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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 3: Our lead this hour talking Bay's Ball.
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  Speaker 1: Now the March Maddness FESTIVI is this our Wednesday show.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's still late Tuesday night in the West,
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  Speaker 1: but it's our Wednesday show doing the overnight and so
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow because it's our Wednesday show, that's when the fun begins,
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  Speaker 1: right to real. I know there was a bud playing
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  Speaker 1: thing whatever that is in Dayton in college basketball, but
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  Speaker 1: there were about seven people watching that, and then you
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  Speaker 1: know that's where the March Madness is. But this thing
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  Speaker 1: in Miami, it's so odd to see a baseball game
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  Speaker 1: in Miami with fans.
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  Speaker 3: It's wild. It's like, wha, this is twilight.
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  Speaker 1: So there's actually people that liked baseball in Miami and
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  Speaker 1: they went to watch a game.
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  Speaker 3: Whoa anyway.
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  Speaker 1: That was the stage for the championship game of the
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  Speaker 1: made for television World Baseball Classic. You had Venezuela on
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  Speaker 1: one side versus the USA on the other, medals and
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  Speaker 1: a trophy, medals and a trophy, or as Rob Manford
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  Speaker 1: would say, just a piece of metal. Anyway, stadium was packed,
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  Speaker 1: the energy seemed pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: Stadium that's normally a ghost town.
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  Speaker 1: Marlin's man was there and he doesn't usually go to
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  Speaker 1: Marlins games, because why would you.
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  Speaker 3: He was checking it out.
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  Speaker 1: You had a Eduardo Rodriguez for the team representing Venezuela
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  Speaker 1: versus Nolan MacLean of the Mets for Red, White, and Blue,
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  Speaker 1: wrapping himself in the fly, big opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: Did you watch any of this? Were you? He was
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  Speaker 3: on Fox?
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't on NFS one or FS two or FS
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  Speaker 1: thirty three. It was on Big Fox. Did you check
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  Speaker 1: it out?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe not?
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  Speaker 1: Well, the game was most of the game was two
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  Speaker 1: nothing in favor of Venezuela, and then then the USA
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  Speaker 1: tied it up. But in the end, heartbreak hotel as
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  Speaker 1: Venezuela wins the World Baseball Classic for the first time
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  Speaker 1: after choking away a lead in the eighth inning, blowing
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  Speaker 1: a lead that too nothing lead, and then they end
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  Speaker 1: up beating the team from the US three to two
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  Speaker 1: on a Uhaneo Suarez tie breaking home run or not
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  Speaker 1: home run, I was a double tie breaking double in the.
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  Speaker 3: In the ninth inning.
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  Speaker 1: There and Bryce Harper, who has not been very good,
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  Speaker 1: he did have a big moment temporarily in the eighth inning.
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  Speaker 1: Harper hit a two run dong for the team representing
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  Speaker 1: America there in the eighth before Red Sox relief fitcher
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  Speaker 1: Garrett Whitlock came in there and coughed up a fur
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  Speaker 1: ball and turned out the last the parties over. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Team Venezuela third baseman Michale Garcia wins the WBC MVP Award.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what that looks like, but he won it,
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  Speaker 1: so congratulations there. The better story is in the losing
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  Speaker 1: locker room, and there are some people questioning the relief
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  Speaker 1: strategy for Team USA and the decision and.
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  Speaker 3: Who was available, who wasn't available.
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  Speaker 1: The person who's getting absolutely charbroiled more than anyone is
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  Speaker 1: El Capitan, Aaron Judge, all rise except in big games,
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge. There, he was getting a lot of the plane.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So let's good jumping off point. Let us discuss,
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  Speaker 1: and I need you if you want to have baseball people,
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  Speaker 1: I need you. This out is a big the baseball hour.
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  Speaker 1: So the question is it true that Team USA Slugger
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  Speaker 1: star Aaron Judge choked yet again, yet again on the
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  Speaker 1: big stage. So I've got playing scrabble, Russell Crowe and
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  Speaker 1: Banana Hammock, and we will combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and we're gonna get saucy. Is what we're gonna get,
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  Speaker 1: all right. So a to answer the question, is it true?
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  Speaker 1: Oh thousand percent true. That is the textbook definition of
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  Speaker 1: el slumpo for Aaron Judge.
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  Speaker 3: It is an open and shut case. It is very straightforward.
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  Speaker 3: There is no gray area.
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  Speaker 1: And as much as the people that are on the
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  Speaker 1: payroll for Mitche League Baseball would like to defend Aaron Judge,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not on the dime for baseball. They're not paying me,
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  Speaker 1: I would they would. I'd suck up the Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 1: like all these other I could lie to you and
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  Speaker 1: say how great Aaron Judge is in big games. That
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  Speaker 1: would be a lie. I'd get paid for it. They
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  Speaker 1: get paid for it. I'm not getting paid for it,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm gonna tell you what really happened. And what
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  Speaker 1: really happened is Aaron Judge, who is the size if
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  Speaker 1: you go to the zoo, He's the size of an elephant.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like a glitch. We always goof on Kyler
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  Speaker 1: Murray alligator arms Murray because it looks like a glitch,
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  Speaker 1: like who let the little kid in there? There's a
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  Speaker 1: toddler playing quarterback in the NFL. Well, Aaron Judge is
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  Speaker 1: like an elephant playing baseball. And yet when it's a
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  Speaker 1: big mall meete, he's like a pigmy mouse. It's a
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  Speaker 1: little tiny mouse, a little tiny mouse. When the lights
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  Speaker 1: get bright, and don't give me the months march, he's
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  Speaker 1: still trying to find his swing. Everyone is in the
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  Speaker 1: same boat. There's no one who wasn't in the same
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  Speaker 1: situation there. This is not some spring training karaoke night.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that right. This is supposed to be. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to get this wrong because what we were
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  Speaker 1: talking about some of the previous episod bigger than the
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  Speaker 1: World Series. Those aren't my words. I didn't say that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think this is bigger than the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: You know who does Aaron Judge. He said it, he
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  Speaker 1: said it, he said it, and he sucked. He sucked,
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  Speaker 1: and he sucked. Okay, and so he goes out, there
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  Speaker 1: had four at bats, all for four, and I am
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  Speaker 1: relatively confident that for three of those at bats, you
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  Speaker 1: and I would have done the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: Strikeout, strikeout, strikeout. Yeah, who goofed?
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  Speaker 1: I've got to know against a patchwork Venezuela pitching staff,
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  Speaker 1: team USA suffering and Aaron Judge at the very top.
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  Speaker 1: My diagnosis, doctor Mallers diagnosis, Tight took a syndrome for
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  Speaker 1: much of that game. Tight took his syndrome. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: am not a doctor, but I do play one on
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  Speaker 1: the radio. And so er for four again, three punch
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  Speaker 1: outs for Judge, and that is not a slump. That
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  Speaker 1: is a Houdini vanishing act. And he said, well, it's
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  Speaker 1: a team effort. Yeah, but when you're the biggest star,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta get it done.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta get it done.
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  Speaker 1: He's already had some experience in the past and big
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  Speaker 1: games it has not gone well.
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  Speaker 3: And he's at the.
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  Speaker 1: Point in his career he's only got a couple more
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  Speaker 1: years left of domination. Then there's the slow decline unless
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  Speaker 1: he can get some good pharmaceuticals and keep playing at
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  Speaker 1: a high level. But you look at it and it's
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  Speaker 1: like now you see me, now you don't. Now you
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  Speaker 1: see me, now you don't. And it's the same movie.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same movie every time, different theater. Obviously a
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  Speaker 1: theater is much different here than the same inning. So
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  Speaker 1: playing scrabble. The phrase for this is common denominator. The
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  Speaker 1: common denominator is Aaron Judge. And we love when things
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  Speaker 1: line up as human beings. One of the weird things
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  Speaker 1: about us. There's a lot of weird things about all
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  Speaker 1: of us. We're all related in one way or another.
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  Speaker 1: But one of the weird things about this is the
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  Speaker 1: way that we love the symmetry. When Aaron Judge was
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  Speaker 1: playing in the World Series in twenty twenty four, he
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  Speaker 1: played my favorite defensive inning in the World Series game.
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  Speaker 1: It was a fifth inning of Game five of the
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  Speaker 1: World Series. My favorite inning I've ever watched baseball was
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  Speaker 1: the fifth inning. It was top of the fifth just amazing,
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  Speaker 1: just absolutely chef's kiss, and Aaron Judge was part of
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  Speaker 1: that butchered a ball in the outfield. Terrible in that
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  Speaker 1: World Series, Aaron Judge batted two twenty two. Well, bettering
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  Speaker 1: average doesn't matter, Boomer.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well fine, you can think that way.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty two batting average in the World Series in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, so we obviously did better in the World
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  Speaker 1: Baseball Classic unless he did exactly the same he batted
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  Speaker 1: to twenty two in the World Baseball Classic.
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  Speaker 3: And again Aaron Judge said, this is bigger.
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  Speaker 1: This is bigger than the World Series and its common denominator, theater.
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  Speaker 3: Is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: And Aaron Judge, you can like him and have a
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  Speaker 1: fat head on your wall and have all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge merch. The reality is, though, that Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 1: commandeered the vomit comment and he didn't even bring a parachute.
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  Speaker 1: There was no parachute for Aaron Judge. There was none.
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  Speaker 1: And he needs some scrubbing bubbles because he really has
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  Speaker 1: to clean some stuff up here. He's got that big
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  Speaker 1: game cootie thing going on. There's some stank and it
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  Speaker 1: won't wash off. It will not wash off now. Fortunately
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  Speaker 1: he's playing for the Yankees and their ownership doesn't seem
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  Speaker 1: to care about winning anymore. It's old family money. George
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  Speaker 1: Steinbrenner is dead. He's not coming back. The kids just
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  Speaker 1: don't care as much.
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  Speaker 3: They don't. That's the reality. So it's okay.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, imagine, if I'm dating myself this, a guy
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  Speaker 1: named George Steinbrenner used to own the Yankees, and he
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  Speaker 1: was a complete lunatic, complete nut job, right, And he's
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  Speaker 1: the guy nicknamed Dave Winfield mister May because it's Dave
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  Speaker 1: Winfield's big star back in a million years ago, and
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  Speaker 1: played really well in May and down the stretch would
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  Speaker 1: always fall apart, at least in the eyes of Steinbrenner.
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  Speaker 1: And the kids just don't have that. They don't have
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  Speaker 1: that thing. The apple occasionally does fall far from the
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  Speaker 1: tree and it rolls down a hill and into a creek,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what's happening for the Yankees. So that's a
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  Speaker 1: good thing, because if this was the old Yankees, they'd
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  Speaker 1: trade Aaron Judge and say, oh my god, this guy
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  Speaker 1: can't perform in big games. We're all about big games.
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  Speaker 1: He just can't get it done. We've got to get
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  Speaker 1: rid of this guy. If it looks like a choking
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  Speaker 1: dog and it bats like a choking dog, it's a
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  Speaker 1: choking dog.
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  Speaker 3: Arf.
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  Speaker 1: That's Aaron Judge, So stop defending it. I know you're
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  Speaker 1: all on the take. I got you all your baseball
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  Speaker 1: scribes that have jobs around Major League Baseball, the broadcasters
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  Speaker 1: that are approved by Major League Baseball, I get it.
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  Speaker 3: I understand that.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully some of you will have enough common sense to
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  Speaker 1: realize you're being fed propaganda.
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  Speaker 3: You're being fed propaganda.
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  Speaker 1: And Judge, would I want them on my team in
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  Speaker 1: May or June or July. Absolutely, of course I would. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: when there's a big game, he turns into a cardboard
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  Speaker 1: cutout and it's raining and it's not covered any kind
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  Speaker 1: of protective stuff there. So anyway, all right, now turning
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  Speaker 1: the page, but not far Now that the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six World Baseball Classic has been stuffed into a time capsule.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's slap a malor approved review label on this.
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  Speaker 1: Bad boy, bad boy, bad boy?
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  Speaker 3: What you gonna do? All right?
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  Speaker 1: So the question did the latest edition, the latest installment
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  Speaker 1: of the World Baseball Classic live up to your expectations?
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  Speaker 3: Did it live up to expectations?
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  Speaker 1: So the way I'm gonna tackle this one, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: surprise you. Not only did it live up to expectations.
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  Speaker 1: It pull vaulted over them like an Olympic gymnast that
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  Speaker 1: has been drinking can after can of red bull. If
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. All right, so let's be honest.
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  Speaker 1: Here the secret sauce. What was the secret sauce? Well,
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  Speaker 1: the secret sauce. The reason I am Benny Bright's out
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  Speaker 1: in this is the blessing of low expectations. Do these
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  Speaker 1: radio hits on different shows and whatnot. And I got
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  Speaker 1: asked a few times doing these things. I say, what
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  Speaker 1: are you Are you excited for the World Baseball Classic?
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, not really, Like I'll watch
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  Speaker 1: it for the talk show. I got to come up
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  Speaker 1: with stuff to talk about it. I'm not that excited
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  Speaker 1: about it. My expectations were rock bottom. And the lower
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  Speaker 1: the bar, the lower the bar, the easier is to
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  Speaker 1: zoom past it. And that's exactly what happened here. And
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  Speaker 1: so this thing had some juice. There appeared to be passion.
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  Speaker 1: There was a lot of dancing, shaking your tushy. There
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  Speaker 1: was some drama, little Shakespearean type situation here, which we like.
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  Speaker 1: And you had heroes rising up like sour dough bread
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  Speaker 1: and others crumbling like a day old cookie. So you
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  Speaker 1: had a little bit of that. It's always fun you
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  Speaker 1: see pressure, pressure, pressure, But it's one of the great things.
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  Speaker 1: That the reason we watched these games, right, the reason
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  Speaker 1: we love sports, and it's who performs and who does
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  Speaker 1: It's make or miss league and all that. And some
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  Speaker 1: guys rise up there and they turned into a fire breathing.
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  Speaker 3: Dragon in the big moment.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's others that turned into a lizard under
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  Speaker 1: a heat lamp. So there is that. This was gladiator stuff.
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  Speaker 1: The World Baseball Classic, it was gladiator stuff, or go
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  Speaker 1: the old the character Russell Crowe back in the day
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  Speaker 1: in the arena screaming are.
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  Speaker 3: You not entertained? Are you not entertained? Like that?
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  Speaker 1: And for once the answer was not a sarcastic shrug
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  Speaker 1: which I normally give and give side eye when I'm
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  Speaker 1: asked that question, were.
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  Speaker 3: You not entertained? Please losers?
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  Speaker 1: No, this was a full throated yes, Benny Brightside again,
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  Speaker 1: even Rob Manford could not mess this up, which is shocking.
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  Speaker 3: Which is shocking. And the timing people keep saying we
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  Speaker 3: got to move it.
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  Speaker 1: We not more about this minute, but they can say
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  Speaker 1: we're got to move the World Baseball Classic to the
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  Speaker 1: either after the World Series or do it do it
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  Speaker 1: the All Star Break. I think the timings a chef's
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  Speaker 1: kiss really do. And here's why it's right in that
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  Speaker 1: Bermuda Triangle on the sports calendar.
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  Speaker 3: You feel me on that.
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  Speaker 1: So the Bereana Triangle is post Super Bowl, post NFL
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  Speaker 1: Free Agency, before March Madness. So this is kind of
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  Speaker 1: there's like a couple of weeks and they timed. I
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  Speaker 1: know that, the marketing people at Baseball they said, we'll
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  Speaker 1: put it here. This is why. It's one of the
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  Speaker 1: reasons they put it there. And it makes perfect sense.
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  Speaker 1: So two enthusiastic thumbs up, which almost never happens to
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  Speaker 1: the World Baseball Classic, a rare win.
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  Speaker 3: For Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: And it was not well, it wasn't major League Baseball production,
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  Speaker 1: but it was all right. Last word. Now, speaking of
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  Speaker 1: the timing of all this, some comments made my USA
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  Speaker 1: skipper Mark de Rosa, who will return to his TV job.
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  Speaker 1: He believes that every player, and I'm paraphrasing, every player
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  Speaker 1: would volunteer to play in the World Baseball Classic if
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  Speaker 1: it is moved to the All Star Break.
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  Speaker 3: Six.
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  Speaker 1: I like the fact that this is in March, and
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  Speaker 1: it's around big events and all that stuff. So they
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  Speaker 1: would be according to this, a quote from Derosi said,
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  Speaker 1: they would be more prepared and more dialed in. Team
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  Speaker 1: USA Skipper said, and we'd be dealing with way less
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  Speaker 1: restrictions and way less guidelines. On the pitching, he stated,
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  Speaker 1: the pitching if it has moved to mid season, no
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  Speaker 1: question about it. So the question for us again, Mark
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  Speaker 1: de Rosa, believing every player would volunteer for the World
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  Speaker 1: Baseball Classic if it has moved to the All Star Break?
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  Speaker 1: How realistic? Here's the question, how realistic does this come across?
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  Speaker 1: So my reaction is what planner are you living on?
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  Speaker 1: That's my reaction. And where you're at here?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you're on an island somewhere? Is it fantasy island?
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  Speaker 3: Is it? I don't know?
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  Speaker 1: That is My word is humbuggery. That is some humbuggeryef
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  Speaker 1: by Mark de ros It sounds good in a press release.
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  Speaker 1: You send it out there, grow the game for the
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  Speaker 1: good of baseball.
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  Speaker 3: You throw that out.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, all the players here is goodbye vacation, Hello extra work?
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  Speaker 1: All right, Hello extra work. The All Star Break is sacred. Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Teams play anywhere from six to seven days a week.
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  Speaker 1: They normally get a couple days off a month, but
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  Speaker 1: they're playing every single day's travel days and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: and they get paid a lot of money. And trust me,
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  Speaker 1: they travel like kings, travel like kings. But they still
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  Speaker 1: complain about it, because everyone complains about everything. And so
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  Speaker 1: the All Star break is a very special time. That
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  Speaker 1: is a time for the banana hammock, the umbrella cocktail drink.
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  Speaker 1: And you're asking, guys, if you play the World Baseball Classic,
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  Speaker 1: to swap Cabo for Tokyo is what you'd be doing.
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  Speaker 1: And spring training World Baseball Classic. It works because it's
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  Speaker 1: a field trip. It's like you're getting out of something.
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  Speaker 1: You're escaping the monotony of the Grapefruit and Cactus League.
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  Speaker 1: And let's not ignore also that this myth that the
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  Speaker 1: owners and the executives and the nerds in baseball are
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  Speaker 1: gonna all of a sudden stop hovering like overprotective parents.
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  Speaker 1: That's not gonna stop. Don't touch my two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty million dollars pitcher. You think they're gonna loosen restrictions,
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  Speaker 1: like that's what Mark de Ros's pitching. He's like, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: we move to the All Star Game, there will be
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  Speaker 1: less restrictions on pitching. Really, I want to bet on that.
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  Speaker 3: No chance.
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  Speaker 1: Plus the other thing is if a guy gets hurt
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  Speaker 1: in March, it's not good. However, you haven't played a
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  Speaker 1: regular season game yet, you can adjust and say, well,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't part of the team. You have time to
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• 18:01
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• 18:13
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• 18:18
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• 18:22
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• 18:24
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• 19:13
  Speaker 1: So our lead this, I will move away from the
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: World Baseball Classics. Team USA chokes, Aaron Judge does what
• 19:19
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• 19:24
  Speaker 3: So it's not a line.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Hey, goodbye to Team USA, but we move on. We
• 19:31
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• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Speed Sports Wire got a surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise NFL
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: trade random day, middle of March.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: NFL trade. Did you hear about this? No, Well, the.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Denver Broncos have made a move. After sleeping through the
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: beginning of the NFL offseason, the Broncos went out and
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: picked up Dolphins wide receiver Jalen Wattle, to the dismay
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: of Stevie Meatballs. Jalen Wattle. Wattle's out of Miami, leaves
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: the pod and goes to Denver in exchange for a
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: gaggle a gaggle of promissory notes including a first, a third,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: and a fourth round pick and a partridge in a
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: pear tree in this year's draft. Now it is not
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: done done, although the Ravens aren't involved in this, so
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: it likely is done. Wattle is twenty seven. He will
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: undergo a physical and that'll happen later today. So the
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Broncos will then have to say everything's kosher or it's not,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: and then pull the Ravens and if they reject the trade.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: But we're going to go onto the premise that the
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: trade is going to happen. Unless Denver does do a
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: copycat thing like Baltimore, we're good. So Wattle will slide
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: into the Mile High City as the pre eminent wide
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: receiver on that depth chart. So let us discuss good.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Jumping off point the question and keep it simple. Overnight
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio, how do you grade the Broncos trade for
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: wide receiver Jalen Wattle from the Miami Dolphins.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: So my observations, I've got.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Roman Alis in chains and poltergeist, and we will combine
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: all of these things together and we're gonna bust some chops,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: is what we're gonna do.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: We're gonna bust some shops. And why not?
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: So number jump the gun number w.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Rocked back and forth. Fine, whatever.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: You If you listen to this show, you most likely
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: think that I am going to to zig. I usually zig.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: That's That's been what I've known to do. I've been
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: known to do the zig on this one, though, I'm
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: wanna zag. I'm I'm not gonna zig. I'm gonna zag.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: We used to have a caller named zig Zag years ago.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: He's all grown up now. I don't know what happened
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: to him. I'm gonna zag. And the reason I'm going
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: to zag, let me tell you why, all right. I
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: like the trade from Denver's perspective. I think it's a
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: good trade. I'm not trying to suck up the Coop
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: or anything like that, or you know any of the
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Milkman who's a big fan of the Broncos and all.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I really like the trade, and I'm not gonna pretend
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: like I don't just to be a better talk show host.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I think this is a good trade for the Broncos here,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: and I'm f them picks guy. I've always been FM
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: picks guy. And the Broncos just said, f them picks,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: thumbs up, way to go.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Seriously, the Broncos.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Have been moving like a sloth in quicksand since the
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: playoffs ended and they lost in the championship game to
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: the Patriots and all that stuff, and they literally had
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: and we exaggerate, said, well they really haven't done anything. No,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the Broncos had done squad douche, they got buppkus nothing.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: They did not sign anyone outside of the player. They
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: resigned some guys, but they didn't add anyone who was
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: a free agent who hadn't already played for the Broncos.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: So no outside help came in. And then all of
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: a sudden, they go Houdini. They go Houdini, and they
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: add a legitimate weapon. And this is oxygen. It's oxygen
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: for that offense. That's my word. They can open some
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: things up. They can breathe again with that oxygen now.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: And the Broncos, even though they had a successful season,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: they won a lot of games, they did not do
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: it because of their passing offense. They just didn't and
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: then the Broncos. The word for the Broncos offense was
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: raggedy in terms of the throwing of the football twenty
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: ninth this past season, twenty ninth this past season, and
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: twenty fifth in possessions and with three and out. So
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: they were twenty ninth out of thirty two teams in
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: possessions that ended in three and out. Twenty five percent
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: of the time the Broncos had the ball, it was run,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: a play run, a play run, a play punt run,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: a play run, a play run, a play punt run,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: a play run, a play run, a play punt. That
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: was the Broncos offense there, So Wattle, he will help.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I'll use the word modernize the Broncos attack. And how
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: big an upgrade is it? You asked, how big and
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: up grade?
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: I will?
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I will tell you so, thanks for asking. Wattle had
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: sixty four catches and nine hundred ten yards. He was
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: the part of the area, was the number one receiver
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: most of the he was the number two receiver in Miami.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: So sixty four catches, nine hundred ten yards. I said, well,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: that's a good year, not a great year.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: I agree with you.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I absolutely agree. That's a good year, not a great year.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: He had six touchdowns this past season. If those same
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: numbers had happened in Denver, he would have been third
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: in catches, second in yards, and second in touchdowns for
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the Broncos wide receivers. So that's how bad the situation
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: was in Denver. And Waddle is not just a speed racer.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: He's got that.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: He's more than.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: He's like the fastest guy in the NFL. At least
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: he was coming out of college the fastest guy in
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: the NFL. And this offense had been flatlining with all
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: the punts twenty five percent of the time here, So
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: it's a beep beep.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Now you got a jolt. Now you got a little joke.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Don't f this up.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Denver needed a spark plug on offense. They needed a
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: big time playmaker, and they got. They didn't get a
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: spark plug. They got a Roman candle, is what they got.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: So that's more than just your normal run of the
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: mill spark plug a guy that has not been a
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: full season number one wide receiver. However, you would assume
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: this is rather an easy upgrade situation and changes the
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: geometry for the Broncos next season. The way you approach
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: the Broncos. You have a good receiver, what normally happens.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: We see this with Puka Nakua and other great receivers
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. The safeties have to it up a
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: little bit, back it up, and some lanes open up
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: to make things easier to matriculate the ball down the field.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Suddenly you have a little more daylight and things just
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: come together easier in the modern NFL when you have
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: a big time wide receiver. So the Mallor report card
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: on the Jalen Wattle Trade the Mallor report card, it
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: goes as follows. The Broncos on the Malar scorebook get
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: an A minus, not an A plus, A minus. I'm
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: not going night plus as the Dolphins get a C
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: minus and I'm being very generous with that. The Dolphins
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: have announced long, not just now, they've announced this for
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: a while. They've announced that they are out of the
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: trying to win business. The Broncos have said, essentially, this
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: is a gap year and you people are such suckers.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: You're still gonna buy our tickets, You're still gonna buy
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: our merch, and we're not trying to win.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Like they're not even hiding it. They're not.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: You just gave away Jalen Waddle and said get out
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: of here, bye bye for some scratcher tickets and some comissory.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Notes and all that stuff.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: And the dolphins are moving. They've contacted the people over
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: at U Haul. They're hiring some people to come help
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: them move. And they're they're moving from They weren't in
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the penthouse, but they were like a nice like the
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: building was like twenty seven story, twenty eight stories, and
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: they were right in the middle. They're moving from that,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: and they're relocating the Miami Dolphins, and they're they're looking
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: to move into a porta potty.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: They want to move in.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: It's small, it's small, minimalist living. They're going to live
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: in a porta potty and it's fine during the winter.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: During the summer living in a porta potty is a
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: bit of a problem, A bit of a problem right now.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Page two, as we continue the conversation, keeping the theme
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: going with Jalen Wattle, love the name, Love the name,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: heading inbound the question how much extra pressure? How much
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: extra pressure is now on quarterback bo Nicks in Denver?
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: So the Broncos what they did is here, they just
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: walked into a five star steakhouse and they ordered a
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: nice hearty tomahawk steak and.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: They said, we would like the tomahawk steak. We want
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: the ribbi as well.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: We want all that the let's call it tomahawk ribbi,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: we want that, and that would be Jalen Wattle Wattle,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: wattle wattle. So they got him and they just Sean
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Payton just handed the fork to bow Nicks, who last
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: year with the Broncos was eating dino nuggets and uncrustables.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: So now he's got a nice, big tomahawk steak and
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: he can enjoy that.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Knock it out of the park. This is one situation here.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Where you look at it and you're like, well, it's
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: a positive because bo Nix now has a legit receiver
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: to add to the mix there in Denver. At the
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: same time, though, you have to queue up the Alison
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: chains tune no excuses, because now the main alibi for
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: bow Knicks is yeah but yeah, but yeah, but he
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: didn't have this great wide receiver. Yeah but yeah, but
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: you didn't have enough playmakers. Yea it, ye have it,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: ye have it, you have it. Theyabbitt Rabbit, the yabbet rabbit. Well,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: now he's got a big time player who will seemingly
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: only get better as he becomes a target fiend in Denver.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: And so bow Knicks, now you can no longer just
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: be a bus writer. You have to be the bus driver,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: like Lance the bus driver. That's what you have to
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: do here. And the Broncos they made the AFC Title Game. Granted,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: much like the Patriots, they played a bunch of tomato
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: cancer in their season, but they made the AFC Title
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Game and it wasn't because of the quarterback play. Is
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: it true that bow Knicks was the twenty fifth ranked
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL? Is it also true that bow
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Knicks was statistically worse to satistically worse in quarterback rating
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: than to a tongue of Iiloa and Justin Fields, a
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: couple of quarterbacks that were decommissioned by their teams last season.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Yes, uh so.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: A lot of captain checkdown stuff, a lot of that,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: and you trade for wattle. You better not be checking
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: down if you're bow Knicks on third and eight, you
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be throwing a ball at a line of scrimmage.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Then one yard in, No, you got you gotta throw
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: the ball, don't check down. No, take the training wheels off.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: If you're Sean Payton and let let it rip put
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: up her shut up time. If the Broncos offense doesn't
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: get tangibly better with bow Knicks this year, having added
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Jalen Wattle, then you have to question whether or not
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Bo Nicks is the guy. So there's people all foaming
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: at them out there in Denver. They're all excited. This
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: is great Waddle. He's taking all those targets. He wants
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: all the targets. Jalen Wattle get and bonets again. Take
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: the training wheels off. Time to eat like a king
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: or the other option as you choke on the steak
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: and then they got to call the paramedics because you're choking.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: It's a problem right now.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Final point, with Jalen Waddle outbound and heading to Denver,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: we look at the losing locker room here. What does
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: this do for the twenty twenty six Dolphins, especially the
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: fact that they did add a new quarterback tua Is out.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: They went out and added Malik Willis their new quarterback.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: And there are some over the top stories bouncing around
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: the echo chamber. Oh my god, poor, poor, poor Malik Willis.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: This is so sad, it's so depressing from Alik Willis.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: So the question are you gonna go thumbs up or
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: thumbs down? Thumbs up or thumbs down? So up is this?
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: And then down? Is this?
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Thumbs up or thumbs down? On quarterback Malik Willis regretting
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: his decision to sign with the Miami football team, So
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: thumbs up or thumbs down. So thumbs up means he
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: regrets it. Thumbs down means he doesn't regret it. And
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: I am going to go survey says thumbs down. Yeah,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I'm going thumbs down on this, absolutely one hundred percent
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: thumbs down.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Just stop it, stop it?
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: What are you doing here? Like this is not a
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: SOB story. It's not that at all. For Malik Willis,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: he knew exactly exactly what he was signing up for.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: It wasn't like they were hiding it. And we mentioned
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: the fact that the Dolphins were never in the penthouse.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: They hadn't been in the penthouse since Dan Marino. Even
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: before that, they hadn't. They hadn't been there a while.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: So this has been an active construction site with the
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: head coach gone, the quarterback gone, the star defensive player.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Gone gone, gone, gone, gone gone, Gonzo Gunzo.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: And so there's a lot of caution tape. It's a
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: lot of caution tape. There's some exposed wiring. It's not safe.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: You got to wear a hard hat when you go
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: into the Dolphins locker room. It's a teardown. It's a teardown.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Studs and plywood. Of course, the Dolphins don't have any studs.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: It's mostly duds. It's duds at this point and plywood.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: That's where it's kind of like to complain about this.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: It's like buying a haunted mansion and then being surprised
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: to find out that poltergeist is living in the attic.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: When you bought a haunted mansion, dummy, what did you think? Yes?
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: And so that's the feature that's not a bug, that's
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: not a glitch. You bought it said in the Zillow
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: listing that it's haunted and there's a ghosts and goblins
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: in there, and you can't be shocked. So think about
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: the you are. Here are the options from League Wills.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: You were at a fork in the road, and if
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: you go to the right, Arizona, and if you go
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: to the left, Miami. Those are the options. That's like
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: a child having to eat dinner and Mom made the
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: kid two possible dishes. Here, cauliflower on the right side
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: of the plate and Brussels sprouts on the left side.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Pick your poison, hope, there's a lot of ketchup or
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: barbecue sauce to cover the vegetables with, and just close
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: your eyes and try to cover your nose and chew
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: and get it over with and all that. Let's not
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: act like Malik Willis deserve to get a job in
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: a good situation. I'm happy that he's gonna get an opportunity,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: not that he necessarily earned it by doing anything magical.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: In Green Bay. This is again where you go to
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: a team that's perceived to be a contender and you
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: don't play, and your value skyrockets.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: It's very bizarre.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: It doesn't happen in any other line of work other
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: than professional sports and mainly the NFL. How often do
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: we see a outfielder. Let's say there's some outfielder that
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: has supposed to be good, not very good, ends up
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: going to the Dodgers as a part time player, and
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: then ends up getting a big opportunity after that didn't happen.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: I can't recall that happening anytime recently. And so Malik Willis,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: he got the contract based on speculations kind of how
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: you play the stock market. You project certain stocks are
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: going to do well. They're projecting that Maliku well, so
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: at this point is a penny stock is going to
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: become something more than that, not necessarily a blue chip stock,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: but more than a penny stock somewhere in the middle.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: And there can be no regrets. The man is getting over.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Sixty five dollars sixty I think the number is like
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: sixty seven million.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: There are zero regrets, zero regrets.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: And you can afford really good therapy. You can buy
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: yourself a miniature horse if that's what you need. And
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: so if you think Malik Willis is crying, there's no
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: crying now when you get that kind of money. He's
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: laughing and he's hit. He's jumping up and down and
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: going crazy and it's just great as he goes to
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: the ATM to get as much cash as he wants.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: And so this is the NFL where you know, you
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: take the cash, you don't ask questions, you take the money,
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  Speaker 1: and if there's chaos, yeah, dysfunction's baked into the cake,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: and you just deal with that when the time comes,
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  Speaker 1: and make sure that you have all that money saved up.
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  Speaker 3: And then who cares?
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  Speaker 3: It's mallard. How about that? To the third degree?
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  Speaker 2: This is one big event.
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  Speaker 3: Gets grall coop a loop.
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  Speaker 6: Jerry Jones spoke to the media and said, if the
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  Speaker 6: Cowboys had played one lick of defense last year, they
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  Speaker 6: would have had themselves a real playoff Do you think
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  Speaker 6: that's the case?
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  Speaker 1: Ben, Well, that's a bold Is that the take of
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: the day? The bold take of the day by Jerry Jones.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: So Jerry Jones got in front of a microphone and said,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: if the Cowboys, who had the thirtieth ranked defense in
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: the NFL, had played a little bit better, they would
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: have been a real playoff team.
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  Speaker 3: Well, no, please, that's nonsense. Poppy cock.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Poppycock by Jerry joneson but Jerry's good at getting headlines. Here,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: he is good at getting headlines. The Cowboys have more
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: than just defensive problems. They have all kinds of issues,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: popcorn problems.
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  Speaker 3: That we'd like to say.
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  Speaker 6: Next, Defensive backt Darius Slay said over the weekend that
• 37:35
  Speaker 6: he would only accept a call from the Philadelphia Eagles.
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: Then on Monday, he announced his retirement after thirteen seasons.
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: Beniz Slay a Hall of Famer.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: It would be easy in the past to say Darius Lay.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: There's no way Darius.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Slay is a Hall of Famer because the standard is this.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: But recently, Coop, the standard's been completely obliterated on what
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: is a Hall of Fame and was not a Hall
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: of Famer. The fact that he was only a one
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: time All Pro would indicate not a Hall of Famer. Right,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: he does not reach the threshold to be a Hall
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: of Famer, and it's not even close. You never know
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: anymore though, like I was, in no way like he
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: was a good player, not a great player.
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: Next, following a win on what was supposed to be
• 38:22
  Speaker 6: a Magic City Night in Atlanta, Oh, it's so sad September.
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: But the Atlanta Hawks did come away with a win,
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: and they are the hottest team in the league with
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: ten wins in a row. But do you think this
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: Atlanta team can make a run?
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: You know, Coop, what I always like to say they're
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: gonna make some noise. They're gonna make some noise, Coop.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: The East is relatively wide open. There's like, like, the
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Knicks are good, the Celtics are going. I mean, there's
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: a couple of teams at the top. You say, okay,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: those are pretty good teams, and yet they don't look
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: invincible to me.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: They don't like teams like, oh.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: My god, we're screwed if we have to play, you know,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Teammateeltics are I would say, are the top team, but
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: there are Knights and the Celtics.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: That they look like mere mortals and all that.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: However, the thing about the Hawks, They've got all these wins,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: and then you look a little.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Closer, Coop, and you're like, well, a lot of.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Those are against Brooklyn, Washington, Portland's in there. There's not
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: a lot of impressive wins in that stretch. So you
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: wonder how legitimate that stretch is for the Atlantaics. They're
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: winning games, but all these teams are not trying to win.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Who they're playing there. It is mallardly third degree. How
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  Speaker 1: did we do you passed this edition?
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  Speaker 3: As they win, put it on the bar. That's a
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• 40:04
  Speaker 7: You heard the man.
• 40:05
  Speaker 8: It is time for love night here on the Ben
• 40:08
  Speaker 8: Mallae Show.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of questions for you, Lorena. Are you ready?
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: You're going to rapid fire? I'm ready, ready for all right.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Ferg Dog, a highly decorated winner of the Benny Awards,
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: says Lorena, what can I do to be less irresistible
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: than women? I've had to beat them off with the
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: stick since my double Benny Night win.
• 40:27
  Speaker 8: It's so hard when you're irresistible to get people to
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: leave you alone. If you don't want attention, My best
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: advice is to go find a dark cave somewhere and go.
• 40:37
  Speaker 7: Hide in it.
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: He already lives in a dark cave. Though that's a problem.
• 40:41
  Speaker 7: They're sniffing you out. I see, Yeah, that can be complicated.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: I feel like you're speaking from a point of experience, Lorena.
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: With people giving you attention.
• 40:49
  Speaker 7: I feel like, yeah, sometimes I would like a little
• 40:51
  Speaker 7: less attention.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: I understand. I never heard to worry about too much attention. JT.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: The Wingman.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Rights Since says, I'm wondering if it's a appropriate to
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: wear my lucky hat while making love to my partner.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: JT. The Wingman.
• 41:05
  Speaker 8: Yeah, lucky hat goes well with your lucky charms. So uh,
• 41:09
  Speaker 8: you know luck of the Irish pot of gold.
• 41:12
  Speaker 7: Baby, you know what I'm talking about.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Channon the Morne rites and says Lorena, have you been
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: to a drag show? I'm guessing the answer is yes,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: as it apparently is very popped there with a lot
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: of women.
• 41:23
  Speaker 7: Yes, not necessarily intentionally. I've been to just some.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: U Were you surprised that they were? I thought they were.
• 41:32
  Speaker 7: I went to this one.
• 41:33
  Speaker 8: It was like a club bar thing and they had
• 41:36
  Speaker 8: a drag queen clown.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: He's your favorite drag queen.
• 41:40
  Speaker 7: It's just got to be RuPaul's Lexis Lexus.
• 41:43
  Speaker 8: Oh, I did go to RuPaul's drag con here in
• 41:46
  Speaker 8: Los Angeles one time.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: Congratulation.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: That was really cool, Big mom in your life. It
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: was a late night drug Tester. Rights Since says, is
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: there really lovable losers?
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: Or will I need a Benny win to get affection?
• 41:59
  Speaker 8: You know, those ben look real good to potential suitors.
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: The more Bennie is the better.
• 42:04
  Speaker 6: Ye.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: It's a really a great afrodisiac for women. Is the
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Benny Award? They can't they can't say no. I don't
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: know what happened.
• 42:11
  Speaker 7: Put a nice plaque on your wall.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Ello Mike the Leprechaun says, Why is the guy always
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: expected to pay for dinner on the first date. Maybe
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: a cup of coffee is a better option.
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: If you're cheap, just say that.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: Okay? Are you taking shots?
• 42:27
  Speaker 7: If you do not have the money to date? Don't
• 42:29
  Speaker 7: take a woman on a.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Date, okay, truck Stop Fungus says, what that's when.
• 42:37
  Speaker 7: You can eat with your cat for free?
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: When I was dating, there was always a sign like
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: if a woman really wanted to pay, it always told
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: me she wasn't that into me.
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: She feels bad.
• 42:47
  Speaker 7: I'm not going to talk to this guy again.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: I should probably Yeah, yeah, truck Stop Fungus says, what
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: kind of music do you suggest for seducing my wife
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: while I shave her back?
• 43:01
  Speaker 7: Oh gosh, that's a good one. I don't I don't know.
• 43:07
  Speaker 7: You know, they have they have songs about carpet.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: That's hard, Philippe writes in he says, how do I
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: approach the senorita at the nursing home for a date?
• 43:22
  Speaker 7: You know, maybe keep your dentures in if you have
• 43:24
  Speaker 7: your teeth. But maybe she, you know, maybe she's into
• 43:26
  Speaker 7: the no teeth thing.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Well, I think there's a lot of options with no teeth,
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: depending on where you're at.
• 43:31
  Speaker 8: You could learn a salsa dance that would be kind
• 43:33
  Speaker 8: of cute, like up to her, you know.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: In your mouth now you're talking. That's it right there.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: That's why we listen. Right.
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• 43:52
  Speaker 2: and the password is password, you idiot, password the word
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Game of the Stars.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: Spen Meler. Let's do it.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Let's play password word Game of the Stars. Let's say
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: hello to our combatants. We have any meany miny moe.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: We've got Jed who fled who wants to play Hello?
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: Jed on on a date with a high Higlan. One time,
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: I thought if we had kids, we could call him
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: highly damn I put him own joke up, dude, dam.
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: Damn it. Jed, you know the sucking us out of the.
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: Before the gang. I'm going to dominate the game because
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: I did not dominate the joke. I'm the joke. You
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: get dominated the baby because say.
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: This, But who do you want to partner up?
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: The man putting partners on the air all night long
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: and get explicably din Malley?
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: All right, and we have Lorena picked one or two?
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: Here Lorena number one? All right?
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: You have picked Chris in Boston, one of our finalists
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: for the Benny Award for Thank.
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: God, think Russell Peez, you want to Ben?
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: How's it going?
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: Hello, Chris, welcome, good to have you here. You are
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: ready to go? Who do you want to partner up with? Chris?
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: All right? Coop, you are it? And we have a
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: big board, not a list, a big board.
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: I know the writer doesn't know sports, right, no, words
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: can't wow?
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  Speaker 3: All right? Jed? Picking number one to ten? Jed, No,
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: I don't either.
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: Seven looking numbers for Michael ever gone?
• 45:21
  Speaker 6: What what?
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: Why? All right? Let's go?
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: All right? How about automation? Robotic? Robotic? All right, Chris,
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: let's try contraption they no, let's go.
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: How about contraction in your first blocked out you first
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: claper contraction? Go you ahead, need to.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: Block out any clues here? Uh, mechanical.
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna feel so stupid, dude, there's nothing new mechanical.
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: I've already you guys said, I said, robot silence.
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: All right, let's try. Let's want one more, Chris. Let's try.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: Let's try and pass word the word game of the
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: Stars appliance. Oh my school, old Chris got nothing?
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: All right, how about Chris, I was just trying to
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: I knew it.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: I had no idea A factor factory. No, no, you're
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: not gonna get it. Yeah, the word was the machine machine.
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: All right, go ahead, Chris. Pick a number one to ten,
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: but not seven. Chris, try and bone on my old
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: screwed up your line there, he said, Number two, Chris,
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: number two, This is easy. Let's go with uh huh sleet.
• 47:06
  Speaker 8: Hell no, how.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: About a blizzard? Yeah, all right, picking number Jed, hurry up, picking.
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: Number three three? Number three? Yeah, oh boy, I don't
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: have anything any quick, I said. Let's go with the
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: stitch so nth W Yeah, said we won the.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Guy Jed, We won the gas word Game of the
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: Star
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: Put it on the part I want the guy