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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, the podcast from the Volume Network.

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Speaker 1: Colin Cowherd's Volume Network and we created this podcast this

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Speaker 1: Thursday edition special for our new partners when we joined

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Speaker 1: the Volume Network, and it has quickly become really my

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Speaker 1: favorite hour of the week thanks to producer Matt Mitchell,

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Speaker 1: who dreamed up the entire thing and comes up with

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Speaker 1: all of his any questions that our panelists are going

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Speaker 1: to answer in this another edition of Thursday Thunderedome. This

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Speaker 1: is where guests compete alongside my co host, my bff,

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Speaker 1: the guy that I want to win, who I will

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Speaker 1: tip the scales to make sure he does professional sports

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Speaker 1: better Simon Hunter in a bout of wagers and that

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Speaker 1: makes the l SAT look like a game of bottle.

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Speaker 1: Hello Simon, Dad, thank you for the intro. I'm so

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Speaker 1: happy you're so chipper today, even though did you see

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Speaker 1: what the Bears did this morning? They gave Naggy and

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Speaker 1: your GM a three year extension. Are you fucking kidding me,

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Speaker 1: April Fole? Oh my god, Jesus Christ. I was gonna

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Speaker 1: let you swell a little bit more, but the concern

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Speaker 1: was so good, Simon. I'm like, how could I have

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Speaker 1: missed that? Even though my kid is in school, if

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Speaker 1: something happens with the Bears, he will find his phone

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Speaker 1: and text me. In addition to every alert that I get,

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, yeah, you're until I got you on tilt.

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Speaker 1: If you're as good through the rest of the show today,

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Speaker 1: Simon will be un beatable. Today you have two guest challengers.

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Speaker 1: Our first guest is another close friend of mine, former

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Speaker 1: colleague at ESPN, brilliant writer, billiant reporter, one of the

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Speaker 1: most connected people in all of sports, the Hugh Hefner

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Speaker 1: of sports. Instead rash Markazi, host of The rash Markarzi

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Speaker 1: Show on the Mighty Year ten ninety in So Cal

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Speaker 1: l A Times columnists, ESPN contributor, Sports Illustrated contributor contributing

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Speaker 1: for the Action Network as of March Madness, Hello my

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Speaker 1: friend a rash Hello Chad. Yes, I mean the fun

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Speaker 1: job that I have was the job that you created,

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Speaker 1: And I think people thought, how in the world are

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Speaker 1: It was a tough job, Chad, but I found a

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Speaker 1: way to pull it off. You did find a way

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Speaker 1: because you were like on the fucking Clippers beat and

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Speaker 1: Clippers beat. You're not even very good at it is

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Speaker 1: a terrible john for you. This was after the Clippers

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Speaker 1: got Chris Paul and Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan's and

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Speaker 1: like it doesn't matter. They lose in the second round.

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Speaker 1: Like every single year, no one in Los Angeles cares

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Speaker 1: about the Clippers. They hate this team. Please help me

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Speaker 1: save me, Chad, And you did. Thank you. Well, you

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Speaker 1: know what I did it for the good of the company.

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Speaker 1: You are going to be joined today by action network

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Speaker 1: writer analystics ordinaire. B. J. Cunningham, who joined us full

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Speaker 1: time in later in two thousand and twenty. Had been

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Speaker 1: contributing as a freelancer for a long time. He's not

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Speaker 1: That's right, Chad, thank you very much for this is

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Speaker 1: my first ever podcast, obviously since I was an accountants.

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Speaker 1: So it's an honor to be on the Favorites today

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Speaker 1: competing for second place behind Simon. So thank you for

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Speaker 1: having me. Wow, you're coming in hot. I like it.

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Speaker 1: Look you for him. I'm over too, So yeah, during

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Speaker 1: the Action Nework. Looks like you joined the Action Network.

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Speaker 1: This is a lot more fun than just sitting in

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Speaker 1: my cubical scrolling Twitter all day. So, I mean, my goodness,

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Speaker 1: if I thought a rash was in a bad dark

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Speaker 1: You are very own, our very own Ron Livingston, right

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Speaker 1: All right, here's how the game is played today. You'll

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Speaker 1: answer two kinds of questions. First traditional trivia questions about sports,

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Speaker 1: today's Opening Day, Part one, first segment Alive Off opening

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Speaker 1: day of MLB season, folks, let's talk baseball. Our first

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Speaker 1: question is for you, b J. You ready? Yeah? Okay.

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Speaker 1: baseball writer, Schanzerillo made a podcast appearance was on The Favorites.

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Speaker 1: He had never done a podcast before. I'm like, hey,

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Speaker 1: this is a good omen for you. Can't go anywhere

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Speaker 1: up right now. Last month, last month, forty ye year

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Speaker 1: old Yegkees manager Aaron Boone underwent surgery to implant this

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Speaker 1: would be a pacemaker. Wow, you totally got that right,

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Speaker 1: forty eight and you got a pacemaker? All right? Simon

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Speaker 1: Twins pitcher and fan favorite Randy Dobnak signed a five

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Speaker 1: for tiny Alderson Broodus University, located two hours from Charleston,

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Speaker 1: I rosh, here you go. Mets fans rejoiced when ultra

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Speaker 1: But I basically the probably partied with Steve When did

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Speaker 1: the Encore remember that night with Lebron James after the

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Speaker 1: the sport and infuriate gamblers, what piece of equipment would

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Speaker 1: you secretly alter? Simon? What's your winning answer? I would

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Speaker 1: Imagine that during a season they switch out the ball.

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Speaker 1: gonna go with robot umpires, but with a twist. Chat.

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Speaker 1: then you totally nailed it. All right, b J, You've

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Speaker 1: here we go. Let's have some fun. We're gonna play

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Speaker 1: the nickname game. What's your name? Who are you? What's

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Speaker 1: the nickname game. Major League Baseball players have a rich

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Speaker 1: Undy twelve said. The greatest nickname belongs to the twins,

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Speaker 1: William's Astado. He's also known as la tortuga. The Spanish

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Speaker 1: to test himself. What are you talking about? And he's

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Speaker 1: addicted to social media. As soon as he comes to

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, he said, I'm gonna take a break from

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Speaker 1: social media. He's right back on. I'm not a fan,

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Speaker 1: he would He's a fantastic picture, not a good youth

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Speaker 1: baseball coach. Al Right, Trevor Bauer cy young winner, new

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Speaker 1: picture for the Los Angeles Dodgers, the World Series defending

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Speaker 1: champion Simon. In my head, immediately I thought of Kenny Powers.

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Speaker 1: I know that's a fictional character. My companion. I'm walking

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Speaker 1: to a fucking hornets nest. All right, now'll be my companion.

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Speaker 1: I guess I'll have to go with Barry Bonds like Batman.

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Speaker 1: He is so intimidating and scary and he's weird, so

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine him being a bunch of kids like

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Speaker 1: trying to act nice and sweet and then he'll just

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Speaker 1: eventually snap when all these kids can't get hits and

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Speaker 1: he's like, you know, this guy is one of the

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Speaker 1: greatest hitters ever. He could see what kind of scenes

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Speaker 1: are coming in on the baseball before you would hit it, like,

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Speaker 1: this guy is one of the kinds. So for someone

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Speaker 1: that would lose their cool and that's full of old

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Speaker 1: Royd rage, I'm gonna go with Barry Bonds allegedly. I

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Speaker 1: think that's a really interesting idea. I'm giving Simon Hunter

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Speaker 1: the win on this one. All right, Part four, here

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Speaker 1: we go. We can all agree that Angel's outfielder Mike Trout,

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Speaker 1: the eight time All Star, three time m v P

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Speaker 1: killer of dreams for small town teams in southern New Jersey,

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Speaker 1: should never be confused with actual Trout, the beloved species

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Speaker 1: of fish. So in honor of Opening Day, we're going

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Speaker 1: to play a game called Mike Trout or real Trout

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Speaker 1: Fucking Matt Mitchell. The game is very I will give

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Speaker 1: you a Trout fact. You tell me if it applies

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Speaker 1: to my Trout, Actual Trout or both. You're ready, b J.

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Speaker 1: Mike Trout or Real Trout. I feel like I should

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Speaker 1: get some regis filled in. Who wants to be a

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Speaker 1: millionaire music under this? B J Mike Trout or Real Trout?

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Speaker 1: Comfortable in both fresh water and ocean water. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go Real Trout both. The answer is both. Matt Mitchell

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Speaker 1: did extensive research on this. Simon Real Trout or Mike

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Speaker 1: Trout has been observed in every continent except Antarctica. Real

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Speaker 1: Trout correct a rash, Real Trout or Mike Trout native

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Speaker 1: to New Jersey Mike Trout. It's both. Cha. We have

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Speaker 1: talked about Mike Trout more on this show than all

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Speaker 1: of Los Angeles media come by, not just radio, not

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Speaker 1: just all of Los Angeles media. It's true Mike Trout

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Speaker 1: has gotten more national attention on this show that he

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Speaker 1: has in all of media combined. That is no joke,

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Speaker 1: all right, b J. Real Trout or Mike Trout. Proven

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Speaker 1: ability to spawn both correct Simon current value Real Trout

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Speaker 1: or Mike Trout five d and fifty seven thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: per pound I'm gonna go with Mike Trout, correct a rash.

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Speaker 1: This is apropos for for what we've been saying, extremely

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Speaker 1: popular in Far East Russia. There's no way Far East

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Speaker 1: Russia knows about Mike Trout. Los Angeles, California doesn't know

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Speaker 1: about Mike Trout Far East Russia. So I'm gonna say, real, Trout,

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Speaker 1: you are correct. Last prompt for this round that we're

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Speaker 1: gonna recap the scoring because that was a lightning round.

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Speaker 1: Unlike Mike Trout, Major League Baseball started showing some mercy

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Speaker 1: on the opposition recently. A new rule during spring training

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Speaker 1: allowed pitching teams to invoke a mercy rule ending and

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Speaker 1: inning early, provided the picture had thrown at least twenty pitches.

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Speaker 1: As a gambler, please describe a specific instance in any

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Speaker 1: sport that makes you pine for a mercy rule to

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Speaker 1: declare your bet a loss. For example, again, Matt Mitchell,

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Speaker 1: Western New York native Buffalo Bills fam If Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: gets hurt and Buffalo is trailing, Matt Mitchell would invoke

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Speaker 1: the mercy rule and tear up his Bills ticket instead

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Speaker 1: of watching Mitch Troubinsky enter the game. BJ your first

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Speaker 1: whenever you're betting an underdog in baseball, it's like plus

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Speaker 1: one seventy five or worse. If that starting pitcher can't

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Speaker 1: get out of the first inning, I'd say just call

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Speaker 1: mercy on it, because I don't need to spend the

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Speaker 1: next three hours watching the Tigers or the Pirates, the

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Speaker 1: Orioles mineral Leave trying to navigate those endings and try

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Speaker 1: to keep them in the game. So I'd rather just

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Speaker 1: call mercy and go do better things with my life.

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Speaker 1: Practical advice from a professional baseball better a rash. You

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Speaker 1: know in the Los Angeles Chad we head for the

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Speaker 1: doors late in the game, or you know, when Kenley

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Speaker 1: Jansen comes into the game, when Dave Roberts goes to

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Speaker 1: the bullpen and Kenley Jansen, he used to be great,

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Speaker 1: but that's a loss. I'm sorry. More often than not.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately hopefully he's not the full time closer for the Dodgers,

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Speaker 1: But mercy rule. When Kenley Jansen comes into the game,

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Speaker 1: that's a loss for the Dodgers. I'm sorry. So you

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Speaker 1: want mercy rule on Kenley Jansen in relief, Simon eup. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do something close to home with checks. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: I'll screw his his number scoring here. I'll do any

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Speaker 1: time the Bears are down two points and they're bringing

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Speaker 1: a kicker on when there's less than a minute to go,

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Speaker 1: don't even need to kick it. Mercy rule other team wins.

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Speaker 1: I feel like that would be a good answer for

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Speaker 1: that one. Honestly, that's like a kick in the dick

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Speaker 1: that just heard so much to think about it. Oh

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Speaker 1: my god, Simon, of course you're gonna win. You start

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Speaker 1: the show pranking me. I admire your mer listeness. You

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Speaker 1: win that. It's time to update the score somehow. As

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Speaker 1: we head into the grand finale, Simon Hunter, my bff,

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Speaker 1: the only one I want to actually win. He has

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Speaker 1: five points. A miraculous run of trout. You might say

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Speaker 1: it was a spring run trout run in the spring.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but he got a lot of trout

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Speaker 1: answers right. A. Rash and b J are currently tied

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Speaker 1: up for this is their chance to come back. The

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Speaker 1: topic is the unbreakable record. How much would you like

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Speaker 1: to risk? Please text your wager amount to producer Matt Mitchell.

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Speaker 1: Here we go. The question is the Cincinnati Reds were

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Speaker 1: a very average team in and Johnny Vandermere was a

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Speaker 1: very average player, but over the course of two consecutive

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Speaker 1: games that season, the twenty three year old, nicknamed the

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Speaker 1: Dutch Master, accomplished defeats so remarkable it's known as the

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Speaker 1: most unbreakable record in baseball. One Vegas bookmaker said, the

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Speaker 1: odds of breaking his record our quote a long shot,

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Speaker 1: so long it's basically incalculable. End quote. What did Johnny

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Speaker 1: Vandermere do? Text your responses directly to Matt Mitchell. The

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Speaker 1: question is what did Johnny VanderMeer do? Simon your up? First,

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Speaker 1: I said it means pitched, you'd be wrong? What did

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Speaker 1: you wager? All of it? As always, Simon goes all

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Speaker 1: in because you are You are my bff and your

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Speaker 1: fucking gambler, and that's why I love you, and that's

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00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: why you're the cost of this podcast. But now you've

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Speaker 1: got zero points? Okay, Rush, what did you wager? And

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Speaker 1: what is your answer? You're probably gonna get this right, idea,

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Speaker 1: but most secutive grand slams you are now at zero? Okay, Jay,

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Speaker 1: what did you wager? What is your answer? Well, now

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of regretting wagering at all all four points,

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Speaker 1: but my answer is most matters face without recording it out.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, every was at zero. The answer is

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Speaker 1: he threw two consecutive no hitters. Matt lead us Chad.

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Speaker 1: In the event of a tie, we invoke the favorite

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Speaker 1: Thursday Thunderdome Sudden Death challenge, a single numerical question. The

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Speaker 1: winner will be the closest without going over classic prices,

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Speaker 1: right rules. Please give me this number the total number

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Speaker 1: of Mike Trout career Major League home runs plus the

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Speaker 1: average weight of an adult rainbow trout. Good luck. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we have a tie of everybody at zero. Because everybody

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Speaker 1: went all in on the final question and nobody got

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Speaker 1: it right. You had to text your answers to Matt Mitchell.

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Speaker 1: What is the combined number the combined total of Mike

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Speaker 1: Trout home runs in his career and the average weight

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Speaker 1: of a rainbow trout. That total number in slack, Matt

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Speaker 1: Mitchell sent me the answer. Can you please give us

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Speaker 1: Simon Hunter's answer? Simon so two hundred and thirty two

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Speaker 1: thirty What did a rash Marks say? Three hundred and five?

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Speaker 1: What did the accountant B. J. Cunningham say? Incredibly, B J.

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Speaker 1: Cunningham has three oh eight Holy shit. He is a genius.

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Speaker 1: Mike Trout has three d and two career home runs,

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Speaker 1: and the average weight of a rainbow Trout is eight pounds.

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Speaker 1: The answer is three ten. Why you react? And I

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Speaker 1: thought I got it right on the nose. You came

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Speaker 1: so simon, what do you think of that? I'm just

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Speaker 1: a hurd defeat. I can't believe I wager gold. I

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Speaker 1: blew it. I knew it. I was like, you messed up.

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Speaker 1: I blame it on you because usually you give us

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Speaker 1: a hint about what the question is gonna be, but

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Speaker 1: this time you didn't. You were just like, give me

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Speaker 1: a number. So I was just like, all right, screw it,

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Speaker 1: I'll go all five. So I blame you chat of course,

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Speaker 1: well you should. I'm supposed to be your ally on this.

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Speaker 1: We're supposed to be teammates. It's like survivor. I'm against

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Speaker 1: everybody else, and I kind of screwed you. B J. Cunningham,

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Speaker 1: you have won this week's edition of The Thunderdome, and

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Speaker 1: for that, we are going to give you a season

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00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 1: supply of baseball games to write about until your fingers

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Speaker 1: fall off. Everybody should go read him in the Action

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Speaker 1: Network Gap on Action network dot Com following the Action

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Speaker 1: Network gap. He's a genius. That's why we love him.

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Speaker 1: He's proven it today. Also, go follow a rash mare

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Speaker 1: Kazi on Instagram. It will be a joy ride that

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Speaker 1: you cannot believe and you will be living viscerally through

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Speaker 1: him and think what have I done wrong with my life?

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Speaker 1: Continue to listen to me and Simon Hunter on the

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Speaker 1: Favorites the Volume Network. And before we sign off, here's

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Speaker 1: a word from our fearless leader, Action Network CEO Patrick Key.

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Speaker 1: I'm a strong man. Anyone in this office take a

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Speaker 1: run at. This has been the Favorites part of the

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Speaker 1: Volume Network. Colin Cowherd Volume Podcast Network. I am Chad

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Speaker 1: Noman from my co Simon Hunter. For my guests rash Markazi,

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Speaker 1: b J Cunningham, download us an Apple Podcast, Spotify, wherever

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Speaker 1: you get your podcast. Until next time, I love you,

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah h