaker 1: operating profits while crying right into their champagne crying. So
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Speaker 1: the point is this is not a soup kitchen. It's
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Speaker 1: a cartel of coupon code con men, is what it is,
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Speaker 1: pleading poverty from their luxury mansions and their homes and
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Speaker 1: the luxury boxes and all that. So if you're broken,
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Speaker 1: you truly are broken. This is it. It should be
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Speaker 1: rather easy you have Why would you not do it?
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Speaker 1: Just let everyone see, let everyone see how broken your
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Speaker 1: business is. And as I have followed this over the years,
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Speaker 1: there has always been a conga line of billionaires ready
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Speaker 1: to grab the next available franchise, like it's the last
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Speaker 1: lobster role at a Hampton's clam bake. They just have
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Speaker 1: to get their hands on it. And so until you
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Speaker 1: are willing to do that, I don't care how many
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Speaker 1: useful idiots you find in the media and how many
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Speaker 1: low information fans support you. Spare me the violin music
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Speaker 1: if that's where you are financially. And maybe it is transparency.
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Speaker 1: I want that. And then again, you're not going to
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Speaker 1: you're not giving this out to the public. You're allowing
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Speaker 1: the union to look at it, and they will look
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Speaker 1: at everything, and they will look at the numbers and
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Speaker 1: all that, and if you're not being a bunch of
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Speaker 1: sleeves balls, Okay, I don't need the crocodile tears. I'm done.
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Speaker 1: That said, we do have one more crocodile tiers story here,
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Speaker 1: the final part of this Mathed monologue. We pivot out
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Speaker 1: of Minnesota. So I read a story here claiming that
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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Twins. That's a baseball team, not a good one.
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Speaker 1: Where have you gone, Kirby Pucket? My god? Anyway, the
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Speaker 1: Twins are having major financial problems, new shortfalls. It's another
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Speaker 1: tiny Violin story. So they highlighted in a story that
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Speaker 1: was conveniently leaked to one of the business publications. I
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Speaker 1: wonder who leaked it. I wonder who linked it. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: the Twins baseball team claiming that while they did have
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Speaker 1: a cable TV deal, it was worth almost fifty five
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Speaker 1: million in twenty twenty three with what used to be
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Speaker 1: called the Bally's Sports Group. In twenty twenty three, and
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Speaker 1: because of some bankruptcy, that deal fell apart, and the
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Speaker 1: Twins decided, you know what we're gonna do. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: go direct to consumer. Direct to consumer Baseball encouraged it.
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Speaker 1: They said you don't need cable television. Just listen, do
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Speaker 1: it on your own. Okay, we'll start this little Fugeese
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Speaker 1: Twins TV thing. Okay, we'll do that. You're no problem.
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Speaker 1: So I bring this up because the owner, Tom Pollad,
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Speaker 1: in a story that was in one of the business
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Speaker 1: publications as we, claimed that the Twins are projected to
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Speaker 1: have in a state with the millions and millions of people,
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Speaker 1: the Twins are projected to have. How many people purchase
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Speaker 1: a subscription for ninety nine dollars to watch a season
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Speaker 1: of morbid baseball from the Minnesota Twins. You want to
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Speaker 1: take a guess on that this is the Great Divide,
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Speaker 1: by the way, we're going to cross the Great Divide.
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Speaker 1: All right, so you got a number in your head,
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Speaker 1: Good job by you. The owner of the Twins claimed
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Speaker 1: that they are going to have this season, they're projected
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Speaker 1: to have fifty thousand. That's it, fifty thousand people pay
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Speaker 1: ninety nine dollars a game to watch a horrifically terrible
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Speaker 1: baseball team. That works out to four point nine million
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Speaker 1: dollars in revenue. Of course, you have to factor in
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Speaker 1: that there's some production costs in that a net loss
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Speaker 1: of close to fifty million. Now they can sell some advertising,
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Speaker 1: so they make some money back on that, but the
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Speaker 1: gap is rather large. The gap is rather large as
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Speaker 1: you bounce around the numbers. So the question what do
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Speaker 1: you make of the latest SOB story from baseball The
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Speaker 1: Twins claiming they have just fifty thousand subscribers and therefore
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Speaker 1: fifty thousand viewers for their TV broadcast in twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: So this was again an sl A strategic leak. The Twinkies.
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Speaker 1: They're claiming they went from fifty four point eight million
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Speaker 1: and that's the size of Lake Superior, and now they've
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Speaker 1: got a couple of nickels they tossed into the kiddie
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Speaker 1: pool instead of Lake Superiors. That's where we are. So
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Speaker 1: I know everyone in the luth is like, well, Lake
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Speaker 1: Superior is better than the kiddie pool. So let's call
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Speaker 1: this what it is. It's friendly fire. It's a self
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Speaker 1: inflicted wound major League Baseball, the hubris of Major League Baseball.
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Speaker 1: They poked themselves in the eye three Stooges style and said, yet,
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Speaker 1: direct to consume, direct to consumer, that's the future. That
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Speaker 1: is a choice. That is a choice. Going from a
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Speaker 1: casino with house money to shaking a coffee can at
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Speaker 1: a red light. That's a choice. And here's the dirty
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Speaker 1: little secret. The Twins aren't even trying to win. And
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Speaker 1: they're like an NBA team. I don't know what they're
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Speaker 1: tanking for. They're not trying to win, and so it's
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Speaker 1: not muscy TV. And I had mentioned this in most markets,
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Speaker 1: only a sliver of cable consumers were actually even watching
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Speaker 1: baseball or basketball on a nightly basis, oh hockey. I
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Speaker 1: had been told by people I know that are very
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Speaker 1: powerful in television that the number was around five percent
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Speaker 1: of people actually watching on a given night like a
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Speaker 1: Wednesday night baseball game of the people that subscribe to cable. Now,
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Speaker 1: based on the numbers, I crunched the numbers because I
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Speaker 1: have no time on my hands or nothing but time,
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Speaker 1: I should say. And if I don't know how accurate,
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Speaker 1: I feel like the Twins are being dishonest with that number.
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Speaker 1: Let's just say they're actually on the up and up.
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Speaker 1: That would mean in the state of Minnesota, it's zero
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Speaker 1: point eight percent of the entire population, not from one
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Speaker 1: hundred to zero point eight. And then if you just
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Speaker 1: do the twin cities of the population in Minneapolis and
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Speaker 1: Saint Paul. It would be one point three percent of
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Speaker 1: just those two areas lumped together, and that would be that.
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Speaker 1: And so this does smell a little massage, right, But
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Speaker 1: when you take away the cable television crutch and the teams,
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Speaker 1: they do look a lot less like a Fortune five
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Speaker 1: hundred titan and more like they're lining up at the
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Speaker 1: soup kitchen of sports economics. And this is a whole
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Speaker 1: new world here, right, and everything's set up. All of
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Speaker 1: the content tracts are set up based on the cable
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Speaker 1: TV money, and so that's something they're going to have
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Speaker 1: to figure out. But again, if this is really reality,
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Speaker 1: then just open up the books and I'm sure you
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Speaker 1: can figure out something with the players. It is the
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Speaker 3: what do you rather it be your wife's?
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Speaker 4: Sister what would you rather it?
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Speaker 1: a new new, boss and it's all being controlled By Scott.
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Speaker 1: Boris boris is the guy that's controlling all of that.
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Speaker 1: Stuff speaking of that, though and the state of baseball
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Speaker 1: and the union and all that, stuff more of the
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Speaker 1: same rhetoric we, mentioned all this stuff about the owners
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Speaker 1: and THE gms and these people complaining about poverty and
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Speaker 1: all this. Stuff, well The Major League Baseball Players, association
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Speaker 1: one of the, executives as far as we, know is
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Speaker 1: not sleeping with his sister in, law said in a
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Speaker 1: statement here that this Is Bruce. Meyer Bruce, meyer the
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Speaker 1: new Big, kahuna and he says a lockout is all
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Speaker 1: but guaranteed at the end of this. Agreement And meyer
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Speaker 1: said the league has pretty much said that their strategy is,
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Speaker 1: bargaining or their strategy rather than, bargaining has always been
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Speaker 1: put as much pressure on players as they can to
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Speaker 1: try to create divisions and cracks among our. Membership it's never.
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Speaker 1: WORKED i don't think it will ever, Work meyer said
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Speaker 1: of THE Mlb Players, union subject to, change probably, not probably.
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Speaker 1: NOT i mentioned The twins and they claim they only
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Speaker 1: have fifty thousand people watching their games paying for their.
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Speaker 1: Games The cardinals, ALSO i didn't mention The cardinals in the,
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Speaker 1: to remember weasel term ding ding ding ding ding up
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Speaker 1: tv distribution deal with baseball. Itself so they say they're
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Speaker 1: gonna lose twenty million, dollars and everyone bringing up what
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Speaker 1: be with The Doddrew OH u so. HILARIOUS i have
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Speaker 1: never seen such a bigger pack of losers that don't
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Speaker 1: have the fighting spirit, right rather than SAY i don't
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Speaker 1: million dollars stacked on every base At Dodger, stadium it
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Speaker 1: doesn't mean didly pooh go out and beat, them beat
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Speaker 1: their At what a great story that would be if
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Speaker 1: you beat the big Bad dodgers and instead of going
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Speaker 1: out there and said we're gonna kick their, ass The
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Speaker 1: Toronto Blue jays came this close to be The dodgers
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Speaker 1: in the world there. Is but instead of having that,
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Speaker 1: mindset all these, sick pathetic losers are, like oh, no,
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Speaker 1: oh it's not, fair we can't compat. Boooooo, disgusting absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Disgusting all, right let's go to the let's go to the.
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Speaker 1: TikTok whoopee Pie, Blair, yeah what's, Up? BLAIR i just
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Speaker 5: Emotion i'm just stopped feeling, well.
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Speaker 4: What's.
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Speaker 5: WRONG i came down with the, COLD i think running
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Speaker 5: nose and blow my nose since yesterday and it's just
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Speaker 5: feeling like. Crap that's. All just not going TO i
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Speaker 5: was going to go to the game for a college
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Speaker 5: game Fromas college woman's, basketball but staying home trying to
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Speaker 5: get all the way.
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Speaker 1: Better but it is difficult to not be able to
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Speaker 1: go to A Thomas college women's college basketball. GAME i
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Speaker 1: don't know how you're going to recover from. That, yeah playoff? Playoffs,
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Speaker 1: yeah how's life treating? Everything everything? Good everything, Good blair
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Speaker 1: everything all?
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Speaker 5: Right, yeah all, right it is, yeah it's all. Right you.
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Speaker 5: Greet?
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Speaker 1: Blair what is it going to?
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Speaker 1: Know we don't have a date. Yet, well let me
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Speaker 1: Can't they, can, okay but you. Don't marcel calls three
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Speaker 1: days a. Week you call once every two. Months the.
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Speaker 5: Difference just give it to them to give that.
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Speaker 5: Him are?
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Speaker 1: You are you giving? Up like Major League baseball gives
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Speaker 1: up because The dodgers too? Good are you giving?
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Speaker 5: Up?
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Speaker 1: Blair?
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Speaker 5: WHATEVER i don't call, them she can.
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Speaker 1: Give it Had kathy And madison writes In kathy says
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Speaker 1: that you're on a porn? Site is that? True? Blair
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Speaker 1: that she, says that's a porn site that you're.
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Speaker 5: On so are?
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Speaker 1: We but is it really a porn? Size she, Right.
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Speaker 5: I'm an ashamed of. It, YEAH i go, On oh.
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Speaker 1: My, God, blair this IS i just promoted a porn.
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Speaker 1: bow Forget i'm About kathy And. Maddie you Know kathy's, Famous.
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Speaker 1: Blair she's the haymowna. Woman she's famous on the show
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Speaker 1: because she gave us my. Ball, yeah that's. Her that
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Speaker 1: woman just exposed. YOU i think you should stop talking
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Speaker 1: about your lower.
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Speaker 5: Bets.
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Speaker 1: Mister uh, Yeah, blair are You, No i'm just. Ashamed
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Speaker 1: but CAN i ask a Question blair about far.
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Speaker 5: From me just busting my balls on the. Radio see
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Speaker 5: he likes talking about.
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Speaker 5: Balls big bust my.
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Speaker 1: Balls, Okay so DO i want to, Know, blair what
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Speaker 1: you're doing on a porn? STITE i THINK i can
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Speaker 1: tell what you're. Doing, well what else would you be
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Speaker 1: doing on? THERE i mean there's only a couple of
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Speaker 1: things you'd be doing on. There my right hand was
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Speaker 1: getting a, workout.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah. Fingers.
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Speaker 1: Okay so we went from Sick Blair i'm. Depressed blair. To,
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Speaker 1: Hey i'm on some App blair to it's a porn.
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Speaker 5: Site doing the. Same you, know we knew.
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Speaker 1: Who now we're getting, crazy but now we're getting Wild.
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Speaker 1: Blair now we're getting whack a Doodle. Blair, yeah.
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Speaker 5: Busted, Hard, okay freaking. Person it's a lady Is kathy And.
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Speaker 1: Kathy you know, What, kathy you get a golden. Ticket
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Speaker 1: you get a Golden and they said journalism was Dead
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Speaker 1: anything else you want to? Add? Blair is that? Good,
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Speaker 5: YEAH i just want to say one more. Thing thank,
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Speaker 5: You thank, You. KATHY i appreciate that this early in the.
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Speaker 1: Morning that's sarcasm that you're. Being you're being, Disingenuous. Blair
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Speaker 1: you're being disingenuous.
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Speaker 5: Because said What i'm, Doing i'm.
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Speaker 1: It take they'll take a. Loss call us. Tomorrow, okay call,
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Speaker 1: Tomorrow we'll do.
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Speaker 5: It is gonna win the whole March.
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Speaker 1: Tampa he's comfortable, there he's a, legend and the team's
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Speaker 1: still pretty, good SO i don't see why he would be.
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Speaker 4: Next The phillies have had a huge amount of success
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Speaker 4: Since Dave dombrowski took over the front, office but with
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Speaker 4: how bad the offseason is, Been summer saying That dombrowski
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Speaker 4: should be on the hot seat heading into this. Season
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Speaker 1: in third place in the, division behind The mets and
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Speaker 4: no if he wants to keep, playing you know it's
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