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  Speaker 1: hits mom Man, we'll go to football. I want to
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  Speaker 1: think everyone that showed up. We had a great turnout
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  Speaker 1: in Vegas over the weekend thanks to everyone that was there.
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  Speaker 1: Was awesome and had a lot of fun. Ended up
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  Speaker 1: staying a lot longer than we had scheduled. We say
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  Speaker 1: we'll only be there for a couple hours. We got
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  Speaker 1: to stand for like another hour and a half or
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  Speaker 1: something like that, but close the place down. So it
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. But our lead this hour.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get more on that later. We'll go to Dallas, well,
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  Speaker 1: Dallas adjacent and another weekend filled with the drama. O rama,
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  Speaker 1: that's what they do. They down't do football, they do
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  Speaker 1: drama in the heart of Texas. So I thought this
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  Speaker 1: was a compelling story because it's continued throughout the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't end, It didn't end over the weekend. It's
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  Speaker 1: continued through the weekend. So if you haven't heard about
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  Speaker 1: the details on this, maybe not the coach and I
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  Speaker 1: say that loosely. The coach, Brian Schottenheimer, as has said,
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  Speaker 1: and he said this over the weekend, he was gonna
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  Speaker 1: have a pow wow with Micah Parsons. This is supposed
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  Speaker 1: to take place on Sunday. We do not know how
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  Speaker 1: that went. We don't know if it even happened, but
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  Speaker 1: it was scheduled to happen. Now, the reason that par
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  Speaker 1: Parsons is being called out here is because he made
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of headlines over the weekend the final exhibition
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  Speaker 1: football game for some tawdry behavior, some naughty behavior by
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  Speaker 1: Micah Parsons there in the final preseason game. So without
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  Speaker 1: this is a quote from Shottenhimer, Brian shot and racy.
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  Speaker 1: Without talking to Micah, I need to figure out what
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  Speaker 1: he was doing. What he was doing, said the coach
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  Speaker 1: in name only, Michael Parson's boss. Wink wink, nod nod.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Schottenheimer says, So until I talked to him, I'm
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  Speaker 1: obviously not going to talk about it close quote, and
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  Speaker 1: that meeting was supposed to take place on today. So
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  Speaker 1: let us discuss the question for the esteem panel. How
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  Speaker 1: do you read Michah Parsons and his activity during the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys final exhibition game which took place near the end
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  Speaker 1: of last week. So I've got Garfield, All State and
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  Speaker 1: eight ball, and we will combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and we are going to make some kettle corn,
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  Speaker 1: is what we're gonna make. That's that's an upgrade from
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  Speaker 1: just regular popcorn because it's got the sugar on, it's carmel.
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  Speaker 1: It's an upgrade. So A Micah Parsons spoke volumes, volumes
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  Speaker 1: in volumes at the Cowboys preseason game, the last one
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  Speaker 1: that they played there. And the great thing about this
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  Speaker 1: he did not have to say anything. Not a single
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  Speaker 1: word was said by Michaeh Parsons that would lead you
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  Speaker 1: to lead in one way or another. It was just
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  Speaker 1: Michah Parsons coming up. Body language. We talk about body language,
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  Speaker 1: the mannerisms, the gyrations by Michaeh Parsons, whatever you want
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  Speaker 1: to call it. You know, any of those things, all
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  Speaker 1: those things together you can make them all together. That's
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  Speaker 1: why the guy was eating nachos, delicious stadium nachos in
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  Speaker 1: the hallways underneath the stadium there where the Cowboys were playing,
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  Speaker 1: like he was at the Texas State Fair. So can
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  Speaker 1: I get some nachos in a corn dog?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, why not? And then the famous viral photo
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  Speaker 1: of Micah Parsons laying on the trainer's table like he
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  Speaker 1: had just had his achilles pop and he was laying
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  Speaker 1: down there while the Cowboys were on the offensive there
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  Speaker 1: and doing the call me gesture to Falcon fans.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: That was when Falcon fans said, hey, why don't you
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  Speaker 1: come play for the Atlanta Falcons And he did the
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  Speaker 1: old he call me? You know, we called yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: no problem. Uh. So that's not a great look. It's
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  Speaker 1: not the end of the world. I mean, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous that we're here, but we are here having this conversation.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got Micah Parsons having a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: conniption fit in real time, in real time during the
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  Speaker 1: last Cowboy exhibition game. And even without playing, he didn't play,
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  Speaker 1: didn't playing the game there, and Parsons knew going into
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  Speaker 1: that situation. He was going to be in Center Square.
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  Speaker 1: He knew it right, and he was a full on thespian.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Parsons putting on a performance, and what was the message?
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  Speaker 1: Who was he channeling? What character was Michael parton? So
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  Speaker 1: I'm going with Garfield the cat. Now Parsons was acting
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  Speaker 1: like a fat cat. Now instead of lasagna, he likes nachos.
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  Speaker 1: Mike a good stadium nachos, he likes that.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the thing that is great about this story on
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  Speaker 1: so many levels is there's this false belief that Michael
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  Speaker 1: Parsons doesn't have a contract and that he's all up
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  Speaker 1: in arms because he's not getting paid and he needs
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  Speaker 1: to make some real money, and it's just it's just
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  Speaker 1: a great injustice what is going on to Michael Parsons.
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  Speaker 1: And then you take a couple of steps back and you're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, he is under contract and the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: are paying him twenty four million dead Presidents this season
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  Speaker 1: twenty four two four, and then an m for million
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  Speaker 1: right after that. That is more than most of the
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  Speaker 1: state lotteries in America today if you go state by state,
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  Speaker 1: and there are some that are bigger, but for the
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  Speaker 1: most part that each state lottery is less than Michael
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  Speaker 1: Parsons is going to get to play for the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: this season. And he's moping around boooo oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe man alive. And so despite all that money,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's enjoying the camaraderie with the fans and
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  Speaker 1: the nachos and all that stuff. And he knows exactly
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  Speaker 1: what he's doing to it's obvious. I mean, all this
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  Speaker 1: stuff has played out for the cameras and he's trolling
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones. He's upset. Oh this is not right. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna lay into it. He's basically just saying, hey, Jerry,
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  Speaker 1: you want me engaged. Jerry, you want me engaged with
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys? Pay me, pay me the body, show me
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  Speaker 1: the mody. But here's the thing. Does he not come
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  Speaker 1: across It's just like totally spoiled. What are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the and I don't want to speak for
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  Speaker 1: Cowboy fans because I'm not a Cowboy fan. However, don't
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  Speaker 1: you want to see your so called franchise player at
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  Speaker 1: least pretend pretend to be somewhat engaged, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: not lay on the table and all that it's just petulant,
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. Andy listen, we enjoy We've all
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  Speaker 1: grown up at some point had conniption fits when we
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  Speaker 1: were kids, but Jamy grow out of it. The optics
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  Speaker 1: are horrendous on this for Michael Parsons, and he wants
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  Speaker 1: to be a showman and he's going to do it
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  Speaker 1: one way or another. And I still maintain my position
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  Speaker 1: that all of this hullabaloo will end up with just
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  Speaker 1: before the start of the season the Cowboys working out
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  Speaker 1: an agreement with with Michael Parsons. Now it gets a
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  Speaker 1: little tricky here because they do play in the first
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  Speaker 1: game of the year. The Eagles and Cowboys will kick
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  Speaker 1: off the NFL seasons. There's less time to play with
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  Speaker 1: on that. But I maintained my position that there will
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  Speaker 1: be last second negotiations to try to work out an agreement.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Now turn the pitch. Does San Francisco we
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  Speaker 1: go or San Francisco adjacent Santa Clair, which is not
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco proper, but nonetheless the forty nine ers officially
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend they signed the key docu signed there.
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  Speaker 1: They crossed the t's and they dotted the eyes and
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  Speaker 1: commander's running back Brian Robinson Junior is now headed to
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  Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. He goes from Washington to San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan was asked about the team's plans for the
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  Speaker 1: former Commander running back the old Redskins. There Robinson on
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  Speaker 1: the depth chart, and Shanahan said, over the weekend quote,
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  Speaker 1: we brought him here to be our two back. Shanahan
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  Speaker 1: explained Robinson will be working closely behind Christian McCaffrey in
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  Speaker 1: the forty nine er backfield there. So what the question
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  Speaker 1: on this one? What is the real story? We know
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  Speaker 1: what Shanahan said, We know what Kyle Shanahan said. We
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  Speaker 1: take what coaches say with a great AsSalt. So what
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  Speaker 1: is the real story on the Commander's running back Brian
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  Speaker 1: Robinson going to the forty nine ers for basically nothing? Right,
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  Speaker 1: late round draft picks are worthless. So this is a tell.
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  Speaker 1: Some would say it's a dad, a dad, give it now.
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  Speaker 1: The real story is the forty nine ers here do
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  Speaker 1: not believe. They're not believers. They don't believe that McCaffrey
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  Speaker 1: is going to make it through the season healthy, that
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  Speaker 1: there's a durability issue with McCaffrey. He was hurt last
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  Speaker 1: year before that, he actually had a stretch where he
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  Speaker 1: was relatively healthy. So the thing about this is they're
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  Speaker 1: not saying it out loud. They're not barking, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we don't think this guy's gonna be out there, because
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  Speaker 1: you never say that. Yoah, I believe in my players
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff. They're not saying it, but I'm telling
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  Speaker 1: you their actions tell you they do not trust Christian
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  Speaker 1: McCaffrey to hold up. They don't, and they're telling you
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  Speaker 1: that by making this particular transition. The forty nine ers
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  Speaker 1: basically called up the all State Mayhem guy and McCaffrey
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  Speaker 1: goes down Boom Mayhem, Right, that's Mayhem, and you bring
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  Speaker 1: in Dean Winters there, and the Niners are just trying
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  Speaker 1: to avoid a situation where the inevitable happens. McCaffrey week
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  Speaker 1: three or four gets hurt and then they have a
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  Speaker 1: stable of running backs. Has always been a plug and
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  Speaker 1: play position for the forty nine ers, that old Mike
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  Speaker 1: Shanahan system, that Kyle Shanahan's just copied off his dad's
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  Speaker 1: work there, and so it's always been well, I just
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  Speaker 1: pluging waing, well man, they're saying, well, we need something
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  Speaker 1: with a little extra And that also is a tell.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, we know that Brian Robinson is insurance, NFL
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  Speaker 1: insurance and all that stuff, but they're expecting to cash it,
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  Speaker 1: like that's the thing. They expecting to cash it, and
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  Speaker 1: you look around the underlying condition here, Okay, the underlying
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  Speaker 1: condition is brock Purty, who they paid and he got
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  Speaker 1: paid good for him. Congratulations, you're not that good, but
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  Speaker 1: you got paid. And so brock Purty got paid. The
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  Speaker 1: Nighters know though, that he doesn't make players around him better,
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  Speaker 1: which is generally the rule for paying a quarterback elite money.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, well, this guy's got to make other players
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  Speaker 1: around them better. And anybody who knows ball knows that
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  Speaker 1: brock Purty is not that guy. So Brian Robinson, who
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  Speaker 1: was acquired for a late round pick, would give them
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  Speaker 1: a little more, a little more in their offense there,
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  Speaker 1: So he's insurance. And that's the issue. Brock Purty's not
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  Speaker 1: going to carry anything offensively for the forty nine ers.
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  Speaker 1: He needs weaponry. He needs people around him yards after
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  Speaker 1: the catch, all that stuff, explosive plays. He's not going
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  Speaker 1: to lead players to overperform their expectation and So if
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  Speaker 1: McCaffrey gets hurt, or when Christian mca after he gets hurt,
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  Speaker 1: and you're looking at the season going down down, down, down, down, down,
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  Speaker 1: down down down down down. All right. Now, meanwhile, we
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  Speaker 1: had a minor of flurry, a flurry of minor roster moves.
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's the way we'll describe it.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: One that caught a lot of attention despite being a
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  Speaker 1: player that was not even drafted, not even drafted. That
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  Speaker 1: would be Tampa we Go, where the Buccaneers inform rookie
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  Speaker 1: safety Shiloh Sanders that your services are not needed. You're
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  Speaker 1: being wave, which is a nice politically correct term. It's
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  Speaker 1: code for being you've politely been fired. Please clean out
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  Speaker 1: your locker and get the hell out of here. The
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  Speaker 1: grim Reaper is paying you the Turk, not Turk Stevens
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  Speaker 1: he used to working, But the Turk is coming to
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  Speaker 1: track you down. And the agent on this Shrew Rosenhaus.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's of course hoping that Sanders kid will be
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  Speaker 1: claimed on waivers and get a job somewhere else. There's
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  Speaker 1: also the possibility ends up on the practice squad. Now
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  Speaker 1: there is some chatter, oh the buck hear should have
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  Speaker 1: kept Shiloh on the on the roster, which I don't
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand that. Like, did did Shiloh Sanders get
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  Speaker 1: a raw deal from the Buccaneers? I'm like, and what
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  Speaker 1: world are you living? It like, You're not in the
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  Speaker 1: world that I'm in. So I'm shaking my head. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not. I mean the Bucks gave him the old
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  Speaker 1: handshake and a bus ticket and a plane ticket and
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  Speaker 1: said get out of here, bye bye, You're you're not
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  Speaker 1: needed here. But he was undrafted. When you're undrafted, you
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  Speaker 1: start out with cooties. You're behind the eight ball when
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  Speaker 1: you're undrafted, So you're behind the eight ball, The cues crooked,
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  Speaker 1: the chalk is getting wet. That all of that right,
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  Speaker 1: And if you're honest, I mean, that's exactly what happened here.
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  Speaker 1: Now you could say, well, you should have gotten more
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  Speaker 1: of an opportunity, But I listen, did I watch every
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  Speaker 1: Buccaneers game? No? I did not. Uh. Did I watch
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  Speaker 1: the clips that are all over the place, Yes I did.
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  Speaker 1: I watched the clips and what I saw on the
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  Speaker 1: clips and those that break this stuff down as a tackler,
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  Speaker 1: Dion Sanders kid at the safety for the Bucks. Now
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  Speaker 1: no longer with the Bucks. He was like in Mexico
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  Speaker 1: as a matador or or or or the tackling was
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  Speaker 1: not great. Now he does have the aura, the Sanders aura,
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  Speaker 1: So Shiloh's got that going for him. However, apparently that
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  Speaker 1: does not help if you're not good at tackling and
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  Speaker 1: you're a safety. And there's also the little Komodo dragon
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  Speaker 1: in the room where he walloped he meleaid a Bills
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  Speaker 1: player in the final Bucks exhibition game, he threw a punch. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like it was like Mike Tyson's punch out or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. And that appears to be the final body blow.
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  Speaker 1: Body blow, body blow, final body blow. And that's the
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  Speaker 1: equivalent if you're desperately trying to get a job and
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  Speaker 1: you're on a job interview and you end up punching
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  Speaker 1: someone at the job interview. It is a kin to
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  Speaker 1: showing up to a job interview and flip and then
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  Speaker 1: yelling at the receptionist when you get to the place
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  Speaker 1: to the interviews, well, why am I waiting? You know
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  Speaker 1: who I am? Yeah, yeah, come on, forget about and
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  Speaker 1: forget about that gig. You're not getting that gig at all,
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  Speaker 1: So any listen, he was undersized. Why are we talking
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  Speaker 1: about this because it's all over the place. And will
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  Speaker 1: he end up on a practice squad? Shiloh Sanders probably
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  Speaker 1: probably will end up somewhere on a practice squad. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: he gets another chance with the Buccaneers on their practice
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  Speaker 1: squad or somewhere else. But yeah, it's a it's a name,
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  Speaker 1: it's a name referred, but an undrafted name, and let's
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  Speaker 1: leave it to that.
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  Speaker 1: and we'll go to Seattle with the story everyone's been
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  Speaker 1: yapping about. Here cal Raleigh doing it again. The Mariners
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  Speaker 1: star cal Raley homer and his first two at bats
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  Speaker 1: against Jacob Lopez of the Athletics. Not the Sacramento Athletics,
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  Speaker 1: not the Oakland Athletics, not the Kansas City Athletics, not
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  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Athletics. They're just the Athletics. But that home
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  Speaker 1: run bonanzo by cal Raley. He broke the MLB record
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  Speaker 1: for home runs by a catcher in a single season
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  Speaker 1: minimum seventy five percent of games played as a catcher.
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  Speaker 1: So I assume you heard about that. If you've been listening,
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  Speaker 1: you know about it. We've talked about it and maybe not.
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  Speaker 1: But Salvador Perez of the Royals had the previous record
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  Speaker 1: with forty eight home runs. That was back in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one. Man, it was so long ago, like four
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  Speaker 1: or five years ago. Wow. Now Raleigh has forty home
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  Speaker 1: runs this season while playing behind home play. Forty home
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  Speaker 1: runs as a catcher, so he's still technically not one,
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  Speaker 1: but two home runs away from that record. Just home
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  Speaker 1: runs by a catcher. That was Hobby Lopez of the
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves back in the day forty two the most ever.
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  Speaker 1: Take that, Mike Piazza and all those other catchers. They
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  Speaker 1: hit a lot of home runs back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So let us discuss the question based on
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  Speaker 1: the latest developments. Has cal Rawley passed Aaron Judge by
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  Speaker 1: in the American League MVP race? So I've got Google Maps, Airbnb,
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  Speaker 1: and modern art, and we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together and we will ring the bell again and
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  Speaker 1: again and again and again. So number one, I said,
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  Speaker 1: number one? Yeah, alright, So They're in a dead heat
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  Speaker 1: at this point, right dead heat. If you look at
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  Speaker 1: the American League MVP race down the stretch we go.
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  Speaker 1: Here we are, it's late August, the baseball season heating up. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: it's toasty hot most places, and we're setting up for
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  Speaker 1: a photo finish like at the Kentucky Derby the very
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  Speaker 1: end there. And if you look at where we're at,
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  Speaker 1: cal Raley's got this record, the record as opposed to
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  Speaker 1: the Royals catcher. He's got that. He's gonna have the
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  Speaker 1: all time record. He's going to hit at least three
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  Speaker 1: more home runs this year unless he gets hurt, so
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna have the all time record. And we know
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  Speaker 1: that catching is more difficult than playing outfield like Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Judges for the Yankees or dhing, which he's been doing
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  Speaker 1: somewhat lately because of some injury stuff. So the issue though,
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  Speaker 1: and this is the problem, and I want that dope
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  Speaker 1: from Seattle to call up. You hate Kyl Rally. We
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  Speaker 1: do the show today. We're worried about today's show. So today,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: as we talk today, cal Raley is dead even and
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  Speaker 1: even has a slight edge, a hair of an edge
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  Speaker 1: over Aaron Judge the issue is Google Maps. If you
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  Speaker 1: look look at the geography. Cal Roley plays, as the
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  Speaker 1: old NFL coach Jimmy Johnson said back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: he plays in southern Alaska. There's no workaround to that.
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  Speaker 1: There won't about the Internet. There's no work around you have.
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  Speaker 1: You have to overcome the geography and Aaron Judge, all
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  Speaker 1: things being equal, Aaron Judge East Coast bias and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. And also even in the age of social media,
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge playing in New York and he's got that
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  Speaker 1: superhero costume, the pinstripes you good luck, right, the tie
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  Speaker 1: will go to Judge. If it's even, the tie goes
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  Speaker 1: to Aaron Judge. So Raleigh needs to be a full
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  Speaker 1: head and shoulders ahead of Aaron Judge to take home
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  Speaker 1: the American League MVP Award this year. And the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: have a one game lead over the Mariners. If you
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  Speaker 1: look at the overall standings in a lost column, a
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  Speaker 1: one game lead for the wild and Ano. They're both wildcard teams,
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  Speaker 1: but the Mariners are one game behind the Yankees in
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  Speaker 1: the head to head standings. Judge is on pace. He's
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  Speaker 1: on pace. Didn't play well, particularly on that Sunday night
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  Speaker 1: game I was watching. The Yankees did actually beat the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox, which I didn't think they could do anymore,
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  Speaker 1: but they did. I was watching that game a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: The Yankees have a one game lead. As I mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: Judge on pace head ahead with the Mariners. Judge on
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  Speaker 1: pace for thirty two doubles, fifty home runs and one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen RBIs now cal Raley is tracking for
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  Speaker 1: twenty three doubles and he's also on pace to hit
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  Speaker 1: sixty I believe it. With sixty one home runs at
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  Speaker 1: this point and one hundred and thirty one RBIs so
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  Speaker 1: so big time numbers there. Now Page two, we stay
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  Speaker 1: in the Bronx and we were talking about Aaron Judge,
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  Speaker 1: and we're not going to talk about Aaron Judge right
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  Speaker 1: now because the Yankees made a roster decision prior to
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: that game with the Red Sox on Sunday Night that
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  Speaker 1: raised some eyebrows here. The Yankees have benched shortstop Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Volpi Sunday Night base but he was out of the
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  Speaker 1: starting lineup. He did get in the game as a
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  Speaker 1: defensive replacement late, but he was no longer the start
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  Speaker 1: shortstop for the new York Yankees in their win against
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sox. So the question, is this the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the end for Anthony Volpi in the Bronx? Is
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  Speaker 1: this it? The Yankee shortstop Anthony Volpi there benched in
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  Speaker 1: that game last night. So I'm gonna nod my head
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  Speaker 1: yes on this one in terms of this being the end.
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  Speaker 1: We did a rant about Anthony Volpi a couple weeks back,
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  Speaker 1: and it's only gotten worse. It's only gotten worse at
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  Speaker 1: this particular point. And the Vulpy thing just isn't working.
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  Speaker 1: The message has been sent here and the Yankees are
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  Speaker 1: trying to sell Vulpi. They've been trying to sell them,
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  Speaker 1: and this is gonna all work out. You know, He's
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  Speaker 1: got to hold the roots. He's got the backstory. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: loves the backstory and all that. He's the next Derek
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  Speaker 1: Jeter and all that. And what they've got is they've
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  Speaker 1: got the equivalent of a version of Windows Vista that
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  Speaker 1: is promised as this next big innovation and all that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: but it's actually just filled with a virus. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what they got. The numbers don't like. Vulpi is hitting
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  Speaker 1: two to eight well, building average doesn't matter, Well, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter to some people. Two eight he's a career
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  Speaker 1: two twenty two hitter, so he's barely above the Mendoza line,
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  Speaker 1: which is terrible. And his ops is in the six hundreds,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm told is not particularly good. That is not
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  Speaker 1: Yankee shortstop material. It should not be whether you have
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  Speaker 1: Derek Jeter or not. That should not be the case there.
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  Speaker 1: That is where you're playing in Central Park, playing softball,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where you are with that kind of stat line.
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  Speaker 1: And he's got more errors at this point than our
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: friend Big Balls Bob trying to get on the internet.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of errors there. And the Yankees fans
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  Speaker 1: have been living this mirage. They're like, oh yeah, yeah,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: ever since Jeter retired, it's like, oh eah, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be We're gonna find the next year. It's flotsam and
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: jetsam that they've had at short stop. They tried d D. Gregorious,
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  Speaker 1: that workout not good, Glaber Torres, that was a bus.
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  Speaker 1: Now they have Volpi who throws balls into the stands.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to give everyone a souvenir. Does that a
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  Speaker 1: lot ball bounces in the dart bounces in the crowd
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing there. And it's like the Yankees are
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  Speaker 1: running an airbn b. It's an Airbnb for shortstops at
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  Speaker 1: this particular point. There's a different guy every couple of years,
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  Speaker 1: every couple of years. None of them seem to live
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  Speaker 1: up to the brochure, and you know the photos and
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  Speaker 1: there you sign up for the airbnbing and like all right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay there. And you show up and instead
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  Speaker 1: of the presidential suite in the nice king sized bed there,
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  Speaker 1: you're given a sleeping bag under and overpass. And that
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  Speaker 1: is you know, it's it's indoor outdoor living, is what
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  Speaker 1: it is. Indoor outdoor living, and that's it. And that's
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  Speaker 1: just not the way it's supposed to go. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're not in Rancho Cucamonga, You're You're the
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  Speaker 1: New York Yankees and all that. And if you stink
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  Speaker 1: for multiple seasons with Vulpi is there, he costs them.
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  Speaker 1: He helped cost them the World Series. Now I loved it.
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  Speaker 1: When he was a stumblebomb against the Dodgers in the
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  Speaker 1: fifth inning of Game five of the World Series, everyone
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  Speaker 1: focuses on Aaron Judge muffing the ball in the outfield
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  Speaker 1: and Garrett Cole not making the play, not covering first base.
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  Speaker 1: But how about Vulpi he booted a ball in that
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  Speaker 1: World Series also, so the guy's a bust with a
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  Speaker 1: capitol B at this point, and ye go out and
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  Speaker 1: replace him. Now they can't do anything now. The trade
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  Speaker 1: deadline's pass, so they're stuck with what they have. The Yankees,
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  Speaker 1: good luck on that all right now. Final point to
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  Speaker 1: San Diego, we go where the Podres did not did
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  Speaker 1: not sweep the Dodgers, but the Dodger oftens very limp
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: over the weekend they're in San Diego. The Dodgers did
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  Speaker 1: rally back to beat the Podres in the game that
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  Speaker 1: was played on Sunday to avoid the old sweep. The
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  Speaker 1: old sweeperoo at the hands of the fish Tacos. There
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  Speaker 1: was something that happened the game within the game. Here
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  Speaker 1: they caught my attention and got a lot of buzz,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of attention. So I don't know I saw
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  Speaker 1: the highlight or heard about the highlight or not. The
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers were getting smoked early in the game, not smoke,
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  Speaker 1: but they were down. They had a futile offense all
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  Speaker 1: week and they came back and they got a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of insurance late when shohy Otani connect. And the
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  Speaker 1: story is about that home run. So there was a
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  Speaker 1: Padre fan who was sitting right next to the Dodger
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  Speaker 1: dugout in San Diego, and this guy was busting the
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  Speaker 1: balls of show al time, busting his chops all series
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  Speaker 1: and Otani was horrific. He had ten at bats, He
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: was zero for ten for the Dodgers against the Padres
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  Speaker 1: in this Showdown NL West matchup prior to that home run.
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  Speaker 1: So he was doing absolutely bupkus for the Dodgers up
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  Speaker 1: until then. And then finally what happens. He goes Deepits
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  Speaker 1: a home run. There you go. And what did Otani
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: do after the home run? He gave the guy a
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  Speaker 1: high five. He gave the guy a high five. So
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: what is the word? Here's the question. What is the
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: word for Dodger star shohe Otani high fiving a Heckler
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  Speaker 1: wearing Padre merch. All right, so my word is refreshing
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  Speaker 1: with a capital R. Refreshing with a capital R. Here's why.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you why, because how many stories have we
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  Speaker 1: done over the last couple of years about athlete X
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  Speaker 1: losing their mind, losing their mind because somebody was heckling
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: them and they crossed the line. This is not right
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  Speaker 1: and all that. So I found it refreshing that rather
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: than have the fan escorted out of the stadium, which
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Otani could have done, all Otani had do was tap
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  Speaker 1: on the shoulder of the security guy and that would
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  Speaker 1: have been it for the heckler. So it was refreshing
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  Speaker 1: that Otani not do that. Most of these guys today
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: seem to be very thin skinned, and they're very touchy
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  Speaker 1: and hyper sensitive to all the noise and all this stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and anybody boos them boom. We used to have a
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  Speaker 1: guy called boom Man that called the show back of
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  Speaker 1: the boom Man. And normally what happens is if you
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: boost certain of the players, these guys will immediately contact
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  Speaker 1: stadium security like a mall cop and get that person
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  Speaker 1: out of there. You're done and all that stuff. And
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: so to me, heckling it is modern art when done properly.
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  Speaker 1: It should be hung in an art museum. When you're
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: able to heckle properly and get a player off his
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: game a little bit, And I said, well, this is
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: this backfired? Well, did it backfire or Tony had one
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  Speaker 1: home run. The entire series was zero for ten prior
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  Speaker 1: to that at bad but this is a masterpiece. So
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: like Picasso or Warhol, one of the great painters there.
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  Speaker 1: And you get in the player's head, your rasm right,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: give them a hard time, and then and that's what
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: he players pretend like, I don't hear it. I got
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  Speaker 1: my earmuffs on. I'm not hearing what's going on there.
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  Speaker 1: And then you end up hitting a home run like Otani.
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  Speaker 1: And Otani, you'd think he'd be relieved because that really
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  Speaker 1: cemented the game for the Dodgers, and they were about
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  Speaker 1: to get swept by the Padres if they had not
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  Speaker 1: come back in that game. But he wasn't seemingly overjoyed
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: because he hit the home run that helped guarantee the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers got to win. He was happy because you got
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  Speaker 1: to put a cork in the heckler's mouth. That's what
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  Speaker 1: he was happy about. That's great, Like, thank god, I
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: finally got one. That's the way to do it. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The pottery fan basically pushed him into the home run
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  Speaker 1: was all over Otani. It was great and finally he
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  Speaker 1: connected on one and that's that's how it ended. But
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: this is not This is not the way it normally
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  Speaker 1: goes done. So many of these stories where it's like
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: this guy's gotta get kicked out, that guy's gotta get
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: kicked out, it's like, what are we doing here? In fact,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: there was a time for players it was emasculating. If
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  Speaker 1: you had a fan kicked out, it was like a
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: badge of honor the heckling that would be going on
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: back in the day. And then so it's it's different,
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  Speaker 1: but the boo birds are chirping. That is a sign
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  Speaker 1: of honor. That is not something to be upset about.
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  Speaker 1: You should be honor day. As the old line goes,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: they don't boot nobody's right, you're gonna be good to
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  Speaker 1: get booed. And so there's Otani the face of major
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: League baseball, not even close the face of major League baseball.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: You got Otani out there working his magic, hitting a
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: home run, and then that fans, you know, some guy
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: making normal dough and he ends up getting in Otani's head.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: So that is a w for the heckler and also
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: inspiration for other hecklers around Major League baseball. When the
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: playoffs get going, here in a month, and the Dodgers,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: whether they win the division or the wild card team,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: they're gonna be in the playoffs somewhere, and then Otani
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: will have an opportunity to be heckled by random people
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: all over the place.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern even be em Pacific.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Here we are, Mallard. How about that?
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: To the third degree? This is one big vent gets grilled.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Here we all and to the koop a loop for
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: the questions the quiz that we call Mallard of the
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: third degree.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: The Phillies announced on Saturday the starting pitcher Zach Wheeler
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: will miss the remainder of the season.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, he could have died. People die from blood clots, Coop,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: They die from blood clots.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Ben, How big of a blow is this for
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: the Phillies World series hopes?
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Well, it sucks. However, the Phillies, I am convinced if
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: they're gonna do anything here, it's going to be based
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: on their offense. I don't think that's an outrageous take. Oh,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: you're really a shock jock with that take. No, they
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: remember a couple of years ago they got the World
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Series and then they stopped hitting. But you've got a
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: lineup that is absolutely stacked with Trey Turner, Kyle Schwarber,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Bryce Harper, jt Riamuto at the top. Those top four
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: hitters are among the top hitters in all of the
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: National League, all of baseball. So if they score runs,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: they've got an enough pitching. Oh you're you're crazy. No,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Sanchez has been wonderful this year. He's their number one
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: now with Wheeler out, Lozardo is not terrible, and Rangel
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Suarez has had had some moments. So, I mean, there's
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: some other guys in there, Taiwan Walker and whatnot. But
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: I'm I don't think this eliminates the Phillies by any means.
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  Speaker 1: It makes it a little more difficult. It makes it
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: a better story for the Phillies to get to the
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: World Series. I look at the National League's wide open.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers are beatable. Not only the Podres are invincible
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: by any means. Here you look around, the Brewers look good,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: but can they do in the playoffs? Trees cubs. So,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: to answer your question, Coop, it hurts, but it's not
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: a kill shot for the Phillies.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Next Over the weekend, the Vikings traded backup quarterback Sam
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Howell and signed Carson Wentz.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: The great former Ram Carson Wentz.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: Right, well, yeah, a lot of people are calling this
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: an upgrade at backup, isn't it.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: No, it is a lateral move. It is not an
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: up I'm actually a ran. More about this later. Carson
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Wentz has been washed up for five years, six years,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: and he still gets jobs in the NFL. Wouldn't that
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: be great if you're you proven you're not good at
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: your job and he gets bounced around. He's played for
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: the Eagles, Colts, Commanders, Rams, Chiefs and now the Vikings
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: since twenty twenty. Either way, the Vikings are putting all
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: their chips in the JJ McCarthy basket. We all know that, right.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: If McCarthy sucks, they're cooked. They're absolutely cooked. It's not
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: like they're in better shape if Carson Wentz gets it
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: there in place. It's not like all of a sudden,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Oh we're in good shit. We got Carson Wentz. We're
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: ready to go.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: Come on, all right next, Paul Skin's just the way
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: gem in his fiftieth start in the majors and now
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: has the second lowest ere of any pitcher in the
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  Speaker 3: live ball era through fifty starts. But do you think
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  Speaker 3: the Pirates are going to waste a generational talent much
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  Speaker 3: like the angel did with Mike Trout.
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  Speaker 1: Well, waste, you mean, but Trout's still there. They're just
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  Speaker 1: not winning. Toni Otani would be the better, right because
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  Speaker 1: the cud's already wasted.
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  Speaker 3: He's a thirty four now.
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  Speaker 1: But Otani. They got nothing for Otani. They just let
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  Speaker 1: Otani leave in free agency. They could have traded Otani
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  Speaker 1: like Paul Skeans. The Pirates are going to end up
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  Speaker 1: trading him in the next couple of years, right, So
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  Speaker 1: they're not gonna get nothing for him. Are they gonna
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  Speaker 1: win the Pirates? No, that's another team. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of teams in baseball coupe good ballpark, bad team. The
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  Speaker 1: Pirates are on that good ballpark the Giants, Now we
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  Speaker 1: had that our buddy, the Giant fans showed up to
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  Speaker 1: that meet and greet the ugly orange Giant hat on.
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  Speaker 1: I said, good good ballpark, bad team. The Pirates are
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  Speaker 1: on that list. But no, they're not gonna win. They'll
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  Speaker 1: win when Paul Skeans pitches, and then when he doesn't pitch,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's like well, and then every once in
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  Speaker 1: a while you get a team that because they have
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  Speaker 1: so many terrible seasons, they get all these collection of
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  Speaker 1: young players at the same time. But no, I'm they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna they're not gonna win anything in Pittsburgh with Paul
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  Speaker 1: Skeins while he's there, and he'll go pitch for the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees or the Dodgers, the Red Sox or someone like that,
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  Speaker 1: or mystery team, and then he'll go on and find
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  Speaker 1: Hey you sports figure, guy or girl? Here you talking
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  Speaker 1: to sons? Here something advice?
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  Speaker 3: Hold that don no one's paid attention to me for
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  Speaker 1: of time to waste here, so who needs our advice?
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Micah Parsons. A week from Thursday, the NFL season begins.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost here. MICHAEH. Parsons upset, had a conniption fit
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  Speaker 1: in the last Cowboy exhibition game trying to work out
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  Speaker 1: a contract extension. Any advice to Micah Parsons. You're live
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  Speaker 1: on the air. When you hear my voice line one, Hello,
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  Speaker 1: you're on their advice to Michael Parsons, line one, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: have lorainas one? All right? Something about music? You're on
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  Speaker 1: the air, line too. Hello, Line two.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta be a man that leave the Alice cowgirl.
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  Speaker 1: There, you go, leave the cowgirls behind. Hello call her.
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  Speaker 1: Line four. Your next line for advice to MICHAEH. Parsons.
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  Speaker 1: Line four, Mike, it needs.
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  Speaker 4: To talk to Bob about getting something.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, big balls, Bob the star, the star of
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  Speaker 1: the show. Line five. Hello, line five.
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  Speaker 4: If you like donuts, go to Pismo Beach.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's right, baby, those ah my god, you've ever
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  Speaker 1: been to You know, you've never been there. You don't
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  Speaker 1: even know where Pismo Beach is. Old West cinnamon rolls.
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  Speaker 1: They should buy commercials. Amazing in Pismo Beach, greatest cinnamon
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  Speaker 1: roll shop. Run Hello. Line six, you're on the air
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  Speaker 1: line Sex.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Yeah, morning time. Yeah, give give them a serial
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  Speaker 4: reference up Ben Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Now yeah that's right. What could you have here? Whedi'es
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  Speaker 1: wheedies the wheedies thing. Yeah, yeah, all right, get it.
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  Speaker 1: Rick and Maryland. Line one. You're on the airline one. Hello,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: we're giving advice to mic up Parsons. David free the
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  Speaker 1: gerbil Okay. Where is a line Line three? Hello? Line three?
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  Speaker 1: Line three is not paying attention. We're going to line
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  Speaker 1: for it's the incident advice line. Hello. Line four, we're
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  Speaker 1: giving advice to Micah Parsons.
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  Speaker 2: Line four, go down to Florida and get a hand
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  Speaker 2: like bloody craft and pay the official.
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  Speaker 1: There it is now it's officially the inst of device
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  Speaker 1: Lotter Buddy from Maine and checked in. Line two. You're
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  Speaker 1: on the airline too, please your advice to Micah Parsons. Okay, congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: Line five, you're on the airline five.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, yeah, man, the way the way for Jerry to
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: solve the Micah Proud Parsons problem is to hire lots
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: of male NFL cheerleaders with pompa.
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  Speaker 1: Well, clearly that's gone very well there for the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Line six, you're on the air Hello. Line said, you're
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  Speaker 1: sober there. Hello, Line six, where's the mass call up? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I know no Nascar, no peace last one quick gray
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  Speaker 1: Line five. Line five, you're on the Airline five. Michael
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  Speaker 1: Parson's advice go but day, but day