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  Speaker 1: You get a player, you get a.
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  Speaker 3: Player, you get two players. The wheeling and dealing is underway.
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  Speaker 1: all right, So our lead this hour is from the
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  Speaker 1: high Speed Sports Wires. One of my mentors like to say,
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  Speaker 1: back in the day, the wings of change are howling.
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  Speaker 1: You can almost hear them. It's very windy. Pro bouncy
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  Speaker 1: buff you didn't see this? Maybe not? We had a
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  Speaker 1: not one, not two, but three team trade in pro
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  Speaker 1: bouncy ball. The Miami Heat have acquired Storman Norman Powell
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  Speaker 1: from the People's Team, while John Collins has escaped the
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  Speaker 1: Great Salt Lake. He's headed to La La Land for
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  Speaker 1: the real team, the People's Team in La And then
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Love he's still playing. Kevin Love and Kyle Anderson
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  Speaker 1: have been sentenced to play for the un Todd Jazz.
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  Speaker 1: All that in a three team trade. So let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question, how do you grade? Keep it simple?
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  Speaker 1: How do you grade the three team trade that sent
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  Speaker 1: John Collins to the Clippers and Norman Powell to the
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  Speaker 1: to the Miami Heat. Those are the key parts of
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  Speaker 1: this trade. So I've got Sorcery, Disneyland, and Sprinkles, and
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to make the Gabba Ghoul. We're gonna make
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  Speaker 1: the Gobba go. So hey, malor grading people talk about
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  Speaker 1: different insiders. You know, I was a big woj guy.
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  Speaker 1: He retired Love WOJE. He's doing the college basketball thing
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  Speaker 1: there in the East Coast. Now they've got that sham guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's out there doing that thing like the sham Wow guy.
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  Speaker 1: But it's the sham basketball guy. But when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to when it comes to grading the trade, this is
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  Speaker 1: the most important spot on the radio dial. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a blockbuster. I'm not gonna say this it's a blockbuster.
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  Speaker 1: It was a block whisperer, is what this trade was,
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  Speaker 1: right and regardless, and make no mistake, this was a heist.
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  Speaker 1: It was a heist. It was a daylight train robbery situation.
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  Speaker 1: Now the low information fan would not know that. It's
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  Speaker 1: a little more nuanced, and so that's why we're starting
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  Speaker 1: with this here. It's a daylight train robbery of the
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  Speaker 1: Utah Jazz. And they played the role the jazz. Danny
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  Speaker 1: Ainge and his kid, the Nepo baby, who's the gam
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  Speaker 1: with the jazz. They played the role of the distracted
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  Speaker 1: security guard while the heist took place. So the Clippers
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  Speaker 1: pull off a trade. It's under the radar. Admit it's
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  Speaker 1: under the radar, and you know, might we will put
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  Speaker 1: that under the on a milk carton witness protection and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. But John Collins six foot nine has
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  Speaker 1: got a pretty good jump shot and appears to have
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  Speaker 1: a nice big chip on his shoulder. Stuck in Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: and Utah. Now he's going to the bright lights of
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  Speaker 1: the Clips and Steve Baumer and all that money and
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  Speaker 1: just more sorcery, more sorcery from the Clippers. They get
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  Speaker 1: an A plus with with the possibility of upping that
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  Speaker 1: to an A plus plus plus. On this trade selling
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  Speaker 1: Norman Power, they got him low, they got him on
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  Speaker 1: the low side. They sold them on the high side
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  Speaker 1: at the top of his market. They weren't going to
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  Speaker 1: pay Storm and Norman Powell, who is a role player
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  Speaker 1: that played above his means and we saw spotty play
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs Miami. I'll give them a be not
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  Speaker 1: because I think Norman POW's amazing. He's a solid but
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  Speaker 1: not great player, Norman Powell, but because really what the
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  Speaker 1: Miami traded was a bunch of either washed up players
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  Speaker 1: or spare parts. So Powell will give pat Riley and
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  Speaker 1: his team there in Miami a microwave scoring option, but
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  Speaker 1: not Vinnie the micro wave Johnson, if you're old, you
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  Speaker 1: know who that is. And defensive indifference, which is there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of defensive indifference in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: So the Jazz they get the old f another f
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  Speaker 1: trade for the Utah Jazz. They traded a good player
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  Speaker 1: for a fossil and another player who's not all that good,
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  Speaker 1: but the star of the show is John Collins. That's
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  Speaker 1: the star of the show. Goes to the Clippers. Nineteen
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  Speaker 1: points of game, eight rebounds. That wasn't a bad team.
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  Speaker 1: And we always put the qualifier. Anybody can put up
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  Speaker 1: stats on a crap team like the Utah Jazz were
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  Speaker 1: he shot the ball well, shot the ball well from
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  Speaker 1: three point range, almost forty percent, shot the ball well
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  Speaker 1: from the floor, and so rebounding points the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: And it's efficiency. All the nerds love John Collins, all
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  Speaker 1: the geeks they geek out because he's very efficient and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. And so he can be a rim runner,
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  Speaker 1: which is that's a cool basketball rim runner can be that.
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  Speaker 1: But he's got the range, he's a lob threat. Those
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  Speaker 1: are all good things. And the Clippers clips have picked
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  Speaker 1: up already Brook Lopez from later of the Milwaukee Bucks.
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  Speaker 1: They've got zubots still hanging around, so they've changed their identity.
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  Speaker 1: And now you have John Collins sliding in there like
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  Speaker 1: a nice velvet glove at the fore position for the Clippers.
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  Speaker 1: So James Harden's got that vertical pick and roll threat.
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  Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard, he's fine, and maybe he'll pause and when
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  Speaker 1: his quad starts whispering sweet nothings to him. When we
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  Speaker 1: get to February, maybe he'll calm down a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But the Clippers they needed a different flavor after their
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  Speaker 1: Game seven no show against the Denver Nuggets, and so
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  Speaker 1: they got John Collins, who's still not thirty years only
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven years old. I mean he turns twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: during the upcoming before the upcoming NBA season. So that's
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  Speaker 1: the kind of move. It doesn't get the big headlines
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  Speaker 1: for the basketball paparazzo. They don't get excited about John Collins.
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  Speaker 1: They don't. But that doesn't get a lot of attention
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  Speaker 1: in July on our show. It does because we're not mainstream.
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  Speaker 1: We're on late at night in the overnight. But that's
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  Speaker 1: the kind of move that wins you playoff games when
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  Speaker 1: we get to May of twenty twenty six, that's the
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  Speaker 1: kind of move that does that. It's a chess move
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  Speaker 1: and it's not a checkers move. It's a chess move.
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  Speaker 1: There's a difference there. And so this will also lead
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  Speaker 1: to other additions. There's some chatter, some chatter in the
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  Speaker 1: grapevine that to Bradley Beal is about to come inbound
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  Speaker 1: to La La Land to the Clippers. Now moving on
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  Speaker 1: from that, we turn the page. We move across Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles to skid Row. That's where the Lakers play. Talk
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  Speaker 1: about Hollywood. They play on skid Row. If you've ever
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  Speaker 1: been to that arena, it is literally in skid Row.
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  Speaker 1: So how do you react to the GM Skinny Jeans
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  Speaker 1: Rob Polenka explaining why DeAndre Ayton. Now, he agreed to
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  Speaker 1: a contract recently. I think on Sunday he agreed to
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  Speaker 1: a contract. And so Rob polenka is quote went viral
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  Speaker 1: of Rob Skinny Jeans, Polenka saying that DeAndre Eaton is
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  Speaker 1: the ideal center for the Lakers. He talked about championships
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  Speaker 1: and getting back to that level because of DeAndre eight
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  Speaker 1: and all this stuff. So I saw the quotes and
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  Speaker 1: I give this a shoulder shrug. I give it a
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  Speaker 1: shoulder shrug, is what I do. Rob Polenka is selling
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  Speaker 1: the dumb fan. He knows his fan base. I'll give
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  Speaker 1: Rob Polenka credit. Now, listen, he knows the fan. It's
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  Speaker 1: not a real knowledgeable fan. It's a dumb fan. So
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  Speaker 1: he knows that, and he can sell a bill of
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  Speaker 1: goods and he's like a used car salesman. He's got
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a blush, but he knows that
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  Speaker 1: the idiots all buy it. It's so why DeAndre Ayton
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  Speaker 1: has officially been now been crowned. If you read the
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  Speaker 1: comments of Skinny Jeans Rob Polinka, he has been crowned
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  Speaker 1: now as the Purple and Gold Savior, the great Messiah
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  Speaker 1: in the middle and Polenka who turned in with these quotes.
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  Speaker 1: It was slobber, chops, slaber, slapa, slappa all over. DeAndre
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  Speaker 1: Aon talked about his size, mobility, his athleticism, Hey laid
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  Speaker 1: it on. Thick guy talked about the playoff experience. Now
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  Speaker 1: this is the part which is next level bull crap.
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  Speaker 1: Oh DeAndre eight and he's got finals experience NBA Finals
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  Speaker 1: with the Phoenix songs, and that aligns well with the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers championship. Aspers. Lakers haven't won a championship, said Kobe Bryant.
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  Speaker 1: He's dead. They have not won in a long time.
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  Speaker 1: So it sounds like a news release by the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: It was like it was from Disneyland, but it was
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  Speaker 1: in fantasy Land at Disneyland, is what it was. I mean, really, like,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing? Seriously? I mean, you cut through
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  Speaker 1: the bull crap and it's like, this is not the
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  Speaker 1: second coming of Shaquille O'Neal. It could be the ghost
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  Speaker 1: of Kwame Brown, possibly haunting Woo Spookie. The Crypt is
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  Speaker 1: inappropate the Lakers now playing on skid Row and they
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  Speaker 1: play at the Crypt? How perfect is that? Franchise is
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  Speaker 1: about dead and they play at the Crypt? Now box
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  Speaker 1: score readers otherwise known as dumb fans. Box score readers,
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  Speaker 1: they get a woody when they look at DeAndrea look
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  Speaker 1: at the double doubles. They get all sided. But the
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  Speaker 1: numbers do not tell the entire story on this one.
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  Speaker 1: They don't. His motor runs cooler than a Saskatoon winner.
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  Speaker 1: And my goal is to get the word Saskatoon in
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  Speaker 1: every show possible. Did we play very well in Saskatoon?
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  Speaker 1: We have a ten share? The Ben Malors show dominates
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  Speaker 1: the land of Saskatoon. We do anyway. So Ayton has
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  Speaker 1: been dogged much like he's play. He is a dog.
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  Speaker 1: He needs some dog food. Whispers of laziness, apathy his
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  Speaker 1: entire career in Phoenix, he was supposed to be an anchor.
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  Speaker 1: He was the number one overall pick, so he was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be an anchor, but more like an anchor
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  Speaker 1: dragging the ship down to the bottom of the water there.
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  Speaker 1: And don't let Rob Polenka and his purple and gold
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  Speaker 1: colored glasses fool you. As Mark Twain great Mark Twain quote,
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  Speaker 1: never let the truth get in the way of a
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  Speaker 1: good story. And so Ayton was essentially a role player
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  Speaker 1: on that Sun's team that choked against the Milwaukee Bucks
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA Finals, and he was there. He had
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  Speaker 1: no fire. He was like a wet matchbook is what
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  Speaker 1: he was like. He had very little heart, got out hustled,
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  Speaker 1: and then it looked like he was essentially working a
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  Speaker 1: nine to five job, not battling, not scratching in Clong
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  Speaker 1: for the championship. He wasn't like that in Portland. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Blazer's like, we're gonna untap this guy. We figured out
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna go there. It's his team. There's nobody else
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  Speaker 1: ahead of him in the pecking order. It's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: DeAndre Aiden's team on the Oregon Trail. So he went
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  Speaker 1: there and the Blazers had him for a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years and they said, waited me. We gotta get risk
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  Speaker 1: and not for Caprili. They didn't do it for salary
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  Speaker 1: cap relief. They did it because they couldn't deal with
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  Speaker 1: the drama. Would he show up that night? Would he
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  Speaker 1: not show up that night? And now Rob Polinka thinks
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  Speaker 1: that he's somehow the missing link to championship dreams? So okay,
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  Speaker 1: did he take the bottle of pills called stupid stupid pills?
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  Speaker 1: Did he take these? And as far as the Luca
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  Speaker 1: narrative which is being passed around, well, Luca, they're draft
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  Speaker 1: class buddies. Luka Dotsik right Ukah, Luca and DeAndre they
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  Speaker 1: can go do hukah together. I know some hookah bars
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  Speaker 1: in La. If they want to, can text me. I'll
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  Speaker 1: let them know. Even Luca's wizardry, even his ability, you
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  Speaker 1: think it's going to get any kind of passion out
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  Speaker 1: of a passionless player? And DeAndre eight and come on,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot coach hunger. And in the history of the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: players that don't have that drive don't all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden get it. They don't. If you're seven foot tall,
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  Speaker 1: that's great. If you're sleepwalking, that does not work. Last word,
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  Speaker 1: quickly to Houston we go some interesting commentary paperwork was
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  Speaker 1: turned into the Boys over on Fifth Avenue. For the
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  Speaker 1: rock Cats, the NBA has rubber stamped I used the
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  Speaker 1: old rubber stamp the Kevin Durant trade from the Suns
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  Speaker 1: to the Rockets. This week the dust has settled massive
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  Speaker 1: seventeen wreck seventeen trade. However, it really is just about
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant. The other players are good for them. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure their families are excited, their friends are excited, But
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  Speaker 1: for us, it's all about Kevin Durant. So some interesting
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  Speaker 1: comments to decipher from the State of Texas. So the
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  Speaker 1: Rockets GM, you probably don't know who that is. We
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  Speaker 1: didn't know it is. We had to look him up.
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  Speaker 1: His name is Rafael Stone. Sounds like a professional wrestler's name.
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  Speaker 1: So Rafael Stone, the GM of the Rockets, explained the
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant trade. Said you see this, He said, We're
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  Speaker 1: not a developmental team anymore. The chamber, the Rocket said,
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  Speaker 1: implying that Kevin Durant is the missing puzzle piece, that
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant is the player that they needed to get
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  Speaker 1: to a higher level. So your thoughts, So my first
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  Speaker 1: thought is did I miss something? That's my first thought
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to Kevin Durant, like, did KD suddenly
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  Speaker 1: turn back the clock? Did he get in the hot
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  Speaker 1: up time machine and said it to the year twenty fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: So if you unpack this, if the rocket GM truly
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  Speaker 1: believes that, maybe he's just blowing smoke. But if he
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  Speaker 1: truly believes that, well he's got some dated thinking. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what do you doing. Kevin Durant is not the closer.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, unpopular opinion, Kevin Durant has never been that guy.
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  Speaker 1: You're not that guy, Palp, You're not that guy. He's
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  Speaker 1: never been the final piece. They've tried, it's never happened.
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  Speaker 1: So let's call it what is called Durant going to
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  Speaker 1: the rockets. His only championship runs came with the Splash
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  Speaker 1: Brothers in the Bay Area in Golden State, and that
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  Speaker 1: team was a wedding cake. But not just a wedding cake. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: That team was like a ten layer cake with all
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  Speaker 1: the greatest frosting and oh my god, KD was just
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  Speaker 1: a few extra sprinkles on top. That's it. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: They had Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, even that punk Draymond Green.
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  Speaker 1: They had all those guys. They were the cake. They
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  Speaker 1: were the cake, and KD came in there, he was
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  Speaker 1: the sprinkles. He was the cherry on top. So Houston
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  Speaker 1: now thinks, all of a sudden, they're getting the cake, boss?
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  Speaker 1: Is what they're getting here? And are they smoking crack
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  Speaker 1: over there? What's going on? Seriously? Look at the track
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  Speaker 1: record Oklahoma City when Kevin Durant was there. The old
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  Speaker 1: Sonics that became the Thunder couldn't get past the Warriors.
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  Speaker 1: So they went to the Warriors. But that as a
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  Speaker 1: ready made team, as we already explained, went to Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 1: That was a disaster. He had Kyrie and Durant who
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  Speaker 1: conspired at the All Star Game to form a super
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  Speaker 1: team in Brooklyn, and that was like a bad sitcom,
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  Speaker 1: like a Buddy comedy that got canceled after one season.
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  Speaker 1: He went to Phoenix. They got bounced from the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: and didn't make the playoffs here this past year. And
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  Speaker 1: he looked at times like he was moving in slow motion,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant. And now Houston's like, yeah, that's our guy.
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  Speaker 1: Rah rah, we got our guy. Woo phoa wait pho
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant. Now he'll be efficient if you play fantasy
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  Speaker 1: basketball or daily fantasy, which they're trying to make illegal
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  Speaker 1: in California. The people was the Republic of California. But
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  Speaker 1: he's not carrying a team through four playoff rounds, Kevin Durant,
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  Speaker 1: that is not happening.
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  Speaker 1: should be. So our lead this hour is from baseball
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  Speaker 1: and we start out in Queens. The New York Metropolitans
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: did not play, did not play on Monday. However, there
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: was much embarrassment, much embarrassment. One Soto the fallout. Everyone
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: talking about this in Baseball. One Soto in his first
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: season with the New York Mets, the new mister met
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  Speaker 1: signing a fifteen year contract for seven hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 1: five million, bigger than the gross domestic product of most
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: small countries as a free agent, and he was.
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  Speaker 3: Not selected to Baseball's All Star roster.
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  Speaker 1: If you didn't see.
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  Speaker 3: This, maybe not so the fallout on this has been
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: pretty extreme.
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  Speaker 1: One Sodo snubbed by the fan. The fan said ixnay
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: on the Soto a and also by the people in baseball.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: They didn't want one Sodo to be in the All
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Star Game. There's always a possible, a possibility, there's always
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: a possibility that Juan Soto will be added. Players get hurt,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: they don't appear in the All Star Game. So there
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: will be some changes, but it doesn't matter. We do
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: the show today, and so right now, as we're doing
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: the show, Juan Soto is not on the National League
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: All Star roster. So let us discuss the question how embarrassing,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: how embarrassing is it that the Mets outfielder Juan Soto
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  Speaker 1: is not and not part of the All Star Game,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: not named to the All Star roster. So I've got
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: ballot box letterman jacket and FaceTime, and we will combine
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: all of these things together, and we are going to
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: put the biscuit in the basket, is what we're going
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: to do. So a number one, this is an emasculation situation,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: is what it is. It is a lemon merangue pie,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: a delicious lemon merangue pie, right to the faith, right
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  Speaker 1: to the schnaz here. So let's cut through all the noise,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: all the nonsense like cacophony of noise there. One Soda
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  Speaker 1: is not winning the mister popular vote, not winning any
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  Speaker 1: award here. And that's the real reason, that's the real
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: reason that he's on the outside looking in in the
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: All Star Game. The All Star Break starts on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: night after the games were played on Sunday, and the
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: All Star Game in Georgia. So this is not about
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the stats. Now, we did some early April Mallard monologues
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: about the performance of Juan Soto not being up to
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the standard. It was not at that time. Soto's numbers
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: of late douce scream All Star. He has had a
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: late surge. If you get a little tingle when somebody
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: gets a walk one, Soto's your player. He is third.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: We are told if you look at the Nerd numbers,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: he's third among all NL outfielders. In ops, he's tied.
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  Speaker 1: I believe he's tied for fourth in terms of home runs.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: And he was the player of the month if I'm
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: not mistaken, in the month of June. So those are
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: all good things. Those are all those are all good things.
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  Speaker 1: He has been a one man on base machine for
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: the Metropolitan Drawing Rock walks. You get a walk, you
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: get a walk, You get a walk, kind of like
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: a rotten fish straws flies a lot, a lot of walks. Now,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: regardless of that, Baseball's All Star Game is not just
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: a pure stat based situation. Is a referendum on where
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: you fall in the cosmos of baseball at this time.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: It is a popularity contest. Every man, woman and child
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: knows this. And it's supposedly it's a meritocracy, but it's not.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: It's a popularity contest. And the word in ballparks from
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Boston to Seattle, from Miami to San Francisco, the word
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: is Juan Soto has rubbed enough people, enough people the
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: wrong way where he has not been added to the
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: guest list, not invited and the players. Remember, the players
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: vote for the reserves. It's like one thing for the
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: fans to say, oh, we don't like this guy, so
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: we're gonna stick at to Jan Soda. That's one thing.
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  Speaker 1: And people vote on their computers, you know, ten fifteen
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: times a day, whatever it is. But the backups, not
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: the starters, not the start The reserves are named by
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the players. And they did not circle or click the
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: button on Jan Soda. Neither did the Commissioner's office. They
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: didn't do it. They didn't do it. They get to
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: pick the final six All Stars. I believe that's how
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: that works. And so you would think that for Major
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: League Baseball. The league headquarters are in Midtown Manhattan. There's
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: a lot of met fans that work for Major Leage
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Baseball in the league office. You would think a seven
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five million dollar player would at least
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: get an invite. Didn't happen. That's not an accident. It's
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: not Major League Baseball's players, the fans, and the league
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  Speaker 1: office all went into the ballot box and they issued
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: a vote of no confidence for Juan Soto. Yeah they did. Well,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: maybe I don't check. He's going to be there for
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: a long time with the Mets. But right now Juan
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Soto is covered in the cooties. Juan Soto has the
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: cooties just the way is the Komodo dragon in the room.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: We will address it is the demeanor of Juan Soda.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Clearly has rubbed people the wrong way here oozing with swagger,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: but the swagger turned out to be the dagger in
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: many respects here he has not won the hearts, minds,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: and voters. The Soto shuffle, as it is known, pretty
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: much after every pitch, every pitch that he doesn't swing at.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, if you watch the Mets and you
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: watch them with the Yankees or the Podras or whoever,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: so he does a little dance. It's kind of like
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: giving the bird. The bird is the word. The bird
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: is the word. He gives the bird to the pitcher,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: the umpire and anyone else who thinks he should actually
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: wait until he does something before he does a little
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: shuffle and all that. And so clearly there are enough
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: people in baseball that don't like it. He said, well,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: it's just baseball. They're all buttoned up. There's enough people
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: that grumble when Sodo does this that he's showboating one
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: soo A. Also, the teammates, some of them, now they
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: won't say it on the record because that's taboo, but
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: they clearly are rolling their eyes at Juan Sotos act there.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: And when the cameras are not paying attention behind closed doors,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: they're whispering, and they're not whispering sweet nothings. And it's
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: all bird dogging the seven hundred and sixty five million
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: dollar man. Of course, after taxes New York taxes, that's
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: about twenty million, about twenty million. Anyway, it's it's all
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: bird dogging Juan Sodo around the big LEAs. Remember in Washington,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Remember when he came on the scene, the hot shot
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: prodigy of baseball. He had that natitude in DC and
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: he was the golden child of Major League Baseball. Oh
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: my god, but they were whispering even then. You know
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: he's gonna he's gonna have to grow up. It's more
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: about Wan than the team. It's all about Wan. Then
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: he went out to San Diego, ate some fish tacos
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: with the Padres, tried to stay away from Poppy when
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: he was in San Diego, went down a beautiful San Diego,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: America's finest city they used to put it on the
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: police cards. Went there, and the Padre players did not
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: did not exactly open open the door with you get
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: him a hug with warm, warm, loving vibrations there, did
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: not throw him a parade. Then he went to the
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Bronx and even Aaron Judge, the Judge Tonian, Aaron Judge,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: mister nice guy. Everyone loves him. Oh, you can't say
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: anything bad about Aaron Jordo. They didn't seem like he
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: was too bummed out when Juan Soto scadaddl lacross from
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: his burrow to the next borough over. Didn't seem too
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: upset by that. And so Soto, who often plays like
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: he's auditioning for a statue, let me strike a poose.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna strike a pose there clearly not winning over baseball,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: at least today. We do the show today, and as
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: of today that is not the case. Thus he is
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: not an All Star again. He might be added, you know, tomorrow,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: the next day, whenever. It doesn't matter right now, not
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: the initial wave. It's like when they used to play
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl, before the players in the NFL became
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: pansies and they stopped playing the Pro Bowl, and now
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: they do like tic tac toe. But back when they
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: did the Pro Bowl, there would always be ten guys
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: on each team that skipped out on the Pro Bowl,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: and so other people would be added and it got
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: so ridiculous. I think one year Vince Young, who sucked,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: made the Pro Bowl. He was a Pro Bowl quarterback,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: which really must have upset him because I don't think
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: there was a cheesecake factory right next to a Loha stadium.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: They might not be even one in o Wahu, which
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: must have been upsetting anyway. Now turning the pace, we
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: go to La La Land, well actually in Milwaukee, where
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: the brew crew shoved the meatball down the throat of
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers, but that's not the story here. A random
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: baseball game in July not to story the story here.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: After not speaking to reporters on Sunday when the news
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: came out, Clayton Kershaw did break his silence. The day after,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw said that he is quote grateful. He said,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: it's weird but cool, weird but cool that he was
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: named an All Star selection on a Legends pick by
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: rob Manfreud, a Legends pick for Clayton Kershaw so can
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: you parse the words? Here's the question, can you parse
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: the words of Clayton Kershaw on this All Star selection?
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: The Legend pick? So this is not that deep. Kershaw
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: admitted that he does not deserve to be at the
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: All Star Game, as we anticipated the vibe I got
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: he doesn't want to go. Now, he's not gonna come
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: out and be a total schmuck, and he'll show up,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: but he'd rather not go. And he's right, he doesn't
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: belong in the All Star Game, and he's gonna go
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: and he's gonna put on a happy face and all that.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: But major League Baseball and they added this a few
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: years ago. They haven't done it in a couple of years,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: the Legends addition to the All Star Game, but major
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: League Baseball turning it into your aunt's Facebook page, right,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: a lot of nostalgia, a lot of participation, trophy congratulations,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: and you're pretending it's ten years ago if you're Clayton
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Kershaw and all that stuff. But if you gave him truths,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: if you and je did Kershaw with a needle full
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: of truth serum, he would rather be on a beach
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: somewhere or back in his home in Texas with his kids,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: then standing on the foul line in Atlanta and tipping
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: his cap and you know, like he's some kind of
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: figurine from Cooperstown or something like that. So he'd much
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: rather be on vacation and he's gonna go and he'll
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: be there at the All Star Game. He would rather
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: not And Kershaw it is odd because him dropping into
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: the All Star Game based on his body work, which
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: he admits he's only made nine starts. It's like a
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: guy showing up to a wedding that they were not
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: invited to. Just like wedding crashers. You show up at
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: the wedding and it's like, well, I probably shouldn't be here,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: but there's an open bar. Baby, here I am.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, he said, it's weird,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Kershaw said, but it's cool, so I'm just going to
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: enjoy it. No, he's not, Kershaw said. He says, you
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: know what else I'll say, there's another partist He said
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: weird and cool and all that stuff, and he talked
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: about some other random things. But it's like a forty
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: year old dude at the high school reunion wearing the
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: letterman's jacket that shows up there and he's like, hey,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: you know, I am honoring my high school self here
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I am. And Kershaw knows he's undeserving of this. He is,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: and you know, you don't expect him to get into
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: the All Star Game. So he's not gonna play. He's
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: just gonna go there. He shows up to Atlanta, he
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: checks into the five Star hotel as a smile for
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: the cameras, he waves, he tips his cap. Maybe he'll
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: go on microphone on the All Star broadcast and all
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: that stuff. At that point, if you're not playing in
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: the All Star Game and you're just there to tip
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: the cap and to wait with the crowd, are you
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: or are you not? A mascot? Is Clayton Kurdshaw, not
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: like the Philly fanatic or Wally the Green Monster or
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: mister med or Bernie Brewer. That's what he is. If
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: he shows up to the All Name not gonna play.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Legends pick there you go, all right? Final point? We
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: quickly we go to Orlando. Big NBA signing, Big NBA signing.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: The Orlando Magic have handed Paul Olboncherro, great name, great name.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: He has received a five year MAX extension worth up
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: to up to two hundred eighty seven millions. So how
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: do you categorize a player that is not a household
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: name getting a two hundred eighty seven million dollar contract.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: So this is obviously not monopoly money. It is not powerball,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: it's not mega millions. It is I call it FaceTime.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: It is face of the franchise money. Not that he
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: is mister relevant in NBA circles, he's not. But that's
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: the kind of money. That's the kind of contract that
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: you get that you have to carry the franchise. You
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: are the face of the franchise. You have to sell
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: out the box office, you have to sell out the
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: gymnasium on a random Tuesday night in December when the
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Charlotte Hornets come to town and no one cares. You
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: have to sell the arena out. Now is he that guy?
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Right now? You're not that guy, Pal, You're not that guy.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: And the Orlando sad Sack Orlando Magic, who've had a
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: few runs of relevancy in my lifetime, but few and
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: far between, and certainly don't move the dial. They don't
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: move the needle when it comes to the Eastern Conference here.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: But that's the kind of a deal you think that
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: guy is going to be a top ten player in
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: the NBA. That Paulo Bancherro is going to be a
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: top ten player, and he's going to make all NBA teams.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Who cares about All Star Games? All NBA teams. That's
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: going to be where he's at. And the ugly truth is,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: right now, again we do the show right now, he
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: is not box office. He's not No one's going out
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: to watch him like they watch Steph Curry with the
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Moneyball or even Luca with the eurostep the razzle dazzle.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: That's not happening. So the Magic though, they're betting almost
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: three hundred million, that's up to two hundred and eighty
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: seven and so almost three hundred million, that he will
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: be that that he will matriculate the basketball down the
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: court with such gusto, that he will have a metamorphosis
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: and be the kind of a player that in BC,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: because they've got the new TV rights, NBC and the
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: ESPN and all them will circle the Orlando Magic and
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: they'll be like, we have to go there, and we
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: have to show them, and we will not skip Orlando
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: like it's a it's a stopover in Fargo. I can
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I don't even know if you can stop over in Fargo.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: I think you can't. But this is a franchise, The
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Orlando Magic, that has been wandering aimlessly like gypsies through
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: the desert there since DWIGHTE. Howard said I'm out of here,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: and he took his cape and left with a frown.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: I'm gone. It's it do some dancing reality show in
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: la and all that stuff. But the Magic. They obviously
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: need Paulo Boncero to be an alpha dog, be the closer.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: I'd be the face of the franchise. Oh see. But
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: that's a lot of cash. So whether he's good or not,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: he's getting the money. Unless he violates the terms of
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: the contract, the morals clause in the contract. He's getting
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: all that money.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
• 36:31
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• 36:35
  Speaker 1: It's a manger, how about that?
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: To the third degree. This is one big Ben gets
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: all right, cup.
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: It was reported on Sunday that wide Receiver Terry McLaurin
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: and the commanders have not made any progress in negotiations
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: on a contracts extension, as McLaurin continues to hold out
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: benef mit Lauren doesn't play.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: How much does that hurt Jane and Daniels. Well, mclaurin's
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: really good.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: And the way I answered is it depends on whether
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: Deebo Samuel's fat Deebo Samuel or if he's in shape.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Because if Deebo Samuel plays like he did briefly for
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: the forty nine ers, the Washington whatever they're called, they'll
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: be fine. If not, they're screwed. And it is the
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: quarterback that makes the receiver, so Washington should figure things out,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: not the other way around.
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: Next, Chase Claypool seemed like he was on the path
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: to becoming a star receiver and then totally fell off
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: the map. Now he is taking the social media to
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: declare that he's completely healthy and ready to have the
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: best year of his career. Yes, but any think Claypool
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: can revive his career.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Maybe on TikTok. Possibly, No, it's a guy he was
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: like the DeAndre Ayton of the NFL coop. He's just like,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: wasn't somebody that hustled, kind of lazy cut corners and
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: he had the talent to be a good player, but
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: he just didn't put the work in and so it's
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: not whether he's healthy or not. He just doesn't give
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: a crap when he's on the field. That's why he
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  Speaker 1: didn't make it.
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  Speaker 6: Next, the NBA Summer League is debuting what they're calling
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: the heat Rule, where a last second shot at the
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: end of quarter doesn't count against a players off percentage. Ben,
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: you think this is going to be coming to the NBA. Yes,
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  Speaker 6: And the reason it's going to come to the NBA.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: The NBA is upset that players won't shoot at the
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: end of quarters because they don't want their stats to
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: be heard. There's so many about their stats. What losers?
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  Speaker 1: All right here? I want oh unbelieving I always shoot
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  Speaker 1: at the end there h.
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  Speaker 1: I think we have our contestants ready to go, so
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: let's welcome them in right now. We have Corey in
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Reno who wants to play? Is that correct? Core You
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: want to play? Malo's amount of money?
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  Speaker 7: That's right? Big Ben?
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, welcome to the show. What do you
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: got going on there in America's the biggest little city, right,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: isn't that the slogan Arena.
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  Speaker 7: The biggest little city in.
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  Speaker 1: The world, That's right? Is it still the littlest It's
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: pretty pretty big, right.
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  Speaker 7: It's going crazy since that m misole monk infiltrated the
• 39:04
  Speaker 7: town and ruined the housing market.
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  Speaker 1: Did they did he ruin it or raise the prices
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  Speaker 1: of housing for everyone?
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  Speaker 7: Well, that's it. You know, they can't build taft enough
• 39:14
  Speaker 7: and all these people have moved here for his you know, Panasonic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know about that. I actually have some
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: friends that moved to Reno because of they want to
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: get out of California.
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  Speaker 7: So they're like, well, and that too, I mean no, no, yeah,
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  Speaker 7: because you know, everybody's getting the chaft there with the taxes,
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  Speaker 7: so yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody exactly. But and then eventually Nevada is going to
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: have the same tax problem California, so they're going to
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: move somewhere else and go keep moving to different states
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: and all. Anyway, that's a different conversation, Coreya, who do
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: you want to partner with? You got me Ben or Cooper?
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: If you really want some fun, Loraina, well I.
• 39:49
  Speaker 7: Think you just picked the choice. Then didn't you.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: You're going with Loraina?
• 39:54
  Speaker 7: There you go?
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: All right, congratulations, Lorena, you're gonna play. I lost my voice,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: she lost her I can't say. Apparently she does not
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: want to play. She's choosing not to play, so unfortunate.
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: Al Right, well, ye know, we'll go with Coop. I'm
• 40:06
  Speaker 7: a big Elvis fan. I know Cooper is too.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's a deep cut. All right, Hold on
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: a second, and we have Mike in the Great State
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  Speaker 1: of Texas. Hello, Mike, welcome. What part of Texas are
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: you in there, Sir.
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  Speaker 7: McCallen.
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  Speaker 1: McCallen, Texas a fine, fine city. All right, and what
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: do you what are you go going on there? In McCallum.
• 40:27
  Speaker 7: I'll just add in the work this morning.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what kind of work do you do?
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Data? Annaly?
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Oh nice? All right, well you're gonna match up with me.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: What are the categories here? Quickly?
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: Cool?
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Please? All right?
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: This is the Ringo Star edition of Mallard's Amount of Money.
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: He turned eighty five on Monday. The categories are with
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: a little help from my friends, don't pass me by,
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: Octopus's garden and photograph and Corey was on first.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: So Corey, which category would you like photograph? All right?
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: And how about you, Mike? All right, sorry I didn't
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: hear you. Just pick, just pick the first one whatever,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: I don't care for. What was the first one? With
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: a little help from my friend?
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: All right, everyone, hold stay right there, Malor's mount of
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: Money in it's entire to the Ringo Star Edition.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: We'll get to that, and we will do it next.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Malors
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Malor's Mountain of Money. Do you have what it takes
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: to get to the top? Probably?
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Not? All right, let's sue here we go play the game.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: It's the Ringo Star Edition. Mallers amount of money. We've
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: got Corey in Reno teamed up with Koop. They're gonna lose.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Mike on his way to work in McCallen, Texas, teamed
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: up with me. Then we're gonna win. All Right, here
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: we go. It's gonna start.
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: All right, Corey, we have a photograph. We need the
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: first and last name of the athlete. These athletes are
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: in some of the most famous sports photographs of all time.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, you ready, Corey, I'm ready.
• 42:04
  Speaker 7: Let's do it, Coop. Let's let's approve that with the
• 42:07
  Speaker 7: Lorena's wrong?
• 42:08
  Speaker 6: All right, forty five seconds, let's begin.
• 42:11
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: This NBA player scored Hi, This NBA player scored one
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: hundred points in a game.
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  Speaker 1: Bill Cambery, Yes.
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: This guy was the flash number three on the Miami Heat.
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: He won a championship with Lebron and Shack. Anyway, Yes,
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: this guy is the logo for the NBA j Yes,
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: this guy's nickname was the Doctor.
• 42:38
  Speaker 7: Hey, that great Irving.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: What's his first name? Yes, Doug Dog, Julie Jurry.
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: Yes, this guy was a quarterback for the Chiefs. He
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: was smoking a cigarette during halftime of Super Bowl One.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: No, all right, let's not let's skip it. God.
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: This Toronto Toronto Blue Jays player was famous for his
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: bat flip.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: All right, what hundred fourts?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: Are you ready there?
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: Mike there McCallan, Texas, which is right, the southern tip
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  Speaker 3: of Texas?
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Am I correct on that?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: Let's go all right, we'll put right all right? Okay, Well,
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: a little hope from my friends. These star athletes want
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: to ring well past their prime years.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready there, Mike? All right? Forty five seconds
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: were on Away Go John. He was known as a
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Giants wide receiver one with the Rams. Friend of Diddy.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Odella Yes nickname Shady was a running back for the
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Bills and the Eagles. He's on McCoy Yes, known as
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: the glove for the SuperSonics back in his career. Yes,
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: quarterback for the Cleveland Browns in the eighties. Dick and
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Dayton loves this guy played at BA Miami all Right,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: the big hurt for the Chicago White Sox in the two. Yes,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: wide receiver for the Chargers in like the seventies and
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: the sixties named Bam nicknamed bamby white guy all right,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: outfielder for the Mets and the Royals from Puerto Rico.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Was on the Astros when they cheated in twenty seventeen.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: We got the lead you missed.
• 44:15
  Speaker 6: Lance Alworth was Bambi and Bernie Kozar the quarterback for
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: the Browns and Carlos Beltran was the last.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Oh you're wasting to all right?
• 44:23
  Speaker 6: Hurry operary, would you like don't pass me by? Or
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: octopus his guarden?
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 44:29
  Speaker 6: These athletes all war number eight forty five seconds. Let's begin.
• 44:33
  Speaker 6: He is the quarterback for the Ravens right now, j Yes,
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: this guy was the quarterback for the Cowboys when they
• 44:40
  Speaker 6: won the Super Bowls in the nineties.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: What's his first name? Yes?
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: All right, this guy has the iron Man streak in baseball. Yep,
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: this guy is one of the best second basement of
• 44:56
  Speaker 6: all time. He was on the Cincinnati Reds. Yes, this
• 45:04
  Speaker 6: guy just broke Wayne Gretzky's all time scoring record.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: What's first name?
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  Speaker 7: I say it in the dumper over.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: This guy.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: You didn't get it. This guy's the only button we
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: win I know.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: You know, Bears defensive starting in the eighties. Not with
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: the name Richard Dent. We were looking for the name
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: Richard Dent here. That is not an incomplete game, not
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: a not a not a loss, not a loss.