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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 1: So the baseball playoffs can be a baseball heavy night
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  Speaker 1: on the show as the series ending everything except one.
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  Speaker 1: There's one left. And it's the least attractive. It's just
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of slop. Bullpen games, lack of star players,
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  Speaker 1: not a great product. But the White Sox, who gagged
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  Speaker 1: at home, all the people all dressed up, all dolled up, excited.
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  Speaker 1: They had their White Sox gear on. Guys like Faze
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago and Eugene were all excited about the White Sox.
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  Speaker 1: And then they went out there and laid an egg
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  Speaker 1: against the Cleveland Guardians. That is not our lead, though.
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  Speaker 1: But that's the only series remaining. Everything else is over. Kaput.
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  Speaker 1: The Brew crew get it done in the late game.
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  Speaker 1: So Milwaukee has advanced as the Padres do what the
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  Speaker 1: Padres always seem to do this time of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Put their tail between their legs and walk away. The
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  Speaker 1: Yankees are dead. The Yankees are dead. 17 years in
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  Speaker 1: a row. A Yankee haters paradise as the Bronx Bombers
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  Speaker 1: turn into the Bronx Bummers. The no-name Tampa Bay Rays
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  Speaker 1: have eliminated. the New York Yankees, and the other series.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Atlanta. Why don't we start with Atlanta?
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  Speaker 1: It was elimination day, or was it, for the Atlanta Braves.
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  Speaker 1: Game four of the NLDS win or go home with
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  Speaker 1: the D-O-D-G-E-R-S Dodgers. Did you watch this game? Maybe not.
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  Speaker 1: The third different play-by-play announcer.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Game four, but three different playoff announcers. Joe Davis apparently
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  Speaker 1: down for the count again. Guess they couldn't get him
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  Speaker 1: any good steroids. Because usually when you have laryngitis, they
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  Speaker 1: just inject you with steroids and then you're good like
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  Speaker 1: within a couple hours. He wasn't there. And our friend
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  Speaker 1: Kenny Albert was busy doing hockey for friends and family
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  Speaker 1: to watch. And so they changed the announcers again. And
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  Speaker 1: it was fine. One thing that did not change is
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers' success as the light-hitting playoff version of Andy Paez.
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  Speaker 1: It was not light-hitting here. He drove in a pair,
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  Speaker 1: a two-ribby hit with the bases loaded, a single in
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  Speaker 1: the seventh inning to give the Los Angeles baseball team
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  Speaker 1: the lead. The Dodgers end up beating the Braves 4-1,
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  Speaker 1: and they wrap up the NL series. divisional series the
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  Speaker 1: dodgers winning back-to-back games in georgia to take the best
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  Speaker 1: of five match up three to one all that talk
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  Speaker 1: what a great home field advantage okay well it didn't
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  Speaker 1: work out uh for the home team there and so
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  Speaker 1: the dodgers back in the nlcs trying to become the
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  Speaker 1: first national league team to win three straight world series
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  Speaker 1: The better story, though, is in the losing locker room.
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  Speaker 1: So that is where we will begin as Ronald Acuna Jr.
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  Speaker 1: He went hitless in the game on hump day there
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday night, an elimination game, and finished his season.
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  Speaker 1: with a futile performance. It's like getting to the end
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  Speaker 1: of a marathon and tripping at the six-mile mark. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to go 6.2 miles. You can't just go
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  Speaker 1: 26 miles. No, no, I'm stopping at the— I' m going to
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  Speaker 1: stop a little short. 0.2 miles short. Okay. Now, postgame,
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  Speaker 1: Ronald Acuna admitted— he gave some pointed quotes. He was very emotional.
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  Speaker 1: He was reclaimed. He said, I'm particularly frustrated with myself.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I did nothing to help the team
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  Speaker 1: this series, close quote. All right, so that is a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping-off point. Let us discuss the question. Better story
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  Speaker 1: than losing a locker room. So how much blame does
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  Speaker 1: outfielder Ronald Acuna Jr. deserve for Atlanta's latest playoff elimination?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got Oktoberfest, Copacabana, and Bugs Bunny. And we'll
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  Speaker 1: put all these things together. We're going to crank things
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  Speaker 1: into high gear. We are going to go into high gear. So, A,
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta continues to advertise Ronald Acuna Jr. as a superstar. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: truth in advertising does not apply to Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't. And this guy was a star at one point.
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  Speaker 1: Ronald Acuna Jr. has the complete superstar starter kit. So
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  Speaker 1: he's got the name. He's got some good You know
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  Speaker 1: what to it. That's a solid name. It's not Joe Blow.
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  Speaker 1: It's Ronald Acuna Jr. It's a good name. He's got
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  Speaker 1: some highlights. People like the highlights. The merch. The only
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  Speaker 1: thing missing would be the, I don't know, performance. Didn't
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  Speaker 1: show up in October. Sent out the cardboard cutout version
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  Speaker 1: wearing the Atlanta uniform, the Braves uniform there. So this was, again,
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be an opportunity for the Braves star, Ronald
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  Speaker 1: Acuna Jr., to celebrate Oktoberfest. Instead, he delivered the October flop.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of the fast, not the flop version. That's
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  Speaker 1: a bad job by you. Going from the straw that
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  Speaker 1: was going to stir the drink to a paper umbrella.
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  Speaker 1: Collecting dust. That's essentially what happened here. How bad was it?
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for asking. As Acuna went in 24 at-bats, had
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  Speaker 1: three hits. That's a robust 125 batting average with zero hits.
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  Speaker 1: Extra base hits in the playoffs. He was 0 for
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  Speaker 1: 6 with runners in scoring position. Oh, you're being mean, Ballard.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I know. I'm the schmuck for pointing this out.
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  Speaker 1: You should really get down on your knee pads and
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  Speaker 1: celebrate the season. Okay. I'm not doing that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't play professional baseball. I do believe, though, if
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  Speaker 1: you hit 125 in the postseason, you're not doing your job.
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  Speaker 1: So the Dodgers didn't even really need to neutralize him.
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  Speaker 1: He came pre-neutralized right out of the box. So attention
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  Speaker 1: Braves management. I'll let you know right now. I am available.
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  Speaker 1: I know there's going to be a work stoppage coming
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  Speaker 1: up in baseball. I promise you I can go 0
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  Speaker 1: for 24 for a fraction of the money. that this
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  Speaker 1: catch make. So if you're interested, you know how to
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  Speaker 1: find me here. I'm not hard to find. And it's
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  Speaker 1: safe to say that Ronald Acuna Jr. gets the jumbo-sized
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  Speaker 1: slice of the blame cream pie there for the hometown team. Now,
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  Speaker 1: page two, keeping the theme going here, as the Braves
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  Speaker 1: have been eliminated, the Dodgers advance. We'll get to the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers in a second. But what does the future hold
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  Speaker 1: for Ronald Acuna Jr.? Junior in a Braves uniform at
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  Speaker 1: this particular point. So as a distant relative of Nostradamus
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  Speaker 1: and friend of Nostradamus, his days in Atlanta are not
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  Speaker 1: just numbered in years anymore. They're numbered in months. The
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  Speaker 1: only thing that could save him is if there are
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  Speaker 1: no transactions because of baseball's war taking place and no
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  Speaker 1: transactions because there will be no collective bargaining agreement. Now, sure,
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  Speaker 1: the Braves will guaranteed activate the 17 million dollar player
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  Speaker 1: option or the team option for the next two years.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason they'll do that is even though this
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  Speaker 1: guy is a non-performer in the playoffs, compared to some
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  Speaker 1: of the other contracts, that's actually a bargain. Imagine a
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  Speaker 1: business worth $ 17 million a year for a guy that
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  Speaker 1: has proven he can't live up to the moment in October,
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  Speaker 1: and yet that's a deal. That's baseball. That's where we
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  Speaker 1: are in modern Major League Baseball. Now, that does not
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  Speaker 1: mean that they won't activate the contract and then put
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  Speaker 1: him into the flea market. If I'm running Atlanta... I
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  Speaker 1: am listening to every phone call about this guy, every
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  Speaker 1: single one, every text message. I'm scrolling my phone. I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing everything. And you look around, you figure the Braves
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  Speaker 1: won't trade him to a National League team, but you
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  Speaker 1: look at the American League, there's some real suckbag teams
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  Speaker 1: like the Mariners or the Angels who have no offense.
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  Speaker 1: The Angels have no stars. Mike Trout's a part-time player.
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  Speaker 1: So they go down that road. And then the Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox would be a possibility as well. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if the analytics work out. We'd have to check with
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  Speaker 1: the algorithms to see if the Red Sox are into
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  Speaker 1: that because they're being run by an algorithm. And look,
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  Speaker 1: Ronald Acuna Jr. has a championship reputation. They love that big,
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  Speaker 1: shiny MVP trophy from back in the day. The baseball
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  Speaker 1: reference page when it comes to the postseason is tap water.
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  Speaker 1: So they go from champagne during the regular season to
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  Speaker 1: tap water. And the Braves aren't, I don't think, running
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  Speaker 1: a museum. Maybe they are. I don't believe that's the case.
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  Speaker 1: You can't just live off forever that old MVP trophy.
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  Speaker 1: You can't do it. In his career, Acuna is a.
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  Speaker 1: 233 postseason hitter with three home runs in 36 playoff games.
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  Speaker 1: And remember, the Braves did win a World Series within
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  Speaker 1: the last decade, and that was in 2021. You know
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  Speaker 1: who didn't play in that World Series? Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he was hurt. He didn't play. So the reputation has
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  Speaker 1: to match the production. The label appears to have already expired.
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  Speaker 1: It appears to have already expired. Ronald Acuna Jr. is
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  Speaker 1: like the Copacabana nightclub, which was really hot many, many
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  Speaker 1: years ago. They made songs about it, the Copacabana. And
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  Speaker 1: the sign, I'm sure, is still glowing somewhere. It's just
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  Speaker 1: not that popular. Nobody's really inside. That's that. Now, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the final word here on the Dodgers, the Dodgers side
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  Speaker 1: of things. So I was greeted by an email from
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  Speaker 1: listener Mike. who is in the San Fernando Valley here
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  Speaker 1: in L.A., in Encino, which is the next city over.
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  Speaker 1: If you're familiar with the geography, many of you don't
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  Speaker 1: live here or don't know where we do the show from,
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  Speaker 1: but we're doing it from Sherman Oaks, and just the
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  Speaker 1: next town over is Encino. There was a movie made
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  Speaker 1: years ago called Encino Man, so Mike, to me, is
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  Speaker 1: Encino Man. And he emailed me demanding, demanding that in
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  Speaker 1: this monologue here we give the boys in blue their
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  Speaker 1: flowers for dispatching the Atlanta Braves. And Mike was very
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  Speaker 1: passionate about this. I don't know for sure. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to assume that he was hammered when he sent that
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  Speaker 1: email after drinking for three hours watching the baseball game.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll engage down that road. We'll engage. Why not?
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. I'm easy to please. So the question,
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  Speaker 1: do the Dave Roberts Dodgers deserve a hooray for knocking
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  Speaker 1: out Atlanta and advancing to the National League Championship Series?
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  Speaker 1: So unless we changed the rules of engagement, I'm giving
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  Speaker 1: this side eye. The Dodgers, this can blow you away.
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  Speaker 1: The Dodgers are not the little engine that could. No.
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  Speaker 1: They're the luxury locomotive that should, not could, should. This
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  Speaker 1: is a World Series or bust situation. We got high standards. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't. They do. They have high standards. And as
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  Speaker 1: Chris Rock, my professor, famously joked many years ago, you're
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  Speaker 1: not supposed to get credit for doing what you're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to do. So my reaction to, hey, give the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: their flowers is the Bugs Bunny wake up meme. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the one where you got like one eye open, you
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  Speaker 1: get that gigantic yawn. And you stretch your arms out
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  Speaker 1: and you put them behind your head and you say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: what's up, Doc? As in Doc Roberts. So congratulations on
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  Speaker 1: handling your business. The Chris Sale win was nice. Yamamoto
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  Speaker 1: was wonderful. And again, the standard is the standard and
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  Speaker 1: all that. The bigger question is sustainability. There is margin
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  Speaker 1: for error because the Dodgers won with two of their
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  Speaker 1: better players missing. essentially being along for the ride. And
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  Speaker 1: the question is, can the Dodgers keep winning in the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs if Will Smith and Shohei Ohtani are essentially expensive decoys?
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  Speaker 1: And in this series, despite the Dodgers winning three of four,
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  Speaker 1: they were non-playable characters. That's a terrific magic trick, hocus-pocus,
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  Speaker 1: for one playoff series. But eventually... your headliners, those guys
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  Speaker 1: are going to have to do something. And if Otani
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  Speaker 1: cannot play, then you've got to take him out of
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  Speaker 1: the lineup. I don't think they've got the balls to
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  Speaker 1: do that. And so now it's Dodgers versus Brewers. In
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  Speaker 1: the NLCS, you've got what a juxtaposition. You look at
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  Speaker 1: the tail of the tape, and I'm sure we'll have
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  Speaker 1: plenty of time over the next few days to look
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  Speaker 1: at the tail of the tape. The tape series doesn't
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  Speaker 1: begin until Sunday. But you've got Pat Murphy's scrappy brew crew.
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  Speaker 1: versus the big money, money, money, money, blue crew. So
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  Speaker 1: it's the brew versus the blue, and it's all about
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  Speaker 1: the crew for you. So we'll see how this plays out.
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  Speaker 1: Last year was a total mismatch, but that was last year.
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  Speaker 1: And the Brewers' formula is rather simple. They got to
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  Speaker 1: figure out a way to have the Miz start three games.
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  Speaker 1: They got to win all three of those games, and
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  Speaker 1: then they got to find one other winner. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: You win the pennant if you do that. Just win
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  Speaker 1: when the Miz is on the mound, and you know
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  Speaker 1: you're going to get a solid out. The problem is
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  Speaker 1: these pitch counts and limiting the stress. Even if Miz
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  Speaker 1: is great, if you're taking him out in the fifth
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  Speaker 1: inning or the sixth inning, five in the third innings,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to depend on the bullpen. And typically, even
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  Speaker 1: as good as Milwaukee's bullpen is, The further along you
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  Speaker 1: get in the series, you see these guys more and
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  Speaker 1: more teams start adjusting and hitting the relief pitchers. So
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  Speaker 1: that's where we are as the NLCS is now set.
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers and Brewers, it's on Fox. That'll be coming up
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: the Bronx. As you know, I have family, family in
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  Speaker 1: New York. My older brother moved there many, many years ago.
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  Speaker 1: I've got cousins in the tri-state area there. So family
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  Speaker 1: pretty much spread out all over the place. But a
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  Speaker 1: lot of my family, there's a mix of Mets and
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  Speaker 1: Yankees fans. The Mets fans don't say much at this point.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing to say. The Yankee fans, they were feeling
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  Speaker 1: their oats. They were pretty excited. Pretty excited. Now, you understand,
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  Speaker 1: people in my family are not hardcore sports fans. They're not.
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  Speaker 1: They're just kind of casual. But they were all Joneses. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: they kicked the Red Sox. Took us. And they kicked
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  Speaker 1: the snot out of the Red Sox in those two games. Man,
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  Speaker 1: life is great for the Yankees. They're back. Even without
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge. They didn't need Aaron Judge. Well... Then they
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  Speaker 1: had to play more games. So game three of the
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  Speaker 1: ALDS at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees trying to avoid the
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  Speaker 1: embarrassment of a sweep. The Rays looking to close the
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  Speaker 1: door and turn out the lights. The party's over for
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  Speaker 1: the pinstripers. So I'm not sure if you're watching this
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  Speaker 1: or not. Maybe you missed it. It's possible. Somebody named
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  Speaker 1: Victor Mesa Jr., Hit a tie-breaking two-run ding-dong off Max
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  Speaker 1: Freed in the sixth inning. And the Tampa Bay baseball team,
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  Speaker 1: team formerly known as the Devil Rays, beat the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: 4-3 on a sleepy Wednesday night in the Bronx. They
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  Speaker 1: also got some help from fan interference. As the Yankee fans, well,
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  Speaker 1: Yankee fans never put their hands over the fence to
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  Speaker 1: try to grab the ball. That never happens unless it did. Yeah. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Mayer somewhere smiling. This time, though, with replay, the Yankees,
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  Speaker 1: instead of getting an Anthony Volpe two-run home run, it
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  Speaker 1: was a double and a run scored. And in the end,
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  Speaker 1: the Rays get her done. Three-game sweep-a-roo in the AL
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  Speaker 1: Divisional Series. Someone named Ryan Valade. Also homered for the Rays,
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  Speaker 1: who reached the ALCS for the first time since way
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  Speaker 1: back in 2020. That won the hardest postseason of all time,
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic year. That's when the Dodgers won the greatest
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  Speaker 1: championship of all time. These other championships are small potatoes
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  Speaker 1: compared to that championship. And so Tampa will host the
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  Speaker 1: winner of the White Sox Guardian Series, and that won't
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  Speaker 1: begin until Monday. And the better story, you know where
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  Speaker 1: it is. That's right. Look at you. You're such a
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  Speaker 1: good student. I'm proud of you. The losing locker room.
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  Speaker 1: So with the sweep, our friend Jill in Minnesota and
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  Speaker 1: Supermarket Steve's New York Yankees. Embarrassing. They extend their championship
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  Speaker 1: drought to 17 years. 17 years with either the top
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  Speaker 1: payroll or the top two or three payrolls in all
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  Speaker 1: of baseball every one of those years. And the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: now with nothing to show for that. Over 17 seasons. Now,
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  Speaker 1: after sweeping Boston in the wildcard round, it turns out
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  Speaker 1: that New York, how many leads do they have against Tampa?
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  Speaker 1: You think they had five leads in the three games?
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  Speaker 1: You think they had two leads? How about no leads?
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  Speaker 1: The New York baseball team from the American League never
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  Speaker 1: led against the Tampa Bay baseball team. And they go down.
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  Speaker 1: And so the Yankees have not advanced past a higher-seeded
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  Speaker 1: team in the postseason since 2020. So if the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: play anyone deemed better than them, they don't show up. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge, don't judge me, bro. He wasn't out there. Now,
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  Speaker 1: some bleeding-heart baseball provocateurs are saying, well, listen, it's not
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  Speaker 1: fair to be too hard on the Yankees because Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Judge wasn't there. And so it's almost like these people
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  Speaker 1: want to give the Yankees a pass to Because Judge
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  Speaker 1: was unable to play. So that is a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question. Does the absence
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  Speaker 1: of Aaron Judge explain the Yankees offensive collapse? Or is
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  Speaker 1: that just an excuse for a poorly constructed lineup? my
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: observations i've got snow white bronx college and elon musk
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: And we'll combine all of these things together, and we
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: are going to follow doctor's orders is what we're going
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: to do. We're going to follow doctor's orders. And we
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: always start, the doctor always says, the good doctor says,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: always start at the beginning, Ben. I say, well, what's
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the beginning, doctor? And they say, well, the beginning, Ben,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: is number one. Number one. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: We love number one. What number do we love? What number?
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Number one. So you're telling me that one calf... I
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: just want to make sure I'm straight on this. So
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: you're telling me that one calf injury makes the entire
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Yankee lineup forget how to hit the baseball? Yeah, that's
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the ticket, right? So you're the New York Yankees. This
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: just in to Fox Sports Radio. You are not the
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge traveling all-stars. You're not. And while Ben Rice
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: was oh so nice... And he's the only one that
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: did anything for the Yankees consistently in that brief series
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: with Tampa Bay. However, this film, for the playoffs, for
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: the Yankees against Tampa Bay, it was a B-movie. B-movie version.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Some would say a Z-movie version of Snow White. You
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: had Uncle Ben and the Seven Dwarfs. Sleepy, dopey, clueless, helpless, hitless, hopeless,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: and Cashman. All of them right there. Lined up in
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: a row. You had poor lighting. Bad editing, terrible script writing,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: and embarrassingly bad acting. That's the Yankees. So we went down.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: We helped out the Yankees. We went down to the
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: haberdashery in Manhattan. We got a bunch of dunce caps,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: and we got one for Trent Grisham, who had as
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: many hits in this series as you did, 0 for 11.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: How about former MVP Cody Bellinger? Some of my buddies
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: who are Dodger backers are like, oh, I wish we
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: had Bellinger back. He was 1 of 12. Jazz Chisholm. Remember,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: this is the guy that's going to get a 10-year
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: contract and $ 300 million. Jazz Chisholm had a snowman. He
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: was 0 for 8. Luis Garcia Jr., the big pickup
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: from the Giants at the trade deadline. I believe he
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: came from the Giants. 1 of 10. Spencer Jones, keeping
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: up with the Joneses. Not that hard to do. He
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: was 1 of 9. And all of them sucked at
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: a time you cannot suck. They decided that they would
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: pile in to the vomit comet. And that's exactly what
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: they did. Traveling down U.S. Route 60, that group of players,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Trent Grisham, Cody Bellinger, Jazz Chisholm, Luis Garcia Jr., and
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Spencer Jones collectively batted 0-60. 0-60. The Yankees qualified, though.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: They did qualify for the wholesale discount at the haberdashery.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: So we got a deal on that. That's good. They
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: might as well have watched the games of those guys
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: from the Legend Suite at Yankee Stadium. They could have
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: enjoyed some nice food. And it's not like they helped
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: the team out anyway. As Aaron Judge, his injury explains
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: why the Yankees were a weaker team. But it does
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: not explain why they were a helpless team. And that's
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: unbecoming of the Yankees. Now, page two. So Aaron Boone,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Aaron Boone completed his ninth season, I believe now, as
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: manager of the New York Yankees without a championship. Aaron
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: effing Boone. Now, what a great ending we had here.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Disgruntled fans chanting, fire Boone, fire Boone. Rhythmic chanting. I
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: am a total sucker for the rhythmic chant. As they
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: were leaving Yankee Stadium, they had pitchforks in one hand.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: They had the The pitchforks, the flames, the torches and
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: the other, and they were chanting. It was a therapeutic, fire, Boone, fire, Boone.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: All right, so the question, is it finally happening? Is
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Aaron Boone officially out of excuses after nine years without
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: a championship as the skipper of the New York Yankees?
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: So after a minutes-long Mallard deliberation of the available information...
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: We've determined that Aaron Boone was already out of excuses
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: many years ago. However, getting swept by a fundamentally sound
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay baseball team without leading a single inning has
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: just added to the stockpile of stupidity. In the Bronx.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: And the signature moment for me, and you can pick
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: your own. There are many to pick from. My favorite
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: was Austin Wells running through the stop sign, which reminded
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: everyone that this Yankee team had more traffic violations than
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: they have on the Cross Bronx Expressway. My God, what
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: are you doing? It's a one-run game. You hadn't scored.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: What are you doing? Dum-da-dum-dum-dum. We had the four-error masterpiece,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: the Yankee way of playing baseball. So you're either coaching
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: it or you're allowing it to happen. That's our mantra
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: on this stuff. The Yankees under Aaron Boone have had
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: two settings. Now, what are the two settings? It's a
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: two-gear operation. Two gears. So the regular season, it's chest
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: thumping and boppity-boppity-boppity. And then in the postseason, it's change
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: the bedding. Who wet the bed? Who wet the bed?
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: It's bed wetting 101. So Aaron Boone has really stopped
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: being a manager. At this point, he's become a tenured
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: professor at the Bronx College of Failure. So congratulations. Now,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I don't believe he'll be fired. How many monologues have
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I done over the years about Dave Roberts and Aaron Boone?
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: It's one and the same. They're interchangeable. They're interchangeable. That's
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: just the way it is. And Aaron Boone's not going anywhere.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: We expect a very patriotic, that's the word I would use,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: a very patriotic response from Brian Cashman, as in standing pat.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: That's what they're going to do. Brian Cashman, the general manager,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: has built a country club where accountability goes to die.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: And the Yankees are fundamentally bankrupt, just like the Red Sox. Now, listen,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: they've sold their soul. Now, the Dodgers also sold their soul,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: except they're winning, so everyone's okay with it. But Cashman
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: and Boone, are the baseball version at this point of
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: a buddy comedy. Unfortunately, the joke is on you, the
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Yankee fan. And they're going to bring back Aaron Boone.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: They're going to bring him back for another ride on
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: the merry-go-round, round and round and round and round, merry-go-round
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: of mediocrity. That's Yankee baseball. All right, final point to
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay side of things. The Rays will get
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: home field advantage against the White Sox or Guardians starting
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: on Monday in a very underwhelming American League Championship series.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I did want to address, I had a friend from Fargo,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Fargo Pete, who wrote in and was talking about how,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: oh man, Tampa Bay, they got some stars. Oh man.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: So let's address that. So the question, we're going to
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: frame it this way. How do you size up the
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Kevin Cash Rays, that's their manager, As they head into
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: the ALCS. How do you size them up? So Tampa
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Bay is living proof. You can build a winning baseball
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: team in 2026 without building a team that has a
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: single celebrity. Congratulations, you've done it. This team is assembled
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: entirely of hand-me-downs, factory seconds, cast-offs, items found in the
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: clearance aisle at big lots, all that stuff. And honestly,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: the Rays should be sponsored by Elon Musk's boring company
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: because somehow they're boring and digging a tunnel straight to
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: the fall classic. Yeah, they're doing it. The Rays have
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: been good year after year. There have been a couple
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: of duds in there, but for the most part, they're competitive.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Nobody ever pays attention to them. They don't get any
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: clicks online because they don't have stars. They have lifetime
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: membership in the Dolezalmore Society is what they have. They're
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: very dull. They are baseball's generic prescription medication. Same results.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Cheaper packaging, absolutely no brand recognition. And while many will
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: agree that Junior Caminero is a star and a terrific talent,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: he's not a superstar. He's not a household name. And
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: outside of the baseball hard-o bubble, he just doesn't make
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: it work. You could put this entire Tampa Bay Rays
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: team on a subway car in Manhattan, and nobody... would
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: ask for a single autograph. They'd be like, oh, it's
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: just some random dudes taking the train downtown. Or are
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: they going uptown? It doesn't matter. The whole team. Are
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: they fundamentally sound? Tampa Bay, sure. Are they well managed
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: in terms of the fact that they are fundamentally sound
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: and they seem to be working the pieces fit well together,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: the jigsaw puzzle pieces fit? Yeah. And about as exciting...
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: About as exciting, Tampa Bay Rays baseball as a mandatory
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: workplace seminar on printer maintenance. You really have to maintain
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: your printer or else it's not going to work. Well,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I don't need a seminar on that. What are you doing? So,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. the baseball equivalent of a critically acclaimed documentary
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: about municipal water waste treatment. Now, some would say that's
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: important work. You need to watch that documentary. And perhaps
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: that's true. Entertaining? No. Not unless you're related to somebody
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: who happens to be on the team. And then you
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: can say, boy, that's great. We're excited. Outstanding.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 30:08
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• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Time to roll.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Welcome in, militia.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Speaking of winners.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Can you handle more Maller mayhem?
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. It's time now for. Benny versus the Penny. Well,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: we'll get to that in a minute, but first we
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: have to pay off the Insta trivia, and here it is.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: So Blank is 5-13 against the spread in primetime. That's
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: 6 p.m. Eastern or later. That's over the last five seasons,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: failing to cover by three points per game. That is
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the worst mark of 23 head coaches with at least
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: 10 such games in that span. That is the question,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: and what is the answer? Let's see, does anyone... No,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: the answer, we'll just do a few of these and
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: then move on to Benny versus the Penny. We've got
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Elon Dogg from Not a Burner. Page down. Can't read that.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Let's see, what else do we have? We've got the
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: always popular Rally Monkey from Ferg Dogg. Chris Nowitzki, former
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: pro wrestler from Alf the Alien. Oh, Piner. And that's enough.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Do you have an answer, please, Lorena? Grumpy Cat. No,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: the correct answer would be none other than Buccaneers coach
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Todd Bowles. Todd Bowles, 5-13 in primetime. 1-6 against the
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: spread last three seasons. Here we go, here we go,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: here we go, here we go, here we go. All right,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny. And just one island game to
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: talk about as Week 5 kicks off. Tampa Bay 0-4
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: and Dallas off to the middling start themselves. They had
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: a comeback win last week against Houston. And Dallas is
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: an 8.5-point favorite on DraftKings. This game on Amazon Prime
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: with Al Michaels and Herbie and his dog Peter. Be
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: 80 degrees and clear at Jerry's World, but it's a dome,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: so it doesn't really matter. And the pick is in.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: I'm going to take the Buccaneers in this game. The
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Buccaneers are 3-14 against the spread on Thursday since 1980.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: That is the worst mark on Thursday night of any
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: team in the NFL over the last almost 50 years.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Doesn't matter. That's what has happened, not what's going to happen.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: And here's why I'm making this pick. This is a
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: play against the Cowboys defense. They are the 30th ranked
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: defense in the NFL. And as bad as Tampa Bay is,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: most of these losses have been one-score losses. I know
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: they're playing their backup quarterback. But the key here for
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: the Buccaneers is to run, run, run, run, run. Dallas
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: is allowing 150 rushing yards per game. Second most in
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Bucky Irving. This is a Bucky Irving game.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: And also, Jalen Daniels, the backup, seems to be a
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: mobile quarterback. He ran for 55 yards against Green Bay. So...
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: The game plan, if I'm Todd Bowles, is to just run, run, run, run,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: run quarterback keepers and design runs for the quarterback, zone read, bootlegs,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: all that crap, all that football hard-o stuff you all love.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Dallas is allowing 28 points per game. and has only
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: four sacks and no interceptions through the first four games
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: of the season. That's why they traded for Joey Porter Jr.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: And remember, Tampa Bay is 0-4. However, the four losses
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: are by a total of 20 combined points. Bad teams
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: lose close games. So the Cowboys can win this game
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: by a touchdown, and I still end up winning the bet.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: And the Buccaneers have played 10 consecutive one-score games dating
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: back to last season. which likely means they're due to
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: get blown out. But I don't care about that. I, again,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: am going to take the creamsicles in this game, plus
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: all those points. I love my points. I'll take the
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: 8.5 points, and I'm going to take the Tampa Bay
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Buccaneers here to give Jerry Jones a little bit of
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: a scare. And now Koopa Loop is representing the Penny,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: and the Penny picks.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: The Penny and Lorena are going with the Dallas Cowboys.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, we got disagreement, baby. We got disagreement. Now, remember,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: you like Benny versus the Penny. Tomorrow, we'll do the
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: eight most important games in week five. The eight most
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: important games and all the picks against the spread. It's
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny.
• 34:28
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• 34:35
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• 34:41
  Speaker 2: now time for.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Hurry, hurry, I can hardly wait. Ask Ben. Twitter. Send
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: us your questions on Twitter now. And it is Ask Ben.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Your questions, our answers. For the rest of the hour,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: this portion of the Ben Maller Show on Fox, made
• 34:58
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• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Week 5 is here. And it's a big one. Bears
• 35:05
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• 35:08
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• 35:16
  Speaker 1: live on Fox one. And now for the reading of
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: the questions, although it won't sound like he's reading the coop. Oh, loop.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Justin Cooper.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: All right. We're going to start off with a question
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: from Nimbot.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Hi, Nimbot.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: Who would like to know what was your best vacation ever?
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Well, I love Hawaii. I got married there. I guess
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: the Nepali coast of Hawaii is the most beautiful place
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: I've ever been. So I guess I would say that.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: What about you, Lorena? Most amazing vacation.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: I've only been a couple of really cool places, but
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: I really liked Belize.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Look at you. Belize. Could you spell that? B-E-L-I-Z-E. Oh,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: you're bragging now. You're bragging. All right. What about you, Koopaloop?
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: This is a tough one. I had a European vacation
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: where I went to a few different countries with my
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: family and my now wife, who was my girlfriend at
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: the time. But I think I got to give it
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: to Japan on my honeymoon. It was just, I don't know.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Amazing place. You loved it?
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was just more fun because it was
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: the honeymoon rather than like a, you know, like family
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: trips are cool too, but, you know, you know.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. I hear you.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: I hear you.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: All right. What is next? It's Ask Ben. Your questions
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: are answers for the rest of the hour.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: I swear I didn't plan it this way, Ben. It
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: just happened to be the next question I saw.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Okay, what do you got?
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Elon Dogg.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Hi, Elon dog. Hi, doggy.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: Wants to know, are couples who do destination weddings jerks?
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Well, no, I didn't do a destination wedding. We just eloped.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Nobody was invited. So, no. Yeah, I think those people
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: that do destination weddings are jerks. But I didn't do one.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: I'm an introvert. No one was at my wedding. I
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: was on a deserted beach. On the other side of Kauai, there's, like,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: nobody there. Like, you had to drive down a dirt
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: road with potholes to get where I got married. So
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: I know where it is. It's, like, between the three-
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: and four-mile marker when you leave the airport in Poipu.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Right near, there's like a golf course. You go past that.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: There's a dirt road. You take a right turn. You
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: go down around 17 potholes. You get to the very end.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: There's like a turnaround spot, and then there's the mighty
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: ocean right there. That's where the wedding took place. What
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: about you, Lorena?
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, unless you have a really rich family,
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: I think getting married somewhere like that, kind of, you know,
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: not the best.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: Unless you have no family.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you have no family, it doesn't really matter.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Do whatever you want. Cool.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: I don't think they're jerks, per se. Just don't expect
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: me to go. Unless you're paying for me.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you pay, I'll go. I've had listeners invite
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: me to weddings and stuff, and I'm like, okay. If
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: you pay, I'll go, but nobody's paid yet, so I
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: haven't gone to any weddings. What's next? What do we got?
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: OG Art Puffin would like to know, when's the last
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: time you went clubbing? Ha! Uh....
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: You know, probably the last time was when I did
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: stuff with the baseball players. They liked, for some reason,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: they felt pity on me, and they would take me
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: out to the nightclubs on the road. And I was
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: probably in my mid, I was in my early 20s, probably.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: It's been a minute. It's much different, by the way,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: going to a nightclub with a professional athlete. They don't
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: pay for anything. It's wild. And women come up to them.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: It's shocking. When you go with your boys, no women
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: come up to you. Anyway, what about you, Lorena?
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: I'd say it's been about two years since I was
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: at a club club, you know? With, like, the bottles
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: popping and the half-naked ladies on the couches. It's not
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: really my scene, though.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: You've moved on from that?
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: I never really got into it. I tried.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, was it? The fat guy does not do well
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: at the club, so it didn't really work for me.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: What about you over there, Koopaloop?
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: Does the strip club count as clubbing?
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: No.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: It's the ballet.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: What are you talking about? about? It's the most important club.
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: If that doesn't count, then I was also in my
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: early 20s the last time I went.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: It's been a while.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: The strip club counts like, I don't know, a couple
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: years ago.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Gotcha. All right, quick one. What do we got?
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: King Rory wants to know, how dark do you like
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: your toast?
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: I don't really eat toast, but when I do, I
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: like it well done, but not completely burned, but on
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the well-done side with lots of butter. What about you, Loretta?
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Perfectly golden.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Cool.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well done.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Well done. The way to go. Toasty McToasty. Ask Ben.