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Speaker 1: I love this story. I absolutely love this story from Philadelphia,

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Speaker 1: and it involves someone we talk a lot about on

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Speaker 1: this show, and we talk talked about this person for

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Speaker 1: many many years. We are in the doghouse with this

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Speaker 1: sport because of this particular person. But we'll go to

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Speaker 1: the locker room drama ol rama in the Delaware Valley.

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Speaker 1: As we have learned through various reports that the Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: Phillies YouTube kid, he was originally the YouTube kid. I

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Speaker 1: remember seeing clips on the Internet of this guy when

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Speaker 1: he was in high school in Vegas. But Bryce Harper

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Speaker 1: Commissioner of Major League Baseball, Rob Manfraud. Now this is

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Speaker 1: during a meeting between the Commissioner of Major League Baseball,

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Speaker 1: that would be Manfraud and the team last week. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you didn't see this or hear about him. Maybe

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Speaker 1: you missed it. We're told that Bryce Harper ended up

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Speaker 1: getting in the face of Rob Manford and telling him

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Speaker 1: to get the f out. E's a Peter saf he said. Now,

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Speaker 1: he did not say f he said the fun He's

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Speaker 1: f out of our clubhouse. He said, if Manford wanted

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Speaker 1: the boogeyman. Now that confrontation came in a meeting. We

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Speaker 1: are told that the slimy commissioner of Major League Baseball

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Speaker 1: Must have been very boring. My god, must have that

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Speaker 1: been boring? Anyway, they talked for an hour. Manford never

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Speaker 1: said the words salary cap in quotes. He never said that.

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Speaker 1: The discussion was about the economics. And that is what

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Speaker 1: raised the dander of one Bryce Harper, who loves the

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Speaker 1: Philly fanatic. And I love the Philly fanatics, so I

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Speaker 1: have that in common with Bryce Harper. So let us

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Speaker 1: discuss the question. Philly star a multi time MVP Bryce

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Speaker 1: Harper going I the eye Mono a mono with Commissioner

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Speaker 1: Rob Manford over the salary cap. Who's side of you on?

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Speaker 1: I am in the side now, I'm gonna tell you

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Speaker 1: we'll put all these things together and we are gonna

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Speaker 1: make the gobba gool is what we're gonna make. We're

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Speaker 1: talk Way, Bryce Harper, Here we go, Pricee, here we go. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: little clown weasel, your little weasel, Rob Manford, all right,

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Speaker 1: little clown commissioner Major League Baseball. There he goes down

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Speaker 1: Encore Encore. I say someone had to say, now I

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Speaker 1: we're not doing a salarycap. Normally, you know this, When

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Speaker 1: Anyone who understands basic math, by the way, not just

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Speaker 1: No one that knows economics wants the salary cap, and

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Speaker 1: baseball is the worst thing in the world. Right, you're

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Speaker 1: That's what you're saying. You're moron, Your dummy is what

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Speaker 1: all right, It's a dog whistle for how can we

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Speaker 1: dumb people, the fans, the idiots, that we're doing the

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Speaker 1: right thing for competitive bounds. You realize, with no salary cap,

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Speaker 1: baseball has more of a competitive bounce than any of

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Speaker 1: those sports that have salary caps. Hello, what does that say?

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Speaker 1: The teams that actually try end up winning have success

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Speaker 1: about winning. Sacramento or Sacramento of the A. Is that

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Speaker 1: be done right, and you're not. Really the issue is

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Speaker 1: It's not the salarycap. The salary CAP's not going to

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Speaker 1: have that right. And the dirty little secret in Major

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Speaker 1: a golden goose without even There's like seven people that

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Speaker 1: go to Marlins games, and I know one of them,

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Speaker 1: it's not anyone there. They're making money because you get

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Speaker 1: seven hundred and seven thousand whatever, it doesn't matter. Put

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Speaker 1: will make money. You will absolutely make money. And while

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Speaker 1: the money. That's the dirty little secret in baseball. I'm

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Speaker 1: Rob Manford. He's never going to address that. Why would he?

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Speaker 1: I love the fact that Bryce Harper got right in

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Speaker 1: the face of Rob Manford and just threw it down

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Speaker 1: right and should have tossed him right out there on

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Speaker 1: Broad Street is what he should have done. Now, the

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Speaker 1: which is being cranked up. The labor negotiations will take

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Speaker 1: to that, many in baseball are preparing for the nuclear winter.

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Speaker 1: But why is this salarycab, the chatter in Major League

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Speaker 1: Baseball ultimately a nothing burger. Let me explain this to

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Speaker 1: won't do it. And what is that? If you want

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, the owners would have to open the bucks.

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Speaker 1: They'd have to open the bucks, the bean counters. That's

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Speaker 1: never gonna happen, never ever, ever, never. And here's why.

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Speaker 1: The reason why, and most of us know this, they

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Speaker 1: are every team in baseball is making a profit. Now,

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Speaker 1: not every team makes a big profit, Not every team

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Speaker 1: they're not right. And the books are the holy grip.

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Speaker 1: I've heard some stuff that I'm not allowed to say

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Speaker 1: But I've heard things over the years involving the books

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Speaker 1: to make sure the financials don't get out. Some mind

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Speaker 1: blowing things have passed through my head from people who

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Speaker 1: these these owners that cry they don't have any money.

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Speaker 1: They treat the financials in baseball like the nuclear launch codes. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's what they treat it like. And it is such

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Speaker 1: a scam. It is such a scam. We need a

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Speaker 1: cap for parody. We want to have every tream. How

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Speaker 1: about chance to win. It reminds me of that used

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Speaker 1: car salesman Bud Selik was going around in the early

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Speaker 1: who he is. Anyway, he remains on the non disciplinary

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Speaker 1: paid leave naughty list now. He was originally placed there

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Speaker 1: at July third. That has been extended for orties as

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Speaker 1: well to August thirty first. Nowaday their statement vetted by

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Speaker 1: an army of lawyers. The Guardian said, among other things,

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Speaker 1: no additional players or club personnel are expected to be

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Speaker 1: impacted by the investigation. Keep in mind, if you know

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Speaker 1: your weasel words, look at page seventeen of the Weasel Handbook,

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Speaker 1: and the word expected is a weasel term because you

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Speaker 1: never expect one of your player to get in trouble

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Speaker 1: with gambling. Why would you expect that you never expect

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Speaker 1: a trade to happen? They're unexpected, all right, So let

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Speaker 1: us discuss The question is as follows. Keep this simple,

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Speaker 1: sports radio. So what is the most puzzling What is

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Speaker 1: the most puzzling thing about the Guardian's closer, Emmanuel class

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Speaker 1: A being dragged into the gambling web. So I've got

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Speaker 1: dance floor, Hansel and Gretel and Beg's and we will

444
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Speaker 1: combine all of these things together for an original Malard monologue,

445
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Speaker 1: which is as good as milk chocolate covered almonds. One

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00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,359
Speaker 1: of my favorite snacks. When I don't eat much, but

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Speaker 1: when I do, I like to have a look a

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Speaker 1: few handful or so of those delicious milk chocolate covered almonds.

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Speaker 1: Manly good. All right, kurklum brain, by the way, I go,

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Speaker 1: kurklam brain. All right? So number what number? Number?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 1: This is not some flotsam and jetsam. This is this

453
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 1: is bigger, This is a bigger story here as a

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Speaker 1: Yogi bear taught me. Not Yogi bear. Yogi bear taught me,

455
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Speaker 1: you're supposed to be smarter than the average bear. Not

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Speaker 1: so much. We're not talking about some random middle relief

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Speaker 1: pitcher or some fourth or fifth starter. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: no no. At one point in recent years, if you

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Speaker 1: were to pull the executives in Major League Baseball, they

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Speaker 1: would say the top closer in the entire American league,

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Speaker 1: Emmanuel Classe, top guy in the American league. Right, and

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Speaker 1: if not all of baseball was an all star multiple times.

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Speaker 1: Covet it around baseball. Expected to be traded this week,

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00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 1: not anymore, but was expected to be traded. The thing, though,

465
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: that's the most puzzling, is the money factor. Now he's

466
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Speaker 1: not the highest paid relief pitcher in baseball. However, Class

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Speaker 1: A is on a twenty million dollar contract. So if

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Speaker 1: you get a twenty million dollar contract, you're living pretty

469
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:25,200
Speaker 1: high on the hog. Most would say, right. And this

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Speaker 1: is the biggest name that has been caught up in

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Speaker 1: this to this point. And make no mistake, make no mistake,

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Speaker 1: this is major League Baseball. They're hitting the dance floor.

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Speaker 1: They're out on the dance floor. They're doing a little

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Speaker 1: dance with a devil, is what they're doing. They tore

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Speaker 1: and let me tell you something, Baseball at this point

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00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 1: is tore up from the floor up. If you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying here, they signed these deals and listen,

478
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Speaker 1: I again, I love gambling. I'm a gambler, but even

479
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,440
Speaker 1: I know you're you're messing with some really bad stuff here.

480
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 1: How far in they've gone. They didn't just go a

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Speaker 1: little bit in. They just put their toe in the water.

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Speaker 1: They are all in. Even I someone that bets, I

483
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Speaker 1: do bet. I'm like Pete Rose, I bet on baseball.

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Speaker 1: Even I'm when I'm watching him blown away by the

485
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Speaker 1: amount of advertising for the for gamming. Listen, I don't

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Speaker 1: mind it. I'm a little amazed that baseball is okay

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Speaker 1: with it. But here we are, and so they took

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Speaker 1: the money. And again I'm fine with it. Last a

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Speaker 1: couple of years I did a gambling show, and for

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Speaker 1: years on the radio we did Benny versus the Pennies

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Speaker 1: on TV the last couple of years. But now, of

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Speaker 1: course Baseball, well they're shocked, they're absolutely shocked that players

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Speaker 1: are messing around with prop bets. Give me a break. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's what this is about. So page two, So where

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Speaker 1: where did Emmanuel class cross the line with the guardians? See,

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Speaker 1: this is the part of the story which is almost

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Speaker 1: unbelievable when you think about how you can track something

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Speaker 1: like this. Now, now we think we know how this

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Speaker 1: was uncovered, but we don't know these cifix We don't

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Speaker 1: know all the intricate details. However, we know that there

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Speaker 1: was a line that was tossed out, unusual betting activity

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Speaker 1: around multiple pitches involving Emmanuel Classe. So Internet sluice have

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Speaker 1: done some digging and they've investigated this, Wes, this doesn't

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Speaker 1: come from baseball. Internet investigators have found what they believe

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Speaker 1: is the smoking gun. What is that? All right? What

506
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Speaker 1: is the smoking gun? I'm glad you asked. So class

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Speaker 1: A has entered the ninth inning forty times this season,

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Speaker 1: forty times. And you know what his waist pitch rate

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Speaker 1: is on first pitches, it's almost twenty percent. According to

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Speaker 1: stat cast, it's seventeen and a half percent. Well, who

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Speaker 1: cares about that, you're a nerd. Let me explain. So

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Speaker 1: seventeen and a half percent of the time Class A

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Speaker 1: comes in and throws garbage, a non competitive pitch, no

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Speaker 1: chance of being a strike, non competitive, not eyhere close

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Speaker 1: to the strike zone. And that is something that stands out.

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Speaker 1: I mean, one of these things is not like the other.

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Speaker 1: The rest of the pitches, the non competitive pitch rate

518
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Speaker 1: is like around five percent. The first pitch is close

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Speaker 1: to twenty percent, So you can do the mat. It's

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00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: like it stands out like glitter at a funeral. You

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00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: don't often see glitter at a funeral, right, and you

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00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 1: smell that it's not with the rocks cooking. That would

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Speaker 1: be in game live betting.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't do the in game live betting. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I just yeah, it's not. I think I have some

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Speaker 1: friends of mine that are really invested in in game

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Speaker 1: live betting, and they think I am a donkey for

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Speaker 1: not getting involved in it. They love it like they

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Speaker 1: love having action on multiple pitches or what a batter

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Speaker 1: is going to do a ground ball, fly ball. There's

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Speaker 1: all kinds of different props in game betting that you

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Speaker 1: can do, and if you're unfamiliar with it, if you're

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Speaker 1: not a game live betting has been around for you know, forever.

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Speaker 1: Now it's mainstream. But you can bet whether a pitch

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Speaker 1: is going to be a ball or a strike in

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Speaker 1: real time, in real time? Now, is it true that

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Speaker 1: the wise guys had inside information on the pattern from

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Speaker 1: Emmanuel Class so when he came in out of a bullpen,

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Speaker 1: they knew chut chang chut ching to ching. Free money,

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Speaker 1: free money, free money, come on down, free money. Now,

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00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 1: little Birdie tells me that may or may not have

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Speaker 1: inside information. There's a lot of blood at the crime scene,

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Speaker 1: if you know what I'm saying. Here a lot of blood.

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00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: And now I'm in the in the old days, back

546
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 1: when the mob was involved in this kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Straight up, what they would do is it'd be a

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Speaker 1: phone call to Rodney Dangerfield, the old comedian would say

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00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 1: Vinnie Boombots. So they'd call Vinnie Boombots and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: I'd like to bet on that first pitch being a

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Speaker 1: ball These days because of technology, what do you think

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00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 1: there is? You think there's text message chains, you think

553
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: there's social media change, you think there's Venmo transactions, burner

554
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: phones that aren't really burning, and all that. Major League

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00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 1: Baseball and the sportsbooks. From what we're hearing, and who

556
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: knows if we're right, we're hearing that they have the receipts.

557
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:30,959
Speaker 1: And this again ties back to the original Toronto Raptor

558
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 1: player that got banned for life from the NBA because

559
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: he was futzing around with prop bets, and so they

560
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,959
Speaker 1: fell down this rabbit hole. They follow the digital paper

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Speaker 1: trail like it's Hansel and Gretel and it's the cost

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Speaker 1: of doing business in Major League Baseball and who's next, Right,

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00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: they let the genie out of the bottle and the

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Speaker 1: second they agreed to go down this avenue and so

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00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: paid leave pay leave means Major League Baseball is not

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Speaker 1: ready to completely drop the hammer, and they're likely trying

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00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 1: to decide, like what is the punishment on this because

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Speaker 1: you're not it's this weird gray area, like you can

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Speaker 1: come in and proy a non competitive pitch if you're

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Speaker 1: a manual Class A and be really good. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's been one of the top pitchers in baseball. He's

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Speaker 1: not as good this year. But the argument could be

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Speaker 1: listening is it's not affecting the outcome of the game.

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Speaker 1: You're not throwing the game. This is not the Chicago

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00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: Black Sox back in the day. You're just throwing one pitch,

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Speaker 1: but you're hurting the gambles. And we always know about gambling.

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00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:40,719
Speaker 1: They don't mind if you lose money in gambling. If

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Speaker 1: you win money, that's a problem. They'd all like, if

579
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Speaker 1: you win money, if you lose, they never investigate losers. No, no, no,

580
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: they give you free steak dinners if you lose. If

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Speaker 1: you win, then they start snooping around. They put limits

582
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Speaker 1: on how much you can win. That's all. It's always men.

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00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: That's all back in the old days. They just take

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Speaker 1: you under the casino with baseball bats and you know,

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00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 1: so what's going on here. But we'll see how deep

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00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: the rabbit hole goes here, and we're not quite there yet.

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00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 1: A Class A being on the list that is a

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00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 1: pretty large bombshell. It's a high leverage reliever. But again,

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Speaker 1: he's not throwing games. The argument at this point from

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Speaker 1: what we've heard, is not that he's throwing games. He's

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00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 1: just throwing random prop bets. And you don't bet that

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Speaker 1: much on a prop bet. But if you think it

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00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: ends with the two Cleveland Guardian pitchers, I have some

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00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 1: beachfront property in beautiful Des Moines, Iowa. I would like

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00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 1: to sell you. Yeah, and my realtor there. I have

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00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: a couple of realtors. In the morning, they'll show you

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00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: around and the yeah, do a good job. Sure? Why not?

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00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: I mean, if you have not been paying attention major

599
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 1: League Baseball. They are in bed, and they're in bed

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00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: with the books, and now there are bed bugs starting

601
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: to bite. The bed bugs are out there biting right now.

602
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:55,360
Speaker 1: Final point where to turn the page? Turn the page?

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00:34:55,560 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 1: Another melancholy goodbye, we go to Chicago. News came out

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00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:05,959
Speaker 1: on Monday night. The news came out that Major League

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Speaker 1: Baseball the Cubs announcing the Hall of Famer Ryan Sandberg dead.

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00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: Died on Monday, age of sixty five. So I want

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00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,320
Speaker 1: to spend a couple of minutes talking about Ryan Sandberg.

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00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: So what are what are your reflections on the Hall

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00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 1: of Famer remembered mostly for the Cubs, right It didn't

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00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: start with the Cubs. But you remember Ryan Sambery, So

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00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:31,240
Speaker 1: what are your reflections on Ryan Sambury. So my memories

612
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,879
Speaker 1: get I'm not a Cub fan, not a Cup fan,

613
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: but my reflections on Ryan Sandberg. I will remember being

614
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 1: a child, a little boy, and turning on WGN, the superstation,

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00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 1: and being taken to another world like I was, Oh

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00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:51,240
Speaker 1: my god. That was back when this thing called cable

617
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: television was seen as an exotic thing. It's oh man,

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00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: it's crazy. And you'd sit there and there on your

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Speaker 1: or your television was the Cub Baseball Chicago Cub Baseball

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00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,840
Speaker 1: just appeared right there in your living room. And I

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Speaker 1: lived on the West Coast, so the Cubs games would

622
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: have to go pretty long, and in those days they did.

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Speaker 1: I mean these baseball games a go four hours. So

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Speaker 1: I'd see the end of the Cub games. If I

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00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 1: went to school, if I ditch school, I'd watch the

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00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 1: whole Cub game. I watched the whole Cub game. So

627
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:25,799
Speaker 1: I'd sit there and watch. And it didn't matter where

628
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: you lived in those days. You didn't ask to watch

629
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Speaker 1: the Cubs. You likely were not a Cub fan. I wasn't,

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00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 1: but there they were. You had the Cubs and then

631
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 1: you had the Braves on TBS, but you had the

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00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: Cubs on WGN, and every afternoon you'd sit there. If

633
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:45,399
Speaker 1: you love baseball growing up and being right in there,

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Speaker 1: you'd watch it and you'd see the ivy on the

635
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 1: outfield walls at Wrigley, the lunatics and the bleachers. You'd

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00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: see Harry Carey in the booth with Steve Stone calling

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Speaker 1: Cubs Baseballccasionally Harry would even be lucid. He was always sauced,

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Speaker 1: always completely sauce, and he had just like this haze

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Speaker 1: of Budweiser. Even as a kid. I like that guy

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Speaker 1: looks drunk and then and then he had that it's

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Speaker 1: like the Beg song. The man in the middle of

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Speaker 1: all that was Ryan Samberg. He was the man in

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Speaker 1: the middle, slim. He had the sleeves rolled up out

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Speaker 1: there playing second base and just wasn't about the glitz

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Speaker 1: and glamour and all that stuff. And he had the

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Speaker 1: eye black smudged across his face and the cheek bones

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Speaker 1: and he'd be standing out there at second base, digging

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Speaker 1: in to the batter's box and hitting under the gap

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Speaker 1: and was not flashing. I didn't stand out and to

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Speaker 1: stand out from the crowd, didn't do the things like

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Speaker 1: Ricky Henderson some of the other guys in that era did,

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Speaker 1: But he didn't need to be Ryan Sanmdberg was efficient

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Speaker 1: and he played a stoic stoic baseball for the for

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Speaker 1: the Cubs there and fundamentals. Remember the Sandberg game against

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Speaker 1: Bruce Souiter in nineteen eighty four, But that whole nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty four season for the Cubs, if you're old enough

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Speaker 1: to remember, that was Cub That was the year of

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Speaker 1: destiny for the Chicago Cubs until Leon Durham got involved.

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Speaker 1: But it was the year of destiny for the Chicago Cubs.

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Speaker 1: It just that was their time. They won the division.

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Speaker 1: Sandberg was the MVP of that Cub team and for

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Speaker 1: the first time any very long time, I think it

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Speaker 1: was a generation. The Chicago Cubs at that point were

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Speaker 1: not seen as lovable losers. The Chicago Cubs were contenders.

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Speaker 1: This was going to be the year they were going

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Speaker 1: to end the curse of the Billy Goat. And Sandberg

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Speaker 1: was there, as we said, the man in the middle.

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Speaker 1: He was quiet, he was study for the Chicago Cubs,

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Speaker 1: and it wasn't all about the show biz. And uh,

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Speaker 1: you know there's other players were better. Mike Schmidt. You

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Speaker 1: think of the home runs, he had a little bit

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Speaker 1: of flare to him, the craziest well, Ricky Henders. But

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Speaker 1: in the National League, I guess Ozzie Smith doing the

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Speaker 1: backflips the Wizard of Oz for the Cardinals. But Samberg

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Speaker 1: was just always there. I remember as a kidd he

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Speaker 1: what a bunch of gold gloves, and he won ten

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Speaker 1: gold gloves and was an All Star a bunch of times.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know, maybe one who knows a bunch

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Speaker 1: of All Star games, bunch of gold gloves, I don't

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Speaker 1: remember the exact numbers. But he was always there and

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Speaker 1: had big power and would steal bases, and in that era,

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Speaker 1: normally he didn't have too much of those kind of

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Speaker 1: players where they would do both, and so he did both.

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Speaker 1: And that was a position in the nineteen eighties where

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Speaker 1: you were supposed to slap singles if you were a

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Speaker 1: second baseman and just turned double plays, that was it.

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Speaker 1: And Sandberg be out there hitting home runs and stealing

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Speaker 1: bases and doing all that. And then you got the

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Speaker 1: name not Ryan Ryan, Ryn E, not r Y a n,

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Speaker 1: and he was named after a legendary pitcher who was

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Speaker 1: before my time, who pitched for or the I think

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Speaker 1: it was the Cincinnati Reds named Ryan Dern, who was

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Speaker 1: the original wild Thing. This guy throw really hard, he

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Speaker 1: wore coke bottled glasses, and nobody knew where the pitch

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Speaker 1: was going. In fact, one of the iconic baseball characters

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Speaker 1: was named and was not named after him, but was

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Speaker 1: honored with his legacy. That was Ricky wild Thing Vaughn

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Speaker 1: in the movie Major League. They actually patterned that character

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Speaker 1: after Ryan Duran, who Ryan Sandberg was named after. And

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Speaker 1: we'd go on and play in the major leagues and

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. So dead at age sixty five, way

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Speaker 1: too young for Ryan Sandberg from cancer. So rest in peace,

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Speaker 1: Ryan Sandberg as he leaves this mortal coil. Another little

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Speaker 1: brick if you're around my age, another brick of your child.

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Speaker 1: We have a lost hulkg and Ozzy Osbourne, the kid

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Speaker 1: from the Cosby Family. Now Samberg, I thought it was

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Speaker 1: only supposed to go in threes. We're getting more here,

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Speaker 1: We're getting more than threes? Is it a six pack?

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Speaker 6: Like?

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Speaker 1: Where are we at on this? My god? Anyway, rest

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Speaker 1: in PC.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor

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Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Here we go, it's maller. How about that? To the

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Speaker 1: third degree?

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Speaker 2: This is one Big Ben gets.

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Speaker 5: Grilled kupel with Matthew Stafford week to week with back problems.

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Speaker 5: Sean McVay recently told reporters that he thinks Jimmy Garoppolo

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Speaker 5: is a starting quarterback. Yeah, Ben, Let's assume the worst

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Speaker 5: and say Jimmy G has to start a number of

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Speaker 5: games for the Rams. How much does that hurt their

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Speaker 5: chances at winning the NFC West.

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Speaker 1: Well, he has started seven games since the end of

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Speaker 1: the twenty two season for the Raiders, and you did

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Speaker 1: start one game for the Rams. Listen, the Rams are

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Speaker 1: supposed to be more of a defensive team so they

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Speaker 1: can get by in the regular season to ultimately get

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Speaker 1: where they want to go and get to the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: win the NFC, which they were close to doing last year.

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Speaker 1: They have very little chance with Garoppolo. Very little chance

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Speaker 1: with Jimmy G. The Prince Aladdin of the Great Garoppolo. Next.

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Speaker 5: Billy Donovan has a losing record in five seasons with

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Speaker 5: the Bulls and has led them to the playoffs one time.

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Speaker 5: Yet the team just signed him to a multi year extension.

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Speaker 5: Are you surprised by this?

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Speaker 1: No? And the rumor for a long time was that

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Speaker 1: Donovan was going to go back to college, but they

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Speaker 1: college basketball is so effed up and so messed up

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Speaker 1: right now, he's changed his mind. The thing about the

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Speaker 1: bullzelt for a couple of years, they weren't even trying

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Speaker 1: to win. They were fielding non competitive teams, and Billy

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Speaker 1: Donovan was coaching teams that they knew going into the year,

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Speaker 1: we're going to be terrible. Miss I went with a

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Speaker 1: great college basketball coaches for the Florida Gators back and

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Speaker 1: the day. But he likes the NBA lifestyle. They like him.

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Speaker 1: He's considered one of the least the mid mid tier

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Speaker 1: to a little bit better than that NBA coach. And

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Speaker 1: you know he's not going anyway. He's been there. He

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Speaker 1: was in Oklahoma City for five years now, he's been

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Speaker 1: in Chicago. He's been an NBA coach for ten years now,

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Speaker 1: I believe, So he's not he's settled into that life. Next.

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Speaker 5: The Texas Rangers are in third place in the Al West,

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Speaker 5: but have been on a tear in July and they

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Speaker 5: actually have the second best run differential in all of

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Speaker 5: the American League. Ben eddin Arlington alluded to it last night. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: do you think the Rangers are being slept on?

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm not sleeping on the Rangers because they would

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Speaker 1: die if I slept on them. But no, the Rangers

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Speaker 1: are one of those teams in the American League. I

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Speaker 1: don't see anybody invincible. I don't even nationally for that matter.

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Speaker 1: To me, it's wide open. Just getting the playoffs and

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Speaker 1: with Bruce Bochie one of the better managers in playoffs,

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Speaker 1: they've got absolutely got shot. How do we do pass

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Speaker 1: this edition? Put it on the ball? Oh yeah?

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 2: listen live now Malor's Mountain of Money? Do you have

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Speaker 2: what it takes to get to the top? Probably not,

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Speaker 2: Let's do it quickly.

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Speaker 1: Jacob in Delaware, who do you want to partner up with? Jake?

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Speaker 1: Have you got me?

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Speaker 6: Or?

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Speaker 1: Coop? Who do you want? You're a loser? And Jay

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Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, Jay, who do you want to partner up

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Speaker 1: with Jay? Okay, you ain't Loraina? Good, you don't want

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Speaker 1: to team up with Loraina?

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Speaker 2: I was practicing in the break.

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Speaker 1: It's bad. It would be entertaining, but unfortunately I'm told

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Speaker 1: you have to play with me. We'd have you play

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Speaker 1: with Eddie, but the company whacked him, so he's not here.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's do it. Here we go. One of

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Speaker 1: the categories quick, all right.

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Speaker 5: This is the Lori Laughlin edition. She turned sixty one

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Speaker 5: years old today. The categories are the new Kids, Full House,

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Speaker 5: Hudson Street, and Critical Mass. Jacob, which category do you want?

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Speaker 2: Full House?

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Speaker 1: Full House? All right? And Jay? How about you pull out?

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Speaker 3: Or do I pick a different one? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Hudson Street, Critical Mass are the new Kids?

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Speaker 1: Critical Mass? All right? Okay, go ahead, you're up well

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Speaker 1: forty five seconds on the clock, right, yes.

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Speaker 5: Yes, forty five seconds. I need the first and last name, Jacob.

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Speaker 5: These athletes have lots of children. Forty five seconds. Let's begin.

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Speaker 5: Current wide receiver for the Dolphins. Yes, this guy was

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Speaker 5: the quarterback for the Rams when they won the Super

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Speaker 5: Bowl in Saint Louis.

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Speaker 1: Kurt Warner.

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Speaker 5: Yes, this guy was the running back for those teams. Yes,

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Speaker 5: this guy is the current head coach of Michigan basketball.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Uh.

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Speaker 5: This guy was an MVP for the Angels. His son

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Speaker 5: is now in the Toronto Blue Jays.

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Speaker 1: Yes. Uh, this guy had like fourteen children. He couldn't

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Speaker 1: even remember all their names. He was a cornerback for

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Speaker 1: the Jets. Uarda Yes.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 5: This guy has the NBA record for most assists in

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Speaker 5: a game. He was also a head coach. All right,

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Speaker 5: we're better.

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Speaker 1: No, all right, all right, you didn't get by the way.

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Speaker 1: Joant Howard no longer the coach of Michigan's No, he's.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and Scott Sky the all right, here we go,

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Speaker 1: Jay forty, you picked the critical mass. These are big fatties, okay,

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Speaker 1: people out of shape? Yes, you ready, Jay, first and

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Speaker 1: last name, all right. I came to the Lakers from

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Speaker 1: the Mavericks in the trade this year, Luca don Yes,

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Speaker 1: the big Diesel he's on TNT. Was with Kobe with

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Speaker 1: the Lakers. Yes, the Bambino for the Yankees. Yesh, he

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Speaker 1: just got in the Hall of Fame African American picture

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Speaker 1: for the Yankees. Played with the Cleveland Indians as well. Yes,

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Speaker 1: fat quarterback for the Raiders out of ls. You threw

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Speaker 1: the ball really far? Didn't watch film? Yes, fat running

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Speaker 1: back for the Green Bay Packers bowling ball guy in

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Speaker 1: the two thousands. Last name is like a girl's name. Okay.

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Speaker 1: The panda for the Giants third baseman when they were

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Speaker 1: when they're winning the world panda.

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Speaker 5: That Eddie Lacy was the running back that you missed.

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Speaker 5: And Pablo Sandoval the panda.

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Speaker 1: What's the score? Sixty? All right?

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Speaker 5: So you're back up, Jay and Ben? Do you want

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Speaker 5: the new kids or Hudson Street?

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Speaker 1: Jay kid? All right? These athletes all won Rookie of

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Speaker 1: the Year. You know what that award is? Jay? Yes, sir, okay,

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Speaker 1: let's go forty five second on o'clock. We're on our

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Speaker 1: way go. Current running back for the New Orleans Saints

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Speaker 1: right now. He got in a bar fight in Vegas

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Speaker 1: at a casino. Yes, Philadelphia, Philly Starr got into it

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Speaker 1: with with the commissioner of Major League Baseball. We talked

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Speaker 1: about him. Yes, he won a championship with the Celtics,

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Speaker 1: but he came over from the Oh no, that's what incorrect.

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Speaker 1: He's currently playing for the Rockets. He starred with Golden State,

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Speaker 1: played in Oklahoma City with the Sonics star forward well

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Speaker 1: catcher for the Giants when they won the World Series

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Speaker 1: all those years ago. Yes, Japanese pitcher for the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: in the nineties started a mania with the Well no

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Speaker 1: different first name, a white guy, three point shooter for

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Speaker 1: the Mia Yeah, you got it right, that's good, he

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Speaker 1: got it. All right, we'll give you a Dale Melmo

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Speaker 1: now it counts. Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about.

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Speaker 6: So he got three of them, right, he got Bryce Harper, Alvanning.

853
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 5: That's three seventy. All right, let's let's go Jacob. We've

854
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Speaker 5: got Hudson Street. These athletes were all born in New Jersey.

855
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Speaker 5: Are you ready? Let's begin. All right, he's in the

856
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 5: star for the Angels. He's like native to the playoffs.

857
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 1: Ones. Yes, this guy is a star on the Knicks.

858
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 5: Not Jalen Brunson, the other guy down. Yes, this guy

859
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:44,879
Speaker 5: was a quarterback for the Ravens. He won a Super Bowl.

860
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: But he's not that good. No more recently. Yes, uh,

861
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:54,359
Speaker 1: this guy's a running back for the Colts. Right now.

862
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 1: He was a bonkers.

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Speaker 5: Yes, this guy was forward for the war years back

864
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 5: in the day.

865
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Speaker 1: He shot a free throw underhanded?

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Speaker 3: Is that enough?

867
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Speaker 1: Did I get it? Lorena, I count it. Loreda, she

868
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Speaker 1: always even keeping score.

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Speaker 3: What are you doing.

870
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 1: Doing one job to keep scoring? Lorena I count.

871
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Speaker 3: Then I win.

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Speaker 1: If she didn't keep scoring, I won. That's a win

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Speaker 1: for us.