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Hour 3 – Red Sox vs Devers · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: number three of this podcast. We're going to talk about
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Speaker 1: Rafael Devers, Rafael Devers ripping Red Sox management. Now, is
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Speaker 1: this more about a Rafael Devers being stubborn or b
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Speaker 1: is the Red Sox front office failing to manage their
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Speaker 1: star players properly. We'll take a look at that. And
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Speaker 1: with the friction between Rafael Devers and the team, how
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Speaker 1: is his future looking in Boston? Will go there? And
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Speaker 1: a story out of Pittsburgh. After just thirty eight games,
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Speaker 1: the Pirates played whack a mole and got rid of
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Speaker 1: their manager, got named Derek Shelton to quote fix this
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Speaker 1: Days of our Lives, drama in the American League East
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Speaker 1: on a random day in early May, Red Sox designated
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Speaker 1: hitter Rafael Devers delivery the atomic elbow. As we say, so,
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Speaker 1: Devers is not happy. Now how do we know he's
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Speaker 1: not happy because he said he's not happy, upset with
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Speaker 1: the bosses, the powers that be with the Red Sox.
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Speaker 1: And this is a good one, This is a good one.
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Speaker 1: He accused the organization of going back on their word,
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Speaker 1: back on their word. This is over a recent that
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Speaker 1: was made to him. So if you didn't see it,
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Speaker 1: and if you're not plugged in with the Red Sox,
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Speaker 1: this is a national show, not a local show. So
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Speaker 1: you might not be familiar with the story. So the
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Speaker 1: story is if you missed it. Rafael Devers says that
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Speaker 1: the Red Sox executive we call them the GM there,
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Speaker 1: Craig Breslo, asked him to play first base. This following
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Speaker 1: the season ending injury to Tristan Cassies as he's out
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Speaker 1: for the year and probably part of next year as well.
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 1: It turns out that Devers said that he was unwilling
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Speaker 1: to play first base. Why because the Red Sox had
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Speaker 1: told him to put his glove away after they moved
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Speaker 1: him from third base the designated hitter during the offseason. Now,
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Speaker 1: he was asked if he was upset with the team
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Speaker 1: over the request, and he responded yes, of course in Spanish.
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Speaker 1: All right, so we I think we have the audio,
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Speaker 1: will place some of it. And I know he spoke
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Speaker 1: through a translator, so I'm not sure if we're going
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Speaker 1: to just hear the translator, we're gonna hear Okay, this
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Speaker 1: is the This is just the clean version where it's
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Speaker 1: just the it's just his answers. Right, all right, let's go,
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Speaker 1: let's see what we got. This is Rafaeldevers ripping apart
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Speaker 1: the management of the Boston Red SOX, let's listen all along.
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Speaker 4: It's from Raffey Devers quote. I know I'm a ballplayer,
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Speaker 4: but at the same time, they can't expect me to
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Speaker 4: play every single position out there and spring trending. They
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Speaker 4: talked to me and basically told me to put away
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Speaker 4: my glove, that I wasn't gonna play any other position.
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Speaker 4: But d H, so right now, I just feel like
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Speaker 4: it's not an appropriate decision by them to ask me
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Speaker 4: to play another position. It was the GM that I
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Speaker 4: spoke with. I'm not sure what he has with me.
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Speaker 4: He played ball. I would like to think he knows
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Speaker 4: that changing positions like that isn't easy.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that was NMLB network report there they were giving
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Speaker 1: the quote from from Rafield Devers. God, this is so
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Speaker 1: this is so good. This is such a great story
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Speaker 1: for talk radio. It is It is a ten out
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Speaker 1: of ten in terms of baseball stories. So, as you
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Speaker 1: heard the transcript being read by a teleprompter reader for
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Speaker 1: MLB Network, Devers indicating that he was not happy because
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Speaker 1: it's hard. It's hard, and so he made it clear
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Speaker 1: that he is not happy with Craig Breslow and the
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Speaker 1: front office there in Boston. So let us discuss the
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Speaker 1: question is as false. Is this story more about a
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Speaker 1: Raphael Devers being a stubborn donkey? Or B is this
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Speaker 1: story more about the Red Sox front office failing to
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Speaker 1: manage it's star players proper So my views on this,
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Speaker 1: I've got Kosher Salt, Alfred Hitchcock and Blue Whale, and
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Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and be
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Speaker 1: footloose and fancy free is what we're going to be. Okay, So,
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Speaker 1: first of all, to answer the question, is it a
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Speaker 1: Rafael Devers being stubborn or is it be the Red
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Speaker 1: Sox front office failing to manage their star players properly?
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Speaker 1: My answer is not A or B. My answer is
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Speaker 1: C all of the above. All of the above. You
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Speaker 1: have your classic spoiled, selfish star athlete. That's Rafaeld Devers
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Speaker 1: right on Central Casting. Now, the different wrinkle here is
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Speaker 1: the fact that he decided to go public and he
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Speaker 1: should be a brand ambassador for Kosher Salt. Morton's a
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Speaker 1: Kosher Salt. Because Rafael Devers, you can tell he's not
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Speaker 1: hiding his emotion. He's got a beef with the front
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Speaker 1: office with the Red Sox. He believes he's the victim.
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Speaker 1: Everyone's the victim of this great injustice. So he's salty,
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Speaker 1: he's very salty, and he's upset. He's still bitter. He's
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Speaker 1: got that bitter face because Boston went out and signed
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Speaker 1: that cheating a astro, Alex Bregman in the offseason, and
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Speaker 1: that was a third baseman. They took away the third
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Speaker 1: base position from Devers, who's been one of the worst
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Speaker 1: defensive players in baseball for years. So Devers is like, hey,
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Speaker 1: I'm not flexible. I will not bend with the wind.
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Speaker 1: I will not This is payback with a capitol p
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Speaker 1: by Rafael Devers. Payback now. As for the Red Sox
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Speaker 1: front office, they are not off scot free. They also
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Speaker 1: looked like a bunch of dopes. And here's why. The
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Speaker 1: only reason that Rafael Devers got the bag was because
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Speaker 1: the Red Sox didn't want to pay Mookie Bets. They
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Speaker 1: gave Mookie bets away to the Dodgers for some of
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Speaker 1: those snow Globe Hollywood toys in the gift shops in Hollywood.
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Speaker 1: That's what the Red Sox got backed for Mookie bets.
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Speaker 1: The Dodgers have won two World Series since they got
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Speaker 1: rid of Mookie Bets since the Red Sox got rid
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Speaker 1: of Mookie Bets and sent him to La so they
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Speaker 1: got rid of him. There was also another player, Xander Bogarts,
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Speaker 1: who left to go to the Padres, although he hasn't
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Speaker 1: played that well in San Diego. So the Red Sox
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Speaker 1: had team, a team of players that had won a
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Speaker 1: World Series, although it was little shady in twenty eighteen,
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Speaker 1: and so they weren't keeping their players and the last
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Speaker 1: one left was Rafael Devers, so they had to pay him.
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Speaker 1: They obviously didn't vet Rafael Devers to say is this
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Speaker 1: a guy worthy of this kind of money? Can we
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Speaker 1: trust him? Is this somebody that will represent the organization properly? No,
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Speaker 1: they didn't do that. They gave him the money and
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Speaker 1: now they're getting what they get. They deserve it. They
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Speaker 1: look like it was the idiots. And now is it
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Speaker 1: true that Craig Breslo mishandled the situation the gam there
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Speaker 1: in Boston by failing to communicate clearly with Rafael Devers
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Speaker 1: that he would be needed to play the field possibly
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Speaker 1: down the line, I want a mess. Can you imagine
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Speaker 1: going to your boss and be like, yeah, I don't
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Speaker 1: want to do that job. But but we're paying you
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Speaker 1: a lot, But no, I don't want to do that.
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Speaker 1: Like how does that work? Like, seriously, can you get
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Speaker 1: away with that? If you're a truck driver and you're like,
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Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to make that trip. I'm
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm good. When we're paying you, you have
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Speaker 1: to go that route. No, I'm not. I'm not doing that.
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Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not doing it. Uh, you're You're in
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Speaker 1: a bakery and you're like, all right, I needed to
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Speaker 1: make this many donuts and this, you know, these these treats.
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Speaker 1: But no, I don't feel like doing that.
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Speaker 3: I'm not.
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Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not comfortable. It's not easy, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's not easy. That's what That's what Rafael Devers is doing.
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Speaker 1: It's wild and there are actually people defending him, although
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking that's just bots and that's like fake accounts. Now, Secondly,
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Speaker 1: with this friction which we have documented between Raffie Devers
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Speaker 1: and the baseball team, how is his future looking in Boston?
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Speaker 1: So this is a situation where you have to put
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Speaker 1: friction at the very top of this is a friction
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Speaker 1: situation that is an understatement and it's I think an
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Speaker 1: accurate way to describe Rafaeld Devers as a me guy,
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Speaker 1: not a team guy. All right, me guy, not a
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Speaker 1: team guy. Now Devs is only in year two, if
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Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, of a ten year, three hundred and
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Speaker 1: thirteen million dollar contract, Yes, three one hundred and thirteen
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Speaker 1: million dollars for Raffield Evers. He's in year two of
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Speaker 1: the contract. Who goofed? I've got to know now, normal protocol.
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Speaker 1: Normal protocol is, if you're in that tax bracket for
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Speaker 1: that kind of cash, you are expected to be a
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Speaker 1: good will ambassador. And instead of that, Devs in this
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Speaker 1: chapter of the book is starring in an Alfred Hitchcock film,
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Speaker 1: The Saboteur, and the face of the franchise has now
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Speaker 1: embarrassed the franchise multiple times. And now as a talk
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Speaker 1: show host, I love it. Devs is great. Right. They
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Speaker 1: wanted to move him to DH. He to want to
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Speaker 1: play DH. Then they said it was some kind of
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Speaker 1: communication issue. Well, what are they gonna say now? Same thing.
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Speaker 1: At some point, the question will be asked, is the
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Speaker 1: juice worth the squeeze? Is Dever's worth the headaches? Devers
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Speaker 1: is on pace this year to drive in one hundred
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Speaker 1: runs he got for that terrible start the first couple
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Speaker 1: weeks of the year was terrible, but he's picked it up.
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Speaker 1: He's on pace to driving one hundred runs and only
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Speaker 1: twenty five home runs, which isn't that great For three
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Speaker 1: hundred million dollars and forty plus doubles playing at Finway,
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Speaker 1: you should be able to hit forty doubles blindfolded. And
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Speaker 1: he's doing this while he is sulking in Poudyville, USA. Powdyville, USA.
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Speaker 1: Now the other branch of this tree is that Rafael
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Speaker 1: Deveres has also exposed the Red Sox manager Alex Korra
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Speaker 1: as pinocchio. Liar, Liar, Liar, Liar, Liar, liar, because just
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Speaker 1: a couple of days ago, Alix Cora attempting to run
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Speaker 1: interference the naked bootleg for Rafael Devers. Remember this we
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Speaker 1: talked about a little bit on the show. Alex Cora
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Speaker 1: claimed that they were not going to ask Rafael Devers
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Speaker 1: to play first base, that was not an option. And
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Speaker 1: yet we now know from the horse's mouth Rafaeld Devers
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Speaker 1: that behind the scenes the front office did did go
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Speaker 1: to the player and say we'd like you to play
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Speaker 1: first base. The Red Sox are a mediocre team so
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Speaker 1: far this year, and now they have to find someone
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Speaker 1: to play first base. They have a couple of supposedly
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Speaker 1: hot shot minor league players, but they don't want to
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Speaker 1: put those guys in the major leagues because it involved
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Speaker 1: service time. And so the name that I saw, I
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Speaker 1: don't know if they've signed him yet, but the name
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Speaker 1: that was going around Anthony Rizzo, Anthony E. F. And Rizzo,
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Speaker 1: who's been done for several years. He stinks, But that's
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Speaker 1: who who's available.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: Now, final thought, we have a managerial change in professional baseball.
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Speaker 1: Say what, Yeah, we taken now to Pittsburgh, PA. We
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Speaker 1: go in a twelve and twenty six record. The Buckoes
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Speaker 1: have thrown manager Derek Shelton over board off the Pirate
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Speaker 1: ship Don Kelly. We're not sure who that is, but
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Speaker 1: he is now the interim manager in Pittsburgh. The money
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Speaker 1: quote came from the frugal tightwad Bob Nutting. That's the
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Speaker 1: owner of the team. Interesting name, he said. The move
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Speaker 1: was made to quote fix this now, he said. So
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Speaker 1: after just thirty eight games, the Pirates have whacked manager
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Speaker 1: Derek Shelton to quote. According to the owner, fix this
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Speaker 1: now is what the owner said. So what did the
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Speaker 1: Bucos accomplish with this particular move? So this is no
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Speaker 1: with one word. My word is abra cadabra. Its magical
15:05
Speaker 1: misdirection is what it is. It's the hidden ball trick
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Speaker 1: in involving managers. This move is a classic distraction. Think
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Speaker 1: of it like a blue whale in a goldfish tank. Okay,
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Speaker 1: it stands out, it's obvious, it doesn't fit. We all
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Speaker 1: know what you're doing. The Pirates have been a slapstick
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Speaker 1: comedy on and off the field. Now, we don't talk
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Speaker 1: too much baseball this time of the year because it's
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Speaker 1: a thousand games to go, But what is my evidence.
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Speaker 1: The Pirates have been a slapstick comedy operation since the
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Speaker 1: beginning of the year. Here are some of the highlights
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Speaker 1: of Pirates baseball. When they're not getting shell act on
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Speaker 1: the field. The Pirates, without announcing, removed a tribute to
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Speaker 1: Roberto Clemente that had been on the outfield sign at
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Speaker 1: their beautiful ballpark in Pittsburgh to sell booze to sell alcohol.
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Speaker 1: Of course, the family of Roberto Clemente was not happy
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Speaker 1: about that, and they tore up the organization so the
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Speaker 1: team had to put the tribute back on the wall.
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Speaker 1: Then a local TV station in Pittsburgh found out that
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Speaker 1: a bunch of bricks that had the names of fans
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Speaker 1: and dead relatives of Pirate fans had been sent to
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Speaker 1: a dump to a recycle facility in Pittsburgh. These you
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Speaker 1: know how these teams have this deal. You buy a
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Speaker 1: brick and they'll put your name of your mom or
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Speaker 1: your dad, or your name or your kid's name, and
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Speaker 1: they'll put it in the stadium. And it's kind of
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Speaker 1: a cool thing, right, that's kind of a neat thing,
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Speaker 1: and your name is there, and it's give them a
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Speaker 1: little money, and it is not. So without announcing it,
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Speaker 1: they ripped out all those bricks and just tossed them
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Speaker 1: into a recycle facility in Pennsylvania. Who goofed, I've got
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Speaker 1: to know. I'm not done though. Wait, there's one I
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Speaker 1: mentioned slapstick comedy. How about a fan dropping like a
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Speaker 1: sack of potatoes from twenty one feet off during the
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Speaker 1: game onto the warning track when the Pirates were playing
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Speaker 1: the Cubs. Remember that? But wait, something even more outrageous happened.
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Speaker 1: There is video that has gone viral. The last couple
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Speaker 1: of days there was this would look like a drunk
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Speaker 1: dude at a Pirates game was in a disagreement an
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Speaker 1: unruly fan. So a stadium usher comes over to try
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Speaker 1: to calm the situation down at the Pittsburgh Pirates stadium.
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Speaker 1: And so during this situation, so it clearly looked like
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Speaker 1: an inebriated guy in my opinion, and they're going back
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Speaker 1: and forth. So what did the stadium usher do. Did
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Speaker 1: he call the police and say we need the police
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Speaker 1: here to take care of No, he decided that he
17:36
Speaker 1: wanted to fight the usher, right, so he whipped the
17:41
Speaker 1: usher with his belt. He took his belt off to
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Speaker 1: whip the person, and there was some spitting of lugis
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Speaker 1: involved by the fan. The fans spit the lugie and
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Speaker 1: it was I mean, this is next level. Now, as
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Speaker 1: for the Pirates on the field and the Derek Shelton
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Speaker 1: human sacrifice for the failure the buck last I checked,
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Speaker 1: they can't hit, pitch or feel, but other than that,
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Speaker 1: they're a good ball club. If you take away hitting, pitching,
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Speaker 1: and defense. They have all the ingredients of a good team.
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Speaker 1: And the brass has assembled a dog's lunch roster. They
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Speaker 1: have two players it does remind you of the Angels
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Speaker 1: a bit, not as extreme, but when the Angels had
18:26
Speaker 1: Mike Trout and Shoho Tani and failed to make the
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Speaker 1: playoffs year after year after year after year after year
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Speaker 1: after year after year. Well, the Pirates have Paul Skiings
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Speaker 1: who at some points going to eventually pitch for the
18:38
Speaker 1: Yankees of the Dodgers and get paid a ton of money,
18:41
Speaker 1: and that's how it's gonna go. And then you have
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Speaker 1: O'Neil Kruz who's one of the top young players in baseball,
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Speaker 1: though he's not playing that great this year. And outside
18:48
Speaker 1: of that, to quote the great Dennis Eckers League, you
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Speaker 1: have a hodgepodge of nothingness is what you have. So
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Speaker 1: the future for the Pirates is hazy, with a high
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Speaker 1: probability of more fertilizer on the field. Pirate Baseball, My god.
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Speaker 1: do we have? Fudgie says, a Fudgie como bobblehead doll
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Speaker 1: is the answer. Boiled peanuts from JT. The Wingman in Knoxville, Tennessee,
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Speaker 1: but as hard as in Wisconsin. King Rory says a
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Speaker 1: honey bun, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger is the answer. Milkman
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Speaker 1: and Diddy parties. Yeah, I don't think they're having those anymore.
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Speaker 1: I think those are over. A clam says a set
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Speaker 1: That's a big deal? What else? Alf the Alien opiner
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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlins Pittsburgh Penguins, Pittsburgh Penguins, Pittsburgh Steelers. Ferg Dog
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Speaker 1: he did a game with SpongeBob. I had no idea.
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Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Page down? I can't read
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Speaker 1: that on the air. All right, that's it up, Larina,
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Speaker 1: Do you have an answer? A lot of answers that
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Speaker 1: here Loredo the riddle of the day, fifty five year
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Speaker 1: old Georgia man suing the NFL over Shudur Sanders Draft day.
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Speaker 1: Tumble and bumble and stumble. But not only does this
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Speaker 1: JABRONI want one hundred million in damages, but would also
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Speaker 1: like blank? He says, Blank's very important.
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Speaker 3: Yes, he would also like his own pony petting zoo. Ben.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, did you want that when you were a little girl?
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Speaker 4: He did?
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Speaker 1: You did, and you never got that. Family did not
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Speaker 1: provide you for that, And that's very.
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Speaker 6: Sad that you The correct answer is the fifty five
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Speaker 6: year old Georgia Man suing using the name John Doe,
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Speaker 6: suing the NFL over Suder Sanders draft day a fault.
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Speaker 1: Not only wants one hundred million dollars, he would also
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Speaker 1: like he's looking forward to discovery, the discovery process, as
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Speaker 1: he believes that will prove the illegal conspiracy against Shardeur Sanders.
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Speaker 1: That was the answer.
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Speaker 6: That was the answer, discovery, You're recorded.
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Speaker 5: This is a law process, was the answer.
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Speaker 1: That's what he wants. He wants the discovery process. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he could pick new socks and he wants a discovery process.
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Speaker 1: I know, I know you can get in new such
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Speaker 1: but no, this is where you go. You know, you
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Speaker 1: get sued, you have to turn over all your email
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Speaker 1: and your phone records and all that, like all of
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Speaker 1: that becomes available to the other side. So this guy,
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Speaker 1: this guy thinks that a the lawsuit is not gonna
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Speaker 1: get thrown out right away. It's obviously frivolous. So he
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Speaker 1: thinks it's not gonna get thrown out. And then he's like, well,
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Speaker 1: not is it not gonna get thrown out? But I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna go and I'm gonna have access to all the
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Speaker 1: text messages and email of all of these different NFL
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Speaker 1: executives and you know, all the big shots in the NFL.
26:42
Speaker 1: Good luck, good luck on that. All right's go back
26:46
Speaker 1: to the calls and let's say hello to Andrea. She's
26:51
Speaker 1: in the Bay Area. She's got the star chart out
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Speaker 1: and she is ready to dazzle you. Get you set
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Speaker 1: up for the big weekend here with all all you
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Speaker 1: need to know in a cosmic approach.
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Speaker 7: Hello, and hello Ben. I like the way you put that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, So what do we got now? The Warriors
27:12
Speaker 1: are not looking so good right now. Things at the
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Speaker 1: game one, they took it on the channing game through
27:17
Speaker 1: there and it didn't really show up for game thing.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, well, the Steph Curry, that's definitely you know, timing
27:25
Speaker 7: is everything, and not good timing for the injury. And
27:28
Speaker 7: it's the first time he ever had a hamstring injury.
27:31
Speaker 7: And he's born March fourteen, nineteen eighty eight, one point
27:36
Speaker 7: fifty one pm Akron, Ohio. Remember the same hospital as Lebron.
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Speaker 1: Yep, yep, from you.
27:44
Speaker 7: We know that from you, we do, right, We always
27:47
Speaker 7: talk about that. And basically he is a Pisces and
27:52
Speaker 7: Saturn is in Pisces right now. Conjuncture's son. What that
27:56
Speaker 7: means is Saturn rules of skeletal system, his knees, teeth,
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Speaker 7: joint back. So it's like delay, not denial. But it's
28:06
Speaker 7: really a very challenging transit to have in terms of
28:09
Speaker 7: physical health and energy. It's really a low point. And
28:13
Speaker 7: they actually said he was crying, which is very Pisces,
28:17
Speaker 7: and you know, he really wants to play, but he
28:19
Speaker 7: doesn't want to tempt the fates and start playing before
28:22
Speaker 7: it's healed. And again, this is the first time he
28:25
Speaker 7: had a hamstring injury, so he's kind of had a loss.
28:29
Speaker 7: And you know they're saying, no, we examined I think Wednesday,
28:33
Speaker 7: a week after. So you know, there's some light at
28:36
Speaker 7: the end of the tunnels.
28:38
Speaker 1: There is light, but if the Warriors keep losing these games,
28:40
Speaker 1: there's no more light, they go to the darkness.
28:43
Speaker 7: It's over right, It's you know, just that many games.
28:47
Speaker 7: So it's definitely not the best timing for this to
28:52
Speaker 7: be happening. And yeah, it's a Saturn. You know, you
28:56
Speaker 7: get a Saturn transit, then it's only twenty nine years
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Speaker 7: Saturn conjunct the Sun.
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Speaker 1: Oh really, twenty that's a long time. Twenty ninety, right, like.
29:05
Speaker 7: The Saturn return when you're twenty nine, Saturn conjunct your
29:08
Speaker 7: son when every twenty nine years. So some of these
29:12
Speaker 7: planetary cycles don't happen very often, and when they do,
29:16
Speaker 7: they tend to kind of stick around for a while.
29:19
Speaker 7: And that said, Saturn is uh, you know, limitation challenges
29:25
Speaker 7: and again the skeletal system, so it's definitely lowered energy
29:29
Speaker 7: and vitality.
29:31
Speaker 1: Gotcha, gotcha? All right? Well he's getting older and stuff starts,
29:35
Speaker 1: you know, hurting a little more where you get older.
29:37
Speaker 7: It's just kind of yeah, I know, only in the
29:39
Speaker 7: sports world is like thirty five or thirty seven. They
29:42
Speaker 7: make it sound like it's ancient.
29:43
Speaker 1: I know, isn't that funny? Is I always laugh at
29:46
Speaker 1: that too? It's oh he's so old. Oh he's a
29:48
Speaker 1: grizzled letter and I'm like, oly crap, what are you?
29:50
Speaker 2: I mean?
29:50
Speaker 1: You you just shut up? You know?
29:52
Speaker 7: Thank you?
29:53
Speaker 1: Yeah? All right, Well, have a great weekend, Andrea, thank
29:56
Speaker 1: you so much. And you're on ex Virgo and service
29:58
Speaker 1: you have. That newsletter comes out every what every four months?
30:02
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I'll be doing one you know soon again, So.
30:07
Speaker 1: Have a nice all right, there you go. Our friend
30:11
Speaker 1: Andrea check it in and she's hanging out in northern
30:16
Speaker 1: California in Berkeley, big supporter of the show. And yeah,
30:23
Speaker 1: all right, let's see what. I don't know. If some
30:25
Speaker 1: of your people keep you must think we're doing like
30:27
Speaker 1: satellite radio, just a podcast and I can just say
30:30
Speaker 1: every bad effing word you want me to say. I know, dude,
30:36
Speaker 1: it's like you gonna get me in trouble one of
30:37
Speaker 1: these times. I'm gonna read this stuff on the air
30:39
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna have to dump it. And if
30:40
Speaker 1: you don't dump it, I'm gonna get in trouble, and
30:42
Speaker 1: then you know I don't. Yeah, Matt Jack writes and says,
30:48
Speaker 1: the Dowyers desperately need a third basement. We will pay
30:51
Speaker 1: Rafael Devers, send Devers to La and he can replace
30:56
Speaker 1: Max Muncie and throw Duran in to replace Conforto. Oh yeah, Matt.
31:03
Speaker 1: The Dodgers, they they are an odd team because they
31:07
Speaker 1: have a good record. It just doesn't seem like they're
31:09
Speaker 1: that good though. It seems like the team the way
31:12
Speaker 1: I've watched them, like they're gonna lose the way they're playing, right,
31:16
Speaker 1: I know, there's a million games to go, and all that.
31:18
Speaker 1: But Confordo sucks, Max Munsey blows, and these guys are
31:23
Speaker 1: in the lineup every day. It's like they got automatic outs.
31:27
Speaker 1: And you look at Otani had a career year last year.
31:31
Speaker 1: He's obviously not as good as he was last year.
31:33
Speaker 1: You're not gonna play that way back to back. It's
31:36
Speaker 1: just a lot of things that are just kind of eh.
31:40
Speaker 1: Yet they have a great record and they're gonna be
31:41
Speaker 1: in the playoffs and they'll probably win the division and
31:44
Speaker 1: then all that, and it just doesn't seem like it's
31:46
Speaker 1: going that great though. But anyway, let's say hello now
31:51
Speaker 1: to the man voted the worst caller on the show
31:55
Speaker 1: for years, Poppy in Sundayego. Hello, Poppy.
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Speaker 3: Hey, yeah, that's right, I'm the worst color of the year.
32:04
Speaker 7: Proud of it.
32:05
Speaker 3: That's my mentor. Big shout out love my mentor, and
32:08
Speaker 3: happy late birthday on my mentor. I gotta give him
32:10
Speaker 3: a shout out on that, you know. But you know
32:13
Speaker 3: what I want to talk about is this a couple
32:15
Speaker 3: of things. I know you guys want to hear my pitch,
32:17
Speaker 3: but my mind is Scott Foster. He's back. He's back
32:21
Speaker 3: from an injury. He helped, you know, you know the
32:24
Speaker 3: thunder they think the Denver nugget. Am I surprised? No,
32:28
Speaker 3: I told you guys, when Scott Foster's on there, pay
32:31
Speaker 3: attention V for the home team. So prediction right here
32:35
Speaker 3: where I think he's gonna go. He might play tomorrow.
32:39
Speaker 3: But I don't know, guys. I don't think he's You.
32:42
Speaker 1: Can't make a pick because you hold us. You can't
32:45
Speaker 1: make a pick because you're not You're not hold on. No, no, no,
32:48
Speaker 1: hold you're not really gambling. You're not not listen. No no, no, no,
32:54
Speaker 1: you're you're not You're not making a pick. You're just saying,
32:56
Speaker 1: wherever was Scott Foster game, just butt the home team.
32:58
Speaker 1: That's not that's not a pick. You just following Scott
33:01
Speaker 1: Foster around.
33:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's what you just said.
33:05
Speaker 1: Yeah you said no, but it's a yes.
33:08
Speaker 3: No no, Ben, matter what I'm trying to think, you're
33:10
Speaker 3: thinking like twenty steps ahead and I'm gonna do a
33:12
Speaker 3: chess move on you jump twenty a step ahead of you.
33:15
Speaker 3: But this is a thing you might think, Oh, yeah,
33:17
Speaker 3: he's gonna pick the home TEMs does not know the
33:19
Speaker 3: NBA with Adam Silver, I think he's gonna do. Where
33:22
Speaker 3: he needs to go next is on the Celtics New
33:25
Speaker 3: York game, because everyone just think about it psychology and mentality.
33:29
Speaker 3: Everyone's thinking, yeah, new York, New York, New York, whatever
33:33
Speaker 3: and for. But with Adam Silvery's like, no, we can't
33:36
Speaker 3: have this. We got to send the doctor to New
33:38
Speaker 3: York on there. But he's not gonna be in the
33:40
Speaker 3: home team. He's not gonna favor the name. He's gonna
33:43
Speaker 3: go in the opposite and favor the Celtics. So it
33:47
Speaker 3: makes it a little bit more.
33:48
Speaker 1: Okay, now you're playing. Now you're playing mental games with yourself.
33:51
Speaker 3: No, no, I'm doing But I'm just saying, he goes
33:56
Speaker 3: somewhere else. Yeah, go for the home teams.
33:59
Speaker 1: But okay, alright, I gotta go, thank you, all right,
34:03
Speaker 1: there you go. All right, that's his big pick. We've
34:05
Speaker 1: got big bands, lame jokes of the week. Do we
34:10
Speaker 1: have the weed Man? By the way, producer Leelee weed
34:13
Speaker 1: Man's are a laugh track. He's in Miami. He's calling
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Speaker 1: up right now. I bet okay, we'll get him, the
34:18
Speaker 1: Great weed Man from Miami. He's part of the jokes.
34:20
Speaker 1: He's got his own segment here we don't pay him,
34:22
Speaker 1: but the government does. I got we kind of we
34:25
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34:27
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get to that big bangs lame jokes
34:29
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34:31
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Speaker 5: Knock, knock, who's there? Blame We blame week too. It's
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Speaker 1: All right, let's do it then, jokes in the week.
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Speaker 5: Are you there?
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Speaker 1: Weed man? Hippie in Miami, Miami, Miami.
35:48
Speaker 7: Well out here?
35:50
Speaker 5: It all right?
35:51
Speaker 1: You don't see them that excited today? Are you not excited?
35:54
Speaker 7: I'm tired?
35:57
Speaker 1: Okay, all right? These are actual chip I know your
36:01
Speaker 1: roommates gone. These are actual jokes by actual listeners sending
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Speaker 1: to the show. I love you all right, Benmaller Show
36:11
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. Did you hear the tooth fairy
36:14
Speaker 1: move to Miami? He became a vagrant and was arrested
36:17
Speaker 1: for trespassing. That's not the punchline. Police a still trying
36:25
Speaker 1: to identify the owner of some dirty dentures found in
36:29
Speaker 1: her apartment cart or shopping cart. Rather, that's Gordon in Tatoba.
36:33
Speaker 1: I screwed up a punch line. It was your laugh
36:36
Speaker 1: was funny anyway? How much of a bomb. Is weed
36:38
Speaker 1: man hippie?
36:40
Speaker 3: How much?
36:41
Speaker 1: Well, the concept work from home is foreign to him
36:45
Speaker 1: in two different ways. So that's Alex Thesenecal. What do
36:51
Speaker 1: you call weed man in a plane?
36:54
Speaker 2: What?
36:55
Speaker 3: Hi?
36:56
Speaker 1: What do you call weed man on land?
37:00
Speaker 7: What?
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Speaker 1: Also? High? That's Alex Lisinecal. We sent that one in. Well,
37:07
Speaker 1: interesting news out. I don't know if you saw this
37:09
Speaker 1: this week. Did you know that Weedman hippie once defeated
37:12
Speaker 1: a silver backed gorilla in combat?
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Speaker 5: Are you kidding me?
37:19
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, it turns out the gorilla could not handle
37:21
Speaker 1: the smell. That's Tom from Fullerton who sent that one in. Well,
37:28
Speaker 1: here's one from the lame Joke writer of the Year
37:31
Speaker 1: last year. I believe he's won a couple of times.
37:34
Speaker 5: Here.
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Speaker 1: What was weed Man's childhood nickname? What pot boy was
37:40
Speaker 1: his nickname? That's SIRF for Todd the comedian. These are
37:45
Speaker 1: actual jokes by actual listeners. How did weed Man get
37:48
Speaker 1: off the streets?
37:49
Speaker 3: How?
37:51
Speaker 1: But you don't remember you moved your tent to the sidewalk.
37:54
Speaker 1: That's how you did. That's how drew in Minnesota, Thanka drew.
37:58
Speaker 1: What is the difference between Mike the Left and weed
38:01
Speaker 1: Man hippie. What Mike is searching for a pot of
38:05
Speaker 1: gold and weed Man is just looking for coot. That's
38:09
Speaker 1: a yeah, that's a you've heard that joke before. That's
38:13
Speaker 1: Chip in Maine. It's Big Ben's lame jokes of the week. Well,
38:17
Speaker 1: weed Man, why is it surprising that you're short and
38:21
Speaker 1: only weigh one hundred and twenty pounds?
38:24
Speaker 5: Not true?
38:24
Speaker 1: But why because you're a big dummy. That's Tony in
38:28
Speaker 1: the Bay Area. That's not nice. Phony, that's not nice.
38:31
Speaker 1: What is the difference between weed man and a catfish?
38:35
Speaker 1: What one is a bottom feeder? The other is a fish?
38:40
Speaker 1: That's a Noah in Austin, all right, If Justin Cooper,
38:47
Speaker 1: If the Justin Cooper doll is a bobblehead and the
38:50
Speaker 1: Bill Miller doll is a babblehead, what is the lorraina doll?
38:54
Speaker 1: What a bubblehead? That's from Eke in Roseville Soda. Well,
39:02
Speaker 1: do you see that pirate Did you see that pirate
39:04
Speaker 1: fan that got injured after falling onto the field.
39:08
Speaker 3: Yeah?
39:08
Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, yeah, Well doctors have diagnosed him with Anthony
39:12
Speaker 1: Rendon disease because he got injured the second he touched
39:15
Speaker 1: the field. That's Alex the cinecal Well, this offseason, where
39:22
Speaker 1: is John Morant going to work on his shot Hawaii?
39:26
Speaker 1: Where no the shooting range, He's going to surfer? Todd
39:30
Speaker 1: the comedian There. Well, in Ohio, a raccoon was found
39:35
Speaker 1: holding a crack pipe in a pullover by the cops.
39:39
Speaker 1: Did you see this weed man?
39:41
Speaker 3: Wow?
39:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Jed whu Fled said he's glad
39:45
Speaker 1: his pet raccoon was found alive. He would like his
39:48
Speaker 1: pipe back, though, he would like the pipe back, So
39:51
Speaker 1: make that take that happen. How can you tell that
39:54
Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun is jealous of Coop's friendship with Lorena. Wow,
39:59
Speaker 1: he he's green with envy. He's green with envy. Right there,
40:04
Speaker 1: It is lame jokes. We thank you eat man. There
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Speaker 1: go all right, enjoy your freedom without your roommate. There