December 9, 2024 • 38 mins
Big Ben talks about the New York Mets signing Juan Soto to a record-breaking contract, the Chiefs coming away with yet another close win, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and much more!
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to the rain in our production meeting, because you know
Coop never shows up to those. So I started with
the Raina and we were discussing the fact that I
didn't have time to do the X rundown for tonight's show,
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and the people that listen live get very upset by that.
They don't know how to handle it. It's very emotional
for them. They feel like I have wronged them at
the crowd suck. Yes, I will get a lot of ice.
I will get to it at some point. I just
slipped my mind. I had other things to get. People
that were visiting the studio here that I briefly talked to,
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and I'm gonna blame them, even though they had nothing
to do with this. But I'm gonna blame them anyway
because I saw them in the hallway and I said, hello,
it is it. Very brief conversation, very nice people. Friends
of Varney's that we're here. So I talked to them,
and I'm gonna claim that that was the time that
I would have written the rundown of the show. But
I'm not doing that. I did, didn't do it. I
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will do it at some point. But our lead this
hour is not from football, No, on on on oh
from baseball Baseball's been very, very good to me. Oh,
what a wonderful story this is. The Eagle has landed
on a late Sunday night into a Monday. The NFL
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has been upstaged upstage. We do not start with that
chief's doink victory over the Chargers. That does not take
the lead on this show. The lead story here is
one Soto. He is leaving the barn. Where is one
Soto go? He hasn't knew them. Oh my god, you're
so excited. Somebody just got really rich and you're excited.
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You know, you got to work your job and you
got to deal with your life. But this guy really
really rich, super dupers. If you haven't heard yet, that
likely means you haven't been paying attention that job by you.
So we have learned that one Soto is taking his
talents to the New York Metropolitans. One Soto going to
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the Mets. He's agreed to a record breaking contract. He
will be a met for the next fifteen seasons, at
least contractually bound to the Mets seven hundred and sixty
five million. Of course, we haven't seen all the fine
print on this, so there's likely some escape hatches and
all that. The deal announced on Sunday night as the
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Winter Meetings are underway in the Greater Dallas area. And
as you guys know, boots on the ground, if you're
listening to us in Dallas, we are on a sports
talk radio station in Dallas. So if you happen to
see anybody, let us know if you hear something I
talked on the Fifth Hour podcast. We had a guy
call up who was visiting the Cape last week and
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he told us a story about Peter Gammon's buying Blue
Moon at a local liquor store on the Cape. And
I love that store. And so maybe you're at the
Winter Meetings and you see like Andrew Friedman and he's
he's eating like raising canes or something like that. You
can let us know, you can give us the inside
skinny on that. But the story here Juan Soto seven
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hundred and sixty five million dollars. Soto's deal topping the
ten year, seven hundred million dollar contract that Juan Soto's
rival who beat him in the World Series, although he
didn't pay very well. Shohil Tani signed with the Doyers,
and at the time, that was the largest deal in
baseball history. Although if you go year by year, you
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can crunch the numbers on that as a fifteen year
deal as opposed to the ten year contract. So it's
a lot, it's a lot more years five years. Of course,
whether Sodo will play that out, who knows. And all
that the Mets offer the highest passing by the Yankees
at the very last moment there, and so Soto who
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was not even the top player on the Yankees. That
was Aaron Judge, but Juan Soto the number two, the Robin,
the batman, and he now goes off. Yeah, I'd rather
be that number two than number one. I got to
tell you seven hundred and sixty five million, and that's
five million more to leave. The Yankees got an extra
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five million now when you're in that tax bracket, Not
that I've ever been in that tax bracket, nor based
on the career arc that I'm going on right now
in my broadcasting career, will ever be at that area.
But my god, is five million really matter that? I
guess every dollar counts. But if you got seven hundred
and sixty million as opposed to seven hundred and sixty five, men,
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So the question what do you love and what do
you hate about this, right, Juan Soto going to the mats.
What do we love about it? What do we hate
about it? So I've got horn, dog, rotisserie, chicken, and manhood,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we will go on the party bus. We're gonna go
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on the party bus, because why not. I'm more on
that later. But I love the relay race of money.
And I remember reading several stories years ago about how
baseball just wasn't connecting with the modern fan and it
just wasn't going to work, and that there was going
to be a case where baseball was going to be
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passed by soccer. I still chuckle at that. I still
chuckle at that in America. So the soccer cult the
rest of the world calls it football, but we call
it soccer. I said, well, baseball is not that popular,
it's not going to work out, and all that stuff. Well,
here we are all these years later. I probably read
that story twenty five years ago. Here we are now,
and Juan Soto, it gets an ungodly amount of money
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because he takes the baton from Shoheo Tani and he
takes advantage of what we all want in life a
horn dog, rich guy who really really wants to have
you on the payroll. And that's what happened. To make
no mistake, that's exactly what happened. Juan Soto lived the dream.
He had the Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Mets
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bidding against each other. That is ungodly great if you're
a baseball player. Right, the three of the biggest players
in the sport, they're all bitten, and it's like a
fine piece of art, and they got to own it, right,
They've got to own that Picasso, and they will pay
whatever it takes to get that Picasso. And you're the Picasso.
You are the Picasso. Juan Soda, My god, and so
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I mentioned horn Dog owner Steve Cohen, who is willing
to take a bath in the red and make most
no mistake, he will take a bath in the red
on this con track, One Soto is the guy we
thought he was. Though this is confirmation of previous malar monologues,
and I am not ripping one Soda for this, but
this is as advertised. Remember when One Soda was with
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Washington Nationals years ago and they offered him three hundred million,
everyone said, how you can turn out three hundred million dollars. Well,
he was eyeing this night, he was eyeing this contract,
so three hundred million. Turned that down from the Nationals.
He went out to the Padres to eat fish taco
in San Diego, hang out with the the great AP
writer Bernie Wilson is retiring here soon, so he went.
He went down to San Diego, had some fish tacos
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and all that, did that thing. They offered him four
hundred million. He said, I'm good, I don't want four
hundred million. So then he goes to the Yankees and
they offered him five hundred million initially after the trade
before the Otani thing, so five hundred million dollars. Hey,
I'm good, I don't I need the five hundred million.
So then he gets up to past seven hundred million,
so it skips the six hundred million. It goes past
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that and then in the seven hundred million dollar range,
and it ends up at seven hundred and sixty five million.
Dead presidents for Juan Soto. And now what do we
hate about this? What are we here? So right away,
the obvious is, there is no way this works out
for the entire length of the contract, assuming that SODO
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does not opt out, and we have to read all
the fine print that will come out in the coming days.
But assuming that Sodo, say in the next fifteen years,
here plays out the contract, which likely won't happen. But
if it does in that dimension to the multiverse, then
the reality of the situation is that you're really talking
about the next five to seven years, and after that
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all bets are off. So the Mets have a five
to seven year winner, not a fifteen year window. Five
to seven year window. So I did the math on this.
I did Malard math. So Juan Soto is twenty six
years old. So he's twenty six years old. The backside
of this contract is going to be ugly ug lead
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the backside of the contract. So if you do the
math on this, the athletic prime ends outside of the
performance sant ansing drugs in sports, your athletic prime ends
at thirty two. So then there's a decline. So that means,
assuming the Sodo's not going down to the pharmacy, that
he's doing this on the up and up, he's clean,
then five to seven years that's it, and you maybe
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squeeze out another extra year after that. But the backside
of the contract is going to be a disaster. And
as I have said all along, these massive contracts, it's
not my money. If you want to burn your money
on some highly coveted, bougie elitist baseball player, more power
to you. Good for you if you get the kind
of money to burn. So I don't really worry about
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that part of it. Although the issue here is you
got to win one World Series. Now, the Dodgers have
given out a lot of these contracts. They're all going
to blow up eventually. The Dodgers even worse, they're paying
out deferred money for years and years and years and
years and years and years. But Otani, they won a
World Series. Check, so he's already the contracts. Fine, Mookie bets.
They've won a World Series with him. So if you
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get one of those three hundred plus four undred plus
million dollar contracts, you have at least one World Series.
Both those guys have done it. Will Wan Soto do
it with the Mets? Will they? I haven't won a
long time. I have won in a very long time.
Social media did not exist the last time the Mets
won the World Series did not exist, all right. Now,
The second part is how can the Mets make this one?
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So too contract work with the bean counters, how can
they make this work. I know you're very concerned about
the finances of the Metropolitans, so I have done the
calculus on this, the malor math on this as well.
So let me explain this to you like you're in kindergarten. Okay,
So in business, in business, this is a deal. It's
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similar to Costco's inflation proof four dollars and ninety nine
cent rotisserie chicken or the one dollar and fifty cent
hot dog and drink. It's very similar to that. It's
a loss leader. Wan Soto is a lost leader for
the New York Mets. That you overpay for Juan Soto
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thinking that other players will want to play for the
Mets to play with Juan Soto and that you will
end up being profitable. In other areas, there's more of
a buzz. You get more people to watch your games
on TV, which leads to higher advertising rates. You also
have more people that attend your games and buy more
merchandise and all that stuff. And so you overpay for
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Sodo knowing that you're not going to make money on
that because if you look at the numbers on this.
The reason the Otani contract, the reason the Otani contract
worked out the way it did, is because the Dodgers
could get that money back from Japan. They're houring themselves out,
the Dodgers in Japan, and that's where they're getting their
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new money. They've already maxed out the LA market, so
they're now getting money from the Japanese fans, and that's
why they're going to get the money back on the contract.
Plus they're paying most of it out deferred anyway, So
you overpay knowing it ain't gonna work out on that
contract at all. And the classic move in business, classic
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move in business. In sports, it's a little more complicated.
A loss leader, as we said, involves a player at
a price that is not going to be profitable based
on There's no way Sodo can live up to that
contract unless he hit like one hundred home runs a
year and drove in two hundred and fifty runs or
something like that. But it is used to attract new
customers or go fans, and so the products and services
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and advertising ratings. Ratings go up, advertising goes up, et cetera,
et cetera, et cetera. But Steve Cohen is so rich
he would have to live forty thousand years to spend
all the money, and we know that's not possible, right,
And he's not going to bury his money like they
used to supposedly did me in the ancient days. So
you got to get rid of the money and might
as well give it to one Sodo because you're, you know,
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you want to want the Mets to win and all
this stuff. You're a fanboy. And that's it all right now,
the last word here the losing locker room, the Yankees.
Will the Yankees and Brian Cashman be haunted hundred for
not being able to get the deal done with Juan Soda.
So I'm gonna nod my head. Yes, I'm gonna nod
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my head. Yes, this is a very Unyankee like move, right.
They always got who they wanted, who they truly wanted,
especially a guy that had played for them. So this
is holy machismo, Batman. What happened were the Pinstripe, the Yankees,
the Mighty New York Yankees, the Big Bad Bronx Bomber
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and you're gonna go play for that other team? Yeah,
And there is that elitism Again, I do the same crap.
We used to love basketball before basketball stopped trying. In
the regular season, we start out basketball a lot on
the show. And it's a similar dynamic to the Lakers
and the cl Sippers. I said, Oh, Kawhi Leonard was
supposed to go to the Laker. How could he go
to the Clippers? Oh, of course not. He retired as
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soon as he signed with the Clippers. Maybe Jan Sodo
or retired too with the Mets. He'll still get paid.
He'll show up maybe a couple of games a year,
like Kawhi Leonard does that loser with the Clippers where
he shows up every once in a while. Anyway, Now
get back to the point. So this is a blow
to the manhood, is what it is? Castration situation, if
you will. The Yankees have always always positioned themselves as
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the guys who get what they want right, that's their
m all, That's how they operate there. So it is
a masculating and Wan Sodo he got a taste of
life in the Bronx. He got a taste to wearing
the pin stripes and playing for the Yankees. You got
into the World Series and none of that mattered because
he's not about winning. See that's the thing. He's about
getting paid. I get it. It's not about winning. It's
about getting as much money as you can. And you
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fisure man, maybe the Mets will win at some point,
and if not, who cares? I guess seven hundred and
sixty five large, seven hundred and sixty five million. But
the Yankees get outbid by their roommates. If you were
their little brothers, that's what happened here, Steve Cohen. No
need though, for a pity party for the Yankees. Now
they have a lot of money to spend, and they
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can get quantity over elite quality and whether that's Pete
Alonzo or Christian Walker who are available, they can get
the trademarket free agency, can get starting pitching. So the
Yankees will add two or three players instead of Wan Soo.
Maybe that works out better for them, at least in
the short term. We'll see how that works out in
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the long term. It is the Ben Mahler Show, talking ball.
Big news here. Seven hundred and sixty five million dollars
for Juan Soto is he's going nine point nine miles.
That's how long it takes. Nine point nine miles to
drive from the Bronx to City Field. Of course, nine
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point nine miles in New York will take you about
five hours about five hours depending on traffic and whatnot.
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our lead this hour from Sunday Night Football, which was
usurped not as big a deal as Juan Soto going
nine point nine miles from Yankee Stadium to the Buggeydown
Bronx in a seven hundred and sixty five million dollar
contract that was announced at Baseball's Winter meetings in Dallas
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on Sunday Sunday. But our lead this hour is from
Arrowhead Stadium. That is where we begin, and that's where
the Sunday portion of Week fourteen came to it. And
there's one game left, not a good one Cowboys and
Ben Gals on a Monday night. But the Sunday night
game had some razmataz to it. There was a little
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juice to it on Sunday night and AFC West Barnburner
as Jim Harball and the Chargers coaching against Andy Reid
big Red and the Chiefs. Now you had Mike Tarrico
and Chris Collsworth, they had the call there on and
BC under the lights under the lights there? Did you watch?
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Were you checking this out? Were you too emotional to
watch because of the Wan Soto news you couldn't watch?
Maybe not? I don't know. Well, someone named matthew Wright.
Matthew Wright, it's the name. We don't really know that well,
but he knocked in a thirty one yard field goal.
He actually doinked it off the left upright, and instead
of bouncing away, it bounced through and the Chiefs survive
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a heart pounding win at Arrowhead. They beat the Chargers
nineteen to seventeen. Your final score Sunday night. They have
now won nine consecutive AFC West titles. So if you're
nine years old, your entire life, the chief have won
the AFC West. Now. Patrick Mahomes led a multi minute
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drive for Kansas City at the end four and a
half minutes. Actually they got the ball after the Chargers
kicked the field goal from Dicker the kicker, and Mahomes
a little bit here, a little bit there, a little
bit everywhere as he passed the ball around. They ran
a little bit, a little bit of that, a little
bit of this, and they put it all together and
a four and a half minute drive that set up
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with no time left, Matthew Wright to kick the field
goal and that was it. And it looked routine until
the ball clanked off the upright in a narrow escape,
but an escape nonetheless, As normally, the better story is
in the losing locker room. We're going to start on
the Kansas City side. They've not won nine consecutive AFC
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West title, so that is worthy of some conversation. So
let us discuss the question, can you explain all of
these nail biting wins and how they keep happening for
Patrick Mahomes and his Kansau City chief So I've got
Foreign Object, Software World, and Andy Warhol, and we will
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combine all of these things together, and we are going
to make a celebratory cake. Is what we're going to make.
You get a piece of cake. You get a piece
of cake. You get a piece of cake. So number
number one, Patrick Mahomes, I know what he has for breakfast.
That's the old line, lucky charms eating a lot of
lucky charms in the morning there. But my god, this
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happens week after week after week. The Chiefs have twelve wins,
eight of them one possession, nail biting type wins for
the Chiefs Kansas City. They don't get style points though,
seeing about that when I was making the drive in here,
you don't get style points. You get the victory, but
you don't get the style points. There. You don't have
to win by a lot but you just do enough.
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You just do enough there to get the victory. And
that's what they've been doing week after week. And from
thirty thousand feet up in the sky looking down at
Kansas City, the Chiefs. They don't get extra credit, as
I said, no style points for Kansas City winning these games.
You don't impress people. Winning on a field goal that
doinks off the upright, that does not impress anyone. If
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you post someone out of the stadium, now that impresses people. They're,
oh man, that's wild and crazy and great and all
that stuff wonderful. But upon further review here, if you
look in depth, and we do in depth team coverage
here on the Ben Mather Show, if you look at
the Chiefs, they have now won ten games by a
one score margin. In ten games in a row on
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a one score margin for Kansas City. That is the
longest streak in NFL history, we are told for Kansas City.
And mah Holmes continues to use a bit of smoke
and mirrors and voodoo bugaloo if you will, the secret
advantage for Kansas City. I believe it is a foreign object.
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Now I add an epiphany a while back, and the
epiphany still stands with Patrick Mahomes that he's got a
foreign object and it's a lucky horseshoe that is stuck
up as keister, and so outside of some kind of
operation to remove the lucky horseshoe that is up, he
took us. This is just going to continue for the
foreseeable future for Kansas City. As Mahomes, week after week,
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all those wins and the one score margins, he continues
to get or done. You get the ball back, you're
down by one, one point, you are in a neck
and neck game in the second half with the Charges
and big big spot here. You go on a fourteen play,
forty seven yard drive to eat the clock over the
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final four to thirty five, not giving the Chargers even
forty seconds to come back and have a chance to
kick a field goal on their end with Dicker the
kicker to win the game. That is a master class
by Mahomes and the Chiefs offense on efficiency, on knowing
game situation. And you see so many of these dumb
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teams in the NFL, I don't know what the hell
they're doing. And then you see the Chiefs and it's like, well, yeah,
they're not blowing anyone out. But there is an art
to what they have been able to accomplish in this stretch.
Now we go to the losing locker room here. Does
this count as a moral victory for the Chargers? Does
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it count as a moral victory for Jim Harbaugh's Chargers
that they had the lead going down to the final
seconds there and they battled to the end? Moral victory?
Yes or no? All right, so that's gonna that's gonna
be No. I'm shaking my head. No on this end.
That's a no from me. I don't believe this is
the Pop Warner All Star. This is not powderpuff football?
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So what are we doing here? Like? Oh, they battled
to the end and they had players that were hurting
all this. Oh my god, it's a Chargers. Come on,
tell me you're a bad fan without telling me you're
a bad fan. If you believe that you're not a
good fan, you have to have higher standards. The Chiefs
led thirteen to nothing at halftime. The Chargers did not
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show up in the first half of this game. They
punted on their first five possessions and Justin Herbert's got
all these accolades. That boy Chris Collinsworth, I think wants
to have his baby. My god. But Herbert is so good, right,
He's so good. But yet he didn't show up in
the first half of this game and didn't do well
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enough down the stretch, meaning that he was outperformed with
the game on the line by Patrick Maholmes is his
supposed rival there for kid the City. And it's a
tale as old as time. It's a tale as old time,
going back when I first got into radio years ago
in San Diego at the mighty six ninety and now
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my mentor, Lee Hamilton, was the play by play guy
for the Chargers at the time. He is doing the
games on the radio. Is always close but no cigar,
Close but no cigar. Where have you gone? Stan Humphreys
and Marion Butts and Rod Bernstein? It's the same old story,
like those guys are all old or whatever. But the
beat goes on here, the beat goes on like the Carnival,
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close but no cigar and it in the soft software world.
In the software world, this would be called a known
issue that you are aware of this issue. In fact,
the Chargers knowing they have a random glitch from the
previous coaching staff they went out there and got the
top guy they could get as a coach, Jim Harbaugh
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to change that, and it is still a work in progress.
But it's fair to say that you didn't need Jim
Harbaugh to lose by a field goal late at Arrowhead,
that you could have kept the old coaching staff. And
these are your daddy's charges that not much has changed.
Jim Harbaugh is a cooler looking guy on the sidelines
and more goofy. He passed out lunch payals. But Jim
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Morrod trusted the Chargers defense. He said, Okay, I'll kick
the field. He knew the situation. He figured four thirty
five to go in the game when they gave possession
the Chargers did back to Kansas City. He believed in
his defense. He thinks that's a championship level defense. The
numbers are they're very good. But here's an opportunity for
the defense to get a play, make a play. And
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they didn't even have to stop the Chiefs from kicking
the field goal. They merely had to stop them with
enough time left to give the Chargers a chance to
come back down the field and get their own field goal,
and the defense was unable to comte complete the mission.
They were unable to finish the challenge, and we know
what happened. All right, final point, Let's go back to
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the Kansas City side, the Chiefs getting this win at home,
another last second win on a field goal. So the
question are you buying or selling the Chiefs that this
style of play is sustainable because a lot of the
talk is, well, you can't keep playing like this. It's
going to come back and get you. That you're playing
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with firecrackers, and it's like that Dodger fan after they
won the World Series read he blew his hand off
because he was playing with firecrackers. And that's what happens.
That you might get away with it for a while,
but eventually ka boom and suddenly you're missing some digits.
You're like, what happened? Where they go? I blew up
my hand because I was playing with fireworks and that's that.
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So that's always been the argument. However, I'm going to
be Benny Brightside on this. I'm going to be Benny
Brightside on this because I'm looking around the AFC and
I don't know about you. I don't see anyone that
I would bet my money on. Other than Kansas City
at this point, at least in the AFC, and he
used to make the argument Detroit and Philadelphia on the
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NFC side of the bracket are better, although Philadelphia has
got some issues that have started to pop up here
in the last month. In terms of the passing game,
they have no passing game. We'll talk more about that later.
But here's the thing. You look around the AFC, everyone's
got kryptonite. So I'm going to be Benny Brightside on
the Chiefs. Despite the very emotional victories for Kansas City,
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if you look around the big rival, most people say Buffalo.
Oh my god, the Buffalo Bills. How do you stop
the Buffalo Bills. Well, maybe just outscore. I know that
the Bills won a game that was mostly a close
game with Kansas City, and the game was played in Buffalo,
and we know that that was a pullaway situation in
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the final minutes and the score maybe misleading. Now close
the game actually was. But if I'm not mistaken, that
same Buffalo Bill team and I had heard from Bill's
mafia how great the defense was, went out and allowed
how many how many points to the forty four points
to a middling LA Ram team that got shut out
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the week prior to the New Orleans Saints in the
super Dome for the first half, and they put up
a forty four spot on that Buffalo defense. And then
you've got Lamar Jackson and the Ravens, who the Poets
have lost to the Raiders this year at home. They
lost to the Cleveland Browns earlier this year as well.
How do you take them seriously? You know, I'm and
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we know Lamar has the he has the curse over
his head of not being a big game player that
he doesn't play well in playoff games, that he chokes
in playoffs. So if you look around, those are the
top three teams that we all agree that Kansas City, Buffalo,
and Baltimore. Okay, I'll take my chances with Kansas City
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to at least get out of the AFC and then
it's a one game winner take off for the championship situation.
And you want to take Pittsburgh or the Chargers or
the Broncos or one of these other teams that maybe
gets in there at the end, that's fine, But I'll
take my shot with Kansas City. Even though they're not
getting style points, they're not blowing people out all right now,
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in the immortal words of Andy Warhol, summed up what
we're witnessing here with the Chiefs. And it was the
artist Andy Warhol who said life is a series of
images that change as they repeat themselves, meaning the same
stuff that happened years ago is happening now, but the
actors on the stage are different. And case in point,
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none of this long enough. Watching what happened with the
New England Patriots and now watching what's happening in Kansas City.
This is the Patriots Act two point zero. The Patriots,
there were periods of time in their run where they
didn't get a lot of style points. They won a
lot of ugly games and fluky things happened for the Patriots.
But you look around and you got Mahomes on one side,
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Brady on the other. Okay, the way things are going,
that's a wash, if not an advantage for Patrick Mahomes.
You've got Kelsey Gronk, You've got Andy Reid, Bill Belichick.
Now you got to have a celebrity woman in the story.
So instead of instead of Giselle, you have Taylor Swift. Now,
I know it's not quite the same because Taylor swift
with a tight end, not the quarterback, but you still
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got that. And rather than Aaron Hernandez, you have a
criminal element. You have chiefs aholic who was going around
robbing banks. That would be the criminal element of the Chiefs.
I didn't play for the team, but still was national,
not international, but going around the country robbing small banks
to pay his habit of going to games and gambling
and all that stuff. So Kansas City now nine straight,
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nine straight division titles, too short of the Patriots who
won eleven consecutive AFC East titles in the heyday with
Bill Belichick and Tom Brady. Now, the only thing really
missing here is in honor of mass whole Mickey, that
mass whole element, because you've got that midwestern, nice Kansas
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City fan and they're not complete a holes like the
Patriot fans became as they were winning everything.
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Jokic had an insane statline on Saturday with fifty six points,
sixteen rebounds, and eight assists, but the Nuggets still lost
to the worst team in the league in the Hornets.
Denver's now eleven and ten and ninth in the West.
Do you think they'll turn it around?
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Well, turn around? Are they a playoff team? Yes, there
there'll be. I know they're in the play in right now.
But there's something missing. They just they're not They don't
move as fast as they did that There's there are
steps low. They need to make a trade. There's something
missing there from that Nuggets team where they've lost games
where they would in the last three or four years
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they'd win all all those games, and they've lost several
of them this year. So there's something ingredient that's missing
from that Nuggets team next Now.
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It's no secret both Shador Sanders and Dion want him
to be drafted by the Raiders. Dion even imployed Antonio
Pierce to select his kids over the weekend. What odds
do you put on the Colorado quarterback going to Vegas?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Well, if Deon Sanders wants to pull a Manning family,
then the odds odds say seventy five percent. Right, the
Raiders need a quarterback. He's a quarterback. The Raiders are
going to have a top three pick in the draft.
Right now they have the number one pick, so yes, yes,
next guy Ben.
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Alabama did not make it into the playoffs? Do you
think they should have?
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Well, they didn't make it because of Klein de boor
if Nick Saban was coaching at Alabama they would have
made it. That is an indictment of Caleb de Boor.
They don't think he's a big enough star. And that's
why SMU made it. What a blow to Alabama though
they should have made They lost a Vanderbilt. How do
we do you pass us a nation? Is? I went
quite on the bar Win? What the game on?
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Wednesday? And yet again? Who?
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So here's some instant advice. Hold that thought. No one's
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rather obvious. The mighty New York Yankees lost a bidding
war for Juan sold. Advice to the Yankees on losing
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Juan Soto to their friends Wink wink in New York
the Mets, eight seven, seven ninety nine, Fox, you're live
on the air. When you hear my voice. Hello, Line one,
you're on the air advice to the Yankees on losing
one Soto to the Mets. Yeah, support, okay, thank you. Yes.
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Line two, you're on the airline too. We're giving advice
to the Yankees on how to deal with the loss
of Juan so to the Mets.
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Good morning time, Hi George. What's his name?
Speaker 1 (36:24):
The Stanza? Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, Well, what easy
for you to say? Hello? You're on the air line four. Hello,
Line four.
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I had a great time at your party bend, drinking
all that pineapple juice?
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Really paid on? Oh? Hello, all right, you must have
been on that party bus. Line number five. Hello, Line five.
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All I want for Christmas, Eddy Garci.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Alright, alright, you're terrible at singing, supermarket Steve. Hello. Line six,
you're on the airline six. Hello, All you gotta be quicker?
Line six. Line one, eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, Hello,
Line one is an advice line for the Yankees on
losing one soda the Mets for seven hundred and sixty
five million. I've never been afraid a day in my life. Okay,
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you are now because you're about to get dial tone sir.
Line two, Hello, line two. Yeah, that lay a good point.
No he didn't. Oh see, I cut you off. Be
where you can say that. Line four, you're on the
airline four. Line five, I'll go to line five. That's
what I'll do. Line five, you're on the airline five.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
He is speaking of stevens King. Have you read the
uncut edition of the sustain.
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No, I'm not well. Thank you, Rick. That's Brick and
Maryland Morning Time. Line six, you're on the air line six.
We're giving advice, unsolicited advice to the Yankees on dealing
with losing one soda to the Mets.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Get down, to go down and get a slash of
pizza and a cow zone with a Coca cola.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
All right, mother shocking update. There's pizza in the kitchen.
Nobody's eating it and I don't know why. Line one, Hello,
line one.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
I think Uncle Bob is gonna help Shine and des
moines the baby.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
I think so. Hell, babysit Uncle Bob. We'll babysit the child. Hello,
line too, you're on the airline too, advice to the
Yankees are dealing with the loss of Juan Soto Jason. Okay,
all right, thank you. Yes. Line four, Hello, you're on
the air line four. There you go. What sodas it
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no longer George's by Line five, you're on the airline five. Okay,
calm down, will be one more, only one more, Scot
I'll take credit of Blamcooper. The final call. Instant advice
line for the Yankees. Line one, Line number one, you're
on the airline what good bye, bye bye bye, oh man,
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Coop never shows up to those. So I started with
the Raina and we were discussing the fact that I
didn't have time to do the X rundown for tonight's show,
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and the people that listen live get very upset by that.
They don't know how to handle it. It's very emotional
for them. They feel like I have wronged them at
the crowd suck. Yes, I will get a lot of ice.
I will get to it at some point. I just
slipped my mind. I had other things to get. People
that were visiting the studio here that I briefly talked to,
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to do with this. But I'm gonna blame them anyway
because I saw them in the hallway and I said, hello,
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and I'm gonna claim that that was the time that
I would have written the rundown of the show. But
I'm not doing that. I did, didn't do it. I
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will do it at some point. But our lead this
hour is not from football, No, on on on oh
from baseball Baseball's been very, very good to me. Oh,
what a wonderful story this is. The Eagle has landed
on a late Sunday night into a Monday. The NFL
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has been upstaged upstage. We do not start with that
chief's doink victory over the Chargers. That does not take
the lead on this show. The lead story here is
one Soto. He is leaving the barn. Where is one
Soto go? He hasn't knew them. Oh my god, you're
so excited. Somebody just got really rich and you're excited.
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You know, you got to work your job and you
got to deal with your life. But this guy really
really rich, super dupers. If you haven't heard yet, that
likely means you haven't been paying attention that job by you.
So we have learned that one Soto is taking his
talents to the New York Metropolitans. One Soto going to
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the Mets. He's agreed to a record breaking contract. He
will be a met for the next fifteen seasons, at
least contractually bound to the Mets seven hundred and sixty
five million. Of course, we haven't seen all the fine
print on this, so there's likely some escape hatches and
all that. The deal announced on Sunday night as the
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Winter Meetings are underway in the Greater Dallas area. And
as you guys know, boots on the ground, if you're
listening to us in Dallas, we are on a sports
talk radio station in Dallas. So if you happen to
see anybody, let us know if you hear something I
talked on the Fifth Hour podcast. We had a guy
call up who was visiting the Cape last week and
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he told us a story about Peter Gammon's buying Blue
Moon at a local liquor store on the Cape. And
I love that store. And so maybe you're at the
Winter Meetings and you see like Andrew Friedman and he's
he's eating like raising canes or something like that. You
can let us know, you can give us the inside
skinny on that. But the story here Juan Soto seven
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hundred and sixty five million dollars. Soto's deal topping the
ten year, seven hundred million dollar contract that Juan Soto's
rival who beat him in the World Series, although he
didn't pay very well. Shohil Tani signed with the Doyers,
and at the time, that was the largest deal in
baseball history. Although if you go year by year, you
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can crunch the numbers on that as a fifteen year
deal as opposed to the ten year contract. So it's
a lot, it's a lot more years five years. Of course,
whether Sodo will play that out, who knows. And all
that the Mets offer the highest passing by the Yankees
at the very last moment there, and so Soto who
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was not even the top player on the Yankees. That
was Aaron Judge, but Juan Soto the number two, the Robin,
the batman, and he now goes off. Yeah, I'd rather
be that number two than number one. I got to
tell you seven hundred and sixty five million, and that's
five million more to leave. The Yankees got an extra
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five million now when you're in that tax bracket, Not
that I've ever been in that tax bracket, nor based
on the career arc that I'm going on right now
in my broadcasting career, will ever be at that area.
But my god, is five million really matter that? I
guess every dollar counts. But if you got seven hundred
and sixty million as opposed to seven hundred and sixty five, men,
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So the question what do you love and what do
you hate about this, right, Juan Soto going to the mats.
What do we love about it? What do we hate
about it? So I've got horn, dog, rotisserie, chicken, and manhood,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we will go on the party bus. We're gonna go
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on the party bus, because why not. I'm more on
that later. But I love the relay race of money.
And I remember reading several stories years ago about how
baseball just wasn't connecting with the modern fan and it
just wasn't going to work, and that there was going
to be a case where baseball was going to be
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passed by soccer. I still chuckle at that. I still
chuckle at that in America. So the soccer cult the
rest of the world calls it football, but we call
it soccer. I said, well, baseball is not that popular,
it's not going to work out, and all that stuff. Well,
here we are all these years later. I probably read
that story twenty five years ago. Here we are now,
and Juan Soto, it gets an ungodly amount of money
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because he takes the baton from Shoheo Tani and he
takes advantage of what we all want in life a
horn dog, rich guy who really really wants to have
you on the payroll. And that's what happened. To make
no mistake, that's exactly what happened. Juan Soto lived the dream.
He had the Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Mets
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bidding against each other. That is ungodly great if you're
a baseball player. Right, the three of the biggest players
in the sport, they're all bitten, and it's like a
fine piece of art, and they got to own it, right,
They've got to own that Picasso, and they will pay
whatever it takes to get that Picasso. And you're the Picasso.
You are the Picasso. Juan Soda, My god, and so
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I mentioned horn Dog owner Steve Cohen, who is willing
to take a bath in the red and make most
no mistake, he will take a bath in the red
on this con track, One Soto is the guy we
thought he was. Though this is confirmation of previous malar monologues,
and I am not ripping one Soda for this, but
this is as advertised. Remember when One Soda was with
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Washington Nationals years ago and they offered him three hundred million,
everyone said, how you can turn out three hundred million dollars. Well,
he was eyeing this night, he was eyeing this contract,
so three hundred million. Turned that down from the Nationals.
He went out to the Padres to eat fish taco
in San Diego, hang out with the the great AP
writer Bernie Wilson is retiring here soon, so he went.
He went down to San Diego, had some fish tacos
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and all that, did that thing. They offered him four
hundred million. He said, I'm good, I don't want four
hundred million. So then he goes to the Yankees and
they offered him five hundred million initially after the trade
before the Otani thing, so five hundred million dollars. Hey,
I'm good, I don't I need the five hundred million.
So then he gets up to past seven hundred million,
so it skips the six hundred million. It goes past
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that and then in the seven hundred million dollar range,
and it ends up at seven hundred and sixty five million.
Dead presidents for Juan Soto. And now what do we
hate about this? What are we here? So right away,
the obvious is, there is no way this works out
for the entire length of the contract, assuming that SODO
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does not opt out, and we have to read all
the fine print that will come out in the coming days.
But assuming that Sodo, say in the next fifteen years,
here plays out the contract, which likely won't happen. But
if it does in that dimension to the multiverse, then
the reality of the situation is that you're really talking
about the next five to seven years, and after that
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all bets are off. So the Mets have a five
to seven year winner, not a fifteen year window. Five
to seven year window. So I did the math on this.
I did Malard math. So Juan Soto is twenty six
years old. So he's twenty six years old. The backside
of this contract is going to be ugly ug lead
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the backside of the contract. So if you do the
math on this, the athletic prime ends outside of the
performance sant ansing drugs in sports, your athletic prime ends
at thirty two. So then there's a decline. So that means,
assuming the Sodo's not going down to the pharmacy, that
he's doing this on the up and up, he's clean,
then five to seven years that's it, and you maybe
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squeeze out another extra year after that. But the backside
of the contract is going to be a disaster. And
as I have said all along, these massive contracts, it's
not my money. If you want to burn your money
on some highly coveted, bougie elitist baseball player, more power
to you. Good for you if you get the kind
of money to burn. So I don't really worry about
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that part of it. Although the issue here is you
got to win one World Series. Now, the Dodgers have
given out a lot of these contracts. They're all going
to blow up eventually. The Dodgers even worse, they're paying
out deferred money for years and years and years and
years and years and years. But Otani, they won a
World Series. Check, so he's already the contracts. Fine, Mookie bets.
They've won a World Series with him. So if you
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get one of those three hundred plus four undred plus
million dollar contracts, you have at least one World Series.
Both those guys have done it. Will Wan Soto do
it with the Mets? Will they? I haven't won a
long time. I have won in a very long time.
Social media did not exist the last time the Mets
won the World Series did not exist, all right. Now,
The second part is how can the Mets make this one?
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So too contract work with the bean counters, how can
they make this work. I know you're very concerned about
the finances of the Metropolitans, so I have done the
calculus on this, the malor math on this as well.
So let me explain this to you like you're in kindergarten. Okay,
So in business, in business, this is a deal. It's
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similar to Costco's inflation proof four dollars and ninety nine
cent rotisserie chicken or the one dollar and fifty cent
hot dog and drink. It's very similar to that. It's
a loss leader. Wan Soto is a lost leader for
the New York Mets. That you overpay for Juan Soto
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thinking that other players will want to play for the
Mets to play with Juan Soto and that you will
end up being profitable. In other areas, there's more of
a buzz. You get more people to watch your games
on TV, which leads to higher advertising rates. You also
have more people that attend your games and buy more
merchandise and all that stuff. And so you overpay for
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Sodo knowing that you're not going to make money on
that because if you look at the numbers on this.
The reason the Otani contract, the reason the Otani contract
worked out the way it did, is because the Dodgers
could get that money back from Japan. They're houring themselves out,
the Dodgers in Japan, and that's where they're getting their
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new money. They've already maxed out the LA market, so
they're now getting money from the Japanese fans, and that's
why they're going to get the money back on the contract.
Plus they're paying most of it out deferred anyway, So
you overpay knowing it ain't gonna work out on that
contract at all. And the classic move in business, classic
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move in business. In sports, it's a little more complicated.
A loss leader, as we said, involves a player at
a price that is not going to be profitable based
on There's no way Sodo can live up to that
contract unless he hit like one hundred home runs a
year and drove in two hundred and fifty runs or
something like that. But it is used to attract new
customers or go fans, and so the products and services
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and advertising ratings. Ratings go up, advertising goes up, et cetera,
et cetera, et cetera. But Steve Cohen is so rich
he would have to live forty thousand years to spend
all the money, and we know that's not possible, right,
And he's not going to bury his money like they
used to supposedly did me in the ancient days. So
you got to get rid of the money and might
as well give it to one Sodo because you're, you know,
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you want to want the Mets to win and all
this stuff. You're a fanboy. And that's it all right now,
the last word here the losing locker room, the Yankees.
Will the Yankees and Brian Cashman be haunted hundred for
not being able to get the deal done with Juan Soda.
So I'm gonna nod my head. Yes, I'm gonna nod
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my head. Yes, this is a very Unyankee like move, right.
They always got who they wanted, who they truly wanted,
especially a guy that had played for them. So this
is holy machismo, Batman. What happened were the Pinstripe, the Yankees,
the Mighty New York Yankees, the Big Bad Bronx Bomber
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and you're gonna go play for that other team? Yeah,
And there is that elitism Again, I do the same crap.
We used to love basketball before basketball stopped trying. In
the regular season, we start out basketball a lot on
the show. And it's a similar dynamic to the Lakers
and the cl Sippers. I said, Oh, Kawhi Leonard was
supposed to go to the Laker. How could he go
to the Clippers? Oh, of course not. He retired as
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soon as he signed with the Clippers. Maybe Jan Sodo
or retired too with the Mets. He'll still get paid.
He'll show up maybe a couple of games a year,
like Kawhi Leonard does that loser with the Clippers where
he shows up every once in a while. Anyway, Now
get back to the point. So this is a blow
to the manhood, is what it is? Castration situation, if
you will. The Yankees have always always positioned themselves as
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the guys who get what they want right, that's their
m all, That's how they operate there. So it is
a masculating and Wan Sodo he got a taste of
life in the Bronx. He got a taste to wearing
the pin stripes and playing for the Yankees. You got
into the World Series and none of that mattered because
he's not about winning. See that's the thing. He's about
getting paid. I get it. It's not about winning. It's
about getting as much money as you can. And you
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fisure man, maybe the Mets will win at some point,
and if not, who cares? I guess seven hundred and
sixty five large, seven hundred and sixty five million. But
the Yankees get outbid by their roommates. If you were
their little brothers, that's what happened here, Steve Cohen. No
need though, for a pity party for the Yankees. Now
they have a lot of money to spend, and they
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can get quantity over elite quality and whether that's Pete
Alonzo or Christian Walker who are available, they can get
the trademarket free agency, can get starting pitching. So the
Yankees will add two or three players instead of Wan Soo.
Maybe that works out better for them, at least in
the short term. We'll see how that works out in
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the long term. It is the Ben Mahler Show, talking ball.
Big news here. Seven hundred and sixty five million dollars
for Juan Soto is he's going nine point nine miles.
That's how long it takes. Nine point nine miles to
drive from the Bronx to City Field. Of course, nine
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point nine miles in New York will take you about
five hours about five hours depending on traffic and whatnot.
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our lead this hour from Sunday Night Football, which was
usurped not as big a deal as Juan Soto going
nine point nine miles from Yankee Stadium to the Buggeydown
Bronx in a seven hundred and sixty five million dollar
contract that was announced at Baseball's Winter meetings in Dallas
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on Sunday Sunday. But our lead this hour is from
Arrowhead Stadium. That is where we begin, and that's where
the Sunday portion of Week fourteen came to it. And
there's one game left, not a good one Cowboys and
Ben Gals on a Monday night. But the Sunday night
game had some razmataz to it. There was a little
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juice to it on Sunday night and AFC West Barnburner
as Jim Harball and the Chargers coaching against Andy Reid
big Red and the Chiefs. Now you had Mike Tarrico
and Chris Collsworth, they had the call there on and
BC under the lights under the lights there? Did you watch?
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Were you checking this out? Were you too emotional to
watch because of the Wan Soto news you couldn't watch?
Maybe not? I don't know. Well, someone named matthew Wright.
Matthew Wright, it's the name. We don't really know that well,
but he knocked in a thirty one yard field goal.
He actually doinked it off the left upright, and instead
of bouncing away, it bounced through and the Chiefs survive
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a heart pounding win at Arrowhead. They beat the Chargers
nineteen to seventeen. Your final score Sunday night. They have
now won nine consecutive AFC West titles. So if you're
nine years old, your entire life, the chief have won
the AFC West. Now. Patrick Mahomes led a multi minute
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drive for Kansas City at the end four and a
half minutes. Actually they got the ball after the Chargers
kicked the field goal from Dicker the kicker, and Mahomes
a little bit here, a little bit there, a little
bit everywhere as he passed the ball around. They ran
a little bit, a little bit of that, a little
bit of this, and they put it all together and
a four and a half minute drive that set up
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with no time left, Matthew Wright to kick the field
goal and that was it. And it looked routine until
the ball clanked off the upright in a narrow escape,
but an escape nonetheless, As normally, the better story is
in the losing locker room. We're going to start on
the Kansas City side. They've not won nine consecutive AFC
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West title, so that is worthy of some conversation. So
let us discuss the question, can you explain all of
these nail biting wins and how they keep happening for
Patrick Mahomes and his Kansau City chief So I've got
Foreign Object, Software World, and Andy Warhol, and we will
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combine all of these things together, and we are going
to make a celebratory cake. Is what we're going to make.
You get a piece of cake. You get a piece
of cake. You get a piece of cake. So number
number one, Patrick Mahomes, I know what he has for breakfast.
That's the old line, lucky charms eating a lot of
lucky charms in the morning there. But my god, this
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happens week after week after week. The Chiefs have twelve wins,
eight of them one possession, nail biting type wins for
the Chiefs Kansas City. They don't get style points though,
seeing about that when I was making the drive in here,
you don't get style points. You get the victory, but
you don't get the style points. There. You don't have
to win by a lot but you just do enough.
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You just do enough there to get the victory. And
that's what they've been doing week after week. And from
thirty thousand feet up in the sky looking down at
Kansas City, the Chiefs. They don't get extra credit, as
I said, no style points for Kansas City winning these games.
You don't impress people. Winning on a field goal that
doinks off the upright, that does not impress anyone. If
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you post someone out of the stadium, now that impresses people. They're,
oh man, that's wild and crazy and great and all
that stuff wonderful. But upon further review here, if you
look in depth, and we do in depth team coverage
here on the Ben Mather Show, if you look at
the Chiefs, they have now won ten games by a
one score margin. In ten games in a row on
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a one score margin for Kansas City. That is the
longest streak in NFL history, we are told for Kansas City.
And mah Holmes continues to use a bit of smoke
and mirrors and voodoo bugaloo if you will, the secret
advantage for Kansas City. I believe it is a foreign object.
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Now I add an epiphany a while back, and the
epiphany still stands with Patrick Mahomes that he's got a
foreign object and it's a lucky horseshoe that is stuck
up as keister, and so outside of some kind of
operation to remove the lucky horseshoe that is up, he
took us. This is just going to continue for the
foreseeable future for Kansas City. As Mahomes, week after week,
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all those wins and the one score margins, he continues
to get or done. You get the ball back, you're
down by one, one point, you are in a neck
and neck game in the second half with the Charges
and big big spot here. You go on a fourteen play,
forty seven yard drive to eat the clock over the
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final four to thirty five, not giving the Chargers even
forty seconds to come back and have a chance to
kick a field goal on their end with Dicker the
kicker to win the game. That is a master class
by Mahomes and the Chiefs offense on efficiency, on knowing
game situation. And you see so many of these dumb
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teams in the NFL, I don't know what the hell
they're doing. And then you see the Chiefs and it's like, well, yeah,
they're not blowing anyone out. But there is an art
to what they have been able to accomplish in this stretch.
Now we go to the losing locker room here. Does
this count as a moral victory for the Chargers? Does
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it count as a moral victory for Jim Harbaugh's Chargers
that they had the lead going down to the final
seconds there and they battled to the end? Moral victory?
Yes or no? All right, so that's gonna that's gonna
be No. I'm shaking my head. No on this end.
That's a no from me. I don't believe this is
the Pop Warner All Star. This is not powderpuff football?
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So what are we doing here? Like? Oh, they battled
to the end and they had players that were hurting
all this. Oh my god, it's a Chargers. Come on,
tell me you're a bad fan without telling me you're
a bad fan. If you believe that you're not a
good fan, you have to have higher standards. The Chiefs
led thirteen to nothing at halftime. The Chargers did not
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show up in the first half of this game. They
punted on their first five possessions and Justin Herbert's got
all these accolades. That boy Chris Collinsworth, I think wants
to have his baby. My god. But Herbert is so good, right,
He's so good. But yet he didn't show up in
the first half of this game and didn't do well
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enough down the stretch, meaning that he was outperformed with
the game on the line by Patrick Maholmes is his
supposed rival there for kid the City. And it's a
tale as old as time. It's a tale as old time,
going back when I first got into radio years ago
in San Diego at the mighty six ninety and now
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my mentor, Lee Hamilton, was the play by play guy
for the Chargers at the time. He is doing the
games on the radio. Is always close but no cigar,
Close but no cigar. Where have you gone? Stan Humphreys
and Marion Butts and Rod Bernstein? It's the same old story,
like those guys are all old or whatever. But the
beat goes on here, the beat goes on like the Carnival,
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close but no cigar and it in the soft software world.
In the software world, this would be called a known
issue that you are aware of this issue. In fact,
the Chargers knowing they have a random glitch from the
previous coaching staff they went out there and got the
top guy they could get as a coach, Jim Harbaugh
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to change that, and it is still a work in progress.
But it's fair to say that you didn't need Jim
Harbaugh to lose by a field goal late at Arrowhead,
that you could have kept the old coaching staff. And
these are your daddy's charges that not much has changed.
Jim Harbaugh is a cooler looking guy on the sidelines
and more goofy. He passed out lunch payals. But Jim
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Morrod trusted the Chargers defense. He said, Okay, I'll kick
the field. He knew the situation. He figured four thirty
five to go in the game when they gave possession
the Chargers did back to Kansas City. He believed in
his defense. He thinks that's a championship level defense. The
numbers are they're very good. But here's an opportunity for
the defense to get a play, make a play. And
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they didn't even have to stop the Chiefs from kicking
the field goal. They merely had to stop them with
enough time left to give the Chargers a chance to
come back down the field and get their own field goal,
and the defense was unable to comte complete the mission.
They were unable to finish the challenge, and we know
what happened. All right, final point, Let's go back to
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the Kansas City side, the Chiefs getting this win at home,
another last second win on a field goal. So the
question are you buying or selling the Chiefs that this
style of play is sustainable because a lot of the
talk is, well, you can't keep playing like this. It's
going to come back and get you. That you're playing
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with firecrackers, and it's like that Dodger fan after they
won the World Series read he blew his hand off
because he was playing with firecrackers. And that's what happens.
That you might get away with it for a while,
but eventually ka boom and suddenly you're missing some digits.
You're like, what happened? Where they go? I blew up
my hand because I was playing with fireworks and that's that.
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So that's always been the argument. However, I'm going to
be Benny Brightside on this. I'm going to be Benny
Brightside on this because I'm looking around the AFC and
I don't know about you. I don't see anyone that
I would bet my money on. Other than Kansas City
at this point, at least in the AFC, and he
used to make the argument Detroit and Philadelphia on the
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NFC side of the bracket are better, although Philadelphia has
got some issues that have started to pop up here
in the last month. In terms of the passing game,
they have no passing game. We'll talk more about that later.
But here's the thing. You look around the AFC, everyone's
got kryptonite. So I'm going to be Benny Brightside on
the Chiefs. Despite the very emotional victories for Kansas City,
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if you look around the big rival, most people say Buffalo.
Oh my god, the Buffalo Bills. How do you stop
the Buffalo Bills. Well, maybe just outscore. I know that
the Bills won a game that was mostly a close
game with Kansas City, and the game was played in Buffalo,
and we know that that was a pullaway situation in
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the final minutes and the score maybe misleading. Now close
the game actually was. But if I'm not mistaken, that
same Buffalo Bill team and I had heard from Bill's
mafia how great the defense was, went out and allowed
how many how many points to the forty four points
to a middling LA Ram team that got shut out
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the week prior to the New Orleans Saints in the
super Dome for the first half, and they put up
a forty four spot on that Buffalo defense. And then
you've got Lamar Jackson and the Ravens, who the Poets
have lost to the Raiders this year at home. They
lost to the Cleveland Browns earlier this year as well.
How do you take them seriously? You know, I'm and
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we know Lamar has the he has the curse over
his head of not being a big game player that
he doesn't play well in playoff games, that he chokes
in playoffs. So if you look around, those are the
top three teams that we all agree that Kansas City, Buffalo,
and Baltimore. Okay, I'll take my chances with Kansas City
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to at least get out of the AFC and then
it's a one game winner take off for the championship situation.
And you want to take Pittsburgh or the Chargers or
the Broncos or one of these other teams that maybe
gets in there at the end, that's fine, But I'll
take my shot with Kansas City. Even though they're not
getting style points, they're not blowing people out all right now,
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in the immortal words of Andy Warhol, summed up what
we're witnessing here with the Chiefs. And it was the
artist Andy Warhol who said life is a series of
images that change as they repeat themselves, meaning the same
stuff that happened years ago is happening now, but the
actors on the stage are different. And case in point,
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none of this long enough. Watching what happened with the
New England Patriots and now watching what's happening in Kansas City.
This is the Patriots Act two point zero. The Patriots,
there were periods of time in their run where they
didn't get a lot of style points. They won a
lot of ugly games and fluky things happened for the Patriots.
But you look around and you got Mahomes on one side,
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Brady on the other. Okay, the way things are going,
that's a wash, if not an advantage for Patrick Mahomes.
You've got Kelsey Gronk, You've got Andy Reid, Bill Belichick.
Now you got to have a celebrity woman in the story.
So instead of instead of Giselle, you have Taylor Swift. Now,
I know it's not quite the same because Taylor swift
with a tight end, not the quarterback, but you still
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got that. And rather than Aaron Hernandez, you have a
criminal element. You have chiefs aholic who was going around
robbing banks. That would be the criminal element of the Chiefs.
I didn't play for the team, but still was national,
not international, but going around the country robbing small banks
to pay his habit of going to games and gambling
and all that stuff. So Kansas City now nine straight,
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nine straight division titles, too short of the Patriots who
won eleven consecutive AFC East titles in the heyday with
Bill Belichick and Tom Brady. Now, the only thing really
missing here is in honor of mass whole Mickey, that
mass whole element, because you've got that midwestern, nice Kansas
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City fan and they're not complete a holes like the
Patriot fans became as they were winning everything.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
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Speaker 1 (33:23):
Hey, we got, we got this is one big gets
Craam Cooper Nikola.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Jokic had an insane statline on Saturday with fifty six points,
sixteen rebounds, and eight assists, but the Nuggets still lost
to the worst team in the league in the Hornets.
Denver's now eleven and ten and ninth in the West.
Do you think they'll turn it around?
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Well, turn around? Are they a playoff team? Yes, there
there'll be. I know they're in the play in right now.
But there's something missing. They just they're not They don't
move as fast as they did that There's there are
steps low. They need to make a trade. There's something
missing there from that Nuggets team where they've lost games
where they would in the last three or four years
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they'd win all all those games, and they've lost several
of them this year. So there's something ingredient that's missing
from that Nuggets team next Now.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
It's no secret both Shador Sanders and Dion want him
to be drafted by the Raiders. Dion even imployed Antonio
Pierce to select his kids over the weekend. What odds
do you put on the Colorado quarterback going to Vegas?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Well, if Deon Sanders wants to pull a Manning family,
then the odds odds say seventy five percent. Right, the
Raiders need a quarterback. He's a quarterback. The Raiders are
going to have a top three pick in the draft.
Right now they have the number one pick, so yes, yes,
next guy Ben.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Alabama did not make it into the playoffs? Do you
think they should have?
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Well, they didn't make it because of Klein de boor
if Nick Saban was coaching at Alabama they would have
made it. That is an indictment of Caleb de Boor.
They don't think he's a big enough star. And that's
why SMU made it. What a blow to Alabama though
they should have made They lost a Vanderbilt. How do
we do you pass us a nation? Is? I went
quite on the bar Win? What the game on?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
The all time?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Wednesday? And yet again? Who?
Speaker 2 (35:11):
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Speaker 1 (35:27):
Guy or girl? Who got here? Were you talking to?
So here's some instant advice. Hold that thought. No one's
paid attention to me for ten whole seconds, and if
you don't like it, anyway, we go it. See instant
advice line. Who needs our advice right now? Well, it's
rather obvious. The mighty New York Yankees lost a bidding
war for Juan sold. Advice to the Yankees on losing
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Juan Soto to their friends Wink wink in New York
the Mets, eight seven, seven ninety nine, Fox, you're live
on the air. When you hear my voice. Hello, Line one,
you're on the air advice to the Yankees on losing
one Soto to the Mets. Yeah, support, okay, thank you. Yes.
(36:12):
Line two, you're on the airline too. We're giving advice
to the Yankees on how to deal with the loss
of Juan so to the Mets.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Good morning time, Hi George. What's his name?
Speaker 1 (36:24):
The Stanza? Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, Well, what easy
for you to say? Hello? You're on the air line four. Hello,
Line four.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
I had a great time at your party bend, drinking
all that pineapple juice?
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Really paid on? Oh? Hello, all right, you must have
been on that party bus. Line number five. Hello, Line five.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
All I want for Christmas, Eddy Garci.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Alright, alright, you're terrible at singing, supermarket Steve. Hello. Line six,
you're on the airline six. Hello, All you gotta be quicker?
Line six. Line one, eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, Hello,
Line one is an advice line for the Yankees on
losing one soda the Mets for seven hundred and sixty
five million. I've never been afraid a day in my life. Okay,
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you are now because you're about to get dial tone sir.
Line two, Hello, line two. Yeah, that lay a good point.
No he didn't. Oh see, I cut you off. Be
where you can say that. Line four, you're on the
airline four. Line five, I'll go to line five. That's
what I'll do. Line five, you're on the airline five.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
He is speaking of stevens King. Have you read the
uncut edition of the sustain.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
No, I'm not well. Thank you, Rick. That's Brick and
Maryland Morning Time. Line six, you're on the air line six.
We're giving advice, unsolicited advice to the Yankees on dealing
with losing one soda to the Mets.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Get down, to go down and get a slash of
pizza and a cow zone with a Coca cola.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
All right, mother shocking update. There's pizza in the kitchen.
Nobody's eating it and I don't know why. Line one, Hello,
line one.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
I think Uncle Bob is gonna help Shine and des
moines the baby.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
I think so. Hell, babysit Uncle Bob. We'll babysit the child. Hello,
line too, you're on the airline too, advice to the
Yankees are dealing with the loss of Juan Soto Jason. Okay,
all right, thank you. Yes. Line four, Hello, you're on
the air line four. There you go. What sodas it
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no longer George's by Line five, you're on the airline five. Okay,
calm down, will be one more, only one more, Scot
I'll take credit of Blamcooper. The final call. Instant advice
line for the Yankees. Line one, Line number one, you're
on the airline what good bye, bye bye bye, oh man,
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some of the legends. We're the legends on that. We're
gonna get the legends back
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