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Hour 1 - Showdown Weekend · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Here we go.
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Speaker 2: Welcome, it's our number one, our number one. After a
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Speaker 2: great weekend sojourn to Vancouver, all coda back in the
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Speaker 2: US of a breaking it all down the weekend that was.
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Speaker 2: And what does this weekend showdown say about how Aaron
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Speaker 2: boonez Yankees match up with the Dodgers who won the
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Speaker 2: series without Mookie Betts. Can you also put into context
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Speaker 2: what this Corbin Burns injury means for the Diamondbacks as
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Speaker 2: he's facing an MRI. And what's the word that describes
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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty five Rockies, who are the first team
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Speaker 2: in baseball history to lose fifty before they won ten.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that and more right now here.
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Speaker 2: It is give it up for our number one. They
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Speaker 2: showdown weekend Baseball style. Welcome in not beat Ginning.
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Speaker 1: Week of the Ben Malors Show.
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Speaker 3: We are in the air awhere, cohorts, as we are
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Speaker 3: the pulse of the people coast, the coast, border, the
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Speaker 1: You can hear unless you can't hear, and then you're
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Speaker 1: not listening. So who cares?
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Speaker 2: From the Fox Sports Radio studios as approved by Nico
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Speaker 2: Enzo and all the great listeners in Vancouver that came out,
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Speaker 2: had a wonderful time last week the Mallard Meet and
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Speaker 2: Greet and spent the weekend there in Vancouver, so big
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Speaker 2: thanks to Nico who made that happen. We'll have some
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Speaker 2: more stories throughout and then hopefully I'll catch up with
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Speaker 2: Nego at some point on the on the pod and
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Speaker 2: we'll have full in depth team coverage of the weekend
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Speaker 2: that was around Vancouver. But our lead this hour, it's
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Speaker 2: all about sporty mixed sport and the big game on Sunday,
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Speaker 2: the big weekend showdown, must see, must see the baseball game.
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Speaker 1: As we head into the month of June.
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Speaker 2: Now the June second show here as the calendar flipped over.
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Speaker 2: The weekend at Chavez Ravine, the final matchup of the
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Speaker 2: regular season and the only played three games, the Bronx
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Speaker 2: Bombers and the Boys in Blue the Doyers as they
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Speaker 2: wrapped up the weekend series.
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Speaker 1: An Island game in Sunday.
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Speaker 2: Night Baseball and I don't know if you're watching this
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Speaker 2: or not, maybe not. I had it on in the
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Speaker 2: background and a former Dodger Ryan Yarborough limiting the Dodger offense,
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Speaker 2: and we had four hits against him over six innings.
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Speaker 2: And Ben Rice, oh so nice. He had a big
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Speaker 2: bomb to center field, tie breaking two run homer, and
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Speaker 2: the Yankees salvage a game. They got their ass kicked
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Speaker 2: by the Dodgers this weekend, but they didn't win a
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Speaker 2: game seven to three. They avoid getting sweeped or swept
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Speaker 2: out of Dodgers Stadium. Now the Dodgers their top pitcher
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Speaker 2: this year, the only one that's not hurt. Last I
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Speaker 2: checked Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the ace of the current Dodgers. He
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Speaker 2: got lit off. He had a clunker against the Yankees
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Speaker 2: in that game. But you got to look at the
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Speaker 2: big picture. So Yarborough, who cares about He's not going
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Speaker 2: to pitch any big games for the Yankees in the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: Let's be honest about that. So you push that aside.
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Speaker 2: And he pitched fine. He was a reliever on the Dodgers,
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Speaker 2: so memorable. You didn't even know he was on the
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Speaker 2: team in twenty twenty four when they won the World Series.
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Speaker 2: And he got a ring over the weekend, and so
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Speaker 2: there you go. But the whole weekend. Three games.
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Speaker 1: That's it.
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Speaker 2: We have three games to judge the Dodgers versus the
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Speaker 2: Yankees at this point. So let us discuss the question
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Speaker 2: what does this weekend showdown series say about Aaron Boone's
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Speaker 2: Yankees and how they match up with the Dodgers because
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Speaker 2: they did lose the series. They might have won the
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Speaker 2: game on Sunday, but they lost the series. So I've
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Speaker 2: got atomic high mileage and moon landings, and we will
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Speaker 2: combine all of these things together and we are gonna
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Speaker 2: make the Baba Ganoosh is what we're gonna make with
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Speaker 2: a side of poutine.
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Speaker 1: All right. So a now I realize that it is June.
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Speaker 2: I have been reminded it is June, and we know
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Speaker 2: people are going to say, ah, it doesn't mean anything.
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Speaker 1: It's June baseball.
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Speaker 2: But I look at it like horse racing, and these
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Speaker 2: teams will be much different by the time we get
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Speaker 2: down to the end of the regular season in October
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Speaker 2: and all that stuff. But it's like you're watching the
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Speaker 2: Kentucky Derby and at the quarter pole march you look
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Speaker 2: to see who's in the lead. Now, it doesn't mean
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Speaker 2: that that horse who's in the lead is going to win,
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Speaker 2: but it gives you a pretty good indication at that
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Speaker 2: point in the race that horse is doing very well
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Speaker 2: in the race. We do the show today, right, we
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Speaker 2: do the show today, and so today at this moment,
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Speaker 2: the New York Yankees have some explaining to do. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: they got some catching up here. And it was a
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Speaker 2: much bigger series. I think every man, woman and child
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Speaker 2: can agree, much bigger series for Aaron Judge and the Yankees.
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Speaker 2: And you know he had some all muns over Willim,
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Speaker 2: but a much bigger deal for the Yankees at this
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Speaker 2: point to get a little bit of payback and just
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Speaker 2: to let everyone know, hey, the Yankees are high for
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Speaker 2: looting team and all this stuff, and it's not gonna
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Speaker 2: be the same situation as last year when Aaron Judge
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Speaker 2: futched around in center field and one of my favorite
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Speaker 2: defensive plays I've ever seen in posting people talk about
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Speaker 2: Bill Buckner and his boner at first place for the
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Speaker 2: Red Sox back in the day, Aaron Judge misplaying a
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Speaker 2: routine ball in centate field chef's kiss in my humble analysis,
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Speaker 2: So how did the series go for the Yankees? So
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Speaker 2: they went on Sunday, But if you look at the
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Speaker 2: first two games of the series instead of payback, a
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Speaker 2: battered roster for the Doyers, a battle scarred unit that
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Speaker 2: they sent out there. Pitching staff completely flea bitten, the
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Speaker 2: lineup weather bitten as well, and they outscored the Yankees
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Speaker 2: the first two games of the series twenty six to seven.
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Speaker 2: They put up eighteen runs on Saturday. And the big one, though,
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Speaker 2: was on Friday. And that's the one that is a
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Speaker 2: kick to the nuts for the Yankees. They went out
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Speaker 2: and they lost Juan Soto, and they got Max Freed,
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Speaker 2: and they got Max Freed for big games against teams
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Speaker 2: like the Dodgers. And Max Freed had tight took his
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Speaker 2: syndrome against the Dodgers in that game on Friday, and
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Speaker 2: it was glorious to see. And it's embarrassing for the
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Speaker 2: Yankees be considered Mookie Betts. He supposedly hurt himself his
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Speaker 2: tootsie at his house. I'm skeptical. I always think there's
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Speaker 2: more to those stories. When I hear baseball players getting
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Speaker 2: injured like that, I always say there's something else going on.
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Speaker 2: Was he the karate kid? Was he kicking something? I
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Speaker 2: don't know, But anyway, overall, for the Yankees. This was
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Speaker 2: the atomic wedgie for them to come in here, and
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Speaker 2: they had kicked ass. I think they swept the Angels.
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Speaker 2: They played very well, won their last couple of series
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Speaker 2: in dominating fashion. And they go into Dodger State and
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Speaker 2: they were strutting in there like a peacock. They had
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Speaker 2: their feeds off, and they just got punched the first
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Speaker 2: two days bludgeoned. And so Brian Cashman, who's the nerd emeritus,
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Speaker 2: Brian Cashman and his roster of players hand picked players
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Speaker 2: because of the analytics against the Dodgers players and their analytics.
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Speaker 2: The overall great Again, we're looking at the overall grade here,
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Speaker 2: Dodgers and Yankees. You look at the overall grade here,
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Speaker 2: and you're like, hey, wait a minute, they've the players
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Speaker 2: were standing around there and they looked a little bit
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Speaker 2: confused on Friday, and certainly on Saturday, they were gobsmacked,
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Speaker 2: like they just walked into some kind of algebra exam
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Speaker 2: and they'd forgotten to study.
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Speaker 1: For most of the weekend, they didn't do any studying.
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Speaker 2: And again, the Max Freed debacle was the big one.
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Speaker 2: I mean, the Dodger line up without Mookie Betts and
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Speaker 2: they really roughed up Freed in that game, and so
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Speaker 2: then the Yankee apologists will be, ah, everything's fine, don't
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Speaker 2: worry about this, Okay, we'll get him in October. I
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Speaker 2: don't know about that, but at least you have those
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Speaker 2: VHS tapes of the great Yankee dynasty of the nineties
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Speaker 2: and can go back and watch those old VHS tapes. Now. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 2: to Arizona, we go a snap, crackle, pop goes, let's ease,
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Speaker 2: and well, not.
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Speaker 1: Yet, but it's looking that way.
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Speaker 2: The big free agent pitching move of the offseason not
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Speaker 2: exactly working out that well right now for the team
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Speaker 2: that calls themselves the Diamondbacks.
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Speaker 1: If you did not see.
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Speaker 2: This, Corbin Burns, mister Burns of Arizona set for the
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Speaker 2: dreaded MRI on his tender elbow. He left to start
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Speaker 2: on Sunday after seventy pitches. So question, can you put
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Speaker 2: into context what this Corbin Burns injury means in Arizona?
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Speaker 2: So I've got I'll keep it simple, right. This is
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Speaker 2: a not a body blow. It's a gut punch, is
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Speaker 2: what this is. And the Diamondbacks were in the World
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Speaker 2: Series a couple of years ago. They still think of
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Speaker 2: themselves as this darling of October baseball, that all they
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Speaker 2: have to do is get in and then they've got
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Speaker 2: the kind of team, a bunch of pesky hitters that
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Speaker 2: they can make this big run. And if you look
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Speaker 2: at Burns, though, his velocity was down, which is generally.
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Speaker 1: Known as a dead way, a dead new way. There
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Speaker 1: are some serious issues.
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Speaker 2: The thing of a jig and the watch you McCall
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Speaker 2: it are not exactly working right there. And Burns this
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Speaker 2: is kind of a big deal. He signed a six
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Speaker 2: year contract for two hundred and ten million this offseason
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Speaker 2: for the Diamondbacks, and everyone was like, what are you
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Speaker 2: doing when they signed with that contract. This is a
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Speaker 2: guy that had shown signs with the orioles of decline.
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Speaker 1: There were some red flags.
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Speaker 2: We had mentioned them in previous Mallard monologues about Burns
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Speaker 2: showing some signs of being a ticking time bomb and
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Speaker 2: tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tic tic tic ticking,
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Speaker 2: and well, this is not officially kaboom, It's down. Kaboom
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Speaker 2: Highway is what it is, and we'll see Tory Lavello,
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Speaker 2: the manager of the Dimonbacks, says he's quote more than
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Speaker 2: minimally concerned. Okay, no kidding, thank you very much. This
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Speaker 2: is not just some kind of blip on the radar here.
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Speaker 2: This is a potential iceberg, and you very rarely see
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Speaker 2: icebergs in the Greater Phoenix area, especially as we go
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Speaker 2: into June and July and all that stuff. But the
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Speaker 2: Diamondbacks are floundering. They're a sub five hundred team at
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Speaker 2: this point, struggling to stay afloat in a division with
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Speaker 2: the Doyers and the Padres and the Giants who've been okay,
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Speaker 2: not as good as they were at the beginning of
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Speaker 2: the art. Now, last word, you know that this show
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Speaker 2: is built on losers. The Ben Mahlor show. We love losers,
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Speaker 2: and there is no bigger loser story than in Colorado.
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Speaker 2: I said in New York. But this series was in
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Speaker 2: New York or Queens Flushing, but involves the Colorado Rockies,
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Speaker 2: the team in Colorado who got swept by the Metropolitans.
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Speaker 2: Now that's not surprising. What is surprising. It is now official.
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Speaker 2: It has been rubber stamped. It is a done deal.
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Speaker 2: The Rockies have played fifty nine games and they have
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Speaker 2: lost fifty That is the worst record in the history
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Speaker 2: of professional baseball since nineteen oh one. That's one hundred
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Speaker 2: and twenty plus years of baseball, and no one has
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Speaker 2: reached the level of suckage as the twenty twenty five
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Speaker 2: Colorado Rockies. This is the era for teams that blow.
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Speaker 2: You had the White Sox last year, now you've got
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Speaker 2: the Rockies. But the Rockies the first team ever to
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Speaker 2: lose fifty before they won ten. Do you realize how
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Speaker 2: hard that is to lose fifty before you win ten?
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Speaker 2: You know, just showing up and going about as a professional,
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Speaker 2: you're gonna win roughly, as the old line goes, the
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Speaker 2: great late Tommy Lesorda used to preach, and I heard
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Speaker 2: this many times from Lasorda, every team's gonna win fifty games.
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Speaker 2: They're gonna lose fifty, or win sixty and lose sixty.
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Speaker 2: It's what you do with the other games, that's what matters. Okay,
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Speaker 2: So the Rockies have been swept ten times in twenty series.
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Speaker 2: They've been swept ten times. That is tied for the
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Speaker 2: most sweeps in twenty series with the nineteen sixty two
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Speaker 2: Mets and the nineteen seventy Milwaukee Brewers. Not a team
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Speaker 2: that is very memorable unless you're I guess in Wisconsin
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Speaker 2: and the nineteen ninety four what used to be called
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Speaker 2: the Oakland Athletics back when Oakland had a team, but
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Speaker 2: now they're just a nomad team that doesn't exist in Sacramento.
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Speaker 2: But you can allow to say that.
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Speaker 1: So what is the word?
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Speaker 2: What is the word that describes the twenty twenty five Rockies. So,
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Speaker 2: after a thorough review of all possible words, the word
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Speaker 2: I will use is the H word helpless. They are
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Speaker 2: absolutely see. The thing that's wild is you talk to
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Speaker 2: old school baseball people. They romanticize suck like the Mets,
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Speaker 2: the nineteen sixty two Mets with Casey Stangele romanticized.
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Speaker 1: This is a magical thing.
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Speaker 2: They've been books written about them, documentaries about them.
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Speaker 1: It was a magical bad team.
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Speaker 2: There's nothing redeeming about the twenty twenty five Rockies. They're
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Speaker 2: not entertaining in a bad way. They're not entertaining in
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Speaker 2: a good way. They're just garbage. That's what they are.
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Speaker 2: It's wild. You'd think you're so bad at nine to
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Speaker 2: fifty that there's something where you feel empathy for them,
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Speaker 2: But that nine fifty a baseball record, It's like that's
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Speaker 2: a cry for an intervention is what that is. It's
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Speaker 2: like a basketball record that you're trying to take for
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Speaker 2: the top pick. I mean, my god, since nineteen oh one,
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Speaker 2: think about thisineteen oh.
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Speaker 1: One, we've had multiple world wars.
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Speaker 2: We've had moon landings, the Internet has been invented, television
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Speaker 2: and radio.
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Speaker 1: Have been invented, and.
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Speaker 2: Not once since nineteen oh one has anyone in Major
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Speaker 2: League Baseball been so pathetic after fifty nine games as
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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty five Colorado Rockies.
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Speaker 1: And spoiler alert, spoiler alert.
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Speaker 2: The the Rockies said, hey, hold my course life. Of
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Speaker 2: course they said hold my course light, and then of
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Speaker 2: course you drop it as they handed it to you,
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Speaker 2: and just another error for the flotsam and the jetsam
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Speaker 2: here as man like they're auditioning for some kind of
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Speaker 2: reboot of they're not trying to leave Colorado Major League
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Speaker 2: maybe Bad News Bear Major League. They'd be trying to
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Speaker 2: go to somewhere where it's sunny and get out of Colorado.
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Speaker 2: It's not that, it's just they're just they're just bad,
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Speaker 2: and they're not really rebuilding. I don't believe in rebuilding anyway.
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Speaker 2: They're not they're not intentionally being bad. They're just bad,
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Speaker 2: which is a special kind of bad. It's on the
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Speaker 2: spectrum of bad. It's beyond bad because if you're trying
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Speaker 2: to be bad, like the White Sox are trying to
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Speaker 2: be bad and they bad, the Rockies are, They're like
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Speaker 2: somewhere stuck in the middle. It's very bizarre what's going on.
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Speaker 2: And we somewhere the owner of the Rockies is sipping
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Speaker 2: a cocktail and you know, hanging out in some luxury
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Speaker 2: box and we're watching these games, having a grand time.
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Speaker 2: As the team rolls out, Die Die Die, already on
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Speaker 2: the field, no plan, no vision, and no reason to
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Speaker 2: go if you're gonna watch, if you're in Colorado, like,
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Speaker 2: why would you go to the game? Maybe to see
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Speaker 2: the other team. There really needs to be some kind
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Speaker 2: of sustained the boycott. It does work. If nobody's going up,
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Speaker 2: that gets people's attention. Nobody's watching the games on TV,
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Speaker 2: and people aren't going to the games, you do get attention.
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Speaker 2: The Rockies years ago actually led baseball in attendance. Of course,
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Speaker 2: I think at that time they played if I remember,
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Speaker 2: they played in the old Broncos Stadium, But they led
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Speaker 2: baseball in attends for years they had actually entertaining teams,
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Speaker 2: and that damn Hubidor. It's the humidor that ruined it.
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Speaker 2: I'm blaming the humidor that and an owner who doesn't
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Speaker 2: know what he's doing. Rich guy, why'd you buy a
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Speaker 2: baseball team? The whole point of buying a baseball team?
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Speaker 4: Are you?
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Speaker 1: Rich guy? I would think would be to flex.
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Speaker 2: And to brag, and you make money, but she can
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Speaker 2: make money doing other stuff. You don't have to own
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Speaker 2: a sports team, So why would you buy it and
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Speaker 2: then just have a floundering, pathetic roster not even put
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Speaker 2: any effort to do It's it's wild to me anyway.
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Speaker 2: A baseball heavy Malamont. Well's Yankee apologists out there? Where
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Speaker 2: are they at? I don't know where they are.
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Speaker 1: Well they won on Sunday, Okay, congratulations.
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Speaker 2: I want to thank Nico and everyone that showed up
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Speaker 2: in Vancouver over the weekend.
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Speaker 1: Had a fine time. Was great to be there. Really
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Speaker 1: enjoyed Vancouver.
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Speaker 2: I didn't know what to expect, never been there before, and
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Speaker 2: but it combined the best of the great outdoors, wonderful park.
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Speaker 2: The Stanley Park in Vancouver was awesome and we got
21:14
Speaker 2: to explore that a little bit. And the meet and
21:17
Speaker 2: greet went really well on Thursday, and had a great
21:21
Speaker 2: meal on Saturday, hanging out with our pal Nico and
21:25
Speaker 2: the listeners that were fetching around Vancouver.
21:27
Speaker 1: So I'd had a wonderful time.
21:29
Speaker 2: So thanks to everyone that showed up, and hopefully we'll
21:32
Speaker 2: be back in.
21:34
Speaker 1: Canada at some point.
21:35
Speaker 2: We got some more Malord meet and greets coming up
21:36
Speaker 2: later in the year. Ferg Dog says, welcome home, Ben.
21:41
Speaker 2: I heard you waved old glory in front of every
21:43
Speaker 2: Canadian stupid face. You made us proud. Yeah, no, I
21:47
Speaker 2: don't know that that actually happened, but thank you, Shane
21:50
Speaker 2: and to Mornin writs and says Ben. Would the NBA
21:52
Speaker 2: rather have Pacers versus thunder go to game seven or
21:57
Speaker 2: seven games of Ernie Kenny Charles and Shack and Gunner.
22:02
Speaker 1: We'll see.
22:03
Speaker 2: If Gunner's in there then no. And I'm pretty confident
22:08
Speaker 2: that the NBA Finals will be a speak easy addition,
22:13
Speaker 2: a speakeasy addition.
22:15
Speaker 1: So and we'll talk about it, because you know, it's
22:18
Speaker 1: a talk show, and we'll talk about it's basketball game,
22:20
Speaker 1: plausibly a sports show.
22:23
Speaker 2: Enzo, who was at the meet and greet, says a
22:26
Speaker 2: shout out to Nico for setting up the whole. A
22:30
Speaker 2: big meet and greet there deserves kudos. Was an awesome time,
22:32
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. Props to the mallor crew for
22:36
Speaker 2: being there, a show of the people.
22:38
Speaker 1: Thank you. Enzo's good to meet you. Anzel used to
22:40
Speaker 1: call the show.
22:41
Speaker 2: Now he's all growing up with kids and all that stuff,
22:44
Speaker 2: But he used to call the show back in the
22:45
Speaker 2: day and we had a good range of people now.
22:48
Speaker 2: Devin writes in he says, Malor you call the rock
22:51
Speaker 2: call for a Rockies boycott. Only problem is those going
22:55
Speaker 2: to Coors Field are to see the visiting team. Major
22:58
Speaker 2: League Baseball must force Dick Montfort out as owner. He
23:03
Speaker 2: does not care about the product. Just collecting that money
23:06
Speaker 2: from visiting fan bases. Well, it's it's a bad situation.
23:12
Speaker 2: And you've got a commissioner that doesn't know what he's doing,
23:15
Speaker 2: rob manfraud who's just worried about putting clocks in and
23:18
Speaker 2: all these gadgets and AI and all that crap into baseball.
23:23
Speaker 2: And you've got some teams that are an absolute embarrassment
23:26
Speaker 2: that aren't even trying.
23:28
Speaker 1: And this is we actually this came up at the
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Speaker 1: meet and greet.
23:30
Speaker 2: We're talking about this, and a couple different people brought
23:32
Speaker 2: up the fact, well, in the European Soccer League they
23:36
Speaker 2: have relegation. They never do it in American sports. We've
23:40
Speaker 2: ranted about this many times over the years, but they
23:42
Speaker 2: wouldn't do it because that would potentially cost.
23:45
Speaker 1: Them a fair amount of money.
23:47
Speaker 2: Because if you your team got relegated, you'd go from
23:51
Speaker 2: a team worth a couple billion dollars at the bottom
23:54
Speaker 2: end to a team where who knows how much because
23:57
Speaker 2: you get relegated too, do you lose your job? And
24:01
Speaker 2: the Winnipeg Blue Bombers coming. I was proud to say
24:04
Speaker 2: that one of the guys that showed up to the
24:06
Speaker 2: meet and greet he told me back in his younger days,
24:09
Speaker 2: he was a ball boy for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers,
24:12
Speaker 2: the team that I always mentioned when I referenced the
24:15
Speaker 2: Canadian Football League, my favorite team in the Canadian Football
24:17
Speaker 2: League because.
24:18
Speaker 1: Of their name, the Blue Bombers.
24:20
Speaker 2: Supermarket Steve says, I wonder if Bud Black really wanted
24:23
Speaker 2: to get fired.
24:25
Speaker 1: I imagine him walking into.
24:26
Speaker 2: The owner GM's office, flipping him off, calling them morons
24:32
Speaker 2: and telling them that their wives are ugly and their
24:34
Speaker 2: mothers are fat. Until they fired him. Tonio Russo couldn't
24:39
Speaker 2: get these bums to win. Well, they lost that game
24:43
Speaker 2: on a Saturday night. I got by twenty runs or
24:45
Speaker 2: something like that. It's wild. And then he was fired
24:49
Speaker 2: after the next day. They actually won the next day,
24:52
Speaker 2: I believe, and then they whacked him. It's a mess.
24:56
Speaker 2: I usually can name a couple guys on every team,
24:59
Speaker 2: at least. If you put a gun to my head
25:02
Speaker 2: and said you got to name somebody or you dead, I'm.
25:06
Speaker 1: Dead, start digging a hole. That's old. I couldn't. I couldn't.
25:09
Speaker 1: I couldn't do it.
25:12
Speaker 2: I mean, I've watched the Rockies and I still can't
25:14
Speaker 2: name uh name them? Uh Aaron Rights, it says Mallard.
25:17
Speaker 2: The Colorado Rockies have one redeeming quality. One of their
25:21
Speaker 2: few wins was versus the Yankees.
25:24
Speaker 1: There you go. Can they hang a banner?
25:26
Speaker 2: The late Jim Rsey would have hung a banner in
25:29
Speaker 2: Indianapolis that we only won nine games, but we beat
25:32
Speaker 2: the Yankees.
25:33
Speaker 1: There you go? That's it.
25:35
Speaker 6: Uh.
25:36
Speaker 2: Aileen Wright say says, if the San Francisco Giants get
25:38
Speaker 2: any offense going, they'll be good. Yeah.
25:42
Speaker 1: I wouldn't.
25:43
Speaker 2: I wouldn't hold on that. I wouldn't worry about that
25:45
Speaker 2: too much. I don't think that's gonna have been.
25:46
Speaker 1: Eugene. I don't know how. I don't know how you
25:48
Speaker 1: hit her, you left handed or right handed?
25:50
Speaker 2: Island. Maybe you can go help the Giants out be
25:52
Speaker 2: a designated hitter. Eugene rights in from Chicago, says been
25:55
Speaker 2: the w NBA gets no ratings without Caitlin Clark and
25:59
Speaker 2: now the players beginning to understand her importance to the
26:02
Speaker 2: w NBA.
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Speaker 1: No, they're not. I don't believe it, Eugene. I don't
26:06
Speaker 1: believe it. I don't buy it. Bill Wright sin says
26:10
Speaker 1: Rob Manford wears underwear with blank in them. Bill, I
26:15
Speaker 1: can't say that, Bill, What are you doing?
26:18
Speaker 2: Let's go to the phones and we'll say hello to
26:20
Speaker 2: Eeny meaniemighty Mall. Let's go to Johnny who's in minnesot
26:24
Speaker 2: He don't want to talk baseball, none of Yeah, yeah,
26:27
Speaker 2: he either care about baseball.
26:28
Speaker 1: He must have talked.
26:29
Speaker 2: About basketball, but not his team, which will not be
26:33
Speaker 2: in the NBA.
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Speaker 4: Finds definitely not. They didn't play good enough.
26:38
Speaker 2: That's a fair, fair analysis. Are you on TNT? That's
26:41
Speaker 2: good analysis.
26:42
Speaker 4: I'm on TNT. I wish there was me and Bernie
26:45
Speaker 4: would have been sorted of having a conversation, you and Bernie. Anyway, anyways,
26:51
Speaker 4: I agree with Indiana team analogy. They ball real good
26:57
Speaker 4: Oklahoma City and they do it from Canada.
27:00
Speaker 1: What's his name, He's known as the dude, Justin Bieber,
27:05
Speaker 1: the dude from Canada. They call him the dude. That's
27:08
Speaker 1: his name, the dude.
27:10
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I love you guys. Anyways, have a good night.
27:14
Speaker 2: Okay, that's a terrible way to start. My god, that's
27:17
Speaker 2: a horrible phone call. Holy craft? Did that suck?
27:21
Speaker 4: Like?
27:21
Speaker 1: Why did we take that call? Why did you call?
27:23
Speaker 1: He must have he must be he must have been
27:25
Speaker 1: at work and somebody must have come over and around.
27:27
Speaker 5: All right, I gotta go.
27:29
Speaker 1: So he just wanted to be on the air. You
27:31
Speaker 1: really have much to say, and there you go.
27:35
Speaker 2: Okay, wow that was that was terrible terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible,
27:40
Speaker 2: terrible terrible. We do have a riveting fun fact. Because
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Speaker 2: New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor. He used to play
28:13
Speaker 2: for a team called the Cleveland Indians, but then the
28:15
Speaker 2: Wolksh's got upset they had to cancel the name of
28:17
Speaker 2: the team, so now they're named after Bridge the Guardians. Anyway,
28:20
Speaker 2: Francisco Lindor has now passed El Capitan Derek Jeter in
28:26
Speaker 2: total home runs for a shortstop.
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Speaker 1: Lindor ahead of Derek Jeter.
28:34
Speaker 2: Now you're not supposed to say anything bad about Derek Jeter,
28:37
Speaker 2: because if you say anything negative about Derek Jeter, then
28:42
Speaker 2: alarm bells will sound and the Yankee Army will form
28:47
Speaker 2: a wall of fire and they will hunt you down.
28:52
Speaker 2: Can I do it now?
28:53
Speaker 1: Lindor ends up with more home runs.
28:56
Speaker 2: However, the legend of Derek Jeter in the gift basket
29:00
Speaker 2: and the cell phone basket in the foyer at his
29:04
Speaker 2: mansion in Tampa, If only did he had that?
29:09
Speaker 4: Right?
29:09
Speaker 1: If only did he?
29:10
Speaker 4: Well?
29:10
Speaker 2: I guess did he might have had that? There's no
29:11
Speaker 2: real video of did he doing his thing at the
29:14
Speaker 2: freak offs there? I guess, But there are many many
29:18
Speaker 2: people that believe they know what happened there. Don't think
29:21
Speaker 2: there's any video that's gotten now, maybe there is. I
29:22
Speaker 2: don't have them really really watching the traba Jeter he
29:26
Speaker 2: had a stable of beautiful women that were dating him
29:31
Speaker 2: in in the rule no cell phone, Lindor, I was married.
29:36
Speaker 1: This is part of the deal.
29:38
Speaker 2: Larry D writes and says Ben Maler's new nickname Canadian
29:42
Speaker 2: Ben can Ben, You went to Canada to promote them
29:46
Speaker 2: as the new fifty first state. No, I just went
29:48
Speaker 2: to Canada have a good time. We had a fine time.
29:51
Speaker 1: It was wondering. It was so beautiful there, Ben, it
29:53
Speaker 1: is It was a magical place. I love that Stanley Park,
29:57
Speaker 1: so I didn't even know that existed. I had no
30:00
Speaker 1: idea that that was even the thing. It's it.
30:02
Speaker 2: I've been to Central Park many times in New York.
30:04
Speaker 2: It's much better than Central Park. And they are their
30:06
Speaker 2: own country in Canada, that's right. And they gave us
30:10
Speaker 2: the poutine and we're grateful. How many poutines did you have,
30:13
Speaker 2: ben I ate poutine? Well, we had at the meet
30:18
Speaker 2: and greet.
30:18
Speaker 1: Right, So that was one.
30:19
Speaker 2: That was the one, and then we had three separate,
30:24
Speaker 2: different meals outside of that, so there was four total.
30:26
Speaker 1: Poutine and you had a poutine at every meal.
30:28
Speaker 2: And that was so Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and we actually
30:32
Speaker 2: flew back early on Sunday, so Sunday didn't really count.
30:34
Speaker 1: I had poutine Sunday morning for breakfast six am. You
30:38
Speaker 1: had poutine at six in the morning. Where at the
30:40
Speaker 1: airport they sold it at the airport. It was a
30:43
Speaker 1: little cafe. No, you got to go to tim Horton.
30:45
Speaker 4: I got them.
30:46
Speaker 1: Did you go to tim Horton? We were told not
30:48
Speaker 1: to go to tim Horton. I went to tim Horton twice.
30:51
Speaker 6: I did.
30:52
Speaker 1: I didn't see poutine but I went during breakfast hour,
30:55
Speaker 1: so maybe that's that's why.
30:56
Speaker 2: Well, I had a late Saturday night, so I did not,
30:58
Speaker 2: you know, do this. I'm so fat, so I'm trying
31:01
Speaker 2: to keep my girlers figure. So I did not partake
31:03
Speaker 2: in any food at the airport. But I did see
31:05
Speaker 2: the Tim Hortons. There was a line wrapped around the
31:08
Speaker 2: Vancouver Airport there. People loved their Tim moy.
31:11
Speaker 1: How did the Costco poutine rank? Pretty good? Not bad?
31:15
Speaker 2: The chicken figures highly disappointing. Oh yeah, I got the
31:19
Speaker 2: because you know, I look good on a little ad there.
31:22
Speaker 2: But it's great sod they have. The Costco in downtown
31:24
Speaker 2: Vancouver is literally across one street from the CFL stadium,
31:30
Speaker 2: actually from the hockey Arena, And the CFL Stadium is
31:33
Speaker 2: like the next building over, so you can just go
31:36
Speaker 2: there and eat your Costco food and then go watch
31:38
Speaker 2: the game and save a bunch of money. They must
31:41
Speaker 2: lose so much money, the Canucks and the Canadian Football
31:44
Speaker 2: League team, the Lion's.
31:45
Speaker 1: There as Costco's right next door. It's right across the street.
31:48
Speaker 1: Man buy a seven dollar hot dog when you can
31:51
Speaker 1: have one for two ninety nine.
31:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well that and the poutine was reasonable and you
31:56
Speaker 2: get a massive portion and all that. And Nico was
31:59
Speaker 2: telling us they lined up when there's games there, they're
32:02
Speaker 2: lined up for the Costco foods. So anyway, it was
32:05
Speaker 2: it was a good time, and some of you have
32:07
Speaker 2: reached out via email and all that, so.
32:09
Speaker 1: We we thank you.
32:10
Speaker 2: What yes, very very very nice, Larry says, any any
32:15
Speaker 2: more phone calls like that and we will have to
32:18
Speaker 2: dig up Alexander Graham Bell and beat the crap out
32:21
Speaker 2: of his corpse for inventing the telephone.
32:24
Speaker 1: We'll see.
32:25
Speaker 2: It's rather extreme there, Larry. But that was a terrible
32:28
Speaker 2: way to start the week. I feel like the week's
32:29
Speaker 2: going to be terrible now. The first call sets the
32:32
Speaker 2: tone years and I need some mouthwashed. I think to
32:35
Speaker 2: your we're suffering from halaposis. That was not what we
32:39
Speaker 2: were looking for to start the festivities.
32:41
Speaker 1: But here we are. We'll try to survive. Time now
32:45
Speaker 1: for the who am I?
32:47
Speaker 6: Game?
32:47
Speaker 1: And here it is. Here's the who am I?
32:49
Speaker 4: Game?
32:50
Speaker 2: Framburgh Valdez. That's a picture for the cheating Asstros.
32:56
Speaker 1: I know you could cool them. Why not?
32:59
Speaker 2: Framber Valdez of the Cheating Asstros became the first major
33:03
Speaker 2: league baseball lefty to toss a complete game in which
33:05
Speaker 2: he had fewer than a dozen pitches in every inning
33:09
Speaker 2: since me again, and we'll play off that other story
33:14
Speaker 2: as well, the clip and save story. But Franber Valdez,
33:18
Speaker 2: the cheating Astros, became the first major league baseball lefty
33:21
Speaker 2: to toss a complete game in which he had fewer
33:23
Speaker 2: than a dozen pitches in every inning since me?
33:25
Speaker 5: Who am I?
33:27
Speaker 1: That is the question the answer. We'll get to it,
33:32
Speaker 1: and we will do it next.
33:35
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33:38
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Speaker 2: to it we go, and time before we get to
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Speaker 2: the who am I game? We have the play of
34:29
Speaker 2: the day. And I know somewhere in the Pacific Northwest,
34:33
Speaker 2: Robbie the Mariner fan a little giddy, a little giddy
34:37
Speaker 2: because of plays like this from Randy Rosa Rana getting
34:42
Speaker 2: it done in the Pacific Northwest.
34:44
Speaker 6: One one time, bottom of the ninth inning. Let's stretch
34:47
Speaker 6: the two to one pitch, swinging to grab bowl up
34:50
Speaker 6: the middle base set the Marinis what it? Randy Arosa
34:53
Speaker 6: right now jumps on first base. Oh, walk up, single
34:59
Speaker 6: wholio score and the Mariners win it two to one
35:03
Speaker 6: over the Minnesota Twins.
35:05
Speaker 2: All right, Mariners and the questionable call, But that's fine.
35:09
Speaker 2: That was the tire i Raq play thanks to the
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35:14
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Speaker 2: Sure be Cal Raley another home run twenty third of
35:40
Speaker 2: the year in that one, and then Randy Rose Arena
35:42
Speaker 2: the game winning hit for the Mariners. And don't look now,
35:47
Speaker 2: do not look at your Major League Baseball standings here
35:50
Speaker 2: on the second day of June, because you will not
35:53
Speaker 2: believe that the Seattle Mariners are in the penthouse in
35:58
Speaker 2: the American League West at this point.
36:00
Speaker 1: All right ton out four. The who am I?
36:03
Speaker 4: Game?
36:03
Speaker 1: This is where we pretend to be somebody else a's
36:05
Speaker 1: We call it the who am I?
36:08
Speaker 5: Game?
36:08
Speaker 1: And here it is so.
36:11
Speaker 2: Frember Valdez the cheating Astros, became the first Major League
36:17
Speaker 2: Baseball lefty over the weekend to toss a complete game
36:20
Speaker 2: in which he had fewer than a dozen pitches in
36:22
Speaker 2: every inning since me, who am I?
36:26
Speaker 1: That is the question?
36:28
Speaker 2: What is the answer? Let's see does anyone know the answer?
36:31
Speaker 2: Eileen that says airport poutine is the answer? Yeah.
36:36
Speaker 1: I generally try to avoid eating at airports because I
36:40
Speaker 1: thought it was really good.
36:41
Speaker 2: I try to avoid it, and my wife always eats
36:44
Speaker 2: at airports and I'm like, nah, no, just get better
36:46
Speaker 2: food outside the airport.
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Speaker 1: But you know good, But how should it cost you?
36:51
Speaker 1: Lorena twelve dollars. That's that's too expensive.
36:55
Speaker 2: COSTCO much cheaper, Nature Boy says early prints into Okay,
37:01
Speaker 2: what else do we have? The million dollar man Ted
37:02
Speaker 2: DEBIASI from our friend Rob in Vegas. Hopeful we'll see
37:06
Speaker 2: Rob at the Mala meet and greet we do down
37:08
Speaker 2: the line in Vegas. Alfi alien Opino says, Pedro Pascal
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Speaker 2: is the answer.
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Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Page down?
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Speaker 2: Joey Chestnut, the world record holder for poutine eating he
37:19
Speaker 2: ate twenty eight pounds in twenty nineteen from I forty
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Speaker 2: eight delicious cheese curds twenty eight pounds.
37:27
Speaker 1: Wow. Now who else do we have? Page down? Tino
37:29
Speaker 1: Martinez for mister nice guy.
37:33
Speaker 6: Wow?
37:33
Speaker 2: Okay, I see with the Calgary Cannons horn swoggle from
37:38
Speaker 2: King Rory. That's his answer. Frank Viola sweet music from
37:45
Speaker 2: Andy and Lionel Lakes, Minnesota. Mister Irrigation says the Bambino
37:51
Speaker 2: Babe oath eighty three pitches. That's from Mister Irrigation and
37:55
Speaker 2: the Belly of the Beast. Jerry Royce from Malibu, Rubin
37:59
Speaker 2: Bozo the District Attorney, guests by Sheen in Des Moines.
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Speaker 1: Who else do we have?
38:05
Speaker 2: Whitey Ford from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Vita Blue guests
38:09
Speaker 2: by Rob in Minnesota, Maple Leaf, mallor Oh from Mallor proper. Yeah,
38:16
Speaker 2: they'll give me all these Canadian nicknames now because I
38:18
Speaker 2: spent a few.
38:18
Speaker 1: Days any of the big ball getter, I guess it.
38:20
Speaker 5: I love.
38:21
Speaker 1: I thought Canada was great. I mean, you know, there
38:23
Speaker 1: was a few things in Vancouver I would have changed,
38:25
Speaker 1: but overall I thought it was. It was a good time.
38:29
Speaker 2: Enzo, says Travis Lulay, the ninety ninth Gray Cup MVP
38:34
Speaker 2: BC former BC Lione quarterback.
38:35
Speaker 1: All right, Lorenda, you have an answer. You met him
38:37
Speaker 1: Benett's law dog.
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Speaker 5: Is it law?
38:39
Speaker 6: No, it is Tom Glavin of the milanam Rice is
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Speaker 6: back in nineteen ninety three.
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Speaker 1: Tom Glavin