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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up? Straight Fire? I am HiT's me Jason McIntyre,

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Speaker 2: Straight baw Yer for Monday, November, the third Halloween is

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Speaker 2: in the rearview mirror. Hope everybody had a safe, fun,

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Speaker 2: awesome Halloween weekend. I've eaten a lot of my kids candy, uh,

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Speaker 2: to the point that like I basically hand picked all

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Speaker 2: the good stuff. It was a phenomenal weekend just all around,

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Speaker 2: except for the time change. I hate that. I cannot

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Speaker 2: stand it. Hit some Halloween parties watched I think the

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Speaker 2: greatest World Series Game seven of my life. I'm sure

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Speaker 2: there have been other ones that were comparable, but I

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Speaker 2: certainly don't remember them. This one was riveting. We'll talk

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Speaker 2: about it at length. Obviously, we'll do NFL first. We're

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Speaker 2: not gonna get into the college football stuff. I know

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Speaker 2: another coach got fired. I think it was the guy

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Speaker 2: at Auburn. He got canned. They're just everybody in college football.

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Speaker 2: It's like, hey, you're not delivering. Get the hell out

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Speaker 2: of dodge. But we'll start with the NFL. And obviously

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Speaker 2: we're going to go to the Game of this Century

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Speaker 2: as it usually is called Buffalo twenty eight, KC twenty one.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why everybody loved Kansas City here, all

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Speaker 2: the sharp betters were all over all you got to

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Speaker 2: take Kansas Study best team in the league on the

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Speaker 2: herd this past week, I said, cowhard, I'm so confident

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Speaker 2: in Buffalo. If the Chiefs win, I will not say

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Speaker 2: a negative word about them again this regular season. And

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Speaker 2: then the Bills won, and the Bills handled it. This

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Speaker 2: was not particularly close. Guys. Listen, I'm not going to

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Speaker 2: be out here bashing Patrick Mahomes. He's obviously a great

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Speaker 2: quarterback that's undeniable. But Patrick Mahomes just had the worst

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Speaker 2: game of his career against the defense that's been kind

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Speaker 2: of pushed around by a lot of teams in this league.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we saw Drake may have his way with

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Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills defense less than a month ago. We

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Speaker 2: saw Michael Pennox carve up the Buffalo Bill's defense. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I mean Lamar Jackson. In the opening, when everybody was

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Speaker 2: healthy up and down the field, they scored forty points.

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Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes, I think it was like, with six minutes up,

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Speaker 2: they were still stuck on thirteen points. Mahomes fifteen of

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Speaker 2: thirty four. Maybe the stat of Sunday, the first time

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Speaker 2: in his career he's had under fifty percent completions. It

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Speaker 2: was staggering. I'm not saying nobody's saying Mahomes is a

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Speaker 2: terrible quarterback. It's okay to say, man Patrick Mahomes had

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Speaker 2: the worst game of his career in a weirdly big spot.

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Speaker 2: And then you know, that's when the cheese fans get

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Speaker 2: all worked up and it said, well, wait a minute,

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Speaker 2: we didn't have but check. Oh, it's always somebody's missing. Well,

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Speaker 2: you know, let me see Rashe Rice was there. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he didn't do much for my fantasy team, but Race

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Speaker 2: Rice did play. Let me see Hollywood Brown. Yeah he played.

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Speaker 2: He played, Xavier Worthy, he he showed up yep, yep.

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Speaker 2: Three catches on seven targets. Travis Kelsey, yes he played.

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Speaker 2: Oh so, basically they had everyone except Isaiah Pacheco. Now,

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Speaker 2: the offensive line, which hasn't been great, was missing Simmons again,

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Speaker 2: the young rookie left tackle, and then Trey Smith sat out,

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Speaker 2: and I think someone else got hurt, so they got

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Speaker 2: dinged up. They sacked Mahomes three times. It felt like

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Speaker 2: they hit him a ton I'm seeing fifteen in the

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Speaker 2: ESPN box spoor score. Bosa and Russo dominated the edges.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't quite like Mahomes struggling in the Super Bowl

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Speaker 2: against Tampa or in the Super Bowl against the Eagles,

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Speaker 2: where he was literally on his back every play. But

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Speaker 2: Mahomes was clearly flustered and rattled in office spot and

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Speaker 2: wasn't the same Mahomes magic outside of you know, a

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Speaker 2: fourth and seventeen completion. Fun stats for those who care

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Speaker 2: for this mighty Kansas City defense, which everybody thought was

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Speaker 2: good because they smoked Rob G's raiders right and they

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Speaker 2: shut down Marcus Mariota. Last week, the Bills went seven

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Speaker 2: for twelve on third down. You know, math majors out there,

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Speaker 2: in the red zone. Chiefs had not allowed a one

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Speaker 2: hundred yard rusher in twenty seven games. James Cook, who

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Speaker 2: I was upset did not get carries inside the five

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Speaker 2: for my fantasy team, did have one hundred and fourteen

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Speaker 2: I'm not, you know, at Fox. They always are like, oh, well,

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Speaker 2: week seven, it's week nine, it doesn't really matter. But

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Speaker 2: if you insist on an MVP discussion, only if you insist,

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Speaker 2: you start with Josh Allen. He's your new leader because

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Speaker 2: he beat Patrick Mahomes and the alleged best team in

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Speaker 2: the league. I didn't have them as the best, but

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Speaker 2: virtually everyone else did a lot of the power rankings

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Speaker 2: from the gamblers and had the Chiefs as the number

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Speaker 2: one team. They were favored in the spot. And so

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Speaker 2: for Alan to absolutely carve up this Bagnolo defense, I

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Speaker 2: want to talk about that. Now. One interesting set that

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Speaker 2: I think we've been talking about here on the pod

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Speaker 2: for the last few years. The NFL has been super

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Speaker 2: pass heavy, right. It's you've got to pass the win.

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Speaker 2: You have passings more efficient than running. It's just a

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Speaker 2: smarter move to pass the football than running into the

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Speaker 2: taking away the big play, nothing over the top. We

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Speaker 2: double dog dare you to go eleven plays down the

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Speaker 2: mess up, so we're gonna keep everything in front of us.

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Speaker 2: So the smart teams have pivoted and gone heavier. They

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Speaker 2: sets way more than they used to. Remember McVeigh in

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Speaker 2: the numbers. The Bills in you know, the Alan versus

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Speaker 2: two percent to thirty eight percent. They completely changed that yesterday,

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Speaker 2: going fifty two percent run, forty eight percent pass. So

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Speaker 2: they had thirty five rushes twenty six pass attempts. So

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Speaker 2: think he was particularly great. Alan of course had his

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Speaker 2: clutch carries. But if you looked around the league Sunday,

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Speaker 2: that was a big trend. We'll talk about the Packers

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Speaker 2: losing to the Panthers. You can imagine what happened in

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Speaker 2: that game, and I'll tell you right now. Bryce Young

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Speaker 2: five turnovers from Daniel Jones and company. It is it's

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Speaker 2: just a really fascinating subplot. Did you see Jared goff

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Speaker 2: he's committing turnovers, he's taken sacks. It's a weird league

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Speaker 2: right now, and you know, betting it is obviously very risky.

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Speaker 2: I will say I had a pop positive Sunday thanks

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Speaker 2: to the Seattle blowout Sunday night. Saturday was incredible. I

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Speaker 2: think it was eight and two in college, just a

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Speaker 2: banner weekend. Only two and three in the contest, but

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Speaker 2: the Rams did get home in Survivor. Now next week's Survivor,

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Speaker 2: we may have to do a whole podcast on it

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Speaker 2: because it's a really freaking tough slate. But Rob, I'm

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Speaker 2: super efficient, but also the overall theme that like, right now,

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Speaker 2: you want to be able to run the football to

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Speaker 2: matriculate down the field as opposed to these big chunk

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Speaker 2: plays which are just not happening.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: When you play the Bengals, you're gonna have chunk plays

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Speaker 2: maybe the Raiders, your Raiders were right to draft astro jecty.

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Speaker 2: They just try to have an offensive line.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, and quick aside America. If you want

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Speaker 4: to know how you can afford to own a La

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Speaker 4: Liga Nakoxa soccer, it's because you go eight and two

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Speaker 4: ben college football, all right.

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Speaker 3: That's how you do it. That's how you snack up

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Speaker 3: the chips.

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Speaker 4: So you can be a part owner and be on

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Speaker 4: uh with a Hulu document whatever document you guys run.

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Speaker 4: But that's how you do it, all right. Now, that

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Speaker 4: the Chiefs vaunted defense, giving up a running yards rushing

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Speaker 4: to anybody, and it was James Cooks. And yet to

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Speaker 4: your point, Josh Allen got the goal line work. So

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Speaker 4: I could see how that would be frustrating if you're.

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Speaker 2: How'd you do in your fantasy?

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Speaker 4: It was great as bad as I was. McCaffrey, right, yes,

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Speaker 4: gets to win, and despite having a relatively down season

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Speaker 3: Against what is perceived to be a great opponent.

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Speaker 4: He goes twenty three or twenty six, two seventy three

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Speaker 3: Suddenly the favorite to winn NFL MVP.

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Speaker 4: This despite the fact that you know, Matthew Stafford was

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Speaker 4: bad game, so he's eliminated completely, right, Like there's been

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Speaker 4: a it's just a weird the way this MVP race

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Speaker 4: you know, Christmas time, we're saying, hey, if if Lamar

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Speaker 4: Jackson finishes stronger last two weeks, what don't watch out

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Speaker 4: for Lamar Jackson win an MVP again. But it's interesting

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Speaker 4: to me that Kansas City, who had looked like arguably

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Speaker 4: could turn in such a dud of a performance, right

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Speaker 4: you mentioned it. Patrick Mahomes lowest passing completion rate in

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Speaker 4: right because you mentioned it. He was under pressure a lot,

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Speaker 4: and it appeared not quite as bad as Super Bowl.

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Speaker 4: But he looked like, you know, not saying he was

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Speaker 2: Yeah, shoot, Rob, damn it. So I already bet one

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Speaker 2: Let's see Rob if we if we were trying to

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Speaker 2: project who's in the Super Bowl. I don't know. I mean,

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Speaker 2: No, mikeel mckel Williams is on the forty nine ers

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Speaker 2: Piercel I put him on, ir guys. He's chewing up

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Speaker 4: I mean what you're banking on is like water leveling

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Speaker 2: Basically yeah, we knew he turned into a pumpkin at

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Speaker 2: I mean, the Seattle defense was just prowling and drilling people,

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Speaker 2: I mean, you can't put Washington in primetime without Daniels.

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Speaker 2: They're both well. Stroud is in year three, Daniels is

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And obviously I know you didn't say this or suggested,

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Speaker 4: they'll run you over. If you think they're gonna go

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Speaker 4: out of bounds, they're dip their shoulder to get another

429
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Speaker 4: three or four yards and unless you police that out

430
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Speaker 4: of it completely, where you say quarterbacks cannot run or

431
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Speaker 4: if you two haven't touched them past the tackle box

432
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Speaker 4: or out past the line of scrimmage, then he's down. Like,

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Speaker 4: I don't know what you can do realistically to prevent

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Speaker 4: these kind of injuries.

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Speaker 2: So you and I like the NFL, well, we love it,

436
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Speaker 2: you know, of course, Santa See, we do gambling. Okay,

437
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Speaker 2: here's the dirty little secret. Just one game usually angry. Okay.

438
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Speaker 2: These are the scores of the most recent Island games, right,

439
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Speaker 2: so Sunday night, Monday night, Thursday night, London. This was

440
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Speaker 2: blowout Seattle, blowout City Ravens waxed the Dolphin. On Thursday,

441
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:05,760
Speaker 2: Chiefs beat Marcus Mariotto buy a million. On Monday, Packers

442
00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:07,399
Speaker 2: come back to beat the Steelers, and again it was

443
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Speaker 2: interesting for a half, maybe three quarters. They still one

444
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Speaker 2: by ten. Chargers stomp out Carson Wentz by twenty five.

445
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Speaker 2: The Texans Seahawks game was just total trash. That one Monday,

446
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Speaker 2: and I think it was Monday night. There was Lions

447
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Speaker 2: Bucks which was awful. Monday night Niners beat the Falcons

448
00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,960
Speaker 2: in a really slow, boring Sunday night game. Rams In

449
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Speaker 2: their international visit versus the Jags, Like, we can't get

450
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Speaker 2: good primetime games, and Rob, that's the thing. Sunday thrilling,

451
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Speaker 2: six games happening, bears this that it's fun. And then

452
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Speaker 2: you go an Island game and you're like, shit, can

453
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Speaker 2: I turn on Wemby versus the Suns here? Where's the

454
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Speaker 2: Laker game? It's just the NF And I get it

455
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Speaker 2: the ratings, you know, I get I'm not arguing against

456
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Speaker 2: the NFL. We love it. But the reality is a

457
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Speaker 2: lot of these games, Rob just not competitive. I mean,

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Speaker 2: if this injury to Daniels is serious, I'm looking at

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Speaker 2: their schedule. I mean, they had they were supposed to

460
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Speaker 2: have a big time game against the Lions next week

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Speaker 2: on Fox Sunday. Then they had the I don't know

462
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Speaker 2: where's this game Madrid somewhere Lion against the Dolphins November sixteenth.

463
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Speaker 2: I just see six thirty am. Then they had the

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Speaker 2: Broncos on Sunday and Night Football. Good. That's got to

465
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Speaker 2: get flexed out, right. If Jayden Daniels isn't there against Bronix, sure, yeah,

466
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Speaker 2: I just it's in Christmas Day Cowboys Washington. So Marcus

467
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Speaker 2: Mariotta on Christmas Day, like Geese, just cancel Christmas. Any

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Speaker 2: other NFL stuff we missed, rob that is worthy of

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Speaker 2: discussion before we go to the World Series.

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Speaker 3: Real quick, I mean just quickly.

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Speaker 4: If you didn't get to watch Bears Bengals, you know,

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Speaker 4: apologies to you, because I will go on record.

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Speaker 3: The football itself was not great. Okay.

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Speaker 4: It was a defense, defense optional game. It reminded me

475
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Speaker 4: of the old Big twelve when it was Baker Mayfield

476
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Speaker 4: was just Patrick Mahomes and each guy through for seven

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Speaker 4: hundred yards. Like it was one of those kind of

478
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Speaker 4: games where nobody could tackle. Coverage was bad, the defensive

479
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 4: play calls were horrible. But if you like offense and

480
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Speaker 4: you like drama, this was the game of the century

481
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 4: because again, the football wasn't good, but the cinema was incredible.

482
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Speaker 4: Joe Flacco does everything he can to march his team back.

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Speaker 4: Should have been a three touchdown game when he threw

484
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Speaker 4: a pick at the goal line and they somehow ruled

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Speaker 4: the defender down by contact, which gave the Bengals, you know,

486
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Speaker 4: just a little bit of life. They forced it three

487
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Speaker 4: and out to get the ball back touchdown, they go

488
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Speaker 4: for the on side kick, which never gets conforted evermore

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Speaker 4: because of the way.

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Speaker 3: That the rules are.

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Speaker 4: They recovered the on side kick, they've marched right down.

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Speaker 4: They score another touchdown, and because they had gone for

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Speaker 4: two in the previous score, they're up by one with

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Speaker 4: under a minute left. He said, hey, Cincinnati, all you

495
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Speaker 4: gotta do is hold them, hold them one stop. You're

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Speaker 4: gonna get one stop at all in this game. Now's

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Speaker 4: the time to get it. Of course they don't do.

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Speaker 4: They not give up like a winning field goal. They

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Speaker 4: give up like a fifty yard touchdown as a guy

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Speaker 4: running an untouched for the last forty And it was

501
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Speaker 4: so bad that after the game. And these are veteran players,

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Speaker 4: like Jamar Chase is a veteran player. He knows what

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Speaker 4: he can say and not say when the cameras are round.

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Speaker 4: Chase Brown is a veteran player. He knows what he

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Speaker 4: can say and not say when the cameras around. I

506
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Speaker 4: think he's actually a captain on there, both of them,

507
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Speaker 4: one of them is, at least Jamar Chase is caught

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Speaker 4: on the caught on cameras.

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Speaker 3: And we can't get one fucking stop, Chase. Chase Brown

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Speaker 3: says to reporters.

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Speaker 4: Like after they had been questioning him on what In

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Speaker 4: the same asage, if you can watch the video, he says,

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Speaker 4: you know, the key is we're not going to turn

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Speaker 4: on each other because the defense was carrying us there

515
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Speaker 4: in the beginning of the season, you know, and now

516
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Speaker 4: the offense is doing much better now here in the

517
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Speaker 4: last couple of weeks. And in the same course of

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Speaker 4: the answer, well, how about you guys in the fucking game,

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Speaker 4: why couldn't you guys do that? Like they was so

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Speaker 4: bad and it was so much drama, both on the

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Speaker 4: field and off the field that if you didn't get

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Speaker 4: to catch the Navid I feel sorry for you.

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Speaker 2: I have a past. All this stat floating around social media.

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Speaker 2: Then the last three years, teams that score thirty eight

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Speaker 2: points eighty seven, six and two. That's for everyone except

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Speaker 2: the Bengals. The Bengals are one and four. That's right,

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Speaker 2: So like, if you score thirty eight, you should automatically

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Speaker 2: get the dub. The Bengals are one and four because

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Speaker 2: the defense is just abhorrent. It'll be interesting, like we'll

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Speaker 2: do some trade stuff, I'm sure this week, but like

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Speaker 2: after that, do they just say, you know what, ef it,

532
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Speaker 2: We're done. Let's just trade Hendrickson, get what we can.

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Speaker 2: We don't need this offseason drama. I think some teams

534
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Speaker 2: are going to be looking at cornerbacks, defense, pass rushers.

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Speaker 2: It should be a busy week. I know we always

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Speaker 2: say that it never really is.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the World Series, because you

542
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Speaker 2: know we don't do a ton on baseball. I readily

543
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Speaker 2: admit that I'm a casual baseball fan. And if you say, hey,

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Speaker 2: J Mack, I got Dodgers tickets, do you want to go? Yeah,

545
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Speaker 2: sure I'll go. We go with the family. It's fun.

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Speaker 2: I'm not like watching game ninety seven of the season.

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Speaker 2: I'm not tuned in. I don't know what's going on

548
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 2: with middle relief. Then when the playoffs come around, yeah,

549
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,639
Speaker 2: I'll watch closer. Try to go to a game. I

550
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 2: definitely have the game on. This World Series was unbelievable,

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Speaker 2: But I don't even know what the best World Series

552
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,159
Speaker 2: of my lifetime? Any any that the Yankees won? But

553
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 2: did Dodgers go back to Toronto down three to two.

554
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 2: They gotta throw Yama Monroo. He's lights out again. You

555
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 2: go to game seven still you're like, oh, we got Otani,

556
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 2: were in great shape. And then Otani gives up the

557
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Speaker 2: three run homer to bishit and it's like, oh, Dodgers

558
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 2: are playing catch up the whole game. It's just not

559
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:49,399
Speaker 2: really happening. They keep clawing back, and then this guy Rojas,

560
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 2: who I don't even really know, I'm not familiar with

561
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 2: his game, he goes yard like the most unlikely hitter.

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Speaker 2: The whole all we were talking about heading into the

563
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Speaker 2: ninth thinning is yeah, so Tani gets to bat, yes,

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Speaker 2: oh my gosh, we have a chest and Rojas comes

565
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Speaker 2: up and he's like pop Hi game, Like wow, and

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Speaker 2: then to win it in extra innings and Yamamoto came

567
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Speaker 2: in the day after pitching ninety six pitches, seals the deal,

568
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Speaker 2: gets a third win, gets the MVP. It was thrilling.

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Speaker 2: And now obviously I was at a Halloween party, you know,

570
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Speaker 2: with the wife or celebrating. Everybody's going crazy. It's awesome.

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Speaker 2: And then you know, I'm largely unaware of what's going

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Speaker 2: on on social media outside of the games. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if that's because the algorithm or what. But Rob

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Speaker 2: tells me, you know, a lot of people are pissed

575
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Speaker 2: off that this is bad for baseball, and I'm like, huh,

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00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 2: how is this bad for him? I mean, like, you know,

577
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Speaker 2: in the NBA, dynasties are amazing for the sport. In

578
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Speaker 2: the NFL, the Chiefs dynasty, the Patriots dodynasty, great for

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Speaker 2: the sport. And it's like, why would the Dodgers dynasty

580
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Speaker 2: be bad?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, there's no salary caps, so they spend

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Speaker 2: the most money and get all the best players. If

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00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 2: you don't like that, then why blame the Dodgers? Why

585
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 2: not change the rules? Well, that's not happening, right, They're

586
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Speaker 2: not gonna all of a sudden, but in a salary cap. Okay, Well,

587
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Speaker 2: is it unfair that Otani hit the market after leaving

588
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 2: the Angels and landed with the Dodgers? What's unfair about that?

589
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 2: Is it unfair that Yamamotor decided he was coming to

590
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 2: the US and the Dodgers were like, okay, we'll give

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Speaker 2: you three hundred and twenty five million dollars. People laughed

592
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 2: at the Dodgers for that. Oh, this guy's never pitched

593
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Speaker 2: in the BIGS. Oh that's insane. I mean, well, I

594
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Speaker 2: don't see what he did in the World Series. He

595
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 2: definitely worth every penny. So again, maybe it's just that

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Speaker 2: I'm unaware, Rob, but I found the Dodgers. Now. Listen,

597
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 2: I'm out here in LA. It's exciting. You know, everybody's

598
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 2: into the Dodgers. I thought it was exciting. I don't

599
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 2: think it's bad at all. If anything, I'm where I

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Speaker 2: think the Dodgers need to go out this offseason and

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Speaker 2: get some more bats. I mean, they really couldn't deliver

602
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Speaker 2: in the postseason, and that's I guess It's good and

603
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Speaker 2: a further piss off Major League Baseball. Huh.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 4: J Back to your point, the Dodgers batted two oh

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Speaker 4: three in the World Series, the first mark by a

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Speaker 4: champion since nineteen sixty six.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 4: Over the last two seasons which the Daughters have the

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Speaker 4: Dodgers have went back to back World Series championships, they

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Speaker 4: have batted a combined two oh four in the World Series. Okay,

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Speaker 4: so this is not some juggernaut team. This is not

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, can you imagine anybody else other than

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Speaker 4: these guys winning it? No, what they have obviously, they

615
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Speaker 4: have several great players, but what they have more than

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Speaker 4: anything else, is they have guys who have come up

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Speaker 4: big in the biggest moments. And that's all you can

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Speaker 4: really ask for in the sport of baseball, Because baseball,

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Speaker 4: especially in the postseason, how many times have you said

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Speaker 4: coming in like, oh, well, this team is loaded, they

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Speaker 4: should win, and you know, the number seven hitter on

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Speaker 4: the other team comes up with a three one blast

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Speaker 4: out of nowhere.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, that's what it is.

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Speaker 4: The Dodgers win this World Series trailing by one down

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Speaker 4: to their last two outs, and a guy who hadn't

627
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Speaker 4: hit a home run in over a month and a half,

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Speaker 4: who wasn't even playing in the series until a game

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Speaker 4: and a half ago, hits the game time home run

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Speaker 4: that flips it right. The Dodgers, who again had been

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Speaker 4: struggling batting the entire World Series, have one guy in

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Speaker 4: one game, Shoe Aotani, accounts for nine total bases or

633
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 4: reaches base nine times, walk five times, goes four to

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Speaker 4: four to two doubles, two home runs. Like one guy

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Speaker 4: flipped that whole thing. Yeah, Yamamoto, I believe historically, I

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Speaker 4: think it's only like six guys have won at least

637
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Speaker 4: three road games in the World Series. Like three pitchers

638
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Speaker 4: or six pitchers have won at least three road games.

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Speaker 4: He did three has three wins in one World Series, right, Like,

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Speaker 4: I don't understand how anybody can look at the Dodgers.

641
00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 4: And I'm not saying this I live in LA because

642
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 4: my whole family Dodger fans. I'm saying, as I'm saying

643
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 4: as an objective sports fan, what they do is something

644
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 4: that every team should aspire to be. You should be

645
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 4: pissed off right now. If you're a Detroit Tigers fan

646
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 4: and we got reports saying, hey, it's a good chance

647
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 4: they're gonna trade schoobl who might be the best pitcher

648
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 4: in baseball, because they don't want to pay him the

649
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 4: money he's looking for.

650
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 3: Like, you should be pissed off with that.

651
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 2: You should be pissed off who's in the mix for him?

652
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 3: By the way, everybody anybody who has money. That's all

653
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,479
Speaker 3: the elites, the coastal elites, and the Blue Jays.

654
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 2: So what the Mets, the Yankees, right, blue Jays, probably

655
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 2: the Red Sox.

656
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 4: If it was as simple as who has the biggest payroll,

657
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 4: then why haven't the Yankees won in thirty years? Why

658
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 4: have the Mets haven't won the last five Because they've

659
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 4: been spending money like it's going out of style. The Dodgers,

660
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,959
Speaker 4: unlike a lot of these other teams. Yes, they have

661
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 4: big paychecks and big wallets, big bank accounts. What they

662
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 4: also have is a great farm system. What they also

663
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 4: have is they find discarded guys like a Max Muncy,

664
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 4: like a Tommy Edmin from other teams that just fit

665
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 4: what they're trying to do. They're able to tap in

666
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 4: and take risks that other teams necessarily aren't gonna take,

667
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 4: like some of the trades that they made as started

668
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 4: this whole run a couple of years ago, Like they

669
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 4: took on a terrible David Price contract so they can

670
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 4: get some better players, right, They, to your point, signed

671
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 4: Yamamoto three hundred and twenty five million, had never pitched

672
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 4: in a big league game and never likes.

673
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:32,479
Speaker 3: Basically side unseen. Right.

674
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you had current pitchers at the time. I

675
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 4: think Dallas Braden was one of them. It's like, how

676
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 4: the hell are you gonna do that. That's a terrible decision.

677
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 4: That's just throwing money away. Like I haven't we learned anything.

678
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 4: It's like, no, they get the right guys at the

679
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 4: right time, and and more importantly, they get these guys

680
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 4: who seem to have a grittiness that most superstars just

681
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 4: do not have. Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts, shoe A Otani

682
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 4: Yamamoto saying I'm gonna give you ninety plus pitches the

683
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 4: night before, then I'm gonna come and give you another

684
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 4: thirty to close the game.

685
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 2: Like that, let me ask Rob, Like, here's the thing.

686
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 2: So the Dodgers went out and got I'm sorry. The

687
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 2: Angels went out and got Otani, right yep. And they

688
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 2: couldn't really spend money to get anyone else. Well, I mean,

689
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 2: I guess technically you could, but I guess the owner

690
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 2: was like, hey, it's not profitable if I spend.

691
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 4: And we also spent on the wrong guys before that,

692
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 4: right Hams and Albert Pooholes.

693
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 2: So the Dodgers, you're right, have more wiggle room for

694
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 2: swing and miss when you're spending a ton of money.

695
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 2: The Angels don't. The Mets were like, basically, what's that team?

696
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: Oh?

697
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 2: Like North Carolina's Belichick, Hey, let's just go hit the portal.

698
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 2: Let's get everybody, let's spend all the money and they

699
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 2: just whip it together and it didn't work. But I

700
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 2: just I do wonder if do you think the rest

701
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 2: of the owners around the league would be upset enough that, hey, man,

702
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 2: we just can't hang. Let's all vote to have a

703
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,240
Speaker 2: salary captay. Is there any chance of that happening?

704
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 3: Absolutely? You think that so freaking lotly?

705
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 4: Yes, because all of these guys, I mean, you know

706
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 4: this working in sports, the teams that are actually interested

707
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,720
Speaker 4: in winning is maybe like a third in any league,

708
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 4: and then more than half if not the rest of

709
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 4: the league. It's just like, hey, how do we make money?

710
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 2: We make money?

711
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 3: How do we stay profitable? How do we stay in

712
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:18,280
Speaker 3: the black.

713
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 4: And there's been reports even before the season what the

714
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 4: Dodgers are doing is unfair from the Rockies manager, from

715
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 4: the Yankees, this is unfair what they're doing, the way

716
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 4: they're spending this money. Like, are you kidding me, Brian Cashman,

717
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 4: you're gonna say that the yank the Dodgers are spending

718
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 4: too much money when the Yankees historically have wanted in

719
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:39,359
Speaker 4: the highest spinning teams ever. And if you watch this

720
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 4: past World Series, Yes, the Dodgers won, but you cannot

721
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 4: say with a straight face that the Blue Jays did

722
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 4: not look like the better team throughout the series.

723
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:49,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were right there.

724
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 4: They had them dead to rights and just couldn't close

725
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 4: the door. The Blue Jays in this World Series had

726
00:35:56,320 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 4: twenty two more hits, scored eight more runs, and batted

727
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 4: over sixty points higher as a team and still lost.

728
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 4: So if the blue Jays.

729
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 3: Win, are the Dodgers still baff for baseball?

730
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 1: No?

731
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 3: Could they just freaking lost?

732
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's then narrative switched a goll goofy. Let me

733
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 2: ask you this. So I don't know enough about the

734
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 2: Blue Jays. So was this just an ultra charmed year

735
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 2: and they were that close they could just come back

736
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 2: and do it again, or two years ago were they

737
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 2: just not anywhere close to this? And this was just

738
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 2: kind of sort of I don't want to use the

739
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 2: word lucky. But everything went their way. I mean, the

740
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 2: guy who set the record for major League hits at

741
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,800
Speaker 2: a postseason, I'd never heard of him in my life.

742
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 2: I mean, he just every time he came in to play,

743
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 2: he was like, oh he was like the eighth or nine,

744
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 2: ten or do you know what I'm talking about Clement.

745
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 3: Yes, well j Mack.

746
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 4: Just to give you some context, the Toronto Blue Jays

747
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 4: had the fifth highest payroll in baseball, So they're not

748
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 4: just some plucky team out of nowhere. That kind of

749
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 4: is someth The difference that they spent money exactly is

750
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 4: that Vlad was awesome and he and he just got

751
00:36:57,960 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 4: rewarded with the found mind of other contract. But he

752
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 4: played like a five hundred million dollar guy we should play. Yeah,

753
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 4: George Springer finally rounded in the form after a couple

754
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 4: of years with the team, like he finally looked like

755
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 4: the George Springer from Houston.

756
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 2: He's starting to break down though, It sounded like right.

757
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he got hurt there at the end.

758
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 4: But they have a lot of really good players, Like

759
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,840
Speaker 4: they may not have the star power where like the

760
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 4: household names because the Dodgers are the Dodgers. But you

761
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 4: cannot say, if you know anything about baseball that the

762
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 4: Blue Jays are just happy to be there. They're just

763
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 4: a lucky team.

764
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,280
Speaker 3: Like, no, they are a really really.

765
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:32,800
Speaker 4: Good baseball team and they should have won the World Series.

766
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 4: It just didn't work out for them.

767
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 2: Would you say that the correct way to assess the

768
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 2: salary cap situation is it doesn't guarantee you victory, obviously,

769
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 2: but the more you spend, the better chance you have

770
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 2: of making in the playoffs.

771
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 4: The more you spend should theoretically give you a better

772
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 4: chance to make the playoffs. The problem is, if you

773
00:37:55,680 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 4: look historically since two thousand and one, the team would

774
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 4: the biggest payroll has only.

775
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 3: Run it four times. If it was just about spending, then.

776
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 2: No, but I would, I would. I think a better

777
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 2: analysis would be And you know what, I'll dig into

778
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 2: chat GPT on this this week. Sure so among so

779
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 2: there's thirty teams in baseball, right, yes, among the bottom

780
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,399
Speaker 2: ten spenders for the last decade, how many have made

781
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 2: the playoffs versus the top ten spenders the last ten years?

782
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 2: How many have made the playoffs? I would guess it's

783
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 2: probably two to one, maybe three to one, That is

784
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:33,840
Speaker 2: just a guess. But like you know, I know some

785
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 2: of these teams at the bottom. Sure you'll have a

786
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 2: breakthrough and maybe catch lightning in a bottle and get through, right,

787
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 2: wasn't I forget? Was it the Tigers? I mean?

788
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 4: I mean, like you had the Rays make the World Series?

789
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 4: A couple of raised the Dodgers.

790
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 2: Like you get these one offs.

791
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 4: The Diamondbacks, I think last year or two years ago,

792
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 4: made a run at the World Series. They didn't win it,

793
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 4: but yeah, I mean, like, the thing is is that

794
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 4: what you see with a lot of these teams, And

795
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:01,720
Speaker 4: it goes back to the other conversation is the worst teams,

796
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 4: like the team that don't spend anything. If you look

797
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 4: usually at their roster, it's loaded with these young rookie

798
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 4: contract you know, they were great in the minors and

799
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:17,280
Speaker 4: they're just they're really ascending, and then when it's time

800
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 4: to pay them, well suddenly they don't.

801
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 3: They can't afford it.

802
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, like, well you absolutely can. You're just choosing not

803
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 4: to because you have all these guys in the building.

804
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 4: Like Moneyball, if you watch that move, everyone loves the

805
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:29,360
Speaker 4: movie with a rap pit, the focus is on like Hadiberg,

806
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 4: and its focus is on David Justice and the like

807
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 4: these other players.

808
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:34,879
Speaker 3: Anybody who knows anything about baseball.

809
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 4: Is like, well, they also had like three of the

810
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 4: best pictures in the league at that point, who were

811
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 4: all young guys. And we don't want to talk about

812
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 4: that part because that.

813
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 2: Vez like Veto and Molder like that doesn't work with

814
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 2: the narrative.

815
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 4: The narrative was, well, we can't afford anybody, so our

816
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 4: team must be terrible. It's like, no, you had great pictures,

817
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 4: just eventually when it was time to pay them, you

818
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:54,319
Speaker 4: were like, nah, not fan, can't do that.

819
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 2: I don't have any play on Monday Night football. Kyler

820
00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 2: Murray's out. It feels like a soft benching. We may

821
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 2: have to talk talk about that this week. Jacoby Bresett

822
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 2: against DAK I got nothing on the game. I have

823
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 2: nobody in fantasy. I just don't need Trey McBride and

824
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 2: Aubrey to go off. I'm facing them. But I'm real

825
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:13,800
Speaker 2: curious how much Lakers have you ingested? Now World Series

826
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 2: is over, you got a lot more time to take

827
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 2: in the Dalton connect, Jake la Ravia. I mean, the

828
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 2: Lakers can almost drought out an all white lineup, you know,

829
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:23,320
Speaker 2: led by Luca. Now Luca's back from injury.

830
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 3: They're the real exciting Whites.

831
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,920
Speaker 2: I'll just say there's a lot of fun stuff happening

832
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 2: in the league right now. I mean, again, we don't

833
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 2: have time to get into it. But like the Indiana

834
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 2: Pacers have fallen off a cliff without Haliburton and Miles

835
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 2: Turner and company. Lakers look plucky even without Lebron. Obviously,

836
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 2: Wemby and Company look really, really, really good. There's just

837
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 2: so much happening in the league. Like there's guys coming

838
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 2: out of nowhere doing incredible things. Had you ever heard

839
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:53,840
Speaker 2: of Ryan Rollins.

840
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,399
Speaker 3: I've heard of him, but I wasn't familiar with his game.

841
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 2: But I know, oh, me look like an All star

842
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 2: out there. There's so many The league is amazing and

843
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 2: and you know we'll start to get into it more. Also,

844
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,359
Speaker 2: college basketball tips this week. I got to figure out

845
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 2: how to like start to dig into those teams. You

846
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 2: guys know, I love me some college basketball. But so yeah,

847
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:15,800
Speaker 2: no play on Monday night football. Did bet the Thursday

848
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 2: game Denver against the Raiders, already regretting it because you know,

849
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 2: this is what I do. I bet games and then

850
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 2: I think about it and I'm like, oh, I get

851
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 2: in my own head. Anyways, So yeah, back tomorrow, we'll

852
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:30,000
Speaker 2: probably talk some hoops a little Cowboy. Now. The Cowboys

853
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 2: got to win this game tonight against the Cardinals, Like

854
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 2: I can't see them losing. Yeah, they should be fine.

855
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 2: I would expect fireworks if you asked me, Jake, I

856
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 2: got fifty bucks, you know, for for my birthday. Who

857
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 2: should I put it on? I would just say bet

858
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 2: the over. I think we'll see a lot of points

859
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Speaker 2: back tomorrow