May 6, 2021 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the NFL coming down on Ju'wan James for getting hurt while working out away from team facilities, another edition of #AskBen, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number three, our number three
of our radio program in the NFL with the golden hammer,
if you will, at the players who have decided they
do not want to participate at the team facility in
offseason workouts. It's an interesting story about how one player
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in particular is being used as an example for the
rest of NFL players. It is the golden hammer for
Roger Goodell and the NFL. We'll explain, I'll walk you
through it, I'll hold your hand, the whole deal, and
that and more. It's coming your way, including ask band
here in our number three here it is. It is
the trump card for the establishment of pro football. What
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is it though? Well come in the beginning of another
hour the Ben Maller Show. We are together in the
air everywhares we provide running commentary coast to coast, border
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microphones of fs are emmating live from deep, very very
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we're at the Fox Sports Radio studios. That's where we
were hanging out here at the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Hope all is well for you and an interesting story
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that is worthy of some conversation. Now, our lead does
come from pro football, the bad break department of life,
if you will, which one person's bad break is the
other person's a really good break, really good break. And
so I bring this up because it's a story that's
been talked about off and on. We mentioned it in
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Passing the other Day in a previous episode of the show.
But it's specifically involving the NFL's rules with injury and
how it relates to the workouts in the offseason. If
you didn't see it, and maybe you didn't, let me
give you the the truncated version. I will try not
to bore the hell out of you. But I think
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it's an interesting, interesting tale. As I said, so, the
Broncos have this offensive lineman named Juwan James. You probably
don't know who that is, because you don't know most
offensive lineman. I don't either, But Juwan James suffered a
rather large, possibly some say likely season ending injury recently
while working out at a private gym. He was not
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at Denver's team facility. He was on his own. Now
because James, the offensive lineman, sustained that particular injury while
working out on his own accord in a private location,
not an official NFL team facility. That injury while taking
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place during a workout to get ready for the upcoming
NFL season is, by the letter of the law, considered
a non football injury. Now what does that mean? What
does that mean? That means that the Broncos are off
the hook that they don't have to pay Juwan James
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is ten million dollars? Sorry, How great is that? This
is a guy most people have no idea he's even
in the NFL, and he had a ten million dollars
guaranteed salary here, but that becomes null and void because
of the fact that he was injured at a private
working Now, this is upset many high profile figures in
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the NFL, the biggest of them all Patrick Mahomes, the
golden boy of the NFL. Patrick Mahomes and other NFL
stars have voiced their displeasure. They say the Broncos should
do the right thing to a good mitzvah, pay this guy. Anyway,
We're not sure whether or not they will in the end.
There's a lot of back and forth conversation about what's
gonna happen. Now the NFL though, sent out a memo.
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We love those memos, and they made sure the memo
popped up in the media because they wanted people like
us to talk about it. And it's low hanging fruit,
which is the most delicious fruit of them all, the
nectar of the gods. And so they send this memo
out to teams reminding them of this amazing stipulation. And
they recommended that NFL teams remind their players, you know,
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the same players who are desperately trying to avoid participating
in the offseason workouts at team facilities. We might want
to remind these guys of this particular stipulation. You know,
I'm just saying, I'm just saying. All right, so let
us discuss the question, where is the NFL workout injury
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hullabaloo going? And how does this change the story? Now
my observations, you've got cold War precedent and purouet, and
we will combine all all of these things together and
we are gonna make some baba ganoosh, make the baba ganoosh.
We're gonna now nam burwa. The NFL is looking to
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put the foot down. They see an opportunity, like a
great running back. You see an opportunity. You see the
A gap, the B gap. Where do you see daylight? Boom?
A gap, boom right to the end zone. Now, at
first glance, the uneducated observer, and I'm not saying you,
I'm saying the uneducated observer would say, who cares? Why
are you doing a monologue about this? I don't don't
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even bat an eye it This story wrong. That's a
bad job by you. This is I get it. It's
some no name lineman on a mediocre Denver Bronco team,
but it's much bigger than that. I don't have to
spell it out for you. But we have the latest
chapter in what has turned out to be a cold
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war taking place that may will ever changed the NFL
offseason set up. If the players get their way. I
don't know we'll go full geo political tension, but there
is tension between the Union and the NFL. Battle lines
have been drawn, and they're using the court of public
opinion to adjudicate many of these things. The players. We
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know the story there. The Players Association wants everything to
be completely optional. Zoom zoom zoom zoom. Meetings. Show up
when you want to show up, don't show up. When
you don't want to show up, even though it's a
job the off season. Do as you please, Do as
you please. That's the mantra of the union. And while
the ruling class of the NFL is attempting to lay
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down the law, show up, do your job, and if
you don't, there is a price to pay. And that
makes this a page turning story. The second point here
Juwan James, this lineman from the Broncos who suffered the
bad break and in the process became a cautionary tale.
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I'm talking about a multi billion dollar business. The NFL
is decided, they decided to make an example out of
Juwan James, and now he's the bad example, right being
punished to the tune of ten million dollars in salary.
Humongous punishment for working out unchaperoned. Right as I say,
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you were not chaperoned by an NFL employee. Therefore this
is a non football injury. Therefore we don't have to
pay you. All done so the NFL can win around
in the ongoing Cold War squabble with the union. And
for this particular era of football players in the here
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and now, we are talking about a precedent setting moment
and you know the NFL is going to pressure the Broncos.
Don't pay. They don't pay the man he got hurt
away from the team facility can do it. Use this guy,
as we said, as an example, and you're gonna have
a number of players who will have to do some
soul surge. Is the allure of unfettered debauchery. Burning the
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candle at both ends, which we do all the time
working the third shift, but burning the candle at both
ends and hanging out at the copa cabana away from
your bosses. Is that so attractive that you are willing
to risk it all of that monopoly money. It's like
Bruce Areas right, no risk it, no biscuit, the buccanteer philosophy. Now,
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final point. So the NFL has had these rules in
place forever. They're not new. They're not new. It's never
been an issue because most players realize my job, I
gotta show up to my job, even though it's the offseason.
I get a lot of time off. I'm kind of
like a teacher. I get a lot of time off,
but I gotta show up to my job when they
want me to be there. The you negotiated the deal,
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which they are now looking to wiggle out of right
even though they've resigned the collective Bardning agreement, using Patrick
Mahomes and other high profile names in the NFL to
ratchet up the pressure in the court of public opinion
against the NFL. Do the right thing. Pay the player right,
pay the player, but he was injured away from the
team facility. I don't care pay the guy. And while
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we will take this on a case by case basis,
obviously it's different. For example, if Patrick Mahomes got injured
working out at the YMCA playing basketball, I'm gonna go
out on a limb and say that the Chiefs would
pay him anyway. But an offensive lineman on the Broncos
who no one's heard about, well, it's different. Know where
you fall on the pecking order. I think that's the
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lesson of this. If it's a non starter or a
just a fringe starter, you're you're not important enough where
they're gonna pay you. And the thing about is I
mentioned this is not new, it's precedent setting for this generation,
considering the NFL Union wants to move away from the
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traditional offseason program. But what's old is new again, and
these rules have been on the book since the nineteen seventies.
We're talking about almost forty five years. Started nineteen seventy
seven when this began. Injuries Sustained. It says that right your,
injuries sustained while a player is working out on his
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own in a location other than an NFL facility considered
non football injuries and therefore are outside the scope of
the typical skill, injury and cap guarantee. The long legal
ease continues as such injuries are not covered by the
protections found in paragraph nine of the NFL Standard player Contract,
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Meaning what it means that teams have no contractual obligation
to provide salary continuation during the year in which knee
injury was sustained. Hello, Hello, Now. The MEMMO also underscores
that injuries suffered while working out at a club facility
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or as specifically authorized by the club, give the player
significant protections, including payment, salary, medical care, pension credit. There's
whole bunch of stuff here. It goes on and on
and on which they say, well, they'll provide payments to
players in seasons following the season of a career ending injury, etc. Etc.
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So this is a common sense situation. Common sense not
that common these days. It's no different than a layman's job.
When you get hurt at work, you're covered. When you
get hurt somewhere else, you're on your own. If you're
on the clock, if you're on company time, and you're
in a company facility. That's how it works. You gotta
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read the fine print. But as my friend Rob Parker says,
this is what's known as the Golden Hammer, right, the
NFL using this hidden weapon, the Golden Hammer, and they're
doing the pirouette on the catwalk and they're like, hey,
look at us. We got it, baby, Yeah, we'll bring
it down the Golden Hammer. See that. You want to
go work out and hang out in Miami and have
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beautiful meat balls. Yeah, that's what Dick and Dayton says.
I think I don't know anyway. The guy named Zegrad sinces,
I'm not sure what I missed. I had to break
in the new shower with a forty five minute steamer.
Wow sounds dirty, Big rig Rob writes in from the
Highways and Byways of the Evergreen stad He says, well, Ben,
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this offensive line guy's situations he had another example of
how weak the nfl PA is compared to other leagues.
The owners have played these guys for fools. They should
learn from the Baseball Union. So he says, people say
that every couple of years. But the NFL's got a
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great system because the players don't stick around long enough
in football. They gotta get their money while they can
short lifespan. So you never really want to dig in
because you're the one costing money that helps out future generations.
So why would you want to do that. You're looking
out for number one yourself. Now, this fraud, this guy,
Dolphin Mike. What a total fraud Dolphin Mike is. This
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guy's been with me a long time. He claims to
be a huge Dolphin fan. Total phony. It would appear
total phony. He was upset because of something I said.
In a really great addition to the third degree of Coop,
he was kidding around Saint I Field actually passed that
everyone knows that the listener knows how I wants. JJ
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pointed out it was just Coop was triggered because I
pointed out the Lakers are done without Lebron and you
get upset by that. But anyway, Dolphin might get to
the point. Please, he says, Tua and Fitzpatrick had identical
numbers last year. You have no idea what you're talking about.
Go to Pro Football Reference and find us that the
cherry pick to prove your point, but you'll be wrong. Oh,
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I actually watch the games, you don't. I love when
guys say that because when you say that qualifier, you
then are admitting you're a fraud. By that qualifier, you're
a fraud because you don't have to announce you watch
the games. If you watch the games, So if you
say that, I totally dismiss what you say. And Dolphin Mike,
if you actually watch the games, you'd realize every time
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that to a tongue of my low completed a past
side by side with Fitzmagic. The passes, this is amazing.
They went a yard and a half further yards per
attempt for Ryan Fitzpatrick over to a tongue of Bylaw
and you're telling I mean they were identical. They had
identical numbers. So if every yard matters and every yard
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is pressures, and one guy when he throws a ball
it goes a yard and a half further, and the
other guy to a Tucker boy loa, his passes were
Fitzpatrick was around eight yards. It was seven point eight
yards per tempt. Fitz Magic was that's elite level. Let's
eight and aboves top of the top of the shelf Tah.
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Every time he threw a pass it was six point
three yards. He wasn't even average. Tua wasn't even average.
And he admitted it. And you are such a delusional, lunatic,
Dolphin Mike that you can't even realize it even to
a said it. He said he didn't play well. But
Dolphin Mike over there, lick lick, suck, suck. That's how
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you operate. Bad job by you, bad job by you.
Let's go to the phones and take some calls. Here,
who do we have. Let's say hello to any meany
miney moll. Let's go to Frank in Lost Wages, Nevada.
Hello Frank, Good morning Ben. I gotta at well. First
of all, your DJ fires out Ring of Fire. Social
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Distortion did a good remake of that, just to throw
it out there. Love, love the way he's spinning the tunes.
But Angel Hernandez the worst umpire in the history of
Major League Baseball. I don't know if you've been covering
this lately or not. I sporadically listen whenever I'm in
my car, and you know, at this odd hour, I
definitely listen to you. But I'm watching the Royals Indians series,
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and it's a great series and the Indians have came
back and won every single game so far. But between
Mike Messini and Tito Francona, they both despise this guy.
They both almost get booted every game because Angel Hernandez
is such a hack. And then he sued Major League
Baseball for discrimination, and yeah, because he doesn't you know,
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he's he's pissed because he doesn't cover postseason. Can't get
rid of him. They can't get rid of Angel Hernandez.
They're afraid to fire him. Otherwise he would have been
gone years ago. But see, I have an interesting position
on this because as a overnight gas bag here, Frank,
I need content, and I know that Angel Hernandez is
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so bad at his job that if I chose I
I debated doing a monologue about I saw the blow
up against the Royals, and you know, this guy got in.
The pitching coach got ejected, the manager gottaake, the pitcher
got ejected. It was like it was just and then
he called. Now that the thing that's odd is it's
like the umpires are kind of in the tank for
the other umpires, some of them because there was a
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hit batter for the Indians that Angel Hernandez called hit
batter said it hit his jersey. They went to the
replay and they said that the call was right. He
never hit the jersey, and they said it was They
covered for Angel Hernandez. But guys like Angel Hernandez and
Joe west is another one Country Joe, Yeah, Country Joe.
These guys are are good for busines. This in my part,
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but I do miss that the old days. Frank, I
don't know how old you are, but we used to
have big characters at umpire, I mean the umpire position.
We add these guys that were like part of the
game in the late grade, Eric Greg what was the kaiser?
I forget the guy's first name, but no, there was
one that he would bring people up. He was very
animated as he wrung them up. And I think, are
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you talking about Derwood Merrill? I think you might be
talking about I love old umpires, so I can Dutch
Rennerds another one. Yeah, you could go that, uh Larry
McSherry who died on opening day, right, and then the
other guy that John McSherry, John Larry, sorry, Larry, John McSherry.
There you go back, you know, I'm fifty seven, but hey,
I love listening to you, and uh keep it up,
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my man. All right, morning, thank you, Frank. All right,
there you go, Frank Paul RUNGI. Who is the guy?
Remember the famous George Brett Pine Tar Game McClellan or
something like that, Tim McClellin, Tim McClellan, he was around
for like fifty years. It seemed like Doug Harvey. Doug
Harvey's another one. Yeah, Doug Harvey's another one. Danny guys
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older than me, I know, hot umpire talk, tell me
this is not already. This is why we are dominating
Eric Grays only. I remember Eric Craig was left the
cheeseburger on third base for him. Yes, now, now, now,
if they did that today, you're a racist. Had a
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big smile, you know, it was all a joke. Everyone
had a good time. Now day. Oh you can't do that.
How to cancel him? Cancel them? How dare you? I
remember he said, I saw an interview with him. He's
a pretty good natured guy. But I remember one thing
he said that he hated was sometimes you would hear
from the dugout he it was not It was not
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okay with that is a line crossed that you should not.
But uh yeah, and he got the Marlins in the
World series when you're Eric Graig terribly unbelievably like it.
It was the opposite of the famous scene in The
Naked Gun that the movie The Naked Gun, where you
know you didn't want to call anything a strike. This
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everything was a strike, right, everything was a strike, and
it was it was wild all right. It's the Ban
Mallard Show on Fox. Let's say hello to Milkman Mike
in Colorado. Hello, Milkman Mike, the icon of living legend
back on the air. Hey, this part of the Big
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If you've got lember to burn, won't like the fire
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for your first about your bopper nickname, I think you're
suffering from a little bit of mis remembering. I think
he called you the walker for the remember of walkers.
You've calmed down a month every day, n I think correct,
that's bogus. That No, I am Benny the Bopper. In fact,
if you want to hear that, Milkman Mike the public
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address announcer Dodger Stadium giving me the proper introduction. You
know I was leaning mean is shortstop batting lead off?
That was me at Dodgers Day. We have the audio
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Betty the Bopper, Buddy Bay. That's shortstop number one in
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your hearts, shortstop everywhere. I'll tell you what I'm better
than course, funny place you, funny play like Corey Seegers, George,
I'm better than Corey Seeger anything else. Malcolm, I just
want to you just you just called up. You wanted
to hear that sound by Benny the Bopper, didn't you.
We'll also I wanted to call it and talk about
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Lebarne James Um. I actually came up with a top
three list of things that are stronger than his ankle.
UH Number three would be the Sean Um watch the
defense team that's strategy. UH number two would be um
the chorist is that any Rodgers is going to make
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it back to the Pockers this year. And the number
one thing that is stronger than the ankle of lebrin
games would be whoopie pie Blayer in any contact with myself, Yeah, well,
last not gone well for a whoopee pie blayer and
he's a big time in me too, milkom Man Mike.
I've tried to call him to check in on him
and he hasn't answered his phone. So all right, thank you.
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I go go deliver milk. Thank you. Be sure to
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The NFL has told teams and teams have told players
that COVID vaccinations are not mandatory. They're not going to
make them get the vaccines. However, they are incentivizing things,
and they have said to teams, if you have a
certain percentage of players who get vaccinated, we will loosen
up the restrictions on things you can do to that end.
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Did you see Buffalo Bill's general manager Brandon Bean was
asked in a radio interview would he cut a player
that was maybe at the lower end of the roster
when he was making decisions on the roster if that
player was not vaccinated and another player was vaccinated. And
he said, yes, I would. He said that he would
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cut a player or he would take it into consideration
whether a player had been vaccinated or not. That was
some interesting honesty. It's a mandate there, But again, I
mean it's different rules. I understand how that works. And
if you look at this object actively and Josh Allen says,
I'm not getting the vaccine, go pound sand Uh. He's
gonna be the quarterback of the Buffalo Bills no matter what.
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But if Jake From also in the quarterback room, right
it was her third string. Now, Jake From, if he says, hey,
I'm not getting the vaccine, gone see you later. Remember
the old Jimmy Johnson's story where he cuts some you
know third string guy who was asleep in the meeting,
and I asked him what would happen if Troy Aikman
was asleep in the meeting? He said, oh, I go
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wake him up and say, hey, Troy, if you fell
asleep during the meeting, will need to wake up. As
one of the great, the great stories there about Jimmy
Johnson who had a lot of funny quotes, and of
course the famous, most famous of all time was it
Jerry Glanville when he was ranting at the officials and said,
you know what the NFL stands for, not for long?
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Not for long when you make those calls like that. Yeah,
it was great. So Captain Clipboard is back. And every
time this guy pops up in the sport and used
the player about to say, the Colin Kaepernick marching and
Chowder Society are immediately triggered. They are immediately triggered because
did you see the defending Super Bowl champions, the Tampa
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Bay Buccaneers have made a roster move. What did the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers do while you were not paying attention?
They signed Captain Clipboard to be their backup quarterback. Yet again,
we are referring to none other than the man who
played instead of Colin Kaepernick. There, Blaine Gabbert agreeing to
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a one year contract for two point five million dollars
to be the backup quarterback to Tom Brady, the great
Blaine Gabbert, who every time this guy plays is terrible,
but continues to get opportunities as a backup quarterback. Him
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the shadows of the NFL, and he is back back
in Tampa. You got they did draft a quarterback though,
right the Buccaneers. They drafted Kyle Trask. So I've got
some other quarterbacks there, but that is the story there.
So he's he's at least gonna get two and a
half million I assume that's not guaranteed money. You got
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to make the team. And then as far as the
baby mama drama, in honor of a Mother's Day, right
around the corner here, Levion Bell. Levion Bell very active.
He's got a lot of mamas. He's gonna have to
call up on Mother's Day because congratulations to Levion Bell.
He's got now his seventh child with his sixth baby mama.
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So a Levion who's a free agent, Somebody better signed
him he's got a lot of mouse he's got to
feed Levion bell By imagine how much money is getting
taken out of those checks. Holy crap. Uh, he's you know,
he's not now because he's a free agent. But he
was making millions and millions of dollars and how much
of that was going to alimony, child support whatever? But
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six baby mama's seven kids, So one of the baby
mamas by Mi Maller math maybe had twins, possibly maybe
somewhere in there. I don't know. I don't have a
full breakdown of that, but I do have ask Ben,
and that is right now here we go, start up
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We're gonna start off with a question for everyone. All Right,
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this is from U mister Luciano. Hi, mister Luciano. He's
in LA but he's a Giants fan. He wants to know,
when Francisco Giants fan, what is the next state you
would like to travel to? Well, I've said many times
I'd love to do a Mallar meet and greet back
before the whole COVID thing happened. We were coming off
the great get together in Seattle and a great time
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in Washington. But I'd love to go to Minnesota and
also Cincinnati. Got a lot of big Mallard militia people
in those two towns, so I'd love to visit that,
and I don't know how likely that is. I gotta
get to Wisconsin because my I've been there before, but
my my brother lives there, so I gotta vis visit him.
So I've got a lot of places I want to go,
I mean anywhere, and I haven't got anywhere I'm in
a long time. So is that for everybody? Yes, Eddie,
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where do you want to go, Eddie, where are you
Jones and the g I have not I have neglected
visiting the northeast. Uh oh, you gotta do it, Eddie.
I know that's what I'm saying. The blind Scott Blind
Scott will give you a walking towards the north end
of Boston, the farthest east I'd been as Philadelphia. I
have not been in New York. I've not been to Boston.
Come on the whole. We are planning on It's not
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a state, but we are planning on going to the
Chargers Washington football team game this coming season. I want
to see DC. I want to see the monuments. I
want to see all that stuff. I've never been before.
So that's the that's the next planning trip for me.
All right, So you're heading to did he see in here?
Of course your your wife at the opportunity to go
to Cleveland. I assume you would have gone with her,
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but she said, who the hell wants to go on
vacation to Cleveland. Yeah, we've been to campon, Ohio a
couple of times. That wasn't there. I was just doing
it for the joke, Eddie. Come on, Roberto, where do
you where you I've been in the Northeast, but I
definitely want to go to Boston. But I gotta wait
when the Dodgers play to go to Fanway. That's definitely
on my exactly. You got to sit on the though
the seats around home play they're all older for little people.
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You gotta sit on the monster. I will I will
at Seattle. Seeeah. I want to go to Seattle for
many reasons. That's where Starbucks city. They got the Starbucks.
I'm a big coffee, big coffee guy. I want to
see the doctors play the Mariners. I want to even
know they have a Starbucks museum. Was a beautiful see. Yeah,
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I agree. My my wife was born there. She loves it.
We've gone a couple times. I'm gonna go see a
cracking game there next nice ye, I'm gonna go in
the Doughters play the Mariners hopefully. Yeah. It's it's awesome.
It's really visually stunning, the skyline right on the water
seed good stuff. Yes, the whole thing is that's what
some looney tunes there. But it's a well done city.
All right, what about you, Kopa Loo. I was just
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talking to a Bert about this, so um I do.
I was supposed to go see the Red Sox in
Boston last year, but you know that got canceled, so
that's that's still on my list. Um. I was trying
to go to uh to DC to go see the
Dodgers play the Nationals on July fourth because it's also
my anniversary weekend and I've never been to DC. But
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fights are pretty expensive. The cost is going up now
for the flights. Yeah, yeah, but I think I am
going to be going back to Seattle to go see
the Angels play the Mariners sometime in July. Yeah. T
Mobile Stadium. Is that what they're calling it, Boo Park? Yeah,
it'll always be safecoding exactly safe always all right, what
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Radio studios. It's Ben Maller and it's asked Ben. Your
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to coop a loop more questions for this the authentic
original fingerlicking good. We can use that right, KFC doesn't
use that anymore. They we use it? Maybe not? All right?
(34:55):
What's next? Cool? What do we have here? This is
another one for everybody. This is from as Raz, the
man that made music good again. Yes, did you ever
spend any time on a farm? And if so, have
you ever milked anything? Uh? No, No, I have not
done that. Well I did actually when I was a kid.
They used to the the Orange County Fair. I grew
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up in Orange County and they had the cow milking thing,
but it was kind of disgusting. So no, I've never milked. Well,
I've milk segments of radio, but that's about it. What
about you, Eddie? You have a farm guy, more of
a city guy. So you grew up in Fresno, that's
farming country. You grew up in a small town outside,
and that's true. I definitely grew up in farm country,
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but I was never on a farm or did any
farming at all. So no, no, I've never milked anything.
And uh no, not not interested in that at all.
But thank you all right, Roberto, have you I've never
been on a farm. When I was a kid in Mexico,
I went to my grandpa's ranch. Uh yeah, yeah, but no,
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I thank you. Did you make you work? Did your
grandpa put you to work as a little kid? No,
but my parents did. They would milk the cows from
from time to time. But I was like, no, I
ain't doing that. It is odd though, you see those
people like like have chickens in their backyard and they're like, oh,
I want chicken for dinner, all right, kill Mike the
chicken coop? When when you were a kid, star child actor,
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did you ever after milk a cow? No? Um, And
I've been like Roberto, I've been on a ranch. I
don't know if that's the same. Uh it was like
in uh was it the bunny ranch coop? No, it was,
it was. It was one of those things in Texas
where you like, you know, you'd go out there and
they would like make you a meal out on the range.
(36:41):
One of those things. Yeah, but uh but yeah no
it Yeah. Never never milked any any animals. I just did.
All right, what's next year? It's asked Ben. Your questions
are answers for the rest of the hour. These are
actual questions by actual listeners like yourself. Used the hashtag
ask Ben on two for everyone. Mark Man, the Broncos
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fan wants to know if you've ever quit a job
on the first day. Yes, I actually have. I agreed,
I agreed to a radio job. Then I made the
mistake of agreeing to it without actually thinking it through.
And it was relatively early in my career, and I
didn't really want to work with the person that they
(37:23):
wanted me to work with, and so I agreed to
the deal. And then the next day I said, you know,
I'm I'm not interested in that, and then that was it.
So it's worked out pretty well for me. I think
I made the right decision, but I felt pretty bad
for a while because I screwed over the program director
that offered me the job. What about you, Eddie. No,
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but I did lose a job that I was hired
for before I ever started the job. I was hired
as a minor league baseball broadcaster for a team that
was supposed to be in Merced, California. Yeah, and the
team never started operations. I waited, I got interviewed, I
got hired, and then they never played. They never played
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a game. Now I I had any I think I
told you this before, but there was a tea. I
don't know if it's still around the Bakersfield fog A
hockey team. Yeah, they've rebranded. They're now the Bakersfield Condors. Okay, yeah, yeah.
Years ago, I was working at six ninety. I got
in San Diego. I got a phone. Hey, the broadcaster
can't make it. Can you do the play by play tonight?
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So I'm on my way to Bakersfield. They call him.
We found somebody else closer. What about you, Roberto? No never.
I did have a job that was miserable, but I
couldn't just quit, So yeah, I'll just stick it out.
Coop any anything? Nope, No, all right, no quickly anything else?
Anything else? Rapid fire, quick, quick, quick, quick quick, ask
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Ben Charlie and san Antonio says that the point four
when Fisher hit that shot, was the first time a
sporting event made him emotionally and physically ill. Has that
ever happened to you? Oh? Yes, many times, usually you know,
as an adult. When as a kid, when I was
pure and innocent, it happened quite a bit. But as
an adult usually it involves gambling a bad beat. I'm
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just gonna be honest with you, Eddie. Anything two NLCS pirates,
lossid bream scorers, throw them out. I broke a coffee
table twenty seventeen World Series Game two. I was at
that game. Yeah, uh oh yeah, anything any of twenty
sevent anything, no time for coop, You're out of show.
Coop them so
Hello and welcome. It's our number three, our number three
of our radio program in the NFL with the golden hammer,
if you will, at the players who have decided they
do not want to participate at the team facility in
offseason workouts. It's an interesting story about how one player
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in particular is being used as an example for the
rest of NFL players. It is the golden hammer for
Roger Goodell and the NFL. We'll explain, I'll walk you
through it, I'll hold your hand, the whole deal, and
that and more. It's coming your way, including ask band
here in our number three here it is. It is
the trump card for the establishment of pro football. What
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is it though? Well come in the beginning of another
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were hanging out here at the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Hope all is well for you and an interesting story
(01:29):
that is worthy of some conversation. Now, our lead does
come from pro football, the bad break department of life,
if you will, which one person's bad break is the
other person's a really good break, really good break. And
so I bring this up because it's a story that's
been talked about off and on. We mentioned it in
(01:52):
Passing the other Day in a previous episode of the show.
But it's specifically involving the NFL's rules with injury and
how it relates to the workouts in the offseason. If
you didn't see it, and maybe you didn't, let me
give you the the truncated version. I will try not
to bore the hell out of you. But I think
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it's an interesting, interesting tale. As I said, so, the
Broncos have this offensive lineman named Juwan James. You probably
don't know who that is, because you don't know most
offensive lineman. I don't either, But Juwan James suffered a
rather large, possibly some say likely season ending injury recently
while working out at a private gym. He was not
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at Denver's team facility. He was on his own. Now
because James, the offensive lineman, sustained that particular injury while
working out on his own accord in a private location,
not an official NFL team facility. That injury while taking
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place during a workout to get ready for the upcoming
NFL season is, by the letter of the law, considered
a non football injury. Now what does that mean? What
does that mean? That means that the Broncos are off
the hook that they don't have to pay Juwan James
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is ten million dollars? Sorry, How great is that? This
is a guy most people have no idea he's even
in the NFL, and he had a ten million dollars
guaranteed salary here, but that becomes null and void because
of the fact that he was injured at a private
working Now, this is upset many high profile figures in
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the NFL, the biggest of them all Patrick Mahomes, the
golden boy of the NFL. Patrick Mahomes and other NFL
stars have voiced their displeasure. They say the Broncos should
do the right thing to a good mitzvah, pay this guy. Anyway,
We're not sure whether or not they will in the end.
There's a lot of back and forth conversation about what's
gonna happen. Now the NFL though, sent out a memo.
(04:01):
We love those memos, and they made sure the memo
popped up in the media because they wanted people like
us to talk about it. And it's low hanging fruit,
which is the most delicious fruit of them all, the
nectar of the gods. And so they send this memo
out to teams reminding them of this amazing stipulation. And
they recommended that NFL teams remind their players, you know,
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the same players who are desperately trying to avoid participating
in the offseason workouts at team facilities. We might want
to remind these guys of this particular stipulation. You know,
I'm just saying, I'm just saying. All right, so let
us discuss the question, where is the NFL workout injury
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hullabaloo going? And how does this change the story? Now
my observations, you've got cold War precedent and purouet, and
we will combine all all of these things together and
we are gonna make some baba ganoosh, make the baba ganoosh.
We're gonna now nam burwa. The NFL is looking to
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put the foot down. They see an opportunity, like a
great running back. You see an opportunity. You see the
A gap, the B gap. Where do you see daylight? Boom?
A gap, boom right to the end zone. Now, at
first glance, the uneducated observer, and I'm not saying you,
I'm saying the uneducated observer would say, who cares? Why
are you doing a monologue about this? I don't don't
(05:35):
even bat an eye it This story wrong. That's a
bad job by you. This is I get it. It's
some no name lineman on a mediocre Denver Bronco team,
but it's much bigger than that. I don't have to
spell it out for you. But we have the latest
chapter in what has turned out to be a cold
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war taking place that may will ever changed the NFL
offseason set up. If the players get their way. I
don't know we'll go full geo political tension, but there
is tension between the Union and the NFL. Battle lines
have been drawn, and they're using the court of public
opinion to adjudicate many of these things. The players. We
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know the story there. The Players Association wants everything to
be completely optional. Zoom zoom zoom zoom. Meetings. Show up
when you want to show up, don't show up. When
you don't want to show up, even though it's a
job the off season. Do as you please, Do as
you please. That's the mantra of the union. And while
the ruling class of the NFL is attempting to lay
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down the law, show up, do your job, and if
you don't, there is a price to pay. And that
makes this a page turning story. The second point here
Juwan James, this lineman from the Broncos who suffered the
bad break and in the process became a cautionary tale.
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I'm talking about a multi billion dollar business. The NFL
is decided, they decided to make an example out of
Juwan James, and now he's the bad example, right being
punished to the tune of ten million dollars in salary.
Humongous punishment for working out unchaperoned. Right as I say,
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you were not chaperoned by an NFL employee. Therefore this
is a non football injury. Therefore we don't have to
pay you. All done so the NFL can win around
in the ongoing Cold War squabble with the union. And
for this particular era of football players in the here
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and now, we are talking about a precedent setting moment
and you know the NFL is going to pressure the Broncos.
Don't pay. They don't pay the man he got hurt
away from the team facility can do it. Use this guy,
as we said, as an example, and you're gonna have
a number of players who will have to do some
soul surge. Is the allure of unfettered debauchery. Burning the
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candle at both ends, which we do all the time
working the third shift, but burning the candle at both
ends and hanging out at the copa cabana away from
your bosses. Is that so attractive that you are willing
to risk it all of that monopoly money. It's like
Bruce Areas right, no risk it, no biscuit, the buccanteer philosophy. Now,
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final point. So the NFL has had these rules in
place forever. They're not new. They're not new. It's never
been an issue because most players realize my job, I
gotta show up to my job, even though it's the offseason.
I get a lot of time off. I'm kind of
like a teacher. I get a lot of time off,
but I gotta show up to my job when they
want me to be there. The you negotiated the deal,
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which they are now looking to wiggle out of right
even though they've resigned the collective Bardning agreement, using Patrick
Mahomes and other high profile names in the NFL to
ratchet up the pressure in the court of public opinion
against the NFL. Do the right thing. Pay the player right,
pay the player, but he was injured away from the
team facility. I don't care pay the guy. And while
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we will take this on a case by case basis,
obviously it's different. For example, if Patrick Mahomes got injured
working out at the YMCA playing basketball, I'm gonna go
out on a limb and say that the Chiefs would
pay him anyway. But an offensive lineman on the Broncos
who no one's heard about, well, it's different. Know where
you fall on the pecking order. I think that's the
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lesson of this. If it's a non starter or a
just a fringe starter, you're you're not important enough where
they're gonna pay you. And the thing about is I
mentioned this is not new, it's precedent setting for this generation,
considering the NFL Union wants to move away from the
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traditional offseason program. But what's old is new again, and
these rules have been on the book since the nineteen seventies.
We're talking about almost forty five years. Started nineteen seventy
seven when this began. Injuries Sustained. It says that right your,
injuries sustained while a player is working out on his
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own in a location other than an NFL facility considered
non football injuries and therefore are outside the scope of
the typical skill, injury and cap guarantee. The long legal
ease continues as such injuries are not covered by the
protections found in paragraph nine of the NFL Standard player Contract,
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Meaning what it means that teams have no contractual obligation
to provide salary continuation during the year in which knee
injury was sustained. Hello, Hello, Now. The MEMMO also underscores
that injuries suffered while working out at a club facility
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or as specifically authorized by the club, give the player
significant protections, including payment, salary, medical care, pension credit. There's
whole bunch of stuff here. It goes on and on
and on which they say, well, they'll provide payments to
players in seasons following the season of a career ending injury, etc. Etc.
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So this is a common sense situation. Common sense not
that common these days. It's no different than a layman's job.
When you get hurt at work, you're covered. When you
get hurt somewhere else, you're on your own. If you're
on the clock, if you're on company time, and you're
in a company facility. That's how it works. You gotta
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read the fine print. But as my friend Rob Parker says,
this is what's known as the Golden Hammer, right, the
NFL using this hidden weapon, the Golden Hammer, and they're
doing the pirouette on the catwalk and they're like, hey,
look at us. We got it, baby, Yeah, we'll bring
it down the Golden Hammer. See that. You want to
go work out and hang out in Miami and have
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a great time, Okay, you know, snapcracker pop goes the Achilles. Sorry,
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for another season. We've got that and some standard boiler
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Oh yeah, yeah a those turn out great, wonderful, amazing,
(14:33):
beautiful meat balls. Yeah, that's what Dick and Dayton says.
I think I don't know anyway. The guy named Zegrad sinces,
I'm not sure what I missed. I had to break
in the new shower with a forty five minute steamer.
Wow sounds dirty, Big rig Rob writes in from the
Highways and Byways of the Evergreen stad He says, well, Ben,
(14:56):
this offensive line guy's situations he had another example of
how weak the nfl PA is compared to other leagues.
The owners have played these guys for fools. They should
learn from the Baseball Union. So he says, people say
that every couple of years. But the NFL's got a
(15:16):
great system because the players don't stick around long enough
in football. They gotta get their money while they can
short lifespan. So you never really want to dig in
because you're the one costing money that helps out future generations.
So why would you want to do that. You're looking
out for number one yourself. Now, this fraud, this guy,
Dolphin Mike. What a total fraud Dolphin Mike is. This
(15:37):
guy's been with me a long time. He claims to
be a huge Dolphin fan. Total phony. It would appear
total phony. He was upset because of something I said.
In a really great addition to the third degree of Coop,
he was kidding around Saint I Field actually passed that
everyone knows that the listener knows how I wants. JJ
(16:01):
pointed out it was just Coop was triggered because I
pointed out the Lakers are done without Lebron and you
get upset by that. But anyway, Dolphin might get to
the point. Please, he says, Tua and Fitzpatrick had identical
numbers last year. You have no idea what you're talking about.
Go to Pro Football Reference and find us that the
cherry pick to prove your point, but you'll be wrong. Oh,
(16:22):
I actually watch the games, you don't. I love when
guys say that because when you say that qualifier, you
then are admitting you're a fraud. By that qualifier, you're
a fraud because you don't have to announce you watch
the games. If you watch the games, So if you
say that, I totally dismiss what you say. And Dolphin Mike,
if you actually watch the games, you'd realize every time
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that to a tongue of my low completed a past
side by side with Fitzmagic. The passes, this is amazing.
They went a yard and a half further yards per
attempt for Ryan Fitzpatrick over to a tongue of Bylaw
and you're telling I mean they were identical. They had
identical numbers. So if every yard matters and every yard
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is pressures, and one guy when he throws a ball
it goes a yard and a half further, and the
other guy to a Tucker boy loa, his passes were
Fitzpatrick was around eight yards. It was seven point eight
yards per tempt. Fitz Magic was that's elite level. Let's
eight and aboves top of the top of the shelf Tah.
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Every time he threw a pass it was six point
three yards. He wasn't even average. Tua wasn't even average.
And he admitted it. And you are such a delusional, lunatic,
Dolphin Mike that you can't even realize it even to
a said it. He said he didn't play well. But
Dolphin Mike over there, lick lick, suck, suck. That's how
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you operate. Bad job by you, bad job by you.
Let's go to the phones and take some calls. Here,
who do we have. Let's say hello to any meany
miney moll. Let's go to Frank in Lost Wages, Nevada.
Hello Frank, Good morning Ben. I gotta at well. First
of all, your DJ fires out Ring of Fire. Social
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Distortion did a good remake of that, just to throw
it out there. Love, love the way he's spinning the tunes.
But Angel Hernandez the worst umpire in the history of
Major League Baseball. I don't know if you've been covering
this lately or not. I sporadically listen whenever I'm in
my car, and you know, at this odd hour, I
definitely listen to you. But I'm watching the Royals Indians series,
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and it's a great series and the Indians have came
back and won every single game so far. But between
Mike Messini and Tito Francona, they both despise this guy.
They both almost get booted every game because Angel Hernandez
is such a hack. And then he sued Major League
Baseball for discrimination, and yeah, because he doesn't you know,
(18:56):
he's he's pissed because he doesn't cover postseason. Can't get
rid of him. They can't get rid of Angel Hernandez.
They're afraid to fire him. Otherwise he would have been
gone years ago. But see, I have an interesting position
on this because as a overnight gas bag here, Frank,
I need content, and I know that Angel Hernandez is
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so bad at his job that if I chose I
I debated doing a monologue about I saw the blow
up against the Royals, and you know, this guy got in.
The pitching coach got ejected, the manager gottaake, the pitcher
got ejected. It was like it was just and then
he called. Now that the thing that's odd is it's
like the umpires are kind of in the tank for
the other umpires, some of them because there was a
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hit batter for the Indians that Angel Hernandez called hit
batter said it hit his jersey. They went to the
replay and they said that the call was right. He
never hit the jersey, and they said it was They
covered for Angel Hernandez. But guys like Angel Hernandez and
Joe west is another one Country Joe, Yeah, Country Joe.
These guys are are good for busines. This in my part,
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but I do miss that the old days. Frank, I
don't know how old you are, but we used to
have big characters at umpire, I mean the umpire position.
We add these guys that were like part of the
game in the late grade, Eric Greg what was the kaiser?
I forget the guy's first name, but no, there was
one that he would bring people up. He was very
animated as he wrung them up. And I think, are
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you talking about Derwood Merrill? I think you might be
talking about I love old umpires, so I can Dutch
Rennerds another one. Yeah, you could go that, uh Larry
McSherry who died on opening day, right, and then the
other guy that John McSherry, John Larry, sorry, Larry, John McSherry.
There you go back, you know, I'm fifty seven, but hey,
I love listening to you, and uh keep it up,
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my man. All right, morning, thank you, Frank. All right,
there you go, Frank Paul RUNGI. Who is the guy?
Remember the famous George Brett Pine Tar Game McClellan or
something like that, Tim McClellin, Tim McClellan, he was around
for like fifty years. It seemed like Doug Harvey. Doug
Harvey's another one. Yeah, Doug Harvey's another one. Danny guys
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older than me, I know, hot umpire talk, tell me
this is not already. This is why we are dominating
Eric Grays only. I remember Eric Craig was left the
cheeseburger on third base for him. Yes, now, now, now,
if they did that today, you're a racist. Had a
(21:28):
big smile, you know, it was all a joke. Everyone
had a good time. Now day. Oh you can't do that.
How to cancel him? Cancel them? How dare you? I
remember he said, I saw an interview with him. He's
a pretty good natured guy. But I remember one thing
he said that he hated was sometimes you would hear
from the dugout he it was not It was not
(21:49):
okay with that is a line crossed that you should not.
But uh yeah, and he got the Marlins in the
World series when you're Eric Graig terribly unbelievably like it.
It was the opposite of the famous scene in The
Naked Gun that the movie The Naked Gun, where you
know you didn't want to call anything a strike. This
(22:10):
everything was a strike, right, everything was a strike, and
it was it was wild all right. It's the Ban
Mallard Show on Fox. Let's say hello to Milkman Mike
in Colorado. Hello, Milkman Mike, the icon of living legend
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If you've got lember to burn, won't like the fire
(22:32):
for your first about your bopper nickname, I think you're
suffering from a little bit of mis remembering. I think
he called you the walker for the remember of walkers.
You've calmed down a month every day, n I think correct,
that's bogus. That No, I am Benny the Bopper. In fact,
if you want to hear that, Milkman Mike the public
(22:54):
address announcer Dodger Stadium giving me the proper introduction. You
know I was leaning mean is shortstop batting lead off?
That was me at Dodgers Day. We have the audio
play that audio hit that button right there, Dodger had
Betty the Bopper, Buddy Bay. That's shortstop number one in
(23:17):
your hearts, shortstop everywhere. I'll tell you what I'm better
than course, funny place you, funny play like Corey Seegers, George,
I'm better than Corey Seeger anything else. Malcolm, I just
want to you just you just called up. You wanted
to hear that sound by Benny the Bopper, didn't you.
We'll also I wanted to call it and talk about
(23:38):
Lebarne James Um. I actually came up with a top
three list of things that are stronger than his ankle.
UH Number three would be the Sean Um watch the
defense team that's strategy. UH number two would be um
the chorist is that any Rodgers is going to make
(23:58):
it back to the Pockers this year. And the number
one thing that is stronger than the ankle of lebrin
games would be whoopie pie Blayer in any contact with myself, Yeah, well,
last not gone well for a whoopee pie blayer and
he's a big time in me too, milkom Man Mike.
I've tried to call him to check in on him
and he hasn't answered his phone. So all right, thank you.
(24:22):
I go go deliver milk. Thank you. Be sure to
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(25:02):
The NFL has told teams and teams have told players
that COVID vaccinations are not mandatory. They're not going to
make them get the vaccines. However, they are incentivizing things,
and they have said to teams, if you have a
certain percentage of players who get vaccinated, we will loosen
up the restrictions on things you can do to that end.
(25:23):
Did you see Buffalo Bill's general manager Brandon Bean was
asked in a radio interview would he cut a player
that was maybe at the lower end of the roster
when he was making decisions on the roster if that
player was not vaccinated and another player was vaccinated. And
he said, yes, I would. He said that he would
(25:45):
cut a player or he would take it into consideration
whether a player had been vaccinated or not. That was
some interesting honesty. It's a mandate there, But again, I
mean it's different rules. I understand how that works. And
if you look at this object actively and Josh Allen says,
I'm not getting the vaccine, go pound sand Uh. He's
gonna be the quarterback of the Buffalo Bills no matter what.
(26:07):
But if Jake From also in the quarterback room, right
it was her third string. Now, Jake From, if he says, hey,
I'm not getting the vaccine, gone see you later. Remember
the old Jimmy Johnson's story where he cuts some you
know third string guy who was asleep in the meeting,
and I asked him what would happen if Troy Aikman
was asleep in the meeting? He said, oh, I go
(26:27):
wake him up and say, hey, Troy, if you fell
asleep during the meeting, will need to wake up. As
one of the great, the great stories there about Jimmy
Johnson who had a lot of funny quotes, and of
course the famous, most famous of all time was it
Jerry Glanville when he was ranting at the officials and said,
you know what the NFL stands for, not for long?
(26:49):
Not for long when you make those calls like that. Yeah,
it was great. So Captain Clipboard is back. And every
time this guy pops up in the sport and used
the player about to say, the Colin Kaepernick marching and
Chowder Society are immediately triggered. They are immediately triggered because
did you see the defending Super Bowl champions, the Tampa
(27:16):
Bay Buccaneers have made a roster move. What did the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers do while you were not paying attention?
They signed Captain Clipboard to be their backup quarterback. Yet again,
we are referring to none other than the man who
played instead of Colin Kaepernick. There, Blaine Gabbert agreeing to
(27:39):
a one year contract for two point five million dollars
to be the backup quarterback to Tom Brady, the great
Blaine Gabbert, who every time this guy plays is terrible,
but continues to get opportunities as a backup quarterback. Him
(28:00):
the shadows of the NFL, and he is back back
in Tampa. You got they did draft a quarterback though,
right the Buccaneers. They drafted Kyle Trask. So I've got
some other quarterbacks there, but that is the story there.
So he's he's at least gonna get two and a
half million I assume that's not guaranteed money. You got
(28:20):
to make the team. And then as far as the
baby mama drama, in honor of a Mother's Day, right
around the corner here, Levion Bell. Levion Bell very active.
He's got a lot of mamas. He's gonna have to
call up on Mother's Day because congratulations to Levion Bell.
He's got now his seventh child with his sixth baby mama.
(28:45):
So a Levion who's a free agent, Somebody better signed
him he's got a lot of mouse he's got to
feed Levion bell By imagine how much money is getting
taken out of those checks. Holy crap. Uh, he's you know,
he's not now because he's a free agent. But he
was making millions and millions of dollars and how much
of that was going to alimony, child support whatever? But
(29:05):
six baby mama's seven kids, So one of the baby
mamas by Mi Maller math maybe had twins, possibly maybe
somewhere in there. I don't know. I don't have a
full breakdown of that, but I do have ask Ben,
and that is right now here we go, start up
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We're gonna start off with a question for everyone. All Right,
(30:12):
this is from U mister Luciano. Hi, mister Luciano. He's
in LA but he's a Giants fan. He wants to know,
when Francisco Giants fan, what is the next state you
would like to travel to? Well, I've said many times
I'd love to do a Mallar meet and greet back
before the whole COVID thing happened. We were coming off
the great get together in Seattle and a great time
(30:33):
in Washington. But I'd love to go to Minnesota and
also Cincinnati. Got a lot of big Mallard militia people
in those two towns, so I'd love to visit that,
and I don't know how likely that is. I gotta
get to Wisconsin because my I've been there before, but
my my brother lives there, so I gotta vis visit him.
So I've got a lot of places I want to go,
I mean anywhere, and I haven't got anywhere I'm in
a long time. So is that for everybody? Yes, Eddie,
(30:56):
where do you want to go, Eddie, where are you
Jones and the g I have not I have neglected
visiting the northeast. Uh oh, you gotta do it, Eddie.
I know that's what I'm saying. The blind Scott Blind
Scott will give you a walking towards the north end
of Boston, the farthest east I'd been as Philadelphia. I
have not been in New York. I've not been to Boston.
Come on the whole. We are planning on It's not
(31:20):
a state, but we are planning on going to the
Chargers Washington football team game this coming season. I want
to see DC. I want to see the monuments. I
want to see all that stuff. I've never been before.
So that's the that's the next planning trip for me.
All right, So you're heading to did he see in here?
Of course your your wife at the opportunity to go
to Cleveland. I assume you would have gone with her,
(31:41):
but she said, who the hell wants to go on
vacation to Cleveland. Yeah, we've been to campon, Ohio a
couple of times. That wasn't there. I was just doing
it for the joke, Eddie. Come on, Roberto, where do
you where you I've been in the Northeast, but I
definitely want to go to Boston. But I gotta wait
when the Dodgers play to go to Fanway. That's definitely
on my exactly. You got to sit on the though
the seats around home play they're all older for little people.
(32:03):
You gotta sit on the monster. I will I will
at Seattle. Seeeah. I want to go to Seattle for
many reasons. That's where Starbucks city. They got the Starbucks.
I'm a big coffee, big coffee guy. I want to
see the doctors play the Mariners. I want to even
know they have a Starbucks museum. Was a beautiful see. Yeah,
(32:23):
I agree. My my wife was born there. She loves it.
We've gone a couple times. I'm gonna go see a
cracking game there next nice ye, I'm gonna go in
the Doughters play the Mariners hopefully. Yeah. It's it's awesome.
It's really visually stunning, the skyline right on the water
seed good stuff. Yes, the whole thing is that's what
some looney tunes there. But it's a well done city.
All right, what about you, Kopa Loo. I was just
(32:45):
talking to a Bert about this, so um I do.
I was supposed to go see the Red Sox in
Boston last year, but you know that got canceled, so
that's that's still on my list. Um. I was trying
to go to uh to DC to go see the
Dodgers play the Nationals on July fourth because it's also
my anniversary weekend and I've never been to DC. But
(33:05):
fights are pretty expensive. The cost is going up now
for the flights. Yeah, yeah, but I think I am
going to be going back to Seattle to go see
the Angels play the Mariners sometime in July. Yeah. T
Mobile Stadium. Is that what they're calling it, Boo Park? Yeah,
it'll always be safecoding exactly safe always all right, what
(33:29):
is actually why don't we pause for the cause we'll
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original fingerlicking good. We can use that right, KFC doesn't
use that anymore. They we use it? Maybe not? All right?
(34:55):
What's next? Cool? What do we have here? This is
another one for everybody. This is from as Raz, the
man that made music good again. Yes, did you ever
spend any time on a farm? And if so, have
you ever milked anything? Uh? No, No, I have not
done that. Well I did actually when I was a kid.
They used to the the Orange County Fair. I grew
(35:17):
up in Orange County and they had the cow milking thing,
but it was kind of disgusting. So no, I've never milked. Well,
I've milk segments of radio, but that's about it. What
about you, Eddie? You have a farm guy, more of
a city guy. So you grew up in Fresno, that's
farming country. You grew up in a small town outside,
and that's true. I definitely grew up in farm country,
(35:38):
but I was never on a farm or did any
farming at all. So no, no, I've never milked anything.
And uh no, not not interested in that at all.
But thank you all right, Roberto, have you I've never
been on a farm. When I was a kid in Mexico,
I went to my grandpa's ranch. Uh yeah, yeah, but no,
(35:58):
I thank you. Did you make you work? Did your
grandpa put you to work as a little kid? No,
but my parents did. They would milk the cows from
from time to time. But I was like, no, I
ain't doing that. It is odd though, you see those
people like like have chickens in their backyard and they're like, oh,
I want chicken for dinner, all right, kill Mike the
chicken coop? When when you were a kid, star child actor,
(36:21):
did you ever after milk a cow? No? Um, And
I've been like Roberto, I've been on a ranch. I
don't know if that's the same. Uh it was like
in uh was it the bunny ranch coop? No, it was,
it was. It was one of those things in Texas
where you like, you know, you'd go out there and
they would like make you a meal out on the range.
(36:41):
One of those things. Yeah, but uh but yeah no
it Yeah. Never never milked any any animals. I just did.
All right, what's next year? It's asked Ben. Your questions
are answers for the rest of the hour. These are
actual questions by actual listeners like yourself. Used the hashtag
ask Ben on two for everyone. Mark Man, the Broncos
(37:01):
fan wants to know if you've ever quit a job
on the first day. Yes, I actually have. I agreed,
I agreed to a radio job. Then I made the
mistake of agreeing to it without actually thinking it through.
And it was relatively early in my career, and I
didn't really want to work with the person that they
(37:23):
wanted me to work with, and so I agreed to
the deal. And then the next day I said, you know,
I'm I'm not interested in that, and then that was it.
So it's worked out pretty well for me. I think
I made the right decision, but I felt pretty bad
for a while because I screwed over the program director
that offered me the job. What about you, Eddie. No,
(37:44):
but I did lose a job that I was hired
for before I ever started the job. I was hired
as a minor league baseball broadcaster for a team that
was supposed to be in Merced, California. Yeah, and the
team never started operations. I waited, I got interviewed, I
got hired, and then they never played. They never played
(38:04):
a game. Now I I had any I think I
told you this before, but there was a tea. I
don't know if it's still around the Bakersfield fog A
hockey team. Yeah, they've rebranded. They're now the Bakersfield Condors. Okay, yeah, yeah.
Years ago, I was working at six ninety. I got
in San Diego. I got a phone. Hey, the broadcaster
can't make it. Can you do the play by play tonight?
(38:25):
So I'm on my way to Bakersfield. They call him.
We found somebody else closer. What about you, Roberto? No never.
I did have a job that was miserable, but I
couldn't just quit, So yeah, I'll just stick it out.
Coop any anything? Nope, No, all right, no quickly anything else?
Anything else? Rapid fire, quick, quick, quick, quick quick, ask
(38:47):
Ben Charlie and san Antonio says that the point four
when Fisher hit that shot, was the first time a
sporting event made him emotionally and physically ill. Has that
ever happened to you? Oh? Yes, many times, usually you know,
as an adult. When as a kid, when I was
pure and innocent, it happened quite a bit. But as
an adult usually it involves gambling a bad beat. I'm
(39:10):
just gonna be honest with you, Eddie. Anything two NLCS pirates,
lossid bream scorers, throw them out. I broke a coffee
table twenty seventeen World Series Game two. I was at
that game. Yeah, uh oh yeah, anything any of twenty
sevent anything, no time for coop, You're out of show.
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