1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:01,440 Speaker 1: Cutbooms. 2 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearing House 7 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 2: of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 8 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. 10 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with me, Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio, 11 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 3: who is producing this podcast, and he'll be with me 12 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 3: hopefully over the weekend for the Saturday and Sunday podcast. 13 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:47,919 Speaker 3: But happy Friday. It is day two of the Major 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 3: League Baseball season. 15 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: But you knew that already. The twenty seventh day of 16 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: the month of March. 17 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 3: The final Fifth Hour podcast here in the month of March. 18 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 3: And the thing that I always get a kick out 19 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 3: of is we spend so much time us with opening 20 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 3: Day in Major League Baseball. If you heard the Overnight Show, 21 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 3: we talked a lot of ball, a lot of baseball 22 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 3: on the Overnight Show. And today it's like, yes, it's 23 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 3: the day after, it's like the second day of school. 24 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 1: You get all worked up. 25 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:17,479 Speaker 3: I remember as a kid, my mom would Every mom 26 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 3: is pretty much the same, right, or your dad or whatever. 27 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 3: Maybe you have an uncle whoever you're with when you 28 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 3: were a kid, and they take you out shopping. You 29 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 3: got the clothes, you got the backpack, you got all 30 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 3: the crap for school back when we had backpacks. 31 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 1: I think some schools band backpacks. 32 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 3: And then you get all worked up all and I 33 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 3: never liked school, but you get all worked up for 34 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 3: the first day of school. And the first day of 35 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:40,680 Speaker 3: school is usually pretty easy. The teachers are trying to 36 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 3: get on your good side. There's not a lot of 37 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 3: work to do. And then where the rubber meets the 38 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 3: road is day two. And in Major League Baseball, I 39 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 3: know the Dodgers and Cubs played those fugazy games in Japan, 40 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 3: which Baseball sold to Japan and they made a lot 41 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 3: of money on that. But the US opener and Day 42 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 3: two and then baseball falls off a cliff. Now I'm 43 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 3: still watching. I'll watch the game today. I don't know obviously, 44 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 3: March Madness. I don't know how much of that I'm 45 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 3: gonna watch actually today because by the time I get 46 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 3: back on the regular radio show on Sunday night in 47 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 3: the Monday. The games that are played tonight, I don't 48 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 3: think are going to be really that much to talk about. 49 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 3: Now I might if something's crazy going on, I might 50 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 3: flip over. So anyway, this's day two of the baseball 51 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:34,920 Speaker 3: season today. It is also one of my favorite characters 52 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 3: in American history. 53 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:39,360 Speaker 1: It is a day for them. And you say, well, 54 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: what is that. 55 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 3: It's Barnum and Bailey Day, which is actually two people. 56 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 1: It's not one. It's not one. 57 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 3: And and that's to appreciate the day Barnum and Bailey 58 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 3: Day for Phineas Barnum and James Bailey of the Barnum 59 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 3: and Bailey circus that thrilled millions and millions of our 60 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 3: relatives back in the day and came up with one 61 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 3: of the wonderful marketing terms of all time. That marketing 62 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 3: term the Greatest Show on Earth, which has been ripped 63 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 3: off by NFL teams. 64 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:20,639 Speaker 1: Who were the Rams. 65 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 3: If you're old enough, when they had some really high 66 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 3: powered teams in Saint Louis, they called themselves the greatest 67 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 3: show on turf, which was which was pretty cool. But 68 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 3: Barnum and Bailey, the Barnum and Bailey circus which later 69 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 3: became known. When I was a kid growing up, I 70 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 3: remember coming to town it was the Ringling Brothers and 71 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 3: Barnum and Bailey Circus. They these two big circus outfits 72 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 3: combined together. But that actually went back to eighteen eighty one, 73 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 3: the Barnum and Bailey Ringling Brothers Circus eighteen eighty one, 74 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 3: and it ran for. 75 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: Over a century. In fact, it in and that's been 76 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: been a few years since. 77 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 3: It ended twenty seventeen, and they had the title they 78 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 3: were self proclaimed the greatest show on Earth, and that 79 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 3: was back back. And then the only reason they got 80 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 3: rid of that, well, there were two reasons. First was 81 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 3: sales weren't great. People's taste changed people because of social 82 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 3: media and things. Not just social media, but people were 83 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 3: not going out as much and they just weren't into it. 84 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 3: They could see any kind of animal they wanted, do 85 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 3: any kind of stupid trick they wanted, and they could 86 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 3: see clowns at a moment's notice, and their attention span 87 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 3: was pretty short, so attendance started away. And then you 88 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 3: also had these activists, these wackadoodles that were going crazy 89 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 3: about oh my hear abusing the animals. This, that and 90 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 3: the other thing, and so you can buy those two 91 00:04:53,640 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 3: things and that's it. And usually in business. I was 92 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 3: reading about this the other day, I fell down a 93 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,720 Speaker 3: rabbit hole. It actually started on. 94 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 1: AI. 95 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 3: I was on one of the search engines that uses AI, 96 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 3: and I was, I. 97 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:16,359 Speaker 1: Fell down this rabbit hole. I was like, I was. 98 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 3: It started out with second generation sports ownership, because we 99 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:23,280 Speaker 3: have a lot of that. We have we have families 100 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 3: that got into the NFL or Major League Baseball eighty 101 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 3: years ago or whatever it was, and then they just. 102 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: Keep passing the team down to generation to generation. 103 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 3: Great examples of that would be the Raiders, the Las 104 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 3: Vegas Raiders, right Mark Davis who just happened to win 105 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 3: the genetic lottery and he happens to run. 106 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,479 Speaker 1: The Raiders, even though he has no business running the Raiders. 107 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 3: But his father Al actually had some some perseverance and 108 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,479 Speaker 3: some gusto and made something for himself. And then Mark 109 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 3: Davis just got to ride the gravy train. Same thing 110 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:59,280 Speaker 3: about the Steinrenner family in New York. And you know 111 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 3: there's a bunch of teams Genie Buss with the Lakers, 112 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 3: people that are in the right position because of genetics, 113 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 3: not necessarily anything that they did. 114 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:12,280 Speaker 1: So I fell down this rabbit hole. 115 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 3: And most businesses do not make it to the third generation. 116 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 1: Second. 117 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, but normally in sports are a little different because 118 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 3: it's a fool proof business. It's a fool proof business. 119 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 3: You're guaranteed to make money. Now you're not gonna make 120 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:31,720 Speaker 3: as much. 121 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 1: Men. 122 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:34,920 Speaker 3: I got a call a couple of nights ago from 123 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:40,039 Speaker 3: a guy in Cleveland who was ranting and raving about 124 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 3: another caller. 125 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 1: You know, this being the first week of baseball. 126 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,919 Speaker 3: Yeah, was going on and on, ranting and raving about 127 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:51,159 Speaker 3: the salary structure and it's not fair, you know, this 128 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 3: whole thing. 129 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: Going on and on and on and on and on. 130 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 3: And he annoyed me because I thought a lot of 131 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 3: what he was saying was just talking points from teams 132 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 3: that don't want to spend a. 133 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: Lot of money. 134 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 3: But if you own a professional sports team, you're making money. 135 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 1: Now you might not be making a lot of money. 136 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 3: And I've heard from people that work in the business 137 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 3: who have told me they make projections. Every business makes projections. 138 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 3: We're going to sell this many cans a soup now. Obviously, 139 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 3: it's a lot different when you run a professional sports team. 140 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 3: There's a lot of hidden costs. There's also a lot 141 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 3: of hidden revenue that you can make. And if you 142 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 3: say your team X and you're projecting, you're going to 143 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 3: make and we do last year as an example, because 144 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 3: this year's who knows. But in twenty twenty four, at 145 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 3: the end of twenty twenty three, going into twenty twenty four, 146 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 3: you did the books and you looked at everything. You 147 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 3: had your spreadsheet out, and you said, listen, if we 148 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 3: take the TV revenue, the national money, the merchandise opportunities, 149 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 3: and we put all of these things together, we are 150 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 3: going to make profit. Once we give out all the expenses, 151 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 3: we're going to be sitting on a pile of ten 152 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 3: million ten million in profit, which. 153 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: Is not that much. That's not that much. 154 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 3: So then they play out the twenty twenty four season 155 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:22,239 Speaker 3: and a few things go wrong and you only make 156 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 3: a profit of six million dollars. You then announced that 157 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 3: you lost four million dollars, that you're in. 158 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: The red for the year twenty twenty four. 159 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 3: When you actually made money, you just didn't make enough 160 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 3: gemstones because you thought you were going to make more 161 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 3: gemstones and you didn't. And so therefore you say well, 162 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 3: we were supposed to. I looked at the spreadsheet and 163 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 3: I crunched the numbers and I used the math, and 164 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 3: the math ain't mathing. And we were supposed to make 165 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 3: this amount of money. 166 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: We did not. 167 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 3: And so there you go. So again, boy, I went 168 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 3: way off, way off the reservation. But Wringling Brothers, Arnham 169 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 3: and Bailey circus lasted from eighteen eighty one all the way. 170 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 1: To twenty seventeen. Amazing. 171 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:12,679 Speaker 3: Now, the modern circus began in the seventeen hundreds in England. 172 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 3: A guy named Philip Astley is the first person to 173 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 3: create a one stop show. And the original circus in 174 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:26,439 Speaker 3: England had horseback riding or tricks. 175 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 1: Rather that riding. You watch people write horses anywhere. 176 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:33,679 Speaker 3: The automobile was not a thing in the seventeen hundreds, 177 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 3: but they had horse riding tricks, so like some dude 178 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 3: on a horse juggling. 179 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: They had acrobats, clowns and other entertainment. And so that 180 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:49,199 Speaker 1: was back in the seventeen hundreds and then P. T. 181 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:54,320 Speaker 3: Barnum and Bailey got together and the circus started. 182 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 1: The US version of the circus. The PD. 183 00:09:56,920 --> 00:10:00,080 Speaker 3: Barnum was the first ever freak show and that that 184 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:04,959 Speaker 3: is a wild story. P. T. Barnum figuring out that 185 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 3: people would pay good money to watch things that were different, 186 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 3: things that were different and whatnot. 187 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: But P. T. 188 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 3: Barnum he partnered with William Cameron Coop after he retired. 189 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 1: After his retirement and the P. T. Barnum Museum. 190 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 3: Menageree and circus, and that was where they came up 191 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 3: with the marketing term the greatest show on turf, and 192 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 3: so a major tip of the cap. And that actually 193 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 3: leads us to the word of the week. That's right, 194 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 3: the word of the week. We'll do it earlier this week, 195 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 3: on this Friday. So the word of the week is 196 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 3: circus in honor of P. T. Barnum and the Barnum 197 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:55,680 Speaker 3: and Bailey circus and all of that in the Hippodrome. 198 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 1: But the word of the week is, as we said, circus. 199 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 3: The word circus, if you go way back in the 200 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 3: hot tip time machine, the roots of the word circus, 201 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:11,079 Speaker 3: it's Latin and Old English mixed together, but it comes 202 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 3: from the Latin word of circus, which means circle or ring. 203 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 3: But in ancient Rome, the term circus cir cus it 204 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 3: referred to a large open air venue used for public events. Now, 205 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 3: back in ancient Rome they had chariot races and gladiators 206 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:37,400 Speaker 3: in combat. 207 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 1: Who were slaves, by the way, gl ideas were. 208 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 3: Slaves, and they also had the circus maximus, and so 209 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:50,440 Speaker 3: those those venues in ancient Rome were typically circular oval. 210 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 3: Thus the origin of the word. Now we move ahead 211 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 3: in this Word of the week word circus. So by 212 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 3: the late fourteenth century the term entered what was English, 213 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:10,559 Speaker 3: but now we call it Old English, and it evolved 214 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 3: from the fourteenth century further on in the late eighteenth century, 215 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 3: the modern concept of what you and I call a circus, right, 216 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:26,439 Speaker 3: it is a circus in that modern version of circus, 217 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 3: which features the clowns, the acrobats and the animals, all 218 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 3: of that. That was pioneered by someone named Philip Astley 219 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 3: in England. Now most people don't know who that is 220 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 3: because he's not as famous as P. T. 221 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 1: Barnum and the Barnum and Bailey circus and all that. 222 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 3: But Philip Astley in that period in England was the 223 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 3: first one to use that term in relation to what 224 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 3: is still known as what we think of as a circus. Right, 225 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 3: and so this usage hating the idea that the circular performances. 226 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:03,439 Speaker 3: Remember that you go to you used to go to 227 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 3: the circus. You had round tents or rings and under 228 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 3: the big top and all that. 229 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:10,679 Speaker 1: So there you go. 230 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 3: The word of the week. The word of the week 231 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 3: is circus. I know, so exciting, all right, So turning 232 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 3: the page from the word of the week, we go, 233 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 3: I want to go back to baseball. 234 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 1: And I didn't mention this. 235 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 3: I did the Bennies Baseball Bonanza, the big opening Day 236 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:35,320 Speaker 3: show the other night, did a monologue about baseball and 237 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 3: the storylines of baseball. One thing I did not get 238 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 3: into that I wanted to do here on the pod 239 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 3: is the exotic player prop bets. Now I love these, 240 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:48,559 Speaker 3: absolutely love them. And the twenty twenty five season is 241 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 3: now underway. We're off to the races and you can 242 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 3: bet the normal thing. You should not gamble. You should 243 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 3: not gamble if you can't control yourself, right, it's obvious, 244 00:13:58,960 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 3: right A lot. 245 00:13:59,280 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 1: Of people can't. 246 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 3: Many of us can, and like anything everything within moderation, 247 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 3: even moderation. But in honor of the start of the 248 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:10,559 Speaker 3: baseball season on this State two today, I thought we'd 249 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 3: look at some of the more interesting exotic player prop bets. 250 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 3: And again not your normal over under or strikeouts or 251 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 3: any of that stuff. So we'll start with the face 252 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 3: of Major League Baseball show, Hey Otani, So Otani the 253 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 3: one prop bet. There's a bunch of Otani prop bets, 254 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 3: because you gotta get that money. You gotta get that money. 255 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 3: The one that I'm gonna use for this is will 256 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 3: Otani hit forty or more home runs and pitch enough 257 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 3: to win ten or more games? 258 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 1: So that is the question. 259 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 3: Now Otani, keep in mind, is not even yet in 260 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 3: the Dodger pitching staff. 261 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: He's he's coming back. Their slow rolling him. 262 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 3: He's I think I read the other day Otani's they 263 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 3: think you'll pitch maybe sometime in May. 264 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 1: I believe. I mean they're going very slow, very slow. 265 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 3: I might be wrong on that, but I think I 266 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 3: read that somewhere anyway, shoe A Otani will he had 267 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 3: forty or more home runs and pitch ten or more 268 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 3: wins this year. 269 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 1: So I would go know on this. I would go 270 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 1: know on this because you have and I don't know 271 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: if you can bet No. 272 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 3: All right, Otani is supposed to be pitching, but he 273 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 3: had major elbow surgery. That is his second major elbow surgery. 274 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 3: You combine that with the fact that he's likely going 275 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 3: to pitch maybe once every five every six days, and 276 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:44,760 Speaker 3: he'll skip some starts, so he's not going to get 277 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 3: that many starts. 278 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 1: And when he does pitch, is he going to go 279 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: five six? Now? Is he gonna get enough innings to 280 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 1: get wins? Now? 281 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 3: The offensive number, I think it would be surprising assuming 282 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 3: all these things, Assuming hell, forty home runs. Absolutely, he's 283 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 3: already got, you know, he's already got a good start 284 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 3: to that. So he is projected to hit the odds estimate, 285 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:16,280 Speaker 3: he is projected to hit about forty plus home runs. 286 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 3: The thing that's the wild card is the ten wins, right, 287 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 3: because not only do you have to pitch enough, you 288 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 3: got to be healthy. 289 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 1: Obviously with all this stuff. 290 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 3: But Otani's coming off a fifty to fifty season with 291 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 3: fifty four home runs and fifty nine stolen bases, and 292 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 3: he's a much better, much better offensive player. Obviously, an 293 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 3: MVP level offensive player is a generational offensive player. 294 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 1: He is not a generational pitcher. 295 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 3: The reason that Otani is so especially he's not terrible, 296 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 3: but it's. 297 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 1: The uniqueness of it. Like there have been. 298 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 3: Players who have futched around with pitching and hitting, and 299 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 3: they're usually really bad at one and okay at the other. 300 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:04,520 Speaker 3: Otani is elite. He's omni present when it comes to 301 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:09,720 Speaker 3: hitting the baseball, but pitching, based on what I saw 302 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 3: in Anaheim, he was, Okay, there'll be some good starts, 303 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 3: and there'd be a lot of crappy starts. But the 304 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 3: fact that he's just doing it at all, it's like, Wow, 305 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 3: that's like really cool. 306 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:21,679 Speaker 1: All right. 307 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:24,239 Speaker 3: Some of the other exotic props for baseball this year, 308 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 3: how about Elie Dela Cruz, another dynamo for the Cincinnati Reds, 309 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 3: Elie Dela Cruz, who's now got a real manager in 310 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,880 Speaker 3: Terry Francona. I would keep an eye on the Reds now. 311 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,960 Speaker 3: They don't have enough if you look at a depth 312 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:45,640 Speaker 3: chart pitching wise. But Terry Francona, and I didn't think 313 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:48,239 Speaker 3: much of him when he was in Philadelphia and the 314 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 3: Red Sox had loaded teams when he managed there, they 315 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:55,880 Speaker 3: with Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz, so I thought, well, 316 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:59,159 Speaker 3: he's all right, but really they've got tremendous talent. But 317 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 3: the crafting of Terry Francona managing a team, I thought 318 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 3: in Cleveland. They used to be just called a team 319 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:10,680 Speaker 3: called the Indians, and to me, that was where Terry 320 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:18,119 Speaker 3: Francona just crafted these amazing teams that overachieved. Now, some 321 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:18,680 Speaker 3: of that was. 322 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,280 Speaker 1: The division and there weren't that many good teams in 323 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:21,679 Speaker 1: the division. 324 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 3: But I thought that the Cleveland Indians and now they're 325 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 3: the Guardians with Francona, overachieved. They in and underachieved. They 326 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:33,000 Speaker 3: overachieved based on what they I thought the talent level was, 327 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,200 Speaker 3: and they were able to play off the radar. There 328 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:39,920 Speaker 3: wasn't a lot of hype about their young players, and they. 329 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:40,400 Speaker 1: Pulled it off. 330 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:42,840 Speaker 3: And Francona played it off and pulled it off, and 331 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:46,439 Speaker 3: so now he's in Cincinnati anyway, So this is not 332 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 3: about Terry Francona, but La did and the Cruz. The 333 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:51,159 Speaker 3: prop bet is will he lead Major League Baseball in 334 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 3: stolen bases and triples? So leading the league in two 335 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:02,679 Speaker 3: categories that involved speed is this is not that easy, 336 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:06,280 Speaker 3: my friend. Now, last season Dela Cruz led major League baseball. 337 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 3: He had sixty seven sixty seven stolen bases and he 338 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 3: had ten triples. That was tied for second. But keep 339 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 3: in my playing in Cincinnati. That is a band box. 340 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:28,119 Speaker 3: It's not a great Triples ballpark. You're more likely to 341 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:31,640 Speaker 3: hit a home run than have the ball bounce off 342 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:35,040 Speaker 3: the wall at the Great America Ballpark, which I think 343 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:39,879 Speaker 3: it's still called, and then roll around. In order to 344 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:44,400 Speaker 3: get that amount of triples, like where you're leading baseball, 345 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 3: there has to be like weird bounces and yeah, yeah, 346 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:50,359 Speaker 3: it's like trick shot. 347 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:53,639 Speaker 1: It's like your trick shot artist when you're doing that. 348 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 3: And anyway, so I would I would say, yeah, stolen 349 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:00,640 Speaker 3: bases if you just bet that your eye the triples 350 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:04,400 Speaker 3: is like total toss up right, You're just you're grabbing 351 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 3: out of thin air. Another prop bet for the Pittsburgh Pirates. 352 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:13,120 Speaker 3: It's Paul Skeens and pray for Raid, this phenom who 353 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:15,119 Speaker 3: will be in Pittsburgh for a couple more years and 354 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 3: then play for the Yankees or the Dodgers and the 355 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:24,120 Speaker 3: Red Sox or wherever he's from. Southern California. Actually Paul Skeins. 356 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:27,440 Speaker 3: Fun fact, fun fact about Paul Skeins. He grew up 357 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 3: not that far away from where I grew up in 358 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:36,480 Speaker 3: Orange County. In fact, he went to Eltoral High School 359 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,920 Speaker 3: in Orange County. And when I was in high school, 360 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 3: we played against his obviously like a. 361 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 1: Million I'm a dinosaur compared. 362 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,160 Speaker 3: To him, but we played against the high school where 363 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:50,959 Speaker 3: he went, and so he does have ties to southern California. 364 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 3: But Paul Skeins pretty straightforward this exotic prop bet for 365 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:55,359 Speaker 3: the baseball season. 366 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:59,640 Speaker 1: Will he throw a no hitter? Will Paul Skeins throw 367 00:20:59,680 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: no hitter? 368 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 3: So on this one, the odds are plus twenty five hundred, 369 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 3: and much like leading the league in triples, it's impossible. 370 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:20,119 Speaker 3: I don't care what kind of algorithm you have. You 371 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:24,439 Speaker 3: can't just type it into some deep search engines said, well, 372 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 3: that's going to be the answer. No, because no hitters 373 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 3: are endangered species. They are a throwback to an era 374 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:41,439 Speaker 3: when pictures had hair on their chest and the world 375 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 3: was not run by cowards, and pitchers could stay in 376 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:47,440 Speaker 3: games and you were actually shamed. It's one of these 377 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 3: things that's changed in my lifetime. There was a time 378 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,119 Speaker 3: when you were shamed if you came out of a 379 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:57,719 Speaker 3: game early, and then at some point in the last 380 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 3: about fifteen years or so, it changed and now, well, 381 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:04,840 Speaker 3: you're really letting the team down if you go too 382 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 3: far into the game because you got to save those 383 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 3: bullets for. 384 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 1: Later in the year. 385 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 3: Now, my favorite example of that is a couple of 386 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 3: years ago, Clayton Kershaw was pitching a perfect game, not 387 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 3: a no hitter, not a no hitter, a perfect game 388 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:19,600 Speaker 3: against the Minnesota Twins. It was like it was like 389 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 3: April or May. It was early in the year. Kershaw 390 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 3: was dealing and they took him out of the game. 391 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 3: Dave Roberts took him out. They had a perfect game. 392 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 3: And the argument the Dodgers made was they had to 393 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,120 Speaker 3: save Kershaw because they're not worried about a perfect game. 394 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 3: They had to save him for the playoffs. And I 395 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 3: believe if I'm right, and I know if I'm wrong, 396 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:46,159 Speaker 3: you'll correct me. 397 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:47,879 Speaker 1: You'll send me a nast email. 398 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 3: You said that on the podcast, and you were right, 399 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 3: and I don't like that you were wrong, and I 400 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:53,440 Speaker 3: got to correct it. 401 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 1: Anyway. 402 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 3: So I think that was the year that Kershall went 403 00:22:56,080 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 3: out in the playoffs against the Diamondbacks and he did 404 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 3: pitch and he vomited all over the mountain. He was 405 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,160 Speaker 3: in the vomit comet in that first start. I'm pretty 406 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,359 Speaker 3: sure that was it. So but anyway, get back to 407 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 3: Paul Skins, so will he throw a no hitter? No 408 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 3: hitters are again, like it's like seeing if you're in 409 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 3: California seeing a bald eagle. Now, I know on the 410 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 3: East Coast, I've seen some bald eagles out and about, 411 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:29,159 Speaker 3: but very rare. In California you will see a bald eagle. 412 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: Okay. Anyway, last season, you know how many no hitters 413 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:34,880 Speaker 1: there were? 414 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:40,200 Speaker 3: You got a number? How about three? In all of baseball? 415 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:41,440 Speaker 3: Three happened. 416 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:42,640 Speaker 1: I'm surprised there were that many. 417 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 3: Now Paul Skins is electric, all right, this guy is bananas. 418 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:51,719 Speaker 1: He was the an L Rookie of the Year, had 419 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,439 Speaker 1: an ERA under two. Keep in mind, though, for a 420 00:23:55,480 --> 00:24:00,159 Speaker 1: no hitter, you actually have to have help. What are 421 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 1: you talking about? If they make an error, then that's 422 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:04,679 Speaker 1: not you know, that doesn't count as hit. Well, I 423 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:06,640 Speaker 1: understand that. Okay. 424 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 3: The issue though, is if it's a fifty to fifty 425 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:14,439 Speaker 3: defensive play, they might give it as a hit or 426 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 3: they might give it as an error. But if they 427 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:18,680 Speaker 3: give it as a hit, there goes you're no hitter. 428 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 3: But is Paul Skins capable throwing? You know, yeah, one 429 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 3: hundred miles an hour. He's got this killer slider that 430 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:31,200 Speaker 3: falls off the plate and all that. But I wouldn't 431 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,320 Speaker 3: bet on that because of the fact that he's likely 432 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 3: not going to pitch that deep into games and he's 433 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 3: playing for a suck bag Pittsburgh Pirates team. 434 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 1: He's just terrible all right. Now. 435 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 3: Meanwhile, how about the Royals. Now, I was getting messages 436 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,920 Speaker 3: from my guys in Kansas City. My friend Bob Fesco 437 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 3: was at the Royals opening game yesterday and some of 438 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:54,360 Speaker 3: my other friends in Kansas City. 439 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:55,960 Speaker 1: They were like, well, wish you were here. 440 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,960 Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, By the way, my friend Bob 441 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 3: Fesco has a awesome powder blue nineteen eighties Kansas City 442 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:09,440 Speaker 3: Royals jersey, which I want. I'm not even a Royals fan, 443 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 3: but that is a smooth, smooth looking jersey. 444 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 1: Really nice, really nice. 445 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:19,200 Speaker 3: Anyway, get back to the exotic prop bets. Bobby Witt 446 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:24,639 Speaker 3: Junior will he hit three hundred and steal forty or 447 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:32,960 Speaker 3: more bases this season for Cans City, So I'm actually 448 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:33,879 Speaker 3: gonna go yes on this. 449 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:35,880 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go yes. And here's why. 450 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,359 Speaker 3: He hit three point thirty two last season, had thirty 451 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 3: one steals, so he's got a lot of wiggle room, 452 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,400 Speaker 3: a lot of wiggle room with the batting average. Even 453 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 3: if he goes down twenty points, he bats three ten 454 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:52,359 Speaker 3: or three twelve or whatever. 455 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,320 Speaker 1: That's fine and the steals. 456 00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 3: The thing you worry about is if he's out for 457 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 3: a couple of weeks because of injury, or even if 458 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,680 Speaker 3: he plays. But let's say he tweaks something Bobby Witt Jr. 459 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 3: And he stays in the lineup, Well, the Royals are 460 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,640 Speaker 3: not gonna run him. But this is what I would 461 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:18,200 Speaker 3: actually bet yes on this because the three hundred average, 462 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:23,400 Speaker 3: I believe is a guarantee this guy's elite the steals. 463 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,920 Speaker 3: It'll come down to the final couple weeks of the season. 464 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 3: The Royals are one of those fringe teams. Do they 465 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 3: make the playoffs? 466 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,959 Speaker 1: Again? Do they not? But I would bet yes on that. 467 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 3: Well, Aaron Judge hit a five hundred foot home run 468 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:40,720 Speaker 3: or the New York Yankees that old Captain El Capitan. 469 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:47,200 Speaker 3: So Aaron Judge is one of the largest human beings 470 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,880 Speaker 3: ever on a baseball field, and it's it's such. 471 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:51,359 Speaker 1: A crazy thing. 472 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,360 Speaker 3: I've seen Judge play in person a few times when 473 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 3: the Yankees and Dodgers have played in LA and Most 474 00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 3: baseball players are petit there. They're not big dudes. And 475 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 3: Aaron Judge is like a monster. He's the snowman. He's 476 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:14,119 Speaker 3: a sasquatch compared to these other mere mortals. Now that 477 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:18,960 Speaker 3: being said, if you look at Judge last season, his 478 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:22,120 Speaker 3: longest home run was four hundred. 479 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,119 Speaker 1: And seventy three feet. 480 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 3: So the last time someone hit a five hundred foot 481 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:33,560 Speaker 3: home run, do you know what it was? It was 482 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:38,400 Speaker 3: Gean Carlos Stanton, who's hurt right now for the Yankees, 483 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:42,399 Speaker 3: and that was years ago when he was in his 484 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:47,159 Speaker 3: prime for the Marlins. I think they were called the 485 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 3: Florida Marlins then before. 486 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 1: They became the Miami Monas. 487 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 3: But John Carlos Stanton is the last one to do 488 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 3: it in baseball. And the other issue, when you look 489 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,640 Speaker 3: at Yankee Stadium, you don't have to hit the ball 490 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 3: five one. It's like williamsport Pa. There at Yankee Stadium. 491 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:08,119 Speaker 3: You can just tap the baseball and it'll go in 492 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,439 Speaker 3: that short porch and you're just licking your chops. 493 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,880 Speaker 1: You're like, oh man, that's awesome. Anyway. All right, Moving 494 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:15,439 Speaker 1: on from. 495 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 3: That, Roiki Sazaki, the next great Dodger phenom who made 496 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:26,440 Speaker 3: his debut in Japan last week. There's a prop bet 497 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 3: will Roki Sazaki strikeout fifteen or more batters in a game? 498 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 3: The latest addition from Japan. And again, I think those 499 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 3: of you that reached out to me, I complained on 500 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 3: this podcast. 501 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 1: That the Dodgers. 502 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 3: After thirty years of covering the Dodgers, the last two 503 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 3: years I have been denied from daily access to the 504 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 3: Dodgers because of the Japanese media that is covering Otani 505 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 3: and I do appreciate it, and I am considering your offers. 506 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 1: My favorite offer was that. 507 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 3: I should quit the overnight show and work for Radio 508 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:07,480 Speaker 3: Tokyo or something like that. I get a job for 509 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 3: a radio station in Tokyo, the Dodgers will give me 510 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,200 Speaker 3: the access that I had. The fact that I worked 511 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 3: for their own station and whatnot is not good enough. 512 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 1: It is not. 513 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:20,760 Speaker 3: But anyway, as far as this prop is concerned, roy 514 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:25,160 Speaker 3: Ki Sazaki willie strikeout fifteen over batters in a game. Now, 515 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 3: he debuted in in Japan and has a really it's 516 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 3: like a gimmick pitch. They say it's a splitter, but 517 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 3: some of the baseball nerds sits more than that. There's 518 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 3: something else going on, and he throws consistently over one hundred. 519 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 1: Miles an hour. 520 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 3: In Japan a couple of years ago, he had nineteen 521 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 3: nineteen strikeouts in a perfect game in Japan. So that's 522 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,720 Speaker 3: pretty good. But here's the problem, the math on this, 523 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 3: the malor math. Last season. Last season he all of baseball, 524 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:07,480 Speaker 3: all baseball, we had eight pitchers that struck out fifteen 525 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 3: or more batters. So again, he's untested, and there's a 526 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 3: learning curve. 527 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:14,240 Speaker 2: Now. 528 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 3: Some guys get off to a good start and then 529 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 3: the league catches up to them. So I would bet 530 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,160 Speaker 3: no on this. If you're able to a lot of 531 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 3: these prop bets, you can't bet know. You just can't 532 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:28,120 Speaker 3: do it because most people would bet know and they'd win, 533 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,000 Speaker 3: and so you can only bet yes. And that's that anyway. 534 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:32,760 Speaker 3: All right, that's enough of that. We also have some 535 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 3: time for some food. He fun, holl ry for food, 536 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 3: he fun. Try to help you guys out. You boys, 537 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 3: I know, working your ass off. You don't want to 538 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,000 Speaker 3: sit home and cook when you're done. You're not like 539 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 3: my fat ass, where I have nothing but time. I 540 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 3: do a four hour show a day. So anyway, all right, 541 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 3: little Caesars now I'm bringing this. I've not eaten Little 542 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,360 Speaker 3: Caesars in years pizza pizza, but they have two items 543 00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:58,200 Speaker 3: that caught my attention. 544 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 1: Little Caesar's introduced. 545 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 3: A five ninety nine large two topping pizza deal. Now 546 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,719 Speaker 3: that is available, of course, always only on the app, 547 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 3: only on the app till April sixth, so you have 548 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 3: a little time on that. 549 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,959 Speaker 1: That's that's a pretty good deal, large two topping pizza 550 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:15,880 Speaker 1: five ninety nine. 551 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,600 Speaker 3: You also have, now this got my attention more, the 552 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:26,960 Speaker 3: all new stuffed pizza with pretzel crust. Yeah, that's the 553 00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 3: petzel pretzel crust pizza. 554 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 1: And I saw a photo. This actually looks pretty good. 555 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,840 Speaker 3: It's available for a limited time now. It starts March 556 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:38,760 Speaker 3: thirty first, so we still have to get through the weekend. 557 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 3: Starts next week, nationwide availability in store and online, and 558 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:47,560 Speaker 3: it'll go. 559 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,640 Speaker 1: I guess it. It says it starts March thirty first. 560 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,160 Speaker 3: But then there's another note on this this story that 561 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:56,680 Speaker 3: I have that says April seventh to June twenty second, 562 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:01,200 Speaker 3: that'll be that'll be going on. There's there's also a 563 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 3: story about who's got the greatest burger? And there was 564 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 3: a recent survey that was done from Delish, and shockingly 565 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:17,200 Speaker 3: it said, in and out, in and out, that's what 566 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 3: a Hamburger is all about. The greatest fast food burger. Yes, absolutely, 567 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 3: and it's good. 568 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:29,720 Speaker 1: You know it's good. 569 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 3: I've had I've had some. I like five guys. I 570 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 3: used to be able to afford five guys, but they 571 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:34,960 Speaker 3: priced me out. 572 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,520 Speaker 1: I can't. I can't afford that. What else do we have? Subway? 573 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:40,720 Speaker 1: Are people still eating at Subway? 574 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:44,760 Speaker 3: Subway has debuted a new Hot Honey Pepperoni and Hot 575 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,920 Speaker 3: Honey Chicken sandwiches featuring their all new. 576 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:48,840 Speaker 1: Hot Honey sauce. 577 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:54,800 Speaker 3: Okay, bo Jangles Solid chicken fingers at bo Jangles underrated. 578 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,880 Speaker 3: When I go to the South, I go bo Jangles. 579 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,600 Speaker 3: Bo Jangles really a new item strawberry cobbler. 580 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:05,720 Speaker 1: I'm good on that. I don't think I need that. 581 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 1: I'm all right. 582 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:12,120 Speaker 3: Pizza Hut has introduced the Cheesy Bites pizza, which I'm 583 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:16,560 Speaker 3: in on until they added the Ranch Lover's Flight, which 584 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,360 Speaker 3: is different. I don't want anything to do with that 585 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,760 Speaker 3: at all. All right, we'll get out on that note. 586 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,080 Speaker 3: Danny should join me at some point this weekend. 587 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,880 Speaker 1: Hopefully he'll be with me. Tomorrow, enjoy your. 588 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:34,160 Speaker 3: Day two of the baseball season US style, and also 589 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:38,080 Speaker 3: watch I will check out the college basketball. I'll watch 590 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,080 Speaker 3: some of that stuff. Have a wonderful rest here Friday. 591 00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:44,000 Speaker 3: Thank you for supporting the radio show, the podcast, all 592 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,920 Speaker 3: this crap, and we'll catch you next time. 593 00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:48,760 Speaker 1: Got a murder. I gotta go,