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  Speaker 1: Now, it's debating whether to start with the baseball, but
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  Speaker 1: this is such an epic choke job by the Atlanta Falcons.
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  Speaker 1: It is worthy of the leadoff spot. And plus, it's football.
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  Speaker 1: And let's be honest here, as much as I love
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  Speaker 1: my baseball, football is king in these parts. So we begin.
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  Speaker 1: With the game on Sunday night, we start out in Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: the final chapter of the NFL Sunday card in week
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  Speaker 1: number five. That's right, number five out in the ATL.
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  Speaker 1: You had Lamar Jackson out left ankle. Uh-oh, goes to
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  Speaker 1: left ankle, sideline. Tyler Huntley, the career backup, moved on
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  Speaker 1: up to a penthouse in the sky there as Huntley...
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  Speaker 1: He said this the other day. He said taking over
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  Speaker 1: as QB1 would be like riding a bike. He claimed
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  Speaker 1: the Falcons were like, OK, fine, riding a bike. Great.
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  Speaker 1: Falcons are like, we're going to shove the bike into
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  Speaker 1: the lake is what we're going to do. And the
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  Speaker 1: Falcons are trying to go three for three in primetime.
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  Speaker 1: And there was all this angst about, oh, no, the
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  Speaker 1: Falcons in primetime. By the way, Coop has arrived. We
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  Speaker 1: can announce Coop has arrived. So the Falcons looking to
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  Speaker 1: go three for three in primetime games with Michael Penix Jr.,
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  Speaker 1: taking over there. And here we go. So Mike Tirico
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  Speaker 1: and Chris Collinsworth had the call on NBC. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: was doing some double duty here, flipping back and forth
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  Speaker 1: between the NBC broadcast. and the NLCS game on Fox. And,
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  Speaker 1: of course, I had the volume down on both because
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  Speaker 1: that's how I operate most of the time. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you were watching or not. Perhaps not.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you were doing something else. But Tyler Huntley leading
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore to a game-tying touchdown and two-point conversion in the
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  Speaker 1: last minute of regulation. And then... And then a lengthy
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  Speaker 1: drive in overtime, a one-yard QB keeper. Touchdown in overtime,
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  Speaker 1: and the Ravens rally to stun the Birds. In a
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  Speaker 1: battle of the Birds, the Falcons go down 30-27 in
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  Speaker 1: the Sunday night game. Derrick Henry ran for over 100 yards,
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  Speaker 1: and the Falcons' top-ranked run defense proved to be fraudulent
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  Speaker 1: as they were unable to consistently stop Derrick Henry. And
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  Speaker 1: so the Ravens go to 4-1 on the year, and
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  Speaker 1: Michael Penix Jr. suffered a rib injury late in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Tua Tungabailoa took over there at quarterback. How'd
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  Speaker 1: that go? Don't ask! Don't ask for the Falcons, who
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  Speaker 1: are now back under. 500 at 2-3 as Tua Tungabailoa
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  Speaker 1: passed for Drake London. Picked off by Kyle Hamilton in overtime.
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  Speaker 1: Turn at the last. The party's over. Wow. See you later.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so the Falcons blow an eight-point lead there
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  Speaker 1: in overtime. Here's Kevin Stefanski trying to put some lipstick
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  Speaker 1: on this pig of a performance. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: We can be better in those moments, and then you
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  Speaker 3: can put a good football team away late, which we
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  Speaker 3: did not do. And then, again, give them credit. They
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  Speaker 3: came back and scored and did a nice job. So
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  Speaker 3: we'll learn from it. Disappointing, frustrating, all those things, but
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  Speaker 3: we'll learn from it.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski, his teams must learn more than any other team.
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  Speaker 1: He coached the Browns, and now he's coaching the Falcons.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot of learning. They learn a lot from losing.
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  Speaker 1: They learn. Boy, Kevin Stefanski coach teams learn the most.
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  Speaker 1: They do. They just do. All right, that's a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. Is this
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  Speaker 1: loss more damaging for Bajon Robinson and the Falcons' reputation?
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  Speaker 1: Then the final score suggests, well, they lost in overtime
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  Speaker 1: to the Ravens. That's not that big a deal. If
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  Speaker 1: you're a cockeyed optimist, you'll say, ah, who cares? So
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  Speaker 1: I've got Rolex number five special and DNA test. And
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together. And we
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  Speaker 1: are going to say hello to Common Sense. It's your
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  Speaker 1: Common Sense Sports Talk radio show. So, A, in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the question, is the loss more damaging for the
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  Speaker 1: Falcons than the reputation, than it is just the final score,
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  Speaker 1: losing a close game in overtime? Absolutely. Absolutely. Nodding my
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  Speaker 1: head yes on that one. Atlanta's win over Green Bay
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  Speaker 1: and New Orleans, the last couple of games here in primetime,
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  Speaker 1: created this false sense of security. And there were people
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  Speaker 1: jumping on. The Falcon Bandwagon. It's like, you know, that train,
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  Speaker 1: that famous train in India. They have some religious pilgrimage
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  Speaker 1: and there's people standing on the roof of the train.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm sure you've seen the video or heard
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  Speaker 1: about it. It happens like once or twice a year.
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  Speaker 1: And it's I'm not even sure. I remember reading about it,
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  Speaker 1: but I've forgotten. But it's some kind of religious pilgrimage.
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  Speaker 1: And everyone is like one train from this remote part.
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  Speaker 1: And everyone has to catch the train. And so people
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  Speaker 1: stand on top of the train. That was essentially the
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  Speaker 1: Falcons bandwagon. It was like filling up faster than a
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  Speaker 1: waffle house after midnight on a Friday night. Man, they
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  Speaker 1: wanted those waffles. And they won. And then the Ravens,
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  Speaker 1: they drove that bandwagon for the Falcons straight into the ditch.
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta not exposed as a terrible team.
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  Speaker 4: Terrible.
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  Speaker 1: Terrible. They were exposed as a team that is not
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  Speaker 1: nearly as good as some of you people wanted to believe.
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  Speaker 1: That's the reality of the situation. And the Falcons are
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  Speaker 1: the NFL's version of a counterfeit Rolex, is what they are.
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  Speaker 1: They look expensive. They've got some big parts to it,
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  Speaker 1: like big-time players. And I'll tell time correct a couple
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  Speaker 1: times a day for sure. And in this case... It
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  Speaker 1: fell apart late. It did. And then Baltimore showed up
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  Speaker 1: with a backup quarterback. Backup quarterback. And knocked the entire
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  Speaker 1: Happy Days narrative down a couple of notches. Just down
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  Speaker 1: a couple of notches. Now, but John Robinson... who looks
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  Speaker 1: like he should be unstoppable all the time. He had
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  Speaker 1: 86 rushing yards. 38 of them came on one run.
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  Speaker 1: That's 44% of his rushing total for the day for
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  Speaker 1: the Falcons. And it does remind you a bit of
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  Speaker 1: Barry Sanders. Some of you were not alive when Barry
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  Speaker 1: Sanders played for the Lions. He's considered the all-time craziest
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  Speaker 1: video game style running back. There were many games with
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  Speaker 1: the Honolulu Blue Lions where Barry Sanders was like under
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  Speaker 1: 50 yards and not particularly great. And people forget about
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  Speaker 1: that because you block that out. You only remember the good.
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  Speaker 1: You don't remember the bad. Anyway, not exactly a game
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  Speaker 1: wrecker on this day, but John Robinson there. So Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: a little overrated, certainly overpraised. I think we can all
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  Speaker 1: agree on that. Overpraised and thoroughly outclassed at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the game. in fourth quarter and then overtime. That defense. Defense.
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  Speaker 1: My God, talking about riding the vomit comet defensively. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: to the Baltimore side of things, and the question here,
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  Speaker 1: what does the Ravens' victory do for Derrick Henry and friends?
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  Speaker 1: What does it do? So it's a trip to the pharmacy.
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  Speaker 1: It's a booster shot. Big time booster shot for the
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  Speaker 1: confidence of the Baltimore football team, who didn't look all
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  Speaker 1: that great. They were not exactly dominating in offensive football
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  Speaker 1: here for most of the game, for about three quarters
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  Speaker 1: of the game. It was not going particularly well there.
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  Speaker 1: But in the end, they pulled it out. I'm told
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  Speaker 1: the elite teams, the better teams in the NFL, win
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  Speaker 1: these kind of games. They don't curl up in the
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  Speaker 1: fetal position and start sucking their thumb just because their
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  Speaker 1: franchise quarterback happens to be wearing street clothes. And that
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  Speaker 1: didn't happen here. So no Lamar Jackson. Not that it
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  Speaker 1: was no problem, but it didn't turn out to be
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  Speaker 1: a fatal problem for the Ravens here. And this will undoubtedly...
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  Speaker 1: confuse and annoy many television talking heads who insist every
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  Speaker 1: single one of these wins is a direct result of
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  Speaker 1: the franchise quarterback. That without your franchise quarterback, you cannot
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  Speaker 1: do anything. In fact, the entire game of football stops
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  Speaker 1: if you don't have a big-time quarterback. That's always been
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  Speaker 1: the argument. Now, somewhere Lamar's probably saying, well, wait a minute, guys.
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  Speaker 1: You're supposed to miss me a little bit there at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the game. That's a bad job by you.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing? And sure, backup Snoop Huntley was
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  Speaker 1: wobbly for stretches of that game. And then in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter, he wasn't wobbly. And certainly in overtime, that
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  Speaker 1: overtime thing, my God, that was a masterpiece for the
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  Speaker 1: Falcons to watch a team, the Ravens, shove it down
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  Speaker 1: their throat at the end there as they Tyler Huntley
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  Speaker 1: became Mr. Smooth Operator. A 14-play, 60-plus-yard drive. They took
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  Speaker 1: off over seven minutes. The overtime's only 10 minutes. They
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  Speaker 1: had the ball for over seven minutes, creating a hurry-up
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  Speaker 1: situation for the Falcons, who were clearly not prepared for that.
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  Speaker 1: And it was like a bulldozer of a drive for
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  Speaker 1: the Baltimore football team. And in the end, the Ravens
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  Speaker 1: taking the team bus, they actually went through drive-through. They
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  Speaker 1: ordered the number five... special. And he said, well, what
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  Speaker 1: is the number five special? Well, the number five, I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad you asked. The number five special is where the
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  Speaker 1: Ravens took the Falcons and the Dirty Birds and they
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  Speaker 1: deep fried them and got a supersized bucket of extra
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  Speaker 1: crispy falcon. Tastes like chicken. Tastes like chicken. So they
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  Speaker 1: had that. And I thought of our friend Big Balls
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  Speaker 1: Bob in Vegas there. That was a Big Balls type
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  Speaker 1: performance there for the team from the Baltimore area. Sports
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  Speaker 1: with Coleman's proud somewhere. My buddy from Baltimore there who
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  Speaker 1: annoys Lamar Jackson and all the coaches there in Baltimore.
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  Speaker 1: Very happy about that. Meanwhile, the last word. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: back to the Falcons. I must bring this up because
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  Speaker 1: I watched this game and I thought, well, here we
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  Speaker 1: go again. Here we go again. I bet you had
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  Speaker 1: the same reaction. Checking this game out because the Falcons quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Penix Jr., as we said, suffered a rib injury. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my ribs! It was not Tony Romas. It was ribs.
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  Speaker 1: The actual ribs in the body there. He was sacked
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  Speaker 1: by a Ravens linebacker, Tavius Robinson, late in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 1: And he came out of the game. He was unable
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  Speaker 1: to finish the game. Penix said he was hopeful to
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  Speaker 1: return to play in the overtime game. But the Ravens
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  Speaker 1: took so long on offense, Penix claimed he just cooled down.
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  Speaker 1: And God forbid he go back in the game, he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't do it. And so he stayed out and Tua
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  Speaker 1: Tungabailoa did what Tua Tungabailoa does. And so that's it.
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  Speaker 1: So the question, here it is. Where does Michael Penix Jr.
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  Speaker 1: 's rib injury leave the Falcons at this point? So
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  Speaker 1: some are saying, well, it's a minor deal. It's no
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  Speaker 1: big deal. We don't know that, first of all. And
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  Speaker 1: the one thing about the multibillion-dollar industrial complex of the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: there'll be MRIs up your wazoo. There'll be second opinions
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  Speaker 1: and third opinions and fourth opinions. How about five opinions?
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  Speaker 1: What about six? Do I hear seven opinions? Can I
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  Speaker 1: get more and more opinions? Why not? What the hell?
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  Speaker 1: But the words for this are soul-searching. Like that's a
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  Speaker 1: soul searching moment because the Falcons got a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of mojo going. You guys got all horny for the Falcons.
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  Speaker 1: You got all excited. They got the quarterback. They're ready
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  Speaker 1: to roll. And then you're like, well, wait a minute here.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on a second. All right. And then when you
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  Speaker 1: flash back, you're like, well, yeah, Atlanta bought they bought
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  Speaker 1: the sports car. Michael Penix Jr., but they knew the
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  Speaker 1: Carfax report looked like police blotter with all the marks
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  Speaker 1: on it, and you're like, whoa, what's going on with that?
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  Speaker 1: And the thing that made scouts nervous coming out of Washington,
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  Speaker 1: we loved him in college, Michael Penix Jr. was the
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  Speaker 1: ACL tears and the shoulder surgeries at Indiana and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. And it was like, oh, a full medical miracle.
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  Speaker 1: Penix was not ready to start the year, and they
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  Speaker 1: had to play their third-string quarterback, the Falcons, so he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't ready. and the medical file starts popping back up,
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  Speaker 1: you're like, well, wait a minute. And the injury bug
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  Speaker 1: does not knock on Michael Penix's door. It's got the
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  Speaker 1: pass key to get in the building, and it's got
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  Speaker 1: the key to get into his home. The whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: And every setback for the Falcons now, the quarterback position,
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  Speaker 1: every setback turns the Atlanta Falcon coaching staff, the medical staff,
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  Speaker 1: into amateur meteorologists. Maybe this will pass. Maybe it's no
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  Speaker 1: big deal. Nothing to see here. Why not? It could
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  Speaker 1: be nothing.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And they get the exact experience they signed up for.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Penix Jr. tantalizing enough to believe in, fragile enough
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  Speaker 1: to terrify. Now, we did do a radio DNA test.
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  Speaker 1: It's our public service for the Atlanta Falcons. We felt
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  Speaker 1: bad for them losing because Tua came in and did
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  Speaker 1: what Tua does. So we felt bad. So we did
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  Speaker 1: a radio DNA test, and it's more likely than not,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Penix Jr. is a first cousin of Humpty Dumpty. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: they're related, blood-related, Humpty Dumpty and Michael Penix Jr., side
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  Speaker 1: by side. Of course, Atlanta just hoping and praying that
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  Speaker 1: all the Kings trainers can put him back together yet again.
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  Speaker 1: So that's how it's going to be. For the Falcons.
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  Speaker 1: So imagine your whole season is depending on the health
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  Speaker 1: of Michael Penix. Holy crap. That's not good.
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  Speaker 1: The real story isn't told on the field.
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  Speaker 4: It's written in the lives of the people who left here,
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  Speaker 4: who started as students in Happy Valley and became forces
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  Speaker 1: We're going to pause the NFL. We'll get back to
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. Relax. We're going to get back to the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to boycott the NFL. I like football.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I know. Everyone loves their football. But we
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  Speaker 1: got baseball. Final four action. in Major League Baseball. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Wild and crazy, right? Were you able to watch both games?
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  Speaker 1: There was no American League game. That starts later on
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  Speaker 1: on Monday. You had the Brewers and the Dodgers, NLCS,
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  Speaker 1: game number one right there, playing out on the TV. Very,
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  Speaker 1: very important. So we start out in Wisconsin. That is
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  Speaker 1: where the scene was, the stage for game one of
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  Speaker 1: the Final Four. We'll get back to the NFL shortly.
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  Speaker 1: But we do begin with that heavyweight pitching matchup there.
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  Speaker 1: The Brewers rolling out the Miz. And Tarek Skubal, the
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  Speaker 1: big pickup from the Motor City Kitties, from the Tigers.
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  Speaker 1: Another playoff start for the Dodgers. You had the game
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  Speaker 1: on Fox. And they were there. Nobody had laryngitis, so
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  Speaker 1: that's good. Cured the laryngitis. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: were watching this or not. Perhaps you were watching the
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  Speaker 1: football game. But Bryce Terang rang the bell. as he
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  Speaker 1: hit a ding-dong off Tarek Skubal and Milwaukee's bullpen, shutting
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  Speaker 1: down the once-feared Dodger hitters there. As Jacob Mizorowski did
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  Speaker 1: not dominate the way you expected him to dominate, he
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  Speaker 1: had a frustrating good performance. He was okay in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the runs allowed and all that. It was a
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  Speaker 1: taxing outing, a stressful outing for the Miz. And the
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  Speaker 1: Brewers get a 2-1 win in Game 1 of the NLCS.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody named Louis Lara hit a tie-breaking single. Never heard
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  Speaker 1: of him off Tarek Skubal in the fifth inning. And
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  Speaker 1: that's it. The Dodgers did not score at that point
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  Speaker 1: on in the game. And so Milwaukee takes Game 1
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  Speaker 1: of the NLCS, the first matchup in the NLCS of
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  Speaker 1: 100-win teams. Since the Cincinnati Reds, the big red machine
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  Speaker 1: of the 1970s, eliminated the Fightin' Phils 1976. That's a
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  Speaker 1: long time ago. All right, so the Brewers had dropped
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  Speaker 1: seven consecutive postseason games against the D-O-D-G-E-R-S Dodgers, including... A
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  Speaker 1: sweep-a-roo last year in the NLCS. So Game 2 will
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  Speaker 1: be later on on Monday here in Milwaukee. Yoshinobu Yamamoto
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  Speaker 1: will start for the Dodgers. And holy crap, Logan Henderson.
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  Speaker 1: Logan Henderson takes the mound for the Brew Crew. The
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  Speaker 1: better story here is in the losing locker room. So
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  Speaker 1: that is where we will begin. And the Dodgers on
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  Speaker 1: the wrong end of this opening loss. It is not
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  Speaker 1: a single elimination. Some of you people got a little
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  Speaker 1: too excited. Until the alcohol was flowing in Wisconsin, my
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  Speaker 1: inbox got a couple of messages. Oh, you're screwed, Maller!
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers have cooked! The year of the Brewers! And I'm like, oh, really?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't realize it was one game. Elimination. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: like the NCAA tournament. You just win one game, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so the question, as we discuss here, it's
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. So the question, thumbs up
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  Speaker 1: or thumbs down? Thumbs up, thumbs down. Do the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: have a Shohei Otani problem? Let's focus in on Otani,
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  Speaker 1: as he didn't do much in this game. Did score
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  Speaker 1: a run, the only run they scored. But you think
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  Speaker 1: of Otani. You think of him as hitting moonshots, and
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  Speaker 1: he ain't hitting moonshots. So I've got cotton farmers, Pepsi Cola,
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  Speaker 1: and rotary telephones. And we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together, and we're going to mix them up there,
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  Speaker 1: and then we're going to weld them together. We're going
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: to actually weld them together. Actually, we mix them up
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: and then weld them together. So number one. Number one. One, one, one, one.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Number one.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go thumbs up. I'm going to go
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: thumbs up on do the Dodgers have a Shohei Otani problem.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: And there's a lot of fanboys now in the Dodger media.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: It wasn't always like that. It's people that actually had
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: critical thinking. But most of the people that are around
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers now in the media are just toe suckers, unfortunately.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: That's the reality of the situation. And so at least
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: on this end, and we have the power of the
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: bully pulpit overnight, no more Mr. Nice Guy. And he doesn't...
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: contribute much anymore either. He's in the Bay Area, Mr.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Nice Guy. But no more Mr. Nice Guy. All right.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: So let's stop treating criticism of Shohei Ohtani like it's
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: a violation of international law. It is not. He is
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: not beyond criticism. I'm sorry. This is not anti-Ohtani rhetoric.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: It is pro-accountability is what it is. There's a difference.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: And so the Dodgers did not spend a billion dollars plus.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: to watch the superstar headliner impersonate a backup infielder for
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the Union Laguna cotton farmers of the Mexican League. Because
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: you could get a guy right now out of the
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Mexican League for the price of a ham sandwich to
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: give you the production that Otani has given you in
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. And I'm telling you, he's supposed to be
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: the big bopper. And right now, he's been the big
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: flopper for the Dodgers, and it's becoming more problematic. And
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: they say, well, it's one game, and that's true, and
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers can certainly come back and win the next
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: couple of games and all that. But I just don't
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: get the sense Otani's going to flip the switch, that
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers, if they are going to win, are going
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: to have to win with this inferior version of Otani.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: And are they better off putting some other jabroni in
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: there that could actually hit a home run occasionally? Because
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: at this point, Otani cannot do it. His power has
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: vanished into the Bermuda Triangle, which I thought was off
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: the coast of Florida. I didn't realize it was somewhere
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: off the Pacific Ocean. And it's bad. It is bad, bad, bad.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers need to hire a search and rescue operation
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: to find his home run swing. How bad is it?
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: If you go back to August 18th, I was a
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: little child on August 18th. You go back to August 18th, Otani,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: how many home runs do you think he's got since
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: August 18th? What do you think? You got a number
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: in your head? All right. How about number one? Number one.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: One home run since August 18th. So his power... has
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: been missing for so long. How long? It's been missing
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: for so long, it qualifies for an episode of Unsolved Mysteries.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: And tough love is overdue. Does anyone over there have
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the balls to bench Ohtani? Does anyone that is employed
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: for the Dodgers have the intestinal fortitude to say, this
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: guy's not helping us, he's a net negative? And the
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Brewers know it. And The Braves knew it also. The
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: teams are not dummies that are playing the Dodgers here.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: And the Dodgers have a luxury product that is delivering
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: basement discount bin back-of-the-store results. And that's the issue. So
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: bad that he can't. He's not even a decoy. A
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: decoy occasionally hits a home run. Ohtani hasn't. He's had
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: one home run since August 18th. That's it. Now, I
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: must also address the pitching here and the start by
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: their ace, Tarek Skubal, who was a tiny dancer. He
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: came up short, came up small. The Dodgers prize pitching
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: move from the Tigers there, and he only gave up
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: two runs in five innings. What are you, nitpicking, Mahler?
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I have high expectations. To me, you've got to match
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: the other guy. And you've got to be better than
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the other guy. I said, well, he was a little
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: bit better. But this is the first time that he
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: has failed to pitch beyond the fifth inning in eight
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: career postseason starts. So he didn't get it done there.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers, again, they want the bulldozer. They would like
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: the nice bulldozer. And Scooble's more of a riding lawnmower
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: at this particular point. And the Dodgers, they have to
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: have that heavyweight prize fighter. Especially in this matchup. This
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: was like a heavyweight matchup, even though the Miz didn't
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: go long in the game either. And Scooble gave them
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: five rounds of boxing and headed to the showers to
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: have a nice warm shower. He needed a nice shower.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: And he's supposed to be the guy that will take
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: you into the sixth or the seventh inning. And he's
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the guy that eats the steak and the whole thing.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: And on this night, it was more of the kid's menu.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: And that's it. That's just your garden variety starting pitcher.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: They'll go five innings, and that's modern baseball, and you're
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: supposed to be a little different. That's why you want
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: that $ 400 million contract. You think you're going to get it. Meanwhile,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: to the Milwaukee side of things here, and this wasn't
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: a beauty contest by any means. Even in a 2-1 situation,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: it wasn't a beauty contest. It was more of a
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: street fight at a cheese factory, and the Brewers walked away,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: and they won the cheese curds covered in liquid gold sauce,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: like a cheesy liquid gold. And they were able to
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: win that. Now, for manager Pat Murphy, all right, manager
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Pat Murphy here, how big was game one of the NLCS?
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: That's the question, again, we're working with here. How big
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: was winning game one? So for Pat Murphy, this was
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: a Pepsi-Cola special. Now, what does that mean, a Pepsi-Cola special?
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: It was a got to have it. Now, Jacob Mizorowski
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: was not exactly painting the Mona Lisa while he was
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: on the mound here. He labored. He huffed and he
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: puffed for the brew crew. And he wasn't striking the
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: world out. His strikeout rate was not where it had been.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: But he held them, them being the Dodgers, to one
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: run before the bullpen cavalry. They sounded the bugle. I
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: didn't hear it, but apparently Pat Murphy got the bugle
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: and the bullpen cavalry came in, riding in. To save
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: the day. And it's not algebra. Let's not overthink this.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: We don't need AI. We don't need algorithms to tell
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: you the plan here. It's rather simple. It's not advanced
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: calculus for Milwaukee. It's basic Mallor math. Even a third
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: grader could figure this crap out. Jacob Mizorowski is your
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: fast pass. He's the man. Now, he didn't pitch like
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the man. He still won the game in this game.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: But the formula is rather simple. If you're the Brewers,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: you get three starts. You've got to get three starts
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: out of the Miz. You've got to win all three.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: So that gets you to three wins. You've got to
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: get another win, obviously, otherwise you don't advance. So win
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: those three games and somehow steal one other game, and congratulations,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: you've won the National League pennant, and you're heading to
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: the World Series. So they don't need perfection. They just
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: need survival. So really, you've got those three you figure
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: in the bag. And then the other four games, you
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: just got to scratch and claw and hope one of
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: these other Dodger guys rides the vomit comet. And Blake
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Snell's a great guy. I mean, I'm convinced the Dodgers
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: will lose every time this guy pitches. The guy's a loser.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Blake Snell. So figure he's out there. If you don't
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: start the Miz against that, bro, I ain't playing unless
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I get my bro, Blake Snell, listen, you'll beat him.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: So make sure the Miz doesn't go against Blake Snell,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: and that's one of the other games you can win.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: And then the Dodgers are royally cooked. Then they're screwed.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: So one box has been checked. Congratulations. Three to go.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: A whopper of a night. You get the win, a
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: little extra cheese on that, no pickles, and you're good
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: to go. All right, meanwhile, final point. We must address
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: for a couple minutes what happened over the weekend in Cleveland,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: the American League, and how did that go? Well, Gavin Williams,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: the horse, of course, of course, of course. Gavin Williams,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: as we said the other day, so good he's going
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: to end up on the Dodgers or Yankees or Red
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Sox or one of those teams or the Cubs. Had
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: 12 of a record 21 strikeouts. The Chicago White Sox.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: What are you doing? Cleveland pitchers had 21 strikeouts. Jose
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Ramirez hit a two-run go-ahead ding-dong there on a pitch
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: that was just above home plate on a Saturday night
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: there in the fourth inning. And that's all she wrote.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: The Guardians take down Chicago's White Sox 2-0. And they
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: complete the comeback. The Guardians were left for dead. We
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: were mocking them. They deserve to be mocked. We don't
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: take back that monologue. They were an embarrassment. And then
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: they weren't an embarrassment, and they all of a sudden
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: have figured things out. So they come back from an
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: 0-2 deficit and defeat the team from Chicago. Cleveland moves
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: on now. Cleveland just the 11th team to win a
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: best-of-five series among the 96 that fell behind Cleveland. 0-2,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the first since the 2017 Yankees against the old Cleveland Indians. Remember,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: there was a team called the Indians, and now they're
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: named after a bridge because you wokesters who don't even
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: like baseball got all up into a tizzy. Yeah, I
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: remember that. So the 0-2 comeback, and on the road,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: they lose the first two at home. They were able
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: to win on the road, then they win the last game.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: They're just the fourth team to do that. So congratulations
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: to the Cleveland Guardians, who will play the Tampa Bay
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Rays in the American League Championship Series for friends and
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: family only. That'll begin on Monday night. So friends and family.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: We'll watch so you don't have to. Don't worry. We'll
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: check that out. The question here, who gets the biggest
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: slice of the Italian beef sandwich of Blanchard? for the
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: White Sox blowing a 2-0 lead in the ALDS? So
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I would like to start with Will Venable. Now, I've
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: never met Will Venable. I actually dealt with his dad,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Max Venable, who was a journeyman outfielder. who played with
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: the Angels and whatnot back in the day. But Will Venable,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: who managed that bullpen for the Chicago White Sox like
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: a guy playing whack-a-mole at the county fair. And so
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: there is a bit of me that is pleased with
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: this outcome, and here's why. I feel like it's cosmic justice.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: And I understand Cleveland did the same thing at times here,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: but nobody was more egregious than the Chicago White Sox.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: It says in the Bible, live by the opener, die
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: by the opener. And that bullpen slop blew up. And
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: how smart did the White Sox look? Oh, we're going
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: to go opener, bullpen game, opener, bullpen game, and just
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: keep doing that. Why not? What the hell? And the
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: White Sox treating starting pitching like it's a rotary telephone.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Who wants to use a rotary telephone? What does he need?
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: That's outdated technology. So that was the White Sox mindset here.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: And guess what? The new technology went kerflooey!
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: It exploded!
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: They micromanage. Now, most likely it's not actually Will Venable.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: It's the front office, the nerds, Poindexter, the dingleberries who
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: have all the answers, right? Except those computers somehow forgot
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: that you need to win three games in the American
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: League Divisional Series. Bad job by them. Now, meanwhile, how
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: about the hitters for the White Sox? This always fascinates me.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: I've talked to some of the old-time guys. They're also,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: the old baseball players that I've dealt with over the years,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: they're also fascinated by the arrogance of the modern ballplayer
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: where it's not your night, you're striking out a lot,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: things aren't going your way. No one, not a single
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: person in that dugout says, you know, maybe we should
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: change our approach a little bit. Maybe we should, I
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: don't know, choke up on the bat, try to put
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: the ball in play. Oh, no, you can't do that.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Have you lost your bloody mind? Have you lost your
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: bloody mind? So the hitters go up there looking like
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: lumberjacks swinging away at a giant tree in the forest.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: And the results are like a toothpick. They racked up
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: 52 strikeouts over the final three games. 52 strikeouts. 21
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: in the final game there. They batted as a team
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: less than 200, the Chicago White Sox, the last three games. Actually, overall,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: with runners in scoring position, it was even worse than that,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the final three games. And Mune Murakami... The star of
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: the White Sox, he had 11 at-bats over the final
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: three games. Murakami went one of 11 with eight strikeouts.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: A couple of key moments. He was at home plate
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: with a chance to make something happen, and he didn't
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: do it in the final three games. No adjustments by
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: anybody on the Chicago White Sox. No clue. And so
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: let's hand them a dunce cap and pass a napkin there.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: There's a mess on their face. They vomited. It's a
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: bad job by them.
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  Speaker 1: Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
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  Speaker 5: Ben, Arch Manning did not have a good day against
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: the Sooners in the Red River rivalry over the weekend.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: You think, Coop?
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: You think that was a bad day? He rode the
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Vomit Comet? It was pretty bad. Yeah.
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: After the game, NFL gurus discussed his stock dropping and
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: said that they have him graded as a day two prospect.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you think that's going to be the case, Ben? No, no, no.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: The marketing department's going to say, hey, dummies, you know
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: how much money we can make from these idiots buying
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Manning jerseys? No, he'll be drafted in the first round.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: And I still think he'll be a top ten pick.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: He's been a disaster class for him in Texas. He'll
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: still be drafted where he doesn't belong because of the marketing.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Somebody will say, well, we can coach him up. Next!
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: Shortly after you talked about Alex Cora turning down the
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: Phillies last week, it was reported that he's waiting around
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: for the Yankees job.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Do you think he'll get that? Well, I don't know.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: We're going to want to wait another ten years. Aaron Boone?
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Aaron Boone's done everything he could to lose the Yankee job.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Any other era of Yankee baseball, Aaron Boone would have
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: been fired. But they don't care about winning in the
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Bronx anymore. They're fine. And he's their best buddies, Brian
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Cashman and Aaron Boone. And I'm convinced Dave Roberts with
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers and Aaron Boone with the Yankees, these guys
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: will coach until they don't want to coach anymore. And
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: that's it. So Alex Cora can forget about that job
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: being open. Next!
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: Last week, the Knicks announced that they are officially shutting
• 34:16
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• 34:18
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• 34:21
  Speaker 5: very disappointed with the Knicks.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, God forbid.
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: Do you think we have a Carl Anthony Towns problem?
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: What is he making? $ 60 million a year? Why don't
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: we have a bake sale for Carl Anthony Towns? How
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: is he going to go on with life, Coop? How
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: devastating is that for Carl Anthony Towns? Boo-hoo-hoo! Who cares?
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: How do we do?
• 34:42
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  Speaker 1: the air. Advice to Jaden Daniels. Caller.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I love or hate Blind Scott,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: but I'll take him over to Robbie the Mariner. All right.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: One more. Hurry up. Pick a coop. Line one. Line one.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: You're on the air.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Go. Line one.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Eat more.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, I was going to say something bad, Coop. I
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: cut him off. It was going to be bad. I
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: saved the company. I saved the company.