November 7, 2024 • 37 mins
Big Ben talks about the Browns GM being noncommittal on the future of Deshaun Watson, the Tampa Bay Rays emerging as a suitor for Juan Soto, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen w/ Manuel in Gardena, and much more!
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But our lead this hour, we're gonna change it up
a little bit talk football. We never talked football on
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If you've not heard the latest from Cleveland, perhaps not
the team going nowhere fast and not playing by the
way this weekend. The Cleveland Browns GM Andrew Berry, who
I don't know. His name is Andrew Berry. He's the
gym there's been there for years, Andrew Berry. And he
was asked about a state of the team address count
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of it's the time during a bye week the team
blows and the GM in Cleveland. Andrew Berry was non committal,
big word non committal when asked about DeShawn Watson's status
with the franchise. So let me give you the short
version I'm not going to give you the long extended
dance remix. Watson, as you might remember, had the Breakfast
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of Champions if you like, being injured, snap, crackle, pop,
and so he's out for the rest there. He tore
his achilles tendon to snap snap like a rubber band.
So that happened in week seven. So we're now heading
into week ten. Now Barry has said, well Watson recovers.
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He said that he'll deal with the other stuff at
a later moment, meaning whether or not Watson is still
in good standing with the Browns. What would you have
to do to fall out of standing with the Browns? Anyway,
let us discuss the question for the Esteemed panel. What's
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you're part of the Browns general manager being noncommittal about
the future of Deshaun Watson as QB one in Northern Ohio?
What does that signal to yet? What does that signal
to you? So I've got carry gold Lyrics and DIY project,
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and we will combine all of these things together and
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is what we're going to provide. So a this is
absolutely a pivot on the creepy quarterback by the Browns.
It the Browns, And we've talked about this a lot,
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we talk about way too much behind these microphones at FSR.
But the Browns organization, from top to bum the organization,
as some say, has been in lockstep. You know it,
and I know it, and the person over there knows it.
We all know it. The Browns have spoken with one
voice when it comes to Deshaun Watson. They don't want
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to criticize them. He's a mister softy. He can't handle
any criticism. And they're afraid of upsetting the thin skinned quarterback.
And so regularly, much to my dismay, the Browns organization
has thrown out verbal bouquets for the quarterback there and
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and now now they're acting like that that carry gold butter.
They are softening their hardline position, it would appear now,
am I reading too much into this? We'll see as
time goes on. Unless Watson plays ball with him, here's
the problem, right. Unless Deshaun Watson says it's so bad here,
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I don't want to be here. I want out, he
would have to give back money and no one's gonna
pay him. He's the second worst quarterback in the NFL
since he got to Cleveland. The only one worse is
Bryce Young in North Carolina. But other than that, Deshaun
Watson is at the very bottom. He's in the sewer
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looking at the Bryce Young and they're staring at each
other right now. So even though the Browns are softening
their position, if you look at all of this, they're
still handcuffed, the Browns and Watson together because the Browns
still Watson forty six million garanteed not just next season
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but the year after. So that's eighty two million, and
Watson has cap hits the size of the national debt.
And I am a salary cap truther. And if there's
a will, there's a way. And if the Browns did
decide to get rid of Deshaun Watson, we are told
they would take dead cap pits of one hundred and
seventy two million in twenty twenty five and ninety nine
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million in twenty twenty six. So for most that would
be unfeasible. You would still feel the roster. You just
have guys that you got off off the internet, and
or maybe you will go down to home depot and
see if anybody wants to work for the day. And
play for the Cleveland Browns. But you would feel the
roster you put a team out of there just wouldn't
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be anybody you've ever heard of. Now page two here,
with the election now over, and they will have the
inauguration in January January twenty with President Trump returning to
the White House. There there is trickle down, not economics,
but the fallout in the National Football League, specifically with
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the j e Ts. Suck, suck, suck. If you have
not heard, if you forgot from the last time Trump
was in the White House. He is buddies with Woody Johnson. Well,
his buddy was a lot of the NFL owners, but
Woody Johnson in particular the owner Woody Johnson there of
the Jets. And it appears by all accounts that Woody
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donated a fair amount of money, which means you scratch
my back, Iy, scratch yours. That's how politics work. And
so he will likely return as the ambassador over in
the UK there and if that happens, Okay, that happens,
wood He's out as owner of the Jets. You cannot
maintain day to day status, like it's so hard to
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own the Jets every day. My god, how hard is that. Yeah,
it doesn't matter who owns the team. They lose in
ten games or so every year minimum, So anyway, somebody
else would have to run the Jets. Day. During the
last Trump presidency, you had somebody named Christopher Johnson. I
guess that's the other Johnson Johnson and Johnson's. You have
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Woody Johnson and Christopher Johnson. There's a lot of Johnson's
and he ran the team and is expected he'll take over.
So how should the long suffering, the long suffering Jets
fan handle the likely Woody Johnson at least short term
departure to become an ambassador again across the Atlantic. So
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all of this is white noise. It's all white noise here.
And as a Jets backer, if you support the Jets,
you've made a poor choice. You likely made that choice
as a kid. Maybe you were born into a family
of Jets fans, but either way, Right, it's like the
lyrics of a song. I don't know this woman did
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anything other than the song. I only know her from
this song, the hit Numb Like a Bug. Right, if
you're a Jets fan, you Numb like a bug is
what you are. And it's one of those things. Do
you ever get a little bit tired of life as
a Jets fan? You probably do. You probably do right
like you're you're not really happy, but you don't want
to die. You're just stuck in that weird spot where
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the team blows every year and they build you up
and then knock you down here and your numb like
a little buck and you got to survive. That's how
it goes with it for the Jets and Woody Johnson.
If you were to do a big I don't do lists,
as Terry in England and others know, I don't do list.
But if you did a big board, which is not
a list, if you did a big board, Woody Johnson
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would be a j a O on the big board
of owners, just an owner. He's nothing special, He's not
the worst. The Jets are bad, but he's not the worst,
and he's not a difference maker. Nothing will change whether
Woody Johnson's there, or Christopher Johnson or Magic Johnson or
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whoever your favorite. Johnson is now last word to Germany,
we go wh What a way to stick it to
the people of Germany this weekend. I wonder if we'll
hear from Atto bon Butch. We haven't heard from him
in a while in Germany. But as they prepare for
NFL football, the Giants taking on the Panthers, coach Dave Canalys,
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that's the head coach of the Carolina football team, has
shot his shot. Either that or he's been told to
shoot his shot. We have learned that Bryce Young Bryce
Young will remain remain the Carolina starting quarterback. There had
been chatter that he would have been benched for Andy Dalton,
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but no, So are you surprised? Are you surprised that
Carolina is going back to Bryce Young? So I'll answer
this with the M word, mildly. I am mildly surprised.
I just spent a lot of time, folks on the
Carolina Panthers, but I have to spend a little bit
of time every week to get ready for the TV
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show because we not that we usually highlight their game,
but we pick every game, and so Carolina's on the
big board here. But I'm only mildly surprised because it's
not like Andy Dalton's a bowl of cherries. It's not
like Andy Dalton's nice whip cream and all that. No,
Bryce Young has been back for the last two weeks. Okay,
he's been back for the last two weeks. He is
not not a difference maker. And in fact, even though
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Carolina did win one of these last couple of games
against the Saints the last two games, among all quarterbacks
that have played in both games, Bryce Young is the
twenty ninth ranked quarterback. No, what do I know, I
just talking to a microphone. I think that blows. So
this big comes for Dave Canalis to the coach. It
becomes a DIY project. Carolina still attempting to spackle over
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the improfessions. And this is you talk about the two
for one daily double, because on one hand, the first
part of the daily double, you've got this situation where
you want Young to turn out to be good. Right,
so you've got that. But then on the other hand,
you have the case where if he's not good to you,
at least make it seem give the illusion that he's
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good so you can sucker some dumb dumb in the
offseason to trade for the Giants. You know, you try
to spackle over the improfessions. The Giants they suck also,
so your it sucked versus suck. In this game. At
some point it becomes a salvage and recovery mission and
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feeling that if Bryce Young does play the way he
has played here, at some point they'll say, well, you know,
we go back to Andy Dalton. Bryce is some kind
of injury here. We're not sure exactly what it is
because we just made it up, and that's the that's
the issue.
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thousand bottles of mouthwash over the years, so he's a
big fan of that. But our lead this hour from
the GM meetings in San Antonio, and as anticipated, we
got the State of the Union address from Scott Boris
as he waxed the poetic about the free agents. He
(14:28):
has the biggest free agents in baseball. Some interesting developments
though about the big ragou if you will, in free agency,
the player that is the center of the wheel. And
I'm talking to Buddy Might who was a Hollywood writers
that when you do a TV show or a movie,
you have the main stars are the center, the main star,
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two stars, and then everything else is a spoke on
the wheel. But for the wheel to work, you have
to have that main main star. I bring that up
because we are now told there are not one, not two,
not three, not four, not five, not six, how about
seven seven teams that have shown interest in one Soto
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of the loser Yankees they lost to the Doyers in
the World Series, including and here's where it gets interesting,
including Tampa Bay. They have been mentioned. All the reports
coming out of the Alamos say, well, Tampa Bay, the
Razor interesting, the Razor interest. Now, the other six teams
that are said to be interested are all big money,
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big money, big market teams, usual suspects. Now word is
they're supposing this is this is great. There are going
to be two other small, the middle market teams, mystery
teams that are interested. Oh the mystery of it all. Soto,
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if you're a little slow here is looking to get
seven hundred million dead presidents. There's a lot of noise,
including one report that said that Soto is going to
play for the Mets. He is going to leave the Yankees,
stay in the Big Apple and go over to Flushing
to play for the team that will want world serious
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since nineteen eighty six, but the Mets. And so that's
one report out now. Scott Boris, as we said, we'll
get to his comments the wide angle lens on what
Scott Boris had to say in general coming up in
a little bit. But Boris says that one Sodo is
going to soak up all the attention essentially, and la
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la la la, la la la, that he's in no
rush to sign a deal, which is rather odd when
you consider the fact that the last couple of years,
most of the big name free agents that Scott Boris
has had have either failed to get the contracts that
they thought they were going to get or waited and
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then had to scramble and still got less than they
thought they were going to get. So let us discuss
the question. Let's focus in on Tampa Bay. This is fascinating.
So Tampa Bay, who always cries poverty, Tampa Bay has
emerged as a suitor for one Soto. Should they be
taken seriously? Should they be taken seriously? So my observations,
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I've got BMW dealership, novel and confectionery, and we will
combine all of these things together and we were going
a vacation to Yellowstone is what we're going to do,
all right, So na Burn, all right, Hey, listen. In
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terms of the question Tampa Bay showing interest in want Soto,
I give this SIDEI is what I do, right, It's
comical nobody takes this seriously. There were rumors last year
that the Rays were in I think it was on
Yamamoto last year in free agency. This is a kin
If you understand anything about the Rays franchise, they're a pest.
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They're annoying. Right, But here's the thing. It is the
equivalent of walking into a BMW dealership and saying I'd
like to buy that Red Beamer and they say, Okay,
why don't we finance that? I said, you now, I'm
gonna pay for it. How are you gonna pay for it?
You don't want to finance it. I'm gonna use my
EBT card is what I'm gonna use. That's the Tampa
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Bay Rays, right. The math the math is not mathing.
It's not uh and Tampa. Unless I missed something. We
had that massive storm, Hurricane Milton not that long ago
that came through Florida and destroyed the ballpark. They play
in Tropicana Fields, So the Rays are planning on playing
in a minor league ballpark. They're a essentially a homeless
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baseball team. They're orphans at this point in time. And
as for the mystery teams, I say this every year
and I'm never wrong. The mystery team thing in free
agency is a plant. Ninety nine point nine percent of
the time. It's a plan. And the reason it's for
Gayzy let me explain this. It's fake news because the
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whole point of this exercise, the whole point of going
after free agents and trying to sign people, is goodwill publicity.
You're showing your customers that you're trying to improve the team.
You're creating some artificial excitement. Even if you don't sign
the player, you let everyone know you're in on it.
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You excite the base, right, you excite the base and
let them daydream or in our case, dream at night
about adding their savior and your name brand player and
all that. Very excited about that. Now, if you're a
mystery team, unless I'm mistaken, if you're a mystery team,
you get none of that, right, none of that. It
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is a pointless exercise. So it's just something the agent
makes up and the useful idiots, the baseball writers will
repeat anything they are told by an agent. They will
never say, wait a minute, that doesn't make any sense. Now.
A lot of times what happens is you get teams
that will make a token offer they know will not
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be accepted, but will get them some good publicity. So
like the Red Sox have done this a lot to
the last couple years with the Red Sox are. It's
kind of known in baseball. The Red Sox the last
couple years haven't really wanted to sign guys to big
contracts who are outside the Red Sox organization. So they'll
make these offers, but they're not real offers. They know
that it's not the highest offer and the player won't accept.
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And all that. Now Page two from the GM meetings,
we continue there where Scott Borris did do what we
thought he was going to do. He got on his
soapbox and he waxed about the state of his players,
his guys in free agency. Now among his gems here,
he said, of Juan Soto, he called them the magic
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wand is what he called them. Blake Snell, bra, I'm
risking my life, bra, Blake Snell. He said. There's no
doubt these snelling salts created a lot of whiffs, he said,
and the market has definitely awakened snelling salts. The part
of that now, Pete Alonzo, all these guys are tied
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to Scott Boris. Now, he said of Pete Alonzo, Scott Boris,
he said, there's been a lot of talk about a
bear market for first basemen, but for Pete's sake, it's
the polar opposite. So let us discuss the question what
do you make of the commentary by Scott Boris? Here
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the snelling salts, the magic wand, and the Pete Sake
lines about these players in free agency. So what do
I think Scott Boris does not disappoint?
Speaker 5 (22:04):
He does not.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
He is the son of a dairy farmer from Sacramento.
He is the king of cornball.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
He is.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I am convinced that before the GM meetings every year,
Scott Boris on the plane ride from his compound in
Newport Beach and then when he travels to these random
cities for the JAM meanings on the plane, probably a
private plane, he is reading the novel The Big Book
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of Puns, a mix of witty wordplay and much like
Jim Harbaugh, dad jokes, a lot of dad jokes. A
right final point. We go now to Arizona. A lot
of people talking about what happened with the Diamondbacks the
GM there had have a pow wow, a sit down
with Jordan Montgomery. Now why and Jordan Montgomery is one
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of these guys that didn't get a big contract last year,
signed to the last minute with Arizona. The owner Ken
Kendrick sounds like a weather guy or a traffic guy.
On TV, ken Kendrick called the twenty five million dollar
deal with Jordan Montgomery for the Arizona baseball team a
horrible decision. He said, a horrible decision. So how do
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you how do you think that conversation went between the
GM of the Diamondbacks and Jordan Montgomery. So I look
at it like this, It was like going down to
your local confection area. You want some ice cream, and
rather than get a nice, delicious vanilla bean ice cream
smooth he said, I don't want that. I want something else, right,
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I want something else, And you pick the hand crafted
rocky Road filled with chocolate ice cream and the nuts
and the marshmallows diced up and all that. But it's
not a smoothie, right and guarantee. Now, now, does anyone
feel bad? Does anyone feel bad for Jordan Montgomery that
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his owner said his signing was a horrible decision. And
the answer to that is no, right, The answer to
that is absolutely not. Imagine having an ERA of over six.
That's what Jordan Montgomery did over six. You're in the
bottom percentile in every key category for pitchers, and by
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opting in Jordan Montgomery will get around another twenty five
million or so, give or take for the upcoming season,
so that will smooth over the rough edges. Getting that
kind of money Montgomery was, I would argue a good
decision at the time he signed the contract in Arizona
that became an abject failure. Was not only a pitcher,
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he was horrible, right, And that was all based on performance.
It was all based on performance. You win some, you
lose some. And I love the fact that Montgomery stayed
because he knows no one else is going to be
dumb enough at his age with that performance to give
him that kind of money. So the move here would
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be to work out an agreement and trade Jordan Montgomery
somewhere else, which we're pretty sure Arizona would be happy
to do and Montgomery would be happy to pack up
his stuff.
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It'smallor how about that to the third degree?
Speaker 2 (25:34):
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
On Tuesday, DeAndre Hopkins shared a picture on social media
of Tom Brady's celebrating a touchdown with Randy Moss, the
implication being that he and Mahomes have a similar connection. Ben,
do you think Hopkins is going to have the same
impact as Moss did.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Well, it's an odd situation because Moss did not win
a Super Bowl with Tom Brady. So what are you doing?
It's an odd position for DeAndre Hopkins. They were zero
for two in the Super Bowl Moss and Brady, So
can they Can they lose the Super Bowl? Yes? Next,
the Cleveland.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Cavaliers are off to their best start in nearly fifty years, Ben,
do you think these guys are a serious threat to
the Celtics in the East.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
No, No, It's it's November by the time we get
down of the playoffs. I don't trust Cleveland. They'll win
a bunch of games, they'll have a great record. I
do not trust them against the Celtics, Sam I am.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Next, Trent Williams talk to the media about Christian McCaffrey's
anticipated return this week and mentioned how the forty nine
ers offense is Taylor made to him and how he
will be a tremendous lift to the team. Yeah, Ben, Well,
Mcaffrey's are turned propelled the Niners back to the top
of the NFC.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
No, no, because you can ram it all day and
you can ram it all night. Baby, the La rams
own the West.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
You failed this adition.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
That is a win by me, Thank you very much.
I won the game. That is a win. I win
the game.
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We are right there, time for time for.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
A Twitter said your questions on Twitter now and use
the hashtag. Make sure to use the ashtag ask man.
I already saw Gunner. What's his name again? Not Gunner?
Speaker 5 (27:20):
What are we calling?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Fling shot? Yeah, he sent a question in, but he
didn't use the hashtag. I'm seeing a lot of questions
here that did not use the hashtag. Are you stupid?
What's wrong with you? Coop? What do we have here?
Speaker 4 (27:30):
All right, We're gonna start off with a question from
Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Hi, Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
He wants to know do you ever try to beat
the estimated time of arrival when you get directions from
your phone?
Speaker 1 (27:39):
One hundred percent?
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Do this all the time. I have a very long
commute from where I live now into these studios when
I come in here, and I usually can shave anywhere
from three to five minutes off. Anywhere from three to
five minutes I can shave off. The thing that sucks
is when you're trying to shave time off and then
you add time. That kills you. But usually I'm good
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for three to five minutes.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Yeah, Eddie, Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
And you know those those valuations or whatever based on
going the speed limit, which I never do, so yeah,
I always always beat those.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
How fast do you go? It I go eighty eighty, Yeah,
I don't. I go seventy nine.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
I sit this, well, clearly I'm a wild man.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
You are. Seventy nine will not get you? Say, eighty
plus gets your ticket? What about you? Unless you're in Minnesota.
I've had CHP pass me on the freeway going eighty, so, ma,
well I got I got pulled over one time. I
told the story. The cops said, that is as long
as you're going under eighty, I won't give tickets anying
over eighty, that's it, because that's a real ticket.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
Like I'm not found over eighty.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
I'm going eighty, but that's over eighty eighty.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
It's eighty eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
It's eighty plus. No, it's not, it is it's eighty plus.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Lorena, Well, I have this saying, ben, if I do
not beat the time of arrival, then I'm driving like
a granny.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
And you don't want to be grant got a grain,
all right? And we know Coops a legendary speeder.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Right absolutely. Vegas is my favorite because like you get
in there and it says like five hours, and I
feel like I can cut, like, you know, if there's
no traffic, I can cut like thirty minutes off of that.
But this last drive that I had going to Vegas
last weekend, I cut ten minutes off. But then we
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stopped in Barstow.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
And went through the drive through Barstow.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Yeah, but then I was so it ended up being
where I just kind of matched the time that I don't.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Why did you go to your mo? You could have
gone to Eddie World and your mo, Heggy, Susan. You
did real food?
Speaker 5 (29:40):
That's an amazing They have real food there. What are
you talking about?
Speaker 8 (29:42):
Then?
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I guess you went to Raising Canes in Barstow. I didn't.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
I went through the McDonald's drive through, Oh col I
go to Canes in Vegas.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
They've got better food at Eddie World than McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
No, they yes, they do know, they know, they do
they but I'm surprised continue to go there because they
had that The original court from the Forum where the
Lakers played is at of all places, Eddie World in
the desert. Yes, they have the center court logo from
the Great Western Forum where the Magic and the Showtime
Lakers played in Eddie World. That's cool, it's pretty wild. Actually,
(30:12):
all right, why don't we serve that as the appetizer?
Should we have man welcome in here and join us
here for Ben? Yeah, all right, we'll have him come in. Well,
I've asked man, your questions are answers for the rest
of the hour. We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
That's right, we have Manuel and Guardiana in studio. We
spared no expense. We made him buy a sandwiches to
get him in here. All right, Lorena's over there, Coop's
over there. He's got the questions. What do we have here?
Is ask Ben? Your questions are answers for the rest
of the hour.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
All right, late night drug tester would like to know
do you back into your parking spot?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yes, And there is debate with the wife. The wife
says that that's like a man thing to beg you by.
I love backing in. It's a power move when you leave.
It's a power move when you leave. Man. Well, back in, guy,
what do.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
You the man?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Absolutely, I'm also a four spots guy.
Speaker 9 (31:12):
Fo spots. Yeah, but oversized truck, you know. Oh ya again,
get out?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
You know, easier, especially.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
If you're doing a bank robbery or anything.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
All right, do it, Eddie? Back in guy, you're backing guy?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Right?
Speaker 9 (31:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (31:26):
I love. I love my backup camera, so I like
using it.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Yeah, it's wild. We grew up without backup camera. We
learned how to drive without backup camera.
Speaker 9 (31:35):
See you want to know a crazy fun fact about
your boy man Will and Guardeena.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
I can't get into the backup camera.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
No, I'm sitting there looking at the mirrors to the
point where something hit stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
No, I don't look at this wild wild lorena.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
No, I pull in forward and I don't mean to
call you out Eddie, but I've never seen you back
in here at.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
The parking store.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I'm back in, back in every time, though, right.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
I don't know. I don't even know what you drive, Ben.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I'm always get here before you cool.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
If it's convenient, Yes, I will. I will back into
the spot because I like the look at the front
end of my car better. I was gonna quote him
on this.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
I knew this.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
So when I someone I'm walking back up to my car,
I like to see the front of it.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
And yeah, yeah, I'd just like to back in, so
make the quick accident. What's next? Here to ask? Ben?
Your questions are answers for the rest all the hour.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
All right, so this one, this one won't involve Manuel,
but Freddy wants to know Freddy, he says, is there
a time when you argue with each other where you
don't talk to each other?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yeah, sometimes I'll get so I'll walk off. I mean
I'll leave and just like scream. But normally no, it's
not like I remember Karen Kay before I used to
work with you. Yes, Karen would get so upset. She
would in the middle of the show. She would turn
a mic off and not talk. And she was part
of the show and it was I love her to death,
(33:06):
but it just drove me nuts. But I would say,
what do you think yet? I mean we were not really,
I mean very rarely, very rare.
Speaker 7 (33:13):
Get up, I said, But people would might be surprised
to know that we will. Other than Cooper, Lorain are
in the same studio. I'm in a different studio. You're
a different studio. We can all see each other when
we're different studios. We don't really talk that much off
the air to each other.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Nah, No, we don't. We don't.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
We have our conversations there on the air most of
the time, all right, Lorraina.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
Yeah, So the only time Ben has done this to
me is when we mess up on playing sounds.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Yeah, I go nuts because I have to find the
sound that we play often.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
And then maybe you can let me explain how I feel.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
How I feel. I don't care about your feelings. But
but no, it's very maddening because I craft the monologues
and then and then.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
He doesn't talk to you, and he gives you the
cold shoulder, and I don't know, it feels like I.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Just feel bad.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Well, no, I just feel like I've wasted my entire
day because I find the perfect SoundBite to put in
a monologue. Look what you've done, Freddy, and then and
then and then you you butchered. I'm like, I spent
like two hours trying to find that sound bite, and
it's just all.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Right, let's let's move on to that question.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
All right?
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Uh, ferg dog, Hi Fergie. He would like to know.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Would you rather swim in a pool of cheese, that
is my question? Or a pool of caramel?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Or a steeler a thief? What kind of cheese? Wow?
Speaker 4 (34:33):
I would I would imagine it would have to be
some sort of like, you know, fun dewish cheese.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
I'm going I'm going cheese, cheese. I'm going cheese. I'm
going cheese. What about you?
Speaker 9 (34:44):
Cheese?
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Who's gonna pick caramel? That's disgusting. He's a little sticky.
What what about you?
Speaker 5 (34:49):
My wife loves caramel, she might pick up, but I'm
going cheese.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Yeah, We're team cheese. What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 8 (34:55):
I'm dipping in the cheese and I'm taking the tortilla.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Chips with me.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Are you gonna get that?
Speaker 7 (34:59):
Guey?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Orange?
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Is not your cheese?
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Really nasty one?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Yeah, it's not actual cheese?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yeah, no, milk was hard.
Speaker 9 (35:05):
But what about you corrogated in like twenty minutes, coagulated you.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
You bring up a good point. I was gonna say
caramel because I love caramel. But yeah, that'd be really
hard to like get out of your hair everywhere.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Yeah, I'd be disgusted.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
What was next to one of the diddy party things?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
As Lebron said, there ain't no part of like a
ditty party?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
I yes, what is that's whole?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Mickey would like to know I met I met him
by the way, man, he met me in a rain
storm in Boston, like not enough late midnight or world.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
What is the most that you've won on a scratcher ticket?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Well, I don't play him very my my dad won
a couple thousand. I think that was I don't really
play them that off. Man. Well, if you a scratcher, man,
I do, but man, usually I just win the damn ticket.
Yeah that's it. Yeah man, that's not good. Oh yeah,
it's a hose job man. Yeah yeah, all right.
Speaker 7 (35:59):
Eddie Jonas Knox gave out some scratchers for Christmas last
year and I won fifty bucks, right man, that's good.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 8 (36:07):
Yeah, I'm really great at Scratchers, Ben, I only bought
one one once on my birthday a couple of years back.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
I want two off that baby, So scratch Off is having.
Speaker 8 (36:18):
It was a thirty dollars card though.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
What about you?
Speaker 5 (36:20):
Cool?
Speaker 4 (36:21):
I won five hundred bucks once, but I was like
seven years old.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Oh so you didn't actually when your parents come on?
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Well, I bought it because it was back when you
could just walk up to You can still do that,
like the automated machines.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Yeah, So it's ask man the time for a quick question.
What Donkey Sausage wants to know? What pizza topping is underrated? Garlic,
roasted garlic.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
I'm gonna go pineapple. Oh controversial, take controversial cake. Take there, Eddie,
I'm gonna go pineapple as well. Okay, Lorena, Oh this
is so hard choke to charge to.
Speaker 9 (37:01):
Shout out here Cooper and shout out jeremiahwash Blossoms Mountain Militia.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
All right, man, well, thank you boy. There's the great
man well in Gardena.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
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But our lead this hour, we're gonna change it up
a little bit talk football. We never talked football on
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The Factory of Sadness, Boyt, what a wonderful warehouse that is.
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We have a lot of a lot of the fellas
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Now.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
If you've not heard the latest from Cleveland, perhaps not
the team going nowhere fast and not playing by the
way this weekend. The Cleveland Browns GM Andrew Berry, who
I don't know. His name is Andrew Berry. He's the
gym there's been there for years, Andrew Berry. And he
was asked about a state of the team address count
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of it's the time during a bye week the team
blows and the GM in Cleveland. Andrew Berry was non committal,
big word non committal when asked about DeShawn Watson's status
with the franchise. So let me give you the short
version I'm not going to give you the long extended
dance remix. Watson, as you might remember, had the Breakfast
(02:49):
of Champions if you like, being injured, snap, crackle, pop,
and so he's out for the rest there. He tore
his achilles tendon to snap snap like a rubber band.
So that happened in week seven. So we're now heading
into week ten. Now Barry has said, well Watson recovers.
(03:10):
He said that he'll deal with the other stuff at
a later moment, meaning whether or not Watson is still
in good standing with the Browns. What would you have
to do to fall out of standing with the Browns? Anyway,
let us discuss the question for the Esteemed panel. What's
(03:30):
you're part of the Browns general manager being noncommittal about
the future of Deshaun Watson as QB one in Northern Ohio?
What does that signal to yet? What does that signal
to you? So I've got carry gold Lyrics and DIY project,
(03:51):
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to provide a delicious late night snack
is what we're going to provide. So a this is
absolutely a pivot on the creepy quarterback by the Browns.
It the Browns, And we've talked about this a lot,
(04:11):
we talk about way too much behind these microphones at FSR.
But the Browns organization, from top to bum the organization,
as some say, has been in lockstep. You know it,
and I know it, and the person over there knows it.
We all know it. The Browns have spoken with one
voice when it comes to Deshaun Watson. They don't want
(04:33):
to criticize them. He's a mister softy. He can't handle
any criticism. And they're afraid of upsetting the thin skinned quarterback.
And so regularly, much to my dismay, the Browns organization
has thrown out verbal bouquets for the quarterback there and
(04:53):
and now now they're acting like that that carry gold butter.
They are softening their hardline position, it would appear now,
am I reading too much into this? We'll see as
time goes on. Unless Watson plays ball with him, here's
the problem, right. Unless Deshaun Watson says it's so bad here,
(05:15):
I don't want to be here. I want out, he
would have to give back money and no one's gonna
pay him. He's the second worst quarterback in the NFL
since he got to Cleveland. The only one worse is
Bryce Young in North Carolina. But other than that, Deshaun
Watson is at the very bottom. He's in the sewer
(05:38):
looking at the Bryce Young and they're staring at each
other right now. So even though the Browns are softening
their position, if you look at all of this, they're
still handcuffed, the Browns and Watson together because the Browns
still Watson forty six million garanteed not just next season
(06:00):
but the year after. So that's eighty two million, and
Watson has cap hits the size of the national debt.
And I am a salary cap truther. And if there's
a will, there's a way. And if the Browns did
decide to get rid of Deshaun Watson, we are told
they would take dead cap pits of one hundred and
seventy two million in twenty twenty five and ninety nine
(06:23):
million in twenty twenty six. So for most that would
be unfeasible. You would still feel the roster. You just
have guys that you got off off the internet, and
or maybe you will go down to home depot and
see if anybody wants to work for the day. And
play for the Cleveland Browns. But you would feel the
roster you put a team out of there just wouldn't
(06:43):
be anybody you've ever heard of. Now page two here,
with the election now over, and they will have the
inauguration in January January twenty with President Trump returning to
the White House. There there is trickle down, not economics,
but the fallout in the National Football League, specifically with
(07:07):
the j e Ts. Suck, suck, suck. If you have
not heard, if you forgot from the last time Trump
was in the White House. He is buddies with Woody Johnson. Well,
his buddy was a lot of the NFL owners, but
Woody Johnson in particular the owner Woody Johnson there of
the Jets. And it appears by all accounts that Woody
(07:28):
donated a fair amount of money, which means you scratch
my back, Iy, scratch yours. That's how politics work. And
so he will likely return as the ambassador over in
the UK there and if that happens, Okay, that happens,
wood He's out as owner of the Jets. You cannot
maintain day to day status, like it's so hard to
(07:48):
own the Jets every day. My god, how hard is that. Yeah,
it doesn't matter who owns the team. They lose in
ten games or so every year minimum, So anyway, somebody
else would have to run the Jets. Day. During the
last Trump presidency, you had somebody named Christopher Johnson. I
guess that's the other Johnson Johnson and Johnson's. You have
(08:09):
Woody Johnson and Christopher Johnson. There's a lot of Johnson's
and he ran the team and is expected he'll take over.
So how should the long suffering, the long suffering Jets
fan handle the likely Woody Johnson at least short term
departure to become an ambassador again across the Atlantic. So
(08:31):
all of this is white noise. It's all white noise here.
And as a Jets backer, if you support the Jets,
you've made a poor choice. You likely made that choice
as a kid. Maybe you were born into a family
of Jets fans, but either way, Right, it's like the
lyrics of a song. I don't know this woman did
(08:53):
anything other than the song. I only know her from
this song, the hit Numb Like a Bug. Right, if
you're a Jets fan, you Numb like a bug is
what you are. And it's one of those things. Do
you ever get a little bit tired of life as
a Jets fan? You probably do. You probably do right
like you're you're not really happy, but you don't want
to die. You're just stuck in that weird spot where
(09:15):
the team blows every year and they build you up
and then knock you down here and your numb like
a little buck and you got to survive. That's how
it goes with it for the Jets and Woody Johnson.
If you were to do a big I don't do lists,
as Terry in England and others know, I don't do list.
But if you did a big board, which is not
a list, if you did a big board, Woody Johnson
(09:36):
would be a j a O on the big board
of owners, just an owner. He's nothing special, He's not
the worst. The Jets are bad, but he's not the worst,
and he's not a difference maker. Nothing will change whether
Woody Johnson's there, or Christopher Johnson or Magic Johnson or
(09:56):
whoever your favorite. Johnson is now last word to Germany,
we go wh What a way to stick it to
the people of Germany this weekend. I wonder if we'll
hear from Atto bon Butch. We haven't heard from him
in a while in Germany. But as they prepare for
NFL football, the Giants taking on the Panthers, coach Dave Canalys,
(10:20):
that's the head coach of the Carolina football team, has
shot his shot. Either that or he's been told to
shoot his shot. We have learned that Bryce Young Bryce
Young will remain remain the Carolina starting quarterback. There had
been chatter that he would have been benched for Andy Dalton,
(10:43):
but no, So are you surprised? Are you surprised that
Carolina is going back to Bryce Young? So I'll answer
this with the M word, mildly. I am mildly surprised.
I just spent a lot of time, folks on the
Carolina Panthers, but I have to spend a little bit
of time every week to get ready for the TV
(11:04):
show because we not that we usually highlight their game,
but we pick every game, and so Carolina's on the
big board here. But I'm only mildly surprised because it's
not like Andy Dalton's a bowl of cherries. It's not
like Andy Dalton's nice whip cream and all that. No,
Bryce Young has been back for the last two weeks. Okay,
he's been back for the last two weeks. He is
not not a difference maker. And in fact, even though
(11:29):
Carolina did win one of these last couple of games
against the Saints the last two games, among all quarterbacks
that have played in both games, Bryce Young is the
twenty ninth ranked quarterback. No, what do I know, I
just talking to a microphone. I think that blows. So
this big comes for Dave Canalis to the coach. It
becomes a DIY project. Carolina still attempting to spackle over
(11:55):
the improfessions. And this is you talk about the two
for one daily double, because on one hand, the first
part of the daily double, you've got this situation where
you want Young to turn out to be good. Right,
so you've got that. But then on the other hand,
you have the case where if he's not good to you,
at least make it seem give the illusion that he's
(12:17):
good so you can sucker some dumb dumb in the
offseason to trade for the Giants. You know, you try
to spackle over the improfessions. The Giants they suck also,
so your it sucked versus suck. In this game. At
some point it becomes a salvage and recovery mission and
(12:40):
feeling that if Bryce Young does play the way he
has played here, at some point they'll say, well, you know,
we go back to Andy Dalton. Bryce is some kind
of injury here. We're not sure exactly what it is
because we just made it up, and that's the that's
the issue.
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thousand bottles of mouthwash over the years, so he's a
big fan of that. But our lead this hour from
the GM meetings in San Antonio, and as anticipated, we
got the State of the Union address from Scott Boris
as he waxed the poetic about the free agents. He
(14:28):
has the biggest free agents in baseball. Some interesting developments
though about the big ragou if you will, in free agency,
the player that is the center of the wheel. And
I'm talking to Buddy Might who was a Hollywood writers
that when you do a TV show or a movie,
you have the main stars are the center, the main star,
(14:51):
two stars, and then everything else is a spoke on
the wheel. But for the wheel to work, you have
to have that main main star. I bring that up
because we are now told there are not one, not two,
not three, not four, not five, not six, how about
seven seven teams that have shown interest in one Soto
(15:12):
of the loser Yankees they lost to the Doyers in
the World Series, including and here's where it gets interesting,
including Tampa Bay. They have been mentioned. All the reports
coming out of the Alamos say, well, Tampa Bay, the
Razor interesting, the Razor interest. Now, the other six teams
that are said to be interested are all big money,
(15:34):
big money, big market teams, usual suspects. Now word is
they're supposing this is this is great. There are going
to be two other small, the middle market teams, mystery
teams that are interested. Oh the mystery of it all. Soto,
(15:54):
if you're a little slow here is looking to get
seven hundred million dead presidents. There's a lot of noise,
including one report that said that Soto is going to
play for the Mets. He is going to leave the Yankees,
stay in the Big Apple and go over to Flushing
to play for the team that will want world serious
(16:15):
since nineteen eighty six, but the Mets. And so that's
one report out now. Scott Boris, as we said, we'll
get to his comments the wide angle lens on what
Scott Boris had to say in general coming up in
a little bit. But Boris says that one Sodo is
going to soak up all the attention essentially, and la
(16:37):
la la la, la la la, that he's in no
rush to sign a deal, which is rather odd when
you consider the fact that the last couple of years,
most of the big name free agents that Scott Boris
has had have either failed to get the contracts that
they thought they were going to get or waited and
(16:57):
then had to scramble and still got less than they
thought they were going to get. So let us discuss
the question. Let's focus in on Tampa Bay. This is fascinating.
So Tampa Bay, who always cries poverty, Tampa Bay has
emerged as a suitor for one Soto. Should they be
taken seriously? Should they be taken seriously? So my observations,
(17:19):
I've got BMW dealership, novel and confectionery, and we will
combine all of these things together and we were going
a vacation to Yellowstone is what we're going to do,
all right, So na Burn, all right, Hey, listen. In
(17:42):
terms of the question Tampa Bay showing interest in want Soto,
I give this SIDEI is what I do, right, It's
comical nobody takes this seriously. There were rumors last year
that the Rays were in I think it was on
Yamamoto last year in free agency. This is a kin
If you understand anything about the Rays franchise, they're a pest.
(18:07):
They're annoying. Right, But here's the thing. It is the
equivalent of walking into a BMW dealership and saying I'd
like to buy that Red Beamer and they say, Okay,
why don't we finance that? I said, you now, I'm
gonna pay for it. How are you gonna pay for it?
You don't want to finance it. I'm gonna use my
EBT card is what I'm gonna use. That's the Tampa
(18:30):
Bay Rays, right. The math the math is not mathing.
It's not uh and Tampa. Unless I missed something. We
had that massive storm, Hurricane Milton not that long ago
that came through Florida and destroyed the ballpark. They play
in Tropicana Fields, So the Rays are planning on playing
in a minor league ballpark. They're a essentially a homeless
(18:55):
baseball team. They're orphans at this point in time. And
as for the mystery teams, I say this every year
and I'm never wrong. The mystery team thing in free
agency is a plant. Ninety nine point nine percent of
the time. It's a plan. And the reason it's for
Gayzy let me explain this. It's fake news because the
(19:19):
whole point of this exercise, the whole point of going
after free agents and trying to sign people, is goodwill publicity.
You're showing your customers that you're trying to improve the team.
You're creating some artificial excitement. Even if you don't sign
the player, you let everyone know you're in on it.
(19:40):
You excite the base, right, you excite the base and
let them daydream or in our case, dream at night
about adding their savior and your name brand player and
all that. Very excited about that. Now, if you're a
mystery team, unless I'm mistaken, if you're a mystery team,
you get none of that, right, none of that. It
(20:01):
is a pointless exercise. So it's just something the agent
makes up and the useful idiots, the baseball writers will
repeat anything they are told by an agent. They will
never say, wait a minute, that doesn't make any sense. Now.
A lot of times what happens is you get teams
that will make a token offer they know will not
(20:22):
be accepted, but will get them some good publicity. So
like the Red Sox have done this a lot to
the last couple years with the Red Sox are. It's
kind of known in baseball. The Red Sox the last
couple years haven't really wanted to sign guys to big
contracts who are outside the Red Sox organization. So they'll
make these offers, but they're not real offers. They know
that it's not the highest offer and the player won't accept.
(20:44):
And all that. Now Page two from the GM meetings,
we continue there where Scott Borris did do what we
thought he was going to do. He got on his
soapbox and he waxed about the state of his players,
his guys in free agency. Now among his gems here,
he said, of Juan Soto, he called them the magic
(21:08):
wand is what he called them. Blake Snell, bra, I'm
risking my life, bra, Blake Snell. He said. There's no
doubt these snelling salts created a lot of whiffs, he said,
and the market has definitely awakened snelling salts. The part
of that now, Pete Alonzo, all these guys are tied
(21:29):
to Scott Boris. Now, he said of Pete Alonzo, Scott Boris,
he said, there's been a lot of talk about a
bear market for first basemen, but for Pete's sake, it's
the polar opposite. So let us discuss the question what
do you make of the commentary by Scott Boris? Here
(21:50):
the snelling salts, the magic wand, and the Pete Sake
lines about these players in free agency. So what do
I think Scott Boris does not disappoint?
Speaker 5 (22:04):
He does not.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
He is the son of a dairy farmer from Sacramento.
He is the king of cornball.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
He is.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I am convinced that before the GM meetings every year,
Scott Boris on the plane ride from his compound in
Newport Beach and then when he travels to these random
cities for the JAM meanings on the plane, probably a
private plane, he is reading the novel The Big Book
(22:34):
of Puns, a mix of witty wordplay and much like
Jim Harbaugh, dad jokes, a lot of dad jokes. A
right final point. We go now to Arizona. A lot
of people talking about what happened with the Diamondbacks the
GM there had have a pow wow, a sit down
with Jordan Montgomery. Now why and Jordan Montgomery is one
(22:56):
of these guys that didn't get a big contract last year,
signed to the last minute with Arizona. The owner Ken
Kendrick sounds like a weather guy or a traffic guy.
On TV, ken Kendrick called the twenty five million dollar
deal with Jordan Montgomery for the Arizona baseball team a
horrible decision. He said, a horrible decision. So how do
(23:19):
you how do you think that conversation went between the
GM of the Diamondbacks and Jordan Montgomery. So I look
at it like this, It was like going down to
your local confection area. You want some ice cream, and
rather than get a nice, delicious vanilla bean ice cream
smooth he said, I don't want that. I want something else, right,
(23:43):
I want something else, And you pick the hand crafted
rocky Road filled with chocolate ice cream and the nuts
and the marshmallows diced up and all that. But it's
not a smoothie, right and guarantee. Now, now, does anyone
feel bad? Does anyone feel bad for Jordan Montgomery that
(24:03):
his owner said his signing was a horrible decision. And
the answer to that is no, right, The answer to
that is absolutely not. Imagine having an ERA of over six.
That's what Jordan Montgomery did over six. You're in the
bottom percentile in every key category for pitchers, and by
(24:25):
opting in Jordan Montgomery will get around another twenty five
million or so, give or take for the upcoming season,
so that will smooth over the rough edges. Getting that
kind of money Montgomery was, I would argue a good
decision at the time he signed the contract in Arizona
that became an abject failure. Was not only a pitcher,
(24:51):
he was horrible, right, And that was all based on performance.
It was all based on performance. You win some, you
lose some. And I love the fact that Montgomery stayed
because he knows no one else is going to be
dumb enough at his age with that performance to give
him that kind of money. So the move here would
(25:11):
be to work out an agreement and trade Jordan Montgomery
somewhere else, which we're pretty sure Arizona would be happy
to do and Montgomery would be happy to pack up
his stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
It'smallor how about that to the third degree?
Speaker 2 (25:34):
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
On Tuesday, DeAndre Hopkins shared a picture on social media
of Tom Brady's celebrating a touchdown with Randy Moss, the
implication being that he and Mahomes have a similar connection. Ben,
do you think Hopkins is going to have the same
impact as Moss did.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Well, it's an odd situation because Moss did not win
a Super Bowl with Tom Brady. So what are you doing?
It's an odd position for DeAndre Hopkins. They were zero
for two in the Super Bowl Moss and Brady, So
can they Can they lose the Super Bowl? Yes? Next,
the Cleveland.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Cavaliers are off to their best start in nearly fifty years, Ben,
do you think these guys are a serious threat to
the Celtics in the East.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
No, No, It's it's November by the time we get
down of the playoffs. I don't trust Cleveland. They'll win
a bunch of games, they'll have a great record. I
do not trust them against the Celtics, Sam I am.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Next, Trent Williams talk to the media about Christian McCaffrey's
anticipated return this week and mentioned how the forty nine
ers offense is Taylor made to him and how he
will be a tremendous lift to the team. Yeah, Ben, Well,
Mcaffrey's are turned propelled the Niners back to the top
of the NFC.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
No, no, because you can ram it all day and
you can ram it all night. Baby, the La rams
own the West.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
You failed this adition.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
That is a win by me, Thank you very much.
I won the game. That is a win. I win
the game.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
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Speaker 5 (27:05):
We are right there, time for time for.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
A Twitter said your questions on Twitter now and use
the hashtag. Make sure to use the ashtag ask man.
I already saw Gunner. What's his name again? Not Gunner?
Speaker 5 (27:20):
What are we calling?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Fling shot? Yeah, he sent a question in, but he
didn't use the hashtag. I'm seeing a lot of questions
here that did not use the hashtag. Are you stupid?
What's wrong with you? Coop? What do we have here?
Speaker 4 (27:30):
All right, We're gonna start off with a question from
Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Hi, Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
He wants to know do you ever try to beat
the estimated time of arrival when you get directions from
your phone?
Speaker 1 (27:39):
One hundred percent?
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Do this all the time. I have a very long
commute from where I live now into these studios when
I come in here, and I usually can shave anywhere
from three to five minutes off. Anywhere from three to
five minutes I can shave off. The thing that sucks
is when you're trying to shave time off and then
you add time. That kills you. But usually I'm good
(28:02):
for three to five minutes.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Yeah, Eddie, Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
And you know those those valuations or whatever based on
going the speed limit, which I never do, so yeah,
I always always beat those.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
How fast do you go? It I go eighty eighty, Yeah,
I don't. I go seventy nine.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
I sit this, well, clearly I'm a wild man.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
You are. Seventy nine will not get you? Say, eighty
plus gets your ticket? What about you? Unless you're in Minnesota.
I've had CHP pass me on the freeway going eighty, so, ma,
well I got I got pulled over one time. I
told the story. The cops said, that is as long
as you're going under eighty, I won't give tickets anying
over eighty, that's it, because that's a real ticket.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
Like I'm not found over eighty.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
I'm going eighty, but that's over eighty eighty.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
It's eighty eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
It's eighty plus. No, it's not, it is it's eighty plus.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Lorena, Well, I have this saying, ben, if I do
not beat the time of arrival, then I'm driving like
a granny.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
And you don't want to be grant got a grain,
all right? And we know Coops a legendary speeder.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Right absolutely. Vegas is my favorite because like you get
in there and it says like five hours, and I
feel like I can cut, like, you know, if there's
no traffic, I can cut like thirty minutes off of that.
But this last drive that I had going to Vegas
last weekend, I cut ten minutes off. But then we
(29:26):
stopped in Barstow.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
And went through the drive through Barstow.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Yeah, but then I was so it ended up being
where I just kind of matched the time that I don't.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Why did you go to your mo? You could have
gone to Eddie World and your mo, Heggy, Susan. You
did real food?
Speaker 5 (29:40):
That's an amazing They have real food there. What are
you talking about?
Speaker 8 (29:42):
Then?
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I guess you went to Raising Canes in Barstow. I didn't.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
I went through the McDonald's drive through, Oh col I
go to Canes in Vegas.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
They've got better food at Eddie World than McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
No, they yes, they do know, they know, they do
they but I'm surprised continue to go there because they
had that The original court from the Forum where the
Lakers played is at of all places, Eddie World in
the desert. Yes, they have the center court logo from
the Great Western Forum where the Magic and the Showtime
Lakers played in Eddie World. That's cool, it's pretty wild. Actually,
(30:12):
all right, why don't we serve that as the appetizer?
Should we have man welcome in here and join us
here for Ben? Yeah, all right, we'll have him come in. Well,
I've asked man, your questions are answers for the rest
of the hour. We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
That's right, we have Manuel and Guardiana in studio. We
spared no expense. We made him buy a sandwiches to
get him in here. All right, Lorena's over there, Coop's
over there. He's got the questions. What do we have here?
Is ask Ben? Your questions are answers for the rest
of the hour.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
All right, late night drug tester would like to know
do you back into your parking spot?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yes, And there is debate with the wife. The wife
says that that's like a man thing to beg you by.
I love backing in. It's a power move when you leave.
It's a power move when you leave. Man. Well, back in, guy,
what do.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
You the man?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Absolutely, I'm also a four spots guy.
Speaker 9 (31:12):
Fo spots. Yeah, but oversized truck, you know. Oh ya again,
get out?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
You know, easier, especially.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
If you're doing a bank robbery or anything.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
All right, do it, Eddie? Back in guy, you're backing guy?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Right?
Speaker 9 (31:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (31:26):
I love. I love my backup camera, so I like
using it.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Yeah, it's wild. We grew up without backup camera. We
learned how to drive without backup camera.
Speaker 9 (31:35):
See you want to know a crazy fun fact about
your boy man Will and Guardeena.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
I can't get into the backup camera.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
No, I'm sitting there looking at the mirrors to the
point where something hit stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
No, I don't look at this wild wild lorena.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
No, I pull in forward and I don't mean to
call you out Eddie, but I've never seen you back
in here at.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
The parking store.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I'm back in, back in every time, though, right.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
I don't know. I don't even know what you drive, Ben.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I'm always get here before you cool.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
If it's convenient, Yes, I will. I will back into
the spot because I like the look at the front
end of my car better. I was gonna quote him
on this.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
I knew this.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
So when I someone I'm walking back up to my car,
I like to see the front of it.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
And yeah, yeah, I'd just like to back in, so
make the quick accident. What's next? Here to ask? Ben?
Your questions are answers for the rest all the hour.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
All right, so this one, this one won't involve Manuel,
but Freddy wants to know Freddy, he says, is there
a time when you argue with each other where you
don't talk to each other?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yeah, sometimes I'll get so I'll walk off. I mean
I'll leave and just like scream. But normally no, it's
not like I remember Karen Kay before I used to
work with you. Yes, Karen would get so upset. She
would in the middle of the show. She would turn
a mic off and not talk. And she was part
of the show and it was I love her to death,
(33:06):
but it just drove me nuts. But I would say,
what do you think yet? I mean we were not really,
I mean very rarely, very rare.
Speaker 7 (33:13):
Get up, I said, But people would might be surprised
to know that we will. Other than Cooper, Lorain are
in the same studio. I'm in a different studio. You're
a different studio. We can all see each other when
we're different studios. We don't really talk that much off
the air to each other.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Nah, No, we don't. We don't.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
We have our conversations there on the air most of
the time, all right, Lorraina.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
Yeah, So the only time Ben has done this to
me is when we mess up on playing sounds.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Yeah, I go nuts because I have to find the
sound that we play often.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
And then maybe you can let me explain how I feel.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
How I feel. I don't care about your feelings. But
but no, it's very maddening because I craft the monologues
and then and then.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
He doesn't talk to you, and he gives you the
cold shoulder, and I don't know, it feels like I.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Just feel bad.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Well, no, I just feel like I've wasted my entire
day because I find the perfect SoundBite to put in
a monologue. Look what you've done, Freddy, and then and
then and then you you butchered. I'm like, I spent
like two hours trying to find that sound bite, and
it's just all.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Right, let's let's move on to that question.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
All right?
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Uh, ferg dog, Hi Fergie. He would like to know.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Would you rather swim in a pool of cheese, that
is my question? Or a pool of caramel?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Or a steeler a thief? What kind of cheese? Wow?
Speaker 4 (34:33):
I would I would imagine it would have to be
some sort of like, you know, fun dewish cheese.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
I'm going I'm going cheese, cheese. I'm going cheese. I'm
going cheese. What about you?
Speaker 9 (34:44):
Cheese?
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Who's gonna pick caramel? That's disgusting. He's a little sticky.
What what about you?
Speaker 5 (34:49):
My wife loves caramel, she might pick up, but I'm
going cheese.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Yeah, We're team cheese. What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 8 (34:55):
I'm dipping in the cheese and I'm taking the tortilla.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Chips with me.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Are you gonna get that?
Speaker 7 (34:59):
Guey?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Orange?
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Is not your cheese?
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Really nasty one?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Yeah, it's not actual cheese?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yeah, no, milk was hard.
Speaker 9 (35:05):
But what about you corrogated in like twenty minutes, coagulated you.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
You bring up a good point. I was gonna say
caramel because I love caramel. But yeah, that'd be really
hard to like get out of your hair everywhere.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Yeah, I'd be disgusted.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
What was next to one of the diddy party things?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
As Lebron said, there ain't no part of like a
ditty party?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
I yes, what is that's whole?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Mickey would like to know I met I met him
by the way, man, he met me in a rain
storm in Boston, like not enough late midnight or world.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
What is the most that you've won on a scratcher ticket?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Well, I don't play him very my my dad won
a couple thousand. I think that was I don't really
play them that off. Man. Well, if you a scratcher, man,
I do, but man, usually I just win the damn ticket.
Yeah that's it. Yeah man, that's not good. Oh yeah,
it's a hose job man. Yeah yeah, all right.
Speaker 7 (35:59):
Eddie Jonas Knox gave out some scratchers for Christmas last
year and I won fifty bucks, right man, that's good.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 8 (36:07):
Yeah, I'm really great at Scratchers, Ben, I only bought
one one once on my birthday a couple of years back.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
I want two off that baby, So scratch Off is having.
Speaker 8 (36:18):
It was a thirty dollars card though.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
What about you?
Speaker 5 (36:20):
Cool?
Speaker 4 (36:21):
I won five hundred bucks once, but I was like
seven years old.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Oh so you didn't actually when your parents come on?
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Well, I bought it because it was back when you
could just walk up to You can still do that,
like the automated machines.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Yeah, So it's ask man the time for a quick question.
What Donkey Sausage wants to know? What pizza topping is underrated? Garlic,
roasted garlic.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
I'm gonna go pineapple. Oh controversial, take controversial cake. Take there, Eddie,
I'm gonna go pineapple as well. Okay, Lorena, Oh this
is so hard choke to charge to.
Speaker 9 (37:01):
Shout out here Cooper and shout out jeremiahwash Blossoms Mountain Militia.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
All right, man, well, thank you boy. There's the great
man well in Gardena.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
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