May 5, 2021 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Urban Meyer's comments regarding a potential reunion with Tim Tebow in Jacksonville, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our Narmbird two, our number two
of our radio program, and this hour it's tebow Mania.
Urban Meyer, putting on his tap dance shoes, asked about
Tim Tebow's chances in Jacksonville. We parse the words of
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Urban Meyer and examine the Mallar Show odds that Tim
Tebow gets offered at least an offseason contract to prove
himself as a tight end in Jacksonville. We get to
that and more here in our number two. It is
a tebow tastic kind of a day. Well come. In
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the beginning of another hour the Ben 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 ammanating live from under the moonlight,
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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 reliable friend of the show,
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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 much publicized comeback as
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a tight end. We talked about this in a previous
episode of the show. Are you up to speed eat
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 of the Tebow address.
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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 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 team in the off season,
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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 did. He
tried out with our tight end coach, and I'm on
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remove myself from that because I have very strong opinions
about the competitive nature and how tough he 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 helpus won a game. That's it. There
is nothing else involved, and that decision has not been
made to all right. So this audio coming from CBS
Sports Network, the cable channel. That's why you hear a
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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 and your job I'm
gonna go first, is to parse the words of the
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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 Mallar Sports Book. I'm
going to set the odds at minus five fifty minus
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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 offseason program what there
is of it in Jacksonville. He will get the shot. Now,
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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, urban Meyer attempted to
be by his standards. Bashful Urban, right, shy Urban. Don't
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buy it. I don't believe it. Maybe you do. Urban
Meyer is is beholden to Tim Tebow. There is no
urban Meyer without Tim Tebow. Urban Meyer 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
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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 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 gobblee goop right to try to throw
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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 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
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child by Inspector gadget So go go gadget right. The
fact that Tim Tebow was given a tryout at age
thirty three, with no football games played as a tight
end in Forever and after a failed baseball career with
the Metropolitans tells you all you need to know. What
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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 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.
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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 this story is
it's not midas Asian. 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
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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 let me
give you my theory and let's 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.
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He's a rather generic coach. He's bounced around college football,
is at Penn State. He's from Maryland 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 has already shown his hand by giving the tryout.
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That is an indicator that Tim Tebow, in the eyes
of Urban Meyer, is still America's sweetheart and he's worthy
of the red carpet treatment. If you are the 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
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the history of Tim Tebow and Urban Meyer. You're aware
of that. You're also aware of the fact 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.
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Or is it more likely that Tyler Bowen, 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
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Tebow and had confidence in him. If Tebow 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
my decision. This guy, Tyler Bowen made the call. It's
his fault. He's the boom, not my fault. I'm washing
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my hands with Tebow, I said the tight end 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
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actor that has entered this play. Who is Tony Kahn.
He is the son of Jacksonville's owner's Shot Kahn, 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
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spilling the beans. He's spilling the being the spawn of Khan.
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 blowviated quote continues, Urban
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really believes that he, meaning Tebow can help us. And
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
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Tebow is beloved. He is seen as the humble, courteous,
respectful sporting star and he would be great. 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.
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From a business standpoint, Tim Tebow would be perfect. You
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
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in the passing game, it is irrelevant because Tim Tebow
is bankable. He's the cash cow and his merchandise will
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 investor. You're
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gonna have some third string tied end on your roster.
You can get some generic brand tight end. No 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 publicity, mister publicity, so he's got a leg up.
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Is it fair? No, it's not fair. That's how life wors.
Life is not fair. Once you cross that rubicon, 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,
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he'll find a job somewhere else. Is because of the
business side of it. All right, is the Ben Maller
Show if you would like to comment on this or
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about the cheating Astros, the Yankee fans serenading Jose Altuvee
with f Altuvee Chance raining down from the heavens over
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wonderful and the Yankees one that gives We can circle
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We're better or worse to the Ben Maller Show, and
we are talking about these beginning of this hour, Tim
Tebow and the comments made by Herb and Myer. I
think there's a minus five fifty chance eighty five percent
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that Tebow gets and at least an offseason contract. I'm
not saying he's gonna be on the team, but he's
gonna have the opportunity to prove himself and make the roster.
Let's go to the phones. Wayne in Missoo, what's going on? Wayne? Hey? Morning, Ben, Eddie,
Roberto Coop, Hey, I just want to call in and
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touch base with you for a for a couple of minutes.
Here you're opening monologue in the first hour. That was great, man,
Thank you, thank you waye. Did we did we go
downhill an hour or two? I'm sorry, did we go
downhill an hour or two? With the Tebow monologue? Oh? Man?
You know, I was just gonna say every every militia man,
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woman caller calling into the show should be again their
call with f L two bay tube bay and we'll
make that a regulation perhaps, But well, we'll see if
people listen to you a way, and we'll see how
much power you wheel from the iron throne. I don't
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wheel a whole lot of power. I'm just I'm just
a regular, a longtime listener, and try to be a
frequent caller. Uh. One other thing I served. I served
twenty two years in the Marine Corps, and uh, one
of the things I learned was navy semaphore. You know,
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the flashing of the flags and the and the lights
and in navy semaphore. And this goes this goes out
to all the New York Yankee fans. In Navy semaphore,
the letters b Z, bravo zulu means well done. So
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all you, all you Yankee fans last night, bravo zulu.
I'm gonna steal that, Wayne, I'm gonna can I steal that? Wayne?
You got it? You got say say one more, say
one more time? Wayne? What bravo? What? The letters b Z, bravo,
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zulu means a Navy simaphore well done? All right, I'm
now stealing that. Wayne. I will never give you credit,
but I am giving you credit, right, now, okay, thanks Wayne,
all right, I'm time understand. I thank myself all the time.
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All right, thank you. Buddy. Way is one of my favorites.
Wayne's been calling us for many many years, and I
like that. Be z Bravo Zulu, right you say, right, yeah,
I think so, just go with it, Robo wonderful. Let's
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go now to a woman who originally from New York.
She's a Mets fan, though not a Yankee fan, but
she's jumped on the A's bandwagon, hanging out at her
compound somewhere in the underground of Berkeley. Andrea Ali band
Who are you? Virgo in service? She has her star
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charts out right now to micro analyze. I got a
nice email from you, Andrea. Thank you for that. You
got your forecast report? I did, Yes, thank you very much.
I do appreciate that. Yes, I think I should have
written back, but I'm thanking you right now, which is
a much more public way. Perfect. Thank you. Yes, appreciate that.
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So you want to address the Yankee fans and the
Yankees and the booing of the Astros. Is that correct? Yeah?
You know, I really think obviously I am born and
bred Met fan, but being from New York. I think that,
you know, I give it was pretty epic for the
Yankee fans to boo the Astros the way they did,
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So I think, you know, they were yelling what you
thought they would yell at Altuve, and you know, I
thought that, you know, you do the crime, Andrew. For
those of you just tuning in out to the Ben
Maller Show, what exactly were the fans at Yankee Stadium
chanting towards Jose Altuve? I forget, Roberto, Can you remind
me refresh my memory here what they were chanting? Flu. Yeah,
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that's about the size of it. And like I said,
you do the crime, you do the time, that's the karma.
So I thought that they kind of brought it on themselves,
and uh, you know, I thought that it was very
appropriate in the Bronx to be doing that for the Astros.
And wow, I was wonderful. It was, as we said,
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the chicken soup for the soul. It was deserved. It
was a long time coming, and it's just the beginning.
It is just the beginning. As the redemption continues here
as the Astros still have a dated Dodger Stadium among
other places, they have not visited yet, but the Yankee
Stadium was one of the big ones, and the Yankee
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fan did not disappoint. They did not It's a great
night for Yankee fans. They've not had many great nights,
but this was a great night for Yankee fans. Yeah.
They even brought out the trash cans. Yeah, they no
whole sport. They went for it, and the security it
was funny. I was watching the Yes network feed and
the security was desperately trying to steal the contraband, you know,
the blow up trash cans. How many people there were
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only ten thousand people. It seemed like they were like
at least four thousand people went on Amazon bought a
blow up trash can and snuck it into Yankee Stadium. Yes,
said I think on Yahoo Sports. The first casualty of
the Yankees Astros game an inflatable trash can confiscated by security.
They were all over the stadium. Yeah, yeah, it was.
It was cool, and you know, it was a very
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communal thing. Andrea, it looked like I wasn't there, but
it appeared from my perspective that it really brought everyone together, men,
women and children, Republicans, Democrats, with one common goal to
demonstrate their vitriol for the Astros who knew that this
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would bring the country together. Andrea, I mean that's the
beauty of sports man. It's really magical in that way.
It's such a great unifier. And Brewing Alt Tube that
was a long time in the making. We were just
you know, Yankees fans were the Brewing reached its peak
with au Tuba. Well, it was outstanding and we will
sell a braided all night long. It was rarefied air.
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And as my friend Wayne in Missoo say, b z
bravo zulu. Yes, yes, well done. I think that's how
he said it. Yes, all right, well, very good to Andrea.
Thank you appreciate that. Virgo in service on Twitter, kind
to the Mallard militia giving us star charts and all
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the insider information. All right, So Olympic bound in NFL
player has a shot of being in the Olympics and
will actually try out for that acous you have to qualify.
We are talking about a wide receiver. But which wide receiver.
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I'll tell you from your Seattle Seahawks, Holy JJ and
Rent and Batman DK Metcalf is going to go against
the best of the best that America has to offer
in track and field and the one hundred meter dash.
The Seattle Seahawk wide receiver, part human, part cyborg, who
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is an elite athlete, certainly by football standards. He runs
like a gazelle. He's as strong as an ox six
four two hundred twenty nine pounds of muscle, and he
is going to attempt to qualify for the Olympics. About that.
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It's coming up this Sunday in southern California. The Seahawks
wide receiver is set to put his ability out there
on the track. Metcalf entered into the hundred meters at
something called the USA TF Golden Games and Distance Open.
This is at Mount Sack out in the San Gabriel
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Valley and depending on how he does according to the
us USA Track and Field and obviously if he does
well there, Metcalf, if he succeeds, in order to qualify
for the Olympics, he would need to break ten point
two seconds, while ten point oh five automatically would qualify him.
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In twenty six twenty sixteen, I think he got a
ten point one six, so he was close, but he
needs to break that in order to qualify for the Olympics.
Would he have to miss time for the seahawksidn't When
is that? The Olympics all messed up because of the
COVID thing, So I don't even know the calendar on that.
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When's that all going to take place? But we'll keep
an eye on DJ Metcalf could be an Olympic hero.
Normally it's the track and field guys that then joined
the NFL. I don't think it's usually works this way,
where you're in the NFL and then cross over into track,
and you normally see it works the other way. The
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Olympics will be starting in July, late July and in
early August, so he would have to miss training camp Eddie,
Holy crap, he would have to miss the preseason activity
for the Seattle Seahawks. And what if he pulls a
hamstring running? We can play the what if game. Oh.
I love the what if game. I like the what
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if game. I like the yah but game, yeah but
yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah yeah yeah, yea,
yeah yeah. It sounds like rabbit right, ye have it?
Ye have it? Yea. That's my tribute to a former
NFL coach. You remember which coach? Yeah? Mike Martz. That's right,
Mike Mars, coach of the Saint Louis Rams. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
but yeah, but he has so upset with the media
who kept asking him follow up questions. Yeah but yeah,
but yeah it yeah, but yeah it. Be sure to
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the Fifth Hour with Ben mallow on the iHeartRadio app,
Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast now. Of course,
the big story in sports, and probably will be for
a while, is the ongoing saga between Aaron Rodgers and
the Green Bay Packers. Yeah, it was, and Eddie, we'd
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like to learn all the affiliates down the line. We
will have the obligatory Aaron Rodgers MALLA monologue coming up
later on in the overnight. Well we count down to that.
That will be wonderful. There is another starting quarterback in
the NFL who saw his replacement drafted at the NFL Draft,
and that would be Jimmy Garoppolo and Trey Lance. Garoppolo
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speaking for the first time since the draft about his
situation in San Francisco in light of what's going on
with Aaron Rodgers, and he talked about having the future
drafted and him having to kind of deal with it.
He said, quote, nothing is going to be handed to me.
Nothing's going to be handed to anyone in this league.
You've got to go in there and work and quote.
He did say that the communication between him and the
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forty nine ers organization has been solid, particularly with GM
John Lynch, who he noted has been genuine throughout the process.
So did he also thank his Lord and Savior that
he survived till Sunday because there was some question by
Mike Kyle Shannon excuse me, Kyle Shanahan, whether or not
he would make it. Well, he can't guarantee that anyone
is going to be amazingly. Garoppolo survived. He's still a lot.
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He was still alive when Sunday came and went, Yeah,
that is correct, that's absolutely great. The salvation of Jimmy
Garoppolo and everyone else. Yes, exactly, all right, thank you
for that. Eddie. Well, I'm sure there's people that died,
but for those that didn't die, that would be most
everyone else, most everyone, Big Greg Rob from the Highways
and by Ways of the Evergreen States. Is that guy
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Tony Kahn who he referenced in the monologue to lead
this hour is a failed the wrestling promoter who had
to run back to Daddy to get another job. I
love the made up title, by the way. It reminds
me of the Lakers title Fake. The Jags are doomed,
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so he says, and Eric writes in says, I thought
it was Penny behind inspector Gadget, but it was Benny
mind blown. Well, Eric, first of all, it's the things
you learned listening in the overnight that matter most. It's
the things you learned listening here in the in the
middle of the night. Just like that amazing fun facts.
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Justin says, which media member will be the first to
bring Colin Kaepernick into the saga? If Tim Tebow signs, Oh,
I'm sure they've already happened, It's already happened. I guarantee it.
The usual race baders in the media will bring that
up one hundred percent. What about Kaepernick, a podkaper, it's
not fair? Yeah, yeah, well listen, if t Bow and
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warned pig socks, I guess he probably wouldn't be getting
an opportunity anyway. All right, let's get to it right
now here we go. It's how about that to the
third degree? This is one big Ben gets great mind
blowing for ratings purposes. We have time shifted to the
third degree. Wow. In earlier portion. In earlier portion of
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the radio program, we go over to Kopa Loop Lucy
Goosey rested and relaxed. Wow. Ben. 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 end, among the best records in all of baseball.
Do you think they don't have to celebrate? There's you know,
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I'm just asking a question. It sounded like you were
giving a glowing review. I'm no, I feel a fail
coming off. I know you better than not. I give
him some more time here. I think it's a fair question.
I don't. I don't know where you're gathering any sort
of biased Do you think they will compete all year long?
Or is this an early season? Fluke, Well, it's been
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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
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
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you win fifty, lose fifty, it's what 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
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,
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so you say his name. These guys are rejects. Who right,
They've all pitched pretty well to start the year. 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
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League outside the Dodgers, who currently suck Rocks and the Padres,
the Giants shouldn't be able 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,
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teams like that to mark anybody in the National leaguist
And so you can get some wins against those teams
in non divisional play. And as long as the Giants
just tread water against the Dodgers and Padres, 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 to number three in the
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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 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
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a side move here for some old quarterback and end
up releasing Jimmy Garoppolo. I until Garoppolo starts Game one,
I 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
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would change my life forever. 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
to pay when you just put Trey Lance out there.
I have long been an advocate of play the rookie quarterback,
get the growing pains out of the way. I say
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it with all of these young quarterbacks, Trey 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, Garoppolo is the biggest lame duck among
all the quarterbacks in the NFL. I guess outside Cam Newton, right,
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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 if they're young quarterbacks. Thinks that he can get
an opportunity somewhere else. All right, Next, it's a very
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Bay Area heavy mallard of the third degree? Are we
going to talk about the Warriors next? No? Well, no,
not exactly, all right? Sharks? No? No, Blake Snell? Oh, yes, bro,
I'm risking my life. Yes well. He took to social
media recently to express his outrage over his rating in
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MLB the show twenty one. That's a video game where
it's a video game, coop. I'm not that old. How
dare you? I played it yesterday? Did you really? No? Okay? Well,
another that was an exaggeration, Eddie. It's not a lie.
There's a different playing unless I get mine. Snell has
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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
because that Mama Luke block me right. He could not
handle it. He could not handle the heat from yours truly,
(34:55):
so I haven't seen his witty 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
want to play. But this sounds like a textbook crybaby
athlete to me. Boohoo. The video gamemakers came up with
(35:15):
some totally arbitrary number and they pulled it out a
fit air and now I'm gonna have a hissy fit,
which is on brand for Blake Snell. All right. Now,
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
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go more than four and a third or whatever it is?
He walks way too many batters and more amportantly. The
guys have missed us, Softie bro I'm risking my life.
They should have gone lower than eighty two. He's lucky,
he got it. He's all over a raided at eighty two.
Blake Snell. There it is mallard to the third degree.
How did we do well? I'm torn because you gave
(35:58):
it a lot of time, which I enjoy joy. 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 fill I want. We'll make it up on
the other side. Coom, don't worry, we'll make it up
on the other side, all right. So Russell Westbrook now
has five five triple doubles with twenty plus assists, which
(36:21):
is the most in NBA history. Magic Johnson and Blank
each had four of those games. So Russell Westbrook of
the Wizards now has five triple doubles with twenty plus assists.
Pretty good stat stuffing Russell Westbrook the most in NBA history.
Magic Johnson and Blank each recorded four of those twenty
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and the answers coming in. We have a Flint Tropics legend,
Jackie Moon guest by Rob in Vegas. Who else do
we have? Oscar Robertson from Rod the Ambassador of Akersfield,
lou Seal from mister Nice Guy, Minute Bowl tossed out
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says Alan Iverson. We're talking about practice, not a game.
Not a game. We're talking about practice. Matt the Warrior
Raider rays Fan says, Mark Price could blastom the past.
Who else do we have? Magic Christian guest by Alfie
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Wilt Chamberlain from the Mallard prop Guy. Do you have
an answer? Eddie? Sure, I'll go with John Starks John Starks?
Is it John Starks? John Starks had the single worst
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playoff performance I've ever seen, But it is not John Starks.
The correct answer from the People's Team the Clippers Rajon
Rondo playoff, Rundo, we're gonna win a championship again. Him
and Cousins back to back, both LA teams,
Hello and welcome. It's our Narmbird two, our number two
of our radio program, and this hour it's tebow Mania.
Urban Meyer, putting on his tap dance shoes, asked about
Tim Tebow's chances in Jacksonville. We parse the words of
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Urban Meyer and examine the Mallar Show odds that Tim
Tebow gets offered at least an offseason contract to prove
himself as a tight end in Jacksonville. We get to
that and more here in our number two. It is
a tebow tastic kind of a day. Well come. In
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the beginning of another hour the Ben 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 ammanating live from under the moonlight,
(01:10):
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 reliable friend of the show,
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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 much publicized comeback as
(01:52):
a tight end. We talked about this in a previous
episode of the show. Are you up to speed eat
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 of the Tebow address.
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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 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 team in the off season,
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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 did. He
tried out with our tight end coach, and I'm on
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remove myself from that because I have very strong opinions
about the competitive nature and how tough he 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 helpus won a game. That's it. There
is nothing else involved, and that decision has not been
made to all right. So this audio coming from CBS
Sports Network, the cable channel. That's why you hear a
(03:23):
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 and your job I'm
gonna go first, is to parse the words of the
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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 Mallar Sports Book. I'm
going to set the odds at minus five fifty minus
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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 offseason program what there
is of it in Jacksonville. He will get the shot. Now,
(04:30):
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, urban Meyer attempted to
be by his standards. Bashful Urban, right, shy Urban. Don't
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buy it. I don't believe it. Maybe you do. Urban
Meyer is is beholden to Tim Tebow. There is no
urban Meyer without Tim Tebow. Urban Meyer 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
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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 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 gobblee goop right to try to throw
(05:42):
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 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
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child by Inspector gadget So go go gadget right. The
fact that Tim Tebow was given a tryout at age
thirty three, with no football games played as a tight
end in Forever and after a failed baseball career with
the Metropolitans tells you all you need to know. What
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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 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.
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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 this story is
it's not midas Asian. 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
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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 let me
give you my theory and let's 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.
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He's a rather generic coach. He's bounced around college football,
is at Penn State. He's from Maryland 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 has already shown his hand by giving the tryout.
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That is an indicator that Tim Tebow, in the eyes
of Urban Meyer, is still America's sweetheart and he's worthy
of the red carpet treatment. If you are the 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
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the history of Tim Tebow and Urban Meyer. You're aware
of that. You're also aware of the fact 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.
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Or is it more likely that Tyler Bowen, 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
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Tebow and had confidence in him. If Tebow 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
my decision. This guy, Tyler Bowen made the call. It's
his fault. He's the boom, not my fault. I'm washing
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my hands with Tebow, I said the tight end 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
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actor that has entered this play. Who is Tony Kahn.
He is the son of Jacksonville's owner's Shot Kahn, 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
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spilling the beans. He's spilling the being the spawn of Khan.
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 blowviated quote continues, Urban
(10:31):
really believes that he, meaning Tebow can help us. And
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
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Tebow is beloved. He is seen as the humble, courteous,
respectful sporting star and he would be great. 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.
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From a business standpoint, Tim Tebow would be perfect. You
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
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in the passing game, it is irrelevant because Tim Tebow
is bankable. He's the cash cow and his merchandise will
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 investor. You're
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gonna have some third string tied end on your roster.
You can get some generic brand tight end. No 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 publicity, mister publicity, so he's got a leg up.
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Is it fair? No, it's not fair. That's how life wors.
Life is not fair. Once you cross that rubicon, 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,
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he'll find a job somewhere else. Is because of the
business side of it. All right, is the Ben Maller
Show if you would like to comment on this or
anything else. We had a good, spicy, hot hour talking
about the cheating Astros, the Yankee fans serenading Jose Altuvee
with f Altuvee Chance raining down from the heavens over
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Yankee Stadium, and then the Bronx is burning. It was
wonderful and the Yankees one that gives We can circle
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(13:39):
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We're better or worse to the Ben Maller Show, and
we are talking about these beginning of this hour, Tim
Tebow and the comments made by Herb and Myer. I
think there's a minus five fifty chance eighty five percent
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that Tebow gets and at least an offseason contract. I'm
not saying he's gonna be on the team, but he's
gonna have the opportunity to prove himself and make the roster.
Let's go to the phones. Wayne in Missoo, what's going on? Wayne? Hey? Morning, Ben, Eddie,
Roberto Coop, Hey, I just want to call in and
(15:32):
touch base with you for a for a couple of minutes.
Here you're opening monologue in the first hour. That was great, man,
Thank you, thank you waye. Did we did we go
downhill an hour or two? I'm sorry, did we go
downhill an hour or two? With the Tebow monologue? Oh? Man?
You know, I was just gonna say every every militia man,
(15:56):
woman caller calling into the show should be again their
call with f L two bay tube bay and we'll
make that a regulation perhaps, But well, we'll see if
people listen to you a way, and we'll see how
much power you wheel from the iron throne. I don't
(16:19):
wheel a whole lot of power. I'm just I'm just
a regular, a longtime listener, and try to be a
frequent caller. Uh. One other thing I served. I served
twenty two years in the Marine Corps, and uh, one
of the things I learned was navy semaphore. You know,
(16:44):
the flashing of the flags and the and the lights
and in navy semaphore. And this goes this goes out
to all the New York Yankee fans. In Navy semaphore,
the letters b Z, bravo zulu means well done. So
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all you, all you Yankee fans last night, bravo zulu.
I'm gonna steal that, Wayne, I'm gonna can I steal that? Wayne?
You got it? You got say say one more, say
one more time? Wayne? What bravo? What? The letters b Z, bravo,
(17:29):
zulu means a Navy simaphore well done? All right, I'm
now stealing that. Wayne. I will never give you credit,
but I am giving you credit, right, now, okay, thanks Wayne,
all right, I'm time understand. I thank myself all the time.
(17:49):
All right, thank you. Buddy. Way is one of my favorites.
Wayne's been calling us for many many years, and I
like that. Be z Bravo Zulu, right you say, right, yeah,
I think so, just go with it, Robo wonderful. Let's
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go now to a woman who originally from New York.
She's a Mets fan, though not a Yankee fan, but
she's jumped on the A's bandwagon, hanging out at her
compound somewhere in the underground of Berkeley. Andrea Ali band
Who are you? Virgo in service? She has her star
(18:37):
charts out right now to micro analyze. I got a
nice email from you, Andrea. Thank you for that. You
got your forecast report? I did, Yes, thank you very much.
I do appreciate that. Yes, I think I should have
written back, but I'm thanking you right now, which is
a much more public way. Perfect. Thank you. Yes, appreciate that.
(18:59):
So you want to address the Yankee fans and the
Yankees and the booing of the Astros. Is that correct? Yeah?
You know, I really think obviously I am born and
bred Met fan, but being from New York. I think that,
you know, I give it was pretty epic for the
Yankee fans to boo the Astros the way they did,
(19:20):
So I think, you know, they were yelling what you
thought they would yell at Altuve, and you know, I
thought that, you know, you do the crime, Andrew. For
those of you just tuning in out to the Ben
Maller Show, what exactly were the fans at Yankee Stadium
chanting towards Jose Altuve? I forget, Roberto, Can you remind
me refresh my memory here what they were chanting? Flu. Yeah,
(19:52):
that's about the size of it. And like I said,
you do the crime, you do the time, that's the karma.
So I thought that they kind of brought it on themselves,
and uh, you know, I thought that it was very
appropriate in the Bronx to be doing that for the Astros.
And wow, I was wonderful. It was, as we said,
(20:13):
the chicken soup for the soul. It was deserved. It
was a long time coming, and it's just the beginning.
It is just the beginning. As the redemption continues here
as the Astros still have a dated Dodger Stadium among
other places, they have not visited yet, but the Yankee
Stadium was one of the big ones, and the Yankee
(20:33):
fan did not disappoint. They did not It's a great
night for Yankee fans. They've not had many great nights,
but this was a great night for Yankee fans. Yeah.
They even brought out the trash cans. Yeah, they no
whole sport. They went for it, and the security it
was funny. I was watching the Yes network feed and
the security was desperately trying to steal the contraband, you know,
the blow up trash cans. How many people there were
(20:57):
only ten thousand people. It seemed like they were like
at least four thousand people went on Amazon bought a
blow up trash can and snuck it into Yankee Stadium. Yes,
said I think on Yahoo Sports. The first casualty of
the Yankees Astros game an inflatable trash can confiscated by security.
They were all over the stadium. Yeah, yeah, it was.
It was cool, and you know, it was a very
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communal thing. Andrea, it looked like I wasn't there, but
it appeared from my perspective that it really brought everyone together, men,
women and children, Republicans, Democrats, with one common goal to
demonstrate their vitriol for the Astros who knew that this
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would bring the country together. Andrea, I mean that's the
beauty of sports man. It's really magical in that way.
It's such a great unifier. And Brewing Alt Tube that
was a long time in the making. We were just
you know, Yankees fans were the Brewing reached its peak
with au Tuba. Well, it was outstanding and we will
sell a braided all night long. It was rarefied air.
(22:03):
And as my friend Wayne in Missoo say, b z
bravo zulu. Yes, yes, well done. I think that's how
he said it. Yes, all right, well, very good to Andrea.
Thank you appreciate that. Virgo in service on Twitter, kind
to the Mallard militia giving us star charts and all
(22:26):
the insider information. All right, So Olympic bound in NFL
player has a shot of being in the Olympics and
will actually try out for that acous you have to qualify.
We are talking about a wide receiver. But which wide receiver.
(22:48):
I'll tell you from your Seattle Seahawks, Holy JJ and
Rent and Batman DK Metcalf is going to go against
the best of the best that America has to offer
in track and field and the one hundred meter dash.
The Seattle Seahawk wide receiver, part human, part cyborg, who
(23:12):
is an elite athlete, certainly by football standards. He runs
like a gazelle. He's as strong as an ox six
four two hundred twenty nine pounds of muscle, and he
is going to attempt to qualify for the Olympics. About that.
(23:33):
It's coming up this Sunday in southern California. The Seahawks
wide receiver is set to put his ability out there
on the track. Metcalf entered into the hundred meters at
something called the USA TF Golden Games and Distance Open.
This is at Mount Sack out in the San Gabriel
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Valley and depending on how he does according to the
us USA Track and Field and obviously if he does
well there, Metcalf, if he succeeds, in order to qualify
for the Olympics, he would need to break ten point
two seconds, while ten point oh five automatically would qualify him.
(24:22):
In twenty six twenty sixteen, I think he got a
ten point one six, so he was close, but he
needs to break that in order to qualify for the Olympics.
Would he have to miss time for the seahawksidn't When
is that? The Olympics all messed up because of the
COVID thing, So I don't even know the calendar on that.
(24:42):
When's that all going to take place? But we'll keep
an eye on DJ Metcalf could be an Olympic hero.
Normally it's the track and field guys that then joined
the NFL. I don't think it's usually works this way,
where you're in the NFL and then cross over into track,
and you normally see it works the other way. The
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Olympics will be starting in July, late July and in
early August, so he would have to miss training camp Eddie,
Holy crap, he would have to miss the preseason activity
for the Seattle Seahawks. And what if he pulls a
hamstring running? We can play the what if game. Oh.
I love the what if game. I like the what
(25:24):
if game. I like the yah but game, yeah but
yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah yeah yeah, yea,
yeah yeah. It sounds like rabbit right, ye have it?
Ye have it? Yea. That's my tribute to a former
NFL coach. You remember which coach? Yeah? Mike Martz. That's right,
Mike Mars, coach of the Saint Louis Rams. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
but yeah, but he has so upset with the media
who kept asking him follow up questions. Yeah but yeah,
but yeah it yeah, but yeah it. Be sure to
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the Green Bay Packers. Yeah, it was, and Eddie, we'd
(26:30):
like to learn all the affiliates down the line. We
will have the obligatory Aaron Rodgers MALLA monologue coming up
later on in the overnight. Well we count down to that.
That will be wonderful. There is another starting quarterback in
the NFL who saw his replacement drafted at the NFL Draft,
and that would be Jimmy Garoppolo and Trey Lance. Garoppolo
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speaking for the first time since the draft about his
situation in San Francisco in light of what's going on
with Aaron Rodgers, and he talked about having the future
drafted and him having to kind of deal with it.
He said, quote, nothing is going to be handed to me.
Nothing's going to be handed to anyone in this league.
You've got to go in there and work and quote.
He did say that the communication between him and the
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forty nine ers organization has been solid, particularly with GM
John Lynch, who he noted has been genuine throughout the process.
So did he also thank his Lord and Savior that
he survived till Sunday because there was some question by
Mike Kyle Shannon excuse me, Kyle Shanahan, whether or not
he would make it. Well, he can't guarantee that anyone
is going to be amazingly. Garoppolo survived. He's still a lot.
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He was still alive when Sunday came and went, Yeah,
that is correct, that's absolutely great. The salvation of Jimmy
Garoppolo and everyone else. Yes, exactly, all right, thank you
for that. Eddie. Well, I'm sure there's people that died,
but for those that didn't die, that would be most
everyone else, most everyone, Big Greg Rob from the Highways
and by Ways of the Evergreen States. Is that guy
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Tony Kahn who he referenced in the monologue to lead
this hour is a failed the wrestling promoter who had
to run back to Daddy to get another job. I
love the made up title, by the way. It reminds
me of the Lakers title Fake. The Jags are doomed,
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so he says, and Eric writes in says, I thought
it was Penny behind inspector Gadget, but it was Benny
mind blown. Well, Eric, first of all, it's the things
you learned listening in the overnight that matter most. It's
the things you learned listening here in the in the
middle of the night. Just like that amazing fun facts.
(28:43):
Justin says, which media member will be the first to
bring Colin Kaepernick into the saga? If Tim Tebow signs, Oh,
I'm sure they've already happened, It's already happened. I guarantee it.
The usual race baders in the media will bring that
up one hundred percent. What about Kaepernick, a podkaper, it's
not fair? Yeah, yeah, well listen, if t Bow and
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warned pig socks, I guess he probably wouldn't be getting
an opportunity anyway. All right, let's get to it right
now here we go. It's how about that to the
third degree? This is one big Ben gets great mind
blowing for ratings purposes. We have time shifted to the
third degree. Wow. In earlier portion. In earlier portion of
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the radio program, we go over to Kopa Loop Lucy
Goosey rested and relaxed. Wow. Ben. 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 end, among the best records in all of baseball.
Do you think they don't have to celebrate? There's you know,
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I'm just asking a question. It sounded like you were
giving a glowing review. I'm no, I feel a fail
coming off. I know you better than not. I give
him some more time here. I think it's a fair question.
I don't. I don't know where you're gathering any sort
of biased Do you think they will compete all year long?
Or is this an early season? Fluke, Well, it's been
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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
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
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you win fifty, lose fifty, it's what 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
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,
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so you say his name. These guys are rejects. Who right,
They've all pitched pretty well to start the year. 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
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League outside the Dodgers, who currently suck Rocks and the Padres,
the Giants shouldn't be able 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,
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teams like that to mark anybody in the National leaguist
And so you can get some wins against those teams
in non divisional play. And as long as the Giants
just tread water against the Dodgers and Padres, 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 to number three in the
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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 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
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a side move here for some old quarterback and end
up releasing Jimmy Garoppolo. I until Garoppolo starts Game one,
I 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
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would change my life forever. 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
to pay when you just put Trey Lance out there.
I have long been an advocate of play the rookie quarterback,
get the growing pains out of the way. I say
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it with all of these young quarterbacks, Trey 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, Garoppolo is the biggest lame duck among
all the quarterbacks in the NFL. I guess outside Cam Newton, right,
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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 if they're young quarterbacks. Thinks that he can get
an opportunity somewhere else. All right, Next, it's a very
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Bay Area heavy mallard of the third degree? Are we
going to talk about the Warriors next? No? Well, no,
not exactly, all right? Sharks? No? No, Blake Snell? Oh, yes, bro,
I'm risking my life. Yes well. He took to social
media recently to express his outrage over his rating in
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MLB the show twenty one. That's a video game where
it's a video game, coop. I'm not that old. How
dare you? I played it yesterday? Did you really? No? Okay? Well,
another that was an exaggeration, Eddie. It's not a lie.
There's a different playing unless I get mine. Snell has
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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
because that Mama Luke block me right. He could not
handle it. He could not handle the heat from yours truly,
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so I haven't seen his witty 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
want to play. But this sounds like a textbook crybaby
athlete to me. Boohoo. The video gamemakers came up with
(35:15):
some totally arbitrary number and they pulled it out a
fit air and now I'm gonna have a hissy fit,
which is on brand for Blake Snell. All right. Now,
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
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go more than four and a third or whatever it is?
He walks way too many batters and more amportantly. The
guys have missed us, Softie bro I'm risking my life.
They should have gone lower than eighty two. He's lucky,
he got it. He's all over a raided at eighty two.
Blake Snell. There it is mallard to the third degree.
How did we do well? I'm torn because you gave
(35:58):
it a lot of time, which I enjoy joy. 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 fill I want. We'll make it up on
the other side. Coom, don't worry, we'll make it up
on the other side, all right. So Russell Westbrook now
has five five triple doubles with twenty plus assists, which
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is the most in NBA history. Magic Johnson and Blank
each had four of those games. So Russell Westbrook of
the Wizards now has five triple doubles with twenty plus assists.
Pretty good stat stuffing Russell Westbrook the most in NBA history.
Magic Johnson and Blank each recorded four of those twenty
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plus assists, triple doubles. Fill in the blank, the inst
trivia the answer next. Fox Sports Radio has the best
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he is manning the phones. It is Justin Cooper and
he's at you. H Bronco fan, Oh Tony and a
lie from the Fox Sports Radio studios. It's Spen Maller
(37:26):
and here's your insta trivia. Russell Westbrook now has five
triple doubles with twenty plus assist that's the most in
NBA history. Magic Johnson and Blank each recorded four of
those games. That is the question. What is the answer,
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and the answers coming in. We have a Flint Tropics legend,
Jackie Moon guest by Rob in Vegas. Who else do
we have? Oscar Robertson from Rod the Ambassador of Akersfield,
lou Seal from mister Nice Guy, Minute Bowl tossed out
by Christopher the Custodian. Thomas in the five one three
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says Alan Iverson. We're talking about practice, not a game.
Not a game. We're talking about practice. Matt the Warrior
Raider rays Fan says, Mark Price could blastom the past.
Who else do we have? Magic Christian guest by Alfie
Alien Opiner Moneyball Maller from your sports source who as
the answer? Who else do we have? And Damakan Sue
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from Justin in Cincinnati? The Big Old guests by a
Reek who's back listening to the show in Minnesota? And
Wilt Chamberlain from the Mallard prop Guy. Do you have
an answer? Eddie? Sure, I'll go with John Starks John Starks?
Is it John Starks? John Starks had the single worst
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playoff performance I've ever seen, But it is not John Starks.
The correct answer from the People's Team the Clippers Rajon
Rondo playoff, Rundo, we're gonna win a championship again. Him
and Cousins back to back, both LA teams,
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