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Hour 1 - Do the Hustle! · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Here we go. Welcome, it's our number one. And here
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Speaker 1: in our one of the original recipe podcast, the rare
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Speaker 1: is repackaged here in the podcast. So here in our
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Speaker 1: number one, how do you dissect Rob Manford's decision to
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Speaker 1: let Pete Rose and shoeless Joe Jackson back into baseball.
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Speaker 1: Where does the Pete Rose Hall of Fame movement go
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Speaker 1: now he's still not in the Hall of Fame, although
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Speaker 1: he's now eligible to come back to the Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 1: And what does Pete Rose being given reinstatement to baseball
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Speaker 1: do for guys like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, the
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Speaker 1: steroid stars of the early two thousands and the nineties
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Speaker 1: who were not not currently in the Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about all of that and more right now
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Speaker 1: is from baseball. That's right, baseball. What you didn't start
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Speaker 1: with an NBA game? What's wrong with you? All my guys?
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Speaker 1: The playoffs?
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Speaker 3: You know?
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Speaker 1: Like basketball? Shut up? So I made an editorial decision.
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Speaker 1: I made an editor editorial decision. And normally we start
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Speaker 1: with basketball, and I'd rant, and somebody'd be in the
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Speaker 1: vomit comment and that would be that, and I'd move
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Speaker 1: on and then we take calls, and that's normally how
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Speaker 1: it goes. But this night different than all other nights.
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Speaker 1: Why is this night different than all other nights. Well,
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Speaker 1: I've made an editorial decision. It's not every day that
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Speaker 1: lifetime bands are over done and players are welcome back.
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Speaker 1: And this is a story that has kind of followed me,
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Speaker 1: if you will, since I got into the talk radio
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Speaker 1: world when I was a young lad, back in the day.
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Speaker 1: So I thought it was an interesting story, and I
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Speaker 1: think it's worth some conversation here at the start, and
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Speaker 1: we'll get into the basketball games. We've got four hours
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Speaker 1: of nonsense. That's a long time to talk. That's a
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Speaker 1: lot of talk, so plenty of time to get to everything.
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Speaker 1: But I want to start with the baseball And I
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Speaker 1: assume you've heard by now, but possibly you live in
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Speaker 1: a box and you have not heard. We really love
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Speaker 1: people that live in shoeboxes. It's good for us. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, if you missed it, major League Baseball's commissioner.
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Speaker 1: We like to call him Rob Manfraud, But Rob Manford
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Speaker 1: has removed Pete Rose from the ineligible list. He's back.
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Speaker 1: He's also dead. Also welcome back, Shoeless Joe Jackson also dead.
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Speaker 1: There's a theme if you're dead and your band Rob
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Speaker 1: Manford likes you. Welcome back, Welcome back. Now you're dead,
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Speaker 1: but you're back the permanent ineligible list of Major League Baseball.
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Speaker 1: You've got a bunch of deceased players, but the headline
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Speaker 1: Joe Jackson. There were movies made many years ago, and
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Speaker 1: I don't know how many people today even though who
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Speaker 1: Joe Jackson was shoeless Joe Jackson, but Pete Rose, shoeless
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Speaker 1: Joe Jackson. Couple of figures in Baseball's past that have
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Speaker 1: been welcome back now as a result, and you don't
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Speaker 1: bury the lead, my man. All right, I'm not gonna
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Speaker 1: bear the lead. So as a result, here it's really
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Speaker 1: about Pete Rose. Pete Rose, major League Baseball's all time
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Speaker 1: hit leader. He's now eligible, as it is shoeless Joe Jackson,
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Speaker 1: eligible for election to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Keep
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Speaker 1: in mind that President Trump helped get this done. The
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Speaker 1: President met with Rob Manford recently, and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: shortly after that, wonder what kind of deal they worked out? Hey,
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Speaker 1: let Pete back in. We'll let to continue to screw
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Speaker 1: fans over with the nickel and dime major League Baseball
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Speaker 1: TV package. Who knows, but either way, Rob Manford has
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Speaker 1: done it. He has removed Pete Rose from the ineligible list.
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Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question for the esteem panel.
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Speaker 1: How do you dissect Rob Manford's decision to let Pete
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Speaker 1: Rose and these other dead players, including shoeless Joe Jackson
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Speaker 1: back into baseball. So I've got profit, I've got blue
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Speaker 1: ribbon and home depot, and we will combine all of
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Speaker 1: these things together and we're going to make a line
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Speaker 1: drive base it up the middle. That's what we're gonna make,
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Speaker 1: all right. So the word I have for this I
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Speaker 1: didn't ask for a word, But the word I have
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Speaker 1: for this move by Rob Manford to allow Pete Rose
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Speaker 1: back in baseball, my word is cosmetic. That is my
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Speaker 1: word is a cosmetic move by Rob Manford. Now I
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Speaker 1: mentioned this is a nostalgia's story. That's why I'm starting
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Speaker 1: to show with it. So when I started in radio,
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Speaker 1: I was a young lad. I was a teenager, and
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Speaker 1: I walked into the radio station in San Diego, the
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Speaker 1: mighty six ninety man. I thought this was the big leagues, right,
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Speaker 1: This is seventy seven thousand watt radio station in San Diego.
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Speaker 1: It was a border blaster station. The transmitter was actually
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Speaker 1: in Mexico and it blasted all over and at that time,
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Speaker 1: before the interweb, it was a big deal. And I
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Speaker 1: remember I was an intern for this guy, Lee Hacksaw Hamilton,
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Speaker 1: who was like my mentor, one of my mentors in radio.
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Speaker 1: And at that time it had only been a few years.
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Speaker 1: I'm dating myself, but it had only been a few
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Speaker 1: years since Pete Rose had been banned from baseball. And
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Speaker 1: I learned quickly from observation that when you had a
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Speaker 1: slow day, I was a young whipper snapper, but when
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Speaker 1: you had a slow day in sports radio and you
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Speaker 1: wanted to stir things up, what you did is you said, hey,
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Speaker 1: Pete Rose, did he bet on baseball? Should he be
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Speaker 1: banned from baseball? Sure, they removed the band, and then
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Speaker 1: you give out the number, and the phones light up
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Speaker 1: like a Christmas tree. And it was for years. It
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Speaker 1: was the go to conversation. It was the go to conversation,
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Speaker 1: and everything would light up and people had very strong
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Speaker 1: opinions and both ways, both ways on that. So I
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Speaker 1: look at this as cosmetic now, because yeah, Rob Manford
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Speaker 1: will get some brownie points, He'll get some brownie points
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Speaker 1: for this reinstating Pete Rose at this point, if you
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Speaker 1: do the calculus on this using the Mallard man, it's
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Speaker 1: a pr win for baseball. Yeah, there are some people
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Speaker 1: complaining and ranting and saying, you know, Peteza scumbag and
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Speaker 1: shouldn't be welcome back and all that stuff. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: the old timers, the old timers, and I still occasionally
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Speaker 1: get a call it Pete Roseville Hall of Fame. I
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Speaker 1: mentioned Dick and Dayton's name here earlier, and that's the
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Speaker 1: number one Pete Rose fan. I know the number one there.
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Speaker 1: But for me, the idea of putting Pete Rose back
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Speaker 1: on the eligible list is a fruitless endeavor. It's a
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Speaker 1: fruitless endeavor. And here's why they have both left this
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Speaker 1: Pete Rose and shoeless Joe Jackson have left this mortal coil.
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Speaker 1: They're dead. And it always, it's always annoyed me when
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Speaker 1: you celebrate, like the Hall of Fame, when they put
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Speaker 1: people in who are like they're dead. You know, it's like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: celebrate people while they're alive. I'm a big celebrate people
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Speaker 1: while they're alive person. Pete Rose died seven months ago
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Speaker 1: in September of last year, shoeless Joe Jackson, he has
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Speaker 1: been dead for seventy three years. He died in nineteen
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Speaker 1: fifty one. Okay, so he's been gone for a while.
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Speaker 1: And Pete Rose the whole Charlie Hustle thing and all that,
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Speaker 1: and they're generation of fans, but that worship Pete Rose
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Speaker 1: played forever, and while Pete is known as Charlie Hustle,
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Speaker 1: he gets another nickname and death Pete the Prophet. Now
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Speaker 1: we mentioned this in a previous episode of the show.
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Speaker 1: Is it true that Pete Rose, in what could have
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Speaker 1: been his final interview, his final interview before he died,
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Speaker 1: mentioned this very thing happening, mentioned this very outcome well,
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Speaker 1: ten days before Pete Rose left this world that we
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Speaker 1: all share. Pete Rose said, just ten days before he died,
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Speaker 1: that he wouldn't make the Baseball Hall of Fame until
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Speaker 1: after he died. He said it. He said it ten
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Speaker 1: days before he left us, and Rose was spitting mad.
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Speaker 1: He said, if I'm gone, it don't matter. Pete Rose said,
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Speaker 1: who the f wants to go in when you're dead?
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Speaker 1: Ding ding ding ding ding. That's a good hot take
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Speaker 1: by Pete and I agree with him. I absolutely agree.
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Speaker 1: I had heard early on that the world of baseball
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Speaker 1: was never going to allow Pete back while he was alive,
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Speaker 1: because the generations were upset. They felt he played a
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Speaker 1: role in the death of Bart Giamani, who had been
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Speaker 1: the commissioner for a very short time, even though Bart
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Speaker 1: was overweight and had all kinds of problems. But anyway,
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Speaker 1: so fine, So there you go. Pete Rose, the prophet,
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Speaker 1: Pete the Prophet predicted this. And as far as Joe
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Speaker 1: Jackson and Pete Rose, there were movies made about both
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Speaker 1: and documentaries, books written about all this stuff. And I
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Speaker 1: know in the early days of Fox Sports Radio, there's
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Speaker 1: a restaurant. We're at the corner of Venturrence of Palvity
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Speaker 1: here in the valley, and right across the street there
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Speaker 1: was an Italian restaurant. And when I started at this company,
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Speaker 1: every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday you could find Pete
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Speaker 1: Rose holding court at the bar at this Italian restaurant.
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Speaker 1: Everyone knew it. If you want to see Pete, go
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Speaker 1: over there. Pete'll be over there. He'll be having drinks
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Speaker 1: and a bunch of other old ballplayers would be hanging
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Speaker 1: out from his era in the sixties and the seventies.
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Speaker 1: They'd be hanging out with Pete and they just tell
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Speaker 1: old war stories while they had cocktails and appetizer. And
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Speaker 1: then Pete eventually just moved to Vegas because he was
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Speaker 1: making so much money he's selling autographs. He just moved
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Speaker 1: there full time. But for years he lived right you know,
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Speaker 1: live right here and was right across the street. Now,
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Speaker 1: where does the Pete Rose Hall of Fame movement go?
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Speaker 1: Now there's there's something. Well, he's in the Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 1: You know, he's not in the Hall of Fame. He
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Speaker 1: hasn't been put in the Hall of Fame. So where
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Speaker 1: Pete Rose in death goes in terms of the campaign
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Speaker 1: for the Hall of fame? Red tape bureaucracy. Those are
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Speaker 1: words you can use, red tape bureaucracy. There is no
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Speaker 1: sense of urgency and why would there But he's dead,
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Speaker 1: you're not coming back. So Pete Rose was banned from
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Speaker 1: baseball in nineteen eighty nine. It's been a minute for
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Speaker 1: gambling on the Cincinnati Reds. And while he was managing
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Speaker 1: the team, and the legend when he didn't bet on
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Speaker 1: the Reds, that let everyone know who was taking the bets,
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Speaker 1: that he didn't think they were gonna win. Blah blah
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah. But the National Baseball Hall of Fame
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Speaker 1: in Cooperstown, York made him ineligible from induction, and that
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Speaker 1: was in nineteen ninety one. That was his first year
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Speaker 1: eligible because he was a player manager in Cincinnati. And
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Speaker 1: as we understand it, again trying to keep up on
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Speaker 1: all the details on us. As we understand it, the
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Speaker 1: rank and file baseball scribes and our buddies like Rob
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Speaker 1: Parker and the baseball writers who love to have that
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Speaker 1: ballot and vote, they will not get the vote on this.
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Speaker 1: Pete Rose's future for the Hall of Fame ultimately will
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Speaker 1: be decided by a handpicked blue ribbon panel. You know,
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Speaker 1: I love blue ribbon panels. I love a good blue
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Speaker 1: ribbon panel. So that will consist of ten to twelve reps,
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Speaker 1: hand picked that will decide the Historical Overview Committee. That
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Speaker 1: just sounds like bureaucracy. The Historical Overview Committee will develop
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Speaker 1: a ballot of eight names. We assume Pete Rose will
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Speaker 1: be on there. The Classic Baseball Era Committee will evaluate
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Speaker 1: the candidates and those that had the greatest impact on
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Speaker 1: the game before nineteen eighty and no vote though will
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Speaker 1: take place before December of twenty twenty seven, which means
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Speaker 1: the earliest Pete Rose would have there'll be a ceremony
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Speaker 1: to honor he's dead, but to honor Pete would be
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Speaker 1: in the summer of twenty twenty eight. So here we
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Speaker 1: are in twenty twenty five in May, so you got
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Speaker 1: to get through the rest of this year twenty six,
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Speaker 1: twenty seven, So we're looking at over three years, and
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Speaker 1: that's the quickest as I understand it, this could happen.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 1: Is Pete Rose guaranteed of being elected to the Hall
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Speaker 1: of Fame. No, he's not. Even with this, he's not.
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Speaker 1: There are sure to be some that will hold grudges.
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Speaker 1: I've already seen some hot take artists out there, the
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Speaker 1: artisan of the hot take, that have said no, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: Pete Rose is a scumbag, he's a dope, He's a loser.
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Speaker 1: That's the counter argument. It's hard to fight that Pete
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Speaker 1: was a shady guy, and so that's it's not you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't really care about the tax return thing. There
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Speaker 1: was an incident in twenty seventeen he was actually doing
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Speaker 1: TV stuff and he was accused of statutory rape. There
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Speaker 1: was a counter earlier. There's no to my nods, there
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Speaker 1: was no criminal charger. There was an accusation that was made,
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Speaker 1: So do that with what you want. And now the
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Speaker 1: last word here. So, assuming this does go the way
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Speaker 1: it's going, and Pete ultimately wind up into the Hall
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Speaker 1: of Fame at some point here even though he's dead,
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Speaker 1: what does Pete Rose being given reinstatement. Let's focus on
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Speaker 1: this being given reinstatement to Major League Baseball do for
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Speaker 1: the guys like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, the steroid
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Speaker 1: people of Baseball who are also not in the Hall
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Speaker 1: of Fame. Even though there are steroid players in the
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, players that we are relatively confident did
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Speaker 1: steroids but are allowed in there are not on the
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Speaker 1: naughty list, but Barry Bonds is on the natty list,
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Speaker 1: and Roger Clemens and several other of these cats. So
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Speaker 1: on the surface, after a minutes long Mallard deliberation on
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Speaker 1: the Ben Maler Show, we have determined that this does
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Speaker 1: bupkus for Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa, that vintage
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Speaker 1: of player now Barry Bonds and his steroid brethren of
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Speaker 1: that era, the issues. They're not banned from baseball. They're
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Speaker 1: not banned. It's just done on the down low. It's
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Speaker 1: on the DL right, the down low, and their persona
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Speaker 1: non grata for the Hall of Fame. However, here's the
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Speaker 1: interesting wrinkle to this. What this Pete Rose update does
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Speaker 1: do for Barry Bonds and the other steroid players, the
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Speaker 1: other pd pals, is it provides them a road map
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Speaker 1: on how to get into Cooperstown and without being Macab,
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Speaker 1: which means I'm going to be Macab. Barry Bonds and
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Speaker 1: these other cats need to go down to Home Depot
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Speaker 1: and buy a bucket. And at some point we know
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Speaker 1: the endgame on life. We know how it ends. We
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Speaker 1: don't know when it's going to end. We know how
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Speaker 1: it's going to so at some point Barry Bonds and
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Speaker 1: everyone else, once they kick the bucket, then all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, well we're going to panel together. We'll put
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Speaker 1: these guys in the Hall of Fame. But you got
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Speaker 1: to kick the bucket. So go get bucket at Home Depot,
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Speaker 1: kick the bucket. There you go. It is the Ben
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Speaker 1: can join us right now and give us your reaction.
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Speaker 1: There are people very upset. I don't understand like upset
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Speaker 1: that Pete Rowe was allowed. But he's dead. He's not
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Speaker 1: gonna do anything more to embarrass anyone. He's gone. Uh So,
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Speaker 1: I just think he's kind of pointless to put him
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Speaker 1: in now. And as Pete said himself ten days before
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Speaker 1: he died, who wants to go in the Hall of
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Speaker 1: Fame when they're dead? Eight seven, seven ninety nine on
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Speaker 1: Fox eight seven seven nine, nine, six six three six
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Speaker 1: nine of Where the People Put It Out. Pete made
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Speaker 1: a lot of money because of his notoriety, his infamy
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Speaker 1: from being banned from baseball, a lot of autographs and
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Speaker 1: did the gambling commercials and all that stuff. So he
17:31
Speaker 1: certainly profited quite a bit from his reputation as a
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Speaker 1: dirty actor. Eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three
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Speaker 1: That's right, it's all about Pete Rose. Pete Rose being
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Speaker 1: reinstated by Rob Manford. Not in the Hall of Fame. No, no,
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Speaker 1: no no, it's still got to wait another three years,
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Speaker 1: even though he's dead, so he's not really waiting, but
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Speaker 1: that three years minimum until he will be thrown into
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Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. Milkman Mike in Colorado says Hall
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Speaker 1: of Fame level opening monologue to kick off hump Day.
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Speaker 1: Once again, the fraud proves how disconnected he is from reality.
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Speaker 1: Most of these men on the band list have turned
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Speaker 1: to dust, and he claims that their band has been satisfied,
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Speaker 1: have another shot you goof there you go, Eileen says,
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Speaker 1: if only Pete Rose could have caused the death of
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Speaker 1: more Yale University presidents like he did bart g money.
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Speaker 1: That is a low bro, Eileen, how dare you? How
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Speaker 1: dare you all right? What else? Do we have? A
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Speaker 1: page down? Stuck in Sacramento is up with us as
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Speaker 1: man Fraud is such a weak joke that he makes
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Speaker 1: me sick. First, he thinks the a's in Sacramento at
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Speaker 1: a T ball field is a good idea. Now he's
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Speaker 1: making cheats eligible for the Hall. While he did let
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Speaker 1: the cheating Astros keep their little World Series hunk of metal.
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Speaker 1: Enough said, what a dirt bag that right, there is
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Speaker 1: a event that should keep man Fraud out of the
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. They like to put these commissioners in
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Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, and I was like, ah, wait
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Speaker 1: to go, We're in the Hall of Fame. Manford should
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Speaker 1: never be allowed in the Hall of Fame. After that
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Speaker 1: he ran interference for the Astro he ripped the World
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Speaker 1: Series trophy. It is ridiculous, Femi rights and says Ben,
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Speaker 1: the Astros better be aware that President Trump might just
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Speaker 1: call the Commissioner on your behalf and strip them of
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Speaker 1: their twenty seventeen championship.
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Speaker 5: So sheeted Astros.
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Speaker 4: Black.
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Speaker 1: Listener Mason and Honey Beastes, Hey, Ben, you know anyone
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Speaker 1: at Netflix or one of those places. The Pete Rose
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Speaker 1: saga from back in the day would make a good
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Speaker 1: mini series for casting. I would like Paul Giamani to
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Speaker 1: play his dad. Yeah, Paul GIMMONI went on became a
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Speaker 1: big star in Hollywood. Late Night Drug Tester and I
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Speaker 1: don't know anyone Netflix. I mean I have Netflix, but
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Speaker 1: I don't mean I pay the bill. It's I wish
21:04
Speaker 1: we didn't, but we did, Late Night Drug Tester says,
21:08
Speaker 1: And now that the band of Pete Rose is lifted,
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Speaker 1: what is the next lazy sports topic for radio hosts
21:13
Speaker 1: that don't prepare to get taken off the list? It's
21:17
Speaker 1: a good question. Well, the evergreen topic, says you know,
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Speaker 1: Late Night Drug Tester. Over the holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
21:24
Speaker 1: The sign yet your favorite talk show host doesn't know
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Speaker 1: what they're doing is at Thanksgiving? Who are you thankful for?
21:30
Speaker 1: In sports? Right? What are you thankful for? Who do
21:33
Speaker 1: you want to have over at Thanksgiving dinner? That's always
21:35
Speaker 1: a staple of lazy talk radio. And at Christmas, what
21:39
Speaker 1: are you going to get your favorite sports star for Christmas?
21:42
Speaker 1: Or hanukha or whatever? You know, that's always a lazy one.
21:46
Speaker 1: That's a sign you have not prepared for your talk show.
21:49
Speaker 1: That's a dead give what, dead give what. I think
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Speaker 1: those are fun topics. Bet, that's my point, Larena, that's
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Speaker 1: my you're making my point for me.
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Speaker 3: Also, it's like Christmas music.
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Speaker 1: It only comes around every now and then it comes
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Speaker 1: around every year. I've heard every Christmas song, every song
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Speaker 1: every year front two months again played in a damp
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Speaker 1: the station. But what if people want to know what
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Speaker 1: you every year? If you if you're if you're a musician,
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Speaker 1: just make a Christmas song. It'll be played for the
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Speaker 1: rest of eternity. In fact, the human race will leave
22:20
Speaker 1: and whatever species is on the planet will play Christmas music. Then, Also,
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Speaker 1: you come staying a close. No, let it small, Let
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Speaker 1: it small, that it's small, Let it snow. Yeah, okay,
22:32
Speaker 1: humbug Ben, I'm just giving I'm giving real, real advice.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to the phones and we'll say hello to
22:38
Speaker 1: any meenie money moe. Let's go to Seth in Cansah City. Hello, Seth, welcome.
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 6: Man, I'm really happy to see the Pete Rose thing with.
22:51
Speaker 6: I know it's kind of a dead topic at this moment,
22:54
Speaker 6: but uh. One of the biggest clothing companies in Kama
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Speaker 6: City is called Charlie Hustle.
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Speaker 1: Everybody, Yes, I've been there. I've actually purchased some good stuff.
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Speaker 1: That's a good store.
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Speaker 6: Everybody knows that he played baseball. He had four twenty
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Speaker 6: six hits and nobody's really come close. The guy was
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Speaker 6: the guy and he has to die and do sketches
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Speaker 6: commercials for him to get even possibly inducted into Hall
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Speaker 6: of Fame. I think it's bizarre. He's one of the
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Speaker 6: greatest hitters in baseball, and it bothers me it took
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Speaker 6: this long for him to even question to be inducted
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Speaker 6: into the Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, I mean it was a big scandal in the
23:32
Speaker 1: you know, in the I don't know how old.
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Speaker 6: You are, but yeah, but he bet he bet on
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Speaker 6: his team to win, as anybuddy in the world would do.
23:38
Speaker 6: That's my little Docs and bark in the background.
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Speaker 1: I know, what's your Docs's name?
23:42
Speaker 6: Oh my god, my dog is name maybe after the
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Speaker 6: character from the rest of development.
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Speaker 1: Hey, that's great. And does the dog? Does the dog
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Speaker 1: need food? Maybe the dog is the dog upset because
23:53
Speaker 1: you're not giving the dog attention. Does the dog need food?
23:55
Speaker 1: Maybe the dog needs water? How about what she?
23:57
Speaker 6: I just worked all night? But man like, I saw
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Speaker 6: the news today that like Pete and Trueleiss Joe Jackson
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Speaker 6: were eligible to be inducted, and I'm like, that's huge news.
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Speaker 6: Man like that is?
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Speaker 1: I agree. I think it's a massive story. It's a
24:10
Speaker 1: I remember years ago seeing the movie Eight Men Out.
24:13
Speaker 1: There was a book that became the movie Eight Men Out.
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Speaker 1: I guess it's eight Men in. Now they got to
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Speaker 1: change the movie, they got to follow up movie.
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Speaker 6: Now, Like Bobby Witt is the baseball version of Patrick Mahomes,
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Speaker 6: I do believe that he might win in VP.
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Speaker 1: Oh, now you go. Now you're going full Chiefs propaganda.
24:27
Speaker 1: How dare you for full Royals propaganda? Kansas City propaganda?
24:30
Speaker 6: Now, baseball baseball's a romantics I like baseball more than
24:34
Speaker 6: football in Kansas City. That's really hard to say. I'm
24:37
Speaker 6: a big Bobby Wood guy over Mahomes. I really am.
24:39
Speaker 1: Wow, you're the You're the only one on that island, sir,
24:42
Speaker 1: that's a that's an island of one, right there. Part yeah, yeah, yeah, listen, listen, listen,
24:48
Speaker 1: go give you dogs some attention, give him a dog
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Speaker 1: snack or something like that. Okay, and you're good. You
24:53
Speaker 1: called in and enjoy the rest of your night. How
24:55
Speaker 1: about that, hey.
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Speaker 6: Man, Ben, I listened to you all the time, brother,
24:58
Speaker 6: I love you.
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Speaker 1: God bless you can tear it up, all right, I
25:01
Speaker 1: may I should bet on one of the gambling absence,
25:03
Speaker 1: thank you. All right. There's our buddy from Kansas City
25:06
Speaker 1: with his dog. Maybe the dog me what a name
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Speaker 1: for Hey?
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Speaker 5: Maybe?
25:13
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe come here? Maybe? Maybe? Maybe Hey? Maybe? Kind
25:17
Speaker 1: of sounds like baby from Hey maybe? Yeah, you know
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Speaker 1: what else? Kind of sounds weird? I new tickpic ad hmm,
25:24
Speaker 1: don't if I've heard that one.
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Speaker 3: You haven't heard it yet.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm trying to think like it doesn't
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Speaker 1: tickpic promos. Oh I don't know. Oh yeah, okay, okay,
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Speaker 1: oh yeah yeah, okay, okay, all right, all right, it
25:37
Speaker 1: took me a second. Okay, all right, I got you.
25:40
Speaker 1: All right, let's keep it going on the phones. Let's
25:42
Speaker 1: go to Chris in Maryland. Who's next. Pete Rose reinstated,
25:46
Speaker 1: but he's not in the Hall of Fame yet. It's
25:48
Speaker 1: gonna have to wait probably three years. He's dead anyway,
25:50
Speaker 1: what's going on, Chris welcome, Hey, thank you?
25:54
Speaker 4: After having lost Willie Mays here the greatest living baseball
25:58
Speaker 4: player leftist Johnny Bench in some people's opinion, and he
26:03
Speaker 4: hasn't the comments.
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Speaker 5: That would I would say worthy.
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Speaker 4: Of any comments concerning Pete Rose as a baseball player.
26:10
Speaker 4: Myself not a professional necessarily, but I wouldn't have wanted
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Speaker 4: or entertained any sort of compromised by a fellow teammate.
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Speaker 4: So that's well.
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Speaker 5: I'll leave that.
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Speaker 1: I'm confused.
26:27
Speaker 4: What do you In other words, I know, I know
26:30
Speaker 4: I don't want anybody who played next to me who
26:33
Speaker 4: was betting on my games or a gain.
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Speaker 1: Oh so you don't think he should be reinstated.
26:38
Speaker 5: I know that that's a whole different thing.
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Speaker 1: I'm asking your opinion. I don't care about Johnny Bench's opinion.
26:43
Speaker 1: I'm talking to you, So what's your opinion.
26:46
Speaker 5: I think I.
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Speaker 4: Think it's it would be dishonorable to guys like Hank
26:51
Speaker 4: Aaron and Jackie Robinson and Babe Ruth and yeah that
26:57
Speaker 4: people who kind of compromised the game. That's the same
27:00
Speaker 4: as the steroid dudes.
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Speaker 1: I just don't But there are there are steroid guys
27:04
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame. You know that.
27:06
Speaker 5: I know, I know Druggery, I know.
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Speaker 3: I know.
27:08
Speaker 1: I didn't name it. You named him. I didn't name him.
27:10
Speaker 1: You didn't name You didn't name I didn't name Plud
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Speaker 1: Rodrigos and Mike Piazzard, Bagwell or anything. I didn't name them.
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Speaker 1: You you named one them. I didn't name any of them.
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Speaker 5: Okay, I got a tribute question for you. What Okay,
27:22
Speaker 5: there are two cities and in uh.
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Speaker 4: Mayor, I'm going back to the like the seventh early
27:29
Speaker 4: seventies when the ABA joined the NBA, when baseball you know, uh.
27:37
Speaker 1: All right, we're doing we're doing we're doing sports. We're
27:39
Speaker 1: doing sports TV. Oh, here we go, here we go,
27:41
Speaker 1: Here we go, sports trivy time. Here we go.
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Speaker 5: Two cities that have had at least two of the
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Speaker 5: four major sports hockey, basketball, football, baseball. Okay, two cities
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Speaker 5: that ain't won the damn thing. Two cities have never
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Speaker 5: They've never won it at all.
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Speaker 1: So none of the teams in that place have ever
28:04
Speaker 1: won anything.
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Speaker 4: Even in iteration or incarnation of therefore otherwise.
28:11
Speaker 5: And I'll give you a hint. What a mass with
28:14
Speaker 5: the Clippers?
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Speaker 1: Oh okay, well that there you go. Well that's mean Buffalo.
28:19
Speaker 1: That would be right, that's obvious Buffalo.
28:21
Speaker 5: They never went to San Diego.
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Speaker 1: Oh in San Diego, I was never Look at you
28:28
Speaker 1: ripping San Diego and Buffalo at the same time. How
28:31
Speaker 1: dare you there? You go? There are a bunch of losers,
28:35
Speaker 1: never not in one, not in any Yeah, I got you,
28:39
Speaker 1: all right, look at you?
28:40
Speaker 5: Thank you?
28:41
Speaker 1: All right, thank you go away. All right, there's a
28:43
Speaker 1: Chris that's uh, keep it going. But we have the
28:45
Speaker 1: play of the day here. Now, I know we're talking
28:46
Speaker 1: Pete Rose here, but yes, squeeze in some hot NBA talk.
28:52
Speaker 1: And I was watching. I'm not a Pacer fan. I
28:55
Speaker 1: just like the way the Pacers play. Is that is
28:57
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna go to like talk radio jail. I
28:59
Speaker 1: enjoy watching the Pacers. They seem like a fun team
29:01
Speaker 1: to watch. They play basketball at the kind of a
29:05
Speaker 1: way I mean, they should still shoot a bunch of
29:06
Speaker 1: three point shot. They shot thirty five free point shots,
29:09
Speaker 1: but they were down by nineteen points Indiana and a
29:13
Speaker 1: chance to close out the Cavaliers, and then this happened.
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Speaker 7: Haliburton against Mitchell Hunter shows a trap haliburt, he gets
29:19
Speaker 7: rid of it.
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Speaker 1: Sar corner turner girl three out of the corner and
29:26
Speaker 1: all of the sudden. It's so its twitch has been thrown.
29:29
Speaker 1: This place is like a live read. Can I hear
29:33
Speaker 1: that again?
29:34
Speaker 3: Girl?
29:35
Speaker 1: I want to hear that again.
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Speaker 7: Haliburton against Mitchell Hunter shows a trap, haliburt, he gets
29:39
Speaker 7: rid of it, Sar.
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Speaker 1: Corner turner.
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Speaker 7: Girl three out of the corner and all of the sudden,
29:50
Speaker 7: that's three out of the corner.
29:55
Speaker 1: Can we add that to the drop? I need that
29:57
Speaker 1: as a drop. That's funny. That's the that's the play
30:00
Speaker 1: of the day. That's a Miles Turner three point shot
30:03
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30:28
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30:30
Speaker 1: is what it is. As the pacers have eliminated the cavaliers,
30:34
Speaker 1: as TNT likes to say, the calves are going fishing.
30:39
Speaker 1: They are going fishing. They are out. Let's go back
30:41
Speaker 1: to the phones. Brandon is in Cansa City. We got
30:44
Speaker 1: a twenty share in Kansas City, home of the Ben
30:46
Speaker 1: Mallard Chicken Fingers. By the way, Hello Brandon, welcome. That's right.
30:54
Speaker 1: And you've had the Ben mallerch chicken fingers at the
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Speaker 1: Thank you. You know.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, Tink you bought that up real quick. I mean,
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Speaker 7: how did that come to be anyway?
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Speaker 1: Well, the the the proprietors of the restaurant he actually
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Speaker 1: used to be called, but it was a different name before.
31:19
Speaker 1: And one of the guys that runs the place, Michael,
31:22
Speaker 1: is a big fan of the show. He used to
31:24
Speaker 1: listen all the time, he still does, and so he
31:27
Speaker 1: wanted to It actually started as a bit on the show.
31:30
Speaker 1: There was a place in Syracuse that named food item
31:33
Speaker 1: after me, and then they went out of business. So
31:34
Speaker 1: I think, I as I remember, I complained and then
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Speaker 1: two different restaurants in Kansas City, so it's very cool.
31:48
Speaker 7: Hey man, not you complaining?
31:50
Speaker 1: No, no, I don't complain. I just talk. I have
31:53
Speaker 1: a talk shows. I talk. That's it. I talk talk, talk,
31:56
Speaker 1: talk talk talk.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, you do, you do for sure? You know one
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Speaker 7: of the best. Do you want the bed?
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Speaker 1: Thank you?
32:02
Speaker 7: But real quick, since we're on the topic of Pete Rose,
32:05
Speaker 7: I just want to give you my two cents. I mean,
32:06
Speaker 7: they just stick to my opinion. You know, everybody has
32:09
Speaker 7: their own I get it, I respect it, but I
32:12
Speaker 7: think it's downright disgusting that they waited. They waited until
32:17
Speaker 7: the so the poor man was playing with the worms.
32:21
Speaker 7: You know, that's that's I mean to me, it's disrespectful.
32:26
Speaker 7: But I know a lot of people are gonna bounce
32:28
Speaker 7: back and be like, well, he's done this, he'shing the
32:30
Speaker 7: dead bess, you know.
32:31
Speaker 1: But you know, all the all the old school baseball head.
32:36
Speaker 7: I mean, I mean dang, I mean he he he
32:38
Speaker 7: was around after baseball for a long time and they
32:41
Speaker 7: just I think they just dragging their feet and there
32:44
Speaker 7: was there.
32:45
Speaker 1: Was no there was no real I mean, Pete was
32:48
Speaker 1: kind of not He wasn't in terrible health, but you
32:51
Speaker 1: could tell, like the last couple of years, it thinks,
32:53
Speaker 1: you know, he's getting older. It happens. You get older
32:55
Speaker 1: and stuff starts breaking. That's what happens. So anyway, all right, well,
32:59
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, Brandon, You're the man, the great
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Speaker 1: b safe at all right? There he goes where he goes,
33:05
Speaker 1: only he knows. All right, It is the Ben Mahler Show.
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Speaker 1: As we are working our way through the overnight hours
33:12
Speaker 1: in standing room only, the Los Angeles Dodgers lead Major
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Speaker 1: League Baseball in injured pitchers. The latest Roki Sazaki has
33:23
Speaker 1: landed on the what you used we used to call
33:24
Speaker 1: this disabled list. He's got a bum shoulder, he's lost
33:27
Speaker 1: velocity in his fastball, and that means he is the
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Speaker 1: fifteenth Dodger pitcher on the injured list. He joins big
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Speaker 1: money pitchers Tyler Glass. Now Blake's bro I'm risk getting
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Speaker 1: dah Gadol, and a bunch of other pictures you've never
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Speaker 1: heard of. But they're all fifteen fifteen pitchers on the
33:54
Speaker 1: injured list for the Dodgers. Wow. I remember reading a
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Speaker 1: story in the off Well, the Dodgers, they've reviewed everything.
34:02
Speaker 1: They figured out, you know, they think they figured out
34:04
Speaker 1: why all their pitchers get hurt. Maybe because they all
34:06
Speaker 1: are so rich. They don't, you know, they don't. They
34:08
Speaker 1: don't go through you know how sometimes if you don't
34:10
Speaker 1: have a lot of money, you got to earn sing
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Speaker 1: for your supper. They don't have to sing for the supper.
34:14
Speaker 1: He's like and he's not perfect. I ain't pitching all
34:18
Speaker 1: right anyway? Time now for the who am fifteen fifteen
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Speaker 1: pictures the Dodgers? Anyway on the on the disableds? Who
34:25
Speaker 1: am I?
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Speaker 3: Who?
34:26
Speaker 1: Time for the who am I game? So call me
34:28
Speaker 1: the Cardio Kid. I was the NBA's twenty twenty four
34:31
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five minutes champion. I averaged thirty seven point
34:35
Speaker 1: six minutes per game this season. I received a trophy
34:39
Speaker 1: for my exercise, leading the NBA in minutes per game.
34:43
Speaker 1: Who am I. That's the question. The answer, we'll get
34:45
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Speaker 1: I like that, solid drop Pacers A good play by
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35:04
Speaker 1: play by play guys now, but he's pretty good. I
35:06
Speaker 1: don't know his name, but the Pacers guy solid outstanding,
35:11
Speaker 1: almost as good as our friend Alan Horton, the voice
35:13
Speaker 1: of the Timberwolves, who is riding high. Minnesota one win
35:17
Speaker 1: away from me Western Finals, and if they can can
35:24
Speaker 1: win it, it'd be fun to have Minnesota. If the
35:28
Speaker 1: Celtics are out, how about Minnesota New York in the
35:30
Speaker 1: NBA Finals. All right, we'll talk more about that because
35:34
Speaker 1: they made the big trade. Karl Anthony Towns going back
35:36
Speaker 1: the big good storyline. Aunt Edwards on the big stage.
35:39
Speaker 1: Time now for the who am I? Game? And here
35:42
Speaker 1: it is, call me the Cardio Kid. I was the
35:45
Speaker 1: NBA's minutes champion this past season. I averaged thirty seven
35:50
Speaker 1: point six minutes per game this season. I even received
35:54
Speaker 1: a Trophy for my effort on the court? Who am I?
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Speaker 1: Do you have an answer, Lorraina, Yes, My answer is
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Speaker 1: Anthony Way and dead words. All right, Dad, know that
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Speaker 1: is wrong. It is Josh Hart of the Knickerbockers thirty
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Speaker 1: seven point six minutes per game. Josh, you gotta have heart.
37:09
Speaker 1: You gotta have heart. You gotta have heart.