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Set 1: The Year of the Mets (w/ Sal Licata) · Stugotz and Company

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that Chuck Norris was chasing the Tyrannosaurus Rex. The
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  Speaker 1: rex was not chasing the jeep. Murray, Murray, you there.
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  Speaker 1: You love sandwiches? Huh, Let's go to eighty.
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  Speaker 2: It was bo.
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  Speaker 1: Wow that Prime Time baby. I had a crush on
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  Speaker 1: Betty Rubbell.
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  Speaker 3: I honestly, until after the segment ended and we went
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  Speaker 3: to commercial break, had no idea that Jonathan Coachman was black.
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  Speaker 1: He cast them the game last night, although they won
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening just to Gatson Company pleased to have Salakana
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  Speaker 3: back with us. Check out his podcast wherever you get
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  Speaker 3: your podcast. New episodes are out right now. I saw
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  Speaker 3: one this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Sal How about that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do one every day of the week. So
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot of work, but it's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: fun as well.
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  Speaker 1: Are you enjoying it?
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting there, I think, well, to be honest, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I love radio and how much I put into radio,
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  Speaker 2: and then I think there is an adjustment to do.
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  Speaker 2: It's just different when you're not live and figuring it
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  Speaker 2: out on top of a grinding TV schedule. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: trying to I'm getting there, and baseball is going to
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  Speaker 2: make it easier. Because I love talking about baseball and
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  Speaker 2: reacting to the games. But I don't know if I
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  Speaker 2: could say that I love it yet as much as
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  Speaker 2: I love doing radio, i'mtill trying to get acclimated. Did
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  Speaker 2: it take me a while to do it?
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  Speaker 3: It took me a while, yes, But so I think
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  Speaker 3: what you're missing is just the high wire act that
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  Speaker 3: is live radio, the ability to take phone calls, get
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  Speaker 3: feedback to what it is you are saying. And yes,
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  Speaker 3: those are some of the things I miss.
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  Speaker 1: But I was more.
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  Speaker 3: Prepared for it because Dan and I hadn't taken a
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  Speaker 3: phone call for like seven years, and so I just knew,
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  Speaker 3: like I knew how to fill time and fill it
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  Speaker 3: pretty easily. But it is antiseptic. It feels lonely. It
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  Speaker 3: feels like there's nothing. There's no one to talk to
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  Speaker 3: other than Taylor. That's it for me, right.
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  Speaker 2: So I have my guy, my producer, a Bottle Booms,
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  Speaker 2: and even him, I was like, I didn't know if
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  Speaker 2: he was gonna be any good or not. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's trying to help me out behind the scenes. So
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  Speaker 2: that's the other part of it. I could go for ten, fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty minutes on my own but that I want to
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  Speaker 2: hear one person talking for twenty minutes. Also is the
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  Speaker 2: interaction with him working. He's a twenty two year old kid,
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  Speaker 2: like it's not sure. Essentially he's learning too so but
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  Speaker 2: it's been fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, has he been good? Is he getting better?
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  Speaker 1: What's going on there?
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't seem like you're terribly confident in your producer here.
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  Speaker 2: I actually do love him. He's better than I thought
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  Speaker 2: on the air. I didn't care about that. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: want to bring him in because beyond the air stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Although I'm learning how important that is, because you use
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  Speaker 2: Taylor or Mikey like you need. I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: talk to myself. I want to talk to somebody else.
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  Speaker 2: It's boring talking to myself. I did that, I did
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  Speaker 2: it for twenty years. I don't want to do that anymore.
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  Speaker 2: So it is important. I do think he's definitely getting better.
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  Speaker 2: I have to, you know, scold him a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: He's a twenty two year old kid, but he's definitely
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  Speaker 2: getting better.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Stude, it seems like bottle Boom's' biggest problem. When
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  Speaker 4: I listened to the Salacada show, Sao will ask him
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  Speaker 4: a question and bottle booms. Will talk about anything but
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  Speaker 4: the question that sound just asked me.
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  Speaker 1: I love him. You get him on the pod, he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't listen.
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  Speaker 2: I go no, no, no, no, Like, don't think about what you
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  Speaker 2: were going to say. Answer the freaking question. Like it's
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  Speaker 2: very simple, just listen and have a conversation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but sometimes he'll derail it and take you to
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  Speaker 3: a very special place.
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  Speaker 1: It's Billy Gill. He's Billy Gil.
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  Speaker 3: Billy Gill never listened to a word I said and
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  Speaker 3: just took the show wherever the fuck he wanted to.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what he's doing.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes I cannot believe. I'm a Yankee fan and a
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  Speaker 3: Mets fan here at sal Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Do you agree with this? Feels like there's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a Subway series.
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  Speaker 4: Man, those two teams in their first two games. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's hard to find teams that look better than them.
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  Speaker 3: It's one of one sixty two, I mean, but it's
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  Speaker 3: not unrealistic.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the Yankees, especially in the American League. The
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  Speaker 2: Yankees are always great. They were in the World twos
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  Speaker 2: a couple of years ago. I don't think anybody's a
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  Speaker 2: real threat. The Mets would be the hard part because
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  Speaker 2: they always lose. But I would take out the favorite.
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  Speaker 2: It's come on two in a row? Ready, they get
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  Speaker 2: really gonna win three in a row? I don't know
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  Speaker 2: about the.
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  Speaker 3: Mets would be the hard part because of the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 3: I would say the Mets can get there. The Mets
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  Speaker 3: can get to the playoffs. It's just the Dodgers are overwhelming,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Right, But at some point, I'm a low of averages guy.
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  Speaker 2: At some point, like they've already won two and you
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  Speaker 2: give them credit. They always gonna be the best team
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  Speaker 2: on paper. They spend the money, they have, the guys,
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  Speaker 2: they developed players. Some point, the favorite's gonna get knocked off,
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  Speaker 2: and then why not the Mets outside. So if I
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  Speaker 2: eliminate the Dodgers from the equation, which is the obvious,
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  Speaker 2: the Mets have as good a chance, if not better
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  Speaker 2: than anybody out the Phillies, the Cubs, the Braves, the Giants,
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  Speaker 2: whoever you throw it in.
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  Speaker 1: Ye Stu, I was.
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  Speaker 4: I was sitting at home watching the Yankee game, and
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  Speaker 4: in a moment of transparency with the audience, I was like,
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  Speaker 4: I've been complaining a lot about this Yankee team this offseason,
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  Speaker 4: and then I'm watching the game, and I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 4: this Yankee team is pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: They're always good. Tailor.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I was telling texta tailor, hey, leave my
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  Speaker 2: guy Booty alone here. He was all upset in the beginning,
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  Speaker 2: then he's fired off after the Yankees go on that barrage.
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  Speaker 2: They're good. And wouldn't it be ironic that in the offseason,
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  Speaker 2: like two years ago they traded for Sodo. So it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: Yankees got Soto. Last year was they lose Soto? But
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  Speaker 2: then plan B pivot Freed and Bellinger and others. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: loved that and Devin Williams. This year it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't do anything. They stay status quo, stay in
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  Speaker 2: the course, running it back. This will be the year
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  Speaker 2: where fans complain about the off season, but watch the
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  Speaker 2: Yankees go out there and win the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: So you were telling me before we started recording here,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't watch Opening Day. We were on the air
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  Speaker 3: during Mets Opening Day, and so I just became aware
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  Speaker 3: of the box national anthem and a bird dying in
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  Speaker 3: the outfield.
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  Speaker 2: So can you explain it?
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  Speaker 3: Because you were telling me before and I couldn't really
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  Speaker 3: pay attention because we were doing a live radio show.
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  Speaker 2: Well, think about it. If the Mets go down to
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  Speaker 2: nothing and they're facing pole schemes, you have the guy
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  Speaker 2: butcher the anthem. If you haven't heard that, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: see a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I saw it on and I.
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  Speaker 2: Saw it on social media. It was as bad. He
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  Speaker 2: just he forgot the words and he saw to repeat words.
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  Speaker 2: So a botch anthem down to nothing against Skeens, and
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  Speaker 2: then a bird fell on the album. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how that one happened, but I just know there was
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  Speaker 2: a dead bird and the crowd is chanting a young
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  Speaker 2: Carson Bench making his major league debut to pick it up,
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  Speaker 2: Pick it up, pick it up. He said after the game.
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  Speaker 2: I want nothing to do with that dead bird, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't blame him. But the Mets overcame all those
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  Speaker 2: things and still one. Maybe it's their year.
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  Speaker 3: They overcame a terrible national anthem, a bird dying in
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  Speaker 3: the outfield.
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  Speaker 1: And Skens.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definite in early deficits to Skeens that if that
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  Speaker 2: isn't a sign, ste I don't know what is.
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  Speaker 1: You know what sold.
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  Speaker 4: So there's so much hype around Carson Bench. Take me
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  Speaker 4: through your viewing experience when you watch him hit that
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  Speaker 4: home run and kind of validate the reasons why the
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  Speaker 4: Mets called him up and named him their starting outfielder.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what I want. I want to say, though, like
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  Speaker 2: fans already, I was getting tax legit. I got two
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  Speaker 2: texts from Met fans yesterday. This is after the initial
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  Speaker 2: they're down to nothing, the season's over. It was they
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  Speaker 2: should retire Bene's number when they retire Beltron's number, and
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  Speaker 2: the other one saying that Ben is the new Alonso.
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  Speaker 2: Forget Pete Alonso. Now Bene is the homegrown guy. There's
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  Speaker 2: always that over inflation of the homegrown guy. What I
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  Speaker 2: saw was he mistracked two balls in the outfield. He
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  Speaker 2: looked like he more belongs on your softball team than
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  Speaker 2: he did with the New York Mets. On those two
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  Speaker 2: Luckily they both went over the fence, so it didn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: He struck out his first two at bats, but then
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  Speaker 2: he started to gain composure. He walked and then hit
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  Speaker 2: that laser beam home run.
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  Speaker 1: So I like that.
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  Speaker 2: You saw growth from a rookie within one individual game.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not ready to say he's gonna be great yet.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, he's also the eight hitter. So the
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  Speaker 2: Mets doing the right thing by not throwing him to
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  Speaker 2: the Wolves, saying he's going to be the savior and
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  Speaker 2: hit third or fourth or whatever. It may be. The
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  Speaker 2: fact that he could be eighth kind of fly under
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  Speaker 2: the radar and grew even within his first game. I
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  Speaker 2: think those are.
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  Speaker 4: Good signs to New York. Doesn't do is taper expectations.
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  Speaker 4: So when I'm watching Carson Binge, I'm thinking how the
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  Speaker 4: Mets fan must be feeling.
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  Speaker 1: And that's how I came up with this song for
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  Speaker 1: said Carson Binge, Oh really okay.
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  Speaker 5: First pitch, bench hits it in the air to right
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  Speaker 5: field fairly deep. O hernback hit the wall and it's God.
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  Speaker 5: He headed off the canopy and the right field bullpen.
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  Speaker 5: Carson Binge makes his first major league hit, a home run.
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  Speaker 5: Congratulations to Carson Beinge as he gets an enthusiastic pat
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  Speaker 5: on the back from the third base coach Tim Leeper,
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  Speaker 5: an aggressive fist month from Francisco Alvarez, and they're.
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  Speaker 1: Willing to congratulate the kid.
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  Speaker 5: And the Mets dugout Carson being his first major league's
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  Speaker 5: knock ken homer, and the Mets take a ten to
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  Speaker 5: five me.
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  Speaker 6: Benge the mets Stone need to look no more. We
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  Speaker 6: just found while we were looking for.
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  Speaker 7: With the swing nicolarone. He'll crush it in the zone
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  Speaker 7: and you might bench will see you've got us filled.
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  Speaker 2: With clean.
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  Speaker 7: Benge.
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  Speaker 6: You sent that fall into the end.
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  Speaker 2: Benge.
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  Speaker 7: You crushed that thing up out of that. If you
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  Speaker 7: check out Benjisty line, you will like what you find.
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  Speaker 7: The holye will soon know it's.
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  Speaker 2: Bench in one.
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  Speaker 1: So it is beautiful, your fucking producer, do that? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I got that.
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  Speaker 2: I got to put bottle booms to work. Oh my god, man,
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  Speaker 2: so bad.
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  Speaker 1: It's good.
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  Speaker 2: Not what I was expecting.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I want that on the radio show and
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  Speaker 3: a loop today.
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  Speaker 2: Put the lighters up, of course, put the lighters up.
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  Speaker 3: What did you make of what'd you make ano they're
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  Speaker 3: getting killed of the Netflix coverage at NBC.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I don't care about this stuff. I know
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  Speaker 1: others do.
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  Speaker 3: Most people just care about the fucking games my team
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  Speaker 3: they're playing on, what channel? I'll be there when the
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  Speaker 3: game starts. But what did you make of the Netflix
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  Speaker 3: coverage of Opening Night?
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  Speaker 2: I'm more in line with you that I try not
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  Speaker 2: to care about these things. Actually I didn't even the
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  Speaker 2: score bug was a big issue. I didn't realize it.
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  Speaker 2: Taylor texts me, He's like, dude, the score bull. You
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  Speaker 2: need a magnifying glass to see what's going on. My
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  Speaker 2: issue with the Netflix was that. And it's not just Netflix,
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  Speaker 2: like we get they're going to promote themselves, right, but
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  Speaker 2: it felt like it was just an infomercial as opposed
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  Speaker 2: to a baseball game. It was a commercial for Netflix
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  Speaker 2: and then a baseball game going on. So there was
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  Speaker 2: some like I don't want to be man Dog Grusso
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  Speaker 2: and old man yelling at the clouds just to go
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  Speaker 2: nuts about it. I just care about watching the game.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like the fact though, that they forced so
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  Speaker 2: much stuff down our throat outside of the game. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a purist. I want to just watch the baseball game.
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  Speaker 3: I understand that. But they paid for the right to
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  Speaker 3: do whatever the fuck they want. I mean, and that's
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  Speaker 3: the deal. And Rob Manford, you can kill them all
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  Speaker 3: you want, but his job is to grow the game,
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  Speaker 3: to grow the money around the game, to grow the pie.
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  Speaker 3: And Netflix is paying so much money and they're not
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  Speaker 3: getting a ton They're really not when you look at
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  Speaker 3: it at Rob Manford.
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  Speaker 1: Say what you will about him. I know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people don't like.
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  Speaker 3: Him, but he has done a tremendous job as the
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  Speaker 3: commissioner of Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Baseball is thriving in every possible.
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  Speaker 3: Way, including the television rights, which you know, and streaming rights,
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  Speaker 3: which are vastly important to the business of Major League
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  Speaker 3: Baseball in any sport for that matter.
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  Speaker 2: Manford might have been my biggest issue with the broadcast
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  Speaker 2: because it really didn't have anything to do with like
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  Speaker 2: the bells and whistles or whatever they were shoving down
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  Speaker 2: our throw like people go nuts about Jamis Winston. I
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  Speaker 2: thought he was maybe the most entertaining part of the game.
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  Speaker 2: The game was a snooze fest after the Yanks scored
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  Speaker 2: those runs early, but they had Manford in the booth
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  Speaker 2: for half an inning and they didn't even get anything
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  Speaker 2: out of them. And that's maybe less on Manford and Netflix,
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  Speaker 2: although it's on the announcers there that were in the booth.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm with you more inline with you, Stu. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not gonna go nuts about it. It's one game, and
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  Speaker 2: you're right. Netflix can do what they want. They paid
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  Speaker 2: for the rights. They're going to promote the hell out
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  Speaker 2: of their product.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's their rights, not yours. People, they can do
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  Speaker 3: with them what they will. Go ahead, Taylor.
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  Speaker 4: So when I'm watching that Yankees season opener in San Francisco,
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  Speaker 4: they always cut to the kayaking and McCovey cove, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm watching that thinking that's not something I think I
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  Speaker 4: would ever want to do.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't look appealing at all. Meanwhile, it's always cold.
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  Speaker 2: It's always freezing cold out there. You can't see anything.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, kayaking for me in general not good. Kayaking
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  Speaker 2: at a ball game really seems ridiculous. And Marry Bounds
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  Speaker 2: isn't playing. You aren't getting those those you know, mccuffy
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  Speaker 2: cove shots out there, but so many people still do it.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's insane.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think what we're railing against, as you
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  Speaker 3: pointed out, sal is just.
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  Speaker 1: The idea of kayaking.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter where it is, mccoffey Cove, any cove.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care what covid is. I don't want to kayak.
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  Speaker 3: It looks a golf thing. Write too much work. I
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  Speaker 3: take a boat. You want to go on a boat
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  Speaker 3: in mcuvey cove, Sign me up. The kayaking little speedboat
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  Speaker 3: around the cove.
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  Speaker 1: So much easier.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't want to fucking work to catch
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  Speaker 3: a baseball.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, seriously, that's one of those things. I think
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  Speaker 2: you do it just to say you did it, not
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  Speaker 2: really for the injury. Who's enjoying that is?
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  Speaker 3: So when you drop that story out at a bar
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  Speaker 3: that you kayak McCovey cove, who the fuck is impressed
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  Speaker 3: with that?
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  Speaker 2: It's a good point. I saw this morning on social media.
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  Speaker 2: The Yankee like Meredith Moroccovitch who does the games on Yes,
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  Speaker 2: Susan Waldman does the games obviously legendary voice on the fan.
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  Speaker 1: They're out there.
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  Speaker 2: Taking pics to getting ready to kayak in McCovey comb
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  Speaker 2: Come on, it's like the thing to do if you
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  Speaker 2: go to a game. Want no part of that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's so funny.
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  Speaker 3: I always questioned the people, even when Bonds was hitting
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  Speaker 3: the home runs out there, I questioned the people, like,
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  Speaker 3: why are you doing this? It cannot be that important
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  Speaker 3: for you to grab a baseball to be on television
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  Speaker 3: that you're willing to not go to the game and
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  Speaker 3: kayak around the cove waiting for a ball to drop it.
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  Speaker 1: It's fucking sad get a life.
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  Speaker 4: That st you mentioned saying it to somebody in a bar.
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  Speaker 4: That would be one of the lamest things you could
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  Speaker 4: say to somebody in a bar.
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  Speaker 2: The other one I.
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  Speaker 1: Saw recent amount I means the other and I saw.
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  Speaker 4: Recently when it comes to a bar, was John Rothstein,
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  Speaker 4: the college basketball reporter. Dylan Darling hits the buzzer beater
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: for Saint John's Kansas, John roth sweets out, Dylan Darling
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: will never have to pay for another drink in New
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: York City ever again. And now I'm imagine Dylan Darling
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: going to a bar being like, Hey, I'm Dylan Darling
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: from Saint John's and a bartender going, I don't give
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: a fuck who's walk.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: But I kayak around the code.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah who, Maybe Dylan Darling that's kayaking the code that
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: it wasn't even a big game, like the big deal
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: to go to the Sweet sixty. If Dylan Darling did
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: that in the NCAA Final, he'd be having to pay
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: for drinks probably the next month in New York. Nobody
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: knows who Dylan Darling is. Let alone the Sweet Sea.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: He's still getting He's still getting carted at bars.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: That's a little bit of a reach.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: He's never paying for a drink to get in New
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: York City. New York City, don't give a fuck.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, I average judge hit sixty three home runs,
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Yankees pull on the next game the Yankee fish. Boy,
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: you think we care about Dylan Darling and a worthless
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: bucket did to get to the Sweet sixteen?
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: Come on, yeah, nobody, nobody cares. He's paying for drinks
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: forever unless he does than that.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: It was funny. I was laughing with Taylor yesterday.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Because Skeen's got bombed, and I was laughing at the
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: fact that people are going to start questioning Skeen's involvement
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: in the World Baseball Classic. It's like, it's so ridiculous,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: all of this right, look at you.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: I don't even think about that at the next little
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: points too, you're on top. Didn't even think about that.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: I'm at your producer's job. But he's talking about other shit.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, you would think it would help Skeens
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: getting getting acclimated of the WBC camping excuse that he's rusty,
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: but no, the Mets got to him. That grinded out
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Mets line.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Up right has schoobol pitch yet, Taylor, he has he
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: thrown yet he did pitch yesterday.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: I forget what grade. You know how I know this.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: I'm on set at SNY one of the guys who
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: will run on the camera as a bet on school
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Bawl to go like under seven strikeouts. And right before
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: I hear him murmuring, he's like, oh, yeah, they took
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: school Ball out of the game. And I'm like, what
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: are you talking about. He's like, oh, I had a
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: bet that he was gonna go under seven strikeouts. So
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: I believe he did pitch yesterday and he got taken
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: out of the game at some point.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: Yes, dude, so Scooba pitched six scoreless innings.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: That conversation is coming. I'm surprised it hasn't.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Happened already, and I guess I'm the guy getting it
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: off the ground. School Ball did not pitch in the
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: World Baseball Classic. We crushed him for it. He goes
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: out and gets a win, Skins get shelled by the Mets.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Unbelievable.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: See tell her you're all about USA. Look at school
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Ball doing the right thing, being ready and prepared for
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: his team, and Skeins let us let his group down.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Stu, it might be a USA curse right now
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: because Aaron Judge and the opener went zero for five
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: with four strikeouts. Oogan Webb got absolutely rocked by the Yankees.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: It's not really looking too good for Team USA right now.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: But you know who went three for four Roman Anthony.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Wow, I forgot about that.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: Actually, Sally, are you into the NCAA Tournament.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: It's hard not to be into this East region tonight, man.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: I'll exactly. I'll be into the Saint John's Duke, although
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: I don't think that Saint John's has a chance. I
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: know it's March madness. Anything can happen. I just don't
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: think Saint John's has enough shooting to compete with Duke.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: And I'll be into the Yukon Michigan State as well.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: You're talking about two great head coaches, so I like
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: that part of that part of the bracket.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Yes, how's your bracket? Do it? Have you participated?
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I did not. I didn't fall out a bracket. I've
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: been watching it more than I don't know why I
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: didn't fla out a bracket. I'm mad at myself. I
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: used to love college. I think I need to get divorced.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I didn't flaught of Bratt. It's my wife. I gotta
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: blame more. Since I got married, I kind of like
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: things that I used to love, they're not there anymore.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: What's going on here?
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I get a new thing, your wife, a house,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: a kid, whatever. But I missed it with a bracket.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're supposed to replace the love of your
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: bracket with.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: The love of your wife and your child. I mean,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: it's not working.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: March sandness. I miss I missed doing the bracket, but no,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I got the Johnny's and Kansas got We were doing
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: that when I did the podcast where I'm like, oh,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: they don't have the great coaches anymore, you know, like
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Bill self, I forgot self was even coaching still right
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: with some of those guys. But I wish I did
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: fill out a bracket because I do really enjoy this
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: time of year with the March madness.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: So you know, you can't say that. You can't say
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: that Saint John's, you can't say it with any sort
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: of conviction because it's the Sweet sixteen, and you know,
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: any of these teams in a one game scenario can
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: beat the other team, especially when Rick Patino is your coach,
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: and so you can't say that Saint John's will not
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: beat Duke.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's easy, but usually the way that a
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: team would upset is shooting, right, Like, Okay, hey they
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: get hot, March mad, is anything happen. That's where Saint
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: John's like, they have been a bad shooting team all
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: year long. They've been a little bit better through the
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: first two games of the tournament, but I think it's
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: gotta be even better than that. They were fortunate to
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: get away with with Kansas. They could not score neither team,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: So I think Duke. I think Saint John's a great
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: defensive team and have an all time great head coach,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: So by that aspect, you say, maybe they have a
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: puncher's chance. I just don't think they could score the
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: basketball or shoot the basketball well enough to really compete
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: with Duke.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: We've discussed this a bit on the show, but you'll
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: I think you'll laugh at this.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: You know just how polarizing Rick Patino was at one
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: point in his career and now he's beloved, Like Taylor
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: is saying, Oh, I can listen to Patino tell stories
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: and all day long.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I love him. I want them to be my coach.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Everyone fucking loves Rick Patino now because everything's out in
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: the open.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: You know, we'll we talk about like the the off
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: the court issues.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Or the reason he was polarizing was some of the
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: off the court stuff.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: He felt like he had an advantage.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: He was giving suitcases of cash. He was doing it
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: behind the scenes. Now everyone is doing is giving suitcases
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: of cash. They're doing it right in front of the camera,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: and no one gives a shit, and it makes Patino
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: a more lovable and likable dude.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: You know, how about how about the fact that he
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: legit went rebuilt himself back up, going to Iona and yes,
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: or he went overseas whatever, and then coming back to
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Iowa and building himself back up, getting to the level
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: where and knowing that Saint John's in New York Patino,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: former Knicks coach, a New York legend. I think that
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: helps as well. And you're right, he's been open and
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: accountable and the way the game has changed right now
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: where everybody's doing the same thing. So good for Patino
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: getting Saint John's back to promise. I personally like him.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I hope look, I hope they beat the spot off
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: of Duke. I can't stand Duke. Who likes Duke? I
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: just don't think it's realistic.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: That's a great question. Taylor put it on the pole.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Who likes Duke? You? Possible responses could be, but no
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: one likes Duke.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: I can't stand Duke. I want Saint John's to go
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: to the Final four. I think it'd be a great story.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: I want them to win the National Championship.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Speaking of.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: How disarray your marriage is and how much you're trying
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: to not spend time with your wife and with your family,
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: I am told here by Taylor that you are going
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: to not one, but two games in a single day.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, that is going to great lengths to
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: void changing a diaper, hanging out with your wife. I mean,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: what's the matter with you?
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: It was supposed to be one game, just the Islanders game.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: We got invited by the Islanders go hang out in
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: the owner suite. So I'm looking forward to that.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: What do you get invited by the Islanders? What does
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: that mean? Well?
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Well, wait, Geo, back in the day when we went
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: a couple of times from the fan, he took me
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: the Islanders owner's suite and then I became friendly with
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: the guys in there, and then we became I would
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: set up a thing with the fan guys. We'd go,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you notice, like, you know, don't
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: don't want work at the fan.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I kind of got.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Fired from the van. The Islander guys reached out and said, hey,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: we love to have you anytime. So now I'm gonna go.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I'm going to take my producer and whatever and go
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: to the game. But it started out as just the
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Islanders thing, and then I was like, Wow, the Mets
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: play at four. They're in the same vicinity. I get
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: to stay away from what goes on here. Yeah, for Saturday,
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: go have the play date with their friends. And I
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: don't want anything to do with that right there, Yes,
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: right about it hour and twenty away from Jersey, So
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: you attack on the top.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: From Union over the city will be about an hour
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: and a half.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's true. That is true. The traffic I'm
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: not looking for, dude. The parking, that's a major issue.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: So the Islander shouldn't be the issue. But at City Field,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: because they're doing all these renovations and trying to build
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: a casino and a lot of stuff that's been an issue.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: But yes, I'm sure I'm going going five miles will
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: take fifty minutes, no problem.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: I couldn't.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, the idea of going to a game after
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: I've already been to a game, yeah.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Too much even for me.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Go home, dude, I've done it once at the Garden.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I want to do the same day doubleheader Nicks Rangers.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: We did the Knicks at noon, hung out in the
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: city afterward, went back to the Rangers, and it was
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: a long that's a long freaking day. This's a little
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: different one right, one o'clock start, four o'clock start, and
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: then come home and I come home and watch the Yankees. Busy, yes, say.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Yes, well, I mean come want to hang out with
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: your wife when you get home.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Hey, it's a busy season. She had me in February.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's for a week.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: You referenced Taylor softball team before. Have you played in
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: an adult softball league? Because I maintained there are a
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: few things in life that are sadder, so.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: I used to and a part of me when I
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: hear Taylor and you guys talking about it, a part
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: of me is like, man, that could be fun being
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: part of a team and going out there. And then
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: the other part is like I want nothing to do
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: with this anymore, like I would get hurt. I have
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: no interest in packing up and going there. I just
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: don't want anything to do with it. So I understand
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: the appeal of it. I used to do it years ago.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: No chance I'd do it anymore.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: So Stu room Median was so bad defensively. And the
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: thing that makes it even funnier is he's from my hometown,
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: from New York. So room Median is the guy who's
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: on hold for two hours at wfan that wants to
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: tell you about how bad Jason Domnga's defense is.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I committed seven errors and opening fun night of
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: a softball league.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Friend, that's embarrassing. I mean that guy gid he brings
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: his girlfriend and what's he doing there? Maybe he knows
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: purposely he doesn't want to get married to this girl,
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: so he brings her to the game where he's watching
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: all the balls in the outfield.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: But Zach, can you imagine like sitting down with your wife, Honey,
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: sit down?
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: I joined an adult softball league. Want to come to
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: the first game?
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: You no, No, there's no chance. Well, we moved into
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: the in Jersey neighbors like, oh yeah, should come down
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: on the come down to the club, we'll play softball.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: I go bro the last like, I don't want to
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: be here hanging out with you right now, the last
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: thing I want to do. I'm only here because my
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: wife said we got to make friends with the neighbors.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Truth be told, I don't want to be I'm a
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: nice guy, but I have enough friends. You think I'm
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: gonna go on my free time to go play softball
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: with you and another group that No, I'm sorry, that's
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: not you got the wrong guy, not me.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, when were you done making friends?
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: Like?
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: When?
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: When?
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: When were you done? Because I was done when I
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: was like twenty two. I don't need any more people
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: in my life. I need less people in my life.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: It's a great question. I definitely would say after like
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: starting to work at the fan, it probably in my
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: late twenties early thirties that it was just like, all right,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: we need to we need to not not only cut
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: it off, yere like we need to cut back from
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: this from the roll decks that we already have, need
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: to get cut back.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: So marriage is an amazing thing because the guy in
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: most cases is trying to downsize, right, and the wife
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: is trying to upsize and trying to create more fucking
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: people who are eventually going to ask you for something,
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: you know.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: So this happened to me recently where my girlfriend was like,
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: I met a friend, you would love her boyfriend, and
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: I just looked at her.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: I go that capacity.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Sorry, you're not even married yet, dude.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Oh oh man. It gets worse because then you get
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: the extended family involved. It becomes too much my whole life,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: my friends, my family. Then you're combining her friends, her family.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Then you bring kids, and now you got their friends.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Oh no, neighbors in no.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Way, no, but that fucking nonsense.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: When the wife comes home or the girlfriend comes home,
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Oh great person, I met her. You're gonna love the husband,
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: You're gonna love the boyfriend. Get the fuck out of here,
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: you know, did you speak to him? How do you
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: know who I'm gonna like and who I'm gonna dislike?
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Because he's a fucking Mets fan. Do you know how
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: many Mets fans I hate, like most of them?
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: And so I just hate when the wife does that
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: because no, it's it's it's a convenient reason to try
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: to get her to hang out with somebody that you
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: don't want to hang out.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: With, right, And usually it starts with oh, they're big
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: sports fans, and I'm like, that's the last thing you
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: should be saying to me. I don't want to go
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: talk to it with sports about anybody, with anybody.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I do it every day.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: You think I'm gonna go there and hey, soal, how
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: about those Mets? How about btng o beef on the fan? No,
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: I'm good, thank you.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: When I'm done talking sports into this microphone, I'm done talking.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Sports for the day. You might as well lead with weed,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: he smokes. Fine, I mean