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  Speaker 4: I'd be sorr Lee this hour.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to start out in Wisconsin, although it's really
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  Speaker 1: at the League office in New York City. The curtain
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  Speaker 1: has come down, pens down, the music has paused, as
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  Speaker 1: it is the All Star break in Major League Baseball,
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  Speaker 1: no more real baseball. The players hate the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want to go to the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 1: They can't stand the All Star Game. But they want
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  Speaker 1: you baseball does to watch the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 4: More in that in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: So All Star news over the weekend, get the home
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  Speaker 1: run Derby Derby Derby Derby coming up on Monday. All
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  Speaker 1: Star Game on Tuesday days off and then back at
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  Speaker 1: it late in the week So the biggest storyline here
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  Speaker 1: around the All Star Game, and it's happened and developed
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend. The news came out over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: and then the reaction of anger and rage at Major
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball. So if you haven't heard, perhaps not the
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  Speaker 1: phenom of phenoms. As somebody from Wisconsin said, I wrote
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  Speaker 1: a love letter, miler monologue about the performance I saw
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  Speaker 1: against the Dodgers the other day of the mizz and
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  Speaker 1: he is the story of baseball yet again over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob Mazerowski, the six foot seven Brewers flame thrower with
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  Speaker 1: five career starts five career starts, has been added as
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  Speaker 1: an All Star. Yes, five starts, this cat's an All Star,
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  Speaker 1: not five wins. I didn't say five wins. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: say five quality starts. He got lit up by the Mets.
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  Speaker 1: Five starts, period.
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  Speaker 4: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Five all Star, five starts, All Star Game. So this
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  Speaker 1: has become a polarizing topic. The Phillies are up in arms.
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  Speaker 1: More on that in a minute. Also, longtime Major League
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  Speaker 1: Baseball broadcaster Ron Darling, not happy, said it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a joke. Darling said to the game, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: bad choice for baseball.
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  Speaker 4: Close quote from Ron Darley.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss a question for the esteem panel,
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  Speaker 1: and you are now on the esteem panel. So the
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  Speaker 1: question Milwaukee Flamethrow Jacob Mazarowski gets All Star nod, the
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  Speaker 1: All Star roster spot, thumbs up or thumbs down on
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  Speaker 1: the Miz making the All Star Games. So I've got
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  Speaker 1: online marketplace, Olivia Rodrigo and Hedonist, and we will combine
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  Speaker 1: these three very random things that have never been combined together,
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  Speaker 1: and we are going to put the biscuit in the basket,
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  Speaker 1: is what we're going to do. So hey, my first
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  Speaker 1: thought to answer the question thumbs up, thumbs down on
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  Speaker 1: the Miz making the All Star team, thumbs down, In fact,
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  Speaker 1: two thumbs down.
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  Speaker 4: I got two thumbs down on this. Now, this one
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  Speaker 4: is simple, all right.
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  Speaker 1: This is a textbook exam of lowering the standards. And again,
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  Speaker 1: I like the player. I am a I want to
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  Speaker 1: see this turn out to be a great career.
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  Speaker 4: It would be wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: I like the player, but this a little bit too
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  Speaker 1: much too soon, a little bit too much too soon.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going thumbs down the standard for all Star
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  Speaker 1: selection is the way to get in.
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  Speaker 4: There's a couple of ways to get it. Be really
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  Speaker 4: really good, right, really really good.
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  Speaker 1: Or be on a crap team, and then somebody has
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  Speaker 1: to make the All Star team, like play for the
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  Speaker 1: White Sox of the Rockies, they have to have an
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  Speaker 1: All Star which is tradition. But outside of that, and
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers are not a bad team, they're not a
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  Speaker 1: great team.
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  Speaker 4: They're somewhere in the middle. But here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: The standard for the All Star selection, which had been
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  Speaker 1: rooted up until a couple of years ago, rooted in
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  Speaker 1: what performance, consistency, reliability, all of those big words.
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  Speaker 4: That was the credibility that meant something.
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  Speaker 1: And it reminds me of what they've done in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: where the Pro Bowl is now tic tac toe and
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  Speaker 1: water balloon toss. Baseball is gonna get to that point,
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  Speaker 1: and they're gonna get there very fast by having someone
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  Speaker 1: in the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 4: With five starts five five, I mean, my god.
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  Speaker 1: So they're now tossing out All Star bursts like sunflower
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  Speaker 1: seed shells in the dugout. You get an All Star,
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  Speaker 1: you get an All Star, you get an All Star.
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  Speaker 1: And why are they doing is why is Jacob Mazaraski
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  Speaker 1: an All Star? Well, one word marketing, capital M marketing.
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  Speaker 1: That's how right buzz brand engagement. So wow, Milwaukee's a
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  Speaker 1: small market. Why does baseball care about Milwaukee? Well, it's
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  Speaker 1: the story. It's the story. Everyone loves a good story, right,
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  Speaker 1: We learn from stories, with all all human beings learned
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  Speaker 1: from stories. But this is Major League Baseball's latest episode
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  Speaker 1: of look at me and See. The issue is heaven forbid?
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  Speaker 1: Heaven forbid you just allow these things to play themselves
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  Speaker 1: out naturally, have the organic experience. But no, it's about Hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's marking. So you're going to take someone that has
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  Speaker 1: a lot of hype even.
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  Speaker 4: Though they're in a you know, a smaller town in.
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee, and an undercooked prospect, and a prospect is a
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  Speaker 1: suspect until Brovel lies. But he's got a really sexy
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  Speaker 1: radar gun, you know, I mean, he's one hundred miles
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  Speaker 1: an hour a lot and that's pretty cool. And so
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  Speaker 1: social media likes him, so they'll get some applause on
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  Speaker 1: the social media and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Now, and so we like the player. We did a
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  Speaker 4: monologue celebrating.
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  Speaker 1: Them is and all that as we said, however, Major
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball here on this one another unforced error by
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  Speaker 1: Rob Manford and his underlings at the league office. Here,
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  Speaker 1: major League Baseball sticking it to the players who have
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  Speaker 1: earned earned the All Star honor through months and often
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  Speaker 1: years of continued service and success on the field. And
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  Speaker 1: so no, and those players, I'm sure there are some,
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  Speaker 1: not all, but some would would would have liked to
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  Speaker 1: have been an All Star. But they get shoved to
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  Speaker 1: the side right there in the background. And the reason
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  Speaker 1: they're in the background is because of the online marketplace
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  Speaker 1: mlbshop dot com. Right, can you sell a few more jerseys?
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  Speaker 1: Can you move the merch? And who's gonna move the merch?
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  Speaker 1: Some nondescript pitcher has been around for a number of years.
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  Speaker 1: Who happens to pitch for? I don't know the Phillies
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  Speaker 1: or the Red Sox or the mizz Oh he's got
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  Speaker 1: the story, right, that's the answer. That's obviously the answer.
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  Speaker 1: Marketing capital, m MLB shop sell some merch, sell some merch.
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  Speaker 1: This is Jacob Mezerowski's moment. Is not supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: his moment. Five starts.
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  Speaker 4: You don't get your moment.
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  Speaker 1: The reason it's his moment is because Major League Baseball's
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  Speaker 1: marketing department's horny to sell some merch and create a star.
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  Speaker 4: They have to create the next.
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  Speaker 1: Big thing brand engagements, engagement farming, engagement from get out
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  Speaker 1: the tractor graham A. It's engagement farming, and we should
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  Speaker 1: not be And the reason that we should not be
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  Speaker 1: surprised if you've been paying attention, this is the same
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  Speaker 1: Rob Manford run organization Major League Baseball that long ago
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  Speaker 1: gave up any of the traditions of the game for
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  Speaker 1: digital impressions. This is what it's all about. Baseball is
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  Speaker 1: convinced they have taken the kool aid. They like the
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  Speaker 1: kool aid when it comes to the matrix of social media,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what it's all about, right, So they go
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  Speaker 1: back and forth or like, in some areas they want
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  Speaker 1: to honor tradition. Of course they can make a buck
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  Speaker 1: on it. They're like, I want to honor tradition, and
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  Speaker 1: then in other areas they want to take a bulldozer
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  Speaker 1: and just drive over the tradition of baseball. But they've
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  Speaker 1: allowed the matrix to form the blueprint on which direction
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  Speaker 1: they're going to go. And miss Arowski stuff comes in,
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  Speaker 1: uh and not I thought five.
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  Speaker 4: Starts was not en off.
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  Speaker 1: But considering what Baseball's done and the Mizz's story and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff, it's like, all right, he's so far
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  Speaker 1: as good as advertised.
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  Speaker 4: Did have a stinker against the match, but we'll overlook that. See.
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  Speaker 1: The thing about it, though, is you would say, if
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  Speaker 1: he's as good as he's supposed to be, his time
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  Speaker 1: will come, his opportunity will come. And baseball's always in
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  Speaker 1: the past. But about letting that greatness unfold over time. Right,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't happen right away all the time, but right
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  Speaker 1: now in this moment, No, that's not the case.
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  Speaker 4: That's not how we do things here. Now.
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  Speaker 1: When there's a meme out there that Rob Manford doesn't
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  Speaker 1: really understand, the internet it gets all excited about.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, oh man, it's mean, mean meme.
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  Speaker 1: I love the meme, I'm all about it, all about it, right,
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  Speaker 1: and a couple of impressions on social media.
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  Speaker 4: They get all excited about that.
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  Speaker 1: But the All Star Game, so okay, much like the
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  Speaker 1: Pro Bowl used to mean something, All Star Game, not
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  Speaker 1: to be fair, the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 4: This has been a thing which has.
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  Speaker 1: Gone the wrong direction for a long time, like it's
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  Speaker 1: been going a wrong direction for many, many years here,
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  Speaker 1: but is another staged moment by Major League Baseball, right
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  Speaker 1: stage managed for theater. It's a like a Broadway show here,
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  Speaker 1: and baseball is so desperate. They have such low self
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  Speaker 1: esteem at Major League Baseball. They want to look cool.
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  Speaker 1: They do everything they can to look cool, and they
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  Speaker 1: just can't help themselves. They can't because it's all about
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  Speaker 1: being cool. And whether that means they have to erode
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  Speaker 1: things that made the sport what it became valuable for,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 4: Listen.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about the clickety click clicketty clickty click atty.
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  Speaker 4: Click and he click anny click.
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  Speaker 1: And those those clips of themz on Instagram are really good.
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  Speaker 1: So five starts, I mean, okay, but that being you'd admit,
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  Speaker 1: those are some good, good looking clips on social media.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, we turned the page. So in the face
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  Speaker 1: of the pushback, and there has been some pushback by
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  Speaker 1: players and the old timers in baseball, the old heads
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  Speaker 1: and base of pushback on adding Jacob Miserawski to the
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  Speaker 1: All Star team after five games. Major League Baseball officials
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  Speaker 1: claim that it's not their fault. They claimed they tried,
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  Speaker 1: they did everything they could in their power to find
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  Speaker 1: someone else, and they told their buddies in the media.
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  Speaker 4: They said they.
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  Speaker 1: Actually reached out to over a dozen or right around
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  Speaker 1: a dozen. I think the number I saw was a
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  Speaker 1: dozen over the weekend, a dozen pitchers looking to replace.
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  Speaker 1: They needed a replacement for the All Star Game, and
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  Speaker 1: they kept looking and looking and looking and looking until
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  Speaker 1: they finally got to Jacob Zowski.
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  Speaker 4: He agreed to do it. So do you believe it
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  Speaker 4: or not?
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  Speaker 1: Do you believe it or not that Baseball's like, well, listen,
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  Speaker 1: we tried. We didn't really want to bring this guy,
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  Speaker 1: but we had no other options cuz we went down
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  Speaker 1: in order and we got to him and we had
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  Speaker 1: to go with him because there was nobody else. So
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  Speaker 1: I am not a believer on this. I am not
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  Speaker 1: a believer. This is again a M and a marketing
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  Speaker 1: move is an M and M.
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  Speaker 4: Just own it. Just own it.
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  Speaker 1: Say listen, the guy doesn't really deserve it, but people
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  Speaker 1: like him and we think he's gonna be good, so
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  Speaker 1: we want to see him in the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 4: And it's an exhibition game, so who cares. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Now, there's a wider issue here, which is absolutely a
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  Speaker 1: thing and it's the disease is all over, the plague
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  Speaker 1: is all over professional sports. But the marketing move was
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  Speaker 1: why the Miz is in the All Star Game. And
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  Speaker 1: when you piece the when you piece together the puzzle,
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  Speaker 1: you put the jigsaw puzzle together. Here, Major League Baseball,
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  Speaker 1: if they had wanted to, could have found someone else
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  Speaker 1: to go to the All Star Game. Now they might
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  Speaker 1: have had to go down to like twenty pick twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: They would have gotten someone for the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 1: And they should have found someone else. They obviously did not.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't look that hard. My theory is they didn't
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  Speaker 1: look that hard, and if you look at this through
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  Speaker 1: that lens, that they weren't really trying to find someone
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  Speaker 1: other than is they wanted him to be in the
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  Speaker 1: All Star Game. It's like that Olivia Rodrigo song deja vu,
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  Speaker 1: because remember last year we had this similar conversation. Now,
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  Speaker 1: last year Major League Baseball added you rememberhe they added
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  Speaker 1: That's right, Paul Skens, the Pirate's phenom who lit the
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  Speaker 1: baseball world on fire a year ago. Paul Skins. Now
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  Speaker 1: he made the All Star Game. He started the All
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  Speaker 1: Star Game last year as a hot shot rookie eleven
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  Speaker 1: starts into his big league career. So so eleven starts
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  Speaker 1: in fine. Now we supported that. Last year we thought
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  Speaker 1: that was okay. This we did not support.
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  Speaker 4: Now. The reason the difference is y the Robbies. The
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  Speaker 4: average starting.
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  Speaker 1: Pitcher in baseball will make around thirty four starts. Most
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  Speaker 1: of them do not hit that number, but the number
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  Speaker 1: is about thirty four starts per year based on one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty two games that somebody starts. You're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to make if you're in the starting rotation. So eleven
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  Speaker 1: starts out of thirty four works out be thirty two
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  Speaker 1: percent of a full season. Now the numbers even higher,
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  Speaker 1: the percentage even higher if the average number goes down
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  Speaker 1: to thirty. But we'll say it's thirty four. So that's
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  Speaker 1: thirty two percent of a season. The Miz starting five
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  Speaker 1: games for the Brew Crew before the All Star Game,
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  Speaker 1: five that is less than fifteen percent of the full
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  Speaker 1: season of starts, and you make an All Star appearance,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where we are.
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  Speaker 4: That's where we are now.
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  Speaker 1: Last word, the Fighting Pills very upset that their pitcher
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  Speaker 1: did not make the All Star Game. Instead, Jacob Izerowski
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  Speaker 1: made it. Now one of the outspoken critics a man
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  Speaker 1: that is notorious for hitting the home run at the time,
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  Speaker 1: you shouldn't hit a home run when someone's giving a
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  Speaker 1: grobbling apology on television. Nick Castellanos, Now, he came out
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  Speaker 1: so winging. He came out swinging. The Phillies outfielder was
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  Speaker 1: not happy and he's not happy with the way the
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  Speaker 1: All Star Game is going. He's also one of those
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  Speaker 1: guys that has All Star number. I don't believes on
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  Speaker 1: the All Star team anyway. Nick Castellanos said of the
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  Speaker 1: All Star Game quote, it's turning into the Savannah bananas.
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  Speaker 1: It's turning into the Savannah bananas. Your thoughts, all right?
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  Speaker 1: So my thought on this is that is exactly what
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  Speaker 1: baseball wants.
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  Speaker 4: That is their wet dream. Am I wrong?
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  Speaker 1: Baseball wants Savannah banana. They want the bananas, They need
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  Speaker 1: the bananas. Baseball loves bananas.
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  Speaker 4: They do. They're jealous. I'm telling you, I've heard this
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  Speaker 4: from people who work in baseball.
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  Speaker 1: The people with the League office are jealous of the
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  Speaker 1: Savannah Bananas, who are essentially the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball.
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  Speaker 4: Right, barnstorming group.
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  Speaker 1: They're on television now, they've got a cult following people
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  Speaker 1: seem to like, and they sell out football stadiums and baseball.
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  Speaker 1: It annoys them. They're like, we've been around for one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty something years, what do you do it?
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  Speaker 1: It bothers them. They're annoyed by this. They're jealous of
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  Speaker 1: the attention that in the social media world they are
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  Speaker 1: seen as cool and the bananas are cool. When has
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  Speaker 1: the banana ever been cool? Well, the Savannah Bananas are cool.
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  Speaker 1: Pack stadium, social media content, buzz on social media, television audience.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's huge, but people are watching, and
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  Speaker 1: that is the core of Major League Baseball's business plan.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: They don't have to pay the Savannah Bananas. The players
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  Speaker 1: on the team make peanuts. They don't even get paid bananas.
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  Speaker 1: They they get paid peanuts because they're cheaper. They can't
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  Speaker 1: even afford bananas to pay them. They pay them with peanuts.
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  Speaker 1: And major League Baseball is if you look at the
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  Speaker 1: rock and roll element of having fun, you know, which
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  Speaker 1: is what they have when you watch the highlights.
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  Speaker 4: I've never watched a full.
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  Speaker 1: Savannah Bananas game, so I couldn't tell you, but it
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  Speaker 1: appears they're having fun now furthermore so, Major League Baseball
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: also concerned about the rash of players who have bailed out.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: We mentioned this, players that have bailed out of the
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: All Star Game. They don't want to show up. And
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: then the most common re let's see, I'm gonna give
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: you a phrase to see if you can tell me
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: where this phraseer is is the most common reason that
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball players have opted out of the All
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Star Game twenty twenty five. The year of our Lord
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: is rest and recuperation. Rest and recuperation, all right, So
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: what is behind? What is behind the Major League Baseball
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: players skipping the All Star Game for rest and recuperation?
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: So this is a sign of the times. It's the
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: same brain rot they have in the other sports, and
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: it's been around for a while, right. These baseball guys,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: they see those softy NBA players bitching about back to
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: back games, like we play like sometimes we'll play two
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: weeks in a row with no days, Oh my god.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: And the basketball players they play one game and they
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: can play in it. Oh my, that whole thing all right.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: So there we're in the age of Hey, I want
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: the hedonist experience, I want the work life balance is
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: what they want, and it's it's been building and building
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: in Billiam Over twenty years ago. I was on these
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: microphones of Fox Sports Radio. The All Star Game was
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: in Milwaukee, and the defining moment of Bud Selik, who
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: overlooked all the steroid guys, but Bud Celick is the commissioner.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: They used car salesman there, threw his arms up in
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: the air everywhere, literally right in the eleventh inning of
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: a tie game of a tie game, and told the umpires,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: he said, listen.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: They're out of pitchers. Tie game.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: And the reason they were out of players was because
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: now the game entered in a tie. The All Star Game,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: the players were leaving the stadium while the game was
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: going on. They couldn't stand being in Milwaukee. They were
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: trying to get out of there. They get the airport
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: hell out of there to go to the Bahamas or
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Hawaii or wherever, and said he couldn't wait to get
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: out of the airport right and Major League Baseball had
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: this this time It Counts marketing campaign for years after
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: that where they actually decided the World Series home field
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: advantage based on who won the All Star Game. To
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: stick it to the players but here we are again.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: The players today are like, Hey, we see what the
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: NBA guys are doing. We're just as big as cream
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: puff as those NBA guys. We want that extra time off. No,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: I don't care, I promote the game. We're not doing that.
• 20:12
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• 22:27
  Speaker 1: all about Lebron and we are contractually obligated, as it
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: turns out, for an obligatory malar monologue, much to the
• 22:35
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• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Margarita edition of a Malar monologue on Lebron James and
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: his life in Times. Here's some new developments over the weekend.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: New developments, new developments, new developments. While we were away
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: from the watchtower guarding the overnight graveyard of sports takes,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: there were some new things that took place here. So
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: if you didn't follow along, don't worry. That's what we're
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: here for. We got your back. We kept tabs on
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: what was going on so you would not have to.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: So chatter over the weekend, little chit chat over the
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: weekend that indicated that there are a four pack, four
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: pack of teams that are attempting to acquire Lebron James.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: No, those teams are.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: In no formal order, the Dallas mav Rex, the Golden
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: State Warriors, the Cleveland Cadavers, and the Clippers. Supposedly, so
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: that story came out though those teams have emerged as
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: possible suitors for Lebron James.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: That happened over the weekend.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Now, those four teams, if you believe the chatter, if
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: you believe the Internet chatter, those four teams contacted Lebron's
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: conciliary right his body.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: There Rich Paul. Who is that. If you want to
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: talk to the mob as, you gotta go through the
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: Conticklar area, and that would be Rich Paul. And that
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: is where we are right now.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question for the panel, the
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: blue ribbon panel. Where are you at on the fearsome,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: fursome pursuing Lebron James. All right, so I've got Vintage
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Cookie jar, Dali Lama and Philadelphia Original and we will
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are gonna
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: make the Gobaul. We're gonna make the Gobba goal for
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: our friend in Florida. So number I said number right. Yes,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Now we provide a skeptical eye for the regular guy.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Now I even have buyfocals on, so I have extra
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: skepticism is what I have on here.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: But this is not the.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Lebron sweep Steaks. It was presented as the Lebron Sweepstakes.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I don't buy that that narrative. I'm not going there.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: It's it's more like the Lebron flea market. Now, you
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: can find a nice thing every now and again at
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: the flea market, and that's what this is. It's the
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Lebron James flea market. And it's like, what's what's going on?
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Then what's on the table at the flea market? You're like,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: do I want that kind of fade a little bit?
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure about that, and it was. It is
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: not the shiny new toy. We're not We're not auctioning
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: off the shiny new toy. This is Lebron James at
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: this point is a vintage cookie jar. It's cracked, a
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: little bit faded now, it still has some value. There's
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: still some value there. And if you squint hard enough
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: at the vintage cookie jar and you look at it
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: and you ignore the fact that the cookies inside turns stale.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Right around the time they got that little Mickey Mouse
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: bubble ring that doesn't really count back at Disney World,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: like a nice little souvenir therey.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: You get a ring, not a real one. Not a
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: real one. As we learned from the Oklahoma City thunder Guard.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Not everyone.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: So Lebron James the greatest player of his generation, not
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: the greatest of all time, as he trails Michael Jordan
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: and others. He's also across the rubicon the Dreaded four.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: He's in the Dreaded forties age range at this particular
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: point Lebron James, and so you put it all together,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: and while he still can put up numbers for you,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: and the kind of numbers that if you work over
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: at ESPN, right, you think Lebron's like the Dalai Lama.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: You do.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: You treat him like the Dalai Lama and all that,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: and you can't wait to hear what he has to
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: say about every effing thing.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: You gotta get to the bottom of Lebron James, all right.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: So the impact is measured now more in a moment's
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: rather than months of greatness. There's individual moments on a
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: given night. Lebron can put up some big numbers and
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. But it's one of those buyer beware
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: situations for anyone that does business with Lebron James. It
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: is a buyer beware situation because that cookie jar Lebron
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: is like the flea market vintage cookie jar Lebron. It
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: looks okay from a distance on a shelf. You're like,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: that's not that bad, and I could buy that. It's
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: a couple of bucks. I gotta pay cash, no credit card.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: It's a couple of bucks and the lids chipped again,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: though a little bit and you look at it and
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: the basis, you get a little closer to see a
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: little crack there on the base of it, and it
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: really only opens when it wants to, and so that's
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: not particularly great and all that stuff, and the four
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: teams that are supposedly in on this it's a nostalgia play.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: It would be a nostalgia play for Lebron, and that's what.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: You're going for at this particular point, and sell some stuff.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: You become in the conversation. You're always in the conversation. Now,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Lebron's camp is trying really.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Hard to control the narrative.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: They are working over time to try to control the
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: stories about Lebron. And they know how the offseason NBA
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: world works and so they they're the expert and all that.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: So Rich Paul is the one feeding the pipeline. He's
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the one out there and in our opinion, Rich Paul's
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: the one that is the puppet master directing everything here
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: in terms of media consumption on preferred destinations for Lebron.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: James now in order a home cooking with the Cadavers, right,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: go back to Ohio for a third time, win one
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: more championship with the Cavaliers fade to black Boom done right,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: And of course that would be like Lebron going back
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: to Cleveland for a third time. It's like they're the
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: ex girlfriend that keeps texting you, hey, you up.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: At the three in the morning or whatever. I don't know, but.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: It's nostalgic to go back to Cleveland and do it
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: again and all that stuff.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: It's also a bit delusional.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Then I would say the old Geezers Club, which would
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: be the Golden State Warriors, hang out in San Francisco,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: and you got Steph Curry on one side, Draymond Green
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: on the other, Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Buckets is still there,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: and Lebron and Drayman come on, can do podcasts together,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: and they can fire Steve Kerr and hire some podcast
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: guided coach the Golden State Warriors like the Lakers did
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: for Lebron, and they'll get along good, Lebron and Draymond
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Green until they try to hijack the clipboard from whoever
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: the coach is, that's Steve Kerr or somebody else.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: Then it's gonna get ugly. And then you've got the reunited.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: It feels so good with Anthony Davis to go to
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Dallas and then stick it to the Lakers as a
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: mav wreck with Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving and all
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: those injured guys that are on the Mavericks right now,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: and they instead of Taco Tuesday, they can have Tex
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Mex Wednesday in Dallas, Anthony Davis and Lebron. How great
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: would that be? Of course, we all know Lebron would
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: prefer to play for the Clippers. Who everyone wants to
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: play for the Clippers. It's hip to clip who wouldn't
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: want to play for the Clippers. But we're going to
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: eliminate the Clippers. And here's why. Here's why we're gonna
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: limit the Clippers, because there's no way the Lakers are
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: going to allow.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: That to happen.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: There's zero chants like the Clippers have a better owner,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: they have a better arena, they a better fan base.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: Everyone knows that in town in La. They're not going
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: to allow.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Lebron to go over there and embarrass the Lakers even
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: more so, that's not gonna happen, right, So Jeanie Buss,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: he's still supposedly in charge, not gonna do that, right,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Not not gonna allow that to happen to go over
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: to Inglewood in the hood in Inglewood and play for
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: the Clippers.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: So we'll eliminate them now, page two.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: So we'll go to to Vegas the Summer League, which
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: is going on over the weekend there, and Lebron was
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: sitting courtside.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: You see this over the weekend.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: I glanced at it as Lebron sitting courtside watching his
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: kid that sucks at basketball play for the Lakers summer
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: League team because he's a Nepo baby and he won
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: a sweepstakes raffle to get on the Lakers. So there's
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Bronni out there who sucks, but you know it's make
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: a wish. So he's out there playing for the Lakers,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: and Lebron's watching them. They played the I guess the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Pelicans or a version a facsimile of the Pelicans in
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: the Summer League.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: Now, ESBN invited Lebron. James invited Lebron. You see this.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: They invited Lebron on air to address the speculation which
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: has been running rampant about where Lebron's gonna go. It
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: is he upset with this person, that person, the other person.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: And so Lebron did he say yes, I will go
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: on television. I would like to talk B. I have
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: nothing to say or see no comment. Lebron said, quote,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: if you picked B, you win. He said, quote, I
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: ain't got nothing to talk about. He must have learned
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: that in high school and acrin, I ain't got nothing
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: to talk about. So question, why did Lebron James refuse
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: the opportunity the platform to speak about his situation while
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: in attendance at the Las Vegas Summerly He had his
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: sullen look on his face, bad body language from Lebron
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: as he was sitting courtside there in Vegas. So the
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: answer is by saying nothing, By Lebron saying nothing, in
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: passing up the opportunity, Lebron gave a masterclass and I'm
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: in control control one oh one. By not saying anything
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: he could have popped on television.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: Is true.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: He was given the opportunity, he was given the platform
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Lebron to jump over there on television and pretend like
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: everything's good, and he chose not to do it. He
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: had ESPN essentially throwing themselves at him and just you
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: know again, he said, I'm not I'm not doing it.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna go there, uh, and he missed the
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: opportunity right, the old Dali Lama line. While he could
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: have been you know, they treated him like the Dalai Lama.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: But Lebron, he could have taken a fire extinguisher and
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: put out the fire.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: Right, take the fire extinguisher, put out the fire. But
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: he likes the fire.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: It's like he's warming marshmallows on a stick in the fire.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: And so instead he worked to pour some kerosene on
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: top of the fire.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Burn, baby burn.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: And it's like a cloak and dagger type mission. Have
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: the useful idiots, You toss out these bread crumbs. He
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: dropped these little bread crumbs. But you don't do it
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: if somebody else do it for you. So you dropped
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: the breadcrumbs out there, and you post cryptic things on
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: the Gram and all that stuff, and you let the
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: media do the dirty work the heavy lifting for you
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: and all that, and so you don't talk because you
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: don't have to talk. Right, other people are talking. I'm
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: talking about you. Everyone's talking about you.
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Right, the machine, the machine of basketball content is discussing
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Lebron James. Now this is the same guy that years
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: ago had the remember the zero Dark thirty stick and
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: the playoff run, and of course we know that often
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: didn't last and work so well, so he stopped doing that,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: but he treated it like it was a ritual like
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Marty Grass for Lebron before the playoffs there, and so
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Lebron chose not to speak. Not the silence was not silence,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: it was strategy. That was what what Lebron was doing here.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: And by refusing to go on camera and not using
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: your own voice to get the message out and all
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: that stuff in Vegas where you want to be seen, right,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: you go to Vegas to be seeing the party and
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: all that stuff, and everything's a show in Vegas, and
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Lebron's part of the show, and he knew exactly what
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: he was doing. Classic passive aggressive behavior.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: By Labron James.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Yet again, let the drama swirl, swirl, swirl, swirl, and
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: that's what he was doing there, and he just sits
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: back and watches the speculation and it just is everywhere
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: there's there's there's a residence, there's a heat. It's like
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: coming off the blacktop there of on the on the court,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: and he's keeping it cool, right, He's sitting there, he's
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: got his arms fold. He's unbothered, at least he wants
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: you to believe he's unbothered by everything.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: That's going on now.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Using my Rosetta stone, using my malleor Rosetta stone to
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: translate Lebron and what he meant in playing English in
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: layman's terms. When Lebron said, I ain't got nothing to
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: talk about, that was his quote.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: I ain't got nothing to talk about it.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: That means I know you're all panicking about where I'm
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: going to be traded or if I'm going to be traded,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: all that, and I'm just watching you squirm, and I've
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: got an evil laugh.
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: Just like that. We know the routine. We all know.
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: Every man, woman and child knows the routine.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Now the final point, staying in Las Vegas. We talked
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: earlier on the Overnight show about the brain rot in
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  Speaker 1: professional sports. Out of an abundance of caution, everyone must
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  Speaker 1: do the bare minimum. Do not go above and beyond
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  Speaker 1: the call of duty like previous generations.
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  Speaker 4: You do the bare minimum.
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  Speaker 1: Another example of that, the Dallas Mavericks have decided we
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  Speaker 1: are shutting down Cooper Flag. The flag is down, yes,
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Flag for the remainder of the NBA Summer League.
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  Speaker 4: IX nay on.
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  Speaker 1: The flag A as he has been shut down. I
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  Speaker 1: will not be playing. Only played two games, two, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: So how do you react to the number one overall
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  Speaker 1: pick in the NBA draft only playing two games and
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  Speaker 1: being shut down? So I give this one the old
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  Speaker 1: shoulder shrug. I shrugged my shoulders of this to sign
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  Speaker 1: yet again, much like we talked earlier, sign of the
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  Speaker 1: times in professional sports. And this infestation is everywhere. And
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  Speaker 1: two games, that's it. Two games, one suck bag game
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  Speaker 1: and then one that was okay, and a couple of
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  Speaker 1: glorified scrimmages in Vegas in July and that Vegas heat.
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  Speaker 1: And that's all she wrote. That's all she wrote for
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Flag, the Mavericks new teenage sensation of Maverick Nation.
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  Speaker 1: They put him back into bubble wrap and they put
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  Speaker 1: him into storage. That's it, that's all. And they've treated
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  Speaker 1: him like some kind of high end vase they don't
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  Speaker 1: want to break. And they'll put that away in the
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  Speaker 1: garage and they'll take that out when we get back
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  Speaker 1: to the irregular season. The Mavericks, in their infamit wisdom
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  Speaker 1: also known as paranoia, the Mavericks are shutting down Cooper
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  Speaker 1: Flag for the rest of the summer League. Not because
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  Speaker 1: he's hurt, by the way, not because he's hurt, Not
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  Speaker 1: because he asked out saying I can't handle this, I
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  Speaker 1: can't do it. No, they're just being cautious out of
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  Speaker 1: an abundance of caution. They're being careful because God forbid,
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  Speaker 1: God forbid a young athlete who's been I assume playing
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  Speaker 1: aau ball since they came out of the womb there
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  Speaker 1: and that they can't mae, just a couple of extra
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  Speaker 1: games and that's too much, that's too much for the
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  Speaker 1: prodigy out of Maine.
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  Speaker 4: Cannot do it. Cooper Flag.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta shut him down, Shut him down right now, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's where we are.
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  Speaker 4: That is exactly where we are right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, just like the baseball players trying to skip the
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  Speaker 1: All Star Game because oh man, I.
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  Speaker 4: Need my resting realization and recovery. I need oh that.
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  Speaker 1: So now, the NBA is not just soft. They're not
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  Speaker 1: just soft. They are whipped cream soft.
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  Speaker 4: Is the NBA. In fact, they're not even just whipped cream.
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  Speaker 1: If they were a type of cheese, they would be
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  Speaker 1: a Philadelphia original Philadelphia cream cheese.
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  Speaker 4: That's what they would be the NBA and a little.
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  Speaker 1: Rice cake action on the side there and some cream
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  Speaker 1: cheese and Philadelphia cream cheese. That's where they are there.
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  Speaker 1: And Cooper Flag is just the latest example of that.
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  Speaker 1: They say the Mavericks that he quote showed enough, That's
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  Speaker 1: what they say.
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  Speaker 4: Please, how did he show enough? Exactly? What does that
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  Speaker 4: even mean? I don't even know what that means? A
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  Speaker 4: vague term.
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  Speaker 1: So another player that rather than try to get them
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  Speaker 1: up to speed where they settle into the.
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  Speaker 4: To the grind, right the grind.
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  Speaker 1: Were talking to some old baseball players about that, and like,
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  Speaker 1: and baseball people will complain in the base I know,
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  Speaker 1: crossing the streams here, crossing the sports. But pitchers are
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  Speaker 1: soft in baseball because they've been trained to be soft
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  Speaker 1: well basketball players. Here's an opportunity with Cooper Flag to
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  Speaker 1: be like, you're not gonna be like all the rest.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna train you to not run from
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  Speaker 1: the grind like these other NBA stars, and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: train you to run towards the grind. And not away
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  Speaker 1: from it. But instead the Mavericks have the opportunity and
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  Speaker 1: with so wing Barra, saw Wing Barra, that's it. So
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  Speaker 1: instead they're sending Cooper Flag the number one, picking the
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  Speaker 1: draft back back to the lab, putting him in a
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  Speaker 1: test tube some cryogenic chamber somewhere in Dallas.
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  Speaker 4: And he really didn't even get a real whiff of
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  Speaker 4: what it's all about in the in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: And so he's I think he's still like nineteen years
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  Speaker 1: old and all that stuff, and they're treating him like
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  Speaker 1: he's a grizzled thirty nine year old veteran with arthritick
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  Speaker 1: hips and his knees are all messed up and he's
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  Speaker 1: he's had double knee replacement surgery and that's what they're
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  Speaker 1: treating him like.
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  Speaker 4: And he's a teenager.
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  Speaker 1: Uh so, you know again, opportunity here, Am I crazy
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  Speaker 1: to toughen this guy up? And no, it's straight pampers, baby,
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  Speaker 1: It's it's pampers all the way, is what it is
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  Speaker 1: for Cooper Flag. And right from the draft, get the
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  Speaker 1: therapy dog out the whole thing, Get a nice warm
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  Speaker 1: blankeye and a glass of milk, and you load management.
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  Speaker 1: You got to get that trained early on all about
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  Speaker 1: the load management. But it's even more of that. It's
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  Speaker 1: like fear disguised as some kind of science and that
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  Speaker 1: old phrase. We learned that in twenty twenty during the pandemic.
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  Speaker 1: You can get away with almost anything. If you say
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  Speaker 1: out of an abundance of caution, you can convince people
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  Speaker 1: to do almost anything, and they'll do it and people
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  Speaker 1: can't question it, and you just have to go with
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: it and you just can't question it. So this is
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: where we are with the NBA and Cooper Flag. It's
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  Speaker 1: a out of an abundance of caution, please, So another
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  Speaker 1: opportunity could have developed, didn't develop, and now they're treating
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Flag like he's in a museum somewhere and you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to, you know, get too violent and have
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  Speaker 1: activity on the court and all that stuff. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: just make sure some no dust gets on him.
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  Speaker 6: Forty nine Ers fullback Kyle Yuschek told the media over
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  Speaker 6: the weekend that Christian McCaffrey looks quote incredible, and that
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  Speaker 6: he will change everything.
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  Speaker 4: For the forty nine ers everything.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Ben, does a healthy McCaffrey drastically change the outlook
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  Speaker 6: for the Niners?
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  Speaker 4: No, because it's July. I don't doubt that he's healthy
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  Speaker 4: in July.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't he just announce the other a kid or he
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  Speaker 1: had a kid, Christian McCaffrey, So listen, looking healthy in
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  Speaker 1: July is one thing. McCaffrey was always hurt with Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons they got rid of him.
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  Speaker 1: He had a stretch of health through the Niners. The
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: real Christian McCaffrey is the guy gets hurt all the time.
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  Speaker 1: So it doesn't change the outlook for the Niners because
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  Speaker 1: he's not going to be healthy by the time we
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  Speaker 1: get to reach seven or week eight next.
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  Speaker 6: So the Los Angeles Angels had the number two pick
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  Speaker 6: in the Umber.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes they had.
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  Speaker 6: They had the top top rated pitching prospect there on
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  Speaker 6: the board, but they did not take him. Yes, and
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  Speaker 6: said they took Tyler Brenner. Bremner who U nobody had
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  Speaker 6: him ranked even in the top ten. Yeah, Ben, is
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  Speaker 6: this a Is this a.
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  Speaker 4: GM move or an ownership move. Who's the blame for this?
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  Speaker 1: Well, the other argument, Coop, is this kid Holidays that
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  Speaker 1: was a top player in the draft.
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  Speaker 4: The Angels could have drafted him.
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  Speaker 1: They could have gotten the number one guy at number two. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's signability. It's nobody knows anything about the baseball
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  Speaker 1: draft anyway, nobody knows anything about the NFL or the
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  Speaker 1: basketball draft.
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  Speaker 4: So it's signed.
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  Speaker 1: But it is odd though, when you take somebody that's
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  Speaker 1: not even projected to be a top ten pick at
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: the number two pick. Something's gone terribly wrong there for
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  Speaker 1: the Angels. But I think it's a signability thing. They
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  Speaker 1: knew they could sign this guy from Santa Barbara, so
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: or he's pitching at Santa Barbara next.
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  Speaker 6: Former All Pro defensive tackle Domakon Sue announced his retirement
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  Speaker 6: on Saturday. He has had an impressive career since being
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: drafted out of Nebraska. Is it enough to get him
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  Speaker 6: into the Hall?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 4: Because he blocked on Twitter.
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  Speaker 1: Remember when he was about to sign with the Rams
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  Speaker 1: and a listener contacted us and told him told us
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  Speaker 1: he was at a hotel and he panicked and domoicon
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  Speaker 1: Sue and blocked me.
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  Speaker 4: On social media.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's got a Hall of Fame resume, but because
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  Speaker 1: he blocked me, no.
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  Speaker 4: Hall of fame for you? How did we do? He passed, said,
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  Speaker 4: that's it went by my bar.
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  Speaker 1: So I was gonna do something else, but we've had
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  Speaker 1: so many angry old dudes calling up the show here complaining.
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  Speaker 1: So let's help out. Jerome and Charleston and Mark the
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  Speaker 1: full name guy help them chill out. Any advice to
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  Speaker 1: Jerome in Charleston, bring it home, Jerome and the aforementioned
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  Speaker 1: Mark the full name guy who just called up helping
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  Speaker 1: them chill out?
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  Speaker 4: Understand? All right, let's go to the phones right.
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  Speaker 1: Jerome and Charleston, Mark the full name guy.
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  Speaker 4: To chill out in morning time? Look at you. Look
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  Speaker 4: at the mystics.
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  Speaker 2: They won three in a row.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's like Danny DeVito. There is another WNBA guy.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, I'll call you're on the air.
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  Speaker 1: Caller, your advice to Jerome and Charleston and Mark the
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  Speaker 1: We're doing the instant advice line for Jerome and Charleston,
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  Speaker 1: Mark the full name guy helping them chill out.
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  Speaker 1: Last one last call for Jerome and Charleston. Mark, the
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  Speaker 4: the morning right there. But he got saved by the bell,
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