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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump

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Speaker 1: just attempted another coup and failed. For now. Trump just

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Speaker 1: made his second attempt to overthrow the duly elected government

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Speaker 1: of the United States, the second overt attempt, as opposed

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Speaker 1: to the continuing background noise baseline coup attempt that he

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Speaker 1: is always trying. This second overt attempt has failed for now. Trump,

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Speaker 1: with the US Attorney in charge of boxed Wine, Jeanine Piro,

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Speaker 1: and with the slimy little porn monitor speaker Mike Johnson,

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Speaker 1: squeaking from the sidelines, attempted to indict for sitting Democratic

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Speaker 1: members of the House and four sitting Senators for following

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Speaker 1: for publicly expressing fealty to the Constitution, and for publicly

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Speaker 1: psychopathic despot who is currently tearing down every building in

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Speaker 1: Washington in which somebody he didn't like lived or served,

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Speaker 1: or entertained or succeeded where he failed. Happily, run of

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Speaker 1: the mill Americans thwarted them a grand jury said no,

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Speaker 1: run of the mill Americans thwarted them this time. Happily,

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Speaker 1: Trump sent the most unreliable, most comical, most embarrassing of

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Speaker 1: the various ambulance chasing would be mob lawyers in his

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Speaker 1: doj to sell this particular fascist one party government bullshit

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Speaker 1: Nitwitpiro right out of the jury room this time. The

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Speaker 1: problem is that when they try it again, even Trump

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Speaker 1: The lesson they presumably take from the rejection of their

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Speaker 1: lesson they presumably learned was to not bother with grand

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Speaker 1: juries next time, and indictments next time, and laws next time,

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Speaker 1: and constitutions next time, to take a more ice like

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Speaker 1: of Trump's attempt, I would blame Pierro, But this is

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Speaker 1: a woman whose life peaqued when she tried to run

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Speaker 1: for the Senate a quarter century ago, misplaced a page

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Speaker 1: gravity of Trump's attempt has largely been framed in terms

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Speaker 1: of Piero's failure to get any indictments, indeed, reportedly to

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Speaker 1: get any yes votes from any Grand Jury member on

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Speaker 1: indictments that were only slightly less hitler Esque than what

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Speaker 1: Trump wrote about these six public servants. Seditious behavior punishable

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Speaker 1: by death, he wrote, adding from a repost hanged them.

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Speaker 1: George Washington would It's not only that every Republican accusation

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Speaker 1: is an admission. Every Trumpian accusation is a confession to

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Speaker 1: his own treachery, his own crime, his own constant attempt

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Speaker 1: to end our form of government and replace it with

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Speaker 1: a dictatorship, his own or one ruled by his under

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Speaker 1: Reich's marshals or those in the military for whom the

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Speaker 1: words of Senators Kelly and Slotkin and Representatives Crow de Luzio, Goodlander,

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Speaker 1: and Hulahan are among the only things preventing them from

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Speaker 1: having already led or supported a military enforced, murdered driven

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Speaker 1: we have seen demonstrated and auditioned on the streets of

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Speaker 1: Minneapolis and other American cities already. The targets today are

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Speaker 1: immigrants and those who defend them. The targets tomorrow are

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Speaker 1: Mark Kelly and Alyssa Slotkin and the Congress people, and

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Speaker 1: Komi and Tish James and Jerome Powell and whoever this petty, vengeful,

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Speaker 1: the illegally seized twenty twenty votes against the targets the

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Speaker 1: day after that? Are you and me? You have been

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Speaker 1: warned because of the headline nature of our world and

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Speaker 1: this dynamic, an ordinary grand jury saved the entire future

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Speaker 1: of our nation, much the way ordinary grand juries saved

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Speaker 1: the entire future of our nation during Nixon and Watergate.

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Speaker 1: That's correct, but it kind of buries the lead that

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Speaker 1: Tuesday and yesterday and tomorrow was a coup attempt, another

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Speaker 1: overt Trump attempt to change our nation from a free

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Speaker 1: in name and occasionally free in reality hybrid of capitalism

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Speaker 1: and socialism and democracy and racism and bullying into Chile

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three or something. The grand Jury is nice,

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Speaker 1: the grand Jury should get statues built to it. But

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Speaker 1: as I said, the grand Jury is almost lift because

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Speaker 1: the military led by yet another boxed wine lunatic whose

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Speaker 1: because they have displeased the Speaker's slave master.

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Speaker 2: Mister Speaker.

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Speaker 3: News just broke the evening that federal prosecutors tried to

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Speaker 3: indict the six Democrats in the Disobey Illegal Orders video.

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Speaker 1: But Grand Jury in.

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Speaker 3: Washington, bug I did that?

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Speaker 2: Do you believe that those six Democrats should be indicted.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to reserve comment on this until i'd review that.

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Speaker 2: So the first I've heard of it. I mean, look,

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Speaker 2: I think that anytime you're instructing law enforcement and getting

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Speaker 2: serious thing, and it probably is a crime. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: they probably should be indicted.

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Speaker 1: But they were just reiterating the law that.

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Speaker 3: Members of military should not have to obey illegal orders.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think they went further than that. I

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Speaker 2: I think that crosses the line. So it was very serious.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad to do attention to Ben paid to it,

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Speaker 2: and I hope that they straightened.

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Speaker 1: Up their Mike Johnson is not loyal to the Constitution

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Speaker 1: of the United States. Jenane Piro is not loyal to

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Speaker 1: the Constitution of the United States. It goes without saying

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Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is not loyal to the Constitution of

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Speaker 1: the United States. Is never read it. We should remove them.

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Speaker 1: But to quote Shakespeare, that way lies madness. All we

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Speaker 1: the midterms, and if that is the case, then we

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Speaker 1: must at all costs. And to that point, there is

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Speaker 1: the seizure of the twenty twenty votes in Georgia and

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Speaker 1: the evidence that Trump's minions lied to a judge to

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Speaker 1: obtain the legal means to steal them. I have suggested

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Speaker 1: before that the involvement of this loose brained buffoon gabbared

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Speaker 1: the worst advertisement ever for the Office of the Director

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Speaker 1: first coup attempt when Venezuelan computers caused Italian satellites to

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Speaker 1: change Cleta Mitchell's name and change Trump votes into I

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Speaker 1: don't know, ARTI choke hearts. Go with ARTI choke carts.

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Speaker 1: The Italian satellites and Nicholas Maduro turned the Trump votes

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Speaker 1: into art choke carts. I'm so tired. As we've seen

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Speaker 1: it doesn't have to make sense just has to have

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Speaker 1: the stamp of a corrupt and immoral gangster government. They

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Speaker 1: might as well reference artichoke rts and that's what Tulsea

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Speaker 1: Gabbard works for. Corrupt, immoral, gangster government. That might as

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Speaker 1: well be doing with artichoke carts. And that's what Janine

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Speaker 1: Pirou works for. That's what Mike Johson works for, and

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Speaker 1: that's what Donald Trump is now. I don't even want

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Speaker 1: to get into what that ten day lockdown of the

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Speaker 1: defense air space. They did that, not me. These venomous

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Speaker 1: felons are just incompetent enough for the likeliest explanation to

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Speaker 1: Camp East, Montana, the Ice concentration camp outside El Paso,

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Speaker 1: or somebody in the Trump gang just watched the Kirk

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Speaker 1: Douglas Burt Lancaster Coup nineteen sixty four film Seven Days

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Speaker 1: defense apace outside passo now what to do about it?

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Speaker 1: There is reason to be encouraged. At the micro level.

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Speaker 1: Democrats continue to blow Republicans out of the water in

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Speaker 1: deeply Trump districts, in special state legislature elections and BC

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Speaker 1: polled yesterday. In April twenty twenty five, only thirty four

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Speaker 1: percent of Americans strongly disapproved of Trump's dictatorial handling of

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Speaker 1: immigration and the porter only thirty four percent. Now, ten

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Speaker 1: months later, forty nine percent of A strongly disapproved of

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Speaker 1: to some degree sixty one. Trump is not only underwater

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Speaker 1: or drowning on this. He's drowned already. He's twenty one

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Speaker 1: points underwater. He's twenty two points underwater on strong disapproval

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Speaker 1: on the border and immigration. It's over data for progress

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Speaker 1: US sixty four percent of US believe Trump will use

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Speaker 1: US want ICE thus kept away from all polling stations.

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Speaker 1: The most amazing statistic, the most terrifying statistic, is that

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Speaker 1: only seventy five percent of Democrats want Ice kept away

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Speaker 1: from all polling stations. If you are part of the

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Speaker 1: twenty five percent rethink they are out to take away

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Speaker 1: your country. What else can we do besides being vigilant

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Speaker 1: against the attempts to take away the country. The pro

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Speaker 1: rights pro democracy hero Mark Elias has a checklist at

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Speaker 1: his site Democracy Docket Things. There are still time for

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Speaker 1: pro democracy states to enact in their legislatures and for

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Speaker 1: pro democracy Democratic senators who aren't under indictment to demand

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Speaker 1: or we shut the government down see in November. As

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Speaker 1: to the first part, you better do it in your state.

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Speaker 1: Mine of New York has the worst state landslide grade

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Speaker 1: Democratic party of them all. New York Democrats should win

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Speaker 1: about eighty percent of the votes with these idiots. We

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Speaker 1: are lucky we get about six percent outside of New

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Speaker 1: York City. Anyway. Here are Elias's three straight legislative acts

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Speaker 1: as needed. One banned third party voter challenges and other

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Speaker 1: forms of vigilantism. In other words, states need to pass

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Speaker 1: laws today that prevent challenges by representatives of the federal

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Speaker 1: government to the voting roles and individual voters. Well, I'm

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Speaker 1: from the Trump administration and I have get out. You're

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Speaker 1: banned from this facility by state law. Take them away,

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Speaker 1: Sergeant Sergeant, take her down, and Booker, Sergeant, take her down,

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Speaker 1: Sergeant Booker. Number two, provide criminal and civil remedies for

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Speaker 1: voter intimidation. In other words, strip individuals who actually are

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Speaker 1: doing that intimidation of the voters. Strip them for this

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Speaker 1: November of any protections from being prosecuted by the states

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Speaker 1: or being sued by the victims of their intimidation. You

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Speaker 1: want to try to throw the election to Trump. Boy,

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Speaker 1: oh boy, at better work, and better work perfectly. Otherwise

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Speaker 1: or both. And three. Revise and strengthen election certification laws.

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Speaker 1: Go through each one of these boys. Go into your

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Speaker 1: state legislatures and go buy line by line all of

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Speaker 1: the voting regulations and tighten up anything that isn't tight enough.

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Speaker 1: At least secure the blue states and the ones in

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Speaker 1: which Democrats still have influence in the legislatures and the House.

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Speaker 1: Mark Elias also has four ideas that fall directly into

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Speaker 1: this ice funding debate. The government funding issue what Chuck

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Speaker 1: Schumer and a keen Jeffries, God help us are still

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Speaker 1: dealing with right now. Rather than trying to improve on

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Speaker 1: everyone who watched Kid Rock, the Poet of underage sex.

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Speaker 1: By the way, the audience for kid Rock may have

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Speaker 1: been padded by as much as five sixths. But the

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Speaker 1: real point and the real reason I'm going to mention

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Speaker 1: these clowns, two of whom I once worked with, is

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Speaker 1: that the language they are using against Bad Bunny and

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Speaker 1: every Hispanic person in this country is virtually word for

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Speaker 1: word what was used, what still is used by the

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Speaker 1: sexist and racists who used to call a voicemail line

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Speaker 1: had at ESPN just to take their calls. They used

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Speaker 1: to call ESPN, and they used to say the exact

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Speaker 1: same things to try to get the company to fire

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Speaker 1: Sage Steele and Michelle Tafoya. That's next. This is countdown.

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Speaker 1: This is countdown, with Keith Oberman still ahead on this

443
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Speaker 1: initiative countdown. The start of baseball spring training has gradually

444
00:32:53,835 --> 00:32:58,355
Speaker 1: slid back earlier and earlier, and earlier and sooner rather

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Speaker 1: than later. It'll be on New Year's Eve, and they

446
00:33:01,315 --> 00:33:05,675
Speaker 1: always apply the fake scarcity rule to make it seem normal.

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Speaker 1: You're only going to sell two hundred of your product,

448
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Speaker 1: whatever it is. Tell the customers there are only one

449
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty of them, and they are limited to

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Speaker 1: one per purchase. You want to make people more interested

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Speaker 1: in what is essentially the least interesting part of a

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Speaker 1: very very very very very very long and often uninteresting

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Speaker 1: year in your sport. Tell them this isn't spring training yet.

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Speaker 1: These guys showing it this week in Florida and Arizona.

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Speaker 1: They've reported early because they can't wait to get started.

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Speaker 1: Trust me, nobody in baseball is unable to get started

457
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Speaker 1: or unable to wait to get started for the two

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Speaker 1: full months of practice two months, two months. Still, once

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Speaker 1: upon a time when it was closer to five weeks,

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Speaker 1: there was excitement in spring training. It was it was

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Speaker 1: the dawn of the new spring and then the summer,

462
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Speaker 1: rather than oh, the season will start in only why

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Speaker 1: the same distance from November first to New Year's In

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Speaker 1: a moment, I will try to take you back in time,

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Speaker 1: because the series of baseball previews I did on the

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Speaker 1: radio in nineteen seventy eight with interviews and sound bites

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Speaker 1: and ballpark noises from spring training in Florida. I still

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Speaker 1: have the tape coming up next in Things I Promise

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Speaker 1: not to tell first, Believe it or not, there's still

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Speaker 1: more new idiots talk about the roundup of the miss grants, morons,

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Speaker 1: dunning Kruger effects specimens, who constitute today's other worst persons

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Speaker 1: in the world. Bronze worse fitting from the Olympics. The

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Speaker 1: bronze medalist Sturlaholm lay Grid of Norway heard about him

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Speaker 1: third place finisher in the men's twenty kilometer biathlon. That's

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Speaker 1: cross country skiing with just a little free song of

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Speaker 1: target shooting in the middle of your cross country ski race. Oh,

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Speaker 1: look at the Nordic tranquility of my god, he's got

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Speaker 1: a gun. And with Norway finishing first and third in

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Speaker 1: this race, their medalists went live on Norwegian television and

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Speaker 1: not for quick interviews either. Gold medalist Johann olaf Butten

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Speaker 1: spoke and then sometime later mister Lagrade spoke and mister

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Speaker 1: Lagrade confessed to being unfaithful to the woman of his

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Speaker 1: dreams quote, there is something I want to share with

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Speaker 1: someone who may not be watching today. Cut him off,

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Speaker 1: Cut him off now. Trust me. I've been in television

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Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty one. Half a year ago. I met

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Speaker 1: the love of my life, the world's most beautiful and

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Speaker 1: nicest person. Three months ago, I made the mistake of

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Speaker 1: my life and cheated on her, and I told her

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Speaker 1: about that a week ago. This has been the worst

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Speaker 1: week of my life. I had the gold medal in

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Speaker 1: life and I am sure there are many people who

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Speaker 1: will see things differently, but I only have eyes for her.

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Speaker 1: Sport has come second these last few days. Yes, I

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Speaker 1: wish I could share this with her. One factual correction,

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Speaker 1: you finished with the bronze, so sport has come third

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Speaker 1: these last few days. Now. It's not her fault. But honestly, madam,

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Speaker 1: your first hint should have been your realization that you

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Speaker 1: were going out with a guy whose sport requires him

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Speaker 1: to carry a gun and shoot it off on a

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Speaker 1: cross country ski course. Still, the Norwegian public lucked out here.

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Speaker 1: All we get in America is like the fortieth consecutive

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Speaker 1: year with a Lindsay Vaughn injury story, and instead they

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00:37:03,035 --> 00:37:07,435
Speaker 1: get Stirleholme. Ligrid turning the Olympic broadcast into love Connection.

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Speaker 1: The runners up a tie. Three of the dumbest people

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Speaker 1: in media, two of whom I used to work with.

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Speaker 1: God help me, and miss is the stuff that is

508
00:37:18,915 --> 00:37:23,635
Speaker 1: still left over when dumb, racist, hateful people collide with

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Speaker 1: something like bad Bunny at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Speaker 1: The three Michelle Tafoya, Meghan Kelly, and Sage G. Steele.

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Speaker 1: You know, Meghan, Meghan is Monk's painting the scream come

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Speaker 1: to life. Bad Bunny so freaked her out that she

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Speaker 1: dropped any pretense that she's not a racist, doing a

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Speaker 1: segment with Pierce Morgan, Ah, there's a duo and screaming

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Speaker 1: at him football is ours, and I flashed back to

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Speaker 1: the time on Fox News when she devoted an entire

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Speaker 1: segment to a topic that allowed her to scream something

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Speaker 1: slightly different. Santa Clause is why a troubled, troubled woman.

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Speaker 1: But we have to keep her on the air because

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Speaker 1: if we don't, that will leave only Carrie Lake to

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Speaker 1: support the camera filter business. An entire industry could go under.

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Speaker 1: Then there's Michelle Tafoya, who somehow got fired as a

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Speaker 1: football sideline reporter twice and then started her campaign for

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Speaker 1: senator in Minnesota by explaining in a commercial that she's

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Speaker 1: ready to lead because she asked questions of coaches at

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Speaker 1: halftime as a sideline reporter and all the I didn't

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Speaker 1: quite get the idea here, but the through line seems

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Speaker 1: to be that all that leadership rubbed off on her

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Speaker 1: during those ninety second interviews. As Bad Bunny began during

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, she tweeted, during halftime tonight, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to do something I've never done before, fold laundry. Unquote.

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Speaker 1: Needles to say, everybody, but Michelle Tafoya was smart enough

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Speaker 1: to say, what ever folded laundry before? Because minutes later

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Speaker 1: she tweeted again with annoyance, I'm going to restructure my

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Speaker 1: sentence tonight. I'm going to do something I've never done

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Speaker 1: during the Super Bowl halftime before, fold laundry. How does

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Speaker 1: somebody as dumb as Michelle Tafoya not know that they

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Speaker 1: are as dumb as Michelle Tafoya. No brain, no pain.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of that, Sage Steele versus Bad Bunny quote,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't understand a darn thing he said. It's a

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Speaker 1: celebration of American football. Down in the other countries. Football

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Speaker 1: is soccer, this is ours, and I'm frustrated that the

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Speaker 1: NFL and jay Z chose to do something so outside

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Speaker 1: of what our demographic with American football wants. Spanish is

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Speaker 1: not the first language of the US. This is a

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Speaker 1: celebration of our country. That does not mean we're racist.

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Speaker 1: This wouldn't have been on a national stage in any

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Speaker 1: other country where they intentionally bring someone in who is

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Speaker 1: choosing to say I don't care about the demographic of

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Speaker 1: what this this is. What's kind of sad here is

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Speaker 1: I used to co anchor Sports Center with her, so

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Speaker 1: when I go to purgatory, I'll get out about I

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Speaker 1: don't know, a thousand years earlier than otherwise planned. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't my choice. I'm a team player, and I guess

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Speaker 1: nobody ever told Sage Steal that when the voicemails on

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Speaker 1: the ESPN Sports Center complaint line used to pile up

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Speaker 1: during and after her shows like the six o'clock Sports Center,

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Speaker 1: almost all of the sexists and racists who would leave

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Speaker 1: voicemails whining about her and saying stupid, racist and sexist

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Speaker 1: things were basically saying I couldn't understand a darn thing

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Speaker 1: She said, it's a celebration of American sports. This is

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Speaker 1: a celebration of our country, our sports men's sports. That

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Speaker 1: does not mean we are racist or misogynistic. This wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have been on a national stage in any other country

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Speaker 1: where they intentionally bring someone in and was choosing to say,

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Speaker 1: I don't care about the demographic of what this is.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations Sagey, you have become your own hater. But our winner.

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Speaker 1: Not a big name, not an important story, just a

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Speaker 1: little laugh and another example of how our educational system

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Speaker 1: and thus our society have crumbled pretty much since the

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Speaker 1: introduction of homeschooling. Sandman zero five three zero at Carl

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Speaker 1: Egan on just a rando on Twitter, but this was priceless.

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Speaker 1: One of Trump's more dangerous but least competent lunatics, Ed Martin, tweeted,

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Speaker 1: Ed is the guy who's this close to suing the

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Speaker 1: sun for not shining when he wanted it to. Sandman

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Speaker 1: zero five three zero replied by upbraiding Ed Martin for

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Speaker 1: having not freed Trump election overthrow co conspirator Tina Peters,

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Speaker 1: and Sandman gave us one of my new favorite egg coorns,

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Speaker 1: Eggcorns Eggcorns wrong versions of words. Phrase is homonyms. The

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Speaker 1: things that stupid people not only think are right, but

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Speaker 1: insist are right. Egg corns instead of acorns. Here's Sandman

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Speaker 1: zero five three zero and his egg corn. You're ready

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Speaker 1: quote sorry, ed, We still see Tina Peters in prison,

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Speaker 1: being attacked and placed in solitaire. Oh I love that.

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Speaker 1: Placed in solitaire for all intensive purposes. That pasture is

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Speaker 1: mustard in this doggy dog world, so full of self

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Speaker 1: refilling prophecies that you must always be poised to use

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Speaker 1: the Heimlich remover. Sandman zero five three zero, Oh no,

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Speaker 1: she's been placed in solitaire. You know, if you're forced

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Speaker 1: to spend too much time in solitaire, you'll wind up

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Speaker 1: playing with less than a full deck. Today's Worst person

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Speaker 1: in the World. For years, pretty much until I left

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles local news for ESPN in nineteen ninety two,

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Speaker 1: I tried to record every broadcast I did radio television. Well,

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Speaker 1: it was just radio and television. I was gonna say

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Speaker 1: something else, but it was just radio and television in

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two. I was often mocked for this because

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Speaker 1: there was an element of ego to it, although really

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Speaker 1: I needed to see if I was getting any better

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Speaker 1: or worse, and I had a vague sense of if

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Speaker 1: I don't record these, who will the end result? Everybody

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00:43:59,595 --> 00:44:02,675
Speaker 1: now wants to hear my tapes and see my videos.

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Speaker 1: And if I did it, I got an on tape

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Speaker 1: somewhere somewhere, including whenever baseball spring training opens. This pretty

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Speaker 1: good series. I did the Spring Training Journal mostly my

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Speaker 1: own interviews. I did it for WVBRFM at Cornell and Anthica,

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Speaker 1: New York, just before the start of the baseball season

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Speaker 1: of nineteen seventy eight. Nineteen seven d eight and now

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Speaker 1: part one of the report on spring Training Via the

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Speaker 1: magic of tape, we take you to a place where.

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Speaker 3: It is warm and sunny, Miami Stadium. Baseball people approach

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Speaker 3: spring training from very different angles. Yankee manager Billy Martin

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Speaker 3: has described it as a waste of time, an opinion

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Speaker 3: that holds little weight with one of Martin's chief rivals,

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Speaker 3: Earl Weaver of Baltimore.

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Speaker 6: I've been doing a lot of experimenting playing people in

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Speaker 6: different positions so that when you get an RS if

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Speaker 6: for some reason you have to get more offensive people

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Speaker 6: in the lineup, that I can maybe switch an Eddie

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Speaker 6: Murray from first to third base, which enables me to

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Speaker 6: get lee at first movie, hit her into the designated

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Speaker 6: spot and different things. And you use spring training for

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Speaker 6: that purpose, and sometimes you don't win a lot of

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Speaker 6: games in doing it, but at least you're finding things out.

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Speaker 3: Not winning a lot of games is not necessarily a

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Speaker 3: bad thing.

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Speaker 7: However.

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Speaker 3: In fact, too much success in spring training is feared

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Speaker 3: by many, including Philadelphia's Danny Ozark. His club started slowly

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Speaker 3: last year, and Ozark blames it on a hot spring training.

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Speaker 8: I think we're like eighteen and six or something like

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Speaker 8: that in the spring, and now the season starts, and

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Speaker 8: that seems like everybody not complacent. But everybody feels like, well,

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Speaker 8: something's going to happen listening and we're going to get

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Speaker 8: some runs, and it just didn't happen. So what we're

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Speaker 8: trying to do is kind of work up to this

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Speaker 8: opening day, and not.

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Speaker 3: All the players are happy with the way the camps work.

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Speaker 3: Jim Rice of the Red Sox is a need for

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Speaker 3: a greater simulation of the regular season, especially for his

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Speaker 3: club's pitchers.

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Speaker 9: To me, spring training is mainly.

643
00:45:57,835 --> 00:45:59,355
Speaker 10: Getting shape, and now guys are in shape, but I

644
00:45:59,355 --> 00:46:00,995
Speaker 10: don't think they're really prepared because they go out and

645
00:46:00,995 --> 00:46:02,155
Speaker 10: just only pitch four or five minutes.

646
00:46:02,195 --> 00:46:02,995
Speaker 7: I think in order.

647
00:46:02,795 --> 00:46:04,475
Speaker 10: To be a complete pitch, you got to go out

648
00:46:04,515 --> 00:46:06,675
Speaker 10: and go minds, Hey, I gotta go nine today. And

649
00:46:06,715 --> 00:46:08,235
Speaker 10: I think when a picture walk out of the mind,

650
00:46:08,235 --> 00:46:10,275
Speaker 10: he should have in his mind, Hey, I want to

651
00:46:10,275 --> 00:46:11,355
Speaker 10: go nine innies tomorrow.

652
00:46:11,395 --> 00:46:13,275
Speaker 3: In part two of our series on spring training, a

653
00:46:13,355 --> 00:46:16,795
Speaker 3: look at the readjustment some ballplayers have to go through. Now,

654
00:46:16,915 --> 00:46:19,115
Speaker 3: let's go to part two of our spring training journal.

655
00:46:19,675 --> 00:46:24,395
Speaker 3: For some baseball people, spring training is a time of readjustment. Trades, hirings, firings,

656
00:46:24,435 --> 00:46:26,835
Speaker 3: and now the free agent system make for strange faces

657
00:46:26,835 --> 00:46:29,915
Speaker 3: in strange uniforms each spring. For Bobby Bonds of the

658
00:46:29,955 --> 00:46:32,915
Speaker 3: Chicago White Sox, it's almost old hat. For the third

659
00:46:32,915 --> 00:46:35,155
Speaker 3: time in four springs, Bonds joins a new club, but

660
00:46:35,195 --> 00:46:37,475
Speaker 3: this year at least he says he's not uncomfortable in

661
00:46:37,515 --> 00:46:38,475
Speaker 3: his new surroundings.

662
00:46:38,835 --> 00:46:40,755
Speaker 11: What really helps out this year is that the guys

663
00:46:40,755 --> 00:46:43,755
Speaker 11: on the team are good individuals, and they really are there.

664
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Speaker 11: The atmosphere of the whole team is good. With stems

665
00:46:46,355 --> 00:46:49,155
Speaker 11: from the front office with Bill Veck and through Bob Lemon,

666
00:46:49,355 --> 00:46:52,475
Speaker 11: it comes right on down with the players. So I

667
00:46:52,515 --> 00:46:55,275
Speaker 11: don't feel like a stranger really anymore. I feel like

668
00:46:55,275 --> 00:46:58,075
Speaker 11: a complete part of the ball club, the whole structure

669
00:46:58,075 --> 00:47:00,035
Speaker 11: of it, and I don't feel that there's one individual

670
00:47:00,075 --> 00:47:01,115
Speaker 11: that I can go to talk to.

671
00:47:01,395 --> 00:47:04,515
Speaker 3: Other players go from losers to winners. John Mattlack suffered

672
00:47:04,515 --> 00:47:06,635
Speaker 3: through six seasons with the New York Mets. Now he

673
00:47:06,715 --> 00:47:08,995
Speaker 3: is part of a major contender, the Texas Rangers.

674
00:47:09,035 --> 00:47:10,995
Speaker 11: It's a good feeling to come from a team that

675
00:47:11,155 --> 00:47:13,155
Speaker 11: was once a contender and sort of slip downhill a

676
00:47:13,155 --> 00:47:13,995
Speaker 11: little bit to a team.

677
00:47:13,875 --> 00:47:14,795
Speaker 7: That is now a contender.

678
00:47:14,875 --> 00:47:17,035
Speaker 11: So you know, any time of situation like that arises,

679
00:47:17,075 --> 00:47:18,035
Speaker 11: you've got to feel good about it.

680
00:47:18,275 --> 00:47:20,355
Speaker 3: While matt Lack moves from the bottom to the top,

681
00:47:20,515 --> 00:47:23,475
Speaker 3: the root was reversed for Bobby Cox, first base coach

682
00:47:23,475 --> 00:47:26,035
Speaker 3: for the world champion New York Yankees last season, manager

683
00:47:26,075 --> 00:47:27,355
Speaker 3: of the dormat Atlanta Braves.

684
00:47:27,395 --> 00:47:28,955
Speaker 9: This year, I enjoyed my first year in the big

685
00:47:29,035 --> 00:47:30,915
Speaker 9: leagues where the Yankees as a coach, and actually we

686
00:47:30,955 --> 00:47:32,715
Speaker 9: went on to win the pennant in the playoffs and

687
00:47:32,755 --> 00:47:34,235
Speaker 9: the World Series and everything, and it was really an

688
00:47:34,235 --> 00:47:37,195
Speaker 9: exciting year. And I went to this club which finished

689
00:47:37,235 --> 00:47:39,475
Speaker 9: dead lash last year but I've enjoyed every min of them.

690
00:47:39,515 --> 00:47:41,755
Speaker 3: And then there's Fergey Jenkins who goes to a new

691
00:47:41,755 --> 00:47:43,715
Speaker 3: and old team in seventy eight as he returns to

692
00:47:43,755 --> 00:47:47,035
Speaker 3: the Texas Rangers. Jenkins was last at Texans in seventy five,

693
00:47:47,075 --> 00:47:48,875
Speaker 3: and he sees a difference this time around.

694
00:47:49,035 --> 00:47:51,155
Speaker 12: The team is a little more experienced, They have a

695
00:47:51,195 --> 00:47:54,875
Speaker 12: little more depth, they have more experienced ballplayers. I think

696
00:47:54,915 --> 00:47:57,395
Speaker 12: that the biggest thing is that this team is a

697
00:47:57,395 --> 00:48:00,115
Speaker 12: contender now over Maybe he had the one year when

698
00:48:00,115 --> 00:48:02,275
Speaker 12: I was with Billy martin seventy four, we made a

699
00:48:02,315 --> 00:48:04,995
Speaker 12: push to jump on Oakland, but we came up short.

700
00:48:05,035 --> 00:48:06,435
Speaker 7: But this year it looks like that the team could

701
00:48:06,435 --> 00:48:07,115
Speaker 7: do it Tomorrow.

702
00:48:07,115 --> 00:48:09,155
Speaker 3: In Part three of the Spring Training series, a look

703
00:48:09,155 --> 00:48:11,035
Speaker 3: at a team that operates on a wing and a prayer,

704
00:48:11,115 --> 00:48:14,795
Speaker 3: Bill Vex's Chicago White Sox, and now to Part three

705
00:48:14,835 --> 00:48:17,995
Speaker 3: of the Spring Training Journal, The Chicago White Sox seem

706
00:48:18,035 --> 00:48:18,635
Speaker 3: to have found.

707
00:48:18,395 --> 00:48:19,555
Speaker 1: A new way to be competitive.

708
00:48:19,635 --> 00:48:22,635
Speaker 3: In these days of millionaire free agents and discontented stars,

709
00:48:22,675 --> 00:48:24,755
Speaker 3: the Socks go for the low scale free agents, the

710
00:48:24,795 --> 00:48:28,315
Speaker 3: comeback players, and the rents a sluggers system. Last year

711
00:48:28,315 --> 00:48:30,675
Speaker 3: it was Eric Soderholm, a third baseman, recovered from the

712
00:48:30,755 --> 00:48:32,955
Speaker 3: junk pile after a season of inactivity due to a

713
00:48:32,995 --> 00:48:36,555
Speaker 3: knee injury. Soderholm is a student of psychological conditioning and

714
00:48:36,635 --> 00:48:38,875
Speaker 3: he thinks if you put somebody on the spot, he'll produce.

715
00:48:39,155 --> 00:48:42,395
Speaker 3: Solderholm also thinks that the Chicago owner feels the same way.

716
00:48:42,435 --> 00:48:43,915
Speaker 13: And Bill Rigg's got that idea.

717
00:48:43,955 --> 00:48:46,875
Speaker 5: Now, this year's camp beca as sixty players are in

718
00:48:46,955 --> 00:48:49,115
Speaker 5: the camp and then so many people battling through so

719
00:48:49,155 --> 00:48:49,715
Speaker 5: many downs.

720
00:48:49,755 --> 00:48:51,795
Speaker 1: It puts everybody on the spot that forces you to

721
00:48:51,795 --> 00:48:52,195
Speaker 1: purdue it.

722
00:48:52,555 --> 00:48:55,115
Speaker 3: This year, the recovery project is Ron Bloomberg, who has

723
00:48:55,155 --> 00:48:57,195
Speaker 3: come to bat twice in two and a half years

724
00:48:57,395 --> 00:49:00,475
Speaker 3: due to recurring shoulder and leg problems. So far this spring,

725
00:49:00,515 --> 00:49:03,035
Speaker 3: Bloomberg is healthy, but don't remind him of his past

726
00:49:03,075 --> 00:49:05,435
Speaker 3: physical infirmity talk about injuries.

727
00:49:05,475 --> 00:49:06,595
Speaker 11: For me, I had enough in my career.

728
00:49:06,675 --> 00:49:07,315
Speaker 9: I just go out there and.

729
00:49:07,355 --> 00:49:08,115
Speaker 1: Do the best I can.

730
00:49:08,555 --> 00:49:10,595
Speaker 4: I think I'm doing quite well for the amount of

731
00:49:10,595 --> 00:49:13,275
Speaker 4: time when I have been playing. I'm hitting the ball

732
00:49:13,355 --> 00:49:15,755
Speaker 4: really well. I'm not swinging with a lot of power,

733
00:49:15,795 --> 00:49:18,075
Speaker 4: but I'm hitting a lot of line drives. I think

734
00:49:18,915 --> 00:49:20,235
Speaker 4: for being out for two and a half years, I

735
00:49:20,275 --> 00:49:22,235
Speaker 4: think I'm doing a remarkable.

736
00:49:21,875 --> 00:49:22,435
Speaker 7: Job so far.

737
00:49:23,555 --> 00:49:26,675
Speaker 3: Last year, Chicago's here, Today, Gone tomorrow sluggers were Oscar

738
00:49:26,715 --> 00:49:29,555
Speaker 3: Gamble and Richie Zisk. This year it's Bobby Bods, who,

739
00:49:29,595 --> 00:49:31,995
Speaker 3: although he may be in Chicago for only one season,

740
00:49:32,195 --> 00:49:33,955
Speaker 3: promises to be a team player.

741
00:49:34,195 --> 00:49:36,475
Speaker 11: My main concern each year is to go out and contribute.

742
00:49:36,635 --> 00:49:40,195
Speaker 5: If I go out and I can contribute to the

743
00:49:40,235 --> 00:49:42,675
Speaker 5: team and I stay healthy, I will help the team

744
00:49:42,915 --> 00:49:44,395
Speaker 5: and I will have a good year on my own

745
00:49:44,395 --> 00:49:46,035
Speaker 5: because I will be doing what the team has expected

746
00:49:46,075 --> 00:49:48,155
Speaker 5: me to do. But to say that it's important, the

747
00:49:48,155 --> 00:49:49,835
Speaker 5: most important thing for me to hit forty homers and

748
00:49:49,875 --> 00:49:52,395
Speaker 5: still forty bases and we don't win.

749
00:49:52,515 --> 00:49:54,155
Speaker 11: No, I want to contribute to a winning cause and

750
00:49:54,195 --> 00:49:55,795
Speaker 11: whatever that takes, that's what I want to do.

751
00:49:55,875 --> 00:49:56,595
Speaker 1: The White Sox.

752
00:49:56,635 --> 00:50:01,315
Speaker 3: The formula is cheap, efficient, unique, and most importantly, it works. Tomorrow,

753
00:50:01,355 --> 00:50:03,675
Speaker 3: as our five part series continues, a look at spring

754
00:50:03,755 --> 00:50:07,235
Speaker 3: training for a losing team, the Atlanta Braves. Now here's

755
00:50:07,275 --> 00:50:10,155
Speaker 3: part four of the Spring Training Journal. Of all of

756
00:50:10,195 --> 00:50:13,475
Speaker 3: baseball's losers, probably the Atlanta Braves are the most unique.

757
00:50:13,595 --> 00:50:16,075
Speaker 3: Spring training for them has to have highlights other than

758
00:50:16,115 --> 00:50:18,595
Speaker 3: a view to a successful season, and such a highlight

759
00:50:18,675 --> 00:50:20,955
Speaker 3: was presented this year by the appearance of Jim Boughton

760
00:50:21,035 --> 00:50:24,515
Speaker 3: in the club's minor league camp. Another highlight colorful owner

761
00:50:24,555 --> 00:50:27,275
Speaker 3: Ted Turner's tongue in cheek description of mister Boughton.

762
00:50:27,835 --> 00:50:28,835
Speaker 13: He's got a lot of talent.

763
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Speaker 14: He can play baseball, he can write, he can announce.

764
00:50:31,555 --> 00:50:34,075
Speaker 13: And he's twenty his mont. We can use the guy

765
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Speaker 13: with a lot of talent like that.

766
00:50:36,395 --> 00:50:39,155
Speaker 14: Well, who knows one of our writers that's traveling with

767
00:50:39,195 --> 00:50:39,515
Speaker 14: the team.

768
00:50:39,555 --> 00:50:40,635
Speaker 7: I'd come down in a fluids.

769
00:50:40,875 --> 00:50:42,035
Speaker 13: They can to thrill in in a lot.

770
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Speaker 14: Of different pisations.

771
00:50:43,195 --> 00:50:45,915
Speaker 3: Would Turner take advantage of Boughton's notoriety and call him

772
00:50:45,915 --> 00:50:47,515
Speaker 3: to the majors as a publicity stunts?

773
00:50:47,675 --> 00:50:49,195
Speaker 4: I don't know what's Bobby Cox.

774
00:50:49,475 --> 00:50:51,835
Speaker 14: There's advantage of this club and Bill Lucas. All I

775
00:50:51,955 --> 00:50:53,195
Speaker 14: do is to try and play the bill.

776
00:50:53,475 --> 00:50:55,955
Speaker 3: But the presence of a manager never stopped Turner. Last

777
00:50:56,035 --> 00:50:58,715
Speaker 3: year he temporarily took over the Braves as skipper, replacing

778
00:50:58,795 --> 00:51:00,835
Speaker 3: Dave Bristol. Bristol is gone now.

779
00:51:00,795 --> 00:51:02,555
Speaker 7: Bobby Cox is the new man in charge.

780
00:51:02,635 --> 00:51:05,235
Speaker 3: He's running a camp of forty six players, only fourteen

781
00:51:05,275 --> 00:51:07,435
Speaker 3: of whom were major leaguers on opening day of nineteen

782
00:51:07,475 --> 00:51:08,115
Speaker 3: seventy seven.

783
00:51:08,315 --> 00:51:10,075
Speaker 9: Really, we're just trying to give everybody a chance to

784
00:51:10,195 --> 00:51:12,195
Speaker 9: ply and see as much of them as we can,

785
00:51:12,235 --> 00:51:13,955
Speaker 9: because we do we're kind of unique in most spring

786
00:51:14,035 --> 00:51:17,075
Speaker 9: training and most string training camps. And then we've got

787
00:51:17,115 --> 00:51:19,195
Speaker 9: a lot more decisions to make. Most camps have maybe

788
00:51:19,195 --> 00:51:21,915
Speaker 9: one change in our starting lineup or so. And you

789
00:51:21,955 --> 00:51:24,675
Speaker 9: know where our eyes and ears are open, and we

790
00:51:24,715 --> 00:51:27,635
Speaker 9: have meetings a lot with our coaching staff and the

791
00:51:27,675 --> 00:51:31,235
Speaker 9: instructors or are in camp and evaluate all the talent

792
00:51:31,315 --> 00:51:33,355
Speaker 9: that we have, and we're going to break north with

793
00:51:33,395 --> 00:51:34,355
Speaker 9: our twenty five best.

794
00:51:34,635 --> 00:51:36,475
Speaker 7: It might only be the best twenty four.

795
00:51:36,675 --> 00:51:39,075
Speaker 3: The Braves may not be able to afford that last player,

796
00:51:39,275 --> 00:51:41,195
Speaker 3: which brings us back to owner Ted Turner.

797
00:51:41,235 --> 00:51:43,355
Speaker 14: All right, do it, try and play the bill and

798
00:51:43,435 --> 00:51:46,915
Speaker 14: that's believe me, that's a big job, toot. I'm not

799
00:51:46,995 --> 00:51:49,595
Speaker 14: sure that the challenge facing me is faiz them all

800
00:51:49,635 --> 00:51:50,195
Speaker 14: through the guard.

801
00:51:50,755 --> 00:51:53,755
Speaker 3: The Braves not the best, not even secure, but certainly

802
00:51:53,795 --> 00:51:56,315
Speaker 3: not dull. Tomorrow, in the final part of our series

803
00:51:56,315 --> 00:51:59,315
Speaker 3: on spring training, where were you When the Lights Went out?

804
00:52:00,315 --> 00:52:02,035
Speaker 3: And now the fifth and final part of the Spring

805
00:52:02,075 --> 00:52:04,875
Speaker 3: Training Journal, the difference is between spring training and the

806
00:52:04,875 --> 00:52:07,755
Speaker 3: regular Major League Baseball season. Come out in minor ways,

807
00:52:07,875 --> 00:52:11,075
Speaker 3: subtly like that one night in Fort Waterdale, right here

808
00:52:11,075 --> 00:52:12,955
Speaker 3: in the middle of the sixth thenny the bottom of

809
00:52:12,955 --> 00:52:15,675
Speaker 3: the six between the New York Yankees and the Atlanta Braves,

810
00:52:15,715 --> 00:52:17,515
Speaker 3: just after Mickey Klutz had hit a ball down the

811
00:52:17,515 --> 00:52:19,795
Speaker 3: first baseline, the lights suddenly went out.

812
00:52:20,075 --> 00:52:20,875
Speaker 1: They remained out.

813
00:52:21,195 --> 00:52:23,595
Speaker 3: A lot of flash bulbs are flashing because the fans

814
00:52:23,595 --> 00:52:25,795
Speaker 3: are taking pictures of the darkness, which doesn't make too

815
00:52:25,875 --> 00:52:28,675
Speaker 3: much sense in itself, but anyway, the Yankees were leading

816
00:52:28,715 --> 00:52:30,715
Speaker 3: here six to two when the light suddenly went out.

817
00:52:31,155 --> 00:52:32,795
Speaker 1: Some people are lighting matches here.

818
00:52:32,635 --> 00:52:34,555
Speaker 3: And there calls for playball.

819
00:52:34,955 --> 00:52:36,875
Speaker 1: But the lights all the towers there, and there are

820
00:52:36,875 --> 00:52:37,235
Speaker 1: about a.

821
00:52:37,235 --> 00:52:38,075
Speaker 7: Half dozen of them.

822
00:52:38,275 --> 00:52:40,955
Speaker 3: They're all out right now and hidden by the darkness.

823
00:52:41,035 --> 00:52:42,795
Speaker 3: The evil that lurks in the hearts of men came

824
00:52:42,835 --> 00:52:44,075
Speaker 3: out into the open now.

825
00:52:44,115 --> 00:52:45,115
Speaker 7: The players are all.

826
00:52:44,995 --> 00:52:49,475
Speaker 3: Converging around the Atlanta dugout, while a group of fans

827
00:52:49,755 --> 00:52:52,155
Speaker 3: has apparently run out into the field in an attempt.

828
00:52:51,835 --> 00:52:52,675
Speaker 13: To get third base.

829
00:52:52,715 --> 00:52:53,555
Speaker 1: I think they're fans.

830
00:52:53,555 --> 00:52:56,435
Speaker 3: What are they out there? Yes they are, and they're

831
00:52:56,435 --> 00:52:59,115
Speaker 3: being led from the field. At this point, a couple

832
00:52:59,115 --> 00:53:01,835
Speaker 3: of fans went out to the field during the darkness.

833
00:53:01,915 --> 00:53:05,955
Speaker 3: Here an attempted to snatch third base full of security

834
00:53:05,995 --> 00:53:09,515
Speaker 3: officers called them there and stop. During all this, Atlanta

835
00:53:09,555 --> 00:53:12,795
Speaker 3: owner Ted Turner and Yankee president George Steinbrenner sat helplessly

836
00:53:12,835 --> 00:53:19,235
Speaker 3: in the dark. Finally somebody found the light switch. That

837
00:53:19,395 --> 00:53:21,355
Speaker 3: the aroar from the crowd is some of the lights

838
00:53:21,355 --> 00:53:23,235
Speaker 3: have gone back on, the lights in the press box

839
00:53:23,395 --> 00:53:33,675
Speaker 3: and now the field lights. And with the exception of

840
00:53:33,675 --> 00:53:36,315
Speaker 3: the two field lights out in left field, they're all

841
00:53:36,355 --> 00:53:38,635
Speaker 3: back on now because two more and there they go.

842
00:53:38,915 --> 00:53:40,395
Speaker 3: It's as like they'll be able to resume.

843
00:53:40,675 --> 00:53:40,875
Speaker 9: Ah.

844
00:53:40,955 --> 00:53:43,555
Speaker 3: Yes, spring training in the regular season just ain't the same,

845
00:53:43,835 --> 00:53:45,995
Speaker 3: But soon the change from exhibitions to the real thing

846
00:53:46,035 --> 00:53:48,835
Speaker 3: will take place. And starting Monday on World Report Sports

847
00:53:48,875 --> 00:53:50,755
Speaker 3: will take a look at the divisional and league races

848
00:53:50,795 --> 00:53:53,435
Speaker 3: for nineteen seventy eight. And that's the early Sports Tonight.

849
00:53:53,435 --> 00:53:55,955
Speaker 3: I'm Keith Oberman. Have a very good weekend. Molly comings

850
00:53:55,995 --> 00:53:58,955
Speaker 3: back with more sports tonight on late edition at eleven Carol.

851
00:53:59,355 --> 00:54:00,035
Speaker 13: Thank you, Keith.

852
00:54:00,035 --> 00:54:02,075
Speaker 5: It's five point fifty seven the Stock Report.

853
00:54:02,155 --> 00:54:04,155
Speaker 7: Right after this word from garage to France.

854
00:54:04,835 --> 00:54:09,235
Speaker 1: I found the cassette those were recorded onto in March

855
00:54:09,395 --> 00:54:12,555
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight. I was surprised to find on it

856
00:54:12,635 --> 00:54:16,475
Speaker 1: that I had done and completely forgotten, a live promo

857
00:54:16,715 --> 00:54:20,075
Speaker 1: for that series. I had done it by phone from

858
00:54:20,195 --> 00:54:24,995
Speaker 1: Miami Stadium, then the home of the Baltimore Orioles, and

859
00:54:25,075 --> 00:54:27,635
Speaker 1: it was done live on our five point thirty newscast

860
00:54:27,635 --> 00:54:31,275
Speaker 1: in Ithaca. And I was in Miami on the friday

861
00:54:31,355 --> 00:54:35,475
Speaker 1: that spring break ended, and the Friday us that my

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Speaker 1: trip to Florida ended. This was actually done. It suddenly

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Speaker 1: flashed back on me as well, about an hour after

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Speaker 1: I had been sitting in the stands at the beautiful

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Speaker 1: old Art Deco ballpark in Miami, and I had recorded

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Speaker 1: all those narrations in that series you just heard this

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Speaker 1: was the preview.

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Speaker 6: And now Keith Overman recording from the Miami Stadium.

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Speaker 7: Thank you, Mike. I'm parentally perched here in the press box.

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Speaker 7: HI had top Miami Stadium, a charismatic old place that

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Speaker 7: looked a little bit more like a metal barn that

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Speaker 7: it does a ballpark where the Baltimore Orioles and Cincinnati

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Speaker 7: Reds will play tonight. Yet, if there is one thing

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Speaker 7: that a week in the baseball spring training camps teaches you.

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Speaker 7: It's that appearances can be deceiving. The uniforms are major

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Speaker 7: league and so are the players, but what's been happening

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Speaker 7: on the field certainly is not. And that counts both

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Speaker 7: before and during the actual games. For where else but

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Speaker 7: spring training would you hear thurman Munson singing short people.

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Speaker 7: Where else would a Yankee player apologize to a sportswriter?

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Speaker 7: And where else could you see owners Ted Turner and

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Speaker 7: George Steinbriter sit helplessly by as the game between their

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Speaker 7: two teams is halted by a short circuit blockout. Nowhere

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Speaker 7: else but spring training. Then there are other things you expect,

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Speaker 7: like contrasts. Why just day before yesterday, here the Baltimore Orioles.

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Speaker 7: Those did Los Angeles? You guessed it. Here's effervescence for you.

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Speaker 7: Tommy Lasorda, manager of the Dodgers field great.

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Speaker 13: I can't wait till the season begins. I told everybody

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Speaker 13: I got a weight problem. I can't wait till it

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Speaker 13: all begins. And I'm just ecstatic about this ball club

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Speaker 13: and we're going to have a lot of fun at it.

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Speaker 13: It's an honor to be associated with outstanding players that

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Speaker 13: above all, they're outstanding young men.

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Speaker 7: On the contrast, how about Earl Weaver, who thinks everybody's

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Speaker 7: on his own.

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Speaker 13: This is an individual sport.

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Speaker 7: If you get enough individuals out there on the.

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Speaker 13: Field doing their job and doing their job right, then

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Speaker 13: it becomes a meme that doesn't happen out on the

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Speaker 13: field no matter what happens in the clubhouse.

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Speaker 12: Didn't make any different.

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Speaker 7: Well, two very opposite ends of the spectrum. Spring training

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Speaker 7: means a lot of things to a lot of people

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Speaker 7: right now. To me, it means a bad sunburn. But anyway,

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Speaker 7: what spring training means to certain people will be the

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Speaker 7: subject of a five part series next week on World

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Speaker 7: Report Sports, and the week after we'll have a preview

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Speaker 7: of the upcoming season. That's it from here in Miami.

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Speaker 7: I'm Keith Oberman, knocked down of mic. What would will

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Speaker 7: deport sports be without Keith Oberman?

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Speaker 1: Thanks Keith, great report, not bad writing, by the way,

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Speaker 1: little nasal, how old you say it was? Nineteen? Okay,

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Speaker 1: find that tape. Let's hire that kid. I've done all

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Speaker 1: the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening.

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Speaker 1: Most of our countdown music was arranged, produced and performed

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Speaker 1: by Brian Ray on guitars, bas and drums and John

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Speaker 1: Phillip Schaneil handling, orchestration and keyboards. Our musical directors of

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Speaker 1: Countdown was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and fifthy

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Speaker 1: musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever,

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Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Olderman theme from

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Speaker 1: ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis Curtisy of ESPN Inc.

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Speaker 1: Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed.

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Speaker 1: My announcer today and keeping with the baseball spring training theme,

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Speaker 1: was my friend Tony Kornheiser. This program was produced by Ted.

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Speaker 1: Everything else was as always my fault. That's countdown for today,

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Speaker 1: Day three hundred and eighty nine of Arka held hostage

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Speaker 1: again and just one thousand, seventy four days until the

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Speaker 1: scheduled end of his lame duck and lame brained term

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Speaker 1: unless he is removed sooner by Epstein or the new

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Speaker 1: Chinese Stanley Cup. The next scheduled countdown is Monday. Bulletins

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Speaker 1: is the news merits until the next one. I'm Keith Oulderman,

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Speaker 1: good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with

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Speaker 1: Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts

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Speaker 1: from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

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Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.