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Hour 4 - Revenge Best Served With a Leak · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: It's a small world after all. It's a small, small world.
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  Speaker 1: And boom, shakalaka. It's our number four, our four, the
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  Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show podcast. We thank you for supporting the
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  Speaker 1: pod and listening to the pod and being part of
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  Speaker 1: the pod and all that stuff. So we did it
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  Speaker 1: live overnight. This hour, the hour of contract squabble. What
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  Speaker 1: does the reported $ 27 million offer tell you about where
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers and Joey Porter Jr. stand? He rejected a
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  Speaker 1: $ 20 million raise. Also, does Dak Prescott deserve flowers for
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  Speaker 1: passing Tony Romo's Cowboy record for touchdown passes? Or does
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  Speaker 1: postseason failure swallow that accomplishment? A listener to this show
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  Speaker 1: is upset that I did not give Dak his flowers.
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  Speaker 1: And fair or foul? Longtime play-by-play guy John Murphy being
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  Speaker 1: denied a Bills press credential. Is that fair or foul?
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  Speaker 1: That and more. Have a wonderful Tuesday. And here we go.
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  Speaker 1: It's hour number four. It has been said that the
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  Speaker 1: revenge game best served with a convenient leak. Yeah, what?
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  Speaker 1: where Yankee fan Jill from Minnesota, Kathy in Madison, even
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  Speaker 1: Claire B., our friend Eileen, who's banned from social media.
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  Speaker 1: She's a naughty one in San Francisco. They all say, hey, Maller,
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  Speaker 1: can you give us the inside on the Express? I said, yes,
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  Speaker 1: The crown is yours. We had an NFL game on
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  Speaker 1: Monday night. Not a good one. Turns out the Rams,
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  Speaker 1: the autopsy was premature. Premature. Rams are back in the
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  Speaker 1: win column. Aaron Donald played. The Rams had an easy
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  Speaker 1: time thanks to Jackson Dart getting hurt for the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: Seven plays into the game, and the L.A. Rams were
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  Speaker 1: rumbling and stumbling, and the Giants were a-bumbling. The Rams
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  Speaker 1: put up 481 yards of offense. Matthew Stafford, four touchdown passes.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants with Jameis Winston looking like he should be
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  Speaker 1: back on Netflix or Fox doing cheeseball television. He played
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  Speaker 1: like a guy who's retired and went to do TV.
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  Speaker 1: Winston horrific for the Giants, and they are 1-1 Jackson Dart.
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  Speaker 1: We'll find out later today how long he's going to
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  Speaker 1: be out. The overnight estimate. We did a full monologue
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  Speaker 1: on this game earlier, so you can go back and
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  Speaker 1: hear the podcast later. But the estimate is from anywhere
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  Speaker 1: from a couple of weeks to six weeks, he'll be out.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see if that holds when they get back to
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  Speaker 1: the doctors in New York. The Giants probably landing either
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  Speaker 1: now or shortly, I would think, based on when they
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  Speaker 1: got all their gear packed up, got to the airport,
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  Speaker 1: headed out of L.A., and then took the red-eye flight,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a little longer. before they get done. Anyway, our
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  Speaker 1: lead this hour is not about that game. Our lead
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  Speaker 1: this hour is from Pittsburgh, PA. And it is not
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  Speaker 1: yet again about Aaron Rodgers calling out his coaching staff,
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  Speaker 1: which he did. It's a contract standoff at the Steeler
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  Speaker 1: Motel involving defensive back Joey Porter Jr., which continues. It's
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  Speaker 1: a cold war going on right now. So if you
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  Speaker 1: have not been keeping track of this, Perhaps not. Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 1: the latest reports, the Steelers, who are off to the
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  Speaker 1: 1-1 start. The win doesn't really count. They played Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta just gave away the first two games, starting Cooper Rush. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh offered Joey Porter Jr. a deal, according to the
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  Speaker 1: latest chatter, that would have been just north of $ 27
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  Speaker 1: million this year. His salary would have been $ 27 million.
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  Speaker 1: That is a massive deal. Remember, most companies are too
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  Speaker 1: cheap to give raises to their employees. They don't take
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  Speaker 1: care of their employees. The Steelers were offering a massive
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  Speaker 1: raise to their employee from about $ 4 million to $ 27 million. Now,
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  Speaker 1: from the old country, that seems like a pretty nice
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  Speaker 1: thing to do. That seems like a pretty nice thing
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  Speaker 1: to do. A final year of his rookie contract, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 1: It turns out that Porter said, Ixnay on the DLA,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not taking it. Now, we don't know all the
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  Speaker 1: fine print, and so it's possible that it was a
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  Speaker 1: fake offer, one of those faux offers that teams like
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  Speaker 1: to do. The final year of his rookie deal, he
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  Speaker 1: would have made a lot more money. Porter said, no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to do that, and that's it. So
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  Speaker 1: at the moment, the two sides are not negotiating. These
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  Speaker 1: Steelers have a no-negotiation policy. Once the season begins. So
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  Speaker 1: Porter turning down a big contract. That's the headline. That's
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  Speaker 1: the headline. And it is a good jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. What does this reported $ 27
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  Speaker 1: million offer tell you about where the Steelers are and
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  Speaker 1: where Joey Porter stands? Like those two, where do they stand,
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  Speaker 1: Steelers and Joey Porter? So I've got Jersey Mike's, Sweet Spot,
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  Speaker 1: and knee pads. And we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together, and we are going to have a smorgasbord.
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  Speaker 1: With a little jambalaya. And then we'll have the gabagool.
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  Speaker 1: Because you've got to have the gabagool and the baba ganoush.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll even throw in some matzo ball soup. Why not?
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  Speaker 1: Have a little bit of this, a little bit of that.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a potluck type situation. So first of all,
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  Speaker 1: to answer the question, what does the reported $ 27 million
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  Speaker 1: offer that was rejected tell you about where the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: and Joey Porter stand at this point? Joey Porter Jr.
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  Speaker 1: So first of all, what impeccable timing. Absolute impeccable timing here.
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  Speaker 1: Joey Porter Jr. has been doing what? He has been
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  Speaker 1: capital M malingering. Capital M malingering. And how do I
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  Speaker 1: know that? The Steelers know it. Anybody with half a
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  Speaker 1: brain knows it. Now, there's always those softies out there.
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  Speaker 1: I always believed the players. No one would ever fake
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  Speaker 1: an injury. There's a word for these people, idiots. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so Joey Porter has been malingering, and he's milking every
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  Speaker 1: possible soft tissue injury to avoid having to play in
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  Speaker 1: these games. He's missed both games so far this season,
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  Speaker 1: 0 for 2. The Steelers believe he can play. He's like,
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  Speaker 1: I ain't playing. You ain't paying. A new contract, I
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  Speaker 1: ain't playing. That's it. So this has been going on,
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  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, we talked about the
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  Speaker 1: great timing award, the good timing award, and so suddenly
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  Speaker 1: he rejects the payday that happened a couple weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like he gets his own gender reveal party
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  Speaker 1: as a result. Now, the Steelers didn't do this right away.
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  Speaker 1: They gave Joey Porter Jr. a chance to play in
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  Speaker 1: the first two games. He chose not to. They believe
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  Speaker 1: he is a healthy scratch. And so they gave him
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  Speaker 1: the gender reveal party, and they leaked... Obviously, you ask
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  Speaker 1: who leaks a story like this. It didn't come from
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  Speaker 1: Joey Porter Jr. It came from the Pittsburgh Steelers. So
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  Speaker 1: they deputized a useful idiot in the Pittsburgh media, the
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  Speaker 1: local media there. And this is pure organizational napalm by
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  Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. It's a calculated payback. Does anyone think differently?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think? I don't think different. That's obviously my position.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think differently? It's calculated by the management there
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  Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. Joey Porter's making them look bad because he
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to play, even though he is under contract
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  Speaker 1: this year for like almost $ 4 million. So it's very awkward.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing this little dipsy-do, this dance, injury dance. I
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  Speaker 1: ain't playing. And that's it. And so if Porter thought
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  Speaker 1: he could exploit every single ache for contract leverage, the
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers decide, you know what? We can play that
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  Speaker 1: game too. we're going to make this radioactive is what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to do. And that's apparently what they've decided
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  Speaker 1: to do. Basically, the Steelers just added a new item
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  Speaker 1: to the local menu at Jersey Mike's there in Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a sandwich named after the Steeler player that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't want to play them, a lingering Joey Porter Jr.
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  Speaker 1: It's Joey Porter Jr. 's hoagie. It's a manure hoagie. Yum,
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  Speaker 1: yum to my tum-tum. Giant-sized extra onions and garlic. With
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  Speaker 1: $ 27 million worth of crap piled right on top. Enjoy.
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  Speaker 1: Chef's kiss. Now the message is rather clear. You don't
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  Speaker 1: want to play. We gave you two weeks to play.
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  Speaker 1: You're healthy. We've determined you're healthy. You don't want to play.
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  Speaker 1: We gave you two chances. You said no. Okay, fine.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to embarrass you. Because for most people,
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  Speaker 1: most working class people... If somebody offered you a $ 20
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  Speaker 1: million raise, I mean, I haven't gotten a raise in years.
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  Speaker 1: I get a $ 20 million raise? Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 1: All right? And you're like, I don't want that. Good luck.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy your terrible towel. So this is
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers saying, hey, you mess with us, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to mess with you. Hope you enjoy that. Meanwhile, we
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  Speaker 1: go to Dallas where the Cowboys quarterback, Dak Prescott, the
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  Speaker 1: one and only Dakota Prescott, Well, if you saw, he
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  Speaker 1: broke Tony Romo's franchise record for touchdowns. 249 career touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: Now a Dak Prescott record, so congratulations to him. He
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  Speaker 1: also is just 10 regular season wins behind Troy Aikman
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  Speaker 1: for the all-time Cowboys record of 94 wins. And based
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  Speaker 1: on the amount of time left on Dakota Prescott's contract,
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  Speaker 1: he's locked up. At $ 60 million a year through 2028,
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  Speaker 1: it would be hard to imagine he does not end
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  Speaker 1: up getting the record for wins. Now, I mentioned in
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  Speaker 1: previous hours, I got some people complaining that I didn't
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  Speaker 1: rip Lamar Jackson, so I took care of that. People
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  Speaker 1: upset about the 49ers not getting love for having old guys.
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  Speaker 1: I bring this up because Mike from Fort Worth reached
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  Speaker 1: out on the mail saying, And he is upset as well.
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  Speaker 1: He said that we failed to properly celebrate Dak Prescott's
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys record. And he says, this is not Jacksonville, Mike wrote.
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  Speaker 1: This is not the Arizona Cardinals. This is the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: That deserves some attention on your show. So Mike was
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  Speaker 1: annoyed by that. And much like the idiots that emailed
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  Speaker 1: me earlier that were upset that I didn't talk about
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  Speaker 1: their particular teams, I'm flattered that you think getting some
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  Speaker 1: attention on an overnight talk show matters. Thank you for that.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently it's a big deal. Yes, according to these jackasses.
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  Speaker 1: I love you. I say that with all the love.
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  Speaker 1: You know, people say you're mean to the people. No,
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  Speaker 1: I say that with love. Jack wagon, jackass, whatever. I
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  Speaker 1: just say it with love.
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, so let's form it this way. The question is this.
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  Speaker 1: Does Dakota Prescott, Dak Prescott, deserve flowers for passing Tony
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  Speaker 1: Romo's Cowboys franchise record for touchdown passes? Or, alternative theory,
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  Speaker 1: does postseason failure swallow the accomplishment? Well, I sit here
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  Speaker 1: on the throne at the bully pulpit. And last I checked,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking behind me here. I see a big sign
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  Speaker 1: with the logo and all that and the company logo.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see a 1-800-Flowers logo anywhere here. I don't
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  Speaker 1: see any flower shop. Yeah, it's a radio show. It's
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  Speaker 1: a radio show mic. That's what it is. Now, that said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott... I am impressed, and as much as I've
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  Speaker 1: been critical of Dak over the years, I really believe
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  Speaker 1: he should be writing a get-rich-quick book because this guy
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  Speaker 1: has mastered it. He really has. You talk about overachieving
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  Speaker 1: in life, and Dak Prescott has done that. He mastered
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  Speaker 1: the modern quarterback sweet spot. What is the modern quarterback
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  Speaker 1: sweet spot? It's being productive enough to get paid bucco bucks,
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  Speaker 1: competitive enough to sell hope, but utterly without any results
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  Speaker 1: when the games really matter in January. In fact, he
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  Speaker 1: is the worst quarterback in terms of lack of playoff
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  Speaker 1: success with longevity the NFL's ever seen. We are in
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  Speaker 1: uncharted waters here. that Dak Prescott has been able to
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  Speaker 1: keep his job as long as he has. This is
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  Speaker 1: the personification of what's known as the Peter Principle. As
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  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott has reached his highest level of incompetence, quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, and he stayed there.
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  Speaker 1: And for that, I will give him some flowers. It
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  Speaker 1: is tremendous. Dak is the perfect Jerry Jones quarterback. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what is the perfect Jerry Jones quarterback? He's good enough...
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  Speaker 1: To beat enough bad teams like the Commanders and the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys will win enough, not too much, but they'll win
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  Speaker 1: enough to be relevant. Of course, with the Jerry Jones marketing,
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  Speaker 1: they're always relevant. But Dak is never successful enough to
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  Speaker 1: take away the spotlight. from Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones never
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  Speaker 1: wakes up and says, oh my God, Dak Prescott's more
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  Speaker 1: popular than I am. It'll never happen because Dak's not good.
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  Speaker 1: He's a choke artist in big games. He's got a
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  Speaker 1: glitch in the programming. And so for Jerry, it's like,
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  Speaker 1: this is great. I get to play GM and I
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  Speaker 1: can make all these moves. And yeah, sure. Dak now
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  Speaker 1: owns Dallas's career record for passing yards and touchdowns. And
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  Speaker 1: he's only a couple of playoff. He's got two playoff wins.
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  Speaker 1: So he doesn't have to worry about catching the all-time
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  Speaker 1: record for playoff wins. And to all that, we say whoop-dee-damn-do. Whoop-dee-damn-do.
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  Speaker 1: Dallas has not reached the NFC Championship game since the
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  Speaker 1: 95 season. Dak Prescott was not even two years old
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  Speaker 1: the last time the Cowboys got to an NFC Championship game.
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  Speaker 1: His career has been the football version of Groundhog Day.
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  Speaker 1: It has. Dak wakes up every September, puts on that
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  Speaker 1: Cowboy star on the helmet, puts up some numbers. Dallas
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  Speaker 1: gets called a contender. And Jerry gets maximum airtime. And
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  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden... Just like that old movie,
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  Speaker 1: Groundhog Day, Sonny and Cher start playing, and then the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs arrive, and it all goes to hell. It all
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  Speaker 1: goes to hell. It's never his fault. It's always somebody
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  Speaker 1: else's fault. All right, final thought. I did want to
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  Speaker 1: mention the story out of western New York. I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was interesting. John Murphy. You have no idea who
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  Speaker 1: that is, do you? No? It's a generic name, John Murphy.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of dudes named John Murphy. John Murphy was
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  Speaker 1: the longtime voice of the Buffalo Bills. And he has
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  Speaker 1: been denied access this season. He has not been given
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  Speaker 1: a media credential to cover the Bills at their new stadium.
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  Speaker 1: The monstrosity by the lake there. And he called Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: Bills games on the radio for 34 years. That's a
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  Speaker 1: generation and a half. A generation and a half that
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  Speaker 1: he called Bills games.
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  Speaker 3: Murphy.
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  Speaker 1: did a interview recently and he claimed that he believes
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  Speaker 1: it's retaliation. He didn't say a hundred percent, but he
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  Speaker 1: thought it was retaliation. Why would the bills be retaliating
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  Speaker 1: to an old guy that used to do their games
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  Speaker 1: on radio? Well, he believes it's retaliation because he wrote
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  Speaker 1: a column. He has a part-time media gig for a
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  Speaker 1: TV station in Buffalo. He wrote a column on their
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  Speaker 1: website identifying Coach Joe Brady, the rookie head coach of
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  Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, as the biggest threat to the team's success. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so he wrote that. Now, this guy Murphy says that
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  Speaker 1: some vice president for the Bills you've never heard of
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  Speaker 1: assured him back in July that he would be fine
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  Speaker 1: to cover the team, he'd be allowed to cover the team, etc.
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  Speaker 1: He'd have a media credential, and that's that. However, just
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  Speaker 1: two days, just two days after the negative column appeared,
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  Speaker 1: Murphy learned that he would not, would not be receiving
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  Speaker 1: media access. The timing raising rather obvious questions here. So
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  Speaker 1: the question we have, is it fair or foul? We'll
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  Speaker 1: keep it simple. Fair or foul, longtime radio play-by-play guy
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  Speaker 1: John Murphy being denied access as a member of the
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  Speaker 1: media there for the Bills. So we are suspecting foul play.
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  Speaker 1: We are suspecting foul play on this one. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to prove retaliation to recognize when the timing smells
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  Speaker 1: a little fishy. So if Murphy, let's do the hypothetical.
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  Speaker 1: I believe in the multiverse, so let's go to the
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  Speaker 1: dimension of the multiverse where this guy, John Murphy, the
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  Speaker 1: old Bills play-by-play guy, had written a glowing column licking
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  Speaker 1: all over how great the Bills are and this guy,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Brady, and just a total fanboy column, which a
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  Speaker 1: lot of you idiots love. Would he have still lost
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  Speaker 1: his seat, his media access? Me thinks not. Me thinks
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  Speaker 1: that is not the case. So for years, and I
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  Speaker 1: know times have changed, and I get it. I knew
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  Speaker 1: this was coming. One of the people at Major League
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  Speaker 1: Baseball told me when they started MLB.com, give it time, Ben. Eventually,
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  Speaker 1: no one's going to hear anything negative. And I said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe you. And they were right. All these
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  Speaker 1: leagues do it. Younger people grew up with this. This
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  Speaker 1: is all they know. They know fanboy media. And so
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  Speaker 1: there was a point, believe it or not, I was alive,
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting old, where media credentials were supposed to facilitate reporting, criticism,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. It wasn't just a tool to flatter
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  Speaker 1: the hometown team. And we've changed. It's why you get,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: and this is what you like apparently, you get knee
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: pad wearing, toe licking media. Suck ups in the media.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Most of the local media is like that. That's just,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: and I've traveled a lot and I've been around and
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: a lot of local media, they all are wired the
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: same way. And especially NFL teams in smaller markets like Buffalo,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: there are, the people that work for these teams are
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: so thin skinned. When it comes to criticism, they have
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: no room for it. No room for it from the
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: local media. And these NFL organizations, you think these billion,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: multi-billion dollar NFL teams would have some thick skin and
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: be like, ah, who cares? It doesn't matter. And there
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: was a point where people said any publicity is good publicity.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: It's like, as long as it's not too dark, you
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: can be critical. In fact, there has been research that
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: points out, and I know this. I did Dodger talk
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: for a while. I did briefly, I filled in, I'm
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: believing it or not, on the Red Sox postgame thing.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: And I knew both cases. When the team lost, there
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: were people fired up and angry. When the team won,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: they didn't really care. They were like, oh, they're supposed
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: to win. That's it. But the emotional reaction when a
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: team loses. So negativity obviously does get more attention. And
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: yet these teams, despite being worth billions and billions of dollars,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: they want local people to just kiss the ring. Kiss
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: the ring. In this case, Buffalo drink the Buffalo Bills
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: flavored punch bowl. That's it. Nevertheless, I do believe in
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: this respect, 34 years calling Bills games entitles this guy
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Murphy to special consideration. That's the way that Murphy's decades.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: You know how many bad Buffalo Bills games he called? Yeah,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: he was there when the Bills were in the Super
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Bowl period and they lost all those years. Most of
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: the time they weren't very good. And so in the past,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: you were always grandfathered in if you were in that situation.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: In this case, not so much. It is the Ben
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Maller show, but it happens all the time. Listen, the
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Dodgers do the same thing. They get rid of old-time
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: guys because they've got to have room for the Otani media.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: That's how these teams operate. 877-99-ON-FOX is the number.
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• 23:19
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• 23:24
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• 23:27
  Speaker 1: killed another jolly athlete, has been taken down by the
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Woke Fun Police. We'll get to that. And also, a quarterback,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: we mentioned this earlier, we'll get to it now, a
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: quarterback being pressured to play, or is he being pressured
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: to play? We'll get to that as well. We will
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Football Doesn't Lie.
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: Hi, I'm Bill Parcells.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: And I'm Catherine Zazzora.
• 24:03
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• 24:07
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• 24:10
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• 24:12
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• 24:15
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• 24:18
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• 24:21
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• 24:24
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• 24:27
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• 24:28
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• 24:32
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• 24:35
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• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Continuity is very important but what happens when you get
• 24:41
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• 24:45
  Speaker 3: them then they want to hire them and then you
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: can't stop a guy from trying to improve himself but
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: you have to replace.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Them Because once you understand what's going on inside the
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: mind of the coaches, you'll understand more about the whole game.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: So all aspects can be discussed. The only thing I
• 25:02
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• 25:06
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• 25:18
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• 25:28
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• 26:07
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• 26:12
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• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I did want to mention this, so we don't talk
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: too much college football here because the NFL is more
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: important to us. And we love the NFL and kind
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: of pays the bills around here. But I was bummed out,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: not surprised, but the woke, fun police have taken another victim.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: So Arch Manning thought an AI video was funny. This
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: offended people that have no sense of humor and really
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the scum of the earth. And so Arch Manning had
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: his weekly news conference on Monday, his first since the
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: knuckleheads got upset with him. because he enjoyed an AI-generated
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: video involving Holly Roe. And so how do you think
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Arch Manning acted? Did you think we got the fun-loving, ha-ha,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I love life, I'm on top of the world, I'm
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: the quarterback of the top team in college football, and
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I got the Manning bloodline, so I'm a made man
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: in the mafia, the Manning mafia. You think we got
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: that version of Arch Manning? Hell no!
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: No.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Instead, we got a very reserved, very reserved Arch Manning.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: It was there Monday. Short answers. No real joking. No
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: real emotion. This is what you people do. I hope
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: you enjoy yourself. I hope you losers enjoy yourself. So
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: we had a guy that was a young guy living
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: life on top of the world, and you morons bludgeoned him.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: So I hope you enjoy it. That's you. You did that.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: I didn't do that. I don't care. I didn't think
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: the video was funny. If he thought it was funny,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: who the hell cares? You people care. You morons care.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: And now you've destroyed Arch Manning. Now we've gotten buttoned
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: up vanilla Arch Manning because of you. I hope you're happy.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: I hope that makes you happy. Meanwhile, how about the
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Florida coach, the Gators, the No. 21 team in the country?
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: They opened up a 3.5-point favorite at home against No.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: 4 Ole Miss. Apparently, nobody told their coach that this
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: was the case. As John, was it Summerall, I believe
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: his name? Yeah. Was stunned by the betting line. He
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: said when he was brought up to him in the
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: news conference, he said, quote, there's a lot of good
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: drugs out there. How did you not know the gambling?
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: All these coaches want to be underdogs all the time.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: They all do. All right, let's go to the phones.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe. Let's say
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: hello to Danny DeVito. Our favorite... Well, one of our...
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: We have a lot of great trash men in Boston.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: We love Danny DeVito, who very rarely calls anymore because
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: he's changed his schedule. Hello, Danny. Welcome.
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: Ben, what's going on? I try to call, Ben, at
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: least like once a week, but it's more like once
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: a month, I believe, now.
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: I try to call in. But, Ben, an embarrassment to
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: the league, NFL. Now, I placed his bet.
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: Knowing I was going to win.
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: Now, normally before I place a bet.
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: I get.
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: Nervous, you know, nervous, all that. But I knew the
• 29:22
  Speaker 8: Carolina Panthers were going to beat the Falcons with Cooper
• 29:26
  Speaker 8: Rush at quarterback. I knew, Ben. It was easy money.
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: I normally have a set rate that I bet on
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: these games. And I went all out on Sunday. And
• 29:37
  Speaker 8: I didn't have to sweat that.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: That is.
• 29:40
  Speaker 8: you feel about this guy, Ben, starting these games? I
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: absolutely love it. I cash out on this guy.
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: I hope he starts again on Thursday night.
• 29:48
  Speaker 8: I was told he's not going to.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Start, though.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Cooper Rush should be sent out of the country. He's
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: been so bad. And the Falcons have had– we gave
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: this stat the other night, Danny. The Falcons have had
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: some terrible quarterbacks over the years. And it turns out
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: that he is among the worst of the worst in
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: the history of the Atlanta Falcons, Cooper Rush, after two games.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: You've got to go back to the early 80s and
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: the 70s, the Stone Age, to find quarterbacks that were
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: as bad as Cooper Rush. But, yeah, he's out. Good
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: job by you finding that. I was on Carolina also
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: in that game. I normally don't like road favorites, but
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: you're right. Atlanta just threw away the first two games
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: of the year starting that guy. They had no chance.
• 30:30
  Speaker 8: No, definitely not.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: You've got to look for spots like that. It's a
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: good job by you. Yes.
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: Ben, about a decade ago, there was a guy that
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: was the same type of player, and his name was
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: Curtis Painter. So every time he started, I just bet
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: against him.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Remember Curtis Painter?
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: I do, yes.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Brutal, brutal.
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: And I've got to walk for you, too, this week.
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: Jacksonville will beat the Patriots. The Patriots are not good, Ben.
• 30:58
  Speaker 8: I don't think they are.
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: And I question about Drake May. I have some serious
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: red flags about Drake May.
• 31:03
  Speaker 8: I don't know where it's at.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: They're a little sluggish there. They don't get a lot
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: of style points. They scored 13 points on offense.
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: It was bad, Ben. It was a sloppy game. He's
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: still throwing those picks left and right. It's bad.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Well, Danny, thank you. The great Curtis Painter, who didn't
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: play very long. Didn't play for the Colts back in
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: the day? Yes. Yeah. There you go.
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: The Colts.
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Not a good era of Colts football. Thank you. All right.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: There's the great Danny DeVito checking in. Now, you know,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: we're not a morning show. And if we were a
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: morning show, we'd get paid more money and the company
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: would like us and all that stuff. And if we
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: were a morning show, we could do shout-outs. We can't
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: do birthday shout-outs. So I can't wish happy birthday to Corbin,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: my friend Corbin, who may or may not May or
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: may not be related to his dad. Can't close the deal, Neal.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: I cannot do it. I wish I could, Corbin. You know,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: I'm very busy here doing the overnight show and I
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: have fond memories. Corbin was one of the guys that
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: we got to hang out with at the Reds game.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I believe that was his first Major League Baseball game.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: You always remember your first. To go to the Reds
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: game and then to have the ice cream, the whole thing.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Just a wonderful time meeting him. And he reminds me,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: the great thing about Corbin... and this is not a shout-out, Corbin,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: so don't get your ego up, is that he kind
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: of reminds me of how I look like at his age.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: So I know the life he's living. I know the life. Like,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: you know, he's a bigger guy and all that. I
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: know how big an a-hole the kids at school can be.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: And all that stuff. Hopefully things have been different. I
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: don't think people change that much. I think there's still
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: a hold at school.
• 32:44
  Speaker 9: I don't know. Ever since Rick Ross, you know, bigger
• 32:46
  Speaker 9: men have been really popular.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Not on the elementary school playgrounds. But anyway, so listen, Corbin, again,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: this is not a birthday shout-out, but there you go.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: JT the Wingman says, bad job by you, Ben. Joey
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Porter Jr. would be getting a sandwich named after him
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: at Primanti Brothers in Pittsburgh. They are sworn enemies of
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: things from Jersey. be better and do better yeah okay
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: getting a lot of love from the raider nation there
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: coop they love the fact that i'm calling out their
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: ridiculous overreaction to beating the dolphins and the chargers.
• 33:25
  Speaker 10: I saw that even some uh some wannabe uh like
• 33:29
  Speaker 10: host of some raider youtube show Did you see that?
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: And a very well-known stand-up comedian who is a listener
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: to the show who's been on the Joe Rogan podcast
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: also has picked up on the- Oh, I didn't see
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: that one. Yes.
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: People very, very upset.
• 33:45
  Speaker 10: I find that funny that they're so upset because- All
• 33:48
  Speaker 10: you're saying really is, you know.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I'm not impressed.
• 33:52
  Speaker 9: Yeah, because you beat two crap teams.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Exactly. That's my point.
• 33:57
  Speaker 10: Like, cool, you're 2-0, but let's wait until you actually
• 34:00
  Speaker 10: have a decent win.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Well, my whole point was the Raiders have fallen so
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: far as a franchise that their fan base now, they're
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: standing at attention, Coop. I think I can say that.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: At the 2-0 start. Well, let's see. Which is fair,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: I think. I will give them, if they go out
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: and beat Kansas City in week four. That's at home.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: That's in Vegas. I will say they're legit. If they
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: can go out and beat Kansas City at home, I'd say, okay.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: We got something. Divisional game at home. Kansas City will
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: be a small favorite in that game.
• 34:32
  Speaker 9: Who do they play this upcoming week?
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: This week they play the Saints. And that's in New Orleans.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: They'll lose that game.
• 34:37
  Speaker 9: I was going to say, if they beat the Saints,
• 34:39
  Speaker 9: I'll say.
• 34:42
  Speaker 9: Hey, that's poor man Josh Allen out there.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I don't know about that one.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Raj. Is it Rajvi? Is that his name?
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Am I saying it right? I'm butchering his name. That's
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: a bad job by me. I apologize. Rajiv. I'm sorry. Rajiv,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I apologize. No, man.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: It's all right.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: What's going on? You're in Arlington. Yeah.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: What do you got? You got a story for me?
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: What do you got?
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Rajiv in Arlington. Thanks, man. I appreciate it. You
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: made an effort to get the name right. I appreciate that. Yeah,
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: so a longtime fan of yours. Been listening like 25,
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: 20 years. I remember when you predicted North Carolina would
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: win the 05 championship, for example.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Look at that. You see that? I get some things right.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: You know why? Because I'm a distant relative of Nostradamus
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: and friend of Nostradinus. That's why. That's right. 20-year-old prediction.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: 20-year-old prediction.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: Hey, are you still having a Naismith vote, or do
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: you not have that anymore?
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: The whole roast thing, we do the lame jokes every week.
• 35:49
  Speaker 9: No, no, he asked if you have the vote.
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: Not the roast, the Naismith vote. You used to have
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: the Naismith vote, right?
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Oh, no, no, no, it's the, no, no, not that.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: The John R. Wooden Award, the most coveted award in
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: all of college basketball. That is, I have a vote
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: for the John R.
• 36:05
  Speaker 9: Wooden Award.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Mr. College Basketball over here. Damn right.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: Hey, I wanted to bring this up. I know you
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: covered the Dodgers in the late 90s and stuff like that. Yeah.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: And I know you also mentioned your, let's say, disdain
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: for some of Mike Piazza's actions. Did you see the
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: funny thing interview where Shia LaBeouf, the actor, he after
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: he got in trouble for drinking in New Orleans and
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: stuff like in February. And I had to bring this
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: up to you before the baseball season ended. He blamed
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: Mike Piazza for his drinking problems and for having short
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: man syndrome. So you might remember this from walking the
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: halls back then. He said that he was part of
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: the Boys and Girls Club that used to come in
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: and bring the underprivileged kids to meet people. And he
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: said that Brett Butler and Hideo Nomo would always stop
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: and sign autographs. And he said that Mike Piazza would
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: always blow them off whenever the Boys and Girls Club
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: would stop. And so he said that that's what made
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: him have short mass syndrome, and that's made him drink
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: a lot and get in trouble now all the time.
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: I thought you might find that funny.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: I love the fact that you're blaming an athlete not
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: signing autographs on your adult alcohol problem.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: No, listen, Piazza, I... I got along with him for
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: a while, but the whole thing when he went to
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: the Mets, he had a beef, like a big-time beef
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: with Vin Scully. Who gets upset with Vin Scully? Mike
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Piazza got upset with Vin Scully. It was very odd
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: to me, but those are some great names. I love
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: those names. Those bring back great memories. I love the names.
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  Speaker 1: Hideo Nomo, Nomo Mania back in the day, Brett Butler.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome. You go back, man. Me and you, we
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  Speaker 1: but that's awesome. Mike Piazza. I believe he lives in
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  Speaker 1: Italy now. Somebody told me he moved to Italy. His
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  Speaker 1: kids are being raised in Italian schools. That's kind of cool. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's got enough money. He can live anywhere he wants.
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  Speaker 1: Good for him. All right, it is the Ben Maller Show,
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  Speaker 1: He played the next week. Somebody should let Kurt Warner
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  Speaker 1: They've gotten a little softer over the years in the
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  Speaker 5: Let's do it. Here we go. Sight the bite. The
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  Speaker 5: great sports radio mystery. Someone from sports the last seven.
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  Speaker 6: Or ten days.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of time.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to it right now. Here we go. I
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  Speaker 1: try to be strategic.
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  Speaker 9: I try to be strategic.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, anyone get it right, I will go
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  Speaker 1: caller four.
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  Speaker 5: Number three.
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  Speaker 1: Number three. Coop?
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  Speaker 9: Number four. Or five.
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  Speaker 1: You said five.
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  Speaker 9: Wait, you said four?
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  Speaker 4: I did.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we'll get to five. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: Chris in Boston. Caller number one. Chris, who is it?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Ben.
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  Speaker 8: That's former Red Sox first baseman, Carlos Quintana.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, thank you. I love the old Red Sox names.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. It warms my heart. Let's go to Pizza Papa,
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  Speaker 1: my caller number two. Who is it, Pizza Papa? Pizza Papa.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Ben, that was Chuck Knobloch.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Knobloch. Is it Chuck Knobloch? That's an old second
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  Speaker 1: baseman who had the yips with the Yankees. Clue Coop, quickly.
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  Speaker 9: He is the cousin of a former pitcher for the
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  Speaker 9: Yankees and Brewers.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Coach Russell, bring it home, Coach Russell. Caller three,
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  Speaker 1: Coach Russell.
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to go with J.R. Richards.
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  Speaker 1: I know he's been dead for a long time. Is
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  Speaker 1: it J.R. Richards, still dead? I'll try to be strategic. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that would be a story if it is. Jed, who
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  Speaker 1: fled last one? Jed, who is it? Now, who is it?
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  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins.
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  Speaker 9: Kirk Cousins.
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  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. Raiders.