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Hour 4 - The Games Are Just Beginning · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Great googly moogly. It's our number four, our four, the
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  Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show. We're back at it, slaving away over
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  Speaker 1: these hot microphones of FSR in the pod version. We
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  Speaker 1: stayed up all night for this. So we thank you
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  Speaker 1: for listening. It does mean a lot. Thank you, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. Thank you for being a member of the
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  Speaker 1: Maller Militia. That means a lot. So here in hour
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  Speaker 1: number four, does Milwaukee's World Series championship destroy MLB owner's argument,
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  Speaker 1: the baseball owner's argument for a salary cap? We'll examine
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  Speaker 1: that and who the real loser is in all this.
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  Speaker 1: And are you losing sleep over Troy Aikman's NFL broadcasting future?
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  Speaker 1: Aikman's commented on his situation. And do you agree or
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  Speaker 1: disagree with Kurt Warner, the legend, saying, from the St.
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  Speaker 1: Louis Rams and his skepticism about the 2026 Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about all that and more right about now.
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  Speaker 1: Have a wonderful Thursday. And here it is, our number four. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you might think the baseball season is over, that Milwaukee
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  Speaker 1: won the championship, and that's that. But no, no. The
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  Speaker 1: games are just beginning. The games are just beginning. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Maller Show.
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  Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. Right nearby. We're just a cog
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  Speaker 1: in the wheel as the wheels go round and round
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  Speaker 1: and round and round. We're trying to get out of
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  Speaker 1: the doghouse. Coast to coast, border to border, and beyond.
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  Speaker 1: On the vast and grandiosely powerful microphones of FSR emanating
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  Speaker 1: live from the tier. As we try not to tear up.
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  Speaker 1: We could tear up the dance floor. We're not going
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  Speaker 1: to try. We don't want to tear up like Charles
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  Speaker 1: Barkley did last night. No. We're not going there. We're
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  Speaker 1: not going there. Well, Truck Stop Fungus says, hey, Mahler. Hey, Mahler.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're guaranteed human and all that. You're the
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  Speaker 1: how about Fox One? You know, I never talk about
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  Speaker 1: Fox One. Lorena was saying, Mallory, you really need to
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  Speaker 1: talk more about Fox One. I said, I'll try to
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  Speaker 1: work it in the show. Yeah, there's nothing like live. Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: preparing for the big winter storm there in Fullerton. And Malapropka,
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  Speaker 1: he's like, oh, yeah. Every Sunday, every rivalry, miss it live.
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  Speaker 1: And you're just watching a highlight catch every play as
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  Speaker 1: And we are back in the saddle again this hour.
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  Speaker 1: We've been here all night. The show starts when you listen,
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  Speaker 1: so for you, it's a brand new show. And our
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  Speaker 1: lead this hour, we go back to the well one
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  Speaker 1: more time. It's all about the cap. And will there
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  Speaker 1: be a cap? That is the big takeaway from the
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  Speaker 1: curtain coming down on the 2026 World Series in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: If you have not been following along, perhaps not, the
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers are on top of the baseball mountain looking
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  Speaker 1: down at all the peasants, all the other loser franchises.
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  Speaker 1: The Brewers are the kings of baseball, the world champions.
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  Speaker 1: They went 11-2 in the postseason. I'm told that's good.
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  Speaker 1: Defeated Tampa Bay in five games. Led by Jackson Churrio
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  Speaker 1: and others, Milwaukee. doing it out of the orthodoxy of
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  Speaker 1: regular baseball. They ranked second in baseball in runs scored
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  Speaker 1: despite tying for 28th in home runs. They hit just
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  Speaker 1: 154 home runs. There's 32 teams in baseball. They were
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  Speaker 1: tied for 28th. The Brewers led baseball in on-base percentage.
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  Speaker 1: Find ways to get on, whether it was a walk
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  Speaker 1: or a bunt here or whatever it took. Milwaukee committed.
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  Speaker 1: Just 72 errors all season in 162 regular season games.
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  Speaker 1: They did have some miscues in the playoffs here, but
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  Speaker 1: it didn't matter. Bryce Terang had the 7.3 war, which
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  Speaker 1: gives the nerds a chubby. They get all excited about that.
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  Speaker 1: Elite defense. Just a lot of players like that. Well-rounded,
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  Speaker 1: not real exciting, sexy players, but good players. Solid gamers,
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  Speaker 1: they called them back in the day. There used to
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  Speaker 1: be a place for gamers in baseball. No more gamers allowed,
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  Speaker 1: other than places like Milwaukee. The Brewers scouting department, there
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  Speaker 1: are 64 people in the scouting department. And they have
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  Speaker 1: a mix of traditional scouting, and they also have some nerds.
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  Speaker 1: They're not nerd-free. They are not a nerd-free zone, the Brewers.
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  Speaker 1: There's not as much influence by the nerds, and they
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  Speaker 1: rely on... A different model than most of the teams.
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  Speaker 1: And we gave this number earlier. There are nine key
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  Speaker 1: players that were from the minor league system, including the Miz,
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Churio, the aforementioned Bryce Terang, who collectively earned less
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  Speaker 1: than $ 30 million. And those are impact players. Those are
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  Speaker 1: three key impact players, two everyday players. and the ace
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  Speaker 1: of the pitching staff combined, making less than Shohei Otani's
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  Speaker 1: bookie was earning from Otani and his buddy was gambling.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure Otani had nothing to do with that back
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  Speaker 1: in the day. And despite having a revolving door with
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  Speaker 1: all these different veteran players being traded and shuffled and
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  Speaker 1: free agency and whatnot... They still have won four consecutive
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  Speaker 1: division titles. They reached the playoffs eight times in nine seasons,
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  Speaker 1: and now they are the champions of baseball. Yet, if
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  Speaker 1: you look off in the horizon, get your imaginary binoculars
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  Speaker 1: and look off into the horizon, we have a pending
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  Speaker 1: mushroom cloud on tap. The games begin. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: the nuclear winter in baseball. It's going to begin December 1st.
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  Speaker 1: December 1st, I believe, is the date. Sometime in early December.
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  Speaker 1: First week in December. Today is October 29th, so we
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  Speaker 1: have about a month to go. About a month to go.
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  Speaker 1: And then it's on. Like Donkey Kong, the Cold War,
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  Speaker 1: Labor War begins, I think, December 1st. So that is
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: Does Milwaukee's World Series championship... destroy the collective bargaining agreement
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  Speaker 1: argument from owners for a salary cap. Got to have it.
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  Speaker 1: Got to have it. Got to have the cap. Got
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  Speaker 1: to have the cap. That's what they were screaming. That's
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  Speaker 1: what they were screaming. So I've got campaign trail, EBT card,
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  Speaker 1: and Louvre. And we will combine all of these things together.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to have a smorgasbord of the gabagoo, the
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  Speaker 1: baba ganoush, the jambalaya, a little matzo ball soup. We'll
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  Speaker 1: be good to go. Good to go. Now, first of all.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations to the biggest loser of the World Series. It
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  Speaker 1: is not anyone from Tampa Bay. It is nobody associated
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  Speaker 1: with the Rays franchise. The biggest loser is Rob Manford. Congratulations, Mr. Commissioner.
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  Speaker 1: You win the Bad Timing Award. That's right. Now, there's
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  Speaker 1: bad timing. Then there's awful face planting, rake stomping, humiliating,
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  Speaker 1: horrible timing. And that's about where this falls. Imagine being
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  Speaker 1: the commissioner of baseball, Rob Manford, today. You have spent
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  Speaker 1: months on the campaign trail doing this whistle-stop tour publicly
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  Speaker 1: and privately explaining why. Small market teams, you need a
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  Speaker 1: salary cap to compete. You just can't get it done
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  Speaker 1: without the salary cap. But we're looking out for the
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  Speaker 1: little guy. And then two small market teams get to
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  Speaker 1: the World Series, and obviously one wins, the Milwaukee Brewers.
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  Speaker 1: Who goofed? I've got to know. Now, we all know
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  Speaker 1: that the people that run baseball want socialism for the
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  Speaker 1: billionaires and capitalism for the ballplayers. This is the situation.
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  Speaker 1: This is the battle, right? This is the battle. They
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  Speaker 1: tell us that baseball is broken. But exactly who is
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  Speaker 1: it broken against? Four. And who made the call that
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  Speaker 1: it's broken? The Brewers didn't just win the trophy. They
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  Speaker 1: accidentally became the star witness in the labor brouhaha, which
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  Speaker 1: is happening this offseason. If you're the union and you
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  Speaker 1: go to court, and there's rumors that President Trump's going
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  Speaker 1: to get involved in this and somehow make this like
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  Speaker 1: a court thing. I don't know how that's going to work.
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  Speaker 1: God only knows. But the politicians will get involved in
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  Speaker 1: this because they want their baseball. They don't really watch
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  Speaker 1: the baseball, but they want to. baseball so if they
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  Speaker 1: get involved in it the union's going to be like
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  Speaker 1: all right let me call my first character witness the
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  Speaker 1: milwaukee brewer roster all right they're the star witness the
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  Speaker 1: players union doesn't need to argue hypotheticals anymore They've been
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  Speaker 1: saying you don't need a cap. Small market teams can win.
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  Speaker 1: The argument has been by the union, the baseball union. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: these teams aren't even trying, which is, by the way, correct.
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  Speaker 1: You're not supposed to say that part out loud, but
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these teams don't try to win. It's
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  Speaker 1: an ugly little secret about baseball. And Milwaukee and Tampa
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  Speaker 1: Bay are small market teams that try to win. And
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  Speaker 1: guess what? They have good teams most years, and they
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  Speaker 1: have an advantage because unlike the Yankees and the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: they don't have to have star players. New York and L.A.,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to have star players. You don't have to
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  Speaker 1: have a star player in Tampa Bay. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to have a star player with the Brewers. You don't.
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  Speaker 1: And some of these guys will become star players eventually.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the way it goes. But listen, the union
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  Speaker 1: can now point directly at that Brewer roster and Pat
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  Speaker 1: Murphy and say, there is your proof of concept. That
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  Speaker 1: is the proof of concept. The Milwaukee Brewers are the champions.
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  Speaker 1: There's a parade coming up. That's it. And the owners
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  Speaker 1: will call them an outlier. Rob Manfred's group of owners
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  Speaker 1: are an outlier. But the burden of proof is on
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  Speaker 1: the billionaires. The burden of proof is on the billionaires here.
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  Speaker 1: They're the ones that say, well, the union's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: we don't need a cap because small market names go in.
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  Speaker 1: And the owners say, well, no, we need a cap. No,
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  Speaker 1: you just need a cap. You want to make more money.
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  Speaker 1: But they don't want to say that because nobody will
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  Speaker 1: support them. And they're able to convince a lot of
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  Speaker 1: dumb people to support the owners. All right. Secondly, to
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, we go to Dallas. Every day there's a
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  Speaker 1: new story out on Troy Aikman. Does anyone care about this? Like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm mildly interested. I'm getting a little burned out already
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  Speaker 1: on Aikman. The cowboy legend who shouldn't be in the
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame but is in the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: Troy Aikman says there is, quote, a 50-50 chance that
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  Speaker 1: he is no longer broadcasting NFL games in 2027. 50-50.
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  Speaker 1: Aikman dropped that quote on Wednesday night. He was in
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas area. There was an event promoting Peter King's
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  Speaker 1: new book. I should get Peter on my podcast. Peter King,
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  Speaker 1: the retired NFL insider. I worked with Peter years ago
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  Speaker 1: at NBC, and very nice man, Peter King. Does not
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  Speaker 1: know that you might want to go into a private
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  Speaker 1: bathroom to change your clothes. That's a story for another day,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a little awkward. A little awkward. Anyway, Aikman,
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  Speaker 1: Troy Aikman, his lucrative Monday night football contract expires tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: after the Super Bowl in Inglewood and up to no good.
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  Speaker 1: And he'll be coming up on Valentine's Day of 2027.
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  Speaker 1: So his future as an NFL broadcaster is uncertain. There
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  Speaker 1: have been plenty of questions about whether or not he'll
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  Speaker 1: get another broadcasting job, whether he wants another broadcasting job,
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  Speaker 1: or whether he'll leave television altogether. So Troy Aikman, big headline,
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  Speaker 1: 50-50 chance I'm no longer a broadcaster. I guess if
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  Speaker 1: you want to rephrase it, 50% chance he is a broadcaster. Question.
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  Speaker 1: Are you losing sleep over Troy Aikman's NFL broadcasting future?
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  Speaker 1: So I have one word. Yawn. Yawn. That's my word. Now, technically,
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  Speaker 1: I do lose sleep because I work the overnight shift.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm here all night. I don't go to bed
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  Speaker 1: at night. So in many ways, I have lost sleep
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  Speaker 1: because I talk about Troy Aikman because I have things
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  Speaker 1: I need to talk about. And his name pops up
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  Speaker 1: on my radar. But the sports media. The nerds that
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  Speaker 1: do media on media coverage, you know those guys that
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  Speaker 1: are like the TV, radio reporters? There's a few of
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  Speaker 1: them left. There's hardly anyone that does that anymore. There's
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  Speaker 1: a few left. The sports media turning this into a
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  Speaker 1: Shakespearean tragedy. To be or not to be on Monday
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  Speaker 1: Night Football, that is the question. And I say philly.
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  Speaker 1: Enough already. Troy Aikman is not headed to the unemployment
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  Speaker 1: line anymore. He's not. He's not going to be standing
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  Speaker 1: out with a cardboard sign outside of the headquarters there
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  Speaker 1: in Bristol, Connecticut, saying, hey, can you give me a
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  Speaker 1: couple of bucks? Aikman's not going to be applying for
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  Speaker 1: an EBT card in 2027. It's not happening. This is
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  Speaker 1: a multimillionaire Hall of Famer with more connections than those
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  Speaker 1: old telephone switchboards they used to have used back in
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  Speaker 1: the day. If ESPN doesn't want him, and by the way,
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty obvious they don't want him. I know from
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  Speaker 1: my years in radio and working in media at different places,
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  Speaker 1: if they want you, they will find the money and
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  Speaker 1: they will lock you up. They don't want you to
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  Speaker 1: get close to free agency. And if they don't want you,
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  Speaker 1: they'll hem and haw. We don't have the money and
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry about that. So it's pretty clear that ESPN
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  Speaker 1: wants to get out of the Troy Aikman business and
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  Speaker 1: But if that's true, and it certainly looks that way,
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  Speaker 1: somebody else will pay him handsomely to describe third and
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  Speaker 1: seven and go, wow, that's a good player. That's a
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  Speaker 1: good team. That's a good coach. Or perhaps he'll land
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  Speaker 1: one of those cushy NFL no-show front office jobs. He's
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  Speaker 1: already got one with the Dolphins, which is a part-time
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  Speaker 1: consulting thing. Even if he ran the Cowboys, got a
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  Speaker 1: job to run the Cowboys. The toughest assignment would be
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  Speaker 1: deciding which golf course do I play today. Either way,
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  Speaker 1: you can rest easy. America's team can rest easy. Troy
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  Speaker 1: Aikman will survive this terrible ordeal of being rich and
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  Speaker 1: famous and having options. What a tough life for Troy Aikman.
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  Speaker 1: Just a real sob story. All right, now, final thought.
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  Speaker 1: To Pittsburgh we go, where Mike McCarthy's Pittsburgh Steelers. Reports
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  Speaker 1: of McCarthy and the Steelers' demise greatly exaggerated. They are
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  Speaker 1: tied in the penthouse of the AFC North, 5-2. 5-2.
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  Speaker 1: The Pittsburgh Steelers. Get out your terrible towel. But you
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  Speaker 1: know what that means.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The greatest quarterback of the greatest show on turf, Kurt Warner,
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  Speaker 1: now a gas bag at state-sponsored Pravda News Service, the
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  Speaker 1: NFL network. Kurt Warner not buying Pittsburgh as a legitimate
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  Speaker 1: heavyweight contender, saying, quote, I don't think it's going to
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  Speaker 1: go very far, meaning the Steelers' formula. Now, Warner had
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  Speaker 1: a front-row seat to watch the Steelers. He was calling
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  Speaker 1: the game out. for the mouthpiece of the NFL, the
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  Speaker 1: NFL network there. And following Pittsburgh's win over New Orleans
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  Speaker 1: in France, Warner criticized the lack of explosive plays on
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers' offense, the reliance on heavy, long drives, lengthy
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  Speaker 1: drives and all that. The Steelers have almost as many
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  Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns as the Fox Sports radio team has. They
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  Speaker 1: have one rushing touchdown all season, which I don't think
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  Speaker 1: is good. I don't think that's good. And they haven't
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  Speaker 1: won a playoff game in a decade, which I also
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  Speaker 1: don't think is good. Oh, you're being a hater, Maller.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 1: I know Sean the Hood guy, the big Steeler fan
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  Speaker 1: that supports the show and all that. He's probably agrees
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  Speaker 1: with me at this point. All right, so the question,
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  Speaker 1: we'll keep it simple. Do you agree or disagree with
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  Speaker 1: Kurt Warner and his skepticism about the Steelers of 2026?
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  Speaker 1: So there's only one answer that you can have. Unless
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  Speaker 1: you have a terrible towel shoved up your tuchus, you
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  Speaker 1: have to agree. You can't disagree. There should be skepticism.
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  Speaker 1: The Steelers, I look at this team, it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like going to the Louvre in Paris and looking at
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  Speaker 1: a Monet painting. And you're like, wow, that looks good.
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  Speaker 1: Let me get a little closer. Uh-oh, better walk back.
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  Speaker 1: The Steelers look better from a distance. Ergo, you look
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  Speaker 1: at that 5-2 record, you look at the fact that
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  Speaker 1: they're tied for first place, you're like, wow, that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: And then you get up close. And it's sloppy joes.
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  Speaker 1: It's a sloppy mess. There is no wow factor. There's
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  Speaker 1: no razzmatazz. There's no bedazzling. There's no bedazzlement watching the Steelers.
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  Speaker 1: It is a football team playing in quicksand. You got
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  Speaker 1: old man Rodgers, the old geezer Aaron Rodgers, operating the
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  Speaker 1: NFL's 20th ranked offense, which is a snooze. And T.J.
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  Speaker 1: Watt anchoring what statistically... is the sixth-ranked defense. Congratulations. You've
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  Speaker 1: built the NFL's most expensive mud puddle. And I believe
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  Speaker 1: Kurt Warner nailed it, and it's something that we've ranted
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  Speaker 1: about if you've heard the show over the years. One
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  Speaker 1: of my big complaints is when your offense needs El
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  Speaker 1: Perfecto to succeed, it's not going to work. You need 10, 11,
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  Speaker 1: 12 play drives to to score a touchdown. Those things
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  Speaker 1: are really sexy when you do them. And the broadcasters
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  Speaker 1: get all horny. They're like, oh, man, they took half
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  Speaker 1: the clock in the quarter off. Half the time on
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  Speaker 1: the quarter went off the clock. You get all excited.
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  Speaker 1: It's great when it works, but you're one holding penalty,
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  Speaker 1: one sack, one guy farting at the wrong time, and
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  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you have to punt the
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  Speaker 1: ball away because you did it on third down. you
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: slipped on the banana peel, and it's a problem. So
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: we always say, where's the bang-bang? Where are the explosive plays?
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Where's the kaboom?
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: The Steelers, I looked it up, out of all the
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: teams in the NFL, 32 teams, in explosive play rate,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: which is a nerd stat, the Steelers are ranked 18th.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: So they're somewhat in the middle they're kind of in
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: the middle a little past the middle point on the
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: wrong side but that is not championship football that is
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: like a three-hour negotiation labor negotiation and then occasionally get
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: a field goal and pittsburgh is where they have been
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: under mike tomlin tomlin now is doing hot takes on
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: tv everyone loves hot takes but Pittsburgh is stuck in
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: that mushy middle of the NFL. They're good enough to
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: beat tomato cans. They're not dangerous enough to scare the heavyweights.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: You look at the top teams in the AFC, no
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: one's like, oh man, we got to go play Pittsburgh.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: You think Buffalo's like, oh crap, we got to play.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: We got to play Pittsburgh. We're screwed. Oh no. Although
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: it is more like the way the Chiefs play. The
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Chiefs are kind of similar in that regard. They don't
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: have a lot of explosive plays, but there's just that
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: The Steelers are not built to get to the hood
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: in Inglewood and go to the Super Bowl. They're built
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: for another January blowout playoff loss on wild card weekend
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: is what they're built for. And that's about it. It
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: is the Ben Maller Show, as we are rolling, rolling,
• 21:27
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• 21:31
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  Speaker 1: be part of the program... So there's a very important
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: piece of memorabilia from the Milwaukee Brewers winning the World Series.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: And there's some question about where it is, who's got possession,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: who's got possession of the said item. And we know
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: there's quite the backstory. We'll explain what the story is
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: and what the item is. It's a very valuable piece.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: of sports memorabilia that came out of the World Series.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: We'll get to that. 877-99 on Fox and on X
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  Speaker 6: Welcome to Football Doesn't Lie.
• 22:40
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• 22:42
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• 22:43
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• 22:47
  Speaker 6: And I'm learning the game with Bill's help. Every week,
• 22:50
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• 22:52
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• 22:55
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• 22:58
  Speaker 7: You know, I'm looking forward to this show, Catherine, and
• 23:01
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• 23:04
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• 23:07
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• 23:08
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• 23:15
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• 23:17
  Speaker 5: Continuity is very important but what happens when you get
• 23:21
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• 23:25
  Speaker 5: them then they want to hire them and then you
• 23:28
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• 23:31
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• 23:32
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• 23:36
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• 23:39
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• 23:42
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• 23:46
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• 23:48
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• 23:59
  Speaker 1: And in other news, the Mallory Militia bringing it with
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: that ass. And Marcel says, why isn't it? Just call
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: it a mix match. My English is clear. You're laughing
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: in tears.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: For caller of the year.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Making food pics rain down like a monsoon. I love
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: the Gordon Fisherman's tune. Oodles and noodles. I've written rhymes
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: like a five-year-old doodle. Please just stop. I make drops.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: These lyrics gotta make you blind like scots.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Don't you dare, Blair. You're going to lose. The dynasty's here.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: M to the A to the R.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: To the C-E-L.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: The loser con's going to hell. I'm going to block
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: you now. Malice said drop you now. I'm going to
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: block you now. Malice said drop you now.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I hate talking over this song.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: It's a classic. It's a hit.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: It's such a good song. J. Scoop and Marcel in Brooklyn.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: No editing.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: That's a lie.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: That is a lot of manipulation. But it sounds great.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: It sounds wonderful. It's not AI. It's actually Marcel. It
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: took a long time to put all that together. It
• 25:22
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• 25:26
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• 25:49
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• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Hey, Ben, how you doing?
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, we haven't heard from Anthony. I guess he was
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: online the other day. We haven't heard him in a minute.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: But there he is, the great Anthony in Louisiana. Survived
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: a major near-death experience having some dental work done a
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: while back. On X, at Ben Maller, Lorraine Na can
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: be found at FSR Tech Queen. Good morning. That's FSR
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Tech Queen. And Koopa Loop over there at A Bronco Fan.
• 26:18
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• 26:23
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• 26:26
  Speaker 1: so please act accordingly. And a lot of people chiming
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: in on the X-Machine. OG Art Puffin says, another poignant
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Mallard monologue, a perfect blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, gasbaggery, juicery.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: What does he say here? Oh, it's a Clipper thing.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: I'm not into the NBA yet. I know I've talked
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: about it a little bit. I just didn't see any
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: of the game last night. The Clippers played. I'm picking
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: my spots. I'm trying to say, I'm picking my spots.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: What else do we have? Bill, Hoosier Bill says, Ben,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: has there been any TV commentary since Al Michaels USA
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Hockey that is worth a crap? No! TV doesn't need commentary.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: They have alternative no commentary channels for every sport now. Well,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: that's not technically true, Bill. What they have is this
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: thing called the mute button. And I use it a lot.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I used to at one point I called it the
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Doris Burke button that's what I named it there I
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: don't know it's a tribute to her it's a tribute
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: to her and so I hit that a lot a
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: lot of these people annoy me the specialist writes in
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: from parts unknown he says the main problem with Troy
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Aikman no longer being on Monday Night Football is that
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the four letter network will replace him with some insufferable
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: fool that will be stuck with for years well there
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: have been some wild Monday Night Football broadcasters in my
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: lifetime Tony Kornheiser was a Monday Night Football broadcaster. Rush Limbaugh,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: the legendary talk show, Rush Limbaugh was a, for a
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: little bit, was a Monday Night Football commentator. Dennis Miller,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: the comedian, whatever happened to him? Is he still around?
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Is he alive? I don't know. Dennis Miller, for a while,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: was the Monday Night Football guy. There have been a
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: few odd ones. Well, the Internet says it's going to
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: be either Greg Olson or Pat McAfee. I've heard Stephen A. Smith.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: That would be a disaster. Our old morning guy. That
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: would be that would be something. Oh, OG Art Puffin
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: sent me that video. That's a great video. Thank you,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: OG Art Puffin of Kyler Murray. You know, I'm a
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: big fan of the Viking quarterback. I've spent a lot
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: of my career talking about him. And he's been good
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: because he's made me look good because he's been terrible.
• 28:47
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• 28:53
  Speaker 1: That's 877-996-6369. Also on X at Ben Maller. Let's go
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: to the phones and we'll say hello to... mike the
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: leprechaun hello mike the leprechaun welcome.
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: Good morning ben how are you according.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: To the song you're a loser con according to the.
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: Song i know i can't believe you play that how's
• 29:17
  Speaker 8: el nino doing over there is it affecting your life
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: el nino El Nino.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to say Nino, not Nino. Nino.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: El Nino, El Nino, El Nino, whatever.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Well, no, I'm not... Fortunately, the company doesn't pay me
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: enough to live on the beach, so I don't live
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: near the beach, so it doesn't really affect me, other
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: than the rain. So if I live near the beach
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: i'd be be a little concerned but i don't and
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: this happens every you know every four eight years whatever
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: it is so it's not yeah some it happens every
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: once in a while tell lorraine.
• 29:49
  Speaker 8: I'm sending her a signed mike the leprechaun rookie card.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Lorraine, I'm told to inform you that you're going to
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: be sent a signed card, a signed card.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Rookie card.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Rookie card from Mike the Leprechaun.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. She does not.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: She's very excited.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: Are you going to watch the WNBA tonight?
• 30:12
  Speaker 8: There's nothing else on sports.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Well, I won't watch it tonight because it's being played
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: in the morning. I'll be sleeping my time.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: It's noon.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: I will sleep like a baby. I will not miss
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: it because I didn't really watch any of it. So
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: why would I watch that? I don't care. Let me
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: know if you're excited. Good for you. Enjoy it. I'll
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: be sleeping right through it.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: Basically, they're complaining because it's a 12.30 p.m.
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: Gig, right?
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: I mean, people are in bed.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Well, not people that work the night shift are in bed,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: but people that work on the East Coast and then
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: the dreaded day shift, and then on the West Coast
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: they're either going to work or they're still sleeping or whatever.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: And that's their problem. That ain't my problem. That's their problem.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: They should have figured that out. That's a bad job
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: by them.
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: They had a big bill passed in Congress over a
• 31:04
  Speaker 8: month ago for AMFM.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: Have you heard about that? This is another joke. AM FM?
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Well, no, it's about AM. There was a question about
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: AM radio, what was going to happen to AM radio,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: but that's been going on for a while, yeah. I
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: saw David Sampson, who used to be the president of
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: the Marlins, did a terrible job. Now he's a gas bag.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: David Sampson said Major League Baseball will no longer have radio.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: They don't need baseball on the radio anymore. What a joke.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Baseball is actually better on the radio than it is
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: on TV. There's a guy that doesn't know broadcasting, but
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: that's fine.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: I do like my radio more.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: All right, Mike.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: You know, AM, FM is awesome, Mallard, fabulous Mallard.
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: AM, FM.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. So that was a dad joke. I got you.
• 31:51
  Speaker 8: That wasn't a dad joke.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: That was a couple of them.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: That's a dad joke. The jokes are tomorrow, dude. The
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: jokes are tomorrow.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Not today.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Today's Thursday. Jokes are on Friday. Thank you. Go away.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: So we have an update on a big piece of
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: sports memorabilia. Let me go to Frank the Tank. Frank,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: did you see this story, Frank the Tank? Where's the ball, Frank?
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Where's the ball, Frank the Tank?
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: All right, so the World Series ended last night. Now,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: what is the most valuable piece of memorabilia from a
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: World Series?
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, the trophy?
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: No! The ball! The ball! The ball? Yeah, the ball.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: The final out ball. Where's the ball?
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they did mention that. Yeah, they did mention that.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: There have been lawsuits. I don't know how old you are,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: but the Red Sox, when they ended the Curse of
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: the Bambino... I think it was Doug Minkiewicz, the first baseman,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: had the ball.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Former Twian.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: At one point.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: He had the ball, and then he wanted to keep–
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I think he wanted to keep the ball, and then
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: there was, like, a lawsuit. Who owns the ball? It
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: was a big– it's been years, but it was a
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: big mess. So, anyway, at the end of the World Series,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Jake Bowers had the ball. Jake Bowers had the ball,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: and he gave the ball away, Frank the Tank. He
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: gave it to Pat Murphy, the Brewers' manager. It was
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: a gift. You don't seem impressed. You don't seem impressed, Frank,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: to think.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: I don't really remember Pat Murphy.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Not when he played. He was a college coach for
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: years at Notre Dame and some other places. Well, Pat
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Murphy got the final out ball. Here's where the story
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: gets interesting, Frank, to take. Murphy thanked Bowers, and then
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: he unloaded on another baseball team. This is Jake Bowers
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: and Pat Murphy. So Jake Bowers gives Murphy the ball.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Here's the ball. Thank you. And so Murphy thanked him
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: and said, quote, this is a quote, you're going to
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: be a rich, and then he used the F word.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Just remember when you're on those horse blank Yankee, that
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: horse blank Yankee team, and you're all playing for yourselves,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: just remember this is the way we used to do it.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Close quote.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Frank is overwhelmed. I'm not done with this story, Frank
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: the Tank. Here's the kicker. You ready for the kicker?
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Jake Bowers already played for the Yankees. He was on
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: the Yankees in 23 and batted 202 for the Yankees.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Along with your Dodgers. No, he didn't play for the Dodgers.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: That's what I call them, the Jaggernauts.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Frank, you're not really helping my story here. You don't
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: seem impressed.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: But go ahead.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: No, go ahead. Well, I'm done with the story. You
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: don't seem impressed, Frank the Tank.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: No.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: I thought you'd be impressed.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: The reason why I'm calling is because.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: All right, how about this? How about this? Maybe you're
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: impressed by this. Who cares? How about this story? All right, Frank,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: how about this story? So the Brewer fans, all those
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: people from Wisconsin that were in Florida for the World Series,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: they drank a month's worth of beer in a single day.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: At a bar in Florida. They were there for the
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: World Series. How about that? You impressed by that?
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they probably took the beer with them because the
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: headquarters is up there in Milwaukee. Of course.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Frank, how would they take the beer with them if
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: they were at a bar in Florida? They could put
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: it in the cooler. They could put it in the cooler.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: But wouldn't that not affect the bar then? I know
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: the 50 drunkest counties in the U.S. are almost all
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: in Wisconsin. I get it. Actually, there's some in Iowa.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: You're forgetting two other states. Missouri, there's Bush Stadium.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, no. Colorado. Frank, the 50 drunkest...
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: This is one of those map things. 50 drunkest counties
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: in the United States. The state of Wisconsin is all
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: lit up. There's a few in Iowa. There's... North Dakota
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: and South Dakota. That's it. They're all in the upper Midwest.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: You people love the booze. Y'all love the booze.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Not that I know of. Not around here. Not around
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: here in Iowa.
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: No. No.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: It's been many, many years since I've even had a
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: sip of alcohol.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: All right. I got you. I did see Rebecca the
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Ram fan, 20 years sober. That's impressive, right? 20 years
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: sober for Rebecca the Ram fan. Good for her.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: No, what I was going to ask you.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: No, I don't care, Frank. Thank you for the call.
• 36:37
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: There's the great Frank the Tank right there. We love
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Frank the Tank. A fan favorite. I'll bet you $ 20
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: he was going to ask me, what do you think
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: the Vikings are going to do? What can the twins do?
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: What about the Timberwolves? All right, it is the Ben
• 36:56
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• 37:00
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  Speaker 1: welcome in our celebrity panel of judges. We have Daniel
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  Speaker 1: in Fort Wayne. Hello, Daniel. Welcome. Good morning, and I
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  Speaker 1: got one happy Brewers fan that I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: seeing this morning.
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  Speaker 2: He's one of the kids I cross.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, good. All right. Well, I'm sure he'll be very
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  Speaker 1: excited here. Big day for him. The Brewers are the
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  Speaker 1: champs of baseball. That's Daniel, America's favorite crossing guard. Coach Russell,
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  Speaker 1: our beloved high school football coach in the Orlando area. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: Coach Russell.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome. Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Got senior night tomorrow night. I'm sending 30 guys. Out
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  Speaker 2: for the last home game regular season-wise. So, yeah, big
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  Speaker 2: night tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 1: That's exciting. All right. Always remember your last game there.
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  Speaker 1: All right. And Hector is in Hartford, Connecticut. Hello, Hector. Welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 8: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to be one of our judges, Hector, so
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  Speaker 1: good luck to you. Thank you. All right, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Story number one, Lamar Odom. We've got to figure out
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  Speaker 1: which story is not true, separating fiction from fact. Story
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  Speaker 1: number one, Lamar Odom, former NBA player, has become the
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  Speaker 1: There you go. I want to see Lamar Odom. Check
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  Speaker 1: that out. Madison Square Garden employees received an email from
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  Speaker 1: the company last month saying that every employee would be
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  Speaker 1: receiving a complimentary championship ring. Well, it turned out it
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  Speaker 1: was a phishing scam email, and now they all have
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  Speaker 1: to go to training. James Dolan at his best. And
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  Speaker 1: story number three. Second year Charlotte Hornets star, Conn Knipple,
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  Speaker 1: is facing some heat online. Ford out of Duke posted
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  Speaker 1: a story on Instagram that showed him dressed up as
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  Speaker 1: zombie Mitch McConnell for a Halloween party. That seems like
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  Speaker 1: a good costume. And drew some ire online. He's insensitive
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  Speaker 1: and immature for Conn Knipple. All right, those are the
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  Speaker 1: three stories. Figure out which of the three is not true,
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  Speaker 1: separating fiction from fact. And we start out with America's
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  Speaker 1: favorite crossing guard, Daniel, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Daniel, is
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  Speaker 1: it number one, number two, or number three?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go with number one. All of them
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  Speaker 2: can't be on OnlyFans.
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  Speaker 1: Are you on there, Daniel? You're not on OnlyFans, are you?
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  Speaker 3: Nope, nope, nope, sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't. You're a crossing guard. You can't be
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  Speaker 1: on there. All right, Coach Russell. My man, Coach Russell.
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  Speaker 1: Got the big game tomorrow. Senior, last home game for
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  Speaker 1: the seniors. Coach Russell, which one is favorite?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go with number two because as a
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  Speaker 2: coach who has seven championship rings, I hope they wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: do that to their people.
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  Speaker 1: Look at you, coach. That's a humble brag. Good for you.
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  Speaker 1: And Hector, one, two, or three. Hector and Hartford.
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  Speaker 2: Number two.
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  Speaker 1: Number two. Well, believe it or not, it's actually number three.
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  Speaker 4: Number one.
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  Speaker 1: That was the fake story. Number three. Number three. Not
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  Speaker 1: number one. Number three.