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Speaker 3: Mister Martin Weiss, how are you doing well? Working for

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Speaker 3: my financial independence? On this? Is that what you're doing?

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Speaker 1: Did you guys grill barbecue? Do anything for lunch or

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Speaker 1: just hanging out today for a nice walk?

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Speaker 3: That's about it?

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Speaker 5: Is that your fourth walk to the coffee shop, came

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Speaker 3: Very effestive. Fourth of July.

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Speaker 5: Yes, you know what I'm doing and I'm going to

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Speaker 5: see a movie in a cemetery tonight.

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Speaker 1: That's real nice is that when your fiance that's romantic

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Speaker 5: Hollywood cemetery, they have these like basically outdoor movie showings,

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Speaker 5: it an old movie or something new relatively old? I

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Speaker 1: Players having a shelf life and fans tired of Lebron.

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Speaker 5: I don't think that players have a shelf life in

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Speaker 5: We got to improve the team build around me that

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Speaker 1: How many years as he played? Has it been twenty?

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Speaker 5: It's about how you act. It's about how you act,

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Speaker 5: with everybody else the other Tim Duncan, I'm not exactly

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Speaker 5: But like the idea that Lebron right now is kind

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think Lebron also hurts himself the longer he plays

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Speaker 1: and doesn't win. I do because you thought to look,

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Speaker 5: That still doesn't take away to me the way he

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's not the same prime.

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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna say this because people talk about his numbers.

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Speaker 3: Look at his plus minus. He was like one of

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Speaker 1: It's easier to score in the NBA than ever before.

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Speaker 1: So when you look at his numbers, they're inflated. They're

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Speaker 1: not like real numbers to me, because everybody can score

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Speaker 1: and you can't play defense against people, you can't touch people.

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Speaker 3: So Lebron is able to score. I don't have that issue.

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Speaker 1: But if you're looking at plus minus and what he

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Speaker 1: I think he was minus fifty three when he was

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Speaker 3: That's the issue is it's the fifty one million dollars.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I think Lebron probably should have bowed

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Speaker 1: And I'm just saying he's entitled to whatever he wants,

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Speaker 3: What is he playing for?

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Speaker 1: If you don't have a chance to win, and you're

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Speaker 5: Well, he's playing for the fifty one million dollars that

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Speaker 5: To the all right, Rich Paul, you come up with

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Speaker 5: So do you think this just gut is this his

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Speaker 6: Like?

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Speaker 1: Seriously? Athletes? Do you like it when they hang on

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 1: For two decades, we're still talking about the same guy.

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Speaker 1: Where are you Lebron players? Sticking around too long? Should

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Speaker 5: Stick and stay unless you aren't tired of Lebron James,

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Speaker 1: All right, eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox talking

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, where are you should Lebron these guys just

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Speaker 1: they rip the uniform off? KC and Oregon? You're on

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Speaker 3: What's up? KC?

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Speaker 8: Hey, sup, guys, thanks for working today. You guys are

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Speaker 8: keeping me entertained while he's right.

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Speaker 3: My man, you dog gotta be here for UKC always.

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Speaker 9: Well.

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Speaker 8: I appreciate that, but not only am I tired of Lebron, Guys.

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Speaker 8: I'm kind of getting tired of Rob Pelink. It's time

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Speaker 3: All right. I will say Rob Polinka has been riding

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Speaker 1: But they have a new owner now, so that might change. God,

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Speaker 1: I switch up. I think that will switch up. He

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Speaker 3: Thinking the same. It doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 1: Uh, Doug in Illinois, you're on the odd couple of

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Speaker 3: Doing great? Thanks for calling in on this fourth of July.

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Speaker 6: Say, then let you guys talk about it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I think there's always a piece of that when

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Speaker 3: It happened. It happens in this business too.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there are a lot of guys who just

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Speaker 9: What's going on? Y' all right? How you I'm doing good?

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Speaker 9: Robert because I gotta call you Robert because you ain't

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Speaker 1: Man, man, you know what you've baby been trying to

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Speaker 9: Don't forget about the day once I'm about to lie down.

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Speaker 3: I'm from mathachuonts come nah, stop it stopping?

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Speaker 9: Hey, No, but look, I don't have a problem with Lebron, man, Dude,

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Speaker 9: that'd be like me telling you, man, you're sick, you

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Speaker 9: You're still doing it at a high level.

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Speaker 9: So who am I to push you out the door

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Speaker 9: the problem with Lebron is that he's always been the

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Speaker 9: why he's doing the viz Carter was Kevin Willis or somebody.

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Speaker 9: You know, he's still balding I was in twenty five

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Speaker 9: and whatever. He just don't impact the game.

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Speaker 1: To say exactly, Drey, that's true. Thanks for the call.

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Speaker 1: Happy for I appreciate you. How about Cameron in LA.

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Speaker 1: You're in the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Cameron?

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Speaker 11: Hey, good afternoon guys.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Joe, Happy fourth of July.

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Speaker 6: Tou too, Thanks for having me on the show.

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Speaker 11: I've been getting very frustrated with this like constant insistence

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Speaker 11: that like Lebron should hang it up, as though you know,

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Speaker 11: he's not still an incredible player, and as though it's

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Speaker 11: not like incredible to be in the presence of this

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Speaker 11: type of player.

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Speaker 6: We're witnessing the.

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Speaker 11: NBA's all time leading scorer, who was one of the

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Speaker 11: greatest young.

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Speaker 6: Players ever, one of the greatest old players ever.

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Speaker 11: I understand, you know, he's got an ego. I understand

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Speaker 11: he's been to his own detriment in terms of winning

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Speaker 11: sometimes with taking these contracts and stuff. You know, there

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Speaker 11: aren't like a lot of great criticisms of Lebron James,

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Speaker 11: but at the end of the day, he's one of the.

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Speaker 10: Greatest basketball players ever.

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Speaker 11: It's not the greatest, okay, and I think that it's

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Speaker 11: special to just like I don't know, I don't think

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Speaker 11: that we should be trying to shoot these all time.

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Speaker 6: Great athletes out the door.

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Speaker 11: You know, no one was mad when Tiger Woods came

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Speaker 11: back and won the Masters a few years ago.

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Speaker 1: You know, yeah, but people are disappointed on what's happened

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Speaker 1: since then.

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Speaker 3: But all I appreciate the call real quick.

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Speaker 1: Andrea, Massachusetts, you're on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Dre for calling on fourth of July. What's up?

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Speaker 6: How you doing?

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Speaker 12: Happy forth to July. Thanks for taking a call. Shout

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Speaker 12: out to Dre in Michigan. Yes, so far of the

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Speaker 12: country you know got in and you know, gave this takes.

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Speaker 12: But I'm going to concur with the previous callers. But

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Speaker 12: Lebron most certainly does love the attention, and he's very

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Speaker 12: much embedded in the attention economy. Right he's making hundreds

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Speaker 12: of millions up there, billions of dollars right being in

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Speaker 12: that attention capital of Los Angeles. So that's why I

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Speaker 12: think he's holding on it. It's twofold, wants to play

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Speaker 12: with his sons, he likes playing basketball. What are you

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Speaker 12: going to do sit on the beach and abvisa. It's

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Speaker 12: not the same. It's not the same energy. And also

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Speaker 12: his business interests are very much vested in what he's

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Speaker 12: going to do post basketball as a moving movie mogu,

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Speaker 12: getting into social justice, all those other type of things.

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Speaker 12: So for he's staying for a number of different reasons.

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Speaker 12: I think it's just not it's not all about basketball

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Speaker 12: right now. He has these other interests that he's trying

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Speaker 12: to keep putting forward, and they're all accelerated by the

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Speaker 12: fact that.

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Speaker 6: He's Lebron James on the Lakers.

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Speaker 12: It's not going to be the same Michael Jordan can

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Speaker 12: make one hundreds of millions of dollars with his air Jordan's,

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Speaker 12: but we don't see him every day for the Chicago Books.

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Speaker 6: You don't have that same impact.

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Speaker 10: So he's aware of that.

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Speaker 6: Happy forward.

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Speaker 3: Thanks taking the call, yep, thank you, dre appreciate it.

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Speaker 5: In a minute, we'll have Alan Lee, Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 5: contributor coming up. In just a second, But for now,

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Speaker 5: let's go ahead and kick it over to Steve Di sager.

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Speaker 5: No one is tired of Steve di Sager. I guarantee

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Speaker 5: that well.

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Speaker 3: No vote has been taken.

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Speaker 13: Let's start with the holiday scoreward in Major League Baseball,

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Speaker 13: end of one at Cleveland, the Guardians not only on

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Speaker 13: the board, but ending a drought at the flight. Jose

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Speaker 13: Ramirez not only got on base, he had a solo

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Speaker 13: homer for Cleveland in the first inning. They're up one

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Speaker 13: nothing on Detroit after one. Also among the evening games

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Speaker 13: in progress, the Rangers now have a two to nothing

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Speaker 13: lead at San Diego in the bottom of the fourth,

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Speaker 13: Trevor Simeon with a two run double and Marcus Simeon.

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Speaker 13: And by the way, we have Angels at Blue Jays

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Speaker 13: scoreless bottom of the second. But a lot of finals

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Speaker 13: from today, including the game at Wrigley Field where the

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Speaker 13: Cubs hit eight home runs, a franchise record. My Michael

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Speaker 13: Bush had three of them, eleven to three. The final

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Speaker 13: Cubs over Saint Louis. Cardinals only had three hits in

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Speaker 13: the game at Seattle. Two more home runs from Cal Rawley,

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Speaker 13: the All Star catcher with thirty five this year. Six nothing.

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Speaker 13: Mariners shut out Pittsburgh Minnesota on a solo homer bottom

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Speaker 13: of the ninth edge Tampa Bay four to three. Cincinnati

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Speaker 13: won nine to six at Philadelphia, while the Mets got

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Speaker 13: a home win against the Yankees six to five, so

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Speaker 13: the Mets second in the NL East, just a half

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Speaker 13: game behind Philadelphia. Jeff McNeil a key two run homer

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Speaker 13: in the seventh for the lead the loss to Luke

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Speaker 13: Weaver Aaron Judge with his thirty second home, but the

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Speaker 13: Yankees have lost five straight. Boston won the early game

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Speaker 13: eleven to two at Washington. Among the late games, the

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Speaker 13: Dodgers going for a fifth straight win, start up in

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Speaker 13: an hour and a half at home, starting the weekend

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Speaker 13: series against Houston.

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Speaker 3: The w NBA is off.

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Speaker 13: Caitlin Clark will miss a fifth straight game Saturday with

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Speaker 13: the groin injury. Carlos Alcarez advanced to the fourth round

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Speaker 13: at Wimbledon, and women's number one Arena Sablenka also won.

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Speaker 3: Back to You All Right, we are the odd Couple.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio on a funky Flashback Friday, Rob Parker,

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Speaker 1: Martin Weiss in for Kelvin Washington and now let's welcome

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Speaker 1: in Alan Lee, a Fox Sports radio contributor, played little

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Speaker 1: minor league baseball in his day. Alan, welcome to the

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Speaker 1: odd couple. What's happening, Hey.

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Speaker 6: Not much fellas. You guys get some barbecue today, you

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Speaker 6: know your tummy's full.

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Speaker 5: Not yet, that'll be that'll be Pels show for me. Yes,

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Speaker 5: But right now watching Detroit Tigers and Jose Ramirez, this barbecue,

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Speaker 5: the ball to the upper deck. They trailing the Guardians

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Speaker 5: one to nothing. But Tigers have been one of the

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Speaker 5: best teams, if not the best team in the American

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Speaker 5: League all regular season thus far up to this point.

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Speaker 3: Is this real or is this a bad division?

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Speaker 6: You know, you have to really ask that question. I know,

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Speaker 6: before the season started, all the fan base kept saying,

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Speaker 6: you know what, not spending any money hawking this team

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Speaker 6: be any good.

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Speaker 9: It's ridiculous.

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Speaker 6: Look how far we got last year, and guys have

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Speaker 6: just been coming through off season long for the Tigers.

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Speaker 6: I mean, did you ever think that you would actually

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Speaker 6: see Hobby bay As at an All Star Game? Again?

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Speaker 3: No? No that now.

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Speaker 1: First of all, Byron Buxton should have been the starting

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Speaker 1: center fielder for the American League.

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Speaker 3: But two things can be true.

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Speaker 5: He shouldn't be the starting center fielder for the All

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Speaker 5: Star Game.

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Speaker 3: But it's also remarkable that he could even be considered

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Speaker 3: to get the starting No, I get that, but you

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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: The year Buston's having you notice all with the glove

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Speaker 1: and the bad I just got, like center the starting

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Speaker 1: center fielder for.

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Speaker 3: The American League.

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Speaker 5: If you had told me last if you to on

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Speaker 5: me two years ago, the Hovey Bayers would be the

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Speaker 5: starting centerfield at the All Star I would say they

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Speaker 5: had a triple A All Star You said, Toledo.

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Speaker 6: Huh, sorry, it's been amazing. And you know, the Tigers

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Speaker 6: just have these guys with a lot of people around

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Speaker 6: the country. Probably you have no idea about Riley Green

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Speaker 6: is one of the best players in the game.

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Speaker 3: Made the All Star Game last year.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, this guy just continues to just break man. He

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Speaker 6: is so good and rob you know this talking about

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Speaker 6: guys in the All Star Game, Labor Torres, did you

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Speaker 6: ever think that would happen?

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Speaker 3: Yep?

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Speaker 1: Free agent from the Yankees, and look at what he's doing.

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Speaker 1: He's having a really good season for the Tigers. He

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Speaker 1: probably needed Allen a change of scenery from the Bronx because, Uh,

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Speaker 1: he had his moments, but there was a lot of

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Speaker 1: bad moments for him as well, So I think that

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Speaker 1: that has worked out. Speaking of New York, I want

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Speaker 1: to switch over to the New York Metropolitans.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 1: They beat the Yankees today six to five, but they've scuffled,

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Speaker 1: even with one who's obviously playing better. Now the numbers

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Speaker 1: don't feel as good. They're close, you know what I

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Speaker 1: mean to what he did with the Yankees, but it

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Speaker 1: doesn't feel the same Allen. So far, the Mets have

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Speaker 1: been disappointing to me.

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Speaker 6: Well, you know, if it wasn't for Pete Alonzo, that

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Speaker 6: guy that almost got away in the off season because

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Speaker 6: he really kept him afloat for the longest time, he's

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Speaker 6: having a great season. Eighteen home runs, sixty eight rbives

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Speaker 6: was yesterday that in two eighty seven. I mean, he's

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Speaker 6: having quite a year, proven that you know, he's worth

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Speaker 6: every penny that they didn't want to give him. Really.

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Speaker 11: You know.

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Speaker 6: The Mets problem, though, Rob really is they got to

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Speaker 6: get that pitching staff healthy.

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Speaker 3: Yes, they got to get back.

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Speaker 1: They were off to a great start and then the

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Speaker 1: injuries are piled up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Singo seven and three on the season, got one point

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Speaker 6: four to seven ERA, and you know he's got a

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Speaker 6: hamstring string. Grippin Canning just is coming off with achilles surgery.

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Speaker 6: You know, Clay Holmes is the guy that's really kept

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Speaker 6: him a float also, and they're starting rotation.

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Speaker 3: Alan Lee Fox Sports Radio contrip.

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Speaker 5: You're here on the Independence Day joining the odd couple,

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Speaker 5: and I'm Martin Weiston for Kevin Washington with Rob Parker.

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Speaker 3: But talking about Juan Soto.

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Speaker 5: Then when the Nationals moved to want Soto, they got

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Speaker 5: back James Wood, who had a hell of a week right,

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Speaker 5: intentionally walked four times then five for five last night, which.

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Speaker 3: You should say, Martin, nobody had done that.

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Speaker 1: They hadn't done that to anybody since Barry Bonds in

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Speaker 1: what two thousand and.

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Speaker 3: Four, So over twenty one years Lebron's career.

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Speaker 5: Uh so you got four for five, Yeah, four intentional walks,

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Speaker 5: five for five, hits his twenty third home run last

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Speaker 5: night and announces for the All Star home run derby.

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Speaker 3: Uh is this guy a star in the making?

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Speaker 6: There's any doubt about that. I don't think there's any

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Speaker 6: team in the league that wants to really face this guy.

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Speaker 6: I mean, he killed the Padres when he went back there.

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Speaker 6: I think it was last week. And you talk about

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Speaker 6: that the gifts to keep on giving. You know what

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Speaker 6: the what Washington got for Soto, j Abrams, Tinthy Gore.

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Speaker 6: But James Wood is he's.

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Speaker 1: Got a nice w beautiful and he's another Aaron Judge six,

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Speaker 1: seven or eight, could have played basketball whatever and chose

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Speaker 1: baseball and homegrown.

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Speaker 3: He's from Maryland, so.

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Speaker 1: Washington, there's no doubt made out with when it comes

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Speaker 1: to uh, James Wood, let's go to pitching, school ball

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Speaker 1: or Skiens.

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Speaker 3: I know, school ball obviously school ball.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm being nice because Schooble won the Triple Crown

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Speaker 1: and pitching last year right in the American League, right

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Speaker 1: but but Skeens had an unbelievable rookie season.

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Speaker 3: Who's the better pitcher or long term verse? Right now? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying verse.

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Speaker 6: Right now, I think there isn't a team is a

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Speaker 6: team in the league that would turn either one of

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Speaker 6: those guys away. Schemes is suffering from the fact that

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Speaker 6: the team that he plays for, right, there's no question

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Speaker 6: about that.

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Speaker 3: They don't get any runs for him, right Yeah?

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Speaker 6: In school ball, though, it's just on man ten and

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Speaker 6: two to one.

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Speaker 1: R H.

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Speaker 6: You know, you put sks what Schemes is for in

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Speaker 6: ten of this year, you put them on any other

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Speaker 6: team that you know has a decent lineup and he's

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Speaker 6: probably killing it as well. But when either one of

675
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Speaker 6: those guys' contract is up, oh man, I know.

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Speaker 1: And they already said that Schemes doesn't want to talk

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Speaker 1: extension with the Tigers.

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Speaker 3: You know, Scott Boris is we know what the pirates

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Speaker 3: and why would not Skemes? Uh school you see that

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Speaker 3: Schoogle says he's not interested in the extension right now?

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Speaker 3: Why would he? Why would he be? Especially twelve months

682
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Speaker 3: ago you were like, should we trade him? Yeah? I

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Speaker 3: don't think so.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 5: But Kyton Kershaw earlier this week he battled it out.

686
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 5: It took him a couple of innings to get to

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Speaker 5: that third strike, to get to three thousand against.

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Speaker 3: The last battery face.

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Speaker 5: Listen, and it was going to be the last battery

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Speaker 5: face because Dave Roberts wanted to pull up before that.

691
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Speaker 3: But he said, everybody bought this ticket.

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Speaker 1: Today and everybody, his whole family, all teammates, like they

693
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Speaker 1: were like, we've got to make the.

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Speaker 3: Stack gave up five US. He was getting that third strikeout.

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Speaker 3: What's his legacy?

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Speaker 6: You can see Dave though, yeah, you can see Dave

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Speaker 6: biting his tongue with Curse got that strikeout in the

698
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Speaker 6: last day. He knew I got to put him back

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Speaker 6: out there. Curse O is the first ballot of Hall

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Speaker 6: of Fame. But there's no question about it. I mean,

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Speaker 6: come on, you know people are gonna think of Curse

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Speaker 6: on some respect and go, well, you know it wasn't

703
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Speaker 6: great in the postseason. I don't want to hear that.

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Speaker 6: There's a number of people in the Hall of Fame

705
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 6: who did not put up great numbers in the postseason.

706
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Speaker 6: Got two hundred and sixteen wins. I mean that's a

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Speaker 6: measuring stick, a lifetime era, A two point five two.

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Speaker 6: You come on, three thousand strikeouts, not the first ballot

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Speaker 6: Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, no, there's no doubt. I mean he's going

711
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Speaker 1: to be a first ballot. It's just that when you

712
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Speaker 1: think about that, here's the issue, and you just said

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Speaker 1: it two point five to e RRA regular season, but

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Speaker 1: his era in the postseason is over four.

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Speaker 3: And that's the part that people can't look. You know what,

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Speaker 3: I mean, when they looking at.

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Speaker 1: A this guy was so great, probably the greatest picture

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Speaker 1: of this generation.

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Speaker 6: You know, like, yeah, that question, but the fact that

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Speaker 6: he's four and oh this season is really shocking me.

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Speaker 6: I did not expect kurstart to be picking as well

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Speaker 6: as he had really so far this.

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Speaker 3: Season, no doubt. No, I'll tell you what he was.

724
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Speaker 6: And Rob, I know you wanted to dog dog by Dodgers,

725
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 6: but I'll have you know you think they're having an

726
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 6: off year. You know what the record was last season

727
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 6: on July fourth, was that they were fifty three and

728
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Speaker 6: thirty five. Right now they're fifty six and thirty two.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but the difference is this team started out eight

730
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Speaker 1: and oh this year, and you got to admit there

731
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: was just a patch where it doesn't feel as good

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Speaker 1: to me from the beginning. You noticed, Allen, when they

733
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: started the season, it didn't look like they were gonna

734
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Speaker 1: lose any games.

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Speaker 6: Oh no, no, no question.

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Speaker 1: But you know I'm not I'm just saying the way

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Speaker 1: that they looked. I mean, I know baseball, but I'm

738
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Speaker 1: sixty two and oh, how could they know?

739
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Speaker 6: What?

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Speaker 3: I mean?

741
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Speaker 1: They were eight to o and people thought, my god,

742
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Speaker 1: this team is unbelievable and then they kind of hit

743
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Speaker 1: the But.

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00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 6: But when you're moving guys around rob on a team,

745
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 6: it sometimes takes a while. You got Mookie in short,

746
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 6: you got Pies in either center or left field, and

747
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 6: he's really come on for them. You Putkale in right field,

748
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 6: and really Tao shouldn't be playing right field because he's

749
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 6: just not that quick enough to be out there. But

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Speaker 6: that's where he is. You got this whole situation at

751
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 6: second base with Kim and Edmund, you know, And now

752
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 6: I guess Roberts said that Tommy Edmond's gonna start taking

753
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 6: ground as a third base. He has hurt, so that's

754
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 6: going to allow him to get some more playing time.

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Speaker 1: That's going to be interesting to see and kind of weird. No,

756
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Speaker 1: Mookie bets uh and probably in the All Star right,

757
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: he didn't get the.

758
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 3: If you're the guy you want to worry about on.

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Speaker 6: The Dodgers, Yeah, you're the guy you want to worry

760
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 6: about right now on the Dodgers, it's Mookie. Mookie is

761
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 6: not hitting well.

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Speaker 5: I would expect him to have a second half, a

763
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 5: big second half. He was sick to start the year,

764
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 5: and the start that's sick.

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Speaker 3: This was bad.

766
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think lost yesterday he lost forty or whatever,

767
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Speaker 1: thirty pounds was a lost? All right, thanks ellerly appreciate.

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Speaker 2: It, buddy, Thank you here man yep ella.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio contribute a little baseball talk all right.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, we'll do a little Shekel City and

771
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about on this fourth of July what's better

772
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Speaker 1: a really good hot dog or a really good hamburger.

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Speaker 1: It is the odd Couple on a funky flashback Friday.

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00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: It is fourth of July. Rob Parker, Martin weiss In

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Speaker 1: for Kelvin Washington. And you know what you need to do,

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Speaker 1: stick and stay America.

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

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Speaker 2: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio

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

780
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Speaker 2: listen live.

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Speaker 1: It is the odd couple Fox Sports Radio, Rob Parker,

782
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: Martin weiss In for Kelvin Washington on a funky flashback Friday.

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Speaker 3: And you hear this.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we are live on fourth of July, and uh,

785
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 1: you know what it is.

786
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 3: It's time for a little Shekel City. I'm beating the

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Speaker 3: yards again.

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Speaker 5: That's my favorite. That's one of my favorite drops of

789
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 5: all the Filance. All right, here we go that and Jonas,

790
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 5: all right, here we go. Fourth of July. Some baseball

791
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Speaker 5: coming up. Take the Chicago White Sox minus one and

792
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 5: a half. They are in Colorado taking on the Colorado Rockies.

793
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 5: Take the Dodgers minus one and a half. They host the.

794
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 1: Houston Astros here in Los Angeles. And I'm also gonna

795
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:51,399
Speaker 1: take on the road. I'm gonna take San Francisco. They're

796
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: playing in Sacramento taking on the A's, So I'm gonna

797
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: take the Giants minus one and a.

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00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 3: Half as well.

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Speaker 1: So again my best bet, I'm gonna take the Giants

800
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 1: over the age. That's the best bet. Minus one and

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00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: a half. Taking the Dodgers minus one and a half

802
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: against the Astros. And I'm gonna take the White Sox

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00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: minus one and a half in Denver taking on the Rockies.

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Speaker 1: And remember, Martin, I'm not telling you who to bet on.

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00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 1: I'm telling you who I bet on. All right, all right, Uh, it's.

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Speaker 3: Fourth of July.

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Speaker 1: You haven't had any barbecue or anything yet, but we're talking.

808
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Speaker 1: I want to ask you about the hot dog hamburger

809
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: debate because I love hamburgers, but there's nothing better than

810
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:46,439
Speaker 1: a hot dog to me, a really good hot dog,

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Speaker 1: and I'm talking about one hundred percent beef, natural casing.

812
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: Do you know what that means? Natural casing? No phony

813
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: cony exactly. But when you bite it, it snaps. Have

814
00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 1: you had a hot dog when you bite it has

815
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Speaker 1: a natural casing on it. It's not like a franc

816
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: that costs ten for a dollars ninety nine and very expensive.

817
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:08,800
Speaker 1: That's what we I grew up at on New York

818
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:13,919
Speaker 1: eating some bread hot dogs, which are by far the

819
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 1: best hot dogs ever made. They are so good. Where

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Speaker 1: are you on the hot dog hamburger debate?

821
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Speaker 5: When you go down to the base model, the hot

822
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Speaker 5: dog is superior to the hamburger.

823
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Speaker 3: However, as soon as you.

824
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Speaker 5: Extend past the base your your regular backyard condiments, the

825
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 5: burger clears it by far. As soon as you add

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Speaker 5: any accoutrement, the burger by far.

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Speaker 1: How Govin how about a red onion sauce and spicy

828
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:50,399
Speaker 1: brown mustard in New York from the push carts where

829
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: we call them in New York dirty water hot dogs

830
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Speaker 1: because the guy with the stand he washes his hands

831
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Speaker 1: in the water, you know what I mean, And that's

832
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Speaker 1: why they call him dirty water dog.

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Speaker 3: Do that nasty.

834
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Speaker 5: Saying, that's what you are arguing against.

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Speaker 1: But whatever flavor he has on his hands taste good

836
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Speaker 1: like dirty water hot that's what you're.

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Speaker 5: Either a dirty water hot dog hot dog or a

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Speaker 5: double bacon cheeseburger. Well, yeah, I don't eat bacon. Thank you, shake,

839
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Speaker 5: don't please, don't disappoint.

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Speaker 14: This is one of the only times I'll side with

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Speaker 14: you right now.

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00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:30,720
Speaker 3: Goodness.

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Speaker 14: I usually can't side with you almost things, but I

844
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Speaker 14: signed with you here just because God, we got the

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Speaker 14: victory dog. You know what the victory dog is. It's

846
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Speaker 14: that bacon wrap hot dog with the peppers and the

847
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 14: mustard and the ketchup and the mayo and all that.

848
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 14: That's my go to. That's my go to. But that's pinks.

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Speaker 5: That's that's a specialty hot dog.

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Speaker 14: But you can say it's a specialty like hamburger. Literally,

851
00:39:56,280 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 14: that's the stuff that comes on a hamburger. No to

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Speaker 14: hamburger is a hamburger and like maybe some ketch up

853
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Speaker 14: in some mustard.

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00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 3: That was what I said.

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Speaker 5: You take it down to the base levels, hot dog clears,

856
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 5: but as soon as you start adding some extras.

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Speaker 14: But I'm saying that when I add the bacon, and

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Speaker 14: I add the peppers, and I add everything else.

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Speaker 1: To the hot, I take the hot. You know, Shay,

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Speaker 1: you're a big Dodger fan. What's the biggest thing out there?

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00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 1: The Dodger dog not a Dodger.

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Speaker 3: Like Hamburger, Dodger. Hamburger's a Dodger dog.

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Speaker 5: I'm the biggest issue with this is nobody's breaking Hamburgers

864
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Speaker 5: in half and dunking them in lemonade and trying to

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Speaker 5: swallow them down.

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Speaker 3: That's where you lose a couple of hour number two

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Speaker 3: Burger clears. By the way,