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Speaker 1: S lead. This hour is from a Viva Las Vegas

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Speaker 1: lot of chatter. We talked about it in a previous

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Speaker 1: episode of the show about the future of Max Crosby

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Speaker 1: multiple reports indicating that he thinks Tom Brady's the Devil

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Speaker 1: incarnate and wants out of Las Vegas because of Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady and doesn't want to do anything involving Brady and

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. Well, the Raiders do what they're really

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Speaker 1: good at, and I'm convinced they're fan base. There's a

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Speaker 1: percentage of Raider fans that are really stupid, and they

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Speaker 1: they buy every one of these coaching hires. I've been

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Speaker 1: doing this since the race I've been on Fox. They

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Speaker 1: actually won. They won the AFC. I was on the

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Speaker 1: air there was a super Bowl that was played. The

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Speaker 1: Raiders were in the Super Bowl and that was a

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Speaker 1: generation plus ago. Okay, and the Raiders have they been

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Speaker 1: master masters of changing coaches, been really good at changing coaches.

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Speaker 1: And I am continually fascinated by how stupid some people are.

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Speaker 1: They hire these coach. Oh, this guy's the guy, this

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Speaker 1: guy the guy. What do you how do you get

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Speaker 1: out of bed? Maybe you don't, You're that dumb. It's unbelievable,

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Speaker 1: it's really so. Anyway, the latest dope the Raiders. Hiders

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Speaker 1: coach Clinck Kobiak, the net Bow Baby, he was introduced

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Speaker 1: the Raiders again. They don't win championships, but they're really

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Speaker 1: good at welcoming, welcoming coaches and bringing back the Raider Legends,

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Speaker 1: who at this point all need wheelchairs and walkers. But

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Speaker 1: they brought back the race legends. Baby. They brought him back.

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Speaker 1: And the story here, Who cares about Clint Kubiak. You'll

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Speaker 1: be fired in a couple years anyway, These guys don't last.

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Speaker 1: But the story is Max Crosby in the future of

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Speaker 1: Max Crosby with the Silver and Black and the new Raiders.

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Speaker 1: The coach Clint Kubiak addressing the Komodo Dragon in the

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Speaker 1: room at the Raider News compings, I don't he saw

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Speaker 1: this or not? Maybe not, but Kubiak affirming that he

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Speaker 1: wants Max Crosby to remain with the Raiders. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: it would have been a better story if he said, no,

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Speaker 1: I think this guy's a stiff Max Crosby. I can't

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Speaker 1: stand the guy. You know, he's got bo He didn't

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Speaker 1: say that, though the quote was Kubiak. He said, quote,

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Speaker 1: we want him to be a part of our success

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Speaker 1: going forward. There's no doubt about that. Apparently the editors.

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Speaker 1: But these guys can't wait to leave the building. By

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Speaker 1: the way I come in here, it's like a mad

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Speaker 1: dashing out here. It's like they must get cooties or something.

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Speaker 1: People work here so basic. I'm old enough when they

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Speaker 1: actually used to want to work here and stay and

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Speaker 1: do their anyway. We appaently we have that sound. So

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Speaker 1: let's go to the audio tape. Here we go. You've

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Speaker 1: spoken to Max Crosby, and I see a guy you

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Speaker 1: could see anchoring your defense here for years to come.

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Speaker 1: I did you know question coffee with Max? This morning?

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Speaker 3: We had coffee both him and you know, look forward

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Speaker 3: to continuing those conversations.

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Speaker 1: He was I think he was the first one in here.

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Speaker 1: That's more thing working out, so I fired me up.

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Speaker 1: That's because he's too too cheap to build his own

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Speaker 1: early to work, all right. So that's a good jumping

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Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question did Clint Kubiak

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Speaker 1: we had a nice coffee with Max Crosby. Does that

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Speaker 1: close the door on the raiders trading Max Crosby. So

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Speaker 1: I've got Joey the Bellman, cat Scratch and waffle Cone,

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Speaker 1: we're going to do. So a let's just start with this.

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Speaker 1: We've got the Mallard Dakota Ring, and the Mallard Dakota

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Speaker 1: Ring just hit over drive, is what it did here.

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Speaker 1: And it's screaming. You know what's screaming? Pop goes Louise All,

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Speaker 1: the first person in the building? Is it the Clinton

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Speaker 1: Clint Kubiak taking shots at the Raiders quarterback. If I

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Speaker 1: The headline would be Raiders coach knocks Geno Smith, who's

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Speaker 1: giving the state of the Max Crosby address, which was

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Speaker 1: really the company line is what it was here. And

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Speaker 1: these comments were not a commitment, they were not They

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Speaker 1: were more like a classified ad disguised as a compliment.

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Speaker 1: And it's all niceties And a lot of these questions

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Speaker 1: that's what these coaching hires are. That's what you get.

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Speaker 1: But Kubiak didn't just leave the door open the way

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Speaker 1: I interpret these comments. The new temporary Raiders coach, he

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Speaker 1: laid out the red carpet, he put on some white gloves.

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Speaker 1: He acted like Joey the bellman at the Rich Carlton,

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Speaker 1: our friend Joey the bellman there and right there at

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Speaker 1: the Ritz Carlton, ushering more trade talk, all right, more

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Speaker 1: trade talk, and leading you right into the penthouse suite

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Speaker 1: and saying, all right, listen, I was settling. I got

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Speaker 1: lemonade on the counter, and feel free to browse the

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Speaker 1: mini bar. It's all on the house. Welcome, Welcome, fellas.

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Speaker 1: So in the world of coach speak, and oh what

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Speaker 1: a world it is. The world of coach speak. Being

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Speaker 1: part of our success is a massive cavernous umbrella. When

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Speaker 1: you saw we think he'll be part of our success.

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Speaker 1: On one hand, let's play that game. On one hand,

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Speaker 1: a gaggle of bingo cards. And those, of course the

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Speaker 1: draft capital, which you love. You love your little draft picks.

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Speaker 1: You get all hearty for your draft picks. So both

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Speaker 1: and switch in many many respects. That buttering up the

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Speaker 1: unless there's a surprise name. Max Crosby is the crown

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Speaker 1: jewel of the NFL offseason of players likely to be moved.

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Speaker 1: And Kubiak already eyeing the pawn shop down the down

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Speaker 1: give you money. Yeah, I'm sure that's not crooked at all. No,

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Speaker 1: all right, not Page two to Pittsburg, PA, The Land

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Speaker 1: of the Inzer, Pittsburgh, PA. There up day update on

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Speaker 1: the Steeler quarterback situation. So from what we're reading here,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers are hot and heavy. They want Aaron Rodgers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they want Aaron Rodgers to return in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Now why would they want Aaron Rodgers? And your guess

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Speaker 1: He's never in a hurry when he's eating brunch. And

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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy's not in a hurry in terms of rushing

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. This comes amid reports, very vague reports from

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Speaker 1: Terry Bradshaw of all people who claim to have never

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Speaker 1: met Mike Tomlin when Tomlin was the coach in Pittsburg.

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Speaker 1: But now Terry Bradshaw making some comments recently about that

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Speaker 1: content they being the Pittsburgh Steelers, to focus on Will Howard.

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Speaker 1: That's good, that's funny. Yeah, that's what they're leaking to

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Speaker 1: cat scratch fever, is what it is. Right there. They've

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Speaker 1: determination after a minute long deliberation. The Steelers have been bitten.

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Speaker 1: They're itchy. They keep going back to the same alley

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Speaker 1: of relevance, and I support that. I think that's great,

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Speaker 1: unlike all these other teams that continue to sell rotten

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Speaker 1: Give us five years, will be good, and then five years, oh,

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Speaker 1: give us another five years will be good. Yeah. So really,

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Speaker 1: these Steelers, though, have settled into the mediocrity land, the

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Speaker 1: land of mediocrity. They're addicted to it. And Mike Tomlin

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Speaker 1: he's gone. The disease remains. It's called ten to seven disease.

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Speaker 1: once in a while it's called eleven six disease. And

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Speaker 1: twenty or more points. That's a wash, rinse and repeat

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Speaker 1: another darkness retreat. Maybe he's on his hontingmoon with his

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Speaker 1: It's flying solo, but he went on a nice sonning moon.

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Speaker 1: you get all excited. And the odds are better though,

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Speaker 1: the Mather of sportsbook odds are better that Verlander will

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Speaker 1: miss not one but two months of the baseball season

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Speaker 1: with injury. The odds are better that that happens than

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Speaker 1: he wins ten games. You're such a boomer who cares

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Speaker 1: about wins. It's about the nerd stats.

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Speaker 2: All.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's just the malle mat. The other part of this, though,

431
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,640
Speaker 1: is branding. It's all about the branding there, and that

432
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Speaker 1: is where this is a big time move here, justin

433
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:50,200
Speaker 1: Verlander under the branding umbrella for the Tigers becomes priceless.

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Speaker 1: Heartstrings marketing. That's what this is. It's heartstrings marketing. Roll

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Speaker 1: out the nostalgia machine and take it out of the

436
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Speaker 1: garage and roll it out there a soft piano, misty

437
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 1: eyes right, Oh, Fertilander, he's back in the old English D.

438
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 1: He's back. Get the acoustic guitar. Childhood flashbacks when you

439
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,639
Speaker 1: were a little kid, and you watch the Erlander on

440
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: the mon oh Man, got that vintage unif they still

441
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: wear the same old English D on the home uniform,

442
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 1: it's the same thing, slow motion fist pumps. You'll leave

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00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 1: out the highlights of the Tigers with Verlander choking in

444
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: the World series, You'll leave those out. But the commercials

445
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,679
Speaker 1: write themselves. The commercials write themselves. And again, though, to

446
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 1: answer the question, am I writing the Justin Verlander hype trained? True? True? No,

447
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 1: I'm standing on the platform. I'm going to see what's

448
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 1: in the vending machines, and I'm watching the Amtrak nostalgia

449
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,119
Speaker 1: caboose roll by, And that's where I am on this

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Speaker 1: particular story. But Verlander is not, and has not been

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Speaker 1: for a number of years, a front line guy. That's

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Speaker 1: how it's supposed to work. In your mid forties. Almost

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00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 1: at this point, Verlander is a museum exhibit. The Tigers

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00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 1: just added a traveling museum exhibit. When I was at

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00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 1: the Radio Row thing, we chatted with Jim Gray, and

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00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,399
Speaker 1: Jim Gray's got a museum in Vegas with Tom Brady,

457
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 1: and he might want to put Verlander in that museum. Now,

458
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,639
Speaker 1: Verlander will sell a lot of merch. They'll sell a

459
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 1: lot of merch. Business wise, it's a home run. So

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Speaker 1: the quote Verlander very valuable. He's valuable for the Detroit

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Speaker 1: Tigers gift shop. He's valuable for that. In terms of

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Speaker 1: on the field, No, a number five starter, and ten

463
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:39,439
Speaker 1: thousand things would have to go haywire for Verlander to

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Speaker 1: get key starts in the playoffs. Playoffs. Now page two

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Speaker 1: here as we continue our in depth team coverage talks

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Speaker 1: in baseball this hour, and we head now to Port

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00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 1: Saint Lucie, Florida. Not much going on in Port Saint

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00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 1: lucient Now, I'm been there in here, so maybe there's

469
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:56,400
Speaker 1: stuff going on there now, But when I was there,

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00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 1: sleepy Grapefruit League town and not a lot going on.

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Speaker 1: Not a lot going on there. So the Metropolitans getting started,

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00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:11,360
Speaker 1: the New York Metropolitans, and in classic Mets fashion, they

473
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Speaker 1: are tripping over themselves. Stumble bumps. They're stumble bumps here

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Speaker 1: and now, as we understand it, the Mets shortstop Francisco

475
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Speaker 1: Lindor is already hurt, not ready to go. He's got

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Speaker 1: a injured left hand and may may may need surgery. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Lindor has six years and almost two hundred million dollars

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Speaker 1: remaining on his Mega contract. Now in addition, One Soto,

479
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 1: the almost eight hundred million dollar man. One Soto will

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Speaker 1: no longer be playing right field for the Mets. They

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Speaker 1: have demoted him. Juan Soto, eight hundred million dollar ball player,

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Speaker 1: has been demoted to left field. More on that in

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Speaker 1: a minute. So question, do you fancy a thought? Do

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Speaker 1: you fancy a thought on the Mets possibly starting the

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Speaker 1: regular season without shortstop Francisco Lindor. Ok, So think about

486
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: this in terms of billiards. You ever mess you do?

487
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 1: You played billiards, right, You messed around with that. So

488
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 1: the Mets are on track to not run, They're on

489
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: track to walk into opening day already behind the eight ball,

490
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 1: behind the eight ball, chalk flying everywhere, pockets empty, and

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Speaker 1: you look at it. For Lindor. The hand surgery, which

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Speaker 1: they're saying is they might not need surgery. In my experience,

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Speaker 1: I can count on one hand when a baseball team

494
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: says someone might need surgery. I can count on one

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00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 1: hand the times they don't actually end up getting surgery.

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Speaker 1: So the odds are heavily shifted towards the fact there's

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Speaker 1: gonna be surgery for Francisco Lindor, and that's going to

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Speaker 1: require a six week recovery. And I know you got

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00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 1: the World Baseball Classics, so everything's kind of you know,

500
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 1: it's messed around. Everything's messed up with the calendar. And

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00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: that'll be another thing people complain about there, but using

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Speaker 1: not malormth but metmth. If Lindor waits to have surgery,

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Speaker 1: we are told he will. So let's look at the calendar.

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00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,719
Speaker 1: It's early February, and let's say we wait until early

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Speaker 1: March to decide to have surgery. Then you got to

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Speaker 1: schedule the surgery, hand surgery, six week recovery, so that

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Speaker 1: means Lindor will be back in the Mets lineup in

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Speaker 1: mid June. If the baseball gods are smiling mid June,

509
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: it's only six weeks. Your math is all messed up.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, I know, I know, because out of an

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Speaker 1: abundance of caution, the Mets are gonna go slow and study,

512
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Speaker 1: and you know. Then he comes back, He's go, well,

513
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 1: you gotta have a rehab assignment, got to reboot, got

514
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: a reboot, all that stuff. And you just can't plug

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00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: Lindor back in. It's not like an iPhone. You can't

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00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: just charge him like an iPhone. No, no, no. And

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00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: then in my crystal ball, Lindor will come back to

518
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: the Mets, will be batting about one seventy, hitting the

519
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: All Star break. It will be booed at the ballpark

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00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 1: there and flushing and because he's gonna have to shake

521
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 1: off the rust right like an etch a sketch. You

522
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 1: gotta shake it off and all that stuff. I meanwhile,

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00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: Juan Soto, this to me is not getting enough attention.

524
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: This is outstanding. So I realized that Sodo has played

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00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: left field in his career, but the fact that he's

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00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 1: one year into his Mets career, they're paying him eight

527
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars, and it is a demotion. Left field

528
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: is the easier position to play than certainly in that

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Speaker 1: ballpark with the Mets, then right field. So your eight

530
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 1: hundred million dollar ballplayer is like a you know, and

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Speaker 1: this is the Mets. You're saying, this is what he

532
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: wanted that wanted to play left field. Of course he does.

533
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: It's the lazy river on defense. It's kind of float

534
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: around there and collect checks and get ready for your

535
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: next to bats. So you can stand there and look

536
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 1: at five pitches and then walk down to first base

537
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: and then that's it and get your seven hundred and

538
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: sixty five million dollars a good life to get and

539
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: just ignore the whispers and all that stuff. Also, because

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00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:27,239
Speaker 1: there are some locker room and politics involved. Am I

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Speaker 1: going to say this is all karma, that karma's involved

542
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: in that, Well, it depends on what you believe in

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00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: that or not. But I do know the whispers out

544
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: of Gotham. The whispers out of Gotham have indicated that

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00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto put pressure on the Mets

546
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 1: front office to get rid of guys they didn't like.

547
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: Brandon Nimmo longtime Met was dispatched this offseason, Jeff McNeil,

548
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: he's not that good. But they got rid of Peede Alonzo.

549
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 1: They did not bring back the polar bear Pee Alonzo.

550
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: So all of those moves, the whispers are were made

551
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: in relation to the fact that Juan Soto and Francisco

552
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: Lindor didn't want those guys on the team, And so

553
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 1: there you go. The Mets looks like they're gonna start

554
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: with out Lindor and then you got Juan Soto Futson

555
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: around out there in left field. Now, final point, this

556
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 1: is next level, next level embezzlement in Major League baseball.

557
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: We go to Denver. We go to Denver now where

558
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,719
Speaker 1: the weather is cool and the baseball is bad. The

559
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 1: baseball is bad. Spring training starting this week. And is

560
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 1: it true that Rocky's first basement, Chris Bryant has already

561
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: already landed on the what used to be called the

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00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 1: disabled list, but it's now called the injured list. Is

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Speaker 1: it also true that Chris Bryant will miss the first

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Speaker 1: two months of the baseball season? Ding ding ding ding

565
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: ding ding ding ning. Yeah, he's going to be out

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Speaker 1: for at least the first fifty seven games of the

567
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Speaker 1: upcoming baseball season. Now, you might not know who Chris

568
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: Bryant is because he used to be good. He's decided

569
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 1: he no longer wants to participate in the big leagues,

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00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,839
Speaker 1: although he still likes those checks direct deposit every couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks. So question, how do you view Chris Bryant

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00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: and the return on investment, the ROI that he's providing

573
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Speaker 1: the Rockies with his latest revelation. So this is this

574
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 1: is a horror version of groundhog Day. It's the nightmare

575
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: version of groundhog Day. And instead of Bill Murray, we

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Speaker 1: get a guy collecting what is it, twenty six million

577
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Speaker 1: dollars to sit in a whirlpool on a yearly basis

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00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 1: or something like that. Bryant. According to the math, this

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Speaker 1: guy used to be a stud with the Cubs, and

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Speaker 1: all my friends in Chicago said, oh, Chris Bryant, Cubbs

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Speaker 1: are set. They got Schwarbs and Chris Bryan and they

582
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 1: got Hobby by as It. Oh my god, the Cubs.

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Speaker 1: The only one of those guys that turned out to

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Speaker 1: be legit is Kyle Schwarber, and he wasn't in Chicago

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00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 1: very long. Anyway. Back to the point, so if you

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Speaker 1: look at the math on this, I'll go to the

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Speaker 1: numbers here. Chris Bryant has played one hundred and seventy

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00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 1: games in four years. That is not a baseball career.

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00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,799
Speaker 1: That is a part time hobby. It's like, you know,

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00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:32,800
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go play golf. Maybe I'll play golf. I

591
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: don't know, forty times in a year. I might go

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00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 1: play golf, right, a couple times a month. It adds up,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe three times a month and all of

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00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:45,359
Speaker 1: a sudden, okay, you're over that. So three and a half,

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00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,320
Speaker 1: I guess would be the number on that. One hundred

596
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Speaker 1: and eighty two million. One hundred and eighty two million

597
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: dead presents the Rockies. They aren't paying for a silver Slugger.

598
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 1: They are paying for the world's most most expensive tourist.

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00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 1: Does he even have to claim residency in Colorado? Chris

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Speaker 1: Bryant at this point, and it's it's not an investment.

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00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: This is a historical grift by the former cub star

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00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 1: Chris Bryan. I know he spent some time briefly with

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00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:22,319
Speaker 1: the Giants and then went to Denver, but he didn't

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00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 1: come to Colorado to hit home runs. It's pretty clear

605
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: that Chris Bryan's goal was not to hit home runs.

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00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 1: He came there to get the golden parachute. And my god,

607
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 1: did he get the golden parachute. Here. It's got a

608
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 1: nice view there, got a view of the flatirons there

609
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 1: in Denver, and cash and checks and laughing and gotta

610
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: be blushing a little bit, right, So he won the

611
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:49,359
Speaker 1: lottery because he at one point was deemed pretty good.

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00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 1: Chris Bryant, He's I think the math I saw was

613
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: like over one hundred thousand dollars per plate appearance or something,

614
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: so stupid. It's so stupid, and one hundred thousand or

615
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand to pop up and walk

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00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: to the trainer's room and get some ice. So I said, well,

617
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: he's been diagnosed with degenerate back issues. Okay, that's great,

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00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 1: So why doesn't he retire? Well, of course he's not

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Speaker 1: going to retire because he's he's got the Rockies bent

620
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,800
Speaker 1: over the barrel, So why would he retire? And the

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Speaker 1: most amazing thing about this is that this is not

622
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: the greatest scam pulled off in Major League Baseball, not

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Speaker 1: even close. It's wild. It's like, you know, we believe

624
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: that Chris Bryant is a kiddy cat. In this case,

625
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:43,760
Speaker 1: he's a copycat. He's taking the Anthony Rendon blueprint from Anaheim.

626
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, I know I'm not gonna get as

627
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: much as you. You got like two hundred forty million,

628
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: but I'm hitting the Rockies for a buck eighty one

629
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty million dollars. So I got one hundred

630
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: and eighty two million dollars from these losers in Colorado.

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Speaker 1: I don't even have to play baseball. And Anthony Rendon's chuckling.

632
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: I screwed over the Angels more than you did the Rockies.

633
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 1: They can have dinner together, they can have a nice

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Speaker 1: dinner and trade notes on how they stuck it to

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Speaker 1: professional baseball teams and all that. So Bryant, you look

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Speaker 1: at his situation here. This is like a pension plant.

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Speaker 1: Most people have to get their pension based on like

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Speaker 1: it's like thirty years or something like that. This is

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Speaker 1: seven years, a seven year pension plan for Chris Bryant

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Speaker 1: of the Rockies there. And most people also have to

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Speaker 1: wait till they're like sixty five or in their sixties

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Speaker 1: to get that money. No, no, no, no. And he's

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Speaker 1: got a nice mountain view. He's retired to the mountains there,

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Speaker 1: Chris Bryant. So it's embarrassing. Is it offensive? Yeah, it's offensive.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like what Chris Bryant did. It is

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Speaker 1: one of the great griffs. He goes to the Rockies

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Speaker 1: they take him out, they wind him and dine him.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like going to that I guess John

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Speaker 1: Elways got this big steakhouse. And you in Denver, and

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Speaker 1: so you go to Elway's steak house there and you're like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: could I have that nice, big steak. I want the

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Speaker 1: biggest steak yet. Okay, sure, we'll give you that. And

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Speaker 1: then the waiter comes over and says, okay, we've got

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Speaker 1: the steak for you. And it's a photo of a

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Speaker 1: Porterhouse steak. I said, well, no, I wanted I wanted

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Speaker 1: to stay. Well, that's a steak. That's a photo of

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Speaker 1: a steak. That's essentially what the Rockies got. Now, I'm

658
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Speaker 1: not here to make this a sob store. The Rockies sock.

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Speaker 1: They've got bad ownership, they're in competent like all that

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Speaker 1: stuff's true. But still Chris Bryant like, no shame in

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Speaker 1: your game. I gotta tell you, I wish I was

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Speaker 1: wired like Chris Bryan and Anthony Rendon. I would feel

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Speaker 1: so guilty. I don't know how they do it. I

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Speaker 1: would feel like, oh my god, I'm not earning my

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Speaker 1: money and they don't have a care in the world.

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine being wired that way, but they're like that.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's it's crazy. It's like a breach of reality,

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Speaker 1: is what it is here. You know what they gotta do.

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Speaker 1: The Rocky's like, listen, I know you can't play baseball.

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Speaker 1: So what we're gonna do is we're gonna have Chris

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Speaker 1: mart We're gonna be you an orange vest and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have you pick up trash on the side of

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Speaker 1: I twenty five. We'll have you picked up some trash there.

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Speaker 1: At least you would be doing something to help out

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Speaker 1: not the Colorado Rockies, but the state of Colorado.

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

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

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Speaker 1: It's Mallard. How about that?

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Speaker 2: To the third degree?

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Speaker 1: This is one big vent gets grilled goo Belote.

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Speaker 5: As of right now, teams are only allowed to trade

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Speaker 5: draft picks up to three drafts. In the future, it

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Speaker 5: was reported on Tuesday that there will be a push

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Speaker 5: to increase that number to five.

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Speaker 2: Ben.

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Speaker 5: Should there be any sort of limits as to what

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Speaker 5: a team can trade.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there have to be because in the nineteen I

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Speaker 1: think it was the nineteen eighties, the Cleveland Cavaliers owner

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Speaker 1: traded all of their draft picks for years to come,

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Speaker 1: if I remember the story, and so they put all

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Speaker 1: the leagues put rules in because of that, So they

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Speaker 1: they do have to put some guidelines in. I think

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Speaker 1: five years seems fine and three's two little five seams

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Speaker 1: about right.

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Speaker 6: Next.

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Speaker 5: Clippers president Lawrence Frank recently addressed the future of Kawhi Leonard, saying, quote,

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Speaker 5: we definitely see a scenario where he's part of the

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Speaker 5: group going forward.

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Speaker 1: Ben, do you think Kawhi is going to be part

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Speaker 1: of this rebuild? It doesn't seem like it. I don't

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Speaker 1: think he's gonna want to stick around. And although he

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Speaker 1: doesn't show any emotion Kawhi Leonard, so it's hard to

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Speaker 1: get a read on him. He's just always kind of blah.

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Speaker 1: I would say the smart money is he's traded. How

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Speaker 1: about going back to San Antonio? Kawhi goes back to

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Speaker 1: the Spurs. Put that out there, Coop.

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Speaker 5: Next, it was reported on Monday that Lakers Jim rob

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Speaker 5: Polinka could get fired if the Lakers don't make a

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Speaker 5: deep postseason run this year.

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Speaker 1: Ben, do you think the Lakers will actually get rid

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Speaker 1: of Pelinka. Well, I don't think they're going to go

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Speaker 1: on a playoff run. I do know, having worked in radio,

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Speaker 1: when the boss changes at the radio station, everyone's like, okay,

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Speaker 1: we're time to get a new job. The Lakers were

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Speaker 1: bought by Mark Walter and he's gonna run the show,

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Speaker 1: and so he's gonna want to put his own person in.

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Speaker 1: So the chances are they gonna blow up the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: How do we do? Do you pass this that as

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Speaker 1: out of the bark? Bye? Bye, yes, tid I what?

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 2: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to

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Speaker 2: listen live.

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Speaker 1: It's of it bizes with lir Rain at night, clean up, hearts,

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Speaker 1: Gonna help you.

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Speaker 6: Dear Rye, gear Rye to night, dear right to night,

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Speaker 6: dear Rye.

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Speaker 7: That's right, you heard the man. It's time for love

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Speaker 7: here on the Ben Malor Show. And I just want

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Speaker 7: to touch base. Us girls have a lot of stuffed

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Speaker 7: animals already. So although his you know advice earlier, ghetto

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Speaker 7: stuffed animal bear say, life is unbearable without you. Imagine

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Speaker 7: if you got her a toy and every time she plays,

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Speaker 7: she thinks to you gotta be thoughtful.

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Speaker 1: I think toys r Us is out of business now

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Speaker 1: now they're coming back. Oh are they okay? Good late night,

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Speaker 1: drug tester writes, and he says, hey, Lorena with Outback

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Speaker 1: steakhouse being a great first date meal, any tips on

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Speaker 1: where to go for the second or third date? Asking

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Speaker 1: for a Mallard Militia member in Greenwood, Louisiana.

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Speaker 6: Well, a second date could be something, ye, hi, you

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Speaker 6: could do. I can't wait to make my little drop best.

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Speaker 7: After the first one, you know, because the first date

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Speaker 7: you should drop a little bit of money. The second

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Speaker 7: date you could do something a little easier, so walking

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Speaker 7: out and about.

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Speaker 1: Maybe an hour, like a coffee.

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Speaker 7: Dat right, That's what I'm saying, something a little more short.

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Speaker 7: You can get a little milkshake or a coffee. But

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Speaker 7: then the third date, if you have cooking skills, maybe

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Speaker 7: lay something down in the kitchen.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you I learned. I did not know

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Speaker 1: how to cook, Lorena when I was dating, but I learned.

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Speaker 1: I used to eat like TV dinners when I.

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Speaker 6: Was Oh yeah, no, TV dinner is not the business.

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Speaker 6: Shore how you do it.

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Speaker 1: I gotta cook a little bit now, kitchen, Now, Mike

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Speaker 1: down that meat.

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Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Mikey the Insomniac writes, and he says, you know why

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Speaker 1: I hate one night stands Lorena? Because he says, because

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Speaker 1: I have to spend so much time with her. That's

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Speaker 1: a Mikey the Insomniak. He say, I love I love you, Lorena.

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Speaker 1: That's our buddy, Mikey in Tampa. It's great, all right,

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Speaker 1: BP rights, and he says, do I have to get

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Speaker 1: my friend with benefits a gift for Valentine's Day? Well,

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Speaker 1: this is a great question, Lorena, because you know guys

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Speaker 1: get the friends with benefits, But you know you're not

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Speaker 1: really like in a relationships.

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Speaker 7: No, but if you want to keep getting your benefits,

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Speaker 7: you should probably show her that you care about the benefits.

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Speaker 1: Does that then cross the boundary of the friend with

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Speaker 1: benefits territory? If you're giving them again.

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Speaker 6: You do not believe, so I think it is a

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Speaker 6: nice gesture.

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Speaker 1: Interesting. Eke in Roseziale, Minnesota, writes in The Queen of

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Speaker 1: Hearts with Lorena many moons ago, Valentino, quite the ladies

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Speaker 1: man told me if she smells like provolone. Leave her alone?

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Speaker 7: Well, the doctor seuse of it all makes sense? Really

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Speaker 7: though she smells like cheese. You should probably have her

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Speaker 7: go to the doctor. It's on a good sign.

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Speaker 1: I get some some medication there. JT. The Wingman says,

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Speaker 1: is it tacky to wear underwear with your ex girlfriend's

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Speaker 1: face on it for Valentine's Day?

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Speaker 7: I've always wanted to do one of those gifts? How

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Speaker 7: funny would that be?

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Speaker 1: You? Miss me?

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Speaker 7: And also that's probably the closest she will ever be

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Speaker 7: to your junk again.

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Speaker 1: So wow, okay, Mike writes, is happy early Valentine's Day.

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Speaker 1: If your love interest has to go on a business

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Speaker 1: trip for up to a year, should you invest in

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Speaker 1: a long term relationship?

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Speaker 7: Yes, you should also invest in good communication and uh

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Speaker 7: draw nice lines on what you expect because long distance.

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Speaker 1: So Mike the leprecaunt who's very long distance?

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Speaker 6: Oh right with his mail order bride?

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Speaker 1: Oh? How dare you? How dare you? She's a lovely lady.

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Speaker 1: My apologies to her, Lady Sideburns writes in uh, want's

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Speaker 1: a very specific question, very personal question, Laurre, I don't

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Speaker 1: know I want to answer? Ask that on the earth

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Speaker 1: skip that one. Uh, Ferg Dog says, what's a good

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Speaker 1: idea for a first date for a guy with a

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Speaker 1: foot fetish?

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Speaker 6: Oh, that's a really good gosh.

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Speaker 7: You could go frolicking through the flowers to go to

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Speaker 7: a like a masseuse thing.

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Speaker 1: Right, foot lockers still in business?

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Speaker 6: First, take her shopping for shoes. That's an idea. I

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Speaker 6: like that to a spa.

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Speaker 1: Ferg Dog will stand outside the windows, just staring in

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Speaker 1: the shoe store.

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Speaker 6: Ask her if you could just sniff him for a while.

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Speaker 6: I'm sure she'd like.

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Speaker 1: The coach of the Jets back of the day.

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

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

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Speaker 2: and the password.

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Speaker 1: Is password, you idiot, password the word Game of the Stars.

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Speaker 1: Here's Ben Meller. Let's do it. We have our contestants.

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Speaker 1: We've got Eric, the chef in Minneapolis is going to play.

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Speaker 1: Hello Eric, welcome, big bad. How you doing what's going

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Speaker 1: on with you're cooking today? Eric?

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Speaker 3: To work a little breakfast.

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Speaker 1: Eggs Corby. All right, I got you, all right, very good.

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Speaker 1: Hold on, you're gonna play the game. Am We have

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Speaker 1: Anie Meenie money Mo. Daniel in Fort Wayne. Hello Daniel,

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Speaker 1: America's favorite crossing guard. Hello Daniel, good morning man.

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Speaker 7: I'm committed to play this game.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say stupid stuff to stall it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, good Eric? Who do you want to partner up with?

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Speaker 2: Her?

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Speaker 1: You got me? You got Lorena or Coop?

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Speaker 2: Well? I won last week, so let's do it again.

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Speaker 1: Oh you played last week? I don't even remember. Man,

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Speaker 1: you can't be played every week. We got to get

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Speaker 1: new people in here. We'll let you play this time, though.

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Speaker 1: Take a break after this though. All right, all yeah,

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Speaker 1: ain't give me bow guarding the game. You remember that

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Speaker 1: I try to block out the show. I'm embarrassed by

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Speaker 1: h Daniel. Who would you like to partner up with? Daniel?

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Speaker 2: And I have to go with you.

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Speaker 1: A minute to win it? All right, we're gonna win it, Daniel.

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Speaker 1: Don't worry about that. I have a list of words.

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Speaker 1: Please pick.

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Speaker 5: And it wasn't last week because Ben won last week.

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Speaker 5: I just I just listened to that.

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Speaker 1: Wait, quite a game, all right, go Eric, Eric, pick.

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Speaker 5: Number four number okay, uh, let's go with I think

851
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:24,919
Speaker 5: you were supposed to go first, but that's all right,

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00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:28,280
Speaker 5: was well, okay, it was on first?

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00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 1: Was what you want?

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00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:30,240
Speaker 6: Eric was on first?

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00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 1: He was okay, all right, so listening, let's go with

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00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 1: let's go with tease?

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00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:53,839
Speaker 3: Uh, strip, how about uh hmmm, let's see here.

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00:48:53,880 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: Let's go with footsie. That's a good one. I'm sorry,

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00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: what was the cool again? Foote?

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Speaker 2: Fun?

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00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:09,919
Speaker 1: What do you say fun? No, that would be fun.

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00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 1: But let's try to seduce. That's not bad.

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Three? Two? No, I don't know. I'm gonna throw it out.

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00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 1: It was flirt, Daniel, pick a number please?

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00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 2: Three?

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00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 7: Uh.

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00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 1: Let's see here. Let's go with end, end like it's

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00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: the end of the show. The word was expired. The

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00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 1: word was expired a tie, they'll say, don't say you guys,

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Speaker 1: you're part of the show. I blame you of arena.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm