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Hour 1 - A Blue Debut · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Release the Kraken. It's our numb berwe and that's Baseball
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Speaker 1: Susan the Bane Mahlor Show, the Baseball Power Hour. You're
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Speaker 1: an hour number one on this fifth day of August,
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Speaker 1: Happy hump Day. Do the Humpty Dance. It's Wednesday. So
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Speaker 1: here in our number one we set up all night
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Speaker 1: for fresh pod. What are your opening impressions as Tarrek
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Speaker 1: school made his Dodger debut much Ballyhoo Dodger debut Wrigley Field, Chicago.
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Speaker 1: We recap that. Also more dissecting of the words, the
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Speaker 1: parsing of the words. What has the Tarrek Schooble trade
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Speaker 1: to the Dodgers exposed among baseball fans? He had some
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Speaker 1: quotes that upset some folks. Will take a look at that. Also,
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Speaker 1: does Anthony Volpi get a pardon from blame and accountability
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Speaker 1: because he was set up to fail by the Yankees?
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Speaker 1: Volti sent down George Lombard Junior hit a home run
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Speaker 1: in his major league debut last night. He's the new
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Speaker 1: chosen one, Anthony Volpi yesterday's news demoted to the minor leagues.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about all of those and more. Right now,
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Speaker 1: it's your second bite of the audio Apple. It's our
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Speaker 1: number one, a blue debut that was blown well kind
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Speaker 1: hour is from Baseball and we start out at the
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Speaker 1: town of Wrigleyville in Chicago, the north side of Chicago,
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Speaker 1: not the baddest part of town, the richest part of town.
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Speaker 1: That part of Chicago and the much bally hooed opening
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Speaker 1: act of the Trek schooble two month run in Dodger
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Speaker 1: Blue as he put on his new laundry at the
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Speaker 1: Friendly Confines. Now, did you watch this game? It was
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Speaker 1: a National TV game on Turner? Did you you were
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Speaker 1: not watching? Okay, you might have missed it. The Chicago
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Speaker 1: Cubs doing the old Chubby Cubby. The Cubs get her done,
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Speaker 1: playing the role of spoiler. There they beat the Doyers
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Speaker 1: five to one at Wrigley Field, Chicago, spoiling spoiler alert,
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Speaker 1: spiler alert, Trek Schoobel's Dodger debut as the much anticipated
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Speaker 1: performance ends up on the defeat side of the Ledger.
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Speaker 1: Schoobel delivered a quality start, not the greatest start of
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Speaker 1: all time, hed a lot, a couple runs, four hits
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Speaker 1: over six innings. He walked to struck out six eighty
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Speaker 1: five pitches. That's it, eighty five pitches, fifty one of
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Speaker 1: them for strikes. If you're keeping score at home, and
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Speaker 1: if you are, get a life all right, so Dansby Swanson.
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Speaker 1: He tied the game with his seventeenth home run, and
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Speaker 1: the Cubs ended up getting the go ahead run, which
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Speaker 1: is all they would need, even though they scored a
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Speaker 1: few more after that on an infield single by mister
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Speaker 1: Horney himself Horner, and that was that as the Cubs
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Speaker 1: get to win. The better story, though, is in the
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Speaker 1: losing locker room, and that is where we will go.
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Speaker 1: As it's all about the performance of the starting pitcher.
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Speaker 1: There many upset the baseball purists furious about the debut
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Speaker 1: of Schooble and everything that is involved in it. And
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Speaker 1: that is a good jumping out points. So let us
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Speaker 1: discuss the question. We'll keep it simple. What are your
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Speaker 1: opening impressions, your opening impressions on Trek Scooble in a
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Speaker 1: Dodger uniform. So I've got plastic forks, Mount Kilimanjaro and
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Speaker 1: organic carbon and we will combine all of these things
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Speaker 1: together and we're going to have some delicious deep dish
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Speaker 1: pizza and that really good Chicago popcorn. Our buddy Tree
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Speaker 1: in Chicago hooked us up with that popcorn. It was delicious,
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Speaker 1: So solid popcorn town Chicago and pop goes to Dodgers
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Speaker 1: in the Windy City here. So my first thought was,
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Speaker 1: as advertised, wasn't the greatest, wasn't bad? Was solid professional pitcher.
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Speaker 1: This is not some jabbroni out of him mount Rather
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Speaker 1: obviously we knew that when he pitched schoolball for the
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Speaker 1: Detroit Tigers, he pitched like he had mainlined, mainline rocket fuel.
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Speaker 1: Was coming out there on adrenaline and throwing some high
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Speaker 1: octane on almost every throw early in the game, and
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Speaker 1: he had that vibe you know when you ever changed jobs.
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Speaker 1: I've I haven't changed jobs in a while. I've done
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Speaker 1: some side jobs while i've worked here. And when you
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Speaker 1: work somewhere new, you always want to impress your new coworkers,
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Speaker 1: right You want that good first impression. So that that five,
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Speaker 1: like schoobl went, there's I got to impress these people.
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Speaker 1: I don't know these people, they don't know me. So
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out there and I'm gonna try to
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Speaker 1: impress my new coworkers. And he racked up thirteen whiffs.
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Speaker 1: Now that's not thirteen strikeouts. That's swing back a swing
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Speaker 1: baut a sawing badah, and that's what that is. Scooble
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Speaker 1: serving up mostly flamon on the mound, and the Dodgers,
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Speaker 1: the new coworkers said, you know, we're not we're not
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Speaker 1: into that right now. We only brought the plastic forks.
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Speaker 1: That's all we have. Why do you only have the
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Speaker 1: plastic forks? You should have the nice silverware. What's wrong?
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Speaker 1: Would you? Shame on you? And so while at times
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Speaker 1: Schooble pitched like a man possessed, not consistently throughout the game,
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Speaker 1: even when we gave up a couple of runs the
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Speaker 1: Dodgers while he was possessed on the mound, the Dodger
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Speaker 1: hitters were just depressed when they were trying to hit
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Speaker 1: cup pitching there. And you look at this and some
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Speaker 1: big name players on this Dodger team right now, in
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Speaker 1: this moment, they've lost five in a row, got their
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Speaker 1: balls kicked in by the Red Sox over the weekend.
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Speaker 1: Now the Cubs have kicked their butt two games in
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Speaker 1: a row. And in this moment, we have to worry
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Speaker 1: about today show. In this moment, the Doyers are paying
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Speaker 1: Champagne money for tap water results. Is what they're doing
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Speaker 1: here right out of the tap in Flint, Michigan. The
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Speaker 1: quality of the performance. And you look around there and
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Speaker 1: they're getting a lot of squad douche, a lot of
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Speaker 1: squad douche. Mookie betts Man right now he stinks and
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Speaker 1: the catchers are both hurt, so they got some scrubs
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Speaker 1: they traded for at catchers, so they're not getting much there.
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Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker did have home run. He just carries himself
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Speaker 1: and it's really hard to do. Kyle Tucker always looks
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Speaker 1: like he just doesn't really give a crap. It's fascinating,
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Speaker 1: like you could get that you think of as it
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Speaker 1: would appear like he's trying, like putting some effort out.
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Speaker 1: He always has that vibe layer I don't give a crap.
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Speaker 1: You know I'm getting paid. I'm just going through the
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Speaker 1: motions man. Tremendous outfield defense by Tucker. I think I lost.
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Speaker 1: I last saw that tile type of defense when I
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Speaker 1: was watching a Little league game a while back. My goods.
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Speaker 1: So and in the end, yeah, Tarrek Scouble ended up
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Speaker 1: eating a Hogi. He had the Hogi of defeat that
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Speaker 1: was served to him here. And the Dodgers have never
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Speaker 1: won a start by Trek Scooble. Can you believe that
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Speaker 1: in the history of the franchise, they've never won a
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Speaker 1: game started by Trek Scooble. Fascinating? Yeah, So, And this
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Speaker 1: is again a microcosm of why You should not be
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Speaker 1: having a hissy fit, you dopes. Everyone up in arms.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, Schooble does not guarantee anything. He went out,
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Speaker 1: had a solid professional start, and he went dog lost.
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Speaker 1: So the contract size, the name on the back of
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Speaker 1: the univers as the late great Timulasorda used to rant
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Speaker 1: about back in the day, it's all good, nice stuff.
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Speaker 1: In modern times, you look at a tablet, you look
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Speaker 1: at your phone, you say, oh man, that's some big names.
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Speaker 1: I've heard of those players here. That's pretty good. It's
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Speaker 1: not like they spot you three runs because you have
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Speaker 1: the bigger sexy names on the team. You still have
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Speaker 1: to go out and you play to win the game.
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Speaker 1: And right now, the opponent, the way Mookie Betts is
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Speaker 1: playing in Tucker and the catching position, the opponent right
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Speaker 1: now is on the power play, and the Dodgers are,
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Speaker 1: despite their money, shorthanded on a nightly basis. All right. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: staying with that theme, prior to his first start as
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Speaker 1: a Doyer at Wrigley Field there in Chicago, Trek Schouobel
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Speaker 1: defended the Dodgers, much to the chagrin of people having
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Speaker 1: a hissy fit over this, the blockbuster trade that happened
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Speaker 1: the other day from Detroit. He argued that the criticism
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Speaker 1: of the Blue Crew misplaced school Ble said quote. Every
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Speaker 1: team could have traded for me, he said, and other
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Speaker 1: clubs simply chose not to match the Dodger's offer to
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Speaker 1: the Detroit baseball team scoople, praising the Doyers, known to
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Speaker 1: spoil their pampered baby players more than any other team.
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Speaker 1: And so he's celebrated the organization for how they do things.
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Speaker 1: Here they say, oh, they do all the right things,
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Speaker 1: he said. That's a quote, pointing to player development, winning culture,
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Speaker 1: a commitment. You know, the extra private plane these elitist
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Speaker 1: players get when they're on the road, God forbid, they
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Speaker 1: hang around the unwashed, all that stuff. So his comments
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Speaker 1: came after and this is going on, This is still
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Speaker 1: going on. It's bubbling up. What is this, the criticism,
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Speaker 1: the complaints it's not right? Booo who the Dodgers are
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Speaker 1: ruining baseball? Oh my god, Yeah, that nonsense, which continue
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Speaker 1: is and still still banging the drum complaining here fans
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Speaker 1: and bots and the algorithm pointing towards this is not right,
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Speaker 1: No trust, just no peace because the Dodgers traded for
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Speaker 1: another good player. It's not right. It's not right, and
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Speaker 1: people saying that Schoobles should have just kept quiet, apparently
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Speaker 1: not allowed to talk. I guess because he didn't like
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Speaker 1: what he said, so you got to shut up. That's
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Speaker 1: usually how that works. And the classless comments, all of that,
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Speaker 1: all of that stuff, and he kind of dismissed the noise,
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Speaker 1: and that created more problems for the people that think
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Speaker 1: this is a war crime, that there should be some
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Speaker 1: kind of tribunal against the Dodgers. All right, question, what
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Speaker 1: has the Tarik Schooble trade to the Dodgers exposed among
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Speaker 1: baseball fans? What is this exposed? So, after in its
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Speaker 1: long mallard deliberation of the available information, we have determined
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Speaker 1: that the schoolbal trade has exposed extreme soft serve. Candy
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Speaker 1: Land raised the younger generation of baseball. Candy Land. It's pathetic.
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Speaker 1: I really am truly embarrassed, Like I was like, come on,
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Speaker 1: you're making us all look bad. Do you realize you're
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Speaker 1: making all of us look bad? Do you understand that
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Speaker 1: you're bitching and you're complaining? Is unbecoming? What happened to you? Seriously?
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Speaker 1: Who hurts you as a fan? Pathetic? Subset of cry babies,
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Speaker 1: cowards and clowns. The people complaining. I think the Dodgers
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Speaker 1: are some kind of horror movie and they can't get
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Speaker 1: out of it. They're in it instead of approaching it
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Speaker 1: the right way, like this is the boss level. That's
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Speaker 1: the way you approach it. It's the boss level here,
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Speaker 1: and that's it you inherited. If you're complaining about the Dodgers.
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Speaker 1: I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but
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Speaker 1: you inherited a loser mindset. You're a loser. I would
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Speaker 1: recommend returning that mindset, exchanging it. If you can't return it,
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Speaker 1: get some store credit because it's not right. As oh
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Speaker 1: La is the big bad Wolf of baseball. Okay, I agree.
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Speaker 1: I agree. They've got a lot of big names, so
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Speaker 1: much like the big bad Wolf of baseball, go out
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Speaker 1: there and blow the house down. That's how legends are made.
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Speaker 1: That is how legends are made. And all these people again,
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Speaker 1: cry babies, cowards and clowns who are complaining about the Dodgers,
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Speaker 1: I recommend grab a medelo. Remember the slogan back in
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Speaker 1: the day, you gotta have that fighting spirit. You gotta
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Speaker 1: unlock the fighting spirit and stop your whining, you pathetic
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Speaker 1: piece of crap. Seriously, go to Tanzania. You go there
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Speaker 1: Mount Kilimanjaro. Go over to Mount Kilimanjarro and climate don't
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Speaker 1: comp it's too high. They should cut down Mount Kilimanjaro.
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Speaker 1: It's two I can't climb that. Oh my god, it's
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Speaker 1: too big a mountain. U boo. That's how stupid you sound.
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Speaker 1: You don't even realize how dumb you are, you Dingleberry,
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Speaker 1: you Dumbo. Seriously, as the eighties rock band Poison pointed out,
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Speaker 1: every rose has its thorn. Every rose has its thorn.
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Speaker 1: So find the Dodgers thorn and twist it if if
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Speaker 1: you're in that mind, twist it, embrace the suck, and
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Speaker 1: go out and beat them. They're not invincible. Toronto almost
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Speaker 1: beat them in the World Series last year. If the
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Speaker 1: Yankees hadn't been incompetent, not know how to play defense,
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Speaker 1: they could have made that a six or a seven
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Speaker 1: game series. They didn't, but it was it was they
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Speaker 1: had talent, they had star power there the Yankees, and
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Speaker 1: they botched the ball in that World Series couple years ago.
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Speaker 1: So this whole woe is Me mindset, Come on, go
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Speaker 1: get some sunlight, touch some grass, get some electrolytes, grow
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Speaker 1: a spine, get some hair on your chest, My God,
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Speaker 1: grow some balls. Seriously, it's not fair the dodgers of
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Speaker 1: God and beat him. Go out and beat them. Find
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Speaker 1: a way. That's the story. That's the story. Like the
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Speaker 1: famous Store of David versus Goliath. You would say, well,
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Speaker 1: David should not have to fight Goliath. Well, the reason
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Speaker 1: is to make schoreice. He up checked Goliath. Hey, ap
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Speaker 1: checked Goliath. The Dodgers of Goliath beat him, you losers,
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Speaker 1: God and beat them, and then you'll celebrate, You'll have
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Speaker 1: an orgasm, you'll be so excited. Instead, it's all we're
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Speaker 1: scared of the fire breathing Dodgers. Oh man, the Boogeyman,
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Speaker 1: the boogiey Man. So if that's your mindset, go play pickleball.
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Speaker 1: Go play pickleball or tennis. Do that. Baseball's not for you.
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Speaker 1: It's not right. Meanwhile, the last word, we go to
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Speaker 1: the Bronx and I believe Jesus Christ arrived at Yankee
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Speaker 1: Stadium last night. George Lombard Junior. No oh, okay, Well,
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Speaker 1: a lot of hype for this guy, he much anticipated debut.
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Speaker 1: The better story, though, is he had a home run
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Speaker 1: in whoope Dando in his Yankee debuts. So I guess
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Speaker 1: he's now the next Derek Jeter, Babe Ruth all that
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Speaker 1: stuff to me. The better story, the Morgan pelling story
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Speaker 1: with the Yankees, is Anthony Volpi. So I want to
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Speaker 1: pivot over there for the last word. Now, Anthony Volpi
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Speaker 1: is not a major league player. He's a Triple A player.
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Speaker 1: He was demoted to Scranton Wilkesbury, the Reil writers of
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Speaker 1: the Triple A Baseball operation there in Pennsylvania. I saw
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Speaker 1: Anthony Volpi the one WU Sox game that we attended
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Speaker 1: there with the Leprechaun and Matt Kay and the guys
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Speaker 1: there in Worcester. They were the road team. So he
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Speaker 1: got to see Anthony vaultany throw out me throw out
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Speaker 1: the first pitch there. Very impressed. I'm sure he was
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Speaker 1: very impressed. So Volpi has been said down, and Volpi's
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Speaker 1: case has become a major flashpoint in this debate over
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Speaker 1: how teams should develop there prospects. You know how I
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Speaker 1: feel about prospects. So this has become a big talking point.
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Speaker 1: And there's this whole conversation about balancing confidence with young
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Speaker 1: players and opportunity and accountability and all these big words
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Speaker 1: like flexibility and expectations, having realistic expectations, all of this stuff.
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Speaker 1: Now many pundits are blaming Brian Cashman and the Yankees
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Speaker 1: were having unrealistic expectations before Volpi had earned those unrealistic expectations,
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Speaker 1: complaining about that, and well, you know, it's not really
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Speaker 1: his fault. That's the part to me, that's the interesting, Like,
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Speaker 1: there's a number of pundits so like Volpi's yeah, he's
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Speaker 1: in the minor leagues. It's not his fault, though it
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Speaker 1: is not placing much of the blame on the organization
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Speaker 1: that their decisions, and it's not solely on the fact
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Speaker 1: that Volpi hasn't been able to play at a high level,
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Speaker 1: either defensively or offensively. So three years later he was
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Speaker 1: given the starting job for three consecutive years. Now this
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Speaker 1: year obviously not the case. He has been demoted again
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Speaker 1: to the prospect to the minor league, the prospect scrapyard,
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Speaker 1: and another guy who was jumped over him leap frogged
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Speaker 1: over him. George Lombard Junior, took over at chortstop hit
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Speaker 1: a home run in his Yankee first Yankee hit there
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Speaker 1: in the Bronx and the dramatic shift in the plans
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Speaker 1: for the New York Yankees. So the question, does Anthony
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Speaker 1: Volpi get some kind of government pardon from blame because
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Speaker 1: he was set up to fail by the New York Yankees.
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Speaker 1: Not really his own fault, not really his own fault,
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Speaker 1: that's the claim. So look the thief. The thesis on
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Speaker 1: Anthony Volpi that he deserves some kind of mulligan, some
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Speaker 1: kind of pass because the Yankees set him up to
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Speaker 1: fail is a total joke, capitol j capitol j joke,
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Speaker 1: total joke.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: Anyone peddling this narrative is a hero worshiping Mama Luke.
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Speaker 1: That's what you are, right, jock sniffing one oh one.
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Speaker 1: That's you right there, he knows right in the jock,
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Speaker 1: that's what you're doing. You're smelling all the dirty stuff.
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Speaker 1: That's you. Okay, So stop it. The Yankees did not
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Speaker 1: sabotage Anthony Volpi. They gave him an unbelievable opportunity. They
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Speaker 1: gave him the Golden Goose, and he decapitated the Golden Goose,
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Speaker 1: is what he did. That's it. Three full seasons as
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Speaker 1: the starting shortstop for the New York Yankees, three of
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Speaker 1: them every day right out the growing pains. Figure it out.
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Speaker 1: What a gift. That's a great mitzvah. And what did
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Speaker 1: Anthony Volpi do Well, what he did was create a
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Speaker 1: situation where they had to send it back to the
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Speaker 1: minor league twice this season. And the belief that he
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Speaker 1: gets some kind of pass because the Yankee set him
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Speaker 1: up to fail, which is the argument the I want
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Speaker 1: to say something I can't say. Let's just say some
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Speaker 1: of the baseball punnits have their nose and their other
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Speaker 1: other things up parts of the body. So listen. The
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Speaker 1: belief that he gets this past that is rich in
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Speaker 1: nitrogen and organic carbon. And the reason it's rich in
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Speaker 1: nitrogen and organic carbon is because it's absolutely cow manure.
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Speaker 1: Is what it is, Absolute cow manure. That's it. The
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Speaker 1: more Vulpi played, the more he was exposed, and it
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Speaker 1: was like playing a hangman. And every game, every couple
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Speaker 1: of games, you know, here goes there's a there's a foot,
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Speaker 1: there's an arm, there's a leg. That's how that went.
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Speaker 1: And the Yankee media machine manufactured this mythical phenom, Anthony
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Speaker 1: Volpi the next Derek Jeter, because that's what they do right,
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Speaker 1: And then of course everyone acted shocked, Oh, I can't
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Speaker 1: believe it when the real guy that showed up the
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Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium did not match the brochure. It's kind of
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Speaker 1: like if you've ever invested in a a rental setup,
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Speaker 1: you know, a timeshare thing. He said, Wow, this looks great.
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Speaker 1: You get to go to Hawaii and Florida and you
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Speaker 1: go to the south of France, and then you actually
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Speaker 1: go and you're like, well, that's not what I thought
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Speaker 1: I was getting. That's not what I thought I was getting.
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Speaker 1: What's up with it? So unfortunately, this is not little league,
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Speaker 1: it's not and Volpi failed. That's his that's on him.
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Speaker 1: He's an abject failure with the Yankees. That's why he's
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Speaker 1: in the minor league. So stop making excuses and he
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Speaker 1: can go play for the Brewers or the Rays or
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Speaker 1: someone like that and get an opportunity to play somewhere
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Speaker 1: So you've got that random Ryan in Carolina rights and
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Speaker 1: what non Dodgers want to see? Right now? The Dodgers
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Speaker 1: are in a five game losing streak. It looks like
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Speaker 1: the field has all the all the I think he
25:43
Speaker 1: meant momentum here. Don't don't say that, King worry, what's
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Speaker 1: wrong with you? And the Dodgers keep this up? They
25:48
Speaker 1: might not even make the playoffs? Then what was all
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Speaker 1: that complaining worth it? Nope, No, it was not. H Yes,
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Speaker 1: let's see, as Shannon to Moin writes in he says,
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Speaker 1: Ben if and when the Doyers do not win the
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Speaker 1: World Series, who will take the blame? Schoolbol or Roberts. Well,
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Speaker 1: I always go with Dave Roberts. I love I fired
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Speaker 1: Dave Roberts ten years ago, and for some reason the
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Speaker 1: Dodgers did not listen to me. That's a bad job
26:16
Speaker 1: by them. I could have managed the team. They would
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Speaker 1: have won these worlds Sas Michael writes in he says
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Speaker 1: Ben a plus on the Mallard monologue. As you know,
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Speaker 1: I could not give a s about baseball. However, was
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Speaker 1: Tarrek Scooble actually traded to the Cubs? Is Mount Kilimanjaro
26:33
Speaker 1: logated in Candyland for the outrage of idiots? Yes? Well,
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Speaker 1: in a parallel to mention, all of that stuff happened.
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Speaker 1: All of that, All of that the Baltimore Freeloader account
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Speaker 1: rights since as excellent monologue as you managed to glorify
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers while meticulously bashing the Yankees. But let's go
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Speaker 1: to the let's cut to the chase here. Which of
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Speaker 1: these franchises do you think offers the best buffet in
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Speaker 1: the bougie club underneath home plate? Let's focus on the
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Speaker 1: free food. Great question, So I have consulted. I got
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Speaker 1: a guy, okay, one of my buddies who travels to
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Speaker 1: all these games and free loads. Well, he actually pays
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Speaker 1: for his tickets. Marlin's Man. Now, Marlin's Man tells me
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Speaker 1: that the buffet at Yankee Stadium is the king of
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Speaker 1: all buffets, that it is better than the Dodgers Stadium
27:29
Speaker 1: where the elitist Hollywood people go. The Wall Street crowd
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Speaker 1: has a better set up at Yankee Stadium. I can
27:36
Speaker 1: also tell you that one of my cousins who lives
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Speaker 1: over in Connecticut, and she sometimes will get free tickets
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Speaker 1: to the Yankees because she's like, it's it's crazy. So
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Speaker 1: she works in she does like hair. I think she's
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Speaker 1: like does hair. I don't even know exactly, something with
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Speaker 1: helping women look better, and sometimes rich women. They all
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Speaker 1: live over in Connecticut, the people that own these teams,
27:58
Speaker 1: and so they'll go in there and they'll hook her
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Speaker 1: up with like free tickets and they're like behind home plate.
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Speaker 1: She doesn't have the sports geen, so she'll just eat,
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Speaker 1: she'll just just go there and she won't even watch
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Speaker 1: the game. And she's said, how amazing it is behind
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Speaker 1: home plate. Nature boy answering the call of while says
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Speaker 1: Mount Kilimanjaro's pretty high. Fat Daddy says typical Dave Roberts
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Speaker 1: taking a two time sy Young Award winner out after
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Speaker 1: six innings of great pitching and then the relievers imploded.
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Speaker 1: He could have kept him out there at least a
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Speaker 1: couple more and keep it a one run game. But
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Speaker 1: that's Dave Roberts. Well, Roberts liked him in that spot.
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Speaker 1: I really liked him in that spot. Eh, all right,
28:39
Speaker 1: what else do we have it? See here? I can't
28:42
Speaker 1: read that on the air, Ian says, big Ben, please
28:46
Speaker 1: talk about something interesting, like football or some kind of
28:50
Speaker 1: crazy stories in the news. Baseball is so boring to
28:53
Speaker 1: listen to. You're better off just taking calls. That's for me.
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Speaker 1: Get me. I'm getting the pushback. I get that when
29:03
Speaker 1: I talk basketball. Are you talking about BNBA? You should
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Speaker 1: talk about being Yeah, you want to comment on X
29:10
Speaker 1: at Ben Mahler, that's at Ben Maller on X. We
29:14
Speaker 1: had a guy that wanted to fight me over the
29:17
Speaker 1: salary stuff in baseball. Of course he hung up. So
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Speaker 1: let's go dude, Dan Dan, the man who's in St. Louis, Hello, Dan,
29:25
Speaker 1: Welcome here on the Ben Maler Show on Fox, Big.
29:28
Speaker 2: Bad, Ben, let me talk to you about this though.
29:30
Speaker 2: Let's say this about the Dodgers. Though. I think that's
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Speaker 2: advantageous for the Dodgers and the Yankees to lose a
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Speaker 2: lot of games. Why is that because they do not
29:41
Speaker 2: want a salary cap? And the crazy thing about it is,
29:45
Speaker 2: I see these other teams talking about we need a
29:48
Speaker 2: salary cap. But Ben, what major league owner is not
29:52
Speaker 2: a billionaire? All of them are billionaires, but they all
29:55
Speaker 2: could afford to buy whoever they want to buy, they
29:58
Speaker 2: choose not to buy. And you want to ridicule the
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Speaker 2: Dodgers or the Yankees making moves that other billionaires could make,
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Speaker 2: but they don't make. That's abstinize. And not only that,
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Speaker 2: but I would say this though, if the Dodgers and
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Speaker 2: the Yankees continue to let everybody work they ask in
30:19
Speaker 2: the regular seasons, but they make it to the playoffs,
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Speaker 2: everything would die off, uh and then and then it
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Speaker 2: just build back up where the uh the the Dodgers.
30:30
Speaker 2: When the Dodgers went the world serious, I mean, it's
30:33
Speaker 2: good to let Scruple come in because you've heard him
30:36
Speaker 2: do it fanfare talking about everybody could have hired me
30:40
Speaker 2: so to get them in there and none against button walked.
30:43
Speaker 2: If if it's great, everybody likes it, it also be
30:50
Speaker 2: let me also say I let you talk. Everybody. Every
30:53
Speaker 2: sport needs a villain, rat when needs a villain. Everything
30:57
Speaker 2: needs a villain to seat the eyebattles on it to
30:59
Speaker 2: say we hate them. In college basketball is Duke right?
31:03
Speaker 2: Everybody hates Duke Why because they're a winning organization. Anytime
31:07
Speaker 2: that you're a win an organization, you have to sometimes
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Speaker 2: be the bad guy so people could hate you, so
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Speaker 2: they could hate to put the eyeballs on so that.
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Speaker 1: I got you, I got you. Yeah. And for all
31:22
Speaker 1: the hullaballoo that's going on here, Dan the man in
31:24
Speaker 1: Saint louis there, for all the excitement and all the
31:28
Speaker 1: outrage and the people very upset here, nobody, none of
31:33
Speaker 1: them get a vote. The only ones that vote on
31:35
Speaker 1: this are the players. They have to agree to whatever
31:37
Speaker 1: you know, contract they have with the ownership, so it
31:40
Speaker 1: doesn't matter like the court of public opinion is irrelevant
31:42
Speaker 1: as long as the players are united and I don't,
31:46
Speaker 1: there's no need to have a salary cap. And and
31:48
Speaker 1: the thing about it that is hilarious to me, Dan,
31:51
Speaker 1: is the amount of dumb people that don't even understand.
31:54
Speaker 1: You put a salary cap floor in you think, well,
31:56
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the Pittsburgh Pirates and Tampa Baby's
31:58
Speaker 1: tight wad o gonna spend money. No they're not. That's
32:02
Speaker 1: just gonna become a dumping ground. I was having a
32:04
Speaker 1: conversation with my former Fox Sports radio call league Turk Stevens,
32:07
Speaker 1: the Great Turk Stevens, who was in the Valley of
32:09
Speaker 1: the Sun, and we were talking about it, and like,
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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh will just be like if the Mets want to
32:13
Speaker 1: get rid of Francisco Lindoor and they convince him to
32:16
Speaker 1: agree to a trade, just send the contract to Pittsburgh
32:20
Speaker 1: and then and then you'll get to the very base
32:22
Speaker 1: of the salary cap floor, whatever that might be. Ab
32:24
Speaker 1: they'll put so many cheat codes and loopholes in there,
32:27
Speaker 1: it'll make your head spin. So thank you, Dan. So,
32:31
Speaker 1: speaking of that aviation is the talk of baseball. You
32:36
Speaker 1: saw this or not at Wrigley Field, Chicago, And this
32:40
Speaker 1: was prior to the debut of Trek Schoobel. On the
32:44
Speaker 1: mound there, somebody decided I am gonna make myself seene
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Speaker 1: to the world. And so they put up a prop
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Speaker 1: plane and we're flying around Wrigley Field and it said
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Speaker 1: the Dodger ruined baseball. The Dodger. Of course, the way
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Speaker 1: it looked the photo it does not quite look I
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Speaker 1: like that. But that was during batting practice. The flane,
33:11
Speaker 1: the plane was flying, the plane, the plane, the plane
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Speaker 1: and all that. So there you go in Chicago Cubs
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Speaker 1: who went what one hundred and eight years or whatever
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Speaker 1: it was without without winning the World Series. Curs of
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Speaker 1: the billy goat, bloody goat beer, the beer for losers,
33:27
Speaker 1: all that stuff, and my goodness, all right, let's go
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Speaker 1: to the phones. What a waste of money. Should have
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Speaker 1: just sent me the money? I mean, why not by
33:38
Speaker 1: the hour? Right? You got to pay? Isn't like a
33:39
Speaker 1: grand an hour to get one of those that used
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Speaker 1: to be I looked it up a while back, and
33:43
Speaker 1: it obviously depends what city you're in. It's like one
33:46
Speaker 1: thousand dollars an hour for everything, when you fuel costs
33:49
Speaker 1: and to rent the plane and to have them fly
33:52
Speaker 1: and all that. Let's go to two percent chance. Who's
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Speaker 3: Hello?
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Speaker 1: Two percent Chance, Welcome?
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Speaker 5: How you doing this? Early morning, lad cocky y'all.
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Speaker 1: I thought you were going to call later two percent
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Speaker 1: chance because Lorraine is giving out love advice. I thought
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Speaker 1: you might call later because you need some dating tips.
34:11
Speaker 1: I thought you might call for that, But you called early.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm still at step Warner. You know, she
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Speaker 5: gave me. She gave me a tip.
34:17
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, you're working. She's giving you the on air,
34:20
Speaker 1: a couple of bullet points, and you're following those. I
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Speaker 1: got you, all right.
34:23
Speaker 5: I guess once I get a number, you know, I
34:25
Speaker 5: guess I'll ask her another question. But I'm still down
34:28
Speaker 5: step one. So what's what NFL? In college starts? I'll
34:30
Speaker 5: probably just want to talk sports. I know that's like
34:33
Speaker 5: kind of a taboo on the show.
34:35
Speaker 1: So yeah, I got clear, it's not right to talk
34:37
Speaker 1: sports on the sports show. We don't like that.
34:40
Speaker 5: But I got I got a crazy stort.
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Speaker 2: Man.
34:41
Speaker 5: It's crazy stuff happens to me when I'm working sometimes. Man.
34:45
Speaker 5: So yesterday I was cleaning windows all my own window
34:48
Speaker 5: washing business, commercial residential. I was cleaning a course kind
34:54
Speaker 5: of in the uh bad part of town, and I
34:59
Speaker 5: was bent over tacking up my uh my ride dropped
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Speaker 5: something on the ground, and I think she's twenty two
35:10
Speaker 5: short girl. He crept up behind me, and I just
35:15
Speaker 5: I felt something like a presence behind me. And I
35:19
Speaker 5: turned around and she had a brick overhead. Her face
35:24
Speaker 5: was covered and honestly, she looked like she was high
35:27
Speaker 5: on meth or crack or something. Her face.
35:31
Speaker 1: Let me get she thought you were a freemason and
35:33
Speaker 1: you needed a brick to put it on the building.
35:35
Speaker 1: Is that what she was?
35:37
Speaker 5: No, she goes, and then she in one hand she
35:40
Speaker 5: had the brick. The other hand she had a twirly
35:42
Speaker 5: whirld you know those are things that spin in the wind,
35:44
Speaker 5: like pinwheels type deals. Anyways, I go, you know, in
35:48
Speaker 5: the softest, kindest voice, I go, he goes, will you
35:51
Speaker 5: be my friend? Just crazy nonsense talking. I'm like, please,
35:54
Speaker 5: don't hit me with that brick. You know, I'm just
35:56
Speaker 5: trying to remain as calm as possible and just mellow.
35:59
Speaker 1: And can we wrap this up and give me to
36:02
Speaker 1: give you someon it up in one sent right now,
36:03
Speaker 1: one sentence? Sum it up, one sentence.
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Speaker 5: Anyway, she dropped the brick and she started running down
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Speaker 5: the road.
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Speaker 2: The cops.
36:15
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think he got picked up. Man, it
36:17
Speaker 5: was some crazy stuff.
36:18
Speaker 1: But yeah, well that's catch and release though, right, that's catching.
36:21
Speaker 1: They catch them and then they release them and then
36:23
Speaker 1: they're back and then yeah, that's usually how that works.
36:25
Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you. A tremendous storyteller. Two percent
36:28
Speaker 1: chance they'll be doing books on tape coming up here.
36:32
Speaker 1: What a storyteller that man is, My god, what a
36:34
Speaker 1: gift he has to really just dazzle you with his stories.
36:40
Speaker 1: The rain almost felt pay for that, almost fell asleep
36:42
Speaker 1: in there, and he's so excited it's like hollering, James,
36:45
Speaker 1: my god. All right, time now for the who am
36:49
Speaker 1: I Game? At twenty one years and sixty three days
36:52
Speaker 1: of age, George Lombard Junior. Who George Lombard Junior the
36:58
Speaker 1: third youngest player in Yankee history to Homer and his
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Speaker 1: MLB debut. He's a little older than only Jason Dominguez
37:08
Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty three and me again, who twenty
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Speaker 1: one years in sixty three days. George Lombard Junior the
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Speaker 1: third youngest player in New York Yankees history to Homer
37:19
Speaker 1: in his MLB debut, older than only Jason Dominguez in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three and me, Who who am I? The answer,
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38:44
Speaker 1: whom I Game? So, at twenty one years of age
38:47
Speaker 1: in sixty three days, George Lombard Junior, the third youngest
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Speaker 1: player and Yankee history to Homer in his MLB debut,
38:55
Speaker 1: older than only Jason Dominguez, who hit a dinger a
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Speaker 1: couple of years ago in twenty twenty three, And me,
39:05
Speaker 1: who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
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Speaker 1: And let's see is anyone I know the answer? Alf
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Speaker 1: the alien opinter going with the scooter Phil Rizzuto as
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39:29
Speaker 1: a good golfer back in the day. Yeah, let's see here,
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Speaker 1: just Josh as you forgot to ask two percent chance?
39:36
Speaker 1: The most important question was the woman who was on
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Speaker 1: math a brick house. I did not ask him. That
39:42
Speaker 1: that's correct. Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, going with Elston Howard
39:46
Speaker 1: a poo from King Rory in Wisconsin. Landry Shamman from
39:51
Speaker 1: The Nature Boy and Totally Fused has checked in with
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40:03
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40:05
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Speaker 1: it's actually just a lama. Is the correct answer unless
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Speaker 1: it's not Joe peppatone from Steelers Nasty Bobby Richardson guests
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Speaker 1: by Johnny Q. Who else do we have? Page Don
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Speaker 1: Alvarez is the that's his answer. Let's see Reggie amber
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Speaker 1: I don't know who that is either, John Ellis, John
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