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Hour 2 - The Cap Is On Tap · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Yabba-dabba-doo! It's hour number two! And here in hour number two,
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  Speaker 1: we start out with baseball, the labor negotiations. Talking about
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  Speaker 1: that on the Ben Maller Show. Does Rob Manford actually
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  Speaker 1: believe that the Players Union is going to accept a
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  Speaker 1: salary cap? Or is this all a version of political theater?
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  Speaker 1: A little kabuki theater. Did Brewers manager Pat Murphy have
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  Speaker 1: a change of heart or... Did somebody with a bigger
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  Speaker 1: checkbook tell him he had to apologize to the Yankees'
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  Speaker 1: Brian Cashman? We'll talk about that. How much confidence should
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  Speaker 1: Mariner fans have with Jason Kanzler, a manager who never
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  Speaker 1: managed a game in his life, and now he's taking
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  Speaker 1: a big league job? What a modern hire that is.
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  Speaker 1: That and more. We've got Mallard to the third degree.
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  Speaker 1: Here it is, our number two. They keep barking. They
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  Speaker 1: say the cap is on tap. Is it really on tap, though?
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  Speaker 1: Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
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  Speaker 1: we are side by side. And Nostradinus has been very quiet.
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  Speaker 1: can you give the people some bull? I said, sure,
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  Speaker 1: we begin anew here. And oh, what fun it is
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  Speaker 1: this hour. We'll get back to the football conversation. But
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  Speaker 1: our lead this hour from the boardroom. Now, some people
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  Speaker 1: get very bored when they hear about the boardroom. We
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  Speaker 1: have a labor update. Labor update. Not a pregnancy update,
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  Speaker 1: but a labor update. Labor talk update. So if you
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  Speaker 1: have not heard, perhaps not. As we inch closer, less
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  Speaker 1: than a month away from the end of the baseball fun,
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  Speaker 1: the hot stove league, all that will be put on
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  Speaker 1: ice as baseball will go Officially on hiatus. Well, Major
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball owners, if you've not heard, have now proposed
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  Speaker 1: delaying the salary cap. Not getting rid of the idea
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  Speaker 1: of a salary cap, but delaying the salary cap until
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  Speaker 1: 2028 rather than next season, 2027. Now, the latest plan,
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  Speaker 1: which was conveniently leaked... to a useful idiot behind a
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  Speaker 1: paywall at the Athletic to get the story out. The
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  Speaker 1: baseball owner's plan includes $ 258 million payroll ceilings. You can't
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  Speaker 1: go over $ 258 million. $ 180 million floor. The floor is lava.
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  Speaker 1: The floor is lava. So that means that not one,
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  Speaker 1: not two, not three, not four, not five, not six,
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  Speaker 1: not seven, eight MLB teams, including... the heavy hitters, the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees, the Mets, the Red Sox, would all have
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  Speaker 1: to get haircuts. They'd all have to get rid of payroll.
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  Speaker 1: They're over the threshold. Eight teams, they would face payroll
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  Speaker 1: cuts of $ 528 million. They'd have to unload $ 528 million
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  Speaker 1: of salary. There are 12, quote, small market teams... That
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  Speaker 1: would have to get rid of salary as well, or
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  Speaker 1: add salary. They have to add salary. Include. This is hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: So the teams that are going to be mandated to
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  Speaker 1: add salary are Tampa Bay, who won the American League pennant,
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  Speaker 1: and Milwaukee, who won the World Series. Hello? Make it
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  Speaker 1: make sense. Now, the owners continue to argue, through their
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  Speaker 1: useful idiots in the media, they argue that the system
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  Speaker 1: would promote competitive balance and The Players Union responded by saying,
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  Speaker 1: Ixnay on the plan A, or something like that is
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  Speaker 1: what they said, with the current labor agreement expiring December 1st.
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  Speaker 1: We are in the 11th hour now. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 1: And we're close to kaboom is what we're close to.
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  Speaker 1: They're at loggerheads, and a lockout is looming on the horizon.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where we are. So that is a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. Does Commissioner
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  Speaker 1: Rob Manford actually believe that the Players Union will accept
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  Speaker 1: a salary cap, or is this all a version of
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  Speaker 1: political theater? Is this all political theater by Major League Baseball?
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  Speaker 1: Or do they actually believe, the owners and Rob Manford,
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  Speaker 1: that there will be some kind of cap? So I've
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  Speaker 1: got the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company, the Copacabana, and JetBlue.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll combine all of these things together, and we
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  Speaker 1: will whistle while we work. We're going to whistle, whistle,
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  Speaker 1: whistle while we work. So number one.
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  Speaker 3: Number one.
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  Speaker 1: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 1: Number one.
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  Speaker 4: Number one.
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  Speaker 3: Stop.
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  Speaker 4: Stop.
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  Speaker 1: So Rob Manford is a weenie. That's the take.
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  Speaker 5: Bye!
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  Speaker 1: I'm told we can't leave that as the take. We
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  Speaker 1: have to expand on the take. So Rob Manford's a
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  Speaker 1: weenie in a three-piece suit. Is that good enough for you?
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  Speaker 1: You want more? I'll give you more. We know he's
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  Speaker 1: obviously carrying the water of the owners. He's a glorified
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  Speaker 1: ventriloquist dummy, Rob Manford. He gets paid a lot of
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  Speaker 1: money for it. Manford, he's got a little side hustle.
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  Speaker 1: The commissioner of baseball is working for the modern-day Kickapoo
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  Speaker 1: Indian Medicine Company. And if you know anything about the
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  Speaker 1: history of the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company, then you know
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  Speaker 1: exactly where I'm going with this. But if you don't,
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  Speaker 1: he's got the traveling wagon, Rob Manford, and the miracle elixir.
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  Speaker 1: He's got that in his bag. And there's a rattlesnake
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  Speaker 1: dangling from his fist. Now, Manford is the leading man
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  Speaker 1: in the new movie, Honey, I Shrunk the Payroll, starring
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  Speaker 1: Rob Manford and the MLB owners. And, of course, the
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  Speaker 1: owners are the ones that are the director and producer.
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  Speaker 1: They're bankrolling the film. Honey, I shrunk the payroll. They're
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  Speaker 1: behind that. So step right up, ladies and gentlemen. The
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  Speaker 1: Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company right there. And one tablespoon, one
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  Speaker 1: tablespoon of salary cap cures competitive imbalance, baldness, gout, and
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  Speaker 1: chronic losing. Pure snake oil. Which is where that phrase
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  Speaker 1: comes from. The Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company. They would go
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  Speaker 1: around the country... And sell snake oil. As a magic elixir.
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  Speaker 1: And people bought it. And it didn't work. Because it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't work. But people believed it worked. And that's all
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  Speaker 1: that mattered. The placebo effect. And they sold. I read
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  Speaker 1: books about this crap. It was in my infomercial book.
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  Speaker 1: Which I quote a lot here. They had a chapter
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  Speaker 1: about the original infomercial people. That would go around. That
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  Speaker 1: same model that these jackasses used. Is used to this day.
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  Speaker 1: Out on boardwalks.
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  Speaker 4: And.
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  Speaker 1: Places where there's a lot of tourists and whatnot. They
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  Speaker 1: used the same techniques they used way back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: But it's snake oil. And the players' union is not
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  Speaker 1: buying a single bottle. They're like, we're good. We're good
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  Speaker 1: on that. And it's not competitive balance. It's false advertising.
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  Speaker 1: It's not competitive balance. It's competitive cheapness is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: And the owners are so hung up that they have
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  Speaker 1: to have a salary cap They don't care about the data,
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  Speaker 1: which indicates this is not good for their business. It's
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  Speaker 1: good for their franchise values, which I guess is ultimately
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  Speaker 1: all they care about. But in terms of the growth
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  Speaker 1: and the health of the game, it's not good. And
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  Speaker 1: what is my evidence? Well, we just got the owner's
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  Speaker 1: wet dream for competitive balance. A couple of small market teams,
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee and Tampa Bay, went mano a mano they were
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  Speaker 1: locked up in a battle there and the television audience
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  Speaker 1: the american people spoke and all those those geniuses they
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  Speaker 1: say oh we whoa we are tired of the dodgers
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  Speaker 1: we don't like the dodgers of the world series we
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  Speaker 1: need some new blood It's another reason why you should
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  Speaker 1: not believe the internet. If you believe social media, this
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  Speaker 1: would have been a massive ratings win. Because social media
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  Speaker 1: was all done with big market teams. They wanted the underdog.
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  Speaker 1: They got it. They lost 25%. 25% of their television audience.
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  Speaker 2: Poof.
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  Speaker 1: Poof. Gone. No hocus pocus. Just Brewers-Rays baseball. And they
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  Speaker 1: were not watching. It was not a case, if you
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  Speaker 1: build it, they will come. If you build it, they'll
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  Speaker 1: go watch a movie. They're not watching. Congratulations. You ordered
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  Speaker 1: a 40-ounce USDA Prime Tomahawk ribeye. And you ended up
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  Speaker 1: getting Amy's Veggie Loaf. Put that in your microwave and
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  Speaker 1: enjoy your meal. Who goofed? I've got to know. But
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  Speaker 1: this is what the owners want. They just have... Amazing evidence, data,
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  Speaker 1: that this is not good long-term. You've lost 25% of
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  Speaker 1: your audience. The NBA is going through the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's fascinating. All these people, we want competitive balance. Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: City was in the finals.
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  Speaker 6: Death.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this past year, you had New York to save
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  Speaker 1: the ratings. From San Antonio. But Oklahoma City, Indiana was
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  Speaker 1: a disaster for the television ratings. All right, now, page two.
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  Speaker 1: To Milwaukee we go. The aforementioned champions of baseball. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I was told by one of my critics, this guy
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  Speaker 1: Supermarket Steve, that no one, no one was upset with
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  Speaker 1: Brewers manager Pat Murphy trashing the Yankees, and I was
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  Speaker 1: making that up. I think he accused me of, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: making that whole thing up. And I said, well, no,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't make it up. I just went with... There
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  Speaker 1: was a group. Whether it's a lot or not, it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to tell because of the bots and the algorithms
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So, Pat Murphy had made some comments.
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  Speaker 1: And the Brewers manager, Pat Murphy, if you're a little
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  Speaker 1: late to the party, after the Brewers won the championship,
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  Speaker 1: he made some comments that were taking shots at the
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  Speaker 1: Bronx Bombers. Well, Pat Murphy apologized for that viral video
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  Speaker 1: that made the rounds. We talked about it.
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  Speaker 3: He was.
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  Speaker 1: caught on candid camera, calling the Yankees horse-blank, a horse-blank team,
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  Speaker 1: accusing their players of being selfish. They are selfish! Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Just want to make sure we're on the same page.
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  Speaker 1: Murphy personally contacted Brian Cashman, that general manager weasel guy
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  Speaker 1: for the Yankees, Brian Cashman, to explain himself. Now, Murphy
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  Speaker 1: claimed that the comments were part of a playful banter
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  Speaker 1: with former Yankee Jake Bauer. or Jake Bowers, rather, who
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  Speaker 1: was a one-time Yankee and played well, had the greatest
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  Speaker 1: year he's had in the big leagues. He was a
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  Speaker 1: fringe major league guy, not very good, and played very well.
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  Speaker 1: Had some big moments in the playoffs from Milwaukee on
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  Speaker 1: their way to the World Series. So it was Murphy's like, listen,
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  Speaker 1: this is what we do. We bust each other's balls.
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  Speaker 1: And I was ripping this guy saying he's going to
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  Speaker 1: get paid, going to go to a big market team,
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  Speaker 1: and he's not going to play baseball the way we
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  Speaker 1: play baseball. And that's it. So he insisted his real
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  Speaker 1: target was the big payroll teams, Pat Murphy tossed that out,
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  Speaker 1: where individual aspirations, the baseball reference page stats, are more important.
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  Speaker 1: And they often undermine winning baseball, because you're not helping
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  Speaker 1: the next guy out. You're like, I'm helping myself out.
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  Speaker 1: And that's it. So Pat Murphy told an uncomfortable truth,
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers manager said, And the Yankees and the social
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  Speaker 1: media mob went bonkers. They went berserk. They were upset.
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  Speaker 1: And suddenly the cranky Brewers skipper has to do the
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  Speaker 1: walk of shame. Or in this case, the phone call
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  Speaker 1: of shame and apologize. The question. Here it is. And
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  Speaker 1: you can answer in a minute. I'll give out the
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  Speaker 1: number in a minute. Don't answer now. Do not answer now.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't given out the number and I haven't asked
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  Speaker 1: the question. So don't answer now. Here's the question. Did
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  Speaker 1: Brewers manager Pat Murphy... Have a change of heart? Did
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  Speaker 1: he legitimately have a change of heart? Or did somebody
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  Speaker 1: with a bigger checkbook tell him to apologize right now?
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  Speaker 1: You get on that phone and you apologize to the
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  Speaker 1: New York Yankees. All right, so you think Pat Murphy,
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  Speaker 1: just between us, you think Pat Murphy woke up and
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  Speaker 1: suddenly had this guilty conscience because of what he had said?
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  Speaker 1: Come on, please. The Brewers manager is a old, cranky,
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  Speaker 1: baseball lifer. He's not going to apologize. He's the kind
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  Speaker 1: of guy that if he bumped into you at the
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  Speaker 1: grocery store, he wouldn't apologize. He's that guy. So why
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  Speaker 1: would he apologize? He's at the supermarket. He's not going
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  Speaker 1: to apologize. I bumped into you. I'm not sorry. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not. And he probably meant every single word that
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  Speaker 1: he said... And that's it. It's pretty clear. You don't
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  Speaker 1: need me to tell you that somebody got to him.
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  Speaker 1: And likely somebody in the ownership group for the Milwaukee Brewers,
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  Speaker 1: the baseball establishment, tap, tap, tapping Pat Murphy on the
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  Speaker 1: shoulder and ordering code red, dragging his fat ass straight
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  Speaker 1: to the principal's office. And you got to clean this up.
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  Speaker 1: I can picture in that cartoon bubble over the right
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  Speaker 1: side of my, my head here. I can, I can
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  Speaker 1: picture the way this all went down. So Pat Murphy
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  Speaker 1: makes the comment. It goes viral. There's some social media
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  Speaker 1: pushback and people upset and all that stuff. And so, okay.
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  Speaker 1: And the robber baron owners, these guys all hang out
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  Speaker 1: in the same circles, right? They get together at the Copacabana.
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  Speaker 1: They're sipping on some rum in the back where it's
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  Speaker 1: all dark there. The lights are dimmed and they're drinking
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  Speaker 1: their rum. And there's one guy over there drinking whiskey,
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  Speaker 1: and then there's somebody else who's got bourbon off to
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  Speaker 1: the side. But they're drinking, and then somebody who may
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  Speaker 1: or may not have the last name Steinbrenner complains. And then, ring, ring,
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers guy gets on the phone and says, Hey, Pat,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to clean this up, dude. You effed up.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to clean this up. And so Pat Murphy
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  Speaker 1: went from World Series champion... to Employee of the Month
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  Speaker 1: at the Yankees Sensitivity Seminar. Congratulations. And we know he
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  Speaker 1: did not commit a crime. Pat Murphy did not commit
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  Speaker 1: a crime. He committed the unforgivable sin. What is the
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  Speaker 1: unforgivable sin of telling the truth at a time you
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  Speaker 1: cannot tell the truth? Baseball, the aristocracy of baseball does
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  Speaker 1: not like that. Bad decorum. Bad decorum. So Murphy exposing
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  Speaker 1: the dirty little secret about big market ball versus scrappy
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  Speaker 1: dirt bag small market baseball. And that's that. And the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees don't need an apology. They actually need a mirror. Mirror,
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  Speaker 1: mirror on the wall. That's what they need. All right,
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  Speaker 1: final point. To Seattle we go. We have a new
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  Speaker 1: manager in Major League Baseball. The Mariners have hired someone
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  Speaker 1: named Jason Kanzler. Who the hell is that? Apparently he's 36.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for asking. He's 36 years old. He replaces Dan
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  Speaker 1: Wilson after an absolute puke in your mouth. 2026 season.
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  Speaker 1: Crying Craig ran out of tears. That's how bad the
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  Speaker 1: Mariners were this year. Robbie the Mariner fan actually became
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  Speaker 1: a Dodger fan for a week. That's how bad the
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  Speaker 1: Mariners were. So Kanzler previously had a front office suit job.
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  Speaker 1: He was the director of player development there. Now, how
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  Speaker 1: many years do you think this guy, Jason Kanzler, toiled
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  Speaker 1: away in the minor leagues to earn the right to
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  Speaker 1: manage a big league team? What do you think? I'll
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  Speaker 1: give you four options. Option A, this guy spent 10
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  Speaker 1: years in the minor leagues as a manager. Option B,
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  Speaker 1: he spent seven years as a manager. Option C, three
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  Speaker 1: years as a manager. Or option D, none of the above.
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  Speaker 1: All right, reveal answers. That would be D. You have
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  Speaker 1: managed as many big league games as the new manager
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  Speaker 1: of your Seattle Mariners. Yes, no managerial experience at any level.
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  Speaker 7: None.
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  Speaker 1: This is the way it is now. Former minor league
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  Speaker 1: outfielder for the Astros. He was assistant hitting coach in
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  Speaker 1: Houston back in the day. and he becomes baseball's second
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  Speaker 1: youngest manager behind the great Blake Butera, who's got that
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  Speaker 1: natitude in Washington. I know Rick in Maryland likes that
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  Speaker 1: because he says, morning time. He gets very excited about that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, question. How much confidence should the Mariner fan
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  Speaker 1: base have in Jason Kanzler, a manager who has never,
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  Speaker 1: ever managed a game? That's it. So this is... Rather simple.
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  Speaker 1: The answer is Zippo. It's kind of like going and
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  Speaker 1: playing the claw machine at the arcade. You don't really
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  Speaker 1: know what you're going to get. You hope you get
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  Speaker 1: something good. Likely whatever you get is going to drop
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  Speaker 1: out of the claw thing and that's it. The Mariners
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  Speaker 1: went from the school of hard knocks where they were
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  Speaker 1: in a game seven in the playoffs and had a
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  Speaker 1: shot at going to the World Series. And they go
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  Speaker 1: from the School of Hard Knocks to the University of
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Google Docs. Congratulations. Welcome to another Jerry DePoto weird science experiment.
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  Speaker 1: That's the general manager, Mr. 54%. He's a 54%-er. He
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: famously said a couple years back that the goal of
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: the Mariners is not to win championships. The goal is
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: to win 54% of their games every year. That way,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: dumb people buy tickets because the Mariners are in contention
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: with the Yankees and the other good teams. And that
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: makes him very happy about that. And so it's not
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: about being great. It's about winning 54% of the games.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: So the most interesting fun factor, this guy, the new
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: manager of the Mariners, worked as a high school chemistry
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: and physics teacher a couple years ago in Texas. So
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: imagine there's some kid right now who's, I guess, a
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: young adult because it was a few years ago. And
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: you're like, hey, dude, my chemistry teacher is now a
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: big league manager. That's kind of crazy, right? That's pretty nuts.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: So his first day managing, this guy Jason Kanzler, his
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: first managing of a baseball game will be in a
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Major League uniform.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Okay. That's great. It's kind of like your first flying lesson.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: You're in the cockpit of a JetBlue flight, and there's
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: 200 passengers behind you. That's a move. That's a move. So,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: in fact, Kanzler, this is the third consecutive Seattle Mariners
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: manager hired under president of baseball ops, the GM, Jerry DiPoto,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: with no prior managerial experience at any level. And, you know,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: like dating, like women have a type of guy. Some
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: women like the bad boys or guys like, you know,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: the big caboose on the lady. Whatever it might be.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: You have a type. Everyone's got a type. Everyone's got
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: a type. Jerry DiPoto. has a type. That's his type.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: And more evidence that the industrial complex of sports don't
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: care about feel of the game. They don't value, have
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: a hunch, bet a bunch, that kind of thing. And
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: it reminds me of the words of the former Chicago
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Cub manager, Joe Maddon, who said it best a couple
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: years ago when he was polaxed by the Angels. And
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Joe Maddon said that teams have turned the skipper, the manager...
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: into a middle manager, they're essentially just gophers repeating the
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: company line, no independent thought. And that's exactly what you
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: would think is going on here in Seattle. The Mariners
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: turning the manager of the team, the leader of the team,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: into a laboratory. And it turns out that if you
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: do like the Seattle Mariners, you are a lab rat.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: So congratulations on that. I am convinced if Jerry DiPoto
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: was allowed by Major League Baseball, the three finalists to
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: manage the Mariners would have been Chat, GPT, Grock, and Gemini.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: That's it. That would have been the three finalists. It
• 22:59
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• 23:02
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• 23:03
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• 23:05
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• 23:07
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• 23:08
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• 23:08
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• 23:16
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• 23:24
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• 23:29
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• 23:40
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• 23:42
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• 23:44
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• 23:45
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• 23:49
  Speaker 5: And I'm learning the game with Bill's help. Every week,
• 23:52
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• 23:54
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• 23:57
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• 24:00
  Speaker 6: You know, I'm looking forward to this show, Catherine, and
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: hopefully we can give our audience a little in-depth look
• 24:06
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• 24:09
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• 24:10
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• 24:14
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• 24:17
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• 24:19
  Speaker 7: Continuity is very important. But what happens when you get
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: good coaches on your staff and people begin to recognize them,
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: then they want to hire them. And then you can't
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: stop a guy from trying to improve himself, but you
• 24:34
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• 24:36
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• 24:38
  Speaker 5: of the coaches, you'll understand more about the whole game.
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: So all aspects can be discussed. The only thing I
• 24:44
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• 24:48
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• 24:50
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• 24:59
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• 25:03
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• 25:06
  Speaker 1: As we continue on, yapping away on the overnight little
• 25:10
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• 25:13
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• 25:17
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• 25:22
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• 25:30
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• 25:34
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• 25:38
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• 25:44
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• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Ah!
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: It's a sloppy edit job. Who did that? Was that Roberto, Jake,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Danny G? Lorraine is here. FSR Tech Queen and Koopaloop
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: at a Bronco fan. That's a Bronco fan. That was
• 26:03
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• 26:06
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• 26:08
  Speaker 1: please act accordingly. Back to it. Later this hour, we
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: have Mallory, third degree. We'll have the Insta trivia. Also,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: a messy fashion situation. Chip in the Qs writes in,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: says A-plus on the Mallory monologue. Notice that one compelling
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: reason the league could use for a salary cap and won't.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: is to make it affordable for the average middle-class fan.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Why not? Because they don't give a rat's arse if
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: the average person goes broke or not. Well, they'll argue
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: with people at baseball, it's still cheaper than all the
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: other sports because they have so many games and you
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: can get in there and you can sit in the
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: bleachers and it's not that much. Although I have noticed
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: at Yankee Stadium they charge a premium because of the
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: bleacher creatures at Yankee Stadium. And teams realized about 15
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: years ago or so, maybe even longer, That there's certain
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: things that were started grassroots movements by the fans and
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: have been hijacked by the corporation. Bill's Mafia. That whole
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Bill's Mafia thing. That was a grassroots thing by Bill's
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: fans and it got hijacked by the Bills themselves, the franchise.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: They put corporate polish on it, and the Yankee bleacher
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: creatures also. Jill the Yankee fan says, you're correct, Maller.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Someone definitely got to Pat Murphy. He didn't have to apologize.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: The Yankees are always, as always, underachieved. You should give
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the 100% stamp. Supermarket Steve is in denial. This schmuck,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: he was completely wrong. He just got obliterated in the
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: hot take courtroom, and he's still claiming that he did
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: not get defeated. It's ridiculous. Just take the loss. Take
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: the loss, supermarket Steve. All right, let's go to the phones.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Mike, who's in Dallas, and he is
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: up next. By the way, Nature Boy says, older and
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: more cranky Mallory. Am I right? I'm not any more
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: cranky than I've always been. I don't know what you're
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: talking about. Mike in Dallas. What's going on, Mike? Welcome.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Hey, Ben.
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: Hey.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Hey.
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: Hi.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Actually, not that drunk tonight.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Ah, boo, boo. Have another one and then call us back. Yeah,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: we kept you on hold a while so you could
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: drink more. We were hoping you'd drink.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm on probation, but I'm getting off soon.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Okay, good luck. Do they test every time you leave
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: the house? Do you have to blow into something?
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, my attorney got that after three months it's
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: been out. Yeah, I'm just hoping I can leave the
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: state soon.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: What state are you looking to go to?
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, wherever y'all are at.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, you're coming to California? Is that right?
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a couple things I'd like to see there.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like what?
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: There's a museum. Actually, the one that I want to see,
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Morro Bay, there's a giant rock in the middle.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, it's beautiful. You've got to go to Morro Bay.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: It's awesome right there. The central coast of California, outstanding.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Hardly anyone lives there. It's beautiful. picturesque. The great thing
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: about Morro Bay is they've got that giant rock, and
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: then there's an old defunct nuclear power plant right next
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: to it. It's hilarious. So you see, and there's otters
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: that hang out in Morro Bay in Calvary. Beautiful. Love it.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: One of my favorite little weekend road trips to go
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: up to Morro Bay. Love it.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: So, Benny, something that I thought was very funny when
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: you were doing the Who Am I?
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: And you were saying there was a running back that was, like,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: 50th in running staff.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: 87th, dead last, 87th in the NFL.
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: And in my head I was thinking, well, surely that
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: guy has not played against the Cowboys.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you do feel good when you play the Cowboys.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: You feel like you've accomplished a lot when you play
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys. It's a good feeling. They make you feel
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: really happy. And that's Jerry Jones. Speaking of that, I
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: want to ask you, you're a perfect guy here. So
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: there's a story. I teased it. And when you tease something,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: you have to pay it off. So there's apparently a
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: bunch of pushback, blowback, because the Dallas Cowboys' iconic cheerleaders,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: their outfits, they changed. They had some special Halloween weekend
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: costumes this past. Yeah, people are upset. And they're complaining.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of criticism that the... They have always
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: worn those traditional, the blue and white outfits. The shorts, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: the whole thing. So I saw, I mean, they looked okay.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I didn't look as good as they normally look, but
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: they were getting called out saying that they looked like,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: the girls looked like exotic dancers in the outfits. I'm
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: going to have to look it up. People were.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: Are you sure that's not fake news, Bill?
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: You think I'm making that up? I don't know. I mean,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: I saw, I don't know. People were complaining about the,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: they were questioning about the... organization's decision there that Jerry Jones...
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: How about that? How about Jerry, man? You got the
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Cowboys defense, can't stop anybody. The offense underachieves. Now there's
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: people upset demanding an investigation into the wardrobe of the cheerleaders.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: That's like the trifecta for your boy Jerry, right? He's
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: running America's next top model is what he's got over there.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Some heavy breathing, sir.
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I just.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: It's gotten to the point where.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I feel like you could not care any less about
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: that story. I feel like I just wasted that story
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: on you. I feel like that was a waste of time.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: The Cowboys cheerleaders one?
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: They changed their app? You don't think that's interesting?
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: I feel like I would have heard about that if
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: that was real.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Are you talking about the sports bras that they're wearing?
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Do you think I'm making that up, sir? I'm going
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: to punch you is what I'm going to do. How
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: about that?
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: I don't think.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: I think I would have heard about that.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: So he thinks I'm making this up. How dare you?
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: All right, I'm going to go.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: All right, love you guys. All right.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, big fan. Let's go to Fillmore Mike. Boy, this
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: is rare. Two calls in a few months from Fillmore Mike. Lorraine,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: did you find the photo of the... Is it the
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: silver outfits? Yeah, they're different than the normal ones. Coop
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: has a very good point.
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: Those are more covering than their original outfits. So how
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: are they looking like strippers?
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Uh, exotic dancers. That's a stripper, Ben. What's that?
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: An exotic dancer.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I'm familiar with, I've been appreciating their work for many years.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: I know what an exotic dancer is. I think they
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: do God's work.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: I don't think those look like stripper outfits at all.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Okay. So you disagree?
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: I disagree.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: You think those are, those are good looking? I don't
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: know if they're good looking or better.
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: I like the traditional look that the Cowboys cheerleaders have,
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: but it's, it's okay.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: It's okay.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Traditional look shows more skin than these do. I don't
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: know what the outrage is about. I'm not complaining.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: I'm just telling you people are complaining about the outfits. So, anyway,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: what's going on? Yes, Fillmore Mike in the Bay. What's up,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Fillmore Mike? Welcome. Look at that. Two calls in a
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: couple months.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Before I get on, Ben, I'm going to tell you
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: right now, you'll be cutting me off hella short, and
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: you'll be having weirdos from Wisconsin on for two minutes long.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: So you can't do that to me, bro. We're Californians.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: So I'm just going to start off there. And then
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: I was listening. You got the Mallard militia, the Mallard monologue. Bro,
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: you not that guy. You ain't that raw, bro, bro.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: You ain't that lit, bruh. Oh, girl, that be doing your,
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: that Latina girl, I like her. She got a beautiful voice.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: She way litter than you, bro. We just going to
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: keep it real. And don't cut me off. Let me
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: get 35 seconds.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I knew that was going to happen. You dare me
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: like that. What do you think is going to happen?
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: I put him in jail. I'm going to take him
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: out of radio jail. I'm going to put Fillmore Mike
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: back on here. Morena's barely Latina. Well, we don't need
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: to get into a great debate.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: I'm drunk.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: He's still talking. He's still drunk.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Ben.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: My bad. Me and you go way back, Philmore Mike,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: all right? I know. Well, you've got to be like that,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: all right? What have I done to you? I just
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: do a marginal overnight show. That's all I do here.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: You've got to bust my balls here. What's wrong with you?
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: Hey, Ben, you were so good overnight, bro. Like, you're
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: the perfect person for overnight because you're, like, hella random,
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: and then you just go into something, and a girl
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: from Berkeley called with the Zodiac signs. Bro.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: See that?
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: I love you, babe. Look at that.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: You're so crazy, but listen up. Fillmore Mike, we've just
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: had a bipolar moment. You went from attacking the show
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: to loving the show, and all because I put you
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: in timeout. All I had to do was put you
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: in radio timeout, and you came back. All right, what's
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: going on in the Bay? Give me the inside scene.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: What's going on in the Bay, Fillmore Mike?
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: I'm going to give you the inside scene of the
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: Bay Area. We got our parade tomorrow. You know, it's bang, bang,
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: not a game. You know, in the Bay, in the
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: NFC West, we hit a little bit harder. If you
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: watch the games, NFC West, NFC North, we hit hard.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: So just watch that. You're going to see you're going
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: to be in the Super Bowl. Last but not least,
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: the Warriors, Yaxo, shout out to Mr. Fab, is factual.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: Yaxo factual. That's what we call them out here, man.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Or Yax City, New Yax City. But, man, Ben, I
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: appreciate you letting me get on for two minutes because
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: usually you give me a little run and then you
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: cut me off.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Well, I did technically cut you off, and then I
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: put you back on, so I did still cut you off.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: But you didn't realize you were put in timeout, and
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: then you came back. You know, I'm a fan, Fillmore Mike.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Call me as often as you want, Fillmore Mike.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: You know what? You know what? You are the man.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: That's right. The man. How can I be the man?
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: You are the man. I'm going to steal Scott Farrell's bit.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Mike. Go to bed. Go smoke
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: weed or whatever you're doing. Thank you.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Go away.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: There he is. Fillmore Mike. It is the Ben Maller
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Show as we are continuing on through the overnight. Time
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: now for the instant trivia. We're going to change it
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: up a little bit. Going back to the year 2000,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Blank is the NFL wide receiver that has played the
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: most games without being targeted for a pass. Obviously, there
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: are times he has been targeted. But since 2000, Blank
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: is the NFL receiver that has played the most games
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: without being targeted for a pass. That is the instant trivia.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: The answer, we'll get to it. We'll do it. And
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Mallard to the third degree.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Next.
• 36:31
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• 36:39
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• 36:43
  Speaker 1: The Ben Mallard Show, Fox Sports Radio, as we continue on.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Chopping down the overnight hours. Got Mallory to the third
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  Speaker 1: degree coming up momentarily. Here is the Insta trivia. Get
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  Speaker 1: get there. So check it out. All right, here's the
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  Speaker 1: instant trivia. Since 2000, Blank is the NFL receiver that
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  Speaker 1: has played the most games without being targeted, meaning he
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  Speaker 1: has been targeted, but most total games with no targets.
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  Speaker 1: That is the question. What is the answer? Hartley Dykes.
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  Speaker 1: Great name from Alf the Alien O'Piner. Laquan Treadwell. Not
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  Speaker 1: a bad name either from Femi, the Uber East driver.
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  Speaker 1: Good names here. Reinaldo Nehemiah from Nature Boy. Page down.
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  Speaker 1: Lego Chuck outside Austin going with the great Patriot tight
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  Speaker 1: end Aaron Hernandez. Also good at something else. Killing people.
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  Speaker 1: Lance Allworth from Rob in Minnesota. Michael in Tulsa going
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  Speaker 1: with underdog is his answer. Golden Richards from Mediocre Kabuki. Man,
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  Speaker 1: these are solid names. Marcel in Brooklyn from Bill the
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  Speaker 1: Snow Guy. That's his answer. Who else do we have? Paige, Dan.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's enough. You have an answer, Lorena. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to go with Iago. Iago, is that correct?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: The correct answer would be Matthew Slater of the New
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  Speaker 1: England Patriots. Listed as a wide receiver. He mostly played
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  Speaker 1: special teams, but technically he was listed as a wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver for those Patriot teams. Here we go. It's Maller.
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  Speaker 1: How about that?
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  Speaker 4: To the third degree. This is when Big Ben gets grilled.
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  Speaker 1: Koopa Loop. Here we go.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: And the Eagles face off against the Giants and Vic Fangio.
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  Speaker 1: Uncle Vic.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about J.J.
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  Speaker 2: McCarthy said the said the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: It was a steal. They got him for a fifth
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  Speaker 1: round pick. Do you think it was a steal? Now,
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  Speaker 1: there's a term for this, and Lou Holtz came up
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  Speaker 1: with it back in the day. And all these coaches
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: do it. It's soft. You're selling soap. You're soft peddling
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  Speaker 1: this stuff. You're praising whoever you play. It is way
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  Speaker 1: too much. early to say that J.J. McCarthy is a steal.
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  Speaker 1: He's played a couple of games with the Giants. He's
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  Speaker 1: had a couple of moments. But he had a few
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  Speaker 1: moments with the Vikings, too. So who knows? Way too early.
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  Speaker 1: That's just diplomacy from Uncle Vic is what that is
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  Speaker 1: with the Eagles.
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  Speaker 4: Next!
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  Speaker 5: Next!
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  Speaker 2: It was reported on Tuesday that the Boston Red Sox
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  Speaker 2: will be making calls to the Cincinnati Reds if they
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  Speaker 2: decide to trade away Eli De La Cruz. Now, I
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  Speaker 2: know you've said in the past, Ben, that the Reds
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  Speaker 2: should keep Eli.
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  Speaker 1: De La Cruz. Yes, yes, yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: But don't you think it'd be more fun if he
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  Speaker 2: was on the Red Sox?
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it would be more fun, but if you're
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  Speaker 1: the Reds, believe it or not, there are people that
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  Speaker 1: go to those games in Cincinnati, too. And so, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I went. There were a bunch of people wearing Reds
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  Speaker 1: hats and stuff when I went to a Reds game.
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  Speaker 1: So you got to have some people on the team
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  Speaker 1: that are halfway decent. I love the per league sources
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  Speaker 1: and all the weasel terms that have been tossed around here.
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  Speaker 1: No trades are going to happen. This is all irrelevant
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  Speaker 1: because the work stoppage is coming December 1st. Unless there's
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  Speaker 1: some kind of trade between now and December 1st. That's it. Next!
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  Speaker 2: Well, this might be irrelevant as well, but apparently some
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  Speaker 2: teams are reportedly wary of offering a record-breaking deal to
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  Speaker 2: Tarek Skubal due to his injury history.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel wary about the Dodgers keeping him? Listen,
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  Speaker 1: I'm fine if he's there or not. It is a concern.
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  Speaker 1: These guys, the injury rate's 100%. He's going to get
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  Speaker 1: hurt again. 100%. So you know that going in. How'd
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  Speaker 1: we do? You passed this edition.
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  Speaker 3: That is a win.
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  Speaker 1: Take the even trash in Bo Nix.
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  Speaker 3: I got a win. Even trash.