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Speaker 2: Doug Gottlieb Show. In the Bonus podcast, we play for

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Speaker 2: your portion of previous show Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports One.

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Speaker 2: Here's Cabino and Rich filling in for Dan Patrick from

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Speaker 2: the side of the All Star Game in Atlanta.

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Speaker 4: We go to the derby with our credential, we have

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Speaker 4: our our press pass. We don't have an actual seat,

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Speaker 4: so I say, Covino follow me, and I just sort

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Speaker 4: I'm like, all right, I see some empty seats and

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna sit there until someone tells us to move.

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Speaker 4: And guess what, Danny g No one ever, no one

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Speaker 4: ever came the girls, nobody ever told us to move. Now,

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Speaker 4: Rich and I have never caught a foul ball or

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Speaker 4: a home run out of all the games and derbys

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Speaker 4: we've been to. Never Yesterday two balls came right at us,

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Speaker 4: literally one seat behind us, literally one seat in front

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Speaker 4: it's like a very intimidating feeling because this is up

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Speaker 2: Like, oh my god, it's coming here now.

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Speaker 4: One came closer to Rich than it did to me,

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Speaker 4: and he said, he'll tell you he's shicken down. There

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Speaker 4: of me, someone in the row in front of us

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Speaker 2: It was too shallow.

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Speaker 4: There's no way I could have got it. The one

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Speaker 4: everyone's going at each other. If I jump, someone's gonna

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Speaker 2: Over a chair. Yeah, I mean, God bless him there

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Speaker 2: back there being true fans and caught on tape. I

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Speaker 2: those guys immensely. But I, you know, living the life

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Speaker 2: put myself in that position. I don't know. We talked

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Speaker 2: about that some of the radio show. I'm glad we

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Speaker 2: got to it here. This is Alex Trodriguez on the Hurt.

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Speaker 2: I agree with you.

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Speaker 5: I'm a big rob man for fan and I think

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Speaker 5: it deserves a lot of credit little single handily. I mean,

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Speaker 5: But the reason why I like this colin technology has

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Speaker 5: made the game better. Any time you make players and

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Speaker 5: umpires more accountable, it's a great thing. Going back ten

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Speaker 5: years that strike you see right there on the screen,

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Speaker 5: eighty three percent of the time the umpires will getting

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Speaker 5: it right ten years ago. Today that numbers balloon to

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Speaker 5: much better game, much better accuracy, all those things are good.

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Speaker 5: Now the application of it, we have to go see

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Speaker 5: to see how that plays out, because I'm a little

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Speaker 5: bit on the fence, but I'm more pro because I

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Speaker 5: think Rob Manford deserves some credit. He's built some equity

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Speaker 5: here of the last three or four years with his changes,

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Speaker 5: some of the other leagues have really pushed the envelope.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think they need help with the application

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Speaker 2: and I saw that who did who did Buyer fill

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I saw the clip of Buyer and he

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Speaker 2: right message, wrong messenger, And now all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: the rob Manfred is doing a great job. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: actually think Manfred is doing a good job. I think

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Speaker 2: the game is better, The game is faster, the game

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Speaker 2: there's got to be something there that's caused them to

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Speaker 2: this fight to put replay into baseball. Is feels obnoxious

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Speaker 2: to most of us, but again, it's fucking Baseball's baseball

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Speaker 2: can do that. Obnoxis shit, but it will eventually get there. Okay,

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Speaker 2: that's what the Fox said.

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Speaker 1: I'd say be sure to catch live editions of The

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Speaker 1: Doug Gottlieb Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific

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Speaker 2: Let's find out who are what is annoying? Jason Stewart.

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Speaker 1: And now it's your annoying.

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Speaker 6: It Doug. Four years ago, the country was in the

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Speaker 6: midst of going crazy. Something happened in twenty twenty. We

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Speaker 6: faced a worldwide pandemic and then George Floyd died or

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Speaker 6: world just went crazy and decisions were made that are

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Speaker 6: complete head scratchers. I have said recently in the wake

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Speaker 6: an organization keep getting pressured from a very loud minority

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Speaker 6: to say something against ICE, and they are holding firm

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Speaker 6: they are not making a public statement, a political statement

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Speaker 6: because generally speaking, corporations have people along the entire political

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Speaker 6: you have to be like what I thought. It was

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Speaker 6: scheduled for twenty twenty one. No, no, no, no. Georgia passed

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Speaker 6: a law. It was a election's integrity law, and most

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Speaker 6: It wasn't true at all, But I will say this,

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Speaker 6: held up. I've seen some reporting on this. It's held

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, yeah, the world was in fact crazy again.

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Speaker 2: I think you pointed all those things out accurately, including

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Speaker 2: when they've done countless study after study after study in

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Speaker 2: They just Trump lost. So both sides completely lost their mind,

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Speaker 6: I don't know if you're annoyed by this. If I

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Speaker 6: So maybe Sam could speak to this. The only thing

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Speaker 6: and all of this comes to an end. So whenever

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Speaker 6: those same feelings or is this just a fatherly overreaction.

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Speaker 7: I think I lean more towards let them do it.

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Speaker 7: You know there's a risk involved, but I mean they've

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Speaker 6: No, we're here, Oh.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm sorry. You guys are having a guys are

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Speaker 7: No, I just I'm in favor of just like letting

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Speaker 6: So no, I'm again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, if you're you're talking about the the

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Speaker 6: Right, the kids that are allowed to yeah, roam in

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Sorry, if you're in if you're if you're

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Speaker 2: I know you're saying, you do kind of sound like

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Speaker 2: I'm with Sam on this one. I think I don't

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Speaker 2: let's not be a result. Oriented I do think it's

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Speaker 2: it does feel like every year there's more and more

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Speaker 2: I would not end that.

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Speaker 6: Anyone who's caught a flyball in this lifetime knows that

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Speaker 2: It's like, you want to be that Yeah, you're that guy.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So I'll be able to play this back for everybody.

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Speaker 6: Something that I know that you you were actually a

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Speaker 6: of that is no one void with Lebron James, who

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Speaker 6: Why are we doing this.

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Speaker 1: Because we can?

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Speaker 6: a Willhouse sports talk topic. What's the hardest thing to

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Speaker 3: Is hitting the baseball and hardest thing sports?

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Speaker 3: I think that and being a cornerback in football.

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Speaker 3: That's the two hardest positions in sports to me. I

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I feel like you have a better chance. Now

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Speaker 8: I'm not debating anything. You have a better chance lucking

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Speaker 1: Let me.

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Speaker 8: Baseball is like, I do it every day and I'll

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Speaker 2: but you got no shot. Why I can play for

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Speaker 2: you because we can. That's it for the end of

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