July 25, 2024 • 39 mins
Big Ben talks about the latest on the relationship between Jalen Hurts and Nick Sirianni, Alex Cora agreeing to an extension with the Red Sox, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, and more!
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Anyway, our lead this hour from the NFC East. It
is not about the Dallas cob He probably thought it
was not, but that is where the Eagles ran out
of gas.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
In twenty twenty three. We're talked about this in a
previous episode of the.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Show, The Life and Times of One Jalen Hurts, and
the fact that Sequan Barkley, the big pick up for
the Birds, came out and gave a ringing endorsement, a
full throated endorsement of his quarterback.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
That's my quarterback now.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
As a result of the Eagles having issues, they whacked
a bunch of coaches, but not the head coach. Nick
Sirianni survived the insurrection in Philadelphia. But the Rocky road
was there and continues to be there. And if you
haven't heard the latest on this, and maybe not, his
training camps get going around the United States here.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Jalen Hurts, the man in the middle.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Jalen Hurts said at the start of training camp that
his relationship with Nick Sirianni is in a quote great
place quotes quote and quote continues that he has faith
that he's the right person to lead the birds talking
about his coach.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Jalen Hurts, the quarterback of the Eagles, singing the praises
of Eagles coach Nick Sirianni and their relationship in a
great place.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Do you believe it?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So I've got elementary school, Disneyland, and manure, and we'll
combine all of these things together and we are going
to wet your appetite with more hot takes.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
All right, So a.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
This is a misleading statement. All right, it's misleading. That
is by word misleading because you take it with a
grain of salt. Here's why, what did you expect Jalen
Hurst to say? Could you imagine if Jalen had come
out and said, oh yeah, Nick Sirianni. I mean, he
can't even follow a recipe to make dinner, how's he
going to coach an NFL team? This was a stark answer.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
All right.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Now let's see how it plays out. The real test
is in September, and it's kind of like elementary school.
I was a terrible student. I barely got out of school.
But you start out the first day of school, the
teachers all seem.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
You don't have a lot of work to do, the
first day, it's kind of get to know you.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Everyone's getting along.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And then as the days pile up, you figure out
if this is actually a really good situation.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Or if it was all a mirage.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
When you start getting homework, and when the Eagles start
losing games, and they will lose games, what happens then,
So until proven otherwise, the Eagles, with coach Nick Sirianni
and quarterback Jalen Hurts both.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Are to be determined. Right.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
They're show ponies. They're front running show ponies who don't
handle adversity particularly well. Hey, Nick Siriana's going around, he's
inciting fans when the Eagles are winning, and when they're losing,
he looks completely clueless and has no idea how to
stop it. That part of the story is an open
and shutcase. Now page two, we head to the Carolinas
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by demand, by demand, the video which so many of you,
when I say so many, like four four people wanted
me to talk about. So the Panthers not a good team,
in fact, the worst team in the NFL last two years.
The veteran players reported to training camp this week as
they did everywhere else, and that led to the standard
cliche social media posts of name brand players strutting into
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the team headquarters. I don't know why anyone likes this,
but they seem to enjoy it. It's a staple of
this time of the year. No, the video of Bryce
Young went viral, guarded a lot of attention, a lot
of attention more than the rest. Now, what did you
make of the Panther quarterback Bryce Young getting absolutely cooked
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for a video of him walking into camp? So my
first thought is on this it was expected, it was expected,
and the video it's hard to fight back with the video.
I mean, the video is pretty emasculating. Social media is
going to do what social media is going to do.
But to be the whole thing looked like a comic
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strip of him walking in like the quarterback it's supposed
to be a quarterback of an NFL team, big burley guy.
We know he's not, but he walks into the team
facilities wearing a comically large backpack, like way too big.
He's probably a grown up backpack and not a kid backpack,
and it.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Was strapped over his shoul.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
He's very cartoonish and now he's not as annoying Bryce
Young as Kyler Murray alligator arms at Arizona. However, he
did fall out of the same kind of a spider
web with the itsy bitsy spider. He's very diminutive, not
out of central casting. And unless you work at Disneyland,
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then these guys are great. In the NFL, not so much. Right,
Historically these type of quarterbacks have not done very well,
the smaller quarterback, but at Disneyland it's a small world,
after all, it's a small small world. Now, as always,
all that matters with all of these stories is wins
and losses, wins in blanket losses. And if Bryce Young
actually looks like he knows what he's doing, which he
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didn't last year as a rookie, and he comes out
and plays well, hits the ground running all that, then
he will be celebrated and they'll romanticize his pocket sized appearance.
And then if he flops, strike up the band. We
know how that's going to go. Now I mentioned alligator arms,
Kyler Murray. We now had the last word. We head
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to Arizona. Now we don't normally talk about the Cardinals
other than to bash Kyler Murray, but this is not.
This is not going to be a bash of Kyler Murray.
It's not because instead the content machine has been filled
by Jonathan Ganning. You might not know who that is.
Why would you. He's not a name that people would know.
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A casual person would not know. He's the coach of
the Cardinals.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Not for long.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
That's always a temp job. You don't last that long
when you're coaching the Cardinals. It's kind of a starter job.
You get that job and then if you do good,
you go somewhere else. If you do bad, you become
the offensive coordinator of the Washington Commanders. It's kind of
how that goes. But many many players in Arizona have
had checkered pass But Jonathan Gannon actually looked like he
knew a little.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Bit of what he was doing last year.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Now, the reason I bring his name up here is
because the Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon revealed this week that
he and several members of the coaching staff did a
deep dive. They went deep into the weeds investigating momentum.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
During the offseason.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Now, the coach claimed that they went all the way
back to studying wars in the eighteen hundreds. Tell me
you don't have a life without telling me you don't
have a life. Now, after all of that research, right,
all of that research going down Wikipedia holes and all that,
does momentum exist? Gannon said, quote, perhaps I have no
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idea close quote.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
So Cardinals coach.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Jonathan Gane unable unable to prove momentum, Unable to prove
momentum is real. How did this story hit you? Well,
it hit me like, hey, mister stupid over there, what
do you do? Could have saved him some time? Downloaded
this podcast, this radio show.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
For years, for years, I.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Have been behind these very powerful microphones at Fox Sports Radio,
preaching from the bully pulpit. Momentum is manure in sports.
It is period stop right. I didn't need to go
back to the eighteen hundreds. And I don't believe he
actually went back to the eighteen hundredsoubal To clicked on
like one Wikipedia page and it's been twenty five hours,
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over several weeks, going through momentum. I don't believe that.
But he's embellishing. But here's the thing, right, there is
no way to quantify momentum. You can't see it, you
can't touch it, you can't buy it. You can't sell it.
It doesn't exist in sports. Nobody can predict.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Here's the thing that dead do what dead give what?
Nobody can predict.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
One momentum is going to keep the team doing well, right,
keep the team going they've got momentium, Or when it
shifts away from the team and the other team does better,
why would that happen? Because it doesn't exist. It is
merely something that scribes latched onto in the heyday of
newspapers and baseball report is mainly but momentum isn't after
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the fact explanation for the outcome of a game. It
is ignored when the team that has all the momentum
goes out there and loses. It's that motivational speaker type stuff.
It's pseudo science. He type content is what it is, momentum.
But yet here we are an NFL head coach going
down that rabbit hole, although I don't think he went
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all the way down. Jonathan Gannon, who could not prove
make them, could not proved.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
You can't prove it. There's no way to prove it
in sports. It doesn't exist in sports.
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We're gonna be talking sports, of course, but we're also
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To be in our lead this hour from Baseball Talking
bass Ball, Why not any story that caught my town.
Now we're going to baseball, but we're not gonna talk.
It's about the Red Sox, but it's not about the game.
We'll get to that in a minute. All right, we'll
get to that in a minute. The actual game part
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of it, we'll get to that coming up in a
little bit. But the Red Sox were crushed by the
Rockies twenty to seven, random Wednesday, Mattine. But the bigger
story involves the skipper.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Now, if you didn't hear, maybe not. Maybe you've been
out of the loop or you're not a baseball person.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
We learned that the Red Sox have agreed on a
new contract for manager Alex Corer, who had been a
lame duck. He gets a three year deal, three year
contract and that extension with the Red Sox through twenty
twenty seven. The deal's worth all most twenty two million dollars, right,
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almost twenty two million dollars. So let us discuss the question,
are you surprised that Alex Korra agreed to stay with
the Red Sox? So I've got manifesto, opposition research, and panache,
and we will combine all of these things together and
say where's the beef it's an old slogan and a
(14:50):
commercial years ago, so number one.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
So to answer the question, are you surprised by the
move of alex cor to stay with the Red Sox.
Of course this came out of left field. Here's why.
Alex Cora had been publicly flirting with the transfer portal
for many, many months, going back to February. When he
showed up to spring training. He was the lamest of
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lame ducks. Many believed that he had a wandering eye.
He was eyeing the Dodger job. If Dave Roberts pooped
his pants in the playoffs again, that that job would
be open. Several high profile jobs likely will open up,
although managers last longer than they used to. Right the
Yankees with Aaron Boone in the old days, he would
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have been fired four years ago. Dave Roberts would have
been out years ago. But these guys hang around despite
the mediocrity in the postseason. So in spring training, though,
here's my evidence, So alex Corra would not commit to
wanting to return to Boston in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
So what changed, right?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
The thing that changed is what to me on the outside,
he got a seal of approval by Craig Breslow, the
new GM in Boston, and he took over in the offseason,
so he gave the endorsement and they met the terms. Also,
the most important part is not the endorsement. It is
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that the terms of the ransom note were met. That
Boston ownership responded to an email manifesto from Alice Cora,
and he becomes the second highest paid manager behind Craig
Council of the Cubbies with that twenty one point seven
million dollar contract. He gets that money after back to
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back last place finishes. The Red Sox finished last last
two years. Another cheater getting paid by the way. Alice
Cora suspended by Major League Baseball for the twenty twenty season,
punished more than any of the players because he was
involved in the twenty seventeen Astros sign stealing scandal. So
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the greatest black guy in baseball, the greatest joke of
all jokes for Rob Manford, and now one of the
guys that got suspended.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Is rolling in new money. He's rolling around in new money,
laughing all the way to the bank. Now, page two.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
In that Red Sox blowout loss to the Rockies, they
gave up twenty runs. Now, normally I would not talk
about a Wednesday Rockies Red Sox game.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Why would we.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Something good has to happen. Something good did happen. Bench
is cleared in the fourth inning of that matinee at
cors Field. This after a Canadian pitcher named cal Quantrill
of Colorado. He got out of a two out jam
in that fourth inning there he induced a flyout from
a fly out to center by Boston's Reese Maguire, And
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that is when things got cranked up a couple of
notches and when personal and went completely off the reservation
during the bench clearing moment, because you see, if you
if you saw the clip, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
But maybe I haven't seen it. Maybe you're blind.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
So after getting the fly ball, Quantrell yelled and lifted
up his leg. He was so excited he got that out.
Oh my god, you played for the Rockies. It's the
little things in life. So Quanto's all excited, and then
that upset Maguire because how dare you show me up?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
You can't show me up. You're the picture for the Rockies.
Come on.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
So the Red Sox catcher then stopped running and started
going towards. He was going towards for his space, but
he turned his attention to the starting pitcher. And that
is where the lip readers came in. That is where
the lip readers have determined beyond a reasonable doubt that
the following was said. Now, I'm gonna clean this up
for the radio. Otherwise I'm get in trouble. And I
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don't want my bosses to call me during the day.
That's the one thing I don't want. So how Quantrell
of the Rockies again, this is the radio edit, the
radio edit. He said, up, McGuire, you POLYI the banister
in an effing parking lot. You dumb cluck like a chicken,
is what he said. I think that's radio friendly. Yeah,
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So the question did the Rockies pitcher cal Quantrell cross
the line when he brought up that the Red Sox
Reece McGuire had a very famous self manipulation we'll call it.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
In the parking lot a couple of years back.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
So my response to this is, no lies were detected, right,
I used the Mallard lie detective test.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
That were no lies.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
All is fair in love in baseball rhubarbs and I
will tell you this is tremendous opposition research by Cal Quantrill.
This happened during the pandemic time. Twenty twenty was when
this happened. But he followed the scouting report because four
years ago a lot of people didn't hear this because
they were worried about other stuff. But McGuire was arrested.
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I guess you could say he was celebrating palm Sunday
in a parking lot near the Blue Jays spring training facility.
He was enjoying his pickle. A listener to the show
in the Boston area. I don think he's actually in
Boston proper, but he's in the suburbs there and he
listens to the show. He says he also hears their
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big show, Felger and maz And on the sports up there,
and he says that their nickname on that show for
Reese maguire. I think it's, if this is true, one
of the great nicknames of all time, the Carjacker. I
think that is a great nickname, just wonderful, so one
of the all time greats. But anyway, that's the back
and forth between Cal Control and Reese McGuire. A final point,
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we go to La Land is where we go. Trade
deadline is next week. The trade deadline is next week.
We're five days away now from the trade deadline. And
there are some rumblings in my belly that the Doyers,
who are being no hit for seven innings, the Doyers
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against the Giants, the Dodgers are going after Tampa Bay
outfielder Randy A. Rose Arena before the deadline. Does that
make sense to you?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
So?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Not eighty percent, not eighty five percent? How about one
hundred percent? I fully fully give the rubber stamp on
the Dodgers making this move, and this would be one
of the few moves that would make me smile.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Right uh yeah. Now, I realize that Randy A.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Rose Arena of the Rays has been absolute dog food
most of this season. He is down near the Mendoza line,
but I still want him in Dodger blow. And here's
why the Dodgers are being judged solely on the postseason.
All these regular season games are nice, but they don't matter.
It's all about the postseason. That's the judgment day for
the Dodgers. And I look at Randy A. Rose Arena.
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This guy's got panache, He's got that Genesi quah, right,
he brings a certain razmataz with him. Now, the Dodger
already had one of those guys that they added this offseason.
Not Otani, by the way, because we don't know what
Altani's gonna be. But they got another guy on a
one year deal in the outfield who is one of
the top RBI guys at baseball, who is right there,
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who I trust that.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
He'll hit in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
But Randy rose Arena in his career is a three
thirty six hitter in October. Okay, So I want that.
I want that guy on my team if I'm the Dodgers.
He's styling and profiling in big games. That's what you need,
right And he's not nervous. He doesn't have tight tuk
his syndrome, he doesn't have the flop sweat in big games.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
I want that guy, even having a miserable season, And
when you cross examine what.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
He's done in the playoffs, and then I look at,
you know, the big star the Dodgers signed years ago,
and Randy rose Arena has been the antithesis of Mookie Betts.
You know, Mookie Bets the last three years in playoff
baseball is batting two thirty six. That is one hundred
points lower than Randy A. Rose Arena one hundred points.
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So yes, you go out and get that guy if
Tampa's willing to trade him, and they'll trade anybody. They're
not committed to keeping anybody. The rais, oh, you know,
just temporary there in Tampa. No one's there for the
long term. But that guy, Randy Roserena to me, he's
got that DNA. Now, it doesn't guarantee anything. He could
go to the Dodgers and back two hundred like these
other stiffs with the Dodgers. But I take my chances
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of a guy that's got that that little pop to
his game.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
That's what I want.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
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Here we go, It's Mallard. How about that to the
third degree?
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This is one Big Ben gets grilled.
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Goobolo Ben.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
On Monday, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy confirmed that talks
of the Sixers coming to the state are real and
not just rumors.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
But what do you think the chances of this actually
happening are?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
I think there's they'll be.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
They'll still call themselves the Philadelphia seventy sixes, but it's
like the Royal or it's like the Royals and the Chiefs.
They're gonna build the stadium in Kansas, but it's literally
across the way from where they play right now, So
it's the same thing. I've been to Philadelphia before, and
they'll play in southern New Jersey right across the water there,
and it won't.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Really change much anything.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
They'll just get a better deal on a stadium, and
I have the taxpayers build the stadium next now.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
Eddie reported yesterday that Mike Trout left his rehab start
after two innings due to a sore knee. You just
talked about it. Yeah, how much do you think Trout's
injuries will affect his legacy.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
It'll be one of those things baseball riders. They romanticize
the fact, Oh, if only he had stayed healthy, He'll
give him a pass, if only he stayed healthy, et.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But since he signed the contract,
it's been a debacle.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Next.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
Titans head coach Brian Callahan recently said that he views
Tajy Spears and Tony Pollard as two starters But do
you think the Titans will miss Derrick Henry at all.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Well, they'll miss the fact that he's his star and
he people liked him and they knew who he was,
and these other guys are not as well known. But
in terms of the football stuff, I don't it's not
gonna matter much at all.
Speaker 8 (25:01):
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That is a week the Bud on the Bar?
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It's now time for time.
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No way, we go to ask Ben.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour,
and right to the questions we go the reading of
the questions from the poop ho loop.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
All right, Mike and Dodge.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
I Mike, you would like to know, he said, Hey, Ben,
with the new Twisters movie out, is there a natural
phenomenon that you would be interested in experiencing or witnessing?
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Yeah, I'm good. I mean I've done the earthquake thing.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I've been a bunch of earthquakes living on the West Coast.
Like hurricanes, you know when they're coming so you can
get out of them.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Tornadoes you generally kind of know when it's tornado alley
and where you know. I'm good, I'm good. Any anything
you want to watch, any natural phenomena. I assume he
meant disaster.
Speaker 9 (26:16):
Right, he didn't.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
He didn't necessarily say that specify that.
Speaker 10 (26:22):
I think tornadoes are both terrifying and amazing. I would
like to see one up close if I was somehow
guaranteed that I would not be harmed by it. But
would I would not take that, Champ.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Would you go in one of those cars where they
drive into the tornado area? They have like armored cars
and they drive through there.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
No, because that would cost money. I don't think I
would want to pay for something like that. By the way,
Coop sidebar, did you see the Twisters movie? And what's
your quick review?
Speaker 8 (26:46):
I did? It was pretty cool. It's not as good
as the first one, but I enjoyed.
Speaker 9 (26:49):
It all right.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
The sequel not the equal raina.
Speaker 11 (26:54):
I would like to see the Northern Lights again, Ben,
I don't want to be scared, and I don't want
to die, so I don't want to see like a
tsunami or a hurricane or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
That's good. Yeah, I've not seen me the northern lights either.
What about you, Koblo?
Speaker 7 (27:09):
Since I was a child, I thought it would be
awesome to see a tornado in person. I never have,
but I would want to be, you know, a safe
distance away, but just to see one person I think
would be so cool.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
What about a hurricane.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
You'ld be like weed Man, go down to the beach
and go in a lifeguard tower during a hurricane.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Not as cool? Okay, I thought it was pretty cool.
He still in jail. He's got to me in jail right?
Speaker 9 (27:33):
Last report was he was still in jail.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
I okay, someone free weed Man. What's next? What do
we have here to ask? Ben? Your questions are answers
On this Thursday.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
The King Rory would like to know. Hi, Rory, would
you rather have a nose like an elephant or a
neck like a giraffe?
Speaker 8 (27:52):
All right, let's think.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
About this nose.
Speaker 9 (27:55):
This sounds like a lead to lap question.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Yeah, I kind of think the neck thing would be
kind of cool. You know, I have that big, tall
neck could be over everyone and all that.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
I think that would be cool. What about you, Ddie.
Speaker 10 (28:10):
Gosh, I don't want either, but I guess I'll take
the nose like the elephant, because I could use it
like another hand. I could pick things up with it
and maybe punch somebody in the face of live. I
need to protect myself.
Speaker 11 (28:21):
Okay, Lorraina, I was thinking I'll take an elephant's backside, Ben's.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Big nose.
Speaker 12 (28:34):
Okay, Well over in Beverly Hills, they can make that happen.
What about you, Kopolo, This is a really tough one.
I think I gotta agree with you Ben on the
giraffe neck.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Yeah, we are right. It's not the neither one's great.
But the trunk would get in a way of everything.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
Yeah, it would, and it would just you know, it's
right there on your face. Everything else about you could
be normal. You just have a really long neck.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Like but like, what is that?
Speaker 8 (29:02):
What does that effect?
Speaker 4 (29:03):
You can still? What was the name of that driving difficult?
Speaker 10 (29:07):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (29:08):
Mike, Mike?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (29:09):
What was the guy I was draft? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (29:12):
He was on the Bears.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
White guy played with a bunch of different teams. You
know who I'm talking about.
Speaker 8 (29:16):
Yeah, his name though Glennon, Mike Glennon.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Mike glenn Yeah, he was a draft. That's a human draft. Yeah, yeah,
all right, what's next?
Speaker 9 (29:24):
Year?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
To ask?
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
If you think we're doing a bang up job, we
do it every week this time. If you think it sucks,
it's only once a week, So who the hell cares?
Lighting up Francis, what's next?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
All right?
Speaker 7 (29:38):
Things that make you go, let's go with this one's
I guess this one's just for us three and not
Lorena for a dog wants to know.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
Would you eat a pickle for fifty dollars?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (29:55):
He posted a picture of like a jar of pickles
and their whole pickles in there.
Speaker 8 (30:01):
It has to be a Disneyland sized pickle.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
It has to be no, no, no, no, not that
big no.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
With inflation, it would have to be much more than No.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
The picture that he posted is not a Disneyland sized pickle.
That's like a that's like a a jar off Manney reference.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Yeah, I'm not there's more money I consider. I mean
I did eat bolt jerky and all that, so of
course I would do it. All right, Well, Anie, what
about you?
Speaker 9 (30:25):
Know so you would do absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I did the Rocky Mountain oisters that was discussed.
Speaker 9 (30:30):
You actually didn't.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
I did.
Speaker 9 (30:32):
No, you did not.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
I did. Lorena, you know I do it.
Speaker 8 (30:36):
Yeah, she loves why I'm even asking?
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Well, uh, coop, Yeah, I.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Hate pickles, but you know fifty bucks, I don't. They're
gonna be a nice meal somewhere.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
You eat basoline, so you'd eat pickle.
Speaker 9 (30:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Yeah, all right? What is next year? As we continue
on happy days or here again, what do we have
next year?
Speaker 7 (30:54):
Late Night Drug Tester would like to Late Night Drug
Tester and said, do you keep extra toilet paper under
your after him sink?
Speaker 8 (31:00):
Or do you have a toilet paper holder off to
the side?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Well, game changer, game changer. I think Eddie knows this
because he's been to the Malor mansion, but you two
have not. The new one and the wife invested in
what are those things called the squirt the water out.
I don't know what those things are called, but day yes,
we had like the bdet so it cuts down on the.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Toilet paper for me.
Speaker 9 (31:21):
Didn't answer the question though, No, we I mean I
have like.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
A I go to Costco once every like four months
and by a giant thing of toilet paper and then
that's it.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
But we don't use much, so we don't really need.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
It that much.
Speaker 11 (31:32):
So no, so he doesn't keep it under the sink,
I think is what he's getting at.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
It's in the garage.
Speaker 10 (31:38):
Yeah, we have the toilet paper towering each other on
top of the other, and we also have spare under
the sink, so we do both. Toilet Paper is a
very important part of your life, without question.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
You do a lot of pooping. I do, yes, Lorena.
Speaker 11 (31:57):
I keep mine out in the garage, Ben, And it
has been it's been pretty devastating sometimes though you have
a wife to go get you toilet paper when you
need it.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
I do not.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
No, I have to get my own.
Speaker 12 (32:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (32:06):
Can't you send the kid?
Speaker 8 (32:07):
Not anymore?
Speaker 7 (32:08):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Yeah, yeah, when's the kid coming back?
Speaker 8 (32:11):
Two years?
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Two years? I'm not gonna visit in two years. Come on,
she'll come visit for a couple alright, what about you.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
So in the master bathroom we have one of those
toilet paper towers, like like Eddie, but the middle bathroom
does not have that. So in that one, it's under
the sink and it's only like a couple of rolls.
I also buy my toilet paper from Costco. The rest
of the like thirty eight rolls that the pack right
(32:42):
is in a cupboard under the stairs.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Oh, that's a great deal, and I got room. I
go high end on the toilet paper. I go high in. Oh,
of course, I spend a lot of money and I
like my always good. All right? What is next year? Quickly? Cool?
What do we have?
Speaker 7 (32:57):
Mister Luciano would like to know which one do you
look forward to? Halloween or Christmas?
Speaker 9 (33:02):
Halloween every time?
Speaker 7 (33:04):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Candy can? I was a fat kid growing up. Come on,
candy hollow and I.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
Don't have to buy presence for anyone.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Yeah, so Eddie agreed, Lorena Halloween all day?
Speaker 11 (33:12):
Baby?
Speaker 4 (33:13):
All right?
Speaker 8 (33:13):
Cool, I'm gonna say Christmas.
Speaker 9 (33:15):
We all like dressing up and I hate Christmas music too.
My wife loves it.
Speaker 8 (33:19):
I mean Thanksgivings the best holiday?
Speaker 9 (33:21):
Agreed? Agreed?
Speaker 8 (33:22):
And you can dress up as Santa Benot?
Speaker 9 (33:24):
He does?
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Are you every year?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
At I don't know you.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
I sit on a fire truck every year. Is Santa Claus?
Speaker 1 (33:29):
I do?
Speaker 4 (33:29):
I do? I'm not kidding.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
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Speaker 4 (33:37):
Thee Jal Eddie Garson.
Speaker 10 (33:41):
All right, Ben, we start with controversy in the NHL
with the Edvonton Odlan is hiring Stan Bowman as general
manager and executive vice president of hockey Operations. He is
the first former Chicago Blackhawk executive rehired since the team's
sexual assault scandal back in twenty ten. Bowman did guide
the Blackhawks the Stanley Cup titles in twenty ten, twenty thirteen,
and twenty fifteen, but resign as GM at twenty twenty
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one after an investigation found that the organization failed to
address allegations made by player Kyle Beach after he was
sexually assaulted by video coach Brad Aldridge. Former NHL player
Sheldon Kennedy, who revealed after his playing career that he
was sexually abused by a coach in junior hockey, he's
been an advocate for abused victims in hockey.
Speaker 9 (34:18):
He came out publicly endorsing Bowman.
Speaker 10 (34:21):
Explaining that the work he's done in recent years has
apparently been positive. Bowman said he also reached out to
Kyle Beach the victim of the abuse scandal to tell
him he was getting this job and edmitting and said
they had a productive conversation.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
Was Edmonton far enough off the grid where it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
I getting some cities in America, You couldn't do it,
not in Canada when it comes to hockey.
Speaker 9 (34:41):
No, no, no, no, this will be page one top
of the life story.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
He must be a good executive, otherwise they would.
Speaker 9 (34:47):
Oh yeah, you mean won three Stanley Cups in Chicago.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Yeah, well that's what I'm saying. So they're like, hey,
is the guy that we can win the Stanley Cup with,
so we're will to do it.
Speaker 9 (34:55):
Well yeah, but they're also getting fricka see by a
lot of the media.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
It's all fake nonsense. We can still watch the games,
They're still going to go to the games. So it's
just it's just like full outrage, is.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
What it is.
Speaker 10 (35:04):
Well, I don't know, I mean, he did, you know,
kind of cover up. He didn't cover it up, but
he just kind of ignored it. And he also didn't
call the police on this guy.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Do you think the Edmonton Oilers are going to lose
market share because they hire this stay?
Speaker 4 (35:20):
Probably not exactly that's my point. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 9 (35:24):
Yeah, I mean there's there, there's there's I don't be
a lot.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
I don't think it's full.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Outrage thinks, but I think it's just people like anytime
Edmonton does anything and be like, oh, yeah, they're bring
this up, but they're still gonna watch the games and
they're still going to go to the games and all
that's from from a business standpoint.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
They're gonna make their money. They're probably need more money
if they if they didn't winning this scene.
Speaker 10 (35:43):
You could also argue they were one went away from
winning the Stanley Cup without him.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
So yeah, it's not like it's not like I said
how bad that you said how bad they were?
Speaker 10 (35:51):
Ready?
Speaker 4 (35:52):
You told me how bad.
Speaker 10 (35:53):
They said they were going to lose and they did,
and I was right, Well, but I do you do
you need to bring in this this kind of of news.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Well, you're the Cup, you're the hockey guy.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
But aren't They had a fork in the road with
Leon dry Sidle and he's set.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Up about that, Eddie.
Speaker 9 (36:12):
All I'm moving on. Phoenix Suns owner Matt Ishbia has
his hot there.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
That's a story, Eddie, that's the story. Good job by you.
Speaker 10 (36:18):
Has his sight set on bringing hockey back to Arizona
after the Coyotes relocated to Salt Lake City after this season.
Ishbia told Sportico quote, it's definitely something I'm interested in.
It's a four sport town. I'm disappointed we don't have hockey.
I understand what happened, and we're trying to fix that
in one day end quote. He didn't reveal if he's
been talking to the NHL. He did talk about getting
a new arena and that could also be a future
(36:39):
home for an NHL expansion franchise. Speaking of new arenas,
Calgary Flames have started construction on their new sixteen thousand, set.
Speaker 9 (36:46):
Eight hundred million dollars home.
Speaker 10 (36:47):
The new arena will replace the forty one year old
Saddle Dome, expected to me completed in twenty twenty seven.
The old Saddle Dome actually looked like a saddle, added
a distinct look. The Flames released some artist renderings of
the new Scotia Arena. It's been nicknamed the Cauldron, with
the top part of the arena roof looking like it
has flames on it, so it's kind of cool looking.
Speaker 9 (37:06):
NHL head coaching vacancy. The final one has been filled.
Speaker 10 (37:09):
Columbus Blue Jackets higher former Minnesota wild head coach Dean
Ebison as our next dad coach. Fourth coach for the
team in the last three seasons, including Mike Babcock, who
has hired and fired before he ever coached the game
with the team seems it is a lot. It is
a lot, and they're not very good. Evanson coached the
while for parts of five seasons. They've made the playoffs
four straight years but lost in the first round every time.
(37:29):
This one is just for Andy the comic book guy,
because no, he loves Buffalo and this is a funny
name to say.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
I think he's in Buffalo. Think he's visiting his dad.
Speaker 10 (37:36):
Oh well, he's got to be very excited that the
Sabers have signed goalie Uka Pecca Lucanan to a five year,
twenty three point seventy five million dollar contract. Uka Peca
Lucan have better known as upl And finally, Philadelphia Flyers
very excited about their recent first dround pick matt Vey Mitschkov.
He was expected to play in Russia for several years,
but he's changed his mind. He's coming to the US
(37:56):
and actually he arrived this week, And your boy Keith
Jones and the team.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
I love I love Jones.
Speaker 10 (38:03):
The team's jam Danny Brier literally picked him up at
the airport.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
They nice, They didn't send a car, they didn't.
Speaker 9 (38:10):
Get a driver.
Speaker 10 (38:10):
They literally drove their car to the airport he hit
up and there's pictures of them carrying his luggage and
his hoggy sticks through the airport.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
That is great. So Keith Jones is the GM of the.
Speaker 10 (38:20):
Flyers, he's the president of Hockey Operations. Jam is Daniel
Beyer air former part.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
All right, I worked with didn't We worked together at
NBC years ago. And I love Keith Jones, one of
the coolest guys.
Speaker 10 (38:30):
Also, somebody in the Philly and the Flyers pr had
the good sense to put a Phillies hat on Mitch
Goff as he was walking through the airport, so he
immediately Philadelphia fans are in love.
Speaker 9 (38:40):
With this guy. So we'll see if it works out
for him. And that's your pluck the World Report.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
All right, more more stories this week, Eddie. That everything
is pointing one direction in Utah, that it's going to
be the Yetti that they're.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
They're not done it already, Let's go just just go, Yetti,
just go Yetti. Uh, here we go, yetty, here we go.
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Anyway, our lead this hour from the NFC East. It
is not about the Dallas cob He probably thought it
was not, but that is where the Eagles ran out
of gas.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
In twenty twenty three. We're talked about this in a
previous episode of the.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Show, The Life and Times of One Jalen Hurts, and
the fact that Sequan Barkley, the big pick up for
the Birds, came out and gave a ringing endorsement, a
full throated endorsement of his quarterback.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
That's my quarterback now.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
As a result of the Eagles having issues, they whacked
a bunch of coaches, but not the head coach. Nick
Sirianni survived the insurrection in Philadelphia. But the Rocky road
was there and continues to be there. And if you
haven't heard the latest on this, and maybe not, his
training camps get going around the United States here.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Jalen Hurts, the man in the middle.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Jalen Hurts said at the start of training camp that
his relationship with Nick Sirianni is in a quote great
place quotes quote and quote continues that he has faith
that he's the right person to lead the birds talking
about his coach.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Jalen Hurts, the quarterback of the Eagles, singing the praises
of Eagles coach Nick Sirianni and their relationship in a
great place.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Do you believe it?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So I've got elementary school, Disneyland, and manure, and we'll
combine all of these things together and we are going
to wet your appetite with more hot takes.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
All right, So a.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
This is a misleading statement. All right, it's misleading. That
is by word misleading because you take it with a
grain of salt. Here's why, what did you expect Jalen
Hurst to say? Could you imagine if Jalen had come
out and said, oh yeah, Nick Sirianni. I mean, he
can't even follow a recipe to make dinner, how's he
going to coach an NFL team? This was a stark answer.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
All right.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Now let's see how it plays out. The real test
is in September, and it's kind of like elementary school.
I was a terrible student. I barely got out of school.
But you start out the first day of school, the
teachers all seem.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
You don't have a lot of work to do, the
first day, it's kind of get to know you.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Everyone's getting along.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And then as the days pile up, you figure out
if this is actually a really good situation.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Or if it was all a mirage.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
When you start getting homework, and when the Eagles start
losing games, and they will lose games, what happens then,
So until proven otherwise, the Eagles, with coach Nick Sirianni
and quarterback Jalen Hurts both.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Are to be determined. Right.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
They're show ponies. They're front running show ponies who don't
handle adversity particularly well. Hey, Nick Siriana's going around, he's
inciting fans when the Eagles are winning, and when they're losing,
he looks completely clueless and has no idea how to
stop it. That part of the story is an open
and shutcase. Now page two, we head to the Carolinas
(04:54):
by demand, by demand, the video which so many of you,
when I say so many, like four four people wanted
me to talk about. So the Panthers not a good team,
in fact, the worst team in the NFL last two years.
The veteran players reported to training camp this week as
they did everywhere else, and that led to the standard
cliche social media posts of name brand players strutting into
(05:19):
the team headquarters. I don't know why anyone likes this,
but they seem to enjoy it. It's a staple of
this time of the year. No, the video of Bryce
Young went viral, guarded a lot of attention, a lot
of attention more than the rest. Now, what did you
make of the Panther quarterback Bryce Young getting absolutely cooked
(05:41):
for a video of him walking into camp? So my
first thought is on this it was expected, it was expected,
and the video it's hard to fight back with the video.
I mean, the video is pretty emasculating. Social media is
going to do what social media is going to do.
But to be the whole thing looked like a comic
(06:01):
strip of him walking in like the quarterback it's supposed
to be a quarterback of an NFL team, big burley guy.
We know he's not, but he walks into the team
facilities wearing a comically large backpack, like way too big.
He's probably a grown up backpack and not a kid backpack,
and it.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Was strapped over his shoul.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
He's very cartoonish and now he's not as annoying Bryce
Young as Kyler Murray alligator arms at Arizona. However, he
did fall out of the same kind of a spider
web with the itsy bitsy spider. He's very diminutive, not
out of central casting. And unless you work at Disneyland,
(06:42):
then these guys are great. In the NFL, not so much. Right,
Historically these type of quarterbacks have not done very well,
the smaller quarterback, but at Disneyland it's a small world,
after all, it's a small small world. Now, as always,
all that matters with all of these stories is wins
and losses, wins in blanket losses. And if Bryce Young
actually looks like he knows what he's doing, which he
(07:04):
didn't last year as a rookie, and he comes out
and plays well, hits the ground running all that, then
he will be celebrated and they'll romanticize his pocket sized appearance.
And then if he flops, strike up the band. We
know how that's going to go. Now I mentioned alligator arms,
Kyler Murray. We now had the last word. We head
(07:25):
to Arizona. Now we don't normally talk about the Cardinals
other than to bash Kyler Murray, but this is not.
This is not going to be a bash of Kyler Murray.
It's not because instead the content machine has been filled
by Jonathan Ganning. You might not know who that is.
Why would you. He's not a name that people would know.
(07:46):
A casual person would not know. He's the coach of
the Cardinals.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Not for long.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
That's always a temp job. You don't last that long
when you're coaching the Cardinals. It's kind of a starter job.
You get that job and then if you do good,
you go somewhere else. If you do bad, you become
the offensive coordinator of the Washington Commanders. It's kind of
how that goes. But many many players in Arizona have
had checkered pass But Jonathan Gannon actually looked like he
knew a little.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Bit of what he was doing last year.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Now, the reason I bring his name up here is
because the Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon revealed this week that
he and several members of the coaching staff did a
deep dive. They went deep into the weeds investigating momentum.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
During the offseason.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Now, the coach claimed that they went all the way
back to studying wars in the eighteen hundreds. Tell me
you don't have a life without telling me you don't
have a life. Now, after all of that research, right,
all of that research going down Wikipedia holes and all that,
does momentum exist? Gannon said, quote, perhaps I have no
(08:56):
idea close quote.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
So Cardinals coach.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Jonathan Gane unable unable to prove momentum, Unable to prove
momentum is real. How did this story hit you? Well,
it hit me like, hey, mister stupid over there, what
do you do? Could have saved him some time? Downloaded
this podcast, this radio show.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
For years, for years, I.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Have been behind these very powerful microphones at Fox Sports Radio,
preaching from the bully pulpit. Momentum is manure in sports.
It is period stop right. I didn't need to go
back to the eighteen hundreds. And I don't believe he
actually went back to the eighteen hundredsoubal To clicked on
like one Wikipedia page and it's been twenty five hours,
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over several weeks, going through momentum. I don't believe that.
But he's embellishing. But here's the thing, right, there is
no way to quantify momentum. You can't see it, you
can't touch it, you can't buy it. You can't sell it.
It doesn't exist in sports. Nobody can predict.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Here's the thing that dead do what dead give what?
Nobody can predict.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
One momentum is going to keep the team doing well, right,
keep the team going they've got momentium, Or when it
shifts away from the team and the other team does better,
why would that happen? Because it doesn't exist. It is
merely something that scribes latched onto in the heyday of
newspapers and baseball report is mainly but momentum isn't after
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the fact explanation for the outcome of a game. It
is ignored when the team that has all the momentum
goes out there and loses. It's that motivational speaker type stuff.
It's pseudo science. He type content is what it is, momentum.
But yet here we are an NFL head coach going
down that rabbit hole, although I don't think he went
(10:56):
all the way down. Jonathan Gannon, who could not prove
make them, could not proved.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
You can't prove it. There's no way to prove it
in sports. It doesn't exist in sports.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
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Speaker 5 (11:18):
Hey, we're Cavino and Rich Fox Sports Radio every day
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Speaker 4 (11:23):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
We never have enough time to get to everything we
want to get.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
To and that's why we have a brand new podcast
called over Promised. You see, we're having so much fun
in our two hour show. We never get to everything, honestly,
because this guy is over promising things we never have
time for.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah, you blubber list name in me.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Well you know what it's called over promise. You should
be good at it because you've been over promising women
for years. Well, it's a Cavino and Rich after show,
and we want you to be a part of it.
We're gonna be talking sports, of course, but we're also
gonna talk life and relationships. And if Rich and I
are arguing about something or we didn't have enough time,
it will continue.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
On our after show called over Promised.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
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sure you check out over Promised and also uncensored, by
the way, So maybe we'll go at it even a
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Speaker 4 (12:06):
It's gonna be the best after show podcast of all time.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
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Speaker 4 (12:21):
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gonna wear the same socks every day.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
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To be in our lead this hour from Baseball Talking
bass Ball, Why not any story that caught my town.
Now we're going to baseball, but we're not gonna talk.
It's about the Red Sox, but it's not about the game.
We'll get to that in a minute. All right, we'll
get to that in a minute. The actual game part
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of it, we'll get to that coming up in a
little bit. But the Red Sox were crushed by the
Rockies twenty to seven, random Wednesday, Mattine. But the bigger
story involves the skipper.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Now, if you didn't hear, maybe not. Maybe you've been
out of the loop or you're not a baseball person.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
We learned that the Red Sox have agreed on a
new contract for manager Alex Corer, who had been a
lame duck. He gets a three year deal, three year
contract and that extension with the Red Sox through twenty
twenty seven. The deal's worth all most twenty two million dollars, right,
(14:27):
almost twenty two million dollars. So let us discuss the question,
are you surprised that Alex Korra agreed to stay with
the Red Sox? So I've got manifesto, opposition research, and panache,
and we will combine all of these things together and
say where's the beef it's an old slogan and a
(14:50):
commercial years ago, so number one.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
So to answer the question, are you surprised by the
move of alex cor to stay with the Red Sox.
Of course this came out of left field. Here's why.
Alex Cora had been publicly flirting with the transfer portal
for many, many months, going back to February. When he
showed up to spring training. He was the lamest of
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lame ducks. Many believed that he had a wandering eye.
He was eyeing the Dodger job. If Dave Roberts pooped
his pants in the playoffs again, that that job would
be open. Several high profile jobs likely will open up,
although managers last longer than they used to. Right the
Yankees with Aaron Boone in the old days, he would
(15:42):
have been fired four years ago. Dave Roberts would have
been out years ago. But these guys hang around despite
the mediocrity in the postseason. So in spring training, though,
here's my evidence, So alex Corra would not commit to
wanting to return to Boston in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
So what changed, right?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
The thing that changed is what to me on the outside,
he got a seal of approval by Craig Breslow, the
new GM in Boston, and he took over in the offseason,
so he gave the endorsement and they met the terms. Also,
the most important part is not the endorsement. It is
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that the terms of the ransom note were met. That
Boston ownership responded to an email manifesto from Alice Cora,
and he becomes the second highest paid manager behind Craig
Council of the Cubbies with that twenty one point seven
million dollar contract. He gets that money after back to
(16:43):
back last place finishes. The Red Sox finished last last
two years. Another cheater getting paid by the way. Alice
Cora suspended by Major League Baseball for the twenty twenty season,
punished more than any of the players because he was
involved in the twenty seventeen Astros sign stealing scandal. So
(17:06):
the greatest black guy in baseball, the greatest joke of
all jokes for Rob Manford, and now one of the
guys that got suspended.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Is rolling in new money. He's rolling around in new money,
laughing all the way to the bank. Now, page two.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
In that Red Sox blowout loss to the Rockies, they
gave up twenty runs. Now, normally I would not talk
about a Wednesday Rockies Red Sox game.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Why would we.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Something good has to happen. Something good did happen. Bench
is cleared in the fourth inning of that matinee at
cors Field. This after a Canadian pitcher named cal Quantrill
of Colorado. He got out of a two out jam
in that fourth inning there he induced a flyout from
a fly out to center by Boston's Reese Maguire, And
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that is when things got cranked up a couple of
notches and when personal and went completely off the reservation
during the bench clearing moment, because you see, if you
if you saw the clip, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
But maybe I haven't seen it. Maybe you're blind.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
So after getting the fly ball, Quantrell yelled and lifted
up his leg. He was so excited he got that out.
Oh my god, you played for the Rockies. It's the
little things in life. So Quanto's all excited, and then
that upset Maguire because how dare you show me up?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
You can't show me up. You're the picture for the Rockies.
Come on.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
So the Red Sox catcher then stopped running and started
going towards. He was going towards for his space, but
he turned his attention to the starting pitcher. And that
is where the lip readers came in. That is where
the lip readers have determined beyond a reasonable doubt that
the following was said. Now, I'm gonna clean this up
for the radio. Otherwise I'm get in trouble. And I
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don't want my bosses to call me during the day.
That's the one thing I don't want. So how Quantrell
of the Rockies again, this is the radio edit, the
radio edit. He said, up, McGuire, you POLYI the banister
in an effing parking lot. You dumb cluck like a chicken,
is what he said. I think that's radio friendly. Yeah,
(19:09):
So the question did the Rockies pitcher cal Quantrell cross
the line when he brought up that the Red Sox
Reece McGuire had a very famous self manipulation we'll call it.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
In the parking lot a couple of years back.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
So my response to this is, no lies were detected, right,
I used the Mallard lie detective test.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
That were no lies.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
All is fair in love in baseball rhubarbs and I
will tell you this is tremendous opposition research by Cal Quantrill.
This happened during the pandemic time. Twenty twenty was when
this happened. But he followed the scouting report because four
years ago a lot of people didn't hear this because
they were worried about other stuff. But McGuire was arrested.
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I guess you could say he was celebrating palm Sunday
in a parking lot near the Blue Jays spring training facility.
He was enjoying his pickle. A listener to the show
in the Boston area. I don think he's actually in
Boston proper, but he's in the suburbs there and he
listens to the show. He says he also hears their
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big show, Felger and maz And on the sports up there,
and he says that their nickname on that show for
Reese maguire. I think it's, if this is true, one
of the great nicknames of all time, the Carjacker. I
think that is a great nickname, just wonderful, so one
of the all time greats. But anyway, that's the back
and forth between Cal Control and Reese McGuire. A final point,
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we go to La Land is where we go. Trade
deadline is next week. The trade deadline is next week.
We're five days away now from the trade deadline. And
there are some rumblings in my belly that the Doyers,
who are being no hit for seven innings, the Doyers
(20:58):
against the Giants, the Dodgers are going after Tampa Bay
outfielder Randy A. Rose Arena before the deadline. Does that
make sense to you?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
So?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Not eighty percent, not eighty five percent? How about one
hundred percent? I fully fully give the rubber stamp on
the Dodgers making this move, and this would be one
of the few moves that would make me smile.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Right uh yeah. Now, I realize that Randy A.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Rose Arena of the Rays has been absolute dog food
most of this season. He is down near the Mendoza line,
but I still want him in Dodger blow. And here's
why the Dodgers are being judged solely on the postseason.
All these regular season games are nice, but they don't matter.
It's all about the postseason. That's the judgment day for
the Dodgers. And I look at Randy A. Rose Arena.
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This guy's got panache, He's got that Genesi quah, right,
he brings a certain razmataz with him. Now, the Dodger
already had one of those guys that they added this offseason.
Not Otani, by the way, because we don't know what
Altani's gonna be. But they got another guy on a
one year deal in the outfield who is one of
the top RBI guys at baseball, who is right there,
(22:12):
who I trust that.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
He'll hit in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
But Randy rose Arena in his career is a three
thirty six hitter in October. Okay, So I want that.
I want that guy on my team if I'm the Dodgers.
He's styling and profiling in big games. That's what you need,
right And he's not nervous. He doesn't have tight tuk
his syndrome, he doesn't have the flop sweat in big games.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
I want that guy, even having a miserable season, And
when you cross examine what.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
He's done in the playoffs, and then I look at,
you know, the big star the Dodgers signed years ago,
and Randy rose Arena has been the antithesis of Mookie Betts.
You know, Mookie Bets the last three years in playoff
baseball is batting two thirty six. That is one hundred
points lower than Randy A. Rose Arena one hundred points.
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So yes, you go out and get that guy if
Tampa's willing to trade him, and they'll trade anybody. They're
not committed to keeping anybody. The rais, oh, you know,
just temporary there in Tampa. No one's there for the
long term. But that guy, Randy Roserena to me, he's
got that DNA. Now, it doesn't guarantee anything. He could
go to the Dodgers and back two hundred like these
other stiffs with the Dodgers. But I take my chances
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of a guy that's got that that little pop to
his game.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
That's what I want.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Here we go, It's Mallard. How about that to the
third degree?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
This is one Big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Goobolo Ben.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
On Monday, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy confirmed that talks
of the Sixers coming to the state are real and
not just rumors.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
But what do you think the chances of this actually
happening are?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
I think there's they'll be.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
They'll still call themselves the Philadelphia seventy sixes, but it's
like the Royal or it's like the Royals and the Chiefs.
They're gonna build the stadium in Kansas, but it's literally
across the way from where they play right now, So
it's the same thing. I've been to Philadelphia before, and
they'll play in southern New Jersey right across the water there,
and it won't.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Really change much anything.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
They'll just get a better deal on a stadium, and
I have the taxpayers build the stadium next now.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
Eddie reported yesterday that Mike Trout left his rehab start
after two innings due to a sore knee. You just
talked about it. Yeah, how much do you think Trout's
injuries will affect his legacy.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
It'll be one of those things baseball riders. They romanticize
the fact, Oh, if only he had stayed healthy, He'll
give him a pass, if only he stayed healthy, et.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But since he signed the contract,
it's been a debacle.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Next.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
Titans head coach Brian Callahan recently said that he views
Tajy Spears and Tony Pollard as two starters But do
you think the Titans will miss Derrick Henry at all.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Well, they'll miss the fact that he's his star and
he people liked him and they knew who he was,
and these other guys are not as well known. But
in terms of the football stuff, I don't it's not
gonna matter much at all.
Speaker 8 (25:01):
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Speaker 4 (25:21):
It's now time for time.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
For Horry Horry carry Wait, ask bad Twitter, send us
your questions on Twitter now then.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
No way, we go to ask Ben.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour,
and right to the questions we go the reading of
the questions from the poop ho loop.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
All right, Mike and Dodge.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
I Mike, you would like to know, he said, Hey, Ben,
with the new Twisters movie out, is there a natural
phenomenon that you would be interested in experiencing or witnessing?
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Yeah, I'm good. I mean I've done the earthquake thing.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I've been a bunch of earthquakes living on the West Coast.
Like hurricanes, you know when they're coming so you can
get out of them.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Tornadoes you generally kind of know when it's tornado alley
and where you know. I'm good, I'm good. Any anything
you want to watch, any natural phenomena. I assume he
meant disaster.
Speaker 9 (26:16):
Right, he didn't.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
He didn't necessarily say that specify that.
Speaker 10 (26:22):
I think tornadoes are both terrifying and amazing. I would
like to see one up close if I was somehow
guaranteed that I would not be harmed by it. But
would I would not take that, Champ.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Would you go in one of those cars where they
drive into the tornado area? They have like armored cars
and they drive through there.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
No, because that would cost money. I don't think I
would want to pay for something like that. By the way,
Coop sidebar, did you see the Twisters movie? And what's
your quick review?
Speaker 8 (26:46):
I did? It was pretty cool. It's not as good
as the first one, but I enjoyed.
Speaker 9 (26:49):
It all right.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
The sequel not the equal raina.
Speaker 11 (26:54):
I would like to see the Northern Lights again, Ben,
I don't want to be scared, and I don't want
to die, so I don't want to see like a
tsunami or a hurricane or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
That's good. Yeah, I've not seen me the northern lights either.
What about you, Koblo?
Speaker 7 (27:09):
Since I was a child, I thought it would be
awesome to see a tornado in person. I never have,
but I would want to be, you know, a safe
distance away, but just to see one person I think
would be so cool.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
What about a hurricane.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
You'ld be like weed Man, go down to the beach
and go in a lifeguard tower during a hurricane.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Not as cool? Okay, I thought it was pretty cool.
He still in jail. He's got to me in jail right?
Speaker 9 (27:33):
Last report was he was still in jail.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
I okay, someone free weed Man. What's next? What do
we have here to ask? Ben? Your questions are answers
On this Thursday.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
The King Rory would like to know. Hi, Rory, would
you rather have a nose like an elephant or a
neck like a giraffe?
Speaker 8 (27:52):
All right, let's think.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
About this nose.
Speaker 9 (27:55):
This sounds like a lead to lap question.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Yeah, I kind of think the neck thing would be
kind of cool. You know, I have that big, tall
neck could be over everyone and all that.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
I think that would be cool. What about you, Ddie.
Speaker 10 (28:10):
Gosh, I don't want either, but I guess I'll take
the nose like the elephant, because I could use it
like another hand. I could pick things up with it
and maybe punch somebody in the face of live. I
need to protect myself.
Speaker 11 (28:21):
Okay, Lorraina, I was thinking I'll take an elephant's backside, Ben's.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Big nose.
Speaker 12 (28:34):
Okay, Well over in Beverly Hills, they can make that happen.
What about you, Kopolo, This is a really tough one.
I think I gotta agree with you Ben on the
giraffe neck.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Yeah, we are right. It's not the neither one's great.
But the trunk would get in a way of everything.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
Yeah, it would, and it would just you know, it's
right there on your face. Everything else about you could
be normal. You just have a really long neck.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Like but like, what is that?
Speaker 8 (29:02):
What does that effect?
Speaker 4 (29:03):
You can still? What was the name of that driving difficult?
Speaker 10 (29:07):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (29:08):
Mike, Mike?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (29:09):
What was the guy I was draft? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (29:12):
He was on the Bears.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
White guy played with a bunch of different teams. You
know who I'm talking about.
Speaker 8 (29:16):
Yeah, his name though Glennon, Mike Glennon.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Mike glenn Yeah, he was a draft. That's a human draft. Yeah, yeah,
all right, what's next?
Speaker 9 (29:24):
Year?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
To ask?
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
If you think we're doing a bang up job, we
do it every week this time. If you think it sucks,
it's only once a week, So who the hell cares?
Lighting up Francis, what's next?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
All right?
Speaker 7 (29:38):
Things that make you go, let's go with this one's
I guess this one's just for us three and not
Lorena for a dog wants to know.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
Would you eat a pickle for fifty dollars?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (29:55):
He posted a picture of like a jar of pickles
and their whole pickles in there.
Speaker 8 (30:01):
It has to be a Disneyland sized pickle.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
It has to be no, no, no, no, not that
big no.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
With inflation, it would have to be much more than No.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
The picture that he posted is not a Disneyland sized pickle.
That's like a that's like a a jar off Manney reference.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Yeah, I'm not there's more money I consider. I mean
I did eat bolt jerky and all that, so of
course I would do it. All right, Well, Anie, what
about you?
Speaker 9 (30:25):
Know so you would do absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I did the Rocky Mountain oisters that was discussed.
Speaker 9 (30:30):
You actually didn't.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
I did.
Speaker 9 (30:32):
No, you did not.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
I did. Lorena, you know I do it.
Speaker 8 (30:36):
Yeah, she loves why I'm even asking?
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Well, uh, coop, Yeah, I.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Hate pickles, but you know fifty bucks, I don't. They're
gonna be a nice meal somewhere.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
You eat basoline, so you'd eat pickle.
Speaker 9 (30:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Yeah, all right? What is next year? As we continue
on happy days or here again, what do we have
next year?
Speaker 7 (30:54):
Late Night Drug Tester would like to Late Night Drug
Tester and said, do you keep extra toilet paper under
your after him sink?
Speaker 8 (31:00):
Or do you have a toilet paper holder off to
the side?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Well, game changer, game changer. I think Eddie knows this
because he's been to the Malor mansion, but you two
have not. The new one and the wife invested in
what are those things called the squirt the water out.
I don't know what those things are called, but day yes,
we had like the bdet so it cuts down on the.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Toilet paper for me.
Speaker 9 (31:21):
Didn't answer the question though, No, we I mean I
have like.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
A I go to Costco once every like four months
and by a giant thing of toilet paper and then
that's it.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
But we don't use much, so we don't really need.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
It that much.
Speaker 11 (31:32):
So no, so he doesn't keep it under the sink,
I think is what he's getting at.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
It's in the garage.
Speaker 10 (31:38):
Yeah, we have the toilet paper towering each other on
top of the other, and we also have spare under
the sink, so we do both. Toilet Paper is a
very important part of your life, without question.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
You do a lot of pooping. I do, yes, Lorena.
Speaker 11 (31:57):
I keep mine out in the garage, Ben, And it
has been it's been pretty devastating sometimes though you have
a wife to go get you toilet paper when you
need it.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
I do not.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
No, I have to get my own.
Speaker 12 (32:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (32:06):
Can't you send the kid?
Speaker 8 (32:07):
Not anymore?
Speaker 7 (32:08):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Yeah, yeah, when's the kid coming back?
Speaker 8 (32:11):
Two years?
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Two years? I'm not gonna visit in two years. Come on,
she'll come visit for a couple alright, what about you.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
So in the master bathroom we have one of those
toilet paper towers, like like Eddie, but the middle bathroom
does not have that. So in that one, it's under
the sink and it's only like a couple of rolls.
I also buy my toilet paper from Costco. The rest
of the like thirty eight rolls that the pack right
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is in a cupboard under the stairs.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Oh, that's a great deal, and I got room. I
go high end on the toilet paper. I go high in. Oh,
of course, I spend a lot of money and I
like my always good. All right? What is next year? Quickly? Cool?
What do we have?
Speaker 7 (32:57):
Mister Luciano would like to know which one do you
look forward to? Halloween or Christmas?
Speaker 9 (33:02):
Halloween every time?
Speaker 7 (33:04):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Candy can? I was a fat kid growing up. Come on,
candy hollow and I.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
Don't have to buy presence for anyone.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Yeah, so Eddie agreed, Lorena Halloween all day?
Speaker 11 (33:12):
Baby?
Speaker 4 (33:13):
All right?
Speaker 8 (33:13):
Cool, I'm gonna say Christmas.
Speaker 9 (33:15):
We all like dressing up and I hate Christmas music too.
My wife loves it.
Speaker 8 (33:19):
I mean Thanksgivings the best holiday?
Speaker 9 (33:21):
Agreed? Agreed?
Speaker 8 (33:22):
And you can dress up as Santa Benot?
Speaker 9 (33:24):
He does?
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Are you every year?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
At I don't know you.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
I sit on a fire truck every year. Is Santa Claus?
Speaker 1 (33:29):
I do?
Speaker 4 (33:29):
I do? I'm not kidding.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
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Speaker 4 (33:37):
Thee Jal Eddie Garson.
Speaker 10 (33:41):
All right, Ben, we start with controversy in the NHL
with the Edvonton Odlan is hiring Stan Bowman as general
manager and executive vice president of hockey Operations. He is
the first former Chicago Blackhawk executive rehired since the team's
sexual assault scandal back in twenty ten. Bowman did guide
the Blackhawks the Stanley Cup titles in twenty ten, twenty thirteen,
and twenty fifteen, but resign as GM at twenty twenty
(34:01):
one after an investigation found that the organization failed to
address allegations made by player Kyle Beach after he was
sexually assaulted by video coach Brad Aldridge. Former NHL player
Sheldon Kennedy, who revealed after his playing career that he
was sexually abused by a coach in junior hockey, he's
been an advocate for abused victims in hockey.
Speaker 9 (34:18):
He came out publicly endorsing Bowman.
Speaker 10 (34:21):
Explaining that the work he's done in recent years has
apparently been positive. Bowman said he also reached out to
Kyle Beach the victim of the abuse scandal to tell
him he was getting this job and edmitting and said
they had a productive conversation.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
Was Edmonton far enough off the grid where it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
I getting some cities in America, You couldn't do it,
not in Canada when it comes to hockey.
Speaker 9 (34:41):
No, no, no, no, this will be page one top
of the life story.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
He must be a good executive, otherwise they would.
Speaker 9 (34:47):
Oh yeah, you mean won three Stanley Cups in Chicago.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Yeah, well that's what I'm saying. So they're like, hey,
is the guy that we can win the Stanley Cup with,
so we're will to do it.
Speaker 9 (34:55):
Well yeah, but they're also getting fricka see by a
lot of the media.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
It's all fake nonsense. We can still watch the games,
They're still going to go to the games. So it's
just it's just like full outrage, is.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
What it is.
Speaker 10 (35:04):
Well, I don't know, I mean, he did, you know,
kind of cover up. He didn't cover it up, but
he just kind of ignored it. And he also didn't
call the police on this guy.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Do you think the Edmonton Oilers are going to lose
market share because they hire this stay?
Speaker 4 (35:20):
Probably not exactly that's my point. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 9 (35:24):
Yeah, I mean there's there, there's there's I don't be
a lot.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
I don't think it's full.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Outrage thinks, but I think it's just people like anytime
Edmonton does anything and be like, oh, yeah, they're bring
this up, but they're still gonna watch the games and
they're still going to go to the games and all
that's from from a business standpoint.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
They're gonna make their money. They're probably need more money
if they if they didn't winning this scene.
Speaker 10 (35:43):
You could also argue they were one went away from
winning the Stanley Cup without him.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
So yeah, it's not like it's not like I said
how bad that you said how bad they were?
Speaker 10 (35:51):
Ready?
Speaker 4 (35:52):
You told me how bad.
Speaker 10 (35:53):
They said they were going to lose and they did,
and I was right, Well, but I do you do
you need to bring in this this kind of of news.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Well, you're the Cup, you're the hockey guy.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
But aren't They had a fork in the road with
Leon dry Sidle and he's set.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Up about that, Eddie.
Speaker 9 (36:12):
All I'm moving on. Phoenix Suns owner Matt Ishbia has
his hot there.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
That's a story, Eddie, that's the story. Good job by you.
Speaker 10 (36:18):
Has his sight set on bringing hockey back to Arizona
after the Coyotes relocated to Salt Lake City after this season.
Ishbia told Sportico quote, it's definitely something I'm interested in.
It's a four sport town. I'm disappointed we don't have hockey.
I understand what happened, and we're trying to fix that
in one day end quote. He didn't reveal if he's
been talking to the NHL. He did talk about getting
a new arena and that could also be a future
(36:39):
home for an NHL expansion franchise. Speaking of new arenas,
Calgary Flames have started construction on their new sixteen thousand, set.
Speaker 9 (36:46):
Eight hundred million dollars home.
Speaker 10 (36:47):
The new arena will replace the forty one year old
Saddle Dome, expected to me completed in twenty twenty seven.
The old Saddle Dome actually looked like a saddle, added
a distinct look. The Flames released some artist renderings of
the new Scotia Arena. It's been nicknamed the Cauldron, with
the top part of the arena roof looking like it
has flames on it, so it's kind of cool looking.
Speaker 9 (37:06):
NHL head coaching vacancy. The final one has been filled.
Speaker 10 (37:09):
Columbus Blue Jackets higher former Minnesota wild head coach Dean
Ebison as our next dad coach. Fourth coach for the
team in the last three seasons, including Mike Babcock, who
has hired and fired before he ever coached the game
with the team seems it is a lot. It is
a lot, and they're not very good. Evanson coached the
while for parts of five seasons. They've made the playoffs
four straight years but lost in the first round every time.
(37:29):
This one is just for Andy the comic book guy,
because no, he loves Buffalo and this is a funny
name to say.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
I think he's in Buffalo. Think he's visiting his dad.
Speaker 10 (37:36):
Oh well, he's got to be very excited that the
Sabers have signed goalie Uka Pecca Lucanan to a five year,
twenty three point seventy five million dollar contract. Uka Peca
Lucan have better known as upl And finally, Philadelphia Flyers
very excited about their recent first dround pick matt Vey Mitschkov.
He was expected to play in Russia for several years,
but he's changed his mind. He's coming to the US
(37:56):
and actually he arrived this week, And your boy Keith
Jones and the team.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
I love I love Jones.
Speaker 10 (38:03):
The team's jam Danny Brier literally picked him up at
the airport.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
They nice, They didn't send a car, they didn't.
Speaker 9 (38:10):
Get a driver.
Speaker 10 (38:10):
They literally drove their car to the airport he hit
up and there's pictures of them carrying his luggage and
his hoggy sticks through the airport.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
That is great. So Keith Jones is the GM of the.
Speaker 10 (38:20):
Flyers, he's the president of Hockey Operations. Jam is Daniel
Beyer air former part.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
All right, I worked with didn't We worked together at
NBC years ago. And I love Keith Jones, one of
the coolest guys.
Speaker 10 (38:30):
Also, somebody in the Philly and the Flyers pr had
the good sense to put a Phillies hat on Mitch
Goff as he was walking through the airport, so he
immediately Philadelphia fans are in love.
Speaker 9 (38:40):
With this guy. So we'll see if it works out
for him. And that's your pluck the World Report.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
All right, more more stories this week, Eddie. That everything
is pointing one direction in Utah, that it's going to
be the Yetti that they're.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
They're not done it already, Let's go just just go, Yetti,
just go Yetti. Uh, here we go, yetty, here we go.
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