February 22, 2024 • 39 mins
Big Ben talks about Justin Fields explaining his reason for unfollowing the Bears on social media, Shohei Ohtani getting photographed in a transparent uniform, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, and more!
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So our lead this hour coming from the Second City
as we blatantly suck up to Eugene in Chicago, Yaphemi,
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and the other guys from the Windy City that contribute
to the show on a nightly basis. So a follow
up to the unfollow, that's right, a follow up to
the unfollow heard round the NFL world?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Is that too dramatic?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
So if you haven't heard the latest on this, probably
not after following top Bears.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Because who would want to follow the Bears?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
It's the off season, that's when you hibernate on Instagram.
All kinds of rumors in the air everywhere that Chicago
is looking to say bye bye to the quarterback Justin Fields.
Justin Fields down playing down playing the tactic that he
unfollowed the Bears on Instagram. He essentially said, it's nothing
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more than just needing a little space from all the noise. Well,
this is from a podcast, but here's here's a little
audio proving that we're not making this up. Here is
the aforementioned Bears quarterback Justin Fields. Let's go to the
audio tape. A.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Why do people take social media so serious like.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
This?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
And that like I still mess with the Bears this
and that, I'm just trying to take a little breakthrough
un follows the Bears and the NFL. Bro. I'm not
just trying to have football on my timeline. Like I know,
y'all mess with a girl EQ, especially you, just because
you don't follow the girl along I G. Don't mean
you're not messing with him.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Okay, see, you don't have to follow him to mess
around with him. He went on to say the money
part of this quote was I'm tired of hearing the talk.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I just wanted to be over. I just wanted to
be over.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
All right, So let us discuss the question Justin Field's
quarterback of your Chicago Bears, saying that he would like
the trade talk to be over with.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Do you have empathy? Do you have empathy? That's the
right word, You have empathy for Justin Field.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
So I've got Oscar Wilde, combat Zone, and Zoomer, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make the greatest pizza I've ever had,
which is deep dish pizza. Now, some people are snobs
from Chicago, and they say real Chicagoans don't eat deep
dish pizza. But I would argue that those restaurants, and
there's a bunch of them in Chicago that serve deep
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dish pizza could not stay open if it was only
tourists that.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Eat those restaurants.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
All right, So a to answer the question, do you
have empathy for Justin Fields?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
That would be a no.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
On this side of the microphone, you can answer for yourself.
But Justin Fields, if he really wanted to stay in Chicago,
obviously it sounds like he does. He's annoyed by all this,
then the easy solution would have been just to play better.
He sucked at a time you cannot suck. He has
only shown brief flashes of domination in the Windy City,
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and he has been the U word undependable. And you're
at a point of demarcation here. If you're the Bears right,
it's like Justin Fields is as reliable as your standard
Chicago politician.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
It is interesting. I'd like to point this out. I'm
not making this up.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
By the way.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
My favorite story in recent years from Chicago politics is
the politicians in Chicago sold the revenue from all thirty
six thousand parking meters for the next seventy five years
to a firm that is I believe it's in the
Middle East. There's a group in the Middle East that
owns When you pay the parking meter, you feed the
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meter in Chicago. You're feeding a Middle Eastern fund, is
what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
How about that? Is that amazing?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
That's great political work there in Chicago. But when you
take a couple of steps back, all things considered, this
trade conversation, well, hasn't happened yet, right, we can breathe freely.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Nothing's happened yet.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
But the trade conversation is a blessing. Right, Justin Fields
has been uttered garbage on the field, and yet he
has value and is gaining a lot of attention because
of the very thing that he's annoyed with social media,
there's buzz because a lot of people, I'm gonna let
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you in a little secret here tell you how we
make the sauce. A lot of people on social media
don't actually watch football, so they'll see clips of Justin
Field's and I would agree, watching Justin Fields run around
the field and a fifteen to twenty second highlight clip
on social.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Media, why don't you not trade for him?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Right?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Why are you're not.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
But it's a blessing because remember the words of the iconic,
timeless immortal Oscar Wilde, the only thing worse in life
than being talked about is not being talked about.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
So enjoy the spotlight. Soak it up.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I worked with a guy here on the TV show
who all the guy would do is soak up attention.
He was an attention or be more like that. And
Justin Fields, I bet you, deep down he loves it.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
He loves it.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
He's just putting on an actor. All right, now, Pace
two Fields. We ac should played this year the SoundBite
we played Fields belly aching about the attention if you
were listening, like five minutes ago, all the attention he
got for unfollowing the Bears in the NFL. And as
you heard in that SoundBite that we played, he said
he just doesn't want football on his timeline. Okay, so
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Justin Field's complaining about the attention the old school media
gave his new media move. He complained about that unfollowing
the Bears. Does he have a point? So he's got
a point. It's not a good one. It's not a
good point. It's a point, but it's not a good point.
It's like an adult butter knife in twenty twenty four.
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You and I both know, and so does Justin Fields.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I would hope.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I don't think he's a dope that the social media
world combined infused with professional sports, that social media is
the combat zone for the disgruntled athlete. It's been that
way for a couple of years, it will continue to
be that way for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Justin Fields knew what he was doing right, bummed out.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
My theory on this is he bummed out, he wants
to stay with the Bears, he feels betrayal, and so
he chose a non violent insurgency. The social media scrubbadub
deb is a regular occurres. It's passive aggressive behavior, but
it's targeted. It's targeted passive aggressive behavior, and so many
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fanboys and brown nosers monitor the socials. Your very presence
on social mede, everything you do, anything you like or
don't like, or follow or don't follow, is analyzed under
a microscope. And they've got that cyber telestrator where they
go over, can you believe?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Can you believe what he did?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
That's sketchy, that's sketchy, Justin Fields.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Oh, my god, he went outside the box, all right,
last word here, So, staying with the theme, we're gonna
go away from Justin Fields at this point. We're gonna
pivot it a little bit away, but not too far away,
because the guy that's gonna take this job is Caleb Williams,
the crying quarterback who is expected to replace Fields in
Chicago sixty some days, a little over sixty days away
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from the NFL Draft and their Chicago Bears are on
the clock.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
They have the number one pick, and Caleb Williams his plan.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
The plan is at this point a lot of time
for this to go up and down and boil and
all that. But at this point, Caleb Williams is going
to be the number one pick. He does not does
not plan to hire an agent prior to said NFL draft,
and some people up in arms.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I can't believe he's doing that. So I'll ask the question.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
We've had these stories in years past, Caleb Williams not
hiring an agent. Is this dumb or smart? So my
answer is zoomer like not boomer, not boom. I say
zoomer as in legal zoom or their competitor rocket lawyer.
(09:46):
There is no negotiation as far as I know, unless
they changed it.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
You are picked.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Wherever you're picked, there is a slot that you go into. Financially,
you get what you get at based on where you're drafted.
And it doesn't matter how great an agent you have
with three thousand dollars suits or I guess you gotta
update that six thousand dollars suits and cuff links and
all that doesn't matter. Have the slick backed hair and
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be a total shister. You're gonna get where you were drafted.
That's what you're gonna get now. The one thing that
agents can do is feed the narrative. They can feed stories,
and these guys Adam Schefter and Jay Glazer, they get
most of their stories from agents, from people on the inside.
So got a good agent, get some positive publicity going,
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but it's not gonna increase your salary. And the move
here is yeah, I don't even know if you'd use
legal zoom per se, but you'd hire a lawyer. Maybe
you can do it on legal zoom, haven't looked at
or the other one rocket lawyer. But you go on
there and you get legal counsel. You have them read
over the contract and it's a standard boilerplate contract. You
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say some money, and you spend on a good marketing person,
and if you need an agent, you can hire Lamar
Jackson's mother.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You can do that. And of course what they did
Lamar Jackson is they just took the.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Contract of the quarterback in Philadelphia and they said, all right,
Jalen Hurts got this amount of money, so we'll go
a little higher than that, and.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Then boom, done done. Skis just like that. That's simple.
Paint by numbers. Paint by number.
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one thing that we are missing in sports audio, the
one thing that we have a shortage of is conversation
about fashion. All right, we're lacking in that department. We
are so our lead this hour, we're gonna attempt you
and I to close the gap here. Well, we'll go
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to the laundry department of Major League Baseball. I remember that
comedy bit from Seinfeld back in the day that ultimately,
as fans, we're just cheering for laundry.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Pretty much what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
We like the laundry. The people that our team employees
where we like the laundry. So if they go to
another team and we're a different lunchry, we weren't liked.
But the story that has everyone buzzin' from Arizona and
Florida and today the beginning of the Cactus League schedule
for the Dodgers, the Doyers, and I think there's a
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couple other games, but the jerseys designed by Nike and
manufactured by Fanatics have been absolutely lamput. We mentioned this
in previous episodes of the show, but we did not
realize the latest wrinkle from the fashion department at Nike
and Fanatics. So if you didn't see this, probably not
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sho Hey Otani. Show Heltani in his first and might
i add, much anticipated portrait with a professional camera operator
in full Dodger uniform, the seven hundred million dollar man.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Most of it deferred because of California.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Show Hey Otani, and if you look closely Otani, uh,
he's uh. You know in baseball, be at home run
they call they call the dong right, they call it
home run dong h. Well, if you look close to
here Otani is wearing transparent pants, it.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Would appear.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Who goofed.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I've got to know now, maybe it was bad lighting,
it was a bad angle.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
No.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
You see, there's a player for the Seattle Mariners named
cal Raley. He's a catcher, been a pretty good player,
not great, but pretty good. So there's a video the
Mariners social media team put out that shows cal Raleigh,
the catcher, and you can clearly see what he was
wearing on underneath his baseball pants. Uh oh, all right,
(15:05):
so let us discuss. Now the big one is though Tony.
So show hail Tony photographed in his new transparent big
league uniform. Give me your reaction to that. So I've
got Justin Timberlake, East German and culture Fit, and we
will lock all of these things together and we are
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gonna make a mess, is what we're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
So number.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Bold strategy by my nemesis, Rob Manford, the Weasley Commissioner
of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
You're trying to grow a fan base, and they are
now going to.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Turn the hallowed hallways of big league stadiums like Finway,
POC and the go to Wrigley Field, Chicago and all
these other stadiums, and they're gonna turn in to a
disco tech from the Bayou. Right wet t shirt contest,
I forget about that. These are see through pants. Baseball
players are now Chippindale dancers. It's male lingerie, if you will,
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if you look at these photos, and they can hire
Justin Timberlake. I know it's an old song, but he
can be the crooner of Major League Baseball and he
can bring sexy back. Until you see Pablo Sandoval walking
the catwalk, although I am told he's in shape until
he starts hitting that postgame spread then it becomes a problem.
But at the corporate level, I thought this was interesting.
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You've got you've got the Nike people on one side,
you got the fanatic people on the other side, and
it's a cya situation.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Cover your yeah, cover your yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Uh and and they've essentially recreated the iconic Spider Man meme. Right,
they're doing the Spider Man meme and all that. They're
pointing fingers at each other, which you would have now.
I did see a report that claimed and the source
likely from Fanatics. My spidy like senses tells me because
the report said that the uniforms are actually being manufactured
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in accordance to the Nike design specifics. In other words,
the people at Fanatics are merely the subcontractor.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
According to this report.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
From a uniform blog, they do what Nike tells them.
You know what, this is corporate drama. The drama a rama,
and we are hearing behind closed doors. We mentioned this
the other day on the show, that Major League Baseball
is quietly, quietly trying to extinguish the wildfire before it
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spreads any further good luck. Page two, heading now to
Pittsbury actually Bradenton, Florida, the spring training home of Jack,
the Judge and Leslie, but really their home year round
us where they live and the Buckos train as well.
That's right, we're gonna talk Pirate baseball. Why I thought
this was interesting. It was buried behind a paywall on
(18:08):
the old Gray Ladies' sports page, The Athletic, and there
was a story that quoted, of course, an unnamed former
Pirates player who said that the owner, Bob Nutting, is
comfortable with his team, quote being mediocre the way the
story went, But there was another quote that caught my attention.
A former instructor said, the situation in Pittsburgh was so ridiculous.
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It was so fugazy that the executive said the owner,
Bob Nutting, they would try to save a small amount
of money.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
To keep a player for an extra day. So mean,
let me explain it better.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
So they were in a meeting and this guy said,
his jaw drop, they had to wait a day to
trade a player because it was going to save them
thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
In the twenty twenties, in a multi billion dollar business.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
So there's a lot to unpack.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Now, a former player again saying that the Pirates owner
Bob Nutting is comfortable being mediocre. How do you classify this?
So I classify it as a perfect landing. Even the
East German judge scored this a ten. Right, that's a ten,
even from the East German judge. Just google it. Bob
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Nutting has owned the Pirates, I believe, seventeen seasons. The
Pirates have three playoff bers, none since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
It wasn't for the Angels. They have the longest drought.
In baseball, the.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Buckoes have had four winning seasons, that's it. In seventeen years.
With Bob Nutting, They've had five seasons where they've lost
ninety five or more games. The results are the ultimate proof.
The results are always the ultimate proof.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
All right, final point?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Go away from baseball here, going to turnover to college football.
Why a pretty big story in the broadcasting world of
college football.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I am not an Alabama football fan, but I have
enjoyed this person's work. The long time Alabama football radio
voice Eli Gold. He has been the soundtrack to Crimson
Tide football for thirty five years. He will no longer
call an Alabama football game because he was whacked. He
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was told to take a long walk off a short pier.
Gold pointed out that he is not retiring. He claimed,
the university has just simply chosen, as they say, to
go in a different direction. And that's certainly there, right,
he said, But he is not retiring, So what do
you make. I'm one of the iconic college football play
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by play guys being dumped by Alabama. So on the surface,
it is cold blooded, right, Eli Gold has been a
smooth operator, and I'm not ashamed to admit. And sometimes
on a Saturday I would I would dial up some
small radio station in Alabama that was an affiliate of
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the Crimson Tide Radio network and I would listen to Eli.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Gold because of the word picture that he presented. There's
there's a few things better than.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
A really good play by play broadcast on radio. And again,
you think, oh, you're you're such a boomer, but I
truly believe that that it's a It's a tremendously enjoyable experience.
If done right, it's an art and there's not a
lot of people that do it that well. But Eli
Gold is one of those guys, and he'd been a
wonderful mouthpiece for the Crimson Tide. He had done the
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Coaches Show. We brought Eli Gold's name up because he
hosted the Nick Saban Coaching Show over the years. The
problem two numbers, seven and zero. You put them together,
and that's the problem, right. Getting old is not for whims.
It is not for the University of Alabama. Now, if
Eli Gold was running for president against Biden and Trump,
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he would be the kid on the block. But play
by play guy for Alabama can't do it. And so
I have a theory on this. With Nick Saban gone,
Eli Gold. He had some health problems last year, that
kind of what takes place when you get older, things
start breaking down, and he had had a cancer situation
and he missed some games, and Alabama of course was well,
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you know, he's no longer it's no longer a culture
fit in Tuscaloosa, no longer a culture fit in Tuscalism, which,
if you decode, that really means that Alabama is bound
and determined to find someone younger and less expensive to
be the play by play voice. Good luck proving it, though,
As we've learned over the years. You can be fired
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for no reason or anything. I mean, they can make
up anything you want to fire you. Right, they can
come with any reason they want to fire you, as
long as they do not use one of the things
that violate the federal law determination law.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
But they get rid of you.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
And of course I've learned over the years, the people
that do employment, it's kind of funny. The employers rarely
ever admit, Hey, we're firing you because you're too old,
or you're too fatty, or this or that. They never
seem to admit that.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
It's a how that works, isn't it.
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To the third degree. This is when Big.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Tobolo gets grill.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
Jason Tatum sat down for an interview that aired on
Tuesday where he was asked too he believes the best
player in the NBA is naturally he said himself, Ben
This type of answer is expected, But to where would
you actually rank Tatum?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah, so's he's on the top ten of the NBA.
He's not number one. And what's gonna happen right now?
It's the Joker and Joeln Beid's gotten a lot of love.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
He was the MVP last year.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
But whoever wins the championship this year, the star player
on that team, that will be the best team, the
best player in the NBA. So it's really dependent on
what happens in the month of June. But the Celtics
have a decent shot. They're a fragile team.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Next.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
Nick Chubb has been one of the best running backs
in the league the past few years, but there are
now reports floating around that the Cleveland Browns might consider
cutting him this summer to save money.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Ben, could you see them doing that?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yes, absolutely, I'd be shocked if he's back on the
Browns because he's a running back that is a replaceable position.
He's a high paid running back. You don't know whether
he's gonna come back or not. He's gonna miss time
next year. All of the key indicators say the Browns
are going to move on from Nick Chubb because of that.
Speaker 9 (25:47):
Next Dennis Allen said he interviewed eleven or twelve candidates
for the same offensive coordinator job before settling on Clinton Kubiak.
He went on to say that he believes Kubak's scheme
is the best geam going the NFL. Right now, Ben,
was Kubiak a slam dunk higher for New Orleans?
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Yeah, they would have.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Been better off digging up Bill Walsh for bringing back
Eric Coreo.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
It doesn't matter. Derek Carr's the cornerback. It doesn't matter.
This guy's another coaches son that got hired. I'm tired
of that. How do we do?
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Coop? You passed this edition.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
That is a win.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I'd put it on the corner.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I want the game. I won the game. Thank sew
Thank you appreciate.
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Speaker 1 (26:53):
We get over to the Kooper Loop for the reading
of the questions.
Speaker 9 (26:59):
Uh, we're gonna We're not gonna do this one, but
I just think it's interesting and I wanted to note
that two separate people, yeah, DM me wanting me to
ask everybody who they're voting for. We're only in February.
The election is not even ntil November, and we still
got Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
It's just that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Both the leading candidates are so old. Who knows what's
gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
By by November?
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Good point.
Speaker 9 (27:21):
Yeah, all right, let's uh, let's start off with this
question from Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
He wants to note, do you like the name given
to you by your parents?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I did not like it when I was a kid,
because I've told the story before. When I was young,
there was a movie about a dog named Benji, and
the kids used to They picked on me because I
was fat, and then they picked on me because of
the movie.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
They called me Benji the dog.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
It was like the only dog movie where the usually
animal movies like dog like dies or the pet dies
at the end of this thing.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
They made like two or three of them, I remember correctly.
So I didn't like it.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
But as I've gotten old, like more people named ben
so it's kind of more of a mainstream thing, so
I don't I don't hate it now, But when I
was younger, I was like, yeah, that kind of stupid name, Eddie.
Speaker 10 (28:06):
I don't know, I didn't. I don't love it. I
don't hate it. It's it's okay. I mean I had
the same first name as my dad, so you know,
there's that. So, uh, I wouldn't have picked it, I
guess if it were me, But it famed yourself.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (28:20):
I've always enjoyed first and last names starting with the
same letter. I like that, the way it kind of flows,
the rhythmic. Yeah, so something with a.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
G Gary Garcia.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Maybe maybe like.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Uh, Jerry Garcia. That's been taken. I think maybe, like
I don't know, like Gabriel or something.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
You call me Guillermo Garcia.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
It's a little too.
Speaker 10 (28:41):
Uh, I'm only barely Mexican Garcia.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
According to the Internet. Well, if the Internet said it,
I was saying.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Yeah, I'm good with my name.
Speaker 11 (28:50):
It's uh, it's not too common of a name, and
it's not super uncommon.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
It dates back to the Old Testament. So yeah, your
name is.
Speaker 11 (28:58):
Samuel Samuel, which I guess is in Hebrew where something
means God has heard is if you want to know that.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
But yeah, that's what it means.
Speaker 9 (29:06):
So that name, Yeah, I think I've always I've always
liked my name good only up until first name Coop.
That's just his name.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Once.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Once Justin Bieber became big.
Speaker 9 (29:21):
Then it got kind of annoying because everybody would Justin
bieberbes yes, yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
He was big. All right? What is next is to
ask Ben? Your questions are answers.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
All right, let's start off with let's go with the
saw man.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I saw man.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
The saw man wants to know how do you.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Work?
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Right now? He's sawing something.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
He wants to know how do you fix up your
hot dogs? His go to is male on the bun,
then wiener chili and mustard on top.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Yeah, I'd love to put chili, but I usually my
I don't eat many hot dogs, but I'll my Costco
and I'll do I'm a heathen. I'll go ketchup mustard,
ketchup mustard in line, so I have a little ketchup
a lot of mustard. They got rid of the onions
at Costco, so I don't put those on.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
But that's pretty much it. What about you, Eddie, how
do you do your your hot dog?
Speaker 5 (30:16):
I usually sometimes just ketchup.
Speaker 12 (30:20):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (30:20):
So I do enjoy a brown mustard. I do not
like yellow mustard. And I have done the mayo, but
not by itself.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Mayo on your hot dog, Eddie, for that, I uh.
Speaker 12 (30:31):
Mayo and ketchup, I do. I do do that for
that tasted fine. I've never had the mayo with the
hot dog I have mentioned. I've seen players, NBA players
eat them and they seem to enjoy them. It's a
I think in some European countries it's a.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Big hey if they're friesen mayo too in France.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
You like.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I've been getting these cheese curds from Trader Joe's, which
I love a man. Are they good and not as
good as Wisconsin. But I don't live in Wisconsin. So
I got those cheese curts and then I get to
garlic AOI solid. That is a solid combination. I'm in
it for the rest of my time, you know, on
this planet.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
Yeah, I'll load up.
Speaker 11 (31:13):
My hot dogs are just with as much as they
can handle whatever's available. I like you like a loaded wiener,
A loaded wiener, uh, you know, jalapeno bits onion. I'm
not big on Sauer Kraut, but i like relish and
I'll put sour crawt on that.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
I like everything.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
I like the extended Wiener cool loop.
Speaker 8 (31:30):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
If I'm getting a bacon wrapped dog, then I like it.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
You know it's an La dog.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
That's an La dog.
Speaker 9 (31:36):
Classic, you know, Uh Mayo with the with the grilled
peppers and onions.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (31:41):
If it's just a normal running rue of the meal
hot dog, then mustard ketchup onions.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Gotcha to ask Ben? Your questions are answers. If you
like this, we do it every weekend about this time.
If you don't like it, it's only once a week
so who cares. Come on, chill out, man, don't be
a hard oh, and he says, your pickle, that's right.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
You can send your questions in hashtag ask Ben What's next? Googlu.
Speaker 9 (32:06):
Tim would like to know for everyone, do you attend
high school reunions?
Speaker 5 (32:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I didn't enjoy high school very much. I was I
couldn't wait to get out of high school. And you know,
it's weird since I'm not really famous or anything like that.
I do an overnight radio show, but we had the
TV show, and I've had people that I know from
the past that reached out to me, which is very odd.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Because I haven't been in high school for a long time.
So it was a little odd. And I don't hate
them or anything like that. I just, you know, I
moved on.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I feel like I've enjoyed life more since high school
than he did in high school.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
What about you, Eddie.
Speaker 10 (32:41):
Yeah, I was a little put off by not getting
invited to the ten year one.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
You did not get invited.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
I did not. I have no idea.
Speaker 10 (32:48):
My buddy like called me up and it's like, are
you going to the reunion? I'm like, what reunion? I
didn't know anything about it. I wasn't invited for some reason.
Maybe it was just an honest mistake, but I was like, okay,
you guys, So I never I never inquired about going
to any of these subsequent ones.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, that's good. And I have a buddy of mines.
Actually he's lives in Dallas. He's visiting this weekend, supposed
to be in town this weekend, and he's, uh, he's
a guy who knows this elementary school. He knows every
single person we went to high school. With and like
what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
It's like, dude, chill out, man, what about Iowa saying.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
Sure is a clerical error?
Speaker 11 (33:22):
Eddie, I see I see a lot of these people
like on social media Facebook and stuff. And I graduated
high school about twenty years ago. I haven't gone to
reunion yet. Maybe sometime later in life.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
So get really old, ye you cool?
Speaker 5 (33:37):
God?
Speaker 9 (33:37):
Now, nothing sounds worse to me than going to a
high school reunion.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Yeah, I'm pretty close to you on that, quite as
passionate as you. But yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I'm over. I did my time. I survived. I'm here,
barely survived. We barely survived, and so we made it.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
We made it.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
In fact, we've made it to the finish line on
another award winning. I think we're gonna win a benue
for this. We're gonna win a benny.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Over to Eddie right now, get you cut up on
all the Hockeyame wait, won't fuck the world? All right?
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Thank you bad?
Speaker 10 (34:19):
We add the NHL's final two outdoor games of the season,
Saturday and Sunday Metwive Stadium in New Jersey, home of
the NFL's Giants and Jets. The first game featured the
Devils against the Flyers New Jersey against the six to
three win in front of seventy thousand, twenty eight, and
then the second game on Sunday, Rangers rally to eath
the Islanders sixty five in overtime. Rangers now five to
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zero all time in outdoor game seventy nine thousand, six
ninety and at ten it's third largest outdoor crowd ever
for an NHL EV and the Rangers are currently riding
an eight game winning streak. NHL also announced that next
year then we'll have an outdoor game at Ohio Stadium,
the home of the Ohio State football team.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Who's gonna adopt the I Eddie, Who's gonna adopt the eye?
Speaker 10 (35:00):
It'll be the Columbus Blue Jackets hosting the Detroit Red
Wings March first of twenty twenty five, and the New
York Islanders will host the twenty twenty six NHL All
Star Game. League not gonna have an All Star Game
next year because they're holding this new international event called
the Four Nations Face Off Canada US, Sweden and Finland
playing in a little mini tournament, but.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
The next All Star Game will be on Long Island.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Awesome Games Island.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Some games and.
Speaker 10 (35:24):
Events of note from the past week. The Canucks beat
the Red Wings four to one. They became the first
team in the NHL to hit the eighty point mark
this season. They currently lead the NHL in points. Wild
outscored the Canucks ten to seven at a game that
featured three act tricks. Joel Ericson Eck and cry capriz
Off each had three in the win from Minnesota, j T.
Miller three in the loss for Vancouver, and the ten
goals scored for the Wild was a new franchise record.
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Panthers to beat the Sanators three two in overtime, Florida
moving into first place in the Atlantic Division and into
the top spot on the Eastern Conference, passing the Boston Bruins.
Panthers are also riding an eleven game road winning street
Capitals down the Devil six to Alexander Rovchkin two goals,
was eight hundred and thirty eight for his career, fifty
seven away from breaking Win Gretzky's all time goal scoring record,
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and as we mentioned in the update, maple Leae beat
the Coyotes six three. Austin Matthews two goals fifty to
fifty one leads the NHL fastest US born player to
hit fifty goals in the season, did it in fifty
four games. He has nine goals in his last four games,
including two hat tricks in back to back games. So,
as we head down the stretch run here in the
NHL season, your top three teams in each division automatic
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we get into the playoffs. In the Atlantic that would
be Florida, Boston, and Toronto. In the Metropolitan that would
be New York, Carolina and Philadelphia. Central Division Dallas, Colorado, Winnipeg,
and Pacific Vancouver, Vegas and Edmonton. Your two wildcard teams
in the East or Tampa Bay and Detroit. In the West,
LA and Saint Louis, And your playoff matchups would be
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Panthers versus Red Wings, Rangers versus Lightning, Bruins versus Maple
Lea's Hurricanes versus Flyers, Canucks versus Blues, Stars versus Kings,
Golden Knights versus Oilers, and Avalanche versus Chets Holmes Blue
Jaggets fired their general manager, Yarmo Kekalainen.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
He was in his eleventh season on the job.
Speaker 10 (37:04):
He was the first GM and NHL is Street born
outside of North America's from Finland. He was the third
longest tenure GM and the NHL. He he leaves his
duties with the team in dead last in the Eastern Conference.
Struggling Pittsburgh Penguins will have to call their way back
into the playoffs without star forward Jake Genseil going to
be out four weeks with an upper body injury. And finally,
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prosecutors dropped a domestic violence charge against Boston Bruins forward
Mailan Lucic, saying that the decision by his wife to
invoke a marital privilege made it impossible for them to
prove their case beyond the reasonable doubty. Bruins say he
will not return to the team this year. He will
stay on his leave of absence, not by his choice.
He says he wanted to return to play hockey, but
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the Bruins have said no, thank you.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
He was a member there.
Speaker 10 (37:47):
It's twenty eleventh Stanley Cup winning team was arrested on
suspicion of assault and battery of a family.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
Member back on November.
Speaker 10 (37:53):
The eighteenth, and finally the NHL trading deadline March the eighth,
fifteen days away.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
Looking forward to that, the world.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Reports you not to touch up your work, Yet you
would you never do such a time. Well, I mean,
I don't think you mentioned that a celebrity in the
mal of Militia was in attendance at Yarmer Yoger's jersey retirement,
that we had boots on the ground there. Breadman, a
legend of the show, was in attendance there and he
honored Yager.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
He was at that game.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
In Pittsburgh and also one of the most competitive races.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
And you didn't mention this either, So why people don't
trust the mediaty.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Between the Chicago Blackhawks and the San Jose Sharks, who's
going to finish with the worst record. They're tied in
the win column, but in total points, the Blackhawks have
two fewer points. And right there, neck and neck down
the stretch, heading down the strecks last twenty something games
at twenty five games or.
Speaker 5 (38:46):
So, Yeah, they've lost. The Blackhawks have lost like twenty
five straight road games.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
That is dedication to suck, is what that is by
the Chicago Blocks. They dress well, but don't play well
and don't discount them like you got San Jose and
Chicago but Anaheim And I know you love this Eddy
because you hate the Ducks because you're a Kings fan.
But the Ducks el Stinko. They're in a foul mood
Addy because they're right there.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
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So our lead this hour coming from the Second City
as we blatantly suck up to Eugene in Chicago, Yaphemi,
(01:40):
and the other guys from the Windy City that contribute
to the show on a nightly basis. So a follow
up to the unfollow, that's right, a follow up to
the unfollow heard round the NFL world?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Is that too dramatic?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
So if you haven't heard the latest on this, probably
not after following top Bears.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Because who would want to follow the Bears?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
It's the off season, that's when you hibernate on Instagram.
All kinds of rumors in the air everywhere that Chicago
is looking to say bye bye to the quarterback Justin Fields.
Justin Fields down playing down playing the tactic that he
unfollowed the Bears on Instagram. He essentially said, it's nothing
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more than just needing a little space from all the noise. Well,
this is from a podcast, but here's here's a little
audio proving that we're not making this up. Here is
the aforementioned Bears quarterback Justin Fields. Let's go to the
audio tape. A.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Why do people take social media so serious like.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
This?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
And that like I still mess with the Bears this
and that, I'm just trying to take a little breakthrough
un follows the Bears and the NFL. Bro. I'm not
just trying to have football on my timeline. Like I know,
y'all mess with a girl EQ, especially you, just because
you don't follow the girl along I G. Don't mean
you're not messing with him.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Okay, see, you don't have to follow him to mess
around with him. He went on to say the money
part of this quote was I'm tired of hearing the talk.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I just wanted to be over. I just wanted to
be over.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
All right, So let us discuss the question Justin Field's
quarterback of your Chicago Bears, saying that he would like
the trade talk to be over with.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Do you have empathy? Do you have empathy? That's the
right word, You have empathy for Justin Field.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
So I've got Oscar Wilde, combat Zone, and Zoomer, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make the greatest pizza I've ever had,
which is deep dish pizza. Now, some people are snobs
from Chicago, and they say real Chicagoans don't eat deep
dish pizza. But I would argue that those restaurants, and
there's a bunch of them in Chicago that serve deep
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dish pizza could not stay open if it was only
tourists that.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Eat those restaurants.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
All right, So a to answer the question, do you
have empathy for Justin Fields?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
That would be a no.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
On this side of the microphone, you can answer for yourself.
But Justin Fields, if he really wanted to stay in Chicago,
obviously it sounds like he does. He's annoyed by all this,
then the easy solution would have been just to play better.
He sucked at a time you cannot suck. He has
only shown brief flashes of domination in the Windy City,
(04:28):
and he has been the U word undependable. And you're
at a point of demarcation here. If you're the Bears right,
it's like Justin Fields is as reliable as your standard
Chicago politician.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
It is interesting. I'd like to point this out. I'm
not making this up.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
By the way.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
My favorite story in recent years from Chicago politics is
the politicians in Chicago sold the revenue from all thirty
six thousand parking meters for the next seventy five years
to a firm that is I believe it's in the
Middle East. There's a group in the Middle East that
owns When you pay the parking meter, you feed the
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meter in Chicago. You're feeding a Middle Eastern fund, is
what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
How about that? Is that amazing?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
That's great political work there in Chicago. But when you
take a couple of steps back, all things considered, this
trade conversation, well, hasn't happened yet, right, we can breathe freely.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Nothing's happened yet.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
But the trade conversation is a blessing. Right, Justin Fields
has been uttered garbage on the field, and yet he
has value and is gaining a lot of attention because
of the very thing that he's annoyed with social media,
there's buzz because a lot of people, I'm gonna let
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you in a little secret here tell you how we
make the sauce. A lot of people on social media
don't actually watch football, so they'll see clips of Justin
Field's and I would agree, watching Justin Fields run around
the field and a fifteen to twenty second highlight clip
on social.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Media, why don't you not trade for him?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Right?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Why are you're not.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
But it's a blessing because remember the words of the iconic,
timeless immortal Oscar Wilde, the only thing worse in life
than being talked about is not being talked about.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
So enjoy the spotlight. Soak it up.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I worked with a guy here on the TV show
who all the guy would do is soak up attention.
He was an attention or be more like that. And
Justin Fields, I bet you, deep down he loves it.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
He loves it.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
He's just putting on an actor. All right, now, Pace
two Fields. We ac should played this year the SoundBite
we played Fields belly aching about the attention if you
were listening, like five minutes ago, all the attention he
got for unfollowing the Bears in the NFL. And as
you heard in that SoundBite that we played, he said
he just doesn't want football on his timeline. Okay, so
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Justin Field's complaining about the attention the old school media
gave his new media move. He complained about that unfollowing
the Bears. Does he have a point? So he's got
a point. It's not a good one. It's not a
good point. It's a point, but it's not a good point.
It's like an adult butter knife in twenty twenty four.
(07:22):
You and I both know, and so does Justin Fields.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I would hope.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I don't think he's a dope that the social media
world combined infused with professional sports, that social media is
the combat zone for the disgruntled athlete. It's been that
way for a couple of years, it will continue to
be that way for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Justin Fields knew what he was doing right, bummed out.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
My theory on this is he bummed out, he wants
to stay with the Bears, he feels betrayal, and so
he chose a non violent insurgency. The social media scrubbadub
deb is a regular occurres. It's passive aggressive behavior, but
it's targeted. It's targeted passive aggressive behavior, and so many
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fanboys and brown nosers monitor the socials. Your very presence
on social mede, everything you do, anything you like or
don't like, or follow or don't follow, is analyzed under
a microscope. And they've got that cyber telestrator where they
go over, can you believe?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Can you believe what he did?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
That's sketchy, that's sketchy, Justin Fields.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Oh, my god, he went outside the box, all right,
last word here, So, staying with the theme, we're gonna
go away from Justin Fields at this point. We're gonna
pivot it a little bit away, but not too far away,
because the guy that's gonna take this job is Caleb Williams,
the crying quarterback who is expected to replace Fields in
Chicago sixty some days, a little over sixty days away
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from the NFL Draft and their Chicago Bears are on
the clock.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
They have the number one pick, and Caleb Williams his plan.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
The plan is at this point a lot of time
for this to go up and down and boil and
all that. But at this point, Caleb Williams is going
to be the number one pick. He does not does
not plan to hire an agent prior to said NFL draft,
and some people up in arms.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I can't believe he's doing that. So I'll ask the question.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
We've had these stories in years past, Caleb Williams not
hiring an agent. Is this dumb or smart? So my
answer is zoomer like not boomer, not boom. I say
zoomer as in legal zoom or their competitor rocket lawyer.
(09:46):
There is no negotiation as far as I know, unless
they changed it.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
You are picked.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Wherever you're picked, there is a slot that you go into. Financially,
you get what you get at based on where you're drafted.
And it doesn't matter how great an agent you have
with three thousand dollars suits or I guess you gotta
update that six thousand dollars suits and cuff links and
all that doesn't matter. Have the slick backed hair and
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be a total shister. You're gonna get where you were drafted.
That's what you're gonna get now. The one thing that
agents can do is feed the narrative. They can feed stories,
and these guys Adam Schefter and Jay Glazer, they get
most of their stories from agents, from people on the inside.
So got a good agent, get some positive publicity going,
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but it's not gonna increase your salary. And the move
here is yeah, I don't even know if you'd use
legal zoom per se, but you'd hire a lawyer. Maybe
you can do it on legal zoom, haven't looked at
or the other one rocket lawyer. But you go on
there and you get legal counsel. You have them read
over the contract and it's a standard boilerplate contract. You
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say some money, and you spend on a good marketing person,
and if you need an agent, you can hire Lamar
Jackson's mother.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You can do that. And of course what they did
Lamar Jackson is they just took the.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Contract of the quarterback in Philadelphia and they said, all right,
Jalen Hurts got this amount of money, so we'll go
a little higher than that, and.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Then boom, done done. Skis just like that. That's simple.
Paint by numbers. Paint by number.
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one thing that we are missing in sports audio, the
one thing that we have a shortage of is conversation
about fashion. All right, we're lacking in that department. We
are so our lead this hour, we're gonna attempt you
and I to close the gap here. Well, we'll go
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to the laundry department of Major League Baseball. I remember that
comedy bit from Seinfeld back in the day that ultimately,
as fans, we're just cheering for laundry.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Pretty much what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
We like the laundry. The people that our team employees
where we like the laundry. So if they go to
another team and we're a different lunchry, we weren't liked.
But the story that has everyone buzzin' from Arizona and
Florida and today the beginning of the Cactus League schedule
for the Dodgers, the Doyers, and I think there's a
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couple other games, but the jerseys designed by Nike and
manufactured by Fanatics have been absolutely lamput. We mentioned this
in previous episodes of the show, but we did not
realize the latest wrinkle from the fashion department at Nike
and Fanatics. So if you didn't see this, probably not
(13:55):
sho Hey Otani. Show Heltani in his first and might
i add, much anticipated portrait with a professional camera operator
in full Dodger uniform, the seven hundred million dollar man.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Most of it deferred because of California.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Show Hey Otani, and if you look closely Otani, uh,
he's uh. You know in baseball, be at home run
they call they call the dong right, they call it
home run dong h. Well, if you look close to
here Otani is wearing transparent pants, it.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Would appear.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Who goofed.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I've got to know now, maybe it was bad lighting,
it was a bad angle.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
No.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
You see, there's a player for the Seattle Mariners named
cal Raley. He's a catcher, been a pretty good player,
not great, but pretty good. So there's a video the
Mariners social media team put out that shows cal Raleigh,
the catcher, and you can clearly see what he was
wearing on underneath his baseball pants. Uh oh, all right,
(15:05):
so let us discuss. Now the big one is though Tony.
So show hail Tony photographed in his new transparent big
league uniform. Give me your reaction to that. So I've
got Justin Timberlake, East German and culture Fit, and we
will lock all of these things together and we are
(15:26):
gonna make a mess, is what we're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
So number.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Bold strategy by my nemesis, Rob Manford, the Weasley Commissioner
of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
You're trying to grow a fan base, and they are
now going to.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Turn the hallowed hallways of big league stadiums like Finway,
POC and the go to Wrigley Field, Chicago and all
these other stadiums, and they're gonna turn in to a
disco tech from the Bayou. Right wet t shirt contest,
I forget about that. These are see through pants. Baseball
players are now Chippindale dancers. It's male lingerie, if you will,
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if you look at these photos, and they can hire
Justin Timberlake. I know it's an old song, but he
can be the crooner of Major League Baseball and he
can bring sexy back. Until you see Pablo Sandoval walking
the catwalk, although I am told he's in shape until
he starts hitting that postgame spread then it becomes a problem.
But at the corporate level, I thought this was interesting.
(16:37):
You've got you've got the Nike people on one side,
you got the fanatic people on the other side, and
it's a cya situation.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Cover your yeah, cover your yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Uh and and they've essentially recreated the iconic Spider Man meme. Right,
they're doing the Spider Man meme and all that. They're
pointing fingers at each other, which you would have now.
I did see a report that claimed and the source
likely from Fanatics. My spidy like senses tells me because
the report said that the uniforms are actually being manufactured
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in accordance to the Nike design specifics. In other words,
the people at Fanatics are merely the subcontractor.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
According to this report.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
From a uniform blog, they do what Nike tells them.
You know what, this is corporate drama. The drama a rama,
and we are hearing behind closed doors. We mentioned this
the other day on the show, that Major League Baseball
is quietly, quietly trying to extinguish the wildfire before it
(17:44):
spreads any further good luck. Page two, heading now to
Pittsbury actually Bradenton, Florida, the spring training home of Jack,
the Judge and Leslie, but really their home year round
us where they live and the Buckos train as well.
That's right, we're gonna talk Pirate baseball. Why I thought
this was interesting. It was buried behind a paywall on
(18:08):
the old Gray Ladies' sports page, The Athletic, and there
was a story that quoted, of course, an unnamed former
Pirates player who said that the owner, Bob Nutting, is
comfortable with his team, quote being mediocre the way the
story went, But there was another quote that caught my attention.
A former instructor said, the situation in Pittsburgh was so ridiculous.
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It was so fugazy that the executive said the owner,
Bob Nutting, they would try to save a small amount
of money.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
To keep a player for an extra day. So mean,
let me explain it better.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
So they were in a meeting and this guy said,
his jaw drop, they had to wait a day to
trade a player because it was going to save them
thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
In the twenty twenties, in a multi billion dollar business.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
So there's a lot to unpack.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Now, a former player again saying that the Pirates owner
Bob Nutting is comfortable being mediocre. How do you classify this?
So I classify it as a perfect landing. Even the
East German judge scored this a ten. Right, that's a ten,
even from the East German judge. Just google it. Bob
(19:26):
Nutting has owned the Pirates, I believe, seventeen seasons. The
Pirates have three playoff bers, none since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
It wasn't for the Angels. They have the longest drought.
In baseball, the.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Buckoes have had four winning seasons, that's it. In seventeen years.
With Bob Nutting, They've had five seasons where they've lost
ninety five or more games. The results are the ultimate proof.
The results are always the ultimate proof.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
All right, final point?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Go away from baseball here, going to turnover to college football.
Why a pretty big story in the broadcasting world of
college football.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I am not an Alabama football fan, but I have
enjoyed this person's work. The long time Alabama football radio
voice Eli Gold. He has been the soundtrack to Crimson
Tide football for thirty five years. He will no longer
call an Alabama football game because he was whacked. He
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was told to take a long walk off a short pier.
Gold pointed out that he is not retiring. He claimed,
the university has just simply chosen, as they say, to
go in a different direction. And that's certainly there, right,
he said, But he is not retiring, So what do
you make. I'm one of the iconic college football play
(20:49):
by play guys being dumped by Alabama. So on the surface,
it is cold blooded, right, Eli Gold has been a
smooth operator, and I'm not ashamed to admit. And sometimes
on a Saturday I would I would dial up some
small radio station in Alabama that was an affiliate of
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the Crimson Tide Radio network and I would listen to Eli.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Gold because of the word picture that he presented. There's
there's a few things better than.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
A really good play by play broadcast on radio. And again,
you think, oh, you're you're such a boomer, but I
truly believe that that it's a It's a tremendously enjoyable experience.
If done right, it's an art and there's not a
lot of people that do it that well. But Eli
Gold is one of those guys, and he'd been a
wonderful mouthpiece for the Crimson Tide. He had done the
(21:40):
Coaches Show. We brought Eli Gold's name up because he
hosted the Nick Saban Coaching Show over the years. The
problem two numbers, seven and zero. You put them together,
and that's the problem, right. Getting old is not for whims.
It is not for the University of Alabama. Now, if
Eli Gold was running for president against Biden and Trump,
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he would be the kid on the block. But play
by play guy for Alabama can't do it. And so
I have a theory on this. With Nick Saban gone,
Eli Gold. He had some health problems last year, that
kind of what takes place when you get older, things
start breaking down, and he had had a cancer situation
and he missed some games, and Alabama of course was well,
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you know, he's no longer it's no longer a culture
fit in Tuscaloosa, no longer a culture fit in Tuscalism, which,
if you decode, that really means that Alabama is bound
and determined to find someone younger and less expensive to
be the play by play voice. Good luck proving it, though,
As we've learned over the years. You can be fired
(22:47):
for no reason or anything. I mean, they can make
up anything you want to fire you. Right, they can
come with any reason they want to fire you, as
long as they do not use one of the things
that violate the federal law determination law.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
But they get rid of you.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
And of course I've learned over the years, the people
that do employment, it's kind of funny. The employers rarely
ever admit, Hey, we're firing you because you're too old,
or you're too fatty, or this or that. They never
seem to admit that.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
It's a how that works, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
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Speaker 3 (24:33):
It's mallard. How about that?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
To the third degree. This is when Big.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Tobolo gets grill.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
Jason Tatum sat down for an interview that aired on
Tuesday where he was asked too he believes the best
player in the NBA is naturally he said himself, Ben
This type of answer is expected, But to where would
you actually rank Tatum?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah, so's he's on the top ten of the NBA.
He's not number one. And what's gonna happen right now?
It's the Joker and Joeln Beid's gotten a lot of love.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
He was the MVP last year.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
But whoever wins the championship this year, the star player
on that team, that will be the best team, the
best player in the NBA. So it's really dependent on
what happens in the month of June. But the Celtics
have a decent shot. They're a fragile team.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Next.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
Nick Chubb has been one of the best running backs
in the league the past few years, but there are
now reports floating around that the Cleveland Browns might consider
cutting him this summer to save money.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Ben, could you see them doing that?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yes, absolutely, I'd be shocked if he's back on the
Browns because he's a running back that is a replaceable position.
He's a high paid running back. You don't know whether
he's gonna come back or not. He's gonna miss time
next year. All of the key indicators say the Browns
are going to move on from Nick Chubb because of that.
Speaker 9 (25:47):
Next Dennis Allen said he interviewed eleven or twelve candidates
for the same offensive coordinator job before settling on Clinton Kubiak.
He went on to say that he believes Kubak's scheme
is the best geam going the NFL. Right now, Ben,
was Kubiak a slam dunk higher for New Orleans?
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Yeah, they would have.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Been better off digging up Bill Walsh for bringing back
Eric Coreo.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
It doesn't matter. Derek Carr's the cornerback. It doesn't matter.
This guy's another coaches son that got hired. I'm tired
of that. How do we do?
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Coop? You passed this edition.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
That is a win.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I'd put it on the corner.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I want the game. I won the game. Thank sew
Thank you appreciate.
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of the questions.
Speaker 9 (26:59):
Uh, we're gonna We're not gonna do this one, but
I just think it's interesting and I wanted to note
that two separate people, yeah, DM me wanting me to
ask everybody who they're voting for. We're only in February.
The election is not even ntil November, and we still
got Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
It's just that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Both the leading candidates are so old. Who knows what's
gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
By by November?
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Good point.
Speaker 9 (27:21):
Yeah, all right, let's uh, let's start off with this
question from Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
He wants to note, do you like the name given
to you by your parents?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I did not like it when I was a kid,
because I've told the story before. When I was young,
there was a movie about a dog named Benji, and
the kids used to They picked on me because I
was fat, and then they picked on me because of
the movie.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
They called me Benji the dog.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
It was like the only dog movie where the usually
animal movies like dog like dies or the pet dies
at the end of this thing.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
They made like two or three of them, I remember correctly.
So I didn't like it.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
But as I've gotten old, like more people named ben
so it's kind of more of a mainstream thing, so
I don't I don't hate it now, But when I
was younger, I was like, yeah, that kind of stupid name, Eddie.
Speaker 10 (28:06):
I don't know, I didn't. I don't love it. I
don't hate it. It's it's okay. I mean I had
the same first name as my dad, so you know,
there's that. So, uh, I wouldn't have picked it, I
guess if it were me, But it famed yourself.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (28:20):
I've always enjoyed first and last names starting with the
same letter. I like that, the way it kind of flows,
the rhythmic. Yeah, so something with a.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
G Gary Garcia.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Maybe maybe like.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Uh, Jerry Garcia. That's been taken. I think maybe, like
I don't know, like Gabriel or something.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
You call me Guillermo Garcia.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
It's a little too.
Speaker 10 (28:41):
Uh, I'm only barely Mexican Garcia.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
According to the Internet. Well, if the Internet said it,
I was saying.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Yeah, I'm good with my name.
Speaker 11 (28:50):
It's uh, it's not too common of a name, and
it's not super uncommon.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
It dates back to the Old Testament. So yeah, your
name is.
Speaker 11 (28:58):
Samuel Samuel, which I guess is in Hebrew where something
means God has heard is if you want to know that.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
But yeah, that's what it means.
Speaker 9 (29:06):
So that name, Yeah, I think I've always I've always
liked my name good only up until first name Coop.
That's just his name.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Once.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Once Justin Bieber became big.
Speaker 9 (29:21):
Then it got kind of annoying because everybody would Justin
bieberbes yes, yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
He was big. All right? What is next is to
ask Ben? Your questions are answers.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
All right, let's start off with let's go with the
saw man.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I saw man.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
The saw man wants to know how do you.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Work?
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Right now? He's sawing something.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
He wants to know how do you fix up your
hot dogs? His go to is male on the bun,
then wiener chili and mustard on top.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Yeah, I'd love to put chili, but I usually my
I don't eat many hot dogs, but I'll my Costco
and I'll do I'm a heathen. I'll go ketchup mustard,
ketchup mustard in line, so I have a little ketchup
a lot of mustard. They got rid of the onions
at Costco, so I don't put those on.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
But that's pretty much it. What about you, Eddie, how
do you do your your hot dog?
Speaker 5 (30:16):
I usually sometimes just ketchup.
Speaker 12 (30:20):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (30:20):
So I do enjoy a brown mustard. I do not
like yellow mustard. And I have done the mayo, but
not by itself.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Mayo on your hot dog, Eddie, for that, I uh.
Speaker 12 (30:31):
Mayo and ketchup, I do. I do do that for
that tasted fine. I've never had the mayo with the
hot dog I have mentioned. I've seen players, NBA players
eat them and they seem to enjoy them. It's a
I think in some European countries it's a.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Big hey if they're friesen mayo too in France.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
You like.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I've been getting these cheese curds from Trader Joe's, which
I love a man. Are they good and not as
good as Wisconsin. But I don't live in Wisconsin. So
I got those cheese curts and then I get to
garlic AOI solid. That is a solid combination. I'm in
it for the rest of my time, you know, on
this planet.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
Yeah, I'll load up.
Speaker 11 (31:13):
My hot dogs are just with as much as they
can handle whatever's available. I like you like a loaded wiener,
A loaded wiener, uh, you know, jalapeno bits onion. I'm
not big on Sauer Kraut, but i like relish and
I'll put sour crawt on that.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
I like everything.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
I like the extended Wiener cool loop.
Speaker 8 (31:30):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
If I'm getting a bacon wrapped dog, then I like it.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
You know it's an La dog.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
That's an La dog.
Speaker 9 (31:36):
Classic, you know, Uh Mayo with the with the grilled
peppers and onions.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (31:41):
If it's just a normal running rue of the meal
hot dog, then mustard ketchup onions.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Gotcha to ask Ben? Your questions are answers. If you
like this, we do it every weekend about this time.
If you don't like it, it's only once a week
so who cares. Come on, chill out, man, don't be
a hard oh, and he says, your pickle, that's right.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
You can send your questions in hashtag ask Ben What's next? Googlu.
Speaker 9 (32:06):
Tim would like to know for everyone, do you attend
high school reunions?
Speaker 5 (32:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I didn't enjoy high school very much. I was I
couldn't wait to get out of high school. And you know,
it's weird since I'm not really famous or anything like that.
I do an overnight radio show, but we had the
TV show, and I've had people that I know from
the past that reached out to me, which is very odd.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Because I haven't been in high school for a long time.
So it was a little odd. And I don't hate
them or anything like that. I just, you know, I
moved on.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I feel like I've enjoyed life more since high school
than he did in high school.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
What about you, Eddie.
Speaker 10 (32:41):
Yeah, I was a little put off by not getting
invited to the ten year one.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
You did not get invited.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
I did not. I have no idea.
Speaker 10 (32:48):
My buddy like called me up and it's like, are
you going to the reunion? I'm like, what reunion? I
didn't know anything about it. I wasn't invited for some reason.
Maybe it was just an honest mistake, but I was like, okay,
you guys, So I never I never inquired about going
to any of these subsequent ones.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, that's good. And I have a buddy of mines.
Actually he's lives in Dallas. He's visiting this weekend, supposed
to be in town this weekend, and he's, uh, he's
a guy who knows this elementary school. He knows every
single person we went to high school. With and like
what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
It's like, dude, chill out, man, what about Iowa saying.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
Sure is a clerical error?
Speaker 11 (33:22):
Eddie, I see I see a lot of these people
like on social media Facebook and stuff. And I graduated
high school about twenty years ago. I haven't gone to
reunion yet. Maybe sometime later in life.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
So get really old, ye you cool?
Speaker 5 (33:37):
God?
Speaker 9 (33:37):
Now, nothing sounds worse to me than going to a
high school reunion.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Yeah, I'm pretty close to you on that, quite as
passionate as you. But yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I'm over. I did my time. I survived. I'm here,
barely survived. We barely survived, and so we made it.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
We made it.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
In fact, we've made it to the finish line on
another award winning. I think we're gonna win a benue
for this. We're gonna win a benny.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Over to Eddie right now, get you cut up on
all the Hockeyame wait, won't fuck the world? All right?
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Thank you bad?
Speaker 10 (34:19):
We add the NHL's final two outdoor games of the season,
Saturday and Sunday Metwive Stadium in New Jersey, home of
the NFL's Giants and Jets. The first game featured the
Devils against the Flyers New Jersey against the six to
three win in front of seventy thousand, twenty eight, and
then the second game on Sunday, Rangers rally to eath
the Islanders sixty five in overtime. Rangers now five to
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zero all time in outdoor game seventy nine thousand, six
ninety and at ten it's third largest outdoor crowd ever
for an NHL EV and the Rangers are currently riding
an eight game winning streak. NHL also announced that next
year then we'll have an outdoor game at Ohio Stadium,
the home of the Ohio State football team.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Who's gonna adopt the I Eddie, Who's gonna adopt the eye?
Speaker 10 (35:00):
It'll be the Columbus Blue Jackets hosting the Detroit Red
Wings March first of twenty twenty five, and the New
York Islanders will host the twenty twenty six NHL All
Star Game. League not gonna have an All Star Game
next year because they're holding this new international event called
the Four Nations Face Off Canada US, Sweden and Finland
playing in a little mini tournament, but.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
The next All Star Game will be on Long Island.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Awesome Games Island.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Some games and.
Speaker 10 (35:24):
Events of note from the past week. The Canucks beat
the Red Wings four to one. They became the first
team in the NHL to hit the eighty point mark
this season. They currently lead the NHL in points. Wild
outscored the Canucks ten to seven at a game that
featured three act tricks. Joel Ericson Eck and cry capriz
Off each had three in the win from Minnesota, j T.
Miller three in the loss for Vancouver, and the ten
goals scored for the Wild was a new franchise record.
(35:45):
Panthers to beat the Sanators three two in overtime, Florida
moving into first place in the Atlantic Division and into
the top spot on the Eastern Conference, passing the Boston Bruins.
Panthers are also riding an eleven game road winning street
Capitals down the Devil six to Alexander Rovchkin two goals,
was eight hundred and thirty eight for his career, fifty
seven away from breaking Win Gretzky's all time goal scoring record,
(36:05):
and as we mentioned in the update, maple Leae beat
the Coyotes six three. Austin Matthews two goals fifty to
fifty one leads the NHL fastest US born player to
hit fifty goals in the season, did it in fifty
four games. He has nine goals in his last four games,
including two hat tricks in back to back games. So,
as we head down the stretch run here in the
NHL season, your top three teams in each division automatic
(36:27):
we get into the playoffs. In the Atlantic that would
be Florida, Boston, and Toronto. In the Metropolitan that would
be New York, Carolina and Philadelphia. Central Division Dallas, Colorado, Winnipeg,
and Pacific Vancouver, Vegas and Edmonton. Your two wildcard teams
in the East or Tampa Bay and Detroit. In the West,
LA and Saint Louis, And your playoff matchups would be
(36:48):
Panthers versus Red Wings, Rangers versus Lightning, Bruins versus Maple
Lea's Hurricanes versus Flyers, Canucks versus Blues, Stars versus Kings,
Golden Knights versus Oilers, and Avalanche versus Chets Holmes Blue
Jaggets fired their general manager, Yarmo Kekalainen.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
He was in his eleventh season on the job.
Speaker 10 (37:04):
He was the first GM and NHL is Street born
outside of North America's from Finland. He was the third
longest tenure GM and the NHL. He he leaves his
duties with the team in dead last in the Eastern Conference.
Struggling Pittsburgh Penguins will have to call their way back
into the playoffs without star forward Jake Genseil going to
be out four weeks with an upper body injury. And finally,
(37:25):
prosecutors dropped a domestic violence charge against Boston Bruins forward
Mailan Lucic, saying that the decision by his wife to
invoke a marital privilege made it impossible for them to
prove their case beyond the reasonable doubty. Bruins say he
will not return to the team this year. He will
stay on his leave of absence, not by his choice.
He says he wanted to return to play hockey, but
(37:45):
the Bruins have said no, thank you.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
He was a member there.
Speaker 10 (37:47):
It's twenty eleventh Stanley Cup winning team was arrested on
suspicion of assault and battery of a family.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
Member back on November.
Speaker 10 (37:53):
The eighteenth, and finally the NHL trading deadline March the eighth,
fifteen days away.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
Looking forward to that, the world.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Reports you not to touch up your work, Yet you
would you never do such a time. Well, I mean,
I don't think you mentioned that a celebrity in the
mal of Militia was in attendance at Yarmer Yoger's jersey retirement,
that we had boots on the ground there. Breadman, a
legend of the show, was in attendance there and he
honored Yager.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
He was at that game.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
In Pittsburgh and also one of the most competitive races.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
And you didn't mention this either, So why people don't
trust the mediaty.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Between the Chicago Blackhawks and the San Jose Sharks, who's
going to finish with the worst record. They're tied in
the win column, but in total points, the Blackhawks have
two fewer points. And right there, neck and neck down
the stretch, heading down the strecks last twenty something games
at twenty five games or.
Speaker 5 (38:46):
So, Yeah, they've lost. The Blackhawks have lost like twenty
five straight road games.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
That is dedication to suck, is what that is by
the Chicago Blocks. They dress well, but don't play well
and don't discount them like you got San Jose and
Chicago but Anaheim And I know you love this Eddy
because you hate the Ducks because you're a Kings fan.
But the Ducks el Stinko. They're in a foul mood
Addy because they're right there.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
Third quack quack
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