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Speaker 1: here we are two days into the MLB Playoffs. One

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Speaker 1: series has been decided. I did three head to Game

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Speaker 1: three tomorrow. We talked a lot about the Dodger World.

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Speaker 1: More on that series, and now they got the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: Phillies coming up. We can preview that later on this hour,

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Speaker 1: but just have Schwarber and Otani go at it well

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Speaker 1: with wellk who's pitching for the Dodge? Is it the

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Speaker 1: really thought we'd just randomly select someone from the three

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Speaker 1: the plate for a home run derby. Hey you yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: yeah you with the glove. You have a jersey on, right, Yeah? Okay,

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Speaker 1: come on down to pitch. Yeah, no, it's a Ganye jersey.

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Speaker 1: I could tell come on down maybe LEAs it'll look

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Speaker 1: like it. Yeah, Ed, We're good simulating Ganye. Do you

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Speaker 1: if Ganya can still throw a baseball? Can you still throw?

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Speaker 1: I've seen them show up at some personal appearances. Maybe.

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Speaker 1: I was, wow, look at this, let's see team Canada.

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Speaker 1: Eric Guan yeah, twenty seventeen. Okay, so just a short

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Speaker 1: eight year last pitching in the majors two thousand and eight. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Eric Gun? You know, let's see he was born and

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Speaker 1: You can't do any worse. And the Dodge actually activate

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Speaker 1: We should be talking about the end of the Yankee season.

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Speaker 1: The Yankees are done. Aaron Boone doing his last press conference,

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Speaker 1: Alex Cora costs him the game because the Red Sox

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Speaker 1: got so incredibly conservative, right, Like, how do you not

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Speaker 1: last twenty plus year. I mean it's twenty five years ago. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: already that that he and Itro Suzuki said he signed

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Speaker 1: with the Angels. It does seem that, wait a minute,

427
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Speaker 1: a long time ago. Can he keep Mike Trout healthy?

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Speaker 1: Uh no, probably not. Well, he'd be the one guy

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Speaker 1: who make them DH. Hey, Mike, you're gonna DH. That's

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Speaker 1: what I've been saying for years. Mike Trout needs a

431
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Speaker 1: DH keep in the lineup. You get out of DH.

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Speaker 1: Gotta DH. Now, speaking of the playoffs, I didn't have

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Speaker 1: this on my Bengo car tonight, that former MLB Ace

434
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Speaker 1: And I'm saying that Ace because like he came into

435
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Speaker 1: the league, like it was supposed to be amazing, but

436
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Speaker 1: his career was just somewhat good. Uh. Ben McDonald does

437
00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,959
Speaker 1: games now for in game analysts for ESPN and with

438
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Speaker 1: you know, for playoff games today, you know, Ben McDonald

439
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Speaker 1: winds up doing the Cubs and the Padres with Kevin Brown.

440
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Speaker 1: So in the middle of this game, you know, the

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Speaker 1: hockey season starting in a few days, right, October seventh

442
00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:25,040
Speaker 1: is opening night and ESPN's got a triple header opening night, right, Okay.

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 1: ESPN, you know, puts out a promo for it, which

445
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Speaker 1: you know they do this all the time. Right on Fox.

446
00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:33,879
Speaker 1: You see promos for Big, Big Nude kick Off, all this,

447
00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:36,639
Speaker 1: they do a promo and all that to you know,

448
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Speaker 1: take you behind the curtain. All they're hoping for is

449
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Speaker 1: to say, hey, play by play, guys gonna read this NHL.

450
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Speaker 1: Can you do a fun liner about it and then

451
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Speaker 1: get back into the game. Right, But just we want

452
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Speaker 1: people to know that, hey, NHL season starting, we spent

453
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Speaker 1: a lot of money on this right, we got a lot,

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Speaker 1: a lot of the rights. Now we have a triple header,

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Speaker 1: including the Panthers raising the Stanley Cup banner for the

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Speaker 1: second consecutive year. Okay, so it's just a promo. I

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Speaker 1: just okay, nice and easy. Get him on, get him over,

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Speaker 1: get him in. Here's the graphic, dude, the red smile

459
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 1: pifty commentary. Go see. Except Ben McDonald didn't want to

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Speaker 1: play along with just the fact that Kevin Brown is

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Speaker 1: reading a promo for the NHL. Also, not that Kevin Brown. No,

462
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,360
Speaker 1: not that Kevin Brown, the other pitcher. Yeah. Uh so

463
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 1: this is the play by play and it's Kevin Brown,

464
00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:25,359
Speaker 1: you know, trying to just you know, have a fun

465
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Speaker 1: liner before they get back to the game. But Ben

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Speaker 1: McDonald wasn't having it. The Blackhawks return to the ice

467
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Speaker 1: next Tuesday, NHL Opening Night against the defending champion of

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Speaker 1: Florida Panthers at five eastern, four Central mon ESPN A

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Speaker 1: triple header that night Penguins, Rangers, Avalanche, Kings. Ben, I

470
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,160
Speaker 1: know you've got to pin on this Panthers three pete

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Speaker 1: this year. What do you think if you say so?

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Speaker 2: I mean good luck to him.

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Speaker 1: Are you asking if I'm going to be watching. No,

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Speaker 1: I know you'll be watching, of course, because you work

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Speaker 1: for you pen, you'll be watching. The zero chance to

476
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Speaker 1: watch and no one's gonna be honest, where will you think?

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Speaker 7: I will be somewhere, But there's zero chance I'll be watching.

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Speaker 1: All right, thanks, Ben, we'll be watching. Not only did

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Speaker 1: he say once there's zero chance I'll be watching? He

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Speaker 1: doubles down. No, no, no, zero, What are you gonna

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Speaker 1: be doing? I'll be watching anything but this. I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna watch. I'm not gonna watch. And you

483
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Speaker 1: know there's almost Joe Namath like, yeah, yeah, if you

484
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Speaker 1: say so. Okay, Now, Kevin Brown's got to know at

485
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Speaker 1: this point, Ben McDonald's not gonna say anything about I

486
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Speaker 1: know that's so abdicate the bit. Okay, well here's the

487
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Speaker 1: thing and go on. But Ben McDonald, dude, don't just

488
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Speaker 1: don't just rain on the parade of a of a

489
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Speaker 1: pretty big I would say endeavor, but it's a big property,

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Speaker 1: you know, edit deals reportedly four hundred million a year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of money that ESPN is paying out.

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Speaker 1: And you see when ESPN's gotta lay people off every

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Speaker 1: eighteen months it's a big be well, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: just there's not being a fan. Look, I'm not gonna

495
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Speaker 1: really play along. I'm not a hockey fan. Okay, fine,

496
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Speaker 1: And then there's just you know, saying that, yeah, zero

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Speaker 1: chance I'll be watching I'm not gonna watch hot How

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Speaker 1: likely you're gonna watch that one? Zero? I really I

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Speaker 1: can't I can't wait to win it. He gets back

500
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Speaker 1: to Bristol wherever it is, and he's gonna get in

501
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 1: someone's office and go, hey, dude, don't be a knucklehead.

502
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,399
Speaker 1: If you're not gonna say anything, just say nothing. Okay,

503
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Speaker 1: don't sit here and just and just and just you know,

504
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Speaker 1: whatever you're gonna say, just just rain on this parade

505
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Speaker 1: because I don't want to say what I really want

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Speaker 1: to say. Uh, it's like, you don't rain on this parade.

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00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 1: It's a pretty big vent. You want to say, don't

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Speaker 1: rain on my parade. I mean, it's a pretty big

509
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Speaker 1: it's a pretty big undertaking for your man. There's a

510
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Speaker 1: lot of hockey fans out there. It's kind of a

511
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Speaker 1: big deal because, like it was with all big rights negotiation,

512
00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:50,399
Speaker 1: at this point, who's going to retain them? Right? And

513
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 1: there was all the now they have the deal with

514
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: the WWE, and for the NHL, it's always a question

515
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Speaker 1: of who's got the television rights and how much are

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Speaker 1: they going to push the NHL. Right, that's the biggest

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Speaker 1: complaint from NHL fans. They don't care about us. And

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Speaker 1: for years it was they don't have the rights, they

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Speaker 1: don't care. Right. For the longest, NHL fans have always

520
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Speaker 1: been underserved because you know, they told, oh, you're not

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Speaker 1: as popular, not as popular. But the last few years,

522
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Speaker 1: you see the television ratings are getting better, so there

523
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Speaker 1: is there is a big market out there still for

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Speaker 1: the NHL. But like, you know, to sit here and say, okay,

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Speaker 1: how fast is it gonna be? Like, I can't believe

526
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Speaker 1: hockey fans haven't gotten together saying hey, let's everybody get together.

527
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Speaker 1: Don't watch Ben McDonald the next playoff game. Don't watch

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Speaker 1: the next game he does for ESPN. Ben McDonald's next

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Speaker 1: game is game one of Philly's Dodgers or whatever is.

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Speaker 1: Don't watch that game, right, Like, why would you? Why

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Speaker 1: would you put yourself out there where you embarrass the

532
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Speaker 1: company you work for. Like I get that it was

533
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Speaker 1: funny and as zero your chance of watching, but all

534
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Speaker 1: he's done is a fend hockey fan like John Bucigras

535
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Speaker 1: who jumped in right away saying zero. Also the number

536
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Speaker 1: of playoff wins in Ben McDonald's baseball career, right, seventy

537
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Speaker 1: eight and seventy for his career, like, like, why would

538
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Speaker 1: you do that?

539
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 1: And maybe I feel a little bit more. I'm a

541
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 1: little bit more thinking about that side of it because

542
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: you know, working in fantasy, like I did a bunch

543
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 1: of years ago with with NFL Network, like every time

544
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 1: everything we did right NFL when they started Fantasy Fantasy

545
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 1: Live and and show that's still on the air there,

546
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 1: and I was there for the first three years of

547
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:23,640
Speaker 1: Fantasy Live, Like I can't tell you how many battles

548
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,640
Speaker 1: we fought just to be taken seriously with the rest

549
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 1: of nfure. Right, it's a big thing the company put forward, Right,

550
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 1: it was a big It was a big effort that

551
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: the guy we're doing Fantasy now, I left all my

552
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 1: ESPN to go do this, right to go because I

553
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 1: wanted to go to DV. I wanted to do that.

554
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 1: And it was a big thing. And and at every

555
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 1: single turn possible, it was if we find a way

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00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 1: to make it. Yeah, it's just fantasy. Uh, there was

557
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: a way, there was a way to make that happen, right,

558
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,639
Speaker 1: it was. It was really like, I'll tell you a

559
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: different story. When they redid the locker room or big

560
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 1: dressing room, which was right off of the stage. Okay,

561
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: so like a final year that I was there for Fantasy,

562
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 1: they made the dressing room what looked like a foot

563
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 1: into what looked like a football locker room was awesome, right,

564
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,679
Speaker 1: you walked in your field, the other flock and every

565
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 1: single talent, every single person had a locker for their clothes.

566
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Speaker 1: They would hang their clothes and keep their stuff. It

567
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 1: was awesome, right, everything, and you had six lockers across

568
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,879
Speaker 1: one side, then like twenty lockers across the middle, and

569
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: then like six or seven lockers across the end. Right,

570
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 1: everybody that worked there had their own locker. And then

571
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 1: you get to the end and there were two lockers

572
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,159
Speaker 1: who just said fantasy guys. So now the seven of

573
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Speaker 1: us who did this show, right, Me and Money Smith

574
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 1: were the two hosts, and then it was you know,

575
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: we had five analysts. We had to share a lock

576
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Speaker 1: of the seven. It was just fantasy guys. Oh, we

577
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 1: don't need to go. Meanwhile, the numbers that we did

578
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: on NFL Network were right in line with everything else.

579
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Speaker 1: But still it was all fansies not taking seriously, why

580
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Speaker 1: would you do this? Why would you spend every moment?

581
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Speaker 1: And there's there's analysts there who were really took every

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Speaker 1: chance they could to make fantasy seem like, ah, it's

583
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 1: really not the same thing. Like as good a dude

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Speaker 1: as Kurt Warner was many times on the air when

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Speaker 1: he met yeah, fantasy yeah not yeah, yeah not not

586
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Speaker 1: not a big fan, Like come on, man, this is

587
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 1: a big thing for the company. It's what we do.

588
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: And and and you're now, it's not real football. It's

589
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Speaker 1: not real football.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 1: That was that was a thing, right, I could I

592
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: could point you the to the Thursday night football game

593
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 1: where we were all set together doing that when Kurt

594
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: Warner's like, yeah, fantasy is great, but I want to

595
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 1: talk about real foot people want to talk fans on this.

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00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: I want to talk about real football. I'm like, dude,

597
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 1: fantasy is a big deal, man, And and so I

598
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 1: guess I'm a little more sensitive to something, but that

599
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 1: just because I've seen it. But it's still it's it's

600
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Speaker 1: a big company directive and like you don't have to

601
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: sit here and say you love it, but like you know,

602
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 1: don't go out of your way to insult it. Just see, hey, yeah,

603
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 1: if you if you say so, yeah, okay, yo go panthers.

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00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: Yeah you say panthers. I think uh, I think you know,

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Speaker 1: pitt panthers. You know, whatever you say say, what do

606
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 1: you want? I think like there's ways to do it

607
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Speaker 1: and not just make it seem like, wow, you just

608
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 1: really embarrassed ESPN and hockey fans everywhere. No, but that's it,

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00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 1: Dragon Cash, categorically dismissing what is obviously a big property.

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Speaker 1: I think the total total built was two point eight

611
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Speaker 1: billion dollars for the rights, So you know, I'm sure

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00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: there's a meeting room. And the producer did a bad

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Speaker 1: job on this. And for Kevin Brown should have realized

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Speaker 1: after the first time he said it just layout, Ben layout.

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Speaker 1: Let me let me just finish this. I'll do a read,

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Speaker 1: I'll do the time again. Uh and we'll be done. Yeah.

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00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 1: I've got a full chapter or three in my eventual

618
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: memoir about very much fantasy kind of being cast aside

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Speaker 1: as the little brother when they until they realized how

620
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Speaker 1: much money it generated. Oh and then everybody embraced gambling,

621
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Speaker 1: which was waiting after everybody on my legs. Now everybody

622
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Speaker 1: right on the back of the fantasy land, and I

623
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Speaker 1: was that. Look, Kurt Warner was a great dude to

624
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Speaker 1: talk about. I'm like, okay, but you don't need to

625
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 1: as a lot of those players did didn't like you

626
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: used to have to try to explain to them the

627
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: difference between you know, how that bridge happens and and

628
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 1: why fans were buying jerseys of guys charity. They drives

629
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Speaker 1: that started to happen because of a winning fantasy season.

630
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Speaker 1: It's like, all right, a couple bucks to his favorite charity,

631
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 1: thank you, and you get all that stuff pushed. There

632
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: was a lot to it that they tried to dismiss,

633
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: and then eventually I think they realized a lot of

634
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 1: their checks were dependent on those, you know, fantasy people

635
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Speaker 1: sticking around exit out about a Fresco exit swollen dome.

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Speaker 1: Jason Smith Mike Carmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.

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Speaker 1: Time now to find out what's trending in the wide

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Speaker 1: world of sports from a guy who it's just been

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Speaker 1: announced he will pitch the eighth inning of Dodger playoff games. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's Isaac Lohenkron. Just whatever can you throw?

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Speaker 4: Like forty I low kilometers per hourkilometers knots, forty knots.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, nice.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, most people's change up is my super So I'm

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Speaker 4: I'm plotting sort of an ephis pitch like trajectory, just

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Speaker 4: parachuting in there, cross your fingers and leave the rest

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Speaker 4: up to fate. Twelve to six like Chicago Software. Oh

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Speaker 4: that's right. Of course, you could time that twelve to

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Speaker 4: six with the sundial. But you know, we'll take what

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Speaker 4: we can get if you're a fan of the bullpen. Indeed,

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Speaker 4: in Game two of the National League Wildcard Round on

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Speaker 4: Wednesday evening, the Los Angeles Dodgers did advance to the

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Speaker 4: National League Division Series with an eight to four victory

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Speaker 4: over the Cincinnati Reds. Of the Dodgers take the Wild

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Speaker 4: Card Round two games to none. Mookie Betts four hits,

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Speaker 4: three doubles, three RBI. Yoshinobu Yamamoto struck out nine and

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Speaker 4: six and two third scoreless innings for the wins. Of

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Speaker 4: the Dodgers advanced to the National League Division Series against

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Speaker 4: the Philadelphia Phillies and guys. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts announcing

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Speaker 4: after the game show, Hey, O'tani will be the Dodgers

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Speaker 4: starting pitcher in Game one at Philadelphia on Saturday. So

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Speaker 4: that's gonna be Otani's first rear postseason appearance on the mound.

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Speaker 1: Has he named the bullpen pitchers yet for that game?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he kind of buried the lead with that one,

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Speaker 4: and the bullpen pitchers are everybody. Earlier Wednesday, the New

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Speaker 4: York Yankees forced to decide in Game three with a

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Speaker 4: four to three win over the Boston Red Sox. They

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Speaker 4: were tied three to three in the bottom of the

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Speaker 4: eighth inning. Austin Wells of the Yankees at the plate,

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Speaker 4: and here was Dave Simms on WFA N three.

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Speaker 1: Two pitch Jess runs, pitch, swing on light, right right there,

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Speaker 1: fair ball pick up, shas coming right third, Rohus waiting

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Speaker 1: Jess coming down the line. Here's the throne of the plate,

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Speaker 1: the slides he is, he is there, he's in there.

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Speaker 1: The Yankees hot the lead. It's four three, New York.

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Speaker 1: I'm standing up in the studio.

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Speaker 4: That didn't sound like Susan anyway. The deciding Game three

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Speaker 4: between the Yankees at.

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Speaker 1: Red Sox tomorrow also Wednesday.

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Speaker 4: Also Wednesday, the Cleveland Guardians forced the deciding Game three

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Speaker 4: with a six to one win over the Detroit Tigers,

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Speaker 4: and the San Diego padre Is forced to decide in

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Speaker 4: Game three with a three nothing win over the Cubs

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Speaker 4: at Wrigley Field.

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Speaker 1: I'm standing up in the studio. I'm having to guys,

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Speaker 1: I like that's a good promo.

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Speaker 4: The rundown Tomorrow Tigers, Cleveland three O eight Eastern, Padres

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Speaker 4: Cubs five O eight Eastern Yankees, Red Sox eight oh

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Speaker 4: eight Eastern on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, guys, Thank you, ILove great stuff tonight.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Hello. Coming up next, Yeah, who's walking away with

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Speaker 1: Game three between the Red Sox and the Yankees. Will

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Speaker 1: tell you end when a Dodger celebration goes a little

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Speaker 1: bit wrong. You'll hear the audio coming up next right here,

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Speaker 1: Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 1: I got the Dodge bullpen on my mind. Three guys

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Speaker 1: can't throw it all. One for the ninth inning. No

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Speaker 1: one else can pitch it all the Dodgers bullpen.

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Speaker 2: Dodgers bullpen.

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Speaker 1: It's not just a bullpen, but their defense is really bad.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best

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Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, I would destroy Papa Doc. So

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Speaker 1: Dodgers beat the Philly Dodgers beat the Reds tonight. They

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Speaker 1: looking ahead, They draw the Phillies in the next round,

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Speaker 1: and clearly the Phillies. Every single bit of strategy is

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Speaker 1: just go as deep into every count as you can.

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Speaker 1: Foul off it, get the starting pitchers out of the game,

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Speaker 1: because when we get this bullpen, we are gonna feast.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be like in a zombie movie where all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, like you know, one of this, we

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Speaker 1: catch one of the slow ones. Ah, that's it. All

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Speaker 1: the guts are all that we are gonna feast that

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Speaker 1: Dodger bullpen right Sasaki is their closing. This is how

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Speaker 1: desperate the Dodgers are. He has pitched a grand total

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Speaker 1: of three innings since he came back from the injured list.

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Speaker 1: Two holds last week ended the regular season, and he

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Speaker 1: came in to pitch the ninth inning tonight after the

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Speaker 1: bullpen almost gave it away again for the second night

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Speaker 1: in a row. Three batters, two strikeouts, a soft lineout.

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Speaker 1: He's their closer the rest of the playoffs. That's how

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Speaker 1: desperate the Dodgers are. Sasaki is now their closer the

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Speaker 1: rest of the play because there's nobody else you can trust. Right,

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Speaker 1: So maybe he made a desperate maybe crazy like a fox,

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Speaker 1: and you just stumble into something good. Right, You go

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Speaker 1: out going, I don't want to meet anybody, I don't

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Speaker 1: want to talk anybody, and all of a sudden, you

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Speaker 1: have one of the best nights of your life. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be Kershaw on the eighth and Sasaki in the ninth.

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Speaker 1: Churser was not even on the roster this time around.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be coming out of the ball. I dig this,

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Speaker 1: So that's gonna happen. Right, the Phillies, I mean at

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Speaker 1: the Phillies are They are just foaming at the mouth

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Speaker 1: to get at this Dodger bullpen. Now, before that thought,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the Dodgers celebration tonight. This is great.

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Speaker 1: After the game, Dave Roberts talking to the to the

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Speaker 1: team about celebrating and uh, you know, hey, congratulating team.

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Speaker 1: But but Walsall wants him to know, Hey, they're not

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Speaker 1: nearly done. Now, listen to Dave Roberts as he is

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Speaker 1: giving his speech, and you hear as he's still talking,

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Speaker 1: the champagne corks popping prematurely with Dodger players. Well, Dave

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Speaker 1: Roberts is talking. Take a listen. My only ass is.

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Speaker 6: Every single guy being ready to keep your minds like

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Speaker 6: we're gonna need every single one.

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Speaker 1: We need our focus. I mean, everybody's gonna need to

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Speaker 1: be ready.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 1: First of all, A couple of things, A couple of things.

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Speaker 1: First of all, what Roberts is doing. He's telling everybody

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Speaker 1: you all might need to pitch at some point. Freeman,

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Speaker 1: Betsy K you know what, Ray my guy, you might be.

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Speaker 1: You might be my seventh inning guy. You to Kershawan,

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Speaker 1: all right, so let you know, hey, get ready. But

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Speaker 1: you hear the popping of the court. And you know

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Speaker 1: what made me think of is that I'm sure you

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Speaker 1: did this in school, like when the period was going

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Speaker 1: to end, and like you looked at the clock and

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Speaker 1: you knew what time the bell rang it in school

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Speaker 1: and the teacher is talking and you just don't want

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Speaker 1: to do anymore. So like you push your chair in

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Speaker 1: in front of you or something, or you squeak back

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Speaker 1: in your chair. And because once one person hears it,

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Speaker 1: they're all gonna get up and like the no one's

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Speaker 1: gonna pay attention to the teacher anymore. So that's something

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Speaker 1: is they're just like popping the cork. Dave, you gotta finish, Dave,

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Speaker 1: you gotta finish. You got to finish, ready to held

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Speaker 1: out as long as they could. Damn it, I didn't

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Speaker 1: think he was gonna speak. Dave, you gotta finish, Dave, Dave,

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Speaker 1: you gotta be done, Dave, Dave, you gotta be done.

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Speaker 1: Play it one more time. I want to hear exactly

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Speaker 1: how many Champagne corks we pop before they yell and

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Speaker 1: he's done. Go ahead, let's play one more time.

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Speaker 3: Done, one, one, three, five the.

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Speaker 4: Day.

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Speaker 1: If you're done, man, we're done listening to you. We

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Speaker 1: love you, but we're done listening. But you can just

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Speaker 1: see it like they're they're working to take the to

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Speaker 1: the court. It's like he's still going. It's like, ah,

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Speaker 1: the pressure's built up again. So Dodgers Phillies get going

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Speaker 1: before that. We have we have three game threes tomorrow

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Speaker 1: until we talked about it earlier on taking the Tigers

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Speaker 1: to win. To look, they can't leave fifteen guys on base. Again,

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Speaker 1: they're the better team. The Guardians can't hit it all,

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Speaker 1: which makes me mad. They're in the playoffs, uh elsewhere.

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Speaker 1: I will give you this. I will give you the

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Speaker 1: Padres and their bullpen get it done against the Cubs,

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Speaker 1: and because they let them up off the mat, they

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Speaker 1: score a ton of runs tomorrow they move on to

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Speaker 1: the next round of the playoffs. Give me the Yankees

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Speaker 1: over the Red Sox. The Red Sox had a chance,

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Speaker 1: they got conservative, they they played terrible tonight. They gave

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Speaker 1: the game to the Yankees. That general doesn't happen where

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Speaker 1: a team gives a game away and comes back the

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Speaker 1: next night on the road and does it. I'll take

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Speaker 1: the Yankees to win tomorrow and they go on to

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Speaker 1: the next oooh, there you go. All right, I've got

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Speaker 1: the Tigers, I've got the Cubs, and then I've got

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Speaker 1: the Red Cubs. You're a White Sox fan. You can't

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Speaker 1: pick the Cubs. Dude, you can't do that. I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna let you do it, Okay, And then the implied

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Speaker 1: odds thus far came out. Dodgers and Phil's Phills fifty

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Speaker 1: six percent odds to win that series exit out about

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Speaker 1: a Fresco exit, swollen dome for Mike. I'm Jason, my

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Speaker 1: buddy Ben Maller coming up next. This is Fox