05/05/2021 - Best of The Ben Maller Show

Big Ben talks about the Astros getting a cheaters welcome at Yankee Stadium, Urban Meyer discussing Tim Tebow, Maller to the Third Degree, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!

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This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
Fox Sports Radio. A Bronx uprising. Well come in the
beginning of another edition of the Ben Mallers Show. We
are in the air everywhere as we get on our soapbox,

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coast to coast, border to border and beyond. On the
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You'll listen to a marginal sports talk radio show at
a time when most people are sleeping. So our lead
this hour coming from the house that Jeter built, not
the house that Ruth built. That was the old Yankee Stadium.
They tore that down. This is the new Yankee Stadium,
which is kind of old now, because most of these stadiums,
after like ten years or whatever, they're ready to change stadius.

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But in the Bronx Yankee Stadium, that is where our
lead comes from. The rare and appropriate, rare and appropriate
Mallard monologue about baseball in May. That's right, baseball and May.
That is where Houston was visiting. Now, if you didn't
see this game, and maybe it was not on your radar,

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you missed out right, you might be saying, well, why
would I care about a Yankee Astro game. It's not
the playoffs, It's just a random Tuesday night, second month
of the season. Who cares, no, no, no. This night
was different than all other nights. It was boomtastic, is
what it was. Because the Astros returned to the scene

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of the crime for the first time since the sign
stealing scam was exposed. And while Jehan Carlos Stanton hit
a laser and the Yankees won the game seven to three,
in large part because the incompetence of Houston, the outcome
will not be remembered. Even if somehow the Astros had won,

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it wouldn't matter. The story here. The lead actor in
this particular play, the Bronx fan, like, that's your story.
Don't bury the lead, my man, don't bury the lead.
They stepped up to verbally harass the villains of baseball.
So let us discuss the question it out the report book.

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What letter grade do we give the Yankee fan for
their efforts above and beyond the call of duty to
badger the Astros. Now, I am the perfect arbitrator. I
am Switzerland, neutral as can be, nonpartisan, fair balanced, all

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of that, The Mallard report card breathes a plus plus
plus for the Yankee fan. Job well done. Bravo, bravo
to the Yankee fan. To expand on this, we have contraband,
vibration and communal and we will connect all of these

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things together. Now, First of all, this was yet another
one of those dates that we had circled on our
calendar with the Dodgers playing at the same time, although
you wouldn't know they actually played, kind of showed up
and went through the motions. They had a double header
in Chicago. I made that my second game. I had

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tunnel vision in the late evening hours there. I was
watching the game going on the Bronx. In the twenty
seventeen American League Championship Series. The Stros cheating, and they
cheated to beat the Yankees in the ALCS before breaking

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the sacred rules of the game to barely get by
the Dodgers in the World Series, and despite knowing what
pitch was coming. This is the most amazing thing about
how incompetent the ass Stros as a franchise were in
that period. They still needed to go seven games to
win both the ALCS and the World Series when they

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knew what pitch was coming. That tells you how flawed
and what a sham the twenty seventeen ass Trows turned
out to be. They were impostors. There were frauds, and
considering how few fans were allowed to socially distance and
attend the game against the Astros, it was a small

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but boisterous crowd. Less than eleven thousand souls were there
to serenade the cheating a Stros with a chorus of
boom flat and you had a patchwork quilt of crude
homemade signs with salty language intertwined together with inflatable trash

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cans for a marvelous harmony of hatred from the Yankee fan.
Now security made a futile attempt to confiscate the contraband
good luck on that. Right, That's as effective as saying
I'm gonna boil the Pacific Ocean is what I'm going
to do. Good luck on that. Now. Some of the
signs to give you an eye, do what what we're

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dealing with you? Some of them read I find your
lack of integrity disturbing and astros, here's a sign you
want to steal it? And then ef I liked cheater, cheater,
pumpkin eater. I like that. That was good. We can
go on and on. Could not have happened to a
better group of Mama Luke's. It was wonderful. Now, Secondly,

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Jose Alboove, he took the brunt of the ruthless hoodlums
in the Bronx, the cat calls and all that, and
this was chicken soup for the soul. And you cannot
find a more worthy enemy combatant than Jose al Bouve. Right,

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we believe Major League Baseball's Keystone cops investigate tours right
people investigating the cheating scandal, we believe that they did
a half ass job there and they did not properly
investigate the buzzer. Right, We're talking about a vibration situation here.
They only scratched the surface on what was going on

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with the cheating. They failed to properly look at it.
Hey check him for the buzzer, right, which al Tube
was just for the lawyers, possibly wink wink, possibly wearing right.
Doesn't look obvious when he's like, don't rip my jersey off,
you might see my buzzer. No, no, I'm sure maybe

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it was something else, very bashful all of a sudden,
Jose al tuba. But that was against the Yankees. When
he hit the home run against the roll of this
Chapman in the ALCS, Buzz buzz baby, it's like buzz
Lightyear there. Jose al Tube. Al Tube is a fraud.
I think we've all established that everything that man has accomplished,

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foe knee everything, everything, all right. That is why he
is at the top of the big board for the
bleacher creatures. And the bleacher creatures used to be you
can get into the bleachers at Yankee Stadium for a
nominal amount of money. Now you got to have a
lot dull to get in even of the bleachers at

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Yankee Stadium. But I digress. The pint size second baseman
is one of the central figures left from the twenty
seventeen scandal, the darkest scandal in the modern era of sport,
the biggest bombshell in the Internet age. And Altwove is

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also going through a super slump right now in the
last twenty four at bats. He's one for twenty four
And Dusty Baker, we got some sound for you, Dusty Baker,
who was not around in twenty seventeen, but he's there
to clean up the mess. Dusty admitted that the fans
of Yankee Stadium, well, they were heard as Warner Wolf

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would say, let's go to the audio tape. It is.
It is glorious, and it's almost like Al Tube sucks

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when he doesn't know what pitches coming. It's just a coincidence.
I'm sure. I'm sure that's all it is. Now the
Astros have to go back to the den of an
equity there and figure out how to solve this conundrum
that they certainly how Tube is facing now. Final thought here,
I gave the Yankee fan an a and I believe
it was a job well done by the New York

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Yankee fan. And I think everyone, all of us baseball
fans were Yankee fans on Tuesday, they zeroed in on
Jose Altubez. We said in Carlos, Korea, the healing powers
of raspberries, communal healing, right, some good old fashioned abrasive heckling.
You gotta love the rude, crude in lude mob raining

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down the vitriol. We played the chant f the astros
right f the ast You had the cheaters chant a
holes or ass one one thousand two, one thousand three,
one thousand holes, just like that tribal chance. We loved
tribal chance. And they kept it in bounce right. Unlike

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that incident at Yankee Stadium not that long ago, there
were no objects thrown on the field. Could job by them,
keep it verbal. You're good to go, right, if I
could touch up there where There's one thing I'm nitpicking here.
There's one thing though, if you want to nitpick that
the Yankee fans should have done. They should have equally
focused the rage on Alex boom Man and Yulee Guriale.

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Now Bregman did allow three big runs on a boo
boo at third base. There he had a throwing error
and he tossed it past the first baseman and three
runs score, there was a collision at home plate. Now,
Julie Gurrielle. He was also on the twenty seventeen Astros
and was one of the first to practice what's sweeping

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the media today Asian hate. Remember Gurrielle mocked you Darvish,
the eyes of you Darwish and the dugout during the
World Series. Clearly a racist, racist act caught on camera,
caught on Fox. Rob Manford, who wasn't driving the woke
bus back in twenty seventeen, he looked the other way.
I didn't punish Gurrielle during the twenty seventeen World Series.

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He took the cowardly path. Rob Manford, a spineless commissioner,
waited until next season to punish Gurrielle. I imagine now
if we have a player today that does a racist
act towards the Asian community, that he will be suspended immediately.
But back then Rob Manford, because pluses got played for
the ashlest gurriel Man. Now since that stumblebum commissioner Rob

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Manford granted all these slimeball Astral players full immunity. All right,
they didn't have it. They didn't have to take a vaccine.
They got immunity and refused to take that little piece
of metal away. Here we are several years removed from
the scandal becoming public now. I know part of this

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is because of the COVID Nope fans in the stands
during the regular season in twenty twenty, but still we
have seen in multiple cities fan led insurgencies and I
love it. It's great. Only punishment that the astrals are getting. Now.
The real masterpiece will be at Dodger Stadium chefez Ravine.

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That will be the kreme de la creme of all
of this, and we have that to look forward to.
But a job well done by the Yankee fan. Good
job by you. Boom boom. No, it was it was

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solid and it was great. And you can tell how
touve you know? You all these guys, Yeah, so good.
Have I ever told you I am a sucker for
rhythmic channing? Have I Have I ever told you that
that is one of my weaknesses? I could we play

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the Urban Meyer chant? Yeah? There, that's it. We should
played that a lot. We like that. That's good. Yeah, No,
I love I love the rat a tat tat, the
pitter pattern. I can't get enough of it. It's great.

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And so now we have a new toy. We have
the whole the astros play it again, Robert up. We
can add another. We have other astro chants. But yeah,
fl tuba fl tube, f val tube. That feels pretty good.

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That is solid man, that's great. Good job by the
Yankee fan. And we in the future we're gonna get
more than ten thousand, eight hundred and fifty or whatever
it was there at Yankee Stadium. We'll get even more,
which will make it more enjoyable. So we have that
to look forward to. Be sure to catch live editions
of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
eleven pm paciffect on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio

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I It is a tebowtastic kind of a day. Well
come in the beginning of another hour the Benn Mallers Show.
We are in the air everywhere as we babble coast
to coast, border to border in beyond on the vast
and powerful microphones of fs are m Monday, eating live

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from under the moonlight, camouflaged by the darkness. The Fox
Sports Radio Studio is good to have you along for
the journey into the wee hours of the morning. And
our lead this particular hour, coming from the Friendship Department
of Sports, We're gonna retrace our steps to an old

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reliable friend of the show, Tim Tebow. There were a
couple of years, about a decade plus ago, that Tim
Tebow drove the bus in these parts. Not anymore. Right now,
Tebo's a washed up failed baseball player, failed quarterback in
the pro game, and he is attempting a comeback, a

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much publicized comeback as a tight end. We talked about
this in a previous episode of the show. Are you
up to speed on the latest? Perhaps not. There have
been some new developments here and that's why we are
talking about Tebow yet again. Urban Meyer doing a round
of post draft interviews and he has given a state

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of the Tebow address. Not to be confused with Joe
Biden's State of the Union. This is the state of
Tebow addressed by Urban Meyer. The Jacksonville coach making the rounds,
and Meyer will play the clip here. Meyer says that
no decision on Tim Tebow, whether he makes the roster,
gets a try out, of official invitation to join the

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team in the off season, has been made. As Warner
Wolf would say, let's go to the audio tape. You know,
years ago they would always talk about why did he
play tight end? And you know, why did he do this?
Finally do that? And Tim, you know he has never
played tight end. That's gonna be a tough goal, and
he didn't. He tried out with our tight end coach.

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And I'm on purpose removed myself from that because I
have very strong opinions about the competitive nature and tough
is But I also have made a commitment to our
owner and the people of Jacksonville. The only decisions I'm
gonna makers if you can help us won a game
that set there is nothing else involved, and that decision
has not being made to all right. So this audio

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coming from CBS Sports Network, the cable channel. That's why
you hear a little music underneath it. So in a
separate interview, we played the clip for you there. In
a separate interview, erwin Meyer repeated the company line that
Tim Tebow will get a chance if he can help
the Jags win games. So our job here, my job

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and your job I'm gonna go first is to parse
the words of the rookie NFL head coach. He's a rookie,
so let us discuss what are the odds that Tim
Tebow lands an offseason contract from Jacksonville. Now, I am
going to set the updated number in the unofficial Mallor

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Sports book. I'm going to set the odds at my
five fifty minus five fifteen. If you're not a gambler
and you're bad at math or both, that implies an
eighty five percent chance. That's how confident I am that
Tebow will get an opportunity to prove himself through the

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offseason program what there is of it in Jacksonville. He
will get the shot. Now, my thoughts, You've got inspector, Gadget,
Daily Double and Canary, and we will tie all of
these things together into a neat package and we'll fill
the time here in the small of monologue. Now, Hey,

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urban Meyer attempted to be by his standards. Bashful Urban, right,
shy Urban. Don't buy it. I don't believe it. Maybe
you do. Urban Meyer is beholden to Tim Tebow. There
is no Urban Myer with out Tim Tebow. Urban Meyer

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was a coach on the rise when he landed in Florida.
He had had success at Utah and some other stops
along the way. But the thing that locked in to
cement that Urban Meyer was one of the great coaches
of this generation of coaches. Was the time at Florida
with Tim Tebow when you had the Sinners and the

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Saints side by side, Tim Tebow, the Saint, the Sinner
Aaron Hernandez, and they were Urban Meyer players, and so Meyers,
He's thrown out all kinds of gobblebe goop right to
try to throw us off the scent. His efforts though,
to confuse us by trying to throw us off the scent,
by deceiving us not working, because on this one I

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am Benny the Bloodhound, and I am on the case.
I am sniffing this out here. And Urban Meyer he
can fool you, but he can't fool me. I was
school as a child by Inspector Gadget So go oh
gadget right. The fact that Tim Tebow was given a
tryout at age thirty three, with no football games played

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as a tight end in forever and after a failed
baseball career with the Metropolitans tells you all you need
to know. What more needs to be said. Actions speak
louder than words. Now Part B of this Urban Meyer
is attempting to distance himself from the story he's painting

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with this broad brush like he's some kind of innocent bystander. Hello,
he is the head coach. He is the tsar of
Jacksonville football. The buck stops with Urban Meyer. He would
not have taken the job if it was anywhere anything
other than that. And for him to try to position

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this story is it's not my decision. That is a
hum dinger of a tale, is what it is. Now.
You would have to be a total country bumpkin to
buy this. I hope that you're not. I'd like to
think that you're not a rube. I try not to be.
I have a theory though, on this, all right, So

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let me give you my theory and let' see if
this passes your smell test. So my theory is that
Urban Meyer is putting all of this publicly on the
shoulders of tight end coach Tyler Boen. Probably don't know
who that is. He's a rather generic coach. He's bounced
around college football, is at Penn State. He's from Maryland,

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Tyler Boonen. Why is Meyer saying, well, it's really up
to the tight end coach because he gets to hit
the daily double. Urban Meyer. By doing this, on one hand,
we know that Urban's already shown his hand by giving
the tryout. That is an indicator that Tim Tebow, in
the eyes of Urban Meyer, is still America's sweetheart and

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he's worthy of the red carpet treatment. If you are
the tye tight end coach, you've just been hired. This
is your first NFL gig as a tight end coach.
You are under the tutelage of Urban Meyer. You are
fully aware of the history of Tim Tebow and Urban Meyer.
You're aware of that. You're also aware of the fact

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that Tebow was just given an opportunity at age thirty three,
having not played football in X number of years. So
do you think that you're going to tell Urban Meyer, boy,
this guy blows. Let me tell you Urban, this guy
he should be selling shoes somewhere, shouldn't be playing tight end?
Or or is it more likely that Tyler Bow and

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the tight end coach in Jacksonville is going to give
a glowing review, not wanting to rock the boat. If
you know what I'm saying and the daily double part,
you have that, and then you also have should Tebow succeed,
Urban Meyer will take credit talk about He always believed
in Tim Tebow and had confidence in it. If Tebow

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somehow gets the opportunity, he doesn't make the team and
ends up getting hurt and goes away. If he flops,
then urban Meyer has what everyone wants in life. Plausible
deniability wasn't by decision. This guy, Tyler Bowen made the call.
It's his fault. He's the boom, not my fault. I'm
washing my hands with Tebow, I said the tight end

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coach made the decision. His fault, not my fault. All right,
last word. So, while urban Meyer is being restrained by
his standards, others in positions of power are singing like
a canary. For example, someone named Tony Khan is an
actor that has entered this play. Who is Tony Kahn.

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He is the son of Jacksonville's owner's Shot Khan, and
he is a member of the front office. He has
been given a very nice title by his daddy, Chief
Football Strategy Officer sounds very official. And Tony Khan is
spilling the beans. He's spilling being the spawn of Khan.

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Says that head coach urban Meyer thinks Tebow can help
the Jacks. That's what he said in fact quote. Obviously,
Urban knows him really well, and Tim has got a
great history of winning. Tony Kahn bloviated quote continues, Urban
really believes that he, meaning Tebow, can help us, and

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I think it makes a lot of sense. And it's
a position where we need to get better. Close quote
close quote. So that's the quote Urban didn't want to
get out. That came from the son of the owner
who's got loose lips. Loose lips sinc battleships, and Tim
Tebow is beloved. He is seen as the humble, courteous,

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respectful sporting star and he would be great. When when
the son of the owner says that Tebow would make
a lot of sense, what he's really saying is from
a business standpoint, not a football standpoint, not a football standpoint.
From a business standpoint, Tim Tebow would be perfect. You

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have the cash cow che ching, check ching, che ching,
Because even if Tebow makes the team as a blocking
tight end that plays special teams in an occasional decoy
in the passing game, it is irrelevant because Tim Tebow
is bankable. He's the cash cow and his merchandise will

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sell like hotcakes. I wouldn't be shocked. If Tim Tebow
sold more merchandise than the number one pick, Trevor Lawrence
for Jacksonville, and that makes him a profitable investment. You're
gonna have some third string tied end on your roster.
You can get some generic brand and tight end. No

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one's gonna buy their jersey or their T shirt. But
pro sports is big business. It's entertainment. It's also about
getting attention, and Tim Tebow is all of those things.
He is mister publicIt eight, mister publicIt eight, so he's
got a leg up. Is it fair? No, it's not fair.

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That's how life works. Life is not fair. Once you
cross that rubicon, you'll you'll find life more enjoyable once
you just accept the fact that Tim Tebow's gonna get
an opportunity with an offseason contract. We think there's an
eighty five percent chance from Jacksonville as opposed to some
other schmo. And if not Jacksonville, he'll find a job
somewhere else. Is because of the business side of it.

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big Ben gets great mind blowing For ratings purposes, we
have shifted Mallard to the third degree. Wow in earlier portion.
In earlier portion of the radio program, and we go
over to Kopa Loop Lucy Goosey rested and relaxed. Wow. Ben.

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Nobody was expecting the San Francisco Giants to be any
good this season, and yet here they are at first
place in the NL West, among the best records in
all of baseball. Do you think they don't have to celebrate.
There's you know, I'm just asking a question. It sounded
like you were giving a glowing review. I'm no, I
feel better not. I give him some more time here.

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I think it's a fair question. I don't. I don't
know where you're gathering any sort of biased Uh do
you think they will compete all year long? Or is
this an early season? Fluke? Well, it's been twenty games.
And I learned from the great Tommy the Sword and
Sparky Anderson that you've got to wait sixty games, right,
you gotta wait sixty games because you know you're gonna

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win sixty, you're gonna lose sixty, and then it's what
you do with the other forty games that matter. There's
a couple different versions of that. Some of them say
you win fifty, lose Fifty's what do you do with
the other sixty two? But either way, it's only been
twenty games. The indicators are pretty encouraging for the Giants.
Coming into the double header against the Rockies. They had

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the second best starting pitching in the big leagues behind
the Dodgers. That is the foundation, but that foundation is
built behind guys like Alex Wood Aaron Sanchez, Anthony Fani.
I believe so I say his name. These guys are rejects.
Who right, They've all pitched pretty well to start the year.

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The offense for the Giants was supposed to be horrible.
It's been as good as the advanced billing. So you've
got that. And then part be the reason I would
dare I say go out and let me say the
Giants can hang around. It is because the quality of
competition in the National League outside the Dodgers, who currently
suck Rocks and the Padres, the Giants shouldn't be able

(29:43):
to do very well against the Diamondbacks and the Rockies,
and they play them for almost forty games. And then
you look around. The National League got bad teams like
the Pirates, the Reds, the Cubs, teams like that to
mark anybody in the National League East, and so you
can get some wins against those teams and on divisional play,
and as long as the Giants just tread water against

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the Dodgers and Podres, then they can hang around. They're
not winning a championship, but they can certainly hang around
and be an annoyance and a nuisance for the Dodgers
and the Podres next. So after the forty nine Ers
traded up to number three in the draft to get
a quarterback, pretty much everyone's expectation was that Jimmy G
would end up back in New England. Well, now Kyle
Shanahan's telling reporters that Jimmy G is the starter right

(30:24):
now over Trey Lance. Ben, do you think that there's
any way the forty nine Ers let this be a
season of grooming Trey Lance behind Jimmy G. No, listen,
I will believe it when it happens. The smart money
still says the forty nine Ers go out and make
a side move here for some old quarterback and end
up releasing Jimmy Garoppolo. Until Garoppolo starts Game one, I

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am in the doubtful category. He's got zero guaranteed money
on his contract. If the forty nine Ers keep him,
they'll be paying him twenty five million dollars, which is
not a ton of money by NFL quarterback standards. It
would change my life for But for Garoppolo and the
forty nine Ers, they can they can figure out the
landscape there. But it seems like a pretty big price

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to pay when you you just put tray Lance out there.
I have long been an advocate of play the rookie quarterback,
get the growing pains out of the way. I say it.
With all of these young quarterbacks, tray Lance is no different.
And the second thing Garoppolo is he should be headed
to duck dynasty territory because even if he's on the team,

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Garoppolo is the biggest lame duck among all the quarterbacks
in the NFL. I guess outside Cam Newton, right, they can,
they can have dinner together. The writing is on the
wall twenty twenty one. If he's on the team, which
I'm still doubtful about, it's essentially an open audition to
try to impress other teams like say Carolina or Chicago

(31:56):
if they're young quarterbacks. Thinks that he can get an
opportunities somewhere else. All right, Next, it's a very Bay
Area heavy mallard to the third degree. Are we gonna
talk about the Warriors next? No? Well, no, not exactly?
All right? Sharks? No? No, Blake Snell? Oh, yes, bro,

(32:16):
I'm risking my life. Yes well. He took to social
media recently to express his outrage over his rating in
MLB The show twenty one that's a video game hwhere
it's a video game coop. I'm not that old. How
dare you? I played it yesterday? Did you really? No? Okay,

(32:39):
Well that was an exaggeration, Eddie, It's not a lie.
There's a different playing unless I get mine. Snell has
an eighty two overall ranking in the game. Ben, how
far off are the video gamemakers? Well, I want to
begin this by thanking you, Cooper Loop, because I would
not know that Blake Snell did this on social media

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because that Mama Luke blocked me right. He could not
handle it. He could not handle the heat from yours truly,
so I haven't seen his wittie post. I guess he
didn't like when we were calling him out last year,
calling him all the names we called him when that
during the beginning of the COVID shutdown, when he didn't

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want to play. But this sounds like a textbook cry
baby athlete to me. Boooo. The video gamemakers came up
with some totally arbitrary number and they pulled it out
of fit air. And now I'm gonna have a hissy fit,
which is on brand for Blake Snell. All right. Now,

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the other point. Blake Snell is your typical modern starting pitcher.
He struggles to make it past five innings. How can
you be considered an all time great when you can't
go more than four and a third or whatever it is?
He walks way too many batters and more a portantly.
The guys have missed a softie. Oh I'm risking my life.

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They should have gone lower than eighty two. He's lucky
he got it. He's all over a raided at eighty two. Blakes.
Now there it is Mallard to the third degree. How
did we do well? I'm torn because you gave it
a lot of time, which I enjoy. Yes, but you
all butchered the clock. But I'll give you a pass.
There it is that so we now you've played the

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fell I want, I want. We'll make it up on
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you idiot, The password the word game of the Stars.
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away we go. Let's play pass word the word game
stars a brief edition. Brief edition the Password we have.
Charlie in San Antonio? Hello, Charlie? Hey, how's it going then?
How are you doing? All right? If I was any better,
I'd be a spur, but not a San Antonio spur.
And Ronnie in Casey, what's going on? Ronnie? Hey, Bennie

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the Popper, how are you tonight? That's proper respect, Ronnie,
thank you for that. I appreciate that absolutely. Who we know,
Charlie's just a troll? What are you doing though? Ronnie?
And Casey? What do you got going on there? I
am on my way home from work at this ridiculous
hour of the night. Yeah, I hear you. What kind
of work you got going on? Oh? I'm a I'm
a product inspector for manufacturing company. I got you all right? Well,

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very good. Let's play the game. Charlie, who do you
want to partner up with? Charlie my man coup wow, alright, alright, alright,
and what about you? What do you want? Ronnie? What
do you want? Let's go Bopper all right, let's do it, Betty,
Bopper and Ryan, we're gonna get this done. Here we go.
We gotta go fast. List of words one to ten
rapid fire machine gun, Kelly style and Charlie picking number

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hurry up? Number ten? Number ten, who's that famous Mallard
manure uses? Um, let's go with insane crazy? Yeah, that
was easy, come on, picking number, go ahead, come on, Ronnie,

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all right, number five. All right, let's go. Let's see here.
I think this should be easy. Let's let's go with
up here, overpriced expensive. Look at that. That's how you

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do it. Eddie. Right there, you see what we did there.
That's great job. Go ahead, Cope, come out, Charlie. Hurry up, Charlie.
Charlie eight, So like his dad, let's go with um
hm hmmmmm, hurry up aged. Oh no, no, let's go

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with uh groan g r o w N Ronnie, No,
h cool. Let's right up. Let's try like responsible adult.
Oh no, all right, I said grown before. How about

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up mature? Yeah, I'm blin alrighty, I thought you. You
ain't never win a two glass game. I know. I
gotta murders, gotta go win by team Mallarin Rodney