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Hour 2 - The Goat of Goats · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Ding dong. It's our numb bird two. Our number two
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Speaker 1: is ready for you. So here at our number two.
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Speaker 1: We celebrate the goat, the goaty goaty micgoat, the greatest
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Speaker 1: of all time. Now we're gonna have more on this
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Speaker 1: on the Fifth Hour podcast, and you're gonna want to
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Speaker 1: hear that. But here on the original recipe Ben Mathers Show,
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Speaker 1: what are your reflections on former Cub manager Lee Ilia's life?
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Speaker 1: He passed away this week at age eighty seven. Also
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Speaker 1: lots of social media chatter about bravestar Ronald Acuna Jr.
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Speaker 1: Being on the trading block? Is that fair or foul?
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Speaker 1: And the Mets outfielder Brandon Nimmo, he thinks that baseball
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Speaker 1: should get rid of the rule that says every team
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Speaker 1: should have an all star representative, says it's broken. Are
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Speaker 1: you on board with that? We'll go there as well.
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Speaker 1: All of it coming your way right now. It's our
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Speaker 1: number two, the Goat of goats crossing the pearly gates.
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Speaker 1: just happened to take place on Thursday. So it's a
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Speaker 1: baseball store, but we paused the standard Major League baseball
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Speaker 1: chatter for something a little bit different, and people talk
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Speaker 1: about legends of the game and who's the greatest. The
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Speaker 1: goat talk. But if you haven't heard what we're going
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Speaker 1: to play here in a couple of minutes, then you
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Speaker 1: really don't know who the goat of the tirade is.
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Speaker 1: You might not know what I'm talking about. But there's
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Speaker 1: a gentleman who managed the Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies
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Speaker 1: name Lee Ilia, and Lee Ilia died this week. He
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Speaker 1: was eighty seven. News came out, news came out yesterday.
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Speaker 1: And if you're of a certain age, you might not
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Speaker 1: know that name. You probably don't know that name. Maybe
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Speaker 1: you've heard it a little bit if you've been listening
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Speaker 1: to any sports radio. But Lee Ilia. We mentioned he
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Speaker 1: managed the Cubs very briefly, very briefly, over forty years ago.
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Speaker 1: He then got another job in Philadelphia in nineteen eighty seven,
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Speaker 1: and so he had a couple of jobs. He had
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Speaker 1: a losing record, he never made the playoffs as a manager.
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Speaker 1: And yet the day that he dies, everyone has a
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Speaker 1: story about Lee Ilia. Everyone wants to talk about Lee Ilia.
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Speaker 1: So why is everyone talking about this guy? Well, because
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Speaker 1: Lee Ilia gave the world a gift. He left the
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Speaker 1: world a gift that will live on long after Lee
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Speaker 1: passed away for many many years, and this is the standard.
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Speaker 1: This is the gold standard. So let's take you back
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Speaker 1: to April twenty ninth, nineteen eighty three, Wrigly Field, Chicago.
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Speaker 1: The Cubs were playing the Dodgers, and the Dodgers won
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Speaker 1: the game. The Cubs were off to a terrible start,
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Speaker 1: miserable baseball. And in those days, it was a mom
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Speaker 1: and pop operation at Wrigley Field. So these ballparks were
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Speaker 1: all crap holes. And so the doug the clubhouse for
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Speaker 1: the Cubs, was in center field. It was down in
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Speaker 1: the outfield. So after you lost the game, you had
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Speaker 1: to leave the dugout at Wrigley and you had to
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Speaker 1: walk out to the clubhouse in center field. And the
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Speaker 1: bleacher bumps in Chicago started throwing trash at the Cub players. Well,
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Speaker 1: that led to then Cub manager Lee Iela letting the
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Speaker 1: world know what he thought of the Cub fans and
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Speaker 1: what he thought of people that go to Wrigley Field.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen, let's go to the audio tape.
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Speaker 2: We got all these so called feaking fans that come
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Speaker 2: out there, Cub fans that are supposed to be behind it,
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Speaker 2: ripping every sacking thing you do. I'll tell you one
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Speaker 2: second thing I hope we get speaking hotter and get
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Speaker 2: it just to stuff it up them three thousand people
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Speaker 2: that show up every second day, because if they're the
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Speaker 2: real Chicago fans, they can kiss my seaking.
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Speaker 3: Ass right downtown and print it.
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Speaker 2: They're really really behind.
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Speaker 4: You around here, my seeking ass.
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Speaker 2: And nobody's going with it because you guys are written good.
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Speaker 4: What the fuck am I supposed to do?
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Speaker 2: Go out there and let my fing players get destroyed
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Speaker 2: every day and be quiet about it for the nickel
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Speaker 2: dye people to show up. The motherfuckers do not even
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Speaker 2: work game, don't get a job and find out what
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Speaker 2: it's like to go out there and living working the
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Speaker 2: other fifteen come out here playground. The players got guys.
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Speaker 2: People poo And that's because.
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Speaker 1: My ass all right. He actually went on even longer
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Speaker 1: than that. But that is art. What you heard there
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Speaker 1: is art. That is magic, That is audio gold. So
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Speaker 1: let us discuss what are your reflections on the passing
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Speaker 1: of former Cub manager Lee. What are your reflections on
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Speaker 1: his life in baseball? So I've got Michael Angelo, taste
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Speaker 1: buds and cheerleading, and we'll combine all of these things
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Speaker 1: together and we'll have a deep dish Chicago pizza so a.
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Speaker 1: Lee Ilia, while he wore a baseball uniform, was like
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Speaker 1: Robin Williams or Dave Chappelle. He made people smile, he
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Speaker 1: made people laugh. Very rarely does one reach perfection in life.
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Speaker 1: People always strive for perfection. You often come up just
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Speaker 1: a little bit short. But on that day in nineteen
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Speaker 1: eighty three, in April of nineteen eighty three, Lee Elia
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Speaker 1: gave the world the magnum opus. It was his magnum opus,
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Speaker 1: and we all get to enjoy it. There have been
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Speaker 1: many great rants by coaches and people in sports over
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Speaker 1: the years, and I know later on on the Fifth
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Speaker 1: Hour podcast, I'll talk about some of my favorites. But
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Speaker 1: whether it's Tommy Lasorda or Dennis Green, or Bobby Knight
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Speaker 1: or so many others, all of them were good. None
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Speaker 1: of them. None of them can match what you heard
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Speaker 1: moments ago from Lee Ilia. What Lee Elia did is
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Speaker 1: the Michelangelo. He's the Michelangelo of the Meltdown. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: just a rant, It was more than that. It was
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Speaker 1: painting the Sistine Chapel with words, with audio. Every sentence
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Speaker 1: that I heard there was a brushstroke of greatness right
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Speaker 1: every syllable perfection. It was raw, it was unfiltered emotion.
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Speaker 1: Gotta remember, in those days, Wrigley Field did not have lights.
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Speaker 1: Every one of the Cub home games was a day game.
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Speaker 1: So he essentially said anyone that came to watch Cubs
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Speaker 1: baseball didn't have a job. He said the entire fan
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Speaker 1: base didn't have a job. He didn't just call out
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Speaker 1: the fans, he excommunicated the entire Chicago Cub fan base.
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Speaker 1: He called them nickelin dime people. Eighty five percent of
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Speaker 1: the world's work. The other fifteen percent come out here.
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Speaker 1: It's a playground for the blank blanks. And he didn't
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Speaker 1: just defend his players, he canonized them. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: just can't tell you enough how great that was and
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Speaker 1: how we'll likely never get that in our lifetime. Maybe
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Speaker 1: somewhere down the line, you know, time goes on forever.
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Speaker 1: Some generation will get someone that will top that. But
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Speaker 1: I won't be around and you won't be around. Lee
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Speaker 1: Elia etched his name in the Book of Legends. He said, well,
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Speaker 1: who's the greatest quarterback? People say, well, Tom Brady, who's
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Speaker 1: the all time greatest NBA player? The real ones will
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Speaker 1: say Michael Jordan, Right, Michael Jordan, who's the greatest baseball player.
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Speaker 1: Most people say Babe Ruth Right who gave us the
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Speaker 1: greatest coaching meltdown, Lee Ilia. Period. Stop. That's it. Now
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Speaker 1: in cub history lee Ilia is somewhere like near bart
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Speaker 1: Man and Billy the Billy Goat Curse and all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: But it is one of the most endearing works of
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Speaker 1: art that here we are over forty years later, and
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Speaker 1: we still play it, we still smile. New generations are
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Speaker 1: introduced to this audio. I was lucky enough years ago
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Speaker 1: on my travels to meet Les Grobstein, who was the
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Speaker 1: one that recorded that. Was a radio man in Chicago,
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Speaker 1: actually did the overnights at the score for years. Lee yea.
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Speaker 1: Les actually passed away a couple years back. But rest
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Speaker 1: in peace to the Goat, and make sure this weekend
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Speaker 1: you pour one out for our homie of the coaching tirade,
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Speaker 1: the greatest of all time, Lee Elia. And remember eighty
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Speaker 1: five percent of the world's work. The other fifteen percent
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Speaker 1: come out to Wrigley Field. It's a playground for the
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Speaker 1: blank bikes, all right. Meanwhile, we go now to the
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Speaker 1: A t L. Why a lot of social media chatter,
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Speaker 1: a lot of social media chatter that the Bravos could
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Speaker 1: say bye bye to star Ronald Acuno Jr. So a
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Speaker 1: lot of chatter that he's on the trading block. Is
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Speaker 1: that fair or foul? Is it fair or foul? So
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Speaker 1: despite popular opinion by the people who are insiders, it's
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Speaker 1: a fair ball. Fair ball. Now some of the baseball
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Speaker 1: media elites have come out here, the guardians of the game,
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Speaker 1: and they are dismissing the very notion that Ronald Acuna Jr.
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Speaker 1: Could be available preposterous. It's just clickbait, right they talking.
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Speaker 1: I know better than you call me a sucker, but
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Speaker 1: I buy it. I do. I believe it's it's in play.
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's going to be traded. I believe
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Speaker 1: there are conversations. If it's so laughable that the Braves
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Speaker 1: would trade Ronald Alcuna Jr. Why does the rumor persist.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you why, because there's some truth to it, right,
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Speaker 1: And remember, taste buds change. You probably like stuff you
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Speaker 1: didn't like when you're eight years old, and if you're
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Speaker 1: eight years old, you shouldn't be listening. So who cares this?
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Speaker 1: This is his his stick, you know, his act Ronald
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Speaker 1: Lacuna juior is. It is an acquired taste, taste budge
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Speaker 1: change right, And he's put up good numbers offensively there.
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Speaker 1: But there are factions in Atlanta. There are factions that
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Speaker 1: I ask guy, you know, the stopping and the bat
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Speaker 1: flipping and the check me out jogs around the bases.
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Speaker 1: He's got when he hits a home run. Now he's
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Speaker 1: got a different celebration for every ten feet around the base.
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Speaker 1: So that has a limited shelf life if you're always
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Speaker 1: getting hurt. And that's the that's the rub on this.
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Speaker 1: For all of the grand standing and all of the
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Speaker 1: swag walking, Kuna is made out of paper mache. Should
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Speaker 1: have been a basketball player. With all of the injuries
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Speaker 1: and since debuting in twenty eighteen, he has had not
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Speaker 1: one but two torn acls, one on each each knee.
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Speaker 1: He's had the following injuries. He's missed games because of
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Speaker 1: a groin injury, quad, hammy, wrist, back, foot, all of
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Speaker 1: it in Atlanta. Having a tough time this week in
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Speaker 1: Oakland or not in Oakland. There's a Freudian slip in
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Speaker 1: Sacramento or not just Sacramento, West Sacramento. But the Braves
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Speaker 1: are a middling team, and it makes you wonder. I
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Speaker 1: like the whispers continue out there that they're listening. They're
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Speaker 1: not actively trying to get rid of the player, but
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Speaker 1: they're listening, and it's I think it's more than just
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Speaker 1: tabloid nonsense. And they also some smoke there a little smoke,
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Speaker 1: there's gas, there's smoke. There's probably some fire. And the
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Speaker 1: Braves will never admit it. If the Red Sox called
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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves up and said, we'll send you Jaron
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Speaker 1: Duran and a couple of our top minor league pitchers
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Speaker 1: and we'll throw some other stuff in there with the Brave,
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Speaker 1: make that deal the Angels. They need all kinds of help,
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Speaker 1: right with the Angels trade some players to Atlanta, and
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Speaker 1: the Angels and Braves, that's essentially all they do is
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Speaker 1: trade players to each other. How about a team like
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Speaker 1: the Tigers, who are the top team in baseball this year,
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Speaker 1: they want to make another big splash move before the
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Speaker 1: July thirty first trade deadline. Inquiring minds would like to
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Speaker 1: know all right now, last word, we go out to
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Speaker 1: New York where New York Metropolitan out through the Brandon Mimo.
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Speaker 1: Doesn't that sound like a Disney Ride. Brandon Nimo. He
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Speaker 1: thinks that Major League Baseball needs to change a rule.
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Speaker 1: That's right. Brandon Nimo believes that it's time to forget this.
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Speaker 1: Every team gets an All Star rep rule, says it's broken.
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Speaker 1: Brandon Nimo. Because we really care what Brandon Neimo has
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Speaker 1: to say. He says it should only be the best players,
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Speaker 1: not the best players on every team. So are you
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Speaker 1: all on board? Are you on board with this? So?
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Speaker 1: I am not? I am not. This is mostly Brandon
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Speaker 1: Nemo cheerleading for his homie Juan Soda. Now, as for
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Speaker 1: the meat of the matter on this one, we've gone
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Speaker 1: back and forth on this over the years and today
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Speaker 1: my position is that they should keep it the way
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Speaker 1: it is. The rule exists for a reason. You're supposed
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Speaker 1: to grow the game. Baseball has continued to be for
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Speaker 1: probably thirty years now. It's been a regional sport. It's
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Speaker 1: been a regional sport, and there are so many teams
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Speaker 1: that blow, like the Pirates and the Rockies and the
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Speaker 1: White Sox, and you want people that like those teams
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Speaker 1: for some reason to watch, and if their team's got
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Speaker 1: nobody in the game either, they're not gonna watch or
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Speaker 1: they're flipping over to Netflix by the second inning. Now,
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Speaker 1: for me, it's nostalgia because I remember back in the day,
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Speaker 1: there was a time the Dodgers sucked, right, they were
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Speaker 1: a bad team. They didn't have good players. There was
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Speaker 1: one it was actually a couple of years they only
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Speaker 1: had one All Star. The most famous year in Dodger history,
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Speaker 1: though in modern times they there was. I think it
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Speaker 1: was the early nineties they had one All Star. It
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Speaker 1: was Mike Sharperson, the late Mike Sharperson. It's like, man,
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Speaker 1: that's things are not going well for the Dodgers. But
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Speaker 1: I remember watching I was like, I was hoping he
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Speaker 1: fact that the Yankees and the Dodgers have all the
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Speaker 1: top players. If you said only the top players are
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Speaker 1: going to be and it'd be mostly Yankees and Dodgers,
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Speaker 1: a few Red Socks, and you know a couple of
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Speaker 1: other teams. The Tigers would obviously be in there. But
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Speaker 1: the players don't even like the All Star Game. It's
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Speaker 1: a nuisance. The All Star Game is a nuisance for
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Speaker 1: the players. They don't like it. They're not fans of it.
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Speaker 1: So anyway, those are my thoughts on the All Star Game.
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Speaker 1: It's just just an exhibition. It didn't matter for a
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Speaker 1: an email from Friy Daddy, a senior member of the
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Speaker 1: imagine been a manager making that same rant like Lee
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Speaker 1: Ilya today? They would want to put him in prison
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Speaker 1: for life? Said theF and best rant I ever heard. No,
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Speaker 1: the reason, fry Daddy David in Pennsylvania, the reason that
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Speaker 1: is the greatest rant you've ever heard is because that
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Speaker 1: is the greatest rant ever done, ever recorded. There's nothing
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Speaker 1: that can match that. The one thing you're not supposed
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Speaker 1: to do in sports. I remember when I got hired
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Speaker 1: to do stuff with the Dodgers years ago, this long
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Speaker 1: time ago. The O'Malley family on the team, and one
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Speaker 1: of the executives for the team was like, listen, you
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Speaker 1: know you can do it. You can you can rip.
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Speaker 1: He was kind of give me the insights like, listen,
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Speaker 1: you can rip the players, you can rip the general manager,
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Speaker 1: you can rip the manager, you can rip the ownership,
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Speaker 1: but you're not allowed to rip the fans. You can't
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Speaker 1: rip the fan. That's like, you can't cross that line.
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Speaker 1: And Lee Ilia didn't just cross that line. He took
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Speaker 1: a nuclear warhead and dropped it on top of that.
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Speaker 1: Jason Jason writes in says the late chet Copic always
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Speaker 1: said he was in Lee IA's office for that rant,
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Speaker 1: and that his Chicago TV station had video of it,
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Speaker 1: which unfortunately was misplaced last shortly after the initial broadcast. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: don't I don't believe that. Also, fun fact, Jason, fun
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Speaker 1: factor that malor fun fact, chet Copic threatened to sue me.
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Speaker 1: I had a website and I had written something about chet.
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Speaker 1: He didn't like it, and he fired off a very
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Speaker 1: angry letter and was going to sue me. He's he's
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Speaker 1: gone now, so I don't think I have to worry
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Speaker 1: about that. Jason says, serious question. Much like Fridad. He says,
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Speaker 1: would a manager get fired for that exact same rant today?
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Speaker 1: My guess is probably as even though the F word
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Speaker 1: is is ubiquitous in public conversation now, unlike in nineteen
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Speaker 1: eighty three, ye fired well. Having spoken to the guy
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Speaker 1: that recorded that and talked to some people in Chicago
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Speaker 1: over the years in the media, they tell me that
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Speaker 1: lee Ilia was very close to being fired after that,
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Speaker 1: And that thing was before the Internet, and there was
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Speaker 1: no internet in nineteen eighty three. What used to happen
22:25
Speaker 1: is people would pass around copies, like black market copies
22:29
Speaker 1: of that audio, and that went everywhere. Within a week
22:33
Speaker 1: or two. People were mailing snail mail, because that's how
22:37
Speaker 1: you do it. They were mailing that on cassette tapes
22:41
Speaker 1: around to everybody, as I was told, And so whenever
22:45
Speaker 1: in the Cubs almost fired me, lasted a couple more months.
22:47
Speaker 1: But the amazing thing about that is so Lee Ilia
22:50
Speaker 1: got fired a few months after that rant that we played.
22:53
Speaker 1: He passed away this week at age eighty seven. He
22:56
Speaker 1: then got another job managing in the big leagues with
22:59
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Phillies. Jay Scoop writes in He's a multi
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Speaker 1: time platinum winner of the Mallard Palooza, which is coming
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Speaker 1: up a week from Sunday to Monday. And he had
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Speaker 1: a great idea, Jay Scoop, Great minds thinking like I
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Speaker 1: will cover that. I will cover that in the fifth
23:15
Speaker 1: Hour podcast later today, which will trigger Terry in England.
23:21
Speaker 1: We might have to do an intervention for Terry in England.
23:23
Speaker 1: He'll be very upset. Malard prop Guy rights and says
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Speaker 1: another eleven out of ten Mallard monologue, thank you for
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Speaker 1: sharing the classic Lee Ilia rant the material. He says,
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Speaker 1: he's praising me here that we come up with. Here says,
23:38
Speaker 1: you don't need to play audio. You speak gold nightly
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Speaker 1: out of curiosity. Why don't you play more audio, says
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Speaker 1: Mallard prop Guy. Well, most of it's a timing issue.
23:48
Speaker 1: Like I have to get all the audio myself. Nobody
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Speaker 1: else does it, so it takes a long time to
23:53
Speaker 1: get it and to track it down, and so oftentimes
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Speaker 1: I just don't have time because I'm working on other things.
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Speaker 1: But the days I do, you know, I'll throw some
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Speaker 1: audio in there. But usually just I just don't have
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Speaker 1: the time to do it. Otherwise I would. So that's
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Speaker 1: just the reason we don't do it. Let's go to
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Speaker 1: the phones and we'll say hello to Eeny Meenie miney moe.
24:13
Speaker 1: Let's see here. Let's say hello to Andre who's in
24:18
Speaker 1: the Commonwealth. Hello Andre and his dog Willis.
24:23
Speaker 3: What's going on? Ben Willis and I checking in for
24:26
Speaker 3: this Thursday edition and the mallor Militia. Great show going on.
24:32
Speaker 3: Let's sen this guy expresses his sentiments there. Of course,
24:35
Speaker 3: it doesn't deserve to be fire particularly. You know that
24:37
Speaker 3: those type of things, you you deserved an accommodation. What
24:40
Speaker 3: was that nineteen eighty three to auesome eighties? You know,
24:42
Speaker 3: he's speaking from the heart, okay, giving you a little
24:45
Speaker 3: bit of that hooks buck. Okay, he's saying he sees
24:47
Speaker 3: people out there, is what Rob Parker would say. You're
24:50
Speaker 3: a sugar though. Okay, you come you don't support the team, right,
24:54
Speaker 3: and I am. I'm gonna tell you how I feel
24:56
Speaker 3: about it.
24:56
Speaker 7: Right.
24:57
Speaker 3: They are who we thought they were, Okay, And so
25:00
Speaker 3: in my opinion, he deserves in a coma. He deserves
25:02
Speaker 3: a race for that, for that, for that little bit.
25:04
Speaker 3: He's firing the team up, you know, firing the people
25:06
Speaker 3: in the city up. Now again, it's not the people
25:09
Speaker 3: in the city's fault today. You know that the team
25:10
Speaker 3: has been struggling. It's because you know everybody, you know,
25:13
Speaker 3: he made some some slanderous comments. You know, just because
25:16
Speaker 3: people go to the game, it doesn't mean they're underemployed
25:18
Speaker 3: or unemployed. You know, it's just like baseball. So you
25:20
Speaker 3: don't need to, you know, cast his versions on folks.
25:22
Speaker 3: But those type of things today in this cancel culture.
25:25
Speaker 3: You know, you don't put a comment here or semi
25:27
Speaker 3: cola there. You say one word at of place, and
25:30
Speaker 3: all of a sudden you gotta be canceled. I don't
25:31
Speaker 3: go for that. You make a mistake, an honest mistake.
25:33
Speaker 3: First of all, apologize and you know you have your
25:36
Speaker 3: due penalty. And then and then we move forward. Not
25:38
Speaker 3: to fool me once. You know, shame on me for
25:40
Speaker 3: me twice. Put me want shame on you for me twice.
25:42
Speaker 3: Shame on me. If it continues, then you might have
25:43
Speaker 3: to go. But the first mistake, you know, I don't.
25:46
Speaker 3: But yeah, I like that awesome eighties reference, and I
25:49
Speaker 3: think we can learn from it. It's amazing, right, I'm
25:52
Speaker 3: in the eighties, baby, so it's like forty some odd years.
25:54
Speaker 3: You know, it's getting up there.
25:55
Speaker 4: But we certainly can learn. Well, it's agree we certainly
25:57
Speaker 4: come not been.
25:57
Speaker 3: We talked about MLB. Let's get down to specific here.
26:00
Speaker 3: There's two things that need to be discussed. First of all,
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Speaker 3: the third strike challenge awesome, long overdue. Tip my hat
26:08
Speaker 3: to Major League Baseball. This is almost as beneficial as
26:12
Speaker 3: the pitch clock. It's going to do the game well
26:14
Speaker 3: because you go there, you see man, these third strikes
26:17
Speaker 3: that these umpires are missing. And I'm a referee, I understand,
26:20
Speaker 3: but dog want that affects the game. So this should
26:22
Speaker 3: have been done a long time ago. Wimbledon shout out
26:24
Speaker 3: to the Classics, the Grand Slam. They've incorporated this about
26:27
Speaker 3: a decade ago. Or you can challenge plays, you know,
26:30
Speaker 3: it's just awesome.
26:31
Speaker 1: You can see undred timeout. Andrea though as a referee, right,
26:35
Speaker 1: you've talked about you do officiating in your area. But
26:39
Speaker 1: what isn't that I grew up that was the human element,
26:43
Speaker 1: that mistakes were part of the game. You're not. No
26:47
Speaker 1: one's supposed to be perfect. Baseball players don't bat a
26:50
Speaker 1: thousand right, Basketball players don't make every shot. Officials don't
26:53
Speaker 1: get every call right. It's not supposed to be perfect,
26:57
Speaker 1: So why are the officials supposed to be perfect?
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Speaker 3: I don't get it, No, Ben, that's not my The
27:03
Speaker 3: officials aren't supposed to be perfect, but now having this challenge,
27:06
Speaker 3: we get closer to getting it right. So the challenge,
27:10
Speaker 3: incorporating the challenge, and it's just I chipped my head.
27:13
Speaker 3: They should have done in a long time ago, and
27:15
Speaker 3: it really does you know whether it's a ball, whether
27:18
Speaker 3: it's a strike, just and the time won't even be
27:21
Speaker 3: an issue. So that's the one thing that's awesome. Now,
27:23
Speaker 3: a couple of things a baseball, these robot umpires, maybe
27:27
Speaker 3: for the All Star Games. Get them the heck out
27:28
Speaker 3: of here, Okay, don't even think about trying to automate
27:32
Speaker 3: the human element of the game in that capacity.
27:34
Speaker 1: All right, well there was you. There we go. That's
27:36
Speaker 1: something we agree on. Okay, we agree on that.
27:39
Speaker 3: The third the challenge is wonderful. But this idea of
27:43
Speaker 3: automating everything an AI, you know Terminator two now, which
27:47
Speaker 3: is a great movie back in the day. Now it's
27:48
Speaker 3: just becoming the world's reality. That's out of bounds. You
27:52
Speaker 3: may do it for the All Star Game. I don't
27:54
Speaker 3: want to see that again. I don't want to see
27:56
Speaker 3: freaking digital or robot empires again. After this Little Dog
28:00
Speaker 3: and Pony show. There's no need for us, okay, because
28:03
Speaker 3: if you have the challenge. Then that solved the problem
28:06
Speaker 3: of missing certain calls. But dog, no, you need the
28:09
Speaker 3: human element. We need that. So for myself, well, it's baseball.
28:12
Speaker 3: You're taking two steps forward. Don't go ahead and take
28:15
Speaker 3: three steps backwards now, okay, because we don't need the
28:17
Speaker 3: pizza boxes for bases. That's ridiculous. Okay, that and having
28:21
Speaker 3: a man start on second base. I would do it
28:24
Speaker 3: in a tenth inning versus the ninth, but I'll kind
28:26
Speaker 3: of you know, so you're getting some things right baseball,
28:29
Speaker 3: other things than the ship. They banned the ship for
28:31
Speaker 3: some reason. Then well you hit the ball somewhere else.
28:34
Speaker 3: What are you telling me here?
28:35
Speaker 4: Okay?
28:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, they kind of like halfway ban the shift. You
28:41
Speaker 1: watch games and it's like you you can't cross second base,
28:45
Speaker 1: but they still stand like right behind second base. It's
28:48
Speaker 1: like they kind of got rid of it. You can't
28:49
Speaker 1: put somebody in the outfield like they used to do,
28:51
Speaker 1: but they're still shifting people over. It's just you can't
28:55
Speaker 1: they have that point of demarcation at second base. All right, Andre, Well,
28:59
Speaker 1: thank you, by what's all? Next week? The Great Andre
29:01
Speaker 1: and his dog Willis. Let's say hello to Chris, who's
29:04
Speaker 1: in Maryland. It is the Ben Maller Show. We are
29:07
Speaker 1: up all night. Hello Chris in Maryland.
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Speaker 7: Hello, I'm gonna say one thing that you may not
29:13
Speaker 7: write at the end.
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Speaker 1: But why would you tease me that you're going to
29:17
Speaker 1: tell me something I'm going to hate? Why would you
29:19
Speaker 1: say that, Chris? Why are you going to end the
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Speaker 1: call on a negative note?
29:24
Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 7: First of all, do you know there's a numpire crusie
29:28
Speaker 7: Bill Miller. Did you know that a numpire major League?
29:32
Speaker 1: Well? I don't know if that's the same Bill Miller
29:34
Speaker 1: that works on the show. I have no idea. I
29:36
Speaker 1: don't know. I have to check.
29:38
Speaker 7: Yeah, Miller, true, there's a Bill Miller Cruchie umpire in m.
29:44
Speaker 1: Did you know, Chris in Texas there's a barbecue place
29:47
Speaker 1: called Bill Miller's Barbecue.
29:49
Speaker 7: How about that?
29:50
Speaker 3: Well?
29:53
Speaker 7: Might like that?
29:54
Speaker 1: I do. I am excited. I should Okay, we should
29:57
Speaker 1: get We should get Bill Miller the Empire on my podcast.
30:00
Speaker 1: I'll interview. I have Bill Bill Miller interviewing Bill Miller.
30:03
Speaker 1: That'll be good.
30:04
Speaker 7: My two favorite game And I understand that sounds like
30:08
Speaker 7: they're gonna the players are going to wear their own uniforms.
30:11
Speaker 7: Are not some.
30:13
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, they're bringing that back. As people complained in baseball.
30:16
Speaker 1: It only took us. It only took social media to
30:18
Speaker 1: get baseball to go back to that. Yes, I love that.
30:26
Speaker 7: I'm a baseball fan my whole life since Pee Wee League.
30:29
Speaker 7: My first favorite player player was Roberto Clemeny. My second
30:34
Speaker 7: favorite player was Reggie Jackson.
30:37
Speaker 1: Mister mister October, did you have a Reggie bar back
30:39
Speaker 1: in the day when you were younger?
30:42
Speaker 7: The two greatest games that I can't the third game
30:48
Speaker 7: will be you.
30:50
Speaker 1: Won't like it, but let me guess the Dodgers. Dodgers
30:54
Speaker 1: lost in one of those games.
30:55
Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: I like Wasington Nationals when we won the World Series
31:01
Speaker 7: and Howie Kendrick hit the Grand Slam against you.
31:05
Speaker 1: Oh, I think I think I was at that game
31:07
Speaker 1: at Dodger Statium. I believe I think I was at
31:09
Speaker 1: that game.
31:09
Speaker 7: Yes, but that that wasn't as good as the one
31:13
Speaker 7: when they.
31:14
Speaker 1: Hit it the cheating that Yeah, Hey, listen, I was.
31:19
Speaker 1: I want you to know, Chris, I was a National
31:21
Speaker 1: fan for that series. I had that nattitude. I was happy,
31:24
Speaker 1: not that I'd ever cheered for the Nationals before, but
31:27
Speaker 1: I supported them and all of the American people supported
31:30
Speaker 1: good versus evil, and we're very happy the Nationals on.
31:34
Speaker 1: I gotta move on, Chris, I got to move on.
31:35
Speaker 1: Give me the thing I'm gonna is that. The thing
31:37
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hate, is that the one I'm gonna hate.
31:38
Speaker 7: No, no, you yeah, well that yeah, that's the thing
31:41
Speaker 7: you're gonna hate. And now I'm of course when Howie
31:44
Speaker 7: Kendrick then he hit it off the foul pole to
31:47
Speaker 7: beat the Astros. But the two greatest games I've seen
31:51
Speaker 7: in my life the nineteen seventy one All Star Game,
31:56
Speaker 7: the leadoff for the National League was William Ay Hank
32:00
Speaker 7: Aaron in second, and then then and Reggie hit it
32:06
Speaker 7: over the damn Tiger's roof.
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Speaker 1: I saw that highlight when I was a kid on base.
32:12
Speaker 1: This week in baseball he showed that. All right, I
32:14
Speaker 1: got to leave it there, Chris. But thank you, buddy.
32:17
Speaker 1: So Chris, we went down memory lane. We went down
32:21
Speaker 1: memory Let's go to Butch quickly, Butch, what's going on? Butch?
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Speaker 4: Welcome, Hey, Hey, Coop, Hello, Ben Miller.
32:32
Speaker 1: It's Ben Mallers. Not I know that's astonishing. It's not
32:35
Speaker 1: Bill Miller, Ben Miller or anything like that. I don't
32:38
Speaker 1: know what you're talking.
32:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think I think he'll be calling
32:42
Speaker 4: this for about five years and from different countries, and
32:45
Speaker 4: I thought I'd like to take those.
32:49
Speaker 1: Okay, well we can do that now. You were known
32:51
Speaker 1: as autobond Butcher. My my, I actually had dinner last
32:55
Speaker 1: weekend with my father in law and he was in
32:58
Speaker 1: Germany and he was on the auto and we actually
33:01
Speaker 1: I actually talked about you, Butch at dinner. I said, yeah,
33:03
Speaker 1: this guy used to call up we called them auto
33:05
Speaker 1: bon Butch. You know, yeah, I was telling him the
33:07
Speaker 1: whole I was telling him the whole story, and he
33:09
Speaker 1: was telling me about his experience in the auto.
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Speaker 4: But I haven't. I'm in California now, so I haven't
33:15
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Speaker 1: And I know, do you do? You do? You miss
33:19
Speaker 1: what you could? At night? You might get a ticket,
33:22
Speaker 1: but you could get from the jail. Yeah.
33:26
Speaker 4: And by the way, why as Ricky was or is
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Speaker 4: not in the whole fame?
33:29
Speaker 1: Oh come on, come on, really, is it odd, Butch
33:35
Speaker 1: that you're back in America? Do you feel weird being here?
33:38
Speaker 1: You were gone for so long, you must be odd.
33:40
Speaker 4: I love this place. It's so good to be back.
33:43
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, good, all right, Well let's do we'll
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Speaker 1: do the oath. Why not, We're gonna wear it, formally
33:49
Speaker 1: known as auto bon. Butch, now he's just butch. All right,
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Speaker 4: I state my name.
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Speaker 1: It's not so you can't. All right, I stay your name, Butch,
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35:25
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35:31
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35:35
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35:55
Speaker 1: Brian wo Brian Wou has pitched at least six innings
36:01
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36:04
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Speaker 1: to Mallard of the thirty grae So Mariner starter Brian
38:38
Speaker 1: Woo has pitched at least six innings while walking to
38:41
Speaker 1: or fewer batters in all eighteen of his appearances this season.
38:44
Speaker 1: That is the second longest such streak to begin a
38:48
Speaker 1: season in American League history, behind Blank. That is the question,
38:54
Speaker 1: what is the answer? And let's see does anyone know
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Speaker 8: Watt situation with the Steelers insists in that Pittsburgh has
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Speaker 8: no intention of trading Watt.
39:53
Speaker 1: Ben, how do you think this stalemate ends. So you
39:55
Speaker 1: always say you're not going to trade the player. You
39:57
Speaker 1: don't say you're going to trade the player because you
39:59
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Speaker 1: They'll reach a compromise. He will not be leaving the
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Speaker 1: Steelers next.
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Speaker 8: Jared Goff said on the Netflix series Quarterback that he
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Speaker 8: felt betrayed by the Rams when they traded him, and
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Speaker 8: that it was the fact that they didn't even have
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Speaker 8: a conversation with them. He didn't even know they were
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Speaker 8: planning to move on Ben. Did the Rams do golf dirty?
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Speaker 1: No, that Jared Goff should be sending flowers and chocolates
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Speaker 1: to Sean McVay the Rams. Jared Goff, I'm told by
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Speaker 1: our listeners in Detroit. He's on like every other commercial
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Speaker 1: on local TV. He's a beloved member of the sports community.
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Speaker 1: He was never that. He never would have been that
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Speaker 1: with the Rams. Matthew Stafford won a Super Bowl. He's
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Speaker 1: not as beloved as Jared Goff is in Detroit as
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Speaker 1: Stafford is in LA Now. He didn't think he was
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Speaker 1: gonna get moved because of his contract, but he should
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Speaker 1: be happy. That was a great thing for Jared go Off.
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Speaker 8: Next there was there are three reported front runners to
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Speaker 8: sign Damian Lillard. Those are the Celtics, the Warriors, and
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Speaker 8: the heat Ben. Could you see him making a meaningful
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Speaker 8: impact on any of those teams?
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Speaker 1: I love Dame time, the guys in his mid thirties
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Speaker 1: coming off of pop Achilles. I don't see it. I
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Speaker 1: hope I'm wrong. He didn't want to play for Miami,
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Speaker 1: so why wouldn't he want to play for Miami now?
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Speaker 1: Maybe because they suck? How did we do you pass
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Speaker 1: this edition? Hie?
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Speaker 5: I am a lum.
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Speaker 1: Another win for add that to my total fur golf.
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Speaker 4: Come on,