March 13, 2025 • 33 mins
Big Ben talks about Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers still not being able to come to a deal, and it's reportedly not about money, Barry Bonds saying it's best for Ohtani to quit pitching altogether, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and more!
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is from the waiting game, and we continue to be
stalkers behind these microphones in the middle of the night.
We're hiding out in mister rogers neighborhood. In fact, we
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are actually broadcasting in his neighborhood. This show reaching Malibu Boo,
where Rogers hangs out. But it is our obligatory malar
monologue on Aaron Rogers and his employment. And if you
have not been following this because you got stuff going on,
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I got it. Perhaps you've missed it. So watch the
show back in the day called the First forty eight.
They don't get a big lead in the first forty eight,
very tough to solve the case. Well, first forty eight
have come and gone, and radio silence, not on this show,
but radio silence for Aaron Rodgers and nothing zippo. Lack
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of decision. Apparently not about the money, of course, it's
always about the money. But the former NFL GM is
saying that these Steelers are being held hostage in Pittsburgh.
The offer has been made. It's all about Rogers and
these twiddling his thumbs is what he's doing right now.
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And it's up to him. And so the suspense is
building between the Steelers, the Giants, and even the Vikings, suppose,
so let us discuss the question. Pittsburgh has made an
offer to Aaron Rodgers. The delay supposedly not about the
money Rogers signed off on that. If you believe the
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reporting and a former NFL GM is saying that Aaron
Rodgers is holding the Steelers hostage very dramatically, how do
you assess this one? So I said to it this way.
I've got grandfather clock, taste buds and a bag of umbrellas,
and we will combine these three very random things together
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and we are going to make some Canadian cheesy snacks,
which are my new favorite cheesy snack. A listener Nico
sent us a bunch of snacks from Canada, and these
things are amazing, real cheese, unlike the crap we get
here in the States. All right, So a my first
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thought on how I assess the Aaron Rodgers story is
the R word rubbish, right, rubbish. The Steelers. I don't
believe in the overly dramatic hostage drum. I think they're
being held hostage. If they have been held hostage, it's
only because they put all of their eggs in the
Rogers basket and they have no other backup plan. They
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are free to go out and sign any other quarterback
they want. And Aaron Rodgers at this point, he's operating
like a grandfather clock. But that grandfather clock is not
set to Eastern time, Central time, Mountain or Pacific. It's
on island time. He's living the island life and that
grandfather clock, and Rogers is out there relaxing. He's in
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no rush, La la la la la, he's saying in
a Sunday drive. He's working at his own speeding. It
could be that he's out there somewhere and he's waiting
for some europop little ace of Basse back in the
day and he wants to see the sign and then
he can say I saw the sign and it opened
my eyes, and he hasn't seen the sign yet. Could
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also be that he's waiting for his pal Joe Rogan
to come over with a jug of ayahuasca and that'll
give him wisdom. But the way we look at it,
Rogers has the Steelers, the Vikings, the Giants, and mystery door,
which is what retirement. But Certaly seems like it's going
to be the Steelers, maybe the Vikings, or I can't
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imagine the Giants. The Giants are on the back burner
at this point. But if anything breaks overnight, we are
at the watch tower. We're at the guard track all
night long, and he happens in the wee hours of
the morning, we will give it to you first right here,
So no need to worry about looking at any of
those bogus algorithms on social media. We got you covered now.
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Beat So, Aaron Rodgers did pop up in the tabloids
in the last day or so. Rogers was spotted alone
by the paparazzi from the Daily Mail, that's a tabloid
in London. Rogers was sashetting his way down the beach
there in Malibu, and he had a blanket wrapped around
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him in the upper part of his body. He had
some earphones on. Now the pundits claimed that Rogers was
contemplating whether or not he wants to keep playing in
the NFL. And this has bounced all over the pinball machine.
Does this count though? This photo and I'm describing it
for our blind listeners, and if you haven't seen it,
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or you can't see it. It's just Rogers. It's kind
of at sunset there. Rogers is on the beach. He's
got what appears to be swim trunks on, but he's
got a blanket wrapped around him and headphones, and he's
got a hat on backwards and I'm sure Cowhard probably
don't like that. And then he's wandering around. So does
this count as a powerful moment as it is being
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described in the tabloids? Is that a powerful moment? So
let me check the old taste buds on this, because
I think this was a little too rich for our
taste buds, that this is a powerful moment. No, methinks
that's a bit too dramatic. It's all about interpretation, right,
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Some are saying powerful moment. I saw it as a
regular occurrence, and I would argue that if you go
to that beach, or any beach at sunset, you will
see people, whether it's Aaron Rodgers or other people walking
along the shore. In this case, Rogers just a guy
living in Malibu. He's living the lifestyle, enjoying the Pacific Ocean,
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those majestic views of the deep goop lucy out there
looking at all the water and the waves and all that.
But yea Rogers had a blanket wrapped around him, and
because it was a little chili California Chili at sunset,
and he was wearing headphones because he was probably listening
to the Ben Maler Show podcast what else would you
listen to? And he was also trying to avoid social interaction.
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Now I've done the same thing. I've gone out and
I used to go to games a lot and sit
in press boxes, and I would often wear headphones because
I didn't want someone to talk to me, and sometimes
I wouldn't even have anything on. But I've noticed that
some people, they're called schmucks. They'll talk to you anyway,
but oftentimes if you're wearing headphones, people will not bother you,
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and if they do come up to you, you just point
at your headphones. Now, others have pointed out that it's
twenty twenty five and Aaron Rodgers was not using wireless headphones.
He had wired headphones, and this was pretty wild to
many people. Rogers likely worried about what the evil rays
from Blue Tooth, some kind of things interfering with his
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brain waves, the Bluetooth rays or something like that. But
you know, when Aaron Rodgers is prepared to pick a
team because he's going to visit what some kind of
darkness cabin somewhere, and and he'll have the costco sized
drum of ayahuasca and then meditation, and he'll go hug
some trees and he'll be ready to go. All right, now,
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last word, So we now head below below the Mason
Dixon Line State sponsored NFL Media, the prop of the
news service of the NFL reporting that the Atlanta football
team will not will not be dumping Kirk Cousins, not
my cousin, not your cousin. Kirk Cousins. In a plot twist,
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the former Viking, former Redskin, current Falcon quarterback the boys
from Georgia will be handing him some extra money, but
he'll be hanging out as a highly paid backup behind
Michael Pennix Junior, rather than being let go and kicked out,
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get out of here and all that. So the plot
thickens here, and this begs the question, why are the
Falcons holding on to a quarterback they clearly don't want
anymore in Kirk Cousins, And they're gonna end up paying
him an extra ten million dollars and that payment movie
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coming down in a few days. So after a minutes
long Mallard deliberation, I have determined that what the Atlanta
football team is doing is they have a bag of
umbrellas and they're waiting with that bag of umbrellas for
the downpour. They're waiting for the storm. They're waiting for
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the rainy day. And we all know if you're in
a city, doesn't matter where you are. I've been in
many cities when the pop up rainstorm happens, and what
always takes place, some JIBBRONI walks out of a store,
usually like in a trench coat, and he's got a
bag of umbrellas. And back in the old days and
you get a bbroll for like five bucks I think
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it's ten, fifteen, twenty bucks now cash only, cash only,
but you got like a bag or a bucket of umbrellas.
And that essentially that's what Cousins is. He's a he's
an umbrella. And the falcons are waiting for a rainy day,
and once once a few sprinkles happen, they'll they'll sell it.
Think of it like the falcons are in the Nerve
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center at the Football Pentagon and they're waiting for the infestation,
and that that injury infestation, the injury bug starts biting, nibble, nibble, nibble.
It doesn't even have to bite, it could just nibble,
and then the dirty birds will turn on a neon
light and say, hey, we are open for business. So
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if Jared Goff somehow goes out hunting and steps on
something he shouldn't step on and is not able to play,
the Lions can call the Falcons. If Patty Mahomes is
somewhere in Texas and he ends up in an accident
with a deep friar at a waterburger, then don't worry.
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Atlanta's got a quarterback for you. I'm sure Josh Allen
be injured on the back nine at Augusta, then hey,
he can go to the injury tent and call who
you're gonna call. You're gonna call the Atlanta Falcons and
get your hands on Kirk Coussin by the bing by
the boom, Just like that, Yeah, just like that.
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So our lead this hour is from baseball. We'll get
back to Aaron Rodgers. Watch our breathless around the clock
coverage of Aaron Rogers in the waiting Game, which is
reminiscent if you remember a couple years back when Rogers
was debating where he was going to play and leaving
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the Green Bay Packers. There was a pretty lengthy delay
in that period of time. So it's not that unusual.
It's just that everyone seemed to indicate things We're going
to move along at an expedited and they did not.
And we're going back to Sunday. We're now into Thursday.
And Sunday night there there were people whispering, well, Rogers
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is going to agree to a deal on Monday, and
then it was well Tuesday, and then it's Wednesday, and
now here we are on Thursday and bubkus. But I
wanted to talk some baseball a big star. I have
not done a Mallard monologue, a full malle of monologue
about this guy in years.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Why would I.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
He's not playing anymore, but a big league star from
baseball past. He's still dishing out hot takes. You get
a hot take, you get a hot take, You get
a hot take. We're talking about Barry Bonds. Balco Barry
who recently touched on several topics. Now, if you didn't
hear what he had to say, maybe not on analytics.
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Bond said, I believe I'll give a little taste of this.
Bond said, I believe Major League Baseball has already recognized
analytics works in some aspects of the game, Bond said,
but not in the core of the game. He said,
there's one aspect of it, analytics. It's not fun. He said,
to me, it's boring, Bond said. He talked about Cooperstown.
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He was asked about being ostracized from the Hall of
Fame because he's the face of steroids. Other steroid guys
are in the Hall of Fame, but Bond's not allowed in.
He said, why not kill that bird and let it go.
Why do you want to keep beating the drum? Bonds lamented,
there's no need to keep beating that drum. Okay, Now,
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Bond's Barry Bonds gave the money quote and that was
about the biggest star in baseball today, the Doyers star
sho heo Tani. Barry Bonds said shoe Haotani should not
pitch again, he said, quote, if you're daching and doing
what you're doing, why fix something that ain't broken. Bond said,
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there's a de thought. He said, pitching again, question Mark,
that's a lot of concentration. He might get hurt again.
They're asking a lot, Bond said, indicating that he did
not support Otani returning to the mound now. Bond's also
said that if Otani does pitch, he should come out
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of the bullpen if he comes back, if he pitches
at all, and then people pointing out, well, he can't
really do that because he'd be in the game. You
might have to bat. You can't be out in the
bullpen warming up and Otani did not pitch for the
Dodgers last season. He was recovering from Tommy John surgery,
his second Tommy John surgery on his right elbow, and
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he still picked up the MVP. Was the American League
MVP in Anaheim National League MVP with the Doyers, but
last year is a designated hitter, first member of the
fifty to fifty club fifty home runs, fifty solen bases
in one season with fifty four and fifty nine respectively.
So let us discuss Barry Bond says it's best for
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showy Otani to give up pitching. Thumbs up or thumbs
down on Barry Bond saying it's best for Otani to
give up pitching. So I've got bubble wrap, Pilgrimage, and
yellow and we will combine all of these things together
and we are going to make some cracker jacks and
soft pretzels, is what we're going to make. So num burr,
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I said, numb burn. So I'm gonna go thumbs down
on this. I'm going thumbs down on Barry Bond saying
that Otani should not pitch again. In fact, I fundamentally
disagree Bury the Bozo on this one. Otani shouldn't pitch.
The logic is because he could get hurt. What in
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the world didn't he get hurt with the Angels and
then went out and hit fifty home runs while not
being able to pitch, So if he gets hurt, he'll
just go back to being a designated hitter. I don't
see what the problem is. They tell me you're a
loser without telling me you're and then Bonds he said, well,
I can be a relief fisher, and we was pointed
out that he can't and but the whole he could
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get hurt. Thing that that that is one of my
pet peeves. Right, it sounds like Bonds is the prince
of paranoia and the crap we dealt with five years
ago out of an abundance of caution. Just don't do anything.
Don't leave your homes, you know, hide in the corner
and suck your thumb and the fetal position. You can't
play scared now, you can't do that. And what are
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you gonna wrap Otani in bubble wrap and put him
in a box with foam peanuts because he might get injured.
Otani could get hurt. Maybe his elbows snap when he's
brushing his teeth, he reaches for the mouth wash and
all of a sudden he feels a snap. Or his
ankle could get sprayed walking to make a cup of
coffee in the morning, which so many people do. Or
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maybe that the scrambled eggs will will will fall into
his lap and burn his groin and he won't be
able to play go on. Ifs and butts were candy
and nuts, you'd get hurt every day. Otani is a
value added as a pitcher until Proveno has Now he's
had two major operations on his arm, and the comps
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are not great. If you look at the people that
have had multiple Tommy John ligament replacement operations, it does
not go well. Generally speaking, if you have two reconstructive surgeries,
you're cooked. It's over as far as pitching, So we'll
say it's conceivable that Otani is done as a pitcher.
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That's why the Dodgers added eighteen starting pitchers, because half
of them will have Tommy John surgery by the All
Star break. Now page two, major League Baseball's regular season
has what we call here in the United States a
soft launch, and this is going to become the new normal.
Back in the old days, the baseball season would always
start in Cincinnati. The first professional sports team had the parade.
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It was a big deal. But over the years, baseball
has a sold a soul the games to countries around
the world. And the salt launch is early next week
in Japan, and it's great for us because the games
will start at six am Eastern. Our show ends at
six am Eastern three am in the West, and the
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Cubbies and the Dodgers will be playing two real games
in Tokyo. So how would you describe the sho Heotani
Dodgers season opening trip to Japan. So Dodgers have made
their way to Japan. They flew on Wednesday. Cubs are
there as well, so this is like a religious pilgrimage
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to the mecca of baseball. From everything we're hearing, Shoeotani,
just imagine, if you will, Otani is like Robin Hood
and the rest of the Dodgers are his band of
Mary Matt. Now, there are some other players from Japan
that are on the Dodgers and the Cubs, but from
what we're hearing, Otani is the baseball deity. He is omnipresent.
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There is a sense of awe and mystery in his
mere presence in his native Japan, like some kind of
divine power from another world and Major League Baseball. I
gotta give him credit, right because there's like there's a
barnstorming tour and all that. But they are laughing all
the way to the bank, presenting this as an act
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of goodwill, a trip of goodwill to give baseball to
the people of Japan, even they have baseball there. But
there are roughly I did some math on this, so
there's roughly one hundred and twenty five million men, women,
and children that live in Japan. It is estimated that
roughly thirty million of those Japanese residents are hardcore baseball fans.
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So if you do the math on that, from accounts
at souvenir shops around Tokyo, the Otani two hundred and
fifteen dollars Jersey is selling out the standing room only
tickets for Cubs Dodgers next week in Tokyo two thousand
dollars for standing room a surge in new balance sales
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because Otani's endorsed them. But wait, there's more. We're told
that over one hundred and fifty movie theaters will be
streaming the Dodgers opening series in Tokyo on March eighteenth
and March nineteenth, So five days away from now, they'll
have one hundred and fifteen movies. Can they do this
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sometimes with concerts or they'll have some big event here
in the States where you go, like, all right, you
can go and check it out, but for a baseball game,
just a regular season game, Dodgers and Cubs, one hundred
and fifty movie theaters, people will be going. I assume
you're eating the popcorn there. I don't know. Maybe they're
eating something else and then hanging out watching the game.
All right, now, last word, last word. So I saw
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this going around if I died A listener I think
his name was Steve in the Greater Nashville area who
sent this and he was all excited. It's the proposed
Major League Baseball expansion team, the Nashville Stars, which was
the name of the old Triple A team there. They
showed off a logo and a hat on the Internet
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of what the whole thing would look like if they
did get the expansion team in Nashville. So what is
the word? What is the word for these things being
leaked on the internet? The hypothetical Nashville expansion team hat,
the logo, So my word is yellow. My word is
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yellow as in yellow flag. This is a false start
penalty five yards and replay the down, get the team,
and then give out the logo. You're doing things out
of order. Bad job by you. You don't have the team.
Everyone assumes you're to get the team. There is a
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world though, where the Tampa Bay Rays leave Florida and
end up going to Nashville, and then you already have
a name. I guess you could change the name anyway.
But the other thing about this I'm saying about Nashville Stars,
I don't approve. I don't approve the mixplain. We already
have a team called the Stars. Now maybe you're not
a hockey fan, and they should be the old They
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should be the North Stars, which is what they were
known as when they were in Minnesota. But they moved
years ago to Dallas and they're the Stars. And you say, well,
that's dumb and stupid and all that, but that's what
they're known as. They're known as the Stars. And I
am now the commissioner of Overnight Sports Radio, and in
my world, we do not share names. For example, I
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believe that the New York Giants or the San Francisco Giants,
they should flip a coin and one of them should
change their name. There should only be one Giants team.
We shouldn't have a Saint Louis Cardinals and Arizona Cardinals.
One of them should have to change their name. We
should not be sharing names in twenty twenty five in
different sports. I know why they did it because the
teams were in the same city back in the day.
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It's stupid, right, and the Star nickname is dom do
something original, think outside the box. When I think of Nashville,
I think of a hipster town. I think of the
music city country music. How about the Music City Mashers.
That'd be original, right, Music's how great would that be?
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Imagine that home pinstripe uniform with Music City across the
chest plate and the road uniforms with Masher be great.
And if you don't want to offend anyone because of
violence with Masher, just put mashed potatoes on there. Be wonderful.
How about the Nashville banjo bashers. You put a banjo,
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have your logo a banjo right there, celebrate country music
and they have that d there's that famous I don't
know famous. My friends from Tennessee wax poetic about it. It's
like this Goo Google cluster thing. You can do something
with that. But there's other things that you can come
up with, other ideas that would be local in flavor,
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that would be original. Don't dude, if you do get
an expansion team, Nashville's Stars is stupid. It's dumb. The
only way I would allow a Stars nickname back, and
I don't support it, is if and I actually told
some people with the Clippers years ago to do this,
and they didn't do it because they didn't listen to me.
But they should. I said, the Clipper should have changed
their name to the Hollywood Stars. That would have been outstanding.
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That would have been a great name. Hollywood Star that works, right,
Tinseltown and lie like Dallas Stars doesn't really work. You
don't think of a star when you think of the
Dallas hockey scene. Nashville Stars, you already have the start.
The only one that would be acceptab would be the
Hollywood Stars. And the interlocking and asked logo for Nashville
Stars is Dollsville is what it is. It's dull, it
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just is. It's just no no wow. Fact. I need
some wow. Fact there's no wow. I need a wow.
There's no wow.
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Here we go to the third degree. This is one
Big Ben gets grilled all right.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Good believe Bliger.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
McFarlane took to X on Tuesday to say that he
hopes Tiger Woods retires after this latest injury of his
and he implored Tiger to enjoy your kids. Ben do
you think Tiger hangs it up?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
We don't. Most people that golf enjoy their kids. I mean,
golf something you do when you retire. So how do
you retire from golf? I don't I mean you can.
Couldn't he drive around on a golf cart? I don't know.
Why would you retire from golf? I know he'll never
win anything again, but no, all these people all you
should retire. He sucked at golf for how many years?
Who cares? People love Tiger. He's a legend. He wants
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to keep playing. Let him show up and play next.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Rick Patino is about to lead his sixth program to
the NZ Tournament.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
What did I say?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Just handheld?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Alright, alright, that's happened.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Yeah, he's about to lead his sixth program to the
NCAA tournament, more than any coach in history. But do
you think it's time we start talking about Patino as
the best coach in the history of college basketball?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
No, he's He's in that upper class of coaches because
he's done it everywhere. And hey, Patino's like the last
of the Mohegans. In terms of the bigger than life
college basketball coach. There's hardly any of these guys left
when he leaves like the next generation. No, he's not
the greatest of all time, but he's in the discussion
of the top ten fifteen all time coaches. Next.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Ben an NBA senior writer, said on Tuesday, we're witnessing
one of the great MVP races in modern history between
Jokic and SGA.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Do you agree?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
No, I don't. There's no buzz nationally. Maybe in Denver
and Oklahoma City, but no. I'd say Magic and Bird
back in the day a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
How did we do you pass this edition?
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That is a win. Your microphone did not pass, though,
Coop unfortunately, help get him a new microphone right now,
wake up the engineering department.
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It's now time for time. Horry, Harry Honey, ask Ben Twitter,
Send us your questions on Twitter. Now anyway we go
is asked, Ben. Your questions are answers for the rest
of the hour, and now for the reading of the
questions theopolo.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
All right, Ben, We're gonna start off with a question
from ferg Dog. Hi Fergie, he wants to know, would
you ever date a stripper?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Well, I'm married, my wife might have a problem with it.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
But if you if you were single, yeah, uh yeah
I would.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Uh my, yeah, when I was younger, anybody I was,
I was having issues with dating, So yeah, I probably
would have when I was younger, but uh no, I
never did. I had a buddy of mine that datd
a stripper. She always had a lot of cash. But
that's about it. You, Lorenda, Would you date a stripper? Lorena?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
I hate strippers, Ben really?
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Oh yeah, strippers know all of my brother's friends just nasty,
just well, so I would never date a stripper.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Interesting, Cooper Loop who says, I haven't o unbelievable nice. Yeah,
I went to it was what was the name of
the place, the Hollywood Tropic Cana not there anymore, and
uh with a buddy of mine and and the stripper
like I was kind of I thought she was, and
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she like was hitting on my buddy. That pissed me off.
I was upset by that. Uh, what's the next, Coop,
what do we have? We've got a question from the
King Rory h r. He would like to know what
is your favorite fruit? Well, I like banana cream pie,
but bananas are fine. I guess if I in a pinch,
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the go to is the red delicious apple. That's been
my go to over the years. The one I've eaten
the most of is the red delicious apple. So I
go red delicious, but uh, strawberries. It depends on my mood,
but overall red delicious. What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 3 (30:30):
I like caramel apples.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Ben that's covered in sugar, that's not It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
I also like candied apples.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
I like the ones with the cinnamon.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Hard cooked apple.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Is your favorite fruit? Yes? Wow, you both? Caramel apple
so boring.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Strawberry is good and you can dip it in sugar.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Tell that to Johnny Apple, see the things that's boring?
All right? Your schmuck apples?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
The doctor away?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
What do you like? What do you like? Kiwi?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
No, I would go with mango bar He had to
google his favorite fruits. What are the best fruits?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Now?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
You know?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
What is also good? Is pineapple? Solid? But I've eaten
mostly the apple. I like the pineapple which has apple
in it. That's pretty good in a really hot day. Watermelon, Oh,
man on a hot day. Wonderful. Next, what do we
got Timothy?
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Would like to know Timothy from NKY North.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
That's Northern Kentucky. Coop coming right, that's my guy, Timothy.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
He wants to know what is your favorite flavor cake?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yes? So, to me, the most important thing about cake
is the frosting. I generally go like a white cake.
There's this blue cake, this smurf cake that this local
bakery has, which I love, and it's got the blue
cake with the white frosting, and it's just my go
to for cake you when I have birthdays or whatever.
So that's my favorite. What about you rate it?
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Oh, this is a really hard one, Ben, there's so many.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Cakes in those but you can only have one. I'll
tell you about.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Least favorites, German chocolate cake.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I didn't ask your least favorite. I wanted to know
your favorite.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Maybe maybe carrot cake.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Oh my god, that is my least favorite. That's the
worst answer you could.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
I love the cream cheese frosting on top.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
It makes me okay, but.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
The carrot okay, Coop, urry up, turn your mic off
that I'm gonna go yellow cake, chocolate frosting.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Not bad, but I like the white cake or the
blue cake white frosting.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Next, JT.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
The Wingman wants to know what was your favorite color
crayon in the Crayola sixty four color crayon set.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Well, the one I ate the most of was a
child was the blue one. I ate the blue crayon
the most, and then I used to eat the crayons
when I was in kindergarten. But I green or blue?
What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Oh, there was this one specific pink and I can't
remember the first word of it, but it was a
pink for sure.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
All right, cool, My favorite color is orange, But my
favorite crayon is Hunter Green.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Oh, you're so cool
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Hunter Green from Hunter Remember the names of the crayons
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is from the waiting game, and we continue to be
stalkers behind these microphones in the middle of the night.
We're hiding out in mister rogers neighborhood. In fact, we
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are actually broadcasting in his neighborhood. This show reaching Malibu Boo,
where Rogers hangs out. But it is our obligatory malar
monologue on Aaron Rogers and his employment. And if you
have not been following this because you got stuff going on,
(02:15):
I got it. Perhaps you've missed it. So watch the
show back in the day called the First forty eight.
They don't get a big lead in the first forty eight,
very tough to solve the case. Well, first forty eight
have come and gone, and radio silence, not on this show,
but radio silence for Aaron Rodgers and nothing zippo. Lack
(02:38):
of decision. Apparently not about the money, of course, it's
always about the money. But the former NFL GM is
saying that these Steelers are being held hostage in Pittsburgh.
The offer has been made. It's all about Rogers and
these twiddling his thumbs is what he's doing right now.
(03:00):
And it's up to him. And so the suspense is
building between the Steelers, the Giants, and even the Vikings, suppose,
so let us discuss the question. Pittsburgh has made an
offer to Aaron Rodgers. The delay supposedly not about the
money Rogers signed off on that. If you believe the
(03:23):
reporting and a former NFL GM is saying that Aaron
Rodgers is holding the Steelers hostage very dramatically, how do
you assess this one? So I said to it this way.
I've got grandfather clock, taste buds and a bag of umbrellas,
and we will combine these three very random things together
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and we are going to make some Canadian cheesy snacks,
which are my new favorite cheesy snack. A listener Nico
sent us a bunch of snacks from Canada, and these
things are amazing, real cheese, unlike the crap we get
here in the States. All right, So a my first
(04:04):
thought on how I assess the Aaron Rodgers story is
the R word rubbish, right, rubbish. The Steelers. I don't
believe in the overly dramatic hostage drum. I think they're
being held hostage. If they have been held hostage, it's
only because they put all of their eggs in the
Rogers basket and they have no other backup plan. They
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are free to go out and sign any other quarterback
they want. And Aaron Rodgers at this point, he's operating
like a grandfather clock. But that grandfather clock is not
set to Eastern time, Central time, Mountain or Pacific. It's
on island time. He's living the island life and that
grandfather clock, and Rogers is out there relaxing. He's in
(04:49):
no rush, La la la la la, he's saying in
a Sunday drive. He's working at his own speeding. It
could be that he's out there somewhere and he's waiting
for some europop little ace of Basse back in the
day and he wants to see the sign and then
he can say I saw the sign and it opened
my eyes, and he hasn't seen the sign yet. Could
(05:11):
also be that he's waiting for his pal Joe Rogan
to come over with a jug of ayahuasca and that'll
give him wisdom. But the way we look at it,
Rogers has the Steelers, the Vikings, the Giants, and mystery door,
which is what retirement. But Certaly seems like it's going
to be the Steelers, maybe the Vikings, or I can't
(05:34):
imagine the Giants. The Giants are on the back burner
at this point. But if anything breaks overnight, we are
at the watch tower. We're at the guard track all
night long, and he happens in the wee hours of
the morning, we will give it to you first right here,
So no need to worry about looking at any of
those bogus algorithms on social media. We got you covered now.
(05:55):
Beat So, Aaron Rodgers did pop up in the tabloids
in the last day or so. Rogers was spotted alone
by the paparazzi from the Daily Mail, that's a tabloid
in London. Rogers was sashetting his way down the beach
there in Malibu, and he had a blanket wrapped around
(06:17):
him in the upper part of his body. He had
some earphones on. Now the pundits claimed that Rogers was
contemplating whether or not he wants to keep playing in
the NFL. And this has bounced all over the pinball machine.
Does this count though? This photo and I'm describing it
for our blind listeners, and if you haven't seen it,
(06:37):
or you can't see it. It's just Rogers. It's kind
of at sunset there. Rogers is on the beach. He's
got what appears to be swim trunks on, but he's
got a blanket wrapped around him and headphones, and he's
got a hat on backwards and I'm sure Cowhard probably
don't like that. And then he's wandering around. So does
this count as a powerful moment as it is being
(06:58):
described in the tabloids? Is that a powerful moment? So
let me check the old taste buds on this, because
I think this was a little too rich for our
taste buds, that this is a powerful moment. No, methinks
that's a bit too dramatic. It's all about interpretation, right,
(07:20):
Some are saying powerful moment. I saw it as a
regular occurrence, and I would argue that if you go
to that beach, or any beach at sunset, you will
see people, whether it's Aaron Rodgers or other people walking
along the shore. In this case, Rogers just a guy
living in Malibu. He's living the lifestyle, enjoying the Pacific Ocean,
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those majestic views of the deep goop lucy out there
looking at all the water and the waves and all that.
But yea Rogers had a blanket wrapped around him, and
because it was a little chili California Chili at sunset,
and he was wearing headphones because he was probably listening
to the Ben Maler Show podcast what else would you
listen to? And he was also trying to avoid social interaction.
(08:02):
Now I've done the same thing. I've gone out and
I used to go to games a lot and sit
in press boxes, and I would often wear headphones because
I didn't want someone to talk to me, and sometimes
I wouldn't even have anything on. But I've noticed that
some people, they're called schmucks. They'll talk to you anyway,
but oftentimes if you're wearing headphones, people will not bother you,
(08:22):
and if they do come up to you, you just point
at your headphones. Now, others have pointed out that it's
twenty twenty five and Aaron Rodgers was not using wireless headphones.
He had wired headphones, and this was pretty wild to
many people. Rogers likely worried about what the evil rays
from Blue Tooth, some kind of things interfering with his
(08:47):
brain waves, the Bluetooth rays or something like that. But
you know, when Aaron Rodgers is prepared to pick a
team because he's going to visit what some kind of
darkness cabin somewhere, and and he'll have the costco sized
drum of ayahuasca and then meditation, and he'll go hug
some trees and he'll be ready to go. All right, now,
(09:09):
last word, So we now head below below the Mason
Dixon Line State sponsored NFL Media, the prop of the
news service of the NFL reporting that the Atlanta football
team will not will not be dumping Kirk Cousins, not
my cousin, not your cousin. Kirk Cousins. In a plot twist,
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the former Viking, former Redskin, current Falcon quarterback the boys
from Georgia will be handing him some extra money, but
he'll be hanging out as a highly paid backup behind
Michael Pennix Junior, rather than being let go and kicked out,
(09:53):
get out of here and all that. So the plot
thickens here, and this begs the question, why are the
Falcons holding on to a quarterback they clearly don't want
anymore in Kirk Cousins, And they're gonna end up paying
him an extra ten million dollars and that payment movie
(10:13):
coming down in a few days. So after a minutes
long Mallard deliberation, I have determined that what the Atlanta
football team is doing is they have a bag of
umbrellas and they're waiting with that bag of umbrellas for
the downpour. They're waiting for the storm. They're waiting for
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the rainy day. And we all know if you're in
a city, doesn't matter where you are. I've been in
many cities when the pop up rainstorm happens, and what
always takes place, some JIBBRONI walks out of a store,
usually like in a trench coat, and he's got a
bag of umbrellas. And back in the old days and
you get a bbroll for like five bucks I think
(10:54):
it's ten, fifteen, twenty bucks now cash only, cash only,
but you got like a bag or a bucket of umbrellas.
And that essentially that's what Cousins is. He's a he's
an umbrella. And the falcons are waiting for a rainy day,
and once once a few sprinkles happen, they'll they'll sell it.
Think of it like the falcons are in the Nerve
(11:16):
center at the Football Pentagon and they're waiting for the infestation,
and that that injury infestation, the injury bug starts biting, nibble, nibble, nibble.
It doesn't even have to bite, it could just nibble,
and then the dirty birds will turn on a neon
light and say, hey, we are open for business. So
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if Jared Goff somehow goes out hunting and steps on
something he shouldn't step on and is not able to play,
the Lions can call the Falcons. If Patty Mahomes is
somewhere in Texas and he ends up in an accident
with a deep friar at a waterburger, then don't worry.
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Atlanta's got a quarterback for you. I'm sure Josh Allen
be injured on the back nine at Augusta, then hey,
he can go to the injury tent and call who
you're gonna call. You're gonna call the Atlanta Falcons and
get your hands on Kirk Coussin by the bing by
the boom, Just like that, Yeah, just like that.
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So our lead this hour is from baseball. We'll get
back to Aaron Rodgers. Watch our breathless around the clock
coverage of Aaron Rogers in the waiting Game, which is
reminiscent if you remember a couple years back when Rogers
was debating where he was going to play and leaving
(12:46):
the Green Bay Packers. There was a pretty lengthy delay
in that period of time. So it's not that unusual.
It's just that everyone seemed to indicate things We're going
to move along at an expedited and they did not.
And we're going back to Sunday. We're now into Thursday.
And Sunday night there there were people whispering, well, Rogers
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is going to agree to a deal on Monday, and
then it was well Tuesday, and then it's Wednesday, and
now here we are on Thursday and bubkus. But I
wanted to talk some baseball a big star. I have
not done a Mallard monologue, a full malle of monologue
about this guy in years.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Why would I.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
He's not playing anymore, but a big league star from
baseball past. He's still dishing out hot takes. You get
a hot take, you get a hot take, You get
a hot take. We're talking about Barry Bonds. Balco Barry
who recently touched on several topics. Now, if you didn't
hear what he had to say, maybe not on analytics.
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Bond said, I believe I'll give a little taste of this.
Bond said, I believe Major League Baseball has already recognized
analytics works in some aspects of the game, Bond said,
but not in the core of the game. He said,
there's one aspect of it, analytics. It's not fun. He said,
to me, it's boring, Bond said. He talked about Cooperstown.
(14:06):
He was asked about being ostracized from the Hall of
Fame because he's the face of steroids. Other steroid guys
are in the Hall of Fame, but Bond's not allowed in.
He said, why not kill that bird and let it go.
Why do you want to keep beating the drum? Bonds lamented,
there's no need to keep beating that drum. Okay, Now,
(14:28):
Bond's Barry Bonds gave the money quote and that was
about the biggest star in baseball today, the Doyers star
sho heo Tani. Barry Bonds said shoe Haotani should not
pitch again, he said, quote, if you're daching and doing
what you're doing, why fix something that ain't broken. Bond said,
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there's a de thought. He said, pitching again, question Mark,
that's a lot of concentration. He might get hurt again.
They're asking a lot, Bond said, indicating that he did
not support Otani returning to the mound now. Bond's also
said that if Otani does pitch, he should come out
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of the bullpen if he comes back, if he pitches
at all, and then people pointing out, well, he can't
really do that because he'd be in the game. You
might have to bat. You can't be out in the
bullpen warming up and Otani did not pitch for the
Dodgers last season. He was recovering from Tommy John surgery,
his second Tommy John surgery on his right elbow, and
(15:32):
he still picked up the MVP. Was the American League
MVP in Anaheim National League MVP with the Doyers, but
last year is a designated hitter, first member of the
fifty to fifty club fifty home runs, fifty solen bases
in one season with fifty four and fifty nine respectively.
So let us discuss Barry Bond says it's best for
(15:56):
showy Otani to give up pitching. Thumbs up or thumbs
down on Barry Bond saying it's best for Otani to
give up pitching. So I've got bubble wrap, Pilgrimage, and
yellow and we will combine all of these things together
and we are going to make some cracker jacks and
soft pretzels, is what we're going to make. So num burr,
(16:22):
I said, numb burn. So I'm gonna go thumbs down
on this. I'm going thumbs down on Barry Bond saying
that Otani should not pitch again. In fact, I fundamentally
disagree Bury the Bozo on this one. Otani shouldn't pitch.
The logic is because he could get hurt. What in
(16:45):
the world didn't he get hurt with the Angels and
then went out and hit fifty home runs while not
being able to pitch, So if he gets hurt, he'll
just go back to being a designated hitter. I don't
see what the problem is. They tell me you're a
loser without telling me you're and then Bonds he said, well,
I can be a relief fisher, and we was pointed
out that he can't and but the whole he could
(17:06):
get hurt. Thing that that that is one of my
pet peeves. Right, it sounds like Bonds is the prince
of paranoia and the crap we dealt with five years
ago out of an abundance of caution. Just don't do anything.
Don't leave your homes, you know, hide in the corner
and suck your thumb and the fetal position. You can't
play scared now, you can't do that. And what are
(17:29):
you gonna wrap Otani in bubble wrap and put him
in a box with foam peanuts because he might get injured.
Otani could get hurt. Maybe his elbows snap when he's
brushing his teeth, he reaches for the mouth wash and
all of a sudden he feels a snap. Or his
ankle could get sprayed walking to make a cup of
coffee in the morning, which so many people do. Or
(17:51):
maybe that the scrambled eggs will will will fall into
his lap and burn his groin and he won't be
able to play go on. Ifs and butts were candy
and nuts, you'd get hurt every day. Otani is a
value added as a pitcher until Proveno has Now he's
had two major operations on his arm, and the comps
(18:11):
are not great. If you look at the people that
have had multiple Tommy John ligament replacement operations, it does
not go well. Generally speaking, if you have two reconstructive surgeries,
you're cooked. It's over as far as pitching, So we'll
say it's conceivable that Otani is done as a pitcher.
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That's why the Dodgers added eighteen starting pitchers, because half
of them will have Tommy John surgery by the All
Star break. Now page two, major League Baseball's regular season
has what we call here in the United States a
soft launch, and this is going to become the new normal.
Back in the old days, the baseball season would always
start in Cincinnati. The first professional sports team had the parade.
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It was a big deal. But over the years, baseball
has a sold a soul the games to countries around
the world. And the salt launch is early next week
in Japan, and it's great for us because the games
will start at six am Eastern. Our show ends at
six am Eastern three am in the West, and the
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Cubbies and the Dodgers will be playing two real games
in Tokyo. So how would you describe the sho Heotani
Dodgers season opening trip to Japan. So Dodgers have made
their way to Japan. They flew on Wednesday. Cubs are
there as well, so this is like a religious pilgrimage
(19:42):
to the mecca of baseball. From everything we're hearing, Shoeotani,
just imagine, if you will, Otani is like Robin Hood
and the rest of the Dodgers are his band of
Mary Matt. Now, there are some other players from Japan
that are on the Dodgers and the Cubs, but from
what we're hearing, Otani is the baseball deity. He is omnipresent.
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There is a sense of awe and mystery in his
mere presence in his native Japan, like some kind of
divine power from another world and Major League Baseball. I
gotta give him credit, right because there's like there's a
barnstorming tour and all that. But they are laughing all
the way to the bank, presenting this as an act
(20:25):
of goodwill, a trip of goodwill to give baseball to
the people of Japan, even they have baseball there. But
there are roughly I did some math on this, so
there's roughly one hundred and twenty five million men, women,
and children that live in Japan. It is estimated that
roughly thirty million of those Japanese residents are hardcore baseball fans.
(20:48):
So if you do the math on that, from accounts
at souvenir shops around Tokyo, the Otani two hundred and
fifteen dollars Jersey is selling out the standing room only
tickets for Cubs Dodgers next week in Tokyo two thousand
dollars for standing room a surge in new balance sales
(21:10):
because Otani's endorsed them. But wait, there's more. We're told
that over one hundred and fifty movie theaters will be
streaming the Dodgers opening series in Tokyo on March eighteenth
and March nineteenth, So five days away from now, they'll
have one hundred and fifteen movies. Can they do this
(21:32):
sometimes with concerts or they'll have some big event here
in the States where you go, like, all right, you
can go and check it out, but for a baseball game,
just a regular season game, Dodgers and Cubs, one hundred
and fifty movie theaters, people will be going. I assume
you're eating the popcorn there. I don't know. Maybe they're
eating something else and then hanging out watching the game.
All right, now, last word, last word. So I saw
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this going around if I died A listener I think
his name was Steve in the Greater Nashville area who
sent this and he was all excited. It's the proposed
Major League Baseball expansion team, the Nashville Stars, which was
the name of the old Triple A team there. They
showed off a logo and a hat on the Internet
(22:19):
of what the whole thing would look like if they
did get the expansion team in Nashville. So what is
the word? What is the word for these things being
leaked on the internet? The hypothetical Nashville expansion team hat,
the logo, So my word is yellow. My word is
(22:40):
yellow as in yellow flag. This is a false start
penalty five yards and replay the down, get the team,
and then give out the logo. You're doing things out
of order. Bad job by you. You don't have the team.
Everyone assumes you're to get the team. There is a
(23:02):
world though, where the Tampa Bay Rays leave Florida and
end up going to Nashville, and then you already have
a name. I guess you could change the name anyway.
But the other thing about this I'm saying about Nashville Stars,
I don't approve. I don't approve the mixplain. We already
have a team called the Stars. Now maybe you're not
a hockey fan, and they should be the old They
(23:24):
should be the North Stars, which is what they were
known as when they were in Minnesota. But they moved
years ago to Dallas and they're the Stars. And you say, well,
that's dumb and stupid and all that, but that's what
they're known as. They're known as the Stars. And I
am now the commissioner of Overnight Sports Radio, and in
my world, we do not share names. For example, I
(23:46):
believe that the New York Giants or the San Francisco Giants,
they should flip a coin and one of them should
change their name. There should only be one Giants team.
We shouldn't have a Saint Louis Cardinals and Arizona Cardinals.
One of them should have to change their name. We
should not be sharing names in twenty twenty five in
different sports. I know why they did it because the
teams were in the same city back in the day.
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It's stupid, right, and the Star nickname is dom do
something original, think outside the box. When I think of Nashville,
I think of a hipster town. I think of the
music city country music. How about the Music City Mashers.
That'd be original, right, Music's how great would that be?
(24:30):
Imagine that home pinstripe uniform with Music City across the
chest plate and the road uniforms with Masher be great.
And if you don't want to offend anyone because of
violence with Masher, just put mashed potatoes on there. Be wonderful.
How about the Nashville banjo bashers. You put a banjo,
(24:51):
have your logo a banjo right there, celebrate country music
and they have that d there's that famous I don't
know famous. My friends from Tennessee wax poetic about it. It's
like this Goo Google cluster thing. You can do something
with that. But there's other things that you can come
up with, other ideas that would be local in flavor,
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that would be original. Don't dude, if you do get
an expansion team, Nashville's Stars is stupid. It's dumb. The
only way I would allow a Stars nickname back, and
I don't support it, is if and I actually told
some people with the Clippers years ago to do this,
and they didn't do it because they didn't listen to me.
But they should. I said, the Clipper should have changed
their name to the Hollywood Stars. That would have been outstanding.
(25:34):
That would have been a great name. Hollywood Star that works, right,
Tinseltown and lie like Dallas Stars doesn't really work. You
don't think of a star when you think of the
Dallas hockey scene. Nashville Stars, you already have the start.
The only one that would be acceptab would be the
Hollywood Stars. And the interlocking and asked logo for Nashville
Stars is Dollsville is what it is. It's dull, it
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just is. It's just no no wow. Fact. I need
some wow. Fact there's no wow. I need a wow.
There's no wow.
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Here we go to the third degree. This is one
Big Ben gets grilled all right.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Good believe Bliger.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
McFarlane took to X on Tuesday to say that he
hopes Tiger Woods retires after this latest injury of his
and he implored Tiger to enjoy your kids. Ben do
you think Tiger hangs it up?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
We don't. Most people that golf enjoy their kids. I mean,
golf something you do when you retire. So how do
you retire from golf? I don't I mean you can.
Couldn't he drive around on a golf cart? I don't know.
Why would you retire from golf? I know he'll never
win anything again, but no, all these people all you
should retire. He sucked at golf for how many years?
Who cares? People love Tiger. He's a legend. He wants
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to keep playing. Let him show up and play next.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Rick Patino is about to lead his sixth program to
the NZ Tournament.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
What did I say?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Just handheld?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Alright, alright, that's happened.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Yeah, he's about to lead his sixth program to the
NCAA tournament, more than any coach in history. But do
you think it's time we start talking about Patino as
the best coach in the history of college basketball?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
No, he's He's in that upper class of coaches because
he's done it everywhere. And hey, Patino's like the last
of the Mohegans. In terms of the bigger than life
college basketball coach. There's hardly any of these guys left
when he leaves like the next generation. No, he's not
the greatest of all time, but he's in the discussion
of the top ten fifteen all time coaches. Next.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Ben an NBA senior writer, said on Tuesday, we're witnessing
one of the great MVP races in modern history between
Jokic and SGA.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Do you agree?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
No, I don't. There's no buzz nationally. Maybe in Denver
and Oklahoma City, but no. I'd say Magic and Bird
back in the day a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
How did we do you pass this edition?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
That is a win. Your microphone did not pass, though,
Coop unfortunately, help get him a new microphone right now,
wake up the engineering department.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
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Speaker 1 (28:20):
It's now time for time. Horry, Harry Honey, ask Ben Twitter,
Send us your questions on Twitter. Now anyway we go
is asked, Ben. Your questions are answers for the rest
of the hour, and now for the reading of the
questions theopolo.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
All right, Ben, We're gonna start off with a question
from ferg Dog. Hi Fergie, he wants to know, would
you ever date a stripper?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Well, I'm married, my wife might have a problem with it.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
But if you if you were single, yeah, uh yeah
I would.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Uh my, yeah, when I was younger, anybody I was,
I was having issues with dating, So yeah, I probably
would have when I was younger, but uh no, I
never did. I had a buddy of mine that datd
a stripper. She always had a lot of cash. But
that's about it. You, Lorenda, Would you date a stripper? Lorena?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
I hate strippers, Ben really?
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Oh yeah, strippers know all of my brother's friends just nasty,
just well, so I would never date a stripper.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Interesting, Cooper Loop who says, I haven't o unbelievable nice. Yeah,
I went to it was what was the name of
the place, the Hollywood Tropic Cana not there anymore, and
uh with a buddy of mine and and the stripper
like I was kind of I thought she was, and
(29:53):
she like was hitting on my buddy. That pissed me off.
I was upset by that. Uh, what's the next, Coop,
what do we have? We've got a question from the
King Rory h r. He would like to know what
is your favorite fruit? Well, I like banana cream pie,
but bananas are fine. I guess if I in a pinch,
(30:14):
the go to is the red delicious apple. That's been
my go to over the years. The one I've eaten
the most of is the red delicious apple. So I
go red delicious, but uh, strawberries. It depends on my mood,
but overall red delicious. What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 3 (30:30):
I like caramel apples.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Ben that's covered in sugar, that's not It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
I also like candied apples.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
I like the ones with the cinnamon.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Hard cooked apple.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Is your favorite fruit? Yes? Wow, you both? Caramel apple
so boring.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Strawberry is good and you can dip it in sugar.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Tell that to Johnny Apple, see the things that's boring?
All right? Your schmuck apples?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
The doctor away?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
What do you like? What do you like? Kiwi?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
No, I would go with mango bar He had to
google his favorite fruits. What are the best fruits?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Now?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
You know?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
What is also good? Is pineapple? Solid? But I've eaten
mostly the apple. I like the pineapple which has apple
in it. That's pretty good in a really hot day. Watermelon, Oh,
man on a hot day. Wonderful. Next, what do we
got Timothy?
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Would like to know Timothy from NKY North.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
That's Northern Kentucky. Coop coming right, that's my guy, Timothy.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
He wants to know what is your favorite flavor cake?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yes? So, to me, the most important thing about cake
is the frosting. I generally go like a white cake.
There's this blue cake, this smurf cake that this local
bakery has, which I love, and it's got the blue
cake with the white frosting, and it's just my go
to for cake you when I have birthdays or whatever.
So that's my favorite. What about you rate it?
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Oh, this is a really hard one, Ben, there's so many.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Cakes in those but you can only have one. I'll
tell you about.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Least favorites, German chocolate cake.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I didn't ask your least favorite. I wanted to know
your favorite.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Maybe maybe carrot cake.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Oh my god, that is my least favorite. That's the
worst answer you could.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
I love the cream cheese frosting on top.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
It makes me okay, but.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
The carrot okay, Coop, urry up, turn your mic off
that I'm gonna go yellow cake, chocolate frosting.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Not bad, but I like the white cake or the
blue cake white frosting.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Next, JT.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
The Wingman wants to know what was your favorite color
crayon in the Crayola sixty four color crayon set.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Well, the one I ate the most of was a
child was the blue one. I ate the blue crayon
the most, and then I used to eat the crayons
when I was in kindergarten. But I green or blue?
What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Oh, there was this one specific pink and I can't
remember the first word of it, but it was a
pink for sure.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
All right, cool, My favorite color is orange, But my
favorite crayon is Hunter Green.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Oh, you're so cool
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Hunter Green from Hunter Remember the names of the crayons
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