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Speaker 1: Here's Bob Nightingale. Let's talk about it, Bob with us

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Speaker 1: right now. We appreciate the time. Is always good to

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Speaker 1: see you, Bob. And you kind of nailed it the

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Speaker 1: other day when you were talking about the possibility of

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Speaker 1: the Tigers and from Ribaldez and how that would be

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Speaker 1: a pretty beautiful marriage for a team that really needs

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Speaker 1: to push their chips in this year.

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Speaker 2: So can you elaborate?

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Speaker 1: And I'm guessing you weren't surprised necessarily to see them

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Speaker 1: land him, were you?

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Speaker 3: And I still thought you go to Baltimorials. I think

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Speaker 3: Doyls really need them. But that was a very smart

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Speaker 3: and the Tiger's part, like okay, and we know they're

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Speaker 3: not going to, you know, re sign Trek's Scuball and

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Speaker 3: now they have the race set up and the things

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Speaker 3: go aside aways this summer. You know it couldn't move them,

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Speaker 3: but you know things would have to go really bad.

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Speaker 3: I love them move I just thought I was being

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Speaker 3: a aggressive and now they got their guy to replace

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Speaker 3: Cherk's Scuball for you know, next year.

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Speaker 1: What did you think about the timing, Bob, where you

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Speaker 1: have the Trek Schoogle case looming by the time many

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Speaker 1: people watch this will have an answer on the schoopl case.

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Speaker 1: So the arbitration hearing had already happened, and now the

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Speaker 1: decision usually comes about twenty four hours later. So did

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Speaker 1: you think there was anything to that with them signing

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Speaker 1: from her after the sides already exchanged their arguments, or

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Speaker 1: it was completely coincidental that finally on February fourth in

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Speaker 1: the evening, Framberg gets the offer that he wants.

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Speaker 4: I think it's just a straight coincidence. I really do.

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Speaker 3: And you know, I think they've been working on this

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Speaker 3: for a while, very quiet, So okay, we got to

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Speaker 3: have a got a replace Scooble at some point. So no,

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Speaker 3: I just think, you know, worse comes to worse. They'rebout

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Speaker 3: thirteen million dollars, but you know they do have the

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Speaker 3: race for twenty twenty seven and maybe twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 4: Too, So no, I just think as a coincidence, I

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Speaker 5: You mentioned the Orioles before is where he thought he

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Speaker 5: was going to land. Any inclination of if they were

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Speaker 5: going you know, maybe longer term obviously lower A a V,

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Speaker 5: or if there was like a level that they were

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Speaker 5: just like, we're not going over.

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Speaker 3: I think they were gonna go short term as well.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they did offer five years for Ranger Swarez. Uh,

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Speaker 3: but I think in this case teams were kind of

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Speaker 3: back and off a little bit like, Okay, he's thrown

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Speaker 3: a lot of innings, but what in her nine innings

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Speaker 3: the last four years?

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Speaker 6: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Do we have some concerns about the arm So I

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Speaker 3: don't think he was going to get a long term deal.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 3: I think everybody you talk to, you we're talking about

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Speaker 3: short term.

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Speaker 4: So even though he wanted, you know, the only.

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Speaker 3: Sea stock contract seven and you know to ten, it

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Speaker 3: wasn't gonna.

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Speaker 5: Happen based on you just said Ranger Suarez too. What

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Speaker 5: do you think is a bigger miss for the Orioles?

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Speaker 5: The the fact that oh the crime dog McGriff, what's up?

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Speaker 5: Guess the biggest the biggest smile?

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Speaker 7: Tell fred? I said, hello, Fred, I owe you man.

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Speaker 4: I couldn't take care of yet the All Star Game

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Speaker 4: last year. So once Bob told me he was.

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Speaker 7: Coming home, like I gotta break in, I got it

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Speaker 7: because dog man, oh listen, you owe me around to

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Speaker 7: go forget this. I need to get over to when

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Speaker 7: I'm in Tampa. I'm gonna need to hit you up

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Speaker 7: for like om or somewhere nice. So just know that

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Speaker 7: call is coming.

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Speaker 6: That's the deal.

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Speaker 4: I you.

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Speaker 5: Drop in by Fred McGriff who everybody's listening, everybody's watching obviously,

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Speaker 5: by the way, yeah yeah, easily the greatest smile on

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Speaker 5: the game. But anyway, my question was My question was

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Speaker 5: who do the Orioles miss on bigger not signing Ranger

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Speaker 5: there is there is a bigger there's a bigger miss

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Speaker 5: based on how I think it would fit into their rotation.

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Speaker 4: I think bigger miss on Framber, I really do.

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Speaker 3: I thought he was the best free agent starter on

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Speaker 3: the uh, you know, even more than a Cease. So

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Speaker 3: you know, I'm stunning it. Get one of those two guys,

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Speaker 3: and now you got to wonder. I know they've talked

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Speaker 3: to Zach Gollan. You know, Zach Gowan would make perfect

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Speaker 3: sense too. He does have a qualifying offer attached to him,

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Speaker 3: So we'll see if they go that route.

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Speaker 7: Bob, we talked about it yesterday and tell me that

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Speaker 7: we were crazy. Where were the Pittsburgh Pirates on this?

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Speaker 7: Were they close? Because every big free agent we keep hearing, Oh,

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Speaker 7: they're aggressively pursuing Kyle Schwarber, They're progressively pursuing Trek Schouoble

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Speaker 7: arbitration wise, they're you know, aggressively pursuing Dylan Sees from

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Speaker 7: Raveled as Pete Alonso, name every free agent. But they

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Speaker 7: never get to that point right where they're actually are they.

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Speaker 7: I mean, they might be in the running, but they've

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Speaker 7: never gotten to the point where like, hey, we're really

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Speaker 4: It's almost like together the Tigers went on the radar.

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Speaker 3: It seems like, you really want a guy, you don't

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Speaker 3: publicize it.

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Speaker 4: So I'm with you.

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Speaker 3: It was like, you know, they want to tell everybody,

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Speaker 3: hey we tried, we you know, missed out, we got this,

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Speaker 3: but you know they end.

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Speaker 4: Up doing anything with it. You're gonna talk to a couple.

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Speaker 3: Of gms the in other day and they said, how

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Speaker 3: about the Pirates. I say, you know, the Pirates always

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Speaker 3: going to you know, talk about it, but they don't

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Speaker 4: They don't take that next step.

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Speaker 3: So I think it was just more of a well,

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Speaker 3: you know, pr type thing, Bob.

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Speaker 5: Have the Tigers over extended themselves? Have they just completely

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Speaker 5: maxed out? Their budget by signing for Amber Valdez.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think they thought, you know what it It's

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Speaker 3: almost like to Toronto Blue Jays, you see how much

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Speaker 3: money you're gonna make.

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Speaker 4: I think he's gonna boost US season ticket sales.

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Speaker 3: I think now the fans are excited, like, Okay, you know,

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Speaker 3: we make a lot of noise for the last couple

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Speaker 3: of years. You know, why not us? Why why can't

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Speaker 3: we get to the World Series? And I think it's

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Speaker 3: smart too, like, Okay, you got scoop up for one

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Speaker 3: more year, let's take advantage of them right now.

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Speaker 7: Bob by the way, I always want to say this

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Speaker 7: for all the people on Twitter saying, oh, the Tigers

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Speaker 7: are not cheap, They're not cheap.

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Speaker 6: You're right.

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Speaker 7: The Tigers actually was scooball and now with Fromber bringing

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Speaker 7: think they'll have a top ten payroll. So good job

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Speaker 7: no one's ever called the Tigers cheap. We're just wanting

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Speaker 7: them to go out and spend because they have this

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Speaker 7: window with Schoobl Now with Fromer there, it might extend that.

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Speaker 7: But they also lose flairty and there's some other things

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Speaker 7: a ton of credit for going out and doing this,

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Speaker 7: Like you said, so, I just want to make sure

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Speaker 7: that you that you can reiterate the fact that the

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Speaker 7: Tigers aren't cheap. They just struck maybe later than I

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Speaker 7: think most people wanted them to.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they think at the.

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Speaker 3: Big pr campaign out event by signing him Earley for

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Speaker 3: more season ticket sales, they're not cheap. I mean, when

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Speaker 3: Mike Elitch was the owner, he was spending as much

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Speaker 4: I mean, he had massive payrolls.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm giving them McGill could bury that money

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Speaker 3: bringing them PUDs in the likes obviously you had a

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Speaker 3: star set of rotation. They should have won a roll

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Speaker 3: but they were never achieved. It's just that when Mike

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Speaker 3: much as Mike did.

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Speaker 7: Hey, Bob, by the way, are the Tigers runing baseball?

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Speaker 7: Because their disparity now between the Al Central and the

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Speaker 7: Detroit Tigers is so big. Like the Dodgers, everyone says, Oh,

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Speaker 7: the Dodgers are running baseball. So the Tigers ruining the

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Speaker 7: AL Central.

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Speaker 4: That's the thing. That's all GM's always talked about.

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Speaker 3: Man, I wish I was in the AL Central, or

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Speaker 3: I wish I was in NL Central because nobody's spending money.

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Speaker 4: You're absolutely right, that's the easiest division to bounce back from.

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Speaker 4: I think even with the.

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Speaker 3: but hey, you're in the AL Central.

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Speaker 4: You can turn around a lot quicker.

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Speaker 6: The what ifs are always happening.

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Speaker 5: Last year, what if they had gotten Bregman, you know,

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Speaker 5: would they have beaten the Mariners and gone onto the

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Speaker 5: World Series? What if the what if the Tigers had

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Speaker 5: gotten Bregman, would this Valdez thing not have happened and

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Speaker 5: possibly shortened their window because Scoop will be gone and

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Speaker 3: Well, I think they had Bregman, then you still have,

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Speaker 3: they could have easily turned around and trade for Freddie Peralta.

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Speaker 3: So I think they still would have done this. I

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Speaker 3: same type of contract where he could have opted out.

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Speaker 3: I think they would have just turned around and say,

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Speaker 3: you know what, we'll go trade for a starter because

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Speaker 3: now we have more trade chips.

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Speaker 7: Hey, Bob, you mentioned him earlier, Zach Allen. Where the

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Speaker 7: heck is he going to sign? We haven't heard really

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Speaker 7: anything about Zach Allen other than oh, the Diamondbacks are

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Speaker 7: now a possibility because of the you know, the pick

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Speaker 7: that's associated with him and all that stuff. Have we

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Speaker 7: I mean, I thought, I hate to bring this up

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Speaker 7: all but you said he was signing with the Cubs

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Speaker 7: months ago, which was I know was a mistake, but

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Speaker 7: I thought it was funny because it got Cubs fans

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Speaker 7: you for that. But is there any news on Zach Allen?

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Speaker 4: The three tams to keep hearing are Baltimore Oils.

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Speaker 3: And this is before the news yesterday. Still the Cubs,

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Speaker 3: I've talked to him, and then Diamondbacks. I think the

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Speaker 3: Diamondbacks keep saying they'd have to be creative like we'll

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Speaker 3: bring them back. But then you know, if he leaves

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Speaker 3: again as a free agent, you don't get a you know,

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Speaker 3: a draft pick out of it. So I think they'd

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Speaker 3: wanted more than one year just to make it worth

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Speaker 3: for a while. I really believe that all the guys

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Speaker 3: had the quothying offers.

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Speaker 4: The clothing offers hurt Zach Gallon the most.

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Speaker 6: Is there a.

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Speaker 5: World where teams are looking at Chris Bassett as more

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Speaker 5: valuable than Zach Gallen because of that qualifying offer?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and in some respects for sure, like Atlanta for instance,

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Speaker 3: if they had sign a guy with the qualthying offer

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Speaker 3: like Gallon, they lose the twenty fourth pick in the draft.

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Speaker 4: They lose a first round draft pick. They're not gonna

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Speaker 3: So to your point, yeah, guys like that Gilio and

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Speaker 7: Well, by the way, the qualifying offer, we have a

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Speaker 3: Well, remember it almost went away last time. It was

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Speaker 5: Can you rank the teams that have the most heat

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think you nailed it.

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Speaker 4: I still think people want the Yankees to do more. Uh.

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Speaker 3: I mean the way you know, ten new managers and uh,

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm just making a big thing, you know,

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Speaker 4: So I think your guys, like you.

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Speaker 3: there's only a Benji Gill guys who have paid their dues,

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Speaker 4: Uh, you know we're.

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Speaker 4: But it's a shame for the guys, you know, to

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Speaker 7: Well, well, hold on, Bob, before before we get off this, Uh,

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Speaker 4: But just at the time, it's like, you know, you see,

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Speaker 3: You're in the coaching major league coaching staff for years,

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Speaker 3: These DrrA players are make the best coaches, and you

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Speaker 4: I mean, look at all the.

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Speaker 4: You know, night after night, so a lot of these. Uh,

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Speaker 3: You have two strikes against you. If you play the game,

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Speaker 4: Roll for two.

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Speaker 7: Well, well you know why bove right threats you know why.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I would say it's because the players might fight

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Speaker 7: if you can. And I don't mean this against Listen,

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Speaker 7: I'm sure he's going to be a wonderful manager. We've

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Speaker 7: anybody that have experienced it. Well, if you don't have

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Speaker 7: I don't know this, but they pushed back a little

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Speaker 7: whatever you want me to do, Yes, sir, Yes, sir,

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Speaker 7: yes sir, And listen, I'm not saying it's right or wrong.

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Speaker 4: I agree.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think that's what hurt Albert Polhols interviewing

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Speaker 4: I can control Albert.

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Speaker 3: I thought Albert would have been a perfect choice for

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Speaker 7: Same thing.

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Speaker 3: I think the game's got away from that, and you know,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's about a third of the league, so it's gonna.

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Speaker 7: Be for as long as they don't pull that, As

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Speaker 7: I remember when both those guys did death that one time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, get you know, calling the wrong guy up, and

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Speaker 3: I think I have a lot of screwts in the

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Speaker 3: of managers are saying win a minute now. This guy

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Speaker 4: Been to coaching staff.

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Speaker 3: He's making three and a half million dollars a year.

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Speaker 3: Uh that's about double more than any was ever gotten

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Speaker 4: There's only a handful of guys making three and a half.

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Speaker 3: So I think a lot of people are gonna say, Okay,

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Speaker 3: let's let's beat the Giants. We're almost mad at him

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Speaker 3: just because how much is getting.

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Speaker 6: Paid and his fault.

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Speaker 4: I like that, his fault.

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Speaker 6: No good agent right there.

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Speaker 4: He's making three point two I think at Tennessee. So

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Speaker 4: he pretty much.

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Speaker 3: Said I'm not going I'm not taking a pay cut.

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Speaker 4: And then Giants said, okay, you got it.

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Speaker 1: And also, I mean, MLB, come on, if you want

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Speaker 1: in college ball and should be in the majors, you

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Speaker 2: Like the pay gap is ridiculous money Yeah, yeah, a.

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Speaker 1: Few hundred thousand bucks in baseball versus college baseball terms.

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Speaker 1: It's hilarious. But Bob good In say yet, we'll follow

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Speaker 1: this storyline. I'm fascinating. We met vy tell A recently

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Speaker 1: in person. I thought he's very impressive. I think he's

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Speaker 1: going to do well. Of course, it depends on the roster.

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Speaker 1: But good catching up with you. Thanks to crime dog

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Speaker 1: a high five for us.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he wants to wait to buy. He wants to

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Speaker 2: That's a perfect way to end this great job. Say

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Speaker 2: we've forgotten common sense, dude, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 6: Common sense? You know.

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Speaker 7: Hey, grab dog listen. You didn't know you don't know

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Speaker 7: hit five hundred homers. You know you don't know one

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Speaker 5: Hey, so that's why Hey, they talking about line changle

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Speaker 7: Man, Hey, hey, common sense right? He finished, Hey, lonchangle

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Speaker 4: So now you got all these guys.

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Speaker 7: I laughed, and the battles in nondecked circle they're like,

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Speaker 7: I'm like, okay, okay. Helicopter finished.

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Speaker 1: Perfectly stated Bob, thank you for the Fred McGriff cameo.

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Speaker 1: This was more than we bargained for.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk to you soon, okay, All right, back to

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Speaker 3: watch your case open.

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Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, enjoy.

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Speaker 7: It, oh, Bob, stay sober, Bob.

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Speaker 4: I haven't had a drinking. I'm about to start perfect

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Speaker 4: and wait. Enjoy your day, Bob, We love it.

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Speaker 2: Bye. Six hundred and forty nine minor league games for

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Speaker 2: AJ Is that true? Is that how many you played?

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Speaker 7: That's a lot, bro, I just gave you the name,

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Speaker 7: I just gave you the numbers. Dude's a grinder Thank you, Scott,

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Speaker 7: Thank you bro.

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Speaker 1: Former grinder, sorry not former former regular scens win total yes, BEDAMGM, futures,

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Speaker 1: white Sox, I'm leading right to you.

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Speaker 6: Thanks guys.

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Speaker 2: All right, so sixty six and a half.

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Speaker 7: Over over If you can hear me, I'm saying over,

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Speaker 7: I can hear you.

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Speaker 6: I'm going over.

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Speaker 7: I think they win seventy two to seventy five games

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Speaker 7: this year. Okay, I think they're around ninety losses. Now.

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Speaker 7: Can everything break right and they get a little bit better, yes,

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Speaker 7: way high, this one is way low.

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Speaker 6: Do they have enough pitching?

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Speaker 5: Do they have enough pitching to make it through one

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think they do. They're going to be better.

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Speaker 7: I think they'll be better than they were last year.

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Speaker 7: And last year they won how many games? Sixty one?

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Speaker 5: was I was honestly going to take the I was

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Speaker 5: going to take the under, and I'm not going to

442
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Speaker 5: you know, go by anything anything intelligent. But I just

443
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Speaker 5: think that where are they going to continue to get

444
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Speaker 5: their innings from. That's that's my biggest that's my biggest concern.

445
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Speaker 5: Are some of these position player prospects. Yeah, I think

446
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Speaker 5: I really like them, you know, I like, I like

447
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Speaker 5: to behind a dish and what him and Caro, you

448
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Speaker 5: know that combination, what that gives them? I don't, you know,

449
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Speaker 5: the position player corps I really like. I like, I

450
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Speaker 5: don't really like. I really I like, what is this

451
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Speaker 5: rotation and bullpen truly going to look like? And are

452
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Speaker 5: the lack of big additions going to come back and

453
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Speaker 5: hurt them in July? Where they could start, they could

454
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Speaker 5: start a big slide of you know, nine to ten

455
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Speaker 5: wins a month, which would which would drop them below

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Speaker 5: this sixty six.

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Speaker 2: Number, going under.

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Speaker 7: You haters, Justin and all the White Sox fans. I

459
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Speaker 7: just want you guys to know that these two are haters.

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Speaker 5: You're such a you're such a politician. It's not even city.

461
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Speaker 5: You're a race man, just.

462
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Speaker 2: Just a little bit. And hey, the Ale Central.

463
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Speaker 1: As a strong Tigers team, solid Cleveland team that can pitch.

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Speaker 2: Twins.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna be terrible, but they certainly

466
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Speaker 1: didn't do much and they might sell again fire sale

467
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Speaker 1: at the trade deadline.

468
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Speaker 2: And the Royals are solid. I think they'll have a

469
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Speaker 2: solid year.

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Speaker 7: I just think the White naturally have to get a

471
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Speaker 7: little better than what they were. Another year for Shane Smith,

472
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Speaker 7: another year for Davis Martin right, another year for the

473
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Speaker 7: bullpen guys. They added Sir Anthony doming Is, Anthony k

474
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Speaker 7: Is coming over. Another year for their position players, right, Vargas,

475
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Speaker 7: TiO kiro My Draw, Colson Montgomery more Commi's there. If

476
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Speaker 7: he hits any, we're close to what he thinks. If

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Speaker 7: he's thirty homers, that's a huge bat. They got rid

478
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Speaker 7: of the question that was Luis Robert. Is he gonna

479
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Speaker 7: be able to play? Is he going to get traded?

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Speaker 7: I just think that you know that progression. I think

481
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Speaker 7: they had fifty nine wins last year. I think they

482
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Speaker 7: can get ten more. I think sixty. If this number

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Speaker 7: was sixty nine and a half or seventy, it'd be

484
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Speaker 7: a much harder decision.

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Speaker 2: Beat you to itocrats, just just beat it by like

486
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Speaker 2: this much. You were like a hair behind me. But

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Speaker 2: I agree.

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Speaker 1: I think they're going to improve wins wise, but they

489
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Speaker 1: improved by five wins. They're at sixty four wins, six wins,

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Speaker 1: sixty five wins, seven wins, sixty six wins. Still the under.

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Speaker 1: So I'm on a slight under with you. On that, AJ,

492
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Speaker 1: I could see them winning load of Mitz.

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Speaker 7: Hater's gonna what's that Taylor Swift song? Hater's gonna hate,

494
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Speaker 7: hate hate.

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Speaker 1: I like going further back, player is gonna play Hater's

496
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Speaker 1: gonna hate.

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Speaker 2: You can say it with a lot more melody if

498
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Speaker 2: you go further back.

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Speaker 1: Look that up, kids, AJ, at some point in like

500
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Speaker 1: thirty minutes are gonna leave us, and then you're not

501
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Speaker 1: going to be on with us tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: So would you like to deliver a famous Super Bowl pick?

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Speaker 7: Oh?

504
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Speaker 6: Huh? All right?

505
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 7: So I put this together and I was looking on

506
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Speaker 7: bet MGM. So I'm gonna pull it back up because

507
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Speaker 7: I forgot I was supposed to my bad producer lady.

508
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:13,399
Speaker 7: I forgot to throw this in there. Uh, but my

509
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,960
Speaker 7: bet slip was but I couldn't find it. So I

510
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 7: got to plus one forty and now it went away.

511
00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:23,080
Speaker 7: It was Jackson Smith and Jigmu to score a touchdown.

512
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Speaker 7: That's a yes, Seahawks to win. Duh, if you haven't

513
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Speaker 7: seen my gear and everything, Seahawks to win. That gets

514
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Speaker 7: me to plus one forty. And I'm not even sure

515
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Speaker 7: who's singing the anthem, but I'm assuming the number is

516
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Speaker 7: two minutes. Always bet over on the anthem because all

517
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Speaker 7: these singers love to taste themselves and feel themselves, so

518
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Speaker 7: they add a couple of minutes a couple of seconds

519
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Speaker 7: to it. So whatever add that one to it. I

520
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Speaker 7: don't know what the number is, but throw those things

521
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Speaker 7: down and you're gonna win.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to keep that collection. We'll keep that

524
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Speaker 2: in mind.

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Speaker 7: I was singing national anthem. Charlie Pooth, who is that?

526
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Speaker 2: He's a famous pop singer, say if he's country.

527
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 5: The country singers, they go fast. They're like, oh can

528
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Speaker 5: you sing?

529
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Speaker 7: Even Luke Bryan a couple of years ago, he sang,

530
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 7: and he went over, but he.

531
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Speaker 5: Went he added some to it, he started, he added,

532
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Speaker 5: he added to it.

533
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:19,880
Speaker 7: I tell you themselves. They start going, M'm tasting nice

534
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Speaker 7: because I'm singing the anthem at the super Bowl, so

535
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Speaker 7: I'm gonna add like, I mean, Whitney Houston's was great,

536
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 7: but it was like seven minutes long.

537
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Speaker 1: On the topic of tasting yourself. Uh, somebody won a

538
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:37,880
Speaker 1: tournament in the past week and actually didn't say anything,

539
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 1: which is insane.

540
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,400
Speaker 2: I had to find this and get tipped off. Eric

541
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Speaker 2: Kratz won an online poker tournament and didn't tell anyone,

542
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,920
Speaker 2: what are you nuts? I guess he did post about

543
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Speaker 2: it on Twitter. Yes, betam JM Poker posting the former

544
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Speaker 2: MLB pro Eric Kratz is a champion. It was the

545
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Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty k PPO event ten thousand, six

546
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Speaker 2: hundred and ninety three dollars and a trophy for Bruce Banner.

547
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Speaker 2: There he is. That's him in action. That's what you're

548
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Speaker 2: playing against. Folks, when you're online and you see Bruce Banner,

549
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,359
Speaker 2: you can't run. You can throw emojis at him in

550
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Speaker 2: the app. I've done that before. But good for you.

551
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Speaker 2: So now you have two of those clear trophies.

552
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Speaker 6: Not yet now yet, I haven't got that's the trophy.

553
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Speaker 6: So I have another one.

554
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Speaker 5: I have another one coming that And this was my

555
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Speaker 5: first victory of twenty twenty six. I had three victories

556
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Speaker 5: in twenty four and then this one victory. Ben MGM

557
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Speaker 5: does a great job. I mean they set it up.

558
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Speaker 5: It's very simple. You can do it on your laptop,

559
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Speaker 5: you can do it on your phone, and they set

560
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Speaker 5: up some tournaments that right now they got the grid

561
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Speaker 5: Iron Classic going on. So you win, if you win

562
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Speaker 5: the tournament, you get a customized jersey if I win.

563
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Speaker 5: If I win, I think it's tonight or tomorrow night, Tonight, tonight,

564
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna get mine, says, that says AJ. Not a grinder,

565
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Speaker 5: So that's what my jersey will say.

566
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Speaker 1: I'm rooting for you. That's a great dedication right there.

567
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Speaker 1: All right, let's tell.

568
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Speaker 7: Purify six hundred and how many games was it? Six

569
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Speaker 7: hundred ninety four games in the minor leagues.

570
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Speaker 5: You were in the Ballets of twenty one. You're a

571
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Speaker 5: second rounder. You were a baroness it was a third rounder.

572
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Speaker 7: And I was in the big leagues. But then I

573
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Speaker 7: was also back in Triple A the next year, and

574
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Speaker 7: then I was back in Double A the year after that.

575
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Speaker 5: Not a grinder. You were making you were making sixty

576
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Speaker 5: percent of what you made the year before. So you

577
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:36,880
Speaker 5: were in the bushes, which back which which.

578
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,359
Speaker 7: Back then was like one hundred grand was the minimum.

579
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 7: So I was making nothing, okay, So Let's also not

580
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 7: forget that we're talking about like nineteen ninety eight.

581
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Speaker 5: Here he was making twenty three thousand dollars and he

582
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 5: was like the taj Mahal compared to everybody else.

583
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Speaker 7: But I was the richest dude in the world back then. Yeah,

584
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Speaker 7: I thought I was in the world.

585
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 2: He goes to restaurants sometimes for dinner.

586
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Speaker 7: I told you all the story, man, when I was

587
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,880
Speaker 7: in Triple A. I told you all the story when

588
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:10,880
Speaker 7: I was in Triple A. When you're I ain't gonna

589
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 7: say the guy's name, but he had been around for

590
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 7: a while and we saw him out to eat a

591
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 7: bunch of us, and we were like it like a

592
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,959
Speaker 7: Cracker Barrel or apple Bee's, you know, the standard Triple

593
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 7: A food places. And we're like, man, you've been in

594
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 7: the minor leagues a long time, how do you do this.

595
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 7: He goes watch and he was finishing his meal and

596
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 7: he pulled out a hair and he's stuck it in

597
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:30,879
Speaker 7: his food, and he called the waitress, goes, I found

598
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 7: a hair in my food. You know, he had already

599
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 7: eaten it and finished it, and so like, oh, we're

600
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 7: so sorry, we'll cop your meal free meal. He goes,

601
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:39,440
Speaker 7: that's how you survive in triple A.

602
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Speaker 6: Kids.

603
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Speaker 2: Wow, there's like movies about that.

604
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's a catch me if you can kind

605
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,879
Speaker 1: of guy a little more simple with his strategy than

606
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 1: the catch me if you can guy, but little scam artist.

607
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 1: But you do what you got to do to get by,

608
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,159
Speaker 1: and if it helps you make it, it helps me

609
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Speaker 1: make it.

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Speaker 3: Eight.

611
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Speaker 1: Richie Schaeffer was on, and he was a much more

612
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Speaker 1: recent prospect who was getting fed garbage after they.

613
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Speaker 2: S it's ridiculous that.

614
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Speaker 7: We didn't get no geez, we were lucky.

615
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 6: If we got P.

616
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Speaker 7: B and J in a in a loaf of bread

617
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Speaker 7: for the whole team. That was what our I mean

618
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Speaker 7: our that was our spread and maybe a piece of fruit.

619
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Speaker 7: If you were really lucky the club spread those five

620
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Speaker 7: those five dollars a day or whatever it was you

621
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Speaker 7: paid to the clubhouse guy. If he was feeling frisky,

622
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Speaker 7: you might actually get something hot, like some chef boy

623
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Speaker 7: r D.

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Speaker 6: The first year. First year, I was go ahead, let's go.

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Speaker 4: I want to go.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, we'll take the story later. Yeah, don't say anything.

627
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Speaker 1: I want to go to Let me just tell everybody

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Speaker 1: about Super Bowl. Then we're gonna go breaking news. There's

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Speaker 1: boost Pack, Big Game boot Pack. We're gonna talk more

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Speaker 1: about him, Matt at tomorrow. Three ways to spike your odds.

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Speaker 1: There's also some good pregame and halftime markets. Only one

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Speaker 1: bet MGM, the app and at bedmgm dot com. Gambling

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Speaker 1: problem or concern, there's help. Call one eight hundred Gambling

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Speaker 6: Two