03/31/2021 - Hour 4 - Battle of the Bozos

Ben Maller breaks down comments from Mets 1B Pete Alonso saying that Francisco Lindor is worth a $400 million contract, the long awaited verbal octagon between Whoopie Pie Blair & Marcel in Brooklyn, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our Naber four, the fourth and
final hour of today's edition of the podcast from the
Ben Maller Radio Show, recorded live while you were sleeping
or your audio entertainment. You were sleeping, we were talking.
It's amazing how that works. But it's fresh, it's fresh content.
For example, is New York Mets pending free agent shortstop

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Francisco the endore a four hundred million dollars a four
hundred million dollar ball player. Well, someone of prominence says
that is the case. We take a closer look at
this here in our number four, and we also have
password the word game of the Stars. All of it
coming your way right now. Hey, thanks for listening to

(00:46):
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many versions of monopoly over the years, but how about
the hardball version of monopoly? Welcome in the beginning of
another hour of the Ben Maller Show. We are in
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powerful microphones of FSR, emmanating live from very deep in
the bowels of the magic radio Box. The Fox Sports
Radio Studio is good to have you along for the ride.
Hip Hip. Hooray. It's a holiday. We'll get to that
coming up a couple of minutes. But our lead this

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hour comes from baseball. Smell that Opening Day right around
the corner tomorrow Opening Day, Yeah, you can smell it.
It's the calm, the calm before the storm. The twenty
twenty one Championship schedule is going to begin before you
know it. April Fool's Day, fun under the sun in
the final hours before Opening Day. The status of Francisco

(02:28):
Lindor is in the crosses. I know you're very concerned
about the financial well being of the Lindor family, and
so you've come to the right place now. I found
this story interesting because we talked about it a little
bit the other day. But the Mets pre the big
edition of the Mets Offseason the jewel of the off
season for the Mets. One of the biggest names to
change teams over the last year is Francisco Lindor, traded

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from the Cleveland Indians they're still called the Indians for
now to the New York Metropolitans. The big addition there
is currently weighing whether or not to sign on the
dotted line to cross the t's and dot the eyes
on a contract that's been written up. The proposal three
hundred twenty five million dollars over the next ten years.

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That contract set to expire. The glass slipper will break
when the opening day festivities get underway the first pitch
of the Mets season. Now, Lindoor's teammate, slugger Pete Alonzo
jumped into the conversation. If you did not hear what
Pete Alonso had to say, buckle up, buckaroo, perhaps not.

(03:39):
We actually have the audio here to be kind, Pete
Alonso is sighting with Francisco Lindor in negotiations with the
New York Mets. And just to prove I'm not making
it up, here's the back and forth between Pete Alonzo
and Lindor. As Warner Wolf would say, let's go to
the audio tape his teammate now for a little over

(04:03):
a month. Do you think he's a four hundred million
dollars player, Absolutely, no question about it. Not only is
he a superstar on the field, he pays attention, he
works hard, he cares about his teammates, and he not
only does he have the quantifiable numbers of a superstar,
he has the X factor and what he brings to
a clubhouse is tremendous and can't be measured along with

(04:26):
his superstar talent. And yeah, I hope they pay him
four hundred million dollars and he's he's worth every penny
of what he decides. And again that's that's his personal decision.
But I think that he's he's a superstar. I've always
known he was an unbelievable player, but the amount of
intangibles that that man has is special. Also, he's he's young,

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and what he can bring to a club for a
very very long time is I can't even imagine what
the potential he could he could help out for the future.
So I yeah, and four in a million dollars, Absolutely wow.
If you've ever if you've ever wondered what it sounded
like to get the many and the petty at the

(05:11):
day spa. You just heard it right. That was the massage,
the facial the body treatment, the sea salt scrubs, the
mud rap, the whole thing. My god, he was tongue
tongue kissing Francisco indoor man. Oh man, oh man. That
was Pete Alonzo, a big slugger for the New York Mets.

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So let us discuss the question thumbs up thumbs down
on Francisco Lindor being a four hundred million dollar player. Yeah,
I'm going two thumbs down on this, two thumbs down.
Now my take, You've got the circus train, crumble cake,
and testing ground, and we will combine all of these

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things together and buy request. We're gonna make some baba
ganoosh is what we're gonna make, all right. Not to
lead off with it's a different world, it is, obviously
it's a different world. This is a sign of the time.
Imagine being able to turn down three hundred twenty five million.
Now Lindor hasn't done that yet, we think he will,
but wow, wow. And then to have a teammate advocate

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that you're actually a four hundred million dollar player. Double wow. Now,
to be fair, Peter Alonso did not bring up the
four hundred or four hundred million rather four hundred million
off or that was the reporter that brought that up.
But Pete Alonso was going to get a trophy he
should anyway from the Players Union. In many respects, it

(06:38):
was a loaded question, right, what do you expect the
player to say? There are ways to answer it where
you are not not giving a foot rub and a
shoulder massage to your teammate. Right. That was a sponge bath,
is what that was. And Pete Alonso went all in.
He went all in. Can you imagine though, if Alonso

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in a pair Alevel Dimension had said, you know, he's
actually not a four hundred million dollar player. I think Lindor,
you know, this guy actually is a dog with fleas.
He's a locker room cancer. He's over raided, over raided. Now,
that would have been a juicy story. That would have
been a juicy story. That's man bites dog, that's man

(07:21):
bites dog. Instead, this was a by the book narrative.
You ask a leading question, you get a leading answer.
Except Pete Alonso took it to the performance enhancing level
of answers. He went for cartoonish proportions. He went two
cartoonish proportions. I said, say, cheerleader for your teammate, hype

(07:44):
man of the year, Pete Alonzo. Che the circus train
is in town. The circus train is in town, and
we go under the big top. Of course, Pete Alonso,
he's playing the role when the circus comes to town
of the carnival barker. He's actually outside the sideshow tense,

(08:05):
not the big top, the side show tense. Come on,
come all, come one, come all. What are they saying?
The sorry you won't believe your eyes? Yeah, fun for
all ages, Francisco Indoor. Peter Lonzo should have just acted
like an auctioneer. He's asked the question, and he should
just say, shall I start the bidding at three hundred
fifty million? Thank you? Do I hear four hundred million? Yes,

(08:26):
good sir, four hundred and fifty, four hundred and fifty,
going once, four hundred and fifty from the man with
the yellow cowboy hat, Do I hear five hundred, five hundred,
five hundred million, now five fifty from the woman with
the red hair ribbon five to fifty going once twice
sold Francisco lidoor five hundred and fifty billion. All right,

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now furthermore, all right, So I like baseball. I'm one
of the few talkshow hosts left that like baseball. Many
people don't talk about it. I get it. I probably
will be fired at some point for talking too much baseball.
But I enjoyed the sport. And I'm fascinated by the
dynamic of negostations and the amount of money that's in
the sport for certain teams and other teams that have
no money. So Francisco Lindor is a center police centerpiece

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of a ball put. No disagreement, no disagreement. He was
a force multiplier for the Indians, a bit off the
beaten path from the big market, but still a dominant force.
And Lindor has yet to display those skills with the metch.
To be fair, he hasn't had the chance. He's the
new kid on the block in Queens, and Francisco has

(09:30):
to get acclimated to his new surroundings. And I understand
that every case is different. And normally, if you're a
good player in one city and you relocate, you pack
up the Winnebago and go to a different city. You're
still a good player. However, you know and I know
that over the years, we have seen plenty of quote

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I'm using air quotes here, sure things close quote, close
air quote that have turned into crumble cake. In New
York specific it normally happens to the Yankees, but there
have been plenty of players the Mets picked up who
all this could be great and just average or sucked.
So it wouldn't shock me if we see some growing
pains during this adjustment period. There's no indication of that

(10:16):
in spring training if you really care about Grapefruit League statistics.
But I will tell you that Francisco Lindor is not
on my big board. He's not in the same zip
code as Mookie Bets and Mike Trout. Now you can
you would say he's closer than Mike Trout than Mookie Bets.
Mookie Bets a proven commodity in the regular season and

(10:36):
the postseason, but those guys have reached rarefied air. Mookie
and Trout regular season success, Mike Trout great regular season
player and pretty much nothing in the postseason. Lindor four
time All Star and with Cleveland he was a forty
double thirty home run guy, it's a career two eighty
five hit, a great production offensively for a shortstop. But

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the other side of the equation here, never finished higher
than fifth in the MVP voting, never finished higher than fifth,
and his prime years. He's still in his athletic prime,
but his most productive seasons in the American League, and
it's hard to imagine his numbers is gonna go much

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higher than they were in Cleveland. Not an MVP, So
cool your jets on he being right there at the
top one percent of base at least if you're objective
about this, not understand it's a different ecosystem. I get
it now. The last thing you make the call. I
love that you make the call. Does Francisco Lindor get

(11:43):
four hundred or three hundred eighty five million dollars deal?
Even the three twenty five let's say the deal that's
on the table. If we believe the reports from the
baseball media cartel that Francisco Indoor gets a deal done
before the deadline of opening day, which is tomorrow, I'm
gonna go appsolutely not. That is my vote. This deal

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does not get done for several reasons, mainly the union
is pressuring Lindor to use this as a testing ground
against the Mets ownership. They changed the owner Stephen Cohen,
the guy that got bamboozled by Reddit and the game stop.

(12:24):
He got dragged into that. But for the union, this
is a precedent setting contract. It's a high stakes game
of chicken, right, based on the public comments of Stephen Cohen,
the Mets owner, his comments to excite the met fan base,
the lovers of the Metropolitans essentially is like, hey, I'm

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gonna give out a blank check. That's essentially what he said.
He implied, implied that Hey, I got a lot of money,
and I love the Mets. I'm a Mets fan and
I want to spend the moolah to ching to to ching.
And the Union thinks he's an easy mark. How far

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can you push the envelope? Push it, push it, push it,
push it more. You gotta keep pushing the endow. The
goal here is to put the screws on the hedge
fund guy. Right, Hey, listen, he can afford it. Comes
He's worth fourteen billion, So raise the bar for everyone else.
If you're the union, all future contracts with the Mets,

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everyone can take a piggyback ride on Francisco Lindor's backside
and say here we go. Sounds like Pete Alonzo started
forget a piggyback ride. He was giving a Deshaun Watson
style massage, is what he was doing here all right. Now,
Lindor has a ten year deal on the table. He
wants supposedly twelve years in an extra sixty million large Now, honestly,

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it's not my money, and I wouldn't lose any sleep
either way whether Lindor gets the contract or not. It's
not going to affect my life anyway. I don't go
to Mets games. I have family in New York. They
don't go to Mets games either. But I wouldn't give
anyone a contract for more than five years. Even Mookie Bets,
who the Dodgers gave a forever contract to, I wouldn't
do it. Understand. I'm I'm in the minority on that.

(14:16):
I understand. The most people are like, oh, give them
fit forever country. I actually like the NBA. The NBA
doesn't give out more than four year, four or five
year contracts. I like how the NBA does it. I
believe ambition and motivation are things that are very important.
And when you have a forever country, most people agree

(14:37):
those are important things. But when you have a forever
contract like Supreme Court justice level job security, it's just
human nature that those things become a problematic, problematic given
given the time. All right, it is the Ben Maller Show. Now,
for many, many years, people have been saying, Hey, I

(14:57):
would love to have the day after Super bowls Sunday
be a holiday, make that Monday a national holiday, a
day of rest. The NFL has not really been on
board with that. The conspiracy has been they don't want
that because if you have a long holiday weekend, you're
not going to stay home and watch the Super Bowl.
You're gonna go out and do stuff. So they've been
kind of a guesst. Not that they have any control

(15:18):
what the government does per se al though they could
lobby for it. But since the NFL went to a
seventeen game schedule, they just announced it officially in the
last couple of days. Did you know that there is
a side benefit. If you're one of these people that
have been whining, bitching and complaining that you want to
have a day off after the super Bowl, you're finally

(15:39):
gonna get it. Are a long suffering football fanatics, and
it's not a national holiday for football. But just let
me walk you through how this is going to work.
The President's Day if you look at the count, obviously,
the big holiday in February is President's Day. The next
President's Day falls on February twenty first, twenty twenty two.

(16:04):
So the schedule begins here in twenty one. So the
next super Bowl, set to be played at the home
of the Rams and Chargers in Inglewood, is scheduled for
February sixth. But stay with me on this. If you
look ahead, the super Bowl what is it LVI, whatever

(16:25):
that is, we'll take place February thirteenth, twenty twenty two.
Not enough, but in twenty twenty three, it is believed
that that Super Bowl Sunday is gonna fall immediately prior
to President's Day. And it's gonna be this way Like

(16:46):
every few years, you're going to get a Super Bowl
that will be played with a day off after. So
it'll happen on multiple occasions. And this is only temper
because they're gonna go to an eighteen game schedule, and
it's also gonna be a little wonky but super Bowls
in twenty twenty seven, twenty thirty eight, twenty forty four,
twenty forty nine, and twenty fifty five. Man, that's a

(17:10):
long time from now. But according to this that I'm
reading here, all of those super Bowls will appear just
before President's Day. Hallelujah, hip hip hoay. Who wait until
the NFL finds out that the numbers do go down
for the Super Bowl and all of a sudden they'll
change the schedule and they'll push the super Bowl until
marsh I'll be like, we're not doing that. Screw you.

(17:33):
We're not gonna We're not gonna have the ratings to
the Super Bowl go down eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three
six nine. What if I told you a member of
the Mallard militia upset Charles Barkley got Barkley outraged on
the NCAA coverage on a Tuesday night. I'll give you

(17:56):
the inside skinny. You won't get it anywhere else. We'll
get to that, and we will do it next. We're
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(18:19):
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It's Ben Maller. You got that, right, Eddie. I almost
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if you watched the college basketball last night, chances are
if you just getting up, you did not. But the
second game was the UCLA game, and it was a
tremendous choke job by the Wolverines there. They missed their
final eight shots. Final eight shots a one score game,
make any of them. You put the pressure back on Ucla.
They didn't. It wasn't like it was tremendous defense by

(19:46):
the Bruins. It was just bad offense by Michigan and
guys having tight took his syndrome. But when the game ended,
they went to the postgame coverage on TBS and in studio.
The first thing they did on the postgame coverage after
the tournament games were to show a tweet quoting Charles Barkley.

(20:09):
Charles Barkley, Here's what it read. Quote, there is no
way UCLA wins tonight. Michigan is too big for them.
And then it had three laughing emojis and Charles Barkley.
That particular message was sent by a proud Mallard Militia
foot soldier Eddie in Santa Paula. Eddie's been a Twitter consumers,

(20:31):
hides behind the veil of Twitter in California, but he's
the one that sent that tweet that got picked up
by TV and Barkley became livid. Charles Barkley became absolutely livid,
very upset, and very angry at this, and it was
it was tremendous. Good job by Ed in Santa Paul.

(20:54):
Ed's a big la Rams fan and he's a Laker
historian as well, so he's got that going on and
likes us. But it was great because Barkley's just really
do that intentionally. He's just to annoy Barkley. But it's good.
It's good when he gets triggered. Let's go to Blair
in Maine, our man Blair in Maine. Hello Blair, how

(21:14):
are you doing bad? Blair? Would you want to do
the octagon? You ready for the octagon? Yeah? You want
to do it now? Uh? Now are you are you
mentally prepared for this? Yeah? Put him on all right?
Really going to do this? Wow? Yeah? Him? Rooklyn all right,

(21:44):
all right, hold on a sec. Blair, hold on a sec.
Let's let's put Marcel on. Put him on. Hold Marcel
in Brooklyn. Hello, Marcel, are you ready for the Octagon?
Good morning. I'm back baby from the New Jersey and
I'm back to the Octagon against the liar Blair to beat.

(22:06):
Almost fell over. I was taken it back by that. Wow.
All right, here's what we're gonna do because we're gonna
need some time, so we'll just the clock here. So Marcel,
hold on. So we're gonna have spur them moments live radio.
We're gonna have the Octagon do a live we'll do
a segment of it. So we're gonna have and we
got password. Can't blow password off, but we'll do it weekend.

(22:28):
Yeah we can. You want to blow password off whatever
to get this in. All right, we'll get this blown off.
I don't care. Blow everything off the schedule. I don't care.
Marcel the caller of the Millennium versus a former call
of the Year blaring me in the octagon. Very exciting. Hey,
here we go. That's what's right around the quarter. Don't
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(22:49):
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into the final four. So Frank I don't know who
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(23:34):
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(23:55):
Blair in Maine. Who is gonna be the winner? Get
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Damn right, all right, this is exciting. I was not
planning on this. It was not something we were expecting.
But we have Blair and Marcel together and so it
is fight night, or in this case, fight morning on

(24:17):
the radio. We are in for an old fashioned Donnie
brook In one Corner, hailing from the mean streets of Brooklyn,
New York, A caller of the millennium. We love him
on food Picks. He calls a bunch of radio stations
around the country. He loves his sports talk radio. A
man that made oodles and noodles the go to meal

(24:40):
on The Ben Maller Show. Marcel in Brooklyn in one corner,
Everyone come back, I just introducing you, Mars. I'll calm
down in the other corner. Coming into the ring like
a bruiser. He looks like a lightweight, but he punches
like a heavyweight. A man at his turn, sports talk
radio on its head. Over the years calling in he

(25:01):
was on the West Coast, he didn't get a lot
of attention. He went to Portland, Maine and became a
talk radio calling star. Not only on the morning Jab
in the afternoon, Jab there in Maine, but calls the
stations all over the place. Ours included Blair in Maine,
a man who have actually met in the other corner.

(25:24):
All right, gentlemen, here we go real quick. We have
three rounds of argument and debate, the verbal octagon a
sports talk radio. The opening round is ten seconds for
each of you. That sounds like no time at all,
so you gotta get right to your point. Second round
is twenty seconds. The third and final round the steel
cage match. Each of you will be on the air

(25:45):
at the same time for thirty seconds. Wow. All right,
you've heard my pre fight instructions here in the sports
radio dressing room. Remember to protect yourself at all times.
And above all, this is important because you guys don't listen,
obey my commands at all times. Touch them up. Good luck,

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and we are going to start with Marcel in Brooklyn.
We're gonna put ten seconds on the clock now. Barring
a knockout, we will go to the judges scorecards to
determine the winner of the verbal Octagon. And here we go.
There will be a staff vote and you, the Mallard
Militia will be able to vote on social media, will

(26:27):
put a pull up on Twitter to decide who the
winner is. But Marcel and Brooklyn stepping into the octagon.
Let's put ten seconds on the clock the opening round.
You're on your way and go. My food pick from
last night it will be chicken patties. Also the player
of the morning it will be James Harden of the
Brooklyn Nets. Some breaking news on all things of some

(26:47):
Sean Russ and everything kind in the love of God
and prop and Blair. I swear if you keep that's
ten seconds, I stop, just get going over. Wow, how
about that Marcel interesting strategy out. Yeah I did not
see that there. Yeah, yeah, he totally forgot about the octagon,

(27:08):
just did his bits. Shocking. All right, let's see what
Blair has. Blair coming in. This is the opening round.
Ten seconds on the clock. There and Blair in Maine,
and you're on your way go. I never heard such
a great fraud. And I never heard that you weren't
twice in a row, because every every scorecard there, um,

(27:30):
everybody that voted you in said that wasn't even real
because it wasn't real. Alright, alright, alright, well this is
going Oh Wow, this is going terribly eddy. Yeah, such
high expectation. I would say after that first round to Marcel,
lot of a lot of posturing, not a lot of

(27:51):
punches thrown. A matter of fact, I don't know if
there was a punch thrown. Just pete cocky at each other.
He's got feeling each other out. Let's see some punches
thrown down. This is just some pity patty punches. I mean,
come on, guys, that this is the octagon for God's sakes.
All right, we'll put twenty seconds on the clock this round.
We will allow Blair to go first. Not that that's

(28:12):
a good idea. All right, Blair again, the octagon, the
whole concept. You guys have a beef with each other
and you're gonna air out your dirty laundry on the radio.
Twenty seconds on the clock. Twenty seconds on the clock.
Blair in Maine is next. You're on your way and go.
Never heard a retard in my life. His first punch

(28:34):
is below the belt, His first punch was right, all right,
let me just try that again. Blair. You can't, I mean,
you can't say that word, Blair. You gotta you'll change that. Okay, Well,
here we go. All right, here we go, try one
more try. He was given a warning. We've warned him,

(28:55):
no more below the belt. All right, let's take a
point away if you do that again. So we're that
used to be able to be said on the radio,
but can't be said anymore. All right, here we go
twenty seconds again, Blair in May. Round two? Here we go.
Can you stop run up in my face? So I
could take one shot and put you down, because you
can even stand up on my face and say a

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word of my face. Because you won't stand up, because
I'll take one shot and take you down, baby, because
it won't even matter, because I won't punch you down,
and I'll make some blood baby. All right, Well that
was actually about twenty seconds to make some blood. Yeah, interesting,

(29:37):
All right, well, I'm excited to see what Marcel has here,
because certainly a lack of intensity here to begin by
video here, I don't know. All right, let's go to
round two, and you're listening to the Verbal Octagon are
live coverage here Marcel and Brooklyn versus Blair and May.
These guys have a beef with each other, and we're
in round two. We'll put twenty seconds on the block

(30:00):
for Marcel in Brooklyn, who has a beef with Blair
in Maine. You're on your way, Marcel. Go Blair, keep
interrupting my early morning calls Monday, Wednesday and Friday. If
you do, I'm gonna punch you right in the eye end,
go right into your face and to your stomach all
over the place. You keep interrupting me. Some guys about it?

(30:24):
Two blocked you like Tumbo. That was a surprising he
went with the Matumbo. That's a bludgeoning punch right there, man,
how about that? Now it's a rhubar. Now we're into
the hoe down stage right here. Man, this is great.
We started out like a cat fight, but now it's

(30:46):
like a street fight. All right, this is exciting. Final round, boy,
I think it's pretty even right now. All right, let's
go to the final round. Here it's Blair in Maine
and Marcel. Now we're gonna put both these guys on
the air. You guys gotta be clean. Don't use any profanity.
We're gonna have to dump it. Nobody's gonna hear it.
All right, Keep your mouth clean, you two knuckleheads. All right,

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here we go thirty seconds on the clock, the final round,
the Battle Royal, the Vermo Loctagon, Marcel and Blair on
the air at the same time. Thirty seconds here we go,
starting now and Blair, believe it or not, Buddy Water Burnette,
shut up, baby, shut up, shut right now. Blair, keep

(31:31):
interrupting my calls in the early morning hours. Otherwise BET's
gonna block you, like my humble shut up already. Have
you been in the born shop? No, you have not
been in an where's the bell? Where's the bell? Wow? Boy?

(31:54):
Hunchers punch drunk here. So the highlights of that Blair
uh sending threatening, Marcel, threatening Blair saying that he's gonna
get blocked. You had Matumbo in there as well, another
Matumbo reference, and then Blair coming back at the very
end there with a body punch a haymaker. That Blair

(32:15):
saying that Marcel had never been in to a corn shop.
I don't know how that relates. I guess right, yeah,
all right, Well, we're gonna go to the judge's scorecard.

(32:38):
Marcel and Blair hold on, We'll have the post fight
in ring interview, will go to the CompuBox stats as well.
We're very excited about this here quite the hullabaloo. We're
blowing off past. We're the word game of the stars.
Maybe we'll do it tomorrow, throw it in somewhere, but
we will have the post fight covers and I will
be putting a vote up on the Twitter page and

(33:01):
you can vote for this epic matchup here. I mean,
this is like Soda Papinsky, you know, King Hippo, somebody
like that, Mike Tyson punch out. This is big. And
we will have the judges scorecards who will be declared
the winner of the octagon. We'll get to that and
we will do it next Sure, but I could take

(33:23):
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(34:04):
all recovering from the emotional peak that we experienced here
listening to this verbal Octagon, the spur of the moment
Verbal Octagon and Mallard Militia members Marcel in Brooklyn Blair
in Maine duking it out three rounds, three rounds and
we will go to the judges scorecard right now. This

(34:26):
is the postgame coverage exclusive on Fox Sports Radio, this
Verbal Octagon, and you can vote, by the way, We're
gonna give out the judges scorecards here, but you can
vote yourself and you can do that via Twitter. In fact,
I just published it right now. You can vote from
Marcel and a KO, Blair and a KAO or a draw.

(34:46):
Those are the three options. A lot of reaction from
the Mallar Militia. People either loved it or hated it.
Donkey Sausage compared it to an Ali Frasier fight kind
of kind of. And so let's go to the judge
score card. Now we grade these fights if you're not
familiar with how boxing match scoring goes. It's a ten

(35:08):
point system and each round is graded than you have
the cumulative score at the end. Most rounds will end
ten nine. Let's start out. You want me to go first, Eddie,
or you want to go first. It's the Ben Mallor show.
You're gonna have to make the decision on that. All right,
I'll go first real quick. So I scored round one

(35:29):
ten eight in favor of Blair. Now it wasn't a
lot of action, but in terms of at least kind
of attempting what we were looking for, he tried. Marcel
proceeded to give food picks. He by the way, had
chicken patty and promoted himself. So I gave that round
to Blair. Round two I gave it to Marcel ten eight.

(35:56):
So ten eight round two mainly because we had to Blair.
Plus Marcel also made the Mutombo line and that was
pretty pretty funny. There was a God reference as well.
And then in round three, in round three of the octagon,
I scored that round dead even, so I have it

(36:20):
as a tie. I thought Marcell got some shots in there.
He repeated some stuff that he'd said in round two
and Blair in Maine, he got the porn line in there.
If I was gonna give it an edge, I would
give a slight edge to Blair. But I had I
had squared up. I didn't even fight Eddie. What do
you say on your judge of scorecard there? Well, Ben
had in a draw, which is interesting. For round one

(36:41):
they didn't throw any punches, so I gave that round
a draw. I'm not sure how you saw that for Blair,
but that's your scorecard. Round two was clearly round four
Marcel with the great Mutumbo line. That was a that
was the best scoring blow of the match. Now Blair
did have the hardest punch, but it was low the belt.
That does not score you any points. So that was

(37:03):
ten nine. Heard that that second round was ten nine
in favor of Marcel. And in round number three marcell
decided to repeat them Tumbo line. So I didn't really
give him any points for that, and Marcella went to
that bizarre porn shop strategy. I had to give him
the round ten nine, so I also having a draw.
All right, So we have a draw draw here, which
means probably a match. What about Roberto, how did you

(37:25):
see the fight Roberto. The first round there I went with.
I was thought it was like Eddie Asa, it's a draw.
I don't know what they were doing there. They're all
over the place there, Uh Marcel with his food picks.
I don't know. I was trying to create the version
of some some some sort there. Round two I had
to give it a Marcel Ma tumble. Great and also
because Blair had a dumb Blair so everything. Anytime I
have to dump you in the octagon, I'm not gonna

(37:47):
give it the round. And the third round it's a draw.
See it's a draw, all right, So yeah we haven't
the third round sorry, was a Blair with the with
the porn. Okay, so he has it a draw as well.
Oh yeah, all right, so we have a draw. I
keep trying. Ryan's in for Coop tonight. So Ryan Berschinger,
how did you see the fight? Ryan? Well, you know what,
since I am, in fact Coop's surrogate, I will give

(38:10):
out Coops scorecards. Oh good, all right, very good. Coop's listening.
He's producing from home. He came back from Miami, so
he's quarantine. But how did Coop see the fight? Round one?
He gave ten nine Blair all right, Round two ten
nine marcel A, Round three ten nine Blair Marcel docked
for using mutumbo jab again. Coop gives the win to Blair. Interesting,

(38:34):
so Cooper Loop, It's maybe it sounds different when you're
listening on the radio to those of the headphones on,
but I he said, he gives it to Blair. Very exciting.
Let's check in with both boxers here in the in
the locker room, find out how the boxers are doing.
Let's start out with Marcel in Brooklyn. Marcel, how do
you feel here? Marcell After the octagon? It was great there, Ben,

(38:58):
I defeated Blair, and I had to say, for the
people who love me very much, wire and a cheater,
I should have saved that for the ring. Yea. So
Marcella is like a lot of boxers afterwards, he's a
proclaiming victory regardless about the judgers. Yeah, he doesn't care
about the judges scorecards, Eddie. He's got his own opinions

(39:19):
and rupt me, Ben, whatever what Blair keeping interrupting my
early morning call from start to finish? Yeah, you got
expulsion Blair right away? All right. Don't know what that means,
but okay, all right, thank you, Marcella. Let's put back
to Blair. Blair, how did you feel like that there?

(39:40):
But you got Coop's vote. Coop voted for you. Yeah,
like Coop vote. That was good, like kids vote. And uh, Marcel,
you're full Bologney, Bolognia and Bolognia and Blogne and Bologne
and you just are a faked wire and you're a
fake cheater. And okay, alright, alright, the octagon is over.
Please you should have used material multiple blownings. Yeah, all right,

(40:05):
but does this come down to this Coop? Is he
given it to him or is it the listeners are voting,
and how well the listeners are going to vote, Eddie,
And you can vote. We we all meet you. And
Roberto saw this as a draw. Coop gave it to
Blair in Maine, and so it will come down to
the vote of the people. And it's on Twitter right now,
you can vote. It's up for like twenty four hours.

(40:26):
So they need a rematch, might need a rematch. Yeah,
it's a little disturbing, Eddie that the post fight interview
in the locker room was a little more competitive. It was. Yeah,
that's true. It's true. We've been doing these octagons sporadically

(40:50):
for many, many years, and we've had some great upsets.
Remember Tammy and Montana beat Genie and Medford. The greatest
upset of all time in the octagon. Uh, we had
Pete in Pittsburgh versus the world oh one year. So
we've had some crazy things. This I'm guessing will not
be that memorable, Eddie, but uh, you know, people wanted it.
This is what the people wanted. We gave the people

(41:10):
what they wanted in the Malla Militia. Yeah, and it's
really like any sporting event that you really anticipate in
look forward to, you're often left disappointed with a fight. Yeah, yeah,
exactly the most super Bowls. Also, people are getting all
of jones up for the super Bowl, and usually the
super Bowl is not as good as people anticipated being.

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But who is going to be declared the winner of
the people? Blair or Marcel? Stay tuned, got a murder,
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