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Hour 1 - Bravo Sierra Situation · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: We go. Welcome. It's our num Berwan talking bays Ball,
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Speaker 1: the good and the bad. So we start out with
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Speaker 1: the bad, better story in the losing locker room and
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Speaker 1: the worst team in professional baseball. Here in twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves lost again. They start out h to
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Speaker 1: seven to begin the year. Buy your tickets right now.
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Speaker 1: So the question after a heartbreaking loss to the Dodgers
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Speaker 1: last night, is manager Brian Snicker in danger of being
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Speaker 1: whacked by the Braves. He won the World Series few
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Speaker 1: years back as skipper the Dodgers. Mookie Betts says he's
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Speaker 1: a better athlete than show. Hey Otani says, it's not
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Speaker 1: even close. How does that strike you? Also, Jackson Merrill
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Speaker 1: to tell Marte and Christian Campbell all agreed to multi year,
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Speaker 1: massive contract extensions with their respective teams. What does all
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Speaker 1: of that say to you? We'll get to that and
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Speaker 1: more right now here. It is our number one. It
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Speaker 1: So the rare and appropriate, rare and appropriate early baseball
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Speaker 1: season lead and we go where the news of the
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Speaker 1: day takes us, and that would be Chavez Ravine, better
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Speaker 1: known bas Dodgers stating the hill over Top downtown Los
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Speaker 1: Angeles where show Hey oh Tani went cuppaw. That wasn't
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Speaker 1: the longest home run, It wasn't the longest home run
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Speaker 1: in the world, but it was a tie breaking walk
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Speaker 1: off dinger in the ninth inning on the Bobblehead Night.
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Speaker 1: More on that later, Mite talk about people being addicted,
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Speaker 1: and just like that, the Dodgers unbeaten streak continues to
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Speaker 1: start the year, the big Blue Wrecking Crew over the
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Speaker 1: pathetic Atlanta Braves. Those are the Atlanta Braves of my youth.
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Speaker 1: The Braves lose against six to five, the Blue Crew
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Speaker 1: spotting Atlanta five runs and then clawed back. And I
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Speaker 1: can only imagine the Atlanta Braves broadcasters who must have thought, oh,
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Speaker 1: our five nothing. You know how rare it is to
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Speaker 1: blow five nothing leads. Last time I remember a team
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Speaker 1: blowing a five nothing lead, it was the New York
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Speaker 1: Yankees in Game five of the World Series. I'm just saying,
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Speaker 1: so the Dodgers are eight No if that sounds good,
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Speaker 1: well it is. It's the greatest start ever by defending
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Speaker 1: World Series champions. So I as well just stop the
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Speaker 1: season right now and just give the Dodgers another championship.
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Speaker 1: I'm told they will not be doing that. But six
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Speaker 1: of the dodgers eight wins have been agonizing for the opponent.
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Speaker 1: They've fallen behind, they've come back and won those games.
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Speaker 1: And the great Rick Monday mo Monday back when I
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Speaker 1: was allowed out at Dodger games, that was buddies with
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Speaker 1: the Rick Monday. And Rick has said that the problem
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Speaker 1: the teams have playing the is the games are too long.
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Speaker 1: If the games were five innings, they would have a shot.
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Speaker 1: But that six, seventh, eighth, ninth inning. That's the problem
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Speaker 1: for the teams playing the Dodgers. The name's just too
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Speaker 1: long now. However, as much as I would like to
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Speaker 1: give you Dodger propaganda, you gotta understand where my roots are. Now.
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Speaker 1: You understand if you've been with me on the Overnight Show,
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Speaker 1: that the better story is in the losing locker room.
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Speaker 1: And as I check my notes here, there is no
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Speaker 1: better story in baseball right now than Atlanta if you
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Speaker 1: like the agony of defeat. The Atlanta Braves starting their
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Speaker 1: season on the West Coast, beautiful San Diego, America's finest city,
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Speaker 1: and then driving up I five to Chavez Ravine Dodger Stadium,
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Speaker 1: and the Atlanta Braves with their tail between their legs,
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Speaker 1: getting on a chartered flight, a luxury cross country flight
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Speaker 1: to the South and they are oh and seven for
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Speaker 1: the first time since they opened to nine. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: I say, it wasn't that long ago. It's been almost
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Speaker 1: ten years. Twenty sixteen was the last time Holy Tommy
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Speaker 1: and Atlanta. Wow, no team in Major League baseball history
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Speaker 1: has ever made the playoffs after starting oh and seven.
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Speaker 1: It has never happened. In fact, it's been over forty
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Speaker 1: years since a team that started oh and seven finished
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Speaker 1: with a winning record. So even that hasn't happened in
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Speaker 1: a minute, in a pretty long minute. That's by my math,
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Speaker 1: two generations since that happened. Now, the the natives are restless,
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Speaker 1: as you might imagine, the fans calling for manager Brian
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Speaker 1: Snicker to be fired. They want a pound of flesh,
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Speaker 1: and they hadn't even played a home game. Their home
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Speaker 1: opener is on Friday in Atlanta. So let us discuss
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Speaker 1: the question for the esteem pan as we go to
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Speaker 1: Dante's inferno? Is manager Brian Snicker in danger of being
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Speaker 1: whacked by the braves? So I've got shovel chateau and
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Speaker 1: riverboat gamblers, and we will put all of these things
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Speaker 1: together and we are going to make sweetlue lemon pepper wings.
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Speaker 1: My good friend Rob Parker tells me that there is
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Speaker 1: a ballet in Atlanta that has the greatest wings there
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Speaker 1: and just a really good show good dancers there at
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Speaker 1: that ballet. All right, So a to answer the question,
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Speaker 1: is manager Brian Snicker in danger of being whacked by
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Speaker 1: the Braves. You do not have to be a baseball
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Speaker 1: savant to know the answer is three letters. It's can
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Speaker 1: I get a Y? Can I get an E? And
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Speaker 1: can I get an S? Yes. In the history of
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Speaker 1: the Braves, every manager who is started oh and seven
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Speaker 1: or worse has been pink slipped within a year, most
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Speaker 1: of them in season. Now, Brian Snicker, by my analysis,
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Speaker 1: I took out the Van diagram here. Now Snicker has.
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Speaker 2: A little more wiggle room, just a little more wiggle
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Speaker 2: room here, because he was the manager of the World
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Speaker 2: Series winning twenty twenty one Braves.
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Speaker 1: They were really America's team that year. Remember they beat
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Speaker 1: the cheating as one one thousand and two one thousand
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Speaker 1: holes in that World Series. Now that goodwill only buys
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Speaker 1: you a little more time, just a teeny weeny bit
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Speaker 1: of more time, Like this homestead. All right, Braves are
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Speaker 1: going home. They get the home opener on Friday. And
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Speaker 1: if they get mollywopped at home, and this thing continues
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Speaker 1: and we get up to oh and ten and oh
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Speaker 1: and eleven and twelve, and at that point it's turned
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Speaker 1: at the last, the parties over. Bye bye. He'll be excommunicated,
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Speaker 1: somebody has to pay the price. Now, typically in modern baseball,
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Speaker 1: they don't do that. That's old school. That's when I
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Speaker 1: was a kid. You just fire managers. You had a
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Speaker 1: bad two weeks, fire the manager. That's how they did it.
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Speaker 1: The nerds don't. They don't do that because the nerds
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Speaker 1: just have middlemen. The nerds don't care because if you
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Speaker 1: just fire the manager, you're just gonna replace the manager
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Speaker 1: with another yes person. Now that being said, that being said,
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Speaker 1: the malor advice the think tank has been activated to
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Speaker 1: help out the Atlanta baseball team. So if you find
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Speaker 1: yourself in a hole, and make no mistake, the Atlanta
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Speaker 1: Braves find themselves in all. So if you find yourself
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Speaker 1: in a hole, you put the shovel down and stop digging.
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Speaker 1: You just tossed the shovel away and stop digging. And
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Speaker 1: may I recommend a nice sturdy ladder a rope that
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Speaker 1: would also help get yourself out of the hole. But
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Speaker 1: really it's just baby steps, right, baby steps, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: beat Benny Brightside. Now I'm not in Atlanta Braves. So
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Speaker 1: now I am of the generation I grew up watching
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Speaker 1: the superstation in the afternoon and I'd scurry home from school.
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Speaker 1: I was a bad student. Watched the Atlanta Braves and
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Speaker 1: they were terrible, But I watched them because I like
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Speaker 1: baseball and it was the thing to do before the Internet,
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Speaker 1: and so I watched them a lot. But I'm not
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Speaker 1: a Braves fan, but I am Benny bright Side. This
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Speaker 1: will be a historical turnaround the Atlanta Braves, mark my words.
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Speaker 1: The Atlanta Braves are going to the playoffs even despite
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Speaker 1: starting on in seven, and no team has ever done that,
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Speaker 1: has ever made the playoffs after starting on seven. It
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Speaker 1: has also never been easier to make the playoffs when
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Speaker 1: starting on seven. You see baseball keeps adding more teams
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Speaker 1: to the playoffs. There are now two wildcard teams. The
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Speaker 1: Braves have only played four point three percent of the schedule.
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Speaker 1: Four point three percent of the schedule. That's it you need.
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Speaker 1: By my math, the sweet spot number is ninety wins.
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Speaker 1: Eighty nine wins gets you in the playoffs last year,
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Speaker 1: but that was last year, so you got to find
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Speaker 1: a way to win ninety games. And there are so
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Speaker 1: many crap bag teams in baseball that aren't even trying.
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Speaker 1: There are certainly, at the very minimum sixty wins right there,
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Speaker 1: So you got to win another thirty against halfway decent opponents.
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Speaker 1: That is more than manageable. Now turning the page, the Dodgers,
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Speaker 1: the talk of baseball, the machine, the juggernaut. Very annoying
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Speaker 1: to the trolls who used to bust my balls about
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers back in the day. You got no material,
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Speaker 1: no material. One of the stories I saw about the Dodgers,
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Speaker 1: there was a lengthy write up behind a paywall on
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Speaker 1: the Athletic the old gray lady there owns it the
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Speaker 1: New York Times, but the Dodgers Mookie Bets. There was
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Speaker 1: a story about who's the greatest athlete between Mookie Bets
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Speaker 1: and Otani. Mookie Bets shockingly said that he is a
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Speaker 1: better athlete than show. Hey, Otani says, not even close.
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Speaker 1: So how does that one strike you? So right away
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Speaker 1: you're like, well, Mooki's pumping his chest out right. He's
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Speaker 1: a two sports star. He's a baseball star and a
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Speaker 1: bowling star. Hello bowling. Now I realize bowling is the
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Speaker 1: number one participation sport. It is also done while consuming
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Speaker 1: massive amounts of pizza and beer. But I would argue,
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Speaker 1: deep down, does it even matter? Who's better. It's it's
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Speaker 1: like picking between a mega yacht. Do I want to
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Speaker 1: go in my mega yacht or my chateau on the
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Speaker 1: French Riviera. Either way, you're doing all right. You're gonna
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Speaker 1: have jaw dropping Mediterranean views. You're doing pretty good. Now,
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Speaker 1: Shootani is my my pick to click on this right.
11:53
Speaker 1: Shoeyotan is the guy who can pull you out of
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Speaker 1: a burning car, can then throw you on his back,
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Speaker 1: and then run and jump through an obstacle course while
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Speaker 1: carrying you on his back, and then swim across a
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Speaker 1: large body of water like the Mississippi River. And since
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Speaker 1: everything is a reality show, why doesn't Netflix the way
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Speaker 1: Who's a Better Athlete? Offseason challenge a docu series between
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Speaker 1: Mookie Betts and Shojo Ton. I'm sure there'll be ten
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Speaker 1: people that will watch that, all right. Anyway, last word, money, money,
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Speaker 1: many big money, big money flying around. If you have
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Speaker 1: not noticed in the last twenty four hours or so,
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Speaker 1: Jackson Merrill of the undefeated Padres could tell Marte of
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Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks who just beat up the Yankees again, and
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Speaker 1: Christian Campbell, who's been in the major leagues for a
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Speaker 1: week for the Red Sox have all agreed to multi year,
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Speaker 1: massive contract extensions. So what does all that say to you?
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Speaker 1: Was it all young players? Some have been successful, more successful.
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Speaker 1: Campbell's barely played in the major leagues. Merrill had great
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Speaker 1: success last year. To tell Marte's put up some big
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Speaker 1: numbers early in his career for Arizona. So it tells
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Speaker 1: us you got a lot of riverboat gamblers in baseball.
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Speaker 1: It's all the rates, the triple Crown, it's cost efficiency,
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Speaker 1: it's team stability, it's fan engagement. Now you lock in
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Speaker 1: the young players, you have them at a fixed rate,
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Speaker 1: and the argument is you're gonna save money over the
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Speaker 1: long run. You build your core players and then fill
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Speaker 1: out the roster around the core players. And fans love
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Speaker 1: homegrown town at oh, they get so horny for that.
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Speaker 1: Now the entire industry, though, has gone this way. It's
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Speaker 1: a power of group think. And I'm convinced they all
13:53
Speaker 1: got together and they watched the same webinar and it's
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Speaker 1: like the lion king akoona matata, Akuna matata. I'm talking
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Speaker 1: about Ronald Lacuna Junior. Remember he signed that eight year
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Speaker 1: contract for one hundred million dollars with the Bravos, it
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Speaker 1: was twenty nineteen. I believe, I think I'm right on that. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: the deal averages like twelve and a half million a year,
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Speaker 1: and that's chump change in baseball. And if not for
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Speaker 1: that deal, Akuna would be making thirty five forty forty
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Speaker 1: five million dollars a year. But as always these contracts,
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Speaker 1: the latest one is given out, it is risk versus reward.
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Speaker 1: And I gave you three examples. Jackson Merrill could tell
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Speaker 1: Marte and Christian Campbell. One of those guys will be fine,
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Speaker 1: one of them will be average, and one of them
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Speaker 1: will be terrible and won't make it and have you
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Speaker 1: success over the full contract. The risk is always that
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Speaker 1: a player will not live up to expectations or they
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Speaker 1: will just have their career ravaged by injury. The reward
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Speaker 1: is obviously that you have the next Ronald Lacuna Junior,
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Speaker 1: and you have an MVP and the players a star.
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Speaker 1: And it's all about the nerdalytics better known as analytics
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Speaker 1: and more, minimizing risk and all this stuff. And they
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Speaker 1: throw that out there and people get all excitedn't they. Well,
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Speaker 1: if the computer says it, it must be computer said
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Speaker 1: my name is a bad job. But you should not. Really,
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Speaker 1: there was only twenty seconds left in the song. I
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Speaker 1: does the song end? Does it end with a bad word?
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Speaker 1: Is it a dirty word at the end?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, if we want to finish it, we can
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Speaker 1: finish it. Yeah, okay, all right, we don't need that.
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Speaker 1: Nobody can hear that anything. I tried to turn it off,
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Speaker 1: we began the hour. The Atlanta Braves or the worst
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Speaker 1: team in baseball. They won on the West Coast and
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Speaker 1: didn't do They didn't win one freaking game. They didn't
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Speaker 1: win one game on a West Coast sojourn to begin
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Speaker 1: the season. You talk about a cream pie to the
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Speaker 1: face the Atlanta Braves, who are supposed to be a
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Speaker 1: playoff tam Non, I'm Benny Brightside on the Braves. I
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Speaker 1: believe the Braves will still end up making the playoffs
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Speaker 1: because there's so many teams to get in the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: But man, what a disastrous start for the Atlanta Braves.
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Speaker 1: Milkman Mike in Colorado says a minus on the opening monologue.
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Speaker 1: I wonder how many of the woke nation believe the
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Speaker 1: reason the Braves are losers is because they're still insensitive
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Speaker 1: to the applight of the Indigenous people. I don't know
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Speaker 1: those people have They're still there, but we haven't heard
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Speaker 1: as much of them in the last since January. I
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Speaker 1: guess it's been pretty quiet on that front now. Milkman Mike. Also,
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Speaker 1: I am told there was an erroneous mistake. I blamed
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Speaker 1: Bill Miller for this the song that made its debut
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Speaker 1: yesterday then and I was contacted by Jay Scoop and
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Speaker 1: I failed to mention that Milkman Mike, he was doing
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Speaker 1: some of the vocals on that with just Josh, that
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Speaker 1: it was a three legged, three legged Malard Militia confab
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Speaker 1: on that song. For the Raina like the Love Boat
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Speaker 1: version of the Lorraina Open, we had three different time
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Speaker 1: zones represented. We had just Josh and Cincinnati Milkman Mike,
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Speaker 1: who's in Colorado. That's Mountain time and Jay Scoop was
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Speaker 1: on the West coast, so we covered three time zones
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Speaker 1: in that and those boys produced that song. Good job
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Speaker 1: by them, outstanding Charlie in Wisconsin, Bad job by Charlie.
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Speaker 1: He's already answering the who am I game question, which
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Speaker 1: we haven't even given out. Shame on you, Yes, ferg
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Speaker 1: Dog rites and says, are you starting to buy into
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Speaker 1: the dream of a perfect season yet? Ben? If the
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Speaker 1: boys can even overcome a terrible start by David Vassay's
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Speaker 1: boy toy Snell, zilla, who can stop them? Yeah? Man,
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Speaker 1: you see, if the Dodgers are gonna lose, and they
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Speaker 1: will lose, obviously, I hope they lose. When Blake Snell's
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't feel that bad. You know, they're gonna lose
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Speaker 1: fifty games at least this year, the Dodgers, So make
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Speaker 1: sure they lose most of the starts by Blake Snell,
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Speaker 1: I'd be fine with that. And Snell doesn't have to
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Speaker 1: worry anything because if, as say, will make him breakfast
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Speaker 1: in the morning, so he's fine, and they'll start the
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Speaker 1: bath for him and make sure the bubble bath is
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Speaker 1: the right temperature and all that. So he's in good shape.
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Speaker 1: He had nothing to worry about. Late Night Drug Tester
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Speaker 1: writes in, Because I'm not sure if it's a coincidence,
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Speaker 1: but ever since the Dodgers revoked your media credentials because
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Speaker 1: of Otani, they are unstoppable. Maybe if the Clippers do
21:35
Speaker 1: the same thing, they will also overcome the Curse of
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Speaker 1: the Vanbino and win the NBA. Time with the Clippers
21:40
Speaker 1: already made the Final four a couple of years back,
21:43
Speaker 1: there is no curse of the Vanbino. You're dating yourself,
21:45
Speaker 1: late Night Drug Tester. The Curse of the Beanbino was
21:49
Speaker 1: started by a couple of callers. One was MotorCity Mike
21:53
Speaker 1: and the other was Jihadis John, both of them from Michigan,
21:57
Speaker 1: and they started this nonsense, the curse of the band,
22:00
Speaker 1: you know, But the curse has been broken. The curse
22:03
Speaker 1: has been broken. Mad Jack writes in, says, nice to
22:08
Speaker 1: see the Doyers win despite snell Zilla putting every member
22:12
Speaker 1: of the hapless Braves on base like he was Oprah.
22:16
Speaker 1: You get a bag, you get a bag. Yeah. The
22:18
Speaker 1: Dodgers tried to give the game to the Braves. The
22:20
Speaker 1: Braves are so bad right now that they gave it back,
22:23
Speaker 1: and Max Muncy not exactly the second coming of Brooks
22:27
Speaker 1: Robinson or Michael Jack Schmid or I mean Hew Ken Caminetti.
22:32
Speaker 1: I can go to any third great defensive third baseman
22:35
Speaker 1: in baseball history. God, is he a disaster at third base? Defensively?
22:39
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter because they're so good. But my goodness,
22:43
Speaker 1: man alive. All right, let's see who else have page.
22:46
Speaker 1: Dan Gunner says, good monologue. How about the Wolves Nuggets game? Gunner,
22:53
Speaker 1: come on, didn't make a monologue, did not make a monologue. Robbie,
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Speaker 1: the Mariner fan who's got analytics in his blood, says
23:02
Speaker 1: to tell Marte is already thirty one. I'm not sure
23:05
Speaker 1: he fits in with Merrill and Campbell and the younger
23:08
Speaker 1: players getting extensions before they deserve a discussion. Also, Marte
23:12
Speaker 1: is currently the best second basement in baseball, at least
23:16
Speaker 1: in the top three. But it's not allowing them to
23:20
Speaker 1: go out and test the market now. Big Rick rob
23:22
Speaker 1: writes in and says, Ben, that was a grade A
23:25
Speaker 1: malor monologue. Yet again, the Mookie Banks bets take that
23:30
Speaker 1: he's a better athlete. I'm gonna buy that, But is
23:33
Speaker 1: he a better baseball player. That's my addition there. You
23:36
Speaker 1: may be able to hit, you may be able to run,
23:40
Speaker 1: but can you play? F al touve our buddy Chip
23:45
Speaker 1: and the Ques, who's no longer working the deaded night
23:47
Speaker 1: shift because of the evil doctors, He says a plus
23:51
Speaker 1: on the mall monologue. I think Mookie Bets needs to
23:53
Speaker 1: put down the crack pipe. But he's an accident player,
24:04
Speaker 1: according to Chip and the Ques. Mookie Bets, but everyone
24:06
Speaker 1: outside the family knows who the best player on the
24:09
Speaker 1: Dowyers is. Nature Boy says, who would have thought the
24:14
Speaker 1: Sacramento A's would have more wins than the Atlanta Braves
24:19
Speaker 1: at this point? Well, every team in baseball has more wins,
24:24
Speaker 1: even the ones that are in minor league ballparks like
24:26
Speaker 1: Sacramento and Tampa Bay. Well, how about the Athletics. It's
24:32
Speaker 1: good to know they're not in Oakland anymore. People used
24:35
Speaker 1: to goof on the fact that no one went to
24:36
Speaker 1: A's games, that it was invitation only and they pretty
24:39
Speaker 1: much allow anyone to just walk in if you want
24:41
Speaker 1: to go to an A's game when they were in
24:43
Speaker 1: Oakland and they'd be playing at this cavernous stadium that
24:47
Speaker 1: had sixty thousand seats and there'd be like ten thousand
24:50
Speaker 1: people there. And in the finale, the series finale between
24:56
Speaker 1: the Cubs and the Athletics and Sacramento, they had an
24:59
Speaker 1: attendant of nine thousand, three hundred and forty two. That
25:04
Speaker 1: was the total announced attendance for the initial three game
25:07
Speaker 1: set of the Sacramento Athletics, thirty one thousand, five hundred
25:13
Speaker 1: and fifty six. That's in three games, three games in
25:17
Speaker 1: their minor league ballpark, which is appropriate because they have
25:20
Speaker 1: minor league players. I know, Robbie the Meridithith, why don't
25:23
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25:26
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Speaker 1: say hello to Kelly in de Moin. Hello Kelly in
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Speaker 1: the Moin. This is the part where we punched the
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Speaker 1: button and then we get some amazing factoid that is
26:25
Speaker 1: going to.
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Speaker 4: Oh, if you want amazing factoids, I got one for you.
26:30
Speaker 4: I was shocked because the other network put out a
26:35
Speaker 4: list of the one hundred best baseball players ever, and
26:38
Speaker 4: somehow six mirrors made the list. I don't even know,
26:41
Speaker 4: and four or more pictures, and I don't even know how.
26:45
Speaker 4: I didn't know most of our pictures were worthy of that.
26:48
Speaker 1: So well, the most shocking part of that is that
26:50
Speaker 1: there's another network. I thought they turned off. I thought
26:52
Speaker 1: they went off the air years ago. I thought they just.
26:55
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't listen to them.
26:58
Speaker 4: I listened to you, Ben.
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Speaker 1: Somebody must have told you about that, because I know
27:02
Speaker 1: you don't listen to them.
27:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sorry. I get alerts on my phone.
27:07
Speaker 1: On your phone, let's you should turn off all the
27:10
Speaker 1: alerts on your phone. That's bad news.
27:12
Speaker 4: I should turn off all the alerts on my phone.
27:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, no I do. I don't have
27:16
Speaker 1: like a lot of my buddies have the like Instagram
27:18
Speaker 1: or Twitter, I guess x now Facebook, they have the
27:22
Speaker 1: they get messaged anytime they get a message, And no
27:26
Speaker 1: I don't have that. If I want to see what
27:29
Speaker 1: my messages are, I'll just pop on there.
27:32
Speaker 4: Somehow four Mariners pictures made them one hundred lists. I don't.
27:36
Speaker 4: I didn't know.
27:37
Speaker 1: There were about there were about seven or eight years.
27:39
Speaker 1: The Mariners consistently were one of the better teams in baseball,
27:42
Speaker 1: so they all had to be in that seven eight
27:44
Speaker 1: Randy Johnson, King Felix, two of them current pictures.
27:48
Speaker 4: Then I was shocked, Oh well.
27:50
Speaker 1: I don't. Can I name three Mariner pictures right now?
27:55
Speaker 1: I can name it?
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Speaker 4: I can't. Okay, let's see.
27:58
Speaker 1: We're not playing the game. We're not playing the Mariner game.
28:02
Speaker 1: We're not playing the Seattle Mariner name a picture game.
28:05
Speaker 1: We're not doing that. How dare you are you trying
28:09
Speaker 1: to bogart the show with Seattle Mariner propaganda? Is that
28:14
Speaker 1: is that? Lorena? Do you think that's a fun game? Lorena?
28:21
Speaker 1: Do you think that would be a fun game. Yeah,
28:25
Speaker 1: she said, no, isn't that your team? Of course I
28:30
Speaker 1: would hope that you could name them. Well, she is
28:33
Speaker 1: in though. There's not a lot of Mariner coverage in
28:35
Speaker 1: the Moye. But the internet you can get whatever you want.
28:38
Speaker 1: You're really into.
28:38
Speaker 4: That, correct, exactly?
28:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well I didn't see you when they
28:45
Speaker 1: got Louis Castilla. They didn't trade him, so they got
28:47
Speaker 1: I got. That's one Louis Castillo, right, I think that's
28:50
Speaker 1: the only one I can name.
28:51
Speaker 3: We do.
28:51
Speaker 1: I don't want to play the game. I named Louis Castille.
28:55
Speaker 1: I don't want to play the game, but I named him.
28:57
Speaker 1: And they have the big dump right or the dumpster
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Speaker 1: u cal Raleigh.
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Speaker 4: There you go?
29:04
Speaker 1: And what else they have? Oh? The guy that I
29:07
Speaker 1: liked in Tampa Bay. That's guy I can I can
29:13
Speaker 1: literally feel people turning the dial right now. But how
29:16
Speaker 1: about Randy or Rosa Raina. He was on Tampa Bay.
29:19
Speaker 1: I liked him in Tampa Bay. That's it. That's the
29:24
Speaker 1: only Mariners I can name, right. Oh? The other guy
29:26
Speaker 1: that center field of Rodriguez is good to I know.
29:30
Speaker 1: That's it. I'm done. I'm out of Mariners. That's it
29:33
Speaker 1: no more mariners who can't even name the angels? What
29:39
Speaker 1: are you talking about? I mean, what are we doing here? Seriously?
29:46
Speaker 4: I have no idea. I'm sorry.
29:50
Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you Kelly, and everything going well
29:53
Speaker 1: with your situation and everything progressing. She's gone. We don't
29:59
Speaker 1: really care about that, Kelly. But let no, Kelly's she's
30:07
Speaker 1: got a bun in the oven. So she's gonna have
30:10
Speaker 1: a child. How many months along you think she is?
30:13
Speaker 1: She's gotta be close to seven now? Is it really
30:16
Speaker 1: been that long? Has time flown that much? I don't know.
30:20
Speaker 1: I don't know the math. But that'll be the well,
30:23
Speaker 1: not the first, because we've had others, but that will
30:25
Speaker 1: be a child that is produced because of the show.
30:29
Speaker 1: And should we feel good about that or should we
30:32
Speaker 1: be disturbed by that? Like I'm not sure how we
30:34
Speaker 1: should feel about that. But this is a couple that
30:38
Speaker 1: is together because of the show, and I would I
30:41
Speaker 1: would argue, and I don't think I'm wrong in this
30:44
Speaker 1: that without the show, that doesn't happen, right the odds
30:49
Speaker 1: of that happening? Fun fact, yes, they put that out.
30:54
Speaker 1: How come they would not know each other without the show?
30:57
Speaker 1: Exactly what I'm saying, is that they met because of
31:00
Speaker 1: the show. Yeah, if it was for you, Ben, they
31:02
Speaker 1: would not know love. We bring love together and we
31:05
Speaker 1: have produced a next generation. I should be like the
31:08
Speaker 1: godfather of the child. I must be the godfather of
31:11
Speaker 1: the child because you have this, you know, Shane in
31:13
Speaker 1: the morn and Kelly in the morning. And then they
31:16
Speaker 1: got together because they met because of the show when
31:18
Speaker 1: she was Donut Kelly. And now we've got the magic.
31:21
Speaker 1: Now we've got the amazing thing, Kevin says. The Mariners
31:25
Speaker 1: have the third best pitching in baseball. He says, and
31:28
Speaker 1: then he's he's given me Mariner propaganda. There one name
31:33
Speaker 1: after another. Nature Boy answering the call to the wild rights,
31:37
Speaker 1: and he says, Max Munsey, it is all right, he does,
31:43
Speaker 1: Max Munsey looked like rubber arms. Steve Sachs at third base,
31:48
Speaker 1: a little rough the first the first throw, the number
31:54
Speaker 1: sixteen in baseball. He k Hernandez could have should have
31:58
Speaker 1: made the play, could have picked it out of the dirt.
32:01
Speaker 1: But the other one was the other monthsI Era was atrocious.
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Speaker 1: Nature Boy also says, the only Mariner picture he can
32:09
Speaker 1: answer is John Halama. That's it. Robbie says, I once
32:14
Speaker 1: again am begging you to make a couple category for
32:17
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32:22
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32:26
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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's O'Neil Cruz who O'Neil Cruz became the fourth player
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Speaker 1: bases in a team's first seven games of a season.
33:20
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Speaker 1: and me again. O'Neil Cruz of the Pirates just became
33:30
Speaker 1: the fourth player with two plus home runs, six plus
33:34
Speaker 1: stolen bases, and a team's first seven games of a season.
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Speaker 1: Joining Ricky Henderson, Eric Davis and me. Who am I Who?
33:44
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35:01
Speaker 1: What a schmuck. But here's the who am I game?
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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's O'Neil Cruz, who looks like he should dominate base.
35:08
Speaker 1: But he's pretty good. He's pretty good. Who pirates? Sucked though,
35:12
Speaker 1: But O'Neil Cruz became the fourth player with two or
35:15
Speaker 1: more home runs, six or more stolen bases in a
35:18
Speaker 1: team's first seven games. He joins Ricky Henderson, Eric Davis
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Speaker 1: and me Who am I?
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Speaker 4: Who?
35:27
Speaker 1: That is the question? What is the answer? And let's
35:32
Speaker 1: see who do we have? Enie Meani, Miney Mo Psycho
35:38
Speaker 1: Sid Guess by Andy and Lino Lakes Minnesota. Scrooge says
35:42
Speaker 1: the most overpriced pitcher of all time Barry Zito, rob
35:47
Speaker 1: the goat Man going with Robbie the Mariner fan. That's
35:51
Speaker 1: a good photo of Robbie. Look at that lost a
35:53
Speaker 1: couple of pounds there, The Tasmanian Devil guess by William
35:58
Speaker 1: Alf the Alien o Piner go with Don Zimmer. Now
36:02
Speaker 1: why you gotta do don Zimmer like that? Alf? Come
36:04
Speaker 1: on man, rest in peace. One of the great characters,
36:07
Speaker 1: Don Zimmer. He's only been dead for a million Years
36:09
Speaker 1: A one Pierre guest by Malibu Rubin, Christian McCaffrey from
36:14
Speaker 1: Miguel on Fire. Who else, Let's see Jared Allen who
36:19
Speaker 1: is forty three today, Viking Legend from Late Night Drug
36:23
Speaker 1: Tester Gunner from King Roy. Look at that? Is that Gunner?
36:27
Speaker 1: And that's his brother on one side and his other brother
36:30
Speaker 1: on the other. Look at that good job by Gunner.
36:33
Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Hugh Hefner from Trucker Joe
36:36
Speaker 1: Ryan Friel guest by Jordan Riley Cooper from Shane in
36:41
Speaker 1: Des Moines, Donkey sausage tossed out by Malar prop guy.
36:46
Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Milkman Mike and Colorado, says
36:48
Speaker 1: Shane and Kelly's kids Godfather Bill Miller, Speedy Claxton from
36:54
Speaker 1: Dante poly Diego and Old School Brew Crew with Ben
36:58
Speaker 1: Ogilvie as his answer. The Mariner fans says, the guy
37:02
Speaker 1: that stole the World Series ball from four Doug men
37:06
Speaker 1: Kaevich is the answer. Who else? Uh? Williams Ostido? Whatever
37:13
Speaker 1: happened to that guy? The Turtle? Whatever happened to him?
37:16
Speaker 1: I think he's out? Is he out a baseball? Now?
37:18
Speaker 1: He's not in the majors. I don't think uh, the
37:19
Speaker 1: TJ spin Patrick has said Luis riz Padre first baseman.
37:25
Speaker 1: He says, Loreina, do you have an answer? Is not
37:29
Speaker 1: like Keebler Elf, which was guess b Slim tim or
37:31
Speaker 1: Juan Pierre from slug in Vegas.
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Speaker 4: Hi, buddy, Yeah, No, my guess is the grouch Tony Brothers.
37:39
Speaker 1: The Grouse Tony Brothers.
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Speaker 4: Is that?
37:40
Speaker 1: Is that the answer? No, the correct answer is Joe Morgan.
37:47
Speaker 1: You know it seems Joe Morgan played for the Cowboys.
37:53
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean, if he played football, he would
37:55
Speaker 1: have played for the Cowboys. But he's most known for
37:58
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Reds. But that's a baseball team, and they
38:02
Speaker 1: were known as the Big what what were they known
38:04
Speaker 1: as the Big What? The Big Reds? Well kind of
38:09
Speaker 1: there was a big Red machine, Big Red. I didn't
38:12
Speaker 1: want to move. I gotta eat this story real quick.
38:14
Speaker 1: So the Pirates are not a good baseball team, but
38:18
Speaker 1: they have one of the young faces of baseball, this
38:22
Speaker 1: Paul Skeen's character. He's one of the young faces. Pitcher
38:25
Speaker 1: really good, so good. It'll be on the Dodgers, the Yankees,
38:28
Speaker 1: the Red Sox in a few years. But He's also
38:30
Speaker 1: in a relationship with Libby Dunn, the famous she's like
38:34
Speaker 1: an internet model now at this point, she's still She's
38:37
Speaker 1: not a college athlete anymore, I don't think anyway. They
38:39
Speaker 1: did a photo shoot for GQ and it was very awkward.
38:43
Speaker 1: And can we play a little bit, Paul, play play
38:45
Speaker 1: the clip, coop, we can play it. I want to
38:47
Speaker 1: play this a little bit on we don't have it
38:49
Speaker 1: all right? Well, Paul Skins, He said, I just want
38:52
Speaker 1: to play the beginning of it, because he said he
38:53
Speaker 1: was shocked by somebody he didn't realize when he signed
38:56
Speaker 1: up for the photo shoot. Take take a listen, real quick,
38:58
Speaker 1: listen this Paul skeins of the Pirates. Here, let's see
39:01
Speaker 1: we can pop this in here in place. He's popping it.
39:04
Speaker 1: He's popping it. You should hear him pop it. It's
39:06
Speaker 1: coming right now. It's it's now running into a brick wall. Hey,
39:10
Speaker 1: you're always well dressed. But we didn't know we're talking
39:12
Speaker 1: to a GQ model today.
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Speaker 4: What's that all about?
39:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, jeez m yeah, I don't know. It's Uh, I'm
39:21
Speaker 1: gonna get some flak in the in the locker room.
39:23
Speaker 1: I know that I'm not I'm not looking forward to that. Yeah. Well,
39:26
Speaker 1: he also said I didn't we didn't get the best part.
39:28
Speaker 1: I didn't know what GQ was. He said, I didn't
39:31
Speaker 1: know what GQ was. How do you not know what
39:34
Speaker 1: GQ is? Seriously,