May 17, 2025 • 34 mins
Big Ben talks about Derek Carr announcing his retirement and what his legacy in the NFL is, MLB commish Rob Manfred deciding to reinstate Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe Jackson and other deceased players that have been banned from baseball, Maller's Mountain of Money: Stevie Wonder Edition, and more!
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this hour is from a developing story over the weekend
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in The Big Easy, we go to the Bayou where
a starting quarterback in the NFL has said no Moss
tossed in the sponge. I give up, I'm done. I'm
out see you later. Now. I originally thought this was
an April Fools joke, and then I realized it's not April.
It's May, so it can't be an April Fool's joke.
And then I thought, well, maybe this is like sentel
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or Sports Talk. Barry, one of the satire accounts, but
crack sports. It's probably not real. But no, it turns
out it's real. New Orleans Saints quarterback Derek Carr has
retired after eleven seasons in the NFL. Nana, na da,
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nada da da, good bye. See it. So we are
told that Carr was dealing with a tear and degenerate
condition with his rotator cuff and he was all messed
up and that surgery would not guarantee a full return
to starting status and effectiveness as a quarterback in the NFL.
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The Saints released a prepared statement, and in that prepared statement,
Derek Carr, the reporting said that he tried all different options,
all different options to get back on the field, and
ultimately decided against having another surgery, and he will thus retire.
So let us discuss Car has been around. We've talked
about him a fair amount over the years, going back
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to his days with the old Oakland Raiders back in
the day. So let's discuss the question what is Derek
Carr's legacy in the NFL. So I've got brown bagger,
freshwater fishing and Pepsi challenge, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
pastrami fries. That's fries covered in pastrami and delicious cheese
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on top, and yes, outstanding. So, first of all, from
a gambling standpoint, I am upset. I loved betting against
Derek Carr in big spots. There are very few quarterbacks
that suck more under pressure than Derek Carr. Let's just
call it like it is, right, this guy a great
artist of the choke in big moments. You knew if
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the pressure was on, this guy would have tight toukas
syndrome in big games, and we did pretty well. One
of the things we've gotten right consistently big spot. Go
against Derek Carr and you're gonna be on the right
side of that game more times than not. But this
was a weekend surprise. We did not have this on
our particular bingo card, and we thought, again I was
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kind of fake and all that stuff, and obviously that
was not the case. But Derek Carr, he wasn't. Some
of the stories I've seen been like, well, this guy's
what a heroic career, came out of nowhere. No, he
wasn't undrafted, right, he wasn't undrafted. He was drafted I
think in the second round. He wasn't underrated either. Does
anyone think Derek Carr was underrated? He certainly wasn't overrated.
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He was always just kind of there. Derek Carr is
just kind of there. That's it. I mean, he is rarely.
You rarely acknowledge anything he did that was great because
he didn't do anything really great. Carr is the equivalent
as a starting quarterback in the NFL. He's like elevator music.
He's just background noise. That's all he was. Now listen,
oh you took. I'm not taking a shot. I'm just
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telling you how he but you don't have to like it.
But his career is now over. He's done. And that's
how I'm gonna remember Derek Carr. He was background music.
He was right, the quiet hum of existence. That's it.
His superpower.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
It wasn't throwing touchdown passes or interceptions of avoidance or
sack avoidance, or making the big throw in a pressure situation.
That was not his superpower. His superpower was as a
brown bagger. Okay, he got a brown bag filled with cash,
and then he got another one, and another one and
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another one. He certainly doesn't have to worry about going
to Canton, Ohio and getting a gold jacket. But I
would say that Derek Carr is eligible for the coveted
brown jacket. First ballot Brown Jacket winner. Congratulations, go to
the haberdashery and get fitted for your brown jacket. Car
earned over two hundred million dollars on the field, two
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hundred million. He is the same vintage of quarterback. If
you just say, who's the comp on Derek Carr. If
I could have a Derek Carr typ quarterback, who would
that be? That would be John Kittna if you remember him.
Andy Dalton, who's still collecting paychecks as a backup Ryan Tannehill,
a second rate quarterback who's not the worst. He's not
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certainly in a top ten at any point, not a
top ten player, and he's somewhere in the middle, but
on the lower end, sometimes slips down to a third
tier quarterback. Now, is it true that Derek Carr played
a role in the Raiders leaving Oakland? And the answer
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is absolutely yes. And this is one of those taboo
topics people don't like to bring up. That's unfair. You
shouldn't bring that up. Okay, why not? It's a fact
that's on the resume. If you're an Oakland Raiders fan,
you're still bitter and broken. One of the things you
can point to an underlying condition for the Raiders why
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they left Oakland. Derek Efin Carr, Derek Efn Carr. Now,
let me give you my evidence on this. Okay, I'm
gonna make my elevator pitch why Derek Carr one is
partially to blame for the Raiders leaving for Las Vegas.
A car turned out to be the last hope at
quarterback for the Oakland Raiders, the last hope. He arrived
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in twenty fourteen as the starting quarterback for the Raiders
had in a parallel of the mention this happened, Derek
Carr galvanized the Raiders and put the team on his
back and led the franchise right, led the franchise to
a Super Bowl. Derek Carr could have would have kept
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the team from leaving for Vegas, who too built the politicians. Well,
one thing I know about sleeves ball politicians, they love
a winner, and the Raiders were losers in Oakland. They
were pathetic the second time they went to Oakland, so
they were a pathetic group. Of players. Had they won
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in that final push the last couple of years they
were the Oakland Raiders, you could have worked out a
deal and the team would have built a stadium. The
politicians would have worked out a deal to build a politician.
Even in California, the People's Republic of California, there was
a path through a stadium. But Derek Carr sucked at
a time he cannot suck, and he was just good
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enough to drive you crazy, to pull your hair out,
and because he would suck in big moments and all
that stuff, and instead he put up would turned out
to be empty stats with the Oakland Raiders, and then
was with the team when they moved to Las Vegas.
They got the stadium deal, but they didn't get in Oakland.
They got it in Vegas because Vegas has a lot
of money and they were desperate for a team and
they were horny for a team. And so that's what happened.
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Now with Derek Cargan, Gonzo the Muppet, what's next for
the Saints? What is next for the Saints? So it's
the great unknown. Now he looks bad, man doesn't look bad.
It looks like this is gonna be an zero to
sixteen quarterback room. You have right now the de facto starter.
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Tyler Shuck is the starter. Shucks. Tyler Shuck, who is that?
He was a twenty five year old, was at Louisville
and was just drafted with the I believe it was
the fortieth overall pick. I think if I'm running it,
So he was drafted by the New Orleans Saints. He's
the de facto starter. Now, if Shuck can't shuck it,
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they'll get rid of him. And then they have Spencer Rattler.
I'd rather have a snake Rattler than Spencer Rattler. So
he's there. Then you have somebody named Jake Hayner who
is also in the quarterback room. Yeah, that's they should
just put a King Kobra out there with the rattler.
That would be entertaining. No one would sack if you
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had an actual life size rattlesnake. I think those big,
tough defensive players would try to sack a rattlesnake. Hell no, now,
I don't know how a rattlesnak would throw the ball,
but imagine the rattlesnake on a quarterback keeper. You're gonna
run for a touchdown every time noy'body defenders jumping off
as the rattler goes down the field into the end zone.
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Me anyway, So it doesn't matter which way you go,
you got You've got suck, crap, and garbage. Those are
the three options at quarterbacks. So good luck to the
Saints there. They're trying to find lightning in a bottle
and it's fine. It's not like they were gonna win
anything with Derek Carr anyway, Okay, when they were not.
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be our lead. This hour is from baseball. That's right, baseball.
What you didn't start with an NBA game? What's wrong
with you? Oh? My guys? The playoffs? You know? Like basketball?
Shut up? So I made an editorial decision. I made
an editorial decision. And normally we start with basketball and
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I'd rant and somebody'd be in the vomit comment and
that would be that, and I'd move on and then
we take calls and that's normally how it goes. But
this night different than all other nights. Why is this
night different than all other nights? Well, I've made an
editorial decision. It's not every day that Lifetime bands are
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over done and players are welcome back. And this is
a story that has kind of followed me if you will,
since I got into the talk radio world when I
was a young lad back in the day. So I
thought it was an interesting story, and I think it's
worth some conversation here at the start, and we'll get
into the basketball games. We've got four hours of nonsense.
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That's a long time to talk. That's a lot of talk,
so plenty of time to get to everything. But I
want to start with the baseball And I assume you've
heard by now, but possibly you live in a box
and you have not heard. We really love people that
live in shoe boxes. It's good for us. So anyway,
Major League Baseball, if you missed it, major League Baseball's commissioner.
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We like to call them Rob manfraud. But Rob Manford
has removed Pete Rose from the ineligible list. He's back.
He's also dead. Also, welcome back, shoeless Joe Jackson, also dead.
There's a theme if you're dead and your band Rob
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Manford likes you, welcome back, Welcome back. Now you're dead,
but you're back. The permanent ineligible list of Major League Baseball.
You've got a bunch of deceased players. But the headline
Joe Jackson. There were movies made many years ago. And
I don't know how many people today even though who
Joe Jackson was shoeless Joe Jackson, but Pete Rose shoeless
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Joe Jackson. Couple of figures in baseball's past that have
been welcome back now as a result, and you don't
bury the lead, my man. All right, I'm not gonna
bear the lead. So as a result, here it's really
about Pete Rose. Pete Rose, major League Baseball's all time
hit leader. He's now eligible, as it is shoeless Joe
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Jackson eligible for election to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Keep in mind that President Trump helped get this done.
The President met with Rob Manford recently, and all of
a sudden, shortly after that, wonder what kind of deal
they worked out? Hey, let Pete back in. We'll let
you continue to screw fans over with the nickel and
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Dime Major League Baseball TV package. Who knows, but either way,
Rob Manford has done it. He has removed Pete Rose
from the ineligible list. So let us discuss the question
for the esteem panel. How do you dissect Rob Manford's
decision to let Pete Rose and these other dead players
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including shoeless Joe Jackson back into baseball. So I've got profit,
I've got blue ribbon and home depot, and we will
combine all of these things together and we're going to
make a line drive base it up the middle. That's
what we're gonna make, all right. So the word I
have for this I didn't ask for a word, But
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the word I have for this move by Rob Manford
to allow Pete Rose back in baseball, my word is cosmetic.
That is my word. It is a cosmetic move by
Rob Manford. Now I mentioned this is a nostalgias story.
That's why I'm starting to show with it. So when
I started in radio, I was a young lad. I
was a teenager and I walked into the radio station
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in San Diego, the mighty six ninety man. I thought
this was the big leagues, right, this is seventy seven
thousand watt radio station in San Diego. It was a
border blaster station. The transmitter was actually in Mexico and
it blasted all over and at that time, before the Interweb,
it was a big deal. And I remember I was
an intern for this guy Lee Hacksaw Hamilton, who was
like my mentor. One of my mentors in radio, and
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at that time it had only been a few years.
I'm dating myself, but it only been a few years
since Pete Rose had been banned from baseball. And I
learned quickly from observation that when you had a slow day,
I was a young whipper snapper, But when you had
a slow day in sports radio and you wanted to
stir things up, what you did is you said, hey,
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Pete Rose, did he bet on baseball? Should he be
banned from baseball? Should they remove the band? And then
you give out the number, and the phones light up
like a Christmas tree, And it was for years. It
was the go to conversation. It was the go to conversation,
and everything went light up, and people had very strong
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opinions and both ways, both ways on that. So I
look at this as cosmetic now, because yeah, Rob Manford
will get some brownie points, He'll get some brownie points
for this reinstating Pete Rose at this point, if you
do the calculus on this using the Mallard man, it's
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a pr win for baseball. Yeah, there are some people
complaining and ranting and saying, you know, Peteza scumbag and
shouldn't be welcome back and all that stuff. But yeah,
the old timers, the old time I'merson and I still
occasionally get a call it Pete Rose with a Hall
of Fame. I mentioned dick In Dayton's name here earlier,
and that's the number one Pete Rose fan. I know
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the number there. But for me, the idea of putting
Pete Rose back on the eligible list is a fruitless endeavor.
It's a fruitless endeavor. And here's why they have both
left this. Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson have left
this mortal coil. They're dead. And it always, it's always
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annoyed me when you celebrate, like the Hall of Fame,
when they put people in who are, like you're dead,
you know, it's like, Okay, celebrate people while they're alive.
I'm a big celebrate people while they're alive person. Pete
Rose died seven months ago, in September of last year.
Shoeless Joe Jackson, he has been dead for seventy three years.
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He died in nineteen fifty one. Okay, so he's been
gone for a while. And Pete Rose, the whole Charlie
Hustle thing and all that, and there were generation of
fans but that worshiped Pete Rose played forever. And while
Pete is known as Charlie Hustle, he gets another nickname
in death, Pete the Prophet. Now we mentioned this in
a previous episode of the show. Is it true that
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Pete Rose, in what could have been his final interview,
his final interview before he died, mentioned this very thing happening,
mentioned this very outcome well ten days before Pete Rose
left this world that we all share. Pete Rose said
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just ten days before he died that he wouldn't make
the Baseball Hall of Fame until after he died. He
said it, He said it ten days before he left us,
and Rose was spitting mad. He said, if I'm gone,
it don't matter. Pete Rose said, who the f wants
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to go in when you're dead? Ding ding ding ding ding.
That's a good hot take by Pete and I agree
with him. I absolutely agree. Now, I had heard early
on that the world of baseball was never going to
allow Pete back while he was alive, because the generations
were upset. They felt he played a role in the
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death of Bart Giamani, who had been the commissioner for
a very short time, even though bart was overweight and
had all kinds of problems. But anyway, so fine, So
there you go. Pete Rose, the prophet, Pete the Prophet
predicted this. And as far as Joe Jackson and Pete Rose,
there were movies made about both and documentaries books written
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about all this stuff. And I know in the early
days of Fox Sports Radio, there's a restaurant. We're at
the corner of Venturince of Palvity here in the valley,
and right across the street there was an Italian restaurant.
And when I started at this company, every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday you could find Pete Rose holding court at
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the bar at this Italian restaurant. Everyone knew it. If
you want to see Pete, go over there. Pete will
be over there. He'll be having drinks and a bunch
of other old ballplayers would be hanging out from his
era in the in the sixties and the seventies. They'd
be hanging out with Pete and they just tell old
war stories while they had cocktails and appetizer. And then
Pete eventually just moved to Vegas because he was making
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so much money. He's selling autographs. He just moved there
full time. But for years he lived right you know,
live right here and was right across the street. Now,
where does the Pete Rose Hall of Fame movement go?
Now there's there's something. Well, he's in the Hall of Fame.
You know, he's not in the Hall of Fame. He
hasn't been put in the Hall of Fame. So where
Pete Rose in death goes in terms of the campaign
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for the Hall of fame red and tape bureaucracy, those
are words you can use. Red tape bureaucracy. There is
no sense of urgency and why would there But he's dead,
you're not coming back. So Pete Rose was banned from
baseball in nineteen eighty nine. It's been a minute for
gambling on the Cincinnati Reds and while he was managing
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the team and the legend when he didn't bet on
the Reds that let everyone know who was taking the bets,
that he didn't think they were going to win. Blah
blah blah blah blah. But the National Baseball Hall of
Fame in Cooperstown, York made him ineligible from induction, and
that was in nineteen ninety one. That was his first
year eligible because he was a player manager in Cincinnati,
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and as we understand it, again trying to keep up
on all the details on us. As we understand it,
the rank and file baseball scribes and our buddies like
Rob Parker and the baseball writers who love to have
that ballot and vote, they will not get the vote
on this. Pete Rose's future for the Hall of Fame
ultimately will be decided by a handpicked blue ribbon panel.
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You know blue ribbon panels. I love a good blue
ribbon panel. So that will consist of ten to twelve reps,
handpicked that will decide the Historical Overview Committee. That just
sounds like bureaucracy. The Historical Overview Committee will develop a
ballot of eight names. We assume Pete Rose will be
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on there. The Classic Baseball Era Committee will evaluate the
candidates and those that had the greatest impact on the
game before nineteen eighty and no vote though will take
place before December of twenty twenty seven, which means the
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earliest Pete Rose would have There'll be a ceremony to
honor he's dead, but to honor Pete would be in
the summer of twenty twenty eight. So here we are
in twenty twenty five in May, so you got to
get through the rest of this year, twenty six, twenty seven,
so we're looking at over three years, and that's the
quickest as I understand it, this could happen. Now, was
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Pete Rose guaranteed of being elected to the Hall of Fame? No,
he's not. Even with this, he's not. There are sure
to be some that will hold grudges. I've already seen
some hot take artists out there, the artists in of
the hot take that have said no, no, no, no, no,
Pete Rose is a scumbag, he's a dope, He's a loser.
That's the counter argument. It's hard to fight that Pete
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was a shady guy, and so that's it's not you know,
I don't really care about the tax return thing. There
was an incident in twenty seventeen he was actually doing
TV stuff and he was accused of statutory rape. There
was a counter earlier. There's no my nods, there was
no criminal charger. It was an accusation that was made.
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So do that with what you want. And now the
last word here, So assuming this does go the way
it's going and Pete ultimately wand up into the Hall
of Fame at some point here even though he's dead.
What does Pete Rose being given reinstatement. Let's focus on
this being given reinstatement to Major League Baseball do for
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the guys like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, the steroid
people of baseball who are also not in the Hall
of Fame. Even though there are steroid players in the
Hall of Fame, players that we are relatively confident did
steroids but are allowed in there are not on the
naughty list, but Barry Bonds is on the natty list,
and Roger Clemens and several other of these cats. So
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on the surface. After a minutes long Mallard deliberation on
the Ben Maler Show, we have determined that this does
bupkus for Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa, that vintage
of player. Now Barry Bonds and his steroid brethren of
that era the issues. They're not banned from baseball. They're
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not banned. It's just done on the down low. It's
on the DL right to down low, and their persona
non grata for the Hall of Fame. However, here's the
here's the interesting wrinkle to this. What this Pete Rose
update does do for Barry Bonds and the other steroid players,
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the other pd pals, is it provides them a road
map on how to get into Cooperstown and without being Macab,
which means I'm going to be Macab. Barry Bonds and
these other cats need to go down to Home Depot
and buy a bucket. And at some point, we know
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the endgame on life, we know how it ends. We
don't know when it's gonna end. We know how it's
going to end. So at some point Barry Bonds and
everyone else, once they kick the bucket, then all of
a sudden, well we're going to panel together. We'll put
these guys in the Hall of Fame. But you got
to kick the bucket, So go get bucket at Home Depot,
kick the b there you go.
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Malor's Mountain of Money. Hello, do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not see.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
A timeout for Malo's amount of money has made our
contestants for this game show we have a Jed who fled?
Who's going to play? Hello? Jed? Okay, Hello Charlie. I
love with Charlie.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Dude, I love Charlie. I love you.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
He's a kid. Leave alone? And did you don't? Don't
influence the man, Jed? No, who do you want to
partner up with? Jed? That was now invailable? Okay, that's
right down l next to your name? Lorena picked door
number one, door number two or door number three? Number three?
All right, well you're gonna picked Greg in South Carolina? Hello, Greg,
(27:55):
I'm going on there he is. Look at this guy. Unbelievable. Greg,
you won the pick number three. You were on the
third line. Look at that.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
That's right? All right? And Greg, what part of South
Carolina are you in? I am from Gasney, the home
of the Peak. There you go home, Jaffny, that's where
you've heard of that coup?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Yeah, Frank Underwood, the fictional character from uh the House
of Cards?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Right, but that was not in those shows. Oh yeah, Hollywood,
you use the name, but a different location. That's terrible. Ye, right, Well,
who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
There?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Greg? You got me Ben or Lorraine if you want
some fun. I know a couple of these this time. Okay,
all right, all right, I guess you picked me a
fine very good justin you're with Jed. Jed pick a category.
Please hold on a second, make sure everyone's on. Don't
hang up on you. All right.
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This is the Stevie Wonder edition of Mallage Amount of Money.
He turned seventy five years old today.
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Seventy five. You know he's been able to see his
whole life. Uh.
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The category is sign sealed delivered on yours superstition higher
ground or isn't she lovely?
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Jed? What would you like about highround? Oh? Of course?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Uh? And then Greg, how about you? Which category would
you like? Superstition superstition? All right, so, so Jed, you
and I are up first. You know the rules of
the game, so I'm not going to tell them to you.
Forty five seconds on the clock, we have higher ground.
These athletes got better after changing teams. Forty five seconds begin.
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He was on the Chargers, then he went on to
the Saints to win a Super Bowl. Quarterback. Yes, this
guy was on the Clippers. He is now the MVP
on the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I got no, I get holy crap, Holy crap. He's
got like three names hyphenated last name. All right, all right,
we's okay, we'll skip it. This guy is now a
star on the New York Knicks.
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He came from the Dallas Mavericks. Yes, no, you, no,
you got it, the by you star. He was the
backup for Joe Montana Hiver doctor. Yes, this guy was
nicknamed the bus running back. Yes, this guy was dropped
out of high school. He was on the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
He was part of the mollah You really got hung
up on shake Yogas Alexander. Yeah, current MVP man. All right,
well we're up, Greg. Let's show him how it's done here, Greg,
let's scool these cats. No problem. You picked superstition, Is
that correct? Correct? All right? These athletes all are known
to be superstitious. Are you ready, Gregg? Forty five seconds
(30:33):
on the clock. Are you ready? Ready? All right? Ron
a waygo, quarterback for the Chiefs right now, Becker, Yes,
tight end for the forty nine ers. White guy York, Yes,
the big fundamental for the San Antonio Spurs back in
the early two thousands and the late nineties. Center. All right,
(30:55):
let's go to a baseball player. Third basement for the
Red Sox in the nineteen eighties. Hall of Famer. Yes,
basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks. He wore high socks.
All right, no basketball for you. How about this baseball
player was a closer for the Cubs and the Mets.
He liked to chew licorice between innings. Kind of an
(31:16):
eccentric to superstitious guy. White guy in the nineties. Speaking
of nineties, you got ninety points. Wow, that means we
can go again. Oh good, are exciting? You didn't get
I didn't even try Rafiel on the doll but you
didn't get him much. Jim Duncan, Jim Duncan and Jason Tay.
You're not a basketball guy, Greg, No, okay, we're screwed.
(31:39):
All right? What category we have? What do we have? Signed?
Sealed delivered? I'm yours? And isn't she lovely? Isn't isn't she?
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Yeah, isn't she's just lovely? Deliver me? Shut up? All right?
These athletes recently I'm not gonna try the basketball names.
These athletes did not even did not are these athletes
recently had a daughter? So here we go. Are you ready? Greg?
All right? Forty five seconds on the clock. Here would
go go. Quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys right now. Yes,
(32:15):
slugger from Japan. He's also a pitcher for the Dodgers. Yeah.
Quarterback for the Carolina Panthers when they won when when
they went to the Super Bowl. Was the MVP. Yes,
wide receiver for the Bengals. He changed his name. Yes, pitcher.
He was the ace of the Milwaukee Brewers. He went
(32:36):
to the Orioles. He's still pitching. He's on the Diamondbacks now.
Last name is like the the guy from the Simpsons,
the owner of the power plant there.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Okay, well, I don't even try the basketball name. So
you got those right, and it should be one of
them enough you it was Corbyn Burns, remember corpor Yeah,
but you got all the other ones. I even try
the basketball ones because he got one night. All right, Jed,
we need fifty points here to tie. Choke shed six,
(33:12):
do not choke, shed choke, don't choke. I'm not sign
I'm just I'm telling him not to choke. I don't
still delivered on yours.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
These athletes were practically given away in lopsided trades. Do
not choke forty five seconds on the clock. Choke and
let's begin, all right. This guy was an MVP for
the Red Sox. He's now on the Dodgers. Yes, all right, Uh,
he's not confident. This guy was a running back for
(33:43):
the Rams, part of the Greatest.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Show on Turf markall fault.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Yes, that ties us. This guy was a slugger for
the Oakland A's. He went to the Cardinals. He was
a cheater.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
No chance, no chance, no big, no joke. Don't joke Red,
don't joke jads big Red. He was on the race
with Sammy Sosa football. Yes, not in here that I
had tried. I didn't try to change stop. I didn't
(34:13):
try to change that. I didn't try to change sing.
You check your ass down there? Cool? You do notice
that though you shick your ass down. Okay, that's bullcrap.
You put a guy on that doesn't no basketball and
you had basketball thiss. You cheated, You cheated, You're a chain,
you cheated. You put up the non basketball guy and
(34:34):
you asked basketball questions.
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this hour is from a developing story over the weekend
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in The Big Easy, we go to the Bayou where
a starting quarterback in the NFL has said no Moss
tossed in the sponge. I give up, I'm done. I'm
out see you later. Now. I originally thought this was
an April Fools joke, and then I realized it's not April.
It's May, so it can't be an April Fool's joke.
And then I thought, well, maybe this is like sentel
(02:28):
or Sports Talk. Barry, one of the satire accounts, but
crack sports. It's probably not real. But no, it turns
out it's real. New Orleans Saints quarterback Derek Carr has
retired after eleven seasons in the NFL. Nana, na da,
(02:48):
nada da da, good bye. See it. So we are
told that Carr was dealing with a tear and degenerate
condition with his rotator cuff and he was all messed
up and that surgery would not guarantee a full return
to starting status and effectiveness as a quarterback in the NFL.
(03:14):
The Saints released a prepared statement, and in that prepared statement,
Derek Carr, the reporting said that he tried all different options,
all different options to get back on the field, and
ultimately decided against having another surgery, and he will thus retire.
So let us discuss Car has been around. We've talked
about him a fair amount over the years, going back
(03:34):
to his days with the old Oakland Raiders back in
the day. So let's discuss the question what is Derek
Carr's legacy in the NFL. So I've got brown bagger,
freshwater fishing and Pepsi challenge, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
pastrami fries. That's fries covered in pastrami and delicious cheese
(03:59):
on top, and yes, outstanding. So, first of all, from
a gambling standpoint, I am upset. I loved betting against
Derek Carr in big spots. There are very few quarterbacks
that suck more under pressure than Derek Carr. Let's just
call it like it is, right, this guy a great
artist of the choke in big moments. You knew if
(04:20):
the pressure was on, this guy would have tight toukas
syndrome in big games, and we did pretty well. One
of the things we've gotten right consistently big spot. Go
against Derek Carr and you're gonna be on the right
side of that game more times than not. But this
was a weekend surprise. We did not have this on
our particular bingo card, and we thought, again I was
(04:43):
kind of fake and all that stuff, and obviously that
was not the case. But Derek Carr, he wasn't. Some
of the stories I've seen been like, well, this guy's
what a heroic career, came out of nowhere. No, he
wasn't undrafted, right, he wasn't undrafted. He was drafted I
think in the second round. He wasn't underrated either. Does
anyone think Derek Carr was underrated? He certainly wasn't overrated.
(05:07):
He was always just kind of there. Derek Carr is
just kind of there. That's it. I mean, he is rarely.
You rarely acknowledge anything he did that was great because
he didn't do anything really great. Carr is the equivalent
as a starting quarterback in the NFL. He's like elevator music.
He's just background noise. That's all he was. Now listen,
oh you took. I'm not taking a shot. I'm just
(05:28):
telling you how he but you don't have to like it.
But his career is now over. He's done. And that's
how I'm gonna remember Derek Carr. He was background music.
He was right, the quiet hum of existence. That's it.
His superpower.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
It wasn't throwing touchdown passes or interceptions of avoidance or
sack avoidance, or making the big throw in a pressure situation.
That was not his superpower. His superpower was as a
brown bagger. Okay, he got a brown bag filled with cash,
and then he got another one, and another one and
(06:05):
another one. He certainly doesn't have to worry about going
to Canton, Ohio and getting a gold jacket. But I
would say that Derek Carr is eligible for the coveted
brown jacket. First ballot Brown Jacket winner. Congratulations, go to
the haberdashery and get fitted for your brown jacket. Car
earned over two hundred million dollars on the field, two
(06:29):
hundred million. He is the same vintage of quarterback. If
you just say, who's the comp on Derek Carr. If
I could have a Derek Carr typ quarterback, who would
that be? That would be John Kittna if you remember him.
Andy Dalton, who's still collecting paychecks as a backup Ryan Tannehill,
a second rate quarterback who's not the worst. He's not
(06:49):
certainly in a top ten at any point, not a
top ten player, and he's somewhere in the middle, but
on the lower end, sometimes slips down to a third
tier quarterback. Now, is it true that Derek Carr played
a role in the Raiders leaving Oakland? And the answer
(07:10):
is absolutely yes. And this is one of those taboo
topics people don't like to bring up. That's unfair. You
shouldn't bring that up. Okay, why not? It's a fact
that's on the resume. If you're an Oakland Raiders fan,
you're still bitter and broken. One of the things you
can point to an underlying condition for the Raiders why
(07:31):
they left Oakland. Derek Efin Carr, Derek Efn Carr. Now,
let me give you my evidence on this. Okay, I'm
gonna make my elevator pitch why Derek Carr one is
partially to blame for the Raiders leaving for Las Vegas.
A car turned out to be the last hope at
quarterback for the Oakland Raiders, the last hope. He arrived
(07:54):
in twenty fourteen as the starting quarterback for the Raiders
had in a parallel of the mention this happened, Derek
Carr galvanized the Raiders and put the team on his
back and led the franchise right, led the franchise to
a Super Bowl. Derek Carr could have would have kept
(08:18):
the team from leaving for Vegas, who too built the politicians. Well,
one thing I know about sleeves ball politicians, they love
a winner, and the Raiders were losers in Oakland. They
were pathetic the second time they went to Oakland, so
they were a pathetic group. Of players. Had they won
(08:38):
in that final push the last couple of years they
were the Oakland Raiders, you could have worked out a
deal and the team would have built a stadium. The
politicians would have worked out a deal to build a politician.
Even in California, the People's Republic of California, there was
a path through a stadium. But Derek Carr sucked at
a time he cannot suck, and he was just good
(09:00):
enough to drive you crazy, to pull your hair out,
and because he would suck in big moments and all
that stuff, and instead he put up would turned out
to be empty stats with the Oakland Raiders, and then
was with the team when they moved to Las Vegas.
They got the stadium deal, but they didn't get in Oakland.
They got it in Vegas because Vegas has a lot
of money and they were desperate for a team and
they were horny for a team. And so that's what happened.
(09:21):
Now with Derek Cargan, Gonzo the Muppet, what's next for
the Saints? What is next for the Saints? So it's
the great unknown. Now he looks bad, man doesn't look bad.
It looks like this is gonna be an zero to
sixteen quarterback room. You have right now the de facto starter.
(09:44):
Tyler Shuck is the starter. Shucks. Tyler Shuck, who is that?
He was a twenty five year old, was at Louisville
and was just drafted with the I believe it was
the fortieth overall pick. I think if I'm running it,
So he was drafted by the New Orleans Saints. He's
the de facto starter. Now, if Shuck can't shuck it,
(10:04):
they'll get rid of him. And then they have Spencer Rattler.
I'd rather have a snake Rattler than Spencer Rattler. So
he's there. Then you have somebody named Jake Hayner who
is also in the quarterback room. Yeah, that's they should
just put a King Kobra out there with the rattler.
That would be entertaining. No one would sack if you
(10:26):
had an actual life size rattlesnake. I think those big,
tough defensive players would try to sack a rattlesnake. Hell no, now,
I don't know how a rattlesnak would throw the ball,
but imagine the rattlesnake on a quarterback keeper. You're gonna
run for a touchdown every time noy'body defenders jumping off
as the rattler goes down the field into the end zone.
(10:46):
Me anyway, So it doesn't matter which way you go,
you got You've got suck, crap, and garbage. Those are
the three options at quarterbacks. So good luck to the
Saints there. They're trying to find lightning in a bottle
and it's fine. It's not like they were gonna win
anything with Derek Carr anyway, Okay, when they were not.
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What you didn't start with an NBA game? What's wrong
with you? Oh? My guys? The playoffs? You know? Like basketball?
Shut up? So I made an editorial decision. I made
an editorial decision. And normally we start with basketball and
(12:41):
I'd rant and somebody'd be in the vomit comment and
that would be that, and I'd move on and then
we take calls and that's normally how it goes. But
this night different than all other nights. Why is this
night different than all other nights? Well, I've made an
editorial decision. It's not every day that Lifetime bands are
(13:04):
over done and players are welcome back. And this is
a story that has kind of followed me if you will,
since I got into the talk radio world when I
was a young lad back in the day. So I
thought it was an interesting story, and I think it's
worth some conversation here at the start, and we'll get
into the basketball games. We've got four hours of nonsense.
(13:25):
That's a long time to talk. That's a lot of talk,
so plenty of time to get to everything. But I
want to start with the baseball And I assume you've
heard by now, but possibly you live in a box
and you have not heard. We really love people that
live in shoe boxes. It's good for us. So anyway,
Major League Baseball, if you missed it, major League Baseball's commissioner.
(13:49):
We like to call them Rob manfraud. But Rob Manford
has removed Pete Rose from the ineligible list. He's back.
He's also dead. Also, welcome back, shoeless Joe Jackson, also dead.
There's a theme if you're dead and your band Rob
(14:12):
Manford likes you, welcome back, Welcome back. Now you're dead,
but you're back. The permanent ineligible list of Major League Baseball.
You've got a bunch of deceased players. But the headline
Joe Jackson. There were movies made many years ago. And
I don't know how many people today even though who
Joe Jackson was shoeless Joe Jackson, but Pete Rose shoeless
(14:34):
Joe Jackson. Couple of figures in baseball's past that have
been welcome back now as a result, and you don't
bury the lead, my man. All right, I'm not gonna
bear the lead. So as a result, here it's really
about Pete Rose. Pete Rose, major League Baseball's all time
hit leader. He's now eligible, as it is shoeless Joe
(14:54):
Jackson eligible for election to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Keep in mind that President Trump helped get this done.
The President met with Rob Manford recently, and all of
a sudden, shortly after that, wonder what kind of deal
they worked out? Hey, let Pete back in. We'll let
you continue to screw fans over with the nickel and
(15:16):
Dime Major League Baseball TV package. Who knows, but either way,
Rob Manford has done it. He has removed Pete Rose
from the ineligible list. So let us discuss the question
for the esteem panel. How do you dissect Rob Manford's
decision to let Pete Rose and these other dead players
(15:37):
including shoeless Joe Jackson back into baseball. So I've got profit,
I've got blue ribbon and home depot, and we will
combine all of these things together and we're going to
make a line drive base it up the middle. That's
what we're gonna make, all right. So the word I
have for this I didn't ask for a word, But
(15:58):
the word I have for this move by Rob Manford
to allow Pete Rose back in baseball, my word is cosmetic.
That is my word. It is a cosmetic move by
Rob Manford. Now I mentioned this is a nostalgias story.
That's why I'm starting to show with it. So when
I started in radio, I was a young lad. I
was a teenager and I walked into the radio station
(16:21):
in San Diego, the mighty six ninety man. I thought
this was the big leagues, right, this is seventy seven
thousand watt radio station in San Diego. It was a
border blaster station. The transmitter was actually in Mexico and
it blasted all over and at that time, before the Interweb,
it was a big deal. And I remember I was
an intern for this guy Lee Hacksaw Hamilton, who was
like my mentor. One of my mentors in radio, and
(16:43):
at that time it had only been a few years.
I'm dating myself, but it only been a few years
since Pete Rose had been banned from baseball. And I
learned quickly from observation that when you had a slow day,
I was a young whipper snapper, But when you had
a slow day in sports radio and you wanted to
stir things up, what you did is you said, hey,
(17:08):
Pete Rose, did he bet on baseball? Should he be
banned from baseball? Should they remove the band? And then
you give out the number, and the phones light up
like a Christmas tree, And it was for years. It
was the go to conversation. It was the go to conversation,
and everything went light up, and people had very strong
(17:28):
opinions and both ways, both ways on that. So I
look at this as cosmetic now, because yeah, Rob Manford
will get some brownie points, He'll get some brownie points
for this reinstating Pete Rose at this point, if you
do the calculus on this using the Mallard man, it's
(17:48):
a pr win for baseball. Yeah, there are some people
complaining and ranting and saying, you know, Peteza scumbag and
shouldn't be welcome back and all that stuff. But yeah,
the old timers, the old time I'merson and I still
occasionally get a call it Pete Rose with a Hall
of Fame. I mentioned dick In Dayton's name here earlier,
and that's the number one Pete Rose fan. I know
(18:09):
the number there. But for me, the idea of putting
Pete Rose back on the eligible list is a fruitless endeavor.
It's a fruitless endeavor. And here's why they have both
left this. Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson have left
this mortal coil. They're dead. And it always, it's always
(18:35):
annoyed me when you celebrate, like the Hall of Fame,
when they put people in who are, like you're dead,
you know, it's like, Okay, celebrate people while they're alive.
I'm a big celebrate people while they're alive person. Pete
Rose died seven months ago, in September of last year.
Shoeless Joe Jackson, he has been dead for seventy three years.
(18:57):
He died in nineteen fifty one. Okay, so he's been
gone for a while. And Pete Rose, the whole Charlie
Hustle thing and all that, and there were generation of
fans but that worshiped Pete Rose played forever. And while
Pete is known as Charlie Hustle, he gets another nickname
in death, Pete the Prophet. Now we mentioned this in
a previous episode of the show. Is it true that
(19:21):
Pete Rose, in what could have been his final interview,
his final interview before he died, mentioned this very thing happening,
mentioned this very outcome well ten days before Pete Rose
left this world that we all share. Pete Rose said
(19:43):
just ten days before he died that he wouldn't make
the Baseball Hall of Fame until after he died. He
said it, He said it ten days before he left us,
and Rose was spitting mad. He said, if I'm gone,
it don't matter. Pete Rose said, who the f wants
(20:04):
to go in when you're dead? Ding ding ding ding ding.
That's a good hot take by Pete and I agree
with him. I absolutely agree. Now, I had heard early
on that the world of baseball was never going to
allow Pete back while he was alive, because the generations
were upset. They felt he played a role in the
(20:25):
death of Bart Giamani, who had been the commissioner for
a very short time, even though bart was overweight and
had all kinds of problems. But anyway, so fine, So
there you go. Pete Rose, the prophet, Pete the Prophet
predicted this. And as far as Joe Jackson and Pete Rose,
there were movies made about both and documentaries books written
(20:48):
about all this stuff. And I know in the early
days of Fox Sports Radio, there's a restaurant. We're at
the corner of Venturince of Palvity here in the valley,
and right across the street there was an Italian restaurant.
And when I started at this company, every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday you could find Pete Rose holding court at
(21:10):
the bar at this Italian restaurant. Everyone knew it. If
you want to see Pete, go over there. Pete will
be over there. He'll be having drinks and a bunch
of other old ballplayers would be hanging out from his
era in the in the sixties and the seventies. They'd
be hanging out with Pete and they just tell old
war stories while they had cocktails and appetizer. And then
Pete eventually just moved to Vegas because he was making
(21:31):
so much money. He's selling autographs. He just moved there
full time. But for years he lived right you know,
live right here and was right across the street. Now,
where does the Pete Rose Hall of Fame movement go?
Now there's there's something. Well, he's in the Hall of Fame.
You know, he's not in the Hall of Fame. He
hasn't been put in the Hall of Fame. So where
Pete Rose in death goes in terms of the campaign
(21:51):
for the Hall of fame red and tape bureaucracy, those
are words you can use. Red tape bureaucracy. There is
no sense of urgency and why would there But he's dead,
you're not coming back. So Pete Rose was banned from
baseball in nineteen eighty nine. It's been a minute for
gambling on the Cincinnati Reds and while he was managing
(22:14):
the team and the legend when he didn't bet on
the Reds that let everyone know who was taking the bets,
that he didn't think they were going to win. Blah
blah blah blah blah. But the National Baseball Hall of
Fame in Cooperstown, York made him ineligible from induction, and
that was in nineteen ninety one. That was his first
year eligible because he was a player manager in Cincinnati,
(22:36):
and as we understand it, again trying to keep up
on all the details on us. As we understand it,
the rank and file baseball scribes and our buddies like
Rob Parker and the baseball writers who love to have
that ballot and vote, they will not get the vote
on this. Pete Rose's future for the Hall of Fame
ultimately will be decided by a handpicked blue ribbon panel.
(22:59):
You know blue ribbon panels. I love a good blue
ribbon panel. So that will consist of ten to twelve reps,
handpicked that will decide the Historical Overview Committee. That just
sounds like bureaucracy. The Historical Overview Committee will develop a
ballot of eight names. We assume Pete Rose will be
(23:20):
on there. The Classic Baseball Era Committee will evaluate the
candidates and those that had the greatest impact on the
game before nineteen eighty and no vote though will take
place before December of twenty twenty seven, which means the
(23:42):
earliest Pete Rose would have There'll be a ceremony to
honor he's dead, but to honor Pete would be in
the summer of twenty twenty eight. So here we are
in twenty twenty five in May, so you got to
get through the rest of this year, twenty six, twenty seven,
so we're looking at over three years, and that's the
quickest as I understand it, this could happen. Now, was
(24:03):
Pete Rose guaranteed of being elected to the Hall of Fame? No,
he's not. Even with this, he's not. There are sure
to be some that will hold grudges. I've already seen
some hot take artists out there, the artists in of
the hot take that have said no, no, no, no, no,
Pete Rose is a scumbag, he's a dope, He's a loser.
That's the counter argument. It's hard to fight that Pete
(24:25):
was a shady guy, and so that's it's not you know,
I don't really care about the tax return thing. There
was an incident in twenty seventeen he was actually doing
TV stuff and he was accused of statutory rape. There
was a counter earlier. There's no my nods, there was
no criminal charger. It was an accusation that was made.
(24:47):
So do that with what you want. And now the
last word here, So assuming this does go the way
it's going and Pete ultimately wand up into the Hall
of Fame at some point here even though he's dead.
What does Pete Rose being given reinstatement. Let's focus on
this being given reinstatement to Major League Baseball do for
(25:09):
the guys like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, the steroid
people of baseball who are also not in the Hall
of Fame. Even though there are steroid players in the
Hall of Fame, players that we are relatively confident did
steroids but are allowed in there are not on the
naughty list, but Barry Bonds is on the natty list,
and Roger Clemens and several other of these cats. So
(25:32):
on the surface. After a minutes long Mallard deliberation on
the Ben Maler Show, we have determined that this does
bupkus for Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa, that vintage
of player. Now Barry Bonds and his steroid brethren of
that era the issues. They're not banned from baseball. They're
(25:56):
not banned. It's just done on the down low. It's
on the DL right to down low, and their persona
non grata for the Hall of Fame. However, here's the
here's the interesting wrinkle to this. What this Pete Rose
update does do for Barry Bonds and the other steroid players,
(26:20):
the other pd pals, is it provides them a road
map on how to get into Cooperstown and without being Macab,
which means I'm going to be Macab. Barry Bonds and
these other cats need to go down to Home Depot
and buy a bucket. And at some point, we know
(26:42):
the endgame on life, we know how it ends. We
don't know when it's gonna end. We know how it's
going to end. So at some point Barry Bonds and
everyone else, once they kick the bucket, then all of
a sudden, well we're going to panel together. We'll put
these guys in the Hall of Fame. But you got
to kick the bucket, So go get bucket at Home Depot,
kick the b there you go.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now
Malor's Mountain of Money. Hello, do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not see.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
A timeout for Malo's amount of money has made our
contestants for this game show we have a Jed who fled?
Who's going to play? Hello? Jed? Okay, Hello Charlie. I
love with Charlie.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Dude, I love Charlie. I love you.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
He's a kid. Leave alone? And did you don't? Don't
influence the man, Jed? No, who do you want to
partner up with? Jed? That was now invailable? Okay, that's
right down l next to your name? Lorena picked door
number one, door number two or door number three? Number three?
All right, well you're gonna picked Greg in South Carolina? Hello, Greg,
(27:55):
I'm going on there he is. Look at this guy. Unbelievable. Greg,
you won the pick number three. You were on the
third line. Look at that.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
That's right? All right? And Greg, what part of South
Carolina are you in? I am from Gasney, the home
of the Peak. There you go home, Jaffny, that's where
you've heard of that coup?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Yeah, Frank Underwood, the fictional character from uh the House
of Cards?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Right, but that was not in those shows. Oh yeah, Hollywood,
you use the name, but a different location. That's terrible. Ye, right, Well,
who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
There?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Greg? You got me Ben or Lorraine if you want
some fun. I know a couple of these this time. Okay,
all right, all right, I guess you picked me a
fine very good justin you're with Jed. Jed pick a category.
Please hold on a second, make sure everyone's on. Don't
hang up on you. All right.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
This is the Stevie Wonder edition of Mallage Amount of Money.
He turned seventy five years old today.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Seventy five. You know he's been able to see his
whole life. Uh.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
The category is sign sealed delivered on yours superstition higher
ground or isn't she lovely?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Jed? What would you like about highround? Oh? Of course?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Uh? And then Greg, how about you? Which category would
you like? Superstition superstition? All right, so, so Jed, you
and I are up first. You know the rules of
the game, so I'm not going to tell them to you.
Forty five seconds on the clock, we have higher ground.
These athletes got better after changing teams. Forty five seconds begin.
(29:28):
He was on the Chargers, then he went on to
the Saints to win a Super Bowl. Quarterback. Yes, this
guy was on the Clippers. He is now the MVP
on the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I got no, I get holy crap, Holy crap. He's
got like three names hyphenated last name. All right, all right,
we's okay, we'll skip it. This guy is now a
star on the New York Knicks.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
He came from the Dallas Mavericks. Yes, no, you, no,
you got it, the by you star. He was the
backup for Joe Montana Hiver doctor. Yes, this guy was
nicknamed the bus running back. Yes, this guy was dropped
out of high school. He was on the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
He was part of the mollah You really got hung
up on shake Yogas Alexander. Yeah, current MVP man. All right,
well we're up, Greg. Let's show him how it's done here, Greg,
let's scool these cats. No problem. You picked superstition, Is
that correct? Correct? All right? These athletes all are known
to be superstitious. Are you ready, Gregg? Forty five seconds
(30:33):
on the clock. Are you ready? Ready? All right? Ron
a waygo, quarterback for the Chiefs right now, Becker, Yes,
tight end for the forty nine ers. White guy York, Yes,
the big fundamental for the San Antonio Spurs back in
the early two thousands and the late nineties. Center. All right,
(30:55):
let's go to a baseball player. Third basement for the
Red Sox in the nineteen eighties. Hall of Famer. Yes,
basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks. He wore high socks.
All right, no basketball for you. How about this baseball
player was a closer for the Cubs and the Mets.
He liked to chew licorice between innings. Kind of an
(31:16):
eccentric to superstitious guy. White guy in the nineties. Speaking
of nineties, you got ninety points. Wow, that means we
can go again. Oh good, are exciting? You didn't get
I didn't even try Rafiel on the doll but you
didn't get him much. Jim Duncan, Jim Duncan and Jason Tay.
You're not a basketball guy, Greg, No, okay, we're screwed.
(31:39):
All right? What category we have? What do we have? Signed?
Sealed delivered? I'm yours? And isn't she lovely? Isn't isn't she?
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Yeah, isn't she's just lovely? Deliver me? Shut up? All right?
These athletes recently I'm not gonna try the basketball names.
These athletes did not even did not are these athletes
recently had a daughter? So here we go. Are you ready? Greg?
All right? Forty five seconds on the clock. Here would
go go. Quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys right now. Yes,
(32:15):
slugger from Japan. He's also a pitcher for the Dodgers. Yeah.
Quarterback for the Carolina Panthers when they won when when
they went to the Super Bowl. Was the MVP. Yes,
wide receiver for the Bengals. He changed his name. Yes, pitcher.
He was the ace of the Milwaukee Brewers. He went
(32:36):
to the Orioles. He's still pitching. He's on the Diamondbacks now.
Last name is like the the guy from the Simpsons,
the owner of the power plant there.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Okay, well, I don't even try the basketball name. So
you got those right, and it should be one of
them enough you it was Corbyn Burns, remember corpor Yeah,
but you got all the other ones. I even try
the basketball ones because he got one night. All right, Jed,
we need fifty points here to tie. Choke shed six,
(33:12):
do not choke, shed choke, don't choke. I'm not sign
I'm just I'm telling him not to choke. I don't
still delivered on yours.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
These athletes were practically given away in lopsided trades. Do
not choke forty five seconds on the clock. Choke and
let's begin, all right. This guy was an MVP for
the Red Sox. He's now on the Dodgers. Yes, all right, Uh,
he's not confident. This guy was a running back for
(33:43):
the Rams, part of the Greatest.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Show on Turf markall fault.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Yes, that ties us. This guy was a slugger for
the Oakland A's. He went to the Cardinals. He was
a cheater.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
No chance, no chance, no big, no joke. Don't joke Red,
don't joke jads big Red. He was on the race
with Sammy Sosa football. Yes, not in here that I
had tried. I didn't try to change stop. I didn't
(34:13):
try to change that. I didn't try to change sing.
You check your ass down there? Cool? You do notice
that though you shick your ass down. Okay, that's bullcrap.
You put a guy on that doesn't no basketball and
you had basketball thiss. You cheated, You cheated, You're a chain,
you cheated. You put up the non basketball guy and
(34:34):
you asked basketball questions.
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