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Hour 2 - The Brew over The Blue · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: The Benny man can. The Benny man can. It's hour
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  Speaker 1: number two. Hour two ready for you, and that's baseball, Susan.
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  Speaker 1: Game number one of the National League Championship Series, the
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  Speaker 1: final four of baseball underway on a Sunday night. And
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  Speaker 1: it goes to the team from Wisconsin, the Dodgers offense,
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  Speaker 1: only one run. Shohei Otani hitting under 200 in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Thumbs up or thumbs down? Do the Dodgers have a
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  Speaker 1: Shohei Otani problem? We'll talk about that. Also, how big
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  Speaker 1: was game one of the NLCS for Pat Murphy's brew crew?
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  Speaker 1: And we tell you the formula. It's not that big
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  Speaker 1: a secret on what Milwaukee has to do to win
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  Speaker 1: this series in advance to the Fall Classic. And who
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  Speaker 1: gets the biggest slice of the Italian beef sandwich of
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  Speaker 1: blame for the White Sox giving up a 2-0 series lead?
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  Speaker 1: They won both games on the road and then gagged
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  Speaker 1: it all away against the Cleveland Guardians. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: that and more right now. Also, Mallard to the third degree.
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  Speaker 1: Here it is, our number two. The Brew, get the
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  Speaker 1: jump on the blue. What's up with that? Welcome in
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to bury the lead. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: pause the NFL. We'll get back to the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Relax.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to get back to the NFL. We're not
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  Speaker 1: going to boycott the NFL. I like football. I know.
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  Speaker 1: I know. Everyone loves their football. But we got baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Final four action in Major League Baseball. Yeah! Wild and crazy, right?
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  Speaker 1: Were you able to watch both games? There was no
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  Speaker 1: American League game. That starts later on on Monday. You
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  Speaker 1: had the Brewers and the Dodgers, NLCS, game number one
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  Speaker 1: right there, playing out on the TV. Very, very important.
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  Speaker 1: So we start out in Wisconsin. That is where the
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  Speaker 1: scene was, the stage for game one of the Final Four.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get back to the NFL shortly. But we do
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  Speaker 1: begin with that heavyweight pitching matchup there. The Brewers rolling
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  Speaker 1: out the Miz. And Tarek Scouble, the big pickup from
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  Speaker 1: the Motor City Kitties, from the Tigers. Another playoff start
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  Speaker 1: for the Dodgers. You had the game on Fox, and
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  Speaker 1: they were there. Nobody had laryngitis, so that's good. Cured
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  Speaker 1: the laryngitis. I don't know if you were watching this
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  Speaker 1: or not. Perhaps you were watching the football game. But
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Terang rang the bell as he hit a ding-dong
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  Speaker 1: off Tarek Skubal and Milwaukee's bullpen. Shutting down the once
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  Speaker 1: feared Dodger hitters there. As Jacob Mizorowski did not dominate
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  Speaker 1: the way you expected him to dominate. He had a
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  Speaker 1: frustrating good performance. He was okay in terms of the
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  Speaker 1: runs allowed and all that. It was a taxing outing.
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  Speaker 1: A stressful outing for the Miz. And the Brewers get
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  Speaker 1: a 2-1 win in Game 1 of the NLCS. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: named Louis Lara hit a tie-breaking single. Never heard of
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  Speaker 1: him off Tarek Skubal in the fifth inning. And that's it.
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  Speaker 1: The Dodgers did not score at that point on in
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  Speaker 1: the game. And so Milwaukee takes Game 1 of the NLCS.
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  Speaker 1: The first matchup in the NLCS of 100-win teams. Since
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  Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Reds, the big red machine of the 1970s,
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  Speaker 1: eliminated the Fightin' Phils 1976. That's a long time ago.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so the Brewers had dropped seven consecutive postseason
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  Speaker 1: games against the D-O-D-G-E-R-S Dodgers, including... A sweep-a-roo last year
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  Speaker 1: in the NLCS. So Game 2 will be later on
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  Speaker 1: on Monday here in Milwaukee. Yoshinobu Yamamoto will start for
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. And holy crap, Logan Henderson. Logan Henderson takes
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  Speaker 1: the mound for the Brew Crew. The better story here
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  Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room. So that is where
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  Speaker 1: we will begin today. And the Dodgers on the wrong
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  Speaker 1: end of this opening loss. It is not a single elimination.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you people got a little too excited until
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  Speaker 1: the alcohol was flowing in Wisconsin. My inbox got a
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  Speaker 1: couple of messages. Oh, you're screwed, Baylor! Dodgers are cooked!
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  Speaker 1: The year of the Brewers! And I'm like, oh, really?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't realize it was one game. Elimination. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: like the NCAA tournament. You just win one game, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so the question, as we discuss here, it's
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. So the question, thumbs up
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  Speaker 1: or thumbs down? Thumbs up, thumbs down. Do the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: have a Shohei Otani problem? Let's focus in on Otani,
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  Speaker 1: as he didn't do much in this game. Did score
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  Speaker 1: a run, the only run they scored. But you think
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  Speaker 1: of Otani, you think of him. is hitting moonshots and
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  Speaker 1: he ain't hitting moonshots so i've got cotton farmers pepsi
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  Speaker 1: cola and rotary telephones and we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together and we're going to mix them up
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  Speaker 1: there and then we're going to weld them together we're
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  Speaker 1: going to actually weld them together actually we mix them
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  Speaker 1: up and then weld them together so number one one
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  Speaker 1: one one one one i'm gonna go thumbs up I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to go thumbs up on do the Dodgers have
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  Speaker 1: a Shohei Otani problem. And there's a lot of fanboys
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  Speaker 1: now in the Dodger media. It wasn't always like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's people that actually had critical thinking. But most of
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  Speaker 1: the people that are around the Dodgers now in the
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  Speaker 1: media are just toe suckers, unfortunately. That's the reality of
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  Speaker 1: the situation. And so at least on this end, and
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  Speaker 1: we have the power of the bully pulpit overnight, no
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  Speaker 1: more Mr. Nice Guy. And he doesn't contribute much anymore either.
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  Speaker 1: He's in the Bay Area, Mr. Nice Guy. But no
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  Speaker 1: more Mr. Nice Guy. All right, so let's stop treating
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  Speaker 1: criticism of Shohei Ohtani like it's a violation of international law.
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  Speaker 1: It is not. He is not beyond criticism. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: This is not anti-Ohtani rhetoric. It is pro-accountability is what
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  Speaker 1: it is. There's a difference. And so the Dodgers did
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  Speaker 1: not spend a billion dollars plus on to watch the
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  Speaker 1: superstar headliner impersonate a backup infielder for the Union Laguna
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  Speaker 1: cotton farmers of the Mexican League. Because you could get
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  Speaker 1: a guy right now out of the Mexican League for
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  Speaker 1: the price of a ham sandwich to give you the
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  Speaker 1: production that Otani has given you in the playoffs. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, he's supposed to be the big bopper.
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  Speaker 1: And right now, he's been the big flopper for the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: and it's becoming more problematic. And they say, well, it's
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  Speaker 1: one game, and that's true, and the Dodgers can certainly
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  Speaker 1: come back and win the next couple of games and
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  Speaker 1: all that. But I just don't get the sense Otani's
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  Speaker 1: going to flip the switch, that the Dodgers, if they
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  Speaker 1: are going to win, are going to have to win
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  Speaker 1: with this inferior version of Otani. And are they better
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  Speaker 1: off putting some other jabroni in there that could actually
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  Speaker 1: hit a home run occasionally? Because at this point, Otani
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  Speaker 1: cannot do it. His power has vanished into the Bermuda Triangle,
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  Speaker 1: which I thought was off the coast of Florida. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't realize it was somewhere off the Pacific Ocean. And
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  Speaker 1: it's bad. It is bad, bad, bad. The Dodgers need
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  Speaker 1: to hire a search and rescue operation to find his
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  Speaker 1: home run swing. How bad is it? If you go
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  Speaker 1: back to August 18th, I was a little child on
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  Speaker 1: August 18th. You go back to August 18th, Otani, how
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  Speaker 1: many home runs do you think he's got since August 18th?
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  Speaker 1: What do you think? You got a number in your head?
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  Speaker 3: Alright.
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  Speaker 1: How about number one?
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  Speaker 4: Number one.
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  Speaker 1: One home run since August 18th. So his power has
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  Speaker 1: been missing for so long. How long? It's been missing
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  Speaker 1: for so long, it qualifies for an episode of Unsolved Mysteries.
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  Speaker 1: And Tough love is overdue. Does anyone over there have
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  Speaker 1: the balls to bench Ohtani? Does anyone that is employed
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  Speaker 1: for the Dodgers have the intestinal fortitude to say, this
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  Speaker 1: guy's not helping us. He's a net negative. And the
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  Speaker 1: Brewers know it. And the Braves knew it also. The
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  Speaker 1: teams are not dummies that are playing the Dodgers here.
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  Speaker 1: And the Dodgers have a luxury product that, that is
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  Speaker 1: delivering basement discount bin back-of-the-store results. And that's the issue.
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  Speaker 1: So bad that he can't. He's not even a decoy.
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  Speaker 1: A decoy occasionally hits a home run. Otani hasn't. He's
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  Speaker 1: had one home run since August 18th. That's it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I must also address the pitching here and the start
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  Speaker 1: by their ace, Tarek Skubal, who was a, Tiny dancer.
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  Speaker 1: He came up short. Came up small. The Dodgers prize
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  Speaker 1: pitching move from the Tigers there. He only gave up
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  Speaker 1: two runs in five innings. What are you, nitpicking, Mahler?
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  Speaker 1: I have high expectations. To me, you've got to match
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  Speaker 1: the other guy. And you've got to be better than
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  Speaker 1: the other guy. I say, well, he was a little
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  Speaker 1: bit better. But the first time.
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  Speaker 1: That he has failed to pitch beyond the fifth inning
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  Speaker 1: in eight career postseason starts. So he didn't get it
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  Speaker 1: done there. The Dodgers, again, they want the bulldozer. They
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  Speaker 1: would like the nice bulldozer. And Scooble's more of a
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  Speaker 1: riding lawnmower at this particular point. And the Dodgers, they
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  Speaker 1: have to have that heavyweight prize fighter, especially in this matchup.
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  Speaker 1: This was like a heavyweight matchup, even though the Miz
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  Speaker 1: didn't go long in the game either. And Scooble gave
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  Speaker 1: them five rounds of boxing and headed to the showers
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  Speaker 1: to have a nice warm shower. He needed a nice shower.
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  Speaker 1: And he's supposed to be the guy that will take
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  Speaker 1: you into the sixth or the seventh inning. And he's
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  Speaker 1: the guy that eats the steak and the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: And on this night, it was more of the kid's menu.
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  Speaker 1: And that's it. That's just your garden variety starting pitcher.
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  Speaker 1: They'll go five innings, and that's modern baseball. And you're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be a little different. That's why you want
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  Speaker 1: that $ 400 million contract. You think you're going to get it. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: to the Milwaukee side of things here, and this wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a beauty contest by any means. Even in a 2-1 situation,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't a beauty contest. It was more of a
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  Speaker 1: street fight at a cheese factory, and the brewers walked away,
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  Speaker 1: and they won the cheese curds contest. covered in liquid
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  Speaker 1: gold sauce, like a cheesy liquid gold. And they were
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  Speaker 1: able to win that. Now, for manager Pat Murphy, all right,
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  Speaker 1: manager Pat Murphy here, how big was game one of
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  Speaker 1: the NLCS? That's the question, again, we're working with here.
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  Speaker 1: How big was winning game one? So for Pat Murphy,
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  Speaker 1: this was a Pepsi-Cola special. Now, what does that mean,
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  Speaker 1: a Pepsi-Cola special? It was a got to have it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Jacob Mizorowski was not exactly painting the Mona Lisa while
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  Speaker 1: he was on the mound here.
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  Speaker 2: He labored.
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  Speaker 1: He huffed and he puffed for the brew crew. And
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't striking the world out. His strikeout rate was
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  Speaker 1: not where it had been. But he held them, them
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  Speaker 1: being the Dodgers, to one run before the bullpen cavalry.
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  Speaker 1: They sounded the bugle. I didn't hear it, but apparently
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  Speaker 1: Pat Murphy got the bugle and the bullpen cavalry came in,
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  Speaker 1: riding in. To save the day. And it's not algebra.
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  Speaker 1: Let's not overthink this. We don't need AI. We don't
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  Speaker 1: need algorithms to tell you the plan here. It's rather simple.
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  Speaker 1: It's not advanced calculus for Milwaukee. It's basic Mallor math.
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  Speaker 1: Even a third grader could figure this crap out. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: Mizorowski is your fast pass. He's the man. Now, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't pitch like the man. He still won the game
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  Speaker 1: in this game. But the formula is rather simple. If
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  Speaker 1: you're the Brewers, you get three starts. You've got to
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  Speaker 1: get three starts out of the Miz. You've got to
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  Speaker 1: win all three. So that gets you to three wins.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to get another win, obviously, otherwise you don't advance.
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  Speaker 1: So win those three games and somehow steal one other game.
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  Speaker 1: And congratulations, you've won the National League pennant and you're
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  Speaker 1: heading to the World Series. So they don't need perfection.
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  Speaker 1: They just need survival. So really, you've got those three
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  Speaker 1: you figure in the bag. And then the other four games,
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  Speaker 1: you just got to scratch and claw and hope one
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  Speaker 1: of these other Dodger guys rides the vomit comet. And
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  Speaker 1: Blake Snell's a great guy. I'm convinced the Dodgers will
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  Speaker 1: lose every time this guy pitches. The guy's a loser.
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  Speaker 1: Blake Snell. So figure he's out there. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: start the Miz against that, bro, I ain't playing unless
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  Speaker 1: I get my bro, Blake Snell, listen, you'll beat him.
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  Speaker 1: So make sure the Miz doesn't go against Blake Snell,
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  Speaker 1: and that's one of the other games you can win.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Dodgers are royally cooked. Then they're screwed.
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  Speaker 1: So one box has been checked. Congratulations. Three to go.
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  Speaker 1: A whopper of a night. You get the win, a
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  Speaker 1: little extra cheese on that, no pickles, and you're good
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  Speaker 1: to go. All right, meanwhile, final point. We must address
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  Speaker 1: for a couple minutes what happened over the weekend in Cleveland,
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  Speaker 1: the American League, and how did that go? Well, Gavin Williams,
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  Speaker 1: the horse, of course, of course, of course. Gavin Williams,
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  Speaker 1: as we said the other day, so good he's going
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  Speaker 1: to end up on the Dodgers or Yankees or Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox or one of those teams or the Cubs. Had
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  Speaker 1: 12 of a record 21 strikeouts. The Chicago White Sox,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing? Cleveland pitchers had 21 strikeouts. Jose
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  Speaker 1: Ramirez hit a two-run go-ahead ding-dong there on a pitch
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  Speaker 1: that was just above home plate on a Saturday night
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  Speaker 1: there in the fourth inning. And that's all she wrote.
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  Speaker 1: The Guardians take down Chicago's White Sox 2-0. And they
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  Speaker 1: complete the comeback. The Guardians were left for dead. We
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  Speaker 1: were mocking them. They deserve to be mocked. We don't
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  Speaker 1: take back that monologue. They were an embarrassment. And then
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  Speaker 1: they weren't an embarrassment. And they all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: have figured things out. So they come back from an
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  Speaker 1: 0-2 deficit and defeat Chicago. The team from Chicago, Cleveland,
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  Speaker 1: moves on now. Cleveland, just the 11th team to win
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  Speaker 1: a best-of-five series among the 96 that fell behind 0-2.
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  Speaker 1: The first since the 2017 Yankees against the.
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  Speaker 1: Old Cleveland Indians. Remember there was a team called the Indians,
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  Speaker 1: and now they're named after a bridge because you wokesters
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  Speaker 1: who don't even like baseball got all up into a tizzy? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I remember that. So the 0-2 comeback, and on the road,
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  Speaker 1: they lose the first two at home. They're able to
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  Speaker 1: win on the road, then they win the last game.
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  Speaker 1: They're just the fourth team to do that. So congratulations
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  Speaker 1: to the Cleveland Guardians, who will play the Tampa Bay
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  Speaker 1: Rays in the American League Championship Series for friends and
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  Speaker 1: family only. That'll begin on Monday night. So friends and family.
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  Speaker 1: We'll watch so you don't have to. Don't worry. We'll
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  Speaker 1: check that out. The question here, who gets the biggest
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  Speaker 1: slice of the Italian beef sandwich of blame for the
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  Speaker 1: White Sox blowing a 2-0 lead in the ALDS? So
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  Speaker 1: I would like to start with Will Venable. Now, I've
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  Speaker 1: never met Will Venable. I actually dealt with his dad,
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  Speaker 1: Max Venable, who was a journeyman outfielder who played with
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  Speaker 1: the Angels and whatnot back in the day. But Will Venable,
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  Speaker 1: who managed that bullpen for the Chicago White Sox like
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  Speaker 1: a guy playing whack-a-mole, At the county fair. And so
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  Speaker 1: there is a bit of me that is pleased with
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  Speaker 1: this outcome, and here's why. I feel like it's cosmic justice.
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  Speaker 1: And I understand Cleveland did the same thing at times here,
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  Speaker 1: but nobody was more egregious than the Chicago White Sox.
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  Speaker 1: It says in the Bible, live by the opener, die
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  Speaker 1: by the opener. And that bullpen slop blew up. And
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  Speaker 1: how smart did the White Sox look? Oh, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to go opener, bullpen game, opener, bullpen game, and just
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  Speaker 1: keep doing that. Why not? What the hell? And the
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  Speaker 1: White Sox treating starting pitching like it's a rotary telephone.
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  Speaker 1: Who wants to use a rotary telephone? What does he need?
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  Speaker 1: That's outdated technology. So that was the White Sox mindset here.
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  Speaker 1: And guess what? The new technology went ker-flooey! It exploded!
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  Speaker 1: They micromanaged. Now, most likely it's not actually Will Venable.
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  Speaker 1: It's the front office, the nerds, Poindexter, the Dingleberries, who
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: have all the answers, right? Except those computers somehow forgot
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: that you need to win three games in the American
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: League Divisional Series. Bad job by them. Now, meanwhile, how
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: about the hitters for the White Sox? This always fascinates me.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I've talked to some of the old-time guys. They're also,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: the old baseball players that I've dealt with over the years,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: they're also fascinated by the arrogance of the modern ballplayer,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: where it's not your night, you're striking out a lot,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: things aren't going your way. No one, not a single
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: person in that dugout says, you know, maybe we should
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: change our approach a little bit. maybe we should I
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: don't know choke up on the bat try to put
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: the ball in play oh no you can't do that.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Have you lost your bloody mind? Have you lost your
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: bloody mind? So the hitters go up there looking like
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: lumberjacks swinging away at a giant tree in the forest.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: And the results are like a toothpick. They racked up
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: 52 strikeouts over the final three games. 52 strikeouts. 21
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: in the final game there. They batted as a team
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: less than 200 the Chicago White Sox the last three games. Actually, overall,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: with runners in scoring position, it was even worse than
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: that the final three games. And Mune Murakami... The star
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: of the White Sox, he had 11 at-bats over the
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: final three games. Murakami went one of 11 with eight strikeouts.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: A couple of key moments. He was at home plate
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: with a chance to make something happen, and he didn't
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: do it in the final three games. No adjustments by
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: anybody on the Chicago White Sox. No clue. And so
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: let's hand them a dunce cap and pass a napkin there.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: There's a mess on their face. They vomited. It's a
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: bad job by them. All right, this is the Ben
• 20:53
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• 20:55
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• 20:57
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• 21:19
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• 21:21
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• 21:23
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• 21:25
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• 21:29
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• 21:31
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• 21:36
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• 21:40
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• 22:54
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• 23:04
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• 24:01
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• 24:08
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• 24:23
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• 24:26
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• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I did a spur of the moment Ask Ben over
• 24:32
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• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I do that in the future. But on Ask Ben
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: and Raz popped up. There was a guy named Raz
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Quit the Band who no longer goes by that moniker.
• 24:44
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• 24:48
  Speaker 1: He's from Minnesota. He wrote a lot of songs. The
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: peak of the songwriting was during the pandemic. Everyone was bored.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: We were here every night yapping, and a bunch of
• 24:58
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• 25:02
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• 25:17
  Speaker 1: What up, Ben? And Koopaloop, at abronkofan, that's abronkofan, your
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: comments can and will be used against you. I did see,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: I thought there was some road work going on at
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: SoFi Stadium. There was so much orange at SoFi Stadium.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I thought maybe somebody was fixing the roads, Koopaloop. I
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: didn't realize there were that many people from Denver in L.A.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I had no idea. Yeah, Denver West. I had no idea.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: That was a throwback. So people were saying it reminded
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: them of what it was like when the Chargers played
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: in that soccer stadium for a couple of years before SoFi,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: when it was just overtaken and all that. But I
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: guess if you're a Chargers... Home Depot Center, that's what
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: it was, right? I don't remember. Yeah, it was a
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: soccer thing, the LA Galaxy play out or whatever. Anyway,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: there were tons of Bronco fans, like the Bronco people.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: They showed up. They were all wearing orange. Did you
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: wear orange, Cooper, or did you wear blue? I wore orange.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: I wore a Von Miller jersey.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Did somebody send a memo out? You had to wear orange?
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Did everyone get the memo?
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, that's the Broncos' primary color.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Somebody said there was more orange at that game than
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: if you go to a game in Denver. There's not
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: as much orange. Anyway, all right, let's go to the phones,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: and we'll start out with Andre, Andre, Andre. Oh, it
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: is a holiday, right? Is it a holiday Monday? It is.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I think so, isn't it? No? I don't know. I
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: thought it was a holiday. Is it Columbus Day? Am
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I right? No. Am I wrong on that one? What
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: am I doing here? I don't know if it's a
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: company holiday or not. I don't know. I thought it was, yeah,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: today's Columbus Day. Is that no longer a holiday?
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: I thought we canceled that.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, I think we did. Did we call it something else?
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Indigenous People's Day. Okay, whatever. Yeah, sure.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Great.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Wonderful. Andre, what's going on, Andre? Welcome. Oh, I think
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Andre might have fallen asleep here. I hear movement, but
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I don't hear breathing. He doesn't have a snoring. I
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: don't hear his dog either. All right, well, that sucks.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry about that, Andre. Or maybe your phone died.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I hear a clicking. I don't know.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: It sounds like there's something there. He's trying to talk,
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: but he can't. He can't do it.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Sorry.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Call back. Let's say hello to Andy, who's on the
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Oregon Trail. Sounds like he might be sleeping.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Hello, Andy.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: Welcome.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: How's it going, Ben?
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Not sleeping, but you know who is? The Oregon Ducks.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: They're sleeping.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Well, before we talk about the Ducks, I just want
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: to say that that song is like for me and
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: my wife specifically because we just get high together all
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: the freaking time.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: What a great love story that is. You know, Romeo
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and Juliet, all they did was smoke weed, but they
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: left that out of the story. I don't know why.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just for me and my wife. But I
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: wanted to say hi to little Ray Knox. And how
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: you doing, Lorena?
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: Hello, I'm doing good.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: You got to say it the proper way. Say it
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the proper way, Lorena. I like it.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's good.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then hi, Koopa Loop.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Koopa's a.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: A Bronco fan. A Bronco fan. Nice. How you doing, dude?
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: We've done the niceties now. We've gotten that out of
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: the way. I think we're excited about that. Yes. All right.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Very excited.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: What the heck is up with the Ducks? I'm getting
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: so frustrated. They're all I have because the Blazers are terrible,
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: and the Ducks just keep sucking, and I'm getting tired
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: of it. I want you to take over.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: All right. Let me tell you something. I think they
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: have too many good players. How about that? They got
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: too many blue chip All-American. You need a proper mix.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: This is unpopular opinion. Unpopular opinion, Andy, that they got
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: to mix in more two- and three-star guys.
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: Take me.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Okay, we'll put you in there. Why not? I do
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: love the fact that your coach was talking up UCLA.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: to mock USC and then lost to UCLA?
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Dan Lanning.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: I know, Dan. What are you doing? I know, Dan Lanning,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: your lord and savior, the head duck. What's up with that?
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: I'm getting high so I can be calm, but the
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: ducks make me angry.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I hear you.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: I just need you to take over, Ben.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Well, I want you to know, I'm glad you're very
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: high right now, Andy, but if it makes you feel
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: any better, there's some serious boosters at the University of
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Southern California that spent a bunch of money on their
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: coach and watched the school that doesn't spend any money
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: in LA, UCLA, hire this guy, Bob Chesney, who no
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: one's ever heard of. And this guy's a rock star
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: right now in college football. UCLA's in the top 15
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: team now after the rankings this week. Top 15 team. Crazy.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: The Ducks are ranked zero.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: That's bad. That's a bad loss, man. That's a bad loss.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Have a good night, Ben.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Go away. There you go. Go smoke some more.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: There's Andy and his wife. Well, that's true romance right there.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: To the bong empties. That's in their vows right there.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Screamin' Steven. Oh, wow.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: This is rare. Two calls within a couple of weeks. Hello, Screamin' Steven. Welcome.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: Thank you again.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Hey. And we get high with each other. From one
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: lover to another. You know, I was top of my
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: class in high school.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: For what? Because I was so high, I was on
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: the fucking roof. Oh, are you kidding me? It sounds
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: like you might be high right now, dude. Calm down, buddy.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't know.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: It's been 18, 19 years. Do you remember?
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I remember. 2008, that was my last felony conviction. Look
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: at that. You're an upstanding citizen.
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah, thank you.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: Thanks for taking my call.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Lorena.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: We did some research.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: And because we're Czechoslovakian descent and Austrian, that's why my
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: aunt is named Lorena.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, see.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Spelling is important.
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: But Ben, I have an important question for you.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: All right, important question. We'd like to alert all the affiliates.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Important question coming. Here we go. What are you going
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: to do for Vinny versus the penny when they don't
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: have any pennies anymore?
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: They're going to.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Outlaw the penny. Well, I have over the years. Well,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: first of all, we just got a jumbo-sized penny from
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: our friend in South Carolina, Nimbot. Oh, that's cool. So
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: we have that. And I have saved many pennies. I
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: will never spend those pennies. Those are my pennies. So
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: I just have to worry about my lifespan. So I
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: have enough pennies for my life. I have a lifetime
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: supply of pennies. So it won't be like Benny versus
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: the wooden nickel or something? Well, originally we were going
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: to bring in some farm animals and management at the
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: company would not allow me to do that. But I
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: wanted to bring in like, you know, Benny versus a
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: monkey or something like that. But they wouldn't let me
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: do that. But it's unfortunate. No, listen, they won't let
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: me do it. I'm talking, this is three bosses ago.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: But I had all these ideas. I lost a bet.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: I was supposed to walk to Tucson, Arizona. And I
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: was like, I'll do it. And they said, the boss said,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Andrew Ashwood, may he rest in peace. He said, you'll
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: die before you get to Riverside. I'm not allowing you
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: to do that. So that's it.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: You can't have a goat there, Andrew.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: How great would that be? That'd be hilarious. The Mallard
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: goat in here. Benny versus the Billy. Benny versus the Billy.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: There you go. Yeah, or chickens or whatever that'll hop
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: on a different square.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Benny versus the Henny.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, cool. Yes. And another thing is I've got to figure.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Out how to call in to ask Weed Man Hippie
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: a question.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, that's every.
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: I work.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I work.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: I work really weird overnight hours at. I'm a maintenance
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: guy at a factory.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: You know, and so I don't go to bed until
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: like 4 in the morning.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Now, a lot of times I don't call in the week.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I come home, I shower, I go to bed so
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: I can get up and do some of my own stuff.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, if you are able to call in tomorrow,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: it's in the second hour of the show.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: No. You're not able to call in?
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: No, I can.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: I'm usually in the shower.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. As long as you wear some underwear.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I don't want you naked, Colin. That's very awkward.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: Well, I can shower in my swimming trunks.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, you could do that. Well, yeah, give us
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: a buzz. All right, we'll put you on. I'd love
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: to hear you in Weed Man. That would be great.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, is that all right, Lorraine, if I shower with
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: my swim trunks?
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's a great way to do it.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: Shower.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Clothed.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Get soapy. Well, you might have to put some soap in.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: What would it count if he just kept his socks on?
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Depends where they are. All right. I got you.
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: We love you guys.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Thank you. All right. Be well. Call tomorrow. There you go. Screaming.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I know you won't call because you're working. And by
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: the way, you're in maintenance management is what we call you.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Maintenance management. Because when you're there, you're the management guy.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: Go away.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Our friend Jill, the long-suffering Yankee fan, says,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: I am not an Otani fan, kind of think he's
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: a big phony, but your idea to bench him, you've
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: got to be kidding, Ben. No, I'm telling you, he's
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: not hitting home runs. He's batting a buck 54 in
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. He's got one run scored, a couple of walks,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: a stolen base, no home runs, no runs batted in
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: so far. I know it's a small sample size. He
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: has one home run Otani since August 18th. You're telling
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: me they can't find someone else in there to bat
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: 154 with no home runs and no runs batted in?
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: It's not like he's a decoy. The other team is
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: not afraid of Otani right now. The other team is
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: not like, oh my God, Otani's going to kill us.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: They're not afraid of him right now. Robbie the Mariner
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: fan writes and says, the Oregon Ducks suck. That's what
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: happened to them. Bad things happen to bad athletic departments.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: It's the Beaver State for a reason. There he goes.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Rob in the 3-2-1 with some very good AI art
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: there of the Oregon Duck. See, that's the duck. When
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: I loved college football in my youth, that's the Oregon Duck.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: He's got the Donald Duck thing. Because Oregon made a
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: deal with Disney, and they were able to use the
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Oregon Duck as Donald Duck. They just couldn't make any
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: money off it. That's why they use all these crappy
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: logos on their helmets that suck, that aren't as cool
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: as the Donald Duck, because they couldn't make money off it.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Think how cool Disney used to be as a company.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: And now they just try to price gouge it and everything.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: They just raise the prices.
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  Speaker 4: So that's why they put the O on everything instead
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  Speaker 4: of the duck?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because they can sell the O rather than the
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Donald Duck logo. When I was a kid, they had
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: the Donald Duck logo on their helmet. There are two
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: old packed 10 schools that had Arizona State. The Sun
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  Speaker 1: Devil mascot is actually Walt Disney World. Somebody from some
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  Speaker 1: Disney animator drew it up, but they put Walt Disney's
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  Speaker 1: face on the original Sun Devil logo, and then the
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  Speaker 1: Oregon duck is actually Donald Duck. But that was back
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  Speaker 1: when Disney was cool and more relatable, and now there's
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  Speaker 1: just a corporate entity.
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  Speaker 4: Price gougers!
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. It's like, how can we screw these people that love,
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  Speaker 1: that grew up fans of ours as kids, now that
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: they're adults? How can we take all their money? Okay,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: let's just charge $ 12 for a churro.
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  Speaker 3: Why not?
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  Speaker 1: All right. Anyway, it is the Ben Maller... Not that
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• 36:41
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  Speaker 1: to that right now. Here is the Insta Trivia. Jose
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  Speaker 1: Ramirez of the Guardians joined Blank as just the second
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  Speaker 1: player in MLB history to record multiple RBIs in three
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  Speaker 1: consecutive postseason games, including with his team facing elimination in
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: all three. Again, Jose Ramirez of the Cleveland Guardians joining
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  Speaker 1: Blank as just the second player in MLB history to
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  Speaker 1: have multiple runs batted in in three consecutive postseason games
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  Speaker 1: with his team facing elimination in all three. That's the
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Insta Trivia. The answer in Mallard of the third degree.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to that. We'll do it next.
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• 37:59
  Speaker 1: the instod trivia, and we'll get to Mallard with the
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  Speaker 1: third degree. Here's the question. Jose Ramirez of the Guardians
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  Speaker 1: joined blank as the second player, that's it, in baseball
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  Speaker 1: history to have multiple runs batted in in three consecutive
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  Speaker 1: postseason games with his team facing elimination in all three.
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  Speaker 1: That is the question. What is the answer? Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: Does anyone know the answer? We go to the great unwashed.
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  Speaker 1: otherwise known as X, and we see Eddie Romero from
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Alien O'Piner, Bodie Miller, who's 49 today, from Late Night
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Drug Tester, Woody Woodpecker, guest by Doc Dan, Christopher Columbus
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  Speaker 1: from Eek, it's his day today, Dodger free agent superstar
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Jones from JT the Wingman, how dare you, the
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  Speaker 1: Miller High Life woman from Michael in Tulsa, Big Poppy,
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  Speaker 1: David Ortiz from Analog Al. Willie Mays Hayes from Kev Atomic.
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  Speaker 1: John Kroc, guest by Johnny Q. Screamin' Steven is the
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  Speaker 1: best from RPS Commentator. Do you have an answer, Lorena?
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  Speaker 4: Shirley Temple.
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  Speaker 2: Close.
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  Speaker 1: The great John Valentin of the 1999 Boston Red Sox.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Is that Kevin Kennedy's Red Sox? Here we go. Here
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  Speaker 1: we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
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  Speaker 5: Koopaloop.
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  Speaker 7: Ben Archmanning did not have a good day against the
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: Sooners in the Red River rivalry over the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: You think, Koop?
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: You think that was a bad day? He rode the
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Vomit Comet? It was pretty bad.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: After the game, NFL gurus discussed his stock dropping and
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: said that they have him graded as a day two prospect.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you think that's going to be the case, Ben? No, no, no.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: The marketing department's going to say, hey, dummies, you know
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  Speaker 1: how much money we can make from these idiots buying
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Manning jerseys? No, he'll be drafted in the first round.
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  Speaker 1: And I still think he'll be a top ten pick.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: He's been a disaster class for him in Texas. He'll
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: still be drafted where he doesn't belong because of the marketing.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Somebody will say, well, we can coach him up. Next!
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  Speaker 7: Shortly after you talked about Alex Cora turning down the
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: Phillies last week, it was reported that he's waiting around
• 40:06
  Speaker 7: for the Yankees job.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think he'll get that? Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to want to wait another ten years. Aaron Boone?
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Aaron Boone's done everything he could to lose the Yankee job.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Any other era of Yankee baseball, Aaron Boone would have
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: been fired. But they don't care about winning in the
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Bronx anymore. They're fine. And he's their best buddies, Brian
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Cashman and Aaron Boone. And I'm convinced Dave Roberts with
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers and Aaron Boone with the Yankees, these guys
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: will coach until they don't want to coach anymore. And
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: that's it. So Alex Cora can forget about that job
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: being open. Next!
• 40:38
  Speaker 7: Last week, the Knicks announced that they are officially shutting
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: down contract talks with their players until later on in
• 40:43
  Speaker 7: the season. Then on Sunday, Carl Anthony Towns said he's
• 40:46
  Speaker 7: very disappointed with the Knicks.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, God forbid.
• 40:48
  Speaker 7: Do you think we have a Carl Anthony Towns problem?
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: He's only making $ 60 million a year. Why don't we
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: have a bake sale for Carl Anthony Towns? How's he
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: going to go on with life, Coop? How devastating is
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: that for Carl Anthony Towns? Boo-hoo-hoo! Who cares?
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: How do we do?
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: You pass us the game. That is a win!
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  Speaker 5: Put it on the mic!
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  Speaker 4: Watch the game!
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  Speaker 6: Winner, winner, winner!