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Speaker 1: So we go to Dateline Chicago and it's all she

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Speaker 1: You had Hamilton snort and Coke Rendon who hates baseball,

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Speaker 6: Ben? I just thought I'd cashing the golden ticket where

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Speaker 1: You are you really? Are you really calling to celebrate

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Speaker 6: Well, I thought we should microwave the take where you

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Speaker 1: the baseball season? That that's okay with you? Like, seriously,

427
00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:58,040
Speaker 1: you're okay with that? So you you're okay with the

428
00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 1: guy stealing money. Mookie Betts was stealing money from the Dodgers,

429
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 1: all right. He was playing like a freaking demon, not

430
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,359
Speaker 1: a good kind of demon. And you think I'm supposed

431
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 1: to sit here every night while he's flailing away at

432
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:13,560
Speaker 1: home plate, and well, just give him time, he'll be okay.

433
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 1: Come on, I told you, I told you, Okay, all right,

434
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,639
Speaker 1: And I'm sure you'll call up when Mookie bats two

435
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 1: hundred in the playoffs and makes four errors and you'll say, well,

436
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 1: you'll do that, right, I'm sure you'll call up.

437
00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:28,359
Speaker 6: Yes, maybe we'll see.

438
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 1: We'll see. You'll hide like all these other clowns. I

439
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:35,960
Speaker 1: know how it works. You'll run and hide, just like

440
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 1: there was that dope in Minnesota that used to call

441
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:39,399
Speaker 1: the show and I was a coward. Doesn't call anymore

442
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,680
Speaker 1: because all the Minnesota teams suck. The guy that worked

443
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,359
Speaker 1: at the walmart, Remember that guy. It was a terrible caller. Yeah,

444
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 1: that guy.

445
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:46,480
Speaker 6: Are you a Dodgers fan.

446
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:49,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm a real fan. I'm a better fan

447
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,680
Speaker 1: than you. You're a fanboy. I'm a fan, you're a fanboy.

448
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 1: Do you understand the difference? A fanboy? Is we enthusiastic? Oh,

449
00:24:58,080 --> 00:24:59,880
Speaker 1: it's so great, everything's wonderful.

450
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:00,119
Speaker 6: Oh.

451
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:04,919
Speaker 1: A real fan is a critic. A real fan is

452
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: willing to bad mouth the team. Right, you're you're not

453
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 1: a real fan, You're a fanboy. There's a difference. There's

454
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:15,640
Speaker 1: a difference between a fan and a fanboy. And it's

455
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:19,920
Speaker 1: not semantics. It's not trivial details and all that. It's

456
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 1: more than that.

457
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 6: Just I just wanted to remind you that I said

458
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 6: it was only a matter of time. Tell MOOKI the story.

459
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:32,199
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, yeah so again. May I, man, we

460
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 1: all have you as our boss where we will take

461
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:39,119
Speaker 1: three months of the year off and get paid every

462
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 1: week our salary and it doesn't matter. May we all

463
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 1: have a boss like you? All Right, I go away,

464
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,879
Speaker 1: I'm done with you. Let's go to Let's go to

465
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 1: dog or or the boss dog is. I wondered what

466
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,399
Speaker 1: happened to this guy. This guy calls up for like

467
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 1: a couple of days, a couple days in a row

468
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 1: and then he vanishes like he's a ghost. I don't

469
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,959
Speaker 1: know what. I don't know where Dog goes. I don't know.

470
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 1: It's a There's this weird thing with E Dog and

471
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 1: Steven Manhattan. Are you guys related to each other? You

472
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:12,680
Speaker 1: don't know Steven Manhattan?

473
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 7: Do you that Theatre of the Well?

474
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 1: It's Steve s T E V E. I believe is that?

475
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: I believe?

476
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 7: That's that's how I am the great Listen, man, I'm

477
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 7: the greatest caller that there ever was.

478
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 1: How does one quantify that? How does one determine.

479
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:35,440
Speaker 7: I'm in the mood for a niche? But I want

480
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 7: to tell you the truth, though, Get who I'm back

481
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:39,960
Speaker 7: in touch with and guess.

482
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 1: All right, so this scene we're trying to guess here,

483
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 1: E Dog, I'm gonna go Joe Dogg.

484
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,640
Speaker 7: Definitely not tonight, Not Joe Dog.

485
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 1: Okay, that girl that you were you broke up with

486
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 1: that one? What's your name?

487
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:57,119
Speaker 7: Melissa?

488
00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:58,440
Speaker 1: Are you back with Melissa?

489
00:26:59,359 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 7: Yep?

490
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,400
Speaker 1: Love is in the air. I guess Eat Dog and Melissa.

491
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,920
Speaker 7: You're not gonna believe this, But I was going to

492
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 7: a treatment center and I really did. I'm not going

493
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 7: to tell you why but I really didn't partake, and

494
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 7: you know and the people that I that I go

495
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,479
Speaker 7: there for. But she got me set up for an

496
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 7: orientation soon and uh pretels for a dollar and she

497
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 7: promises me she'll never cheat on me again. But I

498
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 7: don't believe it. But I don't care, you know, I'm right.

499
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:34,480
Speaker 1: Well, so she cheated on you. Who who she hooked

500
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 1: up with?

501
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:37,479
Speaker 4: I don't know.

502
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,159
Speaker 7: I think this guy James, you know, but I don't.

503
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 1: Really can't do you. You don't care about that. I

504
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 1: got you well, usually most of most people would care

505
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:47,159
Speaker 1: about that, But that's fine.

506
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 7: What okay? How about shoever for the m v P.

507
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:51,640
Speaker 7: What do you think about that?

508
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: And not going to happen on? Tony's gonna win the

509
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: m v P again, you're a Doger fan?

510
00:27:59,720 --> 00:27:59,880
Speaker 3: Ah?

511
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 1: Yes? Are you a Phillies fan?

512
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 7: Definitely not?

513
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 1: Well okay, then why would you want Swarb to win the.

514
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 8: M v P.

515
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 7: Well, I think he's gonna win it. I'm not saying

516
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 7: are you talking?

517
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: Are you really trying to talk sports here? By the way,

518
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: is that what you're trying to do?

519
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 7: You're trying to Yeah, now here's the question, Lorena. Yes,

520
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,719
Speaker 7: I want you to answer this question to see if

521
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 7: you get it right. It's called a stump arena and

522
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:28,160
Speaker 7: stump ben Nola.

523
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,400
Speaker 1: Okay, well that's quite the game. I'm excited about this game.

524
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,959
Speaker 7: What jersey do I have? I'm not going to tell

525
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 7: you what swort? But he was drafted number one and

526
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 7: and I have his jersey? Can you pick him?

527
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 8: He was drafted number one.

528
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: You're not going to tell this is the worst game ever.

529
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 1: You're not going to say what's sport?

530
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 7: No, because if I told you what you'd get it

531
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 7: right away?

532
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 1: Man, how would we get it? There are number one

533
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 1: picks every single year would.

534
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 8: Be plus and I still wouldn't get it.

535
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go because I know you're you're you know

536
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: you live out on Long Island, right he dog, but

537
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: you're really a tough guy. I'm gonna go with that

538
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: old school Alan Iverson Sixers Jersey. That's what I'm going.

539
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 8: I'm gonna go with Lebron James Jersey.

540
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: No, that's a that's a good one. Okay, do we

541
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 1: go again? Do we guess again?

542
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 6: Is it?

543
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: It's just the game? Okay, I'm gonna go all.

544
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 8: I'm gonna go with Luca Mavericks Jersey.

545
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 7: Definitely not so far.

546
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: You guys go for five, We're not oh for five.

547
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: It's like, we're excuse me, we're we're not ben I'm

548
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: done with this game. I don't like this game. You say,

549
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: who cares? Who is it?

550
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 7: Anthony Hardaway? Who Hardaway for the magic?

551
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 1: Tenny Hallway?

552
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 2: That's also have him with this guy.

553
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 7: I was somewhere and he was.

554
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 1: You know, I've noticed you're so good at calling because

555
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: you don't you don't shut up. I was ready to

556
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 1: end the call and just keep talking like you talk.

557
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: I have other people that want to get on the air.

558
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 7: I understand. But last thing, okay, say it, okay. There

559
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 7: was this guy. I was talking to him.

560
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 6: Man, I'm talking.

561
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 1: All right, I'm done. I gotta thank you. All right,

562
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: go back to rehab. Let's go to Tree in Chicago.

563
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 1: What's going on? Tree? My guy? Tree? Hello, Tree, that

564
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 1: was a good call.

565
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 2: What's up?

566
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 5: No?

567
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 1: That was not a good call. Tree, No, that was

568
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 1: not that. We don't want to encourage that kind of

569
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 1: a call. Tree, We do not want to.

570
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 2: Encourage that shut out shout out to do. But uh,

571
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 2: I was calling in. I was coming in to trying

572
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 2: to say I was against you. Man. But I think

573
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 2: you're right man. The whole president thing. You're right, man,

574
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 2: You're right, the dusted thing, that's, uh, you knocked me.

575
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 2: He knocked me out with that one.

576
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 3: Man.

577
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 2: Rizzo is the man got the iconic moment caught caught

578
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 2: the ball for the last out. Him and Chris Brian

579
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 2: was going back and forth to the MVP that year

580
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. But uh, I think you're right man. Okay,

581
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 2: that's the record.

582
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: Show Coop said that out on x I a lifelong

583
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 1: Chicago cub fantry who lives in the belly of the

584
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 1: beast there in Chicago, and he agreed that Rizzo should

585
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: not have his number retires. See that's you're a good fan.

586
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: Try because you agree with me. You're a good fan clearly.

587
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 2: So I get that one. And I'm with a e dog.

588
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 2: Though he was tripping as far as the overall call,

589
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 2: the car was hilarious. I think people should look at

590
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 2: swarps man, but I get it. I think his bad

591
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 2: average is a little low, but fifty home runs for

592
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty three.

593
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, and because of the pitching thing to even though

594
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 1: the Dodgers he hasn't really pitched that great exactly. It doesn't.

595
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, first place in the East, the first place, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

596
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: They're in the first place. They just kicked They've been

597
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: kicking the Mets ass this week. The Phillies. They've won.

598
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: I think that one game left. They won every game

599
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: against the Mets.

600
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 2: So well, all right, he might have been right about that,

601
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 2: but that was that was a good call.

602
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,280
Speaker 1: All right, Tree, all right, man, thank you, buddy, the

603
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: great Tree in Chicago, we met him. He came in,

604
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 1: very nice guy, came in studio, hung out with us

605
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: for a night. Let's say hello, or for a little bit.

606
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: Let's go to D in North Carolina. What's going on?

607
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: D welcome d.

608
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 7: Hey Ben.

609
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 3: I'm gonna follow up the Tree with about Anthony Riz.

610
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 3: By the way, I saw a guy wandering around with

611
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 3: a kitty Hardaway jersey the other day. I wonder if

612
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 3: it was eat. But anyway, uh, I grew up listening

613
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 3: to Harry Carey watching Sanberg Dalton.

614
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 7: And another Cups first base and.

615
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 3: That actually led some decades and hits, double sack of

616
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 3: fight flies and his number. He wasn't even welcomed back

617
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 3: to Wrigley until about ten or fifteen years later. He,

618
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 3: along with Pete Rose, are the only ones not in

619
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 3: the Hall of Fame that led their decade and hits

620
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 3: from nineteen hundred out.

621
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Speaker 1: I know who that is. I'm familiar with his game.

622
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 3: Here he he the Reft Chicago. He won a World

623
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 3: Series with the airs of a time back and yeah, yeah,

624
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 3: great park great and yeah Chris.

625
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 1: Who, by the way, went to saddle Back College Mark Grace.

626
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:28,479
Speaker 1: Fun fact, there you go, fun fact where I went

627
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 1: to school. He went to my my college there malor

628
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 1: fun fact. Absolutely, I have no problem Mark Race led

629
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: that he led the nineteen nineties in hits right, the

630
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 1: decade of the nineties, I believe.

631
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's the first time he was voted

632
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 3: to see if he was a Hall of Famer or not.

633
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 3: He didn't get enough, but Tote even get a second chance.

634
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 3: But yeah, Chris Brownt was wearing number seventeen years after

635
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 3: Grace retired. I don't see how Anthony Rizzay is up

636
00:33:58,960 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 3: there with.

637
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: Bryan said, all right, don't agree. I'm two for two.

638
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 1: I made my compelling argument and I got two cub fans,

639
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: Tree and D and they agree with me. And it

640
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,919
Speaker 1: rhymes thank you, D, thank you for listening, and I'm guessing.

641
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 1: I'm guessing you grew up watching the Cubs on the superstation.

642
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 1: You probably around my age and I did the same thing. Anyway,

643
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 1: Thank you. All right, It is the Ben mahlerd Show.

644
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 2: Time.

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Speaker 1: Now for the Insta trivia, we have Mallard of the

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Speaker 1: third degree. Here's the answer trivia. Pittsburgh Paul Skeens has

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Speaker 1: a one ninety four career earn run average that is

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Speaker 1: the lowest in a pitcher's first fifty three career starts

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Speaker 1: in the live ball era. He bested Blank's previous record.

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Speaker 1: That's the Insta trivia. The answer. We'll get to it

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Speaker 1: the insta trivia and then we'll get to Mallard to

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Speaker 1: the third degree. Here's the instant trivia question. Paul Skeens.

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Speaker 1: That's a pitcher. He's a good one on a bad team.

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's Paul Skeens has a one ninety four earn run

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Speaker 1: average in his career. That's the lowest in a pitcher's

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Speaker 1: first fifty three career starts in the live ball era.

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Speaker 1: Goes back over one hundred years, besting Blank who had

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Speaker 1: the previous record. All right, that's the question. What's the

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Speaker 1: answer that sees anyone know the answer? We go to

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Speaker 1: the great unwashed here Bobby in Florida, says former Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports radio host Rob Dibble. Dibble was doing radio in Hartford,

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Speaker 1: Connecticut last I heard. I don't know if he still is.

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Speaker 1: I have no idea. Who else do we have page down?

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Speaker 1: Grover Cleveland Alexander from The Grill Sergeant, that's an interesting name.

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Speaker 1: Sally Struthers from Manuel and Gardeina dating himself with that.

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Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Page down? Rick Sutcliffe from

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Speaker 1: Ryan That's a good name. Arthur Roade, solid name from

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Speaker 1: Sean in the Valley of the Sun. Billy Chappell, That

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Speaker 1: guy was good for the Tigers from Doug. Boog Powell

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Speaker 1: from j T the Wingman. I think JT. The Women

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Speaker 1: kind of looks like boog Powell a little bit. I

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Speaker 1: think he does. Who else do we have? Sandy Kofax

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Speaker 1: from Robbie the Mariner, Fan e Dogg's Therapist guessed by

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Speaker 1: Andy and Lionel makes Bob Gibson from William Jay and

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Speaker 1: Silent Bob from Milkman Mike in Colorado, The American Dream Ron,

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Speaker 1: Dusty Rhodes from Rob in Vegas. Who else Femi's going with?

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Speaker 1: Ferg Dog Sydney Ponson, the Prince from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: The daff Man, Oh Yeah from King Rory? Who else?

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Speaker 1: Sudden Sam mcdaugas by Alf the Alien opiner. Lorena, what

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Speaker 1: say you, Lorena, I'm gonna say, David Spade, David Spade,

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Speaker 1: all right, No, it's increct. The correct answer Vita blue.

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Speaker 1: Vita blue sounds like the color of a crayon, Vita blue.

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Speaker 1: Here we go, all right, Sam Aller, how about that?

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Speaker 1: To the third degree?

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Speaker 4: This is one big Ben gets grilled cool.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 8: I know it's only been one week, Ben, but it's

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Speaker 8: being reported that kickoff returns are way up so far

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Speaker 8: this season thanks to the new rule moving touchbacks to

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Speaker 8: the thirty five yard line. Is the NFL finally fixed kickoffs?

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Speaker 1: A small sample sized, Coop, small sample size. It was,

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Speaker 1: let's put it this way, week one. It was not

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Speaker 1: a useless play and for several years in the end,

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Speaker 1: actually more than several years, like you just didn't need

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Speaker 1: to watch kickoffs because it just nothing ever happened. So

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Speaker 1: that's the time to go get snacks. That's not a

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Speaker 1: time to pay attention. But now, yeah, it's one week,

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Speaker 1: so at this point we do the show today, Coop.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go.

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Speaker 6: Yes.

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Speaker 8: Next, the Toronto Blue Jays are only a few games

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Speaker 8: ahead of the Yankees in the Al East, and they

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Speaker 8: just had to put their star shortstop Bobachette.

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Speaker 1: On the il.

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Speaker 8: Do you think they'll be able to hold off the

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Speaker 8: Bronx Bombers.

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Speaker 1: Well, if you've seen the way the Yankees have played

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Speaker 1: this week, getting just destroyed by the Detroit Talger, the

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Speaker 1: Yankees are a flawed baseball team. So Toronto's not great either.

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Speaker 1: But based on side by side, the Yankees, all they

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Speaker 1: do is hit home runs. If they don't hit home runs,

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Speaker 1: they really don't win very often at all. They showed

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Speaker 1: some weaknesses in their bullpen here, So yeah, oh Cada

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Speaker 1: next A.

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Speaker 8: Roldis Chapman has been on an insane run for the

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Speaker 8: Boston Red Sox. He was till yesterday, well before that,

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Speaker 8: it was seventeen straight appearances without allowing a hit, only

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Speaker 8: won run last thirty seven games.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Do you think chapman success this year secures him a spot.

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Speaker 1: In the Hall?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 1: No, he's got a lot of baggage and he you know,

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Speaker 1: he's he's one of those borderline guys. He's got some

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame numbers. Now, if the Red Sox going

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Speaker 1: to run in the playoffs and he's lights out, then

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Speaker 1: you can revisit this but he's still borderline Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame even with this renaissance, and he's been great. He

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Speaker 1: already signed for next year. The Red Sox already signed

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Speaker 1: Chapman to an extension. All right there, it is Mallor

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Speaker 1: to the third degree. He got lit up by the

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Speaker 1: A's And how did we do pass?

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Speaker 5: This edition is again take that Justin and Cincinnati. I won.

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Speaker 4: Justin