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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: But our lead this hour is from what everyone's talking.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with the soccer.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Am I gonna do a deep dive on Mexico losing
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  Speaker 1: to the Britain?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: Did I watch the game? Yes? Was it entertaining? Absolutely?
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  Speaker 1: Am I gonna sit there and go a minute by minute? No?
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  Speaker 1: I also saw for the weekend Canada lost to Morocco,
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  Speaker 1: so they're out. So the only country left I am
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  Speaker 1: told a North America is USA, USA, USA, and none
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  Speaker 1: of that. But Team USA, well, they're still live and
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  Speaker 1: they got a surprise assist. Now. I know in basketball
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  Speaker 1: they say the sixth man and in football they say
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  Speaker 1: the twelfth man in American in football, like, what's the
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  Speaker 1: soccer equivalent of that? I don't know, but we in
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  Speaker 1: USA a little international drama O rama. Sign me up
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  Speaker 1: for it. I'm in If you have not heard by now,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps not the Team USA squad which will be in
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  Speaker 1: action in the Great Pacific Northwest later on. And they
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  Speaker 1: got help from the Big Cheese, the Big ragou in
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  Speaker 1: the White House, President Donald Trump intervening to help America
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  Speaker 1: in the world. I'm not making this up, by though,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not so apparently, if you've been paying attention on
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  Speaker 1: Fox one and buying your stuff at home depot and
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  Speaker 1: all that. Laurian Balligan as told that big star. He's
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  Speaker 1: scored a bunch of goals as the high goal scorer
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  Speaker 1: for Team USA, and he was suspended red card violation.
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  Speaker 1: Oh except he wasn't. Not anymore psych The President intervened
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  Speaker 1: and the people at FIFA lifted the suspension, allowing Balligan
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  Speaker 1: to play for Team USA and their World Cup matchup
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  Speaker 1: against Belgium that'll be in Seattle, essentially just hours hours
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  Speaker 1: from now, many hours, but hours from now. So FIFA
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  Speaker 1: announced that the suspension had been lifted for the round
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  Speaker 1: of sixteen matchup. Now, to say this is unorthodox is
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  Speaker 1: the understatement of understatements and the good folks in Belgium.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to stop sending waffles our way. They're so
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  Speaker 1: upset with this, apparently, and I saw this going around.
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  Speaker 1: So this is apparently the first time since nineteen sixty two,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm told by Lorraine is a long time ago,
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  Speaker 1: since nineteen sixty two, that a red card during the
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  Speaker 1: World Cup did not result in a suspension. So let's
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  Speaker 1: se nineteen sixty two, seventy two, eighty two, ninety two
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  Speaker 1: to twelve twenty four or twenty twenty two, and then
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  Speaker 1: you can add four more years on top. It's been
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  Speaker 1: a while. Now, how do you think that the kind
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  Speaker 1: folks in Belgium responded to this? Do you think A
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  Speaker 1: who cares? We're fine, we don't won't beat them anyway.
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  Speaker 1: B outrage, outrage, outrage or C. Bring in the lawyers,
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  Speaker 1: bring in the lawyers. Well, a little bit of B
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  Speaker 1: and a little bit of C is the answer. We
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  Speaker 1: are told the Belgium Soccer Association, I guess that's a thing.
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  Speaker 1: They said it was astonished by the dramatic u turn
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  Speaker 1: by FIFA, So they upset and they're investigating all legal options.
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  Speaker 1: Now we are told there are reports that they have
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  Speaker 1: lawyered up that they have gone the legal route and
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  Speaker 1: they are trying for the old hail Mary, trying for
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  Speaker 1: the old hail Mary here. So that is a good
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  Speaker 1: joey off point. Let us discuss the question. We'll start
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  Speaker 1: with this before we get to the legal part of it.
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  Speaker 1: Did and then people upset with President Trump? Of course
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  Speaker 1: everything Trump could do anything, and people will have to
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  Speaker 1: people be upset with them. Anyways, the question is this,
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  Speaker 1: did President Trump cross the line lobbying FIFA to lift
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  Speaker 1: this red card suspension from this bolligan guy who's supposedly
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  Speaker 1: the big stud of Team USA. So I've got bass masters,
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  Speaker 1: Kazoo and Churos, and we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to make a delicious,
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  Speaker 1: properly made cinnamon roll with the ouey ouey goodness right
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of that o wee gooey goodness. That's
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  Speaker 1: what we're going for, all right. So Hey, to answer
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  Speaker 1: the question, did the President cross the line here by
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  Speaker 1: contacting FIFA? Absolutely not. I don't know how anyone could
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  Speaker 1: say that cross I didn't cross the line. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: cross line. FIFA erased the line, all right, And you
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  Speaker 1: can't blame the salesman for making the pitch. You can't
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  Speaker 1: you blame the buyer for saying, yes, somebody's making an
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  Speaker 1: elevator pitch. And I said, oh man, and I fall
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  Speaker 1: for these. I'm the biggest suck. I remember we had
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  Speaker 1: this guy used to call the show. He's retired now
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  Speaker 1: as a call he couldn't handle the rigors of being
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  Speaker 1: a celebrity caller, Blind Scott and Blind Scott years ago said,
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  Speaker 1: oh man, I'm making so much money in the stock market.
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  Speaker 1: He said, hey, why don't you invest? I got some
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  Speaker 1: stock and he was sending me all these things and
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  Speaker 1: I ignored him, and he said, oh I got this
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  Speaker 1: weed stock. Oh yeah, yeah, you can't miss Everyone loves
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  Speaker 1: the weed, you know. So it's the only thing that
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  Speaker 1: went bad, like a penny stock now, but I bought
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  Speaker 1: the pitch. That's on me. It's not on him. It's
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  Speaker 1: on me. I fell for the pitch. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: the president literally wrote a book before he became president,
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  Speaker 1: the Art of the Deal. So why is any man,
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  Speaker 1: woman or child shocked that he picked up the phone
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  Speaker 1: Because he's buddies with the guy that runs FIFA, And hey,
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  Speaker 1: I got a little problem here. And that's it. It's
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  Speaker 1: bass masters rule number one of the bass masters. You
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  Speaker 1: cast your line and eventually something's gonna bite. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you got to put the line out there, otherwise you're
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  Speaker 1: not going to catch anything.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Don't hate the fisherman because the fish jumped into the boat.
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  Speaker 1: Like the fish there on the Mississippi River where I
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  Speaker 1: want to be on a boat go through that at
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  Speaker 1: some point that you know, you turn the engine on,
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  Speaker 1: all the fish go crazy. It's like an invasive species
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  Speaker 1: of fish and they jump everywhere and they jump on
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  Speaker 1: the boat. And oh man love to do that anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So Belgium should not be mad at the President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: They should be apps furious with FIFA. That's that's it.
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  Speaker 1: There's really not much else to this other than that,
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  Speaker 1: uh calling and asking for the suspension to be overturned
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  Speaker 1: is not corruption. It's not uh the people at FIFA
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  Speaker 1: deciding yeah, that's a good idea. Why not. That's the issue.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. The real story here isn't the White House
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  Speaker 1: calling up. It's that FIFA A answered and B said absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: can we have another? Yes? A sing if a single
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  Speaker 1: phone go think about if a single phone call from
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  Speaker 1: a politician can completely change your ruling. Then let's be
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  Speaker 1: completely transparent here. The ruling really wasn't that that strong.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't And so they people at FIFA folded on
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  Speaker 1: this one. They folded big time. Now page two, keeping
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  Speaker 1: the theme going for now. So Belgium we mentioned they
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  Speaker 1: have lawyered up reports on the overnight here that they
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  Speaker 1: have lawyered up in a desperate attempt to fight back
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  Speaker 1: against the FIFA decision to reinstate the star Balligan for USA.
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  Speaker 1: So the question does the Belgium Soccer group, does the
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  Speaker 1: Belgium Soccer group have a winnable case to block the
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  Speaker 1: Star for Team USA Balligan from playing in the World
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  Speaker 1: Cup game in Seattle again just a few hours give
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  Speaker 1: or take from right now. So Belgium's case has two chances. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a lawyer. I practiced law on the radio
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  Speaker 1: for many years. I have graduated from the Malors School
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  Speaker 1: of Law, which may or may not be accredited. So
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  Speaker 1: Belgium's case, there's two things that they have. Two chances
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  Speaker 1: that they have. They have Slim and none. And we
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  Speaker 1: are told that Slim is already on a flight outbound
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  Speaker 1: to Bora, Bora. So good luck on that. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: not looking good. And this isn't really a dispute. It's
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  Speaker 1: a misunderstanding of authority, that's the issue. Trying to overrule
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  Speaker 1: FIFA at the World Cup is like attempting to overrule gravity.
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  Speaker 1: Now the effort can be made to overturn gravity, chances
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  Speaker 1: of it working not very good. So FIFA runs this tournament.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a closed kitchen the way they run the almighty,
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  Speaker 1: all powerful FIFA here and so you don't and when
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  Speaker 1: you have a closed kitchen, you don't get to send
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  Speaker 1: the chef a note mid meal. So as we understand things,
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  Speaker 1: and we have spent several minutes investigating this and deliberating
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  Speaker 1: over the available information. So under FIFA's Disciplinary Code Article
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven, Yes, did I think when I woke up
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  Speaker 1: I would be talking about Article twenty seven? No? I
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  Speaker 1: did not. But here we are you and I together,
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  Speaker 1: How amazing. So Article twenty seven the suspension authority has
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  Speaker 1: been established for FIFA. Essentially they have free rein, free
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  Speaker 1: rein to govern however the hell they want to govern.
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  Speaker 1: So good luck Belgium is swinging a foam gavel against
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  Speaker 1: a brick wall, hoping that they can knock the brick
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  Speaker 1: wall down with the piece of foam. Not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: So Article twenty seven does not misapply anything. It's literally
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  Speaker 1: designed to let FIFA say, we'll enforce this later. That's it,
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  Speaker 1: we'll force this later. As I understand, so they have
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  Speaker 1: the hammer. FIFA and Belgium brought a kazoo. Now, kazoo's
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  Speaker 1: a fun thing. People smile when when they see kazoo,
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  Speaker 1: they hear the kazoo, they see it, they smile. So
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  Speaker 1: this is like David versus Goliath, except David forgot the sling,
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  Speaker 1: and Belgium's case is not just weak. Based on what
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  Speaker 1: I have read, it is a courtroom, outdoor courtroom, snowball
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  Speaker 1: in and outdoor court room with the heater turned on.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, so like Judge Judy, if she was involved
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  Speaker 1: in this, Judge Judy would dismiss it before the bailiff
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  Speaker 1: finish saying all rise, No one would even rise. That's it,
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  Speaker 1: see you later, bye bye. All right, Now, turning away
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  Speaker 1: from that, we go to baseball. What are you talking about? Baseball?
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  Speaker 1: The flea market of baseball. With less than a month
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  Speaker 1: now from the swap, meet the Midsummer swap meet, which
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  Speaker 1: is not Midsummer. It's passed way past the All Star break.
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  Speaker 1: So the team in Anaheim not very heavenly, the fallen
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  Speaker 1: Angels of Anaheim. That team yet again garbage, and that
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  Speaker 1: has fueled trade speculation over the last couple of months,
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  Speaker 1: and lately the uptick linking Star might trout to phill
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  Speaker 1: Adelphia out of fighting fails. He's from that area. The
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  Speaker 1: trade deadline is August third, and so we have a
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  Speaker 1: little time now. You can pump the brakes. You would
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  Speaker 1: assume on that if you believe the new boss at
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  Speaker 1: the Big A. I say that in air quotes the
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  Speaker 1: new boss at the Big A. So former Fox Sports
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  Speaker 1: radio host and Major League Baseball GM Jim Bowden. Jim Bowden,
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  Speaker 1: who I actually did some shows with back when he
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  Speaker 1: worked here many many years ago. He does some other
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  Speaker 1: show somewhere, I don't know where. He asked the former
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  Speaker 1: Cardinals and current interim Angels JM. John Mosaic. He said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on here? Trout to Philly? What's happening? And
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  Speaker 1: the interim GM said, no, that's not happening. So the
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  Speaker 1: question are the Angels really going to hold on to
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  Speaker 1: Mike Trout yet again. So I am nodding my head. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the Angels don't have a Mike Trout problem. Per se
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  Speaker 1: like he's not as good as he was. He's not.
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  Speaker 1: It's hurt right now, which is usually what he does.
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  Speaker 1: He's really good. He's got the superior hurt gene, got
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  Speaker 1: a little Anthony Davis Kawhi Leonard in him when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to injury. The Angels, though, have an Arty Marino problem.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone can agree on that. Everyone's like, yep, yep, they do.
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  Speaker 1: He is the human gridlock of baseball. Trout is stuck
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  Speaker 1: in Arti Morino's bizarro escape room. Say hey, you can
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  Speaker 1: get in, You're not gonna get out. He's allergic to change.
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  Speaker 1: I am convinced, based on what I know about Arti Morino,
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  Speaker 1: that he would hold on to Mike Trout until Trout
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  Speaker 1: is in his fifties, just to prove a point that
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  Speaker 1: no one asked him to prove. You know, He's like,
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  Speaker 1: you don't need to do that. You know, Marino runs
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  Speaker 1: the answer do you know what? He runs the Angel
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  Speaker 1: like it's like a theme park. I had this epiphany, Marino,
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  Speaker 1: Arti Marina runs the Angels like it's a theme park.
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  Speaker 1: Winning is optional. But the churros as long as they're fresh.
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  Speaker 1: As long as you give the people fresh churros at
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  Speaker 1: the Big A, they are happy. Right. He literally said
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  Speaker 1: months ago that winning is not in the top priority
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  Speaker 1: list for the fan base. Using some Fugasey market research,
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  Speaker 1: he said, they don't get winning is optional. As long
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  Speaker 1: as again, the churros are ready to go. That's all
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  Speaker 1: you need. You have. They want affordability. The fan base
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  Speaker 1: wants affordability. They want safeness, they want you know, good
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  Speaker 1: security and all that. The moms with the kids, they
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  Speaker 1: want the bobbleheads that they need that run the bases
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday. Come on, who says no, That's all they
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  Speaker 1: care about, right, They'll be happy Cambras. And this is
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  Speaker 1: this is the mindset of this Sugarna Arti Marino here.
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  Speaker 1: So when it comes to my Trout, the inroom GM,
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  Speaker 1: I promise you is not making the call here. It's
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  Speaker 1: Arti Marino and Trout is in his mid thirties. This
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  Speaker 1: would be like a perfect time to get out of
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  Speaker 1: my that's contract. Normally I say never trade the player
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  Speaker 1: for a bunch of minor league, you know, lottery tickets.
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  Speaker 1: This one I would make. He's in his mid thirties,
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  Speaker 1: he's a Jersey guy, you know, he's from that area
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  Speaker 1: where he's from, a fan of the Eagles, Philadelphia fandom
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  Speaker 1: and all that. And he would fit pretty well in
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  Speaker 1: theory in a bandbox ballpark in Philly with Bryce Harper
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  Speaker 1: protecting Bryce Harper in the Phillies lineup, and it would
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  Speaker 1: be a great renaissance for Mike Trout unless someone holds
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  Speaker 1: an intervention though with Arti Marino, good luck, good luck,
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  Speaker 1: that is not going to happen at all.
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  Speaker 1: From the Guardians of the Baseball Galaxy. What kind of
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  Speaker 1: big shake up? Big shakeup developing the Men in Blue?
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  Speaker 1: The Men in Blue. Now, if you have not heard yet,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps not, we learned over the holiday weekend that C. B. Buckner, yep,
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  Speaker 1: that guy. If you're even a casual baseball fan, you
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  Speaker 1: know who. C. B. Buckner is, long time controversial baseball umpire,
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  Speaker 1: and we found out that he is going to say
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  Speaker 1: bye bye to umpire after the season.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Buckner is in his early sixties. He's sixty three. He
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  Speaker 1: debuted as a nationally umpire way back in nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 1: six before social media. Oh my god, yeah, nineteen ninety sixty.
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  Speaker 1: I became a full time umpire in the year two thousand,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand, and he's worked over four thousand regular season games.
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  Speaker 1: I'm told that's a lot, plus multiple All Star games
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  Speaker 1: and many postseason series. C. B. Buckner has been behind
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  Speaker 1: home plate and working the bases as a umpire. That's
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  Speaker 1: what he does. Now it turns out he's not alone.
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  Speaker 1: He's one of seven umpires who have accepted a buyout
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  Speaker 1: Baseball offered a giant check. Everyone's got a price. Seven
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  Speaker 1: men out, seven men out, no longer umpiring. These guys are,
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  Speaker 1: they're umpire, some of them now, some of them have
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  Speaker 1: already stopped umpiring. Included on the seven people on the
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  Speaker 1: Natti list, you have Laz Diaz, who's also gotten into
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  Speaker 1: a scuffle or two, Brian Onora he's out, Lance Barksdale gone,
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  Speaker 1: Marvin Hudson, and Tony Randazzo, along with somebody named Andy Fletcher.
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  Speaker 1: We're not sure who that is, but apparently a numper.
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  Speaker 1: And so this comes as Baseball this year has rolled
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  Speaker 1: out the the bots, the automated ball strike, the abs
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  Speaker 1: thing of a jig. They've got that going this year.
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  Speaker 1: And so that is a good jumping off point that
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  Speaker 1: the key here, the headline is C. B. Buckner and
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  Speaker 1: these other guys. So let us discuss the question what
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  Speaker 1: message give me? The message that major League Baseball is
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  Speaker 1: sending by buying out C. B. Buckner, Laz Diez, Brian Onorra,
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  Speaker 1: and these other umpires. So I've got cardboard, kale, salad,
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  Speaker 1: and tabernacle, and we will combine all all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together and be somewhere in between I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: what that means. Just we'll just do it, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So number one, number one, number one, number number one,
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  Speaker 1: rubber right number from the left. Number. No, no, uh
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  Speaker 1: is it true that that that that guy that you
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  Speaker 1: just played? Number two guy, our friend from the Boston area,
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  Speaker 1: the one only Leprechaun was not allowed on the air
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  Speaker 1: last week. I got a very angry message from Michael
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  Speaker 1: leprecwn that he was somehow blocked from getting on the air.
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  Speaker 1: I know nothing about nothing, all right. Well, the question again,
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  Speaker 1: the what message is major League Baseball sending by buying
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  Speaker 1: out C. B. Buckner, Las d As, brian O Nora
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  Speaker 1: and these other umpires. So this is simple, It's not
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  Speaker 1: that hard. The era that I grew up in with
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  Speaker 1: the bigger than life manager and the bigger than life
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  Speaker 1: umpire is over. It's dead, d eat hey d dead
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  Speaker 1: dead dead. That's it, all right. That era of the
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  Speaker 1: celebrity umpire is done now. When I when I was
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: a punk, I would go out to games and we
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: would engage with the umpire and these guys would fight back.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: One of my favorite memories when I was going to
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: games I was a young young lad, was this umpire
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: named Derwood Merrill. Uh, you know he's long dead or
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: whatever in many years. But Drwood Merrill was a long
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: time American League umpire and he would get into it
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: with fans who would heckle him. And we heard about this,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: and so we would heckle him and he did get
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: into it. It was awesome. It's like one of my fondest
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: memories going to baseball games when I was younger, was
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: getting into it with him. Uh. And anyway, this is
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: not just your normal routine roster shake up where it's like,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: I know, the newspaper business pretty much bought everyone out
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: that was making any you know, real money. They used
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: to these things called columnists, and the most newspapers barely
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: exist these days. But anyway, this is not just routine.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: This is performance purge. Performance purge is the way I
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: will describe it here, wrapped in a personality purge, that's it.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: And so for a quarter of a century, the Umpires Union,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: they treated these guys as untouchable. They were the untouchables.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: They were immortal, untouchable demigods. You couldn't get rid of
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: bad umpires, you couldn't wild. So now major League Baseball,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: after all these years, finally was able to take out
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: the trash And if you base this on what Baseball says,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: C B. Buckner was the candy wrapper at the very
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: absolute bottom of the trash bin. That's kind of sticking there. Now,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: out of ninety one umpires, where did C. B. Buckner
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: rank this season? The last I checked it? This checked
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: this number a couple days ago. They have websites that
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: track the grades of umpires. So out of ninety one umpires,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: where was C. B. Buckner? Now we know he wasn't
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: in the top ten. I couldn't have been that low, right,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: He's been around for thirty years. It had to be
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: higher than you know. It's somewhere in the middle. Reveal answers.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Reveal answers, Well, C B. Buckner out of ninety one
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: umpires ranked you ready for it, you see it. You
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: didn't see us. Number ninety one dead last baby, that's
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: this year. That's not a performance metric. That is a
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: cry for help, is what that is. For twenty five
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: years at least, if not longer, players have been screaming
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: and complaining and saying we must get rid of C. B. Buckner.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: He's calling balls and strikes. It's just terrible. So now
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Rob Manford has stepped in and he is sending a
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: message and he does not want umpires. He wants background characters.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: As as a talk show host. I'm gonna miss c. B.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Buckner because I knew once or twice a year he'd
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: f up so brilliantly I'd get it a monologue out
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: of it, and that's gonna that's gonna end. That's gonna
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: end because they're getting rid of ce B Buttner. But
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: that's the point. They want background characters. Uh, they want
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: non playable characters at Major League Baseball just stand there
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: and it's like the line about the kids. You know,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: you're supposed to be seen, not not heard. I used
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: to say, that's a that's in a line from from Britain.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: It's just like, hey, listen, you're like the wall that's
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: like a beige wall. They just you're there and it's
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: you're not really doing all that much. And then there's that.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: So if Manford could replace every single umpire in a
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: cost can remember during the pandemic they had those cardboard
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: cutouts because he didn't let fansy. Manford was that's a
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: good idea. Why don't we put a cardboard cutout of
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: the UMPI I will put it right behind the catcher.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Nobody even know. And we should have done this five
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: years ago. Well, welcome to the new Major League Baseball,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: where the ideal umpire will never trend. You'll never know
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: they exist. You won't know what they sound like, you know,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: won't know what they look like. It just it's just
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: background stuff. That's it again. That's something that changed when
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I was a kid. The managers had bigger than life personalities,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: real characters, real personality. The umpires also, the umpires also,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: I had real personality and it was it was great.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I liked it. That's what I grew up with. That's
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: what I knew when I was coming. You know, as
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: a young fan of sports, I love the bigger than
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: life manager, the bigger than life umpire. That's where it's gone.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Like these managers are so dull, they are so boring,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: These Major League Baseball managers. There is there one with
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: personal Dave Roberts, oh man, is he boring? They're all
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: boring all right?
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Now?
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Page two to west Sacramento. We go not east, not north,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: not south, not on west. Now, we normally would not
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: waste valuable talk radio Real Estate discussing a Marlins A's matchup. However,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: here we are this is the exception of the rule.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: So Miami starter Uri Perez was pulled after seven innings
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: of perfect baseball, and he started against the Athletics on Sunday,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: ended that bid for a perfect game. He retired all
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: twenty one batters, twenty one up, twenty one down, faced
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: over seven innings, struck out eight on just ninety two pitches,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: just ninety two pitches. Perfect game, throwing a perfect game
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: through seven innings, six outs away from immortality in the
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: baseball record book. And he didn't throw a perfect game.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Did the A's get a hit off him? No? No,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: no no. The only thing that could stop the Marlins
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: starting pitcher Perez was his manager, a gentleman named Clayton McCullough,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: who for some reason removed, you're a Perez despite the
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: perfect game being in progress. It was eight nothing at
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: the time, It was eight nothing at the time. He said, no, no,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: let's go to the bullpen. And the bullpen immediately imploded,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: and the Marlins did win the game. They won it
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: nine to eight. They had an eight nothing lead and
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: a guy pitching in a perfect game and they had
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: to bite their fingernails and they won by the score
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: of nine to eight. Now that's the story. The Marlins
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: manager said postgame that he went into the game with
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: a predetermined number of pitches right around ninety and despite
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the fact that the game was for all purposes over,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: he made the decision based on what I love this,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: what was best for the player and the Marlins going forward.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Perez said, previously missed some time with Tommy John surgery,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: which is about nine out of ten pictures in baseball
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: about Tommy John surgery. By the way, the real Tommy
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: John still alive, lives out in Palm Springs area. How
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: about that fun fact had him on my podcast a
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Anyway, fans in Sacramento, now there
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: are not many fans in sacrament but there are fans.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: There were people that actually paid money to this game.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: So the fans of Sacramento chanted, shame, shame, shame. That's
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: a recreation. That's not actually them chance, that's me chanting, shame, shame, shame.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: And they pointed towards the Marlins dugout when the eighth
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: inning began and they had realized, wait a minute, the
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: picture with the perfect game is not there anymore? Gonzo question,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: does the Marlins manager Clayton McCullough deserve the heat for
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: pulling his starting pitcher after seven perfect innings and ninety
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: two pitches? There is only one acceptable answer. This is
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: not true false, This is not thumbs up thumbs down.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: There's only one acceptable answer. This guy is a dumb
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: dumb that's it, one hundred percent. He deserves all the
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: crap he's getting. Yeah, he's not getting that much crap
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: because nobody really cares about the Marlins. But this is
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: utterly deflating, is what it is here. You don't pull
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: a guy during a freaking perfect game unless you're somehow
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: allergic to history. Here we are, though, McCullough, the manager
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: of the Marlins, managed to read the room like someone
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: who brings a kale salad to a hot dog eating contest, Like,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: what are you doing? Uh? There have been how many
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: perfect games baseball has been played since? Like the eighteen seventies.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: It's one hundred and fifty plus years, and there have
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: been twenty four official perfect games in baseball. The Marlins
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: skipper had a chance to manage number twenty five and
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: said no, no, let's cheat. Let's treat this like a
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: side session, like a bullpen session. That's what we're gonna do.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: He didn't manage the game. He managed to ruin the
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: moment is what this dumb dumb did. And sure he
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: recognized that, listen, I'm just gonna go with the predetermined
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: pitch count. That's what I'm going to do. And he
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: completely failed to recognize what could have been a perfect
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: game would have been massive for a rather no name
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: pitcher for the Marlins, would have put him on the map,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: would have given a little razzle dazzle to the Miami Marlins,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: even though the Marlins are in position to fight and
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: scratching claw for a playoff spot in the National League.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Here we are, yet again the analytically obsessed mindset, and
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: this is what we've got, and so good luck ever
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: seeing a perfect game again. Mccullus should be embarrassed, he
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: should be ripped. He won't be because it's not high
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: on the radar. It just doesn't get it. And I
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: do love the Sacramento fans as they went out to
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: this A's game and they decided we're gonna go full
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Game of Thrones with the shame, bell, shame, shame, shame,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: all that, and now you have to do as a manager,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: you have to do the walk of atonement. Good luck
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: skip all right, now, final point, keeping the theme going
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: so in, I just wanted to follow this up. So
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: the question now is this is pulling Uri Perez after
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: ninety two pitches sound logic by the mars. Now I've
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: already laid out why it's not. I would like to
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: add on this called the dogpile part of it, the
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: dogpile part of it. So the pitch count cult, and
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I do call it a cult, is undefeated at one thing,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: killing the mojo. And back in the day when I
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: used to be out at baseball games all the time
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: and I talked to some of the old timers about
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the pitch count and it was just hilarious the reaction.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Back then, I was like, ah, yeah and anything. And
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: that was the time when I got into it. There
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: was still a lot of man and that had personalities
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: and had balls, and they had hair on their chest,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: and they were able to make decisions and they didn't
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: need some poindexter guy with a Harvard degree or a
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Yale degree to tell them what to do. They actually
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: just went by the field of the game. There you
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: had guys who would throw the late great Fernando Valezuela,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the most important Dodger of all time in terms of
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: the La Dodgers and their fan base. Fernando Valezuela. The
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: legend is he would throw two hundred pitches. They didn't care. Yeah,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: you know these younger days in the Mexican you know,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: growing up in Mexico, before he was discovered. It just
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: kept pitching him and Levon Hernandez who pitched in Cuba,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: supposedly tons and tons of pitches and whatnot. So, but
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: it's something that's happened the last twenty so years. It's
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: been a while. This is not necessarily new, but the
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: pitch count thing. The teams in baseball, like Themorrows, this
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: ninety two pitch thing. They treat it like it's a
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: radiation threshold. It's like, no, relax, Okay, it's a pitcher.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: It's just people love round numbers and it say, well,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: we can't get them to one hundred, and it's well
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: coming off, Tommy, Joe. Pitch counts are kind of like
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: the TSA of baseball. There's a lot of rules and
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: regulations on what you can and can't take through TSA.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: There's very little evidence that they actually prevent much of
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: anything other than taking your water bottle when you're going
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: through the security or you're ranch dressing or whatever that
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: might be. Here's the thing, all right, Major League Baseball,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: the mindset of Major League Baseball, their own injury tracking.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: They keep track of all this stuff. The baseball has
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: the data. This is the thing that blows my mind.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: And maybe you're smarter than me, and it can explain
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: what this is all about. Baseball's track the injury data,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: and it does not support the theory that you're protecting
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: the pitcher, like if you limit them to less than
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: one hundred pitches or just one hundred pitches, that they're
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: going to have health, they're going to last longer. That
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: in fact, is not the reality. Injury rates have not
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: dropped despite twenty years of data with limiting pitches and
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: cutting back on this. They literally know it doesn't work,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: and they still do it. Can anyone tell me why
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: that makes any sense other than, hey, if this guy
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: gets hurt, at least we can say, well, we've tried
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: to baby him and all that. If you're going to
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: worship the pitch count. If that's your Michigans, to worship
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: the pitch count, at least admit that you're in the tabernacle.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: It's a religion. It is not a science. There's no science.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Mind it. And pulling this guy the pitcher Perez is
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: the baseball equivalent of rebooting your laptop because the Wi
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Fi flickered for a minute. It's superstition wearing some kind
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: of lab coat with a bunch of beakers and all
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: that stuff. Now, I will tell you that the Dodgers
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: are a responding this. Here's why the Marlins no name manager.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: This guy, Clayton McCullough is a disciple of Dave Roberts.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: He's running the Dave Roberts DOS a Dodger operating system.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Doesn't work quite as well with the Marlins as it
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: does with the Dodgers. But essentially the point of all
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: this is that Clayton McCullough was I remember it was
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: it Rich Hill was pitching either a no hitter or
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: a perfect game for the Dodgers. Dave Roberts pulled them out.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts pulled them out.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: My favorite is the Clayton Kershaw was pitching against the Twins.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: It was again either no hitter or a perfect game.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Was in complete control, low pitch count, dominating performance in
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: the Twin Cities, chance for baseball history, and Dave Roberts
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: pulled them out to save him for the I want
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: to save him for the playoffs. Now, this is like April.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers lost in the first round of the playoffs
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: that year. How great is that? But they saved Kershaw.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: They Dave Roberts and the Nerds, the Nerd Brigade, they
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: saved Kersh the same. This is the it's just you know,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: auto update, auto remove, auto ruin the vibe. That's that's
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: the mindset. So y'all hire a disciple at Dave Roberts
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: and you get that Dave Roberts brain rod is what
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: you get. It's a super bug. It is antibiotic resistant.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: It is pathetic. I hate it. I hate it. I
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: hate it. I hate it.
• 35:22
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• 35:25
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• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
• 35:29
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• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Let's go this is one thing.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Let's go, here we go a couple of been over
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: the weekend.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: Former NFL General general manager Scott mcclewan commented on the
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: draft pick of the Rams and said, I think the
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: quarterback from Alabama is overdrafted. Compared him to JJ McCarthy
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: and MATC Jones, a career back up. Uh huh, Ben,
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: Do you think he's gonna be better than a JJ
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: McCarthy mac Jones.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because he's got better coaching. He's gonna have better places. Rev.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: I don't love. I hated the pick. I wouldn't have
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: picked him.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: That's not the.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Guy I wanted. They didn't console me. I don't think
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: it's a good pick at all. Now I hope it
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: works out. I hope I'm wrong. I hope he turns
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: into something. But most of those Alabama quarterbacks have not
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: been very good in the NFL. The Nick Saban guys
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: next Ben.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: The US's win over Bosnia had thirty three and a
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: half million viewers on TV.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: You compare that.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: To the NFL's twenty twenty six wild Card Round, which
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: is three levels below the super Bowl. They had thirty
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: two million viewers. Yeah, the super Bowl had one hundred
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: and twenty seven million. Where do you think the World
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Cup finale will be well.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: If the USA is in there, they'll get a Super
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Bowl audience, So yeah, I think they will. If not,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: forget about it. You know, it'll be the usual soccer
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: cult that'll watch it. All right, what's next?
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: George Kittle gave his Mount Rushmore of tight ends. He
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: put Dallas Clark on there. That's kind of weird. But
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: the question is, Ben, do you think George Kittle will
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: end up on the Mount Rushmore of tight ends when
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: it's all si end? No?
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: I think Kittle's good. I don't think he's like all
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: time great tight end guy. I don't have him in
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: that stratus for how do we do? Kobolo? You pass?
• 37:06
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  Speaker 1: off and call that you're on the Airline number one,
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  Speaker 1: Advice Line one, please, all right, here's the question. All right?
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  Speaker 1: Line two, your next line too, No time for questions,
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  Speaker 1: line too. Hello, morning time here.
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  Speaker 2: You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose,
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: but you can't pick your family laker, I mean bo Celtics.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you're so close to having a perfect call. Rick
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  Speaker 1: and Maryland eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. You're
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  Speaker 1: next caller three you're on their advice to the Green
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  Speaker 1: teamers the Celtic fans on how to deal with Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Brown being given away? All right, I'm way to have
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: a congressional event. Oh on DC, got two phones that
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Steve O in Manhattan. You're next the line four. You're
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: on the air. Hello, line four, all right, something about
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: pubic hair? Line six, shave shave them? Okay, why not?
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  Speaker 1: Good hygiene? Line six. You're on the airline six. You're
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  Speaker 1: a fat fucking all right, how do you really feel?
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to you your next collar number four? Hello,
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  Speaker 1: line four. That was very nice, sweet, I love out there.
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  Speaker 1: Line line four. You're on the air. Hello. How bad
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: must Jalen Brown bree be? If they're signing up for
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Paul George? Yeah, that's not great, supermarket Steve. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to you on a line the number three. Hello, line three,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: you're on the air line all right. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: ferg dog. You were screaming. I had to cut you off. Hello,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: you're on the air line five. You're on the air
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: line five. I should have called moving man Matt for
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  Speaker 1: a free O. That's right, man, Matt'll hook you up. Man,
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: where's he been? Let's go to line six. You're on
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: the airline six. Hello, put the Fifth Down podcast on repeat. Yes,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: all day, all that we do. One more, only one more,
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Area last called pigad. Line one. You're on the
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: airline one. Go Line one not fast enough, Line one,
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  Speaker 1: not fast enough. You lose