Best of The Ben Maller Show

Big Ben talks about the Bengals owner intimating that he can't keep the core together, the odds that Max Scherzer ends up back with the Dodgers, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Jennifer Lopez Edition, and much more!

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We are in the air everywhere cohorts as we give
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(01:05):
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(01:31):
I was called a chatterbox by a columnists in Iowa
that ripped me years ago because I had a take
he did not like. And he back when there were
these things called newspapers that come, they got very upset
with me, called me a chatterbox. So you know what,
I am a chatterbox. That's what we do. We chatter.

(01:53):
So not that big a deal. It's not really that
offensive to me. Now as we begin here, play the
hits man, play the hits, as one of the bosses
in the corner office likes to say. And the NFL
getting going. By the end of the week, everyone will
be in training camp. Not everyone in training camp yet,
so it's a most of the teams are, but there's

(02:15):
some hold ads that are waiting to the very end,
the last possible ny to start practicing. But our lead
this hour comes from a team that many believe will
be on the cusp of the Super Bowl, the Cincinnati Bengals,
right there at the very top behind Kansas City. If
you look at the totem pole of success in the

(02:36):
American Football Conference, the Bengals these aren't. These are not
the sam Weish Bengals or the old school Bengals from
back in the day and his training camp gets to
full blossom later this week. Some news out of Ohio
involving the future plans of the Cincinnati football team, and

(02:57):
in particular, the Bengals have a quagmire on their hands.
What is the quagmire, Well, they have not only Joe
Burrow and his contractual future to the Bengals to decide.
Also Jamar Chase his deal coming up, and t Higgins
all lined up in the next year year and a half.

(03:20):
They all either got to get paid or they got
to go somewhere else. So the Bengals, who have been
known as one of the more frugal franchises in the NFL,
it's a mom and pop shop in Cincinnati. Try the
chili and buy a souvenir. Knock yourself out there. If
you've not heard the latest. The reason I'm bringing this up,
there's a new revelation. Maybe you missed it because you're

(03:42):
not on the cusp of the Cincinnati Bengals. You're not.
You're just not part of that. But I believe we have.
I think we have somebody here now that the screen,
by the way, not working, Coop, so to click for
sat on that So Coop told me there's audio, and
it's on the screen. So I'm looking at the screen
completely blank. No, no, I can reset it. I can

(04:05):
reset I gotta hit some buttons and all that. But
we have Mike Brown. Do we have some We have Mikero,
we have Mike Brown Audio. So Mike Brown, this is
what's called the setup. Very smooth. We have a very
smooth operation here. So Mike Brown is the president of
the Cincinnati Bengals, and he laid out what many believe
is a gloomy picture regarding the financial situation of the

(04:28):
Cincinnati football team. Let's go to the audio tape.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
Think of the cap as a pie, and once you
take out one piece, there's less left for the next guy.
And it just is obvious that when all teams are
essentially paying the same thing, we're all paying up to
the cap is hard to fit everybody in. It's impossible

(04:56):
to fit everybody in at the rate they wish they
could be paid. Pretty obvious that shoe is the heart
of the matter. After that, we won all the guys
we can get that we may have to go short
in a couple of cases.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
All right, So that was Mike Brown. Somebody to give
him some caffeine. Looks like he's about to take a napter.
It sounds like he needs to sleep a little bit,
wake up, pep up a little bit, whatever the case.
So that's the general gist of what Mike Brown said.
He also had the money quote, which I couldn't tell
if he said this or not. Maybe he did because
he sounded like he was ready to fall asleep. But

(05:37):
he talked about being mathematical and you have a bag
of corn, you have ten hogs, and you're not going
to be able to please all of the heifers. That's
my word, he said, hogs. So let us discuss the
question when it comes to the Cincinnati football team. What
did you take away from Mike Brown and his commentary

(05:57):
regarding the future of Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, and t
Higgins as it relates to long term in Cincinnati. So
I've got dog whistle, gold posts, and Mariah Carey, three
things that have never been put together. Are going to
put them together right now and throw them against the wall.
So a Mike Brown is speaking the truth. I do

(06:22):
think he's speaking the truth. Now, that's his truth. The
reality is if the Beals want, they can keep everybody.
There is a path to salvation to keep everybody. You
can do it. There's a way to get it done.
But that would require taking in less revenue and cutting

(06:42):
back on how much profit you make, and they don't
want to do that. So that's really what he's saying.
And this is what's known as a heart to heart
with the fan's heart to heart with the fan that listen.
You lay it all out and we're not the rams.
We're not gonna spend big and go crazy for a
couple of years and all that. No, no, no, no, no,

(07:06):
can't keep everyone. This is a dog whistle. Whistle. Whistle whistle,
is what this is to the fiend that enjoy the season.
But tick tick tick tick tick tick tick. The doomsday
clock is a ticket. And that yet, you're gonna get
rid of this guy and that guy, but you're not
gonna give rid of Joe Burrow. T Higgins. You might

(07:28):
want to put your house on the market now, see
if you can get some money for it there and
rent because t Higgins is the first one up, the
first one headed towards free agency, and it would appear
that he will be gone. Joe Burrow. They have got
the fifth year option. Knowing the way the Bengals operate,
they're negotiating contract. But at this point you'd have to
put the smart money on the Bengals just picking up

(07:51):
the fifth year option, buying another year granted at a
good amount of money, but less money than the Bengals
ultimately are gonna have to pay. Although long term, considering
outside of the creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson, the salaries keep
going up, up, up, up up every time there's a
new deal. So Joe Burrow's price if you wait a year,

(08:13):
will be higher a year from now in theory, although
he's in a different class than the other quarterbacks. But
looking into the crystal ball, and it's very important if
you get a show like this to have a crystal ball.
The Bengals will pay Burrow. Eventually he'll get the big
money and the front office of the Bengals will need
therapy when they pay Joe Burrow the big money. But

(08:35):
he's going to get the big money. And then after
that they will pivot to Jamar Chase and offer him
a lot of money and then maybe he'll take the money,
maybe he won't take the money, and then t Higgins
will be excommunicated from the Bengals den. He'll be out now.
Page two. Let's go to Kansas City. They are the

(08:56):
presumptive favorite in the American Football Conference. They are are guaranteed,
it would appear to be in the AFC Championship game.
They have been there year after year after year. But
are they a dynasty? Not the old TV show from
a million years ago. It used to be popular in
a different era of television. But Patrick Mahomes does not

(09:18):
does not think that the Chiefs are a dynasty, but
he knows what it would take to get that title
of a dynasty to be called. When I've even saw
this or not. But Mahomes said, quote, I think we're
in the beginning of one. I think in dynasties, I
always say you got to win three. That's what Mahomes

(09:40):
said recently from the Chiefs training area there now, Mahomes
saying the Chiefs are at the beginning of a dynasty,
but not at dynasty status. Is that in bounds or
is that out of bounds? So I have it right
on the fence and I'm leaning towards out of bounds.

(10:03):
I'm leaning towards out of bounds and here's why, because
the definitions change for certain things over time. I don't
like the definitions change for certain things over time, but
they do have. And the modern definition of a dynasty,
Kansas City does qualify under that. Now they're not a

(10:24):
stone cold NFL dynasty. But if you look at the
modern definition of a dynasty, it has changed. The Chiefs
do qualify as that. And the Chiefs have been to
the AFC Title Game or better every season Patrick Mahomey
has started there, they've been in the AFC Title Game.

(10:45):
So they made five straight Final Four appearances. And Kansas
City has won a pair of Super Bowls with mahomes
at quarterback. So to compare that, you look at the
bloodline of legends. Now, they're not at Patriot status the
Patriots at one point they had a twenty year run essentially,

(11:05):
but at one point they made eight straight Super Bowl
slash Conference super Bowl or slash Conference championship game over
eight years from twenty eleven to twenty eighteen. But if
you look at the other teams that we considered dynasties
in the NFL, the nineteen nineties Cowboys, with all those
star players in Jerry's world, the most they made was

(11:28):
four straight. As I understand it, they made four straight
conference title games in the nineties. The eighties forty nine
Ers had two different quarterbacks, Montana and Young, and they
each made three straight conference championship games or super Bowls,
but no more than that. And you can even go
back to the nineteen seventies Pittsburgh Steelers and the most

(11:50):
they made consecutive was three straight conference championship games and
or obviously super Bowls in that stretch. So by that standard,
they've already accomplished the five straight championship games conference championship games,
more than the nineties, eighties and seventies dynasties of the NFL.
Now the last word, let's go to Cleveland. An old

(12:13):
punching bag is back, the Cleveland Browns practicing in actually
West Virginia, not in Cleveland. But DeShawn Watson. Deshaun Watson
who fed the content kiddie and was feeding a lot
of kiddies for a couple of years there. But DeShawn
is now speaking up to the media. He spoke recently.

(12:33):
The creepy quarterback was in mid season form and if
you did not see this, we'll give you the highlights
you've got to miss it. DeShawn Watson placed some of
the blame on the very negative public image that he
now has. He placed some of the blame on the
m word the media. Yeah, he said that the teammates

(12:54):
have embraced him. And let's get a little audio. Let's
listen to Deshaun Watson here as he talks about the
perception his teammates and the EVOM media.

Speaker 5 (13:05):
The whole situation changed me. You know, in this situation
where it's kind of I had to lock in on myself,
you know, channel and really know who I'm you know,
surrounding myself with and just really who who's going to
be there and support me? You know, even when I'm
at my lowest point, and you know the last few
years was definitely my lowest point of my life. But
you know that that's that's part of life, and you know,

(13:28):
I just go from it. I learned from it. I
continue to move forward and push forward and continue to
show my real character, my real personality and who I am.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
All right, Well, we didn't have the media part, which
is what I'm talking about, but he did blame the
media for the negative perceptions of his his reputation, over
the last couple of years, he talked about his upbringing
and all that. So why why did Deshaun Watson go
to the media card saying that that is to blame

(13:56):
for a lot of the negativity that's around him. So
it's kind of like a Mariah Carey song fantasy, right
old marich here living in never never Land. Another word
would be obtose. We could use the word obtuse for Watson,
who I don't believe is now coached any longer on
what to say to the media. I think that ended

(14:17):
once the litigation. He cut some giant cartoon sized checks
to pay the people that were accusing him of playing
touchy feely without permission, and Watson talked about his tough
upbringing and all of that, the really shielding himself from
the copious amounts of sexual assaul allegations. Now, to my memory,

(14:40):
maybe I'm wrong on this. You can correct me. I
don't think anyone who is a reporter sued Watson for
a bad massage. I think it was all random women
he met on Instagram or other places. I think that's
the case. And Watson had a school bus, maybe a
Greyhound US maybe a train car full of women who

(15:03):
had made accusations, and you get money, you get money.
He paid everybody, and he tried to pay how you
made everybody. He paid most people, not everyone would take
the check. And the Browns, being the gutlass slimeball franchise
of the Cleveland Browns, are they of course rewarded Watson
with two hundred and thirty million dollars. That's the Cleveland

(15:25):
Browns right there, that's the Brownies way to go, way
to go. And you can bring that snake venom right
there to the Browns locker room. And Deshaun Watson is
like laid in the drinking water, lead in the pipes
is what Watson is for the Brownies. Good luck on that.

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we start with baseball. We continue our daily March to
August first, our in depth team coverage as the twenty
twenty three trading season is underway, but it will end

(17:01):
just seven days left before the clock reaches zero, and
not midnight because they moved the trade deadline of the
afternoon because they hate people to work the third shift,
and so now they do it during the day because
those snobs that work during the day shift demanded it.
Media losers, But for the rest of us, we will
still talk about the trades here late at night. There

(17:23):
were a couple of minor trades that have taken place.
The Atlanta Braves, who are baseball's top team. The Bravos
traded for a couple of pitchers you've never heard of
for their bullpen. They acquired someone named Pierce Johnson. We
don't know who that is. He apparently played for the Rockies.
Why would we watch the Rockies and someone named Taylor
Hearn from the Rangers, a left hander? But why would

(17:46):
the Rangers? Why would the Rangers trade anyone that's good?
Aren't they in position to make a playoff appearance this year?
So why would they trade anyone who's good? But those
guys are headed to Georgia. In return, Atlanta gave up
some SUSPEC and cash, cold cash. Not exactly earth shattering
on the trade market, but there have been more rumblings

(18:08):
out of Queens that the Mets are going to take
the advice that we gave out free of charge recently
that they must trade the cheating astro justin Verlander and
Mad Max sures that they've got to be gone, see
you later, out of there. And there are rumors percolating

(18:28):
bubbling up above the surface that Verlander is on the
block and the Giants have been mentioned as possibility several
other teams, but the San Francisco Giants most often mentioned,
and as far as Max Scherzer is concerned, I had
to do a double take when I heard this and
bouncing around here. But the team that is often mentioned

(18:49):
for Max Scherzer, the d O d G e RS Dodgers, Yeah,
the team he used to play for. Max Schurzers. The
Dodgers are in desperate need of starting pitching help, as
every time they go out to the mound, those starting pitchers,
they need a lifeguard because they drown right there in
the mound at Chavez Ravine. So let us discuss the question,

(19:11):
what are the odds that Mac Chures are is back
in blue, as in Blue Heaven, that he's back in
Dodger blue. What are the chances that happen? So the
Malord sports Book odds on Max Chers are going to
the Dodgers from the Mets, a couple of big market
teams doing the old Switcherou I'm gonna set the odds

(19:33):
on this at plus three hundred. Now, if you're not
good with math or you just don't want to do
the math in your head, that works out to a
twenty five percent chance, about a twenty five percent chance
to land Max Sures are with the Dodgers. I've got portal,
reverb and spare parts, and we will combine all of

(19:53):
these things together and those will be the building blocks
of this in full commercial like Malard monologue. So number one,
Mad Max is a cautionary tale. I am not excited

(20:13):
about this possibility. I am not I've already lived the
Max Scherzer experience, and with the Dodgers, the team I like,
and I would I would not be too excited. The
Dodgers are interested. I believe they are interested. But if
you do the positive negative on one side, you have
the positive. On the other side of the scale you

(20:35):
have the negative, and which side fills up well? The
positive side. The selling points of Max schures are is
savvy veteran savvy veteran. That's the selling part. Playoff experience
like that means anything. The Dodgers over the last ten
years have had the most playoff experience of any team
in baseball, and they regularly go out there in puke

(20:58):
in playoff games. So playoff experience, that's wonderful. It looks
great on your baseball reference page, but it does not
guarantee anything, much like they stay on Wall Street. Past
results do not guarantee future outcomes. Now, the negatives for
Max Scherzer the fact that he already played for the
Dodgers and left a terribly sour taste in the mouth,

(21:22):
of every true Dodger officionado in the playoffs against the
Atlanta Braves. The Dodgers had a path to come back
and beat the Braves in the playoffs in twenty twenty one,
and Max Schuzer said, no Moss. He said, no moss
is what he said. Dodgers wanted to pitch him in
Game six, he said, I can't do it. Then he
blamed Dave Roberts and the nerds that work for the

(21:44):
Dodgers having a dead arm by not pitching him enough,
said it was their fault. You toss in the fact
that he's about to turn thirty nine years old, he's
got a full no trade clause and a massive salary
in twenty twenty four, and he has his worst numbers
on the mound this season in a decade, over a decade.

(22:07):
We have not seen this crappy a version of Max
Schurzer in over a decade. And that's the guy that
you're gunning to get to save your bacon and all that.
I'm sure he'll be fine for a while, But can
you really trust him.

Speaker 6 (22:24):
Me?

Speaker 1 (22:24):
He thinks not so much. He thinks not so much.
He also has the Pine Tar cheating scandal. The Rosin
scandal from earlier this year, which happened at Dodger Stadium,
so the negatives outweigh the positives. Nevertheless, if this was
a hitter, I'd give it a two fifty batting average
twenty five percent chance that short term player coming to
the Dodgers if they can work out some kind of

(22:46):
agreement with the Mets. It's hard to imagine the Mets
would pay any of Scherzer's salary, but knowing the Dodgers,
they might ask, calling the Mets owner, well, I'll give
you some better minor league player in return for paying
a chunk of mac salax. I'm guessing Sures are having
a crappy year is not going to opt out of
the player option that he has for next year. Now,

(23:08):
page two, let's go to a very popular topic of conversation.
Show Hey oh Tani are obligatory Mini Mallar monologue on
the life and stylings of the international phenom show Heyo
Tani showtime at the Big A for a limited time only.

(23:29):
So why are the Angels? Why are the Angels' trade talks?
The rumors now involving show Hey O Tani being called
increasingly slim why is there. So here's my theory on
why this report's now going around because finally, finally the
message that I have heard I mentioned this a few

(23:50):
days ago is finally making the rounds, and other people
are regurgitating the same thing. I'm guessing the people that
told me are the person that told me probably told
a bunch of other people. I don't think I'm special.
So they finally picked up on it and they're like, okay,
So Arti Marino is not looking to trade show hey, o'tani,
And that's just the way it is now. The Angels

(24:12):
owner Arti Marino the man of the art. It's gonna
be his decision. This is at his pay grade. He
owns the team. He's gonna be the one that decides
whether the trade the Unicorn or not. He at this
point is going old school Richard Dreyfuss from a classic movie,
Let It Ride. That is the move here for the
owner of the Angels. You let it ride. And he

(24:33):
thinks this offseason the Angels could have another lucky day,
and Otanio decide he wants to stay with the Halos,
and he loves Mike Trout and he really likes living
in the oc and he wants to stay there. And
that's it, and so all it takes, all it takes
is Ardy Marino to continue to believe what he's what

(24:53):
we've told he's believing right now. And nevertheless, the Angels
are doing their due diligence, even though this this reverb
is going all over the place that Marino's like not
into doing it, into trading Otani. But the drama builds
because there are conflicting reports that the Arizona Diamondbacks and

(25:16):
the Baltimore Orioles are interested in Otani. Now, isn't everyone
interested in Otoni? I guess said, well, so and SO
is interested in acquiring ota Why wouldn't every team in
baseball want Otani? Because he can pitch and hit. He's
a better hitter than he is a pitcher. But why
wouldn't you want to have that guy on your team?
So I could start a rumor right now, every team
in baseball, the Pittsburgh Pirates are interested, right even throw

(25:40):
any scenario out the Milwaukee Brewers. They hear that Otani
loves the smell of beer barley and he wants to
play for the Brewers. And you can connect Otani anybody.
But I maintain I've not heard anything different. When I
hear something different, I'll pass it on. But the Angels
are collecting offers from other teams just in case that
at the eleven Arti Marino says, you know what, a

(26:02):
screw it. We'll trade Otani. Then we'll try to re
sign him in the offseason, because that always works out,
unless it works out once every decade. The last time
it worked out is I remember the Yankees traded eraled
As Chapman to the Cubs. He went to Chicago, won
the World Series, and then Chapman went back to the Yankees.

(26:22):
But outside of that, I don't recall it happening any
anytime since then. Maybe it has and it slipped my memory.
So we'll keep an eye on that, and just in
case Arty has a reversal of fortune or a reversal
of opinion. Now, final point, let's go to Boston talking
to some baseball here, because the Red Sox are in
the thick of the wild card race. There's a lot

(26:45):
of phony contenders. There's a lot of phony contenders. The
Red Sox are tied with the Yankees for last place
and two games back in the wild card race. In
the American League. So the debate continues. Are the Red
Sox a contender or a pretender? And I'm looking around

(27:05):
at the Red Sox and I have them firmly planted
in the pretender category. That's just the way it is now.
Boston technically is on the contender side, but they've they're
not realistically a content. They've got a bunch of renta
players that they have spare parts on the roster. And
it is interesting to note that teams have been contacting

(27:29):
the rests because they like those guys that are on
short contracts. They don't have to pay them past this year.
That's very attracted to frugal baseball teams. So Ken Lee Janssen,
Justin Turner, the ex Dodgers, Key k Hernandez. There's also
Adam Duval who got up to a great start, then
got hurt and been so so since then. But Adam Duval,
the outfielder that could be headed back to the Atlanta

(27:50):
Braves as a possibility. Meanwhile, I'm gonna go out and
lim and say, Shane Bieber, the Beebes will not be traded.
He is no longer on the trading block. Now, the
Cleveland pitcher now how do we know that? Because the
team formerly known as the Indians have put Bieber on
the sixty day injured list with an elbow inflammation, which
means he ain't pitching not until sometime in September. So

(28:14):
good luck trading him that ain't happy.

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Speaker 1 (29:00):
All right?

Speaker 4 (29:01):
COOLO?

Speaker 1 (29:01):
What do we go out here?

Speaker 8 (29:02):
Cope reyes Hoskins towards ac Allen spring training and was
supposed to be done for the entire season. Now he's
hoping to return to the Philly if the Phillies make
the playoffs, Ben, do you think they'll make the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Yes, they should make the playoffs. They were in the
World Series last year. It was a bit of a
fluke run. But that is a playoff team. That is
a team that's got big name players, name brand guys
Bryce Harper, Nick Castellanos, a bunch of other guys we've
heard of. The pitching has been patchwork in Philadelphia, but
you look around the National League and there's no excuse

(29:34):
for the Phillies not to make the playoffs in the
wildcard race with that extra team, and you look at
teams like the Giants and the Marlins that are starting
to fall away, the Diamondbacks, the Phillies should be in
the playoffs. Yes, they should be next.

Speaker 8 (29:47):
Despite benefiting from the transfer portal, Lane Kiffin recently went
on a rant essentially blaming it for putting college football
in a state of disasters.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Very dramatic.

Speaker 7 (29:56):
Do you agree with him?

Speaker 1 (29:57):
No, I disagree with Lane Kivvy. It's added an extra
layer of intrigue for college football because it's a whirling
dervish now to try to keep track of who's on
a roster. It's like Grand Central station with the cummings
and the goings of the players depending how much money
they get in nil deals. But if I was laying Kiffin,
I would be grumbling. And all these coaches are upset

(30:17):
because it's it makes it harder. The job is harder.
Now it sucks. I used to have complete control. Next.

Speaker 8 (30:23):
An x NFLGM recently said that he thinks Jordan Love
is going to be the best quarterback of the NFC
North Ben who is going to be the best quarterback
in that division this season?

Speaker 1 (30:33):
Yeah, that's why that executive is a former general manager.
Whoever said that? That is the former GM. But no, right,
it's neck and neck. Jared Goff played better than Kirk
Cousins last year, so if he plays like that again,
you'd put him right there. Cousins number two, and then
Jordan Loves got a chance to be number three on
the list because in terms of the actual quarterback position,

(30:57):
Justin Field blows. Okay, he's he's great running the ball,
but that's not a quarterback quarterbacks throwing the ball. Running
the ball is extra gravy and all that, and so
Field's got to approve a lot, so Love it most
could be the third best quarterback barring a collapse by
Jared Goff. There it is malot a third degree? How
did we know?

Speaker 7 (31:15):
Pass?

Speaker 8 (31:16):
Is?

Speaker 1 (31:16):
I w win? A? The buzzer? I won the game?
But the buzzer whoa?

Speaker 2 (31:22):
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Speaker 1 (31:33):
All right, let's welcome to our contestants, for they're going to
have We don't need the production and all that we have?
Jed who fled? Who's going to play? But I punched
up the wrong line? Hello, Jed who fled? Hello? Jed?
I can hear the heavy breathing.

Speaker 5 (31:46):
Well that's funny, tick Kelly.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
The term started actually originated with the Nazis kissing the
Dutch in World War Two.

Speaker 5 (31:52):
That's where it's originated.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Don't you read a book?

Speaker 8 (31:54):
I can't really.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
Smartyarty? You want to play the game, Smarty Arty? Darn
Darnton sharn touton? Okay, very good? And Jed, who would
you like to partner up with? Jed? I think Coop's
dying to play with you? Or Eddie or he said
he said, he said, don toute you say should be
Smarty starty good, Okay.

Speaker 7 (32:16):
I've got this easy. There's no chance anybody else wins.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Smarty Arty. Who do you want to partner up with?
Their smarty Arty.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Being from Fresno?

Speaker 9 (32:24):
Ben, let's hook up with fast and he spake connection?

Speaker 1 (32:28):
How? Okay? Very good. This is the Jennifer Lopez Edition,
the j LO Edition. She turns fifty four today or
I guess on Monday she turned fifty four, so happy birthday.
The categories are Jenny from the Block, Fresh out the Oven,
on the floor, and a Ka Jed. Pick your category please.

Speaker 9 (32:50):
The only FS shoot sucks, Freslo State aka.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Okay, and Smarty already pick your category please, Smart Arty
on the floor. That other guy's gonna go on the floor,
okay everyone trash talk. Oh you can feel the tension here. Boy,
these guys are at each other's throws. We will have
Malar's amount of money. We'll get to it. We'll do
it next.

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takes to get to the top? Probably not Ah the store.
Here we go.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
It is Malor's amount of money the j LO edition.
She turned fifty four on Monday. Not a memorable birthday, fifties,
big fifty five, sixties, big fifty four, just another birthday.
But let's get to the game. And we have Eddie
teamed up with Smarty already Koubloop with Jen who fled,
and that is the team that is up first. I mean,

(33:53):
make sure these guys are on the air.

Speaker 8 (33:55):
That's that kid.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Our to check, Okay and Coop and Jed. The category
that Jed picked is aka these athletes. These athletes are
well known by their nicknames. We need the first and
last name. Coop, you're on your way. Forty five seconds
on the clock.

Speaker 7 (34:16):
Go prime time.

Speaker 8 (34:20):
The mailman, Megatron, the doctor in basketball, yes, the refrigerator,
big baby, yeah, Sleepy Uh No NBA player. I believe

(34:49):
he was on the Warriors.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Yeah now in the eighties. No No, yeah, not for
his for his time, anything else?

Speaker 2 (34:56):
Is it?

Speaker 6 (34:57):
No?

Speaker 7 (34:57):
That's it?

Speaker 1 (34:58):
Would you like to take a nap.

Speaker 8 (35:01):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (35:02):
The last question day, I gotta go.

Speaker 7 (35:05):
Eric Floyd.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
Floyd, so you got two hundred and forty points, if
my math is correct, did not get Eric Floyd, sleep Floyd,
and Eddie is up with Smarty already. We'll put forty
five seconds on the clock. These athletes either currently are
or were on a last place team the most recent season.
So on the floor and Smarty already and Eddie you're

(35:26):
on your way forty five seconds ago.

Speaker 9 (35:28):
Current quarterback of the Bears out of Ohio State. Former
wide receiver in the NFL. His best years were in Cincinnati.
He ended his career in Arizona. Known by his initials
what to think of? His dad is LeVar. He is

(35:48):
the brother of Alonzo big Baller brand shoes star for
the Hornets, Laverne Ball.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
Yeah, guy, you clues a terrible Eddy. Do better? Come on?

Speaker 9 (36:02):
Veteran pitcher want to sell young with the Royals, pitch
with the Diamondbacks, Dodgers. He's not back with Kansas City.
He's not good anymore. Famous victim.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
All right, you're right in the game. You're only down
by Twitter.

Speaker 7 (36:16):
I've got a backup on the line for you if
you want.

Speaker 8 (36:18):
Eddie.

Speaker 9 (36:19):
Yeah, let's do that.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Oh I thought that was illegal. When I do that,
it's illegal. But you're gonna do it? Uh?

Speaker 7 (36:23):
Are you talking about?

Speaker 8 (36:24):
We do that?

Speaker 9 (36:24):
All the tea.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Guys can play your bitch all the time.

Speaker 7 (36:28):
When I do that, we don't.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
All right, Smarty, already you're out and let's bring in
from the bench Slim the Trucker. Hello, Slim. We'll try
to do the best, to do the best.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
I can't.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
That's not good enough. Okay. We have Jenny from the
block and fresh out the oven.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
Fresh out.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
Okay, forty five seconds on the clock, Leeds athletes all
one rookie of the year, and you're on your way.
First and last name, Slim the Trucker is coming off
the bench. Go ahead, Eddie, You're on your way.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
Go.

Speaker 9 (37:01):
Current quarterback of the Chargers Uh uh m v P
in the American League from the Yankees. He's out with
a hurt toe right now. Running back for the Thank you.
Running back for the Saints. Uh, you got in trouble
for a fight in Vegas. Yes, the admiral for the Spurs.

(37:24):
Running back for the Buccaneers with Mike Alstott when they
won the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Worked.

Speaker 9 (37:30):
Yes, Angels outfielder. His last name is the same as
a fish swims upstream.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
No uh famine, yes, yes uh.

Speaker 9 (37:43):
He was Mighty Mouse with the Toronto raptors guard out
of what I didn't count, didn't count?

Speaker 1 (37:49):
I did it, didn't not getting in. I'm not counting
that one. I'm the judge. I am the judge. I
am the judge. All right, all right, that's right, Judge Mallard,
Judge Mallar is here. Shit, Okay, Coop, you've got the

(38:10):
score is.

Speaker 7 (38:10):
To eighty to be when when he didn't get Justin Herber,
I know when he didn't get.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
Okay, Jenny from the block is the last category. These
athletes are all from the Brocks forty. Feel the pressure.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
I'm got a phone.

Speaker 7 (38:25):
All right, go ahead, let's go all right.

Speaker 8 (38:27):
Running back for the Giants. Yes, there's a day named
after this guy in baseball. The Mets pay him or
pay him still.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Billy? Oh boy?

Speaker 8 (38:43):
Yes, this guy's nickname was Hammering or the Hebrew Hammer.
He was on the Tigers back in the thirties.

Speaker 7 (38:49):
Hey Dan close, oh boy, Yeah, okay.

Speaker 8 (38:55):
This guy was the head coach of the Buffalo Bills
and the Jaguars.

Speaker 7 (38:59):
At one point chance.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
Yeah take out what.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
Okay?

Speaker 7 (39:05):
This guy was a basketball player. He was He played
for the Charlotte Hornet.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
He is out of the game.

Speaker 8 (39:17):
Say what the game.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
I believable.

Speaker 6 (39:21):
What a.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
Choke job, What a joke job by Jed, who fled
like a tough category that was the toughest category. Why
would you put the road in a category hisself?

Speaker 8 (39:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (39:36):
What are you doing?

Speaker 7 (39:39):
People from the Bronks.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
Apparently nineteen thirties baseball, Jed did not do well in