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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to jump into some collegiate football in
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  Speaker 1: a moment, but we do have some breaking news that
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  Speaker 1: happened on late on Labor Day into the day after
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  Speaker 1: Labor Day. A contract kerfluffle has come to an end
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  Speaker 1: as the New England Patriots have agreed to a contract
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  Speaker 1: with Christian Gonzalez. We talked about this in a previous
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  Speaker 1: episode of the show. Gonzalez had been threatening to be
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  Speaker 1: a part-time employee and gave out these vague statements about, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I, I don't know, I might not play the
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  Speaker 1: game on Wednesday night when the NFL season begins. Well,
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  Speaker 1: according to state-sponsored and ESPN-partnered NFL Network, the Patriots have
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  Speaker 1: agreed to a four-year extension for $ 135 million. $ 102 million
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  Speaker 1: guaranteed for Christian Gonzalez, so he will stay with the
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  Speaker 1: New England Patriots. That Comes about 48 hours, a little
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  Speaker 1: less than I guess now, for the season opener in Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: And more on that as we go through the overnight.
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  Speaker 1: So that deal is done, done, done. If state-sponsored NFL
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  Speaker 1: media is reporting it, it better be done. Our lead, though,
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  Speaker 1: this hour is from a story that I am fascinated by.
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  Speaker 1: I can't get enough of this. We'll call it the
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  Speaker 1: Ratatouille story, if you will, here. From Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
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  Speaker 1: where LSU coach Lane Kiffin fired back as the fire
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  Speaker 1: of the cannons at Paul Feinbaum. Still hanging out after
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  Speaker 1: all these years. This after criticism following LSU vaporizing Clemson
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend. So if you've not been following this,
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  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin, public enemy, number one in all the land
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  Speaker 1: in college football. And Paul Feinbaum putting the laser pointer
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  Speaker 1: right in the bullseye, right at Lane Kiffin. So Kiffin responded.
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  Speaker 1: He called Feinbaum the, quote, definition of rat poison. I
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  Speaker 1: looked it up. It's actually not true. That's a lie.
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  Speaker 1: I looked up the definition of rat poison. That's not it.
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  Speaker 1: He actually borrowed Nick Saban's famous phrase from years gone
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  Speaker 1: by there as a commentary on the The media chatted. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Feinbaum had questioned Lane Kiffin's behavior and essentially calling him
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a child, paraphrasing, of course, the antics
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  Speaker 1: and all that, arguing that the LSU coach continues to
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  Speaker 1: invite unnecessary controversy despite the domination, demolition. of Clemson there,
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  Speaker 1: just the demolition of Clemson. So that is a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping-off point. Let us discuss the question. On the Maller scorecard,
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  Speaker 1: how do you grade Lane Kiffin after labeling Paul Feinbaum,
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  Speaker 1: longtime college football pundit, quote, rat poison? Is this profound, preposterous,
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  Speaker 1: or a publicity stunt? So I've got Dahmer, Tropical Timeshare,
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  Speaker 1: And Mama's Kitchen. And we'll put them all together here,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to click them into place, like Legos.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to click these things into place. So, A,
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  Speaker 1: on the Maller scorecard, as far as the grade is concerned,
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  Speaker 1: this is oozing, oozing as a publicity stunt. Nobody actually
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  Speaker 1: believes Lane Kiffin and Paul Feinbaum dislike each other. Do you?
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  Speaker 1: Because if you do, I'd like you to go to
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  Speaker 1: the back of the room. I'd like you to go
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  Speaker 1: back because you get detention. You're going to have detention.
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  Speaker 1: You have to stay after class. The reason why no
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  Speaker 1: one should believe that Lane Kiffin and Paul Feinbaum dislike
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  Speaker 1: each other is simple. They desperately need each other in
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  Speaker 1: the ecosystem of college football. Kiffin and Feinbaum are two
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  Speaker 1: professional pot stirrers, and they're fighting over who's got custody
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  Speaker 1: of the spoon. It's my spoon. No, it's my spoon.
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  Speaker 1: I have the spoon. No. Knock it off. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so Feinbaum calling Kiffin a publicity-seeking child is kind of
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  Speaker 1: like a skunk. Filing an odor complaint. Well, you're the skunk.
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  Speaker 1: You make the mess. You make the smell. I'm still
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  Speaker 1: upset with the odor. I don't like the odor. You
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  Speaker 1: can't do that. And so they go back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: Feinbaum's been around forever, and his whole career has been
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  Speaker 1: about shaking up the port-a-potty tank. And for many coaches,
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  Speaker 1: he is considered the king cobra, a venomous snake. in
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  Speaker 1: the college football media. Now, meanwhile, you've got Kiffin, who
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  Speaker 1: just loves being the firebrand. And he likes to look
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  Speaker 1: back when he's driving away and he can look in
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  Speaker 1: the rearview mirror and see the mushroom cloud. And he
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  Speaker 1: thinks that great. That's just wonderful. And for him, it is.
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  Speaker 1: And Feinbaum accusing Kiffin of loving controversy. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like Guy Fieri saying, you know what, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be upset here with the people because
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  Speaker 1: somebody put too much cheese on my nachos. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: a violation. I'm a complainer. well, it's nachos, supposed to
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  Speaker 1: have cheese, but yeah, I'm going to file a formal complaint.
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  Speaker 1: Or the great former Ohio State student Jeffrey Dahmer leaving
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  Speaker 1: just a one-star review. One-star review for the cafeteria. That's
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  Speaker 1: not ideal. Now, Kiffin isn't offended. I don't believe he
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  Speaker 1: is offended. I believe the word is delighted that Paul
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  Speaker 1: Feinbaum keeps giving him free publicity and they're College football's
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  Speaker 1: perfect dysfunctional marriage. You're complaining about attention while bathing in it,
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  Speaker 1: just having a nice big bubble bath. What's in the
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  Speaker 1: bubble bath? It's an attention bubble bath. Well, isn't that great?
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  Speaker 1: That's wonderful. Yes. And frankly, college football, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these coaches that are just boring. College football would
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  Speaker 1: be far less entertaining if, These two stop throwing tomatoes
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  Speaker 1: at each other. It makes it more enjoyable. Now, one
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  Speaker 1: of the most zany things that happened over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: and we talked about this in a previous episode of
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  Speaker 1: the show, was the Michigan-Western Michigan game. And to Ann
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  Speaker 1: Arbor we go. Fallout, fallout from the weekend. Michigan coach
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Whittingham, who refused to pull his incompetent quarterback off
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  Speaker 1: the field... Well, he has commented now, Whittingham saying that
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Underwood remains the starting quarterback, but, you know what
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  Speaker 1: that means, made it clear that his hold on the
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  Speaker 1: job is not permanent. Now, Whittingham gave us the money quote,
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  Speaker 1: which is what we're going to use here, the money quote.
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  Speaker 1: He said, quote, Coach Michigan said, quote, he's our quarterback
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  Speaker 1: right now, while emphasizing that the situation isn't infinite, And
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  Speaker 1: improvement must come. Now, Whittingham said that the current Michigan quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Underwood, must perform week in and week out at
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  Speaker 1: a high level that allows Michigan to win, yada, yada, yada.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so the question. How much trouble is Michigan
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  Speaker 1: quarterback Bryce Underwood actually in? Is he in big trouble,
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  Speaker 1: little trouble, or no trouble at all? So based on
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  Speaker 1: the finances... You'd say no trouble, but that's not the answer.
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Underwood is underperforming, capital U, underperforming. And so I
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  Speaker 1: have him actually in big trouble. I remember, I'm old
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  Speaker 1: enough to remember when the Michigan fans had orgasms when
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  Speaker 1: they were able to get Bryce Underwood away from LSU
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  Speaker 1: in the recruiting game. And the devil's advocate would say, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's one game. Yeah, it was a stinker. But I say,
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  Speaker 1: spare me the patient sermon. He did not play well
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  Speaker 1: last year and looked horrific this year. He should have
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  Speaker 1: been benched. And I believe the reason he didn't get
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  Speaker 1: benched is because of money, money, money. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like if you're a star baseball player or NFL player
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  Speaker 1: or basketball player, you generally get a little more rope
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  Speaker 1: if you've got a lot of cash. I think we
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  Speaker 1: all know that. You know that. I know that. So Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: they had the boosters line up there. They didn't have
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  Speaker 1: the boosters dump $ 3 million, and that's the number that
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  Speaker 1: I saw, $ 3 million a year into the collection plate
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  Speaker 1: for a developmental mid-level quarterback who needs training wheels. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's what they've got right now with Bryce Underwood. $ 3
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  Speaker 1: million a year. The Wolverines need some ROI, return on investment,
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  Speaker 1: on all those shekels. And as of this moment, as
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  Speaker 1: of this moment in time, the investment has a resale
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  Speaker 1: value of that of a tropical timeshare just outside of Chernobyl.
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  Speaker 1: It's a really nice tropical thing. You get this real
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  Speaker 1: afterglow to you, real afterglow. It's great. you don't need
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  Speaker 1: to get x-rays because you'll have enough x-rays there to
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  Speaker 1: last a lifetime it's just wonderful so underwood's performance against
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  Speaker 1: western michigan had the nutritional value of a deep fried
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  Speaker 1: twinkie dipped in transmission fluid okay do you understand the
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  Speaker 1: And that Hail Mary, which was in bonus time, we
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  Speaker 1: can get into that, we will in a minute, my God.
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  Speaker 1: But when Michigan desperately needed their expensive quarterback toy to work,
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  Speaker 1: they pulled the string, Kyle Whittingham, and smoke came out
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  Speaker 1: of the toy's ears. Now, again, one game, all that,
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  Speaker 1: you play devil's advocate, I got it. But when you're
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  Speaker 1: getting paid that kind of scratch to be the solution,
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  Speaker 1: you don't get to perform like another problem which is
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  Speaker 1: what Bryce Underwood did perform like, and the money is
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  Speaker 1: always a big part of this, but my goodness, you
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  Speaker 1: just can't win. You have 27-point favorites or whatever it
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  Speaker 1: was against Western Michigan, and you shouldn't have won. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't win regulation. Speaking of that, the last word here
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  Speaker 1: to the clock. the clock talk. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 1: As you know, I am by the clock, for the clock,
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  Speaker 1: plausibly all about the clock. So I know a thing
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  Speaker 1: or two about the clock. Big 10 officials giving Michigan
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  Speaker 1: the extra life like Mario Kart to connect on that
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  Speaker 1: Hail Mary to win the story of the weekend in
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night's extravaganza. So I bring this up again because
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  Speaker 1: the Fox rules analyst and former NFL officiating chief Mike Pereira,
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  Speaker 1: the guy that wears the fancy suits, he has chimed
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  Speaker 1: in on this. Pereira said the NFL would have handled
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  Speaker 1: what the Big Ten did much differently, claiming that replay
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  Speaker 1: officials would rely on the television video feed and clock
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  Speaker 1: everyone sees on TV, you know, like what you should do.
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  Speaker 1: Pereira said that when the replay center video conflicts with
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  Speaker 1: the network feed, you use the footage that everyone sees.
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  Speaker 1: That's a quote. You use the footage that everybody sees.
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  Speaker 1: Adding Mike Pereira, that the same protocol is used in
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  Speaker 1: both the NFL and the UFL. Not that anyone watches
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  Speaker 1: the UFL. All right, so the question. You got Mike Pereira.
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  Speaker 1: from the Fox Replay Center, the rules analyst, chiming in
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  Speaker 1: on the Big Ten clock snafu in Michigan. What is
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  Speaker 1: he really saying here? What is he really saying? So
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  Speaker 1: spare me the incompetence excuse, right? Spare me the technological gobbledygook,
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  Speaker 1: which some like to point out. This was a mama's kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten home cooking served piping hot in Ann Arbor,
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  Speaker 1: and Mike Pereira, is saying the quiet part out loud
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  Speaker 1: western michigan won the game the tv clock hit zero
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  Speaker 1: everybody goes home that's it game set and match turn
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  Speaker 1: out the lights the party's over kind of like they
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  Speaker 1: did the florida state game right they turned out the
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  Speaker 1: lights well we'll get to the seminoles in a little
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  Speaker 1: bit they'll be in the b block holy cannoli I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting old. I remember when Florida State used to kill.
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  Speaker 1: I know SMU was in the top 25 preseason poll,
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  Speaker 1: but they would have killed them. Anyway, so the lights
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  Speaker 1: should have been out in Ann Arbor. Western Michigan wins.
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  Speaker 1: They go on the bus. They go home, celebrate, and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. Except suddenly, the conference found a bonus second.
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  Speaker 1: It was in the lost and found. Imagine that. So Pereira,
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  Speaker 1: the former NFL officiating czar, says the NFL handles a
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  Speaker 1: clock discrepancy by trusting the television footage, the evidence, again,
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  Speaker 1: everyone sees. What a revolutionary concept. And you got the
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten over there that operate with the Loch Ness
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  Speaker 1: monster of game clocks. It's trust us, bro. Trust us, bro.
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  Speaker 1: It exists, right? The Loch Ness. Nobody sees the Loch
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  Speaker 1: Ness Monster, but it exists. And, you know, just the
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  Speaker 1: clock for the Big Ten exists. You just can't see it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: You're just not allowed to see it. Well, why can't
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  Speaker 1: I see it? Well, you're not allowed to see it.
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  Speaker 1: But what's the big deal? So when the clock on
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  Speaker 1: the screen says zero and the league says, well, actually,
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  Speaker 1: our secret clock says, Says otherwise. Now, if Michigan had
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  Speaker 1: been ahead of Western Michigan, then it would have reversed.
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  Speaker 1: Not exactly transparency by the dum-dums over in charge of
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  Speaker 1: the Big Ten replay situation. Now, I recommend they bring
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  Speaker 1: back an old staple before smartphones. You used to have
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  Speaker 1: to call time. The time at the tone will be... Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and just do that. Maybe the Big Ten can do that.
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  Speaker 1: Bring back the time thing. You can call time... and
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  Speaker 1: then figure out how much time is left. At the tone,
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  Speaker 1: the time will be, yeah, just like that. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: cook in the books with a copyrighted maize and blue calculator.
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  Speaker 1: My goodness. my goodness be.
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  Speaker 1: Shows two pros The news is in.
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  Speaker 2: If you've not heard, the judge is back in the chambers.
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  Speaker 2: The Yankees, the New York Yankees. Maybe you missed this.
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  Speaker 2: The Yankees have reinstated.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge, El Capitan, is back from the 60-day injury list.
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  Speaker 1: We used to call it the DL back before the
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  Speaker 1: Wokesters took over baseball. Had a broken rib, sidelined him
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  Speaker 1: since May 31st. Remember when Aaron Boone said it would
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  Speaker 1: just be a couple of weeks and Judge would be back? Yeah. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: ended up missing more than three months of the Yankees season.
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  Speaker 1: You missed all of June, all of July, and all
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  Speaker 1: of August. And here we are now. Judge is expected
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  Speaker 1: in the Yankee lineup on Tuesday night when the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: open up a three-game homestand against the doormats of baseball,
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  Speaker 1: the Colorado Rockies. So Judge had been with the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: They were on a West Coast swing. And he was
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  Speaker 1: out there and jumped directly onto the active roster. That's
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  Speaker 1: where the story is. That's where the story is on
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  Speaker 1: this because, well, Judge is back. Who cares? But there
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  Speaker 1: was this great debate because the Yankee front office wanted
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge to go on a minor league rehab assignment,
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  Speaker 1: something that was important to management. Judge said, Ixnay on
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  Speaker 1: the AAA. He didn't go. He said he didn't need it.
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  Speaker 1: So he ends up winning in the end. That is
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: Buy or sell that the Yankees captain Aaron Judge can
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  Speaker 1: immediately look like himself after missing three months of the
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  Speaker 1: baseball season back in the Yankee lineup on Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 1: He's just going to go back in there and be
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  Speaker 1: the old Aaron Judge. I've got Hungry Man Homestyle Meatloaf Dinner,
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  Speaker 1: The Exorcist, and Frequent Flyer Program. And we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together, and we are going. to
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  Speaker 1: have a candid microphone segment is what we're going to have.
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  Speaker 1: But we always start out, you know where we start.
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  Speaker 1: Number one.
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  Speaker 3: Number one. One, one, one, one, one, one, one.
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  Speaker 1: Can I get a one to the right? Can I
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  Speaker 1: get a one to the left? Can I get a
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  Speaker 1: one to the middle? Number one.
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  Speaker 3: Number one.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't need an extra one. So take off the
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  Speaker 1: Yankee cheerleading outfit and put down the pom-poms here. I
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  Speaker 1: am going to sell. I'm not buying. I am selling...
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  Speaker 1: I am selling that Aaron Judge comeback hyperbole. He missed,
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  Speaker 1: if my math is right, 84 games. He then refuses
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  Speaker 1: a rehab assignment after missing 84 games. And the front office,
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  Speaker 1: Brian Cashman and the rest, they're genuflected to Aaron Judge.
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  Speaker 1: So we know that there are different rules for the star.
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  Speaker 1: Superstars get that TSA pre-check straight into Yankee Stadium. if
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  Speaker 1: you're just a normal utility player and you're coming off
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  Speaker 1: an injury, you're going to spend a week in AAA.
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  Speaker 1: This does reek of big league hubris. It does. Yankees
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  Speaker 1: actually had a winning record. They were six games over 500,
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  Speaker 1: 536 winning percentage without Aaron Judge. Now, a couple of
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on that. A, doesn't that cheapen the value of
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  Speaker 1: Judge if they could play above 500 without him? And B,
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  Speaker 1: The other part of that is, is that just a
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  Speaker 1: product of the American League being trash this year? There's
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  Speaker 1: not very many good teams in the American League. So
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  Speaker 1: they survived the loss of their big bopper for the
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  Speaker 1: balance of the summertime throughout the whole summer. And by
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  Speaker 1: the way, you aren't getting MVP judge fresh out of
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  Speaker 1: the box here. You're not. Let me tell you how
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  Speaker 1: this is going to go. I'm never wrong about these things.
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  Speaker 1: You're getting a three-month-old hungry man, homestyle meatloaf dinner. that's
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  Speaker 1: been in the deep freeze for a while there, and
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  Speaker 1: that's got the brown gravy, the mashed potatoes, the brownie,
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  Speaker 1: and all that. However, you've got to defrost the damn thing,
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  Speaker 1: and the Yankees are like, we don't need to defrost this.
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  Speaker 1: We're just going to do it. Okay, good. And spare
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  Speaker 1: me the October superhero narrative. I don't want to hear
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  Speaker 1: about that from my Yankee friends because Even when fully healthy,
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge in his career is a. 236 hitter in
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  Speaker 1: the postseason. Hey, Boomer, batting average doesn't matter, man. Okay, fine.
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  Speaker 1: That's fine. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, could he hit a home run or two
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  Speaker 1: against the Rockies because they're a minor league team? Sure,
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  Speaker 1: why not? But I'm not telling you right now. I'm
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: not expecting much from Judge. There's a month to go. Basically,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: that's it until the playoffs begin. And if this microwave
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: comeback goes sideways, don't expect Aaron Boone and Brian Cashman
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: to admit that they goofed up, that skipping the rehab
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: was a mistake. I would be shocked if they admit that.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: They'll just serve up some reheated word salad instead because
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: they're the ones that allowed this to happen. And holy moly,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: if it does not go right or a judge gets
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: hurt right away, they'll have hell to pay, hell to pay.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: All right, meanwhile. To the ATL we go. Georgia. Below
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: the Mason-Dixon line, fresh off a three-dinger delight in Philadelphia
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: where he was styling and profiling Ronald Acuna Jr., the outfielder,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: the guy that was destined to go to the Hall
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: of Fame and then had to play the rest of
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: his career out and mostly has been damaged goods. So
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Ronald Acuna Jr., He wants, shockingly, another long-term extension with
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves. You might remember years ago he signed
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: a huge extension, an eight-year deal back in the day.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: So we're still a little ways away from that ending.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: And Acuna says he would like the Braves to give
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: him a new contract this offseason. Does that work? Because
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: I've asked people I work for to give me new contracts.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: They usually laugh at me and hang up the phone.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Does it work for Ronald Acuna Jr.? Okay. Anyway, he
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: made it clear he wants to stay in Atlanta and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: So the Braves are saying the great Lee Corso, quote,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: not so fast, my friends. Largely because of Ronald Acuna Jr.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: 's medical chart. It's very long, very long. Durability is
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: not his specialty. He did sign that eight-year $ 100 million
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: deal back in 2019. 115 games into his career, he
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: signed the mega contract. Atlanta, though, holds... Two options. They
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: have the 2017 and the 2018. So you would assume
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: the Braves would just pick up the options and they
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: would control Ronald Acuna Jr. for two more seasons before
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: he can become.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: A free agent.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: So here's the question. Why should the Braves marry Ronald
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Acuna Jr.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Again?
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Why should they give him a new contract when they
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: can just date him for two more years with costs certain? Well,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: there's only one reason you would give him a new contract,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: because you're a fool with a capital F. And the
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: GM there in Atlanta has been there a while now,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Alex Anthopoulos, should get a Ouija board and a channel,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: former First Lady Nancy Reagan, and just say no. Just
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: say no, no, no, no, no, no, no. The medical
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: history on Ronald McDonald. reads like a screening of The Exorcist,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: complete with demonic possession. Demonic possession. You got a torn
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: ACL in the right knee. You got a torn ACL
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: in the left knee. You got multiple hammy problems. The
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: hammy goes whammy. All these things have happened. Two different
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: trips to what used to be the disabled this year
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: involving the same left hammy that did go whammy. So
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of warning signs there. And if you
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: look at the sticker on the package, it says, Buyer Beware.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Buyer Beware with Ronald Lacuna Jr. So you don't pay
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: for the name stitched across the very back there of
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: the jersey. You pay for the production. You pay for
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: the availability. And that's the problem. Availability has all the
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: dependability for Ronald Lacuna Jr. of a submarine you bought
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: at Spirit Halloween. Well, that's not actually true. A real submarine,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: that's a prop for Halloween. Well, I bought it, but
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: it doesn't work. I don't know what to tell you.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: And yeah, when he's operational, he's got all the razzle-dazzle.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: He's spectacular, Ronald Acuna Jr. But the Braves are not
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: purchasing the classical vision of what he had been. And
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: they can't just put him there and mire behind the
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: velvet ropes. They're paying for playing in baseball games. And lately,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: he has spent far too much time with the sign
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: around his neck saying, out of service, out of service,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and that's it. So at one point, you'd say franchise pillar,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: team-friendly deal, all that stuff. It's more like a load-bearing
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: wall with a termite problem. That is what has happened
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: lately to Ronald Lacuna Jr. Meanwhile, final point. To TV
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: land we go. To TV land and broadcasting update. Jack Collinsworth,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: the spawn of Chris Collinsworth. It turns out he will
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: remain part of NBC's Sunday Night Football coverage despite being
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: removed from the show people actually watch. The Football Night
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: in America pregame show went out and spent some money,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: brought in Tony Dungy, and they Pretty much– or Tony Dungy.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin got rid of Tony Dungy is what the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: man tried to say. So Dungy's out after putting everyone
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: to sleep. Collinsworth will continue hosting something called Sunday Night
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Football Final, which seven people and his mom watch. It's
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the NBC post-game show streamed exclusively there on Peacock. The
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: question is this. How many rides on the NBC Peacock
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: does Jack Collinsworth get before we admit– that the family
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: name is the thing doing the heavy lifting. All right,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: so some of us have already admitted that back when
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: he got that Notre Dame gig, and you're like, why
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: is he on the Notre Dame broadcast? That doesn't make
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: any sense. He's not very good. So spare me the
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: fairy tale that people over there at NBC just keep
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: discovering the perfect new role for Jack Collinsworth. Without daddy
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Chris Collinsworth name, Jack isn't hosting... Sunday night football program.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Not happening. You know what he's doing? He's selling bluegrass
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: insurance in Covington, Kentucky, next to Strong's Brick Oven Pizzeria,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: where we had the great Mallard meet-and-greet there. Beautiful location.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Nice outdoor patio in the back where Dick and Dayton
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: and Ohio Owl performed on stage in front of a
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: raucous crowd there. And the other thing about Jack Collinsworth,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: if he wasn't the son of Chris Collinsworth... He would
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: also not only be part of the insurance company in Covington, Kentucky,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: he would also be dominating the softball at the company
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: softball game. Those are on Wednesday night, and I think
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: there's one on Sunday night, I think. So this is
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: the broadcasting version of a legacy admission, repeatedly rewarding mediocrity
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: in performance. And the family name gets you past security.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: And so, like, Notre Dame didn't work. All right, no problem.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Notre Dame didn't work. That's right. Football night in America.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: That doesn't work? Okay, don't worry. Don't worry, kid. Daddy's
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: frequent flyer program, Chris Collinsworth chimes in there, has another
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: complimentary upgrade waiting for you. And it's nepotism with a
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: peacock logo slapped on it. Jack Collinsworth not exactly climbing
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the broadcasting ladder, standing there holding it while NBC carries
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: him up the damn thing and that. So, like, as
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I pointed out before, my dad was in radio. Fortunately,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: he wasn't commercial radio. He was in ham radio. If
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: my dad had been in commercial radio, well, things would
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: have been much different. The nepotism, even in this business,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: there's nepotism. People get these jobs that are like, oh,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: my God, how did that person get the job? Well,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: you know, his dad knows somebody and all that stuff,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: and it is part of the world, not just sports.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: professional sports for broadcasting and it's to be fair it's
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: what happens pretty much everywhere uh is a version of
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: that taking place.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the ben maller
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: show weekdays at 2 a.m eastern 11 p.m pacific.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Here we go here we go here we go how
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: about that to the third degree this is when big
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: ben gets grilled koopa loop.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Over the weekend, Arizona State was blowing out Morgan State
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: 70-7 when the two teams agreed to shorten the fourth
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: quarter to 10 minutes. Do you think this is something
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: that NFL teams should be able to do?
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: No!
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: That's like a youth sports type thing. No, there should
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: never be that big a gap between NFL teams. And
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: with gambling, you can't do that. So no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: On every level, no. It's only early season college football
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: when you have these money games. Next!
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: A report over the weekend says that Artie Marino was
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: affected by negative chants from Angels fans and that it
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: played a role in his decision to sell the team.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Are you buying that?
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: I am not buying that. He obviously didn't want to
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: be booed. Nobody wants to be booed. The reason he
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: sold the team, though, was he got the godfather offer
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: by Stan Kroenke. If Stan Kroenke hadn't given him that offer,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the Angels would still be completely controlled by Artie Marino.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: They still technically are. The sale won't be official until
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: next year. That makes for a good story. I don't
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: buy it. Next.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: According to a report from The Athletic, exploratory talks are
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: underway about building a new stadium near Marysville, Washington, for
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: the eventual return of the NBA to the Seattle area. Ben,
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: if you had to guess, when will we actually see
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: the first NBA game back in Seattle?
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: All right, so we're sitting here. It's 2026. I am
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: going to say that the Supersonics will take the court
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: by 2032 at the latest. So in the next six years,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: they'll add... Seattle and Vegas. How did we do, Koopaloop?
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: You passed this edition.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: That is a win. You can put it on the board.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: Winner, winner, winner.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Chicken dinner.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
• 30:26
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• 30:31
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• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Let's see here. Who do we have? Eenie, meenie, miney, moe.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Let's go. We've got Uncle Moe, who's in... In Jersey. Hello,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Uncle Mo. Welcome. Good morning, Ben. Getting ready. We're in
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: the middle of my 16-year offseason, but this is the
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: part we play the games. During this part of the offseason,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: we play the games. It's the pressing part. Who do
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: you want to partner up with, our guy Uncle Mo? Ben,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I'm going to partner up with you. Happy New Year.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Thank you, buddy. Happy New Year. All right. Me and
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Uncle Mo, we're going to win. And then our buddy
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Tree in Chicago. Hello, Tree. Welcome, buddy. Benny, what's going on,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: my man?
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: Always good to hear from you.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Your Cubbies playing well. The Cubbies. Pete Crow Arms. PTA, baby.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Went a little slump, man, but, you know, we got
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: the MVP this year. Looking good. All right. And you
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: want to play with Lorena or Coop?
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Give me Coop. What's up, Lorena?
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say Coop.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: Hi.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: It's okay.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: You can play with him.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: All right, what are the categories?
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Quickly.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, we have the categories. All right, what is this?
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Let me click this thing here. We have the Patsy Cline?
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Yes, the Patsy Cline edition. She would have been 94
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: years old today.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Died way too soon. She did. A plane accident.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, 30 years old. The categories are Three Cigarettes
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: in an Ashtray, Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, and Blue
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Moon of Kentucky. Uncle Mo, which category would you like?
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Let's go Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: All right, and Tree, how about you? What did you say?
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: I see three pieces.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: What did you say?
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: There's Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, and Blue Moon of Kentucky.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I Fall to Pieces.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: I Fall to Pieces.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Everyone, hold on. We'll get to that. Mallard's Mountain of Money.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: In its entirety. We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Probably not.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: All right, right to it we go. Patsy Cline edition,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Mallard's amount of money. It is Uncle Mo in Jersey
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: with me, Ben. Our buddy Tree in Chicago is teamed
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: up with Koopa Loop. Here we go, gentlemen. Patsy Cline edition.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Uncle Mo, you're up first. You picked cigarettes.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Yes, in an ashtray. Correct?
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. These athletes all smoke or smoke cigarettes.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Here we go.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: We'll start out with this. First and last name, 45
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: seconds on the clock. We're on our way.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Go.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: The Bambino. Yes. Greatest receiver for the Minnesota Vikings, straight
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: cash homie. Yes. Coach of the Lakers, the Heat, and
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: the Knicks. He's the executive in Miami right now. Yes.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Pitcher from Japan. He started Game 7 for the Dodgers
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: in 2017 and got lit up by the Astros. Pitched
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: for the Padres. Yes. Yes. Chain-smoking Lakers center in the
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: late 1980s. Yes. Quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs. Famously
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: smoking in the locker room during Super Bowl. Classic photograph,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: black and white photograph. All right. Philly's legend won an
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: MVP in the 60s. 240. 240. Dick Allen. Dick Allen.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Dick Allen. That's right. All right, Tree.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: We've got I Fall to Pieces. These athletes have a
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: reputation of being playoff choke artists. Are you ready?
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Let's do it.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: All right, 45 seconds. Let's begin. Former Cowboys quarterback, you
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: just got arrested for drunk driving.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Former Chargers quarterback.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Stan Humphries.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: No, like more recently.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Stan Humphries.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: No, after him.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Phillip Rivers.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Phillip Rivers.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: This guy was a point guard for the Clippers, Hornets.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: He just retired recently.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Chris Paul. Chris Paul.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: This guy was a pitcher for the Dodgers, one of
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: the best regular season pitchers of all time.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw. Yes.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: This guy was on the Rockets and the Orlando Magic.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: He always looked stoned.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Trace McGrady. Yes.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: This guy was a pitcher. He won a Cy Young
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: for the Tampa Bay Rays. He later got a World
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: Series with the Red Sox.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, man. With the red socks, with the rays.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: He's bald. Oh, God.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: David Price.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: Yes, David Price.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: All right, you're back up. David Price. Damn it. 160?
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: We got Blue Moon or Cigarette.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Blue Moon of Kentucky or Crazy Tree. All right.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Blue Moon.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: These athletes were all born in Kentucky. 45 seconds. Let's begin.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: Best boxer of all time? Muhammad Ali.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: This guy was an MVP running back for the Seahawks.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: Corey Alexander. No, that's not his first name.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Sean, Sean, Sean. Yes, yes.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: This guy was a cornerback, one of the best all
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: time for the Broncos. He was traded from the Redskins.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: Cam Bailey.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, Cam Bailey.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: This guy was MVP and Rookie of the Year in
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: the same year for the Washington Bullets. Oh, for the
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Washington Bullets.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: All right. How about Dr. Duncan Stein? Oh, the Chocolate Thunder?
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: No. All right.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: Point guard for the Celtics who won a championship with them.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Ray John Rondo.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Yes. How much points do we have? What's the score, Lorraine?
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: 340 total. All right.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Here we go. Uncle Mo, he was a spaceman for
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox. Spaceman for the Red Sox. Pitcher. Pitcher. Pack. Pack. Oh,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: come on. Bill Lee. Oh, that's bull crap. Bill Lee.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Bill Lee. The spaceman. Bill Lee.