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So our 27 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 1: lead this hour is from the Sunshine State as. 28 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 3: We begin the new week. 29 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: Here, the greatest basketball player in the history of the NBA, 30 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 1: at least in somewhat modern times, was the headliner on Sundays. 31 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 3: Well, it must be the All Star Game. No, it 32 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 3: was not the All Star Game. Bugget it. Mugging it, 33 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 3: mugging it, mugging it, mugging and mugging and mugging and muggery. 34 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 1: A different kind of title. You were not paying attention. 35 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 1: Bad job by you. But Michael Jordan, who I'm told 36 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: has six NBA championships, back when guys actually tried, played hard, 37 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 1: didn't half the league, didn't tank like the days of today. 38 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 3: But anyway, so Michael Jordan six time. 39 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:33,919 Speaker 1: NBA champion, and he was able to get her done 40 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: at the Daytona five hundred. Now, he did not actually 41 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: race in the Daytona five hundred, but he spent a 42 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: lot of his Nike money, A lot of that Nike 43 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:45,359 Speaker 1: money Michael Jordan spent to get it done, and somebody 44 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 1: named Tyler Reddick a rather generic dame. But he won 45 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:54,360 Speaker 1: the Great American Race the Daytona five hundred last lap, 46 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: did not lead until the final lap. There were a 47 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 1: couple of tremendous recks. There's one that knocked half the 48 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 1: field out, or so it seemed there at Daytona International Speedway. 49 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 1: But Michael Jordan the headline here. He's the one that's 50 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,920 Speaker 1: the sugar daddy for that NASCAR team and they get 51 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: her done same day as the NBA All Star Game. 52 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: In fact, they moved up the Daytona five hundred because 53 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 1: of weather concerns and so the timing on this could 54 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 1: not have been better. The Basketball Hall of Famer Bear 55 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 1: hugging Reddick took a great photo as he really gets 56 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: into it with the trophies. He's really emotional with the 57 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 1: trophies there when he gets to hang out with the 58 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: trophies there. So his birthday is coming up Jordan on Tuesday, 59 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 1: little early birthday president. He'll turn sixty three years young 60 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: there and he said, quote, it feels like I won 61 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 1: a championship, but until I get my ring, I won't 62 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: even know do they give out rings for the dayton 63 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 1: if I want to do? Really, I don't know anyway. 64 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: Reddick in a Toyota led only one lap. Again, that's 65 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: the thing. He led only one lap on Sunday, and 66 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: it was the final one right at the checkered flag. 67 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 1: And the twenty fifth different driver that ended up in 68 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,719 Speaker 1: that position there at the Daytona five hundred record in 69 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: the lead and the last ones the one that gets 70 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 1: the the bling, bling and all that so good. Jumping 71 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: off point, let us discuss the question for the esteem panel. 72 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 1: Did Michael Jordan's team winning the Daytona five hundred upstage 73 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:40,159 Speaker 1: the NBA All Star Game? In SoCal And so I've 74 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 1: got daily double rusted out Buick and the Jerry Lewis telethon, 75 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and 76 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: we're gonna make grits, is what we're gonna make. 77 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 3: Yum, yum. 78 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 1: Unless it's not so a to answer the question, did 79 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,719 Speaker 1: Michael Jordan upstage the NBA All Star Game? 80 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 3: Ye, I'm nodding my head. I'm not. 81 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,119 Speaker 1: In fact, I'm nodding my head so hard right now 82 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: that I'm gonna need a neck brace. That's how hard 83 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:08,799 Speaker 1: I'm nodding my head on this Listen. Well, the NBA 84 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 1: spent All Star weekend rearranging the deck chairs on the 85 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 1: SS irrelevant. Now, the All Star Game itself wasn't as 86 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: bad as it's been. The bar's pretty low. The bar 87 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,840 Speaker 1: is pretty low. The rest of the events over All 88 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 1: Star weekend horrific. It was so bad. It was so bad. 89 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 1: The All Star Friday thing, the Saturday which used to 90 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:35,159 Speaker 1: be like the Jewel, the Dunk Contest, the three point 91 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 1: God just got it terrible. So yes, yes, Michael Jordan, 92 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: while the NBA was doing their thing, futzing around in Inglewood, 93 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: the new format, the new gimmicks, and they just keep 94 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 1: throwing stuff against the wall. Michael Jordan's out there popping 95 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 1: champagne at the daytone of five hundred, like you hit 96 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 1: another jumper over Byron Russell and salt Lake or Craig 97 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 1: Elo in Cleveland and just add another notch in the bedpost. 98 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: And for Jordan, though, this is the daily double, the 99 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 1: daily double for mj because this is a couple of 100 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 1: months after staring down NASCAR in federal court. You remember 101 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: when Jordan went to federal court and it was suing 102 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 1: Nascar there's an anti trust situation there. The France family, 103 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: the first family of Nascar, the ones that control the 104 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: whole thing. There were a lot of fireworks in that, 105 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: and so he's out there celebrating above the super Speedway. 106 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:37,479 Speaker 1: They're built by the France family and all that the 107 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:42,160 Speaker 1: empire and got it done. So then yet Jim France, 108 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 1: the chairman who strolled to the victory lane and all 109 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:50,040 Speaker 1: the big shots there from NASCAR to clap and applot 110 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:54,799 Speaker 1: and the irony served on ice, big chunks of ice, 111 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:59,039 Speaker 1: got that and Jordan called it gratifying. The translation is 112 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: the checkmate with horsepower is what that is? Checkmate with 113 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 1: horsepower for Michael Jordan. So advantage Jordan yet again. And 114 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 1: much more interesting than the All Star Game in LA. 115 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 1: Now speaking of that though. 116 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 3: In the hood in Englewood, we go to that. 117 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 1: Now the seventy fifth installment of the NBA Mid Season Classic, 118 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 1: which is not actually mid seasons past mid season. Here 119 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 1: a round robin tournament. It was a Frankenstein type All 120 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: Stars set up. 121 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 3: Here. 122 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: You had two teams of American stars, the third set 123 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: of stars representing the globe the world. So you had 124 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: one team representing everything other than America and then two 125 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 1: you had the older old heads American team and then 126 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: you had the younger group of American teams. 127 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 3: So that was the matchup. They had three teams. 128 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 1: They were playing each other in twelve minute games and 129 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 1: that's how it all went down there. The All American 130 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: Championship Game, like the All American Diner, came down to 131 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 1: the two American teams there and the team with the 132 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 1: mostly younger roster I was able to get done and 133 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 1: they won in a route or route depending on how 134 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 1: you want to say it there, but they won by 135 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 1: twenty six points, nine points by Tyrese Maxiy of the 136 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 1: Sixers in that last blowout, non competitive game over the 137 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 1: All Star festifies Edwards. Anthony Edwards was your MVP of 138 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 1: the All Star Game. There should have been Kawhi Leonard, 139 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 1: but they couldn't give it to a guy on the 140 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 1: team that didn't win, so they gave it to Edwards. 141 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:44,679 Speaker 1: The most impressive stretch of basketball was Kawhi Leonard and 142 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: people that know ball know that, but they couldn't give 143 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 1: it to him. So Anthony Edwards had ten of the 144 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 1: fourteen first place votes and he is your MVP from 145 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:55,079 Speaker 1: the media. 146 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 3: Fanboys who were out there. 147 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: So question, by all accounts, the All Star Game was 148 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: better than it has been in terms of competitive play. 149 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 1: So the question is this, has the NBA solved the 150 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: All Star game conundrum? Have they solved it? So this 151 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 1: was a market improvement. This wasn't an upgrade situation for 152 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 1: the NBA. And as much as I'd like to come 153 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 1: in here and just say it was terrible all the 154 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:25,720 Speaker 1: way through, no what the last game sucked the NBA. 155 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 1: They stopped the bleeding for the All Star games. 156 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:32,319 Speaker 3: That's as far as I'll go. 157 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 1: Let's not fit Adam Silver though for the robe that 158 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: says savior on it. Let's not go that far for 159 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 1: Adam Silver, your commissioner of the NBA. Here, after years 160 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: and years of mad science tinkering, they have figured something 161 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: out right. The playground draft, they had the Rising Stars gimmick. 162 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:59,320 Speaker 3: All that stuff went over like a lead balloon. They 163 00:09:59,360 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 3: went and. 164 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: Global this year, although two of the three teams were 165 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 1: just US guys, but they had the Global team as well, 166 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 1: and the top Global stars. Most of them decided they 167 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 1: did not want to play. They could not play. It's 168 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 1: too difficult for these gentlemen to play. So they didn't 169 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: want to play, so it was mostly like the backup 170 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: guys on the world team, and so USA versus the World. 171 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:23,319 Speaker 1: They stole that from hockey. Hockey was doing that, or 172 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:25,440 Speaker 1: the Olympics which are going on right now, the Winter 173 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 1: Olympics there and so all this there at the end 174 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 1: to a dome in Inglewood, and so it was a 175 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 1: little bit better. There was occasionally defense being played there. 176 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:39,680 Speaker 1: The players actually looked like they were playing a form 177 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 1: of basketball and not just total grab ass. 178 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 3: So that was all good stuff. That was all good stuff. 179 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 1: And I mentioned Anthony Edwards ant Man, the MVP of 180 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:52,319 Speaker 1: the All Star Game there the claw though, Kawhi Leonard 181 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:55,320 Speaker 1: put on a show for the ages there as he 182 00:10:55,360 --> 00:11:02,359 Speaker 1: had a thirty one point barrage point barrage there in 183 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: the second game, the middle game, which I'm sure upset 184 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: that podcast guy that's trying to get Kawhi out of 185 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 1: the NBA. I'm sure he's upset that. I don't really 186 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:15,679 Speaker 1: get his name, but nobody. But the preliminary games were 187 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: legitimately competitive. 188 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:18,680 Speaker 3: They were. 189 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:20,439 Speaker 1: There were three games that came down to the very 190 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 1: end there and decided by one possession, so they go. However, 191 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: in the final was a dud lee do right, keyp 192 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: part of that dud dud lee do right, It was 193 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: a dud us Stripes running out of gas, and they 194 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:38,559 Speaker 1: got smoked in. 195 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 3: That final game. 196 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:42,480 Speaker 1: They ran out of gas faster than a rusted out 197 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:44,959 Speaker 1: buick on the side of the road, losing by twenty 198 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 1: six points. There for the climax of All Star Sunday 199 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:53,200 Speaker 1: in Inglewood, there and Adam Silver, he found a format 200 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 1: that for thirty six minutes of game time actually did something. 201 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 1: There was a little something there, and now I just 202 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:01,679 Speaker 1: needs to find a way to keep the stars from 203 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: checking out before the trophy ceremony, which is what happened 204 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: here now the last word here to the broadcast itself. 205 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 1: So I'm not sure if you were watching the game 206 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 1: or not. I'm probably not. I was not anticipating watch him, 207 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 1: but I had to have something on in the background. 208 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: I was was watching the Daytona five hundred and then 209 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,080 Speaker 1: the timing on as I'll flip over the All Star games, 210 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 1: and then the All Star Game was on. I had 211 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:27,200 Speaker 1: that in the background. Really wasn't much else going on, 212 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:28,720 Speaker 1: so I was like, I'll just leave that on. So 213 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 1: I had it on and Reggie Miller. Good old Reggie 214 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 1: Miller was getting cooked, getting smoked. 215 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:38,439 Speaker 3: For his commentary during the All Star Game on and. 216 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:42,679 Speaker 1: Me see see, I had the former Indiana pacer Ledge 217 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 1: who survived the broadcast shakeup. 218 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 3: He had been a. 219 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: Turner and Turner's out, so he went over to NBC 220 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 1: there and he was calling the game alongside Noah Eagle 221 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: and Jamal Crawford, former Clipper Jamal Crawford. 222 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 3: There. 223 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:59,440 Speaker 1: They were all lined up, and the fans and most 224 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: observers watching had one issue, one somewhat large issue with 225 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:08,320 Speaker 1: Reggie Miller and his commentary in the All Star Game 226 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:12,439 Speaker 1: on Sunday, which was evening for most afternoon in the West, 227 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:18,559 Speaker 1: and the issue was over and over and over again. 228 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: Reggie Miller, at every opportunity, like a proud papa, had 229 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 1: to let everyone know, the players are playing hard. 230 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 3: We the players are playing hard. 231 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:32,320 Speaker 2: Oh. 232 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: He was so happy, he was so excited. The players 233 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:41,080 Speaker 1: were playing hard. Oh my god, look at the effort. 234 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:46,199 Speaker 3: It was so good. 235 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 1: All right, So question, what did you make of Reggie 236 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: Miller repeatedly yapping about how hard the NBA All Stars 237 00:13:57,160 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 1: were playing. 238 00:13:58,200 --> 00:13:59,719 Speaker 3: So Reggie, you know what he did? 239 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 1: He acted like a substitute teacher who was trying to 240 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:08,479 Speaker 1: convince the class that the movie they're watching is educational, 241 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: like this very is educational. Trust trust me, it's educational. 242 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 1: Every other possession, every other possession. Reggie Miller is out 243 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: there and he's going on and on and on and on. 244 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 1: I mean, no, look how hard they're playing. Oh my god, 245 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 1: the effort oh so good and does Like, hey, Reggie, 246 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 1: we we can figure out what's going on here. 247 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:38,760 Speaker 3: We don't need you to tell us. 248 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 1: I know you might think that we are taking the 249 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 1: short bus here, but you chill out a little bit 250 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 1: so we can see the dives when that happens. We 251 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: are aware of that. We can hear them if we're blind. 252 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 1: The close outs, we can hear that as well. The 253 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 1: sweaty armpits, we can. We can check that out. We 254 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 1: have the hd TV, we have all that stuff there. 255 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 1: So Jen speaking, when the effort is obvious. When the 256 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: effort is obvious, and that's fine. You don't need to 257 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: announce it twenty seven times in each game. 258 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 3: You don't have to do that. Just no. 259 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 1: It's it's like, come on, now's like you're reading a 260 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 1: hostage note or something like that, and that's the vibe 261 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 1: I got. This felt mandated to me, felt like in 262 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: their production meeting get NBC, They're like, Okay, here's what 263 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 1: we're going to focus on. Let's really it's really kind 264 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 1: of bulls eye in. We're gonna bullseye in on the effort, 265 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 1: the energy of the players. 266 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 3: That's what we're gonna do. 267 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 1: It is like Adam Silver or one of his henchmen 268 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 1: at the NBA slipped a post it note, one of 269 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: those yellow post it notes in the production meeting and said, 270 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 1: mention competitiveness. Any time there's a lull in the action, 271 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: mention how competitive it is like every two or three 272 00:15:56,680 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 1: minutes or else you will not be calling me All 273 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 1: Star game again. 274 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 3: All right. 275 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 1: It was like the Jerry Lewis telethon of hustle. Really 276 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 1: what it's a quota system and it is like you, 277 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 1: Reggie were light on the mensions in the third quarter. Hustle, hustle, hustle, 278 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: do the hustle. It's like that disco song from back 279 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 1: in the day. You got to do the hustle. And 280 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: here's the irony again. The irony on this is the 281 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 1: more you scream the players are trying. Oh man, they're 282 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: going forward, they're diving on the court. The more it 283 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 1: feels like they're not, So just let it breathe, dude, Like, seriously, 284 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: if it's real, it sells itself and you don't have 285 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 1: to get out there on your high horse and start 286 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 1: ranting and all that stuff. The constant reminders from Reggie 287 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 1: Miller that the players were playing hard, that's really what 288 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 1: ruin it. Now. At some point I did hit the 289 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: mute button, so I did tune them out. I'm told 290 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 1: they continued the part I tuned out of. But I 291 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 1: was watching those first couple of sas and it was hustle, hustle, hastle, hastle, hastle, hastle, hahusle. 292 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:04,400 Speaker 3: Yeah. 293 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:11,000 Speaker 1: It went from organic competition to infu mershall and as 294 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 1: I said, the Jerry Lewis telethon type thing where there's like, okay, 295 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:18,119 Speaker 1: mention this every couple of minutes, get the phones ringing, 296 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 1: and we're good to go on that. 297 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:21,960 Speaker 3: And so there you go. 298 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:24,400 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 299 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on 300 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Fox Sports Radio 301 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:35,680 Speaker 2: is taking over YouTube and you can be a part 302 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 2: of it. 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But this is actually somewhat interesting 332 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:31,359 Speaker 1: because the Mets fell apart last season. 333 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:33,239 Speaker 3: And they had a lot of talent. They had this 334 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:35,920 Speaker 3: big payroll. They did not get it done. 335 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:41,160 Speaker 1: They've unloaded several prominent players from the Mets. It's believed 336 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:44,719 Speaker 1: that that is at the behest of Francisco Lindor and 337 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 1: Juan Soda. They're cleansing out the locker room of players 338 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 1: they didn't like. So Pete Alonzo's not back. McNeil's gone, 339 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 1: a couple other players that were of prominence of the 340 00:19:54,960 --> 00:20:00,479 Speaker 1: Mets have been decommissioned by the Metropolitans. Bring this up 341 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 1: because there's also some chatter of issues between Juan Soto 342 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 1: and Francisco Lindor, the two big stars, although Juan Soto's 343 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: in a different stratosphere compared to Lindor, but they're both 344 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 1: making a lot of money, and Soo and Lindor. If 345 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 1: you didn't see this, maybe not. They addressed the tabloid 346 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:25,959 Speaker 1: fodder in Gotham about the Mets clubhouse issues, and the 347 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 1: first up Lindor, he said, quote, are we all best friends? 348 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:33,000 Speaker 1: Talking about the Met's locker room, the clubhouse and also 349 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 1: one soda? Are we all best friends? That's not how 350 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 1: it works in the clubhouse, Lindor said, But we are friends. 351 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:43,680 Speaker 1: We're good. We are friends, we're good teammates. We care 352 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 1: for each other, we love each other, and we want 353 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 1: the best. 354 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 3: For each other, as good as all the rest. 355 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 1: Of course, Sodo was not as fired up as Lindor 356 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: was when he was asked a similar line of questioning. 357 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 1: He said, saying the following, that's in the past. Regarding 358 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:05,920 Speaker 1: the many issues that popped up during the twenty twenty 359 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,159 Speaker 1: five season, he said, that's in the past, he claimed, 360 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 1: we forget about it. We focus on twenty twenty six, 361 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: all right, So that is a good jumping off point. 362 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question, Hey, you got one Soto 363 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,200 Speaker 1: to the right, you got Francisco Lindor to the left, 364 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 1: doing the media two step about the Mets clubhouse chemistry issues. 365 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 3: Do you buy it? 366 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: Are you buying what Lindor and Soto are selling? So 367 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 1: on this one, I've got John Candy Neighborhood HOA president 368 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:43,960 Speaker 1: and Trader Joe's and we will combine all of these 369 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 1: things together and we'll. 370 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 3: Go ABC and one, two three, and we'll do it 371 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:50,159 Speaker 3: just like that. 372 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 4: So number one, do I buy that everything's great between 373 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 4: Sodo and Lindor based on the comments parsing the words 374 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:01,119 Speaker 4: of these two guys at spring training. 375 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:05,439 Speaker 1: Absolutely not, not for a second, Not for a second. 376 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:07,880 Speaker 1: Do I buy it now Lindor when he's going like, ah, 377 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 1: are we best friends? That's not how it works, all right, 378 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 1: that's a Lindor line translation. We're not getting those matching 379 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 1: bracelets or tattoos. We're not doing that corporate speak if 380 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:22,960 Speaker 1: you will. For I don't like the guy, but I'll 381 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: clock in. We are work friends, the old line. We 382 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 1: are work friends there and that's the see you on 383 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 1: the team flight and I will see on the team 384 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: flight and that's it. And I'm not gonna invite you 385 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 1: to my kids' birthday party, and I don't want to 386 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:39,639 Speaker 1: be invited to your kids' birthday party. So this is 387 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 1: the the New York Mets. It is not summer camp, 388 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,160 Speaker 1: it's not spring camp. It's just Mets baseball. 389 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:46,360 Speaker 2: There. 390 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: It's Steve Martin and John Canty, planes, trains, and automobiles. 391 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 1: That's it, right, Not any kind of Thanksgiving dinner. We're 392 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 1: not going trick or treating as a family's that's not happening. 393 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 1: And then Juan Soto on top of that that it's 394 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 1: in the past. We focus on twenty twenty six really interesting. 395 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:08,240 Speaker 3: So it's in the past. 396 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 1: So if nothing happened, just between me and you, if 397 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:14,159 Speaker 1: nothing happened in twenty twenty five, you don't need to 398 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: bury anything. But yet it sounds like you're trying to 399 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 1: bury something. So if nothing happened, why would you have 400 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,679 Speaker 1: to bury something? You don't say let's move on unless 401 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: there is something to move on from. Am I wrong 402 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 1: on that? I think it's just common sense. If there's 403 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 1: nothing to move on from, why would you say we 404 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 1: have to move on? There's nothing to move on from you. 405 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 1: You were fine, okay. So that is a admission. That 406 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:40,199 Speaker 1: is a confessional by Juan Soto here and without actually 407 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:44,200 Speaker 1: using the admission word. He didn't say, hey, I'm admitting 408 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 1: to this and yeah we care for each other. Sure, yeah, yeah, 409 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:48,399 Speaker 1: sure you do. 410 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:50,600 Speaker 3: Yeah. That's a corporate. 411 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:54,679 Speaker 1: Hr language, is what that is. That's the email before 412 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:58,960 Speaker 1: the heads get chopped off. You know, the old layoff 413 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 1: thing was send an email and all that stuff. And now, ultimately, 414 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:04,920 Speaker 1: if the Mets end up winning the National League East 415 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 1: in they have one of the better records in baseball, 416 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:11,359 Speaker 1: and they challenged the Dodgers, who were light years ahead 417 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:13,919 Speaker 1: of the Mets. But if they are able to challenge them, 418 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 1: then the winning cologne, the winning cologne there will cover 419 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,439 Speaker 1: up everything. And that's great and all wonderful and all that. 420 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: But they don't try to sell me that it's some 421 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 1: kind of buddy cop movie from back in the day. 422 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:28,640 Speaker 3: I'm not buying that. 423 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 1: Co workers sharing a locker room, not brothers in arms. 424 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,719 Speaker 1: That is not going on with the Mets now, page two. 425 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:41,879 Speaker 1: A lot of baseball scribes are upset with many Machado. 426 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 1: They're annoyed by Manny Machado. Why would they be annoyed 427 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 1: by many Pachado because he didn't say. 428 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,560 Speaker 3: The right thing at the right time, and. 429 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:54,679 Speaker 1: It's upsetting the Padres well paid hustle when he wants 430 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:59,159 Speaker 1: Manny Machado. He was asked about the Dodgers spending a 431 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 1: lot of money a player who has massive amounts of 432 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 1: money based on his huge contracts he's gotten from the 433 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,960 Speaker 1: various teams over the years, but Machado did not say 434 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 1: what the writers wanted him to say. He said he 435 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:16,399 Speaker 1: had no problem with the Dodgers, the NL West rival 436 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:22,359 Speaker 1: Dodgers continuing to burn money on high falutin free agents 437 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 1: every year. They've seemingly added one or two free agents 438 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 1: the last four or five years, and now they have 439 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,920 Speaker 1: this mega, mega superteam. Dodgers have won the last two 440 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 1: World Series, beat the Yankees and the Blue Jays and 441 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 1: the Fall Classic blue Jays. 442 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,199 Speaker 3: Had Game seven. They were right there to win it, 443 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 3: but they didn't. They blew it and all that stuff. 444 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:40,440 Speaker 3: But the Dodgers continue to spend money. 445 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:46,160 Speaker 1: Machado has no issue with it at all, and he said, quote, 446 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:50,160 Speaker 1: I efan love it. He said Machado from the Padres 447 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: spring training camp in Arizona, and he said every team should. 448 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 3: Be doing it. 449 00:25:56,040 --> 00:26:01,480 Speaker 1: That blank, blank and great for the game, said the 450 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:08,200 Speaker 1: aforementioned Manny Machado would prefer everyone spain spend spent, which is. 451 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 3: Not a shocking take. He wants everyone to be like 452 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 3: the Dodgers. 453 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 1: Rather than see the money reeled back in, which is 454 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 1: something which some of you socialist loving people love so much. 455 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 3: You want to. You know, the Dodgers are spending too 456 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,840 Speaker 3: much money. We must put the kebash on the Dodgers. 457 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 1: We have to have balanced financials, we have to have 458 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,200 Speaker 1: it and all that crap. Machado said, I think every 459 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 1: team has the ability to do it. 460 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 3: I hope all thirty two teams learn from that, meaning 461 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 3: learn from the Dodgers now. 462 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,400 Speaker 1: That of course, led to pushback, as we said, against 463 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:45,639 Speaker 1: Manny Machado, the Padres star who briefly played for the 464 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:50,399 Speaker 1: Dodgers and had the longest base hit ever in World 465 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,720 Speaker 1: Series history the twenty eighteen World Series against the Red 466 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: Sox when Machado hit a ball off the wall and 467 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 1: was styling and profiling and didn't realize the ball didn't 468 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 1: go out of the ballpark, and a very awkward, very 469 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,200 Speaker 1: awkward moment there for mister Machado. 470 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 3: But he was not alone. He was not alone Bryce Harper. 471 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 3: You heard him. 472 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,160 Speaker 1: Bryce Harper plays in Philadelphia. Bryce Harper was asked about 473 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 1: the Dodgers. He said, I love what the Dodgers knew. Obviously, 474 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 1: Bryce Harper said to reporters in Florida. He said, quote, 475 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,679 Speaker 1: I mean they pay the money, they spend the money. 476 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,359 Speaker 1: I mean, they're a great team. They run their team 477 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 1: like a business, and they run it the right way, 478 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: Harper said. And he went on to say each team 479 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,120 Speaker 1: in baseball has an opportunity to do the same thing, 480 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 1: Harper repeating the same line that Machadda used without the profanity. 481 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,119 Speaker 1: Maybe not at the upper eche a lot of money, 482 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:46,919 Speaker 1: Harper said, but they can draft, they can develop, they 483 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,800 Speaker 1: can trade. I think a lot of teams can do 484 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,639 Speaker 1: that in baseball, and they should close. 485 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:55,440 Speaker 3: Quote. All right, So the question on this one. 486 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 1: You've got a couple of big stars in baseball, highly paid, 487 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:03,680 Speaker 1: highly compensated, obviously, So how do you dissect the Philadelphia 488 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:10,159 Speaker 1: Phillies Bryce Harper and the Padres star Manny Machado endorsing 489 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,159 Speaker 1: the Dodgers spending spree. 490 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 3: All right, so I wrote down my report card. 491 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 1: I wrote down E for expected, as in it's expected 492 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 1: this would happen MLB stars in general, this is a 493 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 1: point of demarcation. MLB stars want thirty teams to act 494 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 1: like the Dodgers, right, and what the Yankees used to be, 495 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,239 Speaker 1: and they're not like that anymore. But that's obviously what 496 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,159 Speaker 1: you want, and you would want the same thing if 497 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:37,440 Speaker 1: you were playing Major League Baseball. 498 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 3: Don't sit as Oh no, I don't want the Dodgers many, 499 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,280 Speaker 3: I don't shut up. 500 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 1: If you were a baseball player, or you had a 501 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 1: kid that was a baseball player, you would want the 502 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 1: Dodgers to be the model. 503 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 3: Franchise for every team. 504 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:54,320 Speaker 1: Instead, you've got these these people carrying the water for 505 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,280 Speaker 1: these cheap owners. 506 00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 3: And they're going around here and half. 507 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 1: The owners of Major League based act like the neighborhood 508 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:07,160 Speaker 1: hoa president. No no, no, no fireworks, you can't have 509 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 1: any fun, No landscaping upgrades. 510 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 3: You can cannot do it, cannot do it. No, no, no, no. 511 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 1: We all agreed this neighborhood is going to be mediocre. 512 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:21,080 Speaker 1: We want mediocre. You can't put the razzle dazzle. You're 513 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 1: not allowed to put the razzle dazzle. What's wrong with 514 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:27,400 Speaker 1: you and your razzle dazzle. That's essentially where we are. 515 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 1: It's pathetic, it's absolutely pathetic. They don't want parody, right, 516 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 1: this big buzzword parody. They want comfort. The owners want comfort. 517 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 1: They want to pocket the revenue and have you support 518 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 1: them making more money, and you're doing it. 519 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 3: A lot of you are so stupid. You're doing it right. 520 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 1: They want to pocket the revenue sharing and all that 521 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:57,000 Speaker 1: stuff and finish ten games under five hundred. 522 00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 3: Barring baseball without some of revolt. 523 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,920 Speaker 1: And they're actually getting people supporting them, which is fascinating 524 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,800 Speaker 1: to me that there's so many dumb people that are 525 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 1: supporting these tight wad owners. 526 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,880 Speaker 3: It's wild. And the whole the. 527 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 1: Salary cap thing, that's not parody. It's about owners being 528 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:22,440 Speaker 1: too lazy to compete. And they want the rules rewritten 529 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 1: because they're tired of the big kid winning the Science 530 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 1: Fair every year. They're like, well, that's not right, and 531 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,240 Speaker 1: if you can't beat them, just legislate them. 532 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 3: Right, it can't beat the Dodgers, so we'll just legislate. 533 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 3: So they have to get rid of some players. 534 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 1: What a loser's mantra, What a bunch of losers right now, 535 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:46,360 Speaker 1: EMA's agreement is all a twenty twenty seven is gonna 536 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 1: be a workstopage, and it's all because of a line 537 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 1: in the sand being drawn because of the Dodgers spending. 538 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 1: It's coming the tight wad ownership class in Major League Baseball. 539 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 1: They low the Dodgers, can't stand the Dodgers because they 540 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:08,440 Speaker 1: get exposed by the Dodgers. They get exposed that they 541 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:13,040 Speaker 1: don't really try to win. And it's the same group 542 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 1: that scumbag who owns the Athletics, the Pirates, the Reds, 543 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 1: the same teams year after year are in that class, 544 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,200 Speaker 1: and it's just a loser's at it, like somebody, what 545 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 1: happened to the people's Like, listen, there is a giant dragon, 546 00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:34,440 Speaker 1: fire breathing, three headed dragon out there, and so let's 547 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,520 Speaker 1: pick up the sword and we are going to be 548 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 1: the dragon slayer, and we're gonna be the team that 549 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 1: they make the documentaries about because we beat the big, bad, mighty, 550 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 1: fire breathing three headed Dodger dragon. We're gonna beat them. Instead, 551 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,200 Speaker 1: you just have a bunch of people whining it's not fair. 552 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's not fair. Boooooo, oh my god, 553 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 1: such losers. I'm embarrassed for people that think that way. 554 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:06,080 Speaker 1: It's such a loser's attitude. Now, final point to the 555 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:11,360 Speaker 1: Cactus League. We stay. We go now to Arizona in 556 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:12,560 Speaker 1: the Cactus League. 557 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,200 Speaker 3: That's where it is. It's all in Arizona. 558 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:19,040 Speaker 1: Hello, former Phillies outfield Nick Costeanos has found a new home. 559 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,440 Speaker 1: By the time now, we were on the radio at 560 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,120 Speaker 1: the end of the week and he had just been 561 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:27,080 Speaker 1: whacked by the Phillies and we said, well, you should wait, 562 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 1: wait for one of the really good teams to have 563 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,480 Speaker 1: an injury and then you can get a job somewhere 564 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,520 Speaker 1: and you'll be in good shape. Well, Casianos had no patience. 565 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,240 Speaker 1: He did not make it through the weekend. He joined 566 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:43,520 Speaker 1: the Padres over the weekend after being unceremoniously dumped by 567 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:47,320 Speaker 1: the Phillies because of a presidente beer that he was 568 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,040 Speaker 1: drinking in the locker room last summer or actually on 569 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:51,640 Speaker 1: the bench. Brought it, well, he was I don't know 570 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:53,320 Speaker 1: if he's drinking, and he brought it to the bench 571 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:57,680 Speaker 1: and started harassing the Phillies manager in front of everyone else. 572 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:02,000 Speaker 1: So Philadelphia will end up paying almost all of Castianos's 573 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:06,360 Speaker 1: salary twenty million dollars and the Padres will pay him 574 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 1: the veteran minimum. Now, I'm of the age. I remember 575 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:10,720 Speaker 1: when I was a kid, I used to hear stories 576 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,160 Speaker 1: about people that were making the veteran minimum, and they 577 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,360 Speaker 1: had to sell cars in the offseason, they had to 578 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,120 Speaker 1: get jobs in the off season. Do you know what 579 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:20,680 Speaker 1: the minimum salary for a veteran baseball player is in 580 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:25,920 Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty six. Yeah, it is seven hundred 581 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 1: and eighty thousand dollars. That's the minimum getting salary for 582 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 1: a veteran. Seven hundred eighty thousand. I think that's the 583 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 1: minimum salary in general. I don't mean it's based on 584 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,240 Speaker 1: whether you're a veteran or not. I think even if 585 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:41,960 Speaker 1: you're a rookie seven hundred eighty thousand bucks. There's nobody 586 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,200 Speaker 1: poor who's a baseball player in the major leagues. It 587 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,960 Speaker 1: doesn't exist. In the only way you would be poor 588 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:52,240 Speaker 1: is if you're really bad at gambling, like those Cleveland pitchers, 589 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:53,360 Speaker 1: or or. 590 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 3: The other other thing. Just terrible investments. 591 00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 1: So anyway, the point of all this, Philadelphia will be 592 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,440 Speaker 1: paying most of this Arid Padres will not be paying 593 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,680 Speaker 1: much of anything. As we said, he at one point 594 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 1: was an All Star, a two time All Star Castellanos, 595 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:11,680 Speaker 1: and he has taken a sharp decline. He is a 596 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 1: below average major league player at this point. He was 597 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:18,120 Speaker 1: last year in Philadelphia. So the question for the esteem panel, 598 00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:22,200 Speaker 1: Nick Casteanos joining the Padres joined the Padres, is this 599 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:26,359 Speaker 1: a big deal, a little deal or no deal? So 600 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:30,279 Speaker 1: I wrote down little deal with a lower casel, not 601 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:34,040 Speaker 1: a capital L, a lower casel. And it's not a 602 00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:37,759 Speaker 1: blockbuster edition. If it is, it's a blockbuster video edition 603 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:42,480 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. For Castianos, that's it, and it's 604 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:43,920 Speaker 1: you know what it is. It's like going to Trader 605 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,400 Speaker 1: Joe's and they have those little appetizer things like the 606 00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,480 Speaker 1: on the toothpick, and you get a little piece of cheese, 607 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,120 Speaker 1: a little cube of cheese, and it's right next to 608 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,160 Speaker 1: the frozen orange chicken. You're like, why can't I get 609 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,080 Speaker 1: some orange chicken? Well, we didn't cook that. We've got 610 00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,480 Speaker 1: the little Cuba cheese, but I don't want the Cuba cheese. 611 00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,760 Speaker 1: But it's all we have. Okay, I'll take Cuba cheese, 612 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:02,600 Speaker 1: but I'd rather have the little piece of orange chicken. 613 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:03,680 Speaker 3: We don't have that again. 614 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:07,560 Speaker 1: So Casty arrives, much to the dismay of Jonathan and 615 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:11,440 Speaker 1: Delaware in the gas Lamp quarter when the Podreys start playing. 616 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:15,800 Speaker 1: He's a diminished asset at this point, after his time 617 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,520 Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, a man. They said, well, it's just a 618 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,200 Speaker 1: change of scenery. He'll be ready to go and all 619 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,239 Speaker 1: that stuff. Just needs a new set of laundry and. 620 00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:26,120 Speaker 3: He'll be ready to go. 621 00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:30,799 Speaker 1: I would argue he needs to be fumigated and decontaminated 622 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,759 Speaker 1: and sanitized because there's a lot going on with his cat, 623 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,880 Speaker 1: a lot going on with his cat. He sucked at 624 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,560 Speaker 1: a time he cannot suck. At the end of the 625 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,600 Speaker 1: regular season, from July first of July to the end 626 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,080 Speaker 1: of the year, he batted two oh six. He was 627 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:47,839 Speaker 1: worse than the playoffs for the fight in Phills, as 628 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:51,839 Speaker 1: they quickly exited the playoffs. And so now Castiano's parachutes 629 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:57,560 Speaker 1: into a clubhouse starring the aforementioned Manny Machado captain sideye 630 00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:02,000 Speaker 1: Fernando to tease Junior, you know, filtered, check him for 631 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:06,040 Speaker 1: the uh you know, the cream if you will. So 632 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,600 Speaker 1: the pod now the Padre Romantics, so like, oh, everything's 633 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:11,160 Speaker 1: great here, this is fine. It's it's a good landing spot. 634 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:15,200 Speaker 1: Machado and Nick were buddies. They were childhood pals, and 635 00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:16,920 Speaker 1: they know each other and all this stuff, and. 636 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:18,040 Speaker 3: I say, whooped the dam do? 637 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,680 Speaker 1: They're grown ass men right now, and this has a 638 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:22,799 Speaker 1: high chance. 639 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:23,839 Speaker 3: Of being a debacle. Now. 640 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,839 Speaker 1: If it is a debacle, the Padres will just say 641 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:30,279 Speaker 1: bye bye. They'll get rid of Castos. He won't be 642 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:36,319 Speaker 1: there very long. Padres are currently down wind from a 643 00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:40,000 Speaker 1: toxic vapor cloud. Adding this guy in. They're just not 644 00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:41,960 Speaker 1: as good as they have been in recent years, and 645 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,160 Speaker 1: that is a team. You keep an eye on the Padres. 646 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,279 Speaker 1: If they don't get off to a good start in 647 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:48,960 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six baseball season, we get to that 648 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:53,319 Speaker 1: July portion and it could be burned baby burn in 649 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,759 Speaker 1: terms of a fire sale situation there as they start 650 00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:58,240 Speaker 1: unloading some of these veteran players. 651 00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:00,600 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler 652 00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,759 Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. 653 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,600 Speaker 3: It's Mallard, how about that? 654 00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:11,400 Speaker 2: To the third degree, This is one big event. 655 00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:15,359 Speaker 3: Gets grilled all right. 656 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:20,280 Speaker 5: Former star tight end Colorado star tight end Christian Fourier, 657 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:24,440 Speaker 5: so that he's tapped out on supporting Dion Sanders Colorado program. 658 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:26,919 Speaker 5: I think the last straw for him was his son 659 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:31,439 Speaker 5: getting his number retired. But do you think Dion's time 660 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,520 Speaker 5: is He's on the hot seat there in Colorado. 661 00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,240 Speaker 3: No, because they're they're making money. 662 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,400 Speaker 1: I think if they keep losing, Dion's not going to 663 00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,240 Speaker 1: stick around because he doesn't want to be associated with losing. 664 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,399 Speaker 3: But financially they're viable. They're making a lot of money, and. 665 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,400 Speaker 1: That's ultimately what it's about. If you can't know you 666 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,319 Speaker 1: want championships every year, you're gonna make the money. That's 667 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:50,360 Speaker 1: what where we do it next. 668 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,000 Speaker 5: Eli Manning said over the weekend that he can't imagine 669 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,080 Speaker 5: a more deserving coach for the Hall of Fame than 670 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,439 Speaker 5: Bill Belichick. Eli himself has been eligible for two years 671 00:37:58,480 --> 00:37:59,280 Speaker 5: and has not made. 672 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,160 Speaker 3: It in yet. Do you think he makes it next year? 673 00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:01,879 Speaker 2: No? 674 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:04,200 Speaker 3: Eli Manning should be the Hall of Fame. He's not 675 00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,520 Speaker 3: a Hall of Fame quarterback. He's an average quarterback. He's 676 00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:07,520 Speaker 3: not Hall of Fame worthy. 677 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,319 Speaker 1: But it does help Eli Manning if Belichick's in the 678 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,719 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, right, because he beat Belichick twice and 679 00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:15,120 Speaker 1: so it's like that's his claim to fame other than that, 680 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,680 Speaker 1: Eli Manning's is really a loser as a quarterback. 681 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,200 Speaker 5: Next, so, the NFL has tried to stop the NFL 682 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,880 Speaker 5: Players Association from publishing the team report cards, but that 683 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:28,360 Speaker 5: did not work. Then arbitration ruled in the players Association's favor. 684 00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:28,960 Speaker 3: Ben. 685 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:30,920 Speaker 5: Do you think they should be able to publicize these 686 00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:31,840 Speaker 5: report cards, Well. 687 00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:34,239 Speaker 1: They'd have to redo the cbas against the rules of 688 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:35,920 Speaker 1: the NFL players signed off. 689 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,440 Speaker 3: They will not allow that. So it's against the NFL rules. 690 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,280 Speaker 3: They got to change the rules. But if they do that, sure, 691 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:41,880 Speaker 3: there it is malan of. 692 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:45,240 Speaker 2: The third degree. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports 693 00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:48,040 Speaker 2: talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows 694 00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:52,160 Speaker 2: at Foxsports Radio dot Com and within the iHeartRadio app. 695 00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,360 Speaker 2: Search FSR to listen live. 696 00:38:55,600 --> 00:39:00,520 Speaker 3: He's winning so important, listen, running's everything the horror. 697 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,600 Speaker 2: It's time for another Mallard game show. 698 00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:04,640 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, son go. 699 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:10,280 Speaker 2: We surveyed one hundred people name sports teams associated with losing. 700 00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:16,360 Speaker 3: D curs. I believe the answer is to Clippers. That 701 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,800 Speaker 3: is the top answer forty points. 702 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,040 Speaker 2: It's Mallard militia fute. 703 00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:24,319 Speaker 1: Well, let's play the feud and our contestants. Since if 704 00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:26,840 Speaker 1: he's awake from the Minneapolis. We say a load of 705 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:36,560 Speaker 1: hollering James, Hello, hollering James, hollowing James, you're wide awake today. 706 00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:38,920 Speaker 3: Unbelievable. We had a snore earlier. I thought of you. 707 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,240 Speaker 3: Hold on a second. We have far out Dave. Hello, 708 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:46,120 Speaker 3: far out Dave in Ohio. It's awesome. I get the 709 00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:50,040 Speaker 3: kicking with mister James. Yeah, all right, well, what a matchup? 710 00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,160 Speaker 3: This is going to be? All right, ones of the 711 00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:54,560 Speaker 3: twos here, what are we thinking here? 712 00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:55,560 Speaker 2: Two? 713 00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:56,600 Speaker 3: Number two? 714 00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,600 Speaker 1: All right, number two, gentlemen. One hundred people surveyed the 715 00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:06,640 Speaker 1: top one, two, three, four answer. The top four answers 716 00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:10,279 Speaker 1: are on the board. Name something George Washington would take 717 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:19,919 Speaker 1: off in a game of strip poker. Dave tith Is what, Yes, 718 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,600 Speaker 1: that's right. I was on there his wooden teeth. Fifteen 719 00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:26,359 Speaker 1: points for that one. Far out Dave, you get to go. 720 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,919 Speaker 3: Again, wig his wig. 721 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:33,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the number one answer Number one. All right, 722 00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:37,640 Speaker 1: you're doing very well, keep going there, Dave his black rifle, 723 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,960 Speaker 1: black rife. No, that is incorrect, all right, James. One 724 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,719 Speaker 1: hundred people surveyed. Name something George Washington would take off 725 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:48,919 Speaker 1: in a game of strip poker and honor President's Day today. 726 00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,879 Speaker 1: His glasses, No, not on there, James, not bad Dave, 727 00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,760 Speaker 1: anything else, Dave, Dave far out, Dave. 728 00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:02,759 Speaker 3: His boots, No, not on there. Back to James. 729 00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:04,440 Speaker 2: His wig. 730 00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:08,120 Speaker 1: He already answered that that is correct, but he already 731 00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,759 Speaker 1: far out. Dave already answered that right back to you. 732 00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:15,200 Speaker 3: Dave his coat, Yeah, that was on there. You go 733 00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:19,280 Speaker 3: far out, Dave. You got dominating one. One more answer 734 00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:19,600 Speaker 3: on the board. 735 00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:19,840 Speaker 5: What are you? 736 00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:20,399 Speaker 3: What's your answer? 737 00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:26,160 Speaker 1: Dave bridges his bridges, his bridges, Nope, not not on it. James, 738 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:29,120 Speaker 1: you got a shot to get one? James his coat. 739 00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:34,360 Speaker 1: He already answered the coat you No, it's you glaid 740 00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:36,120 Speaker 1: on the know. The other answer we were looking for 741 00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:37,040 Speaker 1: was a hat. 742 00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:40,120 Speaker 3: His hat far out. Dave is the winner. 743 00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:41,440 Speaker 1: You get a goal the decade. 744 00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:45,040 Speaker 3: You gotta all the decade. They gotta goll the deck. Yeah, 745 00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:46,040 Speaker 3: they all the dick