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Speaker 2: Milwaukee's Jacob Mazerowski gets the All Star roster spot after

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Speaker 2: just five games for the Miz Thumbs up or thumbs

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Speaker 2: down on that. Also, Major League Baseball officials claim they

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Speaker 2: Jacob Mizerowski agreed to go. Believe it or not, and

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Speaker 2: Philly's outfielder Nick Castellanos said of the All Star Game quote,

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Speaker 2: in Wisconsin, although it's really at the League office in

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Speaker 2: the music has paused, as it is the All Star

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Speaker 2: watch the All Star Game. More in that in a minute.

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Speaker 2: So all Star news over the weekend, get the home

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Speaker 2: a love letter, miler monologue about the performance I saw

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Speaker 2: So wow, Milwaukee's a small market. Why does baseball care

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Speaker 2: The issue is Heaven forbid? Heaven forbid you just allow

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Speaker 2: But no, it's about Hey, it's marketing. So you're going

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Speaker 2: When there's a meme out there that Rob Manford doesn't

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Speaker 2: of Famer. The Miz is a major drop. Major League

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Speaker 2: Baseball cannot market him enough. Sign Ferdog. All right, let's

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Speaker 2: hear just Josh from Cincinnati writes and says, no other

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Speaker 2: way to say it. Your mis monologue was awesome back

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Speaker 2: in the lab tonight to finish new material for the

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Speaker 2: upcoming Malard Palooser one week people. That's right, malor up

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Speaker 2: that's from Just Josh and Incotara will be back. Incotara

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Speaker 2: will return as the judge for the Mallard Palooser. I'm

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Speaker 2: excited about that. Jay, Scoop and Just Josh are in it.

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Speaker 2: Who else will be part of it? Will we get

436
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Speaker 2: sir for Todd the medium? Will he enter some jokes?

437
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 2: Who knows? Inquiring minds would like to know? I don't

438
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Speaker 2: even know who I know. I know that milkman Mike

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Speaker 2: in Colorado. He submitted a slot he would like to slot.

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Speaker 2: John writes in from parts on Know, and he says, no, Ben,

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Speaker 2: the Major League Baseball All Star players were racing out

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Speaker 2: of Milwaukee, not to go on vacation, but to get

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Speaker 2: to LA for the stupid lame eSPI Award show the

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Speaker 2: day later. Well that was part of it, but trust me,

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Speaker 2: they were leaving. I remember Kevin Kennedy, who used to

446
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Speaker 2: work here, was doing those interviews in the dugout, and

447
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Speaker 2: they were they could not wait to get out of it.

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Speaker 2: By the way, why is the SBI still on No

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Speaker 2: one watches award shows No one man Mark the full

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Speaker 2: name guy, the lunatic in Medford, Oregon is hiding behind

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Speaker 2: his phone like a coward and sending messages. But we're

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Speaker 2: not going to read those until he calls in. King

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Speaker 2: Rory writes, In says another boomer take, saying Jacob Mazarowski

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Speaker 2: did not earn his spot in the All Star Game. Yes,

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Speaker 2: five starts, five starts, King Rory. If that he makes

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Speaker 2: it a boomer take, so be it. He says. If

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Speaker 2: Boyd didn't play the load management card, the misz wouldn't

458
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Speaker 2: be going. Simple as that, Jacob Azerowski is the future

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Speaker 2: of Major League Baseball and isn't leaving Milwaukee anytime soon. Well,

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Speaker 2: he's not leaving Milwaukee because he can't leave Milwaukee. He's

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Speaker 2: essentially seven years of arbitration and all that the first

462
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Speaker 2: three years you're not even eligible for arbitration, and then

463
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Speaker 2: after that you are eligible. Was essentially under team control

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Speaker 2: for seven years. So of course, King Rory his favorite

465
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Speaker 2: baseball team is the Brewers. He's got a poster of

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Speaker 2: Bernie Brewer. And when he was a kid, he'd go

467
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Speaker 2: to the playground and go down the slide and King

468
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 2: Roy thought he was Bernie Brewer going down the slot.

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Speaker 2: He imagined him as Bernie Brewer. That's what he thought.

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Speaker 2: Shane in des Moines writes in and he says, Ben

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Speaker 2: the mud pie story you told him the Fifth Hour

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Speaker 2: has me thinking, Dear God, you said you'll be on

473
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Speaker 2: your deathbed one day and want time back that you

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Speaker 2: won't get. How much time do you think you'll want

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Speaker 2: back based on those events? Well, that would be the

476
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Speaker 2: entire thirty seven minutes. Burner account says, Also good monologue,

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Speaker 2: Benjamin B. Plus and my early answer to the who

478
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Speaker 2: in my game is the thirty seven minute mudplay mud Pie. Yeah,

479
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 2: if you want to hear that story, it's on the

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Speaker 2: Fifth Hour podcast. But I went to a restaurant and

481
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Speaker 2: there was a very long delay that I was not anticipating.

482
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Speaker 2: That screwed up my entire schedule because someone's incompetent their job.

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Speaker 2: But you got a free mud pie out of it. No,

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Speaker 2: I wasn't even free. I had to pay for it anyway.

485
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Speaker 2: We split happened. We split the bill, but total incompetence

486
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Speaker 2: of the restaurant. Jeremy writes and says, these players need

487
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Speaker 2: to stop complaining about playing four days in a row

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Speaker 2: for millions, when average people get paid twenty dollars an

489
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Speaker 2: hour to work five to seven days a week. Let's

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Speaker 2: see who else do. Let's go to the phone. So

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Speaker 2: let's say hello to Andre, who's in the Commonwealth, and

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Speaker 2: Andre is in the leadoff chair. Hello, Andre, Welcome, Oh Ben.

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Speaker 4: How are you. It's good to be with you. Now, listen,

494
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Speaker 4: major League Baseball. This is it's a crack in the armor.

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Speaker 4: But it's a notable crack. Notable crack in the armor. Right,

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Speaker 4: and Willison concurs with me in terms of that.

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Speaker 2: Willis is comfortable with the show. Now, Andre, that there was.

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Speaker 2: Willis was very shy. At first he would not make

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Speaker 2: any noise. We thought Willis was fake. But now all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden, Willis is ready to engage in the

501
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Speaker 2: look at that unbelievable. I love when he like, he's like,

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Speaker 2: do you have any Scooby sack? Do you have any

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Speaker 2: Scooby snacks? For Willis?

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Speaker 4: Do you have any I do have a Scooby snack? Well,

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Speaker 4: you know, because he's fire up about this because baseball,

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Speaker 4: you know, we'll get a snacker ruby. Okay, all right,

507
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 4: so he whooped that down. But you know this. It

508
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 4: seems like a small thing, okay, but I'm very concerned

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Speaker 4: about Major League Baseball and their standards and all of

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Speaker 4: this participation coach of stuff that we got going on,

511
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Speaker 4: right and again from willis you know, I played only

512
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Speaker 4: a handful of games. Of course, he's a boy wonder.

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Speaker 4: So we can make the All Star Game next year, Ben, Okay,

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Speaker 4: and the year after that, and the year after that

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Speaker 4: and the year after that. Okay, Baseball you're the gold

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Speaker 4: standard of adult sports when it comes to achievement. Okay,

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Speaker 4: cools might have to be cut off on this so

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Speaker 4: I can make my points. But the Baseball Hall of

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Speaker 4: Fame still means something. Right, If you make it to

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Speaker 4: the Baseball Hall of Fame, get eighty eighty five percent

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Speaker 4: whatever the case may be, that you know you were

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Speaker 4: actually a Hall of Famer, Okay. Whereas my games more

523
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Speaker 4: to basketball. All you have to do is, you know,

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Speaker 4: do something charitable, smile at somebody, give somebody a high five,

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Speaker 4: and then you're in the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 4: I know it's two different things, Ben, the All Star

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Speaker 4: Game and the Hall of Fame, but there is a

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Speaker 4: through line. Okay. An All Star is an All sar,

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Speaker 4: you have to earn it. And when you take this

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Speaker 4: stance of we're gonna go with the best storyline, we're

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Speaker 4: gonna go with the best narrative, we're going to be

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Speaker 4: trending so on and sportce because there's a little bit

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Speaker 4: of this with Kershaw, him making the All Star Game

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Speaker 4: and he hasn't had.

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Speaker 2: The best tame no, but Andre he didn't want to

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Speaker 2: go though. You know, Kershaw did not want to go

538
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Speaker 2: because when they announced it on that Sunday, Kershaw refused

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Speaker 2: to talk to the media because he was like, how

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Speaker 2: can I get the hell out of this? I don't

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Speaker 2: want to go to Atlanta for the All Star Game.

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Speaker 2: And then they talked to him and they probably paid

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Speaker 2: him some extra money or whatever, and they convinced him

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Speaker 2: to go, and then all of a sudden, the next

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Speaker 2: day he was even the next day he wasn't like

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Speaker 2: all in. But you could tell kershe I didn't want

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Speaker 2: go to the All Star Game. He didn't want to

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Speaker 2: go to Atlanta and hang out like a mascot there

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Speaker 2: and wave at everyone, and he knows he doesn't deserve.

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Speaker 4: To be there, and they shouldn't have wanted to have

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Speaker 4: him because it's not his year, So I just I

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Speaker 4: spect more from baseball, the tradition, that history.

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Speaker 2: Why would you expect more? This is the Rob Manford

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Speaker 2: ear This guy is the same guy that rewarded the

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Speaker 2: cheating a holes. I almost said it in Houston while

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Speaker 2: they were cheating to win the World Series. He ran interference,

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Speaker 2: he ran protection. He didn't punish any of the players

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Speaker 2: that were doing it. That's the commission, that's the leadership

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Speaker 2: of Major League Baseball. That's Rob Manford right there. So

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Speaker 2: why would you expect Why would you expl Why would

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Speaker 2: you expect Rob Manford, the same guy that ran interference

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Speaker 2: for that little cheating so be Altuve and all those

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Speaker 2: other schmucks. Why would you expect him to do something right?

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Speaker 4: I shouldn't have done.

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Speaker 5: Ben.

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Speaker 4: You know, you gotta trust, but verify, And he already

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Speaker 4: unfooled me the one time talking about, well, you know,

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Speaker 4: the World Series is just to hunk a metal, you know,

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Speaker 4: and what doesn't really mean anything.

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Speaker 6: So you know, this is the guy.

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Speaker 2: When he gave out the World Series trophy, oftenimes he

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Speaker 2: sounds like he's drunk while he's handing out the trophy.

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Speaker 4: Okay, got to lay up to martinis in the press box,

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Speaker 4: you know. But Rob, you know, there's a couple of

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Speaker 4: things now you're growing the game, or we got some

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Speaker 4: things that that that that are positive, that does the

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Speaker 4: pitchclock is wonderful. Okay, I'm really excited about this third

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Speaker 4: challenge that they brought into baseball. Frankly, it's a couple

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Speaker 4: of many years late. We had the Wimbledon championships. You know,

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Speaker 4: mister mister Janique Center, even though we cheated before with

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Speaker 4: the PDS, you know, was happy for him and uh

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Speaker 4: iig swy tech of apologize in advance. But my point

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Speaker 4: with the connection to tennis is their challenge that they've incorporated.

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Speaker 4: It's been almost a decade. It's a wonderful thing. It

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Speaker 4: makes the game better. So I was super excited about

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Speaker 4: that challenge that they're incorporating in the All Star Game.

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Speaker 4: But then all this participation trophy stuff. Ben, Okay, it

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Speaker 4: took me off my high.

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Speaker 5: Hurt.

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Speaker 4: Course, I'm not. I'm not so thrilled and excited now

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Speaker 4: because baseball again, hold, you know, here's what we need

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Speaker 4: in conclusion, not just some more w willis we need

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Speaker 4: some Here's what we need in conclusion. You need to

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Speaker 4: sit down and watch to feel the dreams, mister Rob Manford. Okay,

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Speaker 4: and you got to you gotta get back to the

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Speaker 4: to the to the basics. Okay. If you build it,

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00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 4: they will come. Okay. It's the product that people that

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Speaker 4: resonates with people.

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Speaker 6: Baseball.

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Speaker 4: Okay, your high standards Okay, not your you know, ninety

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Speaker 4: nine cent cheap old depot type stuff. Your high standards

602
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 4: is what adds value to the game. These two folks

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Speaker 4: shouldn't have been All stars, okay. And don't make it

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Speaker 4: a habit. Okay, keep the dirts right challenge because that's

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Speaker 4: going to add value to baseball and increase the money

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Speaker 4: for everybody. But get rid of these patent trophy all right.

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Speaker 2: There's an andre. Doctor Crude writes in I was answering

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Speaker 2: some email in the fifth hour mail bag on the

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Speaker 2: Sunday Pod, and there's a guy from LA who lives

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Speaker 2: in Houston. He said, there's some dude on the radio

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Speaker 2: in Houston who's ripping you. And I've heard about this.

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Speaker 2: I don't know who it is now, Doctor Crewde names

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Speaker 2: the guy, but I'm not going to give him a

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Speaker 2: publicity on on our affiliates. But apparently this loser that

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Speaker 2: works at our affiliate in Houston. There, he says, he

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Speaker 2: does not sound like he's He sounds like he's not

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Speaker 2: your biggest fan. Well that's good. I like that he

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Speaker 2: has no content, though, And think about how pathetic, how

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Speaker 2: pathetic this guy must be as a talk show host

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Speaker 2: that he has nothing to talk about to repackage my

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Speaker 2: leftover takes. My god, do your own job, you loser.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know I got to do the heavy

623
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Speaker 2: lifting for everybody, but my god, do your own show,

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Speaker 2: have your own takes. I mean that is like that'd

625
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Speaker 2: be the laziest talk show host, this guy. And I'm

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Speaker 2: not gonna name him. You know you know those in Houston, though,

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Speaker 2: god'd be the laziest guy. What a dumb thing to do.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this guy can't come up with his own

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Speaker 2: original takes. He's so lazy he probably shows up. He's

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Speaker 2: one of those guys that rips and reads off like

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Speaker 2: ESPN's website, whatever's on. There's a lot of guys like that.

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Speaker 2: They don't really prep They're rolling there one minute before

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Speaker 2: the show and then all right here I'm gonna talking

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Speaker 2: about this. Wow, what a loser? I mean, my god, well,

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Speaker 2: I got to clean up this business. There's a lot

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Speaker 2: of crap in this business. Anyway, Let's go to Big Daddy.

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Speaker 2: Big Daddy is next. Hello, Big Daddy, welcome in Memphis.

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Speaker 2: You'd like to talk to all of his all of

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Speaker 2: his voters.

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Speaker 6: Hello, Big Daddy. Hey man, I rather listen to Willis

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Speaker 6: than Andre. He's making more to this Andre. You love

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Speaker 6: that merchant man.

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Speaker 4: You gotta do.

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Speaker 2: I have a dog, Yes, I have a dog. I

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Speaker 2: have a moxy. I have an English bulldog, big fat

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Speaker 2: English bulldog that farts all the time.

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Speaker 6: Yes, I have a Jack Russell.

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Speaker 2: You have Jack Russell, Terry. Those are good dogs.

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Speaker 6: Look Dack Russell Man, Yeah, yeah, yeah. I called him

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Speaker 6: buddy man.

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Speaker 2: Buddy is he? Is he a cuddler?

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Speaker 6: Yeah? Good to go. If I was on the phone,

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Speaker 6: I wouldn't have been able to talk. It is right now.

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Speaker 2: I understand completely.

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 6: We ain't got nothing to look at, you know, because

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Speaker 6: Lebron getting ready to retire.

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Speaker 2: So he's not going to retire. The problem Lebron's got

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Speaker 2: is that in order for the Lakers to move Lebron,

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Speaker 2: they've got to include Bronnie James. It's gotta be easy.

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Speaker 2: You can't keep Bronnie around because the only reason Bronni's

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Speaker 2: there is because Lebron Browny can't play sucks, so they

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Speaker 2: got to trade him with Lebron and so it's like

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Speaker 2: they gotta come, both of them have to go somewhere.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. Man, you know you're talking about the bagels a

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Speaker 6: while back. You know, I've never had a bagel never.

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Speaker 2: No, you gotta change that now whole Now. You got

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Speaker 2: to do it the right way. I'm not big, big

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Speaker 2: daddy though, you got you. I don't know. I don't

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Speaker 2: know the Memphis bagel scene. I don't think of when

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Speaker 2: I think about bagels in Memphis.

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Speaker 6: I never had one. I've had all, but I never

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Speaker 6: had a baby.

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Speaker 2: Listen, listen to me. Listen, listen to me. All I say,

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Speaker 2: you gotta do it the right way. You gotta go

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Speaker 2: and find the top. Every town has a great bagel shop.

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Speaker 2: You gotta find the top bagel shop in Memphis. And

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Speaker 2: you got to find out when they make the bagels,

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Speaker 2: and you've got to go in there. You got to

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Speaker 2: go in there when they they're fresh out of the oven.

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Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, when that yeah, when that light rot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I get you will be like, what have I done?

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Speaker 2: Why have I not enjoyed the bagel? I love the

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Speaker 2: bagel that be the.

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Speaker 6: Best to get, not the one off the bread out.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, you don't want to get those. Those

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Speaker 2: have been there's a lot of chemicals in those. They've

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Speaker 2: been sitting around for You want to get a fresh bagel. Now,

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Speaker 2: you can recreate that a little bit if you put

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Speaker 2: that like the air fryer and heat it up a

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Speaker 2: little bit and it'll come back to life. But generally speaking,

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Speaker 2: as a rule of thumb, here big Daddy, you gotta

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Speaker 2: get it fresh from the bakery, one of the.

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Speaker 6: Best one known now, you know, because you you know,

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Speaker 6: have good ideas about your food.

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Speaker 2: That's right, Look at that. I should do a food blog.

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Speaker 2: I should be a FOODI yeah, yeah, yeah, man, a

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Speaker 2: certain stuff.

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Speaker 6: I hear the right of too long some of her stuff.

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Speaker 2: You know, but really what kind of stuff? What kind

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Speaker 2: of advices Lorraine?

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Speaker 6: Well you know, I mean, you know what.

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Speaker 2: We're eating. Oh well, she's always ordering for not tonight

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Speaker 2: though I don't. Yeah, yeah, I haven't seen any.

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Speaker 6: Food he got the much that's what he ordered, So

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Speaker 6: you know, I.

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Speaker 2: Understand, I understand. I used to man, Maggie, the old

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Speaker 2: days before I got old, I used to eat. I

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Speaker 2: go to the liquor store down the street. Here. We

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Speaker 2: bought gummy sharks and gummy bears and gandy.

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Speaker 6: And if I just liquor, that would be one of them.

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Speaker 6: Look shot with the energy, right man? Thingleep?

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Speaker 2: I hear you all right, Ben? Well, big Daddy, thank you, buddy.

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Speaker 2: Be good. There's the great Big Daddy checking in saying hello.

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Speaker 2: It is the Ben Mallord Show. As we are working

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Speaker 2: away through the overnight, mister says, don't listen to the

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Speaker 2: blanks on seven ninety. Well, I don't listen, but apparently

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Speaker 2: they listened to. I'm flattered. I like the show and

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Speaker 2: they listen. I'd like them to do their jobs. Anyway.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to the tabloid Brady. We'll get to the

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Speaker 2: tabloid Brady. We'll get to that coming up here in

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Speaker 2: a couple of minutes. But time now for the who

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Speaker 2: am I? Game? And with the number one pick in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five MLB Draft, the national selective shortstop Eli

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Speaker 2: Willitts from some school in Oklahoma High school, seventeen years old,

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Speaker 2: two hundred and sixteen days, third youngest player to be

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Speaker 2: drafted number one overall in the jew July draft order.

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Speaker 2: Only Ken Grivey Junior in nineteen eighty seven and me

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Speaker 2: were younger when drafted number one overall. Who am I?

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Speaker 2: That's the question, the answer. We'll get to it. We'll

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Speaker 2: do it next.

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Speaker 5: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller

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Speaker 5: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bell.

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Speaker 2: Miller and you. It is the Ben Maler Show. Try

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Speaker 2: the podcast Fifth Hour podcast all weekend. There were new episodes.

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Speaker 2: the weekend. You get that available wherever you get your podcast.

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Speaker 2: This podcast from this Overdight show will be up as well,

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Speaker 2: but make sure to listen at some point. Don't do

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Speaker 2: it now, do not do it now, but at some

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Speaker 2: point listen to the Fifth Hour podcast from the weekend,

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Speaker 2: including the mailbag on Sunday. Back to it.

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Speaker 5: We go.

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Speaker 2: Back to a pay off thee who Am I? Game?

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Speaker 2: it again? Oh?

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Speaker 5: Yeah he did?

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Speaker 1: King of Baltimore Kyle Stowers remember him?

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Speaker 2: Three a homer day. That's sending the All Star to

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Speaker 2: here is quickly the who am I?

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Speaker 5: Game?

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Speaker 2: With the number one pick in the twenty five the

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Speaker 2: Nationals selected Eli Willits from Oklahoma high school kid. He's

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Speaker 2: the third youngest player to be drafted in the number

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Speaker 2: one slot, behind Ken Griffy Junior in nineteen eighty seven

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Speaker 2: and me, Who am I Lorena? Who am I Superman?

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Speaker 2: Well close to that that would be Tim Foley from

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Speaker 2: Sherman Oaks here by the Mets back in nineteen sixty eight.

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Speaker 2: It was a pretty average major league player, but he

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Speaker 2: was the youngest