December 8, 2022 • 38 mins
Big Ben talks about Aaron Judge staying with the Yankees, Von Miller being ruled out for the rest of the season, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, and more!
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As we get back to business here and a lead
comes from the winter meetings. We'll we're gonna talk about
Aaron Judge. But big story happened we do the last
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couple of hours here the Boston Red Sox have lost
another player, Xander Bogarts. Heke on free agent shortstop late
of Boston, agrees to a MEGAMEGAMEGAMEGAMEGA contract to go cross country.
He's going to San Diegos. Andrew Bogarts go to the
Padres for two hundred and eighty million smackaroos over eleven years.
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We'll talk more about that as we go through the
over night, but we must focus in on the story
of stories here a story that we have talked about
for the last couple of months, off and on. It
involves Aaron Judge. There were bogus stories flying everywhere. The
eagle has landed. In fact, it happened shortly after we
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got off the radio in our previous edition of the show.
Now we assume you've heard by now put but maybe not.
Maybe you live in the live in the cave somewhere.
I don't know. But Aaron Judge, Aaron Judge agreed to
stay put with the Yankees on a nine year contract
for three hundred and sixty million dead presidents. Now we
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are hearing that Judge had similar or even better offers
on the table from the Giants and the Padres, the
Padres who just signed Xander Bogarts, at least in terms
of the overall guaranteed money. I know you're very concerned
about the finances of Aaron Judge, as am I. So
let us discuss the question what grade you give Aaron Judge.
He's got the contract now, he's staying with the Yankees,
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So this one's rather easy to grade. Aaron Judge gets
an A plus plus plus plus plus. The Yankees get
the date, they get a date. That's what they get.
I've got Ron Pope, Peel puffery, and laborate noodle, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make pinstripes, is what we're going to make,
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all right, So A so much for the Aeron. Judge
headed to the Golden State theory, the conspiracy theory. I
had people, there were people feeding me information. This was
done months ago. Judge is going to go to the
Giants reports of his pending deal with the Giants. Obviously,
we're premature and bogus. It is interesting to note, though,
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that the Yankees and Giants will open up the twenty
twenty three regular season against one another, so the Giants
will be at Yankee Stadium in next baseball season begins.
But but Aaron Judge spurning his hometown team, close to
family to stay in the Big Apple. Now, it's one
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of the all time great bet on yourself stories, and
it much like my theory on gambling. And I love gambling,
but I believe parlays are sucker bets. I've said that
for some time, and I have a buddy of mine
that bets nothing but parlays, and I always tell him,
you're a moron. But my theories like when somebody hits
a sixteen leg parlay, the gambling house has loved to
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promote it because it creates other people doing the same
thing and they know they're gonna win in the end. Right,
That's usually how the show game works, of you will
and in contracts and betting on yourself, it's off in
the same Like, we're gonna hear a lot about Aaron Judge.
He bet on himself. What a success story, and it is.
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He's an A plus plus deal. But for every eron Judge,
there are dozens of players that bet on themselves and
end up doing a face plant. For example, Michael Conforto
of the Mets bet on himself and how that worked out.
In football. Lamar Jackson, who's currently hurt right now, not
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having a good year for the Ravens, bet on himself.
How's that doing? We can go on and on. But
Aaron Judge, he bet on himself. It worked out, so
he gets the A plus plus plus plus plus because
he turned down two hundred and thirteen million dollars last offseason,
he ends up getting an extra one hundred forty six
and a half million dollars in two more years added on.
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So Aaron Judge bet on himself. He goes on. He says,
a new American League home run record. We know what
happened there, Al MVP human screwdriver as he cork screws
himself into the ground during the postseason, but the regular
season numbers. He was just short of becoming the first
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Yankee player to win a triple crowns. It's Mickey Mantle
in nineteen fifty. He seeks very impressive, however, I would
say more impressive than the numbers on the field were
the way that Aaron Judge was able to get the
Yankees to up the anti after that virtuoso performance, and
Judge's agents taking advantage of useful idiots or should I
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say a useful idiot in the media. John Hayman, who
planted the story, I assume he got it from one
of Judge's agents about the contract with San Francisco being
all but done. Remember the famous Arson Arson line. There
Arson Judge, not Aaron Judge, Arson Judge. So what Judge
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did here through his agent he used the timeless Ron
Pope Peel business model of the late infomercial legend that
was booked on my podcast and then found out who
I was and said, I'm not going on that podcast.
But Ron Popee was a legend, right, And what does
that mean in Layman's terms, taking advantage of a blind
spot that we're all guilty of having as human beings
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fomo the fear of missing out and infomercials are so
successful in part because they've figured out the mind hacks
that you use. Phrases like supplies are limited, You heighten tension,
you issue the warning that you better act now or
you're gonna miss out on the product. And if you've
ever watched late night TV, you know the use of
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the classic countdown technique and it's all about that sense
of urgency. And Aaron Judge, with his agent, was able
to do that, and they put a sense of urgency
on the Yankees to match the money. And you gotta
call one of the Steinbrenner kids who's like in Italy
and Pasta and get him on the phone and they
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it obviously worked, right, it's science back, it's trustworthy, it's reliable,
and they say the Padres offered more where they are
said the Padres offering more. But Aaron Judge didn't want
to play in Sun Diego. I guess he doesn't like
fish tacos and didn't want to play with that steroid
cheet Fernando Tatisso he ends up going back to the Yankees.
Now page two. Here, the chatter after Judge got his
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record breaking contract for a position player was that I
love this. He went back to the Yankees because of
his legacy, Because of his legacy, the aura of the pinstripes,
it was just too powerful, almighty, an omni present for
Aaron Judge to league and he'll be the captain of
the New York Yankees, the first captain since El Capitan
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Derek Jeter. And so this means, of course he'll get
the plaque, he'll get his number retired in Monument Park.
Everyone gets that all the trimming. So the question here
is is it true that Aaron Judge stayed in the
Boogie down Bronx because of the aura, the honor of
the pinstripes. And no, I'm shaking my head no on that.
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That is what's known as sports media puffery is what
that is hyperbole, romanticizing a topic at hand. In this case,
it's the Yankee mistique. The reality is that Aaron Judge
was fully prepared. I'm convinced of this. He was fully
prepared to sign with San Francisco. He made a financial decision.
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When the Bronx Bombers match the offer, he gave him
the chance, and you can ask a good job by him.
He gave the Yankees an opportunity to match the offer,
and when they did, he said, okay, but he would
have pivoted the other direction. But crunching the numbers, Judge
realized he could make even more. If the money's the same,
you're gonna you're gonna get you know what from the
taxman playing in California or New York, so it doesn't
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really matter. But the difference you can make up from that,
if the money's exactly the same from endorsements is obviously
Madison Avenue is a little bit morefittable than Lombard Street,
so he signs on the dotted line. But do not
be naive here. Imagine if you will, a world where
Aaron Judge signed with the Giants. We'd hear about romanticizing
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his youth. His family grew up going to Candlestick Park,
freezing their asses off at night games, right, watching Barry
Bonds smashed steroid fueled homers in the mccubby cove, the
magic of the Orange and Black, all of that would
have been tossed outright, would have been thrown out. But
since he didn't sign with the Giants, instead, he's gonna
wax about the pinstripes and Yankee pride and all that.
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All right, last word here, So how do the Giants,
the losers in this, how do they handle striking out?
You're out, get out of here, grab some bench on
Aaron Judge. So there's no other way to spend this.
This is a real kick in the shins for the Higgants.
You hate to see it. They rolled out the red carpet.
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They had been working through back channels for many many
us to get the message out that this is the
guy they wanted, the big burly slugger, the first real
super super superstars. His Barry bonds for the Giants, the
guys from your regions a couple of hours away but
geographically desirable, and Judge in that time story we talked
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about in a previous episode of the show, he had
visions of playing for the Giants. He floated, the deal
was all but done through his agent, but in the
end he teased, but he did not did not please
the Giants. Spent all this money buying drinks and gifts
for Aaron Judge, and then he went back to renew
his vows, his marriage vows with the Yankees. It's like,
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wait a minute, you were flirting with him, You're playing
footsie and he goes back to the ages. So my
advice to the Giants here is to invest in a
therapy labradoodle. That's what they need. They need a therapy
of labradoodle and reallocate those funds just throw money at
somebody else. That's what the Podres did, right, The Podres
just keep throwing money at people until somebody signs nobody
wants to play for the Podres. They finally found somebody
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that did, and so they're like, okay, let's just say
why not, and we'll just move the money around, moving
around around, around and around around. So that's the Aaron
Judge tale. And again the big story here within the
last couple of hours, Xander Bogart's leaving the Red Sox
as Boston unable to keep their shortstop. Although that was
telegraph many many months ago that we saw blood in
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the water that Xander was not long to continue his
career at Finway, and now he's going from Finnway to
Petco in San Diego. He can live. Where do you
think he's gonna live? You think you live in North
County South I don't know. Maybe live on the beach,
maybe live Inland, I don't know. We'll find be sure
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Andrew Bogart's going from Boston to San Diego. Aaron Judge
has a new home. Ken Lee Janssen is with the
Boston Red Sox. Now, I'm sure that'll go well for
the for the Socks. The former Dodger in Atlanta, Brave
Closer goes to Boston, and the Red Sox also signing
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an outfielder out of the Japanese League. All right, so
our lead this hour coming from Western New York. Though,
we're gonna play the hits. Moll Man, play the hits,
and that's where the buffalo roam. But one key buffalo
will not be roaming anywhere. The Bills having a magical season.
Remember the beginning of the year, the first couple of weeks.
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No one's gonna stop the Bills. Josh Allen is your MVP.
Happy days are here again. Well, problem problem, problem, problem,
problem problem. If you have not heard, and maybe not,
we learned that edge rusher extraordinaire von Miller has taken
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a bite out of the breakfast cereals, Snap crackle pop.
He's out for the year. Heyne von Miller, former RAM
Super Bowl champion, outspoken Von Miller got a bad knee.
Bill's head coach Sean McDermott confirming the news. Now the Bills.
It s originally that when von Miller got hurt, he'd
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miss a week or two. Then they said he'd miss
four weeks all right, put him on the injured reserve list.
And then Miller had surgery this week on his mangled
the knee, and it was determined that that knee is
so jacked up he will not be able to return
at all at turn out the lit the parties over. Now,
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during the procedure, surgeons discovered a torn a c L,
which we know because we like our sports. We know
what an ACL and we have a couple of acls,
we hope. All right, so let us discuss the question,
how will Vaughan Miller's absence impact the Bills for the
rest of the season. So I've got Lynchpin powder Room
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and Tom Hanks, and we will lock all of these
things together, and we are going to make some Buffalo wings.
Is what we're gonna make there, the Buffalo chicken wings,
the whole thing, all right. So number one, this is obvious.
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A gut punch. This is a gut punch, A body blow,
body blow, body blow for Buffalo, the best laid plans
of mice men and NFL teams in upstate New York. Now,
you can spin this story six ways to Sunday. You
can swear on the Holy Bible it will not matter.
And I say, Philly, I say, Philly, that is nonsense.
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All right. This is a constipation situation with von Miller.
The Buffalo defense was able to get consistent pressure of
opposing quarterbacks, and they were doing that in large part
because of the presence of von Miller himself. Now, what
is my evidence to back that up. I'm glad you
asked von Miller leading the Bills in sacks with eight
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of them and quarterback pressures with thirty eight of them.
Through Week twelve, only seven teams had a higher pressure
rate than the Buffalo Bills defense. With von Miller, he
held everything together. The focus of opposing blocking schemes was
we gotta keep an eye on von Miller vers von
Miller blah blah. Got a double team von Miller that
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freed up other defensive players. You take away the lynchpin,
and what happens to the wheel. The wheel does not
go round and round, It comes off, is what happens
to the wheel. So the Buffalo Wagon on defense, that
lynchpin has been pull out, pull out there, and now
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the wheel doesn't come on. You have to put the
Bills lower on your big board and whatever you're using,
big board, ladder, whatever it might be. So this is
a tremendous mitzvah for the Chiefs, the ben Gals, dare
I say, the Dolphins and anyone else that you consider
a legitimate contender and not a pretender it does. I
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mean the Bills can't win. It just got a lot harder. Now. Secondly,
can the Buffalo Bills hold that defense together without von Miller?
So this is always a tricky one. Ken is a
bit of a weezel word. You know, sure they can.
You can find someone from the Greyhound bus station to
fill in for von Miller. Will you get production? That's
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what it's all about now. Gregory Roussel, the edge rusher
who the Bills drafted in the first round out of
the U Miami, Miami, Miami. He was a first round
pick in the twenty twenty one draft. He now slides
on over, he does the sideway shuffle and he gets
the opportunity. Now he's been a bit player, hasn't been
a key guy. He's unproven, and he gets tossed into
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the fire. And so that's when the rubber meets the road.
You've got issues here. And we've pointed out many times
that injuries provide a great opportunity for other people, and
there's there's no difference here that this will have a
brass ring opportunity to put yourself on the map, even
though you're a first round pick, to prove that you
belong to prove that you can be productive and the
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bills should not be written on. But at this point,
until I see something from Gregory Rousseau, you've got to
think that that this guy's not going to be anywhere
near the impact player that von Miller was. It's a downgrade, right.
The elevator is going down, it's not going up. And
imagine if you will going into the powder room at
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your favorite hotel. Let's say you stand at a nice
five star hotel and I'm going to use the analogy
to sum up von Miller that has never been used
before losing von Miller, and that's the TP analogy. So
you go to this nice potter room at your favorite hotel.
You stay there a lot. They have four ply toilet
paper that's the thickest, strongest available toilet paper. It's amazingly soft,
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it's silky to the touch, it's it's got perfume, it's
it's quilted, it's it's scented, whatever words you want. It's wonderful.
And then midway through your trip to the potter room,
you reach over to grab the four ply luxury toilet
paper and you realize that somebody has replaced it with
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one ply toilet paper, which is a single layer of
paper that is rough on your ba donkey dog. And
so you've gone from silk to sand paper. Now you
can still accomplish the mission at hand. You can still
complete the mission at hand, but it's gonna be more
uncomfortable for you. You know what I'm saying, am, I'm
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making the point clear here that yeah, you could still
get the job done with the one ply toilet paper
as opposed to four ply, but the four ply much
more enjoyable as an easier experience for you, and you
won't have any agony, any pain after that. So that's
what the Bills are going to go through on defense,
and again, until you show me that you can get
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it done, I'm gonna show me state of mind. Like
the Great State of Missouri quarterback hits sacks. Sacks are
the biggest one, but pressure. Those are game changing plays.
A well timed sack you put an offense behind the
chains and that causes them to have to punt. And
now that ability would seemingly be limited that the Bill's
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defense will be singing a different tune there that they
will not be able to get that done on a
consistent basis. All right, final point, what do we make
of that von Miller contract? Now let's go back in
the hot tub time machine, and we all feasted our
eyes on that contract. And so my answer would be,
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that's this, This is how I anticipated things going here.
This is a Buffalo boondoggle. Buffalo boondoggle. Von Miller is
Tom Hanks in that old nineteen eighties movie The Money
Pit Don't Let a Falling Star Fall on You in
And von Miller's in that same category of athletes with
Kawhi Leonard and Jacob DeGrand. A wonderful talent when he plays,
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but as he is on through his career, he has
been unreliable recently. That is the case. The Bills forked
over a three year contract. They gave him a lot
of funny money, but it's really a three year deal
for fifty two point four million. Now, I am a
salary cap truther, but the guaranteed money is guaranteed money.
There's no way to cut that. Back. In Buffalo, they
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thought they were getting the consistent smoke show defender for
a nominal amount of un and he joined the Bills,
and it started out well and all that and now
here we are at this point a crossroads in this season,
and von Miller, who was playing like a beast early
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in the year, now like, wait a minute, he's broken down,
and he's a broken down player that needs prepared. You
know things are not going well when the Bill's brass
is selling the fact, well, von Miller is still gonna
help us in the playoffs with veteran leadership on the sidelines. Yeah,
that's why you gave him the contract to be a coach. No,
the Bills gambled, They ignored the comps, they went full
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steam ahead, guns a blazing, and here we are. Von Miller,
who missed all of the twenty twenty season in Denver
with an ankle injury, hasn't played a full schedule since
twenty eighteen. He's soon to be thirty four years old.
The athletic prime ends at thirty two, so he's also
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This operation on the knee is not just a single
year situation. That's a knockout punch for this year, but
it also has you behind in the count for twenty
twenty three. He's likely not going to be ready when
the season comes around in the summer of twenty twenty three.
So how do you think he'll be coming off an injury,
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missing the usual work, having to do the rehab and
all that. In twenty twenty four at age thirty five.
Good luck, good luck on that. I'm sure nothing bad
will happen. It will all be great. It'll all be great.
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third degree. This is one gets grilled. Speaking of the Raiders,
they have now won three games in a row and
Davante Adams is starting to dominate Ben. Is there any
chance that the Raiders sneak into the playoffs this season? Yeah? So,
I don't see the math working out this way. The
Raiders are five and seven. They should beat the Ramps
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tonight to get to six and seven, and they they've
gotta shot. They gotta win out get to ten and
seven to have a shot. The Chargers, Patriots, and Jets
are all ahead of them, and the problem is Vegas
still has games at the end of year with the
Niners and the Chiefs, so the chances of them winning
both those games are slim and none. So I'm going no.
That loss to the to the Colts, the one to
the Saints is gonna kill him next So, speaking of
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teams starting to gel, the defending AFC champ Bengals have
won four games in a row. Is Joe Burrow firmly
back in the MVP race? Well, he's in the race.
He's not the favorite. Mahomes and Jalen Hurts are ahead
of him. But listen, this guy Burrow has been amazing
I think the last I did this for the handicapping.
Last seven games, he's got sixteen touchdowns and three interceptions.
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He's been absolutely wonderful for the Bengals. He keeps that up. Yeah,
but he's not leading the race. He's in the race next.
Sean Payton revealed on Monday that he expects to coach
again sooner than later. If not this year, hopefully next year,
is what he said. Been asking for Broncos fans everywhere.
Do you think there's any chance he comes to Denver? Oh?
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You still have Russell Wilson, right, So no, why would
you know? Come on, No, he's not gonna go to Denver.
I think the Charger job's the one he's gonna get
because they're gonna they're gonna change the coaching staff and
justin Herbert, everyone's kissing his asses. God's gift of the
quarterback position. That's the job I think Peyton gets at
this point. How did weak down coach Bello? You fail
this edition? What are you talking? I can't fail? Terrible answer,
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A great answer. Have you seen Russell Wilson play? What
coaches the Chargers paid? I guessed to live in La
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We're gonna start with a question from j D and Boston.
You'd like to know would you go visit a space
hotel if you had the opportunity if somebody paid for it.
I don't know that sounds very expensive, but it would
be pretty cool if it was like relatively safe. Like
I'd have a bunch of people go up first, and
then it'd be a few people would die, but then
by the time it's safe that'd be awesome. I think
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we'd be cool. Although my guy Shatner said it's very
depressing when you get to space, That's what he claimed.
I don't know, uh, is that for everybody? Yeah? Space hotel.
You don't want to go up there and check it out?
Could they like knock me out on like the you know,
like the flight up there, and then wake me up
like when we get there and that kind of things
such a diva. No, I just the journey. No, I
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don't think that would be fun. I don't think that
journey would be fun. Being would be exciting exciting, you know,
in the sense of I'm afraid I'm gonna die. I
guess that could be exact exciting. No, I'll pass. You
go ahead. I'm waiting till other people die and then
I'll go up. What about you, Roberto? Uh hard pass? No,
thank you? I don't want to pass. Yeah, I'm gonna
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die Star Wars or Star Trek. Yeah, all right, Cooper
Loop me and Cooper's yes, and you Roberto and Eddie? No,
all right? What is next here? What do we all? Right? Next,
We're going to go to Doublow, Mexican. This is for
the crew. He wants to know. Have you ever gotten
caught for underage drinking in high school by your parents
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or any other authority? Figure. No, No, I did have
a fake ID in in high school, so I was
able to get an occasional drink, but I did not
ever get caught. It wasn't a big drinker in high school.
What about you, Eddie. No, I grew up in a
rural area in central California. We just got in the
Orange groves and drank. There's no cops out there, so,
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I mean we we had parties that got busted by
the cops, broken up, but we never got like in
trouble or anything. Yeah, your kids knock it off, you
kids alcohol? Yeah, go on home to your folks. What
about you, Roberto? Yeah, I got got drinking smoking weed
multiple times, and I was yeah, okay, Now you're a
national radio person who knew no Biggie exactly. You run
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amuck and here you are. What about you, Coop? I
never really drank so so no. Uh, my my weed
stash was found at one point. Where was it hidden?
Uh in this like ceramic Converse shoe that I had
in my room? Did your parents throw it out or
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did they? Oh? It was bad. It was bad. My
parents were separated, but my mom found it, and she
found it when I was out, like hanging out with
friends and then and then I came home to get
my my weed. She said, what is this? She wasn't
even there. I go into my bedroom and my entire
room is clean, and there's just like a trash bag
full of like stuff in the middle of the room.
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And I'm like, oh, And I went and I like,
I put my hand in the ceramic shoe when it
was gone, and I went. I looked at my friend.
I was like, we gotta get out of here. And
I stayed out until like eleven PM when she finally called.
She's like, where are you come home? It was not good.
It's not good. That's funny. You thought you were under
the radar, and you all right, oh, what is next year?
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What do we have? All? Right? Um, your questions are answers. Well,
I guess in order for that. So, Ben, did you
end up watching the PEPSI Where's my Jet? Yeah? I've
watched ninety percent of it. I got I get a
little bit left. So yeah, so I think I can
ask this question. Cowboy Killer wants to know if you
were the guy from from Where's My Jet? Would you
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have taken the million or would you have fought for more? Oh?
I would have taken it. Well, the taxes and all that.
I didn't at his age, I wouldn't know about the taxes,
so I probably would have taken the money. Yeah. But
that's a great documentary. It's really well done. I like it.
Surprise appearance midway through from someone Yeah, great, great, great great.
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He had a very great He had a funny line
when he popped up on him. That was Yeah, that
was pretty good. All right, Roberto, would you have a Yeah,
I'm like bad. I think I would have known about
the taxes. Oh yeah, I would have took the money. Yeah.
If you know about the taxes, you gotta you gotta
fight for I would have take him that. I would
have taken the money. Also. Yeah, all right, ask man.
Your questions are answers. What someone's from milkman Mike for
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for everybody? What is your worst Christmas memory? Uh? Uh Yeah,
I don't had any bad horrible. I had a we
had a great Thanksgiving gravy mask her. One time I
dropped the gravy and we spent my entire family spent
the Thanksgiving cleaning up gravy off the ceiling and the
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walls because it fell and splattered everywhere. It was a disaster.
But I've not really had anything bad, Honker or whatever?
What about Eddie? Any holiday nightmare scenarios that flash up
flashback nightmares? No, there's you know, there were a few
bad gifts or something. Oh sure there was that one
ant that sent underwear and socks every year. Practical now,
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but as a kid, like, what the hell is this?
I don't want this? And you knew what it was
every year was the same thing. You'd always save it.
I don't want to open that. I don't want to
just open that. Yeah, all right, Roberto or anything. Nah
Christmas nod go cool man. You guys have just had
privileged lives, huh, pretty much on third base. My worst
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Christmas memory I was like thirteen. I was thirteen, and
I was like WWF was like my religion as a kid.
But by that time I was like kind of just
like over it. But my mom didn't know I was
over it. So yeah, all all the Christmas presents were
like WWF related, and I was not a good like
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actor off camera, and she just like she felt bad
and I was. Yeah, I just it wasn't very nice
and I just to this day that haunts me. I
just I felt like a jerk. I play it off.
When there is an art, you gotta receive a gift
the right away. That is a big part of it. Right,
Yeah weep if you this is great. I've always wanted underwear.
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We will start with Washington Capitol superstar Alexander Ovechkin. He's
got Wayne Gretzky in his crosshairs as he's trying to
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chase down the all time greatest goal scorer in NHL
history and also closing in on eight hundred career goals.
He had two last night, did Alexandrovetkin and to win
over the Flyers. He sits third all time. He's six
goals away from second place in Gordy how and now
he's ninety nine away from number ninety nine Wayne Gretzky
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for the all time NHL goal scoring lead. Toronto maple
Lea's forward Mitch Marner currently writing a twenty game point
streak that is a new franchise record for the Toronto
Maple Leaves, which had been at nineteen. He'll be an
action to night against the La Kings that could to
extend that streak to twenty one in a row. New
Jersey Devil set a new club record with their eleventh
straight road win. They beat the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday night.
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The Levels lost their first road game of the season,
and they haven't lost one since. The NHL record for
consecutive road victories twelve by the Detroit Red Wings and
the Minnesota Wild. Boston Bruins saw their NHL home record
winning street come to an end. It was at fourteen
in a row before losing to the Vegas Golden Nights
in a four three shootout this past week. Vegas getting
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the win for their head coach Bruce Cassidy, who was
fired by the Bruins in the offseason, and he won
his first game back against his old team. Penguins Veteran
defenseman Chris Latang gonna be out and definitely after suffering
a stroke last week. Six time All Star was not
experiencing any lasting effects. It's not believed to be a
career threatening injury. This is actually the second time that
Latangas suffered a stroke. The first one was in twenty fourteen.
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He missed more than two months of that season. The
Tempee City Council in Arizoni nasally approved the Arizona Counties
Arena and Entertainment District proposal, giving them a support real arena.
Then they're leaving that high schools. Well, it still has
to be voted by the voters people. And let me
tell you, my friends in Arizona, they vote for all
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of that for stateable. You were in Phoenix. Everywhere you
go there's a there's a spring training complex which is massive,
every couple of blocks, and they're building stuff everywhere all
over the place. May sixteenth will be the vote to
decide the fate of this. What they do is they
raise the rental car tax, which is what they always do. Actually,
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it's a it's a two point one billion dollar project,
but one point nine billion is being privately funded, so
it's actually they're not asking for a lot of money
there for this new arena. Yeah, it's all Ottawa Senators
Forward alex Foremanton is going to be the first restricted
free agent and the salary cap era to sit out
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an entire season because he did not sign a contract
with his team ahead of a deadline on Thursday, declined
to qualifying off from the summer. Now there's also this
nugget he may be facing discipline from the league as
his name has come up in a twenty eighteen sexual
assault case when he was playing for Team Canada, so
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that could be a factoring the reason why they did
not sign him as well. Interesting situation for the Vancouver Canucks.
Their head coach Bruce Boudreau decided to scratch struggling forward
Brock Besser the other night because he hasn't been playing well.
The problem was that night was their Hockey Fights Cancer
Night and brock Besser's dad, Duke, had died last year
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from cancer and they were honoring him his dad before
the game. They were wearing jerseys with his name on
the back, and and then brock Besser was like, you know,
I really wanted to play in the game, and it
didn't go over well with everybody. They ended up playing
him in the game any when he scored a goal.
But there's bad blood now between the two sides and
Apparently they have given brock Bester's agent permission to seek
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a trade. Yeah, trade, coming out of a trade, I
want to be traded to, Eddie, the Kings, I don't know,
probably not. I don't know what else came the Bruins.
Yeah no, no, no no were to peg Jets. Just keep
throwing names out there, Las Vegas or lost. There's no
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Las Vegas. Is Vegas Vegas. Mr car much clear that
that's your punk the World Report, all right, thank you
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As we get back to business here and a lead
comes from the winter meetings. We'll we're gonna talk about
Aaron Judge. But big story happened we do the last
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couple of hours here the Boston Red Sox have lost
another player, Xander Bogarts. Heke on free agent shortstop late
of Boston, agrees to a MEGAMEGAMEGAMEGAMEGA contract to go cross country.
He's going to San Diegos. Andrew Bogarts go to the
Padres for two hundred and eighty million smackaroos over eleven years.
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We'll talk more about that as we go through the
over night, but we must focus in on the story
of stories here a story that we have talked about
for the last couple of months, off and on. It
involves Aaron Judge. There were bogus stories flying everywhere. The
eagle has landed. In fact, it happened shortly after we
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got off the radio in our previous edition of the show.
Now we assume you've heard by now put but maybe not.
Maybe you live in the live in the cave somewhere.
I don't know. But Aaron Judge, Aaron Judge agreed to
stay put with the Yankees on a nine year contract
for three hundred and sixty million dead presidents. Now we
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are hearing that Judge had similar or even better offers
on the table from the Giants and the Padres, the
Padres who just signed Xander Bogarts, at least in terms
of the overall guaranteed money. I know you're very concerned
about the finances of Aaron Judge, as am I. So
let us discuss the question what grade you give Aaron Judge.
He's got the contract now, he's staying with the Yankees,
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So this one's rather easy to grade. Aaron Judge gets
an A plus plus plus plus plus. The Yankees get
the date, they get a date. That's what they get.
I've got Ron Pope, Peel puffery, and laborate noodle, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make pinstripes, is what we're going to make,
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all right, So A so much for the Aeron. Judge
headed to the Golden State theory, the conspiracy theory. I
had people, there were people feeding me information. This was
done months ago. Judge is going to go to the
Giants reports of his pending deal with the Giants. Obviously,
we're premature and bogus. It is interesting to note, though,
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that the Yankees and Giants will open up the twenty
twenty three regular season against one another, so the Giants
will be at Yankee Stadium in next baseball season begins.
But but Aaron Judge spurning his hometown team, close to
family to stay in the Big Apple. Now, it's one
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of the all time great bet on yourself stories, and
it much like my theory on gambling. And I love gambling,
but I believe parlays are sucker bets. I've said that
for some time, and I have a buddy of mine
that bets nothing but parlays, and I always tell him,
you're a moron. But my theories like when somebody hits
a sixteen leg parlay, the gambling house has loved to
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promote it because it creates other people doing the same
thing and they know they're gonna win in the end. Right,
That's usually how the show game works, of you will
and in contracts and betting on yourself, it's off in
the same Like, we're gonna hear a lot about Aaron Judge.
He bet on himself. What a success story, and it is.
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He's an A plus plus deal. But for every eron Judge,
there are dozens of players that bet on themselves and
end up doing a face plant. For example, Michael Conforto
of the Mets bet on himself and how that worked out.
In football. Lamar Jackson, who's currently hurt right now, not
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having a good year for the Ravens, bet on himself.
How's that doing? We can go on and on. But
Aaron Judge, he bet on himself. It worked out, so
he gets the A plus plus plus plus plus because
he turned down two hundred and thirteen million dollars last offseason,
he ends up getting an extra one hundred forty six
and a half million dollars in two more years added on.
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So Aaron Judge bet on himself. He goes on. He says,
a new American League home run record. We know what
happened there, Al MVP human screwdriver as he cork screws
himself into the ground during the postseason, but the regular
season numbers. He was just short of becoming the first
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Yankee player to win a triple crowns. It's Mickey Mantle
in nineteen fifty. He seeks very impressive, however, I would
say more impressive than the numbers on the field were
the way that Aaron Judge was able to get the
Yankees to up the anti after that virtuoso performance, and
Judge's agents taking advantage of useful idiots or should I
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say a useful idiot in the media. John Hayman, who
planted the story, I assume he got it from one
of Judge's agents about the contract with San Francisco being
all but done. Remember the famous Arson Arson line. There
Arson Judge, not Aaron Judge, Arson Judge. So what Judge
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did here through his agent he used the timeless Ron
Pope Peel business model of the late infomercial legend that
was booked on my podcast and then found out who
I was and said, I'm not going on that podcast.
But Ron Popee was a legend, right, And what does
that mean in Layman's terms, taking advantage of a blind
spot that we're all guilty of having as human beings
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fomo the fear of missing out and infomercials are so
successful in part because they've figured out the mind hacks
that you use. Phrases like supplies are limited, You heighten tension,
you issue the warning that you better act now or
you're gonna miss out on the product. And if you've
ever watched late night TV, you know the use of
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the classic countdown technique and it's all about that sense
of urgency. And Aaron Judge, with his agent, was able
to do that, and they put a sense of urgency
on the Yankees to match the money. And you gotta
call one of the Steinbrenner kids who's like in Italy
and Pasta and get him on the phone and they
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it obviously worked, right, it's science back, it's trustworthy, it's reliable,
and they say the Padres offered more where they are
said the Padres offering more. But Aaron Judge didn't want
to play in Sun Diego. I guess he doesn't like
fish tacos and didn't want to play with that steroid
cheet Fernando Tatisso he ends up going back to the Yankees.
Now page two. Here, the chatter after Judge got his
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record breaking contract for a position player was that I
love this. He went back to the Yankees because of
his legacy, Because of his legacy, the aura of the pinstripes,
it was just too powerful, almighty, an omni present for
Aaron Judge to league and he'll be the captain of
the New York Yankees, the first captain since El Capitan
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Derek Jeter. And so this means, of course he'll get
the plaque, he'll get his number retired in Monument Park.
Everyone gets that all the trimming. So the question here
is is it true that Aaron Judge stayed in the
Boogie down Bronx because of the aura, the honor of
the pinstripes. And no, I'm shaking my head no on that.
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That is what's known as sports media puffery is what
that is hyperbole, romanticizing a topic at hand. In this case,
it's the Yankee mistique. The reality is that Aaron Judge
was fully prepared. I'm convinced of this. He was fully
prepared to sign with San Francisco. He made a financial decision.
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When the Bronx Bombers match the offer, he gave him
the chance, and you can ask a good job by him.
He gave the Yankees an opportunity to match the offer,
and when they did, he said, okay, but he would
have pivoted the other direction. But crunching the numbers, Judge
realized he could make even more. If the money's the same,
you're gonna you're gonna get you know what from the
taxman playing in California or New York, so it doesn't
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really matter. But the difference you can make up from that,
if the money's exactly the same from endorsements is obviously
Madison Avenue is a little bit morefittable than Lombard Street,
so he signs on the dotted line. But do not
be naive here. Imagine if you will, a world where
Aaron Judge signed with the Giants. We'd hear about romanticizing
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his youth. His family grew up going to Candlestick Park,
freezing their asses off at night games, right, watching Barry
Bonds smashed steroid fueled homers in the mccubby cove, the
magic of the Orange and Black, all of that would
have been tossed outright, would have been thrown out. But
since he didn't sign with the Giants, instead, he's gonna
wax about the pinstripes and Yankee pride and all that.
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All right, last word here, So how do the Giants,
the losers in this, how do they handle striking out?
You're out, get out of here, grab some bench on
Aaron Judge. So there's no other way to spend this.
This is a real kick in the shins for the Higgants.
You hate to see it. They rolled out the red carpet.
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They had been working through back channels for many many
us to get the message out that this is the
guy they wanted, the big burly slugger, the first real
super super superstars. His Barry bonds for the Giants, the
guys from your regions a couple of hours away but
geographically desirable, and Judge in that time story we talked
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about in a previous episode of the show, he had
visions of playing for the Giants. He floated, the deal
was all but done through his agent, but in the
end he teased, but he did not did not please
the Giants. Spent all this money buying drinks and gifts
for Aaron Judge, and then he went back to renew
his vows, his marriage vows with the Yankees. It's like,
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wait a minute, you were flirting with him, You're playing
footsie and he goes back to the ages. So my
advice to the Giants here is to invest in a
therapy labradoodle. That's what they need. They need a therapy
of labradoodle and reallocate those funds just throw money at
somebody else. That's what the Podres did, right, The Podres
just keep throwing money at people until somebody signs nobody
wants to play for the Podres. They finally found somebody
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that did, and so they're like, okay, let's just say
why not, and we'll just move the money around, moving
around around, around and around around. So that's the Aaron
Judge tale. And again the big story here within the
last couple of hours, Xander Bogart's leaving the Red Sox
as Boston unable to keep their shortstop. Although that was
telegraph many many months ago that we saw blood in
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the water that Xander was not long to continue his
career at Finway, and now he's going from Finnway to
Petco in San Diego. He can live. Where do you
think he's gonna live? You think you live in North
County South I don't know. Maybe live on the beach,
maybe live Inland, I don't know. We'll find be sure
to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays
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Andrew Bogart's going from Boston to San Diego. Aaron Judge
has a new home. Ken Lee Janssen is with the
Boston Red Sox. Now, I'm sure that'll go well for
the for the Socks. The former Dodger in Atlanta, Brave
Closer goes to Boston, and the Red Sox also signing
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an outfielder out of the Japanese League. All right, so
our lead this hour coming from Western New York. Though,
we're gonna play the hits. Moll Man, play the hits,
and that's where the buffalo roam. But one key buffalo
will not be roaming anywhere. The Bills having a magical season.
Remember the beginning of the year, the first couple of weeks.
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No one's gonna stop the Bills. Josh Allen is your MVP.
Happy days are here again. Well, problem problem, problem, problem,
problem problem. If you have not heard, and maybe not,
we learned that edge rusher extraordinaire von Miller has taken
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a bite out of the breakfast cereals, Snap crackle pop.
He's out for the year. Heyne von Miller, former RAM
Super Bowl champion, outspoken Von Miller got a bad knee.
Bill's head coach Sean McDermott confirming the news. Now the Bills.
It s originally that when von Miller got hurt, he'd
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miss a week or two. Then they said he'd miss
four weeks all right, put him on the injured reserve list.
And then Miller had surgery this week on his mangled
the knee, and it was determined that that knee is
so jacked up he will not be able to return
at all at turn out the lit the parties over. Now,
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during the procedure, surgeons discovered a torn a c L,
which we know because we like our sports. We know
what an ACL and we have a couple of acls,
we hope. All right, so let us discuss the question,
how will Vaughan Miller's absence impact the Bills for the
rest of the season. So I've got Lynchpin powder Room
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and Tom Hanks, and we will lock all of these
things together, and we are going to make some Buffalo wings.
Is what we're gonna make there, the Buffalo chicken wings,
the whole thing, all right. So number one, this is obvious.
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A gut punch. This is a gut punch, A body blow,
body blow, body blow for Buffalo, the best laid plans
of mice men and NFL teams in upstate New York. Now,
you can spin this story six ways to Sunday. You
can swear on the Holy Bible it will not matter.
And I say, Philly, I say, Philly, that is nonsense.
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All right. This is a constipation situation with von Miller.
The Buffalo defense was able to get consistent pressure of
opposing quarterbacks, and they were doing that in large part
because of the presence of von Miller himself. Now, what
is my evidence to back that up. I'm glad you
asked von Miller leading the Bills in sacks with eight
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of them and quarterback pressures with thirty eight of them.
Through Week twelve, only seven teams had a higher pressure
rate than the Buffalo Bills defense. With von Miller, he
held everything together. The focus of opposing blocking schemes was
we gotta keep an eye on von Miller vers von
Miller blah blah. Got a double team von Miller that
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freed up other defensive players. You take away the lynchpin,
and what happens to the wheel. The wheel does not
go round and round, It comes off, is what happens
to the wheel. So the Buffalo Wagon on defense, that
lynchpin has been pull out, pull out there, and now
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the wheel doesn't come on. You have to put the
Bills lower on your big board and whatever you're using,
big board, ladder, whatever it might be. So this is
a tremendous mitzvah for the Chiefs, the ben Gals, dare
I say, the Dolphins and anyone else that you consider
a legitimate contender and not a pretender it does. I
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mean the Bills can't win. It just got a lot harder. Now. Secondly,
can the Buffalo Bills hold that defense together without von Miller?
So this is always a tricky one. Ken is a
bit of a weezel word. You know, sure they can.
You can find someone from the Greyhound bus station to
fill in for von Miller. Will you get production? That's
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what it's all about now. Gregory Roussel, the edge rusher
who the Bills drafted in the first round out of
the U Miami, Miami, Miami. He was a first round
pick in the twenty twenty one draft. He now slides
on over, he does the sideway shuffle and he gets
the opportunity. Now he's been a bit player, hasn't been
a key guy. He's unproven, and he gets tossed into
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the fire. And so that's when the rubber meets the road.
You've got issues here. And we've pointed out many times
that injuries provide a great opportunity for other people, and
there's there's no difference here that this will have a
brass ring opportunity to put yourself on the map, even
though you're a first round pick, to prove that you
belong to prove that you can be productive and the
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bills should not be written on. But at this point,
until I see something from Gregory Rousseau, you've got to
think that that this guy's not going to be anywhere
near the impact player that von Miller was. It's a downgrade, right.
The elevator is going down, it's not going up. And
imagine if you will going into the powder room at
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your favorite hotel. Let's say you stand at a nice
five star hotel and I'm going to use the analogy
to sum up von Miller that has never been used
before losing von Miller, and that's the TP analogy. So
you go to this nice potter room at your favorite hotel.
You stay there a lot. They have four ply toilet
paper that's the thickest, strongest available toilet paper. It's amazingly soft,
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it's silky to the touch, it's it's got perfume, it's
it's quilted, it's it's scented, whatever words you want. It's wonderful.
And then midway through your trip to the potter room,
you reach over to grab the four ply luxury toilet
paper and you realize that somebody has replaced it with
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one ply toilet paper, which is a single layer of
paper that is rough on your ba donkey dog. And
so you've gone from silk to sand paper. Now you
can still accomplish the mission at hand. You can still
complete the mission at hand, but it's gonna be more
uncomfortable for you. You know what I'm saying, am, I'm
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making the point clear here that yeah, you could still
get the job done with the one ply toilet paper
as opposed to four ply, but the four ply much
more enjoyable as an easier experience for you, and you
won't have any agony, any pain after that. So that's
what the Bills are going to go through on defense,
and again, until you show me that you can get
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it done, I'm gonna show me state of mind. Like
the Great State of Missouri quarterback hits sacks. Sacks are
the biggest one, but pressure. Those are game changing plays.
A well timed sack you put an offense behind the
chains and that causes them to have to punt. And
now that ability would seemingly be limited that the Bill's
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defense will be singing a different tune there that they
will not be able to get that done on a
consistent basis. All right, final point, what do we make
of that von Miller contract? Now let's go back in
the hot tub time machine, and we all feasted our
eyes on that contract. And so my answer would be,
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that's this, This is how I anticipated things going here.
This is a Buffalo boondoggle. Buffalo boondoggle. Von Miller is
Tom Hanks in that old nineteen eighties movie The Money
Pit Don't Let a Falling Star Fall on You in
And von Miller's in that same category of athletes with
Kawhi Leonard and Jacob DeGrand. A wonderful talent when he plays,
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but as he is on through his career, he has
been unreliable recently. That is the case. The Bills forked
over a three year contract. They gave him a lot
of funny money, but it's really a three year deal
for fifty two point four million. Now, I am a
salary cap truther, but the guaranteed money is guaranteed money.
There's no way to cut that. Back. In Buffalo, they
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thought they were getting the consistent smoke show defender for
a nominal amount of un and he joined the Bills,
and it started out well and all that and now
here we are at this point a crossroads in this season,
and von Miller, who was playing like a beast early
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in the year, now like, wait a minute, he's broken down,
and he's a broken down player that needs prepared. You
know things are not going well when the Bill's brass
is selling the fact, well, von Miller is still gonna
help us in the playoffs with veteran leadership on the sidelines. Yeah,
that's why you gave him the contract to be a coach. No,
the Bills gambled, They ignored the comps, they went full
(23:06):
steam ahead, guns a blazing, and here we are. Von Miller,
who missed all of the twenty twenty season in Denver
with an ankle injury, hasn't played a full schedule since
twenty eighteen. He's soon to be thirty four years old.
The athletic prime ends at thirty two, so he's also
(23:28):
This operation on the knee is not just a single
year situation. That's a knockout punch for this year, but
it also has you behind in the count for twenty
twenty three. He's likely not going to be ready when
the season comes around in the summer of twenty twenty three.
So how do you think he'll be coming off an injury,
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missing the usual work, having to do the rehab and
all that. In twenty twenty four at age thirty five.
Good luck, good luck on that. I'm sure nothing bad
will happen. It will all be great. It'll all be great.
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third degree. This is one gets grilled. Speaking of the Raiders,
they have now won three games in a row and
Davante Adams is starting to dominate Ben. Is there any
chance that the Raiders sneak into the playoffs this season? Yeah? So,
I don't see the math working out this way. The
Raiders are five and seven. They should beat the Ramps
(25:18):
tonight to get to six and seven, and they they've
gotta shot. They gotta win out get to ten and
seven to have a shot. The Chargers, Patriots, and Jets
are all ahead of them, and the problem is Vegas
still has games at the end of year with the
Niners and the Chiefs, so the chances of them winning
both those games are slim and none. So I'm going no.
That loss to the to the Colts, the one to
the Saints is gonna kill him next So, speaking of
(25:40):
teams starting to gel, the defending AFC champ Bengals have
won four games in a row. Is Joe Burrow firmly
back in the MVP race? Well, he's in the race.
He's not the favorite. Mahomes and Jalen Hurts are ahead
of him. But listen, this guy Burrow has been amazing
I think the last I did this for the handicapping.
Last seven games, he's got sixteen touchdowns and three interceptions.
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He's been absolutely wonderful for the Bengals. He keeps that up. Yeah,
but he's not leading the race. He's in the race next.
Sean Payton revealed on Monday that he expects to coach
again sooner than later. If not this year, hopefully next year,
is what he said. Been asking for Broncos fans everywhere.
Do you think there's any chance he comes to Denver? Oh?
(26:22):
You still have Russell Wilson, right, So no, why would
you know? Come on, No, he's not gonna go to Denver.
I think the Charger job's the one he's gonna get
because they're gonna they're gonna change the coaching staff and
justin Herbert, everyone's kissing his asses. God's gift of the
quarterback position. That's the job I think Peyton gets at
this point. How did weak down coach Bello? You fail
this edition? What are you talking? I can't fail? Terrible answer,
(26:46):
A great answer. Have you seen Russell Wilson play? What
coaches the Chargers paid? I guessed to live in La
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Loop for the reading of the questions. All right, Ben,
(27:47):
We're gonna start with a question from j D and Boston.
You'd like to know would you go visit a space
hotel if you had the opportunity if somebody paid for it.
I don't know that sounds very expensive, but it would
be pretty cool if it was like relatively safe. Like
I'd have a bunch of people go up first, and
then it'd be a few people would die, but then
by the time it's safe that'd be awesome. I think
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we'd be cool. Although my guy Shatner said it's very
depressing when you get to space, That's what he claimed.
I don't know, uh, is that for everybody? Yeah? Space hotel.
You don't want to go up there and check it out?
Could they like knock me out on like the you know,
like the flight up there, and then wake me up
like when we get there and that kind of things
such a diva. No, I just the journey. No, I
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don't think that would be fun. I don't think that
journey would be fun. Being would be exciting exciting, you know,
in the sense of I'm afraid I'm gonna die. I
guess that could be exact exciting. No, I'll pass. You
go ahead. I'm waiting till other people die and then
I'll go up. What about you, Roberto? Uh hard pass? No,
thank you? I don't want to pass. Yeah, I'm gonna
(28:51):
die Star Wars or Star Trek. Yeah, all right, Cooper
Loop me and Cooper's yes, and you Roberto and Eddie? No,
all right? What is next here? What do we all? Right? Next,
We're going to go to Doublow, Mexican. This is for
the crew. He wants to know. Have you ever gotten
caught for underage drinking in high school by your parents
(29:12):
or any other authority? Figure. No, No, I did have
a fake ID in in high school, so I was
able to get an occasional drink, but I did not
ever get caught. It wasn't a big drinker in high school.
What about you, Eddie. No, I grew up in a
rural area in central California. We just got in the
Orange groves and drank. There's no cops out there, so,
(29:32):
I mean we we had parties that got busted by
the cops, broken up, but we never got like in
trouble or anything. Yeah, your kids knock it off, you
kids alcohol? Yeah, go on home to your folks. What
about you, Roberto? Yeah, I got got drinking smoking weed
multiple times, and I was yeah, okay, Now you're a
national radio person who knew no Biggie exactly. You run
(29:54):
amuck and here you are. What about you, Coop? I
never really drank so so no. Uh, my my weed
stash was found at one point. Where was it hidden?
Uh in this like ceramic Converse shoe that I had
in my room? Did your parents throw it out or
(30:15):
did they? Oh? It was bad. It was bad. My
parents were separated, but my mom found it, and she
found it when I was out, like hanging out with
friends and then and then I came home to get
my my weed. She said, what is this? She wasn't
even there. I go into my bedroom and my entire
room is clean, and there's just like a trash bag
full of like stuff in the middle of the room.
(30:36):
And I'm like, oh, And I went and I like,
I put my hand in the ceramic shoe when it
was gone, and I went. I looked at my friend.
I was like, we gotta get out of here. And
I stayed out until like eleven PM when she finally called.
She's like, where are you come home? It was not good.
It's not good. That's funny. You thought you were under
the radar, and you all right, oh, what is next year?
(30:58):
What do we have? All? Right? Um, your questions are answers. Well,
I guess in order for that. So, Ben, did you
end up watching the PEPSI Where's my Jet? Yeah? I've
watched ninety percent of it. I got I get a
little bit left. So yeah, so I think I can
ask this question. Cowboy Killer wants to know if you
were the guy from from Where's My Jet? Would you
(31:19):
have taken the million or would you have fought for more? Oh?
I would have taken it. Well, the taxes and all that.
I didn't at his age, I wouldn't know about the taxes,
so I probably would have taken the money. Yeah. But
that's a great documentary. It's really well done. I like it.
Surprise appearance midway through from someone Yeah, great, great, great great.
(31:43):
He had a very great He had a funny line
when he popped up on him. That was Yeah, that
was pretty good. All right, Roberto, would you have a Yeah,
I'm like bad. I think I would have known about
the taxes. Oh yeah, I would have took the money. Yeah.
If you know about the taxes, you gotta you gotta
fight for I would have take him that. I would
have taken the money. Also. Yeah, all right, ask man.
Your questions are answers. What someone's from milkman Mike for
(32:05):
for everybody? What is your worst Christmas memory? Uh? Uh Yeah,
I don't had any bad horrible. I had a we
had a great Thanksgiving gravy mask her. One time I
dropped the gravy and we spent my entire family spent
the Thanksgiving cleaning up gravy off the ceiling and the
(32:27):
walls because it fell and splattered everywhere. It was a disaster.
But I've not really had anything bad, Honker or whatever?
What about Eddie? Any holiday nightmare scenarios that flash up
flashback nightmares? No, there's you know, there were a few
bad gifts or something. Oh sure there was that one
ant that sent underwear and socks every year. Practical now,
(32:49):
but as a kid, like, what the hell is this?
I don't want this? And you knew what it was
every year was the same thing. You'd always save it.
I don't want to open that. I don't want to
just open that. Yeah, all right, Roberto or anything. Nah
Christmas nod go cool man. You guys have just had
privileged lives, huh, pretty much on third base. My worst
(33:09):
Christmas memory I was like thirteen. I was thirteen, and
I was like WWF was like my religion as a kid.
But by that time I was like kind of just
like over it. But my mom didn't know I was
over it. So yeah, all all the Christmas presents were
like WWF related, and I was not a good like
(33:29):
actor off camera, and she just like she felt bad
and I was. Yeah, I just it wasn't very nice
and I just to this day that haunts me. I
just I felt like a jerk. I play it off.
When there is an art, you gotta receive a gift
the right away. That is a big part of it. Right,
Yeah weep if you this is great. I've always wanted underwear.
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We will start with Washington Capitol superstar Alexander Ovechkin. He's
got Wayne Gretzky in his crosshairs as he's trying to
(34:16):
chase down the all time greatest goal scorer in NHL
history and also closing in on eight hundred career goals.
He had two last night, did Alexandrovetkin and to win
over the Flyers. He sits third all time. He's six
goals away from second place in Gordy how and now
he's ninety nine away from number ninety nine Wayne Gretzky
(34:37):
for the all time NHL goal scoring lead. Toronto maple
Lea's forward Mitch Marner currently writing a twenty game point
streak that is a new franchise record for the Toronto
Maple Leaves, which had been at nineteen. He'll be an
action to night against the La Kings that could to
extend that streak to twenty one in a row. New
Jersey Devil set a new club record with their eleventh
straight road win. They beat the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday night.
(34:59):
The Levels lost their first road game of the season,
and they haven't lost one since. The NHL record for
consecutive road victories twelve by the Detroit Red Wings and
the Minnesota Wild. Boston Bruins saw their NHL home record
winning street come to an end. It was at fourteen
in a row before losing to the Vegas Golden Nights
in a four three shootout this past week. Vegas getting
(35:20):
the win for their head coach Bruce Cassidy, who was
fired by the Bruins in the offseason, and he won
his first game back against his old team. Penguins Veteran
defenseman Chris Latang gonna be out and definitely after suffering
a stroke last week. Six time All Star was not
experiencing any lasting effects. It's not believed to be a
career threatening injury. This is actually the second time that
Latangas suffered a stroke. The first one was in twenty fourteen.
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He missed more than two months of that season. The
Tempee City Council in Arizoni nasally approved the Arizona Counties
Arena and Entertainment District proposal, giving them a support real arena.
Then they're leaving that high schools. Well, it still has
to be voted by the voters people. And let me
tell you, my friends in Arizona, they vote for all
(36:04):
of that for stateable. You were in Phoenix. Everywhere you
go there's a there's a spring training complex which is massive,
every couple of blocks, and they're building stuff everywhere all
over the place. May sixteenth will be the vote to
decide the fate of this. What they do is they
raise the rental car tax, which is what they always do. Actually,
(36:25):
it's a it's a two point one billion dollar project,
but one point nine billion is being privately funded, so
it's actually they're not asking for a lot of money
there for this new arena. Yeah, it's all Ottawa Senators
Forward alex Foremanton is going to be the first restricted
free agent and the salary cap era to sit out
(36:45):
an entire season because he did not sign a contract
with his team ahead of a deadline on Thursday, declined
to qualifying off from the summer. Now there's also this
nugget he may be facing discipline from the league as
his name has come up in a twenty eighteen sexual
assault case when he was playing for Team Canada, so
(37:06):
that could be a factoring the reason why they did
not sign him as well. Interesting situation for the Vancouver Canucks.
Their head coach Bruce Boudreau decided to scratch struggling forward
Brock Besser the other night because he hasn't been playing well.
The problem was that night was their Hockey Fights Cancer
Night and brock Besser's dad, Duke, had died last year
(37:30):
from cancer and they were honoring him his dad before
the game. They were wearing jerseys with his name on
the back, and and then brock Besser was like, you know,
I really wanted to play in the game, and it
didn't go over well with everybody. They ended up playing
him in the game any when he scored a goal.
But there's bad blood now between the two sides and
Apparently they have given brock Bester's agent permission to seek
(37:53):
a trade. Yeah, trade, coming out of a trade, I
want to be traded to, Eddie, the Kings, I don't know,
probably not. I don't know what else came the Bruins.
Yeah no, no, no no were to peg Jets. Just keep
throwing names out there, Las Vegas or lost. There's no
(38:14):
Las Vegas. Is Vegas Vegas. Mr car much clear that
that's your punk the World Report, all right, thank you
for that, Eddie the job and
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