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Hour 2 - For Pete's Sake! · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Boom! Shakalaka! It's our number two! Another topsy-turvy hour of
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  Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show as we try to build a
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  Speaker 1: better mousetrap here. in the Magic Radio Box. And here
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  Speaker 1: in our number two on this Thursday, the 17th day
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  Speaker 1: of September, talking baseball, the Benny man can, the Benny
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  Speaker 1: man can. Was it, quote, crazy, as pitcher Sean Mania said,
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  Speaker 1: that Met fans gave Orioles slugger Pete Alonzo a curtain call,
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  Speaker 1: On the road. We'll talk about that. Also, give me
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  Speaker 1: your reaction to the Mets stars Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto,
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  Speaker 1: and Bo Bichette failing to catch a routine pop-up and
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  Speaker 1: allowing it to drop out in left field. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about that. And do you believe that San Francisco's slugger,
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  Speaker 1: the Bay Area bopper, Rafael Devers, has been removed from
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  Speaker 1: the off-season flea market and will not be relocating to
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  Speaker 1: this offseason. We'll talk about all that and who knows
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  Speaker 1: what else right now. We're all over everything. We also
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  Speaker 1: have Benny versus the Penny. We'll pick the Lions-Bills game
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  Speaker 1: here in hour number two. And here it is. For
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  Speaker 1: Pete's sake, what are we doing here? What are we doing?
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  Speaker 1: We're going to start with a little baseball here. I know, oh,
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  Speaker 1: what are you talking about baseball for? Oh, my God,
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  Speaker 1: it's football season.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, stab, stab, Mallard.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, calm down. We believe in multitasking. And if there's
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  Speaker 1: a good story, I'm going to talk about it. There
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  Speaker 1: are some really good stories that aren't about the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm going to go where the stories are.
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  Speaker 1: And the headline here this hour, our lead from Queens.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, right there. All right. borough of queens not
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  Speaker 1: far from our colleague rob parker's old stomping grounds there
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  Speaker 1: so pete alonzo good old pete alonzo hit another dinger
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  Speaker 1: for the baltimore baseball team helping the orioles get another
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  Speaker 1: win against the mess now the orioles are technically uh
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  Speaker 1: in the race they're a faux contender because there's bad
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  Speaker 1: teams they're going to make the playoffs in the american
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  Speaker 1: the ors are a bad team the mets are a
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  Speaker 1: bad team but They're not going to make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: They've been eliminated. They're going to have a losing record
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. The story, though, is about Pete Alonzo,
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  Speaker 1: who's really ruffling feathers over there. A storybook return. Payback
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  Speaker 1: against his old team. So if you haven't fallen, Alonzo
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  Speaker 1: hit the home run on Wednesday night. The night prior,
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  Speaker 1: Alonzo hit his 300th career home run, and that created
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  Speaker 1: quite the hullabaloo at Citi Field. They were celebrating like
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  Speaker 1: the Mets had won a playoff series. And there was
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  Speaker 1: just a tremendous amount of joy. Pete Alonzo, he was
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  Speaker 1: happy too. And he had a celebrate good times kind
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  Speaker 1: of mindset there, a theatrical bat spike towards the Orioles dugout.
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  Speaker 1: You had rhythmic chanting from the Metropolitan fans, chanting Alonzo's
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  Speaker 1: name until he emerged from the visiting dugout for the
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  Speaker 1: very rare, very rare road team curtain call. which is
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  Speaker 1: obviously a very emasculating situation for the home team when
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  Speaker 1: you guys suck so much the player on the other
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  Speaker 1: team gets a curtain call. Well, you got another ovation
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  Speaker 1: in the game on Wednesday. Now, the original celebration sparked.
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  Speaker 3: Anger.
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  Speaker 1: And not just by the fans. Now, the fans were
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  Speaker 1: angry because they turned from chanting Pete Alonzo's name to
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  Speaker 1: Fire Stearns! Fire Stearns! They were aiming it at what
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  Speaker 1: they used to call the GM, but it was demeaning,
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  Speaker 1: so the executives wanted to be called President of Baseball
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  Speaker 1: Ops and all this bullcrap. So David Stearns... Another one
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  Speaker 1: of these Ivy League geniuses who used to work for
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  Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers. And he's the evil meddling executive that
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  Speaker 1: built this crap bag Mets team. And they were chanting
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  Speaker 1: his name. Now, the reason I bring all this up
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  Speaker 1: is because a member of the Mets, not a good one,
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  Speaker 1: pitcher Sean Mania, he called out the Mets fans. You
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  Speaker 1: can't call out the Mets fans. Yeah, Sean Mania. Sean
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  Speaker 1: Mania here was upset with the curtain call for an
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  Speaker 1: opposing player in his ballpark. Now, just to prove I'm
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  Speaker 1: not lying, we have the audio tape. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: the audio tape. This is a picture for the New
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  Speaker 1: York Mets. Sean Mania talking about the fans giving Pete Alonzo,
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  Speaker 1: the other team, a big ovation.
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  Speaker 4: The guys in here work their ass off every single day. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, to have that kind of reaction to an
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  Speaker 4: opposing player, you know, could be anybody. um it's crazy
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  Speaker 4: to me um you know i've again i've got nothing
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  Speaker 4: but respect for pete but um yeah i've just never
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  Speaker 4: seen anything like that before um and you know i
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  Speaker 4: know the guys in here we are grinding our butts
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  Speaker 4: off and stuff like that happens but um yeah it's
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  Speaker 4: just i've never seen anything like that before it's kind
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  Speaker 4: of crazy.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so there you go. And again, crazy, and
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  Speaker 1: then he added later, Pete's not here anymore. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so that is a good jumping off point. Let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question. Was it, quote, crazy, as Sean Mania said,
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  Speaker 1: that the Met fans gave Orioles slugger Pete Alonso a
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  Speaker 1: curtain call on the road? So I've got democracy, Guadalajara musicians,
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  Speaker 1: and designer luggage. Three things that have never been tossed together.
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  Speaker 1: And here on this show, as dingbats, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: do it. And we're going to make magic. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to be amazing. And we're going to toss it all
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  Speaker 1: into the handcart is what we're going to do. We
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  Speaker 1: always start, though, with number one. Number one. One, one, one, one, one, one, one, one.
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  Speaker 1: Number one.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Who wants to let Sean and I know that... You're
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  Speaker 1: not playing Little League. Doesn't he sound like a child?
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  Speaker 1: Sean Mania sounds like a kid playing Little League. But
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  Speaker 1: we played really hard. We should get credit for playing hard. Hey, dum-dum,
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  Speaker 1: you're in the major leagues. In a town like New York,
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  Speaker 1: you're not in some soft city where they cheer you
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  Speaker 1: no matter what. New York's gotten softer than it used
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  Speaker 1: to be. But still, what are you expecting? What kind
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  Speaker 1: of numb nuts would say something so stupid? These guys
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  Speaker 1: work hard. It's not about that. Who cares how hard
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  Speaker 1: you work? You get paid millions and millions of dollars
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  Speaker 1: to do the work. You're being compensated for the work.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get credit for the work. You're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: do the work. So stupid. And Shamanai, in the grand
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  Speaker 1: scheme of things, he's been a Met for like five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Been there a couple years, that's it. He's like an
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  Speaker 1: army brat. The guy's a baseball nomad. He's been all
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  Speaker 1: over the dusty Winnemucca Road. And so the Met fandom,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm certainly not a Met fan, everywhere I've worked
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  Speaker 1: in media, there's always a Met fan. Whether it's behind
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  Speaker 1: the microphone or in front of the microphone, everywhere I've worked,
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  Speaker 1: there's Met fans. Everywhere I go, there's Mets fans. And
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  Speaker 1: I got family. My family Mets fans. Some are Yankee fans.
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  Speaker 1: Thank God for them. But Mets fandom has roots way deeper.
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  Speaker 1: Then Sean Mania's baseball reference transaction page as he's bounced
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  Speaker 1: around the big league circuit. These people watched Pete Alonzo
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  Speaker 1: hit 264 home runs with Mr. Met shaking his tushy
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  Speaker 1: there in Queens and then end up being emotionally waterboarded.
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  Speaker 1: by the franchise for decades. Now, the greatest punk move
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  Speaker 1: for the Met fan was y'all had orgasms. Y'all had
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  Speaker 1: orgasms when the new owner took over, Met fan boy.
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man, this is great. We got a real Met
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  Speaker 1: fan as the owner there. And how's that working out?
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  Speaker 1: Don't ask. Don't ask. Yeah, I know. I know. Well.
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  Speaker 1: The fans in Queens apparently really loved Pete Alonso, and
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  Speaker 1: they wanted him to stay. And the Met fans did
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  Speaker 1: not divorce Pete. They didn't get rid of Pete. That
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  Speaker 1: would be boy wonder genius. David Stearns, the smartest man
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  Speaker 1: in the room, who said, let's play HGTV. Why don't
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  Speaker 1: we play Love It or List It? And, yeah, we'll
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  Speaker 1: do that. And then, well, there's no love. No love
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  Speaker 1: for Pete as he was shepherded out of town, the
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  Speaker 1: polar bear, leaving the Queens Zoo. And that's it. He's
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  Speaker 1: the one that filed the paperwork. So Pete got a
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  Speaker 1: couple of curtain calls. Really, the main one was the
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  Speaker 1: 300th home run. And Stearns got a well-deserved Bronx cheer
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  Speaker 1: over in Queens. And what this is, is democracy at work.
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  Speaker 1: Baseball edition of Democracy. So before policing the paying customer,
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  Speaker 1: Sean Mania, I would like you to learn the immortal
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  Speaker 1: words of the great LeVar Ball, who taught me years
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  Speaker 1: ago when I was a young man, stay in your lane!
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe solve, maybe solve the mystery, Sean Mania, of
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  Speaker 1: that earned run average, which is hovering around 5, 4.7 something.
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  Speaker 1: And you're giving... The Mets, that kind of production for
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  Speaker 1: $ 25 million a season. And this guy, he's lucky he's
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  Speaker 1: not brought up on grand larceny charges for that type
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  Speaker 1: of performance for $ 25 million on average a year for
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  Speaker 1: Sean Mania. And to sit there as a professional, a
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  Speaker 1: grown athlete. Well, we work hard, too. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: Did they not realize how ridiculous that sounds? Seriously. And
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  Speaker 1: you don't get credit for doing the things you're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to do. That's what being a grown-up is. You do it.
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  Speaker 1: You don't do it because you want to get credit
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  Speaker 1: for it. All right, page two. Now, this ties together.
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  Speaker 1: I happen to have– I was flipping around watching some
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  Speaker 1: random baseball games. I did see Blake Snell– I ain't
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  Speaker 1: playing unless I get mine, bro. I'm risking my life, bro.
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  Speaker 1: I guess my guy Vasay is going to have to
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  Speaker 1: take care of him. He's got a pulled groin, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. Blake Snell. My God. So he
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  Speaker 1: takes the first half of the season off, makes a
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  Speaker 1: few starts, and now he's hurt again. And you idiots
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  Speaker 1: keep supporting this guy. My fellow Dodger backers support this guy.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you do that? Are you just a moron?
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  Speaker 1: Is that why you support Blake Snell? Oh, because he's
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  Speaker 1: wearing the right laundry? I don't care what laundry he's wearing.
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  Speaker 1: The guy's a schmuck, okay? The guy's a schmuck. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: let's go to this. I'm watching the Mets-Orioles game. I
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  Speaker 1: was flipping around, and I happened to see this. And
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  Speaker 1: then I saw it, and I said, well, that's embarrassing.
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  Speaker 1: And then I saw it over and over. You guys
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  Speaker 1: were sending me this. So there was a play in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the Orioles-Mets game where Mets stars Francisco Lindor,
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  Speaker 1: Juan Soto, and Bo Bichette were all converging in the outfield,
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  Speaker 1: and this became a point of emphasis for a very
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  Speaker 1: ugly situation. There was a defensive malfunction, and it happened
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  Speaker 1: against Baltimore. An Orioles player popped up. You don't know
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  Speaker 1: who any one of the Orioles is anyway. Who cares?
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  Speaker 1: So an Orioles player popped the ball up. The ball
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  Speaker 1: dropped harmlessly between the three. There they are. The faces
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  Speaker 1: of the New York Mets all standing there like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. It should have been a routine out, and
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  Speaker 1: it became a double. None of the three took control
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  Speaker 1: or called off the others as they converged in shallow,
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  Speaker 1: the shallow part of the outfield out there in left field.
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  Speaker 1: None of them said, hey, it's my ball, I got it.
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  Speaker 1: And as you can imagine, it was embarrassing, and now
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  Speaker 1: it's really embarrassing because the bots and the algorithms have
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  Speaker 1: picked up on this, the social media reaction has. They're
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  Speaker 1: calling it the billion-dollar blunder. And the reaction, absolutely brutal, brutal.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so the question, give me your reaction to
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  Speaker 1: the Mets stars, Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, and Bo Bichette,
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  Speaker 1: standing side-by-side, failing to catch a routine pop-up. In September,
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  Speaker 1: the season's almost over. There's like less than two weeks
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  Speaker 1: to go in the baseball season, and this is what
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  Speaker 1: we got. So, my God. My reaction, this play is,
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  Speaker 1: the word I will use is symbolic. It is symbolic
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  Speaker 1: of the fundamentally broken New York Met franchise. Your three
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  Speaker 1: superstars standing around waiting for somebody else to do the job.
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  Speaker 1: That's the Mets. They all wait for someone else to
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  Speaker 1: do it. And the Mets went out there. Steve Cohen
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  Speaker 1: went out and paid for the Avengers. He paid for
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  Speaker 1: the Avengers, and so far he's gotten the three stooges.
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  Speaker 1: Vaudeville comedy. Vaudeville comedy. That's what that was. You'd see
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  Speaker 1: that on a Saturday morning at your local park Little
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  Speaker 1: League game with seven-year-olds. You'd see that. And the Mets,
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  Speaker 1: Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, and Bo Bichette, the bonus babies.
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  Speaker 1: 1.2 million. Billion in combined salary. That's not a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: Combined salary of those three professional baseball players, $ 1. 2 billion.
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  Speaker 1: Three guys, $ 1. 2 billion, one baseball, and apparently nobody has
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  Speaker 1: it in the contract. There's no fine print saying to say,
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  Speaker 1: I got it. My ball, I got it. Got it! No,
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  Speaker 1: none of that. It's crazy. The money's guaranteed. Catching the ball, optional.
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  Speaker 1: They all got paid, and the Mets have gotten played.
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  Speaker 1: And to think about that spot the Mets are in.
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  Speaker 1: The Metropolitans could have gone out and signed free agents
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  Speaker 1: from the Tijuana Bulls, the Agua Caliente Railroadmen, and the
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  Speaker 1: Guadalajara Musicians of the Mexican League. And they would have
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  Speaker 1: saved some money, and they'd still miss the playoffs. And
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  Speaker 1: I'll bet you the guy from the Railroadmen and the
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  Speaker 1: musician from Guadalajara would have made the catch. How about that?
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  Speaker 1: And imagine if we could take a time machine back to, like,
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  Speaker 1: 1955 and say, yes, they make a billion dollars in 2026,
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  Speaker 1: and no... No, none of them caught that ball. And
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  Speaker 1: right there, that is your New York Mets in six seconds.
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  Speaker 1: Modern Met baseball right there. Billion dollars in the outfield
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  Speaker 1: standing around and they're holding their jockstraps. Don't know what
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  Speaker 1: to do. All right, now last word. to San Francisco,
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  Speaker 1: where our friend Eileen has been shadow banned from social media.
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  Speaker 1: But I know she's listening. We have a status update
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  Speaker 1: on the big bopper by the bay, the big bopper
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  Speaker 1: by the bay, slugger Raphael Devers. The latest reports this
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  Speaker 1: week say he is expected to remain, remain with the
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  Speaker 1: Higantes despite a lot of trade speculation this year. State-funded
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  Speaker 1: MLB Network, the propaganda arm of Major League Baseball, says
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  Speaker 1: the chances of San Francisco putting Rafael Devers on the
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  Speaker 1: trade block are, quote, slim and none, claiming that Devers has, quote,
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  Speaker 1: proven that his future is in San Francisco. although not
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  Speaker 1: for the final couple weeks of the season. His season
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  Speaker 1: is over. They're calling it a core muscle injury, which
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  Speaker 1: I think means he has a nice vacation somewhere tropical,
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  Speaker 1: and he didn't want to have that interfere with the
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  Speaker 1: baseball season. So Devers, 29 years old. He had 37
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  Speaker 1: home runs, 98 runs batted in, and OPS for you,
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  Speaker 1: OPS lovers of 865, which I'm told is good. The question,
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  Speaker 1: as we dance around here and do the boogie, The question,
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  Speaker 1: do you believe that San Francisco slugger Rafael Devers has
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  Speaker 1: been removed from off-season flea market conversation? So on this one,
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  Speaker 1: I am agnostic on this. Here's the problem with the
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  Speaker 1: Rafael Devers love fest, which is going on right now
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  Speaker 1: by many baseball media dopes. The numbers, which are very solid,
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  Speaker 1: better than that, I would say, and better than solid,
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't make him a dependable player. And the general manager,
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  Speaker 1: Buster Posey, from what I understand, he really wanted to
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  Speaker 1: trade Rafael Devers at the deadline, and nobody really wanted him.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, well, we'll take him. He's got a bad contract.
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  Speaker 1: He's not worth the contract, so we'll take him. But
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  Speaker 1: you've got to give us a little bit of this,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of that. That was an indictment of
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  Speaker 1: Rafael Devers. That was a referendum on Rafael Devers. And
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  Speaker 1: so he went out, and to his credit, he is monster-mashed.
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  Speaker 1: with some of the most hollow stats we've ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about having little to no impact on wins
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  Speaker 1: and losses, and yet putting up numbers that the nerds
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  Speaker 1: have their pants around their ankles for. That's essentially what
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  Speaker 1: Rafael Devers has done. And he hasn't been able to
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  Speaker 1: change his attitude issues. You know what this reminds me of?
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  Speaker 1: It's like an NBA player playing in Sacramento, like DeMar
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  Speaker 1: DeRozan playing in Sacramento, averaging 25 points a game. Well, whoop-dee-damn-do. Whoop-dee-damn-do.
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  Speaker 1: You know, wee! You got a lot of points. Did
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  Speaker 1: it help your team win?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Buster Posey is trying to put something together. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you talk about that giant culture and all that. When
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  Speaker 1: they were winning with... Bruce Bochy as the manager back
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  Speaker 1: in the day they had a bunch of annoying pesky
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  Speaker 1: players that were not necessarily the greatest players they had
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  Speaker 1: a couple guys that were good, but in most part,
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  Speaker 1: they just had players that played with grit, and Buster
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  Speaker 1: Posey wants that type of team with accountability. I guess
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  Speaker 1: the word is dirtbags, not Long Beach State dirtbags, but
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: they want dirtbags. Guys who will treat every ground ball
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: like somebody's insulted their mother or kicked their puppy right
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: in the face. And they'll go do it. And San Francisco,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: they need more players like that. And from Rafael Devers,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: it's like they need more of a lunch pail thing.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: He's more of a designer luggage guy. He's designer luggage guy.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: And Devers already had that messy divorce in Boston over
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: positional flexibility and not being a team player. He didn't
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: want to embrace a different role. So does that prove
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: that he's a locker room tumor, what happened in Boston,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: and the fact that Giants were trying to trade him
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: up until the deadline? No, but it sure makes your
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: mind wander. The only thing that will save Rafael Devers
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: from being tossed out into the trade market is if
• 20:51
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• 20:54
  Speaker 1: be because of a work stoppage coming to Major League Baseball.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: So there will be no trades, so it doesn't matter.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: You can get all schmaltzy about this, that, and the
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: other thing with Rafael Devers, but the reality is there
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: will likely be no trades because everything will be shut
• 21:07
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• 21:10
  Speaker 1: and the owners because the owners want a salary cap,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: which baseball doesn't need, and the players know that, and
• 21:15
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• 21:17
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• 24:19
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• 24:24
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• 24:27
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• 24:30
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• 24:32
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• 24:39
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• 24:43
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• 24:48
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• 24:53
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• 24:57
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• 25:00
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• 25:27
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• 26:08
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• 26:12
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• 26:18
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• 26:23
  Speaker 1: a short time ago the sports media was totally focused
• 26:26
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• 26:32
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• 26:37
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• 26:49
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• 26:55
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• 26:59
  Speaker 1: all season, just like the Mets have been underachieving all season.
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  Speaker 1: and embarrassed themselves just like their team. Very harsh. Very attacking.
• 27:15
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• 27:18
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• 27:20
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• 27:24
  Speaker 1: we say hello to andrea the astrology insider and she's
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: in berkeley here a little birdie tells me i can't
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: as you understand andrew we can't do shout outs we're
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: not a morning show so i cannot wish you a
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: happy birthday i wish i wish i could but i'm
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: not able to do that i hope you understand i
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: know you're You're turning 21 again, so that's a big
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: birthday for a young lady. So happy birthday, Andrea. You
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: have a lot to look forward to.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: There you go. Thank you, Ben. Appreciate the good vibes.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Yes, what's going on? You're a Mets fan.
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  Speaker 3: I am.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Were you cheering for Pete Alonzo? Yeah, you know, he
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: was one of my favorite Mets. I think you might recall,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: I would call it and say, Pete Alonzo is tuned
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: into Mercury Retrograde Cycles. And someone said, oh, hey, Pete,
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: how'd you break out of your slump? And he goes, well,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Mercury came out of retrograde. Do you remember that he
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: said that?
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Yes, I do. I do remember. We talked about that
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: on the show. That's right.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty cool. Is there any kind of cosmic event
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: that we should know about right around now, or is
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: it pretty calm out there?
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, let's see. Well, we've got the fall equinox coming
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: up in a few days, September 21st.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, right. Next week we head into fall.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Exactly right. I'll be doing my astrology newsletter.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: To me, fall means... Some people say you've got to
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: go to, like, drive through Vermont to see the leaves
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: change and the beautiful trees of the Northeast. To me,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: fall means... A pumpkin spice latte. That's what it means.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: When I see those, that to me, that's in California,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: that's the leaves changing colors. When you go to Starbucks
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: and they've got the pumpkin spice latte, that is a
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: sign it is fall.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Yes, because I grew up on the East Coast in
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: New York, and we had the change of seasons and
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: the leaves. But you know what? We have some really
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: beautiful leaves and changing of color of the leaves right
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: here in California, in Berkeley and the Bay Area. So
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: I've been pleasantly surprised and enjoyed.
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: That as well.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Some beautiful forests here in California. Of course, many of
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: them are cut down to build houses, but— the sequoia
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: trees and whatnot, but there's still some left, a few. Yes.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Mother Nature doing her job, and that was just really
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: nice this time of year, one of my favorite seasons.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: So that's coming up, and I'll be sure to do
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: my newsletter and mention it to the Malheur Militia. But, yeah,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: I've been watching the Mets games, obviously, as a fan. And, yeah,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: you know, he was just a big fan favorite, Ben.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: And the Mets fans were loyal. They were sorry to
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: see him go. And they're a very passionate fan base.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Well, it's one of those things, Andrea. Letting him go
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: was bad. It would have been okay if you had
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: made the right moves to replace him and put a
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: good team on the field. But the fact, I mean,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: that's the double whammy. That is the definition of the
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: double whammy. You let the guy go. You said, we
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: know better than the fans. The fans are morons. We're better.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: So you let him go. And then you brought in
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: all these guys who collectively suck to replace Pete Alonzo.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: So that's on you. That's on you.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, you can't replace someone like that. He's a
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: very unique being, you know, on the field and off.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Very spiritual. The whole Mercury retrograde, the polar bear thing.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: You know, it's just nice to see him back and
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: the fans cheer him.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Any big birthday plans here? What do we got? Big
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: birthday plans, Andrea? Big celebration?
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, well, you know, being a Virgo, I'm actually going
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: to be doing, I'm going to be working.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: I'm doing some readings on my birthday, and then we'll
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: see if I take a nice break for dinner. But, yeah,
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: I'm scheduled to do a reading for another Virgo. All right.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Well, good luck with that. And say hello, Virgo in service,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: our friend Andrea. Happy birthday there, Andrea. Happy birthday, Andrea.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Bay Area.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: And Coop and Ben and Mallard Militia.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: We're going to meet one of these days. We'll get together.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: We'll have a meet and greet, and we'll hang out.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: We'll hang out and have a good time. All right.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Andrea. There she goes, the birthday girl, our
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: friend Andrea. Let's say hello to Andre. Andre and his dog, Willis,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: our pal Andre, in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre.
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: What's going on, Ben? It's good to be with you. Listen, yeah,
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: Willis is fired up. We'll get him.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: And also with you.
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: Yes, indeed. These folks, talking about how hard they work.
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: They can't help but mention the hours that they're putting in.
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: You know, they sleep in the office working four, five, six,
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: seven hours. Ben, you know Cignetti? Kurt Cignetti? You know
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: the guy who says, just Google me? 90 minutes, his practices. In, out, efficient,
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: doesn't say two words. All right, and it seems to
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: be working out well for him. Tony Dundee's another guy.
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: He's talking about, listen, I made it clear. We're going
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: to be home for dinner with our family. We don't
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: have to sleep in our office. You know, so we
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: concur on that, you know, in terms of the I
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: work hard guy. You spend more time complaining about the
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: hours that you're working rather than, you know, doing what
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: you're supposed to be doing. Willis over here, he's not underpaid.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: And, Andre, I'm glad you brought up NFL coaches. There
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: is no one that loves to tell you how hard
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: they work more than NFL coaches. They love it. And
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: I'm convinced a certain percentage of these head coaches in
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: the NFL, the reason they spend so much time at work,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: is they can't stand their families. They don't like their wives.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: They don't like their kids. They just want to stay
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: at the football office. They don't want to deal with life.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: So they just sit there and fiddle around with their whatever,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: and that's it. Right.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: They should have learned from McNulty and the Wire, right,
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: when him and Lester were going back and forth. Look,
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: the job is not going to save you. The Cubs
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: go on Stringer Belt, and then what happens after that?
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: You're sitting in a room by yourself, all right? You've
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: got to face back. And then stop complaining about, you know,
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: especially if you have a good job, just do your job,
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: and then go home because those are the greater things.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean? Work is a means to
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: an end. It's not an end in and of itself.
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: So we've got to get that straightened out. Now, look, Ben,
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: you're talking about Mr. Devers over there. We dealt with
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: it here.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: In the Commonwealth.
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: This guy, again, he's been malcontent. Nothing's good enough for him.
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: He didn't have, as you said, the team. We need
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: some positional flexibility. Did Alex Rodriguez, excuse me, did Derek
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: Jeter have a pity party, a tantrum when the Yankees
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: bring in A-Rod? Okay? And actually it was A-Rod who said, no, no, no,
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: I'm going to go over to third base. I'm not
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: going to make a big thing because I know you
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: already have Jeter at shortstop. We're going to make this
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: thing work. I'm going to make a ton of money.
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: I want to be in the spotlight. It's a win-win.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: Devers has no sense of this. Okay, any little minor thing,
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: and now it's a huge deal. Okay, and that was
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: the way it was during the Commonwealth, and now we're
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: dealing with the same things out there. You know, you
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: fool me once, shame on you. You fool me twice.
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: You might have to look in the mirror, Mr.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Devers.
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: It might be you as you go into the postseason.
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: In conclusion, now we've got other callers here. The Browns.
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: Deshaun Watson again, blaming society, Ben. Wow, what do you
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: expect me to do? No, Deshaun, what we expect is
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: you to be out of the NFL in three more games.
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: Because that's what you have, this ridiculousness. In the preseason,
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: blaming society and the fans and the media. Now after
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: one game, you lose to Jacksonville. And the other thing
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: about this, I think it's a little bit of Freudian here.
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: He looks across at Trevor Lawrence, Ben. Another Clemson quarterback. Right?
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Top overall pick.
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: How's his career going? And over here, you're making excuses. No,
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: I know you've got other callers, Ben. Deshaun, three more games.
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: You keep up with this foolishness. They're going to go
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: to Chador because they don't care about winning in Cleveland.
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: They're in the march for Arch.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: And... you're not even going to be a Jameis Winston.
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: You're not even going to be Jameis, who I like
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: to see in the Giants locker room, shirt off, happy,
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: you know, even though he's not even playing. He might
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: be out of football altogether. Ben, thanks for taking the call.
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: I'm going to continue to try to hold on now
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: that we're back in the school, but I've got to
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: have my Mal and Melissa membership.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: We'll see you, Ben. All right, there he goes, Andre,
• 35:36
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• 35:40
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• 35:43
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• 35:46
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• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo, became only the third player ever to hit
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: his 300th home run against a franchise for which he
• 35:55
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• 36:01
  Speaker 1: and Angels outfielder Torrey Hunter and blank. Again, Pete Alonzo,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: just the third player ever to hit his 300th career
• 36:07
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• 36:12
  Speaker 1: he played. at least 1,000 games for. He joins Torrey
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Hunter and blank. That's the instant trivia, the answer. We'll
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• 37:05
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  Speaker 1: the 321 there's a name we haven't heard in a
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  Speaker 1: while mr 3000 From King Rory, Dean Palmer, solid name
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  Speaker 1: from ALF, the alien opiner. Who else? Page down. Let's
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  Speaker 1: see here. Daryl, hide the right field chalk line strawberry
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  Speaker 1: from Mark in Queens. The Malheur Show quote account says,
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  Speaker 1: Zarly Zalapsky. Do you have an answer, Lorena? Fran Drescher.
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  Speaker 1: Tiger's legend, Willie Horton. Willie Horton. I believe he was
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  Speaker 1: with the Rangers, I believe, when he did it against
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  Speaker 1: the Tigers. Here we go. Here we go. Time to roll.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome in, militia. Speaking of winners, can you handle more
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  Speaker 3: Malheur mayhem? Ladies and gentlemen, it's time now for Benny
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  Speaker 3: versus the Penny.
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  Speaker 1: That it is, and we're heading into week two of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL season, a little Thursday night football. Lions and Bills,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of teams that won opening weekend. The Bills
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  Speaker 1: opened a three-and-a-half point favorite. That line is up to
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  Speaker 1: four-and-a-half on DraftKings right now on Amazon TV there, Amazon
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  Speaker 1: Prime with Al Michaels and Herbie. They will have the
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  Speaker 1: call from Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York. And
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  Speaker 1: the storyline here is rather simple. First regular season game
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  Speaker 1: in Buffalo's new stadium. You got a couple of teams
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  Speaker 1: that have been pretty good, pretty good in recent years.
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  Speaker 1: Both teams off to the good start. Buffalo and Detroit
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  Speaker 1: tied with 36 victories apiece over their last 50 regular
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  Speaker 1: season games. So they've had similar runs in the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: The gambling market on DraftKings. The Bills a four and
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  Speaker 1: a half point favorite. As we said, most of the
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  Speaker 1: tickets in the handle in favor of the Buffalo Bills.
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  Speaker 1: And the pick. I'm going to take the Buffalo Bills here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to take the Buffalo Bills. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: those lines courtesy of DraftKings Sportsbook. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: take the team from Buffalo. I usually take underdogs, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to take the Bills as a favorite. Here's why.
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  Speaker 1: The Lions secondary sucks. Josh Allen against a secondary that
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  Speaker 1: gave up 410 passing yards to Tyler Shuck. Are you
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  Speaker 1: kidding me? And then the Detroit offensive line is compromised.
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  Speaker 1: They have three offensive linemen. They're starting centers out. Their
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  Speaker 1: right tackle and their left guard are out. It's a
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  Speaker 1: short week. They also played overtime against the Saints historically
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  Speaker 1: since 2000. Teams playing Thursday night football immediately after an
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  Speaker 1: overtime game are 6-25 against the spread. So there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of reasons to like Buffalo. The formula, Josh Allen
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  Speaker 1: gets the bad Detroit secondary, a battered offensive line, short week.
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  Speaker 1: I will be taking the Bills Mafia, and I'll lay
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  Speaker 1: the 4.5 points. Koopa Loop, who does the penny like
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  Speaker 1: in this matchup? Ben, the penny reads the injury report
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  Speaker 1: as well. Oh, come on. Come on. Picking the bills.
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  Speaker 1: Come on. Bull crap. What? I swear. But the other
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  Speaker 1: picks that we did off the air, those were a
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  Speaker 1: little bit different. Yes, and I did beat the penny,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, by like one game. I have the math.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have time to get the math up. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: good job. Yeah, yeah. Neither one of us did great,
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  Speaker 1: but I did better. And that's really, as you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's all that matters. I want to win. I want
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  Speaker 1: to win all the games, but I just want to
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  Speaker 1: beat the penny. That's the bit. See, that's the bit.