August 30, 2025 • 31 mins
Big Ben talks about Cal Raleigh jumping ahead of Aaron Judge in the AL MVP race and if he actually has a chance to win against the Yankees star, Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift getting engaged and all of the drama surrounding the engagement, Maller's Mountain of Money: Melissa McCarthy Edition, and more!
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Seattle with the story everyone's been yapping about. Here cal
Raleigh doing it again. The Mariners star cal Raleigh homer
in his first two at bats against Jacob Lopez of
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the Athletics. Not the Sacramento Athletics, not the Oakland Athletics,
not the Kansas City Athletics, not the Philadelphia Athletics. They're
just the Athletics. But that home run bonanzo by cal Raley.
He broke the MLB record for home runs by a
catcher in a single season minimum seventy five percent of
games played as a catcher. So I assume you heard
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about that. If you've been listening, you know about it.
We've talked about it and maybe not. But Salvador Perez
of the Royals had the previous record with forty eight
home runs. That was back in twenty twenty one. Man,
it was so long ago, like four or five years ago.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Now Raleigh has forty home runs this season while playing
behind home play, So forty home runs is a catcher,
So he's still technically not one, but two home runs
away from that record. Just home runs by a catcher.
That was Hobby Lopez of the Atlanta Braves back in
the day forty two the most ever. Take that, Mike
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Piazza and all those other catchers the hit a lot
of home runs back in the day. All right, So
let us discuss the question based on the latest developments.
Has cal Rawley passed Aaron Judge by in the American
League MVP race. So I've got Google Maps, Airbnb, and
modern Art, and we will combine all of these things
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together and we will ring the bell again and again
and again and again. So number one, I said, number one. Yeah, alright,
So they're in a dead heat at this point, right,
dead heat. If you look at the American League MVP
race down the stretch we go, here we are It's
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late August, the baseball season heating up. Boy, it's toasty
hot most places, and we're setting up for a photo
finish like at the Kentucky Derby very in there. And
if you look at where we're at, cal Raley's got
this record, the record as opposed to the Royals catcher.
He's got that. He's gonna have the all time record.
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He's gonna hit at least three more home runs this
year unless he gets hurt, so he's gonna have the
all time record. And we know that catching is more
difficult than playing outfield like Aaron Judges for the Yankees
or dhing, which he's been doing somewhat lately because of
some injury stuff. So the issue though, and this is
the problem, and I want that dope from Seattle to
call up hate Kyl. We do the show today. We're
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worried about today's show. So today, as we talk today,
cal Raley is dead even and even has a slight edge,
a hair of an edge over Aaron Judge. The issue
is Google Maps. If you look at the geography, cal
Raley plays, as the old NFL coach Jimmy Johnson said
back in the day, he plays in southern Alaska. There's
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no workaround to that. There is what about the Internet,
there's no workerund you have. You have to overcome the
geography and Aaron Judge, all things being equal, Aaron Judge
East Coast bias and all that stuff. And also even
in the age of social media, Aaron Judge playing in
New York and he's got that superhero costume, the pinstripes.
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Good luck, right, the tie will go to Judge. If
it's even, the tie goes to Aaron Judge. So Raleigh
needs to be a full head and shoulders ahead of
Aaron Judge to take home the American League MVP Award
this year. And the Yankees have a one game lead
over the Mariners if you look at the overall standings
in a lost column, a one game lead for the
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wild Ano. They're both wildcard teams, but the Mariners are
one game behind the Yankees in the head to head standings.
Judge is on pace. He's on pace. Didn't play well,
particularly on that Sunday night game I was watching. The
Yankees did actually beat the Red Sox, which I didn't
think they could do anymore, but they did. I was
watching that game a little bit the Yankees have a
one game lead. As I mentioned, Judge on pace head
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ahead with the Mariners. Judge on pace for thirty two doubles,
fifty home runs and one hundred and fifteen RBIs now
cal Raley is tracking for twenty three doubles and he's
also on pace to hit sixty. I believe it's sixty
one home runs at this point and one hundred and
thirty one RBIs so so big time numbers.
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There was some debate in the newsroom that I have
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personalities and there's a couple of voices I would like
to put as a Newby Night. So today is a
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Lucky Tony, No, No, that's a blow to me. No
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Lucky Tony, I cannot do it. Jeedhu fled not gonna
be Now, what's gonna happen? What normally happens is some
of the regulars there are such attention whoors that they will
attempt to call up with fake voices and try to
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Always a fun degree of difficulty to Newby Night is
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But Bill has some health problems. He didn't call a
show much anymore. So, But who's going to step up?
That's the question. So it is a Newbie Night. I'll
give out the number in a little bit. I got
a rant here. It's called a malord monologue. At the
top of every hour, every hour on the hour. It's
(10:29):
a malar monologue, boom, just like that. So I was
going to lead the show with a different story. However,
my brigadier generals in the Mala Militsia, I listen when
they speak. So I really want to tip the cap
to Justin and Cincinnati and Robbie the Mariner Fan. They
reached out to me. I was sleeping and I woke
(10:51):
up to a couple of frantic messages. Justin in Cincinnati
specifically requested that I lead off the show with this story.
Justin said, you know, he just loves love. I think
that's what he said. He just loves love, and he
plays a schmuck on social media, complete a hole all that,
(11:11):
but it's just an act. It's just performance art. That's
all he does. And they said, both Robbie the Mariner
Fan and Justin and Cincinnati. The way I interpreted their
messages was that I would be committing a sports talk
radio felony if I avoided the Komodo dragon in the room,
the story that everyone's been yapping about here, it's crossover story.
(11:32):
So boys, your wish is my command. Tabloyd Mallord has
arrived ta Yeah, I know, Well, we do broadcasting, not
narrow cash and play the hit small man. What of
our old bosses used to say? So Taylor Swift, I'm
told she's kind of a big deal. I'm told she's
kind of a big deal. Taylor Swift, who apparently does
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some singing and gets paid for it. And Travis Kelcey,
who used to be good at football, and then I
don't know what that was in the Super Bowl last year. Anyway,
they're now engaged. Oh my god, sweet baby Jesus, they're engaged.
They announced the news in a joint post on The
Graham very exciting. Kelsey went into a garden, a literal garden.
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I don't know where the garden was, and he asked
Taylor Swift, the most famous woman in the world, I'm
told to marry him, and apparently she said yes. So
there you go. All right, So how does that work
in sports radio? How is that a sports stock radio
talking point? Well, you're about to find out. So let's
discuss the question. What are the chances that Travis Kelsey
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pulled off a shock engagement? That this was a surprise,
this was unexpected, that this came out of nowhere. So
I've got on this one. I've got waffle house, humped
back whale, and Roman candle, and we will combine all
of these things together, and we are going to make
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your Babushka's favorite gulash. Is what we're going to do
for your Babushka. We're going to do that, all right.
So a to answer the question, the chances that Travis
Kelsey pulled off a shock engagement, that Taylor Swift had
no idea that he was going to pop the question,
the chances are slimming none, And slim took the first
flight out of Dodge See you later. This was obviously
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carefully curated for human consumption. For your consumption, I guess
from mine. I slept, I was, I woke up to it.
But yeah, if had you had the photos. You had
the diamond ring, which I guess could could like use
as a reflector for mahomes on deep passes and all
that stuff. And they had a little cute post there,
(13:50):
your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.
I never had an English teacher like that. I never
had a gym teacher like that. I did not have
a gym teacher that looked like that. I had a
gym teacher that wore short shorts, had a whistle around
his neck and really short shorts. And then I had
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a lot of English teachers that were very old, very
old and had been beaten by life. That's what I had.
That's what I had. But this was so cute, folksy,
quirky and all that stuff, all those words right there,
and it was blasted across every single corner of the
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world wide web there within seconds, the interweb all over
the place. Now, does that sound organic? Maybe the back
of the room it sounds organic. Possibly the back of
the answer is sure. If organic means like tupperware, there's
a place somewhere. I think it's in South America where
they grow tupperware. No, and we've learned this actually happened
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two weeks ago. There's a two week old story. It
didn't get out for two weeks. Now, nothing, I understand.
Nothing in celebrity culture is organic. It does not exist. Now,
organic is a marketing term, we should point that out,
But organic is you know what organic is? An organic
proposal is going to Now this guy we met Dante
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in Vegas and his plan, he's going to do this.
I'm telling you, this guy's going to become loaded, rich,
loaded guy with waffle house. He's going to open the
first waffle house in Vegas. So the organic way to
propose is to ten years from now, go to Dante's
waffle House in Vegas in the parking lot at three
in the morning while eating the sausage egg gritz bowl
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and you've got the ring still in the You got
the ring and he came out of a plastic claw machine.
The engagement ring came out of a plastic claw machine
from inside. And then that's the engagement. Now, this, this
was all the Kelsey engagement was obviously chorey craft. It
was I would say, months in the making, knowing a
little bit about how that world works. And you had
(16:02):
Taylor Swift's people. You've got Kelsey's got people. See, I
don't have people like when you're that fit, you got people.
I don't have people. You know, we don't. I don't
have that. But they got people. You had the jeweler involved,
So there's a jeweler. You know people. You know, there's
got to be a back. So everyone loves a story, right,
You go to restaurants, and the menus at the restaurants are.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Well, here's our story about huh. We became you know,
love bla blah blah. We learned how to make fighter
training Alfredo in Italy while drunk. You know, it's an
old family. Everyone's got to have a story, right, Everyone
loves a story. We learned from stories. It's very big deal.
So you gotta have a story. It's it's not just
an engagement ring. There's a story to it.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Right, It's got some special meaning that will come out.
It's all hands on deck, all hands on deck. And uh.
And of course it's not a love story so much,
even though Justin and Cincinnati told me it was a
love story and Robbie the Mariner fan. It's an event.
It's an event, and yet it's it's also in a
weird way. It is sporty, right, That's the part that
kind of fascinates me. This is somehow he's sports story,
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but apparently it is. And page two, will there be
a prenup? Will there be a prenup between Taylor Swift
and Travis Kelsey? Okay, so it does a humpback whale
swim in the ocean? Does a humpback will Swift? Course?
But he just saw Tyreek Hill who got married for
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was his seventeen months, and he gave the woman he
was with five hundred thousand dollars for seventeen months, plus
like twenty grand a month to spend, because we all
need twenty grand a month to spend, plus a five
million dollar house, plus lawyer fees, plus this plan. So
you cant dollars to donuts, dollars to absolutely right, come
(17:47):
on now, of course you better believe there is going
to be a prenup here that Taylor Swift's legal team,
her lawyers, have already drafted a prenup up that I
believe runs longer than the United States Constitution. It's it's
bigger than the US Constitution. And Travis Kelce is rich.
It's not like Travis Kelsey doesn't have money. He's rich. However,
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Taylor Swift is wealthy. There is a difference between rich
and wealthy, and that's the that's the point of de marcation, right,
that's the point of demarket. So does this engagement end
in marriage? Not all engagements end in marriage. History tells
us that when it comes to celebrity engagements, it's a
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benny versus the penny situation. It's a coin flip, it's
a COI has Taylor Swift already written a song about this?
How about that? You think she's already got a song
in the tank?
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Hell?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yes, absolutely, it's either on her phones notes app, like
I put a lot of stuff on my notes app
on my phone, Like I'll have a random thought. I
was driving in and I had there was something I
wanted to ran about on the on the podcast. I'm
gonna save it for this weekend. But there was something
I say saw that really annoyed me. And I use
(19:03):
my weekend podcast this is therapy to complain about things
that annoyed me. So I saw this and I said,
I want to rant about that because that really annoyed me.
So I'll do that at some point this weekend. But
I used the notes mean so she's probably put it
on there, or other people wrote the song for her,
or maybe it's already been recorded. Who knows? Will they Elope?
Will they? Absolutely not? You think they're going to Elope.
(19:26):
They're not eloping. They're not going to the Elvis Chapel
in Vegas with our favorite taxi cab driver from Boston
who lives in Vegas. He's not gonna take him to
the Elvis chapel for a shotgun wedding that is not happening.
And I've been told by people that are very important,
and this is American Royalty. This is an American royal wedding.
We've never had an American royal wedding. They put those
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other weddings from Europe on and they get big numbers,
big numbers, and so this thing will be It'll be televised, commercialized.
You'll have the Swifties all over it, right, they'll be there.
You've got the Chiefs Kingdom and Kelsey's crowd. They'll be
blending together in one giant ven diagram right there, adoring fans.
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Oh my, wonderful. And of course I am not a
fan of either. I don't hate either or anything like that.
But I'll just be along for the ride here. Some
of you have sent me email telling me that Travis
Kelsey made a deal with the devil and he's a
lizard person. Now, so maybe that's the case. I don't
know if that's the case or not. But listen, I'll
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consume this. I'm in the content business. I will consume it.
I will mock it. That's what I do. I get
paid to consume things. And to mock things. And I'll
either secretly love it or hate it, or maybe a
little bit of both. And that's fine. That's the business
I've chosen. That's what we do here. That's also what
you do as well. We all have strong opinions. It's
the culture, and you know it's sports, but it's not
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sports except when it is sports. And now I got
to tell you personally, I have not this is something
that's changed in my life time. I have not understood
the obsession of the tight end celebrity. I don't understand.
It's something that did not exist in my childhood. This
is a thing that has happened as I've grown and
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become an adult. I guess I'm not smart enough to
figure it out. But back in my day, here's a
back in my day story. A tight end was a
glorified offensive lineman. That's what a tight end was. And
occasionally the tight end would catch a pass, but really
only if the quarterback got bored, they'd throw the tight
end a pass, and that's about it. That's about it.
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Now they're dating pop stars, Now they're engaging in the
hosting podcasts. They're on television like Gronkowski and all that stuff,
and they're auditioning for roles in movies. These tight ends.
What a amazing dichotomy from what it had been the
tight end position. Travis Kelsey's out there, he's galloping around
like a golden retriever who found a glitter cannon. And
(22:05):
that's pretty much like now now the last word on
this on a newbie night, the last word, does Chiefs
tight end Travis Kelsey's engagement? Did Taylor Swift mean asta
la vista? The twenty twenty five NFL season is going
to be all she wrote? Is that?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
It?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
So? If you look at this from thirty thousand feet
up in the sky, Travis Kelsey is going the old
Aerosmith Piece Out farewell tour. He's doing the old peace
Out farewell tour on this. Before he trades in the playbook,
he's going to give the playbook back and he's going
to get some horribly cheesy movie scripts. And you can
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play another waiter in a future Adam Sandler movie. Knock
yourself out here. Now, the Chiefs will not say their
brass will not say retirement the R word. They won't
say retirement, but I promise you they're already preparing a statue,
whether it be at Arrowhead or whether it be at
another venue in the Greater Kansas City slash Kansas you
(23:12):
know across the state line there in the Greater Kansas
City area. Well, we have a lot of friends, you know,
the show has done very well there. I recommend when
they get the wedding, I believe the people that should
take care of the food. Everyone's worried about wedding food.
What better at the Travis Kelcey wedding to Taylor Swift
than the landing in Liberty, Missouri? Serving Ben Mallard chicken
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fingers at the Kelsey Taylor Swift wedding. Perfect, They're right there.
It's a people think of Kansas City as a barbecue city,
but really it's a in many ways, it's more of
a chicken finger city. Would just be perfect, would just
be absolutely perfect. But you'll get a statue, get a
you know, the old tribute video and all this stuff.
(23:57):
Now this is not just ran them late night speculation
is not. It is the slow motion exit, the slow
motion and then you've got the Swifties soundtrack that's playing
underneath this and Kelsey's body kind of like the Haunted
Mansion at Disney's creaking a little bit, a little bit.
(24:19):
His yards per catch numbers going down, down, down, down, down, down,
down down down. That Super Bowl performance, my god, that
was about as flat as a Taylor Swift final record.
That was wow. My god. Now, Kelsey, not only is
he aging in front of our eyes, he's also his
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future is this he's auditioning. This is his future as
a distant relative of Nostradamis and friend of Nostra Denas.
He lives in Seattle. I saw him again. We had
a pow wow in Vegas with his wife, whose very
nice woman, except she's a vegan anyway, so vegetarian being
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in the same anyway, to me, it's the same thing.
So here's the future of Travis Kelcey. I've looked into
the future. His future is auditioning for the role of
former athlete Number three in the upcoming Netflix rom com
to be named later. That's what he's got in the future.
And he's got I know, he's got his little Meatthead podcast,
(25:23):
I know, the meathead megaphone. You guys love jock talk,
and there you go, got Travis Kelcey and his other
meathead brother, Jason Kelcey. The two meatheads, two slobs of
meat right there, slabs of meat talking, and they can
riff a couple of retired dudes and have that little
ring light on. And that's the way to do it right.
Everyone loves audio content. Everyone's got a podcast these days.
(25:45):
Why not Travis Kelcey, He'll be going out like a
Roman candle, Just like a Roman candle here, a loud,
flashy and slightly off target, just a little off target.
And then in retirement, Travis Kelcey can ride Taylor Swift's
be jeweled body suits right right, why not? And uh
(26:08):
kick pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
and all that stuff. So Kelsey's storybook ending. That's it.
It'll be storyboarded somewhere in Burbank at one of the
studios over there in Burbank, and a big movie coming
to a theater near you.
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Mailor's Mountain of Money. Hell, do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not?
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And right to the game we go. Let's welcome in
our contestants.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
We have.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Who do we have here? We have Uncle Ma who's
in Jersey now no longer in Brooklyn. He's moved over
to Jersey. What's going on, Uncle Mal?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Good morning, Ben?
Speaker 7 (26:54):
Looking forward to the football season, hoping to make bound
fasts as legal Jets might go seventeen to zero.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yes, if the other team only plays with ten players,
they might go seven seventeen. Uh and uh oh? Who
do you want to partner with the great Uncle Moe?
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I hope, I'm not roughly, Ben, I'm gonna go with you,
all right.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Spin a while, it spin a while, all right, you're
gonna play. And we have JJ in Renton. Hello, JJ, oh, man,
have been a long time. Man, It has been too long. JJ.
You work the dreaded swing chip. But you're back. You're
gonna be with Cooper loop. Alright, JJ, right, yeah, all right,
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I don't have time to do small talk.
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All right, let's do it like tobrocos though. That's fine.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
All right, let's let's play the game here. Lock everyone
in one of the categories quickly cool. All right.
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This is the Melissa McCarthy addition. She turns fifty five
years old today. Categories are the third wheel, the nines, bride'smaids,
and this is forty uncle, know you run first?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Which category would you like?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Third wheel?
Speaker 3 (27:56):
The third wheel?
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Alright, and JJ, how about you lap?
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What is the object? Do you want? The nines Brian's maids?
Or this is forty? This?
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Okay? All right, all right, very good, let's go forty.
What are forty five seconds o'clock? These athletes were typically
overshadowed by a duo of teammates. Uncle more, Are you ready? Yes,
all right, here we go. Known as the Beard. He
plays with the Clippers. Now, he was with the Rock Yes,
he was with the Miami Heat with Dwayne Wade. Yes,
voy guard from France for the Spurs when they had Duncan. Yes,
(28:35):
wide receiver for the Patriots. He's on Fox now slot
wide receiver. Yes, running back for the forty nine ers.
Also the same name of the manager of the Giants
in the eighties, the San Francisco Giants running back for
the Knights with Joe Montana All right, no wide receiver
for the Packers. Last name is like a salad with
(28:55):
Brett Farvar and Aaron Rodgers. Last name is like a salad.
The scooter for the Yankee in the nineteen. Yes, all right,
you got that one. A wide receiver for the Green
Bay Packers. Last name like a famous.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Cool seat them again, man, because I could barely hear here.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Man, he's found.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
By the robot.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Roger Craig was what you missed? And Randall Kah, I
like that.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
JJ knows he's going to lose.
Speaker 7 (29:18):
All right, JJ, JJ, We've got this is forty. These
athletes are currently forty years old. Whether retired or active,
they're forty years old. Right now, are you ready?
Speaker 3 (29:28):
JJ?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Yeah? Joe?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
All right?
Speaker 7 (29:29):
Forty five seconds to begin quarterback for the Falcons. He
threw to Julio Jones. He's retired now. Matt Ryan, Yes,
this guy was one of the all time great running backs.
He was on the Vikings, ran for two thousand yards.
He hit his son with a with a stick.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Oh, yes, all right.
Speaker 7 (29:49):
This guy was the point guard for the Lob City Clippers.
He's still in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
It's not Clay Thompson. It's I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
He's on State farm commercials. All right, all right, all right,
this guy, this guy was Powe's brother, Powe from the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Kyle.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
No, all right, this guy had the.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Same name as pac Man in the NFL, but he
was named me an MLB player terrible.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
JJ just wants to say I'm cheating, all right, he
sucked at the game.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Chris, Chris Paul is who you missed a right?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Why you want that? You want the nines or bridesmaids?
Speaker 3 (30:29):
You want nines or bridesmaids. JJ, I'll go to nine.
All right, it's all war number nine. Let's go. Current
quarterback for the Bengals.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Yes, this guy was the quarterback for the Saints. He's
gonna be in the Hall of Fame. Yes, this guy
was the kicker for the Ravens. He likes uh the
massage Parlors.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
This guy was the point guard for the Celtics championship
team with Kevin Garnett.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
It was uh.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
He later came to the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Hit the point guard board.
Speaker 7 (31:16):
Jeez, guy hit for last, got to hit four hundred
in baseball, the last.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Guy to hit four Yeah, ound, we had a little time.
You sucked. You sucked, jed. You never never played this
game again, I didn't she you didn't get any right
brides may here we go. These athletes all made it
to the championship game and nemb Won. Uh here we
go quickly. We have a full board, but let's go.
Uh Uncle Moe play with the Red Sox. Was a
(31:42):
rookie year played with the California Angels. Also hit the
first Grand Slam in an All Star game in the
No White Guy, No, Yeah, you got a right, Fred
the guy. We want the guy.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Uncle
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Seattle with the story everyone's been yapping about. Here cal
Raleigh doing it again. The Mariners star cal Raleigh homer
in his first two at bats against Jacob Lopez of
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the Athletics. Not the Sacramento Athletics, not the Oakland Athletics,
not the Kansas City Athletics, not the Philadelphia Athletics. They're
just the Athletics. But that home run bonanzo by cal Raley.
He broke the MLB record for home runs by a
catcher in a single season minimum seventy five percent of
games played as a catcher. So I assume you heard
(02:27):
about that. If you've been listening, you know about it.
We've talked about it and maybe not. But Salvador Perez
of the Royals had the previous record with forty eight
home runs. That was back in twenty twenty one. Man,
it was so long ago, like four or five years ago.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Now Raleigh has forty home runs this season while playing
behind home play, So forty home runs is a catcher,
So he's still technically not one, but two home runs
away from that record. Just home runs by a catcher.
That was Hobby Lopez of the Atlanta Braves back in
the day forty two the most ever. Take that, Mike
(03:06):
Piazza and all those other catchers the hit a lot
of home runs back in the day. All right, So
let us discuss the question based on the latest developments.
Has cal Rawley passed Aaron Judge by in the American
League MVP race. So I've got Google Maps, Airbnb, and
modern Art, and we will combine all of these things
(03:29):
together and we will ring the bell again and again
and again and again. So number one, I said, number one. Yeah, alright,
So they're in a dead heat at this point, right,
dead heat. If you look at the American League MVP
race down the stretch we go, here we are It's
(03:49):
late August, the baseball season heating up. Boy, it's toasty
hot most places, and we're setting up for a photo
finish like at the Kentucky Derby very in there. And
if you look at where we're at, cal Raley's got
this record, the record as opposed to the Royals catcher.
He's got that. He's gonna have the all time record.
(04:11):
He's gonna hit at least three more home runs this
year unless he gets hurt, so he's gonna have the
all time record. And we know that catching is more
difficult than playing outfield like Aaron Judges for the Yankees
or dhing, which he's been doing somewhat lately because of
some injury stuff. So the issue though, and this is
the problem, and I want that dope from Seattle to
call up hate Kyl. We do the show today. We're
(04:36):
worried about today's show. So today, as we talk today,
cal Raley is dead even and even has a slight edge,
a hair of an edge over Aaron Judge. The issue
is Google Maps. If you look at the geography, cal
Raley plays, as the old NFL coach Jimmy Johnson said
back in the day, he plays in southern Alaska. There's
(04:57):
no workaround to that. There is what about the Internet,
there's no workerund you have. You have to overcome the
geography and Aaron Judge, all things being equal, Aaron Judge
East Coast bias and all that stuff. And also even
in the age of social media, Aaron Judge playing in
New York and he's got that superhero costume, the pinstripes.
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Good luck, right, the tie will go to Judge. If
it's even, the tie goes to Aaron Judge. So Raleigh
needs to be a full head and shoulders ahead of
Aaron Judge to take home the American League MVP Award
this year. And the Yankees have a one game lead
over the Mariners if you look at the overall standings
in a lost column, a one game lead for the
(05:41):
wild Ano. They're both wildcard teams, but the Mariners are
one game behind the Yankees in the head to head standings.
Judge is on pace. He's on pace. Didn't play well,
particularly on that Sunday night game I was watching. The
Yankees did actually beat the Red Sox, which I didn't
think they could do anymore, but they did. I was
watching that game a little bit the Yankees have a
one game lead. As I mentioned, Judge on pace head
(06:02):
ahead with the Mariners. Judge on pace for thirty two doubles,
fifty home runs and one hundred and fifteen RBIs now
cal Raley is tracking for twenty three doubles and he's
also on pace to hit sixty. I believe it's sixty
one home runs at this point and one hundred and
thirty one RBIs so so big time numbers.
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There was some debate in the newsroom that I have
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a couple of I'm like blind Scott, I've got multiple
personalities and there's a couple of voices I would like
to put as a Newby Night. So today is a
newby Knight, which means all new colors. So Mike the
Leprechaun out, Blind Scott out, no moss for hollering, James
Lucky Tony, No, No, that's a blow to me. No
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Lucky Tony, I cannot do it. Jeedhu fled not gonna
be Now, what's gonna happen? What normally happens is some
of the regulars there are such attention whoors that they will
attempt to call up with fake voices and try to
get past the goalkeeper. So you have to listen to
see if any of the regulars get on with an alias.
Always a fun degree of difficulty to Newby Night is
(10:07):
which regulars are so desperate for airtime that they will
use now angry Bill used to do this all the time.
But Bill has some health problems. He didn't call a
show much anymore. So, But who's going to step up?
That's the question. So it is a Newbie Night. I'll
give out the number in a little bit. I got
a rant here. It's called a malord monologue. At the
top of every hour, every hour on the hour. It's
(10:29):
a malar monologue, boom, just like that. So I was
going to lead the show with a different story. However,
my brigadier generals in the Mala Militsia, I listen when
they speak. So I really want to tip the cap
to Justin and Cincinnati and Robbie the Mariner Fan. They
reached out to me. I was sleeping and I woke
(10:51):
up to a couple of frantic messages. Justin in Cincinnati
specifically requested that I lead off the show with this story.
Justin said, you know, he just loves love. I think
that's what he said. He just loves love, and he
plays a schmuck on social media, complete a hole all that,
(11:11):
but it's just an act. It's just performance art. That's
all he does. And they said, both Robbie the Mariner
Fan and Justin and Cincinnati. The way I interpreted their
messages was that I would be committing a sports talk
radio felony if I avoided the Komodo dragon in the room,
the story that everyone's been yapping about here, it's crossover story.
(11:32):
So boys, your wish is my command. Tabloyd Mallord has
arrived ta Yeah, I know, Well, we do broadcasting, not
narrow cash and play the hit small man. What of
our old bosses used to say? So Taylor Swift, I'm
told she's kind of a big deal. I'm told she's
kind of a big deal. Taylor Swift, who apparently does
(11:54):
some singing and gets paid for it. And Travis Kelcey,
who used to be good at football, and then I
don't know what that was in the Super Bowl last year. Anyway,
they're now engaged. Oh my god, sweet baby Jesus, they're engaged.
They announced the news in a joint post on The
Graham very exciting. Kelsey went into a garden, a literal garden.
(12:19):
I don't know where the garden was, and he asked
Taylor Swift, the most famous woman in the world, I'm
told to marry him, and apparently she said yes. So
there you go. All right, So how does that work
in sports radio? How is that a sports stock radio
talking point? Well, you're about to find out. So let's
discuss the question. What are the chances that Travis Kelsey
(12:42):
pulled off a shock engagement? That this was a surprise,
this was unexpected, that this came out of nowhere. So
I've got on this one. I've got waffle house, humped
back whale, and Roman candle, and we will combine all
of these things together, and we are going to make
(13:03):
your Babushka's favorite gulash. Is what we're going to do
for your Babushka. We're going to do that, all right.
So a to answer the question, the chances that Travis
Kelsey pulled off a shock engagement, that Taylor Swift had
no idea that he was going to pop the question,
the chances are slimming none, And slim took the first
flight out of Dodge See you later. This was obviously
(13:27):
carefully curated for human consumption. For your consumption, I guess
from mine. I slept, I was, I woke up to it.
But yeah, if had you had the photos. You had
the diamond ring, which I guess could could like use
as a reflector for mahomes on deep passes and all
that stuff. And they had a little cute post there,
(13:50):
your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.
I never had an English teacher like that. I never
had a gym teacher like that. I did not have
a gym teacher that looked like that. I had a
gym teacher that wore short shorts, had a whistle around
his neck and really short shorts. And then I had
(14:11):
a lot of English teachers that were very old, very
old and had been beaten by life. That's what I had.
That's what I had. But this was so cute, folksy,
quirky and all that stuff, all those words right there,
and it was blasted across every single corner of the
(14:32):
world wide web there within seconds, the interweb all over
the place. Now, does that sound organic? Maybe the back
of the room it sounds organic. Possibly the back of
the answer is sure. If organic means like tupperware, there's
a place somewhere. I think it's in South America where
they grow tupperware. No, and we've learned this actually happened
(14:53):
two weeks ago. There's a two week old story. It
didn't get out for two weeks. Now, nothing, I understand.
Nothing in celebrity culture is organic. It does not exist. Now,
organic is a marketing term, we should point that out,
But organic is you know what organic is? An organic
proposal is going to Now this guy we met Dante
(15:15):
in Vegas and his plan, he's going to do this.
I'm telling you, this guy's going to become loaded, rich,
loaded guy with waffle house. He's going to open the
first waffle house in Vegas. So the organic way to
propose is to ten years from now, go to Dante's
waffle House in Vegas in the parking lot at three
in the morning while eating the sausage egg gritz bowl
(15:39):
and you've got the ring still in the You got
the ring and he came out of a plastic claw machine.
The engagement ring came out of a plastic claw machine
from inside. And then that's the engagement. Now, this, this
was all the Kelsey engagement was obviously chorey craft. It
was I would say, months in the making, knowing a
little bit about how that world works. And you had
(16:02):
Taylor Swift's people. You've got Kelsey's got people. See, I
don't have people like when you're that fit, you got people.
I don't have people. You know, we don't. I don't
have that. But they got people. You had the jeweler involved,
So there's a jeweler. You know people. You know, there's
got to be a back. So everyone loves a story, right,
You go to restaurants, and the menus at the restaurants are.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Well, here's our story about huh. We became you know,
love bla blah blah. We learned how to make fighter
training Alfredo in Italy while drunk. You know, it's an
old family. Everyone's got to have a story, right, Everyone
loves a story. We learned from stories. It's very big deal.
So you gotta have a story. It's it's not just
an engagement ring. There's a story to it.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Right, It's got some special meaning that will come out.
It's all hands on deck, all hands on deck. And uh.
And of course it's not a love story so much,
even though Justin and Cincinnati told me it was a
love story and Robbie the Mariner fan. It's an event.
It's an event, and yet it's it's also in a
weird way. It is sporty, right, That's the part that
kind of fascinates me. This is somehow he's sports story,
(17:01):
but apparently it is. And page two, will there be
a prenup? Will there be a prenup between Taylor Swift
and Travis Kelsey? Okay, so it does a humpback whale
swim in the ocean? Does a humpback will Swift? Course?
But he just saw Tyreek Hill who got married for
(17:23):
was his seventeen months, and he gave the woman he
was with five hundred thousand dollars for seventeen months, plus
like twenty grand a month to spend, because we all
need twenty grand a month to spend, plus a five
million dollar house, plus lawyer fees, plus this plan. So
you cant dollars to donuts, dollars to absolutely right, come
(17:47):
on now, of course you better believe there is going
to be a prenup here that Taylor Swift's legal team,
her lawyers, have already drafted a prenup up that I
believe runs longer than the United States Constitution. It's it's
bigger than the US Constitution. And Travis Kelce is rich.
It's not like Travis Kelsey doesn't have money. He's rich. However,
(18:10):
Taylor Swift is wealthy. There is a difference between rich
and wealthy, and that's the that's the point of de marcation, right,
that's the point of demarket. So does this engagement end
in marriage? Not all engagements end in marriage. History tells
us that when it comes to celebrity engagements, it's a
(18:31):
benny versus the penny situation. It's a coin flip, it's
a COI has Taylor Swift already written a song about this?
How about that? You think she's already got a song
in the tank?
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Hell?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yes, absolutely, it's either on her phones notes app, like
I put a lot of stuff on my notes app
on my phone, Like I'll have a random thought. I
was driving in and I had there was something I
wanted to ran about on the on the podcast. I'm
gonna save it for this weekend. But there was something
I say saw that really annoyed me. And I use
(19:03):
my weekend podcast this is therapy to complain about things
that annoyed me. So I saw this and I said,
I want to rant about that because that really annoyed me.
So I'll do that at some point this weekend. But
I used the notes mean so she's probably put it
on there, or other people wrote the song for her,
or maybe it's already been recorded. Who knows? Will they Elope?
Will they? Absolutely not? You think they're going to Elope.
(19:26):
They're not eloping. They're not going to the Elvis Chapel
in Vegas with our favorite taxi cab driver from Boston
who lives in Vegas. He's not gonna take him to
the Elvis chapel for a shotgun wedding that is not happening.
And I've been told by people that are very important,
and this is American Royalty. This is an American royal wedding.
We've never had an American royal wedding. They put those
(19:48):
other weddings from Europe on and they get big numbers,
big numbers, and so this thing will be It'll be televised, commercialized.
You'll have the Swifties all over it, right, they'll be there.
You've got the Chiefs Kingdom and Kelsey's crowd. They'll be
blending together in one giant ven diagram right there, adoring fans.
(20:14):
Oh my, wonderful. And of course I am not a
fan of either. I don't hate either or anything like that.
But I'll just be along for the ride here. Some
of you have sent me email telling me that Travis
Kelsey made a deal with the devil and he's a
lizard person. Now, so maybe that's the case. I don't
know if that's the case or not. But listen, I'll
(20:34):
consume this. I'm in the content business. I will consume it.
I will mock it. That's what I do. I get
paid to consume things. And to mock things. And I'll
either secretly love it or hate it, or maybe a
little bit of both. And that's fine. That's the business
I've chosen. That's what we do here. That's also what
you do as well. We all have strong opinions. It's
the culture, and you know it's sports, but it's not
(20:57):
sports except when it is sports. And now I got
to tell you personally, I have not this is something
that's changed in my life time. I have not understood
the obsession of the tight end celebrity. I don't understand.
It's something that did not exist in my childhood. This
is a thing that has happened as I've grown and
(21:20):
become an adult. I guess I'm not smart enough to
figure it out. But back in my day, here's a
back in my day story. A tight end was a
glorified offensive lineman. That's what a tight end was. And
occasionally the tight end would catch a pass, but really
only if the quarterback got bored, they'd throw the tight
end a pass, and that's about it. That's about it.
(21:41):
Now they're dating pop stars, Now they're engaging in the
hosting podcasts. They're on television like Gronkowski and all that stuff,
and they're auditioning for roles in movies. These tight ends.
What a amazing dichotomy from what it had been the
tight end position. Travis Kelsey's out there, he's galloping around
like a golden retriever who found a glitter cannon. And
(22:05):
that's pretty much like now now the last word on
this on a newbie night, the last word, does Chiefs
tight end Travis Kelsey's engagement? Did Taylor Swift mean asta
la vista? The twenty twenty five NFL season is going
to be all she wrote? Is that?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
It?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
So? If you look at this from thirty thousand feet
up in the sky, Travis Kelsey is going the old
Aerosmith Piece Out farewell tour. He's doing the old peace
Out farewell tour on this. Before he trades in the playbook,
he's going to give the playbook back and he's going
to get some horribly cheesy movie scripts. And you can
(22:49):
play another waiter in a future Adam Sandler movie. Knock
yourself out here. Now, the Chiefs will not say their
brass will not say retirement the R word. They won't
say retirement, but I promise you they're already preparing a statue,
whether it be at Arrowhead or whether it be at
another venue in the Greater Kansas City slash Kansas you
(23:12):
know across the state line there in the Greater Kansas
City area. Well, we have a lot of friends, you know,
the show has done very well there. I recommend when
they get the wedding, I believe the people that should
take care of the food. Everyone's worried about wedding food.
What better at the Travis Kelcey wedding to Taylor Swift
than the landing in Liberty, Missouri? Serving Ben Mallard chicken
(23:35):
fingers at the Kelsey Taylor Swift wedding. Perfect, They're right there.
It's a people think of Kansas City as a barbecue city,
but really it's a in many ways, it's more of
a chicken finger city. Would just be perfect, would just
be absolutely perfect. But you'll get a statue, get a
you know, the old tribute video and all this stuff.
(23:57):
Now this is not just ran them late night speculation
is not. It is the slow motion exit, the slow
motion and then you've got the Swifties soundtrack that's playing
underneath this and Kelsey's body kind of like the Haunted
Mansion at Disney's creaking a little bit, a little bit.
(24:19):
His yards per catch numbers going down, down, down, down, down, down,
down down down. That Super Bowl performance, my god, that
was about as flat as a Taylor Swift final record.
That was wow. My god. Now, Kelsey, not only is
he aging in front of our eyes, he's also his
(24:43):
future is this he's auditioning. This is his future as
a distant relative of Nostradamis and friend of Nostra Denas.
He lives in Seattle. I saw him again. We had
a pow wow in Vegas with his wife, whose very
nice woman, except she's a vegan anyway, so vegetarian being
(25:03):
in the same anyway, to me, it's the same thing.
So here's the future of Travis Kelcey. I've looked into
the future. His future is auditioning for the role of
former athlete Number three in the upcoming Netflix rom com
to be named later. That's what he's got in the future.
And he's got I know, he's got his little Meatthead podcast,
(25:23):
I know, the meathead megaphone. You guys love jock talk,
and there you go, got Travis Kelcey and his other
meathead brother, Jason Kelcey. The two meatheads, two slobs of
meat right there, slabs of meat talking, and they can
riff a couple of retired dudes and have that little
ring light on. And that's the way to do it right.
Everyone loves audio content. Everyone's got a podcast these days.
(25:45):
Why not Travis Kelcey, He'll be going out like a
Roman candle, Just like a Roman candle here, a loud,
flashy and slightly off target, just a little off target.
And then in retirement, Travis Kelcey can ride Taylor Swift's
be jeweled body suits right right, why not? And uh
(26:08):
kick pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
and all that stuff. So Kelsey's storybook ending. That's it.
It'll be storyboarded somewhere in Burbank at one of the
studios over there in Burbank, and a big movie coming
to a theater near you.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
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Mailor's Mountain of Money. Hell, do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
And right to the game we go. Let's welcome in
our contestants.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
We have.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Who do we have here? We have Uncle Ma who's
in Jersey now no longer in Brooklyn. He's moved over
to Jersey. What's going on, Uncle Mal?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Good morning, Ben?
Speaker 7 (26:54):
Looking forward to the football season, hoping to make bound
fasts as legal Jets might go seventeen to zero.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yes, if the other team only plays with ten players,
they might go seven seventeen. Uh and uh oh? Who
do you want to partner with the great Uncle Moe?
Speaker 3 (27:08):
I hope, I'm not roughly, Ben, I'm gonna go with you,
all right.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Spin a while, it spin a while, all right, you're
gonna play. And we have JJ in Renton. Hello, JJ, oh, man,
have been a long time. Man, It has been too long. JJ.
You work the dreaded swing chip. But you're back. You're
gonna be with Cooper loop. Alright, JJ, right, yeah, all right,
(27:31):
I don't have time to do small talk.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
All right, let's do it like tobrocos though. That's fine.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
All right, let's let's play the game here. Lock everyone
in one of the categories quickly cool. All right.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
This is the Melissa McCarthy addition. She turns fifty five
years old today. Categories are the third wheel, the nines, bride'smaids,
and this is forty uncle, know you run first?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Which category would you like?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Third wheel?
Speaker 3 (27:56):
The third wheel?
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Alright, and JJ, how about you lap?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
What is the object? Do you want? The nines Brian's maids?
Or this is forty? This?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Okay? All right, all right, very good, let's go forty.
What are forty five seconds o'clock? These athletes were typically
overshadowed by a duo of teammates. Uncle more, Are you ready? Yes,
all right, here we go. Known as the Beard. He
plays with the Clippers. Now, he was with the Rock Yes,
he was with the Miami Heat with Dwayne Wade. Yes,
voy guard from France for the Spurs when they had Duncan. Yes,
(28:35):
wide receiver for the Patriots. He's on Fox now slot
wide receiver. Yes, running back for the forty nine ers.
Also the same name of the manager of the Giants
in the eighties, the San Francisco Giants running back for
the Knights with Joe Montana All right, no wide receiver
for the Packers. Last name is like a salad with
(28:55):
Brett Farvar and Aaron Rodgers. Last name is like a salad.
The scooter for the Yankee in the nineteen. Yes, all right,
you got that one. A wide receiver for the Green
Bay Packers. Last name like a famous.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Cool seat them again, man, because I could barely hear here.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Man, he's found.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
By the robot.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Roger Craig was what you missed? And Randall Kah, I
like that.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
JJ knows he's going to lose.
Speaker 7 (29:18):
All right, JJ, JJ, We've got this is forty. These
athletes are currently forty years old. Whether retired or active,
they're forty years old. Right now, are you ready?
Speaker 3 (29:28):
JJ?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Yeah? Joe?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
All right?
Speaker 7 (29:29):
Forty five seconds to begin quarterback for the Falcons. He
threw to Julio Jones. He's retired now. Matt Ryan, Yes,
this guy was one of the all time great running backs.
He was on the Vikings, ran for two thousand yards.
He hit his son with a with a stick.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Oh, yes, all right.
Speaker 7 (29:49):
This guy was the point guard for the Lob City Clippers.
He's still in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
It's not Clay Thompson. It's I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
He's on State farm commercials. All right, all right, all right,
this guy, this guy was Powe's brother, Powe from the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Kyle.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
No, all right, this guy had the.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Same name as pac Man in the NFL, but he
was named me an MLB player terrible.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
JJ just wants to say I'm cheating, all right, he
sucked at the game.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Chris, Chris Paul is who you missed a right?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Why you want that? You want the nines or bridesmaids?
Speaker 3 (30:29):
You want nines or bridesmaids. JJ, I'll go to nine.
All right, it's all war number nine. Let's go. Current
quarterback for the Bengals.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Yes, this guy was the quarterback for the Saints. He's
gonna be in the Hall of Fame. Yes, this guy
was the kicker for the Ravens. He likes uh the
massage Parlors.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
This guy was the point guard for the Celtics championship
team with Kevin Garnett.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
It was uh.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
He later came to the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Hit the point guard board.
Speaker 7 (31:16):
Jeez, guy hit for last, got to hit four hundred
in baseball, the last.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Guy to hit four Yeah, ound, we had a little time.
You sucked. You sucked, jed. You never never played this
game again, I didn't she you didn't get any right
brides may here we go. These athletes all made it
to the championship game and nemb Won. Uh here we
go quickly. We have a full board, but let's go.
Uh Uncle Moe play with the Red Sox. Was a
(31:42):
rookie year played with the California Angels. Also hit the
first Grand Slam in an All Star game in the
No White Guy, No, Yeah, you got a right, Fred
the guy. We want the guy.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Uncle
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