May 4, 2021 • 39 mins
Ben Maller examines how much trouble the Dodgers are in after pitcher Dustin May is lost for the season needing Tommy John surgery, Maller's Mountain of Money: James Brown Edition, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number three, our number three
of the Maller Radio program, Panic at the Disco. How
much trouble are the boys in Blue? The defending champions
of professional Baseball, the d O, D G E R
S Dodgers in without picture Dustin May He's out for
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the rest of the twenty twenty one season, likely half
of the twenty twenty two season with the dreaded Tommy
John surgery. We pull out the Maller scale of panic
for the defending champs of Baseball's coming your way right
now in our number three May Day may Day. Maybe
what's going on in Dodger Land? Well? Come, in the
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beginning of another hour of the Ben Mallers Show. We
are in the air everywhere as we blow hot air,
coast to coast, border to border. In beyond, the vast
and powerful microphones of fs are immanting live from inside
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your ear drums, providing marginal sports talk radio all night
long here the Fox Sports Radio Studios. I hope all
as well. Our lead this hour comes from Major League
Baseball Mayday may Day, the International Radio to stress signal.
We know that, right, You knew that right? Well? The
Dodgers having some issues right now. They did not play
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on Monday, but they did make some news. And have
they been KOed? Well, one of their top young pitchers
has been KOed for the season. You did not see this,
maybe you missed it. We have learned now that Dustin May,
a man that throws straight gas. Dustin May is going
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to undergo Tommy John surgery on his right elbow in
wrap some bench as he is down for the count.
Dust and May, will he ever be the same again?
He was injured delivering a pitch against the brew crew
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over the weekend and he is going to be out
at least until the start of twenty twenty two, but
most likely the All Star break of next season. It's
how long Dustin May will be persona non grata with
the Dodgers. So let us discuss the question and we'll
keep it very simple here. I am very neutral, as
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you know, I do not show my colors at all,
no emotion. So on the Mather scale of panic, and
we look at how much trouble the Dodgers are in
without Dustin May for the balance of the twenty twenty
one season. On the Mather scale of panic one to ten,
with ten being you are about to be electrocuted. You're
being tied into the electric chair. I am at a
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six for the Dodgers. I'm only at a six without
Dustin May. I've got Hunter S. Thompson, mad scientist and mother,
and we will connect all of this together like legos
and see what we can make. Now, first of all,
my main concern without Dustin May in the rotation is
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that means an increase and uptick of David Price, who
I do not like. I'm not a fan of Sam
I am, I am not, but Dustin May. This is
a knuckles sandwich right to the schnazzola of Dave Roberts
and the Dodgers. Now. May is a young guy who
had been a beacon of hope that he was going
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once they finally get rid of Clayton Kershaw, and he's
in the last year of his contract that Dustin May,
along with Walker Bueller and the others, will be able
to ascend and you won't even miss a beat. Twenty
three years old. The guy's built like a string bean,
and he's got this electric arm ninety eight mile an hour.
Pitch after pitch after pitch after pitch after pitch, right
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up the Yin Yang from Dustin May and whailah, just
like that, his arm so electric that it blew a fuse,
the electric arm of Dustin May. And so the Dodgers
I'm at as six, as I said on the Mallar
scale of panic. A lot of that has to do
with the uptick of David Price, which I do not like.
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But it's like the old quote, as far as Dustin
May is concerned, there's an old quote from Hunter S. Thompson.
Of course he's dead, so they're all old. But the
quote about Hunter S. Thompson you can't miss what you
never had. And while it is true that Dustin May
has pitched in parts of the last couple of seasons
for the Dodgers, it's mostly been as a giant tease, right.
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He is not yet a foundational piece of the Dodger
pitching staff. And you look at the numbers and May
he made ten starts, which, considering it was a sixty
game season in twenty twenties, a fair amount a fair
amount of the workload. In twenty twenty he pitched in
thirty one games total, since he came up late in
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twenty nineteen. So the point is that while he's supposed
to be good, and certainly when he's pitched, he's done
pretty well. Dust In May, he hasn't been the bull, right,
hasn't been the workhorse in the Dodger rotation. Now, secondly,
the part of the story which does give me pause
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here when you talk about the micro and the macro.
For the micro, the Dodgers will be all right. Macro
is a little different. The success rate of Tommy John
surgery is pretty good. That's pretty good. We hear this
a lot. It's a term that's used quite a bit
about mostly pitchers, but very few people actually stopped to
think about what actually it means. It's a very benign term,
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Tommy John surgery. It doesn't sound that bad. It's named
after a pitcher for the Dodgers and the Yankees, but
it's not for the squeamish of heart, right, And if
you look at Tommy John surgery, it is straight out
of the mad scientist laboratory. And if you're unfamiliar with
what it actually implies, here, what what goes into Tommy
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John surgery? You go in, you put a hospital gowned on,
you go on the table, They roll you into the
operating room. They drug you, they put you under and
Tommy John surgery is a surgical procedure in which a
healthy tendon is extracted from say your arm, or your leg,
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or a cadaver for that matter, maybe not even your own,
maybe you know some somebody that met their demise there
and then is used to replace the torn ligament in
the arm. Now, to get that ligament back in that
is the mad Scientist laboratory. That's Frankenstein's lab right there.
The healthy tending is then threaded through the whole goals
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that were drilled into the bone right above the elbow
or below the elbow. I think, I think it's both. Actually,
it's kind of like sewing together a blanket. And the
amazing thing about this particular procedure is it is so
commonplace that we don't even really think about it because
you figure everything's gonna be okay. They've turned this into
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an assembly line cosmetic procedure almost now. There was a
study done not that long ago by the American Journal
of Sports Medicine where I always go to get my
sporting news. You should too as well. The American Journal
of Sports Medicine had said at this is recently here
that the success rate of big league players all encompassing
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all big league players who have the Tommy John procedure
is eighty percent, and that sounds very good, but that
means there's a twenty percent chance, a one in five
chance that some thing goes sideways, that it doesn't work out.
I remember there was a player of the Mets, catcher
for the Mets, Todd Hunley, and he had a medical
procedure where they said everything would be all right, and
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he was never able to play catcher again, couldn't throw,
they messed up his arm. That he was one of
the twenty percent that it didn't go well for all right,
final thoughts, So let's circle back now to Dustin May.
It's a May day a Dodger Stadium and him being
gone obviously bittersweet. However, if you take a snapshot look
at the Dodgers, they have bigger issues. They've been erratic
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to start the season. Things continue to change. It's like
a greyhound bus terminal with the comings and the goings there.
It's a very fluid situation. The Dodgers roster, the offense
has been poor at times. Some of the key players
haven't really gotten going, and it's odd because at the
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beginning of the season, the very first part of April,
the Dodgers were driving on the Auto bonn and and
now they've popped the tire and they're waiting for a
tow truck to help them get that tire fixed. They
got to take it back to the shop. But I
look at this, the Dodgers are gonna be fine. No excuses.
Next man up. I know some are saying, well, the
Giants are playing well. I only the Giants are legit.
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It's a two horse race, Dodgers and Padres. Dodgers have
to call in reinforcements. And I said six on the
Mallar scale of panic, because that sour push David Price,
once he comes back from the hamstring problem, he's gonna
slide into that rotation. I'd be much more inclined to
go with Tony Gonsolin, who's got a shoulder issue. He's
also supposed to come back soon, back in the saddle
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again for the Dodgers. And if those guys blow, and
I think Price will, but the Dodgers, let's say they
go with Gonslin. He doesn't get the job done or
he gets hurt again, then they're gonna have to look
outside the family and get some help. But it's not
like a must must do situation. The Dodgers have you
look at their rotation and even without mister May himself
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there Dustin May. They they're loaded. And the reigning Cy
Young winner Trevor Bauer, Clayton Kershaw with his multiple Cy
Young's future Cy Young winner Walker Bueller, and the hero
from the World Series last year, and the Dodger pitching
staff Julio Urius. So they got all those guys, they're
loaded up. Now. My advice, amateur advice from the overnight
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blowhard the Dodgers. Here's what they need to do, all right,
to avoid having to pitch David Price as as often
as you once he comes back. To try to avoid that,
the move here is to take the training wheels off
Trevor Bauer. Trevor Bauer has complained a couple of times
that he wants to pitch every four days. So let
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him do it right, he wants to do it. You
have a need. It would benefit the entire pitching staff
if he can pull it off. The more he pitches,
the less you have to pitch an inferior pitcher. And
necessity is the mother of invention, and so here's an opportunity. Now,
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I don't think the Dodgers have the balls to do
it because they're afraid, oh, we're gonna get Trevor Bauer injury.
We signed him to this contract, but didn't Bauer sign
a deal is essentially a year to year contract anyway.
But if I'm the Dodgers, that's what I would do.
I upward and onward. I just pitched Trevor Bauer Moore.
That's it. But again, they got four legit starting pitchers.
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In the major leagues. Most teams don't even have more
than one or two. And so despite the fact that
Dustin May's away and is going to be gone, I'm
only a little bit over mild angst on the Mather
scale of panic. As I said, the main concern I
have is is David David Price. All right, it's the
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Normally teams wait about forty sixty games into the season
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to just Josh for letting us know a Magic Johnson
still providing tremendous basketball commentary. Do you see what Magic did? Eddie?
Did you tweet something dumb? Yes, it goes without saying, right,
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Magic Johnson very excited by the Lakers win over the Nuggets.
He said Anthony Davis was huge tonight without Lebron and
Dennis Shrewder scoring twenty five points and the Lakers, big
win over the Jazz. No, all the flyover states, you know,
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Colorado and Utah. When you're mad J Johnson, it's all
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It's all the same. Come on now. That is outstanding
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join the fun. As we reset our board. Let's say
hello to David in Southern California in West Covina, hard
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at work. Hello David, Yes, then I just can I
ask Eddie a quick question? No? Sure, David, what's on
your mind? Oh? I guess you can't. I didn't know.
I didn't want to answer this week? Did he get
his temper shot this week? You guys are a threatening
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to sue each other. I'm bluady. I'm glad you brought
that up, David, because Eddie he lied. He lied on
the radio. It's an FCC violation, he claimed, erroneous. If
that's an FCC violation, then you should be in jail
right now. Eddie claimed that I paid money for an
audio piece of audio that we played. I paid no
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money for that audio. There was no money that came
out of my wall. I have copwebs to prove it.
I don't know where it came from. It doesn't matter.
Play the audio, David, Let's play it right now. Come on, Ripperto,
play the audio for David. Betty the Bopper in the
on deck circle right now? A half of the first
did Betty the Bopper Buddy Ball the battering stop number
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one in your hearts and minds and in the air everywhere?
Be Yeah, how about that? David? Was that a birthday present? David?
Are you not impressed? David? Come on, David, are you
not impresent? It might have been a birthday present? Guys,
maybe his wife paid for it. My wife doesn't pie
me birthday present side. I don't blame her. I don't
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blame her either, Yes, David, that's how badly he didn't
want to hear that crap again. Yeah right, listen, it's
a great SoundBite. It really sums up the power, you know,
Dodgers Stadium, the hallow, the haul that did not have
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sort of well, it did happen to do it did not?
Now that's a lie that you know you're lying. You
believe it, know that it didn't happen or did happen
to no idea? How do you know? Are you an expert?
The guys, the guys on was a cameo and somebody
paid for that for you. But you said I paid
for it. And now you were tracting your state. Now
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you're you're attracting the statement, so you're you're attracting the
stating example, he did pay for it, Then what's that
you're payin. You don't know. Nobody's said they paid for it,
so nobody came the price point. Okay, and you're accusing
me a paper I tried to cast off. If you
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are apopper, Betty the popper, and now leading off the
dodger half of the first Dinny Betty the bopper, muddy Baller,
the nattering nay bo negativity, that's short stop number one
in your hearts and minds and in the air everywhere.
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Ben Mallard, all right, everyone calmed down, you guys, I
just jerk yourself away, just expose as a liar. He's retreating.
He's like the French soldier, the trope of the French soldier.
He's walking, You're the world heavyweight champion of liars. He's
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raising the white flag right now. I will give you
that title. Accuse me of lying and he's you know,
you all lying. It reminds me of when I had
a producer, Burgie who we accused. I'd accused him of
cheating who and he denied that he was doing it
while he then immediately afterwards, Eddie, he forgot the talk back.
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He confused to talk back with the mike and he
thought he was in talk back feeding an answer to
Karen Kay, who I was working with at the time,
and it was on the air. It was on the
live air as helmet man would say, well, that is
a boy. We whole helmet man is okay by that.
I know it's been a while, but remember that is
definitely an amateur move. But I mean that's you know,
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you gotta fight fire with fire with you. I mean, well,
you've been caught cheating also, how is that? Yes? Several
times how that bo as a cheat? Do I feel explain? Yes,
times you were cheating, used the illegal clues and you
were allowed to get away with it. Because the judges
are in the tank for you. Oh my god, let's go,
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come on, I'm i gotta take calls, Eddie. Let's go
to Tito in Hawaii. If you mayn't say that, dumb drop,
we have plenty of time for calls. Hello, Tito, what's
going on? Hey man? Not much, man, Ben Maller, Man,
I really enjoy your show. Hellohu island? What island are
you on? Tito? Man? That's the big one. That's the
big city right there. You're in the big city. That's
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the one. Baby, Take it in, Take it in. You
gotta go chill out on the North Shore. Man. Hey man,
I'm like in the I'm right next to I'm in
White h White Peel, right right next to Pearl Harbor.
Oh cool, nice. Yeah, I'm chilling, you know what I'm saying.
I've been to Pearl Harbor before. I was there, when
I was in Benifi Howire a few times. But special,
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special place, a lot of heavy memories. There's what's on
your mind though, Tito? Hey man, it's Tino, but Tino.
Well you know what on my screen it says Tito,
but Tino not Tito. Yeah, Well you say Tito. I say, Tino,
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the whole world goes around racist. Yeah, so I really
enjoy I really enjoy your show. You are you keep
me occupied while I'm working. Well, thank you and Tino.
Let me point out, Tino, now, just for those of
you that are listening on the East coast, where right
now it is almost four thirty in the morning, what
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time is it in Oahu right now as you are
working there, Tino? What time is it? A ten thirty ten? See?
Look at that. We are doing a nighttime show in Hawaii.
That's beautiful. And see next hours our big morning drive hour.
But it's still not even going to be midnight in Hawaii.
How great is that? Beautiful? It feels great, man. The
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one thing I didn't want to talk about is I
really really feel bad about Dustin May, Like, no, it sucks,
it's it's yeah, yeah, yeah, he's he'll he'll likely be
able to come back, but yeah, he'll be back. He'll
be back. Well, you know, they could screw up the
operation and he never comes back, but he'll be he'll
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be all right. You know, the guy was shoving them
this year. He was shoving things down players throat. That's
that's kind of the one thing I saw. I was like,
always like watching him and I was like, hey, he
is like literally throwing a two steamer. Just yeah, I
have been concerned though, the build of those really skinny pictures. Yes,
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those guys always kind of scare the hell out of
me because they got like I want to feed him
a cheeseburger or something like fatten him up a little
bit because they're so they're so lean. You think Chris
Sale with the Red Sox, he's had some arm problems recently.
I remember previous generations has always been that tall, lengthy
string being guy that's had had some issues. All right, Well, Tina,
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I'm glad you found the show man, and we'll be
here not all night long for you. I guess we'll
lead you up to the midnight hour or the witching
hour there. Hey, I appreciate you, man. You always keep
me entertained. What about that guy from a Nosota that
guys really funny? Hell? Hey, oh hey, is he the
guy that washed his bodies? Yeah? Who? Yeah? Heyes? You
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like that guy. Yeah, he's a fan favorite. Well he
only called I guess no one died at his mortuary
or whatever because or I guess he works with the city.
I don't know who he works for, but he works
either for the mortuary or the city, and he only
calls us up when he has to go in and
clean bodies. So I guess nobody died. That's good news.
Nobody died. We haven't heard from Hayes so but thank you, Tino.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Hey,
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keep Amazon so do I. My wife uses it quite
a bit. Yeah, that will be the exclusive home of
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Thursday night football in twenty twenty two. That is one
year earlier than planned. So if you want to watch
some Thursday night football action, you will have to You
will have to have Amazon Pride. This year it will
be on Fox, but this will be the better watch.
Well still, I'm still hearing from my TV friends who
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are better people because they're on television. The rumor that
NBC KOs Al Michaels and Chris Consworth. This is their
final year. They wrap it up with the Super Bowl
in La La Land, and then they they shuffle over
to Amazon. I don't buy it though, because I know,
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I know NBC has got Tariko and Breede to replace
Michaels and Consworth. But remember when ESPN try to hire
al Michaels and they had a deal. He didn't want
to go to cable television. He's so old school he
wants to be on regular over the year television. So
why would al Michaels want to call football games when
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it's not even on cable television. Maybe he goes back
to uh Monday night football. Mm, that's good, there you go.
That job will be open up that they've got a
placeholder there. Yeah, there you go. So we've solved the
So Michaels goes the ESPN does Monday Night football and
then Ben Maller and Eddie Garcia call the games on
Amazon Prime. Perfectly done. Come on. Roberto could be the
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you know, on field reporter. Yeah, we'd have to miss
a few Thursday shows, but that would be fine, right
Thursday into Friday shows, but we'd be good to go.
Coop would be our studio analyst. Yeah, Coop would be
the halftime host, and Robert would be the sideline reporter.
He'd be the eye candy on the sidelines right there now?
Would would I be the play by play guy and
you would be the color I'd be the play by
play game. Okay, that's fine. I like both of those. Yeah,
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all right, awesome, mark tape on that. All right, thank you,
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get this old guy on thin ice we taken out
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of Chicago, and we are hearing now that Tony of
Varussa back in the dugout again, the old skipper of
the Chicago White Sox, Tony Arussa under siege his in
game strategical strategical decisions, which is the bread and butter
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of LaRussa. Right. Anyone that loves LaRussa will tell you
that he is the greatest exes and O's in game manager,
juggling pitching staffs and all that. But things are not
going as planned for the Chicago White Sox. And the
White Sox do have a winning record. They're three games
over five hundred, and when you look at the American League,
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one of the metrics that you look at, one of
the variables you look at is run differential to determine
how good your team is doing, and the White Sox
are second in run differential in the American League. At
this particular moment, they're trailing the Kansas City Royals by
a game in the division. But Tony LaRussa being put
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on blast because of some decisions that the suppose, if
you believe the reporting there in the White Sox clubhouse,
they are not happy a couple of decisions LaRussa made
in a game last week, and the decision to leave
his ace Lucas Giolito in during the seventh inning, and
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also a couple of other moves LaRussa made. So keep
an eye that I think there is zero chance the
LaRussa is going to be in danger of being fired
the guy that owns the White Sox. If you're gonna
get rid of LaRusso you would have gotten rid of
him when that Duy story came out right after LaRussa
was hired, when you could have canceled them and said
(29:55):
that's it, We're not gonna hire the guy. But that's
the hand picked guy. If you look at White Sox ownership,
that's that's the one that got away Tony laruss when
he managed the White Sox originally and Jerry Reinsdorf the owner.
He has said many times that the decision he regretted
the most was letting LaRussa go, and that was when
Hawk Harrelson was calling the shots back back in the day.
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What's going on? TJ? What's going on? Mister Maller there
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the old Minion state. All right, what you got going
on there in Virginia? What do you TJ man? What's
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that rain? Just rain? You're not working? You have no job,
You just have rain. Okay, I just sit around, mister mallars, respect.
All right, hold on a sec, TJ. And we have
a regional matchup because not far away from where TJ is,
we go over to the state of Maryland and we
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say hello to Jeff. What's going on? Jeff? All right,
big Ben? How you doing this? If I was any better,
I'd be TJ. But no I wouldn't because it's raining there,
and he sounds unhappy. It'll get better. The rain always stops.
And the sun comes out. It's a fair point. I
have heard that that does happen. The sun will come
out tomorrow. Tomorrow. You saw Anny too, Cooper. I was
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forced to when I was in elementary school. They took
us to see Annie. Woh yeah, yeah. How to say?
Yesterday was a horrible day for me? Ben? Why is
that what happened? Jeff? They had soccer on in your place?
On serious radio in my area. Heads are going heads
are gonna roll, Jeff, heads are gonna roll. How dare
then put the the what is it, the most popular
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sport in the world on that channel? How dare them
to my first stop and your show gets there? So
it was really bored yesterday? I'm sorry, Jeff. Well, you
need the backup option we have. There's plenty of ways
you can stream the show. I know it. You might
eat up some of your your phone issues there. But
we have the iHeart radio app, and there's plenty of
(32:37):
other apps you can hear the show. We're not supposed
to promote those because we work at Fox and iHeart
and all that. All right, Jeff, hold on a second,
you're gonna play back to t J TJ. Who would
you like to partner up with on the show. You
can play with me Ben Eddie, Roberto or Coop Dalup.
Give me the Mexican all right, that's one that I
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would be Edie Eddie Eddie all right, Okay, Jeff yeah,
Jeff yeah, I'm gonna go with you man, all right.
It's a good job by you, Jeff. I will not
force you to listen to soccer alright. Alright, gentlemen, this
is Mallard's Mountain of Money. James Brown addition, he would
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have been eighty eight years old yesterday, King of soul.
That's right. Uh. The categories are Papa's got a brand
new bag, cold sweat, get up off of that thing,
and I got ants in my pants? Uh tj you
were on first? Which category would you like that thing?
All right? And Jeff you were you were up next?
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Which category? Papa got a brand new bag? All right,
it's got a brand new bag. All right. Everyone's staying,
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think is playing with Eddie and I I Ben and
matched up with our buddy Jeff there who drives around
the state of Maryland. And so that is the matchup.
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Let's get the game started here, Cooper Loop, you want
to set everything up? Yes, TJ is up first. The
category that you have with Eddie is get up off
of that thing. You're gonna have four five seconds. We
need the first and last name of the athletes, UH
for this category. These athletes are all considered lazy. Forty
five seconds on the clock. Ready begin NBA. Former NBA
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star the Desel he won titles with Kobe, but they feuded.
He's now on Yeah. What's the yes uh infielder, third baseman, shortstop,
slugger first for the Orioles. He went to the Dodgers.
He's now on the padres uh. Former Broncos quarterback, also
with the Bears. He always had a sour look on
his face. Yes uh. Slugger from the Dominican Republic for
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the Red Sox. He later went to the Dodgers. He
was very yes um baseball shortstop from the Dominican Republic.
He was a Rookie of the Year and he won
a batting title with the Marlins. Later went with the
Dodgers and the Red Sox. Alright, alright, let's press on
that one. All right, let's not get anymore right, Okay,
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you're done. Eddie was Hanley Ramirez. Yes, Hanley Ramirez as
a hard one. That's eight points player. He didn't get
all right, move on it. Uh. Moving over to Jeff
and Ben. Here we go your category. As Papa's got
a brand new bag, big money big money, big money.
These athletes, these athletes switched sports. Forty five seconds on
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the clock, begin all right, his airness for the Bulls. Yes,
he played for the Denver Broncos and then went to
play for the Mets. He's trying to come back with Jacksonville. Yes,
tight end for the old San Diego slash la charges.
He just retired a couple of years ago. Oh yeah,
you're right, all right, past guard for the Celtics in
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the eighties, he's now the GM in Boston. White guy
at a BYU. Alright, greatest coach in Chicago Bears history.
The practice facilities named after him. No before Mike, did
you all right? How about a no A wrestler He
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turned Viking defensive line pro wrestler for Vince mcmah. Oh wow,
you got you got thirty points there, Antonio gates him A. Yeah,
not a household named And George hallis the George Hallis
who's Some would say it's more important than Vince Lombardi.
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George Hallis, that's true. Founded the Bears. Uh, you guys
are behind place. You guys are behind Jeff and Ben.
So you need you need to go. You need to
go as well. Uh, cold sweat, Jeff, or I got
anton my pants? All right, these that's kind of what
you had, isn't it, Jeff, You had a cold sweat.
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These athletes are all considered chokers. Forty five seconds begin,
all right, greatest quarterback in Dolphin history. That's correct. Guard
for the Clippers, currently on the Phoenix Uns point guard,
one of the great point guards of this era. Alright,
pass quarterback for the Buffalo Bills when they kept getting
to the Super Bowl and losing in the nineties. Yes, uh,
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coach of the forty nine ers, his dad coach the
Broncos and the Redskins. No, it's yes, all right. Uh,
guard for the Spurs. You used to play for Toronto Raptors,
was traded for Kawhi Leonard. All right, guy outfielder for
the Yankees, killed the bird in Toronto. Play with the Angels,
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Hall of Famer, play all right? Uh you missed? All right?
What's that sound? You missed? Chris Paul for twenty points? Uh,
Demard de Rosen for sixty and then Dave Winfield was
that last one? But you are leading, Jeff at four
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quarter off? I gotta answer my pants. These have sts, alright,
go Hall of Fame point guard, Eighties Showtime laker is
hiv O. Yes, I went to prison for dog fighting.
NFL quarterback Michael Vick Yes, uh. A Hall of Fame
second baseman, Blue Jays Orioles. He was best known for
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spitting in the face of an umpire. Uh no Latino guy,
all right, I don't. NBA player from Europe. They call
him the Unicorn. He came on with the Knicks, He's
now with the Mavericks. Won. TI goes to the gun
that was in the league first we went, Oh my god,
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shut up.
Hello and welcome. It's our number three, our number three
of the Maller Radio program, Panic at the Disco. How
much trouble are the boys in Blue? The defending champions
of professional Baseball, the d O, D G E R
S Dodgers in without picture Dustin May He's out for
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the rest of the twenty twenty one season, likely half
of the twenty twenty two season with the dreaded Tommy
John surgery. We pull out the Maller scale of panic
for the defending champs of Baseball's coming your way right
now in our number three May Day may Day. Maybe
what's going on in Dodger Land? Well? Come, in the
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beginning of another hour of the Ben Mallers Show. We
are in the air everywhere as we blow hot air,
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your ear drums, providing marginal sports talk radio all night
long here the Fox Sports Radio Studios. I hope all
as well. Our lead this hour comes from Major League
Baseball Mayday may Day, the International Radio to stress signal.
We know that, right, You knew that right? Well? The
Dodgers having some issues right now. They did not play
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on Monday, but they did make some news. And have
they been KOed? Well, one of their top young pitchers
has been KOed for the season. You did not see this,
maybe you missed it. We have learned now that Dustin May,
a man that throws straight gas. Dustin May is going
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to undergo Tommy John surgery on his right elbow in
wrap some bench as he is down for the count.
Dust and May, will he ever be the same again?
He was injured delivering a pitch against the brew crew
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over the weekend and he is going to be out
at least until the start of twenty twenty two, but
most likely the All Star break of next season. It's
how long Dustin May will be persona non grata with
the Dodgers. So let us discuss the question and we'll
keep it very simple here. I am very neutral, as
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you know, I do not show my colors at all,
no emotion. So on the Mather scale of panic, and
we look at how much trouble the Dodgers are in
without Dustin May for the balance of the twenty twenty
one season. On the Mather scale of panic one to ten,
with ten being you are about to be electrocuted. You're
being tied into the electric chair. I am at a
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six for the Dodgers. I'm only at a six without
Dustin May. I've got Hunter S. Thompson, mad scientist and mother,
and we will connect all of this together like legos
and see what we can make. Now, first of all,
my main concern without Dustin May in the rotation is
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that means an increase and uptick of David Price, who
I do not like. I'm not a fan of Sam
I am, I am not, but Dustin May. This is
a knuckles sandwich right to the schnazzola of Dave Roberts
and the Dodgers. Now. May is a young guy who
had been a beacon of hope that he was going
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once they finally get rid of Clayton Kershaw, and he's
in the last year of his contract that Dustin May,
along with Walker Bueller and the others, will be able
to ascend and you won't even miss a beat. Twenty
three years old. The guy's built like a string bean,
and he's got this electric arm ninety eight mile an hour.
Pitch after pitch after pitch after pitch after pitch, right
(04:01):
up the Yin Yang from Dustin May and whailah, just
like that, his arm so electric that it blew a fuse,
the electric arm of Dustin May. And so the Dodgers
I'm at as six, as I said on the Mallar
scale of panic. A lot of that has to do
with the uptick of David Price, which I do not like.
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But it's like the old quote, as far as Dustin
May is concerned, there's an old quote from Hunter S. Thompson.
Of course he's dead, so they're all old. But the
quote about Hunter S. Thompson you can't miss what you
never had. And while it is true that Dustin May
has pitched in parts of the last couple of seasons
for the Dodgers, it's mostly been as a giant tease, right.
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He is not yet a foundational piece of the Dodger
pitching staff. And you look at the numbers and May
he made ten starts, which, considering it was a sixty
game season in twenty twenties, a fair amount a fair
amount of the workload. In twenty twenty he pitched in
thirty one games total, since he came up late in
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twenty nineteen. So the point is that while he's supposed
to be good, and certainly when he's pitched, he's done
pretty well. Dust In May, he hasn't been the bull, right,
hasn't been the workhorse in the Dodger rotation. Now, secondly,
the part of the story which does give me pause
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here when you talk about the micro and the macro.
For the micro, the Dodgers will be all right. Macro
is a little different. The success rate of Tommy John
surgery is pretty good. That's pretty good. We hear this
a lot. It's a term that's used quite a bit
about mostly pitchers, but very few people actually stopped to
think about what actually it means. It's a very benign term,
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Tommy John surgery. It doesn't sound that bad. It's named
after a pitcher for the Dodgers and the Yankees, but
it's not for the squeamish of heart, right, And if
you look at Tommy John surgery, it is straight out
of the mad scientist laboratory. And if you're unfamiliar with
what it actually implies, here, what what goes into Tommy
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John surgery? You go in, you put a hospital gowned on,
you go on the table, They roll you into the
operating room. They drug you, they put you under and
Tommy John surgery is a surgical procedure in which a
healthy tendon is extracted from say your arm, or your leg,
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or a cadaver for that matter, maybe not even your own,
maybe you know some somebody that met their demise there
and then is used to replace the torn ligament in
the arm. Now, to get that ligament back in that
is the mad Scientist laboratory. That's Frankenstein's lab right there.
The healthy tending is then threaded through the whole goals
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that were drilled into the bone right above the elbow
or below the elbow. I think, I think it's both. Actually,
it's kind of like sewing together a blanket. And the
amazing thing about this particular procedure is it is so
commonplace that we don't even really think about it because
you figure everything's gonna be okay. They've turned this into
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an assembly line cosmetic procedure almost now. There was a
study done not that long ago by the American Journal
of Sports Medicine where I always go to get my
sporting news. You should too as well. The American Journal
of Sports Medicine had said at this is recently here
that the success rate of big league players all encompassing
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all big league players who have the Tommy John procedure
is eighty percent, and that sounds very good, but that
means there's a twenty percent chance, a one in five
chance that some thing goes sideways, that it doesn't work out.
I remember there was a player of the Mets, catcher
for the Mets, Todd Hunley, and he had a medical
procedure where they said everything would be all right, and
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he was never able to play catcher again, couldn't throw,
they messed up his arm. That he was one of
the twenty percent that it didn't go well for all right,
final thoughts, So let's circle back now to Dustin May.
It's a May day a Dodger Stadium and him being
gone obviously bittersweet. However, if you take a snapshot look
at the Dodgers, they have bigger issues. They've been erratic
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to start the season. Things continue to change. It's like
a greyhound bus terminal with the comings and the goings there.
It's a very fluid situation. The Dodgers roster, the offense
has been poor at times. Some of the key players
haven't really gotten going, and it's odd because at the
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beginning of the season, the very first part of April,
the Dodgers were driving on the Auto bonn and and
now they've popped the tire and they're waiting for a
tow truck to help them get that tire fixed. They
got to take it back to the shop. But I
look at this, the Dodgers are gonna be fine. No excuses.
Next man up. I know some are saying, well, the
Giants are playing well. I only the Giants are legit.
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It's a two horse race, Dodgers and Padres. Dodgers have
to call in reinforcements. And I said six on the
Mallar scale of panic, because that sour push David Price,
once he comes back from the hamstring problem, he's gonna
slide into that rotation. I'd be much more inclined to
go with Tony Gonsolin, who's got a shoulder issue. He's
also supposed to come back soon, back in the saddle
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again for the Dodgers. And if those guys blow, and
I think Price will, but the Dodgers, let's say they
go with Gonslin. He doesn't get the job done or
he gets hurt again, then they're gonna have to look
outside the family and get some help. But it's not
like a must must do situation. The Dodgers have you
look at their rotation and even without mister May himself
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there Dustin May. They they're loaded. And the reigning Cy
Young winner Trevor Bauer, Clayton Kershaw with his multiple Cy
Young's future Cy Young winner Walker Bueller, and the hero
from the World Series last year, and the Dodger pitching
staff Julio Urius. So they got all those guys, they're
loaded up. Now. My advice, amateur advice from the overnight
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blowhard the Dodgers. Here's what they need to do, all right,
to avoid having to pitch David Price as as often
as you once he comes back. To try to avoid that,
the move here is to take the training wheels off
Trevor Bauer. Trevor Bauer has complained a couple of times
that he wants to pitch every four days. So let
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him do it right, he wants to do it. You
have a need. It would benefit the entire pitching staff
if he can pull it off. The more he pitches,
the less you have to pitch an inferior pitcher. And
necessity is the mother of invention, and so here's an opportunity. Now,
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I don't think the Dodgers have the balls to do
it because they're afraid, oh, we're gonna get Trevor Bauer injury.
We signed him to this contract, but didn't Bauer sign
a deal is essentially a year to year contract anyway.
But if I'm the Dodgers, that's what I would do.
I upward and onward. I just pitched Trevor Bauer Moore.
That's it. But again, they got four legit starting pitchers.
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In the major leagues. Most teams don't even have more
than one or two. And so despite the fact that
Dustin May's away and is going to be gone, I'm
only a little bit over mild angst on the Mather
scale of panic. As I said, the main concern I
have is is David David Price. All right, it's the
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Normally teams wait about forty sixty games into the season
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a change. They fired the great Chile Davis as their
hitting coach because Francisco then Door can't catch up to
a fastball. There's another prominent figure in baseball who's on
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away on Malar's Mounting the Money and now live from
the Fox Sports Radio studios, It's Ben Mallard. Well, thanks
to just Josh for letting us know a Magic Johnson
still providing tremendous basketball commentary. Do you see what Magic did? Eddie?
Did you tweet something dumb? Yes, it goes without saying, right,
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Magic Johnson very excited by the Lakers win over the Nuggets.
He said Anthony Davis was huge tonight without Lebron and
Dennis Shrewder scoring twenty five points and the Lakers, big
win over the Jazz. No, all the flyover states, you know,
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Colorado and Utah. When you're mad J Johnson, it's all
the same. Come on now, he's Hollywood, Magic Nuggets, Jazz.
It's all the same. Come on now. That is outstanding
the Magic Man, Missus TV show. What a great TV
show Magic Johnson had back back in the day. All right,
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join the fun. As we reset our board. Let's say
hello to David in Southern California in West Covina, hard
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at work. Hello David, Yes, then I just can I
ask Eddie a quick question? No? Sure, David, what's on
your mind? Oh? I guess you can't. I didn't know.
I didn't want to answer this week? Did he get
his temper shot this week? You guys are a threatening
(16:07):
to sue each other. I'm bluady. I'm glad you brought
that up, David, because Eddie he lied. He lied on
the radio. It's an FCC violation, he claimed, erroneous. If
that's an FCC violation, then you should be in jail
right now. Eddie claimed that I paid money for an
audio piece of audio that we played. I paid no
(16:29):
money for that audio. There was no money that came
out of my wall. I have copwebs to prove it.
I don't know where it came from. It doesn't matter.
Play the audio, David, Let's play it right now. Come on, Ripperto,
play the audio for David. Betty the Bopper in the
on deck circle right now? A half of the first
did Betty the Bopper Buddy Ball the battering stop number
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one in your hearts and minds and in the air everywhere?
Be Yeah, how about that? David? Was that a birthday present? David?
Are you not impressed? David? Come on, David, are you
not impresent? It might have been a birthday present? Guys,
maybe his wife paid for it. My wife doesn't pie
me birthday present side. I don't blame her. I don't
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blame her either, Yes, David, that's how badly he didn't
want to hear that crap again. Yeah right, listen, it's
a great SoundBite. It really sums up the power, you know,
Dodgers Stadium, the hallow, the haul that did not have
(17:38):
sort of well, it did happen to do it did not?
Now that's a lie that you know you're lying. You
believe it, know that it didn't happen or did happen
to no idea? How do you know? Are you an expert?
The guys, the guys on was a cameo and somebody
paid for that for you. But you said I paid
for it. And now you were tracting your state. Now
(18:00):
you're you're attracting the statement, so you're you're attracting the
stating example, he did pay for it, Then what's that
you're payin. You don't know. Nobody's said they paid for it,
so nobody came the price point. Okay, and you're accusing
me a paper I tried to cast off. If you
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are apopper, Betty the popper, and now leading off the
dodger half of the first Dinny Betty the bopper, muddy Baller,
the nattering nay bo negativity, that's short stop number one
in your hearts and minds and in the air everywhere.
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Ben Mallard, all right, everyone calmed down, you guys, I
just jerk yourself away, just expose as a liar. He's retreating.
He's like the French soldier, the trope of the French soldier.
He's walking, You're the world heavyweight champion of liars. He's
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raising the white flag right now. I will give you
that title. Accuse me of lying and he's you know,
you all lying. It reminds me of when I had
a producer, Burgie who we accused. I'd accused him of
cheating who and he denied that he was doing it
while he then immediately afterwards, Eddie, he forgot the talk back.
(19:32):
He confused to talk back with the mike and he
thought he was in talk back feeding an answer to
Karen Kay, who I was working with at the time,
and it was on the air. It was on the
live air as helmet man would say, well, that is
a boy. We whole helmet man is okay by that.
I know it's been a while, but remember that is
definitely an amateur move. But I mean that's you know,
(19:52):
you gotta fight fire with fire with you. I mean, well,
you've been caught cheating also, how is that? Yes? Several
times how that bo as a cheat? Do I feel explain? Yes,
times you were cheating, used the illegal clues and you
were allowed to get away with it. Because the judges
are in the tank for you. Oh my god, let's go,
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come on, I'm i gotta take calls, Eddie. Let's go
to Tito in Hawaii. If you mayn't say that, dumb drop,
we have plenty of time for calls. Hello, Tito, what's
going on? Hey man? Not much, man, Ben Maller, Man,
I really enjoy your show. Hellohu island? What island are
you on? Tito? Man? That's the big one. That's the
big city right there. You're in the big city. That's
(20:36):
the one. Baby, Take it in, Take it in. You
gotta go chill out on the North Shore. Man. Hey man,
I'm like in the I'm right next to I'm in
White h White Peel, right right next to Pearl Harbor.
Oh cool, nice. Yeah, I'm chilling, you know what I'm saying.
I've been to Pearl Harbor before. I was there, when
I was in Benifi Howire a few times. But special,
(21:00):
special place, a lot of heavy memories. There's what's on
your mind though, Tito? Hey man, it's Tino, but Tino.
Well you know what on my screen it says Tito,
but Tino not Tito. Yeah, Well you say Tito. I say, Tino,
(21:21):
the whole world goes around racist. Yeah, so I really
enjoy I really enjoy your show. You are you keep
me occupied while I'm working. Well, thank you and Tino.
Let me point out, Tino, now, just for those of
you that are listening on the East coast, where right
now it is almost four thirty in the morning, what
(21:43):
time is it in Oahu right now as you are
working there, Tino? What time is it? A ten thirty ten? See?
Look at that. We are doing a nighttime show in Hawaii.
That's beautiful. And see next hours our big morning drive hour.
But it's still not even going to be midnight in Hawaii.
How great is that? Beautiful? It feels great, man. The
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one thing I didn't want to talk about is I
really really feel bad about Dustin May, Like, no, it sucks,
it's it's yeah, yeah, yeah, he's he'll he'll likely be
able to come back, but yeah, he'll be back. He'll
be back. Well, you know, they could screw up the
operation and he never comes back, but he'll be he'll
(22:29):
be all right. You know, the guy was shoving them
this year. He was shoving things down players throat. That's
that's kind of the one thing I saw. I was like,
always like watching him and I was like, hey, he
is like literally throwing a two steamer. Just yeah, I
have been concerned though, the build of those really skinny pictures. Yes,
(22:51):
those guys always kind of scare the hell out of
me because they got like I want to feed him
a cheeseburger or something like fatten him up a little
bit because they're so they're so lean. You think Chris
Sale with the Red Sox, he's had some arm problems recently.
I remember previous generations has always been that tall, lengthy
string being guy that's had had some issues. All right, Well, Tina,
(23:13):
I'm glad you found the show man, and we'll be
here not all night long for you. I guess we'll
lead you up to the midnight hour or the witching
hour there. Hey, I appreciate you, man. You always keep
me entertained. What about that guy from a Nosota that
guys really funny? Hell? Hey, oh hey, is he the
guy that washed his bodies? Yeah? Who? Yeah? Heyes? You
(23:36):
like that guy. Yeah, he's a fan favorite. Well he
only called I guess no one died at his mortuary
or whatever because or I guess he works with the city.
I don't know who he works for, but he works
either for the mortuary or the city, and he only
calls us up when he has to go in and
clean bodies. So I guess nobody died. That's good news.
Nobody died. We haven't heard from Hayes so but thank you, Tino.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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(23:59):
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keep Amazon so do I. My wife uses it quite
a bit. Yeah, that will be the exclusive home of
(24:42):
Thursday night football in twenty twenty two. That is one
year earlier than planned. So if you want to watch
some Thursday night football action, you will have to You
will have to have Amazon Pride. This year it will
be on Fox, but this will be the better watch.
Well still, I'm still hearing from my TV friends who
(25:05):
are better people because they're on television. The rumor that
NBC KOs Al Michaels and Chris Consworth. This is their
final year. They wrap it up with the Super Bowl
in La La Land, and then they they shuffle over
to Amazon. I don't buy it though, because I know,
(25:25):
I know NBC has got Tariko and Breede to replace
Michaels and Consworth. But remember when ESPN try to hire
al Michaels and they had a deal. He didn't want
to go to cable television. He's so old school he
wants to be on regular over the year television. So
why would al Michaels want to call football games when
(25:46):
it's not even on cable television. Maybe he goes back
to uh Monday night football. Mm, that's good, there you go.
That job will be open up that they've got a
placeholder there. Yeah, there you go. So we've solved the
So Michaels goes the ESPN does Monday Night football and
then Ben Maller and Eddie Garcia call the games on
Amazon Prime. Perfectly done. Come on. Roberto could be the
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you know, on field reporter. Yeah, we'd have to miss
a few Thursday shows, but that would be fine, right
Thursday into Friday shows, but we'd be good to go.
Coop would be our studio analyst. Yeah, Coop would be
the halftime host, and Robert would be the sideline reporter.
He'd be the eye candy on the sidelines right there now?
Would would I be the play by play guy and
you would be the color I'd be the play by
play game. Okay, that's fine. I like both of those. Yeah,
(26:31):
all right, awesome, mark tape on that. All right, thank you,
thank you for that. All right, it is the Ben
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(26:56):
the air. JD and Boston's very excited about cryptocurrency, but
I'm holding my excitement because I've been burned before on
that little game, so I'm not I'm not gonna say
I'm too excited right now, but mildly optimistic about something
I might or might not have purchased recently, which Miter
might not be doing very well right now, much to
(27:18):
the chagrine of Cooper Loop, who spat a lugie at
me and shame me and bullied me for making a
small investment which is turning out to be one of
the better investments for what well you were goofing on
me for a dogecoin cryptocurrency. That's I'm going to name
the cryptocurrency. It's it's why double since I bought it?
(27:41):
Why what did you name the currency? If you want
to give it as much? The curse of the Benbino
is very real. I did not want to jinx the
good fortune, so I will not say the name of
whatever cryptocurrency it is. But it's not bitcoin. I don't
make enough. I do overnights. I can't afford bitcoin. I
can't afford it. So all right, meanwhile, listen, we gotta
get this old guy on thin ice we taken out
(28:04):
of Chicago, and we are hearing now that Tony of
Varussa back in the dugout again, the old skipper of
the Chicago White Sox, Tony Arussa under siege his in
game strategical strategical decisions, which is the bread and butter
(28:26):
of LaRussa. Right. Anyone that loves LaRussa will tell you
that he is the greatest exes and O's in game manager,
juggling pitching staffs and all that. But things are not
going as planned for the Chicago White Sox. And the
White Sox do have a winning record. They're three games
over five hundred, and when you look at the American League,
(28:49):
one of the metrics that you look at, one of
the variables you look at is run differential to determine
how good your team is doing, and the White Sox
are second in run differential in the American League. At
this particular moment, they're trailing the Kansas City Royals by
a game in the division. But Tony LaRussa being put
(29:11):
on blast because of some decisions that the suppose, if
you believe the reporting there in the White Sox clubhouse,
they are not happy a couple of decisions LaRussa made
in a game last week, and the decision to leave
his ace Lucas Giolito in during the seventh inning, and
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also a couple of other moves LaRussa made. So keep
an eye that I think there is zero chance the
LaRussa is going to be in danger of being fired
the guy that owns the White Sox. If you're gonna
get rid of LaRusso you would have gotten rid of
him when that Duy story came out right after LaRussa
was hired, when you could have canceled them and said
(29:55):
that's it, We're not gonna hire the guy. But that's
the hand picked guy. If you look at White Sox ownership,
that's that's the one that got away Tony laruss when
he managed the White Sox originally and Jerry Reinsdorf the owner.
He has said many times that the decision he regretted
the most was letting LaRussa go, and that was when
Hawk Harrelson was calling the shots back back in the day.
(30:20):
So all right, so Ben Maller's show on Fox, Let's
see who do we have here? Any meany miny mo? Well,
why don't we introduce our contestants right now for the
game show. Here we go, hit that button right now.
Maler's mounting the money. Do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably not? All right, let's
(30:42):
do it right now. Here we go. It's Maler's mount
of money. Let's met our contestants. First of all, from
the great state of Virginia. We say hello to TJ.
What's going on? TJ? What's going on? Mister Maller there
he is, loud and proud and ready to go from
the old Minion state. All right, what you got going
on there in Virginia? What do you TJ man? What's
(31:07):
that rain? Just rain? You're not working? You have no job,
You just have rain. Okay, I just sit around, mister mallars, respect.
All right, hold on a sec, TJ. And we have
a regional matchup because not far away from where TJ is,
we go over to the state of Maryland and we
(31:29):
say hello to Jeff. What's going on? Jeff? All right,
big Ben? How you doing this? If I was any better,
I'd be TJ. But no I wouldn't because it's raining there,
and he sounds unhappy. It'll get better. The rain always stops.
And the sun comes out. It's a fair point. I
have heard that that does happen. The sun will come
out tomorrow. Tomorrow. You saw Anny too, Cooper. I was
(31:55):
forced to when I was in elementary school. They took
us to see Annie. Woh yeah, yeah. How to say?
Yesterday was a horrible day for me? Ben? Why is
that what happened? Jeff? They had soccer on in your place?
On serious radio in my area. Heads are going heads
are gonna roll, Jeff, heads are gonna roll. How dare
then put the the what is it, the most popular
(32:17):
sport in the world on that channel? How dare them
to my first stop and your show gets there? So
it was really bored yesterday? I'm sorry, Jeff. Well, you
need the backup option we have. There's plenty of ways
you can stream the show. I know it. You might
eat up some of your your phone issues there. But
we have the iHeart radio app, and there's plenty of
(32:37):
other apps you can hear the show. We're not supposed
to promote those because we work at Fox and iHeart
and all that. All right, Jeff, hold on a second,
you're gonna play back to t J TJ. Who would
you like to partner up with on the show. You
can play with me Ben Eddie, Roberto or Coop Dalup.
Give me the Mexican all right, that's one that I
(32:57):
would be Edie Eddie Eddie all right, Okay, Jeff yeah,
Jeff yeah, I'm gonna go with you man, all right.
It's a good job by you, Jeff. I will not
force you to listen to soccer alright. Alright, gentlemen, this
is Mallard's Mountain of Money. James Brown addition, he would
(33:20):
have been eighty eight years old yesterday, King of soul.
That's right. Uh. The categories are Papa's got a brand
new bag, cold sweat, get up off of that thing,
and I got ants in my pants? Uh tj you
were on first? Which category would you like that thing?
All right? And Jeff you were you were up next?
(33:43):
Which category? Papa got a brand new bag? All right,
it's got a brand new bag. All right. Everyone's staying,
stay where you are, don't hang up. Don't hang up
at all. We'll put you on hold here. We'll get
right to the game on the other side, as they say,
we'll have Mallard's amount of money. The James Brown addition,
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Ask Ben and lame Jokes and now live from the
Fox Sports Radio studios, It's Ben Maller and right to
the game we go. It's TJ in Virginia, who I
think is playing with Eddie and I I Ben and
matched up with our buddy Jeff there who drives around
the state of Maryland. And so that is the matchup.
(34:49):
Let's get the game started here, Cooper Loop, you want
to set everything up? Yes, TJ is up first. The
category that you have with Eddie is get up off
of that thing. You're gonna have four five seconds. We
need the first and last name of the athletes, UH
for this category. These athletes are all considered lazy. Forty
five seconds on the clock. Ready begin NBA. Former NBA
(35:12):
star the Desel he won titles with Kobe, but they feuded.
He's now on Yeah. What's the yes uh infielder, third baseman, shortstop,
slugger first for the Orioles. He went to the Dodgers.
He's now on the padres uh. Former Broncos quarterback, also
with the Bears. He always had a sour look on
his face. Yes uh. Slugger from the Dominican Republic for
(35:36):
the Red Sox. He later went to the Dodgers. He
was very yes um baseball shortstop from the Dominican Republic.
He was a Rookie of the Year and he won
a batting title with the Marlins. Later went with the
Dodgers and the Red Sox. Alright, alright, let's press on
that one. All right, let's not get anymore right, Okay,
(35:59):
you're done. Eddie was Hanley Ramirez. Yes, Hanley Ramirez as
a hard one. That's eight points player. He didn't get
all right, move on it. Uh. Moving over to Jeff
and Ben. Here we go your category. As Papa's got
a brand new bag, big money big money, big money.
These athletes, these athletes switched sports. Forty five seconds on
(36:23):
the clock, begin all right, his airness for the Bulls. Yes,
he played for the Denver Broncos and then went to
play for the Mets. He's trying to come back with Jacksonville. Yes,
tight end for the old San Diego slash la charges.
He just retired a couple of years ago. Oh yeah,
you're right, all right, past guard for the Celtics in
(36:46):
the eighties, he's now the GM in Boston. White guy
at a BYU. Alright, greatest coach in Chicago Bears history.
The practice facilities named after him. No before Mike, did
you all right? How about a no A wrestler He
(37:07):
turned Viking defensive line pro wrestler for Vince mcmah. Oh wow,
you got you got thirty points there, Antonio gates him A. Yeah,
not a household named And George hallis the George Hallis
who's Some would say it's more important than Vince Lombardi.
(37:28):
George Hallis, that's true. Founded the Bears. Uh, you guys
are behind place. You guys are behind Jeff and Ben.
So you need you need to go. You need to
go as well. Uh, cold sweat, Jeff, or I got
anton my pants? All right, these that's kind of what
you had, isn't it, Jeff, You had a cold sweat.
(37:48):
These athletes are all considered chokers. Forty five seconds begin,
all right, greatest quarterback in Dolphin history. That's correct. Guard
for the Clippers, currently on the Phoenix Uns point guard,
one of the great point guards of this era. Alright,
pass quarterback for the Buffalo Bills when they kept getting
to the Super Bowl and losing in the nineties. Yes, uh,
(38:13):
coach of the forty nine ers, his dad coach the
Broncos and the Redskins. No, it's yes, all right. Uh,
guard for the Spurs. You used to play for Toronto Raptors,
was traded for Kawhi Leonard. All right, guy outfielder for
the Yankees, killed the bird in Toronto. Play with the Angels,
(38:35):
Hall of Famer, play all right? Uh you missed? All right?
What's that sound? You missed? Chris Paul for twenty points? Uh,
Demard de Rosen for sixty and then Dave Winfield was
that last one? But you are leading, Jeff at four
(38:58):
quarter off? I gotta answer my pants. These have sts, alright,
go Hall of Fame point guard, Eighties Showtime laker is
hiv O. Yes, I went to prison for dog fighting.
NFL quarterback Michael Vick Yes, uh. A Hall of Fame
second baseman, Blue Jays Orioles. He was best known for
(39:19):
spitting in the face of an umpire. Uh no Latino guy,
all right, I don't. NBA player from Europe. They call
him the Unicorn. He came on with the Knicks, He's
now with the Mavericks. Won. TI goes to the gun
that was in the league first we went, Oh my god,
(39:39):
shut up.
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