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Hour 2 - You Can Bet on It...But You're Not Supposed To · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 2: it before it cools down. We talk about the big
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  Speaker 2: gambling scandal continuing in professional baseball. What is the most
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  Speaker 2: puzzling thing about Guardians closer Emmanuel class being dragged in
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  Speaker 2: to the gambling web? Where did Emmanuel class A cross
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  Speaker 2: the line with the Guardians according to the investigative reporting. Also,
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  Speaker 2: we'll move away from that story. What are your reflections
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  Speaker 2: on the life of Cubs legend Ryan Sandberg who died
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  Speaker 2: now here it is our number two. You can bet
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  Speaker 2: is from the Land from Cleveland. One of the big
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  Speaker 2: names that is supposed to be traded this week is
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  Speaker 2: off the trading block.
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  Speaker 1: Today is the twenty ninth.
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  Speaker 2: The trade deadline is a couple days away on July
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  Speaker 2: thirty first, so we're a couple days away from that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still upset that they ruined our fun. All the
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  Speaker 2: trade deadlines used to be at midnight Eastern Time, which
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  Speaker 2: meant a lot of trades happened late at night. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of trades happened right before we got on the air.
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  Speaker 2: And then there was a woman with red hair named
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  Speaker 2: Rachel Nichols that complained that she had to stay up
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  Speaker 2: late for the trade deadline of the NBA. It wasn't fair.
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  Speaker 2: She needed a beauty sleep, and so the NBA they said, okay,
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  Speaker 2: we'll make the trade deadline the afternoon, and then every
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  Speaker 2: other league followed suit, and so now we get crappy
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  Speaker 2: daytime trade deadlines. But this is not about that. We
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  Speaker 2: can rant about that later, but instead, if you did
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  Speaker 2: not hear the news, and possibly not, it is a
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  Speaker 2: humdinger of a story. The All Star Closer, not this year,
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  Speaker 2: but in years past for the Cleveland Guardians. What a
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  Speaker 2: dumb name that is. Manuel class A has been put
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  Speaker 2: on time out by Major League Baseball for some funny
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  Speaker 2: business turn If you believe the reporting, class A was
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  Speaker 2: placed on the non non disciplinary, paid league paid LEA
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  Speaker 2: through August thirty, first part of the ongoing Major League
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  Speaker 2: Baseball investigation into sports gambling. The plot thickens. Now you
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  Speaker 2: keep me'scoring home. The Cleveland Guardians lead Major League Baseball
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  Speaker 2: in gambling. Congratulations boys, Wow, so he's the second Guardians
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  Speaker 2: pitcher to be caught in the all ongoing investigation, which
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  Speaker 2: who knows when this is going to end? The Cleveland
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  Speaker 2: right hander, the great Luis Ortees. So good, you had
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  Speaker 2: to look him up on Baseball Reference to find out
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  Speaker 2: who he is. Anyway, he remains on the non disciplinary
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  Speaker 2: paid leave naughty list now He was originally placed there
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  Speaker 2: at July third. That has been extended for orties as
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  Speaker 2: well to August thirty first. Nowaday prepared statement vetted by
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  Speaker 2: an army of lawyers. The Guardian said, among other things,
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  Speaker 2: no additional players or club personnel are expected to be
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  Speaker 2: impacted by the investigation. Keep in mind, if you know
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  Speaker 2: your weasel words, look at page seventeen of the Weasel Handbook,
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  Speaker 2: and the word expected is a weasel term because you
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  Speaker 2: never expect one of your players to get in trouble
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  Speaker 2: with gambling. Why would you expect that you never expect
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  Speaker 2: a trade to happen? They're unexpected? All right? So let
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  Speaker 2: us discuss the question is as follows. Keep this simple
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  Speaker 2: sports RADI. So what is the most puzzling What is
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  Speaker 2: the most puzzling thing about the Guardians closer Emmanuel class
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  Speaker 2: A being dragged into the gambling web. So I've got
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  Speaker 2: dance floor, Hansel and Gretel and Begs, and we will
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  Speaker 2: I go krooklm brain. All right? So number what number
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  Speaker 2: number one?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: This is not some flotsam and jetsam. This is this
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  Speaker 2: is bigger. This is a bigger story here as a
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  Speaker 2: Yogi bear taught me. Not Yogi bear. Yogi bear taught
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  Speaker 2: me you're supposed to be smarter than the average bear.
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  Speaker 2: Not so much. We're not talking about some random middle
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  Speaker 2: relief pitcher or some fourth or fifth starter.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no no.
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  Speaker 2: At one point in recent years, if you were to
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  Speaker 2: poll the executives in Major League Baseball, they would say
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  Speaker 2: the top closer in the entire American League, Emmanuel Classe,
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  Speaker 2: top guy in the American league.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and if not all of baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Was an all star multiple times coveted around baseball, expected
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  Speaker 2: to be traded this week, not anymore, but was expected
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  Speaker 2: to be traded. The thing, though, that's the most puzzling,
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  Speaker 2: is the money factor. Now he's not the highest paid
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  Speaker 2: relief pitcher in baseball. However, Class A is on a
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  Speaker 2: twenty million dollar contract. So if you've got a twenty
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  Speaker 2: million dollar contract, you're living pretty high on the hog.
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  Speaker 2: Most would say, right, And this is the biggest name
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  Speaker 2: that has been caught up in this to this point.
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  Speaker 2: And make no mistake, make no mistake, this is major
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  Speaker 2: League Baseball. They're hitting the dance floor. They're out on
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  Speaker 2: the dance floor. They're doing a little dance with a devil,
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  Speaker 2: is what they're doing. They tore and let me tell
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  Speaker 2: you something, Baseball at this point is tore up from
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  Speaker 2: the floor up. If you know what I'm saying here,
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  Speaker 2: they signed these deals and listen, I again, I love gambling.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a gambler, but even I know you're you're messing
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  Speaker 2: with some really bad stuff here. How far in they've gone.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't just go a little bit in. They just
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  Speaker 2: put their toe in the water.
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  Speaker 1: They are all in.
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  Speaker 2: Even I someone that bets I do, But I'm like
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  Speaker 2: Pete Rose, I bet on baseball. Even I'm when I'm
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  Speaker 2: watching him, blown away by the amount of advertising for
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  Speaker 2: the for gambling. And listen, I don't mind it I'm
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  Speaker 2: a little amazed that baseball is okay with it, But
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  Speaker 2: here we are. And so they took the money, and
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  Speaker 2: again I'm fine with it. I last a couple of years,
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  Speaker 2: I did a gambling show, and for years on the radio,
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  Speaker 2: we did Benny versus the Pennies on TV the last
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  Speaker 2: couple of years. But now, of course baseball, well they're shocked,
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  Speaker 2: they're absolutely shocked that players are messing around with prop bets.
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  Speaker 2: Give me a break. Well, that's what this is about.
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  Speaker 2: So page two, So where where did Emmanuel class A
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  Speaker 2: cross the line with the guardians? See? This is the
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  Speaker 2: part of the story which is almost unbelievable when you
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  Speaker 2: think about how you can track something like this. Now,
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  Speaker 2: now we think we know how this was uncovered, but
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  Speaker 2: we don't know the specifics. We don't know all the
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  Speaker 2: intricate details. However, we know that there was a line
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  Speaker 2: that was tossed out unusual betting activity around multiple pitches
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  Speaker 2: involving Emmanuel class A. So Internet sluice have done some
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  Speaker 2: digging and they've investigated this. Wes, this doesn't come from baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Internet investigators have found what they believe is the smoking gun.
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  Speaker 1: What is that all right?
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  Speaker 2: What is the smoking gun. I'm glad you asked.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 2: Class A has entered the ninth inning forty times this season,
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  Speaker 2: forty times. And you know what is waste pitch rate
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  Speaker 2: is on first pitches, it's almost twenty percent according to
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  Speaker 2: stat cast, it's seventeen and a half percent.
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  Speaker 1: Well, who cares about that, you're a nerd.
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  Speaker 2: Let me explain. So seventeen and a half percent of
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  Speaker 2: the time Class A comes in and throws garbage, a
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  Speaker 2: non competitive pitch, no chance of being a strike, non competitive,
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  Speaker 2: not eywhere close to the strike zone. And that is
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  Speaker 2: something that stands out. I mean, one of these things
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  Speaker 2: is not like the other. The rest of the pitches,
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  Speaker 2: the non competitive pitch rate is like around five percent.
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  Speaker 2: The first pitch is close to twenty percent, so you
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  Speaker 2: can do the mat It's like it stands out like
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  Speaker 2: glitter at a funeral. You don't often see glitter at
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  Speaker 2: a funeral, right, and you smell that it's not with
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  Speaker 2: the rocks cooking. That would be in game live betting.
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  Speaker 2: Now I don't do the in game live betting. I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I just yeah, it's not I think I have some
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  Speaker 2: friends of mine that are really invested in in game
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  Speaker 2: live betting, and they think I am a donkey for
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  Speaker 2: not getting involved in it. They love it like they
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  Speaker 2: love having action on multiple pitches, or what a batter
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  Speaker 2: is going to do, a ground ball, fly ball. These
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of different props in game betting that you
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  Speaker 2: can do and if you're unfamiliar with it, if you're
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  Speaker 2: not a gambler, live betting has been around for you know, forever.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's mainstream. But you can bet whether a pitch
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  Speaker 2: is going to be a ball or a strike in
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  Speaker 2: real time, in real time? Now, is it true that
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  Speaker 2: the wise guys had inside information on the pattern from
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  Speaker 2: Emmanuel Class so when he came in out of a bullpen,
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  Speaker 2: they knew chut chang chut ching to chang. Free money,
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  Speaker 2: free money, free money, Come on down framee. Now, little
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  Speaker 2: Birdie tells me that may or may not have inside information.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of blood at the crime scene, if
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  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying here a lot of blood.
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  Speaker 2: And now I'm in the old days, back when the
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  Speaker 2: mob was involved in this kind of stuff. Straight up,
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  Speaker 2: what they would do is it'd be a phone call
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  Speaker 2: to is Rodney Dangerfield, The old comedian would say, Vinnie boombots,
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  Speaker 2: So they'd call Vinnie Boombots and say, Hey, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to bet on that first pitch being a ball. These
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  Speaker 2: days because of technology, what do you think there is
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  Speaker 2: that You think there's text message chains, you think there's
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  Speaker 2: social media change, you think there's Venmo transactions, burner phones
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  Speaker 2: that aren't really burning, and all that. Major League Baseball
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  Speaker 2: and the sports books. From what we're hearing, and who
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  Speaker 2: knows if we're right, we're hearing that they have the receipts.
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  Speaker 2: And this again ties back to the original Toronto Raptor
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  Speaker 2: player that got banned for life from the NBA because
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  Speaker 2: he was using around with prop bets. And so they
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  Speaker 2: fell down this rabbit hole. They follow the digital paper
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  Speaker 2: trail like it's Hansel and Gretel and it's the cost
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  Speaker 2: of doing business in Major League Baseball and who's next, Right,
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  Speaker 2: they let the genie out of the bottle and the
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  Speaker 2: second they agreed to go down this avenue and so
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  Speaker 2: paid leave, paid leave means Major League Baseball is not
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  Speaker 2: ready to completely drop the hammer, and they're likely trying
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  Speaker 2: to decide, like what is the punishment on this cause
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  Speaker 2: you're not it's this weird gray area like you can
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  Speaker 2: come in and proy a non competitive pitch if you're
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  Speaker 2: a manual Class A and be really good. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's been one of the top pitchers in baseball. He's
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  Speaker 2: not as good this year. But the argument could be
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  Speaker 2: listening is it's not affecting the outcome of the game.
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  Speaker 2: You're not throwing the game. This is not the Chicago
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  Speaker 2: Black Sox back in the day. You're just throwing one pitch,
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  Speaker 2: but you're hurting the gambles. And we always know about gambling.
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  Speaker 2: They don't mind if you lose money and gambling. If
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  Speaker 2: you win money, that's a problem. They'd all like, if
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  Speaker 2: you win money, if you lose. They never investigate losers. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: they give you free steak dinners if you lose. If
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  Speaker 2: you win, then they start snooping around. They put limits
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  Speaker 2: on how much you can win. That's all. It's always men.
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  Speaker 2: That's all back in the old days. They just take
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  Speaker 2: you under the casino with baseball bats and you know,
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  Speaker 2: so what's going on here. But we'll see how deep
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  Speaker 2: the rabbit hole goes here. And we're not quite there yet.
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  Speaker 2: A Class A being on the list that is a
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  Speaker 2: pretty large bombshell. It's a high leverage reliever. But again,
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  Speaker 2: he's not throwing games. The argument at this point, from
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  Speaker 2: what we heard, is not that he's throwing games. He's
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  Speaker 2: just throwing random prop bets. And you don't bet that
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  Speaker 2: much on a prop bet. But if you think it
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  Speaker 2: ends with the two Cleveland Guardian pitchers, I have some
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  Speaker 2: beachfront property in beautiful Des Moines, Iowa. I would like
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  Speaker 2: to sell you. Yeah, and my realtor there a couple reeltors.
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  Speaker 2: In the morning, they'll show you around and the yeah,
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  Speaker 2: do a good job.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, why not?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you have not been paying attention Major
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  Speaker 2: League Baseball. They are in bed, and they're in bed
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  Speaker 2: with the books, and now there are bed bugs starting
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  Speaker 2: to bite. The bed bugs are out there biting right now.
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  Speaker 2: Final point where to turn the page? Turn the page?
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  Speaker 2: Another melancholy goodbye, we go to Chicago. News came out
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  Speaker 2: on Monday night. The news came out a Major League
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  Speaker 2: Baseball the Cubs announcing the Hall of Famer Ryan Sandberg dead.
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  Speaker 2: Died on Monday, age of sixty five. So I want
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  Speaker 2: to spend a couple of minutes talking about Ryan Sandberg.
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  Speaker 2: So what are what are your reflections on the Hall
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  Speaker 2: of Famer remembered mostly for the Cubs. Right, didn't start
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  Speaker 2: with the Cubs, But you remember Ryan Sambery, So what
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  Speaker 2: what are your reflections on Ryan Sambury. So my memories,
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  Speaker 2: I get I'm not a Cub fan, not a Cup fan,
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  Speaker 2: but my reflection on Ryan Sandberg, I will remember being
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  Speaker 2: a child, a little boy, and turning on WGN, the superstation,
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  Speaker 2: and being taken to another world like I was, Oh
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  Speaker 2: my god. That was back when this thing called cable
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  Speaker 2: television was seen as an exotic thing. It's like, oh man,
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  Speaker 2: it's crazy. And you'd sit there and there on your
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  Speaker 2: television it was the Cub Baseball, Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: Cub Baseball just appeared right there.
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  Speaker 2: In your living room. And I lived on the West Coast,
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  Speaker 2: so the Cubs games would have to go pretty long,
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  Speaker 2: and in those days they did. I mean, these baseball
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  Speaker 2: games ago four hours. So I'd see the end of
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  Speaker 2: the Cub games if I went to school, if I
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  Speaker 2: ditch school, I'd watch the whole Cub game. I watched
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  Speaker 2: the whole Cub game. So I'd sit there and watch.
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  Speaker 2: And it didn't matter where you lived in those days.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't ask to watch the Cubs. You likely were
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  Speaker 2: not a Cub fan. I wasn't, but there they were.
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  Speaker 2: You had the Cubs and then you had the Braves
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  Speaker 2: on TBS, but you had the Cubs on WGN, and
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  Speaker 2: every afternoon you'd sit there. If you love baseball growing
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  Speaker 2: up and being right in there, you'd watch it and
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  Speaker 2: you'd see the ivy on the outfield walls at Wrigley,
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  Speaker 2: the lunatics and the bleachers. You'd see Harry Carey in
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  Speaker 2: the booth with Steve Stone calling Cubs baseball. Occasionally Harry
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  Speaker 2: would even be lucid. He was always sauced, always completely sauce,
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  Speaker 2: and he had just like this haze of Budwise. Even
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  Speaker 2: as a kid, I like that guy looks drunk. And
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  Speaker 2: then he had that it's like the Beg song. The
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  Speaker 2: man in the middle of all that was Ryan Sandberg.
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  Speaker 2: He was the man in the middle, slim. He had
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  Speaker 2: the sleeves rolled up out there playing second base and
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  Speaker 2: just wasn't about the glitz and glamour and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And he had the eye black smudged.
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  Speaker 2: Across his face and the cheekbone and he'd be standing
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  Speaker 2: out there at second base, digging in to the batter's
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  Speaker 2: box and hitting one to the gap and was not flashing.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't stand out and to stand out from the crowd.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't do the things like Ricky Henderson some of the
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  Speaker 2: other guys in that era did. But he didn't need
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  Speaker 2: to be. Ryan Sandberg was efficient and he played a
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  Speaker 2: stoic stoic baseball for the Cubs there and fundamentals. Remember
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  Speaker 2: the Sandberg game against Bruce Souiter in nineteen eighty four,
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  Speaker 2: But that whole nineteen eighty four season for the Cubs,
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  Speaker 2: if you're old enough to remember, that was cub That
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  Speaker 2: was the year of destiny for the Chicago Cubs until
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  Speaker 2: Leon Durham got involved. But it was the year of
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  Speaker 2: destiny for the Chicago Cubs. It just that was their time.
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  Speaker 2: They won the division. Sandberg was the MVP of that
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  Speaker 2: Cub team and for the first time any very long time,
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  Speaker 2: I think it was a generation. The Chicago Cubs at
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  Speaker 2: that point were not seen as lovable losers. The Chicago
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  Speaker 2: Cubs were contenders. This was gonna be the year they
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  Speaker 2: were gonna end the curse of the Billy Goat. And
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  Speaker 2: Sandberg was there, as we said, the man in the middle.
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  Speaker 2: He was quiet, He was study for the Chicago Cubs,
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  Speaker 2: and he wasn't all about the the show biz. And
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  Speaker 2: you know there's other players were better. Mike Schmidt. You
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  Speaker 2: think of the home runs, he had a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of flare to him, the craziest well, Ricky Henders. But
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  Speaker 2: in the National League, I guess Ozzie Smith doing the
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  Speaker 2: backflips the Wizard of Oz for the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: But Samberg was just always there.
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  Speaker 2: I remember it as a kidd. He won a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of gold gloves, and he won ten gold gloves and
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  Speaker 2: was an All Star a bunch of times. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, maybe one who knows a bunch of All
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  Speaker 2: Star games, a bunch of gold gloves, I don't remember
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  Speaker 2: the exact numbers. But he was always there and had
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: big power and would steal bases, and in that era,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: normally he didn't have too much of those kind of
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: players where they would do both, and so he did both.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: And that was a position in the nineteen eighties where
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: you were posed to slap singles if you were a
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: second baseman and just turned double plays, that was it.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: And Sandberg be out there hitting home runs and stealing
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: bases and doing all that, and then you got the name,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: not Ryan Ryan Ryne, not r y An, And he
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: was named after a legendary pitcher who was before my time,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: who pitched for the I think it was the Cincinnati
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Reds named Ryan Dern, who was the original wild Thing.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: This guy threw really hard, he wore coke bottle glasses,
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: and nobody knew where the pitch was going. In fact,
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: one of the iconic baseball characters was named was not
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: named after him, but was honored with his legacy. That
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: was Ricky wild Thing Vaughn in the movie Major League.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: They actually patterned that character after Ryan Duran, who Ryan
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Sandberg was named after and would go on and play
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: in the Major leagues and all that stuff. So dead
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: at age sixty five, way too young for Ryan Samdberg
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: from cancer. So rest in peace, Ryan Sandberg as he
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: leaves this mortal coil, another little brick if you're around
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: my age, another brick of your child. We have a
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: lost Hulk Hogan Ozzy Osbourne, the kid from the Cosby Family.
• 20:16
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• 20:18
  Speaker 2: in threes. We're getting more here, We're getting more than threes.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Is it a six pack?
• 20:23
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• 20:23
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• 20:26
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• 20:28
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• 20:30
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• 20:33
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• 20:38
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• 20:41
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• 20:44
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• 20:46
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• 24:46
  Speaker 2: a fan of sports, you knew the lineup for the
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Braves and the Mets like the back of your hands.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Summertime filler in between wrestling and cartoons. Yeah, don't forget.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: At one point we also got Mets games. I did
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: on w o R. Not a lot of Mets games,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: but there were Mets games there. Pig says, No Sean
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Dunstan mentioned he was the flash next to Sandberg. Yeah,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: that's a bad job by mee. Sean Dunstan, absolutely, But
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: in my defense, I did mention.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I did mention.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Leon the Bull Durham, so I did get him in there,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: so that was a little bit. I didn't mention Rick Suckcliff.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: I could have done Rick Suckcliffe, who was there at
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: eighty four. Dennis Eckersley. I associate Eckersley more with the athletics.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: I know he played for a bunch of teams and
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: all that stuff, but huh, and then that Cup team
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: that was before they got the great Andre DAWs.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: He came later.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: He was not on that eighty four cub seam. As
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: we do old guy baseball talk, Joe the gust Hunter says,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: I remember watching the cub station back in the nineties
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: while my trash ex wife was yelling at me.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Good memories.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: That's great.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Love it, love it, love it, love it.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Doctor Crude says, I think he met Ryan durn pitched
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: for the Yankees no Texas teams. I was a huge
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Yankee fan, he says. Well, I just know the name.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know much about the guy. That's it. Just
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: in time. Davis right and says that was a great
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: history of Ryan Sandberg. I too was sitting on the
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: floor turning the dial to see Sandberg play. Also, my
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: mom's family is from Cleveland, so Major League is a favorite.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: The Sandberg wild thing connection.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Unreal.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: There you go. Thank you Bill Miller. Well, of course
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: all the Bill Miller. Our friend Tammy and Vegas. We
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: met her at the Malther Meet and greet we did
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: in Vegas last year. She says, Sam, as you WGN
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: came on. While I was a kid, I watched every
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: CUB game during the summer, and Ryan Sandberg was one
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: of my first favorite baseball players. Tammy says, I can remember,
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: and this was when I was living in Hawaii. Well,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: if you were living in Hawaii, that would mean that
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: was morning Cub baseball because the CUB games they started
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: like an eleven or noon on the West coast, so
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: that means they were started like nine or ten in
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: the morning, depending on the time of the year. In Hawaii.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: So Benito says, shout out to a minual class a
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: for making me money on DraftKings. Well, there you go.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: It's not a sad story.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: It's not.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: It's got to the phones. Any meenie, miney moe.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Let's say hello to toad l fan who's in Colorado? Hello,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: total fan? What's going on?
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: Hey?
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Bed? Has it going?
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: If I was any better now? You asked me how
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I'm doing. You asked me how it's going.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: If I was any better, I'd be a Rocky, but
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: not a Colorado Rocky because they blow.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Okay, you got me, you got me.
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: How you doing better?
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Well? I dropped water in the kitchen.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: I've had a slight headache as the wife decided to
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: do some dusting at the house, and I guess I'm
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: allergic to the dust in the house, So that kind
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: of has been a bit of an issue.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: But other than that, I'm alive. So that's a good thing.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: I think you should ask him one more time how
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: he's doing. Yeah, well, I had I had lunch yesterday.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: It was pretty good. I had some pulled chicken sandwiches.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: I thought those were pretty good, made made my homemade,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: not bad. And little pepper, a little spice. The key
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: is the spice. The key is the spice, spice the chicken.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: You throw a little cheese on there, and pretty good, solid,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: not too unhealthy, not too unhealthy. Ask me again how
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: I'm doing. I'm not going to No, I want you
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: to ask me again. Well, I'm glad you asked. No
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: one ever asked me how I'm doing. So I was
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: driving in here and I almost got killed. There's a
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: guy cutting me off. Because everyone drives in LA like
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: they're in Fast and the Furious and they zoom it.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: They think apparently their car there's a force field around
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: their car and they can go.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you a story.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I almost died on the way here because some
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: jackwagon cut me off doing speed racer.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: You asked me how I'm doing? You asked me how
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I am doing.
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: Let's let's hut that down.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Are you telling me how to do my job? Are you?
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Are you advising me on how to do my job?
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Uh? No?
• 29:22
  Speaker 8: I actually is that your job to hunt him down?
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: I thought you were. I thought you were telling me something.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: It didn't sound like he was saying something else. Lore
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: like he was telling me to tone it down, I thought,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: right right, like, calm down, calm down, Yeah, that's what
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: it sounds about.
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: Well, anyway, hey, Lorena, while I'm thinking about it, how.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Do you ask Lorena how she's doing?
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: Well, I'm going to say something before.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: You can be the how are you doing?
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Guy?
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: You could be hey, how are you doing that?
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: But I'll tell you what I just wanted to say. Uh.
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: You know, Queen, I'm a fellow technician myself, electrocal mechanical services,
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: my forte. I just one of the comment that the
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: times I listen, do you run a smooth.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Well she's very very on par with a technical mechanical engineer, Lorena.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Her knowledge of the engineering.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Very similar me and these buttons, a lot of buttons.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: We go hand in hand. What are you eating in there?
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: Though?
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: I saw you?
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I got a raspberry smuckers, like an uncrustable Yeah you
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: see it looks like a cookie and uncrushed. Okay, all right, solid?
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Not bad? Did you heat it up?
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: No?
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: You just let them defrost for.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: Like an hour?
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: And by the way, Lorena, how you doing?
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: Oh you know, not too bad?
• 30:38
  Speaker 8: Hanging in, eh, hanging.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: In all right?
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Thank you? You've you're stealing the show. You're what a
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: star you are? You have a gift. You have a gift.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: I'm hanging up on you though, because I have other people.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Jay.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Jay is in Cincinnati. What's going on?
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Jay? Welcome?
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: What's up? Can you hear me? Because I'm on speaker
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: So take it off there?
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: You said, all right, you center, You're you're in a room.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: You're right near the receiver even though you're on speakerphone,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: and I can hear you loud and proud and a
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: good job by the Reds, by the way, very impressive.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Good job by the Reds.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: There sod yeah, well oh yeah today, but you stole
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: my thunder because I was calling because you didn't say
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: anything about the Shawano meter or Doug Decenzo. I used
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: to get, Oh, that's.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Right, Doug de that's a name I forgot. Doug descends.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: He was like he was like my size. He was
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: like five seven and one hundred and seventy pounds.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Doug Descenzo.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Wow, that's a good one. I haven't thought about it,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: but thought about him. You know.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: Soccer practice in July and August four schools started and
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: go home and all I remember of Sandberg and the
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Shano meter, and I don't know Durham or Grace was
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: at first base or who else?
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Well, Durham in the eighty four Durham and then shortly
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: a few years there later was Mark Grace took over.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Remember Keith Morland, very odd looking guy.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Keith Morley, Yes, I remember him, but my uncle said
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: he did a ball's cocaine with Leonon Durham once. But
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: that's besides the point.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Well, that was the nineteen eighties. Man, everyone was doing
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: coke and.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Bought it from Pete Rose. The hero he is.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: But I guess you can say that he's dead, so
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: you can't get sued by saying that Pete Rose, you know,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: hooked you up with.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: Well, Dusty Baker was pissed. What he was The rest
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: manager just said every time I forget which player was,
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: they said, every time I came to Cincinnati. I told Dusty,
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: I said, uh, Dusty kill Dave Parker, get me one
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: of the Nate balls of Pete's. And uh, Dusty Baker
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: got pissed. But it was true.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Well, there are so many stories about the cocaine days
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: in baseball, and they had cocaine trials. A lot of
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: younger people have no idea, but in the eighties they
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: were literally cocaine. The Pittsburgh drug Trials involving the biggest
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: stars in baseball that had been doing the coke and
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: they all got dinged. And there's some big old names
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: on that on that.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm sorry. I don't want to take up all
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: your time. That last caller was Aducus, but anyway, I
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: wanted to call you that the only time I turned on.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: I mean, I listen to you every night until I
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: fall asleep.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, thank you, But if it.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Was Colin Cowhard, I just turn it off. I don't
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: want to listen to him any at all.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Thank you for ripping one.
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: Of my guys.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: You guys are entertaining. He's not entertaining. He's just a douche,
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: that's right.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Well, I sleep when he's on. He coward gets paid
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: a lot more money than me, so he's not worried
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: about that. But yeah, he's an over.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: You're on there wanting about money making stuff. Why don't
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: you do something different?
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Well, you want me to leave, I could leave and
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: go somewhere else and do a morning show somewhere a
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: local morning at this No, I could. I could leave
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: here and go do a morning show somewhere and make
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: a lot more money. I could do an afternoon show somewhere,
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: make a lot.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: More what you choose to do, Eh, that's true.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I could. I make you leave. Maybe I'll leave,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: maybe I'll take off. That's a good idea. I should
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: leave Fox Sports Radio. It's a good idea.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: No, I don't want you advising me to leave.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: I would make more money. I can't me at any money.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: And this is a dead end job. You're over, is what?
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: Last thing? Last thing gonna say. I wanted to know
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: if Blind Scott watches the Reds game tonight, what do
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: you think about the strike zone with the balls inside
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: our out?
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Okay, let me check with him whole on a second,
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Blind Scott, your thoughts on the strike zone in the
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Reds game?
• 34:05
  Speaker 9: Blind Scott, Oh, yeah, that's why I'm for the robot umpires. Dude,
• 34:10
  Speaker 9: this guy, Jay, he's a hack for a caller. You
• 34:13
  Speaker 9: don't insult the guy that makes all the money for
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  Speaker 9: the network, Dude, when you come on the radio. That's
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  Speaker 9: the quickest way to get Ben in trouble.
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  Speaker 2: This guy, Yeah, all right, Yeah, Jay, why are you
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  Speaker 2: trying to get me in trouble?
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  Speaker 3: Dude?
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  Speaker 2: What's up with that?
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  Speaker 3: Now? It's not going to get you in trouble, all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Scott, He says, it's not going to get me
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  Speaker 2: in trouble. Scott.
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  Speaker 9: Well, anything nowadays to get you in trouble. You say
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  Speaker 9: that we people operate too thin. When I heard you
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  Speaker 9: come on the edgenight, you sounded like you were on fire.
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  Speaker 9: You were so angry. I went through the state of trauma.
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  Speaker 9: I'm holding my blanky right now. You don't sound already
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  Speaker 9: explained that you were almost killed. Though now I'm concerned.
• 34:47
  Speaker 9: You almost killed and your wife threw dust up your nose.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's uh, well she did some cleaning and there's
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: some dust on the fans. And it's been a couple
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  Speaker 2: of days here where it's just been kind of you're
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: not lingering, like some kind of allergy thing going on,
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  Speaker 2: you know, And I'm I don't have allergies. I don't
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  Speaker 2: usually have I don't normally have this problem. But it's
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  Speaker 2: any other thoughts.
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  Speaker 3: Jay, Yeah, I just how does blind Scott tell like
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  Speaker 3: when there's a review in NFL if the guy got
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  Speaker 3: two feet down or one feed down.
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  Speaker 2: Great question. Let me see, blind Scott. We're asking a
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: blind guy, Blind Scott, how do you handle the reviews
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL? Blind Scott?
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  Speaker 9: This is actually a pretty good question. So the radio
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  Speaker 9: guys aren't that good on the radio. There's too many
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  Speaker 9: players on the football field. They need to describe it better.
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  Speaker 9: That's why Ben, you really could. Ben could work anywhere.
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  Speaker 9: He could make way more money than this. I email
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  Speaker 9: Ben all the time. I say, don't do the fifth outary.
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  Speaker 9: You're not getting paid for it. Take another job, don't
• 35:40
  Speaker 9: I do that?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: You do? You advise me. You're one of my great
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: career advisor. How's that working, Ascot. You've been my advisor
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  Speaker 2: for twenty years? Look at me?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, tell me all the free food.
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  Speaker 9: I got my whole food full of fridge shouts.
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  Speaker 2: Of you right now, I know, look at that all right?
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  Speaker 1: Any other thoughts, Jay, I.
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  Speaker 3: Did that guy something real quick? We had a guy
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: go from the TV broadcast to the REDS radio broadcast
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  Speaker 3: because very liarkable to the Hall of Fame this weekend. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and he doesn't seem to understand it. On the radio,
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: you can't. He went from TV to radio. You can't
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  Speaker 3: see the game.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, oh no, oh oh no, that's yeah. It's
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: a lot harder to radio than television.
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  Speaker 3: You got to be people's eyes exactly.
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  Speaker 2: But just in general, I mean, there are TV, there's
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: a bunch of people helping you out. In radio, you're
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: pretty much on your own. So it's a it's a
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: much different animal. All Right, I gotta go, Thank you, Jay,
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: I go away. You've had enough airtime. Please. It is
• 36:34
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• 36:37
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• 36:40
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  Speaker 2: Blank was the first player in baseball history to hit
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  Speaker 2: a walk off grand slam.
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  Speaker 1: In a postseason game.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Again, Blank, first player in baseball history to had a
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  Speaker 2: walk off grand slam and season.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the insta trivia.
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  Speaker 2: Blank was the first player in baseball history hit a
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  Speaker 2: walk off Grand Slam in a postseason game.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to be kidding me.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, Alf the Alien Olpiner says the buzzer Jose Albouve,
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  Speaker 2: who else? Steve Bye Bye? Balbodi from Lawson one of
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: the all time greats? Who else? Page down? Lineman Bostock
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: from courtesy Flusher, Captain Kangaroo tossed out by Andy and
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  Speaker 2: Lionel Lakes, Minnesota and Mark in Queens says.
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  Speaker 1: Well he got it right.
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  Speaker 2: He says I did not cheat. I remember because I
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: had a bet on the game. Jimmy Pearsall from I
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  Speaker 2: forty Ian Andrew Vaughan tossed up by King Rory. Who
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  Speaker 2: else we have? Bert Cobain guessed by Donkey Sausage, Manuel
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  Speaker 2: and Guardina Excusy Man Well Guardiana Larry Parrish as his answer.
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  Speaker 2: John Crook from Perito Sean in Portland said, Ron say
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  Speaker 2: Willie Stargel guessed by JT. The Wingman in Knoxville, Stuart
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  Speaker 2: Griffin from Far Out Day, Mario Mendoza from Georgia, boy
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  Speaker 2: Roy Hobbs from BP, what say you.
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  Speaker 1: Have a right up?
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Stan mucial Ben Okay what was
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: his nickname? The music Man okay a or the Man?
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  Speaker 1: The correct answer is.
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  Speaker 2: Nelson Cruz with the Rangers against the Tigers way back
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  Speaker 2: in twenty eleven in the American Mague Championship Series.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Here we go, it's maller. How about that?
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  Speaker 5: To the third degree?
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: This is one big Ben gets grilled Kupol.
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  Speaker 10: With Matthew Stafford week to week with back problems. Sean
• 39:44
  Speaker 10: mcvayhy recently told reporters that he thinks Jimmy Garoppolo is
• 39:46
  Speaker 10: a starting quarterback. Yeah, Ben, Let's assume the worst and
• 39:50
  Speaker 10: say Jimmy G has to start a number of games
• 39:52
  Speaker 10: for the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: How much does that hurt their chances at winning the
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: NFC West.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Well, he has started seven games since the end of
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: the twenty two season for the Raiders and he did
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: start one game for the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, the Rams are supposed to.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Be more of a defensive team, so they can get
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: by in the regular season to ultimately get where they
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: want to go and get to the Super Bowl, win
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: the NFC, which they were close to doing last year.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: They have very little chance with Garoppolo, very little chance
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: with Jimmy G. The Prince Aladdin the Great Garoppolo.
• 40:24
  Speaker 10: Next, Billy Donovan has a losing record in five seasons
• 40:27
  Speaker 10: with the Bulls and has led them to the playoffs
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  Speaker 10: one time. Yet the team just signed him to a
• 40:32
  Speaker 10: multi year extension. Are you surprised by this?
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: No, And the rumor for a long time was that
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: Donovan was going to go back to college, but they
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: college basketball is so effed up and so messed up
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: right now, he's changed his mind. The thing about the
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: bullszelt for a couple of years. They weren't even trying
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: to win. They were fielding non competitive teams and Billy
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Donovan was coaching teams that they.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Knew going into the year, we're going to be terrible.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: I went with a great college basketball coaches for the
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Florida Gators.
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  Speaker 1: But he likes the NBA lifestyle. They like him.
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  Speaker 2: He's considered one of the least the mid to mid
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: tier to a little bit better than that NBA coach.
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  Speaker 1: And you know he's not going anyway. He's been there.
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  Speaker 2: He was in Oklahoma City for five years now, he's
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: been in Chicago. He's been an NBA coach for ten
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: years now, I believe, so he's not He's settled into
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: that live next.
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  Speaker 10: The Texas Rangers are in third place in the AL West,
• 41:23
  Speaker 10: but have been on a tear in July and they
• 41:25
  Speaker 10: actually have the second best run differential in all of
• 41:27
  Speaker 10: the American League. Ben eddin Arlington alluded to it last night. Yeah,
• 41:31
  Speaker 10: do you think the Rangers are being slept on?
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm not sleeping on the Rangers because they would
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: die if I slept on them. But no, the Rangers
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: are one of those teams in the American League. I
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: don't see anybody invincible. I don't even nationallygue for that matter.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: To me, it's wide open. Just getting the playoffs and
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: with Bruce Bochie one of the better managers in playoffs,
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: they got absolutely got a shot. How do we do
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: MASSU Sedition nother wad quote it on the ball. Oh yeah,