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  Speaker 1: I decided to go right down the middle and not
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  Speaker 1: make any turn. So I made that editorial decision based
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  Speaker 1: on the feedback that I have gotten. We had a
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  Speaker 1: football game that was supposed to suck that didn't suck,
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  Speaker 1: that was actually a decent game, and so we'll get
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  Speaker 1: to that at some point throughout the night. Obviously the
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  Speaker 1: American League, which wasn't much of a game. So we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna start in the National League, which also wasn't much
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  Speaker 1: of a game. But we got to start somewhere, and
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  Speaker 1: we have a blank audio canvas, four hours of talk
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  Speaker 1: radio to take us through the.
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  Speaker 3: Overnight hours here.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead is in La a sun soaked There's
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  Speaker 1: nothing like getting people into Dodgers Stadium in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of downtown Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 3: Hit rush hour.
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  Speaker 1: Great scheduling, great scheduling, they do it for television. So
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  Speaker 1: sun soaked late afternoon there in the middle of rush
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  Speaker 1: hour traffic. The Miz Now he didn't start because the
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  Speaker 1: Brewers are idiots, but they he was the guy leading
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers traveling circus in due Chavez Ravine in a
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  Speaker 1: gotta have it And this really was a gotta have
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  Speaker 1: it game for the Brewers, a matchup with the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: Game three. You blew the first two games at home,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta win. Milwaukee looking to dig out of a hole.
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  Speaker 1: How did that go?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you watched it, you know what happened. But
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  Speaker 1: maybe you were busy doing something. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: you're up to. Tommy Tanks delivered Tommy Edmund, the hero
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  Speaker 1: from last year's playoffs in the NLCS. Tom Tommy Edmund
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  Speaker 1: here the tie breaking single off the rookie flamethrower Jacob Mazeroski,
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  Speaker 1: the mizz in their two run, two run.
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  Speaker 3: Sixth inning, and the Dodgers able to out maneuver the
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  Speaker 3: brew crew three to one.
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  Speaker 1: And so there's a very fat woman who's warming up
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  Speaker 1: her vocal cords right now as the Doyers have a
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  Speaker 1: three games to none lead in the best of seven
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  Speaker 1: National League Championship Series. That tells me that the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: need to win one more game if my malor math
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  Speaker 1: is correct. And so the Dodgers, who underachieved during the
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  Speaker 1: regular season, used load management, left starting pitchers out months
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  Speaker 1: at a time, was a rag tag lineup much of
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  Speaker 1: the regular season. They needed so much to win a
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  Speaker 1: wild card series against the lowly Cincinnati Reds to start
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  Speaker 1: out the postseason marathon. And here we are, the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: have played nine playoff games. And all those really sexy
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  Speaker 1: stories that were written before the baseball season about how
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  Speaker 1: great the Dodgers were, well they're looking like it now.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't look like it in the regular season for
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  Speaker 1: much of it. With the Dodgers are now in position.
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  Speaker 1: They're in the pole position to become the first defending
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  Speaker 1: champion to reach the World Series in sixteen years. I
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  Speaker 1: was barely alive the last time this happened. No defending
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  Speaker 1: champion has gotten back to the Fall Classic since the
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Howard Jimmy Rollins Philadelphia Phillies back in nine and
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  Speaker 1: no team's won consecutive You get all the way back
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  Speaker 1: to the nineties, Holy crap on a cracker, Batman. You
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  Speaker 1: got to go back to the nineties, the Tory Jeter
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  Speaker 1: Bernie Williams Yankees. From ninety eight to two thousand, the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees took three championships in a row. Now, the better story, though,
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  Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room, although barely the better
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  Speaker 1: story at this point, barely the better story. So Brewers
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  Speaker 1: manager Pat Murphy, who I kind of like this guy, right,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like my kind of guy. He seems like
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  Speaker 1: the kind of guy you want to hang out with.
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  Speaker 1: Seems like it seems like a good dude. He's saying
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  Speaker 1: a lot of crap, a lot of backlash. If you
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  Speaker 1: saw the game, you know what I'm talking about. He
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  Speaker 1: made the decision, and I'm sure this wasn't his decision.
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  Speaker 1: It was somebody ahead of him. But they made the
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  Speaker 1: decision collectively to start Aaron Ashby as the opener. And
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  Speaker 1: that's pretty good jumping off points. I think we'll start
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  Speaker 1: with that, so let us discuss the question. Was the oapener,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, a tactical error by Pat Murphy and
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  Speaker 1: the brew crew in game number three of the NLCS.
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts it was like about that's right, I've
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  Speaker 1: got I've got Warner Brothers, Doogie Houser MD and refurbished iPhone,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to make fireballs, because it's going to
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  Speaker 1: take fireballs for the brew crew to come back to
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  Speaker 1: answer the question. Was this strategy of going with the
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  Speaker 1: oapener meaning Aaron Ashby a tactical error. Now you could
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  Speaker 1: say this is after the fact, but I'm nodding my head. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I have long died on the mountain of despising these openers.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're such a boomer. Well I'm not a boomer.
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  Speaker 1: However, back in my day we call this a spring
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  Speaker 1: training game. Now they came up with a term for us.
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  Speaker 1: Well it's an opener. Yeah, because we're smarter than everyone.
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  Speaker 1: We're the smartest people in the room. Okay, So Pat
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  Speaker 1: Murphy and the Brewers Nerds got cute. They started as
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  Speaker 1: cat Aaron Ashby as the opener, and it went exactly
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  Speaker 1: how you would expect things to go when you let
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  Speaker 1: the analytical department cosplay and do the strategy. Here, he
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  Speaker 1: got how many outs? One out, one out, one more
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  Speaker 1: out than you got one more out than.
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  Speaker 3: I got one out?
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  Speaker 1: Before all of a sudden, Pat Murphy's oh you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta get this guy out of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, one out, and then they brought the miz
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  Speaker 1: in Jacob Mazaraski, who was thrown.
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  Speaker 3: Really pretty much into a blender. U. Here you go.
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  Speaker 1: The whole point of the opener is like, Okay, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get you in. There be a soft landing.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the Brewers are averaging if my math is correct,
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  Speaker 1: one run of game in the league Championship series. They
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  Speaker 1: were one of the top offensive teams in baseball this year.
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  Speaker 1: And starting Aaron Ashby not the greatest solution, not the
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  Speaker 1: way to solve the Rubik's QB here for the Brewers.
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  Speaker 1: The again, the point is, you start the opener, you
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  Speaker 1: give the the bulk guy, because why not a soft
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  Speaker 1: spot to come in. But instead, as we said Pat Murphy,
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers lit the match and they dropped it on
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  Speaker 1: the bullpen there and the dirty little secret when you
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  Speaker 1: run the openers out, it is unbecoming in the postseason.
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  Speaker 1: It's just embarrassing, right, And there's not like Dodgers have
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  Speaker 1: done it, the Yankees have done it.
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  Speaker 3: It's just embarrassing.
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  Speaker 1: It's usually because you have a roster that is devoid
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  Speaker 1: of elite talent. Right, you don't have the horses. You
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  Speaker 1: just don't have the horsepower. And the Brewers don't. They
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  Speaker 1: don't lost Brandon Woodrif to injury, and so that's fine.
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  Speaker 1: But the Openers, I don't like them anything outside of
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  Speaker 1: the Cactus League, of the grape Fruit League.
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  Speaker 3: If you want to make an argument. They work in
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  Speaker 3: April and May.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, not in the National League Championship Series, not against
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  Speaker 1: a real lineup. And the I don't think the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: did anything special. People are like, oh, I told you, mahlord,
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers are gonna gonna.
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  Speaker 3: Flip the switch. And they flipped the switcher.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think the offense is all that good. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: through sixteen pitches. Sixteen pitches, what a bleeping joke. Got
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  Speaker 1: one out, as we said. And the Milwaukee plan, well,
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  Speaker 1: that was in the toilet, that was in the crapper
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  Speaker 1: before most of the people had gotten through the traffic
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  Speaker 1: into the ballpark.
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  Speaker 3: And it's the classic move.
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  Speaker 1: I'm smarter than you, and I'm smarter than everyone else
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  Speaker 1: who's in this little room we're in, and all I
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  Speaker 1: now even more embarrassing, though, the brew crew had the
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  Speaker 1: dream set up, so he said, well, it didn't work
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  Speaker 1: out with Ashby, and the miz came in and he
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  Speaker 1: actually did a pretty good job for a while. The
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  Speaker 1: thing that blows you away about this, though, is you
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  Speaker 1: figure the Brewers offense hadn't been very good, and here's
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity because Glass now did not make it deep,
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  Speaker 1: deep into the game, and so you were given a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time against the Dodger's bullpen, and the brew
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  Speaker 1: crew had an atomic elbow dropped on them by the
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  Speaker 1: Dodger bullpen. Who saw that coming. You wouldn't trust those
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  Speaker 1: guys to guard a hot dog stand. And they went
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  Speaker 1: out there and did fine. They twisted the Brewers lineup
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  Speaker 1: into pretzels, and so three games into the National League
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  Speaker 1: Championship Series and everything the Brewers had been pesky, determined, annoying,
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  Speaker 1: all that good stuff, now it's like a Warner Brothers cartoon,
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  Speaker 1: Pepe the pew pu what stinks Milwaukee? Three runs, nine hits,
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven innings of baseball. William Contreras hitless in Game
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  Speaker 1: three for Milwaukee, part of a two for thirty three
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  Speaker 1: combined performance for the likes of Christian Yelich and Bryce Terrang,
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  Speaker 1: who's still pogo sticking out of the way of a
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  Speaker 1: pitch in Game one that would have tied the game
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  Speaker 1: and would have allowed the Brewers to go win the
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  Speaker 1: game in xt ra innings, but alas he decided not
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  Speaker 1: to get hit by the pitch and so just two
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  Speaker 1: for thirty three a couple of singles.
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  Speaker 3: Andrew Vaughn went zero.
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  Speaker 1: For four with the strikeout and left some runners in
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  Speaker 1: scoring position there. So I believe, if I'm not mistaken,
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  Speaker 1: he does not have a hit in the NLCS. So
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers right now are drowning. They're not drowning in
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  Speaker 1: the Pacific Ocean. They're drowning in flop sweat. The lack
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  Speaker 1: of discipline at the plate and the fact that they've
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  Speaker 1: got guys chasing pitches out of the zone outside the
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  Speaker 1: strike zone a stark contrast when you juxtapose what they
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  Speaker 1: had been in the regular season with plate discipline, and
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  Speaker 1: again the word is unbecoming now turning the page on that.
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  Speaker 1: From the LA side of things, the question is there
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  Speaker 1: anything anything at all? The Dodgers are eight and one
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs, They're three to zero in the NLCS
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  Speaker 1: is anything we can nitpick about the Dodgers' performance. So
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  Speaker 1: after a thorough deliberation, I have made the editorial decision
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  Speaker 1: that there is there's one thing that is not right
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  Speaker 1: about the Dodgers, and here it is. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to say.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know?
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  Speaker 1: No, you don't, Okay, the Dodgers are playing such dominant
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  Speaker 1: baseball right now.
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  Speaker 3: It's bad television. It's just bad TV. It just is.
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  Speaker 1: You've got Blake Snell, bro I'm risking my live braw
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  Speaker 1: Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Tyler Glasner, who wasn't as good as
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  Speaker 1: those guys, but collectively they have gone doogie howser MD
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  Speaker 1: and they have put the people watching the NLCS into
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  Speaker 1: a medically induced coma. Watching the Milwaukee Brewers attempt to
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  Speaker 1: hitting Dodgers' er now from starters is under two.
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  Speaker 3: It's barely a run and a half.
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  Speaker 1: It has been a master class, an absolute master class
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  Speaker 1: on starting pitching, the Dodgers' rotation, and the bullpen. In
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  Speaker 1: the bullpen, I can't believe I'm saying that the bullpen
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  Speaker 1: if it lights out. The Brewers collectively have a one
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  Speaker 1: forty three batting average I didn't play Major League baseball.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's good. I don't think that's good.
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  Speaker 1: Their op on base plus slugging is two to three,
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  Speaker 1: which I also think is not good. The slugging percentage
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  Speaker 1: alone is at a buck ninety, at a buck ninety
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  Speaker 1: and the three runs, So the Dodgers are hitting on
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  Speaker 1: all cylinders. And it's not a great product to watch
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  Speaker 1: right now. And it's just a matter of when. It's
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  Speaker 1: not a matter of if they get back to the
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  Speaker 1: World Series. And while Toronto and Seattle appear to be
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  Speaker 1: in a catfight, the Dodgers can soon sneak in a
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  Speaker 1: nice vacation, go to Hawaii if they want, for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of days before the Fall Classic. Now, teams take
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  Speaker 1: a three to nothing lead in any best of seven
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  Speaker 1: postseason series have gone on to win forty out of
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  Speaker 1: forty one times. That is a ninety seven point six
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  Speaker 1: percent success rate. Thirty one sweeps out of the forty one.
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  Speaker 1: Now the one time that didn't happen. If you're old
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  Speaker 1: enough to have remembered way back, I can't believe it's
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  Speaker 1: been twenty one years.
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  Speaker 3: Holy crap.
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  Speaker 1: But the four American League Championship Series there was this
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  Speaker 1: team called the Boston Red Sox, and they had this
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  Speaker 1: thing called the Curse of the Bambino, and they did
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  Speaker 1: the thing they weren't supposed to do at the time,
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  Speaker 1: they weren't supposed to do it.
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  Speaker 3: They came all the way back and they got it done.
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox against the Yankees that year, there was this
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  Speaker 1: little pesky guy the Red Sox picked up in a
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  Speaker 1: cash deal from the Dodgers who was a pinch runner
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  Speaker 1: named Dave Roberts, who sparked the Red Sox comeback with
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  Speaker 1: a steal off Mariano Rivera. I don't know what happened
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  Speaker 1: to Dave Roberts. I don't know what he's doing now.
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  Speaker 1: I think he turned into a sock puppet. All right,
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  Speaker 1: last word, So we're gonna move away from the NLCS
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  Speaker 1: because there's not much more to dissect. Interesting story out
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  Speaker 1: at Detroit where the Tigers have been excommunicated from the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: They lost to Seattle, and now there's some chatter that
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  Speaker 1: the Tigers are in financial peril as they have to
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  Speaker 1: close the gap, and oh what a gap. It is
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  Speaker 1: the largest gap in negotiation history. That is, if they
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  Speaker 1: plan on retaining long term, long term these services of dominating,
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  Speaker 1: dominating starting pitcher Terrek School. So I saw this, I
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  Speaker 1: thought this is interesting. Now, the story bouncing around the
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  Speaker 1: pinball machine is that Detroit offered Schooble less than the
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy million that the Red Sox signed
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  Speaker 1: Garrett Crochet two. So they wanted to pay him less
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  Speaker 1: than one hundred and seventy which seems like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money to me. I don't know, I know. And
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  Speaker 1: the Schooble now, the starting point for Schooble is four
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  Speaker 1: hundred million dollars. Now that means, if you do the calculation,
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  Speaker 1: the Tigers and the player are two hundred million dollars
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  Speaker 1: off in the negotiation. So the question you make the call,
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  Speaker 1: if you were the Tigers, would you pay one starting pitcher,
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  Speaker 1: in this case Derek Scougle four hundred million dollars plus.
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  Speaker 1: Now we always preface these things by saying that it's
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  Speaker 1: not my money. It's not And you can crunch the
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  Speaker 1: numbers and figure out how many how many advertising dollars
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  Speaker 1: do you have to make from TV?
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  Speaker 3: How much money do you have to make from radio?
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  Speaker 3: How much money do you have to make selling hot
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  Speaker 3: thaltus to make it work.
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  Speaker 1: I look at it and my eyes get really large
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  Speaker 1: and I just say, well, that's a boondoggle, is what
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  Speaker 1: that is.
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  Speaker 3: That's just a financial boondoggle. And I wouldn't do it.
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  Speaker 3: And here's why.
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  Speaker 1: Schoogle to me has a pre existing condition and the
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  Speaker 1: fact that he's got he's got already had elbow issues
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  Speaker 1: and arm issues. He's fun to watch, he's great to watch.
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  Speaker 1: He's got the gas and the breaking pitches and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Has got nasty stuff, as the kids say. But he
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  Speaker 1: will turn twenty nine next month, which is not old
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  Speaker 1: in the real world, but in sports it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: middle aged. He's already had the TJ, the Tommy John
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  Speaker 1: surgery and been through the operating room. So that's not
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  Speaker 1: just a blank piece of paper situation. This is a
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  Speaker 1: refurbished iPhone. It's like, oh right, he had the Tommy
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  Speaker 1: John schooble. He's pitching very well. So think about like
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  Speaker 1: a refurbished iPhone. You wouldn't pay full price for a
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  Speaker 1: herbris iPhone. The iPhone has a crack screen, and that
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  Speaker 1: does say certified pre owned. It says that now the
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  Speaker 1: Komodo Dragon in the room, the Komodo Dragon room.
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  Speaker 3: Scooble is not a whatever it takes warhorse.
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  Speaker 1: And there's nothing nobody liked that in baseball. But like,
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  Speaker 1: if I could justify it, here's how I would justify it. So, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna pay this guy four hundred million because I
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  Speaker 1: know if I need him to go one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty one hundred and thirty hundred and forty pitches, he
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  Speaker 1: will do that. And he'll throw one hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 1: pitches into that cold Michigan night sky like a modern
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  Speaker 1: day Jack Morris going out there, big balls and all that,
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  Speaker 1: but no Tigers. In the American League Divisional round. He
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  Speaker 1: started two games and the Tigers lost both. They lost
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  Speaker 1: both in large part because he was a ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: one hundred pitch guy and ninety nine hundred and one
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  Speaker 1: pitches that's it and has to come out of the game.
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  Speaker 3: He's very delicate, And.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: For four hundred million dollars, you better give me Shakespeare
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: on the mound and go above and beyond, go the
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: extra mile and the monster contract. I know the monster
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: contracts are always lost leaders. You're not gonna make money
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: on it, you know, just not. You're not paying for
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: the whole ride. You're paying for the front seat at
• 18:23
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• 18:26
  Speaker 1: down halfway through the loop de Loob on the roller coaster. Somebody,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: we know, somebody's gonna do it. As I sit here
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: and say, oh, I'm.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Not gonna pay him. Yeah, it's not my money. I
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: wouldn't pay him, And.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I'm skeptical whether the Tigers are gonna pay him, which
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: means if they're not gonna pay him, then all of
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: a sudden, the trade thing becomes a possibility. You never
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: get fair return on investment with those kind of things,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: so that's a problem. But there's some owner who's going
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: to light that match and toss it on the pile
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: of money and make sure gasoline is all over it
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: and hope the baseball gods don't turn the schooble elbow
• 19:02
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• 19:06
  Speaker 3: So again, we love the player, it's not my deal.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I just think any starting pitchure the way baseball's played today,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: where the value is placed on the bullpen, I just I.
• 19:14
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• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Okay, the Dodgers have had a good run here in
• 19:18
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• 19:22
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• 19:25
  Speaker 1: their fans with tickets and all that and parking at
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium.
• 19:27
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  Speaker 1: We started with baseball last Star. We'll get back to
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• 21:42
  Speaker 1: as Al Michaels and Kirk Kirk Street had the call,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: did you watch this? Were you engaged in a matchup
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: that did not have a lot of it factor leading
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: into it? They're not a lot of excitement for it.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: The Steelers' sizeable favorite, sizeable favorite in the road and
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Rogers leading the party bus into Cincinnati against Joe Flacco
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: and the Bengals, a game so exciting that it was
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: dubbed the Icy Hot Bowl leading into it an AFC
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: North slopper knocker, which was an eye opener. So if
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: you did not watch the game, maybe you're watching the
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: baseball game and you missed this, you might have missed it.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Joe Flacco, Yes, I know. Joe Flacco had three hundred
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: and forty two yards passing not one, not two, but
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: three touchdowns and matriculated the ball down the field, setting
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: up Evan McPherson for a thirty six yard field goal
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: with seven seconds left as the beat e.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: And g ay Ls.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Bengals snapped a four game losing streak. They win thirty
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: three thirty one on the last second field goal to
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: win over the Steelers on Thursday night. The forty year
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: old Joe Flacco out deal duel forty one year old
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers as they went back and forth. The better story, though,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room, there's a lot of angst,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: a lot of angst on the Steelers defense and the
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: fact that a couple of guys just had ridiculous performances. Now,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: we mentioned Joe Flacco and what he was able to
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: do as he was slinging the ball all over the place,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: and another Cincinnati player, Jamar Chase, was wh open.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: He was w open.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: It's like being out over the Pacific and you just
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: throw something out of a plane.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: It's gonna hit water. It's gonna hit water at some
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: point there.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: And it was like, are the Steelers even trying defensively?
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Like what are they doing? It makes no sense. Here's
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin, the.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Longtime Steeler coach, discussing how Jamar Chase absolutely embarrassed his defense.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Take a list.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: You know, we played these guys a bunch. We double
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: teamed them some, we double teamed five some. It's a
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: mix of mixes required. They got depth and talent. Just
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: like the one play eighty made down the middle. We
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: were doubling them both and they were one on one
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: in that circumstance, And so you know, as many way
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: as you can analyze it. But the bottom line is
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: they made more plays than we did.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Okay, So that's the default answer, and it's a good
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: jumping off point. So let us discuss who gets to
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: wear the Dunce cap for Mike Tomblins, Petsberg.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Steelers, they Insers.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: So on this, I've got rebranding, Ben Stiller and glazed Donut,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: we will spill.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: The tea all over the radio, all over the radio.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: So all right, I know, So first of all, let's
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: start with TJ. Watt. All right, let's start with TJ. Watt.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: He is the brand ambassador of that Steeler defense and
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: they gave him the one hundred and twenty three million
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: dollar deal. They pay him plausibly to make game changing plays,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: to make impact plays for the Steelers defense.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: How did that go?
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Well, he was putting around out there, and if you
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: want to know how he did, don't ask what had
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: as many tackles as many tackles as you had.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: That's it. He had half a sack.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: There was like one half of a tackle, like a
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: half combined thing, but no individual tackles and half.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: A sack, which was really like a charity thing. Yikes.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: It's not all bad. Though. It's not all bad for TJ.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Watt because I'll be betting bright side Wat had he
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: had no numbers of any of note. However, he got
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: a good cardio game in, he had work out, good workout.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: In fact, I saw more plays being made by Steely mcbeam,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the mascot than from what the Bengals offense, led by
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Joe Flacco had four hundred and seventy yards of offense,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: four hundred and seventy yards of offense, three hundred and
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: forty two passing yards, one hundred and forty two rushing yards.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: This is not twenty twelve, all right, This is not
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: the twenty twelve. Now, they didn't lose a few yards
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: on sacks. That's why the numbers don't completely add up.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: But insane, This is Joe pretty much off the couch, Flacco,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: who was benched, demoted by the Factory of Sadness, carving up,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: absolutely carving up the once proud Pittsburgh defense like they
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: were a Halloween pumpkin.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: You talk about a.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Rebrand this is a time for a rebranding in Pittsburgh.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: What an embarrassment. The Steel Curtain, my fat ass, the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: steel curtain that's rebranded to the steel turnstile. And my god,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: that is a cultural loss, is what that is? The
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: old Steelers defense. If you add those old Steeler defensive
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: teams matched up against forty year old Joe Flacco, all right,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the fossilized body of Joe Flacco, they would.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Have dragged that through the mud, all right through the mud.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: This group handed him Joe Flacco, a mint julip and
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: a lawn chair.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Holy Canoley, how bad was it? It was so bad?
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin, now he was diplomatic. We played the little
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: sound by from Tom.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin is gonna have that secondary, including the likes
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: of Jalen Ramsey, Darius Slay, Joey Porter Jr. They're all
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: gonna have to give him ten burpies, run at least
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: twenty hill sprints and several laps around the outfield because
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: and also some updowns, do some updowns as punishment.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: And then we had Joey Porter Jr.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: The defensive back of the Steelers, who had the hutzba
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: to deflect some of the blame for the absolute gutless performance.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: By the defense. You know who he blamed? What did
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: he blame?
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: The schedule because it was on Thursday night? Who did
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: he But you think he blamed to travel because you
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: know it's so.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Far from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati. My god, No, he blamed
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: the officials.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: He blamed the Zebras porter In third, that Pittsburgh's defense
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: absolutely could have held the Bengals offense with Joe Flacco
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: in check, but bd it was the officials. They were
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: too stingy. They would not let them play. And that
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: is a special kind of wacker doodle. That is a
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: special kind of wackerdoodle.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Now, secondly to the winning side, which is not as
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: good as side all right, to the winning side. So
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: the question here is there a movie? Let's play the
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: movie game. Is there a movie to describe the Joe
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Flacco Bengals offensive performance, the unexpected performance?
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: You make the call? What movie is it? All right?
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go first.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Now the movie I'm picking to describe Joe Flacco's performance
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: for the Cincinnati football team.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Here's what I have.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I wrote down on my scorecard, A Ben Stiller classic
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Night at the Museum, who says no, come on? Right?
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Is that not the perfect movie to describe Joe Flacco.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: The security guard discovers that the museum exhibits come to
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: life after Sunset jump Ball.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Joe Flacco an artifact in the NFL.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: And yet that museum piece, Joe Flacco painted a masterpiece
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: for the Cincinnati offense man. And he did it like
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: if I was the offensive coordinator, assume you as well,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: you would do the same thing. So we were advising
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the quarterback of the Cincinnati.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Bengals, right, and you just to go over. You say, Okay,
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: what are you gonna do?
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: How about I would say, use the kiss method, right,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: keep it simple, stupid, And that's what Flaco did. He
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: had tunnel vision. He targeted Jamar Chase twenty three times.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Twenty three times, essentially a third of the offensive plays.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I don't have the numbers in front of it, about
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: a third of the offensive plays the Bengals ran. He
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: threw the ball to Jamar Chase. Jamar Chase rewarded him
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: with a game for the ages, sixteen catches, one hundred
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: and sixty one yards, and a touchdown. And Flaco also
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: got help from Chase Brown, the nonexistent Cincinnati running game.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: He had one hundred and eight yards. The huge issue
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: for Flaco for years has been the hiccup. He's had
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: a lot of hiccups, a lot of hiccups, turned the
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: ball over quite a bit in recent years. Flacco in
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: this game was mister clean. No picks, no fumbles, no
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: obvious mistakes. Cincinnati was fifty percent on third down. It
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: could have been worse for Pittsburgh's defense. They only converted
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: the Bengals forty percent in the red zone in this game.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: This performance was just what the doctor ordered. And now
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: the Bengals, I believe they have the Jets upcoming, which
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: is like a bye week. The Jets are on a
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: real NFL team, and so you can add another.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Win and all of a sudden, all of us boomerang up.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: And now after a four game losing streak, you've now
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: won those early wins.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: You're three and four.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: And all you have to be is around five hundred,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: and you're a playoff contender in the American Football Conference. Now,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: final fun, let's go back, we'll hit and we'll jump
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: and jump.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Over the other side. Let's go to the Steelers side
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: of things. So mister Rogers' neighborhood.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: A close game Pittsburgh did take the lead late, the
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Bengals got the ball and ran the clock essentially out
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: for the game winning field goal. Here's Aaron Rodgers on
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the nail biting loss. How upset is Aaron Rodgers, Let's
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: find out.
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: I think you got to realize. Listen, we want to
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: win every game. There needs to be an expectation of winning.
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: But this is a short week division opponent. Anything can happen. Obviously,
• 31:52
  Speaker 7: Joe played really well for them, and Chase and t
• 31:56
  Speaker 7: you got going for him. So this is the NFL.
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: You know, we had a chance to really open up
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: some space, but we're four and two, still first in
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: the division. Got a couple you know, home games coming
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: up back to back, another Sunday night opportunity against my
• 32:09
  Speaker 7: former team. So I'm not going to ride the roller coaster,
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: and I know Mike isn't and hopefully you guys follow suit.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: All right, So that was very robotic, That was very
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: level headed. That was right off sportscliche dot com.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, so the question as we go into mister Rogers neighborhood,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: what grade? What grade did you give Rogers in the
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Icy Hot Bowl for Pittsburgh.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: So if you didn't see the game.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Rogers finished with two hundred and forty three yards passing
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: and four touchdowns. Sounds pretty good, right, sounds sexy. Four touchdowns,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: that's a lot. When you peel back the ayahuasca infused
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: onion on the Malor report card. Now this is a
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: pass failed grade. This is not ABC one two three.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: This is a past fail grade. And unfortunately Rogers gets
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: what not a passing grade, as League Corso would say,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: not so fast, my friends. If you think it's a
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: passing grade, this was like a glazed donut. It looked good,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: kind of smelled good, but you bite into it and boom, it's.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: Kind of a hollow, the middle parts hollowing. You're like,
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: I want the full.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Rogers had the numbers. There wasn't enough substance here. And
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: you do the side by side comparison. Joe Flacco outplayed
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, so Aaron gets a failing grade. Cincinnati. You
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: gotta understand how bad the Bengals are. I don't think
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: we can put into words how much they blow or
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: how much they had been terrible. It's hard to believe
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: they could be this bad with all the blood, sweat
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: and tears they put into these NFL practices are so
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: we're told. And the Bengals had the NFL's thirty first
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: ranked defense. They played without Trey Hendrickson, their top defensive player,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: their star Hendrickson, and Rogers, Yeah.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: He almost almost pulled.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: A rabbit out of his hat anyway, and so it's
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: no hard feelings. The good thing is Rogers can now
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: go home to his fake wife and she can cuddle
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: him and they'll be good together, and they can he
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: can talk to his imaginary wife and they'll have a
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: good times.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: But most games are lost, not one.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: And that's the bugaboo on why we give Rogers a
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: failing grade. Not only did he fail in terms of
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: the yardage and the offensive power of the Bengals compared
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh, but it's the little thing stupid, or in
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: this case, a couple of big things.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: Rogers tossed a pair of interceptions. Well they weren't all
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: he's full, all right.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Well, let's do some mal of maths. So Cincinnati on
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: those two possessions. On those two possessions, the Bengals scored
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: ten points off those turnovers, ten points off Rogers interceptions.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh lost by two points. You can do the math,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: whether it's Malard math or whatever. You can't unring the
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: bell on those interceptions. You cannot unring the be well
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: on those intercepts.
• 35:01
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• 35:04
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• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Here We're going, Here, We're going.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: He gets grilled Coop oh Loop.
• 35:19
  Speaker 8: Daniel Jones was asked on Wednesday what it means to
• 35:21
  Speaker 8: him that people are talking about him as a potential MVP,
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: and Jones said, not much after six weeks. Ben, do
• 35:27
  Speaker 8: you think he'll still be talked about as an MVB
• 35:29
  Speaker 8: candidate at the end of the season.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: No, the Colts will come back down to earth, and
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: no one's the MVP right now. The names that are
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: being tossed out are Drake may Maholmes is being mentioned.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: The Chiefs don't have a great record, Baker Mayfield by
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: default is the favorite. And it doesn't matter.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's nice to.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Talk about for a segment on a radio show, it
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I don't believe Daniel Jones will keep this
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: up next.
• 35:52
  Speaker 8: An anonymous Eagles player told an NFL and insider that
• 35:55
  Speaker 8: this season is starting to feel like the twenty twenty
• 35:57
  Speaker 8: three meltdown all over again.
• 35:59
  Speaker 9: Ben, Do you think things will go that badly for Philly?
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Well, this is a pivot point this weekend. If they
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: beat the Vikings, they're fine. If not, panic at the
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: disco next.
• 36:07
  Speaker 8: Matt Rule is the clear favorite to become the next
• 36:10
  Speaker 8: head coach of Penn States. Some analysts think this would
• 36:12
  Speaker 8: be a mistake, as he would be a lateral move.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Do you agree, Yeah, you know, it doesn't excite the
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: fan base. If he wins, it doesn't matter.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: But he doesn't.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: You don't win the news conference with Matt Rule. He's
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: just kind of a blog.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: How do we do? How do we do it? Come on?
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: I passed with an A, not a c an A.
• 36:30
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• 36:47
  Speaker 3: It's Big Ben's lame joke of the Week, Big Ben's
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: Lane Jokes and Week.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: These are actual jokes by actual listeners from.
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  Speaker 3: All over North America and the world that have sent jokes.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: In and a reminder a reminder if you would like
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  Speaker 1: to send a joke in send it care of Ben
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  Speaker 1: Malorshow at gmail dot com.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: That's Ben Malors Show at gmail dot com. Now weed
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: Man is.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Such a big star. He's got two segments a week.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: We had Ask a weed Man, which I thought was
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: going to be a disaster.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: People loved it. And then now he's such a big star.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: We had to call him to wake him up, to
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: call in Hello, weed Man, are you there?
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: No, that's.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Me Early, I'm downed man at it. People loved it,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Weed Man. They can't wait till next week's episode Ask
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: a weed Man. We'll see if it continues. But you
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: did very well.
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  Speaker 9: We have advertisers asking about it already.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: Calm down, all right, all right, come on, that's the
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: first lamb joke. Okay, no, that's not we've been please
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: come on.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: You've had a great life. You ran a toy store
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: in Manhattan. How many people have done that?
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Not many?
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Of course, you ran it. You ran it so well
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: it went out of business. But that's fine. All right, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: let's do it.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go. Big Ben's Lamb.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Jokes of the Week actual jokes by Actually, what does
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: weed Man and a fresh Thanksgiving turkey have in common.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: What they both have cavities with no teeth.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: All right, that's uh Andy, Andy sent that one in.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Why doesn't weed Man have any teeth? Why his dentist
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: is named doctor Pepper?
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: That's the pen. That's Eeke in Roseville, Minnesota.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: What's the difference between James Franklin, the former Penn State coach,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: and weed Man.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: What's the difference?
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Well, James Franklin gets paid millions of dollars for doing nothing.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: That's the difference. We had some intercer chances. Drew in Minnesota.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Trew in Minnesota rights and says, what was the best
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: and worst seller at weed Man's toy.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: Store in New York?
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  Speaker 8: What does it tell me?
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: It was a spin off toy. It was called mister Pothead.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
• 39:05
  Speaker 9: You can Leaves?
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: What does what does Lisa hide around the house for Christmas?
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: Of course Lisa weed Man's famous lady friend there. She
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: lives in New York. He's in Miami. What does Lisa
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: hide around the house for Christmas? What tell me? Dope
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: on a couch is what it's a spin off of?
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: What did weed Man say when his multi functioning printer,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: stop working?
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: What I give no facts? Uh?
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Noah in Austin sent that one in what should be
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: the name of weed Man Hippie's news segment? If it's
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: on Wednesdays? What over the hemp with weed Man Hippie?
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go. It's George.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Now, George is a longtime listener to Fox Sports rad
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: He's a great teacher, weed Man and you've all the
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Texas George, So he's a listener and he loves loves
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: the show. All right, George and Rochester. We go from
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: that George to a different George. George and Rochester, Minnesota
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: says an eighty year old grandmother is now the oldest
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: to complete the iron Man triath triathlon.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: You're about that wee Man?
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Wow? No, yes, weed Man Hippie is also a triathlete
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: begging for cash, crypto or credit.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: That's from George.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: How How will.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: Weed Man son scare weed Man on Halloween?
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: How how will he do it? He will dress up
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: as Mary Povich and tell weed Man you are not
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: my father?
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Oh my, that's not right.
• 40:42
  Speaker 8: That's Eric.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: How's your kid doing, weed Man? Your kid doing? All right?
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: Last we heard he was it like Georgetown or something
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: like that, right, big school. Yeah, no, he graduated from Harvard.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, we graduated from Harvard. Holy crap.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: I guess the apple.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: Does fall far from the tree. All right, here we go.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Did you hear that hollering James went to Vegas at
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: a seventeen thousand dollars Honda and he left Vegas in
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars vehicle.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: Wow? You kidding? Yeah? It was a Greyhound, that was
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: what it was. Yeah, all right.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Why is Andrea in Berkeley such a proficient witch?
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: Andrea in Berkeley? She's a hex burt is what she is?
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  Speaker 5: There?
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: I was from Steve who sent that one in?
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: What do Andrew and Bakersfield and referees have in common?
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: Tell me what? People hate their calls? People hate their calls?
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: Scan stand him?
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: What does hollering James use more than his Obama phone?
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: What his right hand is? What he uses?
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: That's Noah in Austin fagaweed man. There he is, weed man.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Ask a weed man next week?
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Why direct from.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: The outside of the glass or inside? That is your
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: coop scoop On Entertainment Fox Sports Radios Friday segment tradition
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• 42:19
  Speaker 8: Thank you, Marcel, great toss. As always, all right, we
• 42:24
  Speaker 8: are going to start in the theaters, as we always
• 42:26
  Speaker 8: do here on Coopscoop on Entertainment. And there's a couple
• 42:29
  Speaker 8: of movies that I want to point out that come
• 42:30
  Speaker 8: out this weekend that I'm interested in. And they're both
• 42:33
  Speaker 8: horror movies, which makes sense for October. The first one
• 42:36
  Speaker 8: is a sequel Black Phone two. Yes, the movie from
• 42:40
  Speaker 8: four years ago. If you well spoiler alert, it's a
• 42:44
  Speaker 8: four year old movie. He kills his abductor in the
• 42:46
  Speaker 8: first movie, and now he is back from the grave
• 42:51
  Speaker 8: to get his revenge.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: That's cool. How do you come back from the grave.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: I'd like to do that some day.
• 42:55
  Speaker 8: Oh, you know horror movies they do that. Okay, But yes,
• 42:59
  Speaker 8: Ethan Hawk reap prizes his role as the grabber.
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  Speaker 3: Ooh, the Gray.
• 43:05
  Speaker 9: Watched out for him on the stairs. Okay, also out
• 43:11
  Speaker 9: in theaters. I moved him into his cage. I think
• 43:15
  Speaker 9: I almost made him die, kept him in the coffee cup.
• 43:19
  Speaker 9: Too long, all right.
• 43:20
  Speaker 8: Also this weekend is Frankenstein Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: Yes, this special.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: I was that a blue Frankenstein or like red Frankenstein
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: or a gold Frankenstein.
• 43:33
  Speaker 9: I don't think there's anything weird about it.
• 43:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah, but this adaptation stars Oscar Isaac as Doctor Frankenstein
• 43:43
  Speaker 8: and Mia Goth, the scream Queen, is in this movie,
• 43:47
  Speaker 8: as well as Christoph Waltz.
• 43:50
  Speaker 9: So for them, Yeah, check that one out.
• 43:53
  Speaker 8: This one's getting rave reviews in theaters and moving over
• 43:57
  Speaker 8: to television. You know how in TV when this one
• 44:02
  Speaker 8: production company does something and then you just you tend
• 44:05
  Speaker 8: to see like all the other production companies coming out
• 44:07
  Speaker 8: with their version of the same thing.
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for sure, Topcat.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like you go to you go to everyone's
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: got like chicken, like chicken sandwiches at all the fast
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: food restaurants.
• 44:15
  Speaker 9: Because that's yes, yes, exactly exactly what we.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Talked about it last week in my podcast. Did you
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: know that what's that chicken place? The fast food place?
• 44:24
  Speaker 9: You know what I'm talking about, Popeye, Zaxby's.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: It's it's it's a fish place.
• 44:29
  Speaker 9: Oh long, John Silvers, how they rebranded the Chicken.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Yes, their logo to a chicken.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: I know, so good.
• 44:38
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 44:39
  Speaker 8: Well, so the the hot thing right now in TV
• 44:42
  Speaker 8: is serial Killer John Wyn Gaizy.
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: Oh big, people love this guy. Yeah.
• 44:48
  Speaker 8: So I talked about how the The Monsters series on
• 44:50
  Speaker 8: Netflix that debuted last week got terrible reviews. I've heard
• 44:54
  Speaker 8: it's like comically bad, like one of those so bad
• 44:57
  Speaker 8: it's like you actually want to watch it because it's ridiculous.
• 45:00
  Speaker 9: But this what.
• 45:02
  Speaker 8: Premiered today on Peacock is Devil in Disguise John Wayne Gacy,
• 45:07
  Speaker 8: and so this one's actually getting good reviews. So if
• 45:10
  Speaker 8: you want, I guess an actually good adaptation of the
• 45:15
  Speaker 8: clown serial Killer, check that out on Peacock right now.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: Don't go to the basement, whatever you do.
• 45:20
  Speaker 9: Yes, that's right.
• 45:22
  Speaker 8: Also available right now is the third season of the
• 45:25
  Speaker 8: Emmy nominated show The Diplomat on Netflix, starring Kerrie Russell.
• 45:30
  Speaker 8: It's a great show. I've watched the first two seasons.
• 45:32
  Speaker 8: I am excited about that. If you like spy political dramas, that's,
• 45:38
  Speaker 8: you know, right right up your alley.
• 45:40
  Speaker 9: And then moving on, I'm gonna skip ahead to this
• 45:43
  Speaker 9: last thing here.
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: Ben.
• 45:44
  Speaker 8: We have a documentary series. Okay, good, where we got
• 45:48
  Speaker 8: That is available right now on Apple TV Plus. And
• 45:52
  Speaker 8: I don't know if you would like this, Ben, because
• 45:54
  Speaker 8: it's you hate the hero worship stuff.
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: I do not like hero worship. I don't do that.
• 45:59
  Speaker 8: But this is a limited documentary series called Mister Scorsese,
• 46:03
  Speaker 8: and of course it is.
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: Uh so it's toes.
• 46:08
  Speaker 8: It is a five part look at one of the
• 46:10
  Speaker 8: planet's most famous directors, Martin Scorsese, and uh it has
• 46:15
  Speaker 8: interviews with him as well as his collaborators and colleagues,
• 46:19
  Speaker 8: including Robert de Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Spielberg, Daniel Dave Lewis,
• 46:23
  Speaker 8: Kate Blanchette, et cetera, et cetera. And it's got pretty
• 46:27
  Speaker 8: good reviews. So that is available right now on Apple TV.
• 46:31
  Speaker 8: But oh, actually.
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: They are there. There's more.
• 46:34
  Speaker 8: It's not another thing. But I was about to say
• 46:36
  Speaker 8: it's available right now on Apple TV Plus. Apparently they
• 46:38
  Speaker 8: are rebranding. They're getting rid of the Plus. It's just
• 46:40
  Speaker 8: going to be Apple TV now.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Oh well, yeah, because it's remember when HBO started their
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: other thing, but then they went back to the HBO
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: because it was so stupid.
• 46:48
  Speaker 9: Yeah, everybody's simplifying.
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: Now you got to be keep it stupid man. People don't. Yeah,
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to sit there and worry about your
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: stupid channel.
• 46:55
  Speaker 9: You know, Sick Stop, not a Scoops Go entertainment