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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: We go to the city at broly Lof they played
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  Speaker 1: the ninety sixth edition of the Midsummer Classic. Now, for
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  Speaker 1: many years they played two All Star Games a year.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine if they tried to play two All
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  Speaker 1: Star games?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 4: These players bitch and complain so much. Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: Back then, players thought, well, this is a great opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to promote the game of baseball. Now it's really fascinating
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  Speaker 1: to see how this has all played out. Anyway, the
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  Speaker 1: Midsummer Classic took place on Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 4: It was on Foxes. Did you watch? Perhaps not? Well,
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  Speaker 4: we watched so you would not have to.
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  Speaker 1: The American League All Stars soundly defeated the National League
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  Speaker 1: All Stars for nothing. Now, if you were looking for drama,
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  Speaker 1: if you were looking for excitement, heroics, you got that
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  Speaker 1: in the home run derby. You did not get that
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  Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty six MLB All Star Game, as
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  Speaker 1: the AL picks.
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  Speaker 4: Up the win.
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  Speaker 1: Now they have dominated over the years, they had not
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  Speaker 1: won since way back in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 4: I can't believe. I barely remember that. I was a
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  Speaker 4: little child back in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: So it was all about the pitching was good, pitching
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  Speaker 1: bad hitting, Toronto's Dylan Cease setting the tone. The lidlifters
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  Speaker 1: strike out one, two, three, there you go, strike out three,
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  Speaker 1: scoreless first inning, and the Al staff took the baton
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  Speaker 1: and completed the shutout, the National League All Stars getting
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  Speaker 1: Bupkus Squad Douche and the the pitching staff for the
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  Speaker 1: American League, combining for an All Star Game record fifteen
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  Speaker 1: strikeouts and allowing just three hits. Holy Bob Gibson batman now.
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  Speaker 1: The only additional scoring came in the eighth inning, when
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  Speaker 1: someone named Miguel Vargas were told he plays for the
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  Speaker 1: White Sox, crushed a four hundred and thirty three foot
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  Speaker 1: home run a moonshot to extend the Al to the
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  Speaker 1: final score, which was four to nothing. So that is
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping on point. Let us discuss the question
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  Speaker 1: for the esteem panel, and here it is, give me
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  Speaker 1: the thumbnail recap.
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  Speaker 4: What stood out?
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  Speaker 1: What are you gonna remember about the twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: MLB All Star Game in Philly. So I've got Princess Cruises,
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  Speaker 1: bud Light, and Hallmark Card.
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  Speaker 4: And we'll put all of these things together.
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  Speaker 1: And we are going to do the Hogy Pogy. I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know what that is. It just sounds like
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  Speaker 1: a rhyme. So the Hogy pogy. All right, Now a
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  Speaker 1: the All Star Game, which my favorite parts of the
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  Speaker 1: All Star Game are the mascot photo and that's done prior.
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  Speaker 4: To the game.
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  Speaker 1: And then I also enjoy the introductions when the players
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  Speaker 1: come out and they're wearing their uniforms, and it's nice
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  Speaker 1: that Baseball decided to actually go back to that as
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  Speaker 1: they had gotten away with it. They were playing soft
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  Speaker 1: they were wearing rather softball uniforms for a good amount
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  Speaker 1: of time, and they've gone back to the traditional uniforms
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  Speaker 1: in the All Star Game. As far as the game itself,
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  Speaker 1: this All Star Game, it was the National League All
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  Speaker 1: Stars provided a syllabus on how to provide a disaster class.
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  Speaker 1: This was a fest. It was a snooze fest. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to sugarcoat it. We're on a daytime show,
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  Speaker 1: we're on overnight. We can tell the truth. It sucked,
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  Speaker 1: all right. This was not just a loss for the
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  Speaker 1: National League. It was a total Philly flop. You know
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  Speaker 1: how that Philly Special in the Super Bowl against the Patriots, Well,
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  Speaker 1: this was the Philly flop. It began with starter Christopher Sanchez,
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  Speaker 1: who ran into some early command issues, shall we say,
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  Speaker 1: And by the time the first thing was over, he
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  Speaker 1: had gotten tattooed so badly. How badly it was so
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  Speaker 1: badly that the mound should have come with a yellow
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  Speaker 1: and black parental advisory sticker they could have put right.
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  Speaker 4: There on the man.
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  Speaker 1: The American League effectively decided the game in the top
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  Speaker 1: of the first inning. They hung a three spot crooked
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  Speaker 1: number up courtesy of Ben Rice, who sucked in the
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  Speaker 1: home run derby a Ribby signal here, and then a
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  Speaker 1: two run knock by former Dodger and current Yankee Cody Bellinger,
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  Speaker 1: and that was it, and he rode that.
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  Speaker 4: That opening swing.
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  Speaker 1: Bellinger was the All Star Game MVP, rather lackluster MVP. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the reason he was the MVP is they could not
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  Speaker 1: slice up the trophy to give every single pitcher for
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  Speaker 1: the American League a piece of the trophy, and then
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  Speaker 1: they had to figure out the math on that had
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  Speaker 1: does everyone get the MVP bonus? So they just said, well,
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  Speaker 1: give it to Bellinger. That's it now. As for the
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  Speaker 1: other thing that I jotted down regarding the game itself
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  Speaker 1: on the notes app that I have the Philadelphia delegation
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  Speaker 1: led by Christopher Sanchez. If this was a political rally,
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  Speaker 1: that was a total crash course on failure.
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  Speaker 4: So Sanchez got lit up.
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber got beat the other night in the home
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  Speaker 1: run derby at the Buzzer by Jordan Walker, the Redbird,
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  Speaker 1: so that began the thing. He had Schwarber, Bryce Harper,
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  Speaker 1: and Brandon marsh who got five at bats went zero
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  Speaker 1: for five with four strikeouts. I didn't play in the
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  Speaker 1: All Star Game. I'm told that's not good. It was
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  Speaker 1: an emasculating performance. These hometown heroes went full princess cruises.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted to escape completely and enjoy the freedom of
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  Speaker 1: a nice relaxing cruise. Unfortunately, they were playing baseball and
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  Speaker 1: that was a blueprint for failure. Is this a preview
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  Speaker 1: of coming attractions for the Philadelphia Phillies if they were
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  Speaker 1: to make.
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  Speaker 4: The playoffs down the line? Is this what we're going
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  Speaker 4: to get.
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  Speaker 1: From Schwarber and Harper and Sanchez in the postseason? Stay tuned.
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  Speaker 1: It was amusing yet again, as most of the people
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  Speaker 1: who were on camera in the crowd were decked out
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  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia Philly paraphernalia. And they didn't seem too police,
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  Speaker 1: They did not seem too polease.
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  Speaker 4: Now, page two.
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  Speaker 1: The broadcast for the All Star Game was not received
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  Speaker 1: very well. It was heavily criticized. Now, Major League Baseball
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  Speaker 1: made it a point of emphasis in this all stof
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  Speaker 1: you didn't.
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  Speaker 4: See it or hear about it.
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  Speaker 1: I know ostro Jant was watching every pitch, but for
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  Speaker 1: those of you that weren't, they made a point of
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  Speaker 1: emphasis of having what I believe is a new record
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  Speaker 1: for bits. As my program director years ago would say, stick,
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  Speaker 1: stick a lot a lot of bits, the bits kibbles
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  Speaker 1: and bits kibbles and bits during the game there as
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  Speaker 1: the theory was they were trying to showcase the personality
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  Speaker 1: of the stars of baseball with endless in game interviews,
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  Speaker 1: skits and other stuff. It was literally everywhere during the broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: So the question give me your thoughts on the mic
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  Speaker 1: up players and all the other stuff. The twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six All Star Game added features the add.
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  Speaker 4: Ons to the All Star Games.
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  Speaker 1: So this came. People are gonna blame Fox and TV
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  Speaker 1: and all that. I promised you. I know a little
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  Speaker 1: bit how they make the sausage. This came from two
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  Speaker 1: forty five Park Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan. Two forty five Park Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan.
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  Speaker 1: Those little weasels, Yeah, little weasels in my head, and
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  Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna date myself. But there used to
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  Speaker 1: be these great commercials from bud Light back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought of that commercial thing when I was
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  Speaker 1: watching the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 4: Back in the day, they had these.
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  Speaker 1: Real men of genius, and it would be like if
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  Speaker 1: we would make a commercial be like today, we salute you,
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  Speaker 1: mister Marketer turned the All Stars into twitch streamer Guy morphing,
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  Speaker 1: the game into the unholy love child of a Saturday
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  Speaker 1: night live episode on a corporate Ted Talk. One Star
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  Speaker 1: simply played baseball. But you asked, what if we turned
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  Speaker 1: them into YouTube influencers?
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  Speaker 4: While they were playing baseball.
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  Speaker 1: You gave us non stop sketches and forced fun like
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  Speaker 1: Toronto's Dylan Cease and as catcher Shay Langeliers looking miserable
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  Speaker 1: as they were miked up while going against Juan Soto.
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  Speaker 1: He got so bad that Ceas actually quizzed John Smoltz,
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  Speaker 1: the broadcaster for Advice mid count, who could forget Kyle
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  Speaker 1: Schwarber's earpiece falling out three times while he was trying
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  Speaker 1: to hit him the All Star Game. Or Bryce Harper
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  Speaker 1: looking visibly disgusted during the direct interview while he was
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  Speaker 1: trying to hit. And then you had for some of
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  Speaker 1: this very odd roundtable where you had Justin Verlander, Cam
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  Speaker 1: Schlitzler and the Miz. It looked like they were doing
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  Speaker 1: a zoom call during the pandemic while the game was
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  Speaker 1: going on. And now the Miz and Schlitler didn't seem
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  Speaker 1: to please. Verlander was seemingly angling for some kind of
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  Speaker 1: broadcasting job.
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  Speaker 4: He seemed like he was kind of into it.
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  Speaker 1: So crack open a cold bud light, all great Sultan
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  Speaker 1: of simultaneous content, and you traditionalists out there, you just
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  Speaker 1: wanted to clean game, just wanted to watch the game.
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  Speaker 1: But you knew that Major League Baseball marketing knows today's
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  Speaker 1: audiences that aren't even watching the All Star Game, they
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  Speaker 1: crave live stream reaction videos, and that is exactly.
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  Speaker 4: What they got, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, last word, So, the very end of the broadcast
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  Speaker 1: with the announcers, I noticed something and I want to
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  Speaker 1: run this by you because my head, this is something
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you.
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  Speaker 4: Agree with me or not. So John Smoltz, the Fox.
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  Speaker 1: Commentator, at the very end of the game, he thanked
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  Speaker 1: all the All Stars who bothered to show up.
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  Speaker 4: To the game, all right, and.
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  Speaker 1: Those that participated in their little shtick on the broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: So the question did John Smoltz have alternative motives with
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  Speaker 1: the end of All Star message? So it sounded to
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  Speaker 1: me the tone was what we'd like to call a
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  Speaker 1: dead John Smoltz was not just dropping a little polite hint.
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  Speaker 1: He was throwing a wicked curveball like he was back
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  Speaker 1: with the Atlanta Braves years ago and had some serious attitude.
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  Speaker 1: It was a masterpiece of passive aggressive snark. That's what
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  Speaker 1: it sounded like. I could drive by wrap than a
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark card and to an old school guy skipping the
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  Speaker 1: Midsummer Classic, which is a great honor, is total sacrilege,
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  Speaker 1: And so.
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  Speaker 4: It sounded just the tone. You know, It's like when.
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  Speaker 1: He aggressively praised the guys who actually had the decency,
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  Speaker 1: the common courtesy to show up and take part in
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  Speaker 1: the dumb bits they were doing. The subtext was deafening.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed like he was firing heavy artillery, throwing mortars
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  Speaker 1: directly at the two biggest stars in baseball who I
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  Speaker 1: don't think were there, Aaron Judge and sho Hey Otani,
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  Speaker 1: and those guys got and the others. There were others
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  Speaker 1: that were not part of this game and treated it
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  Speaker 1: like it was a root canal, and Smoltz I got
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  Speaker 1: the vibe. And again I'm using some psychobabble here that
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  Speaker 1: Smolt's real message was dripping an acid. It's like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: congratulations to the players who didn't treat this showcase like
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  Speaker 1: a painful dentist appointment. And again that's how it sounded
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  Speaker 1: on my TV. We also had the near miss Heard
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  Speaker 1: round the world. The near miss heard around the world, Well,
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  Speaker 1: what is that?
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  Speaker 4: That would be.
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  Speaker 1: Junior Camonero, the Tampa Bay Rays third baseman who was
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  Speaker 1: knocked out of the All Star Game and the incident happened.
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  Speaker 1: It was in the third inning.
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  Speaker 4: He got hit by a pitch and he immediately ran off.
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  Speaker 1: The field and went in for x rays. Got hit
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  Speaker 1: on the hand, and the x rays were negative. He's
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  Speaker 1: I think fourth in baseball, got twenty eight dingers this year.
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  Speaker 1: And it is baseball, though, so even if you don't
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  Speaker 1: have a broken bone, it is possible as a baseball player,
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  Speaker 1: Junior Camonaro could be out for a while. Baseball players
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  Speaker 1: generally do not have toughness. They generally speaking, are down
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  Speaker 1: for the count quite often when things like this happen.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see if he's out for any period of time,
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  Speaker 1: but at least not broken. So it would appear that
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  Speaker 1: if Junior Camonaro is out for a bit, so be it.
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  Speaker 1: I did get into a little text thing with some
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  Speaker 1: friends of mine in the in the media world. We
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  Speaker 1: were all going.
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  Speaker 4: Back and forth. Well, we did the what if or
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  Speaker 4: I guess what about is what if?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 4: That's that whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: What about if Otani was playing and he got hit?
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  Speaker 4: Would this be the end of the All Star Game?
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  Speaker 4: Would they get rid of it? And we were we
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  Speaker 4: were in agreement, We were.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of in agreement that yeah, there would be if
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  Speaker 1: Otani or Judge got hurt in the All Star Game,
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  Speaker 1: got hit by a pitch, they'd make it like the
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  Speaker 1: NFL and just have tic tac toe and and volleyball
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  Speaker 1: and the other bull crap they do in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: and get rid of the All Star Game. Junior Camanaro, though,
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  Speaker 1: even though he's a good player, not a big enough
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  Speaker 1: star for that devan, it turns out he's okay. It
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  Speaker 1: turns out he's okay.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from the boardroom, and
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  Speaker 1: that is where MLB Commissioner Rob Manford held court and
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  Speaker 1: renewed his push.
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  Speaker 5: For the cap, the cap, the cap, the cap, the cap,
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  Speaker 5: the salary cap, arguing that the payroll gap it has
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  Speaker 5: become impossible to ignore as the CBA Negotia Shans continues.
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  Speaker 1: So if you didn't see this in the lead up
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  Speaker 1: to the All Star Game, perhaps you missed it. Manford
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  Speaker 1: highlighted what he clanned was a four hundred and forty
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  Speaker 1: one million dollar bay roll gap between the high spending,
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  Speaker 1: high falutant Dodges and the lowest spender, the Miami Mars. Now,
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  Speaker 1: technically the Mets have the highest payroll in baseball. The
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers have the highest payroll if you include all the deferred.
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  Speaker 4: Money, which whether they will be paying for.
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  Speaker 1: Years and years and years and years and years and
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  Speaker 1: years and years and years and years and years. Manford
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  Speaker 1: said it defies human experience to ask a fan to
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  Speaker 1: think that the bottom end of that gap has the
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  Speaker 1: same opportunity to win as the top end.
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  Speaker 4: Close quote.
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  Speaker 1: How he also said major League Baseball owners are unusually
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  Speaker 1: unified on the issue. Declaring quote, Manford said, I have
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  Speaker 1: an ownership group that is morenited than any group in
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  Speaker 1: my entire time in baseball. So that is a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question, how do
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  Speaker 1: you categorize Rob Manford campaigning for an MLB salary cap
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  Speaker 1: as the commission. I've got farmers market, theater district, and
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  Speaker 1: billiards and we will combine all of these things together
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  Speaker 1: and remind you this is not going to pass the
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  Speaker 1: smell test.
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  Speaker 4: It's not.
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  Speaker 1: My first thought is the quote by Manford is a
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  Speaker 1: double whammy. Double whammy for baseball for the owners because
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  Speaker 1: Manford is telling fans of teams in small markets that
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  Speaker 1: they really She's implying you shouldn't support the team because
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  Speaker 1: it defies human possibility that a team that's at the
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  Speaker 1: bottom end can possibly end up winning. So why would
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  Speaker 1: you support a losing team. The other thing that he's
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  Speaker 1: doing is he is it's a shot at his own business,
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  Speaker 1: which he has run for all these years that he
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  Speaker 1: has not been able to get these tightwad teams to
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  Speaker 1: spend more money. The problem is not the Dodgers, the
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  Speaker 1: problems the Marlins and the Athletics and the Rays and
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  Speaker 1: teams like that. That's the problem, and he doesn't want
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  Speaker 1: to address that. And it's not about saving baseball, all right,
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  Speaker 1: it's not about saving baseball, as we say, it's about
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  Speaker 1: saving billionaire owners from themselves.
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  Speaker 4: And of course Rob Manford.
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  Speaker 1: Who is hired as a conduit from the ownership group,
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  Speaker 1: is going to say that they're completely united. Did you
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  Speaker 1: expect anything else? Are you that big a simpleton? Do
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  Speaker 1: you expect Mamford to come out?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we got like half the owners. They don't give
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  Speaker 1: a crap. They don't They don't want to sell a cap. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: come on, voting to pay less in peril. Just think
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  Speaker 1: about this logic. And it's possible you've never owned a
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  Speaker 1: business and you've always worked for someone.
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  Speaker 4: And you've never done anything on your own. You've always
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  Speaker 4: had a boss.
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  Speaker 1: But just think of this logically, if you're the owners
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  Speaker 1: and you put a rule in to cap, how much
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  Speaker 1: you've got to pay the players? Therefore, don't you guarantee
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  Speaker 1: more profits? Isn't that the easiest vote to cast? And
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  Speaker 1: Manford talking about like four hundred, he said, four hundred
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  Speaker 1: and forty one million in payroll gap. And that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: prove the system is broken. It just proves that there
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  Speaker 1: are many more cheap teams that treat baseball like a
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: coupon clipping hobby, extreme coupon clipping. And that's the issue,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: that's the disease. Right, Teams who refuse to spend are
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: the ones who have failed baseball, and the commissioner doesn't
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: have the balls to call them out. In the Marlins
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: A's Pirates, the usual suspects. They can spend much more
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: money than they're spending. They can't spend as much as
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. They don't have to, right, you just have
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: to close the gap a little bit. They simply chew
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: not to. They simply choose not to. And they've been
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: that way for years and years and years now. Manford
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: conveniently leaves out meanwhile, a couple of things, and this
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: is where he's working at a local farmer's market. Rob
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Manford working at the farmer's market cherry picking, and he
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: is so good at cherry picking. Rob Manford, del Monte
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: should hire him as an advisor.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: He's that good.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I notice that Manford never said franchises are bleeding cash.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: That they're losing money, they're in the red. He never
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: said that.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: He can't say it because it's not true, right, And
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: if he does say it, then the players will be Okay,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: show us, let's have a third party and let's do
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: some accounting and we'll we'll audit the books and we'll
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: see if that's the case. He's not saying that, you know, No, no, no, no,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: he's just claiming that fans can't believe.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: In the actual little guys. So give me a bloody blake,
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: give me a break.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Even Osiewash notes, that's nonsense, right, that's not a real
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: financial argument. That is more like a fairy tale told
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: at bedtime. Now page two. So Rob Manford also acknowledged
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: that baseball has repeatedly tried to address competitive balance through
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: the what they call it the luxury tax. But you
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: know what that means, he admitted, quote, sometimes you got
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: to admit you fail. Manford said, all right, question, where
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: does Rob Manford and his admission that he failed with
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: the luxury tax?
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Where does that land with you? All right?
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: So I took out my GPS and the maps app
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: on my phone. On the GPS, which is never wrong.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: It pinned this in the theater district, making this pure
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I'm talking completely authentic kabuki theater. Manford's failure is actually
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: a success story, and it's a success story for something
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: called the long con, which Major League Baseball has been
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: efforting since the nineties workstoppage. The long con is used
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: to justify a hard cap, and this is all part
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: of the master plan. When he says Manford, we failed,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: it's a commissioner's dog whistle. It's a dog whistle, and
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: it signals to owners that it's finally time to unleash
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the doomsday device, the union bunker buster from Major League
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Baseball's ownership group. Manford does not mean the sport failed.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: He does not mean that. That's a misnomer. Rob Manford means,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: and the way I interpreted this, that the luxury tax
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: failed to prove we can live without a cap, right funny?
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: How will eagerly admit to that, or he'll meet admit
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I'm not admitting it. He'll admit to that yet, Manford,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: I'm still waiting for to admit that he completely fed
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: up and he let the twenty seventeen cheating a one
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: one thousand and two one thousand holes them in Houston,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: skate bang bang, whis the whist, the whistle, all that
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: during the World Series, and let them get away with that,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: let them skate like it was a event at the
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Winter Olympics. And he'll also never concede that those ghost
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: runners are a stain on the game. He won't admit that,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: choosing instead to treat a Little League fever dream like
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: some kind of sacred baseball tradition. It's all backwards. It's
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: all backwards now, final point. So the Commissioner's comments helping
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: to escalate the tensions, the rhetoric going back and forth.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Everyone's playing in the court of public opinion. And the
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: expiration date the doomsday clock.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick December first,
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: just after the World Series, December one. That's it.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Turn out at the last the parties over. Yeah, that's
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: the end date on the labor deal. And so the
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Baseball Players Association continuing to have their own rhetoric. They
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: are passionately rejecting the salarycap. Their argument is the sport
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: is financially healthy, and that competitive imbalance is caused by
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: some owners choosing not to spend money ding ding ding
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: ding ning, not by flaws in the system and Major
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: League Baseball here's the key part of this. So they've
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: been running commercials online and also on old media promoting
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: a salarycap as part of their level the Playing Field campaign.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball itself as aired ads pushing for a
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: salarycap and floor in the next collective bargaining agreement. Now,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: union officials were asked about that, and they do you
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: think they A said, boy, that's great, it's wonderful. They're
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: running commercials promoting baseball and a salarycap. Be no comment
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: or see what the f is wrong with you?
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Losers? Ding? Well, if you if you.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Pick see, that's the right answer. If you pick see,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: that's the right answer. Yeah, Baseball's union said the commercials
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: are perverse. Perverse is the word used by the union boss.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: So the question what is the proper bucket for the
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: baseball union calling MLB's commercials for a salary cap perverse.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: So the baseball owners.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Here are running these I'm gonna call them there sleazy
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl style commercials for a salary cap.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: And they're doing it to brainwash the low information fan,
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: the dullar. That's what they're doing.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: And they know there's enough dumb dumbs out there that
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: are mesmerized by a TV commercial where they're like, oh,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: oh that makes sense, okay, and they can convince people
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: it doesn't seem great for the business that you're telling
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: people we must have a salary cap. A actually, because
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: baseball is dying and the only thing that can save it.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: The only silver bullet that we have is this hard
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: salary cap.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: That's it. So the proper bucket for this would be
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: the billiard's bucket.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: And you talk about playing some dirty pool here, it
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: is like they hired Johnny Archer, the Scorpion great pool player,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: to run the table playing some dirty pool, and the
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: owners want the fans to think they're behind the eight ball,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and the Union is entirely right to call this perverse.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: They are owners are pushing this doom and gloom mole,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: this doom and gloom propaganda about competitive balance and suffering
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: small markets to scare everyone.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: But you know what that means.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: They really just want to crush the players and make
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: sure that the owners get more profit. And it is
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: one of the only things in life where a number
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: of people root for the oligarchs. You don't get this
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: in other spots. No one is out there campaigning saying
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: the people.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: That own Walmart need to make more money.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: No one's saying right, No one's saying, well, I really
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: wish Apple would raise the price of the iPhone so
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: we can make more money. No. In as it was
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: pointed out, if they actually cared about the fans, they
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: would not be spending millions of dollars Baseball on this
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: manipulative marketing campaign. And Bruce Meyer, the guy that's the
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: union boss, he pointed out that the ownership group likes
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: to talk about.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: The fans, the fans, the fans, the fans boss, the fans.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: They all want this, they want this salary cap. Right, And,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: as he pointed out, if they owners really did pay
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: attention to what the fans wanted, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Athletics and several other teams would have new owners sell
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: the team, sell the team, sell the team. Well, how
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: often does that work. The only time it's really worked
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: is with the Dodgers and Frank McCourt, and that has
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: turned into the Blue Dynasty of Major League Baseball. The
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: corporate Dodgers have dominated. However, here's the these owners are
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: wearing when when fans chant you sell the team, sell
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: the team.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: The owners wear these.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Special skull Candy headphones, and that the headphones allow them
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: to hear only what they want to hear while they
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: laugh all the way to the direct deposit.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: And that's how they operate.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Mallard, how about that to the third degree, This is
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: one big event gets grilled.
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: Coop a Loop, an anonymous NFL personnel evaluator, predict this
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: week that.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: I love those coop ye and I just can't get
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: enough great sources.
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: They predicted this week that Lamar Jackson will have a
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: big year, saying this is like a contract year for
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: him coming up like a contract here, Ben, do you
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: think Lamar will have a bounce back season this year?
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: The issue with Lamar's health and he's getting older. He
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: does not appear to be taking care of himself. My
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: boots on the ground tell me he's enjoying himself, which
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: is great. But as you get to a certain point
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: in your athletic career, if you do not take care
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: of yourself.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: It eventually catches up with you, and that if he plays,
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: he'll be fine.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: But he's gonna have the auchies and he's gonna have
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: the injuries, and so it doesn't matter. He's gonna get
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: peet either way, whether the Ravens pay him or he's
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: got enough MVP awards and enough on his resume that
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: someone's gonna pay him.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: So he'll get the money whether he has a big
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: year or not.
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: Next the NFL is revealing their annual top one hundred
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: player rankings, and Michael Parsons isn't happy about where his
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: quarterback landed. Seventy one players in the NFL aren't better
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: than Jordan Love, Parsons road Ben Is Love properly.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Ranked well, Micah Parsons, you know, to quote Tony Bruno,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: it's an outrage.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: You know, it's not the top quarterbacks.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Obviously, if you just go by quarterbacks, Jordan Love would
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: be higher than seventy one.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: I think that's about right.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of players in the NFL's eleven positions
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: on offense, eleven positions on defense. That seems about right
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: to me. Jordan Love is inconsistent. There are moments he's
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: the top quarterback in the NFL. There's a lot of
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: moments where he's average, a lot of moments where he's
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: not that great, So I.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: Think it's about where he should be next.
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: The Dodgers are the best record in baseball and are
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: predictably a top most power rankings ben.
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: Which team do you think puts up the greatest challenge
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: to a three peat?
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Well, if everyone's clicking, obviously, the Yankees are in the
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: World Series down the line, the Philadelphia Phillies.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: I don't really think the Atlanta Braves that much or
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: the Milwaukee Bruce. How do we doing cool?
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: You passed this mission?
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: That's so we'd put it on the board.
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• 30:28
  Speaker 7: Queve, she wants to talk to you. Such a great song.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: This is Milkman Mike in Colorado. Right, Yes, job, Jay
• 30:55
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  Speaker 7: Another one is great.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah. So what do we got? What do we got got?
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah? We got question We got questions. You want questions?
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: We got questions Lorena, rob and the three two one who's.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: Working the day shift.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: He says, what do you feel is more attractive shaved
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: head with a nice shaped beard or clean shaven with
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: a full head of groomed hair.
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: Ooh, that's a great question, because, well, for one, I
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: also think you're missing one with the big hair and.
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: The facial hair. No, that's not that Ruin's the point
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: of the question.
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: I like.
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: Which one?
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: Did you like anything?
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: The one with the guy who has everything?
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: Come on, Lorena, throw the ball. Guys like me at
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: bald Come on, Lorena.
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: Come on, I had a very long relationship with that.
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: Okay, I just like a beard.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: I like it.
• 31:51
  Speaker 8: You get to pet it, you know, it's nice.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: I don't really pet beards. But you know, I've never
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: met I've never there is a bearded woman a bed.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: No I didn't. I saw them as a kid at
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: the circus or whatever. Are the stateable women?
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Yes, lovely lady Michael, and Tulsa says, in addition to
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the blankety blankety blankety, what is the best breakfast to
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: make for your significant other?
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: So, like you said, the breakfast sausage? What else is
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: you know?
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: You always have to have a well rounded meal for breakfast.
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: But I like homemade French toasts with crispy bacon.
• 32:24
  Speaker 7: And you always have to have eggs.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: I don't care what style you.
• 32:27
  Speaker 8: Make them, what you prefer, but I think it's a
• 32:29
  Speaker 8: good protein to mix in there.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: I really like eggs. I'll tick scrambled though with some cheese.
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: Or scrambled with cheese is so good.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: Solid ferg Dog.
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: Like your eggs really dry, don't you?
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Ben No?
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: I like him well done, but.
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: I also like a five year old just however, what
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: do I like?
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: I like cornby fash. I love cornby fashion. That's that's
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: a solid.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: The ferg Dog says, you know of any dating sites
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: of the cater to nine O two one o super fans.
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: It's actually a really good idea for a dating site. Yeah,
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: I don't know that that one of those group chats
• 33:07
  Speaker 8: on Facebook. They have a lot of different groups on there.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: It feels like more of a redded thing. Let's say
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: hello to Stevie Meatballs. Who has a question to those?
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: Stevie Meatballs welcome.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Good morning everybody. How are you?
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: We don't have time for that, Stevie meables all right?
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: All right, Loraina I got to run something past you.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: All right. I'm fifty three years old now, Okay. Back
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: in high school, I lived in the western suburbs of
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: Fort Lauderdale, and I went to this old Catholic high
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: school way down to Port Larder. It was like a
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: forty minute drive home. So when I finally got my
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: driver's license, I used to drive like three or four
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: people home every day. The last person I would drop
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: off every day, this girl Amanda, one day professed her
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: feelings for me right when I was into some other
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: girl that had a boyfriend. Oh, no, way in my league.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: So I turned her down right, yeah, question quickly.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: I remember, I just remember this like a year ago. Okay,
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: all I remember is the first name.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: I don't know what's the question.
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: I think he wants to go find her.
• 34:09
  Speaker 8: And if you want to go find her, I would
• 34:11
  Speaker 8: definitely go on Facebook and look her up. You could
• 34:14
  Speaker 8: go into your class, like your school class here, good luck?
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: Question next time?
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: If you if you like barbecue, Lorena, should a man
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: always do the grilling?
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: Yes? No?
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: Yes, all right, she said, yes quick. Queen of Heart.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: and the password is.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: Password, you idiot, password the word Game of the Stars.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Here's Ben Meler.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: All let's do it. Here we go Password time. Man,
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: let's welcome in our contestants for password. We have a
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: Phase in Chicago. Hello, Phase, welcome.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Quint up Man. There he is my man.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: Phase met him and a couple of years ago. And
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: then who do you want to partner with with Phase?
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: Wait?
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: All you want to be a loser?
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: Uh?
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: Loraina picked one, two or three?
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: One?
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: Tour number three? Well you have picked? What does it say? Toothpick?
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: You picked a guy named toothpick in Fort Worth. Hello Toothpick, welcome.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: So how are well?
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Welcome Toothpick. I'm a big fan of those plastic toothpick things.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: I love them.
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right wing toothpicks all.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: The way I go plastic like to ruin the environment.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Who would you like to partner up with, mister toothpick guy?
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Let's get let's go all right, we're.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: In it to win it. Go ahead. We have a
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: list of words one to ten. Phase in Chicago.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: You were on first, so help us out there, Phase
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: and pick a number one number one.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: You didn't say it right. You didn't say it right,
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: despat job.
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: Are you all right?
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: No? No?
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: There it is?
• 36:14
  Speaker 9: There we go alright, go ahead, cool, all right, let's
• 36:17
  Speaker 9: go with uh, let's go with yes anytime plantation.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: Wow, Coop, how dare you?
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: No?
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: No, you Coop got excited for a second you thought
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: that you had said the thing. Let's go with homestead.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Up arm.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: We got the lead and we will not concede. You're
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: losing phase, you dope. You should have picked me?
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: Miss you kind of cheated right there, kind of like
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: yes you did. You're like you got excited because you.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: Tell him.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Losing, mister toothpick, ignore him, mister toothpick two to ten?
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Uh four, number four, Well that's a that's appropriate that
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: you would pick that because that's really the theme of
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: the show.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: Uh, let's go.
• 37:25
  Speaker 7: Well, I'm not trying to cheat, Coop.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Let's go with intricate, intricate, intricate, intricate, intricate.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: No clues, no clue, I don't have a clue.
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: All right, Phase, let's go with convoluted.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: Big word.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: Guys, not that easy. Phase is not this job is
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: now you need an answer phase.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: You're gonna lose the game. You don't get this right,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: that she here? No, you lost your face. You lost
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: face is a loser.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: You lost. We want, mister TOOTHI, all we need is
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: one word.
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: We won the game, and you do