August 24, 2023 • 36 mins
Big Ben talks about Jerry Jones making jokes about Sam Williams' arrest, Sam Darnold getting named the backup to Brock Purdy over Trey Lance, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and much more!
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Open Mike Night in Jerry's World. Welcome and the beginning
of another edition of the Ben Malor Show.
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We are in the air everywhere.
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as we are slinging out bull all night long. We
will get to the baseball lay. A big story here
which should developing, just came out just before we came
on the air. Here is Shohotani has a onler collateral
ligament injury to his elbow, which is code for Tommy
John surgery. Otani left the game in Anaheim against the Reds.
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He did not have much velocity in that started left
early in the game, and they've been nursing Otani along,
the Angels have and now they're gonna shut him down
for the year if he does need Tommy John surgery
that is gonna cost him three hundred million dollars minimum.
The talk was he was gonna get six hundred million
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dollars in free agency Otani, but it sounds like if
he needs Tommy John, then he's just gonna be a
player player. He's a good position player. It's a great
position player. It's better position player than he's a pitcher.
But the whole unicorn thing goes out the window window
with Otani. So we'll keep an eye on that story
with much more on it later on. As a Shohail Tani,
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who's the favorite to win the American League Most Valuable
Player award, is down for the count as he had
the breakfast cereal known as snap Crackle Pop, and so
he appears to be out. And this actually could be
a blessing in disguise for the Angels because if Otani
does need Tommy John surgery but can still play the field,
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maybe he stays in Anaheim for another year, signs a
one year contract with the Angels and just plays the
field and then comes back to free agency a year
from now, and he can come back from the possible operation.
But our lead this hour, coming from Jerry's world. We
had a hum dinger, a hum dinger of a story
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right from the horse's mouth. So let me give you
the backstory on this and then we'll get to the
audio tape. So three days ago, a defensive tackle. You
don't know who this is, because why would you know?
A defensive tackle for the Dallas Cowboy. This guy, Sam
Williams is his name. So Sam Williams was arrested. He
faces multiple charges, including felony possession of a controlled substance. Naughty, naughty, naughty. Now,
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the Cowboys owner Jerry Jones addressing this issue. He's not
only the owner, he's the general manager of the Cowboys. Now,
if you didn't hear what he had to say, you
might have not heard this over the last few hours here.
But Jerry Jones decided, you know, I want to be
a comedian. I would like to have some fun with this,
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and so he did. He had some fun talking to
the Cowboy Beat reporters about Sam Williams, who had just
been arrested for by the way, the second time in
a couple of years. There. He also got arrested last
year for a similar situation. So what did Jerry Jones say.
Let's go to the audio tape.
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First of all, I'm saying, I who the eighty six, which.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Is more often the case than none. This shot sounds
a little hollow whatever, but he does in his maturity
in years.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Was he going sixty six miles?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Now last year's no this year, so he's thirty four
miles an hour last year.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Sixty six, So that's.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Improvement, all right, So there's a lot of ambienis. But
wave if you couldn't understand that Jerry Jones, he said,
this is a little hollow, but he's maturing the cowboy
player that was just arrested. Because now Jerry is not
good at math. He said he was going sixty six
miles an hour and last year was ninety eight. So
that's he said, that's a thirty four mile an hour
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improvement year to year, But using mal or math, that's
only a thirty two mile an hour improvement. Anyway, that
quote you just which seems rather benign. He's just goofing around,
But that has led to a vicious rebuke from members
of the media. The pearl clutching crowd Jerry Jones being ridicule.
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He's town deaf, he's insensitive, out of tune, tactless, obtuse
big words. So let us discuss the question. Was Jerry
Jones in or out of bounds with his Sam Williams
attempt at a joke? So I have this in inbounds.
I have an inbounds. I laughed. I thought it was funny.
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I've got creamy filling aristocrats and scissors and paste, and
we will combine all of these things together, and we
are going to make a open mic night at Chuckles
Comedy Club where Jerry will be performing. He'll be doing
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jokes on circumcising a mosquito and a bunch of other
random time topics. Now, ay, Jerry Jones, this guy's a gift. Okay,
He's not gonna be around forever, none of us are
gonna be around forever. But I'm going to enjoy every
stupid thing Jerry Jones does. What a breath of fresh
air in the buttoned up NFL. He's a throwback to
the bronze age. Jerry is utterly confident in his own skin.
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He liked the Cowboys so much he bought the team.
He doesn't worry about the repercussions of anything. And this
latest clip, we played it for you. This was the
Hostess snack classic Delicious raspberry ice cakes with creamy filling.
A zinger. It was a Jerry Jones singer. It was
light hearted, it was silly. It was it was funny.
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If if you didn't laugh at that, go out and
try to find a funny bone somewhere. Maybe you can
find it on eBay, Find a funny bone. But it was,
it was on brand. It was it was a quip,
That's what it was. He was goofing around. It reminds
me of when I was a kid. I watched this
NFL Films documentary about this guy named John McKay who
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was a legendary college football coach at the University of
Southern California, but at the end of his career he
wanted to coach in the NFL, so he coached the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who were horrific. They wore the creamsicle uniforms.
They played at the Big Sombrero Stadium there and McKay
just decided to goof around and just just have just
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have a good time, and he just gave silly quotes
because the team was so terrible. The most famous quote
bar none if that if this happened, it actually did happen.
A couple of years ago, somebody stole this quote and
people were up in arms. But John McKay's most famous
quote was he was asked, what do you think of
your team's execution, coach, and McKay famously replied, I'm in
favor of it. And it was hilarious and it was great.
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And of course these days everyone's got a broomstick up
their derry air, so god forbid you laugh at anything.
But this Jerry Jones comment was harmless. Sam Williams is
a knucklehead, he's a dunderhead, but it's clear he's important
for the Cowboys. Otherwise he wouldn't be on the Cowboys.
And so Jerry Jones is just poking fun at the situation,
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laughing through the pain. But it says a lot more
again about the people who get upset by this than
it does about what Jerry Jones had to say. Okay,
his tongue was firmly implanted in his cheek Now page two. Here,
let's go to the Jonathan Taylor obligatory Mallard monologue. The
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running back working on a deadline. We are told, Oh,
the drama. The plot thickens to try to find a
trade away from the Colts. We were told Indianapolis gave
Taylor and his legal representation a deadline of Tuesday to
find a suitable trade. And the streets are talking. The
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streets indicate that a dozen teams, about half a dozen
half a dozen teams have asked about the availability, and
there have been a couple of offers that have come in.
It's believe the Dolphins are one of the teams in
the Philadelphia Eagles. There's also, of course, chatter that the
La Rams, who are just a Jonathan Taylor acquiring away
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from getting back to the Super Bowl, are also interested.
So let's talk about all this. The Colts, Jonathan Taylor
drawing multiple offers. Is this conceivable or implausible? So I'm
gonna go with believable is the word I will use.
I'll tell you why this has gone to the corner office.
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All right. What it's gone to is the corner is.
It's no longer the front office. It's the upper corner office.
And at this point, Jonathan Taylor, with all the media
attention that this cat has gotten, we have cranked it
up to the aristocrats, the people that hobknob at the
society balls and own these teams. I'm talking about you,
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Steven Ross drinking a whiskey sour and daydreaming about Taylor
swimming with a pot of dolphins, or bizarre in Philadelphia,
Jeffrey Lurie enjoying a white Russian and just imagining how
the Eagles will never lose a game if they get
Jonathan Taylor on the Birds. So it's gonna take a
meggdaling owner trying to upgrade and also make a splash
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at the same time. All right, last word here. So
our final stop is to the Rocky Mountains, where Russell
with Mussel is added again. Russell Wilson's first year in
Denver was the consistency of a bag of puke. Now
he's heading into year or two new coach, eighteen million
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dollars a year coach Sean Payton, and Russell Wilson said
he is not feeling any additional pressure. Quote do I
feel the pressure, Wilson opined, No, I don't. I don't
run from it. I look forward to it. I run
to it. If anything, Wilson walking around like a peacock
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with his feathers out told the assembled media there in Denver.
So the question here is does what Russell Wilson. Does
Russell Wilson feel the immense pressure of being an abject
failure with the Denver Broncos or does he have immunity? Oh?
What is he a cyborg? Come on, no, He's not
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a cyborg. Last I checked, maybe he is. I don't
image like a lizard person, but please A last season
was a total fiasco. It was embarrassing on every level,
from Russ walking down the aisle of the plane and
high stepping and working out on a transcontinental flight to
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the UK to everything else. So my theory on this
is this, this upcoming Broncos season has a rather gloomy outlook.
So what Russ has done is a scissors and paste
job that he's put together. He reminds me a lot
of Robert Salah, the coach of the Jets. Robert Salah's
one of these self help guy fanboys, and I look
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at Russell Wilson the same way that he's put together
a scissors and paste kind of a blanket, if you will,
of the teachings of all the gurus over the years
in the modern world, everyone from Tony Robbins to the
late Dale Carnegie to Deepak Chopra and all the other ones.
But financially, I would agree with Russ. Financially there is
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no pressure. One hundred and sixty one million dollars sight unseen.
The Broncos gave this cat, so professionally he's knee deep
and horse manure with the Broncos, and every man, woman
and child knows it. But financially, Russ has the most
expensive house in the state of Colorado and has little
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to worry about in that regard. And so it's everything
is through the eye of the beholder. Oh that's very deep.
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And we're back at it and the top store. Talk
more about this later, but show hey Otani the news
coming out shortly before we crack the microphone, so that
Otani is down for the count. He has been kaoed
by the grim Reaper of injury, a UCL injury elbow injury.
Ligament in the elbow is has snapped, and it sounds
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like he's going to be out for a while, certainly
the rest of this year. There's only about thirty something
games to go in the baseball season, and Otani will
not pitch again this year, might not play again, and
the most likely scenario is Tommy John surgery, which would
take him off the mound, make him just a designated hitter,
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and he is going to be a free agent, so
this is quite the development. More on that later, but
our lead this hour, coming from the panhandlers of the NFL.
The forty nine ers painting for gold, wasted no time
in dishing out the bad news that less than twenty
four hours after Kyle Shanahan said we're gonna rotate backup quarterbacks,
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we're gonna wait, We're not gonna name a backup quarterback
and it's a competition. Well he had a change of heart.
So if you didn't see this, maybe not. We read
the forty nine ers have named Sam Darnald as their
backup quarterback, beating out the number three overall pick the
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twenty twenty one collegiate draft, Trey Lance. Trey Lance gets
to wear the Dunce cap. Sam Darnald has won the job.
He is now just a broken finger away from replacing
Brock Purty as the starting quarterback. So this move ratcheted
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up the trade speculation around Trey Lance, who is not
long for the Bay Area. Now state funded NFL network
tells us the forty nine ers are exploring all options
for trade Lance. Blah blah blah blah blah. So let
us discuss the question, what value does Trey Lance have?
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On the NFL flea market as we are just a
couple weeks away from the start of the regular season.
So my observations, I've got Sea Serpent, karate Kid, and
country club and we're gonna lock all of these things
together and we are going to ride a donkey, is
what we're going to do, all right. So Number one,
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the forty nine ers are going to test the boundaries
of what's known as the greater fool theory. Now, the
great full theory involves a player relocating and being traded
for value to a greater fool to take said player. Now,
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right now, the forty nine ers are the biggest sucker
in the room. And the problem with Niners have They've
got a couple problems. The first problem is Trey Lance
can't play. The second problem is people now are realizing
that Trey Lance can't play. He is a sea serpent.
He has dragon breath. There is no other way to
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say it. He stinks to high heaven. And coming into
the NFL draft, it was always a gamble because he
hadn't played that much in the Dakotas, and because of
the COVID thing and all that, and but he had
all the measurables, and he was one of the cool kids.
And like a rocket ship headed to the Cosmos that
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comes crashing back down into the Gulf of Mexico, he's
now got the cooties. Trey Lance has coadies and when
he has played, not very often, he has often needed
a life raft. And Sam Darnald here's the amazing part
of Sam Donald. When we think of Sam Donald, we
think of a guy that sees phantoms. That's what he's
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known for. He's also been utter garbage. But still the
forty nine ers picked the ghost Whisperer instead of Trey Lance.
So what could the Niners get for Trey Lance a
conditional fifth round pick, a couple of sixth round picks,
and if you throw in some sour dope bread, you
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might be able to get some extra cleats thrown in
the deal. So this says a lot more about Trey
Lance than it does Sam Donald. That Donald is the
backup quarterback. Now the second part of this, there's another
branch to the Niners tree here. And regardless of all
the noise about a trade and all that, Kyle Shanahan
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said that he was quote really hoping that Trey Lance
would remain with the forty nine ers. He said, quote,
this isn't a thing where we're giving up on Trey
You only get so many reps at it. Shanahan opined.
The forty nine er coach went on to say, we
feel starting about ten days ago, Sam really separated himself,
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so we got to keep it real in that way.
So the question here is why is Kyle Shanahan selling
that he has not given up on Trey Lance. So
my hypothesis on this is the forty nine er head
coach is going karate kid. He's playing the role of
mister Miagi, the father figure, the good cop. He's supporting
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his guys. The reality is, though, that Trey Lance hit
a pothole and he needs a tow truck. He failed
to meet the very lofty expectations which were inbounds. They
weren't out of bounds, they were inbounds, and now things
have totally flamed out. But Kyle Shanahan doesn't want to
admit it because he is part of the brain trust
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that signed off on that transaction a couple of years ago.
So he's hoping to recoup some of the draft capital
that was lost. Remember San Francisco unloaded the twelfth overall
pick in twenty twenty one, the first and third round
picks in twenty twenty two, on a first round pick
in twenty twenty three, to have Trey Lance hold a
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clipboard and essentially have spontaneous human combustion for his career
on the sidelines. That's kind of what's that is up
in flames at this point. He's kind of walking around
and it's kind of burned up, and it's the way
it went now, final point. So we'll make a pitch
stop into Houston. The Texans are supposed to not only
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be a football team, they will be terrible, horrible, horrible,
horrible down the dumps. Another developmental year for their latest
rookie quarterback. So the Texans also have a rookie pass rusher,
Will Anderson Junior. He's an Alabama man, and he made
some headlines here and he was talking about the differences
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between playing big time college football in that bubble at
Alabama and going to the NFL. And he is not
all that worked up, all that worried about practice in
the NFL. In fact, he says it was harder when
he was in college. Yeah, and this raised a lot
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of eyebrows, people like, oh no, I can't believe that. Now.
Some people were saying this is clickbait, but he said it.
He told our former colleague rich Eisen is a quote.
Alabama did a really good job preparing us for the
next level. The Texans rookie stated to Richison, just making
practice ten times harder than what it is in the league.
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So does Will Anderson's comment about practice not a guy?
Not a guy we talked about price. Does Will Anderson's
comments about practice say more about Nick Saban or more
about the NFL? So this is a referendum on the NFL.
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And they hunkered down a couple of years ago, they
had meetings negotiating a labor agreement, and it is a
referendum on the NFL because of the concessions that were
given in those labor negotiations. The loan feather in the cap,
unless I'm wrong, the loan feather in the cap the
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players have gained over the last decade is that they
can cut corners. They don't have to work as hard,
they don't have to hit, they don't have to do
the things that previous generations of NFL players had to do.
That the owners said Okay, Rather than give you extra money,
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what we're gonna do is we're gonna make practices less
cruel and we give you a lighter workload. Work smarter,
not harder. So in many respects, the NFL has become
like the Congressional country club. It's an all inclusive resort.
You show up, they'll feed you a couple of meals,
you can work out, you can go swimming if you want.
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And there are strict, iron clad rules on how much
contact the players can have during practice, how many meetings
they can have. And every year, inevitably there'll be some tattletale,
some whistleblower that will say, like the Patriots had this
happen where they had too many meetings and so they
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got dinged offseason works. That's the mindset of the NFL ballplayer,
and so what Will Anderson says makes sense because last
I checked, Nick Saban does whatever the hell Nick Saban
wants to do. In Tuscaloosa, you are expected to be
a worker be even though every single player that is
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a starter at Alabama, with few exceptions, was a five
star recruit, the greatest player on their high school team.
But still the expectation is you're gonna go in their
work in the NFL. They've changed this over the use
because the NFL used to brag about how hard NFL
players work. I'm older enough, I was a kid. I
went to I told the story. I went to the
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NFL training campus, you know, just a fan, and they
had two a day practices. In the NFL, they got
rid of those a long long time ago, but they
used to brag about that. They don't brag about it
anymore now the NFL. The brag, the humble brag for
the NFL is the players keep themselves in shape. So
the practices are all about mental reps. It's all about
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the mental reps. You're enhancing your skills. It's a refresher course.
It's not about lifting weights, it's not about running and
all that other stuff. Yeah, that's the ticket.
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On yesterday's show, you mentioned that Tampa Bay Bucks fan
shouldn't be panicking just yet about Baker Mayfield being named
their starter. Let me ask you this, though, Ben, is
it Baker's last chance set being a starter.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yeah, so they shouldn't pack, They shouldn't panic till they
watch him go out and puke against the Vikings. But Baker,
he comes across as undaunted. He's ready to take over
the world. But the comps on this are, yeah, this
is the last chance saloon for Baker Mayfield. Carson Wentz
just did this. He started three years in a row
for different teams. And by the way, he's currently not
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invited to the party. He's currently unemployed. Carson Wentz, nobody
signed him. So this is it. This is the last
opportunity for Baker Mayfield and if he goes out into
the craphouse. See that's the thing. The NFC South is
so bad. They can still make the playoffs in Tampa,
as odd as that is.
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Next, Terry Francona dropped a major hint on Tuesday that
it's becoming likely that he'll retire after this season. Ben,
Where does Francona sit among the all time great managers?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Well, it's shocking the way he started because I know
in Philadelphia, my guy Angelo Cataldi used to rip him
all the time when he managed the Phillies, said he
didn't know what he was doing. But then he went
to Boston with Pedro, Shilling, Poppy and Manny and he's
really ridden the afterglow of those Red Sox teams. Dare
I say he's a top twenty manager of all time?
I think he's in the top fifteen and wins and
he's been to the World Series three times, So yeah,
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top twenty.
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Next steph Curry was on Gilbert Arenaz's podcast this week
and he was asked who is the next NBA star
that's ready to take over the league. Steph pointed to
Luca Doncik, Ben, who are you pointing to?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
So it should be it should be John Morant, But
he likes playing with guns, so it's not John Moran.
I'm not going Luca. Luca is just a DH. He
doesn't play even try to play defense. You can't go
with shake Yogis Alexander because he's in Oklahoma City. It's
gotta be Jason Tatum, maybe He'sion Williams. Is gonna be
pushed down the cheeseburgers? How did we down? Crumble out?
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You fail?
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Luca? Luca?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Stop with the look. Clippers own Luca. They've been him
two years in a run. They own Luca. Clippers owned
the Luca.
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Your questions on Twitter? Now?
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Is the button broken? Sam? Did they they break the button?
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Ny?
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You know how goes back here? Yeah, lots of buttons.
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So it is asked Ben, your questions are answers for
the rest of the hour, and we passed the microphone
over to the Coop a Loop for the reading of
the questions. Who are ask Ben and friends? Ask Ben
and friends. We don't do sporty, but we do answer
your questions. Coop a Loop and.
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We're gonna start off with one of the best questions ever.
This one's from from Kathleen Kathy in Madison.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Yes, Kathy and Madison just wants to know how are
you Ben?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Well? Thanks for asking, Kathy. Nobody ever asked him doing so.
I'm glad that you brought that up. I'm a little
sleep deprived more than normal. I had a power luncheon
I went to I normally don't do those kind of
things because I like to sleep, or at least to
pretend like I'm sleeping, just lay around in bed, lounge around.
So I spent a lot of time in traffic doing
the overnight show. I don't have to spend a lot
of time in traffic. So it was a big pan
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in the ass. But thanks for asking. I appreciate it.
Very kind of you, Kenny. Nobody else needs to ask
me that, all right? Next?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
All right, This next question is from Ray. He wants
to know from everyone since there's so many to choose from.
What's your favorite Adam Sandler movie?
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Oh? I was a huge Happy Gilmore fan. I loved
Happy Gilmour. What about you, Eddie?
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Just to be different, I guess I'll go water Boy.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
That's a good one too, water Boys solid? What about
the price is wrong?
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Bitch?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
What about you? Iowa saying?
Speaker 8 (29:53):
I think I would have to agree with The water
Boy is a great I think it's a great football
movie too, with lots of cameos, and I love The
water Boy.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
It's great sports movie.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
So yeah, oh no, we suck again.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
I get.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
That was not Adam Sadler, though, I would have to
say either either The water Boy or or Billy Madison.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
You know what, I'm gonna change mine.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Actually, you're not allowed to change your answer. There's no change.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go wedding singer.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
I'm not a Why don't we just name every Adam
Sandler movie Wedding Singer is a great film too, a
lot of heart. Nobody picked that Diamond one he did
a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
I didn't see it was very good.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yeah, it was a serious movie though, you know we
like him and cut gems. Yeah, I saw it. I
checked it out. I saw it.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
It was good. It's more of a serious role.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Why don't we pause for the cause that was the appetizer.
We're gonna have a giant, massive block of ask Ben,
So keep those questions coming in. We're gonna rapid fire
and go through as many questions as we possibly can,
ask Ben, as the late Larry King used to say,
for the rest of the hour. It continues next.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
And back to where you go, it is, asked, Ben,
your questions are answers. As the wing blow back over
to the Cooper loop, ask Ben, like a comfy old
shoe just fits right, doesn't it? Yes? All right, coople,
what do we have here?
Speaker 4 (31:29):
All right?
Speaker 3 (31:29):
This is a question for everybody, but I think probably
you and I Ben are the only ones that might
be able to answer this.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
Okay, it's from Mason and Huntington Beach listener.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Mason, Yeah, he said.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
The subject is tipping in Las Vegas specifically, how should
someone tip at a sports book if you cash in
a ticket or at a blackjack table?
Speaker 7 (31:49):
How should you tip the dealer?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
So I have an unpopular opinion when it comes to
the sports book. I know, if you went over a
certain amount, you know, it's polite, you know, leave a
little bit, leave a little something down there. But the
people at the casino, the ticket takers, I don't know, man,
I gotta win a lot of money for me to
do it. Give a little bit of a tip, but
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you know, you win five hundred bucks, you know, toss
you know, fifty down or whatever or something like that.
But I I don't know, man, I just feel it
feels odd to me. Am I a bad person? Koople
Loop when I go to the sports book if I
win some money.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
No, I completely agree with you.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I think out of the entire casino, the rudest employees
work at the windows at the sports book.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I don't know why that is, but they always seem
kind of grumpy.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Yes, it's anytime, like I have a question, about something.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
It's always like the bit like like you you dumb ass,
Like that's what That's the kind of what I feel,
the vibe I get from them.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
A lot of them. They want you to go to
the kiosks at the casinos. Now there's the kiosk. I
have people there still, So what's the point of having people?
Do you want people to go to the kiosks?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Even though even if I won five hundred dollars fifties
a lot, I don't know if I would even tip
tip that. Honestly, I'd have to win thousands in order
for me to tip the person at the ticket.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
With It's kind of like tipping on takeout orders, like
you what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (33:07):
You know?
Speaker 3 (33:09):
And now as far as blackjack goes, if I if
I hit a blackjack, I will usually take like the
little like extra I don't know percentage that you get
sometimes and then and I'll place that as a bet
for the dealer.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
And then if you win that you give it all
to yes, correct, All right? Fair enough? What is next year?
Speaker 2 (33:32):
It is?
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Ask Ben?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Your questions are answer? It is good to see Mason
listener Mason from Huntington Beach. He made the long drive
out to the comic book shop. I actually confused another
listener with listener Mason. That job by me, But there
was a guy that kind of looked like him. I
think his name was Dave who showed up earlier. Anyway,
what is next year? Cool?
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Confused?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Confused?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Ferd Count wants to know. Is ice cream cake far
superior to regular cake?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
So here's my position on ice cream cake. I love
ice cream cake, but it's gotta be in the sweet spot.
If it's too hard the ice cream, it's terrible. But
if it's too soft, you've got to get it served
at the proper temperature where it's perfect right the goldilock
(34:20):
zone of the ice cream. Otherwise it's it's terrible, Eddie.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
If I could curse on the air right now, I would.
That's how much I hate ice cream cake.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Wow, its strong anti ice cream cake position.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
Eddie, the strongest. That there is ice cream and cake
should be separate. Always, they should never be combined in
any form.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
It can be separate, but properly. Again, it's all about
the temperature of the ice cream compared to the cake.
Because sometimes the cake.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
I don't want and my ice cream together, I'll take
them separate, but cake in it of itself is far superior.
Ice cream cake can go to hell, Eddie to hell.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Now, I will tell you, Eddie, the most important part
of the cake is the frosting. That's the most important
part of the cake. The frosting very important. I love
my frosting. I was sam quick take on this.
Speaker 8 (35:15):
I love ice cream cake. I don't know what Eddie's
talking about.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
You know, garbage, Eddy, shocking position. That's more shocking than
your women's soccer position.
Speaker 8 (35:24):
We're past that. Now it's time for football. And do
you like a hot chocolate chip cookie with some ice
cream on top?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Yes, okay, it's pretty good. It's not cake, though, it's
a cookie like ice cream cake.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
I enjoy ice cream cake, but regular cake is far.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
No, it is.
Speaker 7 (35:40):
I mean, ice cream cake is great, but I'll take regular.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
If I was.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
Offered free ice cream cake, I would walk away. Look
at me, walk away. I would absolutely walk away.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Now, the greatest assert is the two thick chocolate chip
cookies with vanilla ice cream in the middle. That's the
perfect I don't care. Goodbye, Okay, moving on, what is
next year? We got a little time? What is next? Andy?
Speaker 3 (36:03):
The comic book guy wants to know of all the
comic books your eyes glazed upon this past weekend the
Malor meet and greet, what stood out to you the
most or look the coolest.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
I love those. I hate to say this, but I
love those little like that's that the statuette things they
had on the on the right side when it was
more expensive. I know, but they looked really cool. That
Star Wars won I had my eye on that. What
about Eddie? Anything stand out at the comic book show?
Speaker 4 (36:26):
I like the Dune comics that Andy gave me.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Yeah, oh very nice.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
What about you, Cooperloop, Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna say
the Dune ones caught my attention the most.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
There was a lot of cool stuff in the store,
though it was very visually stimulating.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
We'd ask I have to go back, just look around.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I know, well maybe we'll go back next year. Ready,
you never know, Maybe this.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Is not at any responsibilities. Just want to look around.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Oh okay, all right,
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Open Mike Night in Jerry's World. Welcome and the beginning
of another edition of the Ben Malor Show.
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We are in the air everywhere.
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Bellied belly as we crank it up coast, the coast,
border of order and beyond all the bast and magically
powerful microphone of FSR emminating live from the pen, the Bullpen,
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as we are slinging out bull all night long. We
will get to the baseball lay. A big story here
which should developing, just came out just before we came
on the air. Here is Shohotani has a onler collateral
ligament injury to his elbow, which is code for Tommy
John surgery. Otani left the game in Anaheim against the Reds.
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He did not have much velocity in that started left
early in the game, and they've been nursing Otani along,
the Angels have and now they're gonna shut him down
for the year if he does need Tommy John surgery
that is gonna cost him three hundred million dollars minimum.
The talk was he was gonna get six hundred million
(01:52):
dollars in free agency Otani, but it sounds like if
he needs Tommy John, then he's just gonna be a
player player. He's a good position player. It's a great
position player. It's better position player than he's a pitcher.
But the whole unicorn thing goes out the window window
with Otani. So we'll keep an eye on that story
with much more on it later on. As a Shohail Tani,
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who's the favorite to win the American League Most Valuable
Player award, is down for the count as he had
the breakfast cereal known as snap Crackle Pop, and so
he appears to be out. And this actually could be
a blessing in disguise for the Angels because if Otani
does need Tommy John surgery but can still play the field,
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maybe he stays in Anaheim for another year, signs a
one year contract with the Angels and just plays the
field and then comes back to free agency a year
from now, and he can come back from the possible operation.
But our lead this hour, coming from Jerry's world. We
had a hum dinger, a hum dinger of a story
(03:00):
right from the horse's mouth. So let me give you
the backstory on this and then we'll get to the
audio tape. So three days ago, a defensive tackle. You
don't know who this is, because why would you know?
A defensive tackle for the Dallas Cowboy. This guy, Sam
Williams is his name. So Sam Williams was arrested. He
faces multiple charges, including felony possession of a controlled substance. Naughty, naughty, naughty. Now,
(03:25):
the Cowboys owner Jerry Jones addressing this issue. He's not
only the owner, he's the general manager of the Cowboys. Now,
if you didn't hear what he had to say, you
might have not heard this over the last few hours here.
But Jerry Jones decided, you know, I want to be
a comedian. I would like to have some fun with this,
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and so he did. He had some fun talking to
the Cowboy Beat reporters about Sam Williams, who had just
been arrested for by the way, the second time in
a couple of years. There. He also got arrested last
year for a similar situation. So what did Jerry Jones say.
Let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
First of all, I'm saying, I who the eighty six, which.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Is more often the case than none. This shot sounds
a little hollow whatever, but he does in his maturity
in years.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Was he going sixty six miles?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Now last year's no this year, so he's thirty four
miles an hour last year.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Sixty six, So that's.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Improvement, all right, So there's a lot of ambienis. But
wave if you couldn't understand that Jerry Jones, he said,
this is a little hollow, but he's maturing the cowboy
player that was just arrested. Because now Jerry is not
good at math. He said he was going sixty six
miles an hour and last year was ninety eight. So
that's he said, that's a thirty four mile an hour
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improvement year to year, But using mal or math, that's
only a thirty two mile an hour improvement. Anyway, that
quote you just which seems rather benign. He's just goofing around,
But that has led to a vicious rebuke from members
of the media. The pearl clutching crowd Jerry Jones being ridicule.
(05:12):
He's town deaf, he's insensitive, out of tune, tactless, obtuse
big words. So let us discuss the question. Was Jerry
Jones in or out of bounds with his Sam Williams
attempt at a joke? So I have this in inbounds.
I have an inbounds. I laughed. I thought it was funny.
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I've got creamy filling aristocrats and scissors and paste, and
we will combine all of these things together, and we
are going to make a open mic night at Chuckles
Comedy Club where Jerry will be performing. He'll be doing
(05:56):
jokes on circumcising a mosquito and a bunch of other
random time topics. Now, ay, Jerry Jones, this guy's a gift. Okay,
He's not gonna be around forever, none of us are
gonna be around forever. But I'm going to enjoy every
stupid thing Jerry Jones does. What a breath of fresh
air in the buttoned up NFL. He's a throwback to
the bronze age. Jerry is utterly confident in his own skin.
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He liked the Cowboys so much he bought the team.
He doesn't worry about the repercussions of anything. And this
latest clip, we played it for you. This was the
Hostess snack classic Delicious raspberry ice cakes with creamy filling.
A zinger. It was a Jerry Jones singer. It was
light hearted, it was silly. It was it was funny.
(06:41):
If if you didn't laugh at that, go out and
try to find a funny bone somewhere. Maybe you can
find it on eBay, Find a funny bone. But it was,
it was on brand. It was it was a quip,
That's what it was. He was goofing around. It reminds
me of when I was a kid. I watched this
NFL Films documentary about this guy named John McKay who
(07:02):
was a legendary college football coach at the University of
Southern California, but at the end of his career he
wanted to coach in the NFL, so he coached the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who were horrific. They wore the creamsicle uniforms.
They played at the Big Sombrero Stadium there and McKay
just decided to goof around and just just have just
(07:24):
have a good time, and he just gave silly quotes
because the team was so terrible. The most famous quote
bar none if that if this happened, it actually did happen.
A couple of years ago, somebody stole this quote and
people were up in arms. But John McKay's most famous
quote was he was asked, what do you think of
your team's execution, coach, and McKay famously replied, I'm in
favor of it. And it was hilarious and it was great.
(07:47):
And of course these days everyone's got a broomstick up
their derry air, so god forbid you laugh at anything.
But this Jerry Jones comment was harmless. Sam Williams is
a knucklehead, he's a dunderhead, but it's clear he's important
for the Cowboys. Otherwise he wouldn't be on the Cowboys.
And so Jerry Jones is just poking fun at the situation,
(08:09):
laughing through the pain. But it says a lot more
again about the people who get upset by this than
it does about what Jerry Jones had to say. Okay,
his tongue was firmly implanted in his cheek Now page two. Here,
let's go to the Jonathan Taylor obligatory Mallard monologue. The
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running back working on a deadline. We are told, Oh,
the drama. The plot thickens to try to find a
trade away from the Colts. We were told Indianapolis gave
Taylor and his legal representation a deadline of Tuesday to
find a suitable trade. And the streets are talking. The
(08:54):
streets indicate that a dozen teams, about half a dozen
half a dozen teams have asked about the availability, and
there have been a couple of offers that have come in.
It's believe the Dolphins are one of the teams in
the Philadelphia Eagles. There's also, of course, chatter that the
La Rams, who are just a Jonathan Taylor acquiring away
(09:16):
from getting back to the Super Bowl, are also interested.
So let's talk about all this. The Colts, Jonathan Taylor
drawing multiple offers. Is this conceivable or implausible? So I'm
gonna go with believable is the word I will use.
I'll tell you why this has gone to the corner office.
(09:37):
All right. What it's gone to is the corner is.
It's no longer the front office. It's the upper corner office.
And at this point, Jonathan Taylor, with all the media
attention that this cat has gotten, we have cranked it
up to the aristocrats, the people that hobknob at the
society balls and own these teams. I'm talking about you,
(09:57):
Steven Ross drinking a whiskey sour and daydreaming about Taylor
swimming with a pot of dolphins, or bizarre in Philadelphia,
Jeffrey Lurie enjoying a white Russian and just imagining how
the Eagles will never lose a game if they get
Jonathan Taylor on the Birds. So it's gonna take a
meggdaling owner trying to upgrade and also make a splash
(10:20):
at the same time. All right, last word here. So
our final stop is to the Rocky Mountains, where Russell
with Mussel is added again. Russell Wilson's first year in
Denver was the consistency of a bag of puke. Now
he's heading into year or two new coach, eighteen million
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dollars a year coach Sean Payton, and Russell Wilson said
he is not feeling any additional pressure. Quote do I
feel the pressure, Wilson opined, No, I don't. I don't
run from it. I look forward to it. I run
to it. If anything, Wilson walking around like a peacock
(11:02):
with his feathers out told the assembled media there in Denver.
So the question here is does what Russell Wilson. Does
Russell Wilson feel the immense pressure of being an abject
failure with the Denver Broncos or does he have immunity? Oh?
What is he a cyborg? Come on, no, He's not
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a cyborg. Last I checked, maybe he is. I don't
image like a lizard person, but please A last season
was a total fiasco. It was embarrassing on every level,
from Russ walking down the aisle of the plane and
high stepping and working out on a transcontinental flight to
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the UK to everything else. So my theory on this
is this, this upcoming Broncos season has a rather gloomy outlook.
So what Russ has done is a scissors and paste
job that he's put together. He reminds me a lot
of Robert Salah, the coach of the Jets. Robert Salah's
one of these self help guy fanboys, and I look
(12:08):
at Russell Wilson the same way that he's put together
a scissors and paste kind of a blanket, if you will,
of the teachings of all the gurus over the years
in the modern world, everyone from Tony Robbins to the
late Dale Carnegie to Deepak Chopra and all the other ones.
But financially, I would agree with Russ. Financially there is
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no pressure. One hundred and sixty one million dollars sight unseen.
The Broncos gave this cat, so professionally he's knee deep
and horse manure with the Broncos, and every man, woman
and child knows it. But financially, Russ has the most
expensive house in the state of Colorado and has little
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to worry about in that regard. And so it's everything
is through the eye of the beholder. Oh that's very deep.
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And we're back at it and the top store. Talk
more about this later, but show hey Otani the news
coming out shortly before we crack the microphone, so that
Otani is down for the count. He has been kaoed
by the grim Reaper of injury, a UCL injury elbow injury.
Ligament in the elbow is has snapped, and it sounds
(14:34):
like he's going to be out for a while, certainly
the rest of this year. There's only about thirty something
games to go in the baseball season, and Otani will
not pitch again this year, might not play again, and
the most likely scenario is Tommy John surgery, which would
take him off the mound, make him just a designated hitter,
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and he is going to be a free agent, so
this is quite the development. More on that later, but
our lead this hour, coming from the panhandlers of the NFL.
The forty nine ers painting for gold, wasted no time
in dishing out the bad news that less than twenty
four hours after Kyle Shanahan said we're gonna rotate backup quarterbacks,
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we're gonna wait, We're not gonna name a backup quarterback
and it's a competition. Well he had a change of heart.
So if you didn't see this, maybe not. We read
the forty nine ers have named Sam Darnald as their
backup quarterback, beating out the number three overall pick the
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twenty twenty one collegiate draft, Trey Lance. Trey Lance gets
to wear the Dunce cap. Sam Darnald has won the job.
He is now just a broken finger away from replacing
Brock Purty as the starting quarterback. So this move ratcheted
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up the trade speculation around Trey Lance, who is not
long for the Bay Area. Now state funded NFL network
tells us the forty nine ers are exploring all options
for trade Lance. Blah blah blah blah blah. So let
us discuss the question, what value does Trey Lance have?
(16:22):
On the NFL flea market as we are just a
couple weeks away from the start of the regular season.
So my observations, I've got Sea Serpent, karate Kid, and
country club and we're gonna lock all of these things
together and we are going to ride a donkey, is
what we're going to do, all right. So Number one,
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the forty nine ers are going to test the boundaries
of what's known as the greater fool theory. Now, the
great full theory involves a player relocating and being traded
for value to a greater fool to take said player. Now,
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right now, the forty nine ers are the biggest sucker
in the room. And the problem with Niners have They've
got a couple problems. The first problem is Trey Lance
can't play. The second problem is people now are realizing
that Trey Lance can't play. He is a sea serpent.
He has dragon breath. There is no other way to
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say it. He stinks to high heaven. And coming into
the NFL draft, it was always a gamble because he
hadn't played that much in the Dakotas, and because of
the COVID thing and all that, and but he had
all the measurables, and he was one of the cool kids.
And like a rocket ship headed to the Cosmos that
(17:54):
comes crashing back down into the Gulf of Mexico, he's
now got the cooties. Trey Lance has coadies and when
he has played, not very often, he has often needed
a life raft. And Sam Darnald here's the amazing part
of Sam Donald. When we think of Sam Donald, we
think of a guy that sees phantoms. That's what he's
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known for. He's also been utter garbage. But still the
forty nine ers picked the ghost Whisperer instead of Trey Lance.
So what could the Niners get for Trey Lance a
conditional fifth round pick, a couple of sixth round picks,
and if you throw in some sour dope bread, you
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might be able to get some extra cleats thrown in
the deal. So this says a lot more about Trey
Lance than it does Sam Donald. That Donald is the
backup quarterback. Now the second part of this, there's another
branch to the Niners tree here. And regardless of all
the noise about a trade and all that, Kyle Shanahan
(19:03):
said that he was quote really hoping that Trey Lance
would remain with the forty nine ers. He said, quote,
this isn't a thing where we're giving up on Trey
You only get so many reps at it. Shanahan opined.
The forty nine er coach went on to say, we
feel starting about ten days ago, Sam really separated himself,
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so we got to keep it real in that way.
So the question here is why is Kyle Shanahan selling
that he has not given up on Trey Lance. So
my hypothesis on this is the forty nine er head
coach is going karate kid. He's playing the role of
mister Miagi, the father figure, the good cop. He's supporting
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his guys. The reality is, though, that Trey Lance hit
a pothole and he needs a tow truck. He failed
to meet the very lofty expectations which were inbounds. They
weren't out of bounds, they were inbounds, and now things
have totally flamed out. But Kyle Shanahan doesn't want to
admit it because he is part of the brain trust
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that signed off on that transaction a couple of years ago.
So he's hoping to recoup some of the draft capital
that was lost. Remember San Francisco unloaded the twelfth overall
pick in twenty twenty one, the first and third round
picks in twenty twenty two, on a first round pick
in twenty twenty three, to have Trey Lance hold a
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clipboard and essentially have spontaneous human combustion for his career
on the sidelines. That's kind of what's that is up
in flames at this point. He's kind of walking around
and it's kind of burned up, and it's the way
it went now, final point. So we'll make a pitch
stop into Houston. The Texans are supposed to not only
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be a football team, they will be terrible, horrible, horrible,
horrible down the dumps. Another developmental year for their latest
rookie quarterback. So the Texans also have a rookie pass rusher,
Will Anderson Junior. He's an Alabama man, and he made
some headlines here and he was talking about the differences
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between playing big time college football in that bubble at
Alabama and going to the NFL. And he is not
all that worked up, all that worried about practice in
the NFL. In fact, he says it was harder when
he was in college. Yeah, and this raised a lot
(21:40):
of eyebrows, people like, oh no, I can't believe that. Now.
Some people were saying this is clickbait, but he said it.
He told our former colleague rich Eisen is a quote.
Alabama did a really good job preparing us for the
next level. The Texans rookie stated to Richison, just making
practice ten times harder than what it is in the league.
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So does Will Anderson's comment about practice not a guy?
Not a guy we talked about price. Does Will Anderson's
comments about practice say more about Nick Saban or more
about the NFL? So this is a referendum on the NFL.
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And they hunkered down a couple of years ago, they
had meetings negotiating a labor agreement, and it is a
referendum on the NFL because of the concessions that were
given in those labor negotiations. The loan feather in the cap,
unless I'm wrong, the loan feather in the cap the
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players have gained over the last decade is that they
can cut corners. They don't have to work as hard,
they don't have to hit, they don't have to do
the things that previous generations of NFL players had to do.
That the owners said Okay, Rather than give you extra money,
(23:03):
what we're gonna do is we're gonna make practices less
cruel and we give you a lighter workload. Work smarter,
not harder. So in many respects, the NFL has become
like the Congressional country club. It's an all inclusive resort.
You show up, they'll feed you a couple of meals,
you can work out, you can go swimming if you want.
(23:25):
And there are strict, iron clad rules on how much
contact the players can have during practice, how many meetings
they can have. And every year, inevitably there'll be some tattletale,
some whistleblower that will say, like the Patriots had this
happen where they had too many meetings and so they
(23:46):
got dinged offseason works. That's the mindset of the NFL ballplayer,
and so what Will Anderson says makes sense because last
I checked, Nick Saban does whatever the hell Nick Saban
wants to do. In Tuscaloosa, you are expected to be
a worker be even though every single player that is
(24:06):
a starter at Alabama, with few exceptions, was a five
star recruit, the greatest player on their high school team.
But still the expectation is you're gonna go in their
work in the NFL. They've changed this over the use
because the NFL used to brag about how hard NFL
players work. I'm older enough, I was a kid. I
went to I told the story. I went to the
(24:27):
NFL training campus, you know, just a fan, and they
had two a day practices. In the NFL, they got
rid of those a long long time ago, but they
used to brag about that. They don't brag about it
anymore now the NFL. The brag, the humble brag for
the NFL is the players keep themselves in shape. So
the practices are all about mental reps. It's all about
(24:47):
the mental reps. You're enhancing your skills. It's a refresher course.
It's not about lifting weights, it's not about running and
all that other stuff. Yeah, that's the ticket.
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Speaker 1 (25:41):
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Speaker 2 (25:42):
How about that to the third degree, This is one
big fan gets Grill Cooblo.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
On yesterday's show, you mentioned that Tampa Bay Bucks fan
shouldn't be panicking just yet about Baker Mayfield being named
their starter. Let me ask you this, though, Ben, is
it Baker's last chance set being a starter.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yeah, so they shouldn't pack, They shouldn't panic till they
watch him go out and puke against the Vikings. But Baker,
he comes across as undaunted. He's ready to take over
the world. But the comps on this are, yeah, this
is the last chance saloon for Baker Mayfield. Carson Wentz
just did this. He started three years in a row
for different teams. And by the way, he's currently not
(26:23):
invited to the party. He's currently unemployed. Carson Wentz, nobody
signed him. So this is it. This is the last
opportunity for Baker Mayfield and if he goes out into
the craphouse. See that's the thing. The NFC South is
so bad. They can still make the playoffs in Tampa,
as odd as that is.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Next, Terry Francona dropped a major hint on Tuesday that
it's becoming likely that he'll retire after this season. Ben,
Where does Francona sit among the all time great managers?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Well, it's shocking the way he started because I know
in Philadelphia, my guy Angelo Cataldi used to rip him
all the time when he managed the Phillies, said he
didn't know what he was doing. But then he went
to Boston with Pedro, Shilling, Poppy and Manny and he's
really ridden the afterglow of those Red Sox teams. Dare
I say he's a top twenty manager of all time?
I think he's in the top fifteen and wins and
he's been to the World Series three times, So yeah,
(27:08):
top twenty.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Next steph Curry was on Gilbert Arenaz's podcast this week
and he was asked who is the next NBA star
that's ready to take over the league. Steph pointed to
Luca Doncik, Ben, who are you pointing to?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
So it should be it should be John Morant, But
he likes playing with guns, so it's not John Moran.
I'm not going Luca. Luca is just a DH. He
doesn't play even try to play defense. You can't go
with shake Yogis Alexander because he's in Oklahoma City. It's
gotta be Jason Tatum, maybe He'sion Williams. Is gonna be
pushed down the cheeseburgers? How did we down? Crumble out?
(27:41):
You fail?
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Luca? Luca?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Stop with the look. Clippers own Luca. They've been him
two years in a run. They own Luca. Clippers owned
the Luca.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
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Speaker 1 (28:00):
Strik that button I was Sam right there, or don't
strike the button if you don't want to. But it's
ask Ben. Your questions are answer Ask Ben, Twitter said, is.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Your questions on Twitter? Now?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Is the button broken? Sam? Did they they break the button?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Ny?
Speaker 8 (28:21):
You know how goes back here? Yeah, lots of buttons.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
So it is asked Ben, your questions are answers for
the rest of the hour, and we passed the microphone
over to the Coop a Loop for the reading of
the questions. Who are ask Ben and friends? Ask Ben
and friends. We don't do sporty, but we do answer
your questions. Coop a Loop and.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
We're gonna start off with one of the best questions ever.
This one's from from Kathleen Kathy in Madison.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Yes, Kathy and Madison just wants to know how are
you Ben?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Well? Thanks for asking, Kathy. Nobody ever asked him doing so.
I'm glad that you brought that up. I'm a little
sleep deprived more than normal. I had a power luncheon
I went to I normally don't do those kind of
things because I like to sleep, or at least to
pretend like I'm sleeping, just lay around in bed, lounge around.
So I spent a lot of time in traffic doing
the overnight show. I don't have to spend a lot
of time in traffic. So it was a big pan
(29:18):
in the ass. But thanks for asking. I appreciate it.
Very kind of you, Kenny. Nobody else needs to ask
me that, all right? Next?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
All right, This next question is from Ray. He wants
to know from everyone since there's so many to choose from.
What's your favorite Adam Sandler movie?
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Oh? I was a huge Happy Gilmore fan. I loved
Happy Gilmour. What about you, Eddie?
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Just to be different, I guess I'll go water Boy.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
That's a good one too, water Boys solid? What about
the price is wrong?
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Bitch?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
What about you? Iowa saying?
Speaker 8 (29:53):
I think I would have to agree with The water
Boy is a great I think it's a great football
movie too, with lots of cameos, and I love The
water Boy.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
It's great sports movie.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
So yeah, oh no, we suck again.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
I get.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
That was not Adam Sadler, though, I would have to
say either either The water Boy or or Billy Madison.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
You know what, I'm gonna change mine.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Actually, you're not allowed to change your answer. There's no change.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go wedding singer.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
I'm not a Why don't we just name every Adam
Sandler movie Wedding Singer is a great film too, a
lot of heart. Nobody picked that Diamond one he did
a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
I didn't see it was very good.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yeah, it was a serious movie though, you know we
like him and cut gems. Yeah, I saw it. I
checked it out. I saw it.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
It was good. It's more of a serious role.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Why don't we pause for the cause that was the appetizer.
We're gonna have a giant, massive block of ask Ben,
So keep those questions coming in. We're gonna rapid fire
and go through as many questions as we possibly can,
ask Ben, as the late Larry King used to say,
for the rest of the hour. It continues next.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
And back to where you go, it is, asked, Ben,
your questions are answers. As the wing blow back over
to the Cooper loop, ask Ben, like a comfy old
shoe just fits right, doesn't it? Yes? All right, coople,
what do we have here?
Speaker 4 (31:29):
All right?
Speaker 3 (31:29):
This is a question for everybody, but I think probably
you and I Ben are the only ones that might
be able to answer this.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
Okay, it's from Mason and Huntington Beach listener.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Mason, Yeah, he said.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
The subject is tipping in Las Vegas specifically, how should
someone tip at a sports book if you cash in
a ticket or at a blackjack table?
Speaker 7 (31:49):
How should you tip the dealer?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
So I have an unpopular opinion when it comes to
the sports book. I know, if you went over a
certain amount, you know, it's polite, you know, leave a
little bit, leave a little something down there. But the
people at the casino, the ticket takers, I don't know, man,
I gotta win a lot of money for me to
do it. Give a little bit of a tip, but
(32:11):
you know, you win five hundred bucks, you know, toss
you know, fifty down or whatever or something like that.
But I I don't know, man, I just feel it
feels odd to me. Am I a bad person? Koople
Loop when I go to the sports book if I
win some money.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
No, I completely agree with you.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I think out of the entire casino, the rudest employees
work at the windows at the sports book.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I don't know why that is, but they always seem
kind of grumpy.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Yes, it's anytime, like I have a question, about something.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
It's always like the bit like like you you dumb ass,
Like that's what That's the kind of what I feel,
the vibe I get from them.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
A lot of them. They want you to go to
the kiosks at the casinos. Now there's the kiosk. I
have people there still, So what's the point of having people?
Do you want people to go to the kiosks?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Even though even if I won five hundred dollars fifties
a lot, I don't know if I would even tip
tip that. Honestly, I'd have to win thousands in order
for me to tip the person at the ticket.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
With It's kind of like tipping on takeout orders, like
you what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (33:07):
You know?
Speaker 3 (33:09):
And now as far as blackjack goes, if I if
I hit a blackjack, I will usually take like the
little like extra I don't know percentage that you get
sometimes and then and I'll place that as a bet
for the dealer.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
And then if you win that you give it all
to yes, correct, All right? Fair enough? What is next year?
Speaker 2 (33:32):
It is?
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Ask Ben?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Your questions are answer? It is good to see Mason
listener Mason from Huntington Beach. He made the long drive
out to the comic book shop. I actually confused another
listener with listener Mason. That job by me, But there
was a guy that kind of looked like him. I
think his name was Dave who showed up earlier. Anyway,
what is next year? Cool?
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Confused?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Confused?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Ferd Count wants to know. Is ice cream cake far
superior to regular cake?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
So here's my position on ice cream cake. I love
ice cream cake, but it's gotta be in the sweet spot.
If it's too hard the ice cream, it's terrible. But
if it's too soft, you've got to get it served
at the proper temperature where it's perfect right the goldilock
(34:20):
zone of the ice cream. Otherwise it's it's terrible, Eddie.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
If I could curse on the air right now, I would.
That's how much I hate ice cream cake.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Wow, its strong anti ice cream cake position.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
Eddie, the strongest. That there is ice cream and cake
should be separate. Always, they should never be combined in
any form.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
It can be separate, but properly. Again, it's all about
the temperature of the ice cream compared to the cake.
Because sometimes the cake.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
I don't want and my ice cream together, I'll take
them separate, but cake in it of itself is far superior.
Ice cream cake can go to hell, Eddie to hell.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Now, I will tell you, Eddie, the most important part
of the cake is the frosting. That's the most important
part of the cake. The frosting very important. I love
my frosting. I was sam quick take on this.
Speaker 8 (35:15):
I love ice cream cake. I don't know what Eddie's
talking about.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
You know, garbage, Eddy, shocking position. That's more shocking than
your women's soccer position.
Speaker 8 (35:24):
We're past that. Now it's time for football. And do
you like a hot chocolate chip cookie with some ice
cream on top?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Yes, okay, it's pretty good. It's not cake, though, it's
a cookie like ice cream cake.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
I enjoy ice cream cake, but regular cake is far.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
No, it is.
Speaker 7 (35:40):
I mean, ice cream cake is great, but I'll take regular.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
If I was.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
Offered free ice cream cake, I would walk away. Look
at me, walk away. I would absolutely walk away.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Now, the greatest assert is the two thick chocolate chip
cookies with vanilla ice cream in the middle. That's the
perfect I don't care. Goodbye, Okay, moving on, what is
next year? We got a little time? What is next? Andy?
Speaker 3 (36:03):
The comic book guy wants to know of all the
comic books your eyes glazed upon this past weekend the
Malor meet and greet, what stood out to you the
most or look the coolest.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
I love those. I hate to say this, but I
love those little like that's that the statuette things they
had on the on the right side when it was
more expensive. I know, but they looked really cool. That
Star Wars won I had my eye on that. What
about Eddie? Anything stand out at the comic book show?
Speaker 4 (36:26):
I like the Dune comics that Andy gave me.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Yeah, oh very nice.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
What about you, Cooperloop, Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna say
the Dune ones caught my attention the most.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
There was a lot of cool stuff in the store,
though it was very visually stimulating.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
We'd ask I have to go back, just look around.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I know, well maybe we'll go back next year. Ready,
you never know, Maybe this.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Is not at any responsibilities. Just want to look around.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Oh okay, all right,
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