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  Speaker 1: We're back at it again here as we burn the
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  Speaker 1: midnight oil and then some fighting tooth and nail the
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  Speaker 1: never ending battle in the audio sweatshop of talk. Right
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  Speaker 1: here is we try to reach the Promised Land. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what that is doing overnight radio, but our
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  Speaker 1: lead this hour is from the NBA. As the boys,
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  Speaker 1: they played so many games the first half of the
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  Speaker 1: NBA season, they never took a day off, so they
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  Speaker 1: need that long All Star break. And I always look
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  Speaker 1: forward to this part of the calendar because the NBA
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  Speaker 1: believe they were zoom activities later on Thursday. And I
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  Speaker 1: will predict right now, and I'm never wrong, never wrong
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  Speaker 1: about this. As a distant relative of Noster Damas and
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  Speaker 1: friend of Noster Dinas. Although we were enemies during the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl, I think we're back being friends now that
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  Speaker 1: I will guarantee you there will be multiple players when
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  Speaker 1: the NBA comes back that rest for load management after
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  Speaker 1: just having this long All Star break. I love that, man?
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  Speaker 1: Do I love that? Well? The AMBA doesn't even need games.
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  Speaker 1: They don't The games get in the way of the stories.
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  Speaker 1: And for us, it's all about the stories. And I
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  Speaker 1: think you'd agree. And what a great one this is.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead is from pro Bouncy Baldy plus a
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  Speaker 1: La No. Kevin Durant, a Hall of Fame player, has
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  Speaker 1: been caught up in a social media brew ha ha,
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  Speaker 1: which is just such the perfect story for the zeitgeist
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  Speaker 1: that we're in these days. So Durant was at about
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  Speaker 1: the happy Bara in the room. If you have not
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  Speaker 1: been paying attention, well, Durant was outed over the All
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  Speaker 1: Star Break in LA as being a burn guy. We
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  Speaker 1: know that he has had burner accounts, He's been open
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  Speaker 1: about it. Well, some Internet sleuth found out Durant's burner
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  Speaker 1: account and it was not the greatest, trashing people he
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  Speaker 1: works with and he was bearing certain people and it
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  Speaker 1: didn't play well in Peoria. It did not, so the
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  Speaker 1: Rockets got back to work. They were practicing on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Durant was asked about the copy bar in the room
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  Speaker 1: if he didn't hear what he had to say. We
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  Speaker 1: got the audio. Let's go to the audio tape. Take
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  Speaker 1: a listen. I know you got to ask these questions,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not here to getting a twitter nonsense. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: here to focus on the season, keep a pushing on.
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  Speaker 1: But I know I get you to answer those questions.
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  Speaker 3: Is we've been locked down? The host enjoyed R.
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  Speaker 1: Brydon had a great practice today looking forward at the
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  Speaker 1: road trip. Oh it's so good. All right, So if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't pay attention to Durant, who almost never goes
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  Speaker 1: by the book, He's never by the book. Guy, like
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  Speaker 1: by the book guy? Is you know, I know you
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  Speaker 1: have to ask these questions, but but you know, I'll
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  Speaker 1: keep keep it on the season, you know, and we're
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  Speaker 1: locked in. You know those are cliches, those are sports cliches.
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  Speaker 1: So so great that last part, the generic response that
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  Speaker 1: we're locked in the whole season and all that, that
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  Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point for us. So let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question, how do you categorize The Rockets
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  Speaker 1: star Kevin Durant and his response when outed for having
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  Speaker 1: a burner account. Do we have to say allegations at
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  Speaker 1: this point? I guess I don't know. We canna get
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  Speaker 1: sued for that, do we? I guess we'll say it no,
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  Speaker 1: only get sued. So how do you categorize Kevin Durant
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  Speaker 1: of the Rockets and what you just are there? His
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  Speaker 1: response to the burner account allegations. I've got FBI World
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  Speaker 1: Tour and Tug of War and we will combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together, and we are going to crush grapes,
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  Speaker 1: is what we're going to do. And speaking of grapes,
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  Speaker 1: are there sour grapes on this story? So my first
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  Speaker 1: thought here a Kevin Durant not just the slim Reaper
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  Speaker 1: which he hates, he's the digital ghost. What is the
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  Speaker 1: difference between Kevin Durant and you know, Ferg Dog or
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  Speaker 1: Alf the Alien of Pineer or the late night drug tester.
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  Speaker 1: These are all guys that have Burner accounts? Like, how
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  Speaker 1: do I know those guys aren't NBA superstars? These are
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  Speaker 1: key members in the upper echelonne of the Mallard Militia.
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  Speaker 1: They're sworn foot soldiers in the Mallard militia. How do
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  Speaker 1: we know that those cats are not some of the
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  Speaker 1: big NBA guys, Kevin Durant, For all I know, maloprop
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  Speaker 1: guy's Kevin Durant. I don't know, neither do you. But
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  Speaker 1: I do love the fact that the rocket star here
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  Speaker 1: KD pulled the classic what it's not tool time, it's
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  Speaker 1: I call it the towel time maneuver, the towel towel
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  Speaker 1: time maneuver. He literally had a towel that he kept
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  Speaker 1: putting over his mouth, and it looked like a witness
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  Speaker 1: at a mob trial, mumbling, you know, twitter nonsense. He
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  Speaker 1: covered his mouth dead give what dead? FBI handbook online. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I've met. I've quoted this a lot over the years,
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  Speaker 1: way too much. They should pay me. I quoted so much.
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  Speaker 1: This is the classic mouth cover move. And according to
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  Speaker 1: that guideline the people that study body language, the body's
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  Speaker 1: natural instinct to stop a lie from escaping the lips
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  Speaker 1: is to cover the mouth. And KD keep in mind,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't deny that he had then account. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: plead the fifth He just again he called it for
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  Speaker 1: those of you in the back of the room, he
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  Speaker 1: called it Twitter nonsense. So that is a deflection smoother
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  Speaker 1: than his mid range game back in the day for
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  Speaker 1: KD so and caught red handed, red handed here, and
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  Speaker 1: this time he's trashing his own Rockets teammates Alfred Sengoun
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  Speaker 1: among those that were taking the heat from from Durant. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the smart money says, for every burner account that Internet
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  Speaker 1: sleuth guy finds, for every burner account the Internet investigator finds,
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  Speaker 1: we are going to have five more multiplying like rabbits
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  Speaker 1: in the shadows. I'm telling you he's a secret agent
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  Speaker 1: and he's got the Nike gearon and all that. Kevin Durant. Now, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: we speaking of Nike, we walk a tight rope. We
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  Speaker 1: go to Cleveland, where it is an open secret that
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  Speaker 1: King James would like to go back to his native land.
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  Speaker 1: Now there's no team in Akron. The closest team is
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  Speaker 1: in Cleveland, and Lebron would like to go back there
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  Speaker 1: and put the finishing touches and say goodbye to the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: And that's been out there. It's Lebron confidants have been
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  Speaker 1: spreading that information round. I wonder how upset the Lebron
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  Speaker 1: toadies are that follow Lebron from city to city. I
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  Speaker 1: had pretty good there. Yeah, we're in Cleveland, but they
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  Speaker 1: went to Miami, went back to Cleveland, and then out
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  Speaker 1: in LA. Now they're going to go back one more
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  Speaker 1: time to follow Lebron. Now the story, the latest on
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  Speaker 1: this is it's not that easy because if Lebron goes
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  Speaker 1: back to Cleveland, and in order to do it, he
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  Speaker 1: would have to play at a discount. MG O MG
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  Speaker 1: we've learned now the Cavaliers, based on their current fiscal situation,
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  Speaker 1: are only able to offer Lebron a minimum contract. Gad Zugary,
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  Speaker 1: Dad Zugari, you say so, question, would Lebron James take
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  Speaker 1: less to play one final season and then retire in Cleveland?
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  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna nod my head, yes, I'm gonna nod
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  Speaker 1: my head yes on this. Now, depending on who you believe,
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  Speaker 1: Lebron is worth anywhere from one billion to one point
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  Speaker 1: three billion, not that I think there's much of a
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  Speaker 1: difference between one billion and one point three billion. He's
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  Speaker 1: got enough money, based on a minutes long mall of investigation,
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  Speaker 1: to buy the state of Ohio times three, or, as
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  Speaker 1: our friend Dick and Dayton says, the sovereign nation of Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: He can buy it three times. He's gonna you think
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna haggle, Lebron's gonna haggle over a couple of bucks.
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  Speaker 1: He has said, I understand what he said, right. Lebron said,
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  Speaker 1: I ain't taking a dime less and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's a no go if I don't get what I
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  Speaker 1: want and all that. And he has said that. However,
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  Speaker 1: those are just words. They're just words, and I would
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  Speaker 1: advise not to be a prisoner of the moment. When
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  Speaker 1: push comes to shove. It's almost impossible to turn down
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  Speaker 1: the type of massage, a very timboo deep massage that
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  Speaker 1: Lebron would get. We're talking about the stroking of an
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  Speaker 1: oversized ego for the ages. You think we've seen the
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  Speaker 1: wildest retirement tours, and I've been in the last fifteen years.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen some legendary players retire and have their ass
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  Speaker 1: kissed all over the place. Well, Lebron would be a
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  Speaker 1: much sugarna to not take advantage of that. We know
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  Speaker 1: the man is the king of the ego, King James
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  Speaker 1: Ego and Cleveland. They'll futz around, they'll do some Enron
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  Speaker 1: level accounting, they'll dig up some extra cash, they'll they'll
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  Speaker 1: sell some property if they have to. But think about
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  Speaker 1: one more season for all the marbles, Lebron's retirement season
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  Speaker 1: in Cleveland, and it would be a toe licking world tour.
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  Speaker 1: You think that Taylor Swift tour was impressive, how about
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  Speaker 1: a toe licking Lebron world tour for the Ages to
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  Speaker 1: the Moon, a victory lap, squaring the circle. Lebron would
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  Speaker 1: square the circle and he would put the calves obviously
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  Speaker 1: in a different bracket next year, with Spider Mitchell side
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  Speaker 1: by side. And it's not about the back. He's already
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  Speaker 1: got the back the bag to bag the bag. It's
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  Speaker 1: not even about the box office, although it is about
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  Speaker 1: the movie box office, because I would think Lebron is
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  Speaker 1: going to make a movie that he'll probably promote and
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  Speaker 1: pay for himself about Lebron, because nobody loves Lebron more
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  Speaker 1: than Lebron, and it'll be that career arc of Lebron
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  Speaker 1: James and all that. And you need that final scene.
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  Speaker 1: You need that final scene in the movie before you
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  Speaker 1: fade the black and you start rolling the credits. And
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  Speaker 1: so Lebron goes back to Cleveland. They win the championship,
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  Speaker 1: and there you go. Let's get all the accolades and
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  Speaker 1: bye bye, bye bye until he buys a team in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. Now, last word, we head now from Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: to Milwaukee. If you thought the Yannis trade chatter was
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  Speaker 1: over because the trade deadline is done, you are wrong.
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  Speaker 1: You're wrong. No, no, no, it's still wrong. Grannis a
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  Speaker 1: dent to Coombo feeding the content kitty over the All
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  Speaker 1: Star break. He did a recent interview with a TV
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  Speaker 1: channel I've never heard of, where he again flirted with
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  Speaker 1: leaving the Bucks the silver Tongue Devil Janni Identic Cumbo,
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  Speaker 1: stating that he'd possibly have left already if it was
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  Speaker 1: up to him. He then said, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: I'll leave. It's not up to me. If it was
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  Speaker 1: up to me, Yannis said, maybe I already would have left. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he stated, in a year and a half, when I
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  Speaker 1: can become a free agent at thirty two, it will
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  Speaker 1: be up to me. Close quote. All right, there's the
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  Speaker 1: that's the quote. So let's parse the words. Question. Can
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  Speaker 1: you make sense? Can you make sense of where this
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  Speaker 1: Yannis Dentic Cumbo story is going? Well, I hope it's
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  Speaker 1: going towards a knuckle sandwich because this is a little much.
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  Speaker 1: This is a little much. Yeah, you've changed. Jannis is
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  Speaker 1: doing the diva dance with a side of cheese. Kurds
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  Speaker 1: is what he's doing here. He's gone from the aw
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  Speaker 1: shocks humble kid, just happy to be here, to a
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  Speaker 1: certified gold plated whiner right faster than a deer hitting
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  Speaker 1: the windshield on I forty three. He's playing the don't
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  Speaker 1: blame me game well at the same time balancing on
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  Speaker 1: a seesaw made out of broughtworst. That's what he's doing here.
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  Speaker 1: One minute, Giannis is waxing poetic about how his kids
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  Speaker 1: were born in the Cream City and his I believe
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  Speaker 1: his father's buried there and all this, and the next
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  Speaker 1: he's basically checking Zillow and seeing, I wonder what that
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  Speaker 1: condo on the eighty seventh floor in Miami would go for.
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  Speaker 1: The penthouse condo there, I wonder what that would go for.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the NBA's tug of war. When you're
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  Speaker 1: a star, there's never enough said, right, There's never enough said.
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  Speaker 1: And on one hand, giannisident to Coombo, wants loyalty, the
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  Speaker 1: loyalty of the dairy land Lifer wants that loyalty of
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  Speaker 1: sleazy cheese in that crowd, but the exit strategy he
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  Speaker 1: wants to have as well, of like the Hollywood star
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  Speaker 1: that he wants that as well. So it's it's emotional
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  Speaker 1: blackmail with Wisconsin accent, right, and oh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I want a ring.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the ultimate I want to win a ring.
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  Speaker 1: We already want to ring in Milwaukee. So you've already
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  Speaker 1: proven you can win in Milwaukee. If a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: other people get hurt, you can win in Milwaukee. And
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  Speaker 1: so he wants he wants another ring. He wants the loyalty,
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  Speaker 1: and he also wants to have the option of exiting
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  Speaker 1: on the off ramp. There. He wants the off ramp.
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  Speaker 1: our lead this hour is from baseball, and the World
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  Speaker 1: Baseball Classic is around the corner. The people that Major
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball hope you watch that they plan on piggybacking
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  Speaker 1: off the Olympics. The Winter Olympics is that will wind
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  Speaker 1: down soon and then the World Baseball Classic will start up.
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  Speaker 1: In the meantime. The only real stories that are coming
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  Speaker 1: out of spring training are people getting hurt and complaining
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  Speaker 1: about the other side. The players are complaining about the owners.
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  Speaker 1: The owners are complaining about the players, and you are
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  Speaker 1: in the middle. Now the latest we go to Cleveland.
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  Speaker 1: We'll start out there Cleveland spring training camp in the
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  Speaker 1: Cactus League, where the rhetoric is getting cranked up for
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  Speaker 1: baseball's civil war. And if you've not been following the
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  Speaker 1: latest development, so the Cleveland baseball team, which is named
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  Speaker 1: after a bridge that it changed their name, the Wolkester's
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  Speaker 1: demanded they changed their name, and so the Wolkester's won
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  Speaker 1: and the team's called the Guardians, named after a bridge anyway,
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  Speaker 1: that's what they're named after, the Guardian Bridge in Cleveland.
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  Speaker 1: So the GM, Mike Churnoff, I believe is the gentleman's name.
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  Speaker 1: And he explained this week the importance of scouting and
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  Speaker 1: development for the Cleveland baseball team given the financial constraints,
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  Speaker 1: a real hardship story here. He said that quote, we
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  Speaker 1: can't meaning as a small market team, we can't sign
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  Speaker 1: top tier free agents. It's just impossible with the economic
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  Speaker 1: landscape in baseball. Booooooo, the GM said, Now this comes
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  Speaker 1: days after the most powerful man in baseball. You know
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  Speaker 1: who the most powerful man in baseball is? No, it's
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  Speaker 1: not Rob Manford, No, no, no, Scott Boris. Scott Boris
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  Speaker 1: is the guy's name. So the agent, now, Scott Boris
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  Speaker 1: explained that every MLB team can afford one to two
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  Speaker 1: top level free agents. Said everyone. And that is a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. So let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: You've got the Guardian GM again, Mike Churnoff, I believe
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  Speaker 1: it's the gentleman's name who says it's just impossible. It
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  Speaker 1: is just impossible with the economic landscape to sign top
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  Speaker 1: free agents. Would you translate all of this these cryptic
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  Speaker 1: messages for the regular guy. So I've got my observations,
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  Speaker 1: jumpbo sized junior high school, and three stooges, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: combine these together. Will go and put them in order
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  Speaker 1: and play Connect three. And I have never loved lost
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  Speaker 1: Connect three. I don't lose Connect three. I'm not planning
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  Speaker 1: on losing Connect three right now. I'm certainly not gonna
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  Speaker 1: lose to you. That's not gonna happen. Now, let's see here,
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  Speaker 1: number wa I said, number one number all right. So
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  Speaker 1: the GM guy Mike churn off the Cleveland GM again,
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  Speaker 1: saying it's impossible. It's impossible to add a big name
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  Speaker 1: free agent. It's like they're trying to split the atom.
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  Speaker 1: It is, ah, my god, it's impossible. It's my god.
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  Speaker 1: And to that, I stretch, and I yawn. I stretch.
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  Speaker 1: I said, come on, well, you waiting for that Eureka
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  Speaker 1: moment playing the small market card from the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the deck, right, And this is jumbo sized propaganda. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to go up to you know, thirty thousand
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  Speaker 1: feet and look down you don't need a telescope to
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  Speaker 1: look up. It's jumbo sized propag and it's weaponized poverty,
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  Speaker 1: and they're lining it up. It's the battle for the hearts, minds,
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  Speaker 1: and souls of the consumers that people that care about baseball,
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  Speaker 1: and that would be you unless you don't really care
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  Speaker 1: about baseball, and then you don't matter, no hard feelings.
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  Speaker 1: So this is all pre lockout nonsense. It's a SOB
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  Speaker 1: story tour every sad sack team in baseball. It happens
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  Speaker 1: every labor negotiation, everyone, everyone, And I was there, I
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  Speaker 1: mean as a young young lad back in the day
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  Speaker 1: when they lost an entire postseason. There was no World
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  Speaker 1: Series in the nineties one year because of a workstoppage
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  Speaker 1: that happened and swallowed up the season. In the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the following season, they even had replacement players. It
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  Speaker 1: was a big mess back in the day. And this
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff, the war of words, happens now. The
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  Speaker 1: owner of the Cleveland baseball team, the Dolan family, Paul Dolan,
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  Speaker 1: is worth four or five billion, depending on where you look,
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  Speaker 1: and either way that's pretty good. Either way, that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: And so we're supposed to believe here that they just
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  Speaker 1: have no path to even adding one free agent in Cleveland.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: And it's all just more grumbling about the boogeyman, who
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: the Boogeyman, the big blue boogeymon, all the Dodgers, the
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: evil Dodgers, right, they're distorting everything. Oh my god, it's
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: so great. God is it great? You all hate the Dodgers.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: It's too hard, it's too doll my god. They're wicked.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers are wicked. And to that, I say, bravo.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: You have just outed yourself. You've stepped out of the closet.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: You're a loser, complete and total loser. You have no
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: fighting spirit, no fighting spirit, and you know, just sit
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: there like a scared turtle. Scared turtle. Right. So major
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: League Baseball right now is ratcheting up the rhetoric here.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: And what are we supposed to have a GoFundMe for
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the boys at the yacht club? Is that what we're
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: supposed to do here, the owners at the yacht club?
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Is that how we do this here? And so you
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: the fan, you buy the merch, you buy the tickets,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: and you hand them, you hand them your time. Most
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: valuable thing you have is your time and they give
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: you a flea ridden roster. So I believe it is
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: not impossible to add a free agent if you're a
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: team like Cleveland. It is just inconvenient. And rich dudes
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: hate being inconvenience. They can't stand it. So rather than
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: be inconvenience, they'll just convince dumb people that they need
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: to have a salar recap right. And these are the
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: same people who if their boss said, listen, we were
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: going to cut your salary, would you be okay with that?
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Would you just okay? Sure? Why not? No, you shouldn't
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: be now Page two, keeping the drum beat going of
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the Hour of Discontent here on the Ben Malor Show.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: So the question is this, do you have any advice?
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Do you have any advice for the robber barons of
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: baseball to win this labor dispute against the player? Now
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: we'll be talking about this for the next year and
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: a half. I don't want to spend all of my
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: bullets on this, but I'll spend some bullets on this
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: today because I think it's interesting considering all of the
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: stories that are bouncing around here, and the bar is
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: pretty low. The bar is pretty low. But do you
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: have any advice. Now, if you have paid attention in
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: previous episodes of this show, you know I am on
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: the side of no cap. I am a no capper,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: no capper. I believe in no cap. And while I
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: find many of these pompous, coddled, spoiled Braddy baseball players annoying,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I still support them. I still support them. Now, what
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: would it take for me to do a one eighty?
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: What would it take to do a one eighty and
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: go the other way? And and say I'm in that
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: purple area, I could go either way as a voter.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Where what would it take for me to go to
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the other side? So I'm glad you asked. I have
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: activated the Mather think tank. So this is what it
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: would take. My advice to the tycoons of baseball if
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: you want to win my vote. And I'm clearly on
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: the side of the players. All Right, you know this
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: big food fight we're going to have between the ownership
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: class and the union, this is a radical concept. And
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: I guarantee you if you can do this, I'm in
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I'm on your side. I will pull for the owners.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Stop hiding the books, right, You're hiding it like it's
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: the current old secret recipe, the eleven herbs and spices.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Stop if you truly believe that your sport is broken,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: and all these pathetic stories about poverty this and poverty
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: that for the billionaires, and if you really want a salarycap,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: that's fine. Let's go back to junior high junior high school.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Open book test, open book test. What does that mean?
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: That means you don't have to show me, but show
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: the players. Open the books up, show the profit and
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: loss statements, Itemize the revenue, itemize the expenses, the creative
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: accounting that you've been doing, and all that stuff. Let
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the players bring their own calculators, their own being counters.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: And if the sport of baseball is truly gasping for air,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: which you have all bitched about for fifty years or longer,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: just prove it. Just that's it. It should be easy.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Does anyone just why would that be a problem? Seriously,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: why would that be a problem. Don't give us the
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: George W. Bush line from back in the day, fuzzy
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: math and wrapped in a press release. Listen, even as
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I understand the hungry puppies, the pathetic loser franchises that
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: have been competent ownership like the Pirates and Tampa Bay
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: and the what are the Sacramento They want to be
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: called Sacramento and embarrassed by Sacramento. The Athletics somehow managed
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: to turn operating profits while crying right into their champagne crying.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: So the point is this is not a soup kitchen.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: It's a cartel of coupon code con men, is what
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: it is, pleading poverty from their luxury mansions and their
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: homes and the luxury boxes and all that. So if
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: you're broken, you truly are broken.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: This is it.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: It should be rather easy you have Why would you
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: not do it? Just let everyone see, let everyone see
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: how broken your business is. And as I have followed
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: this over the years, there has always been a conga
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: line of billionaires ready to grab the next available franchise,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: like it's the last lobster roll at a Hampton's clam bake.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: They just have to get their hands on it. And
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: so until you are willing to do that, I don't
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: care how many useful idiots you find in the media
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: and how many low information fans support you. Spare me
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: the violin music if that's where you are financially, and
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: maybe it is transparency. I want that. And then again,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: you're not going to you're not giving this out to
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the public. You're allowing the union to look at it,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: and they will look at everything, and they will look
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: at the numbers and all that. And if you're not
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: being a bunch of sleeves balls, Okay, I don't need
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the crocodile tears. I'm done. That's said. We do have
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: one more crocodile tier story here, the final part of
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: this Malard monologue. We pivot now of Minnesota. So I
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: read a story here claiming that the Minnesota Twins. That's
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: a baseball team, not a good one. Where have you gone,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Kirby Pucket?
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: My god?
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Anyway, the Twins are having major financial problems, revenue shortfalls.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: It's another tiny Violin story. So they highlighted in a
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: story that was conveniently leaked to one of the business publications.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: I wonder who linked it. I wonder who linked it? Anyway,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: the Twins baseball team claiming that while they did have
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: a cable TV deal, it was worth almost fifty five
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: million in twenty twenty three with what used to be
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: called the Bally's Sports Group in twenty twenty three and
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: because of some bankruptcy. That deal fell apart, and the
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Twins decided, you know what we're gonna do. We're going
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: to go direct to con direct to consumer. Baseball encouraged it.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: They said, you don't need cable television, just listen, do
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: it on your own. Okay, we'll start this little Fugsey
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Twins TV thing. Okay, we'll do that. Sure, no problem.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: So I bring this up because the owner, Tom Pollad,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: in a story that was in one of the business
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: publications this week, claimed that the Twins are projected to
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: have in a state with millions and millions of people,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: the Twins are projected to have. How many people purchase
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: a subscription for ninety nine dollars to watch a season
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: of morbid baseball from the Minnesota Twins. You want to
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: take a guess on that this is the Great Divide,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: by the way, we're going to cross the Great Divide.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: All right, so you got a number in your head,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Good job by you. The owner of the Twins claimed
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: that they are going to have this season, they're projected
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: to have fifty thousand. That's it. Fifty people pay ninety
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: nine dollars a game to watch a horrifically terrible baseball
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: team that works out to four point nine million dollars
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: in revenue. Of course, you have to factor in that
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: there's some production costs in that a net loss of
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: close to fifty million. Now they can sell some advertising,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: so they make some money back on that, but the
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: gap is rather large. The gap is rather large as
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: you bounce around the numbers. So the question what do
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: you make of the latest SOB story from baseball? The
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Twins claiming they have just fifty thousand subscribers and therefore
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: fifty thousand viewers for their TV broadcast in twenty twenty six,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: So this was again an sl A strategic leak. The Twinkies.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: They're claiming they went from fifty four point eight million
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: and that's the size of Lake Superior. And now they've
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: got a couple of nickels they tossed into the kiddie
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: pool instead of Lake Superior. That's that's where we are.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: So I know everyone in the luth is like, well, like,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Lake Superior is better than the kiddie pool. So let's
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: call this what it is. It's friendly fire. It's a
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: self inflicted wound. Major League Baseball. The hubris of Major
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: League Baseball. They poked themselves in the eye three Stooges
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: style and said, yea, yeah, direct to consumer, Direct to consumer,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: that's the future. That is a choice. That is a choice.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Going from a casino with house money to shaking a
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: coffee can at a red light. That's a choice.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: And here's the dirty little secret. Uh, the Twins aren't
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: even trying to win. And they're like an NBA team.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know what they're tanking for. They're not trying
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: to win, and so it's not musty TV. And I
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: had mentioned this in most markets, only a sliver of
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: cable consumers were actually even watching baseball or basketball on
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: a nightly basis, oh hockey. I had been told by
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: people I know that are very powerful in television that
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: the number was around five percent of people actually watching
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: on a given night like a Wednesday night baseball game
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: of the people that subscribed to cable. Now, based on
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: the numbers, I crunched the numbers because I have no
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: time on my hands or nothing but time, I should say.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: And if I don't know how accurate, I feel like
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the Twins are being dishonest with that number. Let's just
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: say they're actually on the up and up. That would
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: mean in the state of Minnesota, it's zero point eight
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: percent of the entire population, not from one hundred to
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: zero point eight. And then if you just do the
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: twin cities of the population in Minneapolis and Saint Paul,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: it would be one point three percent of just those
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: two areas lumped together, and that would be that. And
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: so this does smell a little massage, right, But when
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: you take away the cable television crutch and the teams,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: they do look a lot less like a Fortune five
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: hundred titan and more like they're lining up at the
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: soup kitchen of sports economics. And this is a whole
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: new world here, right, and everything set up, all of
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the contracts are set up based on the cable TV money,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: and so that's something they're going to have to figure out.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: But again, if this is really reality, then just open
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: up the books and I'm sure you can figure out
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: something with the players.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 32:36
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• 32:40
  Speaker 3: It's Mallard.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: To the third degree, this is one big event.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: Gets grilled Kobelo, Mike Evans has already had a Hall
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: of Fame career, but his agents made it clear on
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Tuesday that he will return to play in twenty twenty six. However,
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: they also noted that Evans will quote explore his option. Ben,
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: What do you think the chances are that Evans leaves
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: the Bucks?
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: It's not zero? Oh, I'm pretty sure. Unlike some other people,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: he already won a Super Bowl coof I know some
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: people think he didn't, but I believe he did win
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: a super Bowl, so he's not worried about that. I'd
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: say there's a less than twenty percent chance that he leaves,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: and there's an eighty percent chance that he stays in Tampa.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: He's comfortable there, he's a legend, and the team's still
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: pretty good, so I don't see why he would leave next.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: The Phillies have had a huge amount of success since
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: Dave Dombrowski took over the front office, but with how
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: bad the offseason has been, Summer saying that Dombrowski should
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: be on the hot seat heading into this season.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: Do you think he is.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Well, someone's gonna lose their job, whether it's Dombrowski or
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: the manager or both. If the Phillies end up in
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: third place in the division, behind the Mets and the
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves. All the Braves have some major pitching issues.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: He is in danger. He is in danger. I like him,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: but he's in danger.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: Next quickly so normally when asked another than that's you
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: should retire or not, you say keep going, keep making money.
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: Targert Wood hinted that he will be making a return
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: to the Masters possibly. Do you think he should retire?
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: No, if he wants to keep playing, you know it's
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: gonna be painful. He won't make the cut. But if
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: he wants to keep playing, you know, gives us something
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: to talk about. I'm fine with it.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: How'd we do?
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Coop? You pass this edition? That is any way? Play
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• 34:37
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• 34:42
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• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Then no way we goes. We pinned back our ears
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: and head into unscharted waters. Or ask Ben. Your questions
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: are answers for the rest of the hour. Very excit
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: and now for the reading of the questions the Harbinger
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: of Doom the Cupoloo.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: All right, we're gonna start off with a difficult one here.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: This one is from Donkey Sausage.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Hi, Donkey.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: He wants to know if you had to delete all
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: but three apps from your smartphone, which ones would you keep?
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: You know, I don't think he's that hard. I don't.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: I would use the I use X. You know, I'm
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: on there futzing around. There's a thing I use to
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: track my fasting.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: I use that a lot.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: And then the weather app. That's all I need. I
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: don't need anything else. I'm good. Lorena, maps, YouTube and Instagram.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the maps thing would be a problem.
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: I need maps.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maps, that's a good one.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I didn't think about it. I don't need the weather.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: I'll use the maps thing. I'll use the maps thing. Okay,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: we're good. I don't anything else.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: All right, Well, so i'd use I'd have X, I
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: have my i'd have my club GG poker, and I
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: guess maps. I guess I was I was gonna I
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: was going to say the Taco Bell app, but I
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: guess maps is a little more important.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Have you been to the Taco Bell headquarters group?
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: I have driven past it many times.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they have in the parking lot there. They have
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: an originally original Taco bell that's right.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they like brought it on a big trailer over there. Right.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: I'm surprised they haven't brought you in. They bring influencers
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: in to test new Taco Bell products. They should. I would,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: I would love to go to the Taco Bell kitchen
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: and yeah, you.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Should let them know. I bet you they'd let you
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: do it. Why not? Yeah you should contact Yeah, well,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: I think all three of us should go. Loraine, you
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: want to go test some new taco I love Taco bells.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: I would do that all day.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: Can we do a remote from the talk about headquarters?
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: I would love that. He signed me up for that
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: right now, man, I'll bring that remote box thing and
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: then we'll go out there. Boom done. All right, all right,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: run for the border, Come on here we go, all right?
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: The King Rory would like to know. Hi, Rory.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: I don't know if I feel like maybe we've passed
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: this before, but maybe not. Who is your favorite Simpsons character, Holmer,
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: Come on, it's.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Holm's king of the Simpsons arena. It's got to be
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Bart for me.
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: I really like Bart.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, I gotta go with I gotta go
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: with Bart.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Homer guy, Krusty the clown guy.
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: Oh, Krusty is really good too.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Rusty's great.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: Next all right, God, it's a lot of questions from
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: these two guys. Uh oh, come on, we the people
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: off the alien opiner?
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: Hi elf.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: When traveling in a car with others, are you the driver?
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: Are you okay being a passenger?
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I would prefer driving. I love my wife, I
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: don't love her. I didn't marry her for her driving ability.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: So I prefer to drive, although I get very tired
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: sometimes because of the hours we work, so I I
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: occasionally have to be the passenger and I feel like
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: I'm going to die. Larina.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: I love being a passenger, Princess.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: But I also.
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: I'm one of those people like can you not drive
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: like that? Like do you have to drive that aggressive?
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: And so I might as well just do it myself.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Cool.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: That sounds like my wife, but yeah, yeah, yeah, that's
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: all when if it's if it's my car, I have
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: to be driving, and I don't like people driving my car.
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: But otherwise I don't mind being a passenger, like you know,
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: I can. I can chill and you know, not pay
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: attention and recline my seat.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Plan on your phone? All right?
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: Next Late night's been late night drug test or another
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: another car question? Late night drug tester wants to know
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: if your current vehicle gets dented, do you get it
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: fixed or pocket the insurance money?
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: It depends how bad you know. If it's a little
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: bit of a dent, I don't really care, but if
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: it's if it's completely affed up, then obviously you get
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: it fixed. Actually, I get somebody had just dinged my
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: car the other day and didn't leave a note or
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: anything like that. What a schmuck. So I haven't gotten
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: that fixed yet. What about you, Marina?
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well my old car, I remember there was something
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: minor that happened, and so I didn't I didn't do
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: the insurance. I didn't get it fixed, but I filed
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: the insurance claim. But would my new car know if
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: something happened, I'm getting it fixed.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it depends how much you deductible? Is What about you? Cooper?
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm getting it fixed.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's your baby. Yes, you worship that car.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: The worst car I've seen is Jonas Knox car. That
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: is by far the worst. Jonas, that's pretty bad.