May 3, 2021 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Aaron Rodgers claiming that he is "really disappointed" that his trade demands got out, MLB Pick'em, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number one, our number one
of our radio program. If you missed the fifth hour
podcast over the weekend, a great conversation with a baseball
legend from back in the seventies and the eighties, the
Great Day of Parker that is available. You can go
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back and hear that. But heading into a new week,
the NFL draft finito done and in our number one here,
our number one. Do you believe that Aaron Rodgers is
really disappointed that his trade demand became public? That was
the story coming out of the Kentucky Derby where Aaron
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Rodgers was We are shaking our head. No. I will
explain why in the latest developments on the Aaron Rodgers
sokka as the plot thickens, coming your way right now
in our number one, it is a day javou situation.
Well come. In the beginning of the Ben Maller Show,
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a new week is upon us. We are in the
air everywhere as we treat insomnia, coast to coast, border
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Here on the big old Fox Sports Radio microphones, very
powerful microphones of Fox Sports Radio. So our lead at
the beginning of the new week. The NFL Draft is
now over and it is the same old, same old,
the sour Grapes Department of Football, if you will, the
latest on the Aaron Rodgers saga with Green Bay. Aaron
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really feeling the ankst as he was at the Kentucky
Derby over the weekend hanging out and Louisville. Now, if
you've not been following them all, not all that much
has changed since the NFL Draft began. Although there were
a lot of rumors percolating on Draft Night the first
round going into the first round that Aaron Rodgers was
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about to be repackaged somewhere else. Obviously didn't happen, and
the latest scuttle butt over the weekend indicates that Aaron
Rodgers has a demand. He would be willing to stay
in Wisconsin if the Green Bay Packers do the following.
They have Brian Guda coons the GM take a long
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walk off a short pier, and if that happens, if
Guillotine Central comes through here and Brian the GM there
gets taken to the guillotine, then gooda Coons out and
Aaron Rodgers will stay. So that was the story over
the weekend and the twenty twenty one draft. Now the
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rearview mirror that is coming gone, as we said, but
it does not mean one hundred percent that Aaron Rodgers
is going to stay with the Packers now. He refused
to speak on camera. He was, as we mentioned, at
the Kentucky Derby over the weekend. Aaron Rodgers those caught
up with Mike Tarico, NFL insider Mike Tarico, who was
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hanging out at the Kentucky Derby for the Peacock Network
there and Tarico claimed that he had a heart to
heart with Aaron Rodgers, and Rogers said that he was
quote disappointed that news had come out of a rift
between himself and the Packers, and Tarico said that Rogers
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expressed a couple of times how much he loves Green
but he loves the fans, he loves the franchise, but
there's a chasm between management and the raining NFL nvps.
So this is Hey, I'm the good cop, you're the
bad cop. That's how this is playing out. So let
us discuss the question, do you believe in your heart
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of hearts that Aaron Rodgers is genuinely disappointed that the
news came out of his unhappiness in a packer uniform.
I am rolling my eyes at the very notion that
this is the case. Now, I've got beneficiary, diva dance party,
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and cemeteries, and we will tie all of these things together. Now, Hey,
Aaron Rodgers, let's just call it like it is. Year
he's full of crap. Right, you would have to have
sucker tattooed right across your forehead, all right, if you
if you buy this, don't be a rude. We tell you,
don't be a room. Aaron Rodgers acting like a shy
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wallflower is hilarious. It's comedy gold. We don't know for
sure who exactly leaked the story that Aaron Rodgers was
unhappy with the Packers front office, but we know of
only one person who benefited from the leak, and it
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wasn't anybody that works with the Green Bay Packers front office.
It was Aaron Rodgers. That is the beneficiary, right there,
the mirror mirror on the wall. That's usually how this.
If you read a story and you say, I wonder
who it benefits, that's the person that leaked the story
right there. That doesn't mean it came exactly from Aaron Rodgers,
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but someone close to Aaron Rodgers likely is the one
that tossed it out, and sure as heck, wasn't anyone
from the Green Bay Packer front office. They're the bad
guys in this story right there. They're not the ones
massaging Aaron Rodgers fragile ego. They're the ones that went
out and drafted a different quarterback. This was a calculated
counter insurgency by Rogers and his posse. He dropped a
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neutron by the day of the twenty twenty one NFL
Draft as retaliation, right, retaliation. We said it the other day,
and we've had time to think about it. We haven't
changed our position. This was strategic. Rogers had been stewing
for almost three hundred and sixty five days. He was angry,
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he was pissed off, and he said, you know what,
the Packers embarrassed me last year with the Jordan Love
draft picks. You know what I'm gonna do. I want
to get him back. Payback a dish best served on
NFL Draft Day, And that's exactly how it played out.
Now Part B of this right. The fact that Aaron
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Rodgers allegedly told Mike Tarico that he was quote disappointed
that the story of his anger got out is a
slow drive down silly Street is what it is now.
It is on brand. Oh, let's be clear, it is
on brand. We've talked a lot about this. Aaron Rodgers
Lebron James in a neck and neck race for the
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crown of passive aggressive king of Kings, and so this
is right out of that handbook. Right. Rogers has a
lot of anger, he has a lot of resentment. There's
frustration with green Bay, but he acts publicly mostly neutral, pleasant,
even cheerful. And if you look at this and you
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break it down, we parse the words that we didn't
see come out of Aaron Rodgers' mouth, but we believe
they did. In the rebuttal, Aaron was yapping about how
much he loves the fans of green Bay and loves
the franchise. That's his public position. He wants you to
believe that. Privately, he is trying to undermine the front office.
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He's doing. The Diva Dance party, is what he's doing. Right,
Let's do the Diva Dance party, everybody, Now, do the
diva dance party. Come on, these things are both happening simultaneously,
side by side. Rogers is out there, Hey listen, I'm
a good guy. I love the Packers, Oh man, I
love cheese kurds and cheese heads. While at the same
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time he's shooting a torpedo at the GM. Brian Goodacoons.
Now we believe this to be one hundred percent, and
Goodacoons the GM claimed that Rogers hadn't said anything like
he wanted him remove face to face or in public,
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and that's exactly true. I don't doubt that for a second.
They didn't. Rodgers hasn't gone to the guy he wants
to be fired and told the guy he wants him out.
That's not how it works. So the fact that Goodacoons
the GM said that hadn't not been communicated to him
directly is irrelevant. Right If you wanted someone fired and
you were in a position of power, who would you
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go to to get that person fight? Would you tell
the person you want fired, Hey, we would like you fight. No? No,
It would make sense that Aaron Rodgers would go through
back channels or in this case, the Packers because they're
a community owned team, which is not really technically true.
They have they have stockholders, but have no power. The CEO,
Mark Murphy, that would be the guy that you would
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go to, because that's the person that's got the juice
that can pull the string to get rid of the hemorrhoid,
which you think the GM is if you're Aaron Rodgers,
see it don't make sense. Rights last word on this.
So this is not a story that's going away. It's
not a story that's being manufactured for fake outrage, which
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a lot of people who love Aaron Rodgers are saying,
that's not true at all. It's Aaron Rodgers using his
useful idiot buddies in the football media establishment to make
ways like Cuba clown music. Right, you get the clown music,
Gone got the clown car. And so now everyone in
the packer front office is on They're on a special mission.
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They're on a cya mission. Cover your ass, that's the mission,
right the packers. Now, what are they gonna do next?
What happens next? Who's got next? What the packers should
do and what the packers will do are two different things.
What the packers should do is hold strong. There's no
way they benefit by getting rid of Aaron Rodgers. Right,
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if I'm not gonna win more games without Aaron Rodgers,
they'll get some draft picks, but those are lottery tickets.
Those don't guarantee anything. So the Packers auto hold strong. Here,
it's a high stakes game of poker. Call Aaron Rodgers bluff.
Let's find out. Let's see if the chatter that Rogers
is really considering retirement as an option. So let's see
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if he's bluffing or not. You know, and the fact
that you can't get rid of Aaron Rodgers. He's irreplaceable.
Bull crap. I drive by a cemetery every day when
I come to the house I live in, when I
when I leave and go back. Cemeteries are filled with
indispensable people. Everyone is replaceable, right, would be? You know,
would Aaron Rodgers really be willing to retire a couple
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of years early because you could play another couple of
years at least he would just won the MVP. Would
he walk away after an MVP season? But keep in mind,
like if you step away, it's one thing to retire
and take a year off when you're twenty seven. But
spoiler alert, Aaron Rodgers is not twenty seven. You walk
away at age thirty seven, and the window to play
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gets smaller and smaller and smaller. Now you'll get opportunities,
but a year away and others will play. Time is
of the essence, that's the point. And so it's the
great race against the clock. Now, if Aaron Rodgers truly
wants out, we said this last week, just go sign
up with Jeopardy if they'll have you, announce your retirement
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and then be on television five nights a week on
a can syndicated television show and hold the sevens on
social media about how you really want to come back.
You got the itch you want to come back, but
you don't want to play for the packers, and you'll
get your wish. That's what the Cream Bay Packers will be.
They'll be forced into a transaction at that point. All right,
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Ben Mallor. You're dating yourself and it's a bad job
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by you'd old. No, no, no no, Well, you gotta hang
out with me. I'm young, I'm hip, I'm cool, I'm
all those things. Yes, people who are young, hipp and
cool don't point out that they're young hippo. No, no, no no,
some of us do. Some of us do some of
us jen Jen's ears. Yeah, that's it, jen Zers, some
of us gen Zer. I've seen that hat you wear.
It's that's not what cool young people wear. No, that's
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not really all right. Well, exciting news here, we have
gained a new listener. We're back up to nine listeners.
The Russian Kid is back. He says, greetings, Ben and crew.
I am returned. I was abducted by aliens and I
missed the show opener. Aaron Rodgers will be starting for
the Cleveland Browns in twenty twenty two. Slash twenty twenty three.
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The Russian Kid said it right there, and he that
from aliens, he was kidnapped by UFOs and that's the
information that he's passed on. He also says, Aaron Rodgers.
What is a two face? Is his answer? And Goatman
Rob writes and he says, Aaron Rodgers was an elite quarterback.
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Keyword was he hasn't won a Super Bowl in over
a decade. Get rid of him now, Goatman says, get
some value for him while you can and build for
the future. Oh yeah, build for the future. Yes, I
love that term. Build for the future. What a scam
term that is? Build for the future. Oh my god. Yeah, listen,
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uh Goatman Rob, we love you. You cannot make the
argument Aaron Rodgers was an elite quarterback. He just won
the enemy pay dummy. Oh my god. Mister Luciano writes it.
He says B plus monologue. Rogers is not going any were,
according to mister Luciano. Finally, a great interview with the
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Cobra from Friday's podcast. Yes, Dave Parker was wonderful, says,
keep up the great content. Well, I don't know about that.
Don't put pressure on me, but it was great to
chat with Dave Parker. I watched him play when I
was a kid. It was needed baseball player. When an
MVP award for the you know, the Pirates and play
with the Reds and a bunch of other teams back
in the day. If you missed that it's timeless, you
can hear that on the podcast A Fifth Hour podcast,
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which is just had that. On Friday, David writes in
from Ohio. He says, Holy crap, Ben, is this what
we're going to have to put up with for the
next three months? Aaron narcissistic Rogers. Let's hear a little
bit about the toughest division in football and how an
old War horse quarterback schools the others snot nosed quarterbacks
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in his division and he guesses as Davids, he puts
on his Pittsburgh Steeler pajamas to listen to the show. Yeah,
very exciting. Well, the Fashion East question of the day
is this, who did a better job at the Kentucky Derby? Now?
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To me, the Kentucky Derby is the greatest sporting event.
Because everyone complains all these too long, The last couple
of minutes of an NBA game go on forever. NFL
games with all the timeouts and the two minute warnings
ridiculous because they don't need that. The two minute warning
has been grandfathered in the reason they have the two
minute warning is because before halftime the old stadiums, they
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nobody knew what Thomas time was left in the stadiums.
But they've solved that problem. But they keep the two
minute warning because there's a way to slide in extra commercials. Baseball,
Oh my god, people can play about baseball. But the
Kentucky Derby perfect, perfect supporting of it. Now, I don't
get into all the razmataz as far as the celebrity
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crowd because I'm not a celebrity. If I was a celebrity,
or I had Jerry Jone disease where I was a
star effort, I'd be concerned about that. But I did
come across a couple stories involving football players who were
at the Kentucky Derby. So the question, the toss up question,
who did it better? All right, who did it better?
You have Aaron Rodgers, who showed up at the Kentucky Derby,
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would not talk on cameras afraid of the camera. Did
talk to Mike Tarico off the off the way, but
Aaron Rodgers wore a turd. Ferguson nametag a great homage.
If you're a fan of Saturday Night live back in
the nineties. I think that's when that started, back in
the in the nineteen nineties. Yes, yes, that is correct,
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and so that was his homage to that. And Tom
Brady showed up. He dressed like the villain from Roger Rabbit.
He looked like Judge Doom. Did you see the outfit
that Brady had on. I'm gonna give the edge to
Tom Brady on the toss up question here. I mean,
the turd ferguson things cute and all that, but the
fact I'm pretty sure Aaron Rodgers did not try to
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go for the Judge Doom look and that he ended
up with that look. I think that's bet Aaron Rodgers
knew exactly what he was doing when he put the
turd fergus and the thing on. But Tom Brady thought
somebody around him thought, well that's a good look. That's
a sild look. Let's dress you like that. That's a
good look. And I kind of do like the hat. Actually,
I gotta tell the glasses I'm not old at all. Listen,
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you know that I have an old soul, but I'm young.
I'm an old soul, but I'm young. Eddie. Have you
ever heard that before. Yeah, I've heard it yet. No,
that is me. No, No, I'm hip, I'm cool. Absolutely
judge doom. All right, so no one disagrees with me, right,
that's the Brady wins that toss up. No, no, it's
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not a tie. There's no ties. Okay, there's no we
we ended ties. You don't wear ties. I don't wear ties.
No ties, zero ties. That's it. You're ge in Chicago
is all excited here is? He says the Lakers are
gonna have to play in the play in tournament to
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get into the playoffs. He says the Lakers losing down
into the number seven spot, and some comments coming out
from Lebron James, who I guess got dinged up again.
Lakers lost to the Toronto Raptors, and Lebron played and
Anthony Davis played, and they lost to Toronto. Unbelieved they
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even played in Toronto a year. They're actually a team
from Florida. But still, my goodness, And some of the
comments coming out of Lakerland. Lebron over the weekend saying
that he does not think he said this before, but
he said it again. He says, I don't think I'll
ever get back to one hundred percent in my career.
Washed up, Lebron James admitting it, admitting he's washed up,
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and then the comments coming out, this is on the Lakers.
Stay focused here it's a red herring by you, Roberto Badge,
And that's right. Here's Lebron after the Lakers lost. What
an embarrassing loss, one of the darkest moments in Laker
franchise history, losing a home to a bad Raptors team. Lebron,
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who played in that game on the playing tournament, said quote,
whoever came up with that blank needs to be fired.
That sounds like a guy who's scared. That sounds like
a guy who's shaken in his boots Lebron James. But wait,
there's more. Anthony Davis, the Una Brown who also played
in that game. A loss for the Lakers. I guess
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they lost the Raptors at home. Here's what Anthony Davis
had to say following the game, said, quote, this is
the lowest we've been, the lowest we have been. That
is a word for word quote from Anthony Davis. It's over.
It is over in Laker Land. Turn out the lots
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the parties over. Wow. What a downfall. And with every loss,
piling up more and more proof that what happened last
year was an aberration, in a fraud, a product of
the bubble, a product of the Orlando bubble, the Mickey
Mouse bubble, and now reality is setting in and it's
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all over. I'll have to play taps for the Lakers. Wow,
you can tell the pron frustrated. Yeah, I'm not be
in that playing tournament now. He's up staying when somebody fired.
Once you get somebody fired at the NBA for coming
up with the play and tournament losers mantra crazy, crazy crazy.
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get your podcast. Baseball player is getting injured doing weird
things Oakland A's picture Hay sus Lozardo on the what
they call it the injured list, We call it a
disabled list. Yes, he is injured and has been put
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on the injured list ten day injured list. What happened
to him? What happened Eddie? Well, he broke his pinky.
I X ray showed that he had a fracture in
his pinky. He heard his peaks of very I don't
want to say this. I'll say that's not a very
masculine injury. Hurt your pinky? Yeah, he heard his little pinky. Uh.
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Playing video games apparently in the clubhouse, remember the Red
Sox had this happened? They had they were playing video games,
eating fried chicken, drinking beer. Oh, it sounds like a
good time. Apparently he was so anim made it in
his movements with the controller that he banged his hand
on a table, resulting in the fracture of the pinkie.
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So um so, now do we know what game he
was playing. No, we do not. Oh, we kinda know.
I'm sure David new Call of Duty game, right well,
David Price with the David Press with the Red Sox.
He missed time with Carpal Tunnel because he was playing
Was it Call of Duty that he was playing? I
forget what game he was playing, but he don't know.
I saw commercial. Mookie Beats is in a commercial with
a bunch of other people. I don't know who they are.
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I'm old, wow, don't sit. Don't say that, young hip.
It's like apparently some kind of star studded commercial with
all these people that I suppose. Where does this rank? Now?
We've had so many great you know, backup I was younger.
I remember when Wade Boggs got hurt putting on cowboy boots.
That was one of the greats of all time. I
recall there was an outfielder for the Minnesota Twins, Marty
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Cordova I believe was his name, and he missed the
time Tanning Booth, Yeah, Tanning Booth gone bad. There was
a sneezing right, that's yeah, in the dugout sometimes that
was that was good. I did Richie Sex and missed
time with his injury because that I love that one
so much. Yes, in spring training he had Richie Sex
and the legendary story Richie Sex and that it was
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only spring training. Yeah, and he just they had given
him a hat that was too small, and he kept
worring and he had these horrible headaches and he thought
he had he had cancer in the in the brain
or whatever it turned really remember remember that it was
during spring training. Remember John Smoltz who's now a big
star broadcast right, Yes, he burned his chest while ironing.
Then Jeff can't get hurt watching his truck. Well, I
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was the story. Yeah, it was like on a deep
bike or something. Remember when Ken Griffey Junior when he
was with I think he was with the marriage. It
might have been after he left Seattle. He got he
missed some time because his athletic club cup had slipped
and pinched one of the family jewels there. Well that's legitimate.
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Come on, there are some He got funny baseball Glenn
Allen Hill, right, remember the spiders. Yeah, spiders, had a
nightmare about spiders. And he went into like a glass
yeah window, yeah, something like glass table. I think it
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was a glass table and then that was a guy
who he was allergic to grass. Yes, picture for the Rockies.
I think he missed time because he laid on the
grass in the outfield before the game against Remember. Remember
here's another one. There was a guy I brought the
story up. I know, store, I could go on and on.
I I mean, I I I'm and it was useless information.
(26:37):
There was a player for the Expo's named Brett Barbery.
Remember he was married to Jillian Barber. Yeah, it was
a TV personality in LA for years. But uh, I
fell on Fox Weather. Girl. Didn't he make a mistake
and accidentally rubbed chili juice and stuff? Yeah? Who else
did that? The coach? Coach did that too? Oh yes, yes,
went oh no, we're not doing this. No commercials till
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we get the name of the coach. No commercials. I
need another name of the coach. I can Oh my god,
oh Eddie playoffs wasn't No, that was that was not? Oh?
Name was it? Mike Nolan? I you know, no, I
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don't think it was. We gotta let's look, can we
look that up? Can we fact check that? I'm trying
it with the Ravens. He he was he win the
Ravens and the Cowboys. I was in the Cowboys. Oh,
that's right, the Cowboys. That was. That was a couple
of years. It was last. Tabasco sauce, that's right, all right,
thank you for that. I appreciate that. Now Tobasco sauce
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on his jewels. No, I don't know, but not during
his press conference. I think that would actually be better
than doing it in the eyes there. I think that
would be that would be better. But who am I? So?
Last week my integral as a talk show host was
called in a question by Justin Cooper and Eddie Garcia,
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who were not so confident that I had one of
the great nicknames of all time bestowed on me back
in my baseball playing days, Benny the Bopper. And so
let's go, now, why don't we go to the we
have audio verification. Let's now go to the public address announcer.
This is an old archived audiotape from the public address
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announcer of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Todd Lights and now
leading all the Dodger half of the first Indy, Betty
the Bopper, Muddy Ball Dollar, undattering name, Bob of negativity,
Let's shortstop number one in your hearts and minds and
in the air everywhere, Ben Moller, take that, Eddie right there,
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we have verification, public address system, Dodger Stadium. You heard
it right there. That's a proper way to be introduced
right there, all the nicknames. I'm trying to make baseball
great again. Play it again, Roberto, play it again, Played
it again, Come on top chop, here we go, leaving
all the Dodger half of the first did Betty the
Bomber Buddy Bullboller the dating negativity? That's shortstop number one
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in your hearts and minds and in the air everywhere, Ben, Yeah,
there you go. Where did that come from? Bett? I
cannot say Eddie, but that says an old SoundBite from
back in the day, Benny the bock. Expect us to
believe you that was full of it. I am this weekend.
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I did not make that, is the bull crap. I
did not make it it I I It just popped
up on my phone. I don't know what happened. Somebody
says she I was old. Why. I'm not exactly sure
who originally came up with it. I have no idea.
I mean, I can investigate, I can have my investigative
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into you. Who sent it to you? I forget. I
don't know, Eddie. You know, I don't even name everyone
on this show. Does anyone have to be to believe
that crapstory? Play it again, Roberto? Playing again? Play it again, Roberto.
Come out, here we go, Betty the Bopper doing Roberto.
We got people listening to this show. But I could
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have just rolled in this audio earlier day. I'm trying
to you, trying to enjoy it, turning their channels across
the country. Here we go. Yeah, that's great. That's a
PA guy at Dodger Stadium. There you go right there it.
I don't think he was a p P A guy
that when you were a plane. Oh yeah, he he was. Yeah. Yeah,
I'm young. I mean i'm young, I'm cool, I'm him,
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you know, I'm all those things I'm bringing that. I
didn't pay him anything. Nothing I paid, No money was
exchanged out of my water. You know, I got cop
webs on my wallet, Eddie, you know that. I mean,
I don't open the wall it up for anything. So
I did not pay anything for that. But let me
tell you, it was a great sound bite right there.
And that's all that standing. It was wonderful. You didn't
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like it any No playing again, Bert, I'm playing again.
Come I play one more time? Are you trying to
kill your career? No, I'm not trying to kill my crop.
Just want to hear this. Up against We're up against it.
You're not up against we? Absolutely we are. No, we
are not. That is a lie. How dare you one
more time? Bert? Bert? You're gonna be on the unemployment
(31:32):
line with dand negativity. That shar number one in your
hearts and minds and in the air everywhere. Oh that's good,
that's good audio. You know what that's audio porn? Is
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what that is? Right there? You heard audio porn. The
fans not tremendous at all. The ratings are going through
the roof, Eddie treuem Endy. We'll have the MLB picker.
Here's the who am I game? I am the only
big league pitcher in the modern era to throw a
perfect game and hit a Grand Slam. Only one has
done it. Again, only big league pitcher in the modern
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era to throw a perfect game and also not in
the same game, but also hit a Grand Slam? Who
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(32:56):
Benmaller and it is time now for the who am I? Game?
This is where we pretend to be somebody else, as
we call it the who am I Game? A blatant
attempt to get you to listen a little bit longer,
and we'll also have the MLB pick him coming up
in a couple of minutes. I am the only Big
League pitcher in the modern era to throw a perfect
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game and hit a grand Salami. That is the question.
What is the answer, and the answer is coming in
all over the place. Let's see who do we have here.
We've got Oscar going with John Rocker. Robin Vegas says
a professional aviator, Roy Doc Holiday, Herman Kane, Yes, by
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a mister nice guy, that's his answer. Aaron Harangue from
Just Josh in Cincinnati, the Real Martin going with the
great Jack Russell as his answer. Mister Luciano says who
is Silk the Shocker as his selection. Paul Austin Mocker
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for Malibu, Rubin Jason in Denver is going with Randy
Macho Man Savage as his selection. Christopher the Custodian checks
in with CC Sabathia as his answer. Notorious b is
going with slow Poke Rodriguez as his answer. Mister Furley
(34:24):
from Tortilla Man, Tony Mallard prop guy got it right,
clearly cheating. Omar Dahl from Chris in Des Moines. David
in Ohio going with the candy Man John Candelaria. Keith
in NorCal says it's Benny the Bopper's grand entrance. Thank you.
Justin in Cincinnati going with the Notorious Big and yet
(34:48):
again amazing the ability to find the perfect photo for
the tweet. He continues to amaze, who else do we
have here inca tera, says Cooper Loo, who should be
hanging his head in shame now that Benny the Bopper
has been vindicated. Well, that is right inco Terror. You
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heard the audio and Lou it is Benny the Bopper obviously.
Do you have an answer, Eddie? Please? You have an answer?
Is it Matt Kane? Matt Kane? Is that correct? Then? No?
The correct answer from the sea Adol Mariners King Felix.
That would be Felix Hernandez back in the day. Get
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out the ride, Brendon Mustard, Grandma, it's grand Salami time, right, Yes,
legendary called some horrifically bad Mariner teams and then he
was around when they had the good teams. But he
was there horrible for our time. I wasn't even alive
when they were bad in the seventies and the eighties. Man,
(35:54):
I just saw videos of Alvin Davis and Harold Reynolds
and players like that, Jim Pressley. I I wasn't around
for those days, but I saw I saw baseball cards
and things like that. I did. Yeah, all right, let's
get to it. Here we go. The m l B
pick him. That's right, single day. It's one pick him
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or another. We did the equine pick him for the
Kentucky Derby. Hi three, you didn't watch the derby? Eddie? Wow?
You did, Eddie? You want first? I did? You picked
Medina spirit did? I? Okay? I believe you. You don't
even remember. You don't have no clue. We had a
(36:39):
listener actually bet on the derby. We want to thank
rare bird Ryan from Kentucky. He went to the derby
put a bet in. We didn't win though, unfortunately. But
go ahead, Eddie, you have the first pick with the
first pick in the MLB. Pickham. Let's go with Tyler Glass. Now, wow,
terrible pick coope, go ahead? Cool show heyo tany Wow,
(37:03):
he's not gonna player hit. Yeah. I think he's picking
him as a pitcher. Roberto Walker, Bueller, give me Walker,
all right, I'll take a shot just that they're not
gonna play. What's it now that they're gonna play? All right,
come down, I'm gonna take give me Mike Trout. I'll
take Mike Trout and I will take about Nelson Cruise.
(37:29):
Nelson Cruise as well. Roberto, I'll take h Trevor's story.
Trevor's story. He's hurt bad picked by you. Coope, go ahead, Cool.
I will go with Anthony Rendon. Anthony Rendon a right
but a good pick when he was on the Nationals.
Go ahead, Eddie, go ahead and back to back. Let's
go with Buster posey Giants. Someone named Mitch Gerber from
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the Minnesota Twins. Why would you pick him? Last, Coop,
I will go with another Mitch Haniger. His name's Mitch right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Is he still on the Mariners? Yes, Roberto, go ahead
your final pick, Roberto, it's the MLB pick and I
(38:15):
love this music. Jose Ramire is twib notes. The Blue
Jays are flying high in Oakland with Steven Matts. Oh
he's a picture. He's my pick. I'm gonna win.
Hello and welcome. It's our number one, our number one
of our radio program. If you missed the fifth hour
podcast over the weekend, a great conversation with a baseball
legend from back in the seventies and the eighties, the
Great Day of Parker that is available. You can go
(00:20):
back and hear that. But heading into a new week,
the NFL draft finito done and in our number one here,
our number one. Do you believe that Aaron Rodgers is
really disappointed that his trade demand became public? That was
the story coming out of the Kentucky Derby where Aaron
(00:44):
Rodgers was We are shaking our head. No. I will
explain why in the latest developments on the Aaron Rodgers
sokka as the plot thickens, coming your way right now
in our number one, it is a day javou situation.
Well come. In the beginning of the Ben Maller Show,
(01:08):
a new week is upon us. We are in the
air everywhere as we treat insomnia, coast to coast, border
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(01:30):
Here on the big old Fox Sports Radio microphones, very
powerful microphones of Fox Sports Radio. So our lead at
the beginning of the new week. The NFL Draft is
now over and it is the same old, same old,
the sour Grapes Department of Football, if you will, the
latest on the Aaron Rodgers saga with Green Bay. Aaron
(01:54):
really feeling the ankst as he was at the Kentucky
Derby over the weekend hanging out and Louisville. Now, if
you've not been following them all, not all that much
has changed since the NFL Draft began. Although there were
a lot of rumors percolating on Draft Night the first
round going into the first round that Aaron Rodgers was
(02:15):
about to be repackaged somewhere else. Obviously didn't happen, and
the latest scuttle butt over the weekend indicates that Aaron
Rodgers has a demand. He would be willing to stay
in Wisconsin if the Green Bay Packers do the following.
They have Brian Guda coons the GM take a long
(02:40):
walk off a short pier, and if that happens, if
Guillotine Central comes through here and Brian the GM there
gets taken to the guillotine, then gooda Coons out and
Aaron Rodgers will stay. So that was the story over
the weekend and the twenty twenty one draft. Now the
(03:00):
rearview mirror that is coming gone, as we said, but
it does not mean one hundred percent that Aaron Rodgers
is going to stay with the Packers now. He refused
to speak on camera. He was, as we mentioned, at
the Kentucky Derby over the weekend. Aaron Rodgers those caught
up with Mike Tarico, NFL insider Mike Tarico, who was
(03:24):
hanging out at the Kentucky Derby for the Peacock Network
there and Tarico claimed that he had a heart to
heart with Aaron Rodgers, and Rogers said that he was
quote disappointed that news had come out of a rift
between himself and the Packers, and Tarico said that Rogers
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expressed a couple of times how much he loves Green
but he loves the fans, he loves the franchise, but
there's a chasm between management and the raining NFL nvps.
So this is Hey, I'm the good cop, you're the
bad cop. That's how this is playing out. So let
us discuss the question, do you believe in your heart
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of hearts that Aaron Rodgers is genuinely disappointed that the
news came out of his unhappiness in a packer uniform.
I am rolling my eyes at the very notion that
this is the case. Now, I've got beneficiary, diva dance party,
(04:31):
and cemeteries, and we will tie all of these things together. Now, Hey,
Aaron Rodgers, let's just call it like it is. Year
he's full of crap. Right, you would have to have
sucker tattooed right across your forehead, all right, if you
if you buy this, don't be a rude. We tell you,
don't be a room. Aaron Rodgers acting like a shy
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wallflower is hilarious. It's comedy gold. We don't know for
sure who exactly leaked the story that Aaron Rodgers was
unhappy with the Packers front office, but we know of
only one person who benefited from the leak, and it
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wasn't anybody that works with the Green Bay Packers front office.
It was Aaron Rodgers. That is the beneficiary, right there,
the mirror mirror on the wall. That's usually how this.
If you read a story and you say, I wonder
who it benefits, that's the person that leaked the story
right there. That doesn't mean it came exactly from Aaron Rodgers,
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but someone close to Aaron Rodgers likely is the one
that tossed it out, and sure as heck, wasn't anyone
from the Green Bay Packer front office. They're the bad
guys in this story right there. They're not the ones
massaging Aaron Rodgers fragile ego. They're the ones that went
out and drafted a different quarterback. This was a calculated
counter insurgency by Rogers and his posse. He dropped a
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neutron by the day of the twenty twenty one NFL
Draft as retaliation, right, retaliation. We said it the other day,
and we've had time to think about it. We haven't
changed our position. This was strategic. Rogers had been stewing
for almost three hundred and sixty five days. He was angry,
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he was pissed off, and he said, you know what,
the Packers embarrassed me last year with the Jordan Love
draft picks. You know what I'm gonna do. I want
to get him back. Payback a dish best served on
NFL Draft Day, And that's exactly how it played out.
Now Part B of this right. The fact that Aaron
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Rodgers allegedly told Mike Tarico that he was quote disappointed
that the story of his anger got out is a
slow drive down silly Street is what it is now.
It is on brand. Oh, let's be clear, it is
on brand. We've talked a lot about this. Aaron Rodgers
Lebron James in a neck and neck race for the
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crown of passive aggressive king of Kings, and so this
is right out of that handbook. Right. Rogers has a
lot of anger, he has a lot of resentment. There's
frustration with green Bay, but he acts publicly mostly neutral, pleasant,
even cheerful. And if you look at this and you
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break it down, we parse the words that we didn't
see come out of Aaron Rodgers' mouth, but we believe
they did. In the rebuttal, Aaron was yapping about how
much he loves the fans of green Bay and loves
the franchise. That's his public position. He wants you to
believe that. Privately, he is trying to undermine the front office.
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He's doing. The Diva Dance party, is what he's doing. Right,
Let's do the Diva Dance party, everybody, Now, do the
diva dance party. Come on, these things are both happening simultaneously,
side by side. Rogers is out there, Hey listen, I'm
a good guy. I love the Packers, Oh man, I
love cheese kurds and cheese heads. While at the same
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time he's shooting a torpedo at the GM. Brian Goodacoons.
Now we believe this to be one hundred percent, and
Goodacoons the GM claimed that Rogers hadn't said anything like
he wanted him remove face to face or in public,
(08:31):
and that's exactly true. I don't doubt that for a second.
They didn't. Rodgers hasn't gone to the guy he wants
to be fired and told the guy he wants him out.
That's not how it works. So the fact that Goodacoons
the GM said that hadn't not been communicated to him
directly is irrelevant. Right If you wanted someone fired and
you were in a position of power, who would you
(08:54):
go to to get that person fight? Would you tell
the person you want fired, Hey, we would like you fight. No? No,
It would make sense that Aaron Rodgers would go through
back channels or in this case, the Packers because they're
a community owned team, which is not really technically true.
They have they have stockholders, but have no power. The CEO,
Mark Murphy, that would be the guy that you would
(09:15):
go to, because that's the person that's got the juice
that can pull the string to get rid of the hemorrhoid,
which you think the GM is if you're Aaron Rodgers,
see it don't make sense. Rights last word on this.
So this is not a story that's going away. It's
not a story that's being manufactured for fake outrage, which
(09:36):
a lot of people who love Aaron Rodgers are saying,
that's not true at all. It's Aaron Rodgers using his
useful idiot buddies in the football media establishment to make
ways like Cuba clown music. Right, you get the clown music,
Gone got the clown car. And so now everyone in
the packer front office is on They're on a special mission.
(09:57):
They're on a cya mission. Cover your ass, that's the mission,
right the packers. Now, what are they gonna do next?
What happens next? Who's got next? What the packers should
do and what the packers will do are two different things.
What the packers should do is hold strong. There's no
way they benefit by getting rid of Aaron Rodgers. Right,
(10:21):
if I'm not gonna win more games without Aaron Rodgers,
they'll get some draft picks, but those are lottery tickets.
Those don't guarantee anything. So the Packers auto hold strong. Here,
it's a high stakes game of poker. Call Aaron Rodgers bluff.
Let's find out. Let's see if the chatter that Rogers
is really considering retirement as an option. So let's see
(10:44):
if he's bluffing or not. You know, and the fact
that you can't get rid of Aaron Rodgers. He's irreplaceable.
Bull crap. I drive by a cemetery every day when
I come to the house I live in, when I
when I leave and go back. Cemeteries are filled with
indispensable people. Everyone is replaceable, right, would be? You know,
would Aaron Rodgers really be willing to retire a couple
(11:08):
of years early because you could play another couple of
years at least he would just won the MVP. Would
he walk away after an MVP season? But keep in mind,
like if you step away, it's one thing to retire
and take a year off when you're twenty seven. But
spoiler alert, Aaron Rodgers is not twenty seven. You walk
away at age thirty seven, and the window to play
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gets smaller and smaller and smaller. Now you'll get opportunities,
but a year away and others will play. Time is
of the essence, that's the point. And so it's the
great race against the clock. Now, if Aaron Rodgers truly
wants out, we said this last week, just go sign
up with Jeopardy if they'll have you, announce your retirement
(11:52):
and then be on television five nights a week on
a can syndicated television show and hold the sevens on
social media about how you really want to come back.
You got the itch you want to come back, but
you don't want to play for the packers, and you'll
get your wish. That's what the Cream Bay Packers will be.
They'll be forced into a transaction at that point. All right,
(12:15):
it is the Ben Mallard Show. Hope you had a
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to be great, I mean, okay, we can. We are
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comments coming out of laker Land. We'll get to that
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Ben Mallor. You're dating yourself and it's a bad job
(14:10):
by you'd old. No, no, no no, Well, you gotta hang
out with me. I'm young, I'm hip, I'm cool, I'm
all those things. Yes, people who are young, hipp and
cool don't point out that they're young hippo. No, no, no no,
some of us do. Some of us do some of
us jen Jen's ears. Yeah, that's it, jen Zers, some
of us gen Zer. I've seen that hat you wear.
It's that's not what cool young people wear. No, that's
(14:32):
not really all right. Well, exciting news here, we have
gained a new listener. We're back up to nine listeners.
The Russian Kid is back. He says, greetings, Ben and crew.
I am returned. I was abducted by aliens and I
missed the show opener. Aaron Rodgers will be starting for
the Cleveland Browns in twenty twenty two. Slash twenty twenty three.
(14:57):
The Russian Kid said it right there, and he that
from aliens, he was kidnapped by UFOs and that's the
information that he's passed on. He also says, Aaron Rodgers.
What is a two face? Is his answer? And Goatman
Rob writes and he says, Aaron Rodgers was an elite quarterback.
(15:18):
Keyword was he hasn't won a Super Bowl in over
a decade. Get rid of him now, Goatman says, get
some value for him while you can and build for
the future. Oh yeah, build for the future. Yes, I
love that term. Build for the future. What a scam
term that is? Build for the future. Oh my god. Yeah, listen,
(15:41):
uh Goatman Rob, we love you. You cannot make the
argument Aaron Rodgers was an elite quarterback. He just won
the enemy pay dummy. Oh my god. Mister Luciano writes it.
He says B plus monologue. Rogers is not going any were,
according to mister Luciano. Finally, a great interview with the
(16:04):
Cobra from Friday's podcast. Yes, Dave Parker was wonderful, says,
keep up the great content. Well, I don't know about that.
Don't put pressure on me, but it was great to
chat with Dave Parker. I watched him play when I
was a kid. It was needed baseball player. When an
MVP award for the you know, the Pirates and play
with the Reds and a bunch of other teams back
in the day. If you missed that it's timeless, you
can hear that on the podcast A Fifth Hour podcast,
(16:27):
which is just had that. On Friday, David writes in
from Ohio. He says, Holy crap, Ben, is this what
we're going to have to put up with for the
next three months? Aaron narcissistic Rogers. Let's hear a little
bit about the toughest division in football and how an
old War horse quarterback schools the others snot nosed quarterbacks
(16:50):
in his division and he guesses as Davids, he puts
on his Pittsburgh Steeler pajamas to listen to the show. Yeah,
very exciting. Well, the Fashion East question of the day
is this, who did a better job at the Kentucky Derby? Now?
(17:10):
To me, the Kentucky Derby is the greatest sporting event.
Because everyone complains all these too long, The last couple
of minutes of an NBA game go on forever. NFL
games with all the timeouts and the two minute warnings
ridiculous because they don't need that. The two minute warning
has been grandfathered in the reason they have the two
minute warning is because before halftime the old stadiums, they
(17:34):
nobody knew what Thomas time was left in the stadiums.
But they've solved that problem. But they keep the two
minute warning because there's a way to slide in extra commercials. Baseball,
Oh my god, people can play about baseball. But the
Kentucky Derby perfect, perfect supporting of it. Now, I don't
get into all the razmataz as far as the celebrity
(17:56):
crowd because I'm not a celebrity. If I was a celebrity,
or I had Jerry Jone disease where I was a
star effort, I'd be concerned about that. But I did
come across a couple stories involving football players who were
at the Kentucky Derby. So the question, the toss up question,
who did it better? All right, who did it better?
You have Aaron Rodgers, who showed up at the Kentucky Derby,
(18:17):
would not talk on cameras afraid of the camera. Did
talk to Mike Tarico off the off the way, but
Aaron Rodgers wore a turd. Ferguson nametag a great homage.
If you're a fan of Saturday Night live back in
the nineties. I think that's when that started, back in
the in the nineteen nineties. Yes, yes, that is correct,
(18:41):
and so that was his homage to that. And Tom
Brady showed up. He dressed like the villain from Roger Rabbit.
He looked like Judge Doom. Did you see the outfit
that Brady had on. I'm gonna give the edge to
Tom Brady on the toss up question here. I mean,
the turd ferguson things cute and all that, but the
fact I'm pretty sure Aaron Rodgers did not try to
(19:03):
go for the Judge Doom look and that he ended
up with that look. I think that's bet Aaron Rodgers
knew exactly what he was doing when he put the
turd fergus and the thing on. But Tom Brady thought
somebody around him thought, well that's a good look. That's
a sild look. Let's dress you like that. That's a
good look. And I kind of do like the hat. Actually,
I gotta tell the glasses I'm not old at all. Listen,
(19:27):
you know that I have an old soul, but I'm young.
I'm an old soul, but I'm young. Eddie. Have you
ever heard that before. Yeah, I've heard it yet. No,
that is me. No, No, I'm hip, I'm cool. Absolutely
judge doom. All right, so no one disagrees with me, right,
that's the Brady wins that toss up. No, no, it's
(19:48):
not a tie. There's no ties. Okay, there's no we
we ended ties. You don't wear ties. I don't wear ties.
No ties, zero ties. That's it. You're ge in Chicago
is all excited here is? He says the Lakers are
gonna have to play in the play in tournament to
(20:08):
get into the playoffs. He says the Lakers losing down
into the number seven spot, and some comments coming out
from Lebron James, who I guess got dinged up again.
Lakers lost to the Toronto Raptors, and Lebron played and
Anthony Davis played, and they lost to Toronto. Unbelieved they
(20:29):
even played in Toronto a year. They're actually a team
from Florida. But still, my goodness, And some of the
comments coming out of Lakerland. Lebron over the weekend saying
that he does not think he said this before, but
he said it again. He says, I don't think I'll
ever get back to one hundred percent in my career.
Washed up, Lebron James admitting it, admitting he's washed up,
(20:50):
and then the comments coming out, this is on the Lakers.
Stay focused here it's a red herring by you, Roberto Badge,
And that's right. Here's Lebron after the Lakers lost. What
an embarrassing loss, one of the darkest moments in Laker
franchise history, losing a home to a bad Raptors team. Lebron,
(21:13):
who played in that game on the playing tournament, said quote,
whoever came up with that blank needs to be fired.
That sounds like a guy who's scared. That sounds like
a guy who's shaken in his boots Lebron James. But wait,
there's more. Anthony Davis, the Una Brown who also played
in that game. A loss for the Lakers. I guess
(21:34):
they lost the Raptors at home. Here's what Anthony Davis
had to say following the game, said, quote, this is
the lowest we've been, the lowest we have been. That
is a word for word quote from Anthony Davis. It's over.
It is over in Laker Land. Turn out the lots
(21:54):
the parties over. Wow. What a downfall. And with every loss,
piling up more and more proof that what happened last
year was an aberration, in a fraud, a product of
the bubble, a product of the Orlando bubble, the Mickey
Mouse bubble, and now reality is setting in and it's
(22:17):
all over. I'll have to play taps for the Lakers. Wow,
you can tell the pron frustrated. Yeah, I'm not be
in that playing tournament now. He's up staying when somebody fired.
Once you get somebody fired at the NBA for coming
up with the play and tournament losers mantra crazy, crazy crazy.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
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(22:39):
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Mallow on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you
get your podcast. Baseball player is getting injured doing weird
things Oakland A's picture Hay sus Lozardo on the what
they call it the injured list, We call it a
disabled list. Yes, he is injured and has been put
(23:25):
on the injured list ten day injured list. What happened
to him? What happened Eddie? Well, he broke his pinky.
I X ray showed that he had a fracture in
his pinky. He heard his peaks of very I don't
want to say this. I'll say that's not a very
masculine injury. Hurt your pinky? Yeah, he heard his little pinky. Uh.
(23:45):
Playing video games apparently in the clubhouse, remember the Red
Sox had this happened? They had they were playing video games,
eating fried chicken, drinking beer. Oh, it sounds like a
good time. Apparently he was so anim made it in
his movements with the controller that he banged his hand
on a table, resulting in the fracture of the pinkie.
(24:08):
So um so, now do we know what game he
was playing. No, we do not. Oh, we kinda know.
I'm sure David new Call of Duty game, right well,
David Price with the David Press with the Red Sox.
He missed time with Carpal Tunnel because he was playing
Was it Call of Duty that he was playing? I
forget what game he was playing, but he don't know.
I saw commercial. Mookie Beats is in a commercial with
a bunch of other people. I don't know who they are.
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I'm old, wow, don't sit. Don't say that, young hip.
It's like apparently some kind of star studded commercial with
all these people that I suppose. Where does this rank? Now?
We've had so many great you know, backup I was younger.
I remember when Wade Boggs got hurt putting on cowboy boots.
That was one of the greats of all time. I
recall there was an outfielder for the Minnesota Twins, Marty
(24:49):
Cordova I believe was his name, and he missed the
time Tanning Booth, Yeah, Tanning Booth gone bad. There was
a sneezing right, that's yeah, in the dugout sometimes that
was that was good. I did Richie Sex and missed
time with his injury because that I love that one
so much. Yes, in spring training he had Richie Sex
and the legendary story Richie Sex and that it was
(25:10):
only spring training. Yeah, and he just they had given
him a hat that was too small, and he kept
worring and he had these horrible headaches and he thought
he had he had cancer in the in the brain
or whatever it turned really remember remember that it was
during spring training. Remember John Smoltz who's now a big
star broadcast right, Yes, he burned his chest while ironing.
Then Jeff can't get hurt watching his truck. Well, I
(25:31):
was the story. Yeah, it was like on a deep
bike or something. Remember when Ken Griffey Junior when he
was with I think he was with the marriage. It
might have been after he left Seattle. He got he
missed some time because his athletic club cup had slipped
and pinched one of the family jewels there. Well that's legitimate.
(25:54):
Come on, there are some He got funny baseball Glenn
Allen Hill, right, remember the spiders. Yeah, spiders, had a
nightmare about spiders. And he went into like a glass
yeah window, yeah, something like glass table. I think it
(26:15):
was a glass table and then that was a guy
who he was allergic to grass. Yes, picture for the Rockies.
I think he missed time because he laid on the
grass in the outfield before the game against Remember. Remember
here's another one. There was a guy I brought the
story up. I know, store, I could go on and on.
I I mean, I I I'm and it was useless information.
(26:37):
There was a player for the Expo's named Brett Barbery.
Remember he was married to Jillian Barber. Yeah, it was
a TV personality in LA for years. But uh, I
fell on Fox Weather. Girl. Didn't he make a mistake
and accidentally rubbed chili juice and stuff? Yeah? Who else
did that? The coach? Coach did that too? Oh yes, yes,
went oh no, we're not doing this. No commercials till
(27:02):
we get the name of the coach. No commercials. I
need another name of the coach. I can Oh my god,
oh Eddie playoffs wasn't No, that was that was not? Oh?
Name was it? Mike Nolan? I you know, no, I
(27:23):
don't think it was. We gotta let's look, can we
look that up? Can we fact check that? I'm trying
it with the Ravens. He he was he win the
Ravens and the Cowboys. I was in the Cowboys. Oh,
that's right, the Cowboys. That was. That was a couple
of years. It was last. Tabasco sauce, that's right, all right,
thank you for that. I appreciate that. Now Tobasco sauce
(27:45):
on his jewels. No, I don't know, but not during
his press conference. I think that would actually be better
than doing it in the eyes there. I think that
would be that would be better. But who am I? So?
Last week my integral as a talk show host was
called in a question by Justin Cooper and Eddie Garcia,
(28:05):
who were not so confident that I had one of
the great nicknames of all time bestowed on me back
in my baseball playing days, Benny the Bopper. And so
let's go, now, why don't we go to the we
have audio verification. Let's now go to the public address announcer.
This is an old archived audiotape from the public address
(28:29):
announcer of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Todd Lights and now
leading all the Dodger half of the first Indy, Betty
the Bopper, Muddy Ball Dollar, undattering name, Bob of negativity,
Let's shortstop number one in your hearts and minds and
in the air everywhere, Ben Moller, take that, Eddie right there,
(28:55):
we have verification, public address system, Dodger Stadium. You heard
it right there. That's a proper way to be introduced
right there, all the nicknames. I'm trying to make baseball
great again. Play it again, Roberto, play it again, Played
it again, Come on top chop, here we go, leaving
all the Dodger half of the first did Betty the
Bomber Buddy Bullboller the dating negativity? That's shortstop number one
(29:21):
in your hearts and minds and in the air everywhere, Ben, Yeah,
there you go. Where did that come from? Bett? I
cannot say Eddie, but that says an old SoundBite from
back in the day, Benny the bock. Expect us to
believe you that was full of it. I am this weekend.
(29:43):
I did not make that, is the bull crap. I
did not make it it I I It just popped
up on my phone. I don't know what happened. Somebody
says she I was old. Why. I'm not exactly sure
who originally came up with it. I have no idea.
I mean, I can investigate, I can have my investigative
(30:04):
into you. Who sent it to you? I forget. I
don't know, Eddie. You know, I don't even name everyone
on this show. Does anyone have to be to believe
that crapstory? Play it again, Roberto? Playing again? Play it again, Roberto.
Come out, here we go, Betty the Bopper doing Roberto.
We got people listening to this show. But I could
(30:24):
have just rolled in this audio earlier day. I'm trying
to you, trying to enjoy it, turning their channels across
the country. Here we go. Yeah, that's great. That's a
PA guy at Dodger Stadium. There you go right there it.
I don't think he was a p P A guy
that when you were a plane. Oh yeah, he he was. Yeah. Yeah,
I'm young. I mean i'm young, I'm cool, I'm him,
(30:47):
you know, I'm all those things I'm bringing that. I
didn't pay him anything. Nothing I paid, No money was
exchanged out of my water. You know, I got cop
webs on my wallet, Eddie, you know that. I mean,
I don't open the wall it up for anything. So
I did not pay anything for that. But let me
tell you, it was a great sound bite right there.
And that's all that standing. It was wonderful. You didn't
(31:09):
like it any No playing again, Bert, I'm playing again.
Come I play one more time? Are you trying to
kill your career? No, I'm not trying to kill my crop.
Just want to hear this. Up against We're up against it.
You're not up against we? Absolutely we are. No, we
are not. That is a lie. How dare you one
more time? Bert? Bert? You're gonna be on the unemployment
(31:32):
line with dand negativity. That shar number one in your
hearts and minds and in the air everywhere. Oh that's good,
that's good audio. You know what that's audio porn? Is
(31:52):
what that is? Right there? You heard audio porn. The
fans not tremendous at all. The ratings are going through
the roof, Eddie treuem Endy. We'll have the MLB picker.
Here's the who am I game? I am the only
big league pitcher in the modern era to throw a
perfect game and hit a Grand Slam. Only one has
done it. Again, only big league pitcher in the modern
(32:13):
era to throw a perfect game and also not in
the same game, but also hit a Grand Slam? Who
am I? The answer? Next? Fox Sports Radio has the
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(32:35):
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Show and alive from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. HiT's
(32:56):
Benmaller and it is time now for the who am I? Game?
This is where we pretend to be somebody else, as
we call it the who am I Game? A blatant
attempt to get you to listen a little bit longer,
and we'll also have the MLB pick him coming up
in a couple of minutes. I am the only Big
League pitcher in the modern era to throw a perfect
(33:18):
game and hit a grand Salami. That is the question.
What is the answer, and the answer is coming in
all over the place. Let's see who do we have here.
We've got Oscar going with John Rocker. Robin Vegas says
a professional aviator, Roy Doc Holiday, Herman Kane, Yes, by
(33:42):
a mister nice guy, that's his answer. Aaron Harangue from
Just Josh in Cincinnati, the Real Martin going with the
great Jack Russell as his answer. Mister Luciano says who
is Silk the Shocker as his selection. Paul Austin Mocker
(34:02):
for Malibu, Rubin Jason in Denver is going with Randy
Macho Man Savage as his selection. Christopher the Custodian checks
in with CC Sabathia as his answer. Notorious b is
going with slow Poke Rodriguez as his answer. Mister Furley
(34:24):
from Tortilla Man, Tony Mallard prop guy got it right,
clearly cheating. Omar Dahl from Chris in Des Moines. David
in Ohio going with the candy Man John Candelaria. Keith
in NorCal says it's Benny the Bopper's grand entrance. Thank you.
Justin in Cincinnati going with the Notorious Big and yet
(34:48):
again amazing the ability to find the perfect photo for
the tweet. He continues to amaze, who else do we
have here inca tera, says Cooper Loo, who should be
hanging his head in shame now that Benny the Bopper
has been vindicated. Well, that is right inco Terror. You
(35:09):
heard the audio and Lou it is Benny the Bopper obviously.
Do you have an answer, Eddie? Please? You have an answer?
Is it Matt Kane? Matt Kane? Is that correct? Then? No?
The correct answer from the sea Adol Mariners King Felix.
That would be Felix Hernandez back in the day. Get
(35:34):
out the ride, Brendon Mustard, Grandma, it's grand Salami time, right, Yes,
legendary called some horrifically bad Mariner teams and then he
was around when they had the good teams. But he
was there horrible for our time. I wasn't even alive
when they were bad in the seventies and the eighties. Man,
(35:54):
I just saw videos of Alvin Davis and Harold Reynolds
and players like that, Jim Pressley. I I wasn't around
for those days, but I saw I saw baseball cards
and things like that. I did. Yeah, all right, let's
get to it. Here we go. The m l B
pick him. That's right, single day. It's one pick him
(36:19):
or another. We did the equine pick him for the
Kentucky Derby. Hi three, you didn't watch the derby? Eddie? Wow?
You did, Eddie? You want first? I did? You picked
Medina spirit did? I? Okay? I believe you. You don't
even remember. You don't have no clue. We had a
(36:39):
listener actually bet on the derby. We want to thank
rare bird Ryan from Kentucky. He went to the derby
put a bet in. We didn't win though, unfortunately. But
go ahead, Eddie, you have the first pick with the
first pick in the MLB. Pickham. Let's go with Tyler Glass. Now, wow,
terrible pick coope, go ahead? Cool show heyo tany Wow,
(37:03):
he's not gonna player hit. Yeah. I think he's picking
him as a pitcher. Roberto Walker, Bueller, give me Walker,
all right, I'll take a shot just that they're not
gonna play. What's it now that they're gonna play? All right,
come down, I'm gonna take give me Mike Trout. I'll
take Mike Trout and I will take about Nelson Cruise.
(37:29):
Nelson Cruise as well. Roberto, I'll take h Trevor's story.
Trevor's story. He's hurt bad picked by you. Coope, go ahead, Cool.
I will go with Anthony Rendon. Anthony Rendon a right
but a good pick when he was on the Nationals.
Go ahead, Eddie, go ahead and back to back. Let's
go with Buster posey Giants. Someone named Mitch Gerber from
(37:54):
the Minnesota Twins. Why would you pick him? Last, Coop,
I will go with another Mitch Haniger. His name's Mitch right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Is he still on the Mariners? Yes, Roberto, go ahead
your final pick, Roberto, it's the MLB pick and I
(38:15):
love this music. Jose Ramire is twib notes. The Blue
Jays are flying high in Oakland with Steven Matts. Oh
he's a picture. He's my pick. I'm gonna win.
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