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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: S lead. This hour is from a Viva Las Vegas
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  Speaker 1: lot of chatter. We talked about it in a previous
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  Speaker 1: episode of the show about the future of Max Crosby
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  Speaker 1: multiple reports indicating that he thinks Tom Brady's the Devil
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  Speaker 1: incarnate and wants out of Las Vegas because of Tom
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  Speaker 1: Brady and doesn't want to do anything involving Brady and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. Well, the Raiders do what they're really
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  Speaker 1: good at, and I'm convinced they're fan base. There's a
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  Speaker 1: percentage of Raider fans that are really stupid, and they
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  Speaker 1: they buy every one of these coaching hires. I've been
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  Speaker 1: doing this since the race I've been on Fox. They
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  Speaker 1: actually won. They won the AFC. I was on the
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  Speaker 1: air there was a super Bowl that was played. The
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  Speaker 1: Raiders were in the Super Bowl and that was a
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  Speaker 1: generation plus ago. Okay, and the Raiders have they been
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  Speaker 1: master masters of changing coaches, been really good at changing coaches.
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  Speaker 1: And I am continually fascinated by how stupid some people are.
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  Speaker 1: They hire these coach. Oh, this guy's the guy, this
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  Speaker 1: guy the guy. What do you how do you get
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  Speaker 1: out of bed? Maybe you don't, You're that dumb. It's unbelievable,
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  Speaker 1: it's really so. Anyway, the latest dope the Raiders. Hiders
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  Speaker 1: coach Clinck Kobiak, the net Bow Baby, he was introduced
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders again. They don't win championships, but they're really
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  Speaker 1: good at welcoming, welcoming coaches and bringing back the Raider Legends,
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  Speaker 1: who at this point all need wheelchairs and walkers. But
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  Speaker 1: they brought back the race legends. Baby. They brought him back.
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  Speaker 1: And the story here, Who cares about Clint Kubiak. You'll
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  Speaker 1: be fired in a couple years anyway, These guys don't last.
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  Speaker 1: But the story is Max Crosby in the future of
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  Speaker 1: Max Crosby with the Silver and Black and the new Raiders.
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  Speaker 1: The coach Clint Kubiak addressing the Komodo Dragon in the
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  Speaker 1: room at the Raider News compings, I don't he saw
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  Speaker 1: this or not? Maybe not, but Kubiak affirming that he
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  Speaker 1: wants Max Crosby to remain with the Raiders. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: it would have been a better story if he said, no,
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  Speaker 1: I think this guy's a stiff Max Crosby. I can't
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  Speaker 1: stand the guy. You know, he's got bo He didn't
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  Speaker 1: say that, though the quote was Kubiak. He said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: we want him to be a part of our success
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  Speaker 1: going forward. There's no doubt about that. Apparently the editors.
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  Speaker 1: But these guys can't wait to leave the building. By
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  Speaker 1: the way I come in here, it's like a mad
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  Speaker 1: dashing out here. It's like they must get cooties or something.
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  Speaker 1: People work here so basic. I'm old enough when they
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  Speaker 1: actually used to want to work here and stay and
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  Speaker 1: do their anyway. We appaently we have that sound. So
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  Speaker 1: let's go to the audio tape. Here we go. You've
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  Speaker 1: spoken to Max Crosby, and I see a guy you
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  Speaker 1: could see anchoring your defense here for years to come.
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  Speaker 1: I did you know question coffee with Max? This morning?
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  Speaker 3: We had coffee both him and you know, look forward
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  Speaker 3: to continuing those conversations.
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  Speaker 1: He was I think he was the first one in here.
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  Speaker 1: That's more thing working out, so I fired me up.
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  Speaker 1: That's because he's too too cheap to build his own
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  Speaker 1: gym at his home apparently, so we came in in
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  Speaker 1: early to work, all right. So that's a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question did Clint Kubiak
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  Speaker 1: close the door with those comments about oh, I had coffee,
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  Speaker 1: we had a nice coffee with Max Crosby. Does that
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  Speaker 1: close the door on the raiders trading Max Crosby. So
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  Speaker 1: I've got Joey the Bellman, cat Scratch and waffle Cone,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we will do a pirouett on the catwalk, is what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to do. So a let's just start with this.
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  Speaker 1: We've got the Mallard Dakota Ring, and the Mallard Dakota
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  Speaker 1: Ring just hit over drive, is what it did here.
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  Speaker 1: And it's screaming. You know what's screaming? Pop goes Louise All,
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  Speaker 1: that's what it's screaming. Right there, Kubiak stepping to the
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  Speaker 1: mic and giving the company line. I love that he
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  Speaker 1: went right to the first in the building. Line, isn't
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  Speaker 1: that a shot at Geno Smith? Shouldn't Geno Smith be
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  Speaker 1: the first person in the building? Is it the Clinton
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  Speaker 1: Clint Kubiak taking shots at the Raiders quarterback. If I
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  Speaker 1: was running the headline, the tabloids don't really exist anymore.
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  Speaker 1: The headline would be Raiders coach knocks Geno Smith, who's
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  Speaker 1: still under contract with the Raiders, and said, well, no,
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  Speaker 1: Max Crosby was the first one in. That is an
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  Speaker 1: assault on Geno Smith. Or the subheadline Raiders coach calls
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  Speaker 1: out lazy Geno Smith not being first in the building.
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  Speaker 1: It's all bull crap anyway, But there you go, Kubiak
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  Speaker 1: giving the state of the Max Crosby address, which was
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  Speaker 1: really the company line is what it was here. And
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  Speaker 1: these comments were not a commitment, they were not They
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  Speaker 1: were more like a classified ad disguised as a compliment.
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  Speaker 1: And it's all niceties And a lot of these questions
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  Speaker 1: are by people that work for Raiders dot com, which
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  Speaker 1: is what you want. You people are idiots, and you
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  Speaker 1: like this. You don't want any tough questions. You want
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  Speaker 1: it all to be a pomp and circumstance, and so
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  Speaker 1: that's what these coaching hires are. That's what you get.
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  Speaker 1: But Kubiak didn't just leave the door open the way
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  Speaker 1: I interpret these comments. The new temporary Raiders coach, he
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  Speaker 1: laid out the red carpet, he put on some white gloves.
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  Speaker 1: He acted like Joey the bellman at the Rich Carlton,
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  Speaker 1: our friend Joey the bellman there and right there at
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  Speaker 1: the Ritz Carlton, ushering more trade talk, all right, more
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  Speaker 1: trade talk, and leading you right into the penthouse suite
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  Speaker 1: and saying, all right, listen, I was settling. I got
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  Speaker 1: some nice focolate chip cookies right there. I've got some
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  Speaker 1: lemonade on the counter, and feel free to browse the
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  Speaker 1: mini bar. It's all on the house. Welcome, Welcome, fellas.
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  Speaker 1: So in the world of coach speak, and oh what
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  Speaker 1: a world it is. The world of coach speak. Being
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  Speaker 1: part of our success is a massive cavernous umbrella. When
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  Speaker 1: you saw we think he'll be part of our success.
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  Speaker 1: On one hand, let's play that game. On one hand,
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  Speaker 1: Max Crosby would continue to play for the Raiders and
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  Speaker 1: sack quarterbacks and wear the silver and black and be
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  Speaker 1: part of the Raiders success. On the other hand, he
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  Speaker 1: gets shipped out of dodge, get out of here for
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  Speaker 1: a gaggle of bingo cards. And those, of course the
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  Speaker 1: draft capital, which you love. You love your little draft picks.
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  Speaker 1: You get all hearty for your draft picks. So both
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  Speaker 1: of them lead to success. Right back stage there is
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  Speaker 1: a good player still got a couple more good years
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  Speaker 1: in them, so that's great. And then if you get
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  Speaker 1: rid of them, you get some false hope, which lot
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  Speaker 1: of your moron fans like. So that's the way to
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  Speaker 1: do it. There you go, and it's the ultimate bait
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  Speaker 1: and switch in many many respects. That buttering up the
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  Speaker 1: asset while checking the expiration date on the milk, you're like,
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  Speaker 1: what's the expiration date? And Crosby of this silly season,
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  Speaker 1: unless there's a surprise name. Max Crosby is the crown
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  Speaker 1: jewel of the NFL offseason of players likely to be moved.
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  Speaker 1: And Kubiak already eyeing the pawn shop down the down
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  Speaker 1: the strip. There the little pawn shop there, although I
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  Speaker 1: did see I don't even saw this, but in some
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  Speaker 1: of the casinos in Vegas now they've put these vending
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  Speaker 1: machines where you can put your gold in the vending machine.
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  Speaker 1: They'll melt it down right in front of you and
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  Speaker 1: give you money. Yeah, I'm sure that's not crooked at all. No,
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  Speaker 1: all right, not Page two to Pittsburg, PA, The Land
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  Speaker 1: of the Inzer, Pittsburgh, PA. There up day update on
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  Speaker 1: the Steeler quarterback situation. So from what we're reading here,
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers are hot and heavy. They want Aaron Rodgers. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they want Aaron Rodgers to return in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: Now why would they want Aaron Rodgers? And your guess
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  Speaker 1: is as good as mine. But wait, there's more. Supposedly
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  Speaker 1: the new coach, Mike McCarthy is in no hurry. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of like when he's having a nice brunch.
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  Speaker 1: He's never in a hurry when he's eating brunch. And
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  Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy's not in a hurry in terms of rushing
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. This comes amid reports, very vague reports from
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  Speaker 1: Terry Bradshaw of all people who claim to have never
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  Speaker 1: met Mike Tomlin when Tomlin was the coach in Pittsburg.
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  Speaker 1: But now Terry Bradshaw making some comments recently about that
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  Speaker 1: he knows that the inner workings of Aaron Rodgers and
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers and what's going on and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So while they do not supposedly anticipate that this thing's
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  Speaker 1: going to rag on as long as it did last
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  Speaker 1: year with Aaron Rodgers and his imaginary wife, they are
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  Speaker 1: content they being the Pittsburgh Steelers, to focus on Will Howard.
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  Speaker 1: That's good, that's funny. Yeah, that's what they're leaking to
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  Speaker 1: their useful idiots in the media. They are really in
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  Speaker 1: on Will Howard. That's that's the guy. All right, buy
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  Speaker 1: your Steeler terrible towels right there, putting new meaning in
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  Speaker 1: the terrible of the terrible towels for sure, as they
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  Speaker 1: wait for Aaron Rodgers. So the question, can you explain
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  Speaker 1: the inner workings, the why again, the why of the
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  Speaker 1: Steelers slow dancing doing the nice slow dance with Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers yet again. So this is a fever. It is
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  Speaker 1: cat scratch fever, is what it is. Right there. They've
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  Speaker 1: been bitten, they being the Pittsburgh Steelers. That is my
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  Speaker 1: determination after a minute long deliberation. The Steelers have been bitten.
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  Speaker 1: They're itchy. They keep going back to the same alley
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  Speaker 1: cat because they really like that alley Cat, they do,
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  Speaker 1: and they're hoping that this time it's not going to
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  Speaker 1: claw their eyes out the way Aaron Rodgers did against
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  Speaker 1: the Houston Texans in the playoff game. Yeah, and he's
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  Speaker 1: still got the name. He still moves the needle. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of these younger quarterbacks then, don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: know about this, they're pretty boring, Sam Darnold and Drake
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  Speaker 1: May Oh god, these guys boring. Holy crap, all these
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  Speaker 1: ry mean Rogers not not intentionally interesting, but just not
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  Speaker 1: as dull as some of these other jabbronis that are
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  Speaker 1: playing quarterbacks. So and they love the idea, the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: of relevance, and I support that. I think that's great,
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  Speaker 1: unlike all these other teams that continue to sell rotten
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  Speaker 1: dog food and say, just trust us, bro will be good.
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  Speaker 1: Give us five years, will be good, and then five years, oh,
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  Speaker 1: give us another five years will be good. Yeah. So really,
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  Speaker 1: these Steelers, though, have settled into the mediocrity land, the
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  Speaker 1: land of mediocrity. They're addicted to it. And Mike Tomlin
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  Speaker 1: exited stage left, Get out of here, see you later. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: he's gone. The disease remains. It's called ten to seven disease.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it is diagnosed as nine to eight disease. Every
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  Speaker 1: once in a while it's called eleven six disease. And
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  Speaker 1: then you go to wild Card weekend and lose by
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  Speaker 1: twenty or more points. That's a wash, rinse and repeat
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  Speaker 1: is what that is. And so now you enter waddling
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  Speaker 1: into the room, Mike McCarthy shrugging, lying, Eah, we'll wait,
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  Speaker 1: we'll wait. We got nothing going on here, and you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna wait for Aaron Rodgers. What is he doing in
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  Speaker 1: another darkness retreat. Maybe he's on his hontingmoon with his
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  Speaker 1: with his wife. He went a nice romantic hunting moon.
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  Speaker 1: It's flying solo, but he went on a nice sonning moon.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. Yeah, the other options are not great,
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  Speaker 1: so it's not you can't really kill the Steelers because
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  Speaker 1: the obvious options are names like Malik Willis, who I
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  Speaker 1: don't think is terrible, but he's certainly not a guarantee
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  Speaker 1: that he's gonna be any good worth a shot, based
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  Speaker 1: on the fact that he looked like he kind of
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  Speaker 1: figured some stuff out in Green Bay. Daniel Jones know
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with him, Mac Jones. Anybody named Jones
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  Speaker 1: is available. You've got the little fella Kyler Murray, Alligator
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  Speaker 1: Armis Murray if I wanted to win a video game tournament,
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm doing. You know, they have these races,
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  Speaker 1: like in law enforcement, they have it's a couple of
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  Speaker 1: big races, and one of them is like Baker to Vegas,
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  Speaker 1: which they do every spring, and some police departments will
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  Speaker 1: hire track and field people so they can win that event.
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  Speaker 1: So if you want to win a video game tournament,
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  Speaker 1: if you're the Pittsburgh Steelers, bringand Kyler Murray be a favorite.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, you want Kirk Cousins, you want to a
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  Speaker 1: tongue of eyelaw of that would be perfect. Marcus Mariota
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  Speaker 1: can be yours. Geno Smith. The Raiders will get rid
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  Speaker 1: of him. You can get him. There you go. So Rogers,
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  Speaker 1: while not great, it's the quote safest bad decision that
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  Speaker 1: one can make there. And it sounds like the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: are choosing the comfort and they're willing to go down
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  Speaker 1: that road there and Rogers a familiar, familiar shoe. You've
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  Speaker 1: worn the shoe, you know the shoe, and it's familiar
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  Speaker 1: and it beats the scary change. And they don't really
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  Speaker 1: have fomo. What are you missing out on? Those other
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks aren't a good right now last word, moving to
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  Speaker 1: the bookmaker's office. We go now to the bookmaker's office
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  Speaker 1: where the NFL and sports gambling are intertwined these days
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL essentially a gambling outfit at this point.
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  Speaker 1: And the numbers are in and they're not particularly great
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  Speaker 1: from the desert. Despite all of these different devices and
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  Speaker 1: platforms to gamble on, the mecca for gambling is still
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  Speaker 1: lost Wages Nevada. They didn't earn that nickname by people
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  Speaker 1: making money anyway. The numbers out approximately one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty three point eight million dollars was bet on Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl sixty with sportsbooks in the state of Nevada. That
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  Speaker 1: sounds like a lot until you realize that is a
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  Speaker 1: ten year low. How low can you go? According to
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  Speaker 1: the figures the State Gaming Control released, sportsbooks did win
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  Speaker 1: about ten million dollars of better's money on the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: victory over the or the Seahawks victory over the Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of Patriot money went to the sports book,
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  Speaker 1: so the win was down fifty five percent year to
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  Speaker 1: year fifty five percent decline in Nevada. So the question
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  Speaker 1: what is the big takeaway here from the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: sixty handle as they call it being down by that
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  Speaker 1: larger margin in Vegas. So this is not some kind
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  Speaker 1: of rounding error based on what I was reading here.
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  Speaker 1: This is a flashing red light and it's actually making
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  Speaker 1: a noise. Ooooooo, that's the sound. You didn't know the
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  Speaker 1: red light makes that noise, but it doesn't oooooo. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and there's like a siren spinning around on top. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot going on. So the problem, there are
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  Speaker 1: multiple problems here. Super Bowl sixty was Dolesville, USA. The
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks and the Patriots have boring players and boring coaches.
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  Speaker 1: They don't get you all tingling. That's a problem, right,
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  Speaker 1: it's elevator music. The mood we were in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: I was there for the last part of the week
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  Speaker 1: and the mood was apathetic. That was the mood. And
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  Speaker 1: for the NFL, this is the entertainment business. We're all
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  Speaker 1: about entertainment. You cannot be boring. And they were born
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  Speaker 1: and Sam Darnold versus Drake May was I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 1: my waffle cone with vanilla ice cream, and then the
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  Speaker 1: other is the waffle cone with the slowly turned vanilla
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  Speaker 1: ice cream, but it's still vanilla ice cream. It's just
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  Speaker 1: there's no juice, there's no sizzle. The needle doesn't move
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  Speaker 1: at all. That's it. It's pond water. And so Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: If you go to year to year and you can
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  Speaker 1: have fun with numbers, many people do, but Vegas, based
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  Speaker 1: on what I was looking at, Vegas lost eighteen million
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  Speaker 1: year to year in terms of the handle, fifty seven
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  Speaker 1: million less from twenty twenty four. That's a big number.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a blip. That's a big number on a spreadsheet.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I would argue to referendum and it's you said, well,
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  Speaker 1: everyone's got not in California, but most people have betting.
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  Speaker 1: I guess something you do have not just we can't.
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  Speaker 1: You can do the betting with DraftKings. We love DraftKings,
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  Speaker 1: a great sponsor here. But there's other ways you can bet.
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  Speaker 1: And so Sin City did a lot of this to itself.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they didn't help themselves. Le's put it that way, right.
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  Speaker 1: The people in Vegas, the people that run the casinos.
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  Speaker 1: There's two big casinos in Vegas, and they nickel and
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  Speaker 1: dime the gamblers, the ridiculous parking, the price of drinks,
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  Speaker 1: the price of food. You know, they were even charging.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about hutzba nine hundred dollars at one of
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  Speaker 1: the sports books in Vegas to sit and watch the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Do they realize that that's not a luxury
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  Speaker 1: yacht that you're sitting in a sports book. Yeah, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: and just all this stuff that used to be free
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  Speaker 1: and they'd smile at you and all that stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: then now now it's not and they've got competition. Normally,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't take a lot of business classes some books
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  Speaker 1: since I've actually learned more since I got out of
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  Speaker 1: school than when I was in school. But I've studied
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  Speaker 1: enough about business to know that normally what happens if
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  Speaker 1: there's competition, the customer benefits, and that in order to
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  Speaker 1: keep the customer, they give you stuff that they might
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  Speaker 1: have not given you back in the day, or they
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  Speaker 1: did give you and they stopped giving you. And that's
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  Speaker 1: not happened yet in Vegas. And so you've got the
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  Speaker 1: sports books. You also have the prediction market, which are
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  Speaker 1: they're circling like sharks, and that is legal in every state.
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  Speaker 1: I've been told by somebody that's pretty connected they're working
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  Speaker 1: to lobby to get rid of that. So you better
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  Speaker 1: enjoy that while you have it, because the gambling companies
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  Speaker 1: are like, well, this is taking our money away from us,
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  Speaker 1: and so we want our money. And so they're trying
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  Speaker 1: to massage some hack politicians in DC to get rid
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from Motown. We go
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: to Motown. We'll get back to the football. Some of
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: you guys are on hold still want to yap about
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: the NFL. That's fine, but we'll go to baseball. Spring
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: training is underway. The flag is up and off to
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the races now. The Tigers, who last week added a
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: cheating as one one thousand and two one thousand hole
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: to their roster, made another last minute edition as spring
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: training gets underway for the Detroit Tigers in Florida. If
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: you have not heard yet perhaps not. We've learned that
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Justin Verlander, Yep, that guy, Justin Verlander is returning to
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Detroit baseball. He agrees to a one year contract thirteen million.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: It's a Dodger like contract, as eleven million of that
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: contract will be paid in a deferred nature, meaning that
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: that's just like great money for retirement for Justin Verlander.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: It'll be his twenty first season in the big leagues.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: He turns forty three in less than two weeks, so
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: later this month, Verlander will be forty three. He's spent
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: his first thirteen seasons with Detroit. He then had his
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: whole reputation sullate by playing with a cheating as one
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: thousand and two one thousand holes, and then went off
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: to the Giants. And now he's back, and there was
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: a brief stopover elsewhere as well. But from what I'm reading,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: despite the mileage, some of the baseball pundits are telling
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: me that Verlander is going to be a very valuable pitcher,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: very valuable pitcher for the Tigers in twenty twenty six.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: discuss the question now that the move has been made,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Justin Verlander, the report saying a quote very valuable pitcher
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: in his return to the Tigers. Are you writing the
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Verlander hype train or waiting for the next train? Yeah?
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: So this is not something that's going to scare the
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: other contenders in baseball. I've got Amtrak, billiards, and prime stake,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: we are going to play Connect three and I'm going
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: to win Connect three, So number number alright. So this
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Verlander story, the idea that he's going to be very valuable,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: that's some of the reporting. Very valuable to the Tegers.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: This one lives for me in quantum physics, meaning there
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: are two realities that are there at the same time.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: They both exist at the same time here, so and
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: both can be true. Both can be true here. From
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: a baseball standpoint, if you think Justin Verlander is going
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: to be the secret sauce for the Tigers to get
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: it done, then you might want to see a doctor
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: because you have no idea what you're talking about. This
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: guy is a side little cup of gravy, is what
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: he is at this point. He's a side dish, extra
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: cup of extra cup of gravy. There you didn't ask
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: for the extra cup of gravy. You don't really even
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: need the extra cup of gravy. But there's the extra
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: cup of gravy. And maybe you can throw that on
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: some fries and make some poutine and then you have
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: poutine fries and that's the way to go, and put
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: some cheese curds on that, and that's it. I'm not
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: buying it. The point is, I'm not buying it. You know. Oh,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: you're such a you're such a schmuck, Maeler. What are
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: you ripping it? Come on? What's Yeah? The Tigers rotation,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: it's fine, it's good. They got the top pitcher in baseball,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Trek Scoogles, just one arbitration, so he's at the very
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: top of the rotation. They added a cheating astro in
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Framberg Valdez. They have Jack Flarerty who's a terrible big
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: game pitcher, former Dodger, and he's hanging out there in
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: in Detroit. So they got they got Flarity, Valdez, and
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Schooble all in the rotation. And so that's fine. I mean,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: those guys will do fine during the regular season. And
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: that's it. And when I look at Verlander, though, like,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: this guy's like a number five starter, and it's memory
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: lane stuff. He's a number five starter. He's got a
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: lot of miles there, and there's a very good chance,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: and I'm never wrong about this stuff that outside of
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: a couple of random remember me moments this season, he
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: might have one or two starts where it's like, oh man,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Verlander still got it. And when it gets all horny, right,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: you get all excited. And the odds are better though,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the Mather of sportsbook odds are better that Verlander will
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: miss not one but two months of the baseball season
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: with injury. The odds are better that that happens than
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: he wins ten games. You're such a boomer who cares
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: about wins. It's about the nerd stats.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: All.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's just the malle mat. The other part of this, though,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: is branding. It's all about the branding there, and that
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: is where this is a big time move here, justin
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Verlander under the branding umbrella for the Tigers becomes priceless.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Heartstrings marketing. That's what this is. It's heartstrings marketing. Roll
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: out the nostalgia machine and take it out of the
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: garage and roll it out there a soft piano, misty
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: eyes right, Oh, Fertilander, he's back in the old English D.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: He's back. Get the acoustic guitar. Childhood flashbacks when you
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: were a little kid, and you watch the Erlander on
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: the mon oh Man, got that vintage unif they still
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: wear the same old English D on the home uniform,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: it's the same thing, slow motion fist pumps. You'll leave
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: out the highlights of the Tigers with Verlander choking in
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: the World series, You'll leave those out. But the commercials
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: write themselves. The commercials write themselves. And again, though, to
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: answer the question, am I writing the Justin Verlander hype trained? True? True? No,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I'm standing on the platform. I'm going to see what's
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: in the vending machines, and I'm watching the Amtrak nostalgia
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: caboose roll by, And that's where I am on this
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: particular story. But Verlander is not, and has not been
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: for a number of years, a front line guy. That's
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: how it's supposed to work. In your mid forties. Almost
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: at this point, Verlander is a museum exhibit. The Tigers
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: just added a traveling museum exhibit. When I was at
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: the Radio Row thing, we chatted with Jim Gray, and
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Jim Gray's got a museum in Vegas with Tom Brady,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: and he might want to put Verlander in that museum. Now,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Verlander will sell a lot of merch. They'll sell a
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: lot of merch. Business wise, it's a home run. So
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the quote Verlander very valuable. He's valuable for the Detroit
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Tigers gift shop. He's valuable for that. In terms of
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: on the field, No, a number five starter, and ten
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: thousand things would have to go haywire for Verlander to
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: get key starts in the playoffs. Playoffs. Now page two
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: here as we continue our in depth team coverage talks
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: in baseball this hour, and we head now to Port
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Saint Lucie, Florida. Not much going on in Port Saint
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: lucient Now, I'm been there in here, so maybe there's
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: stuff going on there now, But when I was there,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: sleepy Grapefruit League town and not a lot going on.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Not a lot going on there. So the Metropolitans getting started,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: the New York Metropolitans, and in classic Mets fashion, they
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: are tripping over themselves. Stumble bumps. They're stumble bumps here
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: and now, as we understand it, the Mets shortstop Francisco
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Lindor is already hurt, not ready to go. He's got
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: a injured left hand and may may may need surgery. Oh,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Lindor has six years and almost two hundred million dollars
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: remaining on his Mega contract. Now in addition, One Soto,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: the almost eight hundred million dollar man. One Soto will
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: no longer be playing right field for the Mets. They
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: have demoted him. Juan Soto, eight hundred million dollar ball player,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: has been demoted to left field. More on that in
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: a minute. So question, do you fancy a thought? Do
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: you fancy a thought on the Mets possibly starting the
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: regular season without shortstop Francisco Lindor. Ok, So think about
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: this in terms of billiards. You ever mess you do?
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: You played billiards, right, You messed around with that. So
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: the Mets are on track to not run, They're on
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: track to walk into opening day already behind the eight ball,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: behind the eight ball, chalk flying everywhere, pockets empty, and
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: you look at it. For Lindor. The hand surgery, which
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: they're saying is they might not need surgery. In my experience,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: I can count on one hand when a baseball team
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: says someone might need surgery. I can count on one
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: hand the times they don't actually end up getting surgery.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: So the odds are heavily shifted towards the fact there's
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: gonna be surgery for Francisco Lindor, and that's going to
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: require a six week recovery. And I know you got
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: the World Baseball Classics, so everything's kind of you know,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: it's messed around. Everything's messed up with the calendar. And
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: that'll be another thing people complain about there, but using
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: not malormth but metmth. If Lindor waits to have surgery,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: we are told he will. So let's look at the calendar.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: It's early February, and let's say we wait until early
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: March to decide to have surgery. Then you got to
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: schedule the surgery, hand surgery, six week recovery, so that
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: means Lindor will be back in the Mets lineup in
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: mid June. If the baseball gods are smiling mid June,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: it's only six weeks. Your math is all messed up.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Oh no, I know, I know, because out of an
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: abundance of caution, the Mets are gonna go slow and study,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: and you know. Then he comes back, He's go, well,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: you gotta have a rehab assignment, got to reboot, got
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: a reboot, all that stuff. And you just can't plug
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Lindor back in. It's not like an iPhone. You can't
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: just charge him like an iPhone. No, no, no. And
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: then in my crystal ball, Lindor will come back to
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: the Mets, will be batting about one seventy, hitting the
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: All Star break. It will be booed at the ballpark
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: there and flushing and because he's gonna have to shake
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: off the rust right like an etch a sketch. You
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: gotta shake it off and all that stuff. I meanwhile,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Juan Soto, this to me is not getting enough attention.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: This is outstanding. So I realized that Sodo has played
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: left field in his career, but the fact that he's
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: one year into his Mets career, they're paying him eight
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: hundred million dollars, and it is a demotion. Left field
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: is the easier position to play than certainly in that
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: ballpark with the Mets, then right field. So your eight
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: hundred million dollar ballplayer is like a you know, and
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: this is the Mets. You're saying, this is what he
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: wanted that wanted to play left field. Of course he does.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: It's the lazy river on defense. It's kind of float
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: around there and collect checks and get ready for your
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: next to bats. So you can stand there and look
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: at five pitches and then walk down to first base
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: and then that's it and get your seven hundred and
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: sixty five million dollars a good life to get and
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: just ignore the whispers and all that stuff. Also, because
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: there are some locker room and politics involved. Am I
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: going to say this is all karma, that karma's involved
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: in that, Well, it depends on what you believe in
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: that or not. But I do know the whispers out
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: of Gotham. The whispers out of Gotham have indicated that
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto put pressure on the Mets
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: front office to get rid of guys they didn't like.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Brandon Nimmo longtime Met was dispatched this offseason, Jeff McNeil,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: he's not that good. But they got rid of Peede Alonzo.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: They did not bring back the polar bear Pee Alonzo.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: So all of those moves, the whispers are were made
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: in relation to the fact that Juan Soto and Francisco
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Lindor didn't want those guys on the team, And so
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: there you go. The Mets looks like they're gonna start
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: with out Lindor and then you got Juan Soto Futson
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: around out there in left field. Now, final point, this
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: is next level, next level embezzlement in Major League baseball.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: We go to Denver. We go to Denver now where
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: the weather is cool and the baseball is bad. The
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: baseball is bad. Spring training starting this week. And is
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: it true that Rocky's first basement, Chris Bryant has already
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: already landed on the what used to be called the
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: disabled list, but it's now called the injured list. Is
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: it also true that Chris Bryant will miss the first
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: two months of the baseball season? Ding ding ding ding
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: ding ding ding ning. Yeah, he's going to be out
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: for at least the first fifty seven games of the
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: upcoming baseball season. Now, you might not know who Chris
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Bryant is because he used to be good. He's decided
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: he no longer wants to participate in the big leagues,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: although he still likes those checks direct deposit every couple
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: of weeks. So question, how do you view Chris Bryant
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: and the return on investment, the ROI that he's providing
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: the Rockies with his latest revelation. So this is this
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: is a horror version of groundhog Day. It's the nightmare
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: version of groundhog Day. And instead of Bill Murray, we
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: get a guy collecting what is it, twenty six million
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: dollars to sit in a whirlpool on a yearly basis
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: or something like that. Bryant. According to the math, this
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: guy used to be a stud with the Cubs, and
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: all my friends in Chicago said, oh, Chris Bryant, Cubbs
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: are set. They got Schwarbs and Chris Bryan and they
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: got Hobby by as It. Oh my god, the Cubs.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: The only one of those guys that turned out to
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: be legit is Kyle Schwarber, and he wasn't in Chicago
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: very long. Anyway. Back to the point, so if you
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: look at the math on this, I'll go to the
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: numbers here. Chris Bryant has played one hundred and seventy
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: games in four years. That is not a baseball career.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: That is a part time hobby. It's like, you know,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go play golf. Maybe I'll play golf. I
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: don't know, forty times in a year. I might go
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: play golf, right, a couple times a month. It adds up,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe three times a month and all of
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: a sudden, okay, you're over that. So three and a half,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: I guess would be the number on that. One hundred
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: and eighty two million. One hundred and eighty two million
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: dead presents the Rockies. They aren't paying for a silver Slugger.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: They are paying for the world's most most expensive tourist.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Does he even have to claim residency in Colorado? Chris
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Bryant at this point, and it's it's not an investment.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: This is a historical grift by the former cub star
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Chris Bryan. I know he spent some time briefly with
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: the Giants and then went to Denver, but he didn't
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: come to Colorado to hit home runs. It's pretty clear
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: that Chris Bryan's goal was not to hit home runs.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: He came there to get the golden parachute. And my god,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: did he get the golden parachute. Here. It's got a
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: nice view there, got a view of the flatirons there
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: in Denver, and cash and checks and laughing and gotta
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: be blushing a little bit, right, So he won the
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: lottery because he at one point was deemed pretty good.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Chris Bryant, He's I think the math I saw was
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: like over one hundred thousand dollars per plate appearance or something,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: so stupid. It's so stupid, and one hundred thousand or
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand to pop up and walk
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: to the trainer's room and get some ice. So I said, well,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: he's been diagnosed with degenerate back issues. Okay, that's great,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: So why doesn't he retire? Well, of course he's not
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: going to retire because he's he's got the Rockies bent
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: over the barrel, So why would he retire? And the
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: most amazing thing about this is that this is not
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: the greatest scam pulled off in Major League Baseball, not
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: even close. It's wild. It's like, you know, we believe
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: that Chris Bryant is a kiddy cat. In this case,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: he's a copycat. He's taking the Anthony Rendon blueprint from Anaheim.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: He's like, hey, I know I'm not gonna get as
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: much as you. You got like two hundred forty million,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: but I'm hitting the Rockies for a buck eighty one
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty million dollars. So I got one hundred
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: and eighty two million dollars from these losers in Colorado.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: I don't even have to play baseball. And Anthony Rendon's chuckling.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: I screwed over the Angels more than you did the Rockies.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: They can have dinner together, they can have a nice
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: dinner and trade notes on how they stuck it to
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: professional baseball teams and all that. So Bryant, you look
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: at his situation here. This is like a pension plant.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Most people have to get their pension based on like
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: it's like thirty years or something like that. This is
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: seven years, a seven year pension plan for Chris Bryant
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: of the Rockies there. And most people also have to
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: wait till they're like sixty five or in their sixties
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  Speaker 1: to get that money. No, no, no, no. And he's
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: got a nice mountain view. He's retired to the mountains there,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Chris Bryant. So it's embarrassing. Is it offensive? Yeah, it's offensive.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like what Chris Bryant did. It is
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: one of the great griffs. He goes to the Rockies
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: they take him out, they wind him and dine him.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like going to that I guess John
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Elways got this big steakhouse. And you in Denver, and
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: so you go to Elway's steak house there and you're like, Okay,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: could I have that nice, big steak. I want the
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: biggest steak yet. Okay, sure, we'll give you that. And
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: then the waiter comes over and says, okay, we've got
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: the steak for you. And it's a photo of a
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Porterhouse steak. I said, well, no, I wanted I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to stay. Well, that's a steak. That's a photo of
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: a steak. That's essentially what the Rockies got. Now, I'm
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: not here to make this a sob store. The Rockies sock.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: They've got bad ownership, they're in competent like all that
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: stuff's true. But still Chris Bryant like, no shame in
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: your game. I gotta tell you, I wish I was
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: wired like Chris Bryan and Anthony Rendon. I would feel
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: so guilty. I don't know how they do it. I
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: would feel like, oh my god, I'm not earning my
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: money and they don't have a care in the world.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine being wired that way, but they're like that.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: So it's it's it's crazy. It's like a breach of reality,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: is what it is here. You know what they gotta do.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: The Rocky's like, listen, I know you can't play baseball.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: So what we're gonna do is we're gonna have Chris
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: mart We're gonna be you an orange vest and we're
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: gonna have you pick up trash on the side of
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: I twenty five. We'll have you picked up some trash there.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: At least you would be doing something to help out
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: not the Colorado Rockies, but the state of Colorado.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 40:15
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• 40:19
  Speaker 1: It's Mallard. How about that?
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: To the third degree?
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: This is one big vent gets grilled goo Belote.
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: As of right now, teams are only allowed to trade
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: draft picks up to three drafts. In the future, it
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: was reported on Tuesday that there will be a push
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: to increase that number to five.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Ben.
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: Should there be any sort of limits as to what
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: a team can trade.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there have to be because in the nineteen I
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: think it was the nineteen eighties, the Cleveland Cavaliers owner
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: traded all of their draft picks for years to come,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: if I remember the story, and so they put all
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: the leagues put rules in because of that, So they
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: they do have to put some guidelines in. I think
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: five years seems fine and three's two little five seams
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: about right.
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: Next.
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: Clippers president Lawrence Frank recently addressed the future of Kawhi Leonard, saying, quote,
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: we definitely see a scenario where he's part of the
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: group going forward.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Ben, do you think Kawhi is going to be part
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: of this rebuild? It doesn't seem like it. I don't
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: think he's gonna want to stick around. And although he
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: doesn't show any emotion Kawhi Leonard, so it's hard to
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: get a read on him. He's just always kind of blah.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: I would say the smart money is he's traded. How
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: about going back to San Antonio? Kawhi goes back to
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: the Spurs. Put that out there, Coop.
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: Next, it was reported on Monday that Lakers Jim rob
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: Polinka could get fired if the Lakers don't make a
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: deep postseason run this year.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Ben, do you think the Lakers will actually get rid
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: of Pelinka. Well, I don't think they're going to go
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: on a playoff run. I do know, having worked in radio,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: when the boss changes at the radio station, everyone's like, okay,
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: we're time to get a new job. The Lakers were
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: bought by Mark Walter and he's gonna run the show,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: and so he's gonna want to put his own person in.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: So the chances are they gonna blow up the whole thing.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: How do we do? Do you pass this that as
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: out of the bark? Bye? Bye, yes, tid I what?
• 42:06
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• 42:19
  Speaker 1: It's of it bizes with lir Rain at night, clean up, hearts,
• 42:24
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• 42:25
  Speaker 6: Dear Rye, gear Rye to night, dear right to night,
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: dear Rye.
• 42:32
  Speaker 7: That's right, you heard the man. It's time for love
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: here on the Ben Malor Show. And I just want
• 42:37
  Speaker 7: to touch base. Us girls have a lot of stuffed
• 42:39
  Speaker 7: animals already. So although his you know advice earlier, ghetto
• 42:44
  Speaker 7: stuffed animal bear say, life is unbearable without you. Imagine
• 42:47
  Speaker 7: if you got her a toy and every time she plays,
• 42:50
  Speaker 7: she thinks to you gotta be thoughtful.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: I think toys r Us is out of business now
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: now they're coming back. Oh are they okay? Good late night,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: drug tester writes, and he says, hey, Lorena with Outback
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: steakhouse being a great first date meal, any tips on
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: where to go for the second or third date? Asking
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: for a Mallard Militia member in Greenwood, Louisiana.
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: Well, a second date could be something, ye, hi, you
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: could do. I can't wait to make my little drop best.
• 43:24
  Speaker 7: After the first one, you know, because the first date
• 43:26
  Speaker 7: you should drop a little bit of money. The second
• 43:28
  Speaker 7: date you could do something a little easier, so walking
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: out and about.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Maybe an hour, like a coffee.
• 43:33
  Speaker 7: Dat right, That's what I'm saying, something a little more short.
• 43:36
  Speaker 7: You can get a little milkshake or a coffee. But
• 43:38
  Speaker 7: then the third date, if you have cooking skills, maybe
• 43:41
  Speaker 7: lay something down in the kitchen.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you I learned. I did not know
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: how to cook, Lorena when I was dating, but I learned.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: I used to eat like TV dinners when I.
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: Was Oh yeah, no, TV dinner is not the business.
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: Shore how you do it.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: I gotta cook a little bit now, kitchen, Now, Mike
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: down that meat.
• 43:57
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Mikey the Insomniac writes, and he says, you know why
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: I hate one night stands Lorena? Because he says, because
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: I have to spend so much time with her. That's
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: a Mikey the Insomniak. He say, I love I love you, Lorena.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: That's our buddy, Mikey in Tampa. It's great, all right,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: BP rights, and he says, do I have to get
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: my friend with benefits a gift for Valentine's Day? Well,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: this is a great question, Lorena, because you know guys
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: get the friends with benefits, But you know you're not
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: really like in a relationships.
• 44:29
  Speaker 7: No, but if you want to keep getting your benefits,
• 44:31
  Speaker 7: you should probably show her that you care about the benefits.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Does that then cross the boundary of the friend with
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: benefits territory? If you're giving them again.
• 44:39
  Speaker 6: You do not believe, so I think it is a
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: nice gesture.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Interesting. Eke in Roseziale, Minnesota, writes in The Queen of
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Hearts with Lorena many moons ago, Valentino, quite the ladies
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: man told me if she smells like provolone. Leave her alone?
• 44:57
  Speaker 7: Well, the doctor seuse of it all makes sense? Really
• 44:59
  Speaker 7: though she smells like cheese. You should probably have her
• 45:01
  Speaker 7: go to the doctor. It's on a good sign.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: I get some some medication there. JT. The Wingman says,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: is it tacky to wear underwear with your ex girlfriend's
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: face on it for Valentine's Day?
• 45:12
  Speaker 7: I've always wanted to do one of those gifts? How
• 45:14
  Speaker 7: funny would that be?
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: You? Miss me?
• 45:16
  Speaker 7: And also that's probably the closest she will ever be
• 45:19
  Speaker 7: to your junk again.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: So wow, okay, Mike writes, is happy early Valentine's Day.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: If your love interest has to go on a business
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: trip for up to a year, should you invest in
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: a long term relationship?
• 45:36
  Speaker 7: Yes, you should also invest in good communication and uh
• 45:40
  Speaker 7: draw nice lines on what you expect because long distance.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: So Mike the leprecaunt who's very long distance?
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: Oh right with his mail order bride?
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: Oh? How dare you? How dare you? She's a lovely lady.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: My apologies to her, Lady Sideburns writes in uh, want's
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: a very specific question, very personal question, Laurre, I don't
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: know I want to answer? Ask that on the earth
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: skip that one. Uh, Ferg Dog says, what's a good
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: idea for a first date for a guy with a
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: foot fetish?
• 46:08
  Speaker 6: Oh, that's a really good gosh.
• 46:12
  Speaker 7: You could go frolicking through the flowers to go to
• 46:14
  Speaker 7: a like a masseuse thing.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Right, foot lockers still in business?
• 46:19
  Speaker 6: First, take her shopping for shoes. That's an idea. I
• 46:23
  Speaker 6: like that to a spa.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Ferg Dog will stand outside the windows, just staring in
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: the shoe store.
• 46:27
  Speaker 6: Ask her if you could just sniff him for a while.
• 46:29
  Speaker 6: I'm sure she'd like.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: The coach of the Jets back of the day.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: and the password.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Is password, you idiot, password the word Game of the Stars.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Here's Ben Meller. Let's do it. We have our contestants.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: We've got Eric, the chef in Minneapolis is going to play.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: Hello Eric, welcome, big bad. How you doing what's going
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: on with you're cooking today? Eric?
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: To work a little breakfast.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: Eggs Corby. All right, I got you, all right, very good.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Hold on, you're gonna play the game. Am We have
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Anie Meenie money Mo. Daniel in Fort Wayne. Hello Daniel,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: America's favorite crossing guard. Hello Daniel, good morning man.
• 47:25
  Speaker 7: I'm committed to play this game.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say stupid stuff to stall it.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, good Eric? Who do you want to partner up with?
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: Her?
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: You got me? You got Lorena or Coop?
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: Well? I won last week, so let's do it again.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: Oh you played last week? I don't even remember. Man,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: you can't be played every week. We got to get
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: new people in here. We'll let you play this time, though.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: Take a break after this though. All right, all yeah,
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: ain't give me bow guarding the game. You remember that
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: I try to block out the show. I'm embarrassed by
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: h Daniel. Who would you like to partner up with? Daniel?
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: And I have to go with you.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: A minute to win it? All right, we're gonna win it, Daniel.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: Don't worry about that. I have a list of words.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Please pick.
• 48:08
  Speaker 5: And it wasn't last week because Ben won last week.
• 48:11
  Speaker 5: I just I just listened to that.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Wait, quite a game, all right, go Eric, Eric, pick.
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: Number four number okay, uh, let's go with I think
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: you were supposed to go first, but that's all right,
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: was well, okay, it was on first?
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: Was what you want?
• 48:29
  Speaker 6: Eric was on first?
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: He was okay, all right, so listening, let's go with
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: let's go with tease?
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: Uh, strip, how about uh hmmm, let's see here.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: Let's go with footsie. That's a good one. I'm sorry,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: what was the cool again? Foote?
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: Fun?
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: What do you say fun? No, that would be fun.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: But let's try to seduce. That's not bad.
• 49:15
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: Three? Two? No, I don't know. I'm gonna throw it out.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: It was flirt, Daniel, pick a number please?
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Three?
• 49:32
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: Let's see here. Let's go with end, end like it's
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: the end of the show. The word was expired. The
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: word was expired a tie, they'll say, don't say you guys,
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: you're part of the show. I blame you of arena.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm