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Hour 1 - Press Pause · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 2: Milwaukee's Jacob Mazerowski gets the All Star roster spot after
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  Speaker 2: just five games for the Miz Thumbs up or thumbs
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  Speaker 2: down on that. Also, Major League Baseball officials claim they
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  Speaker 2: actually reached out to about a dozen pitchers looking for
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  Speaker 2: a replacement for the All Star Game until the Brewers
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  Speaker 2: Jacob Mizerowski agreed to go. Believe it or not, and
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  Speaker 2: Philly's outfielder Nick Castellanos said of the All Star Game quote,
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  Speaker 2: show'd me sorry this hour. We're going to start out
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  Speaker 2: in Wisconsin, although it's really at the League office in
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  Speaker 2: New York City. The curtain has come down, pens down,
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  Speaker 2: the music has paused, as it is the All Star
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  Speaker 2: break in Major League Baseball, no more real baseball. The
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  Speaker 2: players hate the All Star Game. They don't want to
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  Speaker 2: go to the All Star Game. They can't stand the
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  Speaker 2: All Star Game. But they want you baseball does to
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  Speaker 2: watch the All Star Game. More in that in a minute.
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  Speaker 2: So all Star news over the weekend, get the home
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  Speaker 2: run Derby Derby, Derby Derby coming up on Monday, All
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  Speaker 2: Star Game on Tuesday days off, and then back at
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  Speaker 2: it late in the week So the biggest storyline here
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  Speaker 2: around the All Star Game, and it's happened and developed
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend. The news came out over the weekend,
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  Speaker 2: and then the reaction of anger and rage at Major
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  Speaker 2: League Baseball. So if you haven't heard, perhaps not the
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  Speaker 2: phenom of phenoms, as somebody from Wisconsin said. I wrote
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  Speaker 2: a love letter, miler monologue about the performance I saw
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  Speaker 2: against the Dodgers the other day of the Miz and
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  Speaker 2: he is the story of baseball. Yet again. Over the weekend,
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  Speaker 2: Jacob Mizerowski, the six foot seven Brewers flame thrower with
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  Speaker 2: five career starts five career starts, has been added as
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  Speaker 2: an All Star. Yes, five starts, this cat's an All Star,
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  Speaker 2: not five wins. I didn't say five wins. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: say five quality starts. He got lit up by the Mets.
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  Speaker 2: Five starts, period. That's it. Five all star, five starts,
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  Speaker 2: All Star game. So this has become a polarizing topic.
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  Speaker 2: The Phillies are up in arms. More on that in
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  Speaker 2: a minute. Also, longtime Major League Baseball broadcaster Ron Darling,
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  Speaker 2: not happy said it's kind of a joke, Darling said,
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  Speaker 2: to the game, and it's a bad choice for baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Close quote from Ron Darley. So let us discuss the
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  Speaker 2: question for the esteem panel, and you are now on
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  Speaker 2: the esteem panel. So the question Milwaukee flame Jacob Mazarowski
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  Speaker 2: gets All Star nod, the All Star roster spot, thumbs
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  Speaker 2: up or thumbs down on the Miz making the All
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  Speaker 2: Star Games. So I've got online marketplace, Olivia Rodrigo and hedonist,
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  Speaker 2: and we will combine these three very random things that
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  Speaker 2: have never been combined together, and we are going to
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  Speaker 2: put the biscuit in the basket, is what we're going
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  Speaker 2: to do. So A my first thought to answer the question,
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  Speaker 2: thumbs up, thumbs down on the Miz making the All
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  Speaker 2: Star team, thumbs down, ifact two thumbs down. I got
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  Speaker 2: two thumbs down on this. Now, this one is simple,
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  Speaker 2: all right. This is a textbook example of lowering the standards.
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  Speaker 2: And again, I like the player. I am a I
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  Speaker 2: want to see this turn out to be a great career.
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  Speaker 2: It would be wonderful. I like the player, but this
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  Speaker 2: a little bit too much too soon, a little bit
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  Speaker 2: too much too soon, So I'm going thumbs down. The
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  Speaker 2: standard for All Star selection is the way to get in.
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  Speaker 2: There's a couple of ways to get it. Be really
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  Speaker 2: really good, right, really really good, or be on a
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  Speaker 2: crap team. And then somebody has to make the All
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  Speaker 2: Star team, like play for the White Sox or the Rockies.
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  Speaker 2: They have to have an All Star which is tradition.
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  Speaker 2: But outside of that, and the Brewers are not a
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  Speaker 2: bad team, they're not a great team. They're somewhere in
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  Speaker 2: the middle. But here's the thing. The standard for the
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  Speaker 2: All Star selection, which had been rooted up until a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years ago, rooted in what performance, consistency, reliability,
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  Speaker 2: all of those big words. That was the credibility that
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  Speaker 2: meant something. And it reminds me of what they've done
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL, where the Pro Bowl is now tic
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  Speaker 2: tac toe and water balloon toss. Baseball is going to
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  Speaker 2: get to that point. They're gonna get there very fast
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  Speaker 2: by having someone in the All Star Game with five
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  Speaker 2: starts five five sick. I mean, my god, so tossing
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  Speaker 2: out All Star bursts like sunflower seed shells in the dugout.
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  Speaker 2: You get an All Star, you get an All Star,
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  Speaker 2: you get an All Star. And why are they doing
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  Speaker 2: is why is Jacob Mazaraski an All Star? Well, one
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  Speaker 2: word marketing, capital m marketing. That's how right buzz brand engagement.
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  Speaker 2: So wow, Milwaukee's a small market. Why does baseball care
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  Speaker 2: about Milwaukee? Well, it's the story. It's the story. Everyone
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  Speaker 2: loves a good story, right, We learn from stories. We've
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  Speaker 2: all all human beings learned from stories. But this is
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  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball's latest episode of look at me and see.
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  Speaker 2: The issue is Heaven forbid? Heaven forbid you just allow
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  Speaker 2: these things to play themselves out naturally have the organic experience.
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  Speaker 2: But no, it's about Hey, it's marketing. So you're going
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  Speaker 2: to take someone that has a lot of hype even
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  Speaker 2: though they're in a you know, a smaller town in Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 2: and an undercooked prospect, and a prospect is a suspec
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  Speaker 2: until brovel Eyes. But he's got a really sexy radar gun,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, he's one hundred miles an hour
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  Speaker 2: a lot, and that's pretty cool. And so social media
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  Speaker 2: likes him, so they'll get some applause on the social
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  Speaker 2: media and all that stuff now, and so we liked
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  Speaker 2: the player. We did a monologue celebrating them is and
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  Speaker 2: all that. As we said, However, Major League Baseball here
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  Speaker 2: on this one another unforced error by Rob Manford and
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  Speaker 2: his underlings at the league office. Here major League Baseball
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  Speaker 2: sticking it to the players who have earned earned the
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  Speaker 2: All Star honor through months and often years of continued
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  Speaker 2: service and success on the field. And so no, and
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  Speaker 2: those players, I'm sure there are some, not all, but
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  Speaker 2: some would would would have liked to have been an
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  Speaker 2: All Star. But they get shoved to the side right
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  Speaker 2: there in the background. And the reason they're in the
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  Speaker 2: background is because of the online marketplace mlbshop dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Can you sell a few more jerseys? Can you move
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  Speaker 2: the merch? And who's gonna move the merch? Some nondescript
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  Speaker 2: pitcher has been around for a number of years. Who
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  Speaker 2: happens to pitch for? I don't know the Phillies or
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  Speaker 2: the Red Sox or the mizz Oh he's got the story, right,
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  Speaker 2: that's the answer. That's obviously the answer. Marketing capital m
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  Speaker 2: MLB shops sell some merch, sell some merch. This is
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  Speaker 2: Jacob Mazerowski's moment. Who is not supposed to be his moment.
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  Speaker 2: Five starts. You don't get your moment. The reason it's
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  Speaker 2: his moment is because Major League Baseball's marketing department's horny
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  Speaker 2: to sell some merch and create a star. They have
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  Speaker 2: to create the next big thing brand engagements, engagement farming,
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  Speaker 2: engagement farm, Get out the tractor, Grayma. It's engagement farming.
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  Speaker 2: And we should not be surprised. And the reason that
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  Speaker 2: we should not be surprised, if you've been paying attention,
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  Speaker 2: this is the same Rob Manford run organization on Major
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  Speaker 2: League Baseball that long ago gave up any of the
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  Speaker 2: traditions of the game. For digital impressions. This is what
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  Speaker 2: it's all about. Baseball is convinced they have taken the
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  Speaker 2: kool aid. They like the kool aid when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to the matrix of social media, and that's what it's
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  Speaker 2: all about. Right, So they go back and forth, or like,
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  Speaker 2: in some areas they want to honor tradition. Of course
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  Speaker 2: they can make a buck on it. They're like, I
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  Speaker 2: want to honor tradition, and then in other areas they
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  Speaker 2: want to take a bulldozer and just drive over the
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  Speaker 2: tradition of baseball. But they've allowed the matrix to form
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  Speaker 2: the blueprint on which direction they're going to go. And
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  Speaker 2: Misslerowski stuff comes in, uh and not I thought five
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  Speaker 2: starts was not en off. But considering what Baseball's done
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  Speaker 2: and the Mizz's story and all that stuff, it's like,
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  Speaker 2: all right, he's so far as good as advertised. Did
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  Speaker 2: have a stinker against the match, but we'll overlook that. See.
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  Speaker 2: The thing about it, though, is you would say, if
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  Speaker 2: he's as good as he's supposed to be, his time
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  Speaker 2: will come, his opportunity will come. And baseball's always in
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  Speaker 2: the past. But about letting that greatness unf fold over time, right,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't happen right away all the time, but right now,
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  Speaker 2: in this moment, No, that's not the case. That's not
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  Speaker 2: how we do things here.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: When there's a meme out there that Rob Manford doesn't
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  Speaker 2: really understand, the internet, it gets all excited about its
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, that's meme, meme, meme, I love the meme.
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  Speaker 2: I'm all about it, all about it, right and a
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  Speaker 2: couple of impressions on social media. They get all excited
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  Speaker 2: about that. But the All Star Game so okay, much
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  Speaker 2: like the Pro Bowl used to mean something, all Star
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  Speaker 2: Game not to be fair, the All Star Game. This
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  Speaker 2: has been a thing which has gone the wrong direction
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  Speaker 2: for a long time, like it's been going a wrong
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  Speaker 2: direction for many many years here. But is another staged
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  Speaker 2: moment by Major League Baseball, right stage managed for theater.
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  Speaker 2: It's a like a Broadway show here. And baseball is
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  Speaker 2: so desperate. They have such low self esteem at Major
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  Speaker 2: League Baseball. They want to look cool. They do everything
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  Speaker 2: they can to look cool, and they just can't help themselves.
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  Speaker 2: They can't because it's all about being cool and whether
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  Speaker 2: that means they have to erode things that made the
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  Speaker 2: sport what it became valuable for it doesn't matter. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: it's all about.
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  Speaker 3: The clickety click clicketty clickty click atty click and he
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  Speaker 3: click anny click. And those those clips of the mizz
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  Speaker 3: on Instagram are really good. So five starts, I mean, okay,
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  Speaker 3: but that being you'd admit those are some good, good
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  Speaker 3: looking clips on social media. Right now we turned the page.
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  Speaker 2: So in the face of the pushback, and there has
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  Speaker 2: been some pushback by players and the old timers in baseball,
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  Speaker 2: the old heads in baseball pushback on adding Jacob Mazeroski
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  Speaker 2: to the All Star team after five games. Major League
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  Speaker 2: Baseball officials claim that it's not their fault. They claim
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  Speaker 2: they tried, they did everything they could in their power
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  Speaker 2: to find someone else, and they told their buddies in
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  Speaker 2: the media. They said they actually reached out to over
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  Speaker 2: a dozen or right around a dozen. I think the
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  Speaker 2: number I saw was a dozen over the weekend, a
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  Speaker 2: dozen pitchers looking to replace They needed a replacement for
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  Speaker 2: the All Star Game, and they kept looking and looking
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  Speaker 2: and looking and looking until they finally got to Jacob Zerowski.
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  Speaker 2: He agreed to do it. So do you believe it
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  Speaker 2: or not? Do you believe it or not that Baseball's like, well, listen,
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  Speaker 2: we tried. We didn't really want to bring this guy,
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  Speaker 2: but we had no other options because we went down
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  Speaker 2: in order and we got to him and we had
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  Speaker 2: to go with him because there was nobody else. So
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  Speaker 2: I am not a believer on this. I am not
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  Speaker 2: a believer. This is again a M and M, a
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  Speaker 2: marketing move. It is an eminem Just own it, just
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  Speaker 2: own it. Say listen, the guy doesn't really deserve it,
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  Speaker 2: but people like him and we think he's going to
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  Speaker 2: be good, so we want to see him in the
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  Speaker 2: All Star Game. And it's an exhibition game, so who cares.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. Now, there's a wider issue here, which is
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  Speaker 2: absolutely a thing, and it's the disease is all over,
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  Speaker 2: the plague is all over professional sports. But the marketing
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  Speaker 2: move was why the Miz is in the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 2: And when you pieced, when you piece together the puzzle,
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  Speaker 2: you put the jigsaw puzzle together. Here, Major League Baseball,
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  Speaker 2: if they had wanted to, could have found someone else
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  Speaker 2: to go to the All Star Game. Now they might
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  Speaker 2: have had to go down to like twenty pick twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: They would have gotten someone for the All Star Game,
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  Speaker 2: and they should have found someone else. They obviously did not.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't look that hard. My theory is they didn't
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  Speaker 2: look that hard, and if you look at this through
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  Speaker 2: that lens, that they weren't really trying to find someone
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  Speaker 2: other than a miz. They wanted him to be in
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  Speaker 2: the All Star Game. It's like that Olivia Rodrigo song
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  Speaker 2: deja vu, because remember last year we had this similar conversation. Now,
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  Speaker 2: last year Major League Baseball added you remember they added
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  Speaker 2: that's right, Paul Skeins, the Pirates phenom who let the
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  Speaker 2: baseball world on fire a year ago. Paul Skins. Now
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  Speaker 2: he made the All Star Game. He started the All
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  Speaker 2: Star Game last year as a hot shot rookie, eleven
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  Speaker 2: starts into his big league career. So so eleven starts
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  Speaker 2: in fine. Now we supported that. Last year we thought
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  Speaker 2: that was okay. This we did not support.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 2: The reason the difference is rather obvious. The average starting
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  Speaker 2: pitcher in baseball will make around thirty four starts. Most
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  Speaker 2: of them do not hit that number, but the number
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  Speaker 2: is about thirty four starts per year based on one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two games that somebody starts. You're supposed
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  Speaker 2: to make if you're in the starting rotation. So eleven
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  Speaker 2: starts out of thirty four works out to be thirty
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  Speaker 2: two percent of a full season. Now the numbers even higher,
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  Speaker 2: the percentage even higher if the average number goes down
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  Speaker 2: to thirty. But we'll say it's thirty four. So that's
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  Speaker 2: thirty two percent of a season. The Miz starting five
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  Speaker 2: games for the Brew Crew before the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 2: Five that is less than fifteen percent of the full
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  Speaker 2: season of starts, and you make an All Star appearance,
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  Speaker 2: and that's where we are. That's where we are now.
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  Speaker 2: Last word, the Fighting Pills very upset that their pitcher
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  Speaker 2: did not make the All Star Game. Instead, Jacob Mazeroski
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  Speaker 2: made it. Now one of the outspoken critics, a man
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  Speaker 2: that is notorious for hitting the home run at the
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  Speaker 2: time you shouldn't hit a home run when someone's giving
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  Speaker 2: a grobbling apology on television. Nick Castellanos, Now, he came
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  Speaker 2: out so winging. He came out swinging. The Phillies outfielder
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  Speaker 2: was not happy and he's not happy with the way
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  Speaker 2: the All Star Game is going. He's also one of
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  Speaker 2: those guys that has All Star numbers, but I don't
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  Speaker 2: believe he's on the All Star Team Anyway, Nick Castellanos
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  Speaker 2: said of the All Star game quote, it's turning into
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  Speaker 2: the Savannah bananas. It's turning into the Savannah bananas. Your thoughts,
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  Speaker 2: all right? So my thought on this is that is
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  Speaker 2: exactly what baseball wants. That is their wet dream. Am
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  Speaker 2: I wrong? Baseball wants Savannah banana. They want the bananas.
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  Speaker 2: They need the bananas. Baseball loves bananas. They do. They're jealous.
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I've heard this from people who work
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  Speaker 2: in baseball. The people with the League office are jealous
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  Speaker 2: of the Savannah Bananas, who are essentially the Harlem Globetrotters
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  Speaker 2: of baseball, right, barnstorming group. They're on television now, They've
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  Speaker 2: got a cult following people seem to like, and they
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  Speaker 2: sell out football stadiums and baseball. It annoys them. They're like,
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  Speaker 2: we've been around for one hundred and forty something years,
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  Speaker 2: what do you do it? It bothers them. They're annoyed
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  Speaker 2: by this. They're jealous of the attention that in the
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  Speaker 2: social media world they are seen as cool and the
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  Speaker 2: bananas are cool. When has the banana ever been cool? Well,
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  Speaker 2: they Savannah bananas are cool. Pac stadium, social media content
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  Speaker 2: buzz on social media, television audience. I don't think it's huge,
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  Speaker 2: but people are watching, and that is the core of
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  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball's business plan. Right. They don't have to
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  Speaker 2: pay the Savannah Bananas. The players on the team make peanuts.
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  Speaker 2: They don't even get paid bananas. They they get paid
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  Speaker 2: peanuts because they're cheaper. They can't even afford bananas to
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  Speaker 2: pay them. They pay them with peanuts. And major League
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  Speaker 2: Baseball is if you look at the rock and roll
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  Speaker 2: element of having fun, you know, which is what they
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  Speaker 2: have when you watch the highlights. I've never watched a
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  Speaker 2: full Savannah Bananas game, so I couldn't tell you, but
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  Speaker 2: it appears they're having fun now. Furthermore so, Major League
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  Speaker 2: Baseball also concerned about the rash of players who have
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  Speaker 2: bailed out. We mentioned this players that have bailed out
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: of the All Star Game. They don't want to show up.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: And then the most common reason, let's see, I'm gonna
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: give you a phrase to see if you can tell
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: me where this phrase origin is the most common reason
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: that Major League Baseball players have opted out of the
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  Speaker 2: All Star Game. Twenty twenty five, the Year of Our
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Lord is rest and recuperation, Rest and recuperation, all right?
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  Speaker 2: So what is behind? What is behind the Major League
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  Speaker 2: Baseball players skipping the All Star Game for rest and recuperation,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: all right? So this is a sign of the times.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: It's the same brain rot they have in the other sports,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: and it's been around for a while, right. These baseball guys,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: they see those softy NBA players bitching about back to
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: back games like we play like sometimes we'll play two
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: weeks in a row with no days, Oh my god.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: And the basketball players they play one game and they
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: can play in it. Oh my, that whole thing, all right.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: So there were in the age of hey, I want
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  Speaker 2: the hedonist experience, I want the work life balance is
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: what they want, and it's it's been building and building,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: and Billy, I mean over twenty years ago, I was
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: on these microphones of Fox Sports Radio. The All Star
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Game was in Milwaukee, and the defining moment of Bud Selik,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: who overlooked all the steroid guys. But Bud Ceilik is
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: the commissioner they used car salesman there through his arm
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: up in the air everywhere, literally right in the eleventh
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: inning of a tie game of a tie game and
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: told the umpires he said, listen, they're out of pitchers.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Tie game. And the reason they were out of players
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: was because now the game intered in the tie the
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: All Star Game. The players were leaving the stadium while
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: the game was going on. They couldn't stand being in Milwaukee.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: They were trying to get out of there. They get
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: the airport out of there to go to the Bahamas
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: or Hawaii or wherever, and said they couldn't wait to
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: get out of the airport. Right And Major League Baseball
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: had this this time it counts marketing campaign for years
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: after that where they actually decided the World Series home
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: field advantage based on who won the All Star Game
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: to stick it to the players. But here we are again.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: The players today are like, hey, we see what the
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: NBA guys are doing. We're just as big as cream
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: puff as those NBA guys. We want that extra time off.
• 20:55
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• 20:57
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• 25:13
  Speaker 2: the Major League Baseball All Star players were racing out
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  Speaker 2: to LA for the stupid lame eSPI Award show the
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  Speaker 2: day later. Well that was part of it, but trust me,
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  Speaker 2: they were leaving. I remember Kevin Kennedy, who used to
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: work here, was doing those interviews in the dugout, and
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: they were they could not wait to get out of it.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: By the way, why is the SBI still on No
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  Speaker 2: one watches award shows No one man Mark the full
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  Speaker 2: name guy, the lunatic in Medford, Oregon is hiding behind
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• 25:46
  Speaker 2: not going to read those until he calls in. King
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Rory writes, In says another boomer take, saying Jacob Mazarowski
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: did not earn his spot in the All Star Game. Yes,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: five starts, five starts, King Rory. If that he makes
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: it a boomer take, so be it. He says. If
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Boyd didn't play the load management card, the misz wouldn't
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: be going. Simple as that, Jacob Azerowski is the future
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: of Major League Baseball and isn't leaving Milwaukee anytime soon. Well,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: he's not leaving Milwaukee because he can't leave Milwaukee. He's
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: essentially seven years of arbitration and all that the first
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: three years you're not even eligible for arbitration, and then
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: after that you are eligible. Was essentially under team control
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: for seven years. So of course, King Rory his favorite
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: baseball team is the Brewers. He's got a poster of
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Bernie Brewer. And when he was a kid, he'd go
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: to the playground and go down the slide and King
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Roy thought he was Bernie Brewer going down the slot.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: He imagined him as Bernie Brewer. That's what he thought.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Shane in des Moines writes in and he says, Ben
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: the mud pie story you told him the Fifth Hour
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: has me thinking, Dear God, you said you'll be on
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: your deathbed one day and want time back that you
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: won't get. How much time do you think you'll want
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: back based on those events? Well, that would be the
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: entire thirty seven minutes. Burner account says, Also good monologue,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Benjamin B. Plus and my early answer to the who
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: in my game is the thirty seven minute mudplay mud Pie. Yeah,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: if you want to hear that story, it's on the
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Fifth Hour podcast. But I went to a restaurant and
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: there was a very long delay that I was not anticipating.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: That screwed up my entire schedule because someone's incompetent their job.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: But you got a free mud pie out of it. No,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: I wasn't even free. I had to pay for it anyway.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: We split happened. We split the bill, but total incompetence
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: of the restaurant. Jeremy writes and says, these players need
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: to stop complaining about playing four days in a row
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: for millions, when average people get paid twenty dollars an
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: hour to work five to seven days a week. Let's
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: see who else do. Let's go to the phone. So
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: let's say hello to Andre, who's in the Commonwealth, and
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Andre is in the leadoff chair. Hello, Andre, Welcome, Oh Ben.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: How are you. It's good to be with you. Now, listen,
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: major League Baseball. This is it's a crack in the armor.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: But it's a notable crack. Notable crack in the armor. Right,
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: and Willison concurs with me in terms of that.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Willis is comfortable with the show. Now, Andre, that there was.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Willis was very shy. At first he would not make
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: any noise. We thought Willis was fake. But now all
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, Willis is ready to engage in the
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: look at that unbelievable. I love when he like, he's like,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: do you have any Scooby sack? Do you have any
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Scooby snacks? For Willis?
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Do you have any I do have a Scooby snack? Well,
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: you know, because he's fire up about this because baseball,
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: you know, we'll get a snacker ruby. Okay, all right,
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: so he whooped that down. But you know this. It
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: seems like a small thing, okay, but I'm very concerned
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: about Major League Baseball and their standards and all of
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: this participation coach of stuff that we got going on,
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: right and again from willis you know, I played only
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: a handful of games. Of course, he's a boy wonder.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: So we can make the All Star Game next year, Ben, Okay,
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: and the year after that, and the year after that
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: and the year after that. Okay, Baseball you're the gold
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: standard of adult sports when it comes to achievement. Okay,
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: cools might have to be cut off on this so
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: I can make my points. But the Baseball Hall of
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: Fame still means something. Right, If you make it to
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: the Baseball Hall of Fame, get eighty eighty five percent
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: whatever the case may be, that you know you were
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: actually a Hall of Famer, Okay. Whereas my games more
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: to basketball. All you have to do is, you know,
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: do something charitable, smile at somebody, give somebody a high five,
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: and then you're in the Hall of Fame.
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: I know it's two different things, Ben, the All Star
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: Game and the Hall of Fame, but there is a
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: through line. Okay. An All Star is an All sar,
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: you have to earn it. And when you take this
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: stance of we're gonna go with the best storyline, we're
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: gonna go with the best narrative, we're going to be
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: trending so on and sportce because there's a little bit
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: of this with Kershaw, him making the All Star Game
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: and he hasn't had.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: The best tame no, but Andre he didn't want to
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: go though. You know, Kershaw did not want to go
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: because when they announced it on that Sunday, Kershaw refused
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: to talk to the media because he was like, how
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: can I get the hell out of this? I don't
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: want to go to Atlanta for the All Star Game.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: And then they talked to him and they probably paid
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: him some extra money or whatever, and they convinced him
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: to go, and then all of a sudden, the next
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: day he was even the next day he wasn't like
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: all in. But you could tell kershe I didn't want
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: go to the All Star Game. He didn't want to
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: go to Atlanta and hang out like a mascot there
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: and wave at everyone, and he knows he doesn't deserve.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: To be there, and they shouldn't have wanted to have
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: him because it's not his year, So I just I
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: spect more from baseball, the tradition, that history.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Why would you expect more? This is the Rob Manford
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: ear This guy is the same guy that rewarded the
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: cheating a holes. I almost said it in Houston while
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: they were cheating to win the World Series. He ran interference,
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: he ran protection. He didn't punish any of the players
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: that were doing it. That's the commission, that's the leadership
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: of Major League Baseball. That's Rob Manford right there. So
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: why would you expect Why would you expl Why would
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: you expect Rob Manford, the same guy that ran interference
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: for that little cheating so be Altuve and all those
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: other schmucks. Why would you expect him to do something right?
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: I shouldn't have done.
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: Ben.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: You know, you gotta trust, but verify, And he already
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: unfooled me the one time talking about, well, you know,
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: the World Series is just to hunk a metal, you know,
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: and what doesn't really mean anything.
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: So you know, this is the guy.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: When he gave out the World Series trophy, oftenimes he
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: sounds like he's drunk while he's handing out the trophy.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: Okay, got to lay up to martinis in the press box,
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: you know. But Rob, you know, there's a couple of
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: things now you're growing the game, or we got some
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: things that that that that are positive, that does the
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: pitchclock is wonderful. Okay, I'm really excited about this third
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: challenge that they brought into baseball. Frankly, it's a couple
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: of many years late. We had the Wimbledon championships. You know,
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: mister mister Janique Center, even though we cheated before with
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: the PDS, you know, was happy for him and uh
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: iig swy tech of apologize in advance. But my point
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: with the connection to tennis is their challenge that they've incorporated.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: It's been almost a decade. It's a wonderful thing. It
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: makes the game better. So I was super excited about
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: that challenge that they're incorporating in the All Star Game.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: But then all this participation trophy stuff. Ben, Okay, it
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: took me off my high.
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: Hurt.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: Course, I'm not. I'm not so thrilled and excited now
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: because baseball again, hold, you know, here's what we need
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: in conclusion, not just some more w willis we need
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: some Here's what we need in conclusion. You need to
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: sit down and watch to feel the dreams, mister Rob Manford. Okay,
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: and you got to you gotta get back to the
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: to the to the basics. Okay. If you build it,
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: they will come. Okay. It's the product that people that
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: resonates with people.
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: Baseball.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: Okay, your high standards Okay, not your you know, ninety
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: nine cent cheap old depot type stuff. Your high standards
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: is what adds value to the game. These two folks
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: shouldn't have been All stars, okay. And don't make it
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: a habit. Okay, keep the dirts right challenge because that's
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: going to add value to baseball and increase the money
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: for everybody. But get rid of these patent trophy all right.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: There's an andre. Doctor Crude writes in I was answering
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: some email in the fifth hour mail bag on the
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Sunday Pod, and there's a guy from LA who lives
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: in Houston. He said, there's some dude on the radio
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: in Houston who's ripping you. And I've heard about this.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: I don't know who it is now, Doctor Crewde names
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: the guy, but I'm not going to give him a
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: publicity on on our affiliates. But apparently this loser that
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: works at our affiliate in Houston. There, he says, he
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: does not sound like he's He sounds like he's not
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: your biggest fan. Well that's good. I like that he
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: has no content, though, And think about how pathetic, how
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: pathetic this guy must be as a talk show host
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: that he has nothing to talk about to repackage my
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: leftover takes. My god, do your own job, you loser.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, I know I got to do the heavy
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: lifting for everybody, but my god, do your own show,
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: have your own takes. I mean that is like that'd
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: be the laziest talk show host, this guy. And I'm
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: not gonna name him. You know you know those in Houston, though,
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: god'd be the laziest guy. What a dumb thing to do.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, this guy can't come up with his own
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: original takes. He's so lazy he probably shows up. He's
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: one of those guys that rips and reads off like
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: ESPN's website, whatever's on. There's a lot of guys like that.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: They don't really prep They're rolling there one minute before
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: the show and then all right here I'm gonna talking
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: about this. Wow, what a loser? I mean, my god, well,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: I got to clean up this business. There's a lot
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: of crap in this business. Anyway, Let's go to Big Daddy.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Big Daddy is next. Hello, Big Daddy, welcome in Memphis.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: You'd like to talk to all of his all of
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: his voters.
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: Hello, Big Daddy. Hey man, I rather listen to Willis
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: than Andre. He's making more to this Andre. You love
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: that merchant man.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta do.
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  Speaker 2: I have a dog, Yes, I have a dog. I
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  Speaker 2: have a moxy. I have an English bulldog, big fat
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  Speaker 2: English bulldog that farts all the time.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I have a Jack Russell.
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  Speaker 2: You have Jack Russell, Terry. Those are good dogs.
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  Speaker 6: Look Dack Russell Man, Yeah, yeah, yeah. I called him
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  Speaker 6: buddy man.
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  Speaker 2: Buddy is he? Is he a cuddler?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah? Good to go. If I was on the phone,
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't have been able to talk. It is right now.
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  Speaker 2: I understand completely.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
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  Speaker 6: We ain't got nothing to look at, you know, because
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: Lebron getting ready to retire.
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  Speaker 2: So he's not going to retire. The problem Lebron's got
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: is that in order for the Lakers to move Lebron,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: they've got to include Bronnie James. It's gotta be easy.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: You can't keep Bronnie around because the only reason Bronni's
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: there is because Lebron Browny can't play sucks, so they
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: got to trade him with Lebron and so it's like
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: they gotta come, both of them have to go somewhere.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Man, you know you're talking about the bagels a
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  Speaker 6: while back. You know, I've never had a bagel never.
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  Speaker 2: No, you gotta change that now whole Now. You got
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  Speaker 2: to do it the right way. I'm not big, big
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  Speaker 2: daddy though, you got you. I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know the Memphis bagel scene. I don't think of when
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: I think about bagels in Memphis.
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  Speaker 6: I never had one. I've had all, but I never
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: had a baby.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Listen, listen to me. Listen, listen to me. All I say,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta do it the right way. You gotta go
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: and find the top. Every town has a great bagel shop.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: You gotta find the top bagel shop in Memphis. And
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: you got to find out when they make the bagels,
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  Speaker 2: and you've got to go in there. You got to
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  Speaker 2: go in there when they they're fresh out of the oven.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, when that yeah, when that light rot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I get you will be like, what have I done?
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Why have I not enjoyed the bagel? I love the
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  Speaker 2: bagel that be the.
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  Speaker 6: Best to get, not the one off the bread out.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, you don't want to get those. Those
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: have been there's a lot of chemicals in those. They've
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: been sitting around for You want to get a fresh bagel. Now,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: you can recreate that a little bit if you put
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: that like the air fryer and heat it up a
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: little bit and it'll come back to life. But generally speaking,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: as a rule of thumb, here big Daddy, you gotta
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: get it fresh from the bakery, one of the.
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  Speaker 6: Best one known now, you know, because you you know,
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  Speaker 6: have good ideas about your food.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Look at that. I should do a food blog.
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  Speaker 2: I should be a FOODI yeah, yeah, yeah, man, a
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: certain stuff.
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: I hear the right of too long some of her stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You know, but really what kind of stuff? What kind
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: of advices Lorraine?
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  Speaker 6: Well you know, I mean, you know what.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: We're eating. Oh well, she's always ordering for not tonight
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  Speaker 2: though I don't. Yeah, yeah, I haven't seen any.
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  Speaker 6: Food he got the much that's what he ordered, So
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  Speaker 6: you know, I.
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  Speaker 2: Understand, I understand. I used to man, Maggie, the old
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  Speaker 2: days before I got old, I used to eat. I
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: go to the liquor store down the street. Here. We
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: bought gummy sharks and gummy bears and gandy.
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: And if I just liquor, that would be one of them.
• 37:35
  Speaker 6: Look shot with the energy, right man? Thingleep?
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  Speaker 2: I hear you all right, Ben? Well, big Daddy, thank you, buddy.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Be good. There's the great Big Daddy checking in saying hello.
• 37:48
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to the tabloid Brady. We'll get to the
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  Speaker 2: tabloid Brady. We'll get to that coming up here in
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: a couple of minutes. But time now for the who
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and sixteen days, third youngest player to be
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  Speaker 2: drafted number one overall in the jew July draft order.
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  Speaker 2: Only Ken Grivey Junior in nineteen eighty seven and me
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: were younger when drafted number one overall. Who am I?
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: That's the question, the answer. We'll get to it. We'll
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  Speaker 2: With the number one pick in the twenty five the
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  Speaker 2: Nationals selected Eli Willits from Oklahoma high school kid. He's
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  Speaker 2: the third youngest player to be drafted in the number
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  Speaker 2: one slot, behind Ken Griffy Junior in nineteen eighty seven
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  Speaker 2: and me, Who am I Lorena? Who am I Superman?
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: Well close to that that would be Tim Foley from
• 41:04
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  Speaker 2: It was a pretty average major league player, but he
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