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Thursday Thunderdome w/Arash Markazi · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, the podcast from the Volume Network.
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Speaker 1: Colin Cowherd's Volume Network and we created this podcast this
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Speaker 1: Thursday edition special for our new partners when we joined
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Speaker 1: the Volume Network, and it has quickly become really my
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Speaker 1: favorite hour of the week thanks to producer Matt Mitchell,
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Speaker 1: who dreamed up the entire thing and comes up with
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Speaker 1: all of his any questions that our panelists are going
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Speaker 1: to answer in this another edition of Thursday Thunderedome. This
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Speaker 1: is where guests compete alongside my co host, my bff,
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Speaker 1: the guy that I want to win, who I will
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Speaker 1: tip the scales to make sure he does professional sports
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Speaker 1: better Simon Hunter in a bout of wagers and that
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Speaker 1: makes the l SAT look like a game of bottle.
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Speaker 1: Hello Simon, Dad, thank you for the intro. I'm so
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Speaker 1: happy you're so chipper today, even though did you see
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Speaker 1: what the Bears did this morning? They gave Naggy and
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Speaker 1: your GM a three year extension. Are you fucking kidding me,
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Speaker 1: April Fole? Oh my god, Jesus Christ. I was gonna
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Speaker 1: let you swell a little bit more, but the concern
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Speaker 1: on your face, I thought you're about to have a
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Speaker 1: brain vessel pop. Oh my god, Oh my god, that
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Speaker 1: was so good, Simon. I'm like, how could I have
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Speaker 1: missed that? Even though my kid is in school, if
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Speaker 1: something happens with the Bears, he will find his phone
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Speaker 1: and text me. In addition to every alert that I get,
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, yeah, you're until I got you on tilt.
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Speaker 1: If you're as good through the rest of the show today,
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Speaker 1: Simon will be un beatable. Today you have two guest challengers.
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Speaker 1: Our first guest is another close friend of mine, former
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Speaker 1: colleague at ESPN, brilliant writer, billiant reporter, one of the
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Speaker 1: most connected people in all of sports, the Hugh Hefner
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Speaker 1: of sports. Instead rash Markazi, host of The rash Markarzi
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Speaker 1: Show on the Mighty Year ten ninety in So Cal
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Speaker 1: l A Times columnists, ESPN contributor, Sports Illustrated contributor contributing
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Speaker 1: for the Action Network as of March Madness, Hello my
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Speaker 1: friend a rash Hello Chad. Yes, I mean the fun
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Speaker 1: job that I have was the job that you created,
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Speaker 1: And I think people thought, how in the world are
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Speaker 1: you in Los Angeles and in Las Vegas? Chad woman
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Speaker 1: created covering the flight path between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
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Speaker 1: It was a tough job, Chad, but I found a
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Speaker 1: way to pull it off. You did find a way
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Speaker 1: to pull it off. And I remember I saved you
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Speaker 1: because you were like on the fucking Clippers beat and
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Speaker 1: we were sitting in the ESPN office in l A
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Speaker 1: at l A Live, and I'm like, why you the
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Speaker 1: Clippers beat. You're not even very good at it is
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Speaker 1: a terrible john for you. This was after the Clippers
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Speaker 1: blew a three one lead to Houston, and I said, Chad,
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Speaker 1: I'm covering the same thing over and over again. They
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Speaker 1: got Chris Paul and Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan's and
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Speaker 1: like it doesn't matter. They lose in the second round.
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Speaker 1: Like every single year, no one in Los Angeles cares
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Speaker 1: about the Clippers. They hate this team. Please help me
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Speaker 1: save me, Chad, And you did. Thank you. Well, you
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Speaker 1: know what I did it for the good of the company.
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Speaker 1: You are going to be joined today by action network
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Speaker 1: writer analystics ordinaire. B. J. Cunningham, who joined us full
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Speaker 1: time in later in two thousand and twenty. Had been
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Speaker 1: contributing as a freelancer for a long time. He's not
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Speaker 1: the only account and transports writer he is also not
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Speaker 1: the only person on our team who is from Iowa.
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Speaker 1: That's right, Chad, thank you very much for this is
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Speaker 1: my first ever podcast, obviously since I was an accountants.
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Speaker 1: So it's an honor to be on the Favorites today
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Speaker 1: competing for second place behind Simon. So thank you for
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Speaker 1: having me. Wow, you're coming in hot. I like it.
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Speaker 1: Look you for him. I'm over too, So yeah, during
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Speaker 1: your favor But it is funny. Either could have been
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Speaker 1: an accountant joined the FBI or being accountant and joined
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Speaker 1: the Action Nework. Looks like you joined the Action Network.
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Speaker 1: This is a lot more fun than just sitting in
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Speaker 1: my cubical scrolling Twitter all day. So, I mean, my goodness,
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Speaker 1: if I thought a rash was in a bad dark
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Speaker 1: place covering first, I thank you from being a fucking
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Speaker 1: accountant in Iowa. I mean I was in a potally
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Speaker 1: lit state run building for a long time, just sitting
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Speaker 1: in a cubicle, just wasting away the day, just betting sports.
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Speaker 1: You are very own, our very own Ron Livingston, right
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Speaker 1: that reference other than Matt Mitchell who's eighty five years old.
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Speaker 1: All right, here's how the game is played today. You'll
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Speaker 1: answer two kinds of questions. First traditional trivia questions about sports,
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Speaker 1: sports betting, and the world at large, but also completely
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Speaker 1: subjective and totally asinine open ended prompts that I alone
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Speaker 1: will judge and give every advantage to Simon Hunter. To
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Speaker 1: accumulate points, you must answer the trivia questions correctly and
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Speaker 1: also also convinced me that your responses to those open
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Speaker 1: ended prompts are better than your opponents, because, just like
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Speaker 1: sports betting, you can't get him. All right, let's begin
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Speaker 1: today's Opening Day, Part one, first segment Alive Off opening
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Speaker 1: day of MLB season, folks, let's talk baseball. Our first
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Speaker 1: question is for you, b J. You ready? Yeah? Okay.
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Speaker 1: By the way, also noted, the first time our other
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Speaker 1: baseball writer, Schanzerillo made a podcast appearance was on The Favorites.
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Speaker 1: He had never done a podcast before. I'm like, hey,
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Speaker 1: come on, It's worked out really well for him. So
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Speaker 1: this is a good omen for you. Can't go anywhere
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Speaker 1: up right now. Last month, last month, forty ye year
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Speaker 1: old Yegkees manager Aaron Boone underwent surgery to implant this
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Speaker 1: device which helps the human heart beat more regularly. That
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Speaker 1: would be a pacemaker. Wow, you totally got that right,
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Speaker 1: forty eight and you got a pacemaker? All right? Simon
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Speaker 1: Twins pitcher and fan favorite Randy Dobnak signed a five
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Speaker 1: year contract this off season. Known for his signature look
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Speaker 1: of glasses and handlebar mustache, Donac went undrafted after pitching
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Speaker 1: for tiny Alderson Broodus University, located two hours from Charleston,
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Speaker 1: the capital city of this state. Oh this is tricky.
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Speaker 1: I know you want me to say, Simon, if I
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Speaker 1: want you to win, I don't want you to say
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Speaker 1: this state. I want you to say the correct answer.
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Speaker 1: I'll go h West Virginia, West. I can't believe you
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Speaker 1: got that right. That is amazing, West Virginia. All right,
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Speaker 1: I rosh, here you go. Mets fans rejoiced when ultra
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Speaker 1: billionaire and avid art collector Steve Cone bought the team
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Speaker 1: this offseason. Cohen once paid a record one fifty five
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Speaker 1: million dollars for a Picasso painstakingly restored after someone accidentally
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Speaker 1: poked a hole in it. Oh, this is right up
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Speaker 1: your alley. That someone was this casino magnate whose signature
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Speaker 1: property on the north end of the Vegas Strip bears
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Speaker 1: his name, Steve Win. That's too easy. You probably like,
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Speaker 1: that's my home away from home thanks to Chad Bill.
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Speaker 1: But I basically the probably partied with Steve When did
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Speaker 1: the Encore remember that night with Lebron James after the
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Speaker 1: Calves won the championships. That was at the win Chadrash
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Speaker 1: was in Vegas for something else. He was getting ready
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Speaker 1: to go to bed. Someone who runs the club at
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Speaker 1: the Win or the Encore texted him and said, the
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Speaker 1: Calves are going to stop here on their way back
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Speaker 1: from uh San Francisco, having just won the NBA title
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Speaker 1: in seven games against the Warriors. A Rash shows up.
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Speaker 1: He's let into the v I P Space and he
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Speaker 1: is the one who records the first shirtless video of
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Speaker 1: j R. Smith popping champagne bottles and spraying everybody. That
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Speaker 1: becomes a meme for the next week because JR. Smith
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Speaker 1: never puts a shirt back on. You never put that
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Speaker 1: shirt back on. All right, here we go, this is
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Speaker 1: your prompt. Back in two thousand nineteen, only the Rockies
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Speaker 1: and the d Backs used human oars to store their baseballs.
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Speaker 1: Now reports say ten teams will use them in many
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Speaker 1: of these teams remain a mystery, and baseball betters are
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Speaker 1: piste amen. If you listen to the favorite podcast from
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Speaker 1: earlier this week, Shan's Rillo not happy about it. If
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Speaker 1: you were a pro league commissioner and wanted to change
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Speaker 1: the sport and infuriate gamblers, what piece of equipment would
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Speaker 1: you secretly alter? Simon? What's your winning answer? I would
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Speaker 1: love if they would just let him have quirks in
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Speaker 1: the bats, and it would just be I random to
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Speaker 1: like the players themselves don't even know bring a little
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Speaker 1: bit more offense back into baseball. But I know people
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Speaker 1: lose their mind, especially like we know the old footage
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Speaker 1: like any time a player would break their bat and
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Speaker 1: the picture or where the umpire picking up with the
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Speaker 1: cork in there all summer long. That's what you hear
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Speaker 1: about the cork in the bat. Like Sammy Sosa, everything
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Speaker 1: like that was so crazy about the ways that you
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Speaker 1: can cheat, the ways you can't cheat. What they're good with,
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Speaker 1: what they're not, the unwritten rules, a rash. What do
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Speaker 1: you got? Well, this goes with all sports but the ball.
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Speaker 1: Like remember when David Stern introduced a new basketball back
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Speaker 1: in two thousand and six, and like all the players
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Speaker 1: complained about it was the most ridiculous thing that they
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Speaker 1: sold it to sell more balls, a synthetic ball. These
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Speaker 1: guys have been playing with this ball their entire lives.
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Speaker 1: So this was the worst experiment during David Stern's time.
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Speaker 1: Imagine that during a season they switch out the ball.
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Speaker 1: You can't change the ball. You can't mess with the balls.
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Speaker 1: So if they did that or like different teams had
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Speaker 1: their own ball, like, don't mess with the ball. They've
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Speaker 1: been playing with that their entire lives. Maybe I didn't
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Speaker 1: like that exactly. Your answer is incomprehensible. There's no way. Okay,
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Speaker 1: b J, b J, please please save a rash. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna go with robot umpires, but with a twist. Chat.
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Speaker 1: So we're gonna keep the same home plate umpires behind
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Speaker 1: home plate, but they're gonna have really tiny year pieces
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Speaker 1: in that nobody can see. And it's just Angel hernandez
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Speaker 1: An Lby headquarters calling balls and strikes for every single game,
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Speaker 1: because wouldn't you want Major League Baseball it's most experienced
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Speaker 1: umpire calling balls and strikes for every single game. Plus
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Speaker 1: nobody really knows what a good or bad call is
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Speaker 1: from here on. And if you want to infuriate gamblers specifically,
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Speaker 1: maybe Sean's Rillo. That'd be a pretty good way to
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Speaker 1: do it. That is the most devious, ingenious, evil way
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Speaker 1: to change this game. It's connected to like the most
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Speaker 1: insider joke in baseball, which is Angel Hernandez as the
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Speaker 1: umpire you never want. It connects it to one of
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Speaker 1: the most hotbutton issues, which is balls and strikes, and
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Speaker 1: connects it to the broader conversation about the use of
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Speaker 1: technology in calling those balls and strikes. Simon, you know,
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Speaker 1: I love you, and you had an advantage because a
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Speaker 1: rash like was just bumbling. But b J, that was
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Speaker 1: such a good answer. I'd expect that from a guy
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Speaker 1: as smart as b J. Well, thank you very much.
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Speaker 1: But I was really just thinking what could piss off
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Speaker 1: seans Rill of the most. If you were thinking creatively,
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Speaker 1: then you totally nailed it. All right, b J, You've
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Speaker 1: got two big answers, right, so far, well done. All Right,
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Speaker 1: here we go. Let's have some fun. We're gonna play
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Speaker 1: the nickname game. What's your name? Who are you? What's
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Speaker 1: your name? What's your name? What's your name? Let's play
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Speaker 1: the nickname game. Major League Baseball players have a rich
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Speaker 1: history of colorful nicknames, so we asked our Action Network
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Speaker 1: followers for their favorite current MLB nicknames. I answered this
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Speaker 1: question on Twitter yesterday, but here are some answers. B
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Speaker 1: J Twitter follower at Mike Gundy twelve. I can't it's
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Speaker 1: not really Mike Gundy who contributed. I'm sure at Mike
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Speaker 1: Undy twelve said. The greatest nickname belongs to the twins,
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Speaker 1: William's Astado. He's also known as la tortuga. The Spanish
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Speaker 1: word for this reptile. Is that a dinosaur? No, the
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Speaker 1: correct answer is tortoise, tortuga tortoise. I was a Spanish
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Speaker 1: miner too, so that's that's going to hurt a little.
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Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? I'm not what the funk man?
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Speaker 1: How could you get that wrong? Knowing being a Spanish minor. Well,
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Speaker 1: I haven't really spoken Spanish since I graduated college, so
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Speaker 1: that's probably why. Yeah, but that was like yesterday, all right.
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Speaker 1: Simon Twitter follower at dud Lawson nominated Juan Soto of
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Speaker 1: the Nationals for best nickname. His moniker, Childish Bambino, Oh
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Speaker 1: my God, that's so good, is a combination of Babe
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Speaker 1: Ruth and Childish Gampino, The stage name of this actor
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Speaker 1: and former are of NBC's community. I have no idea.
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Speaker 1: Carlos made, Donald Glover, childish Gambino, brilliant guy Rash Twitter
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Speaker 1: follower at Brett Brillante nominated braves infielder Pablo Sandoval. His
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Speaker 1: famous nickname derives from this popular two eight animated martial
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Speaker 1: arts filmand Kung Fu Panda. I'm gonna give it to you.
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Speaker 1: Well done, redeemed myself. Yes, we'll see what happens in
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Speaker 1: this question, because because this is where you gotta get creative. Okay,
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Speaker 1: here at the Favorites, we believe baseball needs more nicknames
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Speaker 1: because cashing a ticket on a walk off home run
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Speaker 1: and screaming La Panthera is way more fun than saying
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Speaker 1: hooray Luis Robert. So your job is to choose any
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Speaker 1: mL player and sell me on a brand new nickname, Rash.
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Speaker 1: Now is your chance to redeem yourself. I gotta do this.
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Speaker 1: Will Smith just turned twenty six, catcher for the Dodgers,
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Speaker 1: future star in my book The Fresh Prince. He is
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Speaker 1: really pushing back on this name. He doesn't want it
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Speaker 1: as his walk up stun. He does not want to
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Speaker 1: be known. It doesn't matter. You can't pick your nickname. Chad.
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Speaker 1: Will Smith is the fresh Prince. He is the fresh Prince.
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Speaker 1: He's young, He's the catcher for the Dodgers. Will Smith
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Speaker 1: lives in Hollywood. They gotta make this happen. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: matter what Will Smith wants. You are the fresh Prince.
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Speaker 1: That's your walk up song. This is your name. Embrace it,
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Speaker 1: young man. I don't mind it. I don't mind it.
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Speaker 1: I would also like each of you to give me
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Speaker 1: what your walk up song would be, since you mentioned it,
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Speaker 1: and of course I'll give you mine extra credit if
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Speaker 1: I love your walk up song, Genuine Pony. If Genuine
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Speaker 1: Pony comes on and you're not dup off your seats dancing,
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Speaker 1: we can't be friends when you hear my name. And
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Speaker 1: I'm about to go up to beat Genuine pe Genuine
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Speaker 1: Pony and the Fresh Prince b J. So I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: go down the beaten path. Here a little bit for
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Speaker 1: a nickname on golf with Tigers opening day starter Matthew Boyd,
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Speaker 1: and I want to give him the nickname gas Can
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Speaker 1: Matt Boyd because when things start going wrong, nobody stokes
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Speaker 1: the fire quite like Matt Boyd. I mean, in three
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Speaker 1: different times last year he gave up seven earned runs.
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Speaker 1: He only had twelve starts. Last year he actually led
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Speaker 1: major League Baseball, giving up fifteen home runs and twelve starts.
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Speaker 1: So if you're ever gonna bet the Tigers this year
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Speaker 1: and you're betting Matthew Boyd, maybe just steer clear of
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Speaker 1: it and go somewhere else. So gas Can Matt Boyd's
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Speaker 1: what I'm going with many layers to love there. And
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Speaker 1: you are the leader in the clubhouse right now, obviously
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Speaker 1: making a reference to the old time oil Can Boyd
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Speaker 1: pitcher for the Red Sox. I love that you're elevating
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Speaker 1: it for the new generation, tying it to what a
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Speaker 1: dumpster fire this guy can be and he's on the mound.
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Speaker 1: I think that is amazing, excellent, excellent leader in the
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Speaker 1: clubhouse answer, But you gotta back it up with a
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Speaker 1: walk up song. Yeah, I think I gotta go. First
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Speaker 1: thing off my head was September by Earth one and Fire.
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Speaker 1: I think that would just get everybody going right when
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Speaker 1: you walk up to the plate. I mean, nobody can
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Speaker 1: just sit down in their seat and just be quiet
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Speaker 1: when that song comes on. So September, Earth Went and Fire.
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Speaker 1: Do you reber you were showing more personality today than
16:32
Speaker 1: anybody should expect from an accountant who lives in Iowa.
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Speaker 1: I know it's crazy, right, you came to play Simon
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Speaker 1: PJ is giving you a run for his money. And now,
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Speaker 1: originally I had done something mean, but I think I'm
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Speaker 1: just gonna end up telling the story anywhere. My My
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Speaker 1: nickname was gonna be Casper from Mike Trout because you
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Speaker 1: never hear from so I was gonna go with Casper.
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Speaker 1: That's good, but tell you that, yeah, I do like that.
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Speaker 1: So in two thousand and ten, um, as we know,
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Speaker 1: I was working TV and my cousin you're working on
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Speaker 1: the Jersey. My cousin he was in high school. He
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Speaker 1: played for a small school and he made to the
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Speaker 1: state finals. So he's like, you have to come to
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Speaker 1: this game. I all right, no doubt, I'm gonna be there.
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Speaker 1: And I get there, and like small schools, like the
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Speaker 1: tallest kid might be like five ten five knights, like schools.
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Speaker 1: These schools have small kids. And there's a kid there
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Speaker 1: that is six to probably like to twenty, just pure muscle.
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Speaker 1: And of course it's Mike Trout. He's from South Jersey.
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Speaker 1: So my cousins playing Mike Trout's team, and it's like
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Speaker 1: the first thing he gets on base, he steals for
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Speaker 1: steal second and then he steals home, so he scores
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Speaker 1: the first run of the game. So the game is
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Speaker 1: one one going into the ninth and the coach brings
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Speaker 1: everyone in and they're all like, we just walked this kid,
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Speaker 1: like we don't want to pitch to him, and he goes,
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Speaker 1: I don't care if that kid's name is Pike Bass
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Speaker 1: or Trout. We're pitching of this kid. And first pitch
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Speaker 1: home run Mike Trout. They went to the one they
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Speaker 1: win state. So that was my first experience of this
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Speaker 1: kid in Mike Trout. And then sure enough a year
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Speaker 1: later he gets drafted. He's a legend now on baseball,
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Speaker 1: So that that was my first experience of Mike Trout.
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Speaker 1: I do love that nickname. It is so unfortunate that
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Speaker 1: he ends up playing for or Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
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Speaker 1: Rash has a radio show in southern California. I bet
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Speaker 1: I can count on one hand the number of times
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Speaker 1: he will talk about Mike Trout this year. Chad. The
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Speaker 1: only time we talked about him yesterday was that he
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Speaker 1: came in tenth in Jersey self behind Keiking Hernandez. Ki Hernandez,
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Speaker 1: utility player for the Dodgers who went to Boston, was nine.
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Speaker 1: Mike Trout was tent. He's not in Los Angeles, by
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Speaker 1: the way, like anyone who's been to southern California, like
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Speaker 1: Adahi was not Los Angeles. Chat. I know you've spent
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Speaker 1: some time there. It's not Los Angeles. If it takes
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Speaker 1: you two hours to get from Los Angeles to somewhere,
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Speaker 1: that place is not Los Angeles. But when no one
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Speaker 1: talks about Mike Trout out here, I completely agree with you.
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Speaker 1: I love the nickname Casper. Give me your walk up song,
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Speaker 1: so I'll go a little old school rap. I always
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Speaker 1: loved Victory. I just remember anytime you hear the opening
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Speaker 1: beat the Victory, which just gets me, am yo. The
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Speaker 1: sun don't shine forever, but it's long is his head,
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Speaker 1: and we might as well shine together a bit and nap. Then.
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Speaker 1: I am going to award B. J. Cunningham the prize
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Speaker 1: for this second prompt because the way he tied it
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Speaker 1: together with a reference to a song from the oil
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Speaker 1: can era, it was poetic and the only song that
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Speaker 1: is better than any of these, and maybe better than
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Speaker 1: September is my walk up song Crazy and Love by
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Speaker 1: Beyonce and jay Z. Yes, Simon is shaking his head.
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Speaker 1: I don't understand you guys don't like it. I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's a great song that was that came out when
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Speaker 1: I was very young, but it is a very cute
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Speaker 1: came out when you were very young. I don't even know.
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Speaker 1: I don't even know when it came out, but I
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Speaker 1: know anytime I'm on the elliptical and I heard that
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Speaker 1: song come on my iPod, that's actually I carry around
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Speaker 1: a boom box everywhere I go. I put my cassette
19:54
Speaker 1: in of Crazy and Love and it just gets me going.
19:57
Speaker 1: All right, it's time to give a score update right now.
19:59
Speaker 1: For some reason, even though he should win every game,
20:02
Speaker 1: Simon Hunter only has one point. A Rash is in
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Speaker 1: second place with two. B. J. Cunningham, the soft spoken,
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Speaker 1: mild mannered accountant from Iowa turned degenerate gambler. Action Network
20:15
Speaker 1: analyst extraordinaire who can cover every sport, has a model
20:19
Speaker 1: for any game, no matter what the contest. Apparently this
20:23
Speaker 1: one too. Because he's winning and he's got three points.
20:27
Speaker 1: Here we go. Silver Screen Sluggers is our theme For
20:31
Speaker 1: as long as there have been movies, there have been
20:33
Speaker 1: baseball movies. So let's talk about some important milestones, Simon.
20:38
Speaker 1: This is the anniversary of The Fan, a movie about
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Speaker 1: a San Francisco Giants star played by Wesley Snipes and
20:46
Speaker 1: an obsessed fan played by this incredibly famous two time
20:51
Speaker 1: Oscar winning actor. This has to be the one Robert
20:54
Speaker 1: down Jr. Right, I'm going to give you half a
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Speaker 1: point for getting the first name right and the first
21:02
Speaker 1: letter of the last name right. The answer is Robert
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Speaker 1: de Niro. Robert de Niro, That's what it was. That
21:09
Speaker 1: movie was like uncomfortable, like I remember the end of it.
21:12
Speaker 1: Any fan was just like you felt icky after you
21:15
Speaker 1: watched that movie because you've been there, question set out out. Man,
21:26
Speaker 1: I can't tell many times I've had just pure rage
21:28
Speaker 1: in my heart, feeling like other team or whatever we're
21:30
Speaker 1: like after you watch that movie, it's like, I want
21:32
Speaker 1: you tone it down a little bit. It's just a game.
21:34
Speaker 1: Well you know what, sweetie, I'm giving you the points
21:36
Speaker 1: because I'm so excited that you got Robert and the
21:38
Speaker 1: letter D. Alright, a rash. This year is the twenty
21:43
Speaker 1: anniversary of sixty one asterisk a movie about Roger Marris
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Speaker 1: and his pursuit of the home run record. It was
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Speaker 1: directed by this Emmy winning comedic actor and nine time
21:56
Speaker 1: host of the Academy Awards. This was Pilly Crystal. Dude,
22:00
Speaker 1: you are Hollywood. If you don't get this right, then
22:03
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to give back your residency card. That
22:06
Speaker 1: for living in l A, because that is ridiculous. The
22:09
Speaker 1: Yankees signed me to a one day contract. Right. I
22:13
Speaker 1: was the d H that designated Hebrew all right, b J.
22:16
Speaker 1: Speaking of Billy Crystal. This year is the thirtieth anniversary
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Speaker 1: of the film City Slickers. Despite being a huge Yeekees fan,
22:23
Speaker 1: Crystal's character Where's a hat of this other MLB team
22:27
Speaker 1: for most of the film, and they made a major
22:29
Speaker 1: contribution to his popular comic relief charity. Well, Chad, that
22:34
Speaker 1: movie came out before I was born, and I've never
22:36
Speaker 1: seen it, So I'm just gonna take a stab at
22:38
Speaker 1: it and say the Boston Red Sox, it's the New
22:43
Speaker 1: York Mets. And you get one half point deducted for
22:47
Speaker 1: continuing to rub it in my face that you're young
22:49
Speaker 1: and I'm old, and that I think I saw that
22:52
Speaker 1: movie when I was in college. You'll win this battle,
22:55
Speaker 1: but you're gonna lose the war because I'm gonna fire
22:58
Speaker 1: your young ass after this is over. Please don't. I
23:01
Speaker 1: don't want to go back to being an accountant. You better,
23:03
Speaker 1: you better start being nicer to old people. Here We
23:05
Speaker 1: Go is the thirty five anniversary of the original Bad
23:11
Speaker 1: News Bears, the heartwarming story of a drunken, loudmouth X
23:15
Speaker 1: minor league pitcher who for some reason is named the
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Speaker 1: manager of a kid's baseball team. In the spirit of
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Speaker 1: the Bad News Bears and their coach, Morris Buttermaker, please
23:26
Speaker 1: give me your pick for the MLB player who make
23:30
Speaker 1: the worst youth baseball coach. For example, Pete Rose will
23:34
Speaker 1: be an awful choice. B J. Well, Chad, I'm gonna
23:38
Speaker 1: cater to your hometown Chicago here, and I'm gonna go
23:40
Speaker 1: with big Z Carlos Sambrono because I don't think anybody
23:43
Speaker 1: from the early two thousand's had more let's call it
23:47
Speaker 1: passion and Carlos Sambrono and I can just imagine him
23:51
Speaker 1: coaching little league team and screaming at the umpire, getting
23:54
Speaker 1: kicked out of his third strade game, and as a
23:56
Speaker 1: parent sitting in the crowd being like, you know what,
23:58
Speaker 1: I think. I'm just gonna sign up well John for soccer.
24:00
Speaker 1: I don't think baseball's really is thing, so I'm gonna
24:02
Speaker 1: go with big Z. I like that a lot. Alright,
24:05
Speaker 1: a rush listen. I like Trevor Bauer. He's from North Hollywood.
24:10
Speaker 1: He went to u C. L A. He came down
24:11
Speaker 1: back to the hometown Dodgers. Terrible youth baseball coach. This
24:15
Speaker 1: guy pitched with one eye closed just because he wanted
24:18
Speaker 1: to test himself. What are you talking about? And he's
24:20
Speaker 1: addicted to social media. As soon as he comes to
24:23
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, he said, I'm gonna take a break from
24:26
Speaker 1: social media. He's right back on. I'm not a fan,
24:28
Speaker 1: he would He's a fantastic picture, not a good youth
24:31
Speaker 1: baseball coach. Al Right, Trevor Bauer cy young winner, new
24:36
Speaker 1: picture for the Los Angeles Dodgers, the World Series defending
24:40
Speaker 1: champion Simon. In my head, immediately I thought of Kenny Powers.
24:43
Speaker 1: I know that's a fictional character. My companion. I'm walking
24:47
Speaker 1: to a fucking hornets nest. All right, now'll be my companion.
24:51
Speaker 1: I guess I'll have to go with Barry Bonds like Batman.
24:54
Speaker 1: He is so intimidating and scary and he's weird, so
24:57
Speaker 1: I can't imagine him being a bunch of kids like
25:00
Speaker 1: trying to act nice and sweet and then he'll just
25:02
Speaker 1: eventually snap when all these kids can't get hits and
25:04
Speaker 1: he's like, you know, this guy is one of the
25:06
Speaker 1: greatest hitters ever. He could see what kind of scenes
25:08
Speaker 1: are coming in on the baseball before you would hit it, like,
25:10
Speaker 1: this guy is one of the kinds. So for someone
25:12
Speaker 1: that would lose their cool and that's full of old
25:14
Speaker 1: Royd rage, I'm gonna go with Barry Bonds allegedly. I
25:17
Speaker 1: think that's a really interesting idea. I'm giving Simon Hunter
25:21
Speaker 1: the win on this one. All right, Part four, here
25:25
Speaker 1: we go. We can all agree that Angel's outfielder Mike Trout,
25:29
Speaker 1: the eight time All Star, three time m v P
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Speaker 1: killer of dreams for small town teams in southern New Jersey,
25:36
Speaker 1: should never be confused with actual Trout, the beloved species
25:41
Speaker 1: of fish. So in honor of Opening Day, we're going
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Speaker 1: to play a game called Mike Trout or real Trout
25:51
Speaker 1: Fucking Matt Mitchell. The game is very I will give
25:54
Speaker 1: you a Trout fact. You tell me if it applies
25:59
Speaker 1: to my Trout, Actual Trout or both. You're ready, b J.
26:05
Speaker 1: Mike Trout or Real Trout. I feel like I should
26:08
Speaker 1: get some regis filled in. Who wants to be a
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Speaker 1: millionaire music under this? B J Mike Trout or Real Trout?
26:18
Speaker 1: Comfortable in both fresh water and ocean water. I'm gonna
26:23
Speaker 1: go Real Trout both. The answer is both. Matt Mitchell
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Speaker 1: did extensive research on this. Simon Real Trout or Mike
26:34
Speaker 1: Trout has been observed in every continent except Antarctica. Real
26:41
Speaker 1: Trout correct a rash, Real Trout or Mike Trout native
26:47
Speaker 1: to New Jersey Mike Trout. It's both. Cha. We have
26:53
Speaker 1: talked about Mike Trout more on this show than all
26:56
Speaker 1: of Los Angeles media come by, not just radio, not
26:58
Speaker 1: just all of Los Angeles media. It's true Mike Trout
27:02
Speaker 1: has gotten more national attention on this show that he
27:05
Speaker 1: has in all of media combined. That is no joke,
27:10
Speaker 1: all right, b J. Real Trout or Mike Trout. Proven
27:14
Speaker 1: ability to spawn both correct Simon current value Real Trout
27:23
Speaker 1: or Mike Trout five d and fifty seven thousand dollars
27:27
Speaker 1: per pound I'm gonna go with Mike Trout, correct a rash.
27:34
Speaker 1: This is apropos for for what we've been saying, extremely
27:37
Speaker 1: popular in Far East Russia. There's no way Far East
27:42
Speaker 1: Russia knows about Mike Trout. Los Angeles, California doesn't know
27:45
Speaker 1: about Mike Trout Far East Russia. So I'm gonna say, real, Trout,
27:50
Speaker 1: you are correct. Last prompt for this round that we're
27:55
Speaker 1: gonna recap the scoring because that was a lightning round.
27:57
Speaker 1: Unlike Mike Trout, Major League Baseball started showing some mercy
28:01
Speaker 1: on the opposition recently. A new rule during spring training
28:04
Speaker 1: allowed pitching teams to invoke a mercy rule ending and
28:08
Speaker 1: inning early, provided the picture had thrown at least twenty pitches.
28:11
Speaker 1: As a gambler, please describe a specific instance in any
28:15
Speaker 1: sport that makes you pine for a mercy rule to
28:20
Speaker 1: declare your bet a loss. For example, again, Matt Mitchell,
28:25
Speaker 1: Western New York native Buffalo Bills fam If Josh Allen
28:29
Speaker 1: gets hurt and Buffalo is trailing, Matt Mitchell would invoke
28:32
Speaker 1: the mercy rule and tear up his Bills ticket instead
28:36
Speaker 1: of watching Mitch Troubinsky enter the game. BJ your first
28:41
Speaker 1: whenever you're betting an underdog in baseball, it's like plus
28:43
Speaker 1: one seventy five or worse. If that starting pitcher can't
28:47
Speaker 1: get out of the first inning, I'd say just call
28:49
Speaker 1: mercy on it, because I don't need to spend the
28:51
Speaker 1: next three hours watching the Tigers or the Pirates, the
28:54
Speaker 1: Orioles mineral Leave trying to navigate those endings and try
28:57
Speaker 1: to keep them in the game. So I'd rather just
28:59
Speaker 1: call mercy and go do better things with my life.
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Speaker 1: Practical advice from a professional baseball better a rash. You
29:06
Speaker 1: know in the Los Angeles Chad we head for the
29:09
Speaker 1: doors late in the game, or you know, when Kenley
29:12
Speaker 1: Jansen comes into the game, when Dave Roberts goes to
29:15
Speaker 1: the bullpen and Kenley Jansen, he used to be great,
29:17
Speaker 1: but that's a loss. I'm sorry. More often than not.
29:20
Speaker 1: Unfortunately hopefully he's not the full time closer for the Dodgers,
29:23
Speaker 1: But mercy rule. When Kenley Jansen comes into the game,
29:27
Speaker 1: that's a loss for the Dodgers. I'm sorry. So you
29:29
Speaker 1: want mercy rule on Kenley Jansen in relief, Simon eup. Now,
29:33
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do something close to home with checks. Hopefully
29:35
Speaker 1: I'll screw his his number scoring here. I'll do any
29:38
Speaker 1: time the Bears are down two points and they're bringing
29:40
Speaker 1: a kicker on when there's less than a minute to go,
29:42
Speaker 1: don't even need to kick it. Mercy rule other team wins.
29:45
Speaker 1: I feel like that would be a good answer for
29:47
Speaker 1: that one. Honestly, that's like a kick in the dick
29:49
Speaker 1: that just heard so much to think about it. Oh
29:53
Speaker 1: my god, Simon, of course you're gonna win. You start
29:57
Speaker 1: the show pranking me. I admire your mer listeness. You
30:01
Speaker 1: win that. It's time to update the score somehow. As
30:04
Speaker 1: we head into the grand finale, Simon Hunter, my bff,
30:08
Speaker 1: the only one I want to actually win. He has
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Speaker 1: five points. A miraculous run of trout. You might say
30:15
Speaker 1: it was a spring run trout run in the spring.
30:18
Speaker 1: I don't know, but he got a lot of trout
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Speaker 1: answers right. A. Rash and b J are currently tied
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Speaker 1: up for this is their chance to come back. The
30:25
Speaker 1: topic is the unbreakable record. How much would you like
30:30
Speaker 1: to risk? Please text your wager amount to producer Matt Mitchell.
30:36
Speaker 1: Here we go. The question is the Cincinnati Reds were
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Speaker 1: a very average team in and Johnny Vandermere was a
30:44
Speaker 1: very average player, but over the course of two consecutive
30:47
Speaker 1: games that season, the twenty three year old, nicknamed the
30:50
Speaker 1: Dutch Master, accomplished defeats so remarkable it's known as the
30:54
Speaker 1: most unbreakable record in baseball. One Vegas bookmaker said, the
30:58
Speaker 1: odds of breaking his record our quote a long shot,
31:01
Speaker 1: so long it's basically incalculable. End quote. What did Johnny
31:07
Speaker 1: Vandermere do? Text your responses directly to Matt Mitchell. The
31:13
Speaker 1: question is what did Johnny VanderMeer do? Simon your up? First,
31:20
Speaker 1: I said it means pitched, you'd be wrong? What did
31:24
Speaker 1: you wager? All of it? As always, Simon goes all
31:28
Speaker 1: in because you are You are my bff and your
31:31
Speaker 1: fucking gambler, and that's why I love you, and that's
31:33
Speaker 1: why you're the cost of this podcast. But now you've
31:35
Speaker 1: got zero points? Okay, Rush, what did you wager? And
31:39
Speaker 1: what is your answer? You're probably gonna get this right, idea,
31:41
Speaker 1: but most secutive grand slams you are now at zero? Okay, Jay,
31:48
Speaker 1: what did you wager? What is your answer? Well, now
31:50
Speaker 1: I'm kind of regretting wagering at all all four points,
31:53
Speaker 1: but my answer is most matters face without recording it out.
31:57
Speaker 1: Oh my god, every was at zero. The answer is
32:01
Speaker 1: he threw two consecutive no hitters. Matt lead us Chad.
32:05
Speaker 1: In the event of a tie, we invoke the favorite
32:09
Speaker 1: Thursday Thunderdome Sudden Death challenge, a single numerical question. The
32:15
Speaker 1: winner will be the closest without going over classic prices,
32:19
Speaker 1: right rules. Please give me this number the total number
32:25
Speaker 1: of Mike Trout career Major League home runs plus the
32:30
Speaker 1: average weight of an adult rainbow trout. Good luck. Okay,
32:36
Speaker 1: we have a tie of everybody at zero. Because everybody
32:39
Speaker 1: went all in on the final question and nobody got
32:41
Speaker 1: it right. You had to text your answers to Matt Mitchell.
32:44
Speaker 1: What is the combined number the combined total of Mike
32:48
Speaker 1: Trout home runs in his career and the average weight
32:52
Speaker 1: of a rainbow trout. That total number in slack, Matt
32:55
Speaker 1: Mitchell sent me the answer. Can you please give us
32:58
Speaker 1: Simon Hunter's answer? Simon so two hundred and thirty two
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Speaker 1: thirty What did a rash Marks say? Three hundred and five?
33:08
Speaker 1: What did the accountant B. J. Cunningham say? Incredibly, B J.
33:14
Speaker 1: Cunningham has three oh eight Holy shit. He is a genius.
33:21
Speaker 1: Mike Trout has three d and two career home runs,
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Speaker 1: and the average weight of a rainbow Trout is eight pounds.
33:29
Speaker 1: The answer is three ten. Why you react? And I
33:31
Speaker 1: thought I got it right on the nose. You came
33:34
Speaker 1: so simon, what do you think of that? I'm just
33:37
Speaker 1: a hurd defeat. I can't believe I wager gold. I
33:39
Speaker 1: blew it. I knew it. I was like, you messed up.
33:42
Speaker 1: I blame it on you because usually you give us
33:44
Speaker 1: a hint about what the question is gonna be, but
33:46
Speaker 1: this time you didn't. You were just like, give me
33:47
Speaker 1: a number. So I was just like, all right, screw it,
33:49
Speaker 1: I'll go all five. So I blame you chat of course,
33:51
Speaker 1: well you should. I'm supposed to be your ally on this.
33:54
Speaker 1: We're supposed to be teammates. It's like survivor. I'm against
33:56
Speaker 1: everybody else, and I kind of screwed you. B J. Cunningham,
34:00
Speaker 1: you have won this week's edition of The Thunderdome, and
34:03
Speaker 1: for that, we are going to give you a season
34:06
Speaker 1: supply of baseball games to write about until your fingers
34:09
Speaker 1: fall off. Everybody should go read him in the Action
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34:18
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34:21
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34:26
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34:29
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34:33
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34:40
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