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Speaker 1: Okay, let's go to Donna Bethel park Don you're only.

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Speaker 2: Double m what I mean? What I mind?

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Speaker 3: Hey, you can talk about the big Ben Hold debacle

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Speaker 3: with the can would say, I mean I watched Ben

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Speaker 3: for you know, fifteen, sixteen years, eighteen years, and I

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Speaker 4: And Cam doesn't do it.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't do it. I mean, he's a he's a

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Speaker 3: perennial loser, and he's an active player doing a talk show.

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Speaker 1: And he's a phony.

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Speaker 5: He's a phony and revealed himself as such by being

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Speaker 3: You're right, and for how tough these guys are, they

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Speaker 3: act like middle school girls. Come out and say it.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 5: Joey Porter, well, Joey Porter at that Hall of Honor

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Speaker 5: ceremony this year got inducted with Ben and he was

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Speaker 5: hugging Ben and kissing his ass, and then when Ben's

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Speaker 5: not there, he says this crap.

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Speaker 1: Porter's a coward, total power. Thank you for the call.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Kevin in Dormont.

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Speaker 4: Mark, how you doing great? I was just calling a

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Speaker 4: comment on what's been going on with his podcast with

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Speaker 4: Ben discussing Ben and everything, and let me just.

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Speaker 5: Tack off before you proceed. I don't know why this

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Speaker 5: podcast is so important to cam. I don't know what

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Speaker 5: upside he seasoned it. He couldn't possibly make that much

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Speaker 5: money from it. Then again, he's underpaid, as he reminds

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Speaker 5: But if he wants to have a future in legitimate

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Speaker 5: media after this, that podcast has proven that he can't

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Speaker 4: He's stunk even on the pregames for the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 4: But besides that, my opinion about the whole situation, I

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Speaker 4: don't care what you are during the week. What are

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Speaker 7: Are you winning?

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Speaker 4: Are you doing everything you can possibly do to win?

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Speaker 4: That's all I'm asking of you. My personal life is

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Speaker 5: Well I want, I want you know my heroes as

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Speaker 5: it were, to live not exemporary lives, but but not

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Speaker 5: caused problems. But Joey Porter has caused more problems than

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Speaker 5: Ben Roethlisberger.

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Speaker 1: But Joey Porter.

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Speaker 5: Acts as if what Ben was accused of he was

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Speaker 5: who had Ben down back then. I'm going to say

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Speaker 5: this again too. I said it then, I'll say it now.

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Speaker 5: The Rooney's let Ben down. The Rooney's hung Ben out

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Speaker 5: to drive. They should have insisted that Ben not get

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Speaker 5: suspended because he didn't get charged.

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Speaker 1: There was no proof whatsoever.

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Speaker 5: But Dan Rooney insisted Ben did get suspended because Dan

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Speaker 5: felt that he couldn't control him, which was when Dan

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Speaker 1: I know that's true.

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Speaker 4: And Rooney's always liked to be known this whole year

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Speaker 4: and now they've always been thought that way. Well, guess

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Speaker 4: what is? Each generation has gone on.

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Speaker 5: And this is just another example of the Steelers being

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Speaker 1: And Ben too, but the Steelers are just a mess.

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Speaker 5: There's constant chaos, there's always something dumb going on involving

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Speaker 4: Well it's all business.

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Speaker 1: Now, it's not. It's not.

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Speaker 5: Hey, believe me, brother, this is not what's best for business.

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Speaker 5: Let's go to gym in North Verside. Jim, you're all

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Speaker 8: M hey, So you know, I can't help. But but

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Speaker 8: and I'm like, hat, these guys weren't even starters. It's

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Speaker 2: Jealousy of me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like I need to know what Tyler medick. It stinks.

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Speaker 1: I need to know what Mason Rudolph thinks. Although Rudolph polin.

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Speaker 5: On, albeit through just some I don't know an iHeart

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Speaker 1: Never had a good relationship.

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Speaker 5: Ben resented it when Rudolph got drafted in the third round,

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Speaker 8: Now. Boy, I'm gonna ask you, this is the timing

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Speaker 7: Is this that coordinated effort of some sort.

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Speaker 5: It would not shock me if Porter had that in

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Speaker 5: the back of his mind when he said it correct thanks,

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Speaker 5: And again, I think Cam, through his inaction, through sitting

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Speaker 5: I think Cam confirmed that he agrees with what Porter said,

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Speaker 5: and if that's what he thinks, that's what he thinks,

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Speaker 5: would have the balls to say it. Then again, when

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Speaker 5: you only have the balls to win one playoff game

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Bill. Bill, you're own with double.

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Speaker 9: M Hey, this jolly Porter trying to talk stuff on

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Speaker 9: somebody and then backing down is new. He did the

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Speaker 9: same thing when they were going to see George Bush,

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Speaker 9: saying I'm gonna tell Bush this, I'm gonna.

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Speaker 5: I don't know that Porter's back I don't know the

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Speaker 5: Porter's back down, and I don't know that Bush called

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Speaker 5: Porter out.

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Speaker 9: Either, humorously gave him the opportunity in a group setting

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Speaker 9: to say something and he didn't say.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm glad Joey Porter didn't do that.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it makes sense.

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Speaker 5: I don't believe in football players going to the White

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Speaker 5: of things. Well, actually this president, I wouldn't blame them

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Speaker 5: at all. Thank you for the call A three three,

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Speaker 5: four one two wxdx. Get more calls, and that was

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Speaker 5: some good feedback on the Porter v Benz situation. I

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Speaker 5: want more of that. This is the Mark mannon show

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Speaker 5: one oh five ninety X.

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Speaker 5: A three three four one two wxdx number to call,

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Speaker 1: Quick entry number. That's what she said.

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Speaker 5: At four one two three three three wxdx. Still one

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Speaker 1: The US isn't that fast.

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Speaker 5: They're not slow, but they're not blinding fast like Canada show.

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Speaker 5: They are not skating away from Latvia. Then number again,

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Speaker 5: that kind of got dropped. Well, potentially the Pirates lap,

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Speaker 5: although I doubt it. The Philadelphia Phillies are releasing Nick

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Speaker 5: Castellanos to third baseman, now old and can't move to

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Speaker 5: good The last year he hit seventeen home runs. What

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's not a butcher there. I mean maybe

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Speaker 5: Nick Castellani's another old guy, and that power at third

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Speaker 5: I would be just as inclined to do that as

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Speaker 5: I would be to play Jared Triolo there for his glove.

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Speaker 5: I would rather have the combination of Castellanush's bat and

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Speaker 5: He won that phony ass utility man Gold Glove a

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Speaker 5: gonna kill you. Would you rather have.

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Speaker 1: Triolo or Castellanos at third base?

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Speaker 5: I think it's a long shot, but maybe Castellanos would

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Speaker 1: Maybe he'll get more somewhere else. I don't know.

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Speaker 5: what I think this would be. By the way, Mike mckenry,

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Speaker 5: I'm sure he wants to. But who's gonna want him?

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Speaker 1: I just think he's done.

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Speaker 5: I think people see him and don't see anything left

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Speaker 1: Be their lefty? Would you just keep Barco? He's twenty five?

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Speaker 5: You know, it's funny whenever people talk about prospects, I

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Speaker 5: Your guys who should have been here by now but

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Speaker 5: The B team was talking about the Penguins adding veteran

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Speaker 1: It's a team nowhere close to a Cup run.

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Speaker 5: It's a team that's on the build I was talking

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Speaker 1: Need to keep evolving.

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Speaker 5: As good as that fourth line plays a Chari's line,

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Speaker 9: But.

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Speaker 1: I just think that.

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Speaker 5: It'd be crazy to bring back a Chari and do

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Speaker 5: Or on new contracts. You have to pay him too much. Anyway,

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Speaker 5: Dubus has so far and needs to keep trusting the plan.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest, I'm worried about the locker room.

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Speaker 5: I'm worried about Sid. If this team makes the playoffs

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Speaker 5: and'll be like, oh what you need Cookie? We miss Cookie?

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Speaker 5: Those nicknames. Nope, gotta move on. Even if McGroarty winds

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Speaker 5: up being a fourth liner, he's supposed to be in

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Speaker 5: the NHL by now. Tristan bro is supposed to be

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Speaker 5: the NHL right now. Avery Hayes has proven he maybe

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Speaker 5: should be here right now.

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Speaker 1: Again that number eight three three four one two WSDX up.

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Speaker 5: Next, We're gonna talk with the Mayor, Sean Casey, But

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Speaker 5: right now I want to talk to you about bet Parks.

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Speaker 5: Pick some winners and go for gold while you watch

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Speaker 5: the Winter Games. Bet on men's and women's ice hockey,

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Speaker 5: bob sledding, speed skating, ski and curling, all the events

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Speaker 5: It would be an educated risk. And I'm not saying

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Speaker 5: I feel like they're the two guys that got to

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Speaker 5: should have, which is like something approximating a thirty thirty season.

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Speaker 5: But with Reynolds, I gotta tell you, I'm hoping that

438
00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:04,399
Speaker 5: that the fact that the Pirates are more legit this

439
00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:07,680
Speaker 5: year makes him better, maybe makes even Mitch Keller better.

440
00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:11,040
Speaker 5: I think they might have been kind of discouraged by

441
00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:14,080
Speaker 5: how bad the team's been for how long. Like last year, Reynolds,

442
00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:16,639
Speaker 5: for all his faults, struck out one hundred and seventy

443
00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,840
Speaker 5: three times case and that's just not him.

444
00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:20,720
Speaker 1: He's a much more buttoned up hitter than that.

445
00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's better than punching out one seventy three. You

446
00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:27,639
Speaker 2: know what I mean? You know I agree double on me.

447
00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,159
Speaker 2: I think you're you're exactly right. I think you know,

448
00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,159
Speaker 2: when you bring in some new players, it brings in

449
00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,160
Speaker 2: a little bit of new energy, new juice, and I think.

450
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,200
Speaker 6: Those guys will be revived, you know, to be in.

451
00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,600
Speaker 2: That lineup, to be ready to go every day, and

452
00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:41,840
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, it does. I've played

453
00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:46,160
Speaker 2: on teams too many to talk about at times where

454
00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,520
Speaker 2: you're out of it in June and July, or you're

455
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:50,520
Speaker 2: sometimes you're out of it in May and you're just like,

456
00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:53,480
Speaker 2: oh man, you know, and you're grinding.

457
00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:55,520
Speaker 6: And nothing worse than when you're playing for your stats.

458
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:57,960
Speaker 2: I believe this team is gonna be good. I really do.

459
00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:00,760
Speaker 2: I believe this team has some really good young talents,

460
00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,560
Speaker 2: some veteran bats they brought in. I think this team,

461
00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:05,920
Speaker 2: if they stay healthy, has a real shot to win

462
00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:08,359
Speaker 2: the Central. When you look back at you know, the

463
00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,080
Speaker 2: Reds winning the Central and eighty three wins last year,

464
00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,080
Speaker 2: you just got to be close to five hundred. You're

465
00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:14,920
Speaker 2: probably gonna be able a chance to get the postseason.

466
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Speaker 1: You mentioned Skeens, what about Bubba Chandler.

467
00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:20,080
Speaker 5: He's barely been in the big leagues, but I think

468
00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:21,879
Speaker 5: he can be at the level just below.

469
00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:25,160
Speaker 2: Skins double him. I really believe so that he has

470
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 2: the stuff. I mean, he's got throwing a bunch of

471
00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:30,040
Speaker 2: mount our fastballs, just got a wipeout slider. He's got

472
00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:32,480
Speaker 2: great stuff. He's learning to pitch. You know, when he

473
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:34,439
Speaker 2: first came up, he took us some bumps and bruises,

474
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,879
Speaker 2: then really settled in. I mean, at the end of

475
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,600
Speaker 2: the day, stuff plays in the big leagues. Bubba Chandler

476
00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,639
Speaker 2: has elite stuff, and I write, I mean, there's no

477
00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:45,800
Speaker 2: reason he can't be a tick below what Skeens is.

478
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,200
Speaker 2: And if he is, you know, watch out you're talking about.

479
00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:51,439
Speaker 2: If you can put together a few runs night in

480
00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:52,960
Speaker 2: the night out, you're gonna win a lot more ball

481
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:54,560
Speaker 2: games than seventy one.

482
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Speaker 1: You know what I was glad to see.

483
00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,880
Speaker 5: You saw the reports that Skeens was adding another pitch,

484
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:03,440
Speaker 5: the sleepers, the sweeper, and he says he's not because

485
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:05,439
Speaker 5: case you saw him major league too, Remember when Rick

486
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,119
Speaker 5: Vaughan learned too many pitches and forgot how to throw fast.

487
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:12,400
Speaker 5: I think that I think that Skeens is Arsenal's probably adequate.

488
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,960
Speaker 2: Don't you. I mean, are you kidding me? I think

489
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 2: it's way more than adequate, and that that just shows

490
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,320
Speaker 2: how great he is, because really he has like a

491
00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:24,119
Speaker 2: five six pitch. Arsenal then they're all pretty above average.

492
00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 2: But you know, a guy like Skiens is really an

493
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 2: outlier because you know, I used to love it when

494
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,640
Speaker 2: guys would learn new pitches. Like what if a guy

495
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,280
Speaker 2: had a good fastball, slider change, and oh he's working

496
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:35,840
Speaker 2: on a curve ball. I'm like, oh, please throw me

497
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,680
Speaker 2: that curveball, Like, give me your fourth pitch so I

498
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:40,800
Speaker 2: could do some damage on it. But I think Skeens

499
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,399
Speaker 2: is an outlier. I think whatever he learns is going

500
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,800
Speaker 2: to be elite. So he's the one guy double m

501
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:47,360
Speaker 2: I don't care if he has nine pitches. I best

502
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:48,400
Speaker 2: he they're all pretty good.

503
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,480
Speaker 1: You know, Uh, what would you do with Cutch? That's

504
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:52,720
Speaker 1: kind of an ugly situation.

505
00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, you know, I mean cutches. Listen,

506
00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 2: the guy's a legend here in Pittsburgh, man, I mean

507
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 2: he's he's you know, borderline going to Cooperstown. Former MVP

508
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 2: had a pretty decent year last year. Still has some

509
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 2: baseball left in him. You know, I don't know what

510
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 2: the pirates are thinking as far as you know, what

511
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 2: his role would be and how he would fit in.

512
00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 2: I you know, I think there's it seems like I

513
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 2: don't know the situation, But it just seems like there's

514
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,200
Speaker 2: been some miscommunication. You know, maybe they could have communicated

515
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 2: better whether he was gonna come back or not come back.

516
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:27,720
Speaker 2: It seems like Cutch is kind of in limbo about

517
00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:29,879
Speaker 2: what's going on here. So yeah, I don't know.

518
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:31,679
Speaker 6: I mean one of those things you hate to see,

519
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,760
Speaker 6: you know, a.

520
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,479
Speaker 2: Legendary figure like cuts kind of going out on terms

521
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:39,359
Speaker 2: like this. But I don't know what's gonna happen.

522
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:41,840
Speaker 1: Who's gonna be good in the Nlcenter one? How about

523
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:42,359
Speaker 1: your Reds?

524
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Speaker 2: I think the Reds are gonna be really good, I

525
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 2: really do.

526
00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:48,360
Speaker 6: I mean, they got Unio Suarez, which is a nice

527
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:48,919
Speaker 6: bat for them.

528
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:50,399
Speaker 2: But I think that rotation plays.

529
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 6: You know Andrew Abbott and Hunter Green and you.

530
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 2: Know Nick Widolo, and you know, they got the young

531
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 2: kid Burns. They got some really good young arms that

532
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,040
Speaker 2: are coming up. So I think that plays. I think

533
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,800
Speaker 2: swazz in that lineup. They got to get healthy too.

534
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 2: I I you know, I think, uh, Spencer Steers gotta

535
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:08,160
Speaker 2: be you know healthy out the gates.

536
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,200
Speaker 6: Matt McLean has got to be better.

537
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 2: Elie de la Cruz, you know, obviously he's got the

538
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 2: you know, same skill set kind of like O'Neil Cruz.

539
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 2: He's they got big time speed, big time power. Uh,

540
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:21,399
Speaker 2: you know, and I think he struggles a little bit

541
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 2: of short but there's another level for him too. But

542
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,120
Speaker 2: I think with Terry Frank Conor there double MD. There's

543
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:30,720
Speaker 2: something about Tito and uh and the way his leadership qualities.

544
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 2: He gets the best out of guys. So they'll be

545
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:34,920
Speaker 2: right in it. The Brewers will be right in into

546
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 2: Pat Murphy. You know, he'll have them right there. And

547
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,400
Speaker 2: the Cubs are a lot better. The Cubs have done

548
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 2: a lot to get better bringing in Bregman. Uh, the

549
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 2: rotation will be better.

550
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 6: Uh so, Uh, they're gonna that the Central is gonna

551
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:47,880
Speaker 6: be good this year.

552
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 2: But I actually think if the Pirates stay healthy, they

553
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:52,879
Speaker 2: have a real shot with that pitching.

554
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:54,920
Speaker 1: How many wins will it take to get a wild card?

555
00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,480
Speaker 2: It's gonna take eighty five wins this year, I believe,

556
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 2: you know. Eighty three I felt was a little low.

557
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 2: It's gonna probably around eighty five wins get you in.

558
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought eighty three last year was just shocking.

559
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 5: How many would take to win the division?

560
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's gonna take ninety two. It could

561
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:15,360
Speaker 2: be like ninety two to win the division. Probably.

562
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so too, And I think the division

563
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 5: is probably out of their reach, but I think I

564
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:24,200
Speaker 5: think second place is a possibility. What worries me is, though,

565
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,920
Speaker 5: with so many new pieces being blended together. I think

566
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:29,679
Speaker 5: for the Pirates to make the playoffs, they can't have

567
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,199
Speaker 5: a bad April. I think a new team on the

568
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 5: up isn't likely to dig its way out.

569
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 1: They could get a cushion though, and ride it out.

570
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see, you're right. I mean, I think nothing

571
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 2: better than coming out the gates firing and kind of

572
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 2: riding that. You know. So, I think the Pirates getting

573
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 2: off to a good start, getting some good starts from

574
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,880
Speaker 2: from their rotation, but also those new bats coming out

575
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 2: bang and I think would be a huge, huge boost

576
00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 2: for the Buckos.

577
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,399
Speaker 5: The best thing for the Pirates is for guys like

578
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,160
Speaker 5: Skians and Chandler. Now with these bats, they probably won't

579
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:07,159
Speaker 5: waste those great starts. Livy done Skeins's girlfriends. He was

580
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 5: going crazy when they would lose one nothing. This gotta

581
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:13,240
Speaker 5: be good for her if nothing else, That's great.

582
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 2: For that relationship because Skeens is gonna win those games now,

583
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 2: three to two or one to nothing as opposed to

584
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 2: losing those games. So I just you have to be

585
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 2: fired up. Man.

586
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 6: There's nothing worse for a pitcher or a hitter.

587
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 2: There's nothing worse for a lineup. And you're like, we

588
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,360
Speaker 2: just can't score runs. We're not good enough. I think

589
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 2: the lineup now for the Bucko says we should score

590
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 2: runs because we have the guys now that can, like

591
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 2: I said, hit the ball out of the ballpark. That's

592
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,400
Speaker 2: what you got to do in the big leagues nowadays.

593
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 5: Case, before we wrap it up, I gotta hear you

594
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 5: tell the story of when you went to salary arbitration again.

595
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 1: That's one of your best stories ever. And we were

596
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 1: talking about it because because you got beat down.

597
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 5: It was depressing, wasn't it, oh Man, salary arbitration.

598
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,679
Speaker 2: I was looking at you know, I was looking at

599
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 2: Trek Scuga wants a salary arbitration and won thirty two

600
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:00,879
Speaker 2: million dollars or whatever from the Tigers, And I was

601
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 2: thinking to myself, double them. What could they possibly say

602
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 2: about Tarri Scoogle two years in a row, you know,

603
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 2: with the cy young But yeah, I you know, I

604
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 2: went to arbitration back in two thousand, two thousand, uh,

605
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,439
Speaker 2: and the off season and and you know it was

606
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 2: like I was asking for three million, they were they

607
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,199
Speaker 2: wanted to give me two six. So we ended up

608
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,879
Speaker 2: not coming to you know, uh, you know, in the

609
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 2: middle of two weights. So I had to go to arbitration,

610
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 2: which I wasn't happy about. And uh, I just remember,

611
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 2: you know, I remember, you know, we were My agent,

612
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,639
Speaker 2: ronch Apia was like, when they start talking negative about you,

613
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 2: make sure you just write it down, so you know,

614
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 2: they start going on this guy is a base clogger.

615
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 2: I'm like, what you know what I'm writing down, you know,

616
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 2: and they're just ripping me apart. The I'm like, you

617
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 2: don't even feel like you can make.

618
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 6: The eleven year old up Shake Care travel team, let alone.

619
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 2: I'm a big leaguer at the time. You know, they're

620
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 2: they're crushing in there, and uh, you know, I just

621
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 2: remember I remember coming out, uh you know, coming out

622
00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 2: and being heated up uh with uh you know, at

623
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 2: the break there was there was a there was an intermission,

624
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 2: and I remember my GM at the time come up,

625
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 2: came up and said, you know, this isn't this isn't

626
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 2: I'm personal, this is this is just business. I said, no, no,

627
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 2: it's it's actually personal. We shouldn't even be an arbitration.

628
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 2: It's actually personal. And I remembered double m it's incredible

629
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 2: that this story. But I had like one suit at

630
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 2: the time that I was not one suit. I had

631
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 2: a couple of suits, not that many. I wasn't that

632
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 2: two styles at the time. I had no money and uh,

633
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 2: and I was.

634
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 6: Hoping to make some money to buy some new suits.

635
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 2: I come out. I remember telling telling.

636
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 6: My wife at the time, I'm like, you know what,

637
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 6: I said.

638
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 2: I'm so fired up. I'm sweating bullets in there. I'm

639
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 2: writing everything down.

640
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 6: I got seven pages of notes. I feel like I

641
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 6: want to jump across the table.

642
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 2: And I said, something smells so bad in that room.

643
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is. I can't take it anymore.

644
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 2: And she leans in and she's like, I think I

645
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 2: think it might be you. And I'm like, oh my god,

646
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 2: it is me. And then I realized we had just

647
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 2: we had just bought these these cats that year. It

648
00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 2: was like my third year and the biggest and this

649
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 2: one cat. Whenever you'd leave anything on the ground, he'd

650
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 2: pee on whatever it was. And he's like oh Jack.

651
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 2: She's like, is that the jacket that the cat went?

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Speaker 2: And I go, yeah, I go, didn't you get this

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Speaker 2: dry clean She's like, I guess the drag cleaner doesn't

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Speaker 2: get out cat peece. So I took I took that.

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Speaker 2: I took that. I took the shoot jacket, threw it in

656
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Speaker 2: the garbage, and I just went back into arbitration. We

657
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Speaker 2: went out for another two hours, and bam. I ended

658
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Speaker 2: up winning the three million dollars and bought about five

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Speaker 2: new suits the next day to make sure that never

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Speaker 2: happened to get.

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Speaker 5: And for a brief second when they were ripping you,

662
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Speaker 5: you were mostly mad, but then you at some point think, boy,

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Speaker 5: I hope they're not right.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah. Well at times I'm like, maybe

665
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Speaker 2: they aren't right. I'm like, no, they're not right. I

666
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Speaker 2: just hit I just hit three fifteen with twenty homers.

667
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Speaker 2: I just hit three thirty with like twenty five homers.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, they can't be right. So it was a

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Speaker 2: it was a It was an interesting story, to say

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Speaker 2: the least, at my arbitrary only arbitration ever, and I

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Speaker 2: do wish arbitration on every player because that's when you

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Speaker 2: really see the business of the game.

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Speaker 5: Case one last thing, should there'd be a salary cap?

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Speaker 5: As an ex player, it's kind of tough for you

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Speaker 5: to to opine, but what would be good for the game?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, double M. Listen, man, if you got

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Speaker 2: in the room with the with the owners, you'd say,

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Speaker 2: get a salary cap. If you got in the room

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Speaker 2: with the players, you'd believe, there's no way we can

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Speaker 2: have a salary cap. So you know, I don't know

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Speaker 2: what it is. I just you just hope that at

682
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Speaker 2: some point the two sides can figure out how to

683
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Speaker 2: wait a way to get a little closer where you

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Speaker 2: don't have the Dodgers so far up there, and then

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Speaker 2: you know, and then you know other teams so far down,

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Speaker 2: and you know, maybe there's a there's a competitive balance

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Speaker 2: at some point.

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Speaker 6: And I was thinking, maybe there's a floor, you know,

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Speaker 6: maybe there's a.

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Speaker 2: Floor where it's one hundred and thirty million you have

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Speaker 2: to spend one hundred and thirty million minimum.

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Speaker 6: But then that's kind of bringing on the cap too.

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Speaker 2: So I don't know what the answer is, double M.

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Speaker 2: If I did, i'd be a rich man.

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Speaker 5: Now you're a rich man anyway, rich with friends like me,

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Speaker 5: Case case We always say we're gonna go to a

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Speaker 5: power game, let's do it this year, not that they

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Speaker 5: might be pretty good.

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Speaker 2: Double im one hundred percent. You let me know, brother,

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Speaker 2: I'll be there, Case good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining me.

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Speaker 2: Okay, man, you're the best. Well, I'll talk to you soon.

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Speaker 1: That's Sean Casey, the mayor with this suit that the

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Speaker 1: cat beat on.

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Speaker 5: Ask Mark Anything now eight three three four one two

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Speaker 5: wxdx eight three three four one two wxdx, or you

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Speaker 5: can use the double secret probation number uh four one

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Speaker 5: two three three three wxdx. Or you can leave a

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Speaker 5: talk back via the microphone icon on the iHeartMedia app

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Speaker 5: one O five to nine. It's time to submit your

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Speaker 5: questions for Ask Mark Anything.

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Speaker 6: Use your free iHeartRadio app and sap the microphone.

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Speaker 10: we're in your smart speakers sucking.

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Speaker 11: Listen to the X everywhere you go.

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Speaker 2: Tell your smart speakers.

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Speaker 5: Alex play one O five point nine the X on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1: February the Month of love. You know what really says?

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Speaker 1: I love you clean sewer pipes. I'm kidding. And now

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Speaker 1: the super genius Mark Madden.

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Speaker 5: My solution is give me my cake and eat me

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Speaker 5: toov exit one.

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Speaker 1: Haasmark.

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Speaker 5: Anything brought to us by People's Natural Gas, that's People's

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Speaker 5: hyphengas dot Com. Great to hear, Sean Casey. We will

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Speaker 5: go to a game this year. I haven't been to

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Speaker 5: a game, well, none last year for sure. I think

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Speaker 5: I went to one the year before. But yeah, I

729
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Speaker 5: want to see the parts do well. I want to

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Speaker 5: see them make an honest effort and spend enough to

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Speaker 5: have a chance to do well.

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Speaker 1: And they're doing that.

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Speaker 5: I'm still not sure about the reasoning or how much

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Speaker 5: they'll spend moving forward after this, or if they spend

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Speaker 5: enough now, but I'm glad to see they made some

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Speaker 5: upgrades to their roster. Not enough yet, I don't think.

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Speaker 5: And again I'm worried about the starting word. That's the

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Speaker 5: one thing nobody's looking at. I don't know who the

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Speaker 5: fifth starter is. I don't know who the left he's

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Speaker 5: gonna be Hunter Barco. Yeah, I'd take a shot. If

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Speaker 5: he can't do it, then adjusts from there. I'm gonna

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Speaker 5: call four one, two, three three three w xdx US

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Speaker 5: is now head a lad Via four to one at

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Speaker 5: the end of two. That that kind of rocky start,

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00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:24,479
Speaker 5: the game being won one for a while, then again

746
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Speaker 5: they got two goals waved off.

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00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 1: Then again the calls were correct. But that's a wake

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Speaker 1: up call.

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Speaker 5: The only thing that strikes me negative about the US

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Speaker 5: is that they're not as fast as can They're not

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Speaker 5: even close. And that was what they decided on when

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Speaker 5: picking the roster. They wanted heavy at the expensive speed.

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Speaker 5: I just wonder if it wasn't too much at the

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Speaker 5: expensive speed. Let's go to uh Connor a Mount eleven

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Speaker 5: and Connor round with double.

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Speaker 4: M, double M, big sexy.

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Speaker 2: What I mean?

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Speaker 1: What I mean?

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Speaker 4: Hey, do you have any tattoos?

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Speaker 7: And if so, what's the significant answer story behind them?

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Speaker 5: I don't have any tattoos because if I did, I

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Speaker 5: then couldn't be buried in a Jewish cemetery. Very good, thanks,

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Speaker 5: I mean not Jewish. I just want the option to

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Speaker 5: be buried in a Jewish cemetery. No, no, I don't

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Speaker 5: have any tattoos. Let's go to Roddington.

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Speaker 7: Good day, mister Madden, I said, good day, Mark, some

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Speaker 7: football talk for you. I'm sure you saw Thomas Frank

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Speaker 7: sacked by Tottenham Hawkspur yesterday correct, and we're officially we're

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Speaker 7: officially in a relegation battle, and I don't think the

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Speaker 7: players realize that yet.

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Speaker 5: So what do you.

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Speaker 7: Think the team should do for a short term manager?

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Speaker 7: I mean, we all know the long term solution you

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Speaker 7: need going to be Marsuccio, you need to get.

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Speaker 5: Touch a Tino back if you'll leave the US team,

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Speaker 5: which I believe you will. But in a short term solution,

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Speaker 5: I don't think there's any one manager out there who's

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Speaker 5: a guarantee. You can't make them, like you said, Roddington,

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Speaker 5: you can't make them understand they're in a relegation battle.

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00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,879
Speaker 5: Taught historically, and this goes to the fans too, has

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Speaker 5: a unrealistic expectation of.

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Speaker 1: How good they are. They don't see their team as

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Speaker 1: it really is.

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Speaker 7: I agree with you, double M. And I was watching

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Speaker 7: Sky Sports yesterday and Kim Sherwood, who's a pundit on there,

786
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Speaker 7: he was saying he thinks he should get the job

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Speaker 7: because I mean he did it like in twenty twelve

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Speaker 7: or whatever when they were in the same situation. I

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Speaker 7: don't know if you get like an older person like

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Speaker 7: that or him, or like Harry Redknapp.

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Speaker 1: Maybe just Harry's going to be Harry's going to be

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Speaker 1: seventy five.

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Speaker 7: Seventy eight, and so's the Donald, and they're both pretty

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Speaker 7: big le so I think it might work out.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you guys need to take your medicine

797
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Speaker 5: get relegated so I can laugh at it.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to a talkback.

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Speaker 2: Mark.

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Speaker 11: Despite his recent troubles, if Mike Salivan takes home gold

801
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 11: for Team USA, should he be considered one of the

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Speaker 11: best NHL coaches of all time?

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Speaker 5: No, because the Olympics ain't the NHL. It would certainly

804
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 5: be a feather in Sully's cap. But boy, he's very

805
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:12,320
Speaker 5: tomlin Esk in the way that his one lost record

806
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 5: has gone down hill since his two Cups. Then again

807
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,479
Speaker 5: on his one lost record as much as his playoff record.

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Speaker 5: I think Sally's a good coach, but I think he

809
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:23,799
Speaker 5: caught Dan Bolsma disease. I think when he had those

810
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 5: the success of those two Cups, he started to think

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Speaker 5: he knew everything, and his coaching became one size fits all,

812
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Speaker 5: and he trusted veterans and not enough young guys, which

813
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Speaker 5: he denies, but I know what I saw. Let's go

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Speaker 5: to Joe in the car Joe ask Mark anything, what

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Speaker 5: up Mine?

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Speaker 2: None? Hey, Judge, want to let you know.

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Speaker 12: James Vanderbeek was in an episode of Criminal Minds and

818
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Speaker 12: he was either schizophrenic or had multiple personalities, but he

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Speaker 12: it was.

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Speaker 4: It was a great episode.

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Speaker 2: You see if you seeing it.

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Speaker 5: I I the only thing I'm really familiar with with

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Speaker 5: him is Jay and Silent Bob strike Back in Varsity

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Speaker 5: Blues and of course Dawson's Creek, which I did not watch.

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Speaker 1: He was not really in many memorable things.

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Speaker 2: Was he.

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Speaker 4: No, he wasn't. That's what I'm saying. Like it was

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Speaker 4: a really creepy episode.

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Speaker 12: So if you ever get a chance Criminal Minds with

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Speaker 12: Chance vanderbet check it out.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for the call.

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Speaker 1: You know what too? I want your thoughts.

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Speaker 5: I've come to consider that I'm probably really too miserable

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Speaker 5: on this show and when I write, and just miserable

835
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Speaker 5: in general, because honestly, I don't like sports much anymore,

836
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Speaker 5: especially the Steelers and the way they mismanage the Pirates. Actually,

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Speaker 5: do Casey read me like the book? I am a

838
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 5: bit optimistic there, and I always love the Penguins. But

839
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Speaker 5: am I miserable right now? And what should I do?

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Speaker 5: About it one five, nine,