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Speaker 3: So the load management is not over.

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Speaker 1: But the guys, the NBA decided to play basketball again

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Speaker 1: and they had some nationally televised games. The New York Knicks,

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Speaker 1: the softy Knicks, got beaten by the Pistons, who have

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Speaker 1: the top record in the NBA.

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Speaker 3: The Detroit Pistons have the top record in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: There was that in the great effort by the Golden

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Speaker 1: State Warriors there just tremendous. Got their ass handed to

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Speaker 1: them by the Boston Celtics in one of the other

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Speaker 1: featured games. And the People's team, the Clippers getting her done,

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Speaker 1: get her done with trading away two of their key players.

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Speaker 3: No matter how.

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Speaker 1: About the Nuggets. It's embarrassing. It's embarrassing for the Denver Nuggets,

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Speaker 1: but we're not going to talk about that. The story

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Speaker 1: here continues to be about things other than the actual

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Speaker 1: games themselves.

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Speaker 3: So our lead this hot.

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Speaker 1: We're going to go to the Valley of the Sun

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Speaker 1: indirectly some spicy words and we love spicy words from

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Speaker 1: the oligarch of the cat guy. Yes, if you didn't

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Speaker 1: see this, perhaps you missed it. So Matt Ishbia, you

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Speaker 1: might not know who that is. He's just a random

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Speaker 1: rich dude who bought her basketball team. He owns the Suns.

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Speaker 1: It's Matt with one T. I guess the family could

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Speaker 1: not afford the other te so Matt Ishpia sounding off

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Speaker 1: on social media over the long standing issue has been

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Speaker 1: going on for a while, but it's been in the.

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Speaker 3: Spot like the last couple of weeks here that they.

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Speaker 1: Finally realized they have a problem the NBA that half

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Speaker 1: the teams in their business are not trying to win games.

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Speaker 1: And you had people come out and endorse this and

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Speaker 1: also anyway, matt Isshbia, get to the point, please all right.

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Speaker 1: So to get to the point, Matt Ashbia, the Sun's

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Speaker 1: owner there called the idea of tanking.

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Speaker 3: The losing behavior done by.

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Speaker 1: Losers is what he said, and he's also went on

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Speaker 1: to say it's much worse than any prop bet scandal, which, oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, the NBA's got that going too. So

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Speaker 1: it's they're talking about spinning plates here. I got a

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Speaker 1: lot going on, So it's good jumping off point. Let

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Speaker 1: us discuss. Let's start with the first part of that

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Speaker 1: and then we'll work our way through it. So the

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Speaker 1: question for the panel, and you're part of that, you're

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Speaker 1: part of the panel, how did you react to the

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Speaker 1: Sun's owner was an NBA team here matt Isshbia saying

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Speaker 1: that NBA tanking is losing behavior done by losers. So

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Speaker 1: I've got trojan antibiotic resistant and forty seven page manual,

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Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and we're.

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Speaker 3: Gonna literally jump through hoops. We're gonna do the hula

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Speaker 3: hoop is what we're gonna do. So A I gotta

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Speaker 3: tell you, all right, Sometimes you tack here and you're like, okay,

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Speaker 3: I'll talk about that. This I'm interested in. If I

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Speaker 3: were to pick an emoji for this, I would pick

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Speaker 3: the heart emoji. I loved it. I loved it. I

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Speaker 3: loved it. I need that pumping in my veins.

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Speaker 1: I love rich Guy on rich Guy crime right, owner

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Speaker 1: and owner crime so good. Mattishbia, the Son's owner there

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Speaker 1: at some point he's gonna have to face all these

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Speaker 1: other owners.

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Speaker 3: Of course, they don't call him owners because Draymond Green got.

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Speaker 1: Upset, so they have to call him Governor's which is

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Speaker 1: the dumbest thing you could possibly do it.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, Mattishbia is gonna walk in with the other owners.

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Speaker 3: I said it. Oh my god, you said it. You

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Speaker 3: call them owners, Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, Ishbi is gonna walk into the NBA cartel, that

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Speaker 3: We're all the rich oligarchs get together, and after he just.

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Speaker 1: Ripped half of the League of Professional Bouncy Ball, calling

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Speaker 1: them essentially bumps, eurobum, eurobum eurobum, calling out teams like

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Speaker 1: the Pacers, the Kings, the Jazz, the Wizards, all dead wood,

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Speaker 1: the guy that owned the Mavericks, loved the Mavericks, identified

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Speaker 1: pretends like he owns the team and he's the guy

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Speaker 1: that wanted the NBA to embrace the tank. He wants

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Speaker 3: Well it should be.

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Speaker 1: The Suns owner said hell no, and good for him, right.

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Speaker 1: And the whole tank thing is like it's putting a

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Speaker 1: raccoon in the pantry and having the raccoon just toss

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Speaker 1: the food around. If you tank to get the number

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Speaker 1: one pick overall in the draft, the draft becomes a

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Speaker 1: trojan horse, is what it becomes, because you're not most

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, no, not the case. Right, So it's

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Speaker 1: a trojan horse to the soul of the game is

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Speaker 1: what it is, It truly is, and it's it's malware.

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Speaker 1: It's software that looks useful but rots the hard drive

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Speaker 1: is what it is. And the NBA is dealing with

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Speaker 1: that right now. And by the way, Matt Ishbia is

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Speaker 1: a man of his word. He's not just talking to talk,

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Speaker 1: he's walking the walk. The Sun's dumped control of every

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Speaker 3: It seems like it's far away, but if you look

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Speaker 3: at the calendar, like six years away, it's not that

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Speaker 1: He's living the F them picks, F them picks, F

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Speaker 3: You don't this gonna blow you away.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to suck to put a competitive team

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Speaker 3: Oh you do know what you're talking about. That's what

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Speaker 3: you're doing overnights. Oh my god, shut up, you lose there.

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Speaker 1: There's more than one way to peel an orange. This

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Speaker 1: is gonna really shock you, and I hope you're okay.

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Speaker 1: You know, there is a way where you can actually

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Speaker 3: You can find hidden gems. Oh no, you can't, what's

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Speaker 3: wrong with you? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You can actually use some old fashioned coaching. There's this

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Speaker 3: It's ridiculous. I need the ping pong ball. No, you

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Speaker 3: don't need. No.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: And so we are on the cancel the draft train.

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Speaker 1: We are on that train right now. I don't think

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Speaker 3: That is the doomsday scenario. Now riding the narrative wave

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Speaker 3: that we're already on right now and.

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Speaker 1: Turning to page two, So parsing the words, we'd like

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Speaker 1: Sun's Owner the question thumbs up or thumbs down, Thumbs up,

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Speaker 1: thumbs down on the Son's owner Matt Ashbia and his

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Speaker 1: claim that tanking is much worse than the NBA's prop

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Speaker 1: bet scandal. So I'm gonna go thumbs up on this.

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Speaker 1: I agree with him on this two. We're two for two.

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Speaker 1: Good take, good take day by the Sun's owner. We're

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Speaker 3: Now, if you had to pick one of these, knife

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Speaker 3: gonna ride with Matt Ashbia on this one, and the

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Speaker 3: rest of you are stuck in the slow lane and

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Speaker 3: I'm riding in the fast. And then here's why. Let

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Speaker 3: me tell you why.

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Speaker 1: Because on one side, yeah, there's no way that predicting,

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Speaker 1: not predicting, fixing these prop bets is good. Right, You've

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Speaker 1: got mobsters involved, You've got point shaving goblins and the

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Speaker 1: shadows and all that. That's bad to the bone, bad,

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Speaker 1: bad to the bone. However, when you use the Malard microscope,

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Speaker 1: you get the Malard microscope out the prop fix on

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Speaker 1: or whatever that might be. That is what's called a

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Speaker 1: contained outbreak. It's like a controlled burn. It's control burn now,

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Speaker 1: it contained outbreak. It only bleeds the bookies and the

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Speaker 1: degenerates that are betting a lot of money on props. Right,

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Speaker 1: that's a small percentage of those that consume the product.

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Speaker 3: Tanking, though, is not just an eyesore. It's not just

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Speaker 1: It is an antibiotic resistant staff infection, is what it is.

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Speaker 1: It's a staff infection that can kill you. It damages

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Speaker 1: every single person that buys a ticket. It kills your

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Speaker 1: TV audience. Nobody wants to watch bad basketball teams that

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Speaker 1: aren't trying. People know when they're not trying. And it

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Speaker 1: gives you. Apathy is what it gives you. It's the

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Speaker 1: deadliest thing in all of sport, is apathy.

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Speaker 3: But you just don't care. You just don't care. And

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Speaker 3: it's the aabbot rabbit. So you go, yeah, but oh no, no,

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Speaker 3: just give it a couple of years.

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Speaker 1: They'll get that topic and everyone will come back with

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Speaker 1: you know, people find other things to do, and they're like,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot cheaper. I'm not gonna get my you

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Speaker 1: know what handed me when I when I watch this team,

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Speaker 1: I have to pay for this thing and that thing

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Speaker 3: All that, and they don't come back.

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Speaker 1: I know a bunch of guys around my age, we

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Speaker 1: they don't like sports anymore. They don't like what sports

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Speaker 1: has become. They don't like the greed, they don't like

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Speaker 3: And they're like, oh, you're still doing that sports. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'll do the sports. Oh I used to like sports.

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Speaker 3: I used to like sports. And that's the danger. And

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Speaker 3: so idiots don't understand this. They're not that smart. I

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Speaker 3: get it.

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Speaker 1: I understand you wouldn't understand how that all works. But

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Speaker 1: it's a massive, massive issue. And in this life you

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Speaker 1: either work hard. In life, you work hard you save

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Speaker 1: your money and try to make something better. Or in

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Speaker 1: the NBA mindset, which is everywhere right now, you just

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Speaker 1: go down to the casino, you pray for green double zero,

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Speaker 1: and you spin the Roulett wheel. Tanking is the NBA's

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Speaker 1: roulette wheel, and it creates a culture of apathy that

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Speaker 1: smells like a nice dumpster after a weekend at the

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Speaker 1: state Fair on a Sunday afternoon.

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Speaker 3: What house? Whose house? The crap house?

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Speaker 1: Yes, nauseating all right now, last word, there is a

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Speaker 1: new revelation on this topic, the tanking topic of the

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Speaker 1: day and Commissioner Adam Silver high ho Silver, Adam Silver

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Speaker 1: and his minions from planet but dunka dunka dunka dunkadunka

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Speaker 1: outside the cosmos, outside the milky Way.

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Speaker 4: There.

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Speaker 1: So Adam Silver and his people other lizard people are

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Speaker 1: considering a gaggle, a gaggle of changes to put a

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Speaker 3: Hello Indiana Pacers, ding ding ding ding ding ding ding

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Speaker 3: The rules that have been laid out, I only gave

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Speaker 3: They've got a.

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Speaker 3: That's it. You train them to chase ping pong balls.

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Speaker 1: That's all they know. And of course, now what's Adam

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Speaker 3: It's like Congress.

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Speaker 1: It will solve all of life's problems with laws because

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Speaker 3: To win the game.

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Speaker 1: A statute, by the way, is not a force field.

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Speaker 3: Is there that we can get around this rule. We

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Speaker 1: It's not about integrity. It's about business partners and that's gambling.

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Speaker 1: With the capitals here, we like gambling. We support gambling.

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Speaker 1: Talking Bay's Ball. So I lead this hour from the

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Speaker 3: And all that. No, no, no, pivotal. I'll get to that eventually.

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Speaker 1: In Ninkowski he has decided he wants Major League Baseball

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Speaker 1: Is it true that see Nikkowski is just not merely

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Speaker 3: This and hey, hey, CJ, Yeah, what do you want? CJ?

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Speaker 3: Can you go on the socials and toss this out,

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Speaker 3: get this thing, go and see if we can get

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Speaker 1: Screw the Dodgers over. Just kind of poke the blue crew. Okay, sure,

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Speaker 1: no problem, Shoe Altani. I might be wrong on this,

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Speaker 1: you away. Nobody else has this take Every team can

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Speaker 1: Like My experience around baseball players is almost all of

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Speaker 1: them were the.

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Speaker 3: Top player on their little league team. Almost all of.

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Speaker 1: Them were the top player on their high school team.

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Speaker 1: Almost all of them at one point was a pitch.

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Speaker 1: We're pitching like the.

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Speaker 3: Even these guys, well that's the guy's just a left fielder.

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Speaker 1: Well in high school, he's started every game and won

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Speaker 1: every game.

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Speaker 3: You know, he went a lightweight. They were lightweights.

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Speaker 1: And then what you do is you pigeonhole these guys

448
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Speaker 1: and you say, well, you're a hitter, you're not a pitcher,

449
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Speaker 1: and they'll like, well, okay, things have changed, things have changed.

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Speaker 1: It's really kind. It's sad for that. I feel bad

451
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Speaker 1: for the Braves fans Tommy and Atlanta. Those guys soft.

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Speaker 1: It's the victim mentality and that's not the Braves. I know,

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Speaker 1: where's Chief Knakahoma? Where has Chief Knockahoma gone? When he's

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Speaker 1: rolling over in his grave right now is what he's

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Speaker 1: doing right Meanwhile, page two we go to the Bronx

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Speaker 1: and one of the players, one of the few players

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Speaker 1: in baseball that does not give a boring quote, plays

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Speaker 1: for the New York Yankees. He's the second baseman named

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Speaker 1: Jazz Chisholm Junior. And he's just warming up, just warming

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Speaker 1: up there in the bugey down Brocks, getting ready for

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Speaker 1: the season and actually in Florida. So Jaszism is not

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Speaker 1: only planning on winning the most Valuable Player award in

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Speaker 1: the American League, he's also going to take home the

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Speaker 1: Silver Slugger and a gold Glove. That's right, He's going

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Speaker 1: to hit the trifecta.

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Speaker 3: But wait, there's more.

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Speaker 1: He also believes that he has the tools to become

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Speaker 1: the second player in baseball history to hit fifty home

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Speaker 1: runs and steal fifty bases in a single season.

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Speaker 3: Tani, we just talked about him. Showy Otani, the first

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Speaker 3: and only to do it a couple of years ago

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Speaker 3: for the Doyers. There's even more. But wait, there's even more.

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Speaker 1: He's also talking about a ten war that's wins above

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Speaker 1: replacement season. Chisholm has never posted more than a four

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Speaker 1: point four on the war statistic, which the nerds absolutely love.

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Speaker 1: And he's targeting the big shot there. He wants the

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Speaker 1: big number there, and he believes that just cleaning up

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Speaker 1: his defense will help this all skyrocket, etc.

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Speaker 3: Etc. Etc. So, Now, as you might imagine, when you

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Speaker 3: tell these tall tales.

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Speaker 1: And these shaggy dog stories and all that, you get roasted.

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Speaker 1: So Jazz Chisholm was getting smoked.

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Speaker 3: What are you doing, dude, You're not good. He was

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Speaker 3: on the All Star team. I think he's in that

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Speaker 3: weird area where he's a good player, not a great player,

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Speaker 3: and there's a lot of guys like that. I don't

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Speaker 3: think he's as good as like the accolades he's gotten.

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Speaker 3: He plays with the Yankees.

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Speaker 1: Everything gets elevated when you play for the for the Yankees,

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Speaker 1: it is also somebody that needs to be mentioned here.

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Speaker 3: He's going to be a free agent at the end

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Speaker 3: of this season.

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Speaker 1: The Yankees did not decide to sign him to a

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Speaker 1: new mega contract.

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Speaker 3: That's a whole other story, a whole other story.

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Speaker 1: So the question, why, okay, why is Star Jazz Chism talking,

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Speaker 1: you know, talking, and it taking so much heat? Why

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Speaker 1: is he taking so much heat from talking about targeting

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Speaker 1: a fifty to fifty campaign.

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Speaker 3: For the New York Yankees.

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Speaker 1: So you've got the baseball purist crowd, which somehow are

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Speaker 1: still overwhelmingly out there clutching their pearls so hard.

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Speaker 3: They're pooping diamonds. It's a while, there's diamonds in the toilet.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, and I get part of it, like this

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Speaker 1: goes against every bit of.

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Speaker 3: The baseball orthodoxy.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about a sport that literally had to launch

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Speaker 1: a marketing campaign titled let the Kids Play just to

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Speaker 1: convince many of the fans that it was okay to

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Speaker 1: flip a bat.

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Speaker 3: They had to have a marketing campaign say let the

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Speaker 3: kids Play.

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Speaker 1: So a Jazz is breaking the sacred Major League Baseball decorum.

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Speaker 1: He's breaking that and persnickety unwritten.

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Speaker 3: Rules of the game, which have all been written.

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Speaker 1: They've all been written, but one of the big ones

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Speaker 1: is you talk softly, you don't make bold predictions, and

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. Talk softly, carry a big Louisville slugger,

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Speaker 1: big Louisville slugger.

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Speaker 3: And now when you're name Jazz, you can't do quiet.

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Speaker 3: Your name Jazz, that's not his real nick, but your

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Speaker 3: name Jazz. You know it's a nigga jazz chishlm right.

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Speaker 3: He's got the gift of gab. And when you have

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Speaker 3: the gift of gap.

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Speaker 1: Right, Curmudgeons, of course call it verbal diarrhea, but you

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Speaker 1: gotta talk, gotta let it out right. He's bringing NBA

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Speaker 1: level bravado jazz chism to a game run by guys

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Speaker 1: who think the colorful sleeve that you wear on your

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Speaker 1: elbow is a revolutionary act at baseball.

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Speaker 3: And so yeah, chism, it cuts both ways.

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Speaker 1: It's a double edged sword because he's he's putting a

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Speaker 1: massive bull'seye on his back.

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Speaker 3: And as my professor taught me, Professor Egan and I

534
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Speaker 3: went to the University of Ghostbusters, and he taught me

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Speaker 3: that you do not cross the streams. Don't do it.

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Speaker 1: You cross the streams and you mess with the baseball gods,

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Speaker 1: and every molecule in your body, every little piece of

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Speaker 1: your body there might just explode at the speed of light.

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 1: So you gotta walk this tight rope now, regardless the

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Speaker 1: malor naked truth, love it, love it mention.

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Speaker 3: It's a double edged sword. So yeah, you got a

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Speaker 3: bulls on your back.

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Speaker 1: But it's the old PT Barnum one o one PT

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Speaker 1: Barnum one o one. It's good for business. It's good

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Speaker 1: for business. You don't care what they say as long

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Speaker 1: as they spell jazz chisholm right on the social media platforms.

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Speaker 1: Right if he's hitting those numbers. So if he goes

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Speaker 1: out and does hit some of those numbers, legend, legend.

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Speaker 1: If he goes out and does a belly whopper jazz chism,

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Speaker 1: then he's still a legend, just in a different kind

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Speaker 1: of way. The meme makers will have a field day,

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Speaker 1: they'll have a feast on that.

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Speaker 5: Oh.

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Speaker 1: Either way, you're helping bring some buzzback, get in that

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Speaker 1: zeitgeist of baseball right now now, final point, Labor update.

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Speaker 1: Labor update, we go to the Baseball labor dispute battlefield

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Speaker 1: c b A the Collective Bargaining Agreement. I was told

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Speaker 1: by program director years ago to never mention collective bargaining

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Speaker 1: agreement on the radio.

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Speaker 3: I'm breaking the fourth wall here by doing that. By

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Speaker 3: doing that, so we're talking about salary cap. So we

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Speaker 3: have learned the owners. We have the outline of what

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Speaker 3: the owners want. The owners want a and listen closely.

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Speaker 3: You're never supposed to give out numbers on the radio,

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Speaker 3: so listen closely.

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Speaker 1: The owners want the cap floor for the first proposal

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Speaker 1: to be between one hundred and forty million and one

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty million for the that's the bottom salary

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Speaker 1: for teams would be one hundred and forty to one

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty million. The ceiling would fall in the

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Speaker 1: range of two hundred and sixty million to two.

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Speaker 3: Hundred eighty million.

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Speaker 1: It would also have to be grandfathered in for a

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Speaker 1: couple of years because teams have contract that are over

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Speaker 1: that number.

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Speaker 3: Some teams do. But wait, there's more.

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball owners have also funded a war chest

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Speaker 1: that's being described a war chest according to the tabloids,

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Speaker 1: and approximately seventy five million per team in a rainy

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Speaker 1: day fund. Seventy five million financial protect They've been saving

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Speaker 1: up for years, for years, preparing for this battle, for years,

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Speaker 1: buying tanks and bazookahs and drones and all that and

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Speaker 1: so the ownership fund is said to contain a total value,

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Speaker 1: if you believe what they're leaking to the media, of

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Speaker 1: over two billion dollars with a capital B two billion dollars.

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Speaker 3: So the question what is the word, right, what is

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Speaker 3: the word for Major.

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Speaker 1: League Baseball owners allegedly saving up two billion a work stoppage, So.

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Speaker 3: That is a massive let's start with this. Let me

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Speaker 3: get this right.

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Speaker 1: So baseball owners have stashed over the last couple years

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Speaker 1: two billion in this lockout war chest thing, and they

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Speaker 1: want you to believe at.

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Speaker 3: The same time they're broke. Okay, they must really think

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Speaker 3: you're dumb. They must think you are so stupid. How

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Speaker 3: do you tie your shoes? You're moron? That's Rob Manford's baseball.

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Speaker 3: You're dumb. That's not poverty, that's that's planning ahead, right

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Speaker 3: pre whatever you are buying your weapons.

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Speaker 1: My word, though, is fear mongering, all right, My word

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Speaker 1: is fear mongering for the two billion shock and awe,

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Speaker 1: shock and all. What they're doing is they're using the

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Speaker 1: saber tooth tiger technique better known as saber rattling. And

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Speaker 1: before they even walk into the boardroom to negotiate a

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Speaker 1: new agreement.

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Speaker 3: With the players.

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Speaker 1: The owners are saying, well, we we already have seventy

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Speaker 1: five million per team just sitting there like canned goods, like.

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Speaker 3: A can of corn in the bunker.

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Speaker 1: And if you're saving that much, okay, if you're saving

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Speaker 1: that much for a work stoppage.

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Speaker 3: You're planning on a humdinger of a work stoppage, are

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Speaker 3: you not? Is that That's how I read the room.

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Speaker 1: Now, for the proposed capologists out there that have floated

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Speaker 1: the hypothetical salary cap mentioned it be grandfathered in, very

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Speaker 1: generous of them at Baseball.

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Speaker 3: So we went and.

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Speaker 1: Looked at some of the numbers that are available, and

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Speaker 1: we opened up the books, something that Baseball will not do.

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Speaker 3: By the way, they will not open up the books,

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Speaker 3: show the players the spreadsheets, because you know, if you're starving,

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Speaker 3: just prove it.

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Speaker 1: And then okay, we got a deal using malarmath, using

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Speaker 1: malar math, how many teams with the numbers they gave

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Speaker 1: on the.

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Speaker 3: Projected salary floor.

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Speaker 1: And then salary cap. Why don't we go we'll start

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Speaker 1: at the ceiling, the high end. How many teams are

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Speaker 1: over the ceiling and would be affected and have to

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Speaker 1: you know, futs around with the salarycap. Out of the

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Speaker 1: thirty teams in baseball, how many teams are spending over

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Speaker 1: what would be the projected salary cap?

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Speaker 3: The answer.

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Speaker 1: Four, that's it, thirteen percent. Thirteen percent. Now, let me

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Speaker 1: ask you another question. Out of the thirty teams in baseball,

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Speaker 1: we've already liliminated four. We've already eliminated.

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Speaker 3: Four because four teams are over what would be the

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Speaker 3: salary cap? What about the floor the salary for how

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Speaker 3: many teams in baseball do you think are below what

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Speaker 3: the minimum would be under this proposal? You got a number,

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Speaker 3: all right?

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Speaker 1: How about fourteen out of the thirty, So that works

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Speaker 1: out to forty six point six percent. Almost half of

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball is spending less than what they're proposing,

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Speaker 1: which means they could be spending over that, but they're not.

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Speaker 1: And that's not just a broken system. That is a

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Speaker 1: by design competitive in balance for the ages. Wake up

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00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 1: the echoes, and so now we are heading towards deadline theater.

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00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: Deadline theater is where we're going, and this is where

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00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 1: nothing happens until the clock hits midnight. They're on the

651
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 1: new ozempic diet for negotiations. Now that diet is a

652
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 1: strict deadline only diet, deadline only diet.

653
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 3: Where you just twiddle your thumbs, you pick.

654
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 1: Your nose, you grab your ass, and you leak sob

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Speaker 1: stories to try to soften soften the players up and

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Speaker 1: talk about all the money you've got in your war

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Speaker 1: chest and all this stuff and cry poverty while you

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Speaker 1: attempt to give the players a full frontal lobotomy.

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Speaker 3: It's a strategy, it is a decision. It's also a

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Speaker 3: bit of an intimidation thing dressed up as fiscovers responsibility.

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

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

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Speaker 3: It's Mallard. How about that?

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Speaker 2: To the third degree, I just.

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Speaker 4: Said that this is one big fan gets grilled koopdalup

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Speaker 4: Ben New Raven's offensive coordinator, Declan Doyle is not even

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Speaker 4: thirty years old yet, but he thinks that his uh,

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Speaker 4: this is very loud music, that's what he thinks.

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Speaker 3: There's there's some taco bell there. So Ravens O see

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Speaker 3: Declan Doyle to yell over the music. I'm yelling.

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Speaker 5: He's not even thirty years old yet, but he thinks

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Speaker 5: that his young age can actually be an advantage. Doyle

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Speaker 5: says it's easier for him to connect with the players

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Speaker 5: because they are the same age.

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Speaker 3: Ben, does he have a point, Well, this is on

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Speaker 3: a case by case basis. I've been around long enough,

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Speaker 3: you know, if it clicks, it's great. Sean McVay was

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Speaker 3: a younger when he got the Rams job, and he's

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Speaker 3: really good at his job. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers hired

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Speaker 3: was it Raheem Morris? I forget who. I think I

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Speaker 3: might remember Hi Morrison and he was out.

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Speaker 1: Whoever it was was out partying with the players on

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Speaker 1: the road, like trying to pick up chicks. So that

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Speaker 1: didn't go so well. So I don't know anything about

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Speaker 1: this guy. I've never heard of him. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: a case by case base. It can't help. There needs

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Speaker 1: to be a boundary there. There's got to be a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a boundary. You can't be hanging out

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Speaker 1: with the guys and all that too much or also

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Speaker 1: becomes a problem.

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Speaker 3: Next.

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Speaker 5: Alright, I'm gonna throw you a curveball here, Ben, Okay,

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Speaker 5: go ahead. So the wind totals were released from you know,

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Speaker 5: Vegas this week and the Carolina Panthers. They won their

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Speaker 5: division last season, and they are tied for the lowest

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Speaker 5: projected wind total next season. Six and a half is

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Speaker 5: what they are set at. And do you think that's

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Speaker 5: a little bit too low? No?

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Speaker 3: And here's why. A, that's the gambling market saying Bryce

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Speaker 3: Young sucks and that he's not consistent, which is true.

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Speaker 3: And then like the division, I like, it's not a

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Speaker 3: great division. Carolina overchieve they're gonna play a tougher schedule

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Speaker 3: because they they ended up even though they had they

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Speaker 3: didn't have a great record last year, but they made

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Speaker 3: the playoffs and obviously played the Rams and almost upset

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Speaker 3: the Rams and all that. So I don't think his

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Speaker 3: Rocketers are gonna play tougher schedule. I don't know what.

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Speaker 3: Atlanta looks pretty bad at this point. Tampa Bay should

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Speaker 3: be better than them in the division. I think it's

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Speaker 3: about right next.

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Speaker 5: Caid Cunningham had a recent interview with GQ magazine and

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Speaker 5: he was asked about the upcoming twenty twenty eighth Summer Olympics,

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Speaker 5: which will be here in Los Angeles. Cunningham said that

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Speaker 5: he thinks he is the best American player.

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Speaker 3: Is he right? Well, it's hard to rip him after

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Speaker 3: the game he had at Madison Square Garden last night, right,

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Speaker 3: the greatest game by a Piston at mat against the

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Speaker 3: Knicks at Madison Square Garden. He's great. And listen, the

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Speaker 3: guy's been wonderful.

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Speaker 1: You know, he was on some really orbig Piston teams

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Speaker 1: when he came in as a top pick in the draft,

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Speaker 1: and we were goofing on the Pistons because they deserve.

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Speaker 3: To be grouped on.

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Speaker 1: They were trash and everyone's like the sky is falling.

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Speaker 1: It was falling, and something has clicked the last year

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Speaker 1: and a half for the Detroit Pistons and they are

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Speaker 1: one of the better teams in the NBA. And he

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Speaker 1: is He's not only talking to talk, he's walked the walk.

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Speaker 1: I'd have to get my ven diagram out.

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Speaker 3: Coop and look at the other players. A lot of

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Speaker 3: the great American players are getting along in the two. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so it is. I mean, it's a tough. It's tough

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Speaker 3: to fight that because the guys are all in their

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Speaker 3: mid thirties, the great generation of American ballplayers. The top

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Speaker 3: players in the NBA are all from other countries. They're

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Speaker 3: in is mal a thirty three? How did we go.

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Speaker 3: You passed this anedition, that is, I wanted the guy.

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Speaker 3: I've walked a game. Unbelievable, unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: Blame weed Blame week too. It's Big Ben's lame joke

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Speaker 3: of the week. Slame jokes right to the jokes. We go,

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Speaker 3: our buddy from Hollywood. Hooray for Hollywood, Hooray for Hollywood.

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Speaker 3: Weed Man Hippie, Hello, weed Man Hippie? Oh bang, how

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Speaker 3: are you bany laughing? Yeah? You sure about that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Did you hear? These are actual jokes by actual listeners.

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Speaker 1: Send jokes in care of Ben Malors Show at gmail

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Speaker 1: dot com.

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Speaker 3: Ben Mallershow at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 1: Did you hear weed Man Hippie won an Olympic gold medal?

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Speaker 3: Wow? That's cool. Congratulations you want a gold on the

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Speaker 3: bong sledg so lay together an email? Upside said Jeopardy

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Speaker 3: ol Jeopardy, How's alleged he is on the show.

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Speaker 1: What does weed Man and my type have in common?

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Speaker 1: What they both like to be as high as possible.

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Speaker 1: That's a SpongeBob SquarePants, the legend SpongeBob store Pants.

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Speaker 3: Why is weed Man so positive? Why well, you always

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Speaker 3: have high hopes, Always have high hopes. That Mike the

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Speaker 3: Leprechon in Grashon. Why does weed Man set his phone

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Speaker 3: to vibrate? Why? Well, you always want to be buzzed.

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Speaker 3: That's Surfer Todd the comedian in Viva Las Vegas.

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Speaker 1: What a great character Todd is and his his wife.

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Speaker 3: Why does weed Man treat you? Love the surfer Todd? Right,

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Speaker 3: weed Man, you're big fan?

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 1: Why does weed Man treat his resume like dude wipes?

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Speaker 1: Why his job history is ass? That's Kurt from Earth.

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Speaker 1: Interesting story here, weed Man. Apparently an octopus has nine brains. Wow, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's eight? Really more than eight and a half more

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Speaker 1: than you have. That's a Ethan Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: Well I didn't know this. Apparently weed Man used to

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Speaker 3: be a coach at U c l A. Did you

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Speaker 3: know that weed Man used to coach it?

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Speaker 4: You see?

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Speaker 3: Woo?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you cared very much about student section eight.

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Speaker 3: Student section eight? You big fan there? Kurt from Earth

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Speaker 3: sent that one in Well, on Valentine's Day? What did

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Speaker 3: weed Man find when he went to went to Lisa's

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Speaker 3: place and had a little fun?

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Speaker 4: What?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: Oh he found you found your teeth, weed Man, you

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Speaker 1: found your teeth?

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Speaker 3: Actually that was that's a lucky tony.

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Speaker 1: What did Hollerween James say after he heard that Lisa

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Speaker 1: used to date weed Man? What so you're saying there's

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Speaker 1: a chance, Uh, that's a lucky tony.

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Speaker 3: Lisa.

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Speaker 1: Actual jokes by actual listeners. Did you know that weed

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Speaker 1: Man Hippie was addicted to soap?

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Speaker 2: Wow?

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Speaker 3: Really? Yeah? Yeah, he's he's clean now, so that's he's

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Speaker 3: off the addiction.

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Speaker 1: That's George and Uvaldi. What's the difference between Marcel and

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Speaker 1: weed Man?

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Speaker 4: What?

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Speaker 1: Well, Marcel and Brooklyn always punches low. Weed Man aimes high.

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Speaker 1: That's Michael Leperchon again. Did you know that Weedman Hippie

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Speaker 1: is a descendant of British Royalty?

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Speaker 2: Wow?

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Speaker 3: Really? Yeah, yeah, you just call We'll just call you

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Speaker 3: your highness from from now. That's a George and Uvalde Texas.

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Speaker 3: How do we know that weed Man Hippie is not bisexual? Wow?

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Speaker 1: You don't have money to buy anything, so you don't

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Speaker 1: have to worry about that there's no money. It's Big

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Speaker 1: Ben's lamb Jokes a week, Actual jokes by actual listeners.

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Speaker 3: What was weed Man's favorite TV show as a child?

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Speaker 3: Why it was Sesame on the Street, This Street. That's

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Speaker 3: a mic. And your favorite character was Oscar the graphs

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Speaker 3: Michael Lepper concept that win?

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Speaker 1: And why was weed Man banging on a vending machine? Why, Pelly,

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Speaker 1: you couldn't get that thing of nuts to drop?

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Speaker 3: I don't know why. I don't know what that's all about.

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Speaker 4: There.

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Speaker 1: Why should weed Man Hippie replace Tony Clark as the

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Speaker 1: head of the baseball Union. Why because you believe in

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Speaker 1: joint resolutions that Daryl and the Ozarks. Why what couldn't

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Speaker 1: weed Man's date say to him when he was homeless?

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Speaker 3: What text me when you make it home? That's Noah

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Speaker 3: in Austin. And that is lame jokes of the week,

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much. There he is weed Man, all right.

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Speaker 3: Look